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7 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. MAY 21. 1910. By W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, May 24.—It is said that one Theodore Roose velt is going to Arizona to search for a certain lost tribe. After see ing the championship candidates. Gunboat Smith and Jess Willard, in action, the writer feels that Roose velt or some one else should be com missioned to hunt for descendants of the lost tribe of heavyweights. There is no shutting one’s eyes to the fact that the big fellows of to-day don’t begin to compare with the heavies of "yesteryear” in any department of the game. One doesn’t have to go so far as to institute com parisons between present day cham pionship aspirants and the men -who were thought to be in line for the title in former times. Take the cases of such boxers as Kid McCoy and Joe Choynski. pugil ists who were never troubled with the championship bee. How long would Gunboat Smith or Jess Wil lard last with either of these? Or how long would Gunboat or Jess keep erect In front of clean hitting, hard thumping Peter Maher? There will be another heavyweight bout at Calgary to-day. and then. If present plans hold, there will be a championship final, with Gunboat Smith pitted against the winner of the Luther McCarty-Arthur Pelky go at Calgary. Naturally the deciding contest will create some interest, for, low grade though they are, bidders for the blue ribbon are the best we have. Candor compels the observation that they are simply the best of a bad lot. Thought Fight a Draw. While the writer is among those who are of the opinion that Willard did every bit as well as Smith Tues day night. I must own that the tall Kansan was a good deal of a disap pointment. We are led to look for better things after reading of the way Jess acquitted himself with Luther McCarty, Soldier Kearns and others. It will be hard to make a top notch man of Willard for the reason that he has so few natural fighting qual ities. True, his straight left is a de- pendable'quantity, but this is largely on account of his tremendous reach. It would be pretty hard for Willard •to straighten his left without finding something unless the other fellow clambered through the ropes when he saw it coming. Willard has poor ideas of distance and direction and he hits In a stilted pokey way. This, may be, comes of clinching his fists too tightly befnre lashing out. He seems, too, t to be deficient in ring sense. Several times after chas ing Gunboat into a corner and having him off balance he smiled fatuously and stepped back. And if looks count, the Gunner was quite content to have it that way. Willard a Game Fellow. Willard is a game fellow and ne assimilates well, and it may be that proper coaching will develop him to a stage where he can safely hold his own with modern heavies. That is, unless the breed suddenly improve;;. One thing to admire in Jess is the way a stinging clash arouses his battle ire. In this respect he re sembles Tom Sharkey. Gunboat Smith's fight was an Im provement on some of his local ex hibitions. He seemed to use his head more than he generally does, hut whether this was an instance of pres ent Initiative or the result of carefal coaching the writer has no means of knowing. Anyhow there was a meth od in the way Smith handled himself, even if his execution was faulty. BOMBARDIER WELLS WILL BATTLE WITH P, MAHONEY LONDON, May 24.—Bombardier Wells, the English heavyweight cham pion, was matched to fight Packey Mahoney, of Cork, on June 3d be fore the National Sporting Club here Thev will fight twentv rounds for a purse of $2,0b0 and a $1,000 side bet. For Bright Eyes and Clear Nose ; Remarkable Catarrh Cure That Geta Right into the Affected Parte > and Stops Gatherings. S. S. 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S of your drug- , flat, When Jeff Hears a Riddle He Simply Must Spring It C&3 C&3 C& By “Bud” Fisher (fist. No Class to Champions of To-day O O O © © Q © GOLF COURSE Bv Chick Evans. C HICAGO, ILL., May 24.—W. C. Fovvnes, Jr., the former national champion, is one of a fine golfing family, in which both men and women have attained considerable distinction In their favorite game. W. C. Fownes, the father of W. C. Fownes, Jr., is a golfer of consider able skill, and I venture to say there is not a golfer of his age in the coun try who can defeat him. Fownes. Sr., plays golf almost the year round and he never falls to attend each na tional championship. W. C. Fownes. Jr., began playing golf in 1900 and therefore he has en joyed more than a decade of excel lent sport. His record Is indeed an enviable one, for in addition to win ning the premier event in T910 he has many other notable victories to his credit. He has held the West ern Pennsylvania Golf Association amateur championship from 1904 down through 1911, and this cham pionship although limited in terri tory, is of the highest class, as is shown by the fact that it has fur nished two national champions. Has Won Many Honors. In 1910 and 1912 Fownes won the Pennsylvania State championship and he has really held at various times all the golfing honors of his State and many from elsewhere. In fact, the only important title that has been denied him so far is the Western championship, where he has invar iably encountered a bit of hard luck. Pittsburg marks the Eastern bound ary of the big Western Golf Asso ciation territory, and yet in spite of the many fine players in the Smoky City, Chicago has always managed to hold fast to the big Western cup. Fownes was a member of the Olym pic team of the Western Pennsylva nia Golf Association, which won the event in 1905 at Chicago Golf. Fownes’ game has not been quite so good during the last year or so. owing, I think, to a number of ex periments, chiefly with wooden clubs. Fownes believes his wooden shots to he the weakest part of his game and in consequence he Is given to many experiments with them Some times he tries for distance and some times for direction, and his clubs and ( methods of playing vary with the object in view. bast year he came to the national at Wheaton with clubs about forty-six inches in length. Nearly Wins Over Hilton. Fownes plays a very thoughtful game of golf. Its high quality can be realized by the fact that he has been national champion. Further more, in a match with H. H. Hilton at the National Golf Dinks tourney in 1911 his game compared favorably with the British player’s and he was only defeated at the nineteenth hole in the second round. Fownes is perhaps the most pop ular member of the U. S. G. A. He Is a regular attendant at its annual event and I think without him the competition would lose much of its ?avor for a great many of us. BRITONS WILL SELECT T.ENNIS TEAM IN JULY LONDON. May 24.—The Secretary of the British Lawn Tennis Associa tion announced that the British team which will defend the Dwight F. Davis International Trophy against .the win ner of the elimination contests will not be selected until early in July, after the Wimbledon championships ha\e been decided. The teams playlhg 1n the elimina tions will represent the United States, Australia, Germany, France, Canada, South Africa and Belgium. RUBE WADDELL MISSING; BIG CROWDS DISAPPOINTED Feather Title a Family Affair By Otto C. Kioto. O NLY a short time ago Mr. Featherweight dwelt in an abode alone. He was master of all he surveyed. But things have suddenly changed, and the elusive little cuss now lives in a duplex building. In other words, Johnny Kilbane was the sole possessor of the title and in undis puted control of the same. Now along comes Johnny Dundee and battles him. Well, it’s a fifty-fifty proposition now. As a reminder, Kilbane now only holds a working interest in the title, True, he didn’t lose it; neither did he win it again. Dundee didn’t win it, either, but he worked so well that Referee Eyton declared him in as a partner on the thing. So at best it’s a muddled or rather queer condition that exists in that department of the game. The firm title to the prize should now read Kilbane & Dundee, holders of the world's featherweight title. So that both boys must content them selves with a half a loaf—which, after all. is better than no loaf at all. * * * S PEAKING of championship titles, was there ever a time when the different emblems were in so chaotic a condition? Take them right down the line from the heavyweights jo the feathers, and not a single representative of any of the departments holds an undisputed right to the title he covets. Never before has such a thing been apparent in pugilism, and it does seem rather astounding to those who have never given this angle a fleeting thought. When we look back a few years and realize the hard fought battles and the strenuous routes the champions were compelled to travel over to gain their positions, and then peek hurriedly over the present crop—well, deliver us from expressing our candid opinion, for it would not look well In print. * * * HTO ALL intents and purposes, Luther McCarty is heavyweight champion, i Of course, he never won the title from the man who held it, and probably still holds it. That’s not particularly Luther's fault, hecause of queer circumstances that, transpired in the life of the recognized cham pion. Still the fact remains that McCarty has a title he acquired without winning it as per the usual process required to annex the coveted emblem True, he stands ready to defend it. But— Nevertheless, well fall in line and look upon Luther as the champion tinder the circumstances. At the same time, much as we admire him, he is No. 1 of the champions that acquired his honors without meeting the predecessor of the high office in actual combat. * * * T HEN we drop to the middleweights. Here's where we laugh long and loud, for if there is a single one in the bunch entitled to be crowned champion we are ready to be convinced. Stanley Ketchel, whose sudden death left the question of champion an open one. could have taken the whole lot of the present crop, beginning with Klaus and including Mc- Goorty, Papke and the whole flock, and beaten them to a jelly all on the same night, and in the same ring, without even half trying. So here’s a class without a representative in the exclusive class. Klaus, who claims the title, is therefore labeled No. 2 of the champions who failed to battle a titleholder for the honor. • * • T HE welterweights are In the same disturbed condition Jimmy Clabby, If be could make the weight (145 pounds), might, he looked upon as a real contender. As he cannot make the weight, we claim that Rube "Wild cat" Ferns Is the best. And while he does not hold the title, he is ready to fight the whole world for it and have his right, disputed to the same. This class, like the middleweight division, Is barren of a leader, a man the world wlil recognize ns the top-notcher of the 1 -1 IN pounders. Of all the classes we are mentioning we recognize the claims of Ferns to the honor to a greater extent than we would listen to anyone else claiming it. * * * I N THE lightweight ranks we have Wtllte Ritchie as champion. Yet, like the other classes, he comes to us with a flaw in the title. His championship was won by the punch of the other fellow instead of his own. There Is no doubt he would have defeated Wolgast had the battle gone on But he didn’t knock Ad out. On the other hand, it was the transgression of the former champion In striking that foul blow that awarded the honors to Ritchie. Tn this same class we hav<* two other good boys—Packey McFarland and Jack Britton. McFarland, however, can’t possibly make the weight, so that lets him out. Ritchie beat Britton when they met on a former occasion. And, say, why not take Freddie Welsh into consideration? Thinking it over, his claims are the very best. He defeated Matt Wells for the English championship and heat Willie Ritchie the only time he met hint (that was before Ritchie met Wolgast.) But again we are con fronted with the condition that the champion is not one of that undis puted sort. • • • I N THE featherweight realm we have the laughable condition of a di vided or split title, with two men claiming It. rt was originally won by Kilbane from Atteli. But it was one of those decision affaire, without a decisive ending, that stamps the winner as a bona fide representative. After reviewing the different classes about us, It’s like a fresh spring breeze to recall the classes of a few years ago, and see the grand list of names that represented the different divisions. Each and every one a champion in the full meaning of the term, and each and every title won by actual conflict within the ring, with a knockout accompaniment to cinch it and keep It free from dispute. Heavyweight Champion—James J. Corbett. Middleweight Champion—Robert Fitzsimmons. Welterweight Champion—Tommy Ryan. ( Lightweight Champion—Joe Gans. Featherweight Champion—George Dixon. Bantamweight Champion—Jimmy Barry. WINNIPEG, May 24 —Although the Virginia (Minn.) Northern League team has played two games here, Rube Waddell, the eccentric soutn- paw, hay failed to appear on the field for either game. Just where he is is a question, and if Manager "Spike" Shannon knows he is not telling. Large crowds have attended held games in the hope of catching a giimp6e of the former big leaguer, HAYES LOSES TO TR0TT; WILD SWING SETTLES IT WINNIPEG. MAN., May 24 —Sam my Trott, of Columbus, Ohio, was awarded the newspaper decision over White City Park Now Open Grover Hayes, of Philadelphia, In a twelve-round bout her*?, as the result of a wild swing: in the eleventh round, which caught Hayes on the jaw and floored him for the count of five. T Sporting Food -»y QKORQK K. PHAIR— SPEECHLESS. “What are the athletes howling fort” said Mvrphy-on-Parade. "'Then cannot talk! They cannot talk!” young Johnny Evers said. “Why do they look so awful glum?” said Murphy-on-Parade. “They cannot get their names in print” young Johnny Evers said. “You may knock a baseball player; you may tell him he's a mutt. You may tell him of th*‘ ebony that constitutes his nut. You may write, of solid ivory and alabaster, but— He will always grab the paper in the morning ” Far be it from one to perpetrate a pun with m'altce aforethought, but it strikes us that Charlie Murphy Is the guy that put the boss in Boston. Not that we have anything against Tom Jones, but who is going to be the next meal ticket? Jess Willard once threw Charlie Cut ler down. The equanimity which the latter gentleman displayed leads one to wonder whether he Is a philosopher or a humorist. Joe Cantlllon has released Hobe Ferris. Hobe got flippant one night and led Joe to suspect that he was less than sixty years old. The consensus of opinion on the Pa cific coast is that If Jess Willard were tried on a charge of pugilism he would be declared absolutely innocent. LINES TO C. WEBB MURPHY. The curfew tolls the knell of parting <lny, The lowing herd wind* slowly o'er the lea, The baseball writer wends his weary way. And sags; “No baseball player talks to me.” How happy is the baseball writer now If C. Webb Murphy only has his way! No longer must he write with wrinkled brow The slop that lowbrowed athletes have to say. No longer must, he lean against a bar And say; "dome on and have an other drink!” No longer mast he stay where nth letes are And hear their efforts as they try to think. Oh. Charlie Murphy, chubby little runt, Yovr name Is always near and. dear to me! You up and got away with this here stunt And saved a thousand writers from ennui. THEY’LL KNOW THEY’VE BEEN IN GAME—NAYLOR NEW YORK. May 24.—George W. Naylor, stud groom to tho Duke of Westminster, and who has charge of the Dnglish polo ponies, came into town yesterday from the Piping Rock Club. He wanted to have a good square look at the lower part of the town, and incidentally to buy some things fur the horses. A few of thoj* who are Interested in the internation al match got around him and tried to get him excited over the match. One said that Larry Fitzpatrick, who is training the American ponies, would put it all over him. Naylor gave a sort of icy grin as he re marked, "He may put It all over me as you say, old chap, but his aide will know that they have been in a game.” There was a report yesterday that the American team were suffering from staleness, and that was the reason they had such little practice for the past week. SHERIDAN BEAT8 WAUQH. KANSAS CITY, MO., May 24.— Mickey Sheridan, of Chicago, de cisively defeated Bobby Waugh, of Fort Worth, Tex., here in a ten-round bout last night. T iH.bt •t Horn* or at3anlt*rium. Book on tub led FYe*. DR. B. M. WOOLLEY, J4*N. VidOf Sanitarium, Atlanta, Georgia, / OBACCO HABIT jja/ff rrote your health, prolong your life. . v o mnro stomach trouble, no foul breath, no heart weak- boom Restln manly vigor, calm nerves. elaar eyes and •upertor mer-al strength Whether you ch*w or smoke pipe. clgarettaa, cigars. *et my lnereatlng Tobacco Book Worth Its weight In gold Mailed frae. ft. J. WOO08. 534 Sixth AW., 74BM., NowYork.fi, V, To-day’s Ball Game Begins at 3 © O © Q © <0 O Gulls Have Grand Pitcher in Hogg By Percy H. Whiting. T HE pastiming this afternoon at tho celebrated ball park of the well- known Georgia Railway and Power Company, said park yclept Ponce I H'l.eon, will settle the question of whether or not a mediocre club can beat a good club with pitching alone. And lest somebody arise to ask which is the “good" club, we state without hesitation that If is the Atlanta delegation- and add positively that the Gull team ought to be a mediocre aggregation, considered on a rnan-by-man basis. And before we forget It. the contest this afternoon will lie called at 3 o'clock to enable the Mobile team to get on early train. There should be sufficient time for a full nine-inning contest, provided the umpires, the managers and the players do their respective and assorted duties. a* » m T ) EVERTING to the Gulls and their claims on distinction, we can only say that we can’t see them at all. Tt is a good club. Rut Is it a great club? \Ve don’t even pause for an answer. You can hand Mike Finn a lot of credit for the way the Gulls have been winning. He has gathered together a club that has balance. It. hasn't a strong spot in fielding, but it hasn’t a weak one. It is not a great hitting club, but it has a great slugger in D. Robertson, and a moderately reliable one in Jacobson. The rest of it must be team play, or maybe some thing even more intangible than that—a winning spirit, maybe; which is a hard thing to define hut a useful one to have. a a a A REALLY great performer on (he eiub is Bradley Hogg, the ex-Mercer ■sY and ex-Rr«ve pitcher. The former Baptist hurled unusually good hall Friday. Though the Crackers acquired six hits, they never came with in miles of scoring. Hogg walked just one man, struck out but one and looked like ready money and lots of it all the way. It takes a pretty good pitcher to hold the Crackers safe. They are deadly sluggers. Any pitcher who can shut them out Is a big leaguer at heart—or mighty lucky. And there was no luck about Hogg’s work. How in the mischief it happened that the Braves ever let go of Hogg Is a mystery. He looks more like a pitcher than any five men of George Stallings' staff rolled into one. To those who remember Hogg in his college days. Ills huge size proved a jolt. He is a whale now, while in his college days he seemed a man of hardly more than average size. To-day he has the ideal size and weight for a great pitcher. He will he a big man in the big leagues some day. x *, m. 'T'HANKS are hereby expressed to Bill Hart for his efforts to hurry along A Friday’s game. Bill kept right on the trail of the players, got them up to the plate in a hurry and managed to nun the game off In less than an hour and three-quarters—which was especially appreciated, owing to the fact that the day was awfully cold and raw. tt * m A tL Atlanta, beginning with Bill Smith and running down to the hum- i*- blest bat boy, is raging because the Atlanta papers were inclined to saddle the blame for losing the last Memphis game largely on the shoulders of Pitcher Dent. The following communication expresses the views of a lot of fans: Dear Sir; I am a great lover of baseball and frequently attend the games. I want to ask If tba blame of losing Wednesdays game to Memphis Is not wrongly placed on Pitcher Dent. Up to the sixth inning he pitched well nigh perfect hall. In tho beginning of the seventh, a batter made an In field bit and the hall was thrown to first base In ample time to get the hatter out. The first baseman in his eagerness to make a double play failed to touch the base and threw hadly to second. The shortstop failed to hold the ball and both runners were safe. Then Memphis’ best hitter came to hat, made a three bagger, brought In three runs and the pitcher discouraged, could do nothing more. Now didn’t the first baseman and shortstop lose the game? If the runners on first and second had been put out. as should have been done, would not Atlanta have won? mm T'HF, point thst “Fan” seems to have overlooked Is that before Agler 1 made his misplay, three singles in succession had been made off Dent. Then came the hobble. Then two more hits. We disagree with Bill Smith and others that Agler had an easy double if he had made the play right. A pitcher who allows three singles with none out starts something right there. More than that, a pitcher has got to he able te keep steady even after an error. REPLACE EVERS By Davenport. - B oston, mass., May 24.—siowiy but surely the mystery of Charles Webb Murphy's visit to Boston is beginning to unravel. Murphy is after pitchers. He is wise to the fact the < ’ubs* are woefully wo;ik when it comes to pitching, so is every one else who has been watching the dope. Murphy stated before leaving for the East that he had a deal on with an Eastern club, hence his trip to Boston. The president of the Cubs left his room bright and early this morning, and it i» rumored he went for a conference with Mr. Gaffney, owner of the Braves. y Hub Perdue. Yep, that’s tho game, and it’s big game Murphy's after. If he gets Perdue it will be only by giv ing In exchange two or three good players. Sweeney has been showing weak at second and Art Phelan would Just fit in there. Murphy refused to commit himself upon th^ result of his trip when he returned to the hotel at noon, but he wore that famous Murphy smile which means he met with success of some sort. The boss of the Cubs de nies that he is contemplating the re moval of Evers in favor of Bretma- han. lie said this morning: "Evers has a five-year contract and there is not the siightest chance of a change of managers.” Murphy stated to Boston scribes last night that he did not permit his players to talk with him, but he played pool with one of his men until nearly midnight and hobnobbed with the others. LIFTS BAN ON CHINN. TORONTO, May 24.—The Canadian Racing Association has lifted the suspension from Phil Chinn, a well- kno\Cn Kentucky horseman, who got into trouble with the Canadian Gov ernment a few years ago. 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