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w THb ATI-AM'A (iKOK<i 1 AN AM) NEWS. . Us Boys rnlt»d Bute, Patent OtTic Shrimp Isn’t a Bit Mad, Not a Bit E ^MEH BROWN, star right-hand slabman of the Montgomerv Billikens. wap sold yesterda> for $7,000 to Charles Tbbets, presi dent of thegBrooklyn club. Delivery is to be made at the end of the Southern League season, Mr. Eb- bets was In .Montgomery personally j 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 Tubs, th*» Pirates, and the Yankees. Harry Sutton, of the Brooklyn club, recently offered $4. 00 for t/i4pitcher, 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 6 game* 1 In all, and in his last twelve starts has won ten. tied one and lost one. That $7,000 isn’t all the Billikcn management will realize from sales this year. The sale of Ernest Walke outfielder, was announced yesterday. I the St. Louis Browns paying $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 King in either league to defeat the Yan kees. Jackson's double sending Chap man over the plate with the winning run. The Naps would not have won had Gos sett 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. • • • Two bingles. which bounded off Pu blic 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 ami aided by errors piled up the only runs scored in the game. • • * Nine bases on balls, two hit batsmen three wild pitches and eight hits en a bled the Pirates to win an easy vic tory over the Phillies Outfielder Carey did not get a hit in five times up, hut scored five runs. He reached firs: 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 batting rally in the final Inning, won out. • • • Pitcher Elmer Brown, of the Mont gomery team, was sold to Brooklyn for *7,000 Tlie money will be divided with the St. Louis Americans, who had an option on the player. * * • Another minor leaguer will be'seen in fast company The Cleveland team bought First Baseman Dick Staley from the Danville club for $2,5l>0. BIG TRADE ON BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND CHANCE WWVTCHA AU-T DRE95ED OP j fefi!-To* / day Ain't 4 SUNDAM X. r rv- HE THINKS HE'S PRETTY ) Fft.ES H TOO ~j 2 TPAPrYft 60 UP TO SEE 0AN- HE RE S THE ) Automobile For. me now- i oor . // , ) ( some "breao ano bottcr and \S S06AR FOR him:- SOWONfci Iti SHPU) HIM . SOMETHIN' U)HEN i G>er — HOLD OF him: j X OOH, * SO long! ( 6EE THAT Ml*f V^OFlVr HELLO"SHRIMPIE " 2 ZEE MAZIER UJU OOjus MAMMA'S DARUN' CRDSST0-^v DAT A iavw smut; op* P 3 WHO'S CROSS :/ we Samara - FOOD FOR FANS COOKED AND LI AN IS MUCH BETTbR TO-DAY-THE wlANtS PLAYS TH£ H SCDTHIES AUAlN-t AIN'T CQ/N4 TO PLAY- I CANT PAY MY fINE- SHRIMP FLYNN FINED ME FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS- AIN'T THAT T006H ? SHANER'S GMeLYttfp'r SHANE R5 M*V SMOKE tT®«i N0 - ,f c, ‘ w6rTK MEN (WHERE DID COLUMBUS FIRST LAND IN AMERICA. on Hts peer/ ALL POLKS, H&tol gw to-day, from Jimmie copelan^us.a UIHERE DID NOAH STRIKE S HE FIRST WAIL JAJ THE RK» *. * and Her Pals Copyright, 1918, IoternaticnaJ N« Pa Didn’t Start Quick Enough 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 Naps 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 be willing to hand over Pitcher ICahler and Outfielder Ry«n Chance told Birmingham he would make a final answer ^>-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. WoTf Doin' 1 VWOUDER £ . \Att- SAMI l you VtfOULDWt Rou AWAW An’ LET Pook AOKiT MA661E, Button her own Shoes, VK/OULD Vou 3 D/W/6OUE n I mkJhTa Kuomo 'Them Gal's MASnt impedin' fer. ( JJt/THiAJl <£ir*- Srtejstf f. t t If What Winners Must Do-Meyers v#-I- +•+ *!••+ +•+ +•+ Must Act and Think in Unison GEORGE BRICKLEY TO SEEK FAME IN MACK’S 0UTFEILD PHILADELPHIA. July 26.—George Brlcklev, brother of Charles Brickley, the w'onderful Harvard halfback, is ex pected here to-day and will at once don an Atheltic uniform. Brickley is ex pected to be given a chaiice in Mack's outfield at an early date He Is said to be a good fielder and a slugger. PHP^YTH hmtiaee T °- D * T 230 runj 1 1 n TO-WIGHT AT 8 30 The Sensation of All Diving Acta JOHM F. CONROY Lester, Diero, Smith, Cook and Brandon and Others 11 FOR GO By 11. M. Walker. I OS ANGELES. July 26.—Leach Cross and Matty Baldwin have practically finished their work, but wil stage extensive boxing prof- grams to-morrow afternoon for the benefit of the hundreds of spectators who are 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 NVillie Ritchie, the former title holder, Ad Wolgast; oJ^inny Dun dee. Jack White, Jess Willard and "Bud” Anderson. In the betting Cross rules a 10 to 8 favorite, with the in dications that the ringside betting will be at even money. • • * 1 T is known that Promoter T. J. Mc- * Carey 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 und Eddie Campi has been called off and Williams, ac companied bv his manager. Sammy Harris, left for the Hast to-day. Wil liams asked $3,000 for his services, a sum that the promoter could not meet. * * * ARTHUR PELKY and Charley Mil- ax 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 SAFE CLEAN. COOL. COMFORTABLE G R A W R MATINEE AT 2:30 n A* n U TO-NIGHT AT R ID TO-NIGHT AT 8;30 Victor Hugo's Great MATINEE 25c NIGHT Mint Reels - -* Acts I 25 and 50c LES MI3ERABLES CARTERSVILLE. GA., July 26.— "Bubbles” Covington, star third sack- er for the University of Georgia bali team this season, and who also play ed professional ball with Cordele a j short while, was admitted to the local bar this week and made good with his j first case, securing an acquittal fox a negro who was charged with .i* I misdemeanor. * Covington has received numerou offers to play professional ball, but : has* turned them all down, preferring law as his vocation. , Motor Races Tuesday, July 29 8:15 P. M. 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 Irlsnyfinn to-night will try ion- elusions with Jack Coleman They are scheduled 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, 1 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 and 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 w ho Is not normal. Not Really Superstitious. Seriously 1 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 likes 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 Just as every depressing influence is an agent of ill 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 rogd 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 boys talked so mu^'h of the evil con ditions that they actually influenced the work of Larry 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 -4gns were dressed over. We ill started to hit better. Not because It was one whit easier to see the ball after the chang*, but jubt because the players convinced themselves that it must be All a Condition of M'nd. It is the simple proposition of mak ing the possible impossible. The fel low w ho cannot hit as well on a cer tain field or against a certain pitcher has usually nobody but himself 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 Warfher is one of the great est hitters the game hay 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. 1 do not mean that Wagner quit trying He is not of that stamp. Rut he tried without his* accustomed confidence. Space will not permit me to dw r ell 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 ing Into the box. Ty Cobb Takss Chances. Ty Cobb is the great player that he is simply because he Is always ready to take the most desperate chances. He always has the opposi tion more or less unnerved througli apprehension. What Cobh represents as the individual, a championship team typifies as a collection. A club tnat 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. Rut 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 25.—Mrs. “Hefty” 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 slide Park to-morrow they will appear spicK and span 1n new uniforms. The old set was consumed in a fire which de stroyed a laundry yesterday. It is a question whether the cl|*b. the players or the laundry will settft for the new raiment. BOXING News of the Ring Game I Tommy Burns Raps jack Johnson *•* T»T *•* 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 finally decided that condition is the main essential in the boxing game. The “fighting newsboy” is working out daily so as to be in the best of shape if called upon to meet Charley Lee 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 Campi. w * * 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, Ill., 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 Kilhane a twenty-round draw, w’hile the welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight divisions are all mud dled up. • * • Billy Phelon, a Cincinnati scribe, says 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 Rattling 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. t . • * • Abe At tell donned the padded rtlitts 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 be 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 semi-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 At tell 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. “He Is Poorest Ring Champion” By AY. \Y. Naughton. S AX FRANCISCO, July 26—The iron which entered Tommy Burns’ soul when Jack Johnson relieved him of his championship that warm summer day in Australia is s'till 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 per5«onal 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 nil 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 flaying it just because he licke^ me. 'Did anyone ever see Johnson start fighting briskly and keep it up as a fellow* of his strength and size should 7 No. sir. He just crouches and waits, nails you with an unpercut and then grabs you and holds on. He swing? around holding on like grim death, and showing his gold teeth as much as to say: ‘Oh, this is easy.’ But it takes all a referee’s strength to split him cut, and a few seconds later he is hanging tin 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 bouts 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 sent against as long as th^ price is right. Ritchie is not naming the sum he should be paid. He wants 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 fer? 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 soiggest 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 his getting it. The fight between Ritchie and Riv • ers 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 all the expenses of adver tising and help, and the chances are he had to dig down into his jeans. ♦ 3 • IT is an object lesson for fight pro- 1 motors, 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 ?et the pro moters bidding against one anothei as Ritchie is doing right now. and prices will go soaring. “What was I to do?” said Graney. “If I hadn’t given Ritchie what he asked, some one else would have given it to him ” Probably. But now that It's* all over Graney wishes ne 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 thin^ of paying the fighters more than they are worth will only stop when each and every promoter in the country has had his fingers burned. LANGFORD AND JEANNETTE SIGN FOR 20-ROUND BOUT SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Sam l^mgford and Joe Jeannette have bf-en matched to box twenty rounds in Los Angeles on September 29. Langford, ac companied by his w’ife 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. * r i LEIFIELD GOES TO COAST. CHICAGO. July 26.—"Lefty'' Let- field, former Cub pitcher, who wa9 sold to Atlanta and refused to report, /has been sold to San Francisco, of the Pacific Coast League, by the management. 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