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'T51- TTTK ATLANTA riLOROTAN AND NEWS. [ 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 Us Boys WHATtHA AO- United SutM Patent OfTiv Shrimp Isn’t a Bit Mad, Not a Bit ^ frESTtHAT GD’tS ih) 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. FOOD FOR FANS cooked ANO . & siAg is much Berts* To- DAT THE 4IANTS plays the “Southie s AUAlN-t AIN'T COrnt ro PLAY- I CANT pay MY FINE- SHRIMP FLY MM FINED ME FlFtEeM THOUSAND DOLLARS- AIN'T THAT T004H ? SWAWER'8 6M6LtDtP>' SHAN6R5 DdtiV SMOKE N0 ’ ,r MEM (jjMufVi, UnjeAfadatie/ luHERE DID COLUMBUS FIRST LAMDIM AMERICA. oti his peer/ AU Rt6Hr POLKS, HQJWl 6TUI td-daq. FROM JIMMIE C0PEUW4US.A. UlkERE DID NOAH STRIKE me first mail in the ARk.’ r- — Polly and Her Pals at s Copyright, 1913, International News Service. Pa Didn’t Start Quick Enough What Winners Must Do-Meyers +•+ +•+ 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 I the *iatc SAFE. CLEAR. COOL COMFORTABLE il R A N n MATINEE AT 2:30 VR n M n U TO-NIGHT AT 1:30 Victor Hugo's Creol MATINEE LES MBERABLES 25c NIGHT Nine Neels■ ■ - * Acfi 1 25 and 50c 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. Motor Races 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 va4* +•+ “He Is Poorest Ring Champion” I >osi. stra > e*: .■? A letter ;» a' **. Department fvr * In spew* r.gr . Kit chi*- *Mr*-r.* v *-■ | ’‘tie boide- K/! I Johnny KJLarve a die '» en ■ *. rtson ng .Ty: *T> rted » '.aiming •a* fought . .ty: draw. rr. y'S. ewe'.gnt are a . mud- 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- a . •« / ■- -•' 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. Lei- Cub T‘ 0BACC0 HABIT Xt.TTiJj profe your hrtlth. prolonf yeur life. No more •tomarh trouble, no foul breath, no heart wealr- d«*« ltecalu manly vlgar, calm nerve*, altar eyaa and ! tuperior mental atrenjth. Whether you ch'-w or smoke pip*, oifarettea, clear*, art my luterenttng Tobacco Book. Worth it* weight In fold Mailed frta. C. J. WOODS. S34 Sixth Ava.. 748 M.. NawVtrk. N. V NO WASTE "xr.Tt fine ash, with no cllnkars or rock* left In the grate, you are burning good ooal. 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