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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, BRA5SIE SHDI 111 A Till CFTHEPAS By “Chirk” Evans C hicago, ili,, June 2—The brassio shot is becoming more a thing: of the past, and by a bras- #*ie phot I mean any shot after the te© shot has been played that is too long for the Irons. Donald Ross says that three-shot holes are really only names now. Years ago before the advent of the rubber-cored balls the brassie was a very important club, but since the coming of the new ball its use for the second shot has con stantly decreased among the more skillful players. It may be explained for the benefit of those new to the game that a brae- eie is really a well-lofted driver with brass-covered sole. Sometimes it is shorter than the driver, but that is a matter of individual choice. As the ball lies close to the fair green and it is not teed up like the driver it is easy to understand that the brass sole is intended to prevent the club from being injured by the rough ground underlying the fair way. I appealed to Tom Rigelow, the well- known golf authority, for a detailed explanation of the origin of the club and I found the information very in teresting. “At a certain length from the tee at a certain hole at Ht. Andrews,” said Tom. “there was a gravelly out cropping.” In consequence the wood en club used for the second shot had to be constantly repaired. At first the club was mended with a bit of ram’s horn, but it was finally de termined to shoe the new club, as Tom expresses it, to avoid the neces sity of frequent repair. Then some one tried a brass plate covering the entire sole, and as thiH was much more durable the innovation at once be came popular and lasting. Brassie Once Useful Club. In the days of the gutta-percha ball the brassie was very useful. In those days bogey was figured at 175 yards for a drive and 150 for a brassie, and a player getting home on a 325- yard hole was playing remarkable golf. Of course there always was a bras sie shot on those 325-yard holes and when winds were a little unfavorable three bras?»ie shots of good length and direction were needed to help out the drive. It is hard for us to realize a time when the taking of four wooden shots of the well-hit kind was necessary to reach the green. With the change in balls came long er shots and bogey distances moved up. Holes of 400 yards were reached with a drive and a good brassie, and at the present moment there are few holes in the country of the recog nized long-hole length, 600 to 600 yards, that cannot be reached with a drive and a brassie. This means that different irons have supplanted the brassie on nearly all distances of 460 yards or so. and there are few holes now’ over that length. So while the brassie could formerly be used on perhaps rixteen out of eighteen holes and then often more than once, it is now used probably only once or tw r lce on the round. Sometimes on the few long hol^s w’here one can u*e a brassie there are bunkers guarding the green and the player will find it much safer to play short with an Iron Instead of trying to place a brassie shot Just over the bunker. It’s the Driver and Spoon Now. One can play round after round on Chicago golf and use no brassie at all. Even on the windiest day It may not be needed more than three or four times and many players now’ carry only a driver and a spoon. Necessarily the decreasing use of the brassie is developing n corre sponding uncertainty in playing It, and perhaps it is to counterbalance this weakness that some players are adopting it in the place of the driver. They claim they ran get just as far and it keeps them in practice with the club for use on the fair green: yet, on the other hand, I have seen several players use a driver on the fair way. 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VA.. .Tunc 2—Orlando, a town in the southern part of Lewis County, at the Junction of the West Virginia and Pittsburg division of the Baltimore and Ohio Road and the Coal and Coke Railroad, was the center iof a disastrous cloudburst Ian- Inst night Immense property loss has been inflicted and It is feared there was loss of nr,. Reports have reached here of a num ber of bridges coin* out on the Coal and Coke and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads including one at Walkerville Friedmann Leaves, Not Flees, for Home NEW YORK. June 2.— Dr. Friedrich F. Friedmann, discoverer of the turtle vaccine for tuberculosis, to-day an nounced that he will sail for Germany next week in consequence of the action of the New York Board of Health in barring his cure here. •T am apt running away hut i feel that my mission in this country is fin ished,” said Dr. Friedmann. The phy sician would not say what plans iie will make for the care of his patients here j] Quick Knockout No Sign of End Q 0 © Q 0 0 © Many Stars Put Away in Opener Jack Londons new story, ‘' The Scarlet Plague, ’ ’ begins in the American Monthly Magazine given free with every copy of the Sunday American. TINTED LENSES For the mountains or seashore. Have your prescription filled in amber shade for the glare of sum mer sun at John L. Moore & Sons, 42 North Broad Street. By Dill Bailey C IICAQO. ILL.. June 2.- “Silk” O’Boughlin, American Leagu* umpire, declares that Albert Russell, the Sox southpaw, has bet ter control than any lefthander who ever broke into the American League. “He’s going to be a great pitcher,” said O’LfOUghltn. “Not only has he control, but he has a lot of stuff on the ball. But his control is the thing that makes a hit with me. I do not believe that I ever saw a young lefthander who had the control that he has.” And Russell has control for the reason that he warms up in a way different from almost every other pitcher in the league. Russell works for control from the moment that he gets the ball in his hand until the final warmup. Can Place Ball Well. “Four at your w : aist,” he will say to the catcher. Then he will pitch four at the w r aist. It doesn’t matter so much whether there is anything on the ball. His first idea is to get those four at the waist. "Now at the knees,” Russell will say. Then he pitches four at the knee. He pitches just as carefully as if there was a man at the plate and lie wanted to break the ball at his knee. "Now at the shoulders,” he will fol low. And four are shot at the shoulder. It’s control that he Is after. He has an idea that his speed and his curve ball are with him always and that it is the control which will make or break him in the contest to come. Bender Givqs Tip. Chief Bender, the star Indian of the Athletics, is another pitcher who warms up that way. And it was from Connie Mack’s Indian that Bus sell got his idea. When the Ath letics were in Texas in 1912 Bender was instructing some of the San An tonio youngsters how to warm up and he insisted that the only way to do was to try for control. Some youngster who was coached by Bender saw the good point of it at once. That isn’t the way the ordinary- pitcher warms up by any means. He just throws the ball in the general direction of the plate. His idea is to start pitching easily at first, then putting mine and more speed on until his arm is in condi tion to permit him to put everything he has on the sphere. But it’s control first with Russell. C White City Park Now Open j ZOOTE BEATS M. ATTELL. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. June 2.—Ad Zoote, of Stockton, Cal., was given the decision over .Monte Attell at the end of a twenty-round bout at Midvah last r.ight. Both fighters weighed in at 118 pounds. By Ed. W. Smith. iHICAGO, ILL., June 2.—When that foolish old K. O. crashes into a man's jaw in the opening round of a glove battle and the recip ient goes crashing, to the floor for a full count the public at large is prone to sympathize with the beaten man and at the same time remark sad ly that another fighter has been shov ed into the discards We take the' case of Jeff O’Cunr.ell, the little Eng- • sh fighter, who was disposed of in a trifle over two minutes by Matty MrCue in Racine the other night. Af ter that was all over the crowd al most to a man had O’Connell in the “Has Been” class and a fit subject for the old m^n’s infirmary. * « • OUT does it always work out that way? A glance through ring his tory indicates quite to the* contrary, for some of the best fighters of this and other days lnve had the K. O. punch hung on them in the first round and have lived it down in grand style. It doesn’t always follow that one knockout makes a man passe, espe cially the quick knockout in which little or no i umshmont is inflicted The real telling knockouts are those »hat come after dozens of rounds ot grueling work !n which the beaten man gradually is worn down and is so v<-eakei.ed at the finish that his re sistance is entirtly gone. Almost without exception the man receiving “his” in the first round gets over it quickly. * ♦ * TAKE the rather startling case of * Jack McCormick and his sudden knockout of Kid McCoy over at the Star Theater on the North ir'ide years ago. McCoy got lancy with the bur ly McCormick, who swung a right hand off the flo3.' and landed along-' side the speedy kid’s jaw. McCoy went out as cold as a salted mackerel and didn’t know’ where he was at 3 o'clock the next mornirg. Ye; Mc Coy took McCormick a f w weeks af terward and gav*j him the lacing of his life and afterward seemed none the worse for tiie quick defeat. * • • IJ EM EMBER, don’t you. that Joe Guns knock? l out Frank Erne in |Vne punch one Line? Yet it never injured Erne’s chances much and he turned out afterward to be one of the world’s greatest boxers. • * * AND then there was the case of ^ the ancient Peter Maher, the Dub lin brewery product. Peter bloomed unfailingly like the bay tree and came tack as popular as ever after every defeat. Bob Fitzsimmons sat him on his haunches for the full count down m Mexico, ending it in the first round. So did jo© Goddard, treating Peter the same way in the same round. But Peter got over it ar.d earned piles and piles of money afterward. • • • A TARY1X HART, the Louisville middleweight, was knocked as stiff as a board by “Wild Bill” Han- rahan in one round with a swing on the jaw. They =*a1d at the time Mar tin would never amount to anything after that. But oidn’t the Kentucky plumber go out West later on and best Jack Johnson in a twenty-round go? At least Hart was given the decision, no matter what the merits of the case might have been. It has been said it was a clear steal, but the fact that Hart even went twenty rounds with Johnson shows that the Karra- ban punch had no lasting effect upon him. • * • Q SBAH GARDNER knocked Harry ^ Forbes out in cne round, but Har ry came right back after that and wmn th-* bantam weight title until Frankie Neal came along and took it away from him. Tommy Burns hung cne on Bill Squires in the first round and later beat him in thirteen. But Bill was quite useful after that. Ed- (iie MoGoorty knocked out Dave Smith of Australia and Jack Harri son, of England, both champions of their countries, in a round each with - in a week of each otter, yet neither of these men is out of the game by a long way. # * * T OOK jit the case of “Flatbush Tom- knocked him kicking in a single round and so did Knockout Brown, yet Tom my has returned and orly the other day he defeated Ac. Wolgast in twen ty rounds. So you see It < oesn’t do to pronounce a man out of the game too quickly.* They DO come back and ; in the iucst unexpected manner. Three Young Bandits Nabbed After a Raid , -NEW YORK. June 2.—Three boys each less than 17 years of age, are under arrest to-day as bandits, who. with pistols in hand, invaded the Tro jan Athletic Club last night and lined up fifteen young men for rob bery. Several of the victims who refused to hold up their hands were punched in the face. In all the young bandits got nearly $300 w’orth of jewelry and money. WIFE SLAVER PURSUED. LEXINGTON, KY., June 2.—Armed and vowing vengeance, relatives of Mrs. l^ee Meece are scouring the mountains of l’ulaski County to-day. searching for Meece, who last night murdered his wife They had sep>arated. Jealousy is said to have prompted the killing. HILL STREET SCHOOL WINS. The Hill Street School triumphed over Capitol Avenue. 27 to 9. in a slugfest Friday. \Yinburn and Gastrell did the heavy clouting. The winners scored seven runs in the second and nine in the fourth. WINS PANAMA TITLE. PANAMA, June 2.—Abe Holhmder- sky. a former New York newsboy, last night won the heavyweight championship of the Panama Canal Zone from Jack Artega on a foul in the ninth round. THEY GOP FLSG C LEVELAND, OHIO, June 2.— One hundred thousand dollars in cash is the bonus that Cleve land business men are reported to have offered the Naps if they can bring the pennant of the American League to this city. The fact has not been advertised in Cleveland and will not be until all of the money has been subscribed. But the Cleveland ball players have been told that there is every reason to believe that the full amount will be donated. One of the players told Manager Callahan, of the White Sox, that the winning of the pennant by the Naps would mean the enrichment of every man on the team by $4,000. They figure 25 men in on the division should the plan go through and the Naps should win. • • • XHIS would he the largest purse * ever split by a baseball club, and that regardless of whether the Naps were victorious in the world’s cham pionship .series or not. Incidentally this may reveal anoth er reason why those Cleveland play ers are battling so hard for every game. Winning a pennant is a w’hole lot. ,It means a pari of the world’s s>erie9 money, but add $100,000 to the sum to be won in the big series and you have a purse that almost any fellow would strive with might and main to win. * * * THAT the men are fighting hard to 1 win that pennant is a certainty, (’lark Griffith, manager of the Sena tors, went out of town claiming the Naps were playing “dirty” oall to win. There has been nothing to in dicate that in the games between the Sox and the Naps. But the Sox do know that the Cleveland lads are show ing considerable more fight than they ever have before. *Poe LandmarkSite »ForBaseball Field © NEW YORK, June 2.—Kings • bridge Tavern, a landmark of 100 • years’ standing and a resort • where Edgar Allan Poe used to • wait for his manuscripts to come • back from unappreciative edi- • tors, is about to give way to the • march of progress. • It is on the site of what will • be the new American League ® baseball park next summer, at ® 226th Street and Broadway, and • a gang of laborers has taken • possession of the old tavern as • a shelter for themselves and • their shovels. ® Efforts of Poe’s admirers to • preserve the old tavern for its • historical interest failed. • RAFAEL ALMEIDA WANTS TO BECOME A PITCHER TOLEDO GETS DAVY JONES FROM MANAGER CALLAHAN CLEVELAND, OHIO, June 2.—The Sox yesterday heard that Davy Jones would be with them no more. They weren’t a bit surprised. They ex pected it and were interested only in knowing where he was going. Nor was there any surprise expressed when told that he had been sent to Toledo. When Shaller made good Jones was doomed. Callahan took Jones from Detroit only that he might pro tect his outfield. The South Side manager wasn’t either long or strong on fly chasers and isn’t yet, so far as that goes. So when waivers were asked on Davy he grabbed him. GASTON TO ST. LOUIS. COLUMBUS. GA . June 2 — Dave Gaston, who has been a bone of con tention in the Sally League fur past several months, and whom Co lumbus wanted this season, is on his way to St. Louis, where he goes to sign a contract with John O’Con nor's team in the Federal League. CINCINNATI. May 31.—Rafael Al meida. the Reds’ Cuban fielder, is practicing pitching and thinks in time he will get to be quite a hurler. He is working out every day with Kling and Brown, w^ho are giving him the benefit of their expert advice and coaching. Almeida says that all he needs is practice enough to insure his having control. He claims that his curve ball will fool the cleverest hitters if he can get it over. That’s a big “if” with a whole lot of pitchers. BRITISH GOLFERS WILL BE HERE NEXT AUGUST NEW YORK, June 2.—Edward Ray and Harry Varden, the present and former open golf champions of Great Britain, respectively, will be in this country as early as the middle of August, according to w r ord received at the Shawnee Country Club. The famous 1 Britons will make their first appearance in this country as competitors in the Shawnee tourna ment, August 22 and 23. Later they are expected to go to the Pacific coast to give an exhibition match, receiving $2,500 each. LEAVE FOR GOLF TOURNEY. COLUMBUS. GA., June 2.—A team composed of L. D. Hill, Dr. G. S. Murray, Joe Methvin, Charles Hick man, Marshall Morton and C. E. Bat tle will go over to Montgomery, Ala., to-morrow to be ready for the open ing of the annual Southern Golf As sociation tournament in that city June 3-7. They will represent the Country Club of Columbus. 'Cl GRIFFITH MAKES BET. WASHINGTON. June 2.—Man ager Griffith has bet Ray Morgan and Walter Johnson a ^uit of clothes apiece that he would not speak to another umpire on the field in any championship game. “CHICK" GANDIL TO MOVE. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Chick Gandil, of the Senators, has decided to take up his residence in Washing ton immediately upon the close of the baseball season. Gandil lived for years in Louisiana. By Ed W. Smith C HICAGO, June 2,—Though Luth- er McCarty, tne powerful young boxer w r no dropped dead in the Calgary arena last Saturday, was a care-free, indifferent young man on the surface: he was sensi tive to criticism and read all the sto ries that were written about him with the deepest attention. He never said much about the criticisms that were heaped upon him in the East because of Billy McCarney’s unpopularity with certain people there, but that they af fected him keenly is well known to his close friends. As a matter of fact, McCarney is outspoken in say ing that McCarty never was the same after their recent campaign in the East, during which the pig Nebraska athlete was roasted severely. “I’ve seen McCarty in tears after reading some of the unjust and un true things that were said of him,” McCarney told me a couple of days after the contest that resulted in such a hideous manner. “I won’t say exactly that this has tened his end, but I do know that he grieved deeply over the cruel things that were printed, especially in the East. While training for the Frank Moran bout in New' York some of the worst things imaginable, and all of them absolutely without founda tion in truth, were printed about him. “For instance, it was sent out over the country broadcast that we had been ordered to leave a New' York hotel because Luther walked through a corridor with nothing on but his fighting togs and a bathrobe on his way to and from the arena. There wasn't a particle of truth in the story, yet until right now’ I never took the trouble to deny it. “The hotel people were indignant and wanted to make a statement, but I couldn’t see it. The proprietor told us when we were leaving we could always return there and be welcome. “That’s merely a sample of the out rageous yams that drifted into the papers. All of them affected the boy keenly, and he would grieve for hours over them. He worried a lot. “There never was a grain of fear in this man’s make-up. He was a bundle of courage and liked the honor of the thing above all else. He was none too careful of his money and spent it freely, but not in w’hat might be called a foolish manner.” NATIONAL COMMISSION REINSTATES PERRYMAN CINCINNATI, Junp 2.—Rafael Al- Baseball Commission nas ceclared I’layei E. K. Perryman, of the New York Na tional League club, to be in good stand ing. The player stated that he did not report to his club this spring owing to his desire to complete his college course and therefore no penalty was in flicted LED0UX ARRIVES; WANTS GO WITH JOHNNY C0UL0N NEW YORK, June 2.-jCharley Ledoux, the French bantamweight champion, who arrived here yesterday from France, wants bouts with Kid Williams, of Baltimore, or Johnny Coulon, the champion. Pimples Should Be Watched ; May be Means of Absorbing Disease Germs in Most Un expected Manner. HILTON RETAINS TITLE. £T. ANDREWS. SCOTLAND, June 2.—Harold H. 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