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IK EPIDEMIC OF
MFHITIS HIS
HIT NASHVILLE
Nashville, tenn . July 12.—An
epidemic of Hofmanitis has
broken out among the baseball
bugs in \ and th* infection
has spread like wildfire, even unto
the mightiest hammer-throwers. who
nave been blistering the poor, old
Vanishing Vol* f r their rar s>-i
--ng in the gonfalon hunt
The town is simply delirious in Its
joy. ih.it t ■ frier 'ship of the
swimming days in Akron between Bill
Schwartz and the former Pirate w -
strong enough to induct* Artie to
-ush to his old pal’s ( n<* while
the appeal for help w s h •»><>* st
There is. a striking para 11* ’ to b«*
found in Circut* Solly's case with the
.if the boy manager, for it .'.is Bill
Bernhardt - di-'r<-s >;gn. ; . in luTJ,
when first b*>«- wa> in wretched
hands, that p* r-uadcd Schwarts to
(five up a -well job with the Diamond .
Rubber r op!-- and hike tn Nashville
to help oat ■ld friend h« had
known back v ::!> the Cleveland Napa,
when Bernhard w is one of tb. king
pin slabbers of the big show, h’s a
hoary narrative, but it only goes to
prove th-- fnf.-ma! way history has of
•working it double
Doesn't Appear To Be “In".
Maybe something better ■ ould have
happened t th Vos than the ac
quisition of Hernan, but nobody ran
make the fan« in this town believe
t hat. ■ ■ : • • ’t • '
It was for the sake of “Auld Lang
Syne“ that Anie • •line, and Schwartz
could not 1 av» built a greater monu
ment in th' fun- hearts in any other
fashion than by landing this «x
ma jor leaguer w ho Is going bark.”
If Artie is on his way, nobody
can see (he end of the passage with
a pair of field gl ami there is
quite « swarm of youngsters com
ing who will have to travel at i
might) hefty dip before they will
meet Hos man going out
Schwartz benched himself when
•> 1 ■ . . •
ex-f’ub’s tip to th* boy leader that
he warm the bench a while until
he could get together the nerves that
were shattered by the sickening
plungi which the Vois have taken
cellarway s
He Was Chance’s Understudy.
The first station wa» no stranger
to Artie, for when he wa« at the
top of his stride he was Frank
Chance’* understudy with the Cubs,
and although tl ** big fellow had hot
seen a baseball for two weeks. Jumped
right into th< game and took care
of everything hk. a veteran
Hos in an brought to the Vole the
•tuff they have b»«eh so sadly in need
of ginger md he wasn’t stingy
fa bout handing it i round The
Bchwartzmen have been playing In
u totally demoralized fashion. They
have gone out with an idea that no
matter who was in the box. they
were doomed to lore, and with their
leader un <’• ' • to hit <-r field,
not a man on the club has been able
to play anything like his best.
BALDWIN MATCHED TO
BATTLE LEACH CROSS
LOS ANGELES. July 12 -Matty
Baldwin and Leach Cr< m»h have been
matched for a 20 round bout at Ver
non Arena on July 29 by Promoter
McCarey. Arrangements for the
the match were made by wire and
dosed in record time. Sam Wallach,
the dentist's manager, wired to Mc-
Carey from San Francisco accepting
terms for the right. and will return
here with Cross <»n Sunday and take
jMiFsession of Ja< k Doyle s camp at
Vernon on Tin day.
Kid William . .ind^j' w harh>\ Ledoux,
the bantams -ch* for twenty
rounds at V» rnon on Tuesday night,
made a short day of it in the training
campe •<. day. but to-morrow’s work
out will b«- a strenuous one and both
boys will go the limit for the benefit
of the usual Sunday crowd. The lit
tle fellows are in film shape.
CROSS AND SHERIDAN MAY
CLASH AT KANSAS CITY
CHICAGO. July 12... h Cross, the
New York -’••r.tist fighter, who has
gained the position of contender for the
lightweight championship through his
knockouts of Joe Mandot and Bud \n
ders-.n u.il have f :■ hi« next <-p|.<ment
a Chicago fighter. If arrangements un
der way do not go awry
Cross practically has agreed to terms
for a ten-round bout with Mickey Sher
idan to tn- staked at Kumms City next
month Fr< ! Gilmore •- ■ ■of Sher-
idan, yewt* rday re* eived a tcl< gram from
Crews manager w‘u is at* Los Ange
les. stating that everything was o k
for the nmteh if l.» :*1 the early part of
next month
The Kansas City promoters are anx
ious to hold the fight at the .American
Association baseball park either on
August 2 or August 9. but it is under
stood there is some hitch over the plan.
CHAPPELLE PICKED TO WIN
BIG EVENT AT NEW YORK
NEWb’RK .’id' 12 Arthur <’hap
pefie. the ronton >< le s|M-ed demon, was
to-day picked v wn tl • sweepstakes j
handicap at - Brig; i..n i‘*«a<’h motor
drome to-rng' ’• a ' sati->nal prac
t’ce drive of mi!» - yesterday Chap
pelle covered i-. c sta- e tn 5 minutes
® ! 2 tL sw? f o . ndj ' ' ! h,s the record
of 6:01 „ -*• i bv J :5 »■ Hasha last
.year < happe i. wid r v, th. field a
handicap of tv ■ quarter laps
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Magnetism or Hypnotism Aids
By Bill Bailey.
CHICAGO, July 12— If any <»f
their modern colleges happens
to be seeking a man to teach
that valuable art of personal mag
netism we know the man they are
seeking.
Who? Why, Frank Chance.
A ball field a strange place to seek
a man to teach that valuable art?
Mavhe. Again, why not?
< >ll. yes, we may be mistaken. It
may bedownright hypnotism that this
fellow possesses.
Naturally thOMo few words were btit
the introduction.
• • •
TJ ERE is the story:
* 1 Wtyy are those New York fans
so tolerant with Chance? Rvinein
her what happened to Wolverton'.'
Remember what they said about
Chii. 1 *- when he was bossing the tram
Remember what happened to Clark
Griffith when he made several In
effectual attempts to capture a pen
nant ’’ There may havi- been mean
words in the dictionary that wvr<
not heaped, hurled and tossed at the
heads of these men. I say there ma\
have been. But 1 don’t believe there
w • re.
And Chance!
Say. he hae a ball club that hasn’t
won anv where near one-third of its
games. Its per' entage is less than
.300. Not a peep, not a chirp has
com* out of the fans at New York.
"Think whaj a team he had when
he came here.’’ they tell jou. “You
wait.’’
♦ • •
17 RANK CHANCE and his men an
1 here Still it is a different
Frank Chance who is hading the
Highlanders. The fellow the VVrM
Siders knew so well was a worrying
Frank Chance. If thr West Sidera
had Im-'t as many ball games in .»
season as those Highlanders already
have put on the losing aide of the
ledger it’s terrible to think what
would have become of Chance
Then he worried If his team ch -
vvloped a losing streak, and two
losses in succession wae a losing
streak in those days he didn’t sleep.
And nofl
He has developed into a philosopher
"I can't worry like I used to." he
said ' I’m fighting just as hard to
win as I ever did. But no more ot
EMPIRE LEAGUE NOTES
Something that rarely happens In
ball game happened in Waycross thl
week In <»ne of the Waycross Cordrl
games All assists credited to Cordel
went to two players, the pitcher an
catcher Seven were made, and th
catcher took four <»f them
• • •
Selgfried. of Brunswick, is one of th
best all-round players in the leagut
lb- is just now playing in the outride
but is a dandy first baseman and play
short like a veteran. His batting i
splendid.
• • •
“Babe" Wilder continues his recor
of winning almost every game h
pitches. It is reported that he will g
to the Savannah team at the close •
this season, but .lu< ksonville has bue
after him and may land him Wilde
is th< best pitcher Cordele has and i
going guod now
• • •
Valdos a turned around, after an ap
parent slump, and walloped the Shrim
Chasers t. perfection Jordan will no
tolerate indifferent playing, even if hi
team ha> w >n the first season rag
* • •
Shortstop Murph), a league leader a
bat and a -er 'at onal fielder, one of th
b«-«t Thomasville has is out of the gam
with a sprained ankle
• * •
C an< >. .-f W. st Virginia, who cam
sleuth to j 1;. . wit! Brunswick, is gettin
a try-out in Waycross He fields fairl
well, but is a little weak at bat.
« * •
Os ai: tmJl players one alwaxs to h
depended uj ■ n to act square and be a
much a gentleman ot the diamond a
off. s Reagan, the clever manager Xu
Cordele.
the sl< • pleMs nights for me. I couldn’t
and stick in the game.”
• • •
, IT may be that the New York fans
1 realize that Chance had nothing
but numbers to work with that has
made them so tolerant. But the fact
remains that for about the first time
in the history of New York they are
not howling because they are down
in the race. For in New York, you
< know, they <an t understand why any
body should have anything that can
lick anything they possess.
♦ • •
’ PRANK CHANCE certainly has no
M * warm spot In hie heart for the
fellows who touted him on Bill Bor-
1 ton. And he certainly has a lot of
people in this city who should ask
him for forgiveness.
“(’an Borton hit?’’ the P. L. asked
K of several of his baseball friend:
about hen* when he was in Chicago
> on the last trip.
1 “Can he hit?" was the comeback.
"Say. he simply can murder the bail.
He just won five garnet for the White
Sox in Detroit- He just about won
that city series last fall, as you well
;1 know. Say. If there is one thing he
i can do. It Is to hit. He may be a
~ bit she on the pep and the ginger.
k Maybe he can't get around those
. ba>es as fast as Rollie Zeider But
hit? Say. if there wire nine Bortons
on an opposing t< am half the pitchers
( would go to digging >vw’ers."
s And hitting was the one thing that
Borton didn't do
3 Oh. ves, there are a lot of alleged
baseball men in Chicago who will
1 have a tough tiin- explaining to this
i same Chance.
AT that Chance doesn’t figure that
the White Sox can afford to lie
1 back and give him the merry ha-ha
t because Borton didn't develop Into a
hero in New York For the I’ L.
i is certain that he hook'd one man
< from the South Side aggregation who
s will develop into a hummer. Gossett,
e the catcher, is the lad.
y “There' Is a lad who will develop
i* into a s»tar." said the P. L. “I look
t to see him ranked as one» of the’ great
est < atihers in the league in a little
- while. Anel he eee't only the waiver
u price.’’
$ Chance naturally ish’t admitting
». that he received the worst of the
. (’hase-Zvide r-Borton deal. But If he
. diei he would still figure his trading
e pen outage was .500. Because he
o thinks he picked up a mighty val
f u iblr youngster in this same Gossett.
a Derrick, one of the new umpires, has
s shown in just a few games that beeflng
e won't go tn games at which he officiates
e Hr chased Manager Moran, of the
d Brunswick team, from the Valdosta
e grounds for beefing, and before that
episode slapped a fine on Manager Jor
dan, of the Valdosta team.
‘ Wild Bill Clark, the Waycross man-
K ager. has a runabout that he chases
“ around in when not playing basebail
h ills friends claim That it is merely a
question of time before Bill has his auto
running bases
d • • •
That the schedule for the next Em
)f pire season will be arrange*; entirely
n different from the one used this year is
r certa n Hardly any team in the league
s is satisfied the wav they are having to
! lay. and the directors, at the end of
the season, are going to see to it that
a better schedule is prepare*! for 1!»14
p
»t So far. the Empire has escaped anv
s serious injuries to ball players All
teams hav* had players out for a few
days tiecause of minor hurts, but noth
Lt ing serious to date.
„ • • •
e Cord* ie s hard-hitting left fielder.
X' - • l ' . He
has h e hut a few est days and seems
to be able to hit the league s best.
g • • •
> Americus seems to be getting a little
• f the iiard luck that has been haunt
ing most of the teams sinct the first
v 'f the m<*nth Its team is playing well
s marly every day but fails to win the
S m..rity of gaums Rut Anuric as has
r u. • to ‘ u < i -mured by whatever team
w.ms i c i cnnaiit- that is certain.
TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
-
Gunboat Smith, claimant of the
world's heavyweight title, has chal
lenged Georges Carpenter, the tough
French champion of Europe, to a 20-
rouiui contest for $5,000 a side in Eng
land, Franco or Belgium. If Carpen
tier agrees, the mutch probdbly will be
arranged to take place during the fall
• « *
When it is taken into consideration
that Flank Klaus, middleweight, recent
ly stopped Carpentier, the New York
heavyweight should find little trouble
In putting the foreigner away in quick
order Carpentiter would have every
thing to gain and nothing to lose in such
a match.
• • •
Jess Willard Is another scrapper who
has his eyes peeled on a Smith match.
Tom Jones' protege is taking on all the
big hopes in 4-round bouts on the coast
and Is-showing improved form If Smith
refuses to meet Willard. Jones sass he
will try to sign his boxer for a relky
set-to.
• • •
Knockout Brown, the Chicago middle
weight. will make his next fight against
Frank Klaus, at Butte, Mont. Tommy
Walsh, who is now handling Brown’s
affairs, wired the Butte promoters his
acceptance for the mill yesterday. The
pair will probably meet on Labor Day.
♦ » •
Kid Duke, local bantamweight, wishes
to announce that he is ready to take
on any of the local boys seeking fame
in the padded arena. Duke aims his
challenge at Young, Pries and Britt
I’he ki<l says he will accommodate either
of thr boys with a neat side bet.
• • •
Kid Young, the local newsboy boxer,
says he is getting tired of reading chal
lenges from various boys in the city.
“lu.'t them imst their money anti I will
sign to meet any of them.’’ wails the
littlr featherweight. Several boys have
been sending in their detis dally, but
wh< n (he Kid them to put up. they
usually beat it to the tall timbers.
• • •
Johnny Coulon, bantamweight cham
pion. left a Chicago hospital the other
day weighing 115 pounds, which is 10
pounds more than hr weighed a week
ago when he entered thr institution
to be treated for stomach trouble I >e
spite his rapid improvement in health.
’ It is doubtful whether he will be able
to box for some time.
• * •
‘'Wildcat" Ferns and Young Denny
have been re-matched to box at New
> Orleans The pair met in the Pelican
City on Labor Day and Ferns was
awarded the verdirt after ten rounds
, of fierce fighting The Denny admirers,
. however, were not satisfied with the de
cision. and the promoters decided to
send them over the 20-round route on
r August 13.
• • •
Tom McCarey Is still working on a
Itiichie-Cross match for Day.
Cross has alrewiy consented to the bout,
but the champion Is waiting to hear
from several other promoters, who are
after his services New Orleans wants
Willie to box Britton, while Vancouver
is after a Ritchie-Welsh mill.
• * *
('oast fans have made Kid Williams
a 2 to 1 favorite over Charley
The two bantamweights clash in a 20-
ruund mill in Tom McCarey’s arena at
Angeles on July 15.
The Johnny Dundee-Ja<fi< While
■ match, scheduled to take place on the
< 'ast Julv 29, may not take place Dun
dee is holding out for a larger guar
arftee than the promoters are willing to
give for such a scrap If Dundee re
fuses to nps’t White, George Kirkwood
or Tommy Dixon may he substituted.
• * •
Terry Nelson, local lightweight, is
waiting to hear from Dayton. Ohio, re
garding a match there Terry »is try
ing to get on with either Jimmy Mur
, phy. Jimmy Traverse or Danny Good
man Nelson is surely entitled to a
match with some good 133-pounder. He
•s a willing mixer and always gives the
fans a run for their money.
» • •
Packey McFarland gave exhibition
bouts at the Joliet. 111., prison the other
lay for the entertainment of the pris
oners He boxed Kid Mack, of Joliet,
and other b»cal boys Warden Allen is
a friend of McFarland.
HARRIS TO MEET ALRICK
IN TENNIS TITLE MATCH
LITHCHFIEU), CONN.. July 12
F. II Harris, of Brattleboro. Vt., will
meet Alrick H. Man. Jr. of Rich
mond Hill. N Y.. for the State ten
nis title and cup here this afternoon.
Harris yesterday defeated W. S.
Cushing, of Simsbury, in the final of
the State tennis tournament Man
won the New England championship
from Harris in the tournament at
Hartford Uet month.
Food for Sport Fans
j
YACHTING.
Becalmed, becalmed, all. all becalmed.
Becalmed on a wide, wide bay.
Our Bnul* were'tried when the breezes
died,
For we moved not either . ay.
IVr nat and mourned so? the west
wind scorned
To hand un a xingle breath.
And. what was worst, we were all
athirst.
And it felt like the panys of death.
The wind may howl and thr sea may\
yr owl.
And the wares be hiyh and strong,]
But we scorn the worst when tet?
have no thirst
And we siny a y lad some song.
But worst of all. when there is no I
syuall,
Aor evm a breath of air.
And the deck is dry as a desert sky.
Nor even a bottle there.
Becalmed, becalmed, all, all becalmed.
Four miles from the nearest land!
And there we lay for half a day
With an opener in our hand.
Yachts are deceiving. We asked the
chauffeur what was concealed beneath
the cellar door and he answered: “Life
savers." Opening the door and looking
into the basement we saw’ nothing but
those things that you wrap around your
self when the boat sinks. One learns
only by experience.
We still are a novice as far as things
nautical are concerned, but we are
forced to admit that we like It as far
as we drank.
August Belmont has insured his noble
steed. Tracery, for $150,000 for fear of
another suffragette rough house If Au
gust were a regular sportsman he would
train his steed f< r the jumps and hold
a suffragette steeplechase.
A statistician informs us that the Car
dinals accepted 206 chances without an
error. Aside from the fact that they lost
a flock of games In the meantime it was
great baseball.
One Is not surprised to read that Bud
Anderson was <i<med when he fought
Leach Cross. A flock of knuckles in
jected at the right spot is quite an ef
fective anesthetic.
Reading a headline, one observes that
the "Sox weclome Frank Chance.’’
Looking over the box score one is led
to believe it.
SPEAKING OF WORK.
H’rrr / to labor sixteen hours a day.
TAYLOR. BRITISH OPEN
CHAMP, CALLS OFF TRIP
LONDON, July 12—J. H. Taylor,
open golf champion of England, has
decided not to join Hairy Vardon
and Edward Ray in their American
tour to play, during which Vardon
ami Ray will compete in the open
championship tournament at Brook
line. Mass. They sail on August 6.
accompanied by Wilfrid Reid, profes
sional at the Baostad Downs Club,
and Ix)uis Ta liter, a French “pro."
THOMAS WINS RACE.
The first heat of a rolling 'Skating
race was run at the St. Nicholas
Skating Rink Friday night. The con
testants finished in the following or
der: W. A. Thomas. Charlie Dupree,
C. W. Sigman, Theo Dupree and Har
ry Smith.
II T C H IN G PI L E S
Every sufferer from itching pile* diould read I
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who was
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SMUPTRINE CO. SAVANNAH. GA.
U ithout a without a ga»p of
air,
f u-.nuld not grieve my fair young life
away.
But gladly do my share.
If I were .ailed upon to he a slave
'Twould only make me nmile, for I
I have »ecn
The hardest working thing thi» aide
the grave—
C. Murphy's type machine.
JOHNSON IS IN ENGLAND,
BUT CAN’T FIGHT THERE
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. July 12.—Jack Johnson,
the negro pugilist who fled from Chi
cago after being convicted of white
slavery, Arrived here to-day from
Paris. Johnson wants to arrange a
short bout with some good English
heavyweight, preferably Bombardier
Wells. Any match that Johnson
makes, however, probably will have to
be fought on the Continent, for the
English authorities will not allow him
to box in this country.
After his arrival to-day Johnson
visited the newspaper offices In Fleet
street and denied stories about him
which had been cabled from the
United States.
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COULON ORDERED TO TAKE
LONG REST IN COLORADO
CHICAGO. July 12.—Johnny Coulon,
the bantam champion, announced that
he probably would not fight again before
Thanksgiving Day. Coulon was in the
Presbyterian Hospital for ten days, dat
ing which time Bertram W. Sippy, a
specialist on stomach troubles, gave the
little fighter a careful examination. The
doctor has ordered the champion to
take a long rest in Colorado.
Coulon left the hospital day before
yesterday and already is making prep
arations for the Colorado trip. He ex
pects to leave for the West some time
next week.
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