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PRICE {710
E ^MKR BROWN, mar right-hand
slubtnan of the Montgomery
Biilikens. war sold ycsterda>
for 17.000 to Charles Tbbets, presi
dent of the Brooklyn club Delivery
ip to be made at the end of the
Southern League season Mr. Eb-
oets wa.-i in Montgomery |>ersonally
to attend to the deal.
Brown has been much looked over
by aeouts from big league clubs. li
b said both the Boston clubs wanted
him; also, the Cubs, the pirates and
the Yankees. Harry Sutton, of tht
Brooklyn club, recently offered $4.-
00 for the pitcher, which was refused
Then Sutton put up such h 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 11*-
has won 16 and lost 5 game? In all.
and in l.is last twelve starts has won
ten. tied one and lost one.
That $7,000 Isn’t all the Billiken
management will realize from aules
this \ ea The sale of Ernest Walker,
outfield* r, w as announced yesterday,
the St. LouiN Browns paying $4.0o<)
for him. and the same club exercised
its option on Pitcher Manning. pa>
Ing $2,600. Both are to report at
the end of the Southern League sea
son
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
It took 1.: ini.lugs and the best King'
ging In either league to defeat the Van
kees, .Jackson's • out>> s« ruling Chap
man over the plat* with the- winning run
The Naps would not have won had Gos
sett slid home when trying to score
on a wfld pitch instead of going into
the plate standing up
• • •
Pinch hitters and pitchers galore were
used in the R^d Sox-White Sox game,
but the speed boys won out in the
slugging contest
• • •
Two bingles. which bounded off Im
bue'* glove, prevented the Detroit pitch
er from holding the Athletics in t less
The scratch hits came in tire seventh
inning hut Mack s men took advan
tage of them and aide*! by errors piled
tip the only runa scored in the game.
• • •
Nine bases on halls, two hit batsmen
three wild pitches and eight flits en
a bled the Pirates to win an easy vic
tory over the Phillies Outfielder Caret
did not get h hit in five times up, but
Scored five runs He reached first for
first time up on a fumble and was
walked tfie other lour times.
« • •
Kven minor league teams are rub-
bug it on Brooklyn. The Dodgers
dropped off at Troy to play an exhibi
tion game Htid the StHte league, with
a batting rally in the final inning, won
out.
» • *
Pitcher Elmer Browui. of the Mont
gomery team, was sold to Brooklyn for
*i.000. The money will be divided with
the St Louis Americans who had an
* ption on the player
* * »
Another minor leaguer will be seen In
fast compan> The Cleveland team
f ought Kirat Baseman Dick Staley from
the Danville club for ♦ il,r»«M).
BIG TRADE ON BETWEEN
BIRMINGHAM AND CHANCE
NEW YORK. July 2(, -Frank
chance, manager of the Yankees, and
Manager Birmingham, of the Cleve
land te<un, 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
"f outfielders, asked Birmingham
v horn he would give for Pitcher
George McConnell. The Cleveland
n.anagei, who has been trying to se
* e McConnell for some time, te-
— d he would be willing to hand over
u her Kahler and Outfielder Ryan
^ nee told Birmingham he would
•..w-c a final* answer to-day.
‘•POP BOY" SMITH EXCUSED
BY NATIONAL COMMISSION
CHICAGO, July 26.—Pitcher Smith
of*the Chicago Americans, wii not feel
the heav\ hand of the National Com
mission for masquerading last Sunday
as a member of the Coulon Athletics.
fi semi-professional club
President B. B Johnson, of the
American League, said last night that
Smith was Just a youngster, kne * no
better, and had been forgiven. He
said that the players with Eastern
club* who were fined last year for
playing with s. .m-professional teams
on off days were veterans, and knew
they were violating rules.
GEORGE BRiCKLEY TO SEEK
FAME IN MACK'S 0UTFEILD
PHILADELPHIA, July -6 George
Brickley. brother of Charles Brickley,
the wonderful Harvard halfback, is ex
pected here to-day and will at once don
en Atheltic uniform. Brickley is ex
pec ted to be given a chan* e In Mack’s
outfield at an early date He is said to
be a good fielder and a slugger.
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Copyright, 1913, International News Service.
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What Winners Must Do-Meyers
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Must Act and Think in Unison
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
rHRQYTH MATlNff TO-OAT 2 30
r V H9 I in TO-AMT AT I SO
The Sensation of All Diving Act*
10Hi F. CONROY JS3™
Lester, Diero, Smith, Cook
and Brandon and Others
IRK FOR RO
By II. M. Walker.
1 ()S 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 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 Willie Ritchie, the former
title holder. Ad Wolgast; oJhnny Dun
dee. Jack White, Jess Willard and
"Bud” Anderson. In the betting Cross
rules a lt> 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 iiere on either Labor Day or
Thanksgiving Day. Wolgast and Joe
Kl\ ers are named as the champion s
opponents.
The proposed return match between
Johnny Williams and Eddie Campi
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, s
sum that the promoter could not
j tneet.
• • •
ARTHUR PELKY and Charley Mll-
* * lerf may be matched to box here
, in September. Both the heavies have
wired the local promoter asking for
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i-BUBBLES” COVINGTON WINS
FIRST CASE AS LAWYER
CARTERSVILL.E. GA . July 26.—
• Bubbles’* Covington, star third mark
er for the University of Georgia bali
team this sea^n, and who also nlay,-
; ed professional ball with Cordele a
' short while, was admitted to the local
; bar this week and made good with ids
tir'-t case, securing an acquittal for
a negro who was charged with a
1 misdemeanor.
Covington has received numerou
I offers to play professional ball, but
has turned them all down, preferring
1 law as his vocation.
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Tuesday, July 29
8:15 P. M.
M’GUINNESS VS. COLEMAN.
NEW YORK. July 26. -Eight fan?*
are predicting *a gre;*' future for
Frank Guinness champion of the
British navy, who has won in his
several bouts with white hopes here.
Tne irishman to-night will try *on-
clus on< with Jack Coleman. The\
are scheduled to box ten rounds.
Bv “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
rank? of athletes as brawny, thought
ful and well-informed men as cun 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 1 will show
you a man who 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. 1
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
Grossed 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 w hat 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 art* Larry Doy.e
and myself. Somehow the pair of
us manage to uphold our batting av
erage at home But the rest -of the
boys talked so much 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 >*lgns were dressed oxer We
all started to hit better Not becaus*
It was one whit, easier to see the b.;*i
after the change, but just because the
players convinced themselves that It
must be
All a Condition of Mind.
Tt 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 Wagner is one of the great
est hitters the game has ever known.
He was always helpless before “Bugs”
Raymond. From the first, somehow.
Raymond impressed his mastery ov< r
the Dutchman, and Hans accepted the
Issue. 1 do not mean that Wagner
quit trying. He is not of that stamp.
But he tried without his* 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.
Ing Into the box.
Ty Cobb Takes Chances.
Ty Cobb is the great player that
he is simply because he is always
ready to take the mom desperate
chances. He always has the opposi
tion more or less unnerved through
apprehension. What Cobb represen t*
as the individual, a champion*'ip
team typifies as a collection A < : jb
that is not well up In the race must
necessarily play a conservative gam
A team with a decided lead ie able
to gamble -to take long chaneafl
Such tactics, by upsetting the cal
culations of the opposition, oftei
results that appear stamped in ’u^k.
But after all is said and done lut k
favors the team that tempts It most
“Nothing ventured, nothing won'*
holds particularly true of baseball.
MRS. “LEFTY” FLYNN GIVEN
DIVORCE FROM “GRID” STAR
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 tn*
boxing game. The “fighting nev
is working out daily so as to be in tne
best of shape If called upon to meet
Charley l>ee in a return match. Meyer
Pries, take notice!
• * •
Charley Ledoux. the French bantam
weight. is satisfied that he must .earn
more about the boxing game n order
to hold his end up aga’nsi the American
lighters. He made a p-.or showing :n
his recent bouts with Kid Williams
and Eddie Campi
• • •
Meyer Pries wishes t* am ur.ee tr.ar
lie is still in the boxing game Tne
lit tie Hebrew hatter - a' a scrap
with either 8| •• B arfce
or Kid Young
Articles have beer ''■><* a *en-
round bout between S'.” ” • Cia&by mid
dleweight. aryl B: f i; - * .* Kewar.ee
111. to be re.-; a*. .■«*-: • *• *• A■igu-* r H
Tommy Burns Raps Jack Johnson
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“He Is Poorest Ring Champion”
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SYRACUSE. N. Y. July 25.—Mrs
“Lefty” Flynn, the former showgirl,
has obtained a teferee’s decree in
uuiet divorce proceedings against
"Lefty” Flynn, famous ns 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 tt 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, Jul> 26 When the Chi
cago Nationals return to the West side
Park to-morrow they will appear spick
and span in new uniforms The old
.•set was consumed in a tire which iic-
stroyed a laundry yesterday It is a
question whether fu chib, ’he players
or tlie laundry will settle for the new
i uiment.
B. f f''.* x C r.' r.r.a.' '-e, nays
' a • Mart * .*> * the grandest
1 e v,*er* a.* pre-s-er * appear.ng be-
* fore *-e - i'.i He him to be
eao;er ■.* '.as* before long
rpere k> v . ■ * the Otlcago light-
wre.gr > ar x.'. .a to box in Atlanta
•eve a fig n the Bailing Nel-
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a run * r **.e.r money Ketchel is at
.-a matched t meet Johnny Grif
fith at Akron. Ohio, some time next
month
A be Attei! donned the pa<lded mitts
as: night and was held to a ten-round
draw by While Beecher at New York.
The ex-featherweight rnampion was
outweighed by five pounds.
• • •
Ki*l Graves, of Milwaukee, and Tom
Maloney w'ili clash in a ten-round en
counter at the Irving A* C , New York,
on Saturday night
• • 4*
The boxing card to be staged at Mari
etta Saturday has been complete*!.
Young Seymour and Terry Nelson are to
clash in the ten-round windup; Billy
Whitney takes on Jack Rogers in the
six-round semi-windup. while Kid
Hrooks 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
hit too strong in his demands for the
maiuma. For thi« he has lost a bat
tle with Jack White.
By W. W. Xaughton.
S AX FRANCISCO, July ?6.—The
iron which entered Tommy
Burns’ soul when Jack Johnson
relieved him of his championship that
warm summer day in Australia i9 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-
Um He is bow acting as guide,
ph: osopher and friend to Arthur
-eyed, soft-voiced w'hite
- . ight champion, and he wants
the »hole w orld to know that so far
as personal participation is concerned !
he in through, forever, with the fri- !
vo ties of the ring.
But there is one thing that will
cause Tommy to rise from his chair,
bend his head, throw his arms into
n and crouch as far
a« his corpulence will permit. And
c at is when any reference Is made
to tilt bout which ost him the title
ft Is not -'uffit lent for Tommy to tell
Oil rf the unfair manner in which
Johnson fought. He has to furnish
moving nictures of the occasion
It’s all over now, and I have to
quietly sometimes and hear people
*<rg that Johnson was the greatest
e-ivy weight of all times.” said Tom
my the other day. “Why, he was
th*- poorest rnampion the game has
known, and I am not raying 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 7
No sir He just crouches and w r aits.
nails -ou with an uppercut and then
grab* you and holds on. He swinge
around bolding 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 spilt
him out. and a few seconds later he
Is hanging on again.
“Tee. 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.”
m • •
L ightweight champion wil-
LIE RITCHIE is quite willing to
risk his laurels again. He says he
is not particular who he is eent
against as long as the 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 mention 5 ng “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 suggest that his
mind is unbalanced
Having received something like
$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 Ooffroth’s arena,
Graney had little more than $2,500
to meet a I! the expenses of adver
tising and help, and the chances are
he had to dig down into his jeans.
• • •
I T is an object lesson for fight pro-
1 tnoters, 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 soaring.
“What was I to do?” said Graney.
“If I hadn’t given Ritchie w'hat he
asked, some 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.
Tt looks, indeed, as if this thing 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-R0UND BOUT
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Sam
Langford and Joe Jeannette have been
matched to box twenty rounds in I>os
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 ha® not
seen for several years, before starting
to train for the Jeannette bout.
LEI FI ELD GOES TO COAST
CHICAGO, July 26.—“Lefty *><-.-
field, former Cub pitcher, who was
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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