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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
TRY TO STOP
By Joe Agler.
M obile, ala., July 29.-»-The
Gulls seemed to have such a
liking for right-hand dealing
that Manager Smith decided last
night to flip from the other side of
the deck, so he turned up George
Clarke, who will work this afternoon.
Dunn will catch the game out, pro
vided he can control his conversation.
The Jinx still pursues us. Whitey
Alperman's operation for appendicitis
yesterday was said to have been just
in time, and, at that, Whitey had
about as close a' call as possible. We
hear he is resting well to-day, and
that the chances are in his favor. But,
of course, he won’t be able to play
ball any more this season.
The Crackers held a little meeting
yesterday and Billy Smith appointed
Wally Smith to be field captain in
Whitey'8 place. Wally also will play
second base, and Frank Manush will
go to third. Bill Bailey’s injury'
leaves an outfield job vacant, and
Smith is going to try out a recruit
from Selma in the* Cotton States
League; a big chap named Kolz, who
came along with Pitcher Love.
Holz pegs right handed and hits
from the purt side of the platter. He
is said to be a good batter and a
fast fielder, and we are hoping he
will foelp to brace our crippled line
up
There isn’t much to say about the
game yesterday. The Gulls got to
Thompson for a big lead, and then
we got to Pug Cavet and made it all
square, only to lose out, 6 to 5, in the
ninth inning. We did manage to
deliver a kick or two, which is en
couraging. Maybe we will win a ball
game by one run some day, the way
we have been losing them all lately.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Leach Cross is to have his final test
for a bout with Willie Ritchie when he
takes on Matty Baldwin in a twenty-
round battle at Los Angeles to-night.
Promoter Tom McCarey has promised
the winner a match with the champion
and Tom’s word Is usually as good as
gold.
• * •
Abe Attell’s pugilistic star has set.
His recent defeat at the hands of Willie
Beecher has killed him as a title con
tender
* * *
Gotham fans are said to be warming
up to the coming Jim Flynn-Gunboat
Smith bout. The heavyweights are
scheduled to meet in a ten-round go on
August 3.
* * •
Once again Packy McFarland and
■Willie Ritchie are nearly matched. All
this advance stuff leads up to the in
evitable.
* * *
Jimmy Johnston, former manager of
Owen Moran, and who at present is
looking after George Rodel, plans to
open a new boxing club in New York.
He expects to put on his first show next
week.
* * •
Patsy Brannigan, the tough Pittsburg
featherweight, has been matched to box
Benny Chavez, in a twenty-round set-to
at Trinidad. Colo., on LAbor Pay. Both
boys have been going good of late and
should put up an interesting mill.
* * •
Jimmy Britt, ex-lightweight champion
of the world, is in Denver at the present
time to fill a theatrical engagement.
Britt is of the opinion that Willie
Ritchie is one of the greatest champions
the game has had in years.
* * •
Young Abe Attell, local bantam
weight. is anxious to meet some boy of
his division. Attell is wild to get a re
turn engagement with Tim Callahan.
* * *
Tom Jones, manager of Jess Willard,
has signed his protege to meet Bull
Young in a twenty-round go at Vernon.
Cal., on August 22. The winner will
probably meet Arthur Pelky or Gunboat
Smith.
* *■ •
Ad Wolgast has offered to bet Willie
Ritchie $25,000 he can defeat him in a
return scrap. Reports from the coast
state that the champion has decided to
make Ad put up or shut up.
* * •
Before Joe Jeannette and SAm Lang-
■ ford travel to the coast to clash in a
twentv-round contest, they will prob
ably meet in a ten-rpund affair at the
St Nicholas A. C., New York, on Sep
tember 23. The McMahon brothers,
matchmakers of the club, are awaiting
Langford’s arrival from Los Angeles.
* * •
“Special Delivery” Hirsch is another
Chicago boxer who is anxious to show
his wares here. Harry Thomas, man
ager of Hirsch. says he will let his boy
box any one from 130 pounds to 133 at
3 o’clock.
How to Get
Rid of Eczema
Mmmm
t you bruise your hand, you will
ice that a scab forms, and when it
s off. new skin has formed. Did
re do it? No! Skin is the same
muscle, bone, sinews ligament. All
made from the blood, from the
terials that your stomach and in-
tines convert from food into what
eallblood. And this blood circulates
the myriad of tiny blood vessels
the skin. Start from your stomach,
ere blood materials begin, and it
n't be long before you are free of
ema. Use S. S. S. for a short
IP and not only will eczema dis-
je’ar, but the entire blood will be
"here is one ingredient in S. S. S.
ieh serves the active purpose of
nulating each cellular part of the
ly io the healthy, judicious selec-
n of its own essential nutriment,
at is why it regenerates the blood
,nlv why it has such a tremendous
ue'nce in overcoming eczema, rash,
inles end all skin afflictions,
jet a bottle of S. S. S. at any drug
re and you will not only feel bright
1 'energetic, but you w'iil be the
ture of new life. S. S. S. is pre-
•ed onlv in yie laboratory of The
ift Specific Co., 189 Swift Bldg.. At-
ta G a Beware of any attempt to
1 you something "just as good."
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Copyright. 1913, InternatlondtTiewa Service.
By Pitcher Al Demaree
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Crackers Slip Into Fourth Place
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Don’tCount G.MolesworthOut Yet
Bv O. B. Keeler.
O NE gleam penetrates the Stygian
gloom of the situation.
The Crackers finally deliver
ed a kick.
It may have been a dying kick. But
a kick’s a kick, for a’ that.
With a shot-to-pleces line-up, with
Alperman in the hospital minus an
appendix. Bill Bailev carrying a cou
ple of ribs in a sling. Wally Smith at
second base, Manush at third and
Chapman playing right field without
his mitt, the disheveled Smithies col
lected themselves yesterday afternoon
and landed a solid punch on the rev
ered Pug Cavet.
The trouble was that the Gulls' kick
ed Thompson first—and last.
And now the Town Boys are
crouching on the rim of Lower Four,
wondering how soon the porter will
turn out the lights.
* * »
LITERARY TIP FROM WHITEY.
Believe me, boys. this in no nonsense:
When your tummy again and again
kicki,
Don't fool with the Table of Con
tents—
Look it up in the blamed old Ap
pendix!
• • •
T OUGH luck for Whitey Al-
permann. And tough luck for
the Crackers.
Whltey’s wise old noodle and time
ly bat are bound to be sadly missed
in the final drive. Not that Wally
Smith isn’t a good, heady player and
a man who, as field captain, will keep
his mates well on their toes. Wally
is all of that.
But the combination, of necessity,
will be unsettled for a bit. Bill Bai
ley also is out of the game and a
Cotton States rookie. Holz. will ap
pear in right field this afternoon.
Manush will play third and Wally
Smith second.
On the other hand, the shakeup
may shift the breaks, which. cer
tainly haven’t been coming our way
lately.
Anyway, we’re in for it. And in
stead of blubbering over the latest
handicap for the Crackers, let’s just
cheer up over the report that good
old Whitey, in a tough sprint against
the Old Boy with the Sickle, is pull
ing ahead to-day
* * •
T URNING the burglar-finder on the
little club that has supplanted
the Town Boys at the dizzy elevation
of third place, we discern without
much difficulty that odd equine
anomaly, the Dark Hor?*\
Gladys Molesworth is up. and how
d. h. can run at all is by us. Gladys’
managerial worries* seem to sit lightly
on his embonpoint.
The real point, however, is that the
Barons have bludgeoned their way
upward from seventh place since June
8. That achievement was largely at
the expense of Montgomery. Mobile,
New Orleans and Memphis. The lat
ter pair are thrown in merely as
lagniappe. because anv club that can
trim the Billikens and the Gulls this
year would find a pleasant relaxation
placing the rest of the bunch.
* * *
T HE Baronial collection is one that
might be expected to speed up
tow r ard the s'hank of the season. No
fewer than eleven of Moles worth's
hands have worn the spangles of the
big show at one time or another. Of
these. Foxen. Mayer, Moley, McDonald
and Kniaeley moved for very re
spectable periods in select company.
And with the advent of the r^al hot
ness in weather circles, and the time
of year when the old strain begins to
turn the edge of the younger genera
tion’s dash and daring, the old boys'
are rounding to.
We decline to count Gladys out yet.
* * •
S WITCHING to politics, it seems
Colonel Robert Lee Hedges—
sometime known as the Sick Man of
Baseb?" *cause he is unfortunate
enough to be responsible for the St.
Louis Browns—it seems Colonel
Hedges is hedging.
The report persists that the Colonel
is going to' finance the Montgomery
club of the Southern League. He is
even accused of intending to buy the
Billikens’ franchise outright.
That is carrying things rather far.
But the Billies need help, and Col
onel Hedges can afford it, in spite of
the Browne*.
On the whole, intimate* diplomatic*
relations between Montgomery and
the Browns mightn’t be a bad idea
at all.
If the Browns continue to evince a
disposition to travel farther south
than eighth place in the American
League, Colonel Hedges might swap
them for the Billikens.
* * *
MOW some statistician is trying to
^ show that ^ecause New York
bugs persist in packing the Polo
Grounds to see the Giants clean up
on the pop-eyed Cardinals, St. Louis
is enabled by the cut in the “gate”
to stick in the league with a club that
is totally unable to give any pangs of
joy to the wretched fans on trte home
lot.
It is raid the Cardinals carried
away $12,500 as their share of a re
cent series at the Polo Ground* 1 .
McGraw should worry.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Another record-breaking performance
was nipped when Joe Boehling lost his
first game of the season after winning
eleven straight. A base on balls, a sin
gle and a home run gave the Browns
three runs in the first inning. After
thai Joe held them to two'hits, but the
Senators could not overcome the lead.
* * *
Not many teams have knocked out
Cy Falkenberg. but the Cleveland pltcTi-
er was driven from the mound in the
first inning by the Yankees. Then the
rain came down in torrents and the
efforts of Chance's men went for naught.
* • *
The Dodgers had a chance to work up
in the first division, but Ylngling. Al
len and Stack could not stop the hard
hitting of the Reds.
* * •
Only one St. Louis player reached
third base fn the game with the Giants
and he went there on a wild throw
Matty was at his best and smeared the
whitewash.
* * *
The Pirates, outside of Carey, who
cornered half of.the hits, could do noth
ing with Seaton, and the Phillies scored
another easy victory.
* * *
Karl Moore, released by the Phillies
to St. Louis, and who refused to report
to the Cardinals, is now’ the property of
the Chicago Cubs, according to an an
nouncement of Charles W. Murphy.
• * *
The Cubs pounded the ball hard in the
game with Boston and the Braves trailed
from the beginning.
* * •
William Lathrop, the Notre Dame
University pitcher, will be seen in the
uniform of the White Sox, having been
signed up by Comiskey.
• • •
Rain prevented the Yankee-Naps,
Tigers-Athletic and White Sox-Red Sox
games yesterday.
ALPERMAN REPORTED
ON ROAD TO RECOVERY
MOBILE. ALA., July 29.—A report
from the Inge Bondurant Sanitarium
to-day, where Captain Alperman, of the
Atlanta Club, lies ill from an operation
for appendicitis, was to the effect that
he sepnt a restful night and was on
the road to recovery. The request of
Manager Smith for his technical sus
pension will be granted by the League
in order to let Iiolt.z get in he game
Pitcher Love worked out yesterday and
iooked like a real pitcher.
BASEBALL
SUMMARY
Results of Every Game of Im
portance Played Yesterday.
■southern league.
dames Tuesday.
Atlanta at Mobile.
Birmingham at New Orleans.
Nashville at Memphis.
Chattanooga at Montgomery.
Standing of the Clube.
W. L. Pc. I W. L. Pc.
Mont. 59 40 .596 I Chatt. 49 47 .510
Mobile 61 44 .581 M’phis 50 55 .476
B'ham 52 46 .531 N'ville 41 57 .418
Atlanta 50 45 .526 I N. O. 34 62 .354
Monday’s Result*.
Mobile 6. Atlanta 5.
Birmingham 3-6. New’ Orleons 1-1.
Memphis 5, Nashville 2.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Tuesday.
Macon at Charleston.
Albany at Columbus.
Savannah at Jacksonville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc.
J’ville 13 14 .481
Chas n. 13 17 .433
Macon 10 18 .357
Sporting Food
W. L. l’c.
C'bus. 18 10 .643
Sav'nah 16 10 .615
Albany 14 13 .483
Monday's Results.
Albany 3. Columbus 2.
Charleston 2, Macon 0.
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Tuesday.
Cordele at Thomaavil’ie.
Valdosta at Waycross.
Americua at Brunswick.
mg
W. L. Pet.
Cordele 15 10 .600
T’ville 13 11 .542
B'wick 13 12 .520
W. L. Pet
Valdos. 12 13 .480
Ami'CUS 12 14 .462
W’cross 10 16 .400
Monday’s Results.
Americus 13. Brunswick 5.
Cordele l. Thomasville 1 (9 innings).
Waycross 4, Valdosta 1.
GEORGIA-ALABAMA LF AGUE.
Games Tuesday.
Talladega at Opelika
Gadsden at LaGrange.
Anniston at Newnan
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pet I \V. L. Pet
Gads'n 42 31 .575! LaGr’ge 35 37 .486
Newnan 38 34 .528 j Annis'n 34 40 .459
Opelika 37 36 .507 I T'dega 33 41 .446
Monday’s Results.
Gadsden 6, I^aGrange 0.
Talladega 2, Opelika 0.
Anniston 6, Newnan 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Tuesday.
St. Louis at Washington.
Detroit at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at New York.
Chicago at Boston.
ling o
W. U Pc.
Phila 65 28 .699
C’land. 56 38 .596
Wash’n 54 40 .574
Ohicago 51 47 .520
W. L. Pc.
Boston 44 46 .489
Detroit 40 58 .408
S. Louis 38 61 .388
N. York 29 60 .326
C HATTANOOGA. TENN., July 29.
Fans in this burg just at pres
ent are considerably worried
over the possibility of Gabby Street
not being with the Lookouts next
season. The apparent removal of the
Lookouts from the ranks of the 1918
pennant contenders has centered
poetically all local baseball interest
on the prospects for the 1914 season.
Just at present there is no deal
closed for Gabby’s services for next
season, nor are there any which are
on the verge of consummation. This
is encouraging in a way, and would
refriove to a great extent all qbalms
of the local fanatic*', were it not for
the fact that Gabby has stated re
peatedly that he will not play an
other season for the sum of $300 per.
The present season has been an ex
perimental one for the star receiver
of the league, as he agreed to the
stipend which he is receiving solely
for the purpose of settling in his own
mind the que.*«tion of whether or not
he was passed, so far as big league
baseball is concerned.
Gabby’s answer to the question is
that he is not through w’ith the big
ring; that is, if ability can secure
him a berth; and. as a result, he is
practically decided to appear in the
big *'how next season or not at all.
The one cause of Street's drop from
the majors was the rheumatism in
his system, and during the last few
w’eeks he was with Washington he
w’as forced to go to Nova Scotia for
treatment. The malady stiffened his
joints to a great degree.
One year in the Southern, however,
beneath the direct and beneficial rays
of the fun, has completely routed
Street's arch enemy, and to-day he
is as capable a receiver as ever he
w’as in his career. Realizing this.
Gabby is practically decided that it is
the majors or nothing for him. A per
manent minor league berth does not
appear attractive to Charles where
the maximum stipend is but $300 a
month.
Monday’s Results.
St. Louis 4, Washington 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Tuesday.
Philadelphia at Pittsburg.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
Boston at Chicago.
New York at St. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. I>. Pet W L. Pet.
N. Y. 63 27 .700 f Br’klyn 42 44 488
Phila 52 34 .605 i Boston 38 51 .427
Chicago 48 44 .522 I S L. 36 56 .391
Pitts. 45 45 .500 I Cin’nati 36 59 .381
Monday's Results.
Philadelphia 6. Pittsburg 2.
Cincinnati 7. Brooklyn 5.
Chicago 9. Boston 4
New York 4. St. Louis 0
MONDAY’S GAME.
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Long, If. ... 5 1 0 4 0 0
Agler, 3b. ... 5 0 0 8 1 0
Welchonce, cf.. 5 1 1 6 0 fi
Smith, 2b.. . . 4 2 2 1 2 0
Bisland, ss. . . 4 1 3 2 1 0
Manush, 3b. . . 3 0 1 3 0 0
Chapman, rf.. . 4 0 1 1 1 0
Dunn, c. . . . 4 0 2 1 2 0
Thompson, p. . 3 0 0 0 4 0
Totals ... .37 5 10 26 11 0
Two out when winning run scored.
Mobile. ab. r. h. po. a. e
Stock, ss. . . . 5 I 1 2 5 1
Starr. 2b. ... 4 0 3 2 4 1
O’Dell. 3b. ... 4 1 0 1 2 1
Paulette, lb.. .5 0 3 13 0 0
Robertson, cf. . 2 2 2 4 0 0
Schmidt, c. . . 2 1 2 2 1 0
Brown, c.. . . 2 0 0 1 0 0
Clark. If. ... 3 1 1 0 0 1
McGill, rf . . . 4 0 1 2 0 0
Cavet, p. . . . 4 0 1 0 3 0
Totals ... .?5 6 14 27 15 4
Score by innings:
Mobile 010 400 001—6
Atlanta 000 200 030—5
Summary: Home run—Smtt.i
Three-base hits—Robertson. 2. Two-
base hits—Blsland, Cavet. McGill.
Sacrifice hits—Thompson. Starr. Sto
len bases—Long, Agler. Struck out—
By Cavet, 2. Bases on balls—Off
Cavet, 1; off Thompson, 4 Left on
bases—Mobile. 6; Atlanta, 7. Time —
2:05. Umpires—Pfenninger an 3
Wright.
PRESSMEN AFTER GAME.
The Pressmen’sbaseball team would
like to arrange a series of games with
the Exposition team to be played at
Ponce DeLeon or on the Fort McPher
son diamond. The two teams played j
last Saturday with Exposition winning, j of the most obstinate cases guaranteed iu from
0 to 4. Tl-e Pres-men are Tow out l 3 to 6 days ; rn other lre»t£rnt r^uired.
after revenge, and w ill give their rivals Sold bv all dructrsf
a neat side bet. :
BROU’S
I N J F. C T I O y A PER.
M A X F. \ T Of K E
By GEORGE B. PH Al B
WHY NOT?
They aYe sfmding auto speeders to a
cold and clammy cell.
They inject them in the hoose goxc
for a long and dreary spell.
Though a man deserves a sentence
when he makes his motor whizz,
There are others who deserve a fate
as cold and dark as his.
O, I would I were a jurist, and before
the bur there stood
A gent who peddles cracker jack to
cam his livelihood—
A loud and heartless merchant who
infests the baseball park
And walks upon your aching corns
from $ o'clock till dark.
I would burn him with my eagle- eye
in spite of all his tears
And insert him in the house gow for
a hundred thousand years.
Colonel Hedges, who perpetrates the
Browns on an Innocent public, avers that
he has three of the greatest southpaws
,ln captivity. All the Colonel needs now
it a baseball team.
We have given up all hope that Ad
Wolgast will come back. Jones has quit
him, and Tom never gave up a meal
ticket until the meals were all punched-.
Ty Cobb is dissatisfied again, leading
one to suspect that he aims to be the
Bob iAFollette of baseball.
If Tyrus were an up-to-date young
man he would augment his meager sal
ary by busting Into the Chautauqua cir
cuit.
CHAUTALKING.
“/ am starvingsaid the athlete,
“On my miserable pay."
So he beat it from the ball yard
And chautalked the livelong day.
It is said that the dead do not return,
and yet Bombardier Well* is mached
with Gunner Moir.
We note that Jess Willard Is going to
fight in Los Angeles. That Is. he will
enter the ring fn Los Angeles. Even his
bitterest enemies never would accuse
him of fighting.
The report that Pal Brown is going to
Australia leads us to hope that he is a
good swimmer.
It Is rumored that since Ad Wolgast
took up the job of managing himself he
has had the worst manager In pugilism.
One can hardly blame those English
tennis experts if they chuckle when they
see their American brethren kicking in
with a flock of alibis.
OTHER RESULTS.
American Association.
Columbus 7, Toledo 2.
L/Ouisville 3. Indianapolis 0.
Milwaukee 3, Kansas City 1.
Minneapolis 8. St. Paul 2.
Carolina League.
Greensboro 5, Durham 1.
Asheville 8. Raleigh 4.
Winston-Salem 6-4, Charlestown 4-0.
Virginia League.
Petersburg 2. Newport News 0.
Portmouth 4. Roanoke 2.
Richmond 3, Norfolk 2.
International League.
Buffalo 5. Providence 2.
Jersey City 7. Rochester 2.
Toronto 7, hewark 1.
Baltimore-Montreal, rain.
Appalachian League.
Bristol 10, Middleboro 1.
Knoxville 10, Morristown 1.
Johnson City 4, Rome 2.
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Must Be on Edge for Athletics
By Bubo Marquard.
S T. LOUIS, July 29.—As I write
tfiese lines a feeling of ex-olta-
tlon is upon me. I feel like
shouting for very joy. I know deep
down in my heart that the Giants
nre assured a third straight pen
nant. and I am not so well fortified
financially that the spoils of a world’s
series fail to interest me.
I realize that the fight is not yet
won. New York has a very advan
tageous lead, and should increase
rather than lose this fine advantage
as the season progresses. Yet there
is nothing so uncertain ns baseball,
and until the title is non bevond pos
sibility of refutation. I shall*stand al
ways ready to pitch my arm off, fig
uratively. for McGraw and our cause.
Personally, I am imbued with a de
sire to win as many games ns pos
sible \\hile the enemy presents some
form of rebuttal to otir challenge. I
think I reflect the sentiments of my
teammates when I say that I would
welcome even stiffer opposition than
our club has encountered within the
past six weeks.
Victories easily earned are not of
a nature to develop the very best
form for the classic struggle in Oc
tober. And it is to the world’s series,
rather than a league championship,
that McGraw and my fellows are
bending every energy.
Some people may try to tell you
that there i«« no sentiment in profes
sional sf>ort. I do not believe that
this applies* to baseball, at any rate.
We all like to do well in our chosen
profession. But I am certain as can
be that the great majority of the
Giants think more of the opportunity
for a world’s championship pennant
than of the money entailed in the
struggle for such.
Third Try at Title.
We just naturally feel that we owe
it to McGraw and to our most en
thusiastic supporters. The pust two*
years we have been disappointments,
even to ourselves. And the prospect
of a third trial this fall has been one
of the chief apurs to our ambition
from the start of the season.
My club is so determined to annex
t^ie greatest honors of baseball this
fall that the boys will be scarcely
able to hold up their heads for shame
if we are disappointed the third
straight time. And. believe me. there
is some consolation, in dollars and
cents, for the losing end.
It might sound like braggadocio
were I at this time to make any
predictions as to the outcome of the
world’s juries, especially as the
Giants have not yet cinched their
claim to the National League title.
Yet I believe I mav be pardoned a
guess as to the ultimate winner in
our set.
For six weeks we have set as rapid
a pace as any major league club has
shown within the past decade. And
we have done this without the ac
customed deadly hitting of our gal
lant captain, Larry Doyle. It f*trlkes
me a.« only a question of time be
fore our sterling second baseman will
come out of his slump, and then the
team should be possessed of such ad
ditional power as to guarantee against
any eleventh hour slip-up.
Have Score With Athletics.
New York, at least, has as good a
chance to figure in the world’? series
as have the Athletics, and few at
this moment are prepared to deny
Connie Mack’s claim to such distinc
tion. From a financial aspect there
might be more affable opposition, 30
far as we are concerned.
A New York-Chicago or a New
York-CIeveland tilt would undoubt
edly attract more gate money be
cause Quaker Town has not only
been pretty well glutted with Ath
letic triumphs, but is in addition at
heart a 25-cent patronage. If the
question were merely one of a straight
pennant, and 1 had the selection of
an opponent in the world’s series, I
should choose none other than Mack’s
Athletics.
All we Giants feel that we have a
score to settle for our disappoint
ment of the ^ast two seasons. The
sporting world conceded last fall
that the Red Sox outlucked us. Cir
cuit wallops by “Home Run” Baker
turned the tide aga1n.«T us in 1911.
We are curious to see if the Trappe,
Md., slugger can cheat us out of out
reward again.
I see that Jack Coombs expects to
be back In harness about Labor Day.
I sincerely hope that he may, though
his presence might reasonably be sup
posed to work to our disadvantage if
we happen to be lucky enough to tilt
with Philadelphia in the great classic
thi? fall.
Coombs is one of the finest pitchers
in the business. If the Giants are to
meet the Athletics, every one of us
wishes Mack’s men to be possessed of
every possible strength. We have
never offered an alibi, and if we win
we wish to win against the very best
that the foe can present.
TIGERS BUY PITCHER.
ASHEVILLE. N. C., July 29.—Rus
sell Betsill. of Enoree. S. C., a mem
ber of the pitching staff of the Ashe
ville club, of the North Carolina
League, was sold to-day to the De
troit club, of the American League.
The price paid for the player has not
been given out.
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