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J THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. L PUTS ATHLETICS By Sid C. Keener. I F luck continues to break for Con nie Mack and the Athletics, then the 1913 American League pen nant race should not be close. The meaning of luck is Injuries to ath letes, the stars of his flock. And so far the lean Cornelius has been mighty fortunate in ways of acci dents. Mack is directing a bona fide cham pionship ball club all right, still many teams which figured on dope, and even on the ball field, to win have lost out because this and that star was dis abled and put out of harness for a lengthy period. The lucky part for Mack and the Athletics is that he has the banner in field in major league circles to-day, and that his quartet has been on duty every day since the first game of the season, April 10. Infield the Real Strength. The Athletics’ infield really is the tower of strength to the ciub. Of course, the pitching staff has more than held its own, still the Mackites are winning games when the pitchers are cracking. Without a doubt the combination of Mclnnis-Collins-Barry-Baker forms the infield de luxe, and Stuffy, Eddie, Jack and Frank have been in there every day. Collins is the only player who has missed once, and recently, during a double-header, Mack laid off the Columbia U. lad to give youngster Bill Orr a chance. Of course. Mack has been without Jack Coombs since April 11 when ty phoid fever put “Colby Jack” out of commission. But Plank and Bender are having an unusually good year, and then Connie has been fortunate in getting excellent pitching from youngsters Brown, Bush, Houck and Wyckoff. Both Kinds of Outfielders. In the outfield Mack supplied him self with fly catchers in case of in juries. At present he has Danny Murphy, Rube Oldring and Jimmy Wah'h, right-handed stickers, and Eddie Murphy, Amos Strunk and Pete Daley, left-handed swatters. In the outfield Mack has supplied himself with batters for the two kinds of pitching, also for injuries. In catching. Mack is taken care of in case of injuries, but so far no one has been needed. Schang and Lapp are doing all the catching, and even Ira Thomas, who practically caught the Mackites to the 1910-1911 flags, has» not been behind the bat in a sin gle entertainment since the start of the season. The peculiar part is that Mack has been lucky, mighty lucky, with his in fielders. Not only are they in there every' day, but they are hitting the Athletics to the pennant. Collins has a .347 average; Baker, .326, and Mc- Innes, .325. And the trio has scored 202 runs. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Rain put the finishing touches on ma jor league baseball yesterday, *the Na tional games all being postponed. The American League teams spent the day traveling eastward. * • • Connie Mack, of the Athletics, takes exception to the statement that he Sen ators will beat out his earn. Mack says his men fear nobody and will breeze home in the American League. * * * Manager Chance plans a big shake-up in the Yankees. He is contemplating benching Birdie Cree and Harry Wolter and filling their places in‘the outfield with Roy Hartsell and Ray Caldwell. The latter has not been meeting with success as a pitcher, but is developing into a good outfielder and batsman. In the hope of widening the gap be tween his team and the Phillies Man ager McGraw of the (Hants will send his team along at the clip they have been* traveling the 1 atsfew weeks, when they begin their second invasion of the West to-morrow. ♦ * * Manager Clark Griffith has ordered the Senators to keep away from Lake Michi gan. Outfielder Shanks turned his ankle and injured his head w’hile diving the other day and will be out of the game for several days. Griffith’s order was to prevent further inroads on his players. * * * Alleging that he was assaulted by Jack O’Connor, manager of the Federal League, John S. McNulty, a former um pire, has brought suit for $35,000 against the league, the St. Louis Club and O’Connor, its manager. It was McNul ty’s first day of umpiring and also his last and he alleges he has been unable to earn a living in his profession. FILLINGEIVI AND WILDER TWIRL TWO GREAT GAMES CORDELE. July 25.—Seldom, if ever before in the history of organised baseball, has a record been made that would compare with that of Fillin- gem and "Baby” Wilder, pitching for Cordele in a double-header against Waycross Wednesday. Fillingem went nine innings for a shut-out game with no hits, and Wilder twirled a six- inning game, allowing no hits and no scores, striking out nine men. By this remarkable record. Fillin gem and Wilder have proved them selves the star twflrlers of the Em pire State League. Not only has a no-hit, shut-out game been pitched before in the league, but the fact that Cordele took both games with the same brilliant record makes it a precedent that will probably not be equaled, though the league is main tained for years, for w’hich prospects now appear very favorable. ARMY AND NAVY WRANGLE OVER FOOTBALL FIELD WEST POINT, N. Y.. July 25.—The Army and Navy athletic officials still are at a deadlock over the selection of the place where the next Army-Navy football game shall be played. The Navy is Insisting that the game take place in Philadelphia, while the j'^y contends that it should be played at West Point and Annapolis, alternating each year, or In New York City, preferably tbe latter. The Armv opens the football season early this year, playing a game September 27. NEGOTIATIONS ON FOR NTFARLAND-RITCHIE BOUT CHICAGO, July 25.—Negotiations were begun to-<lay for a ten-round contest between T’ackey McFarland and Willie Ritchie in Milwaukee early in October. McFarland had gareed to meet Ritchie, who is <u>askiering the proposition. Jeff Couldn’t Read It---“Dynamite” • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • By “Bud” Fisher ^ LOOK EU,T X FOUND ON THF; COXNFR o t CfrY tr pirst (VftMe is Din* t bourne* ^ST look see 11*. . NOW, t XOMOFR. 'MHlVt MlTTT TOOK rT ON TH6 RON FOCL ? CaPvattfr t KRAZY KAT • • • • Ignatz Wouldn’t Stand for It fVjjo sou-s uj\Trf Bur aY Z' C SlU&Lfc. TuiO WEAUCS) \ (A)HAr PEATS Aiks. QN&, 5- K'ftAXV',0/Vfc. MOU£aJt\ ,UlH0 3 SE. Tlpsb Aaic Sc?u.\ I UiwftT beat a\)D Thia/vt cwp. 0 W Twi-oes, A AID LlwffO I6NAT5 SniesY r 5'No Such A, > Thiaxs -y Artie Hof man May Go to Yanks *•* Vol Gardener Playing Fine Ball N ashville, tenn., July 25 — Any time a player comes track ing out from the majors, there immediately goes up the hue and cry that he has finished his act under the Big Tent, is on his way to the exit and only lingers around the side shows because it reminds him of the fame that was his when he occupied the center ring. The cases of a return engagement in the majors are almost as rare as the appearance of feathers on turtles once a “slave" has started sliding, since oftenest it is the case that a ball tosser loses his ambition and de sire to hobnob with the stellar lights once he has started shunting on down to the bushes. It’s because Artie Hofman is the exception that proves the rule that makes his case so full of interest, es pecially since so many widely differ ent explanations of his appearance in the Southern have been offered. Sure He Can Make Good. It’s no joke that the "them-was- the - hapuy - days - in - Akron" stuff had a lot to do with Artie casting his fortunes with Bill Schwartz, but the real honest-to-goodness reason is that the boy leader of the Vols af forded a protecting wing, under which Circus Solly could hide himself while the business of a clever little scheme of Hofman’? was getting oiled up. The milk in the cocoanut of the whole affair is that Artie doesn’t believe he i*. all through with the hig show, and although they have their thumbs down on him, in the National, there is still a fine young chance for Artie to slip into Ban Johnson’s circuit, where one Frank Chance is leading at present a forlorn hope in Manhat- i larking away hack to the, time when Charles Webb Murphy, the un grateful owner of the Cubs, traded Artie and King Cole to the Pirates for Lefty Leifield and Tommy Leach, there started the breach between Murphy and the Peerless Leader, who, in the language for which Chance is widely noted, explained to Charles Webb just where he could head in. Leastways, that’s the way Hofman tells it. _ Didn’t Like Fred Clarke. Harboring an intense bitterness against Murphy, which found its best evidence in the recent suit for $3,000, which Artie pulled against the Chi cago club, and a hankering for the fighting tactics of the Peerless Lead er, made Hofman and Fred Clarke anything but a Damon and Pythias. All of this ill feeling, coupled with a pair of bum pins, soon caused Clarke to sour on the former Cub out fielder, and he began to look for a place to pigeonhole Artie, until he could get in good shape and bend his neck to Clarke's yoke: and Kansas City looked like a good place to the fiery Pirate chief. The Blues were given a short option on Hofman at the stiff price of $2,500, after waivers had been secured on Artie—and there seems to have been a heap of inside stuff pulled in send ing the blonde gardener out of Mr. Lynch’s circuit, by the way—and a deal was framed up between Hofman, Clarke and the Kansas City club by which Artie should be returned to the Pirates at the end of the present sea son at a 20 per cent increase in sal ary in the event he "went good" in PROTECT WEAK EYES Are your eyes easily reddened by sun. wind or dust? Our scientifically fitted lenses will correct the predis position. Oculist service at optician prices. L. N. HUFF OPTICAL CO. Two Stores: 70 Whitehall. 52 W. Mitchell. Adv. the Western circuit. This arrange ment appealed to Hofman about like a spell of the itch, and he declared he had rather quit the game than be mixed up in any arrangement which would send him back to the Bucca neers and the tyranny of Clarke. When he balked, and wound up by kicking over the traces, the Kansas City club did the perfectly wise thing and allowed the option to ex pire. An Old Pal of Schwartz’s. Business of “for old times sake” making a loud noise in the wings and Artie learning how Bill Schwartz was getting gray headed over the poor old Vols’ slump. He would be tickled to death to come down and help an old pal out, if the Vols could buy his release. Did they? They did. For $1,500—(count ’em)—a thousand iron men less than Kansas City stood ready to kick in with, but it was a case of a bird in the hand, etc., with Clarke, and hence Hofman chasing flies in the Vols’ left field. But there is NO conditional re lease clause in Artie’s contract, as has been w r hispered about. He is the sole property of the Vols, bought and paid for. with no strings tied to him one way or the other. But this is a fact: Schwartz knows Artie’s ambition to return to the ma jors: he knows he is anxious to once more work under Prank Chance’s banner; that Chance is dead stuck on having Artie with him once more, and maybe Schwartz isn’t going to help hi? pal get back where he is crazy to be. Maybe a duck can’t swim, but he puts up a pretty good imitation. Virginia League Pittsburg 12, Norfolk Richmond 2, Portsmouth 1. Newport News 6, Roanoke 5. Appalachian League. Middleboro 7, Bristol 3. Johnson City 6, Morristown 5. Cotton States League. Columbus 6, Selma 1. AMERICANS WILL MEET BRITONS IN NET MATCHES WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND, July 25.— The interest of the tennis world will be focussed to-day on the championship matches at Wimbledon, where the Americans will attempt to win the Dwight F. Davis international tennis trophy. England will spare no effort to defend the cup, which is the last re maining token of her former athletic supremacy. The two singles matches will be played between Maurice E. McLoughlin, of San Francisco, facing J. C. Parke, whose unexpected victory last year over the noted Australian, Norman E. Brookes, was instrumental in bringing the cup to England, and R. Norris Williams, of Philadelphia, meeting C. P. Dixon. Parke fell an easy victim to the Cali fornian in the open English champion ships, but a round of tournament play since is said to have greatly improved his form. England pins her hope on his ability to defeat McLoughlin, who is reported to he stale. English critics are united in declaring there is less than ”15” difference between Wi.flams’ play and that of McLoughlin. A greater crowd is expected than the crush which attended the Wilding-McLoughlin match. PELKY AND SMITH MAY CLASH ON TURKEY DAY SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.—Ijvli- cations are that Arthur Pelky, Tom my Burns, heavyweight battler, and Gunboat Smith will do battle in this city on Thanksgiving day. Burns to day announced that he would have his man ready on turkey day and that Smith w'ould he the foe, the match going to the highest bidder. CROUCH ROBBED: GETS DRAW. OTTAWA, ILL., July 25.—Ben Crouch, of Chicago, and Kid Mack, of Joliet, fought eight rounds to a draw in the wind-up of a boxing show held here last night. The decision came as a surprise to the fans, as Crouch cleanly outtought Mack, knocking him down several times. “Specia Deliv ery” Hirsch, of Chicago, and Ed Brandenburg, of St. Louis, went six rounds to a draw in the semi-wind up. BASEBALL SUMMARY mile. Present record held by Eddie Hasha and Morty Graves. Time, 38 4-5 seconds. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Friday. Atlanta at Montgomery. Nashville at New Orleans. Chattanooga at Mobile. Birmingham at Memphis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc Mont... 56 40 .583 Mobile 58 43 .574 Atlanta 50 41 .540 B'ham. 48 44 .522 Chat. M’phis. N’ville. N. Or.. W. L. 48 45 47 54 41 53 31 59 Pc. .516 .465 .436 .344 Thursday's Results. Birmingham 3, Memphis 0. Mobile 3. Chattanooga 1. Other games postponed, rain. Thursday's Results. Savannah 3. Albany 1. Columbus 7. Macon 0. Charleston 6, Jacksonville 4 (11 in nings). EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Thomasville at Americus. Cordele at Waycross. Valdosta at Brunswick. Standing of the Cluba. W. L. Pc. C’del e. 14 9 .609 T’ville 12 10 .545 V’dosta 11 10 .624 W. L. Pc B’wick 11 10 .524 A’cus. 10 13 .435 W’cross 8 14 .364 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Friday. St. Louis at W ashington. Detroit at Philadelphia. Cleveland at New' York. Chicago at Boston. Standing of the Clubs. Phila... Cl’land. W’ton.. Ch’go... W. L. 64 27 55 37 52 39 61 45 Pet. .703 .598 .571 .531 Roston. Detroit St. L... N. Y.... W. I . 42 46 39 57 38 59 28 59 rc. .477 .406 392 .321 Thursday’s Results. No games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Friday. Philadelphia at Pittsburg. Standing of the Clubs. N. Y... Phila... Ch’go.. P’burg. W. L 61 26 50 33 46 43 44 43 Pet .701 .602 .517 .506 W. L. B’klyn. 39 43 Boston. 37 49 St. L... 35 54 C’nati.. 35 56 Pet. .476 .430 .393 .385 Thursday’s Results. No games scheduled. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Friday. Charleston at Jacksonville. Columbus at Macon. Albany at Savannah. Standing of the Clubs. C’bus. S’v’nah Albany W. L. Pc 17 8 .680 14 10 .*£3 13 13 .500 \V. L. Chas’n. 12 15 .T’ville. 11 14 Macon 9 16 Pc 444 .440 .360 ‘sday’s Brunswick 3. Valdosta 2. Waycross 4, Cordele 1. Thomasville 5, Americus 4. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Friday. Newnan at Talladega. LaGrange at Gadsden. Anniston at Opelika. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. F G’den 39 31 .557 N’nan. 36 33 .622 Opelika 36 34 .514 W. L. Pot. I/G’ge. 35 34 .507 An’ton. 32 39 .461 T’dega 32 39 .451 Thursday’s Results. LaGrange 4. Gadsden 2. Talladega 10, Newnan 9. Opelika 6, Anniston 6. OTHER RESULTS. American Association. Milwaukee 10, Kansas City 5. Others not scheduled. International League. Toronto IT, Baltimore 6. Providence 5, Rochester 3. Jersey City 1, Montreal 1. Buffalo-Newark, rain. Federal League. Pittsburg 4, St. Louis 3. Kansas City 3. Chicago 0. Carolina Association. Greensboro 4. Charlotte 3. Winston-Salem 5, Asheville 0. Durham 16. Raleigh 3. Texas League. Sun Antonio 4. Dallas 0. Beaumont 6. Waco 2. Austin 6, Galveston 2. Houston 4, Fort Worth 3. GRIND ID-NIGHT T U NLESS rain butLs in again, lo cal motorcycle fans will have their much-sought-for chance to see the Marathon race at the Mo tordrome to-night. The races were postponed on Tues day and Wednesday nights, but if the weather man will dish out some dry weather for to-night the riders prom ise to give the fans some racing that should be the classiest of the season. $500 to Winner. The Marathon race, with ten rid ers on the track at the same time. Is the big feature. The speed teams are scheduled to circle the track 105 times, and the winner is to receive a cash prize of $500. More thrills seem like ly to be crowded into this race than all the other races ever pulled off here. Other Races on Card. A special match race, three heats and a final of a sweepstakes and a trial against time by Tex Richards are the other events to be pulled off The following is the complete pro gram : Tex Richards against time. One BROU’S LN jkction -A EJJL P I CIJLL of the most obstinuti* cam* guaranteed in from 8 to 6 day* \ do other Urutmt-nt required. Hold by all drujjguta. One mile to qualify for two-mile final. Two to qualify In each heat and three in fastest heat. First Heat—No. 1, Morty ,Graves; No. 2, Harry Schwartz; No. 3, Billy Shields; No. 4, George Lockner; No. 5, Tex Richards. Second Heat—No. 6. Freddie Lu ther; No. 7, Georges Renel; No. 8, Jock McNeil; No. 9, Henry Lewis; No. 10, Harry Glenn. Harry Glenn vs. Harry Schwartz. (Special Match Race.) Two miles, best tw'o out of three heats. Final heat of Motordrome Sweep- stakes—Two miles. Second heat of Special Match Race •—Glenn vs. Schwartz. Third heat of Special Match Race, if necessary. Big Marathon Race—(26 miles 385 yards), ten riders to compete. Bach rider will have to ride 105 times around the track. Winner to receive cash prize of $500. Contestants—No. 1, Morty Graves; No. 2. Harry Scluvartz; No. 3, Billy Shields; No 4. George Lockner; No. 5. Tex Richards; No. 6, Freddie Lu ther; No. 7, Georges Renel; No. 8. Jock McNeil; No 9, Henry Lewis; No. 10, Harry Glenn. INDIANS SELL TWIRLER. INDIANAPOLIS, July 25.—George Keiserling, of the Indianapolis Amer ican Association club pitching staff, has been sold to the San Francisco Pacific Coast team. Manager Kelly also announced Hie purchase of George Norton, a young leftlhander from the Hastings club of the Ne braska State League. TETTER Totlerln# cures tetter Read what Mr*. ▼. C. Mcqulddy. EhUI! Springs. Tenn. says: I had a levore caw of tatter on b«tti hand* and I finally got holploas. A loading phyaolan knew of no oura. I decldod to gfv* Tetterlne a trial. To my utter eurprls* and satisfaction It worked a spaady cure. 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