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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
FIVE TEAMS 10
Big Thriller Slated for Motor
Bugs at Prince's Saucer on
Tuesday Night.
Well, You've Got to Hand It to Mutt for Trying, Anyway
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By “Bud” Fisher
A HALF-HOUR team race 1* to bo
the big feature at the Motor
drome to-morrow night, and
for the really Jammy excitement this
should top anything that has been
staged yet at Jack Prince’s saucer.
Five teams will be In the long
grind. And what a wrangle the ten
riders had trying to get matched up!
Finally Morty Graves suggested that
the partners be found by a drawing.
Manager Noon Hudson put all the
numbers In his new straw lid and the
result was:
Graves and McNeil, flchwsrtz and
Lockner, Shields and Richards. Lu
ther and Lewis, Renel and Glenn.
These teams appear to be very
evenly matched. Graves and McNeil
will probably rule favorites, wl'h
Richards and Shields second choice.
No rider will be allowed to remain
on the track over twenty successive
minutes. But each rider can call for
his partner as often as he desires.
The partners who are not racing will
remain In front of the paddock. The
partner riding must drop off the track
and touch his teammate on the shoul
der before the latter can take up the
racing.
It sure will be a thrtlllng event if
all goes well.
The Motordrome Sweepstakes is
the s*econd feature event. All the
riders will start, five in each qualify
ing heat. The qualifying heats will
be over a one-mile course, while tht*
final will be two miles.
Harry Glenn, who defeated j
Schwarts the other night, will meet
Luther in a match race. It will be
the two best heat® in three over a |
two-mile circuit. Glenn is a local boy i
and he will be backed heavily to j
down his worthy opponent.
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F OLLOWING is the complete card
for Tuesday night:
First Event.
First heat Motordrome Sweep-
stakes (One mile to qualify and two-
mile final.) Starters—Graves. Shields.
Richards, Renel, Lewis.
Second Event.
First heat of a match race between
Glenn and Luther. (Race to he two
best heats in three.) Distance—two
miles. !
Third Event.
Second heat of Motordrome Sweep- |
stakes. Starters—Schwartz, Lockner,
Luther, McNeil, Glenn.
Fourth Event.
Second heat of match race between
Glenn and Luther.
Fifth Event.
Final heat of Motordrome Sweep
Flakes. (Winners of first and second
heats and second man in fastest heat
to start.)
Sixth Event.
Third heat of match race between
Glenn and Luther, if necessary.
Seventh Event.
Half-hour team race. Teams—
Graves and McNeil: Schwartz and
Lockner; Shields and Richards; Lu
ther and Lewis; Renel and Glenn.
(No rider can remain on track over
twenty consecutive minutes.)
Wolgast and Ritchie
May Sign Articles
LOS ANGELES. July 28. - Eager to
nail down Ad Wolgast to his offer—a
$25,000 side bet for a return match—
Willie Ritchie to-day is making a des
perate effort to get the former tltle-
holdf^ to meet him to-day and sign ar
ticles. On Saturday, Wolgast posted
with James J. Jeffries $1,000, part of a
$25,000 side bet, in a twenty-round title
contest with Ritchie Wolgast specified
that half is to go that he will from the
title-holder in twenty rounds, the other
half that he knocks out, stop or force
Ritchie to uit inside of the limit.
Ritchie lost no time in accepting the
ofTer when he learned that there was
seriousness to Ad's movements, and he
asked Jeffries to affect a meeting be
tween he and Ad for this afternoon in
the hope that articles might be signed.
Ritchie leaves here for ’risco Wednes
day afternoon and he would like to close
the match before starting Should the
pair come together they will clash either
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LOVING CUP FOR JOHNSON:
FANS CONTRIBUTE $1,000
WASHINGTON, July 2R —Washington
baseball fans have contributed $1,000 to
fill a loving cup of silver already paid
for by popular subscription, which will
be presented to Walter Johnson, the Na
tionals' e'ab artist, on August 21. when
he completes six years In a Washington
JEFF SMITH GETS PARIS
BOUT WITH CARPENTIER
NEW YORK, July 28.—George S
Carpentler, the English light heavy
weight champion of France, and
Jeff Smith, of Bayonne. N. J.,
have been matched to meet In a 20
round bout st the Cirque de Parts
on October 20 Smith will leave for
Paris early In September.
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MOTORDROME
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S AN FRANCISCO. July 28.—Ar-
thur Pelky, the new white
heavyweight champion, pos
sesses most of the facial characteris
tics of the professional pugilist, but
It can scarcely be said that he has a
fighting eye
Now, do not misunderstand me.
There is nothing in Pelky’s look to
suggest that he is lacking in courage,
but, sizing him up as he sat in my
den yesterday. 1 could not help think
ing how different he was from other
brand-new champion® I had known.
In moat cases the eye of a freshly-
fledged champ glints with a mixture
of pride and defiance. If looks could
be construed Into words the look
to which I refer would read, “I can
lick anything that walks in two
shoes.”
Pelky’s eyes are large and dark—
the eyes of a man who broods To
me it almost earned as If the shadow
of that fearful experience he had In
the ring at Calgary was still upon
him. The suspicion was confirmed
by his evident reluctance to talk
about the recent past and his palpable
Inclination to talk about ringmen
other than himself. To the majority
of champions the recital of how they
won their spurs gives unbounded
pleasure To Pe-lky the recollection
brings a rhudder
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P ELKY 1s tall, squarely built and
has a strong Jaw and large, firm
ly-knlt hand* He Is big enough
to tackle anything in human shape.
He is here with Tommy Burns, once
world’s champion in his own right,
but now fallen into flesh and quite
content to be known as a connois
seur.
Tommy is Pelky’s manager, and the
manner in w hich Bums discovered
that Pelky was worth managing was
not the least interesting thing he had
to tell. Pelky went to Calgary to box
six rounds with Burns While the
affair was in progress the beauties of
Pelky’s character as a fighter unfold
ed to Tommy. At the end of the bout
Tommy was all in. and an hour later
Tommy wap Pelky’s manager.
“We are in no hurry to make
matches,” said Burns “We have
twelve weeks' work in the theaterv,
beginning at Pantages next week,
; and In the meantime the Gunboat
Smith-Jim Flynn match .will be de
cided and the winner will stand forth
1 as a challenger of Pelky. If Smith
wins, and I think he will ”
"Pardon me," said Pelky in a soft-
voiced way. “1 think Flynn will de
feat Smith.”
"W*U, anyway, you'll be ready to
sign with the winner,” resumed Tom
my.
“And if it is Smith you'll like it
all the better You have always want
ed to box him, haven’t your*
Pelky nodded his approval.
O URNS and
that Sam
Pelky were reminded
Langford, the negro
pugilist, is back from Australia, and
were asked bow overtures for a Pel
ky-Langford match would be regard
ed.
"I want It to be understood that
I will never box a colored man.” said
Pelky "Some time ago. when the
promoters of the country decided to
discourage the making of mixed
matches and contests were arranged
to decide who was the white heavy
weight champion, I thought it one of
the best moves ever made in pugilism.
I am still of that way of thlnkirfg. I
call myself the white champion, and
feel that I have every right to do
so. but if the public took the stand
that 1 ought to accept matches with
negroes. I'd be willing to drop out of
the game entirely."
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<‘T THINK he's right," said Bums.
1 "Of course I fought a negro
when I met Jack Johnson, but if I
had my time to go over again he
would wait a long time for a match.
To tell the truth, I never wanted to
fight Johnson I was offered big
money by the National Club of Lon
don, and I turned it down. When I
went to Australia and the question
came up again, I said that I wanted
every cent of $30,000 before I’d go
into the ring with Johnson. It was a
lot of money, but McIntosh produced
it. and then there was no getting out
of it, far as I was concerned
"And talking of public opinion In
such matters, I have lived to learn
that a fighter should not lay too much
stress upon public opinion It shifts
and veers too much Before I boxed
Johnson I used to receive letters
taunting me with being afraid to
meet the negro. After 1 went against
him and lost my title the letters still
ca-me in. But their tone had chang
ed. I was reviled for having given
a negro a chance at the champion
ship."
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\ 17 HEN matchmaking Is in order,
' v it is just possible that a trip
to Australia will be included in the
Burns-Pelky itinerary. In response to
a messago from out yonder, Burns
has cabled that Pelky will bs willing
to take the Journey and engage tn a
series of three fights.
Tommy has named a9 possible op
ponents for Pelky: Jim Flynn, Jess
Willard, Jim Coffey, A1 Palzer and
GunboAt Smith*
Sports and Such
B. JOHNSON’S RAGE.
(In one week.)
FIRST DAY.
r BE Magnate tore hie seldom
hair
And roared in fearsome rage:
"What’s this1 Ye gods; What this
I Lamp upon the sporting pagef
Jake Stahl is canned—my own
pick—Jake!
Oh. gimme room to cuss!
I'll show those Boston grips they
can’t
Make iis ridiculous
THIRD DAY.
The Magnate speeded to the West—
The wild news speeded, too;
In Cleveland he was cornered by
Reporters quite a few.
“Ahem!” he said. "About Jake
Stahl—
/ do not care tn state
My full conclusions at this time—
/ must investigate."
SEVENTH DAY.
At lost he makes his lakeside home;
And Fandom stands agog
To "■'itch the mighty qaeuwar put
Those Ingrates on the hog I
And now the crushing sentence
comes—
With quite some ‘pshaw" and
"pish"—
"In this I can not interfere.
E’en if l had the wish!"
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JIM FLYNN says without a smfle
that he Is "going to train” for hts
fight with Gunboat Smith.
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THERE 18 TALK OF PRE-
eerving Hans Wagner's uniform In
a Pittsburg museum. Posterity’s
grasp of our national game would
be safe if added to this were Ty
Cobb's spikes, McGraw's vocabu
lary' and the skull of the peanut
butcher. Any fan will be glad to
contribute the latter.
JADED.
Bow can I get sveited
irfcpn the "Standing of the Chibs"
Shows the Giants and Athletics—
Ami an awful flock of dubs!
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BEFORE FRANK CHANCE
buys any more ball players it
might be well to fire the club
trainer and hire a consulting
chiropodist.
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EVERS HAS BENCHED BRES-
nahan for disobedience, the only
wonder being th^t in that combi
nation someone was not benched
or billed long
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M ORDECAl BROWN is not
through. In fact, it looks as
if Manager Joe Tinker, of the
Reds, said very true words when in
the spring he claimed that the three-
fingered wonder still had a lot of
good baseball left in him. True.
Brow'n is not hurling the kind of ball
he did several seasons ago. but Just
the same, Johnny Evers could use
him at present, and to good advan
tage.
A/ter Brown had helped the Cubs
to four pennants and two world’s
championships, his arm went to the
bad in 1812. When the off season
came. C. Webb Murphy thought he
would not need the three-fingered
boy any more, and shipped him to
the minors.
But Joe Tlnksr, new manager of
the Reds, thought different. Joe was
with "Brownie" a long time, and when
he was shipped to the A. A., he and
Garry Herrmann arranged a deal
•whereby Miner would come back to
the National League And it looks
as if they made no error in securing
Brown.
Beats Old Mates Twice.
Maybe now C. Webb Murphy and
Johnny Evers see they made a big
mistake In releasing the former star
of the Cubs. Recently when the Reds
were playing the Bruins, the three-
fingered hurler took a pair of games
from Johnny Evers’ gang, one of them
being a shutout, in which only six
base knocks were made off him.
When Tinker secured Brown, it
was for the simple reason to use
him as a coach for his young raound-
men. He was carried until May 1
before he made his appearance on the
firing line. Since the hot weather
arrived, though, Brown’s ~ood right
arm seems to be as good as ever, and
he Is taking his regular turn on the
mound for his club
Has Good Record.
Although Brown is not winning as
regular or working quite as often as
he did a few years back, he has a
record which is far better than the
one owned bv his club.
Miner has won seven games and
lost six this campaign. That’s a per
centage of .588. The Reds own a
mark of .380, so It can be seen that
Brownie Is 158 points ahead of his
team.
So far this season Brown has ap
peared in 22 games, being used as a
relief hurler most of the time In
these 22 contests lie has worked 95
Innings* __ ,
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Ty Cobb and Joe Jackson are run
ning neck-and-neck for the slugging
honors in the American League. The
Georgia Peach has closed up the gap
on the Shoeless One, and from now on
it will be a battle to the finish.
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It looks as if Rube Marouard is going
to try to beat his record of nineteen
straight games won. made last season.
The $11,000 beauty annexed his ninth
straight yesterday and is pitching in
better from than he was a year ago.
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In a sea of mud. the Giants and 8t.
Louis battled for seven innings, with the
Giants on the long side of the score.
Then the deluge came and the game was
called. The second part of the double-
header also had to be called off.
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The Dodgers are trying hard to get
back in the first division. They shoved
the Reds back twice yesterday and a
victory to-day. with a defeat for the
Pirate, will put the teams on even
terms at the foot of the leading four.
• • •
Bert Garden, of the Roanoke club, es
tablished a Virginia League record when
he pitched two shut-out games against
Newport News He is the first pitcher
in the league to start and finish two
full games
Cotton stares League pen
race has been won by Jackson. The de
ciding of a number of protested games
against Pensacola did not beat that team
out of the pennant, as the club had the
bunting cinched.
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Catcher Agriew, of the St. Lou!* Amer
icans, Is rapidly Improving from the
effects of being hit by a pitched hall
during one of the Washington games
He will be out of the game, however,
for several weeks.
• • •
Hess' wildness and opportune hitting
by the Cubs gave them a close victory
over the Braves. Zimmerman returned
to the game for the first time since his
ankle was injured and displayed his
old-time speed and hitting powers.
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A report is in circulation here that
Joe Tinker, manager of the Reds, will
5 ive up his position at shortstop and
lrect the fortunes of the club from
the bench.
MAGNATE REFUSES TO OBEY
COMMISSION’S RULING
LOS ANGELES. CAL.. July 28 —
Henrv Berry, president of the Los
Angeles baseball club of the Coast
League, said to-day he would not obey
the baseball law which forbids a class
AA team to carry more than twenty
players In the middle of the season.
"If the National Commission de-
olded that I should pay a fine I will
not do It." said Berry.
Charles Arbogast, a catcher, Is ex
pected to Join the Loe Angeles team
to-morrow. This would make 21
players. Berry declared to-day he
would not release any of the old men
for the reason that three of his play-
era were tn the hoapital.
Cross-Baldwin Battle To-morrow
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Matty Has Great Ring Record
By Harrv Gilmore, Jr.
I OS ANGELES. CAL.. July 28.—
Next in line on the Vernon fistic
slate is the twenty-round en
gagement to-morrow right between
Matty Baldwin, of Boston, and Leach
Cross, of New York City. What bet
ter fistic offering could be asked, bar
ring an Immediate championship en
counter with Willie Ritchie as one of
the principals, than those two crack
Eastern lightweights?
Cross and Baldwin have long since
been bitter rivals, and after repeated
efforts on the part of Eastern pro
moters to bring them together with
out avail, they will now settle the
old score with twenty rounds in which
to bring about a result which should
be decisive. Cross has forever found
the Bostonian a thorn in hie side, and
carefully analyzing their respective
records it seems he might well have
found him a formidable foe.
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B ALDWIN has hed in excess of 150
fights in the eleven years in
which he has been in the ring, and
has met the best of the lightweights
of recent years, barring the old war
rior, Bat Nelson. Baldwin won and
lost a 12-round decision to Owen Mo
ran in January and February, re
spectively, of 1910, when Moran was
at his best. He had previously drawn
In limited bouts with Tommy Murphy
and Abe Attell in New York City,
when the foxy Abe and the Harlem
scrapper were at the zenith of their
careers. He lost to Cross on a fotV.
in eight rounds, May 13, 1910, in New
York City, when, it is claimed, he had
Cross beaten and practically out.
Baldwin visited the coast Just two
years ago and took Freddie Welsh
for twenty rounds at San Francisco.
June 23, losing the decision after
going the limit. Only two months
later he was returned a winner in
the twentieth round over the now
present champion. Willie Ritchie. In
April of 1911 he met Cross for ten
rounds in New York, and although
a no-decision affair, the press award
ed Baldwin the verdict. Baldwin has
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since drawn with Joe Mandot, and is
credited with a fairly even ten rounds
Just recently with Jack Britton, while
best of all, his last engagement, a
decisive win ^ver Young Shugrue in
New Ycrk, speaks hi® praises. Shu-
grue took a decision from Cross some
months before the latter came West
for the Anderson engagement, so on
the dope the Boston boy figures very
strongly against his Leaches.
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TVT ATTY has completed training for
iVA the bout, and shows a confi
dence that inspires pome of the Cross
adherents to believe that there is In
deed a doubtful chance for their en-
try; and. from present indications
the getting price will be a pretty even
thing.
“I know Cross and his fightlna
style about as well as any one of the
fighters who have met him," said
Baldwin In dlecnaslng the match. "He
know® that I have little fear of any
of the wallops that he carries, arid
when It comes to the rough stuff that
is where I have his number, and he
knows it. When I took him on in
New’ York I had him bad, and woald
have finished him had it been a long
er bout. With twenty rounds to go.
I am satisfied that I can land a de
cisive victory, and then I want the
chance that I have hoped for to clash
with Ritchie for the championship."
SWEENEY WILL GET $50
FOR LONG HIT SATURDAY
NEW YORK. July 28.—EM Sweeney,
the big catcher of the Yankees, who
had been out of the game on account
of injury, won $50 Saturday by hitting
the “bull" sign in right field with a
fairly batted fly ball. This is the flm
time the feat has been accomplished
since the new Brush stadium was built.
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