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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS
Maybe Jeff Didn't Hold His Thumb Right
By ‘Bud’ fisher
Bv W. W. Naughton.
I T would require considerable ad
vertising to draw attention to a
glove contest between white hopes
Eckblad ani Chlariglion. would It?
But if you announced a bout between
Gunboat Smith and Jim Flynn it
would be different.
A glance at the record book will
show that Andrew Ohiarigllon Is Jim
Flynn’s rightful name, and according
to report.** from New York It has been
discovered that Gunboat Smith is a
Dane, and that he was christened Ed
ward Eckblad.
They nay Manager Jim Buckley is
mad clear through over the disclosure.
Jim has been parading Gunboat as a
second crop Irishman, and he con
tinues to insist that the blood of the
ancient kings of Munster flows
through Gunboat's veins.
But Dame Rumor is giving Jim the
laugh. She says that Smith—or
rather Eckblad—was born in Milica,
Minn. and that his forbears hailed
from Copenhagen.
Now that the secret Is out, the av
erage fan will hive It that Gunboat
looks more like a Dane than an Irish
man, but the subject is a dangerous
one to brooch in Buckley’s presence.
Fie brands the report as a cruel can
ard, and asserts that the fellows who
had the temerity to attack Smith’s
nationality will try to prove that
Tommy Murphy is a Polish Jew be
fore they are done
Murphy, however. i« better equipped
with an alibi than Gunboat. Tom
my’s photograph would fit into Its sur
roundings if published ns a frontis
piece to the song. "Where the River
Shannon Flows."
* • •
T F Flynn fs In fairly good shape, he
1 is likely to make things interesting
for Gunboat. The Flynn of a couple
of years ago was one of the most
dangerous of all the heavies over a
short distance. He always fought
under a full head of steam, and at
the same time kept so close to his
man that he was hard to reach with
full arm swings.
It was by piling in nnd forcing his
opponent to fight at short range that
Flynn defeated A1 Kaufman. Cari
Morris and other men much bigger
than himself. Gunboat, like Kauf
man nnd Morris, ie at his best when
permitted to stand away nnd measure
his man. It.may be that Smith will
catch Flvnn with one of his knock
out blows while Flynn boxes in his
old-time style. Smith is in for ns
merry a quarter of an hour as he has
ever had on a fighting platform.
The chances are, however, that
Flynn is slower than he used to be.
His defeat by Luther McCarty at Loe
Angeles tamed his stubborn pride and
took much of the starch out of him.
It whs noticed in the affair referred
to that Pueblo Jim did not assimilat*'
punishment as In former fights, and
the suspicion formed that long ser\
ice had deprived him of his dash.
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Copyright, ltd 3, International News Service.
She Couldn’t See Pa Anywhere Around
Four Hitters of ‘Bull’
Will Get Check Aug. 3
August the third, quite mild of th<
skies, has* been duly Immortalized by
Mr. B. Harte, but the chances are
that a certain four ball players In the
Southern League will look forward
to that day next month for reasons
quite apart from the remarkable poem
of the Heathen Chinee.
Four hitters of the well-known
"Bull” signs in Southern League parks
will be awarded their prizes on that
day.
Here are the lucky riflemen:
Joe Ward, of the Memphis club
who hit the “Bull” in his home town
April 26, thereby proving a swatsman
is not without honor even in his own
precinct; and Ernest Walker, Rudy
Raerwald and R. H. Shanley. all of
the Billikens. Walker hit the big
sign at Memphis June 1 f». while the
other two selected their home lot as
the proper setting for their display
of prowess. June 20 and 21, respec
tively.
Each batsman will receive a check
for $50. f
BRICKLEY WITH MACKMEN;
MAY PLAY IN THE OUTFIELD
PHILADELPHIA, July 39— George
Rriekley, the 19-year-old brother of
Charles Brlckley, the Harvard football
star, reported to the Philadelphia Amer
ican team here to-day. It is likely that
Brlckley will be given a chance to play
in the outfield.
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Joe Mandot Out
sjs#.j.
Believes He Has
By Ed W. Smith;
CHICAGO, July 29.—There may yet
be a lightweight champion of the
world hailing from south of the
Mason and Dixon line. Joe Mandot.
champion of the South, hasn’t given
up hope by a long way of yet at
taining the coveted title and, if se
rious endeavor and some sparkling
mills next winter will get what en
deavor and seriousness are said in the
story books to get. then Mandot has
a grand chance. Joe doesn’t believe
so much in what is contained in story
books, but he has pored over a lot
of record books, and knows pretty
well what they contain. That’s why
he knows it’s going to be a mighty
serious task ahead o( him.
• • •
J OE wandered into town last even
ing. He had his pretty little wife
and a huge smile with him, and lmi]
not been in the city more than a few
minutes before he was Joined by tIn-
indefatigable Tommy Walsh, nnd they
began to lay plans for the fall cam
paign. Joe came through from Los
Angeles by way of San Francisco
and Denver, stopping off at San Fran
cisco to sec the Rltchle-Rivers bat
tle. and making a halt at Denver to
look over the situation there. He will
remain in the city until to-night, and
then intends to journey on to New
Orleans nnd go to the Mandot ranch,
but a short distance from that city,
and rest there for a good many weeks.
In addition, Joe's father, the big baker
of the French Market in New Orleans,
Is not in good health, and Joe wants
to see him.
• • •
ALONG in the fall some time Joe
*■*■ will be ready to start out on an
entirely new campaign, the ultimate
aim of which will be to land a crack
at the lightweight title. Joe says his
first battles In this campaign will he
decided within easy reaching distance
for New Start
*•+ +•* +•+
Chance at Title
Motor Races
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To-night, 8:15
of Chicago and that he will take on
several of the best men attainably
Long has he wanted to box around
here and believes that not only can he
make many friends here, but can pick
up the change as well, which, after all.
is the main thing in most businesses
or professions. Joe 1ms a lot of friends
here now and expects to make more.
* * •
I OE doesn’t think that Willie Ritchie
J is a great champion, because he
has demonstrated that he can not.
or will not, make the weight which
has been recognized for a long time
now as the real limit of the class.
Listen to w’hat the bright young
Frenchman has to say of his impres
sions of the champion: "While Wil
lie was training for the Rivers fight
1 paid him a visit, and he looked any
thing but good to me. lie was ter
ribly drawn and thin, and it was
then but three days from fighting
time. They asked me how he looked
to me. and 1 told them he was all
right if he didn't have to reduce
any more. I certainly didn't like his
chances after I saw him and figured
that Rivers had a royal chance of
whipping him. But it didn’t turn out
that way.
• • •
<■UMU’LDNT I like to have hnd
** the chance that Rivers did!
He’ll never get a better one of win
ning a title. No, I don’t guess he
quit. He was hit hard enough in the
chin. It looked all right to me.
Ritchie can hit, there isn’t any ques
tion about that. I happen to be in
;i position to know, because he hit
me once In New Orleans. That's why
1 don’t think Rivers quit. But Willie
is a big fellow and can not make 133
pounds at the ringside. Therefore he
isn't a legitimate lightweight.”
VITT IN BAD SHAPE.
DETROIT, MICH., July 29.—Oscar
' Itt second baseman of the Detroit
league baseball chib, is seriously ill with
la grippe here. His physician said to-
uav his condition had not reached the
critical stage and recovery Is expected,
but the player will probably be out of
the game until fall at least.'
GADSDEN TO
GADSDEN. AI*A
baseball team will
Xewnan. Ga.. to
games scheduled,
cured contribution.*
port of the team
the season.
RETAIN TEAM.
., July 29.—Gadsden's
not be transferred to
play the remaining
Local fans have se-
1 of $500 for the sup-
for the remainder of
DISBROW IS WINNER.
GALVESTON. TEXAS, July 29.—The
• mile sweepstake race, a free-for-all
for a purse of $5,000. will be continued
* • the Galveston beach automobile
rourse this afternoon. Louis Diabrow,
driving a Simplex, won the first leg of
the race yesterday, averaging 71.28 miles
an hour for 100 miles
Giants Want Stiffer Ball Games
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V • V
+•+
Must Be on Edge for Athletics
Somebody Will Have to Get Busy
Soon or Americus Player
Will Win Contest.
"Pat” Murphy lost a few votes in
the eHarst Sunday American and At
lanta Georgian's great race for base
ball popularity and the beautiful lov
ing cup that goes to the player found
to be the most popular in the Empire
State League.
Dick Manchester gained a few. Otto
Jordan also gained a few and it now
looks as if Otto will- soon pass
"Goat" Holliday for second place.
...
COMKBODY will have to get busy
soon or Dick Manchester will take
the trophy and honors that go with it.
The Americus player is Increasing his
lead daily and It is beginning to look
as if his admirers intend to stick to
him, to the finish.
• * •
T F you fans want your favorite
1 player to be known as the most
popular in the Empire State League
clip the coupon hat is printed in to
day's paper and mall it to the Base
ball Popularity Editor, Atlanta Geor
gian, Atlanta, Ga. Remember the con
test is getting well pn its way and the
time to hustle is now.
POLO MATCH.
NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I.,
July 29. In one of the closest and
hardest fought polo games played
tills year, the Coopers town team de
feated Rock-away 6 1-2 goals to,
5 1-4 in the first round of the senior
i hampionship matches game at the \
Point Judith polo field yesterday. 1
Here Is a Player
With $4,000,000
SACRAMENTO, CAL., July 29.—
Since Bill Kenworthy, the second-
sacker of the Sacramento club, has
been notified that he Is heir to $4,-
000,00, there has been considerable
speculation an to what his plans for
the future will be.
There is really not much of a limit
to what Kenny could do with saich an
amount of money, providing he de
sires to remain in baaeball.
If he wished to play the game for
an ordinary salary, he could be sure
of reporting In condition by hiring an
entire major league club to go South
and train with him, or he could buy
any franchise In organized baseball
and be club owner, player and man
ager at the same time
One thing is certain, he can have
many run-ins with the umpires and
not be broke on pay day. N
Special trains for the trips around
the circuit would easily be within his
means, and he could buy a newspaper
and publish his own press notices.
At any rate, it’e a pretty good bet
that the $4,000.00 ball player will lead
Artie Shafer, of the Giants, when It
comes to receiving perfumed notes
from the fair fans. j
By Rube Marquard.
S T. LOUIS, July 29.—As I write
these lines a feeling of exulta
tion is upon me. I feel like
shouting for very joy. I know deep
down in my heart that the Giants
are 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 as baseball,
and until the title is won beyond 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 as pos
sible while the enemy presents some
form of rebuttal to our 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 sport. 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 IKipporters. The past two
years we have been disappointments,
even to ourselves. And the prospect
of a third trial this fall has been one
of the chief spurs to our ambition
from the start of the season.
My club is so determined to annex
the 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 merles. especially as the
Giants have not yet cinched their
claim to the National Letgue title.
Yet I believe I may 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 dime this without the ac
customed deadly hitting of our gal
lant captain. Larry Doyle. It strikes
me as 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 Athletic*.
New York, at least, has as good a
chance to figure in the world’s 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, so
far as we are concerned.
A New York-Chicago or a New
York-Cleveland tilt would undoubt
edly attract more ga T e 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 I had the selection of
an opponent in the world’s series, I
3h6uld choose none other than Mack’s
Athletics.
All we Giants feel that we have a
score to settle for our disappoint
ment of the nast two seasons The
sporting world conceded last fall
that the Red Sox outlucked us. Cir
cuit wallops by “Home Run" Baker
turned the tide against 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
this 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.
AMOS RUSIE IN HOSPITAL;
INJURED BY IRON BAR
SEATTLE, WASH., July 29.—Amos
Rusie, once famous pitcher of the New
York Giants, is in a local hospital to
day suffering froift an injury to his arm.
Rusie Is now a plumber. A heavy iron
bar fell and struck him on the arm
while at work here yesterday.
LEAGUE HEAD TO DECIDE
PROTESTED BALL GAMES
KEOKUK, IOWA, Jjjly 29.—To
straighten out a tangle over protested
games which Waterloo won and Keokuk
and Burlington protested, alleging the
Player limit had been violated. President
Justice, of the Central Association, has
gone to Waterloo.
ED LEACH, OLD ATLANTA
PITCHER, IN A HOSPITAL
RICHMOND, VA.. July 29 —Ed Leach,
who pitched for Atlanta several seasons
back in the 90's, is in a hospital here
with hlfe right foot cut off. Tuberculosis
of the bone rendered amputation neces
sary.
Leach also pitched two seasons for
New Orleans, having been a contem-
porar>*and boon companion of “Cholly”
Frank, preset*!* manager of the Pelicans.
His last work in baseball was in the
spring of 1912, when he helped Moles-
worth whip the Barons into shape at
Birmingham.
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YANKEES GET PLAYERS.
NEW YORK, July 29.—It was an
nounced to-day that Manager Chance,
of the New York Americans, had pur
chased Outfielder Cook, of the Austin
club of the Texas League, and Pitcher
Cooney, of the Butte. Mont., club of
the Union Association. Cooney will join
the New Yorks at once, but Cook will
not report until fall.
BAT NELSON MAY FIGHT.
SARATOGA. N. Y., July 29.—Local
promoters are trying to arrange a num
ber of boxing matches to be held under
the auspices of the Saratoga Athletic
Club during the racing season next
month, and a bout between Battling
Nelson former lightweight champion,
and Jimmy O’Hagan the Albany black
smith, is practically afsured.
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