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BIRMINGHAM AND CHANCE
NEW YORK. July —Frank
Chance. manager of the Yankees, and
Manager Birmingham, of the Cleve
land team, to-day may clo«e a deal
which will tend a Yankee pitcher to
the Napa in exchange for two Cleve
land lads.
Chan-v. who is desperately In need
of outfielders. asked Birmingham
whom he would gi\e for Pilcher
Oeotg** McConnell. The Cleveland
manager, who has been trying to se
cure McConnell for some time, re
plied he would be willing to hand over
Pitch# ! Kahler and Outfielder Ryan
Chance told Birmingham he would
make a final answer to-day.
■‘POP BOY" SMITH EXCUSED
BY NATIONAL COMMISSION
CHICAGO, July ? Pitcher Smith,
of the Chicago Americans, will not feel
the heavy hand of the National Com
mission for masquerading last Sunday
as a member of the Coulon Athletics,
a H«mi-professional club.
President R. R 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 rimi-professional teams
on off days were veterans, and knew
they were violating rules.
GEORGE BRICKLEY TO SEEK
FAME IN MACK'S OUTFIELD
PHILADELPHIA, July 2 - George
Brick ley. brother of Charles Brlckley,
the wonderful Harvard halfback, is ex
pected here to-day and will at once don
an Atheltic uniform Brlckley Is ex
pected to be given a chance in Mack's
outfield at an early date lie is said to
be a good fielder and a slugger
What Winners Must Do-Meyers
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Must Act and Think in Unison
PHR^YTH MATINEE TODAY 2:30
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The Sensation of All Diving Act*
J0H4 F. CONROY
Lester, Diero, Smith, Cook
and Brandon and Others
By H. M. Walker.
L OS ANGELES, July .—Leach
Cross and Matty Haldwin have
practically finished their work
but will stage extensive boxing pro
grams to-morrow afternoon for the
benefit of the hundreds of spectators
who are expected to visit the Verraon
and V'eni< e 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, Johnny Dun-
i dee. Jack White. Jess Willard and
■Bud'' Anderson. In the betting Cross
i rules a 10 to 8 favorite, with the In-
I (Mentions that the ringside betting
{ w ill be at even money.
* i *
1 r is Know n 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 champions
opponents
The proposed return match between
Johnny W illiams and Eddie Campi
has been called off and Williams, ac
companied by his manager. Hammy
Harris, left for the East to-day. Wil
liams asked $3,000 for his services, a
sum that the promoter could not
meet.
• < i
ARTHUR PELKY and Charley Mil-
ler may be matched to box here
j in September. Both the heavies have
wired the local promoter asking for
the date.
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CARTER8V1LLE. GA., July 2v —
"Bubbles” Covington, star third suck
er for the University of Georgia bali
team this season, and who also clay
ed professional ball with Cordele a
short w hile, was admitted to the local
bar this week and made good w ith his
first case, securing an acquittal for
a negro who was charged with a
misdemeanor.
Covington has received numerou
offer* to play professional ball, but
hay turned them all down, preferring
law as his vocation.
M’GUINNESS VS. COLEMAN.
NEW YORK, July 2 . — Fight fan.*
! are predicting a grea future for
I Frank Guinness, champion of the
j British navy, who has won in his
several bouts with while hopes here
Tiie Irishman to-night will try <on-
I elusions with Ja* k Coleman. Thev
J are scneduled to box ten rounds.
By “Chief” Meyers.
Star Catcher of Champion Giant*.
Giant*.
P ROFESSIONAL baseball player*
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 tan not satisfactorily
analyse 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 in8tlnct, if you will, like that
first-born principle of self-prenerva-
tion.
Show me a man who is absolutely
without superstition and I will show
you a man who is not normal.
Not Rsally 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 alscc^’ered that
what supposedly superstitious traits
are exhibited have been aw 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 pas* a
funeral; that casts an evil spell
Crossed bats are supposed to typify
111 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 rond 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 much of the evil cor.
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 >«igns were dressed over. We
all started to hit better. Not becans*
it was one whit easier to see the bail
a fur the change, but just because the
players convinced themselves that It
must be
All a Condition of Mind.
Tt 1* 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
nas usually nobody but himself to
blame. I He just thinks he cam 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 ha.“ ever known.
He was always helpless before "Bugs"
Raymond. From the first, somehow.
Raymond Impressed his mastery ovtr
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 greai player that
he is simply because he Is always
ready to take the mo?»t desperate
ehances. He always has the opposi
tion more or less unnerved through
apprehension. What Cobb repreaents
as the Individual, a championship
team typifies a* a collection. A club
that Is not well up in the race must
necessarily play a conservative game.
A team with a decided lead !*• 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 21.—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 w'8b brought several month*
ago. and from the beginning It was
characterized by absolute secrecy.
Mrs. Flynn named as co-respondent a
New York cherus girl whose name all
of the attorneys in the action refuse
to make public.
NEW SUITS FOR CUBS.
CHICAGO. July 2'.— When the Chi
cago Nationals return to the West Side
Park to-morrow they will appear spica
and span In new uniforms. The old
I et was consumed in a fire which de-
i «troved a laundry yesterday It is a
tie*tion whether the club, the players
<*i ihe laundry will settle for the new
raiment.
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E -MER BROWN, star right-hand |
slabman of the Montgomery j
Billlkens. was* sold yesterday j
for $7,000 to Charles Ebbetf*. presi- I
dent of the Brooklyn club. Delivery t
is to be made at the end of the j
Southern League season Air. Eb- i
nets was in Montgomery personally j
to attend to the deal
Brown has been much looked over ■
by scouts from big league clubs. It j
ie said both the Boston clubs wanted
him; also, the Cuba, the Pirates, and |
the Yankees Harry Hutton, of tht
Brooklyn club, recently offered $4,-
00 for the pitcher, which was refused.
Then Hutton put up such a strong
talk to Ebbets that the magnate took
a personal interest in getting the
prise.
Brown has been n very steady and
dependable pitcher this season. He
has won 10 and lost 6 game* in ail.
and in hla last twelve starts has won
ten. tied one and lost one.
That $7,000 isn’t all the Billiken
management will reallre from sales
this year. The sale of Ernest Walker,
outfielder, was announced yesterday,
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
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It took 12 innings and the best slug
ger in either league to defeat the Yan
kees. Jackson’s double sending Chap
man oxer 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 Nox-White Hox game,
but the speed boys won out in the
slugging coniest
tit
Two blngles. which bounded off Du-
buc’s glove, prevented the Detroit Ditch
er from holding the Athletics hTtlese
The scratch hits came In the seventh
inning, but Mack s men took advan
tage of them and aided by errors piled
up the only runs scored in the game
• • •
Nine basea on balls, two hit but,amen.
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 limes 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 Slate league, with
a batting rally in the final Inning, won
out.
* • •
Pitcher Elmer Brown, of the Mont
gomery team, was sold to Brooklyn for
*(.000 The 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
l-ought First Baseman Dick Staley from ;
the Danville club for 42,500.
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News of the Ring Game
Promoter Tom McCarey has called off
the twenty-round bout between Kid
Williams, of Baltimore, and Fkidie
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 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 w’ith “Kid" Williams
and Eddie Campi.
• • •
Meyef Pries wishes to announce that
he Is still in the boxing game. The
little Hebrew battler is after a scrap
with either 8pider Britt, Charley I^ee
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.
* • •
l»st. strayed or stolen—Terry Nelson.
A letter Is at the Georgian Sporting
Department for the uVeek 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 Kllbpne a twenty-round draw,
while 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 tighter on the Battling Nel
son style, and usually gives the fans
_ 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 he'd 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
clash In the ten-round windup; Billy
Whitney takes <>n Jack Rogers in the
six-round semt-wlndup. 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 Molr In a twenty-round go
at the Canterbury Music Hall in Lon
don. September 3. Wells is alxo 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 coa*t. for the foxy Abe went h
bit too strong in his demand* for the
maiuma. For this he has lost a bat
tle wun Jack White.
Tommy Burns Raps Jack Johnson
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“He Is Poorest Ring Champion'’
By W. W. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO. July 21.—The
Iron which entered Tommy
Burns’ soul when Jack Johnson
relieved him of his championship that
warm summer day in Australia Is etlll
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 hts 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.
Tt is not cufticient for Tommy to tell
you of the unfair manner In which
Johnson fought. He has to furnish
moving pictures of the occasion.
“It’s ail over now, and I have to
sit quietly sometimes and hear people
argue that Johnson was the greatest
heavvwelght of all times,” kaid 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 eee 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 vou and holds on. He swings
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 out. and a few seconds later he
is hanging on again.
• “Yes. 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."
• • •
T IGHTWKIGHT 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 the price is right.
Ritchie is not naming the sum he
should be paid. He wants each of
the promoters to n^ake 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.’’ Noian
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
mtr.d Is unbalanced.
Having received something like
(18,000 from Promoter Graney lor 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,
* * . •
TT is an object lesson for fiffht pro-
1 moters, and for such as think
there is* 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.
Thl* 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 net 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, pome one else would have given
it to him ”
Probably. But now that it’p 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 lighters 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
LEIFIELD GOES TO COAST. ,
CHICAGO. July i -“Lefty' 1 l,ei-
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Bold to Atlanta and refused to report,
has been Bold to San F’ranciBco, of the
Pacific Coast League, by the Cub
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