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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANR NEWS. MONDAY, MAY 26, 1012. TELLS IP HU TITLE BUTTLE By Ed. W. Smith. i Referee Pelky-McCarty Fight, Sport- ing Editor Chicago American.) C algary, alberta. May 26.— Medical testimony at the Cor oner's inquest at 4 p. m. to day on the remains of Luther Mc Carty, who fell dead in the first round of his glove contest Saturday with Arthur Pelky, will, it is said, tend to show that McCarty’s neck was dis located and that this injury brought about the fighter’s collapse The phy- . sician who spent most of Sunday in #n examination of the big boxer's |ody would not say directly what he had discovered, being bound by law not to divulge anything in advance of his testimony before the Coroner s in quiry. There was nothing the matter with the heart. Since there was hardly a blow struck that could have inflict ed an injury of that nature, there will probably be a lot of contradiction at .the inquest. Everybody connected with the affair has been summoned. All hands have . agreed now’ that McCarty, while known to be in grand condition to all outward appearances i he day before, did not look exactly right when he shaped up for the opening round. During some of the preliminary bouts he sat among the newspaper men and w’as jolly enough, but after he got into the ring his face took on a pasty, drawn expression and though he laughed and kidded with his helpers it was apparent that he was not quite himself. McCarty Was Not Right. What little boxing he did was rather to the bad si(^e and his miss ing was ridiculously wide and ama teurish. Just before he toppled over to the floor, he had missed an op portunity of landing his famous up percut as Pelky fell forward, wide open, into a clinch. Luther never made a move and Billy McCarney yelled at him angrily. Luther merely winked at his manager and about fifteen sec onds later was stretched at full length on the floor, dying quickly. There never was a more dramatic ending to a battle and the general ef fect was heightened by the presence of a minister of the Gospel, the Rev. Walker, who made an address to the ■ rowd asking for fairness in all man ly sports and likening the ring con test to the ordinary man’s daily bat tle in life. It appears now’ that McCarty had talked often w r ith Walker and they had become very friendly. It was at Luther’s behest that Walker was present at the contest. During the address, McCarty, w r hile having his gloves adjusted by Trainer Sears, lis tened attentively. Sears asked him several times if the gloves flt him and were all right, and he did not re ply at all, Sears finally having to speak sharply to him. McCarney will take the McCarty remains East within the next two days. He received wires from Lu ther’s father at Cynthiana, Ky. f and /•Luther’s wife at Moorhead, Minn., giving him full authority to act. The wife is on her way here to accompany the body East. The burial will be at Plqua, Ohio, and probably within a week. Sister Predicted Death. In looking through McCarty's ef fects to-day, McCarney found a letter from the young man’s sister fearing some such fate for her brother. The letter was dated April 14. and warned him that he might be knocked out at any time and never regain conscious ness. Despite the great interest displayed in the affair. there was a gate of lets than $9,000, which just about cleared Promoter Tommy Burns. McCarney was guaranteed $5,000, with the privi lege of taking half the gross. McCarty did most of his banking in Frisco and has an occount of $10,000 there now. He never carried more than $50 in his pocket. McCarney has aged greatly in the last 24 hours and the strain certainly Is telling on him. He has received hundreds of telegrams from all over the country, many of them offering all kinds of assistance. Arthur Pelky, the man who faced McCarty in the fatal battle, is 28 years old and a native of Chatham. Ont. By trade he is a millwright, having worked for years in the cot ton mills around the country. He (alls Detroit, Mich., his home now. He has been married four years and his wife is here with him. Mrs. Pelky was hysterical when she met her hus band aftei the battle, but the joy was short-lived, for 20 minutes afterward they received word that McCarty was dead and that Pelky was under ar rest. , Pelky got seven offers of vaudeville * ngagements within an hour after the ' result of the contest had been flashed over the country. Ho did not consider any of them. To-day he announced gloomily and with tears in his eyes, that he had fought his last fight and would never put on another glove. BRANNIGAN VS. M’CUE. * MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 26.— Matty McCue, Racine’s knocker out, will be put to the test here to-night when he hooks up with Patsy Bran- nigan, of Pittsburg, in a ten-round contest before the South Side Ath letic Club at Elite rink. Now the Question Is, Where Did Jeff Go? Z C&3 C&3 c£sb By “Bud” Fisher ATLANTA 3 MATS. MON. WED. SAT. 25c All This Week Miss Billy Lons Co. ST. ELMO By Request Wgllt» He. 25c. 35c, 50c. All’s Fair in Love Copyright, 1918, International News 8errip« • m By George McManus Much Interest in College Sports Keenness of Rivalry Is Cause BIJOU MATINEE TO DAY TOINIGHT 7:30 A 8 JOS. E. HOWARD’S THE DISTRICT LEADER TABLOID MUSICAL COMEDY lOc ADMfiOm RESEDVED SEATS 10c FORSYTH Matinee To-day 2.30 To-Night 8:30 THE IRISH QUEEN MAGGIE CLINE The Great Howard- Madden & Fitzpatrick Caesar Net NEXT WEEK LILLIAN SHAW By J. W. Heisman. (Famous Tech Coach.) T HE total attendance for the four games of the Tech-Georgia se ries was something over 15,000 people. A trifle staggering, eh? Not a club in the Southern League but would be delighted to have that at tendance for four successive games. For one thing it shows that the public is coming to take more and more interest in college games and sports. Whether specially interest ed in the teams or not most every body is coming to understand that college games are “for blood” and that when they go to one they may expect to witness an encounter in which each player is going to ‘‘do his durndest” in the endeavor to win. And that’s what people like to see. Tech-Georgia Hot Rivals. Still it might as well be admitted that no other college games in the entire South draw anything like tlie way these Tech-Georgia games do. They have come to possess certain special magnetic powders all their own. The keenness of the rivalry is not alone sufficient to account for it. be cause other colleges in other sections have been as hot rivals yet could never draw any crowd? like this. Neither do the crowds go on in the hope or expectation that a grand riot would —or might result—as some have al leged. For the last three years there has been no more danger of anything of this sort happening than if either of them were playing Sewanee or Mercer, yet the attendance has stead ily increased each of the three past years. The main factor, in my opinion, why people go in such numbers to these particular game? is that they can always count on seeing some real ball games, no matter what the rec ords of the two teams may have been up to that time. In other words, they go because you just can’t tell any thing for sure about their outcome; and the very uncertainty Is the mag net Fans Get Enthused. To be sure due allowance must also be made for the fact that here one get? the annual refreshing glimpse of just what college life is like, with its songs and yells, its bands and colors, its enthusiasm and inspira- BASEBALL TO-DAY tlon that makes the blood of even the most indifferent beholder run riot through the veins. It takes u? all back; it gives to us all that one touch of nature (or of nigh life— whichever you prefer) that is alone worth three times the admission price. On the night that Tech had won her third game from Georgia, and with it the series, the student body and the friends of the school after parading awhile had finally come to a halt at the corner of Whitehall and Alabama Streets for the usual pur pose of holding some speeches on the steps of the Atlanta National Bank. This, of course, resulted in a complete blockade of traffic, and the policemen stationed there were led a perfect dog’s life trying to keep the sidewalks and street car lines open. Their best efforts were prac tically without result a? the boys paid absolutely no attention to their threats, requests or commands. Final ly one of them, with the perspira tion streaming down his face, fal tered out in a broken, pleading voice: “Aw, boys, for sake, please go on up to the Piedmont awhile and give us a little rest down here!” College Stars for Pirates. I observe by the press despatches that Messrs. Ezell, of Clemson. and Davenport, of Auburn, are both lo report to the Pittsburg National League club immediately at the close of their respective college sessions. I wish merely to remark, sotto voce, that it affords me gratification— ahem!—to note that the Pittsburg scout? have been perusing my all- Southern. Of course some low sneak will not be lacking to, er-ah-hint that I happened to hear that Pitts burg was going to sign these young men before I wrote up my all-South ern. Rubbish! flubdub! and nothing of the sort! I will merely say that this ’could not have been, for the simple reason that I had both these players slated in my mind s eye for the all-Southern this year over a year ago. And there you are. Well, well, as I was saying— On the evening of the afternoon that Georgia won her first and only game from Tech, a gentleman stand ing at Five Points overheard two others discussing some particular features of the game that they had witnessed. At the flr?t lull in their talk he butted in with, “Excuse me, but who won the game to-day?” “Georgia.” was the reply. “Well, thank the Lord for that! Maybe I’ll get some sleep to-night.” Puzzle: Tell what section of the State of Georgia that gentleman lived and tried to sleep in. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Monday. New Orleans at Atlanta, Ponce De Leon. Game called at 3:45 o’clock. Montgomery at Birmingham. Mobile at Chattanooga. Memphis at Nashville. Standing of the Clubs. New Orleans vs. Atlanta Ponce DeLeon Park oClock 1 White City Park Now Open A S a result of a red-hot run-in between Bill Smith anad Pat Graham, catcher, which fol lowed the yanking of Pat out of Sat urday’s game, the latter will be let out by the local club. Chapman, a catcher from the Cincinnati club, will take Graham’s place. Chapman has played two years with Topeka, field ing well and batting poorly. Just how far the row’ between Bl!l Smith and Catcher Graham went is a club-house secret. When asked about it. the other players look wise and say nothing. The fact that Graham’s dismissal came right on. top of the incident in dicates that it w’as moderately seri ous. During Bill Smith's career as man ager he has had many stormy inter views with ball plkyers, including the time Red McMurray clawed away ; several square feet of his cuticle in a bickering that occurred w’hile the i team was on foreign soil. The local club house has been the scene of several short, feverish fights —most notable of which was the run- in between Otto Jordan and Paul Sentell. ZBYSZK0 HURT IN MAT BOUT WITH LEMARIN MONTREAL, May 26.- Stanislaus Zbyszko, the Polish wrestler, is suf fering from a fractured skull and oth- j er injuries as a result of a plunge from the ring to the floor and al leged fouling tactics used by his op ponent, Constant l^emarin. In a match here last night. It is not believed that his injuries will prove fatal. The men had been wrestling only a few’ minutes when they plunged from the ring. Zbyszko received a bad cut over his left eye in the fall and the referee had to call time and have the wound stitched, as the blood from it had completely covered the wrestlers. When hostilities began again the Pole was the aggressor. He had se cured a partial crotch and reverse, half-Nelson when the Frenchman, it is alleged by the referee, fouled Zbyszko so fiercely that the contest was stopped and the decision award ed the Pole. Zbyszko rose to his feet, but totter ed and fell unconscious. He was taken to a hotel and an examination by the doctors disclosed a fractured skull. Zbyszko was to have met George Lu- rich. the Russian wrestler, next Wed nesday in New York City. W. L. Mobile 30 15 N’ville 22 19 Atlanta 21 20 M’phis 21 20 Pc. .667 .537 .613 .513 W L. Chatta. 20 21 Mont. 20 21 B’ham 17 21 N. Or. 13 27 Pc. .488 .488 .447 .325 Sunday’s Results. Mobile 4. New Orleans 3. Memphis 4. Montgomery 2. Nashville 6, Chattanooga 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Monday. New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburg St. Louis at Chicago. Standing of the Clubs W. Phila. 21 . .... B'klyn 19 13 .594 St. L. 18 16 .529 N. York 15 14 .517 L. Pc r W. ^ n ^SO Ch'eago 18 17 P’burg 16 19 Boston 10 17 O’nnari 10 24 Pc. .614 .457 .370 .294 Sunday’s Results. Chicago 9, St. Louis 2. Cincinnati 1, Pittsburg 0. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Monday. Detroit at St. Louis. Chicago at Cleveland. Washington at Philadelphia Boston at New York. Standing of the Clubs W. L Phila. 21 9 C'land 24 12 W’gton 18 13 Ch’eago 21 16 Pc .700 .667 .5*1 .568 W. L. Boston 14 19 Detroit 16 22 St. L. 16 24 N. York 9 23 Pc. .424 405 .400 .281 Results Sunday. Detroit 7-8. St. Louis 4-6. Cleveland 8, Chicago 1. Sunday’s Results. No games scheduled. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Monday. Newnan at Gadsden. Opelika at Anniston. LaGrange at Talladega. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. ( W. L. Pc. Gad'den 11 7 .611 I Ann'ton 8 9 .470 Newnan 11 7 .611 Opelika 8 9 .470 T’dega 9 8 529 J LaGr’ge 5 12 .294 Sunday’s Results. No games scheduled. OTHER RESULTS. American Association. St. Faul 1, Toledo 0. Columbus 2. Milwaukee 1. Kansas City 1, Louisville 0. Minneapolis 3, Indianapolis 0. International League. Newark 2. Baltimqre 1. Jersey City 2, Providence 0. Toronto-Montreal. postponed; rain. Only three games scheduled. Federal League. Cleveland 3, St. Louis 1. Indianapolis 4, Covington l. Covington 3, Indianapolis 1. Texas League. Beaumont 4. Galveston 3. Austin 3. Waco 2. Fort Worth 3, J >allas 2. San Antonio 2. Houston 1. CHICAGO, May 26.—Manager Bir mingham, of the Clevelartd club, an nounced to-day that he had put over a deal with the New York Americans whereby Peckinpaugh, one of the util ity inflelders, was traded tp the Yanks for Lelivelt, outfielder, and Stumpf, inflelder. Lelivelt will be used, ac cording to Manager Birmingham, in the role of pinch hitter. He did not say what disposition would be made of Stumpf, but the general impression Is that he wMll be sent to the American Association. LOANED TO SALARIED AT LAWFUL ON PROMISSORY' NOOKS Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Raal Estate Seourtt; NATIONAL DISCOUNT CD. 1211-12 FourttiNatlofial Bank Bid*. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Monday. Savannah at Charleston. Albany’ at Columbus. Macon at Jacksonville. Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pc S’vna'.i 25 7 .781 C’l’bufl 17 15 .531 Macon 15 15 .500 W. L. J ’ villa 16 16 \ St on 13 19 Albany. 8 22 Pc. 500 .406 267 $25,000 PURSE OFFERED FOR RITCHI E-WELSH BOUT EDMONTON, May 24.—Edmonton A. C. announced it will offer $25,000 for title bout, Julv 1, between Freddie Welsh and Willie Ritchie. Pollock has accepted. Pollock also wired MeCarey and UofTroth offering to let Welsh meet Ritchie in California, winnef to take all and a $5,000 side bet. Welsh will pick up $9,000 soft money In four Western Canada bouts. “NEW HOME”—10I8-S See this latest expression of preaent-da? requirements and BUY it. Also NEEDLES, our make, for all machines. We RENT—sale rebate—and repain Try us. Call, write, or use either- phone. The New Horae Sewing Machine Co. 10 Equitable Bldg;. (Halt and Edgewood Are, Entrances) No games sc Sunday’s Results. L-heuuied. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Monday. Brunswick at Cordele. VVaycross at Thomasvillp. Americas at Yald<*sta. Standing of the Clubs. W. a-. Pc W L. V V’dosta 15 8 .619 W’crims 10 11 l f ordele 12 9 .671 H'wlck 9 12 .41 Th'ville 1L 10 .524* Am'cus 8 13 .3* PAPE QUITS BASEBALL. BUFFALO. N. Y., May 26.—Larry Pape, former member of the cham pion Boston American League team, and since January 1 on the Buffalo International League pitching staff, has quit baseball and will return to his home in Pittsburg, where he will take up his former occupation as an electrician. Pape’s decision was an nounced when President Stein in formed him that he was to be farm ed out to a Canadian League Club. While on the Pacific Coast read the San Francisco Examiner Confederate Veterans’ Reunion CHATTANOOGA, TENN. For the accommodation of the Veterans and their friends, the Weetern and Atlantic Railroad will operate train* Atlanta to Chat tanooga an May 26, to leave Atlanta as follow** 8:00 8:35 2:00 2:15 3:00 4:50 8:50 A. A. P. P. P. P. P. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. Round-trip tickets will be sold Atlanta to Chattanooga and return at rate of $3.00. Tickets will be on sale May 24 to 28. Inclusive, and for trains scheduled to arrive Chattanooga before noon of May M, with return limit June 5, with an extension by deposit at Chatta- nooga to Juno 25. C. E. HARMAN, General Passenger Agent. - $31 - •** . z m t