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6 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS HELLO "SHRIMPIE A8.- UIHA2 MATT.6R. wrz. oo-ts darlim' cross to SOMETHIN' U)He t G>er r X WOLD OF I .ggpSfr. him; y BIG TRADE ON BETWEEN 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 +•+ +•+ +•+' v«*h Must Act and Think in Unison PHR^YTH MATINEE TODAY 2:30 r kJFXO V in TO-NIGHT AT 8 30 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. ‘BUBBLES” COVINGTON WINS FIRST CASE AS LAWYER SAFE. CLEAN. COOL COMFOHTABLE G rand matinee at 2:30 II M n TO-NIGHT AT 8:30 Victor Huan * Great LES MISERABLES Hint Reels - - - * Acts MATINEE 25c NIGHT 25 and 50c Motor Races Tuesday, July 29 8:15 P. M. 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. DODGERS Bill £06 L-4 :ISC ii PRICE 17.000 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 son Us Boys WHAtCHA All! DRESSED DP FER?-T0- / DAT Aim' r ; A«*riater*d T"niesd State* Patent Offing Shrimp Isn’t a Bit Mad, Not a Bit DAT Aim 1 SUNOAl! BASEBALL Diamond News an.** ossip 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. EE THAT GDIS IH) / I RAPIER, ao DP TO SEE UAN- HERE'S THE/ L V, AoToroOBiLE For. me aou/- i 6oF //., ) < SO^E 6REA0 AND BUTTER AND SD6AR FOR HIM!- S0L0M61 ; % ' 48P OO H oft; BOO LONG SO He THINKS HE'S PREtTY ) FRESH TDO^y ^ 031 |AVU SHL)l 0P‘ P * WHO‘s CROSS: FOOD FOR FANS COOKED AMO _ SERVED,^ & VAN IS MDCH Belts* To-DAT-THE SIANtS plays ike "Southie s A(*AIN- \ AIN'T tfOINfe to Plat- i cant pay MY FINE - SHRIMP FLTNN FINED M£ FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS- AIN'T THAT T006H ? SHAKER'S GC06LY DEPr SHANE RS D<Wr SMOKE ro 1 Y00N4. N0 ' ,S ' MEN COHERE DID COLUMftUS FIRST LAND IN AMERICA; ON HIS FeeT! Au RI6HT POLKA aw. U-Sai^ FROM JlWKE COPELAND, D.1.A. U7HERE DID NOAH STRIKE j me first nail iu The Joy Wt/VArOARA -« ARK? _ ANiW&R To-fOOKIUW- and Her Pals Copyright, 1918, International News Serrlco. Pa Didn’t Start Quick Enough i There S~4M’L! vK/oulowT Run AWS/ AH’ LET Ft>on JUKIT M466/E BoTTou her owi Shoes, Vil/OULD Vou ? D/Wt/60N£ "* I MIShTA kuomo Them (Sal's wasw impedin' ter. JdUTHHJl BOXING 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 *•+ + • + + •+ “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- fleld. former Cub pitcher, who was Bold to Atlanta and refused to report, has been Bold to San F’ranciBco, of the Pacific Coast League, by the Cub management. rOBACCO HABIT Y8U c " " T k/unvw "SUM easily In 3 days, lm prove your health, *rolon« your life. >fo more aiomxh trouble, oo foul breath, no Ike art weak netta. Retain manly vigor, calm nerve*, clear eye* and auperlor mental utrenffth. Whether you oh“w or amnke pipe, olfarettai, dean, cd my Interesting Tobacco Book. Worth Ita weight tn gold. Mailed free. (. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave..74SM.. New Yerk.N. V. SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. -Sam Langford and Joe Jeannette have been matched to box twenty rounds in Loa Angeles on September 29. Langford, ac companied by his wife arif baby, his manager, Joe Woodman, and Jack Read, the Australian lightweight, leave herd to-day for the East. Langford wanti to visit his relatives, whom he has no* seen for several years, before starting to train for the Jeannette bout. NO WASTE fine ash. with no clinkers or rock* left In the grate, you are burning good coal. Use our standard coal and you will be pleased at results. It's use saves money, time and worry—2 and t make 4. We have a yard near you and guarantee prompt da- livery. Randall Bros. PETERS BUILDING, MAIN OFFICE. YARDS: Marietta street and. North Avenue, both phones 376: South Boulevard and Georgia railroad, Bell phone 638, Atlanta 303; McDaniel street and Southern railroad. Bell Main 354, Atlanta 321; 64 Krogg street Bell Ivy 4166, Atlanta. 706; lBj South Pryor street, both phones 936. DINING CARS WITH A’LA CARTE SERVICE TO CINCINNATI & LOUISVILLE