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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANP NEWS,
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USE OF BEAN
Bringing Up Father
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Copyright. 1918, International N'fws Serrlco
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By George McManus
r HE
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By Percy II. Whiting.
Hesitation in the major
leagues against the "bean ball" i
hi. stirred a -responsive chord j
in the Southern League. "Go to it.*’
say players and funs alike.
You know what the "bean ball" is.
of course.
It is a ball thrown by the pitcher
at the head of the batter. Its pur
pose may be to intimidate a batter
lacking in courage or to force away
from the plate a man who is crowd
ing in too close to suit the pitcher
The play is barbarous and should be
eliminated from the game.
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A S contemptible an exhibition of
bean ball throwing as Atlanta
fans ever saw occurred yesterday. In
the sixth inning, when Wally Smith
was at bat. he ran in t<» the limit of
the batter’s box in an effort to smear
one of Finis Wilson's curves. Wilson
put up a complaint to the umpire, but
there were no grounds for it, and Um
pire Pfenninger disregarded it.
Th^ next ball Wilson threw straight
at Smith's head. Wally ducked and
escaped, but by no wide margin.
Again Wilson threw at Smith’s head, j
and this time with such unerring aim ,
and such tremendous speed that when
Smith ducked the ball struck the bat
that he threw in front of his head as
he went down. But for this lucky
chance Smith would have received
a terrible wallop on the head, would
unquestionably have been laid out and
perhaps killed.
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\17ILSON’S act was doubtless that
of a fresh kid. He threw at
Smith’s head because he lacked any
better sense.
But if Wilson had killed Smith—
and the thing could easily have hap
pened—it would have been cold
blooded. brutal, willful murder.
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'"P HE bean ball is no more a part of
4 legitimate baseball than would
be the use of an axe on the head of
a base runner or the knifing of a
fielder.
It would be difficult absolutely to
stop it. However, in most cases a
trained observer—such as an umpire
is supposed to be and usually isn’t—
$ ould tell a "bean ball" from a wild
heave that went at the same mark.
A pitcher who uses it ought to be
fired out of baseball for one year and
fined not less than a thousand dol
lars. That might help to break up
the practice.
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\U EDXESDAVS ball game w as pie
* * for the Crackers—4 to 1—with
New Orleans the victim. Paul Mus-
ser came around and pitched a really
first-class game. The "fatal gift" was
with him to the extent of six passes,
but he was never in danger, chiefly
because he allowed only five hits. He
kept the hits pretty well separated
from the passes and the only time it
seemed possible that anything unfor
tunate might happen Hendryx wal
loped into a double play and relieved
the pressure.
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r' ATCHER CHAPMAN made his
^ Atlanta debut and pleased
mightily. He is a husky brute, with
lots of gab and considerable clever
ness. The entire team showed a lot
<»f addedf pep," but how much was
due to Chapman’s example and how
much to something Manager Smith
might or might not have said in a club
house talk nobody knows.
if Chapman proves as good as he
looks, the Crackers are a vastly dif
ferent team. Graham has been an
uncertainty all the season. And Dunn
was signed only as a second catcher
and could not be expected to carry
the whole thing along by himself.
With Chapman to do the heavy
backstopping and to lead in the chat
ter: with Dent promising to prove a
winning pitcher; with Musser back in
shape again, and with the rest of the
club playing to form, the locals ought
to begin forging toward the front
again.
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T 'i' is marvelous bow quickly a few
* bad games will show in the at
tendance. Wednesday’s crowd was
decidedly small. The rest of the week,
thanks to the big win Wednesday, the
attendance should be good.
Friday a double-header will be
played because of the. fact that it is
Federal Decoration Day. Normally
ii would be ladies’ day. too. blit la
dies’ tickets will not be honored that
day because of the holiday. Through
the rest of the season ladies’ tickets
will be accepted every Tuesday and
Friday.
Wednesday’s Game.
N. Orleans. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Hendryx, cf . . 4 ft 1 3 ft 0
At?. 2 b. ... 3 ft 1 2 2 ft
<Taney, ss . . . 3 ft 0 ft 4 ft
Breen, rf . . . 4 ft ft 2 1 0
Spencer. If. . 4 ft 1 ft ft 1
.-i Williams, 3b-. . 2 ft ft 1 3 ft
Snedecor. lb . . 3 0 ft 9 ft ft
Adams, c . . . 4 ft ft 7 1 ft
Wilson, p . . . 2 ft 2 ft 1 0
Totals . .
Atlanta.
. . 29 ft
24 12 1
ab. r. h. po.
BE FACTORS IN
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PlayersTratemity Branching Out
Q O © © O © ©
Magnates Dodged Punishment
Long. If
Welehom e. cf . 4 1 2 3 ft ft
ft 1 1
"NY el eh once, cf . 4
Alperman. 2b .3 ft ft 1 2 ft
Bailev, rf . . . 4 0 2 1 ft ft
Smith. 3b ... 3 1 ft 2 2 0|
Poland, ss ... 4 ft 2 I 2 ft
Agler. lb ... . 3 10 8 0 ft
c hapman, c . . 2 1 ft 1ft ft o
Musser. p . . . 2 ft ft ft 2 0
Totals
. . 28
Stoic by innings:
New Orleans 000 ftftft
Atlanta 000 120
Summary: Two-base hits-
Welchone 2. Long. Double
Smith to Alperman to Agler;
t«» Bi-land to Agler. Struck
Musser 8. by Wilson 4. Bases
-Off Musser, ft: off Wilson,
rifice hits—Alperman. Musser
bases—‘Hendryx, Bailey. Long
Passed ball—Chapman. Wild
— Musser 2.
ft
ftftO—0
ftlx—4
-Bailey,
plays—
Musser
out—By
on balls
3. S ,, -
Stolen
, Smith,
pitches
BOXING BILL PASSED.
VAIMSON. WJS.. May 20. The
Legislature, under .suspension of the
rub \ has pa-set! (he bill lcgalic:;**;
ten round boxing bouts.
FREE. NEXT SUNDAY.
The American Sunday
.Monthly Magazine, contain
ing the first chapters of Jack
London s new story, is
!i GIVEN FREE with every
copy of the next Sunday
American.
By E. G. B. Fitzhamon.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 29.—American own
ers. horses and jockeys seem likely
to cub a pretty wide swath in the
great English Derby this year. Harry
Payne YYhifneys colt. Meeting House,
which ran third in the Guineas, has
a nice chance of winning. So has
Herman B. Duryea’s Boyne, which
won the Paris Biennial, at ten fur
longs, quite comfortably from a
smart field. Ahgust Belmont also has
a colt in France which is going to
take some stopping on Epsom Downs,
barring accident.
Whitney’s Meeting House is a fine
big colt by Voter out of Noonday,
and is one of the thirty yearlings he
purchased from the late James Keene
eighteen months ago.
Meeting House began slowly in the
mile race at Newmarket for the
Guineas and for a few strides he was
the last of a field of 15, but he moved
up to ninth in the first quarter, was
seventh after going five furlongs,
and ran over four well fancied candi
dates in the final quarter, being beat
en only two lengths in the final quart
er by Louvois and Uraganour. which
was almost dead-heated. Meeting
House ran practically unbacked, with
15 to 1 against him to show, and
Frank O’Neill riding.
Was Nipped at The Last.
Craganour divided favoritism with
Fairy King and they showed the way
for six furlongs, when Craganour
drew clear, with Johnny Reiff on the
20 to 1 shot. Louvois. in hot pursuit.
Uraganour should have won, but his
English jockey was overconfident
and tossed it off and the American
nipped him on the post with Louvois.
O’Neill would have ridden the
winner if Jack Joyner had kept Meet
ing House in the barn. O’Neill was
engaged last year to ride for Whit
ney in this race if he was wanted.
Subsequently Mr. Raphael, the owner
of Louvois. as well as of last year’s
Derby winner, engaged both O’Neill
and Reiff to come over from Paris to
ride Louvois in the Guineas, O’Neill’s
engagament being conditional that
Joyner would ioi want him for
Whitney.
When Joyner decided . to take a
chance with Meeting House. Raphael
had Johnny Reiff to fall back upon,
and it was Johnny who won the
Derby for him on Tagalie last year.
But Mr. Raphael agrees with me
that Frank O’Neill is the greatest
jockey in Europe, and probably in
the world just now', and he has con
tracted wdth Frank to ride Louvois
in the Derby and other important
races. So if American owners and
horses fail in the Derby an American
rider is quite likely to win it.
Louvois Shows.
Louvois# is the colt of which I
wrote last December: that if l had
to make my selection for the Derby
from last season’s two-year-olds be
fore they ran this season as three-
year-olds. he would be my choice.
Louvois not only showed speed last
year but he impressed me as the most
likely to carry it over the Derby
route this year.
.Judging from the manner in which
he came from behind and wore down
Craganour at one mile 1 expect
Louvois to beat Ismay’s colt easily
at a mile and a half. To some ex
tent this argument also applies to
Whitney’s Meeting House being like
ly to beat Craganour for the Derby.
However, the talent makes Craganour
favorite at present at 9 to 2.
Shogun is going to become a hot
tip for Der^py, but I can not staml lor
a colt with two splints coming down
the hill at Epsom unless the going
should be very soft, which it seldom
is there.
Mr. Duryea’s Boyne is by Irish Lad
out of Running Water by Sir Dixon.
He is being pointed for the Derby, so
I bear from France.
Belmont’s good Derby colt in
France is Vulcain, by Rock Sand out
of Lady of the Y ale.
M'COY AMD FERNS DRAW
IN TWENTY FAST ROUNDS
DAYTON. OHIO. May 29. -A! Mc-
i oy. of New York, and Wildcat Ferns,
of Kansas City, went twenty fas;,
rounds to a draw here last night.
Jack London’s new story,
“The Scarlet Plague,” begins in
the American Monthly Magazine
given free with every copy of
next Sunday's American.
By W. .1. McBetli.
N EW YORK, May 29.—A new
power arises in organized base
ball, clamoring for certain
long neglected rights. This is the
Baseball Players’ Fraternity, organiz
ed less than a year ago under the
wise direction of David Fultz, a
prominent lawyer of New York and
in his day one of the greatest out
fielders in the big league. The Fra
ternity already embraces three hun
dred members: practically all of the
players pf the two major leagues.
It is but a matter of a very shor*
time until the Baseball Players’
Fraternity branches out to include
the minor leagues as well. And as
pow’er lies in force of numbers it
becomes evident that this Fraternity
will very shortly be in a position to
force the recognition it rightfully
deserves. There is absolutely no
idea of unionism in the fraternity.
Rather the association stands for a
strict interpretation of the laws
governing organized baseball. But
the organization proposes to see that
laws and regulations shall be fair
ly applied; that the magnates shall
not be favored one whit over the rank
and file of players who have built
up and made the great game the
popular sport which if* ts.
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U LTIMATELY, no doubt, players
will, have some sort of represen
tation on the National Commission,
the supreme court of the laws gov
erning the game. This is no more
than fair. At present the baseball
commission is made up of a National
League club owner and the two presi
dents of the major leagues In their
favor it must be said that on the
whole the work of this National Com
mission has been above reproach.
There have been instances of dis
crimination when discrimination was
to the best interests of magnates in
general.
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Baseball is presumably the only
hohest professional sport, if such a
broad name may be applied to such
a gigantic amusement enterprise, its
honesty reflects the character of the
professional player rather than of the
professional promoter, it is a mat
ter of record that In its thousands
and thousands of cases involving
thousands and thousands of dollars
no player has ever lied who testified
before the National Commission. Who
can say as much for some of our
highly respected club owners whose
first creed seems to be subterfuge
if not deceit?
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AA7HILR titr National Commission
* * prides itself upon an iron hand
in administering justice to ball plac
ers. high and low, it religiously
evades shouldering equal responsibil
ity in a case of the magnate. For
the benefit of a trusting public it
may bluster and bluff a whole lot;
but that is as far as it goes. There
are too many illustrious examples
of the past 'few years to bear con
tradiction. It is true that the Na
tional League expelled from its ranks
last winter Horace Fogei, president
of the Philidelphia Nationals. be
cause he had given utte.rances un
complimentary to the honesty of the
sport and its administration. But
the National League fawned upon
Charles W. Murphy, president of >he
Chicago Cubs, who was directly re
sponsible for Horace Fogel’s out
burst. They had the "goods" on
Murphy. Were they afraid of the
backing of this little trouble-maker
—the millions of Charles P. Taft'.’
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T F Ban Johnson’s w ord amounts to
4 anything it was not the first time
that Murphy stood upon the brink,
ready for the kindly shove that in
the best interests of the game should
have been applied. Johnson declares
that Murphy should have been driven
out of baseball for speculating n
world's series tickets in 1908 when his
Cubs drubbed the Tigers. Ban was
also very vehement in his outcry
against certain New York officials
during the series between the Giants
and Athletics in 1911. He was also
determined, he said, to expose the
shady manipulations of the celebrated
attempt to bribe the umpires at the
post-season play-off of the well
known Cub-Giant pennant tie at the
Polo Grounds* in 19»>8.
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J OHNSON may have been sincere in
both instances. If so then the
power** of organized baseball a« em
bodied in the magnates stayed hi>
hand. The magnates were afraid f
public exposure.
We have had in the past too
many examples of lop-sided justice.
Where Inconsequential plavers have
drawn maximum penalty for infrac
tion of the laws stars have been
exonerated. Hal Chase furnishes a
very striking example. He quit New
York and Griffith cold in 1908 wh m
he was the only player left of the
saddest tail end aggregation one
could imagine. He committed the
unpardonable sin of organized base
ball. He not only "jumped” his con
tract with organised baseball but
went to an "outlaw” league. This
penalty at the time should * have
drawn a lifelong "black-list." But
organized baseball could not afford
to lose such a drawing card as Chase.
The very next spring he was par
doned after a "mock" trail. They
sought Chase. If he had been an
average player all the influence in the
world could never have tempted the
National Commission to let down the
bars.
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T Y UOBB is another blight example.
His indefinite suspension by John
son last year, because Ty assaulted
a spectator at the Hilltop, was the
direct cause of a strike by the De
troit Tigers. This action was a very
grave offense, but wholesale punish
ment would have been equivalent to
annulment of Detroit’s valuable chat
tels in players. Because of the
strength of numbers Ban Johns )n
was compelled to leniency. After
ward he singled out Delehanty.
passing veteran, on whom to vent
his disciplinary spleen. In compli
ance with the Detroit ultimatum Cobb
was immediately reinstated. This
spring Ty Cobb hefd out for a reeb' d
salary. Organized baseball was ob
durate until the newspaper public
ity threatened a Congressional probi
into organized baseball to determine
whether or not it was a trust. Th^n
organized baseball fairly broke its
neck welcoming the Tiger hold-out.
Though Ty had violated baseball law
by playing with a baseball team in
the South when he should have been
with Jenninge, he was reinstated by
Ban Johnson before his application
could be brought before the National
Commission. Had it been some ob
scure "busher" instead of Cobb, he
would nbw undoubtedly be on the
suspended list. The National Com
mission might never discover his ap
plication for reinstatement.
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T HE Baseball Players’ Fraternity is
* a most admirable organization an 1
is very likely to result in great good
to the game. Playing managers are
excluded from membership. Its chief
aim is mutual protection. It in
tends to work along harmonious lines
with organised baseball government.
It held aloof from the controversy
between Cobb and the Detroit club,
maintaining that its thief purpose
was the observation and not nego
tiation of contracts. It has no ob
jection to the .so-called "yoke” of
the reserve clause but it hopes to es
tablish soiru* sense of equitable jus
tice in observation of contract and
some limit at least to the reserve
clause. Now the magnate has the
power to hold a player for life - r
to lelease him on ten days’ notice.
The player has no redress and must
accept the terms offered. The fra-
■ terplty hopes t<> in- able in timfc to
adjust salaries on a far more sensi
ble basis. Last year a player on the
Pittsburg team was signed up for
$8ftft. He had no say in the matter.
Wagner in the same club was draw
ing $10,000. 'Wagner may have been
twelve times the more valuable as
set. Yet a player who is worth to
more than $800 should not be in the
big league. He can get more in the
"sticks” with a chance of develop
ment at the same time.
O RGANIZED baseball may need the
kindly services of the fraternity be
fore many months roll around. Per
haps the magnates have been killing
the goose of the golden eggs. Pub
lic sympathy seems on the wane.
Jack O’Connor in the civil courts :n
St. Louis quite recently was- awarded
a verdict for $5,000 agains; the
St. Louis Americans. This was tile
amount of a year’s salary as manager
of the Browns on a contract that
Ban Johnson canceled because he al
leged that O’Connor had purposely
countenanced a scheme to boost Na
poleon Lajoie’s batting record above
that of Ty < ’obb. Lajoie, it is eaid,
was allowed to make a hit every
time he came to bat in the final game
of the season «o that he might earn
an automobile which went for the
batting championship.
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N T - GW. that little scandal was hush-
* ed up at the time by the wily
Johnson. He straightened out the
matter by getting an extra benzine
buggy for Larry and awarding Cojbb
the honors. The skeleton In th*
closet, however, was rattled again in
the O’Connoi suit when Ban John
son produced witnesses who testified
that they had overheard O'Connor In
structing his men to give Lajoie an
unfavorable advantage over Cobb
Such testimony was not • of a nature
to reassure* public confidence in pro
fessional baseball. And it did abso
lutely no good, as the jury disre
garded it anyhow.
BASEBALL
SUMMARY
Result! of Every Game of Im
portance Played Yesterday.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Montgomery at Atlanta. Ponce De
Leon. Game called at 3:45 o’clock.
Memphis at Chattanooga
Mobile at Nashville.
New Orleans at Birmingham
Floto Yearns for Days of Old
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Scores All Typewriter Fighters
Standin
W. L.
Mobile 31 17
Neville .23 2ft
Atlanta 23 21
M’mpis 22 21
of the Clubs.
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.646 Chatt. .22 22
.535 | Mom. .21 23
.523 ! B’ham .19 22
.512 New O. 14 29
sday’i
Atlanta 4. New Orleans 0.
Nashville 5. Memphis 4.
Mobile 7. Chaitanooga 6
Birmingham 9, Montgomery 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Brooklyn at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Chicago at Pittsburg
Cincinnati at St. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs.
VV. L.
Phila. 22 7
B’klyn 19 14
Ch’r’go 20 1>
N. York 16 16
W. L.
St L. 1H 18
P burg 16 20
Boston 12 18
C’natti 11 24
Wednesday’s Results.
Cincinnati 3. Pittsburg 1
Brooklyin-Philadelphta. rain.
Boston-'New York, rain
Chicago 8, St. Louis 7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Qames Thursday.
Detroit at Chicago
St. Louis at Cleveland. *
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Washington
Standing of the Clubs
W. L.
Phila. .24 10
C’land lb 12
W’gton 19 lb
Chic’go 21 18
W. L.
Boston 1.5 19
St. I.. 18 25
Detroit 16 24
N. York 9 24
Wednesday’s Results.
Cleveland. 2-5: Chicago, 1-3.
Detroit 6. St. Louis 3.
Other games postponed, rain
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Uharleston at Albany.
Macon at Columbus
Jacksonville at Savannah.
Standing of the Clubs
Bv Otto C. Floto. ■
I N slanting a glance over the light
weight situation as It presents it
self to us at the present time w•*
are forced to the conclusion that
there is more talk than do’n’
and more challenges flying ba \
and forth than there are accept
ances of the same. Take the
whole list of the boys that claim this
division, as their ow n. each and ever>
one of them have a chip on their
shoulder and are aiming their 14-inch
guns at Willie Ritchie, the titlehold-
Their ammunition, however, is
mostly "buncombe,” and the almighty
dollar is receiving far more attention
in these deliberations than is the
glory of becoming champion.
All of which forces us to lean back
and sigh. "Oli, you fortunate chain-
pione of to-day How lucky you are
not to have been compelled to battle
In the time when real fighters graced
the roped inclosure. ' Days when the
end wgs never in sight; days when
the finish came only w ith the referee’s
count and the acknowledgment from
the "seconds" of one or the other
principal that his charge could go no
further
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COME nay shrug their shoulder-
^ and say. "Yes. but those were the
brutal days of the London prize
ring.' Maybe they were, but they
also represented the period when
gladiators of real merit hell sway,
days when it required a stoui heart,
stamina, a knowledge of wrestling as
well as fighting, and an adept so far
as the science and punching ability
of the game went.
Seldom if ever did a champion re
turn to the ring once the stigma of
defeat was placed against his name.
He retired in thoee days unless for
some exceptional reason he was al
lowed to come back. His future con
nection with the game was as second,
bottle-holder or representative of
some champion. Tom Sayers, after
his defeat by Langham. came back
W. L Pc.
Sav'ah 1.8 7 .800
("minis 19 16 .543
J’vllle 19 16 .543
W L.
J’vllle 18 17
Ch’ston 13 22
Albany 9 24
Wednesday’s Results.
Savannah 2, Charleston 0.
M aeon 3, Jacksonville 0.
Columbus 12, Albany 4.
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
VYaycross at Valdosta.
Brunswick at Americus.
Thomasville at Cordele.
Standing o* the Clubs.
W. L. Pc.
V'dosta 16 8 .667
Cordele 14 1U .58;;
Th’vilie 12 12 .500
VV. L.
W'cr'ss 12 12
B’wick I ft 11
Am’cus 8 16
and. in support of the move, we need
but add that he was never defeated
again. He was a middleweight, w hile
Langham was a heavy one when they
fought.
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TAKE the average run of the
A Queensbtrry babies we have in
our midst at the present time anti
when they stagger up against defeat
or adverse verdicts they hurry to the
nearest typewriter and frame fifty-
seven different varieties of alibis in a
made endeavor to explain away their
rout
Mind, we don't wish you to mis
understand us in that the Queens-
berry code failed to produce great
champions. On the contrary, it did.
Jimmy Barry. Jack McAuliffe, Jack
Dempsey. Jim Corbett, Fitzsimmons
and others won titles under their
clauses. Bui remember, too. that they
all fought "TO A FINISH" in order
to succeed to the emblem. The pres
ent day limited affairs were foreign
to them.
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M ANY will wonder why John L.
Sullivan's name is among those
missing from tlie above list. Simple
enough, and equally surprising to as
many to learn that Sullivan won his
title according to the L. P. R, rules.
The only time he met defeat was by
the Queensberry route. So that tech
nically speaking Sullivan was never
defeated for the title. He at any
rate never lost it in the same man
ner in w'hich he won it. The last
London prize ring fight in this coun
try was between Sullivan and Kil-
raiti. al Richburg. Mfss. This will
perhapp be news to many as well.
With the abolition of the L. P. R.
rules came a Mock of "box fighters,”
to whom the limited round journey
with eight-ounce gloves and Queeris-
berry methods appealed as the short
route to eavy money. Uvar 70 per
cent of this same band would have
found employment at some other way
of making a living had the old-time
fashion of battles on the turf "to a
finish” still been in vogue.
SMITH WINS BLUFFING
MATCH WITH C. FRANK
After a grand little bluffing bee.
Charley Frank ha9 taken over the
services of Pitcher Orlie Weaver for
the season.
Smith offered to lend Weaver to
Frank.
Frank wanted to get an outright
ownership of Weaver's services. 3j
he got Weaver to go to Smith anj
say that he would not take Weaver
on any other basis than outright ow n
ership.
Then Smith bluffed back. "All
light." he said; "then I’ll send Weaver
to Beatfmont."
This last threat brought Weaver
around on the run and he fixed up the
deal at once with Frank. The Peli
cans get Weaver for the season and
he will then be turned back to the
Crackers.
Z B Y S Z K 0 COL LA PS ES IN
# MAT BOUT; LURICH WINS
NEW YORK. May 29.—George Lu-
rich was awarded the decision over
Stanislaus Zbyszko in the wrestling
bout at Madison Square Garden when
the latter failed after 16 minutes and
27 seconds of strenuous struggling on
the mat.
The Polish champion was said to be
suffering from the effects of a recent
injury received at Montreal and his
weakened condition resulted in his
collapse in the ring.
LEACH CROSS DECISIVELY
WALLOPS TEDDY MALONEY
NEW YORK. May 29.—Leach Cross
is one step nearer his ambition for
a chance at Champion Willie Ritchie
to-day. He disposed of Teddy Ma
loney, of Philadelphia, decisively in
their bout at the St. Nicholas last
night.
Phil Cross slugged his way to vic
tory over Paddy Sullivan, who was
substituted for Johnny Marto.
RINGSIDE NOTES
Wednesday's Results.
Waycross 5, Thomasville 2.
Valdosia, 9-8; Americus, 3-1.
Cordele 15. Brunswick 7.
GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Gadsden at Talladega.
I aGrange at OpeliKa.
N'ewnan at Anniston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Po VV L. Pc
Gads n 13 7 .660 ' Opelika 10 10 500
T'dega 12 9 .571 i An’ston 10 11 .476
Newrr’n 11 9 . 550 | LaGr'ge & 15 .250
PELKY AND BURNS MAY
BE TRIED ON JUNE 23
CALGARY. ALBERTA. May 29 —
If Tommy Burns and Arthur Pelky
pver come to trial on a.charge of
manslaughlf r in connection with the
death of Luther McCarty it will be on
June 23 at the Supreme Criminal
Court session.
Burns wiil not give out hie plans-
but it is also said that lie is being
urg, d to abandon all connection with
ring affairs.
Fargo dispatches giving McCarty s
estate as worth $95,0011 arc grossly
cans*, a ted. H property ir worth
about $13,000.'
White City Park Now Open
Jack Dillon lias finished hard train
ing for his 10-round set-to wdth Frank
Klaus Thursday night at Indianapolis.
Dillon is down to the required weight
and says he wdll be strong at 160
pounds, the figure both men have
agreed to make.
* « *
Eddie Campi and Charles Ledoux will
clash in the next bantamw’eight fight to
be staged on the Coast. Torn McCarey
signed the boys yesterday. They will
meet on June 20 in a scheduled 20-
round go.
* • *
Jack Britton will make his next fight
against Jimmy Duffy, the tough Buf
falo boy, on Thursday night. They will
meet in Duffy’s home town and Brit
ton will have his hands full carrying
away the verdict. The hoys are billed
to go ten rounds.
* * •
Matty McCue was'handed a neat set
back the other night. Matty attempted
to land his haymaker «*n Patsj Bran*
nigan’s jaw, hut the latter was fat too
clever for the Racine sensation and had
a good shade at the end of the tenth
round.
• • ♦
Tommy. Walsh, manager of Joe Man-
dot. writes from the Coast that the New
Orleans boy will do no more boxing this
year. Walsh says that Manriot had
nothing hut bad luck in 1913. He also
praises Referee Charley Fyton for stoo
ping the fight when he did.
* * *
Harry Gilmore, who is to he Tom M< -
Carey's rival in the promoting line in
Los Angeles, says that Bull Young can
defeat either Gunboat Smith or Jess
Willard. Gilmore saw the recent scrap
between Willard and Smith and is of
the opinion that Fitzsimmons, in his
prime, could have beaten both heavy
weights in the same ring and on the
same night.
• • •
Mil burn Saylor and Battling Kelley
will don the gloves for a scheduled 10-
round battle at Indianapolis Friday
night. The bout is to be staged one day-
after the Klaus Dillon affair.
* * *
Meyer Pries is simply aching for a
fight these, days. Kid Superior hap
pened to meet Pries near the Piedmont
Hotel the other day when Meyer was in
anything but a good mood and according
to reports the little gentlemen took part
VOLUNTEERS GET CHICK
SMITH FROM CINCINNATI
NASHVILLE, TENN., May 39 -
Manager Tinker, of the Cincinnati
Rede, has sent Pitcher ('hick Stnitn
to the Nashville club.
The addition of Smith will give the
Vols two southpaws. Pitcher Dye, a
i ight-hander bought from Canton,
Ohio, has reported and will probably
be used in the series with Mobile.
in one <»t those real "rough and tumble
affairs." Superior was seen later car
rying a well colored optic.
* * *
Spider Britt is on the warpath. The
little bantamweight read Meyer Pries’
challenge in the Georgian the othei day
and says he will gladly meet Pri^s on
a "winner-take-all" basis. Britt also
states that he will give Meyer a side
bet of $6ft. Let's hear from Pries!
Another New Orleans fighter has been
defeated. Frankie Russell tried hard
to put the Pelican City hack on the
fighting map Monday night, but Lore
proved too tough a customer for
Frankie. The Eastern hoy was given
the newspaper verdict by a good mar
gin. •
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