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7 TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. PIRATES STILL Barney Dreyfus Expects McGraw Men to Take Awful Slump Before Season Is Over. P ITTSBURG. PA., July 26.—Have the Pittsburg Pirates any chance for the 1913 pennant? Will they be able to overcome the thirteen-game lead now enjoyed by the Giants? Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburg club, maintains that as long as his players continue playing good ball, they hav e a chance to fetch. He v doesn't believe New York is going to jog along sweeping everything be fore it. The Giants have only about twenty games left to play on their own grounds; and while they have gone well on the road, they sure to good ness will experience somewhat of a slump. Said Mr. Dreyfus: “Our players have at last round ed into form and are playing the ball of which they are capable. And it isn’t a flash, either. I am of the opinion that the good work is going* to continue and that New York will be forced to keep going in order to nose us out. “Of course a lead of thirteen games is going to be hard to overcome, but I see where Manager Clark Grif fith. of the Washington American League team, is claiming the pennant for his club, and if Griffith can win, so can we. “The Pittsburg pitchers are going well and the team is hitting. The fielding is all that could be asked for -—and we are getting some of the breaks. Butler is filling in well at short and while he isn’t a Wagner, he is better than some shortfielders in the major leagues. The other de partments are being well and ably cared for, and we are still hoping. Giants Must Not Falter. “I do not like to indulge in prophe cies,” continued the Pittsburg club owner, “but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Fred Clarke and his bunch cop the flag. “We will have a long stretch of games at Forbes Field and that is go ing to help some. New York will he on the road, and 1 believe that their slump is going to begin then.” Mr.^ Dreyfuss called attention to the National League race last sea son when New York got away to a big lead and then was forced to hus tle all it knew how, In order to fetch. In 1906, the Chicago White Sox were seventh in the American League race, but still they won the pennant and subsequently the world’s series. Pitchers Are Right. What really has started Clarke on the up-grade again is that his great staff of pitchers is finally beginning to live up to its press agent notices. Claude Hendrix, the leading pitcher of the National League last season; Babe Adams, the marvel of the 1909 world’s series; Kentucky Rosebud Camnitz, Hank Robinson and Lefty Cooper have all started flipping their heads off. while George McQuillen, the former Phillie crack, is doing a suc cessful come-back. Poor old Marty O’Toole was just beginning to come around nicely, too, when he got laid up for the season. The $22,500 beauty was the only Corsair gunner w'ho suc ceeded In stopping the Giants the last time MoGraw’s men called on Barney Dreyfuss. Clarke Is getting his infield problem worked out, and Butler, w r ho failed at second early in the season, is now- doing nicely at shortstop, though Wagner may be in his old piace soon. A rookie outfielder, named Kommers, is said to he a comer (no joke), and is said to have filled the gap in center field, which neither Mike Donlin, Ar tie Hofman, Booe or Mesnor filled to the satisfaction of Clarke or the Pi rate bugs. There Still Is Hope. However, there have been ball clubs which have been as bad in the rut as the Pirates were this spring and have oopped the gonfalon. In 1906 the Chi cago White Sox flirted around seventh place until the end of June, when they suddenly took on a new lease of life and climbed to the top. They finished the season as champs of the universe. A winning streak 19 links long helped 'the Sox to pass the Yankees that year. 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W6 GST ©ACK that t>e PgnOs on WHAT Tf/we U/G c?OUT GO AND START CofAiNt Back ( we CL IK we DON’T know we'Re COIN& HOW Do we KNOW we HAV46NT PAY^D IT - ' O&t.~ BecAO’be. we cant pass it till we ceT THeRe and w€*R.e not tacks untu- we ter Tieeo were THen, we *R.e YHe.R.e AU. R£ADY so - KRAZY KAT • • • • No, Mary Should Not Have Permitted It GIANTS SURE AVERS FLOTO D ENVER, July 2e—As the West ern end of the National League contingent swings toward home after its second Jaunt of 1913 around the circuit, we find that the grand old Mandarin, John McGraw. has landed his band of Bulgarian Giants in front, and is fast widening the space that he made possible by his consecutive victories over the Philadelphia club. It was early 1n the race that McGraw s*aid, "As soon as my boys get to playing real baseball it won’t tak* 1 long to pass the Philadelphia club and take the lead. I don’t figure them dangerous, but rather feel scared at the Cubs and the Pirates cutting up some capers not in the cards.” That was the crpinion that the lead, er of last year’s National League champions had of the Phillies when Doom’s pets were burning up things and attempting to make a runaway of the race. Since that time McGraw’s band has steadied in its fielding and improved In its hitting. They have passed the Quakers and taken the lead. It begins to look as if they’ll he able to hold it from this time on. The four slabmen—Tesreau, Mathewson, Marquard and’ Demaree—are all go ing good and can take their regular turn on the mound. Then as Wreck ing crews’ “Muggsy” can send forth Fromme, Crandall and Wiltse. It’s a tough combination for the opposition to batter down. Team Has Courage. We always find that the team that can battle its way from behind and come through in flying colors to the front is a team of courage, and once given the confidence that goes with success it is hard to shake out of the belief that all other teams are inferior to it. This forms* a combination that is almost Impossible to heat. For this reason we believe New York will be able to hold its present advantage and remain out in front until the end. And while we are on the subject of New York, has it ever flashed across your base hit column that the Na tional League championship is a sort of monopoly of late? In the last thir teen years only three different clubs have participated in the honor, Chi cago, New York and Pittsburg. Each has won it four times, and it now looks as If New York would gather it for the fifth time. Chance, McGraw and Clarke have been the managers that have enjoyed the distinction of leading winners of late years. Pirates Strong on Paper. Just why Pittsburg failed to crowd Chicago out two years ago and New York last vear and this year is what’* puzzling all baseball fans. On paper It is the best team in the National, hut on the field a miserable represen tative of what champions should look like No one has been able to solve the poor showing of the Pirates. But we are rather inclined to think that McGraw could take the same team as constituted to-day and be right up in the thick of the fight. At any rale, that expresses the exalted opinion w* have of the Pittsburg crew. Wonders never cease. They do say that the Cincinnati fans have finally tired of knocking the many manager? and teams that have represented them in the National league, that Tinker's berth is an easy one and that all the comedv remarks that were hurled at Clark Griffith and Hank O’Dav no longer are heard. Instead, the fan? seem to take It for granted that Cin cinnati is justly entitled to the cellar championship honors and are happy and contented Thu c do even Cincin nati fans resign themselves to fale. TO GET li Sports and Such ANOTHER TOT AT BINE TITLE By Ed W. Smith. C HICAGO, ILL.,, July 2’.—It takes a good bit of managerial skill to boost Jim Flynn, of Pueblo, from the depths into which he had been forced through successive de feats into a real match for a real belt which is to be emblematic of the lightweight championship of the box ing world. That skill has been shown by on e J. Curley, Flynn's manager, and the Pueblo man is to get his sec ond chance to win a title—or is it the fourth or fifth?—in a bout in New York early next month when he faces Gunboat Smith, of Philadelphia and San Francisco. And the winner will be given a belt to replace the one that went out of commission when Luther McCarty died in Alberta the latter part of May. * * • F LYNN'S peculiar position in the boxing world is brought to mind now and then by a dispatch from Missouri telling of the progress the boxer is making in his automobile trip from Pueblo to New York. The other day the wires bore the news that Jim had been pinched in a small town for speeding after having had his ma chine repaired. Flynn ever has been a thorn in the side of the aspirants for the white title, but unfortunately for the hardy fellow from the moun tains he always has just failed of getting there. Jim is a trifle too small, in the general opinion of the critics, or rather he is too short to cope successfully with the tall men of the heavyweight division. •* * * T F many of the fight fans do not like a Jim for his brash ways and the overabundance of ego that he dis plays constantly they nevertheless must admire the man for his sterling fighting qualities. Gameness is Jim’s middle name and he has proved in the last four or five years to be the grandest little trial horse the ring ever has known. As a matter of fact, a man never would be thorough ly tried in the ring until he had met Jim in a real encounter. If he could get by the Pueblo ringster his future would be pretty well assured. * * * A S a matter of cold fact, it was never demonstrated that the late Luther McCarty was a real fight er until he had sent Jim into a crush ing defeat. Then we all knew that Luther was the real thing, a demon stration that the poor fellow strength ened a short time later by whaling the stuffin' out of A1 Palzer, one of the behemoths of the ryig. Flynn got his chance at McCarty out on the coast after he had demonstrated that he .couldn’t do much with Jack John son and figured that if he had whipped Luther he would have had little trouble with Al Palzer, who was sent in against the winner. But Mc Carty proved far too big and strong and lengthy in the reach for the squatty Flynn. • * * T N Gunboat Smith Flynn will meet a * man much more to his own meas urements, though the Gunboat is a long, rangy chap. But he hasn’t the weight that most of Flynn’s oppon ents have posseessed, and for that reason Flynn believes he has a royal chance of being returned the winner. The heavyweight class is a mys teriously weak division just now and almost anybody has a chance of drag ging down the honors. • • • O UT in Los Angeles, where Flynn has done some of his best fighting, they like him. As a matter of fact, they like the rough, tough fel low pretty much cfiit there without losing sight of and giving free credit for his cleverness and skill. Both Battling Nelson and Ad Wolgast, for mer lightweight champions, were great favorites there. LANGFORD RETURNS. r HE shades of night were com ing fast, But, at that, the shades were passed Bg a Hope who, in his rush, Yelled as he lammed for the brush: “Sam is hack!" His eyes were wild, his cheeks were pale, He beat it like a frightened quail; Whenever he could spare some wind He feebly gasped to those behind: “Sam is back!” The Fight Commission begged him stay: “We will protect you, anyway! We need the coin—we’ll stick by you”— The Hope was headed for the blue— “Sam is back!” “Aw, stick!” his manager half sobbed. “You ain't n-gonna see me robbed? “I've picked a soft guy for you here”— He sprinted for the steamship pier. “Sam is back!” That night he lamped a cheering sight— The sinking Fire Island Light; And, as the ship plowed through 1li£ scat He breathed from nut his free heart's ease; “Me to Europe!” * • « COMISKEY PAYS MORE for one ball player that Connie Mack’s whole infield cost him, which is doubtless the reason that the White Sox are so far ahead of the Athletics. * m m IN SPITE OF THE FACT that Tom McCarey down In Los Angeles has handed Kid Williams an ex pensive championship belt, the^e are a lot of narrow-minded people who still persist in regarding John ny Coulon as the bantam champion, merely because Williams has not defeated him. * * * THREE OF THE CLEVELAND pitchers have mastered Matty’s fadeaway, it is announced. Now nothing remains to be mastered save his braina judgment, control and delivery. • • • MILLER HUGGINS WAS quite severely injured by a blow on th*? head with a pitched ball, which in dicates that his bean is constructed of different material from that used in the rearing of the domes of some of his hired men. notably the hero who pulled the daring steal of sec ond when the bases were filled. • • • FAMOUS ALIBIS. MANAGER JIMMY CALLAHAN —I didn't know he had bunions. New York Yacht Club—The deed of gift of the America’s Cup. John Cavanagh— There is no bet ting at Belmont Park because no one buys pencils from me. • * • ACCORDING TO LATER ad vices from the Coast, Joe Rivers quit in his bout with Ritchie be cause the champion hit him in the jaw so hard that it was some min utes before he realized that he had ceased fighting. • 0 • STRATEGY. (By Connie Mack.) Inside baseball in doubtless {/rent, dwell pitching <Jj t the best team scatters, But all / nerd to challenge Fate Are just mg nine J!00 batters! * * * PHILADELPHIA HAS FELT the quickening pulse of the twen tieth century. They mobbed the umpire down there the other day. r" UTHRIE, OKLA., July 2f Among the young Indian base ball pitchers of the present season in Oklahoma, Lariat White Bird, a young Cheyenne, has shown the most re markable qualities. His work with the Watonga team has been sensa tional all season, including one no-hit game against the Oklahoma City All- Stars. He has proved a wonderful strike-out artist, and his fame in this line has spread among all the Chey ennes and Arapahoes. who live to gether in Western Oklahoma, and all of them are proud of their kinsman's prowess White Bird inherits the stoic and sometimes sullen temperament from his forefathers, and when things do not go just right on the diamond, he will balk, and it is a difficult matter at times to get him to proceed with the game. Something of this kind happened a few days ago when a game was being played between the long-time rivals, Watonga and Geary. There was a general melee for a time, and when it closed it was discovered that Lariat White Bird had "got on his war paint” and refused to con tinue in the box. A halt was called but no persuasion on the part of the management could induce Lariat to return to the box. * * • I T was at this stage that Lariat's squaw mother appeared on the diamond. It soon became evident that the Indian mother has influence over her children that is very potent. Wrapping her blanket around her, the squaw approached Lariat on the Wa tonga bench and then waiting until she caught the star twirler's eyes, she commanded: “You must. You throw ball. White men no like you flon’t. Throw hard. Make white man throw down bat. White man no hit ball. You go!” and she motioned toward the pitcher’s box. Immediately Lariat started for the diamond’s center and he pitched ball like a whirlwind, hanging baseballs like neckties around the necks of the Geary batsmen and winning his game 13 to 1. • • • O ITCHER BEN TINCUP, the Cher- kee Indian who is making a fine record this season with Sherman, Tex., in the Texas-Oklahoma League, is bound to go higher this fall by the draft route, if not purchased prior to that time. Several big league scouts have watched Tlncup this season and offers have been made for him. Tin- cup lives near Muskogee, Okla., and saw his first league experience with Muskogee last year in the Oklahoma State League. When the season closed he was sold to Sherman. He is also one of the leading batsmen In the Texas-Oklahoma League. Detroit and Philadelphia scouts have also made offers for Pitcher Appleton, of the Sherman team, who pitched a no-hff game last Sunday against the Deni son team. Another Cheyenne Indian pitcher who i* showing up well this season in independent ball is Lone Bear, a pitcher for the Oaton team. In a re cent game against Fountain, Lone Bear yielded but seven hits in six teen innings, Canton winning, 2 to 1. • * • VITINFIELD is leading the recently ** organized Oklahoma-Kan sas League with nine wins and one de feat; Arkansas City is second with a .500 percentage, and Ponca City and Blackwell are tied with .300 each. Blackwell has the distinction of win ning the only game from Winfield, and this was due to the masterful pitching of Johnson for the Oklaho mans. He held Winfield to five hits and struck out sixteen of the players from Fred Clarke's town. EMPIRE LEAGUE NOTES By Ed W. Smith. C HICAGO, ILL., July 2 r — Dike Butte and some of the other mountain cities, Denver threat ens to take a prominent place in the boxing world. They are arranging a match there now for the early part of August between Leach Cross, of New York, and Harry Trendall. the St. Louis star, who long has been waiting a good chance to break in among the favored ones of the 133- pound division. Denver promoters are displaying a commendable bit of ginger and pep in their work so far, and are bound to get the results if they keep on going the way they have planned. "Reddy” Gallagher and Eddie Pitts appear to be the prominent ones In the Mountain City just now. • • • C OLORADO’S Governor failed to sign a boxing bill that had been passed, and gave the very excellent reason that there already was a State law that permitted bouts upon the payment by a regularly organized athletic club of a certain license sum. The State's executive could not see why a new law was needed, and said so. Hence the athletic clubs of Den ver are working along under the old statute. They have a dandy pavilion there, and the game seems to be in the best of hands, w that the box ers have a pretty good stopping place there. Many of them are fearful of the effects of the mile-high air, but many others have by actual test ex ploded this bugaboo. • • •• C ROSS and Trendall. they say, would draw the utmost capacity there, and should put up one of the best battles imaginable, as the St. Louis lad has been going at a ter rific clip lately. None of them has any terrors for him right now, and even the much-discussed Cross punch isn't causing the Missouri man any wakeful nights. • • • C HARLEY SCULLY, a Chicago boxer, is In Denver now, and the other night put up a smashing battle of ten rounds with Red Butler, of Kansas City, that saved Eddie Pitts’ show'. Tt was billed as one of the minor events, but such a corking dit^play of earnest work did the boys give that the fans voted it easily the feature of the night. It was called a draw. On the same show. Frank Whitney, the Cedar Rapids carpenter, and Phil Knight met in tin* main event, and Frank, who ha? met with a lot of misfortune lately. earn ed a clean-cut decision over Phil, who forgot to foul his man this time. Abey Pollock, the old-time Chicago referee, 1? acting in the battles out there, and as usual he is throwing a world of earnestness and care into his work. • • • M ATTY M’CUE. Racine’s sensa tional featherweight, is pluming himself for new conquests. Matty was rushed through a tremendous campaign late In the winter and ppring. and wound up with disaster. They didn’t lick Matty, but they put a terrible ear on him. and in addi tion he suffered n sprained \vri«t. He had these injuries when he tackled Patsy Brannigan, of Pittsburg, in Milwaukee, and w'hile that doesn't detract at all from the game bat tle Patsy put up. it gives Matty a reasonable excuse to seek another match w'ith the little Mick. Almost as fast as some teams In the Empire change players the league’s staff of umpires changes. McAfee and Mor ton are the last ones to leave the staff. Their places have been filled by Mc Laughlin, formerly with the Cotton i States, and Rehbeln. who was threaten- I ed by a crowd of fans after a game in Waycross last week. • • • It appears that Cordele possesses in Its pitching staff more than one won der. Wilder Is leading the league In point of games won. and Fillingen, a spttbol) artist, is climbing fast and pull ing off stunts that are startling, to say the least of them. • • • The Brunswick team has gotten so re cently that It loses an average of one game a week by a big score, then Hetties down and plays soma of the prettiest games ever witnessed in the league. • • • Two of the raatoffs of the Rrunswlok team were signed by Waycross, and like some of the Waycross castoffs, made good with a rush. Jones la playing first, Holliday, the Atlanta boy, having been benched for the present, and Clancey is at short doing well. • • • Jack Hawkins, well known in baseball circles in Atlanta, and a member of the Brunswick team in the Empire a part of the season, may don a Waycross uniform early next month. • • • Two triple plays during Its first sea son is one of the records the Empire will hang up when the schedule closes in August. The first was made early in May while Waycross and Brunswick were playing in Brunswick, the Way- cross players checking a rally by Bruns wick by the triple. In a game at Cor dele, the Valdosta team pulled off one that was started when Schwartz snag ged a liner over short. * • e Manager Dudley, of the Thomasvtlle team. Is back In the game, after having been kopt out for some time by an In jury. His absence was felt by the team, but. according to the league standing, his players did their best to hold their own during his enforced absenoe. * * a "Doc” Fenton, playing center for Waycross. is regarded by all* critics in the league as one of the most sensa tional fielders in the circuit. He has as many as eight put-outs to his credit for a single game, and an average of half of them woujd ordinarily count as hits. * * * Lloyd is the name of the latest addi tion to the Waycross team. He is an inflelder, and calls Louisiana home. * * • Alperman, a brother of the Atlanta second baseman, has gone to his home in Pittsburg from Waycross. He has been in bad condition most of the sea son. and became so discouraged that he deckled to quit for the balance of the season. He played In the field, and was a steady player. « 0 0 0 Indications now point to Valdosta and Cordele battling It out in September for the pennant. * • • Medlock, a native Georgian, and one of the cleverest outfielders of the league, is now playing with Valdosta. He Is hitting well, and his fielding up to date has been sensational Medlock was with Waycross for some time. 0 0 0 The talked about deal whereby Pitcher Vanderlip would join the Valdosta team did not materialize. Vanderlip has re turned to his home in Brooklyn. • * • Director* of the league will hold a meeting shortly to plan for the post season series to determine the pennant winner in the league. Valdosta won the first half of the season saally, and the second half race is aa yet unsettled, • • • There’s an old saying that you never can tell what a ball player will do. Dacey, playing center-field for Americus. Jumped into tne box not long ago and has won so far four straight games for his team. And Bitting, who Joined the Charleston South ALlantlo League team when he was turned loose by waycross, caught two pretty game® this week. Third base is his regular position. 0 0 0 The league record for consecutive wins will probably go to Gordon, a member of the Valdosta team. This fellow has won Home of the prettiest games played in the league; and Is going to make some higher league a marvel. WHITE TO MEET DUNDEE. 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