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Q THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS E ^MER BROWN, star right-hand slabman of the Montgomery Billikens. wan sold yesterday for >7,000 to Charles Tbbets, presi dent of the Brooklyn club Delivery is to be made at the end of the Southern league season. Mr. Eb- fcets ft*a» In Montgomery personally to attend to the deal. Brown has been much looked over by scouts from big league clubs It is said both the Boston clubs wanted him; also, the Cubs, the Pirates and the Yankees Harry Sutton, of the Brooklyn club, recently offered $4 00 for the pltqher. which was refused. Then Sutton put up such a strong talk to Ebbets that the magnate took a personal interest in getting the prize. Brown has been a very steady and dependable pitcher this season He has won 16 and lost 5 games In all, and in his last twelve starts has won ten. tied one and lost one. That $7,000 Isn’t all the Billiken management will realize from sales this year. The sale of Ernest Walker, outfielder, was announced yesterday, the St. Louis Browns paving $4,000 for him, and the same club exercised its option on Pitcher Manning, pay ing $2,500. Both are to report at the end of the Southern League sea son. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip It took 13 innings and the best slug ging in either league to defeat the Van kees, Jackson’s double sending Chap man over the plate with the winning run. The Naps would not have won had Cos set t slid home when trying to score on a wild pitch instead of going Into the plate standing up. • • • Pinch hitters and pitchers galore were used In the Red Sox-White Sox game, but the speed boys won out In the slugging contest. • t i Two blngles, which bounded off Du- buc’s glove, prevented the Detroit pitch er from holding the Athletics hitless The scratch hits came In the seventh Inning, but Mack's men took advan tage of them and aided by errors plied up the only runs scored In the game • • • Nine bases on balls, two hit batsmen, three wild pitches and eight hits en abled the Pirates to win an easy vic tory over the Phillies Outfielder Carey did not get a hit In five times up. but scored five runs He reached first for first time up on a fumble and was walked the other four times • * • Even minor league teams are rub bing It on Brooklyn The Dodgers dropped off at Troy to play an exhibi tion game and the State league, with a hatting rally In the Anal inning, won out. • • • Pitcher Elmer Brown, of the Mont gomery team, was sold to Brooklyn for >7,000 The money will be divided with the St. Louis Americana, who had an option on the player • * # Another minor leaguer will he seen In fast company The Cleveland team bought First Baseman Dick Staley from the Danville club for $3,600. BIG TRADE ON BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND CHANCE NEW YORK, July 26— Frank Chance, manager of the Yankees, and Manager Birmingham, of the Cleve land team, to-day may close a deal which will send a Yankee pitcher to the Nap# In exchange for two Cleve land lads. Chance, who is desperately in need of outfielders, asked Birmingham whom he would give for Pitcher George McConnell The Cleveland manager, who has been trying to se cure McConnell for some time, re plied he would he willing to hand over Pitcher Kahler and Outfielder Ryan. Chance told Birmingham he would make a final answer to-day. "POP BOY" SMITH EXCUSED BY NATIONAL COMMISSION CHICAGO, July 26.—Pitcher Smith, of the Chicago Americans, wil not feel the heavy hand of the National Com mission for masquerading last Sunday as a member of the Coulon Athletics, a semi-professional club. President B. B. Johnson, of the American League, said last night that Smith was just a youngster, knew no better, and had been forgiven. He said that the players with Eastern clubs who were fined last year for playing with semi-professional teams on off days were veterans, and knew they were violating rules. GEORGE BRICKLEY TO SEEK FAME IN MACK’S OUTFEILD PHILADELPHIA. July 36—George Brickley, brother of Charles Brickley the wonderful Harvard halfback, is ex pected here to-day and will at once don an Atheltlo uniform Brickley Is ex pected to be given a chance In Mack’s outfield at an early date He is said to be a good fielder and a slugger. rnRQYTH MATINEE TO-DAY 230 run31 1 n T0-NI6HT AT 8 30 The Sensation ef All Diving Acte JOHN F. CONROY A. Lester, Diero, Smith, Cook and Brandon and Others SAFE. CLEAN. COOL COMFONTAILE G rand matinee at 2.30 n M r* U TO NIGHT AT S:SO Victor Hugo's Great LES MISERABLES Mine Reels- MATINEE 25c NIGHT 4 Acts I 25 and 30c Motor Races * Tuesday, July 29 /8:15 P. M. 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JJt/Twul What Winners Must Do-Meyers +•+ +•+ •!••+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Must Act and Think in Unison 11 FOB GO Bv 11. M. Walker. L OS ANGELES. July 26.— Leach Cross and Matty Baldwin have practically finished their work, but wil stage extensive boxing pro grams to-morrow afternoon for the benefit of the hundreds of spectators who ure expected to vist the Vernon and Venice quarters. Cross and Baldwin meet next Tues day night in a scheduled 20-round bout before the Pacific Coast Ath letic Club at Vernon. Among the ring celebrities who will be present upon this occasion are Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie, the former title holder. Ad Wolgast; oJhnny Dun dee. Jack White, Jess Willard and ‘Bud” Anderson. In the betting Cross rules a 10 to 8 favorite, with tl** in dications that the ringside betting will be at even money. • • • I T is known that Promoter T. J. Mc Carty is figuring upon using Ritchie here on either Labor Day or Thanksgiving Day. Wolgast and Joe Rivers are named as the champion s opponents. The proposed return match between Johnny Williams and Eddie Campl has been called off and Williams, ac companied by his manager, Sammy Harris, left for the East to-day. Wil liams asked $3,000 for his services, a sum that the promoter could not meet. • • • ARTHUR PELKY and Charley Mll- Ia lerf may be matched to box here in September. Both the heavies have wired the local promoter asking for the date. “BUBBLES” COVINGTON WINS FIRST CASE AS LAWYER CARTERSVILLE. GA, July 26 — “Bubble?” Covington, star third sack- er for the University of Georgia hall team this sea.«on, and who also clay ed professional ball with Cordele a short while, was admitted to the local bar this week and made good with his fir^t case, securing an acquittal for a negro who was charged with a misdemeanor Covington has received numerou- offers to play professional ball, but ha? turned them all down, preferring law as. his vocation. M’GUINNESS VS. COLEMAN. NEW YORK, July 26.—Fight fan? are predicting a great future for Frank Guinness, champion of the British navy, who has won in his several bouts with white hopes here The Irishrpan to-night will try con clusions \#Jth Jack Coleman They are schedu/ed to box ten rounds. By “Chief” Meyers. Star Catcher of Champion Giants. Giants. P ROFESSIONAL baseball players are generally believed to be ex ceptionally superstitious. As a class, I do not consider them more prone than any of their fellow mortals to be influenced by what can not easily be understood. For supersti tion after all Is little less than fear of what one can not satisfactorily analyze in his mind. And we now’ find in the professional ranks of athletes as brawny, thought ful anil well-informed men as can be produced In any other walk of life. Deep in the heart of man the ele ment of superstition lurks. It is a scar of prehistoric nature, undoubt edly an Instinct. If you will, like that first-born principle #of self-preserva tion. Show me a man who is absolutely without superstition and I will show you a man who Is not normal. Not Really Superstitious. Seriously, I do not think that there are many players possessing brains enough to be in the big leagues who could be termed really superstitious. If the most of them were pinned right down to honest confession, I think It would be discovered that what supposedly superstitious traits are exhibited have been as much the result of habit as belief in charm for any spell It is a well-known fact that ball clubs in general often interpret cer tain conditions over which they have no control as omens of good or bad. A ball team is delighted to see a load of empty barrels or to pass a load of hay. Either Is supposed to bring good luck. But no team like? to pass a funeral; that casts an evil spell. Crossed bats are supposed to typify ill fortune. Conditions Inspire Confidence. These things and many others of no more portentous nature may in fluence a club, but only psychologi cally. Any condition which inspires confidence of victory Is beneficial Jut't as every depressing influence Is an agent of 111 fortune. It is indeed sur prising what insignificant things may often most seriously influence the general peace of mind of a baseball team. It Is a well-known fact that we Giants hit better on the road than we do at the Polo Grounds. The possible exceptions are Larry Doyle and myself. Somehow the pair of us manage to uphold our batting av erage at home. But the rest of the hoys talked so much of the evil con ditions that they actually influenced the work of Larrv and myself. We began to get It Into our heads that we could not hit at our best be cause of the signs on the fences, and we did not hit as well as we should. Those nigns were dressed over. We all started to hit better. Not because it was one whit easier to see the ball after the change, but Just because the players convinced themselves that it must be. All a Condition of Mind. It Is the simple proposition of mak ing the possible impossible. The fel low who cannot hit as well on a cer tain field or against a certain pitcher has usually nobody but hfmself to blame. He Just thinks he can not to begin with; he becomes convinced later, and establishes a certain con dition of mind that can never be rectified Hans Wagner Is one of the great est hitters the g|me has ever known. He was always helpless before “Bugs'’ Raymond. From the first, somehow. Raymond impressed his mastery over the Dutchman, and Hans accepted the Issue. I do not mean that Wagner quit trying. He Is not of that stamp. Rut he tried without hi? accustomed confidence. Space will not permit me to dwell on the myriad Inexplicable conditions which tend to popular superstition. There was a time when the great Mathewson was unable to beat the Cubs with Miner Brown working. On the other hand. Mathewson could al ways trim Cincinnati by simply walk, lng into the box. Ty Cobb Take# Chances. Tv Cobb is the great player that he is simply because he is always ready to take the mosit desperate chances. He always has the opposi tion more or less unnerved through apprehension. What Cobb represents as the individual, a championship team typifies as a collection. A club that Is not well up in the race must necessarily play a conservative game. A team with a decided lead i- able to gamble—to take long chances. Such tactics, by upsetting the cal culations of the opposition, often bear results that appear stamped in luck. But after all Is said and done, luck favors the team that tempts it most. “Nothing ventured, nothing won” holds particularly true of baseball. MRS. "LEFTY" FLYNN GIVEN DIVORCE FROM “GRID" STAR SYRACUSE, N. Y„ July 26.—Mrs "Lefty” Flynn, the former showgirl, has obtained a referee’s decree in quiet divorce proceedings against “Lefty” Flynn, famous as a Yale foot ball player, and a grandson of the late John Moore, of Syracuse. Suit was brought several months ago. and from the beginning it was characterized by absolute secrecy. Mrs. Flynn named as co-respondent a New York chorus girl whose name all of the attorneys in the action refuse to make public. NEW SUITS FOR CUBS. CHICAGO. July 26—When the Chi cago Nationals return to the West Side Park to-morrow they will appear spica and span in new uniforms. The old set was consumed in a lire which de stroyed a laundry yesterday. It is a question whether the club, the players or ihe laundry will settle for the new raiment. BOXING News of the Ring Gama Promoter Tom McCarey has called off the twenty-round bout between Kid Williams, of Baltimore, and Eddie Campi, the coast sensation, at Vernon, Cal., on August 12 Williams demanded more money than the Western promoter was willing to give for such a match. * * • Kid Young has flnall^ decided that condition Is the main essential in the boxing game. The “flgljlng newsboy” is working out dally so is to be in the best of shape If called upon to meet (’barley I^ee in a return match. Meyer Pries, take notice! • * * Charley Ledoux, the French bantam weight. is satisfied that he must learn more about the boxing game in order to hold his end up against the American fighters. He made a poor showing in his recent bouts with "Kid” Williams and Eddie Campl. • * * Meyer Pries wishes to announce that he is still in the boxing game. The little Hebrew battler is after a scrap with either Spider Britt, Charley Lee or Kid Young * * * Articles have been signed for a ten- round bout between .Jimmy Clabby, mid dleweight. and Billy Papke, of Kewanee, 111., to be held at Denver on August 11. * * • Lost, strayed or stolen—Terry Nelson. A letter Is at the Georgian Sporting Department for the Greek battler. • * • In speaking of champions, Willie Ritchie seems to be the only undisputed title holder. Kid Williams is claiming Coulon’s honors; Dundee has fought Johnny Kilbane a twenty-round draw, while the welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight divisions are all mud dled up. ... Billy Phelon, a Cincinnati sorlbe. saya that Kid Mars is one of the grandest little boxers at present appearing be fore the public. He picks him to be the leader of his class before long. * * * Steve Ketchel. the Chicago light weight, is anxious to box in Atlanta. Steve Is a fighter on the Battling Nel son style, and usually gives the fans a run for their money Ketchel Is at present matched to meet Johnny Grif fith at Akron, Ohio, some time next month. • • • Abe Attell donned the padded mitts last night and was held to a ten-round draw by Willie Beecher at New York The ex-featherweight champion was outweighed by five pounds. • • • Kid Graves, of Milwaukee, and Tom Maloney will clash in a ten-round en counter at the Irving A. C., New York, on Saturday night * * • The boxing card to he staged at Mari etta Saturday has been completed. Young Seymour and Terry Nelson are to dash In the ten-round windup; Billy Whitney takes on Jack Rogers in the six-round semt-windup. while Kid Brooks and Jimmy Murphy exchange blows In the four-round preliminary. * * • Bombardier Wells. English heavy weight champion, has been signed to box Gunner Moir in a twenty-round go at the Canterbury Music Hall in Lon don, September 3. Wells is also match ed to box twenty rounds with Bands man Rice, another Englishman, on Sep tember 17. * * * Abe Attell can’t box for Tom McCarey on the coast, for the foxy Abe went a bit too strong in his demands for the mazuma For this he has lost a bat tle with Jack White. Tommy Burns Raps Jack Johnson +•* *•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ "He Is Poorest Ring Champion” By W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, July 26—The Iron whleh entered Tommy Bums’ soul when Jack Johnson relieved him of his championship that warm summer day in Australia is still firmly wedged there. Tommy has grown portly and has divested him self of every shred of ambition In regard to a resumption of ring activ ities. He Is now acting as guide, philosopher and friend to Arthur Pelky, the sad-eyed, soft-voiced white heavyweight champion, and he wants the whole world to know that so far as personal participation is concerned he is through, forever, with the fri volities of the ring. But there is one thing that will cause Tommy to rise from his chair, bend his head, throw' his arms into fighting position and crouch as far as his corpulence will permit. And that is when any reference is made to the bout which cost him the title. It Is not sufficient for Tommy to tell you of the unfair manner in which Johnson fought He has to furnish moving pictures of the occasion. "It’s all over now', and I have to sit quietly sometimes and hear people argue that Johnson was the greatest heavyweight of all times.’’ said Tom my the other day. "Why, he was the poorest champion the game has known, and I am not paying it Just because he licked me. ‘Did anyone ever see Johnson start fighting briskly and keep it up as a fellow of his strength and size should? No. sir. He just crouches and waits, nails you with an uppercut and then grabs you and holds on. He swing? around holding on like grim death, and showing his gold teeth as much a? to say: ‘Oh. this is easy.’ But It takes all a referee’s strength to split him out. and a few seconds later he is hanging on again. "Ye?, and it is the same round after round. Johnson’s long suit is keeping his opponent from fighting. He does very little fighting himself, and anyone who recalls the bout? they have seen him in will admit I am right.” • • • L IGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION WIL LIE RITCHIE is quite willing to risk his laurels again. He says he is not particular who he is Pent against as long as the price is right. Ritchie is not naming the sum he should be paid. He want? each of the promoters to make a bid, and he will accept the highest offer. It is no use mentioning "percentage" to the champion. He has thrashed It all out and has discovered that flat of fers are the best. One of the charges Billy Nolan made against the champion Was that Ritchie was "money mad." Nolan meant, of course, that money occu pied Ritchie's thoughts to the exclu sion of other things. There is nothing about Ritchie's actions, when money is in question, to i-niggest that his mind is unbalanced. Having received something lik* $18,000 from Promoter Graney for the fight on July 4, Ritchie will probably expect as much, or more, when he boxes again. And the chances are very much against hie getting It. The fight between Ritchie and Riv • »>rs drew something over $29,000. As "houses” go nowadays It was a mighty good clean-up. But not for Graney, for If he broke even he is lucky. It is easily enough reckoned if Ritchie got $18,000, Rivers $7,000, and it cost $1,500 to hire Coffroth’s arena. Graney had little more than $2,500 to meet al! the expenses of adver tising and help, and the chances are he had to dig down into his Jeans. • • • I T Is an object lesion for fight pro- 1 moters, and for such as think there i? money in handling affairs of that kind. Graney worked like a beaver, and used every Influence he could command to advertise his show And when it came off the boxers re ceived nearly 90 per cent of the tak ings, and the promoter-found himself on the wrong side of the ledger. This Is a matter that will have to be regulated, although it is not easy to see how it will be done. As mat ters stand, all a champion, or a near- champion. has to do Is eet the pro moters bidding against one anothei as Ritchie is doing right now. and prices will go Roaring. "What was I to do?" said Granev. "If I hadn’t given Ritchie what he asked, nome one else would have given it to him ” Probably. But now that it> all over Graney wishes he had not stood In the way of some other promoter. Of course, Graney will be chary of offer ing big money to Ritchie again, and this means that there will be one fool the less among the promoters It looks, indeed, as if this thing of paying the fighters more than they are - worth will only stop w r hen each and every promoter in the country has had hi? fingers burned. LEI FI ELD GOES TO COAST. CHICAGO. July 26—"Lefty" Lei- fleld. former Cub pitcher, who was sold to Atlanta and refused to report has been sold to San Francisco, of the Pacific Coast League, bv the Cub management. LANGFORD AND JEANNETTE SIGN FOR 20-R0UND BOUT SAN FRANCISCO, July 26. -Sam Iangford and Joe Jeannette have been matched to box twenty rounds in Los Angeles on September 29. Langford, ac companied by his wife anf baby, his manager, Joe Woodman, and Jack Read, the Australian lightweight, leave here to-day for the East. Langford wants to visit his relatives whom he has not seen for several years, before starting to train for the Jeannette bout. 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