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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANF NEWS. ™, *QE®3 ^POETS’ P El ms* IIII II II II 1 If 1 I IV ii , FOR PRdPKFR^ ^ Over! Jeff Was Right at That i By “Bud” Fisher !>.v Percy H. Whiting. T HE Crackers are going to have some new battery men within the next few days. Deals are considered, pending, hanging fire or otherwise in the air for Catcher Roth of LouBvillf*. and Pitcher Robertson, of Savannah, while Pjtclwr Conzel- man. of th<* Pittsburg club, was pur chased yesterday. A real.shake-up in the battery de partment is threatened. The fact that a new catcher is sough; seems to sound the doom of Catcher Joe Dunn. Catcher chapman is making good .ill right and Dunn’s work has fallen a hit short of perfection at times. . t hough m t that he has proved to b< a satisfactory second catcher. The Robertson deal has not, pro gressed very far. but the local club is decidedly interested. Robertson has been in Savannah for several years. .Owing to his comparatively small size he has been overlooked by big league scouts, despite hie exceli lent showing. Under ordinary circuhistances Sa i vannah would not he keen to sell in ’mid sea son a pitcher of the ability -f Robertson. It happens, however, that the Savannah club has got the Sallv League pennant and gone with it so absolutely that it is a flight. In con sequence the Savannah club would not in the least mind letting a couple of men go. That might slow down their club a little and make It more interesting. Jim Fox tipped the local club oft’ to Robertson. “I think.'' Jim told Director Gus Ryan, "that this man can win two- thirds of his games for you. H^'s a pitcher like Russ Ford was in his best days, with all of Ford’s speed and a spitter that is about as good. I don't believe he will ever go to the big leagues. He isn’t big enough. But he’s big enough to win in the Southern League—or 1 don't know the league.” * * * 'T'HE fact that booze and baseball 1 don’t mix "for beans is being ex emplified again right here in Atlanta. We* had some high old booze boxers when the season started. They’re about gone now. The rest are go ing. It might be libelous to go into par ticulars about the various men—but it would be illuminating. Incidentally don’t put two and two together and infer that Joe Dunn w ill leave, if he does, for any Such rea son. Joe’s habits are perfection and if he is ever dropped it will be be cause advancing age and weight have begun to slow him down. ’"THIS Southern League is an es- * pecially bad one for the boozers. . f strenuous schedule a boozer burns tight out. Hi doesn't have to culti vate any thirst down here. It comes easy. Of course the more he drinks the mole he wants. And he hotter it gets the worse his condition. * t * ] T has long been an opinion of mine that a lot of the players who fcouldn’t stand the heat'' down in the Southern League were men who couldn't stand the combination of ‘nra' and booze." They have come to the Southern, played ball, fought booze. burnVd out and returned home. Of troutse x the real truth cidYi’t suit them. So th y told about the fever in the South. A lot of the "fever" comes out if bottles. * THR boozers are passing f "in base- * ball. The manage;> will not fool • It a them. ’ They ruin themselves and they ruin n club. One or two jov riders put tuc (’packers on the blink last year. i»l ; .ers w ho would oidinaril .have d - unk little or not at all were led to saloons by older and thirstier players. And you know what happened. B : ii Smith hasn’t a bit of patience with drunkards. Pill doesn't min.l licking un a bit of beer now and then after a game- but he Is always strong er than the tjrink and was never known to go to excess with it. Perns able to n.aster the stuff him- © If Smith has no earthly patience with the boozers. He is out to win a upnnant. Anything that stands in the way must go. He knows that a hard drinker on the club means nun to his pennant.chances. THATi^ TOO BAD.' j Gee, this is a ^ CRUEL. WOILC ( MJHftT iM'TMe WOR.LT> Afte You CRYING eeooY p- T'M IM coue ' WIT>| ft Gliu. RND HKR NAI*e IS May Schultz.. MAY’S Ae©\!6LY Girl. , mat IS. VJHAT^ THE MATYpR. DiT* 5> H £ Giue You THE HOOK.? 1 A Boo Hoo? MO,SHe coves we But I'm crying . i BECAUSE SUHDAYiW iVASYHe FISST oe OUNfc . BOO wevc.wJWCiP’S Yhat gov To t>o wft H ry WECUjYHAT was vne. cast OF MAY. BOO woo’ ~N wr "oprtyaxr «9is ey STAfcCa Polly and Her Pals tc~ J .A Copyright, 1913, International New* Serried Youth Takes Things So Lightly i WtnRCy CakeS*. I 1 DRopFtLD KT ou Yhe. ' Otp pe't l ■fasSeTT jT. BjJx.. rr"ii keep “The MdTaS out 1 Jft5T (jWL'T'Vl I beec 5hoKlU' A Pipe all tVT/, 1 H/ii/El k' ,«* D4UI/60W IT! I Te el vTm iiJUoCEWT • ,.V> .V V ^ -(O^ 0 Cl * ID JuSt LIKE T'6iT OWE HACK A1 THE. BOOE vy/dl DoWE Thi5 I “7/ * HELP SboRSEUF ~To A FRESH “Torch, eicc, DoMT BE. ba&e oll'J yhis here 15 IM0O6H “TtWMk V'! ft cfHK tcm"< : rance societies ought 1 t ,'t up'I, list o£ me marvelous ula-ers whotv baseball careers have bet n wrecked by booze. It would be highly illuminating. It would help the cabsr. loo. . College baseball has helped th< cause of temperance a good bit. Boys who might have taken too much have been kept away by the desire o “make the team. -*n fa< t. » o Pr,( athletics of all sorts have done more in keep voung college men iway from drink than all the tracts ewer printed. BENYON WINS ENGLISH BANTAMWEIGHT CROWN Special Cable t? The Atlanta Georgian. ;. LONDON, June 3.—Bill I^enyon ' v.as substiuted for Eddie Morgan, the champion of Wales, at the las: mo ment last night and won the English bantamweight championship fiom Dh-gi-t Stanley in twenty rounds it the National Sporting Club. Beny m won on the referee's decision. The rout was for $2,500 and the Lord Lonsdale belt. EDDIE CLABBY IN GREAT FINISH AGAINST DENNY new ORLEANS. June 3.—Eddie (Tabby, of Hammond, brother of aimmv. after being almost knocked O'lt in the fourth round, came bacn and made a sensational fighting fin ish punching Young Denny all over the ring. dabby was outweighed, but Denny showed a remarkable box ing ability. UMPIRE MAY QUIT LEAGUE LINCOLN XEBR.. lure 3. -I mpire Fitzsimmons, of the Western League, is to leave the circuit unless he comes to terms with President O NeiH b* utc- he D relieved b\ Umpire Colliflower. ; disagreement over expenses led to ihe withdrawal of Fitzsimmons CROSS TO LEAVE FOR COAST. NEW YORK. June 3. Leach Cross, the leal lightweight, will leave Sunday f..r the Pacific coast, and at once go into training for bis bout hi / Los Angeles July > with Bud Anderson DIES FROM BASE3ALL INJURY. KEARNY N V June 3 William Wiggins aged hit on the head by a pitched ball Friday, died yesterday uf a fractured skull. 1 N ashville, tenx. June 3.—The fild jinx which' bad apparently fallen out with the Vols, all of a sudden bustled into camp, kicked over the big keg of horseshoes, tram • pled ail over the four-deaf clover bed and announced its arrival by laying out Eddie Noyes and Judson Harmon Daley from the line-up. It came at a most unwelcome Lime to boot, just when the Schwartzmert were in a death grapple with the league leaders and it completely up- st t the hoy manager. Noyes took the count with a case of lumbago or something like that, while Jud is much too busy nursing a charley horse to think about left fieTd. Jud’s demise gave Mr. Nicholson the chance he hac been yelling for. but after lilt' former Colonel had allowed an easy out to go for a triple and fanned weakly a trio of attempts. Schwartz yanked him in disgust and shifted Dell Young over to left and gave “Norfolk” Summers the job on tne dump. Summers did produce a wallop that beat the Gulls out of the first affair, but as an Alpine guide Johnny will never get any medals. Schwartz fig ured that Nicholson w.as attacked by- stage fright and tried him again in right field, where he was fortunate in not having any difficult chances. The few times Nick managed to reach first be looked like a million dollars, running like a greyhound and work ing the hook slide to perfection. With proper coaching in fielding and using a less heaVy stick this boy should come with a rush for he has all the earmarks of a brilHant base runner, although lie has worlds of stuff to learn about the game’s fine points. “Prick” Gibson’s playing is Utile short of wonderful and the bugs are mystified that Jennings ever let this boy get away from him. He has a deadly whip and. while ho is no slug ger. his hits come when they drive in runs, which is lots better sometimes then being up in the .300 class. Noyee is back on tne bench, but the scrappy little catcher has lost lots of weight and is fflill too weak to stand the pate this h*»t weather D l ey’s absence from the line-up weakens the Vols’ play, both offen sively and defensively, for even if the left gardener wav not playing up to his 1912 form, he was miles better than Ni' holson and was pulling down everything in his territory. S< hwartz is badly worried over the club's crippled condition, for the slab- men have never gotten to going right, Fleharty and McManus being of lit tle or no use to the team and one of the pair is almost certain to get the ax. now that Dye and ('hick Smith are on hand. NEBRASKANS TO ENTER MEET. LINCOLN. N«EBR.. June 3.—A team of at least four University of NebraskA athletes will be entered in the athletic meet to be held in Chicago in July. Sporting Food j U py GEOROB E. PHAIR > SPEED. / remember, / remember When people rode the bike Theft humped their buckx and plugged a imp Like demon* do ten th< pike. W e kid* with open mouth* stood bp And watched them whizzing past. And longed to see that blessed dap When ire could irhfz as fast. To-dap we watch a flock of ears That spin around a track. One moment hewe ice saw them pass. And now in sec them back. The scorcher was a thing of fear .4 few short pears ago. Hut if hr blocked the traffic now. Oh: Reports of the alleged conflict be tween Messrs. Dillon and Klaus remind us that the game of pugilism is minus one middleweight champion. One learns from books that there is honor among thieves, and yet we hear that fight promoters in the West have started a civil war. We note that Jack Britton whipped Jimmy Duffy, fought a draw and lost on a foul. All of which shows the versatility of the press. Reading various criticisms on the management of one Matty McCue. pu gilist, one is led to believe that various persons in our fair city crave a meal ticket. Obtaining money under false pretenses is becoming common in these United States. Still we do not refer to the fact that the Brooklyn team has beea in sured for $410,000. The reported clash over the estate of Luther McCarty reminds us that all vul tures are not equipped with wings One is forced to admit that the gent who picked Memorial Day f<a - the auto mobile soiree had his own little sense of humor. Joe Birmingham has ordered his ath letes to treai the umpires with respect, thus making baseball a hardship. Being as baseball players burst into print with their masterpieces. Mr. Klem might add to hie earnings by writing a dissertation on “Wild Managers 1 Have Met.” Or Mr. Ferguson might indite a brochure entitled “Showers.” “RIP” MAJOR TURNS “PRO;” WILL PLAY WITH JACKSON JACKSON. MISS.. June 3 —“Rip” Major, captain of the football ami baseball teams of Auburn, hav placed his signature to a contract with the Jackson ball team of the Cotton State**, and will make his debut in professional company with the local team this week. Major will be used in the outfield and will join the Jackson team at Columbus on Thursday. He was one of the star football men at Auburn during the past few years and was one of th* 1 leading lights on the ball team at the Alabama .Polytechnic in stitute. CHRISTY MATHtWSOHS BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP in a smile. He refused to siiy. -s FODDER FOR FANS C INCINNATI. June ll. When in Boston last week i ran into Jimmy McANhm - . the presi dent of tne Boston Bed Sox. “The Cleveland chib is going immense," declared Mr- Aleer. “It is the surprise of our show. The learn looked like a very bad one when it was getting lieaten by a lot of bush league hunches lief ore the season opened, but the pitchers have worked out in fine style, and t ie men are playing ball In-hind them. I expect — to see the Naps drop on their impending Eastern trip, iieeause they June always been a lietter team on their home grounds than on the road, but Birmingham has evidently done a lot for the club, and has put fight into them.” "So I read,” I suggested. "There was some misunderstanding behind the grandstand lietween the Naps and Red Sox. was there not?” But MeAleer would go no further than to indulge "It’s a cinch we are going to do our l>est to beat the team when it comes here.” said MeAleer, "and there should lie some great battles.' "What’s happened to your club?” I asked him. “Seems to have the same ailment as the Giants—can’t win ball games.” answered Jimmy* "That s the strange part about it. too. Never saw a team look to Ik* in better shape when I brought it back from Hot Springs. I thought the boys would make a runaway race of *it. All the pitchers were going like a house afire. es|K»ciall,v Joe Wood. ’ "It was the same with the Giants.” I told him. "The way I figure it,” remarked MeAleer. who is a pretty sharp ob server of events and things in base ball, "is this: Some clubs came back from tin' South this spring in such pink condition that they could not stand the trying weather that was encountered at the beginning of the season. Whereas the boys who had not put in very good spring work were still rough, and • rounded into form better under tin* bad conditions than those who bad lieen baking under a hot sun like the (Giants and my dub.” "Maybe that’s it.” I observed. “It sounds to me like as good an alibi as any other.” . "But it has worked out that way. The Athleth* are an example. They had to miss a lot of practice on ac count *>f the floods and jumped home. They burned up^the league (luring the first few weeks. Mack’s greatest weakness is bis pitching staff. If| that bunch of twirlers that belong to me once gets going, we might catch them yet. That is my biggest’ chance.” And there you are. (Copyright. 1913. by the McClure News- In Boston the fans are still hopeful that the Red Sox will overhaul the league-leading Athletics, but those con versant with the antics of baseball de clare it almost an impossible task for : the Bed Sox to cut down the twelve- game lead of the Philadelphia players ' and still have enough power left to hit | the tape ahead of the parade. W alter Johnson, the pitching wonder j of the-Senators, faced the Athletics yes terday and lost—-his third defeat of the season. Johnson already has won eleven games—just one-half the total number won by his team. •. The slugging powers of the .Ubieties mabled them to win the double-header from the Senators. ~ * r The Senators in the American and the Dodgers in the National, who were run ners-up early in the season, tfuve been skidding lately and some there are who are already counting them out of the races. * * * The Red Sox took a double-header from the Yankees yesterday, winning the second game in rather easy fashion, but they had to fight right through the ninth inning to grab off the first 4 to S. two runs and accepted four chances in yesterday’s game * • * “Goodnight” Baker showed his liking for Walter Johnson's cannon ball shoots by pasting one over the fence yesterday. W0LGAST AGREES TO MEET WATSON IN COAST BOUT i SAN FRANCISCO. June 3.—Red Wat- | son. who some time hopes to wear Wil lie Ritchie's crown of champion, will he | given his first real chance to show that he possesses championship ability when he will meet Ad Wolirast on June 20 be fore ihe Humboldt AtAhletlc Club, of which Jim Griffin is promoter. This was formally agreed upon by Watson. Wol- gast gave Griffin his word before leav ing for Los Angeles. Watson is an aggressive boxer, and with W< Igast as an opponent a great battle should result. Willie Ritchie and his manager. Billy Nolan, will arrive here from Portland this afternoon. Joe Levy, manager of Joe Rivers, got in ibis morning from Los Angeles, and some time this afternoon the parties concerned will sit down with Promoter Graney and talk over everything that concerns the championship msteh sched uled for July 4. paper Syndicate.) KENOSHA PROMOTERS SEEK WHITE-BRITT0N SCRAP CHICAGO. June 3.—If Jack Britton will do 133 pounds at 6 o'clock he can have Charlie White as his opponent on June 13 at Kenosha Britton is in town and efforts to get him to consent to such a weight are now under way. The Western teams of the American! League to-day began their first invasion , of the East, while the Eastern clubs In the old league are grappling with the Western teams in the same section of i the continent. • * * The Pirates yesterday transformed a i dozen hits and three bases on bails int»• seven runs, which were enough to de- j feat the Braves. * * • A gentleman named Magee, well known as a murderer of baseballs, stepped to the plate in the first inning of the Phil lies-Dodgers game yesterday, noticed that iwo men were on bases and prompt ly batted out a home run. thereby ending the day's pastime in the Phillies' favor almost before the game started. COlYIISKEY DENIES TRADE BETWEEN SOX AND TIGERS CHICAGO, June 3. -President Comis- kev, of the White Sox. to-day branded as "ridiculous" ihe report that he ex pected to trade Hal Chase to the De troit Tigers for T.v Cobb. While he ad mitted that he would he highly pleaseo to get hold of Navin's hitting wonder, he declared the Detroit owner would he little short of Insane to think of part- | ing with his greatest drawing card. Na- ! vin also brands this story as ridiculous. Illinois Boxing Bill Almost Sure to Pass CHICAGO, Juno 3.—Whether this State is to have legalized boxing such as is conducted in New York or not will likely be known before the close ol the week. Senator Carroll, "fa ther" of the hill calling for ten rounds, po-decision boxing, is still pushing the measure and declares it will come up for final vote Thursday. Carroll firmly believes it will pass. He says the main hers of both houses have carefully gone Into the hill and its purpose and that the majority foel it should pass. The recent death of Luther McCar ty in the ring, Carroll intimates, hasn't left a had effect. He declared that most of the Legislators realize that the fatality v as one of those ac cidents that might happen to any branch of sport and that it won’t he taken up in any other light. He points to the fact that four persons were killed either In or during base ball games In less than a week, and says no cry to stop the game has been issued. "Fatalities occur in all branches of sport, hut unfortunately in boxing blow s are struck and on'that end the cry is raised that the game is brutal. Is football, automobile racing and air ship sport brutal? More persons are killed and maimed for life in football in one year than in the ring in five years. The dropping dead of McCarty in Calgary was .in unfortunate in stance, but it had to happen. Just as the burning of thes teamer General Slocum, the Iroquois fire and the sink ing oft he Titanic Because of these disasters it is taken that theaters must close and ships must cease sail ing,' said Carroll, and this is the view of many of the Representativs here. Carroll, Hilton and M» Nichols see m to favor the commission bill, whrlch tails for two commissions, one ap pointed by the Mayor, another by the Governor. T OM M’CAREY. at present the greatest promoter of boxing j matches in the country, is dick, j "ring for a bout between Jim Flynn and Gunboat Smith. "Uncle Tom” j believes that the winner of this mill ] would be the white heavyweight j champion of the w orld. And it is just possible that Me- ('•re.v will come on here from Los I Angeles to witness Flynn in action j against Jim Savage at the Audito rium-Armory on June 13. If Flynn wins that scrap McCarey will en deavor to sign the "Fireman” for a go with Smith. But Flynn wilt have to travel a mighty fast gait to beat Savage. The latter has a good strong hunch that he is the best heavyweight in the world and he intends to prove it against Flynn. Both Flynn and Savage will arrive in Atlanta the latter part of this week to.finish out the long training period. Reports from their camps in New York are to the effect that both ar<^ already in tiptop condition. And the other boxers who are go ing to show their wares on "Friday the Thirteenth" are hard at work. Mike Saul has started in on a stren uous campaign His opponent, Terry Nelson, is training In Chattanooga and says he will surely heat "Knock- emoffsky." ZEIDER AS CAPTAIN. NEW YORK, June 3.—Rolfle Zei- der. the inflelder secured from the White Sox by the Yankees fft trade, will be made field captain of the New Yorkers, according to an an nouncement made by Manager Chance to-day. TETTER Tetterine cures tetter Read what Mrs. V. C. McQutddy, Estill Springs. 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