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j 10 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. GREAT DREAD IF By Otto C. Floto. P ACKEY McFARGAND Is out again with the statement that he will not make weight for any man living “I think I am a light weight. and if any of the men of that clase meet me It will be at practi cally catch weight*—by which I mean, pay 135 pounds at 3 o'clock on the day of battle. That's near enough to the lightweight poundage for me " And still 1 have it from one who knows that if McFarland would real ly agree to train he could make the 133-pound limit, which, after all, is BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip W* the official weight of the class. I sonallv. i have my doubts and don't believe he can do any v such low- weight and be "right, and fit," and a man who enters a battle unless well prepared for it is a fool. No one has ever yet accused I'arkey of being in any way weak in his business train ing The real truth of the matter is that Packev has a dread fear way down deep in his heart. It haunts him every time he thinks of it, and for that rea son refuses to “make weight." McFar land fears the awful "white plague." He is under the impression that a pugilist who continually trains and battles is heir to it, and all the argu ment In the world can't shake this conviction from his mind. That's the real truth, and the why and where fore that keeps Packey from agree ing to the 133-pound notch. • • • have before us the names oft three victims—three of the mosti w-onderful champions that ever lived —who were carried away by the great est foe the flesh must combat. Mc Farland has probably read the old volumes of Flstiana and learned these things for himself—else why this hor rible dread of reducing whenever ask ed to do so? Thero arc many more of the fighting brigade that exited out of this old world with the cough, but three will be sufficient to men tion. First and foremost we have Tom Sayers, the greatest man of his weight and inches that England ever pro duced. And at the time of his hold ing the championship Britannia rul ed the world in pugilism. Sayers, never much more than a middle weight, fought all the heavies they brought to him. Only Itob Fitzsim mons, in our time, could he compar ed to him. Sayers was only defeat ed once, and that hv Nat Langham. his battle with Heenan being a draw. Sayers died from tuberculosis before he had reached his fortieth year. Con stant training preparing for battle hastened his death. • • • T HEN there was Peter Jackson, the wonderful Australian and without any doubt whatever the greatest heavyweight that ever lived. True, Peter was not forced to “make weight,” but he was required to train, and in doing so trained away a lot of vitality whic h brought about his sick ness, and add to this the fact that ho continually exposed himself to the weather. It’s only a few years ago that Joe Gann went by the same route. Noth ing more than his constant reducing to make the required weight brought on the dreaded plague to (Jans. He drew upon Nature to so great an ex tent in reducing away the flesh that should have remained on his frame, that the old machine of flesh and bones cracked under the strain, and he passed away, barely having gone over the 30-year line. So with Sayers and Jackson it was the constant grind of getting into shape, while with (Jans it was ridding himself of muscle and strength. The end of all these three great chain pions was the same, however, and brought about by the same methods It is the dread" of this occurrence that has struck fear into the heart of McFarland, and that's why he won't tackle the job. • * » A ND yet Packey is determined to battle the men who agree to live up to the rules and make the pound age the official code calls for. So then he cannot be classed as a lightweight. There cannot be made any exceptions for one man without making the same concession to all If 133 pounds is too light for that division—and Wolgast, Nelson, Rivers and other champions declare it is NOT—then we will have to establish a new weight. But suppose we make the mark 13a pounds. What then? Along would come some boy who couldn’t make it. but could scale dow n to 137 pounds. Wouldn’t he have the same right to demand battles against lightweights as McFarland demands now? Of course he would, and the first thing we know the lightweight limit will he soaring somewhere around the 140- pound level. A 140-pound man comes pretty near to knocking for admission to the wel terweight. set. and our lightweight patron 1 * would b« eliminated from any standing at all. They’d be like a man without a country—too light for the 140-pound men and too heavy for the featherweights. “.lawn'' McGraw, boss of the Giants, is a very, very peeked gentleman these days. "Jawn, ' who has taken to writ big pieces for the papers, solemnly de clared a few days back that the Cardi nals wrr«> traveling far ahead of their speed, intimated they were flashes in the pan, and emphasised the fact that Just as soon as the Cardinals went hgainst a good team they would be s<. badly beaten that undertakers would have a difficult little Job assembling their frames for burial. • • • To date, the Giants have dashed twice j with the Cardinals—and twice the <‘ar- dials have won. McGraw sicked Mathewson and Tesreau. his two star (lingers, on to the St Louis boys with the result that the Cardinals knocked Matty out of the box and then turned around and trimmed Tesreau in rather easy fashion The Cardinals are now within one point of third place. • * • Walter Johnson, the “Mighty Swede." isn't a Swede ut all. It has been dis covered that .Johnson, although ho did come from Minnesota, which turns out nearly as many Swedes as does Sweden, Ik «»f Scotch-Irish parentage. • • • Over In Brooklyn they are forming lynching parties to-day for the pur poso of stringing Klem, an umpire per son, to a very high tree. Klein gave some decisions yesterday that were weird—then some. And all of them j were against the Dodgers, who eventu ally lost the game. CHRISTY MATHLWSON'S BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP N i:\V YORK, May The Athletics still steadily maintain their winning pace In the American I.oague with a persistence which looks as if they would surely take the pen nant. Washington has encountered considerable hard luck, and the club of Griffith ha- fallen off the monstrous pace at which It started the season, largely because the tw r o ends nf the Washington infield have tieeu in the game only irregularly. Cleveland is the surprise of the race. „ The Washington club has I wo weaknesses at present. One is the pitching staff, outside of Walter Johnson, and the other is the torn up infield, which takes away the normal speed of the team. If Johnson could pitch every day there would not Is 1 any question raised In the American League about which club will win the pennant. That would 1st settled now. But Johnson cannot pitch every day, and an argument therefore remains in the league. Besides Johnson, no other Washington pitcher has shown exceptional form this exception of Sporting Food 1 -By GEORGB S. PHAIF at year, with the possibl Broome, who is an inund-oute Itest. “(live me one airtight pitcher.” Griffith used to wall constantly when he was managing the Cincinnati club, "and I will win a pennant." T HEY gave him about the airlight- liave hurt the Washington team's chances for the pennant, although 1 believe it still has a look-in. The sea son is young, and the Athletics may have an attack of Injuries. “Connie” Muck’s pitchers don’t look any too good anyway, outside of Bender and Blank. And Griffith is still asking for a pitcher. I one in the business when he, “Give me one airtight left-hander,” joined out with Washington, and he says now. And in the next breath, dan If he didn’t almost grab the "There Is no such animal at large. ting. Then this year, when it looked I Washington boys. His strength lies in his pitchers and Lajoie and Jack son. The rest of the team has not the rttggedness to make a tough tight of it for the pennant. T' HE Athletics, of course, are the class of the American League to date, and are liable to remain the class of it indefinitely, from all indi cations. I do not see any club that can Iteat them out of the pennant .. . , i , The team is moving at its old time the one hand, the Cleveland speed an(] the play | r8 are awake to plonsltlp, roster, me young — dub is the sensation of.the tlio fact that thev must keep hustling. m r c? ft hll l 1 Jm% P s U y«*ferd U ay tW *m i'mling thtrd-bn-email whom Griffith Imil American League, and, on the_other: None of , he oW listlessness which throe doublet, a triple anti a home rur no*;. in''* ii" " ” v v f ns if lu* bad his ho t chance to take (1 the championship. Foster, the young v - y <*b Uravath headed the swatter* with five hits out of as many times at the bat. Incidentally the Phillies garnered twelve runs while the Reds drew nine goose « gRH. • • * The White Sox engineered one of the greatest ninth inning rallies of the sea son yesterday, scoring six runs, brtt their rally fell short and the Red Sox •won the game. 10 to it 4 » m The two straight defeats of the Dodg er? and the two victories of the Phillies hfftve widened the gap between the teams to .nearly 100 points, and it looks an If the dream of the Brooklyn fans of first placd honors from the old league won't come- true for a week or so, at least. • * * Those who believe In the spring showing of ball teams as a basis for doping’’ out the outcome of the pen nant races, may witness the following: The Giants took the measure of prac tically {-very team they played during the training series, yet they have had a mighty task in tvinning fifteen out of twenty nine league games. The Phillies, who were the easiest propositions struck hv any team during the soring games and who were extended the heartfelt sympathy of the sporting fraternity, have won' nineteen out of twenty-six combats. whom Griffith raised and carved out into a bik' hand, as the orators say, the Boston i beat the club last year is apparent leaguer, was taken ill with typhoid team is the big surprise of the race’fhj K season. I do not see who can fever and will In* out of the game for to date. The Cleveland boys are I s top them. Mack has two veteran several weeks. Gandi), the first base startling because of their unexpected | man who has done so well for the j good showing! and the Boston Red j Washington club, was injured some j Sox, champions of the world, because | of their surprisingly poor display. 1 tfme ago, and is out of the game. (Mark Griffith asserts that, it was Gandil who put the teaiu^on a win ning basis last summer. One good! player, filling up a weak spot, will often do this for a club. The Wash ington team had liecn badly tieaten by the Yankees in a series last spring. pitchers who are reliable, Plank and Bender, and he can piece out his pitching from the rest of the staff for the remainder of the games. JOYFUL GLOOM. John Ever* said to Frank Leroy \ "It given me, bitter pain, old boy. To nee your athletes in the rut; l hate to see you losing, but— I told you so!” Raid Frank Leroy to Keystone John : “You're looking worn and weak and wan. It fills tny bosfffn with regret To see you Ofi the slide, and yet— / told you so!” They had a feeling of relief To see each other deep in grief. They gloried in each other's pain. And so they sang this sweet refrain : "I told you so!” Looking over Mr. Chance’* alleged baseball team, we find that all he needs to strengthen his infield Is a net. Those Red Sox may be champions of the world, hut an innocent bystander is led to believe that they are trying to keep it a secret. Players in the American Association have taken up the practice of clouting each other with bats. Up to date, none of the umpires has taken it upon him self to Interfere. Watching a motorcycle race is much | like watching an aviation meet. Some 1 times it fizzles out without an accident. CONCERNING A B. B. MAGNATE. And still they gazed, and still the. wonder grew 9 That one small man could throw the bull he threw. ENTRY LIST IS REOPENED FOR HILLCLIMB SATURDAY E. H. Elleby, secretary of the Atlanta Automobile and Accessories Association, received word Wednesday that the en try list for the Stewart Avenue Hill Climb could be re-opened owing to the postponement. This permission was granted by the American Automobile Association under whose sanction the event is going to be run. A Buick, another Ford and others will enter in the fully equipped cars, ama teur event, and there will probably be several other entries in the other events. The climb was scheduled for last Sat urday, hut owing to the downpour was postponed a week. M he auto classic, which is the second under the auspices of the Atlanta Au tomobile and Accessories Association, is attracting wide attention. Fully 3.000 persons lined the course last week to witness the event, and it is expected that that many more will be on hand this Saturday. Fast time has been made in the trials this week, and it is confidently expected that the time will be lowered in several of the events. Kinky Hair Straight SOFT and SILKY GRADY-ANDERSON DRAW. CINCINNATI, OHIO. May 22.—Tommy Grady fought a six-round draw at Lud* iow, Ky., with Billy Anderson. EXELENTO never fairs to do what It claim*. 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As a makeshift, lie took hold of the team last year after it had all the heart beaten out of it by nearly every club In the American League, and he gave Cleve- pttching and still win bail because it hits so hard. ga mes, The allhl architects (some times known as New York sport writers) have resumed operations tn-day. They blame the "in" and "out#’ work of the Giants to lark of hitting, poor hase running, fielding errors and the poor condition of the, pitchers They assert, however, that except for these few minor dereais, the Giants are playing a fine game of base ball * * • Outfielder Cree was the only Yankee to secure a hit off Pitcher Earl Hamil ton. ot the Browns, yesterday. • * * The Braves maule five runs in the eightinning yesterday, but fell one short of the total anassed by the Cuba. « „ . Williams, a pinch hitler for the Sena tors. tied up the senrre with a home run tn the ninth inning, yesterday and his learn bent out the Napa In the tenth frame. • * * O'Rourke, the Buffalo third hnsemnn. is hatting .108 this season. Ty Cobb, please write. • • • It seems that Paul Rented can't stay out of the Southern league. As utility man he ought to help the Finns But suppose he and Mike start quarreling! • * * Well, anyhow, if the Giant-Sox tour goes through it will keep a lot of ham actors off the stage next fall. • * ♦ Joe Tinker says that one of the chief reasons why he wouldn't give Rube Benton and $5,000 for Pitcher Beck, of Nashville, la that he never heard either of Beck or Nashville. • * * Fred Bender, brother of “Chief,'' may get a try-out with the Naps. Is he a pitcher? No, he's an Indian. • * * The police in Newark have to pro tect the umpires these days If New Orleans newspapers don’t show a little sense the same thing will be true in the Crescent City. • * • Roy Mitchell, of the Browns, got by a nine-inning game with 87 thrown balls Sunday Economical Roy. * * * What do you know about Baron Kent- zer, of the Dodgers. He's still holding i out. • * * George Stallings hasn’t yet been thrown out of a National League park. They say it was not always thus when the Georgian was In the International League. • * • Doc • Adkins, the pitcher released by Baltimore, will take up the practice of law at Durham. N. C. • * * A fan in Boston recently collected $100 on a $5 bet that Boston would win four straight from Pittsburg The thing hadn't happened before in 11 years. T 1 UR condition of the Beil Sox. which deserves some expert at- , , ^ tention, Is not to be explained easily, and the dull scorned to I>e going to land tin* first good btiaeboll that it There tin* the sridp men who won pieces rapidly. Griffith got on a has watched in several years. With championship of the world, but train on Saturday night with Mon- practically the sgme men that worked. team is all off its balance. The treaI ns ids destination. b*r tin* club Inst year, Birmingham pitchers who (lid such remarkttble "I made up my mind, snld Gril lias sot his team up in the fight for W ork last year are not pitching any fith, in telling about the purchase t he pennantstiffs time. Even with the p a jj at a jj* season. Of course, later, “that something had to be done I mighty Frenchman, Lajoie, out of the some of mv readers may advance the and done quickly to plug that hole at ; lineup* they ga\e the Athletics a \ery argument that I think the Giants and first base it fin* team was to in* kept still argument in the series last week. Pittsburg still have a chance for the tnmi falling out of the league. I paid j * * * .. . . . pennant in the National league, yet $!J.0OP to the Montreal club for Can V t*'" Yankees, considered to be L ey hoth ?et away t0 hm , s tarts. tlil at ii time when Hie WnshiiiKton j 1 the easiest team In the league That is true. -But the Giants and nutnfij.'emetil could ill afford to spend and ns welcome anywhere as an in- pirates have not such clubs as the that amount of money, it was just heritanee, upset the Naps badly. By Athletics and Washington to overtake, after Gandil Joined the team wo start a study of the Cleveland club, it as have the Red Sox. The Boston od our winning streak which ran up j strikes me that Birmingham has a team will finish in the first division, to seventeen games, and we got the; very small chance of beating out the where It normally belongs, but I do purchase*price hack many times dur year. Without Foster and Gandil no t believe it has better than a very im,' tills victorious spell. Gandil had (the Washington infield is badly slow- outside chance for the championship, rounded out the infield.” ; ed up. Laporte, who is taking Fos- ft j s below its regular residence in * * * , iter's place, is exceptionally slow on j the standing of the clubs now as it f~* HIFI' ITI1 S game 1ms been speed. i,js f.o-t. These two missing players wag above it last season. V 1 It was the speed that won the Athletics, ami it would surprise me (Copyright , 1913i by the McClure New*- games for tin* Washington club last | greatly to see him finish above the J paper Syndicate.) Some men spend their time shooting at clay birds, demonstrating how little some men think of time. Umpiring an amateur ball game in our fair city affords a pleasant pastime—to the bystanders. OTTO JORDAN DRAWS INDEFINITE SUSPENSION WAYCROSS, GA., May 22.—Ottor Jor dan, former manager of Atlanta's South ern League team, was to-day indefi- nately suspended because of his conduct in Brunswick yesterday, when he was ut out of the game by Umpire Bennett 3an is manager of the Valdosta If the put out of the game by Ump: Jordan is manager of the Valdosta Ifm pire League team and feels that suspension is unwarranted. Olympic Champions May Compete Here Kohlemainen and McDonald are Pleased at Invitation of Portola Committee. NEW YORK, May 22.—In a loiter to the athletic committee of the Por tola Festival received yesterday, Jas. K. Sullivan, secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union, conveys the informa tion that he has delivered the invita tion of the Portola Committee to Pat McDonald and Hannes Kohlemainen. the athletes whose presence is desir ed at the athletic games to be held in connection with the celebration. Although the athletes will not be able to answer the invitation defi nitely. Sullivan writes that they will do the best they can to make the trip, and states that both men were greatly pleased to be asked. McDon ald is the shot putter who won the 16-pound event at the Olympic games in Stockholm, defeating Ralph Rose, and was in turn defeated by Rose in the two-handed shot-put contest. Should he visit San Francisco in Octo ber, local followers of athletics will yhave an opportunity to see the two greatest weight putters in the world in competition. Kohlemainen proved himself to be the greatest amateur distance runner In the tvorld at the Stockholm games, aVia it is proposed to arrange a spe cial two-mile invitational race if he is able to be present at the Portola sports. The plans for a land and water re lay race from Sacramento to San Fronciscb on the opening day of the festival have met with an enthusias tic reception from the athletes of the •Young Men’s Christian Associations and the high schools, and the event promises to be an interesting one. AUSTRALIAN NET PLAYERS PRACTICING IN BOSTON BOSTON, May 22—The Australian tennis players, Captain Stanley M. Doust, Horace Bice, Aubrey' B. Jones and Manager E. W. Hicks, arrived here for ten days’ practice on the courts of the Lon gw 004 Cricket club. Later in the week the American ten nis team, Maurice E. McLoughlih, of San Francisco; Norris William, of Phil adelphia, and >1. H. Hackett and R. D. Little, of New York, will appear at Longwood. 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