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THE ATLANTA flEOROTAN AND NEWS. v If FUTURE w>&%. By “Chick” Evans. C hicago, ill,, July 30.—The Western has coine and gone, and we have a new and very representative champion. Wood has played golf of championship quality for many years, and has been finalist in the Western three times and once in the National. Hia friends—and they are legion—are delighted that, after years of trial, his fine golfing skill is fittingly rewarded. The surprise of the tournament was the playing of E. P. Allis III, of Mil waukee. and he has certainly made himself a big star in the golfing firmament. He was almost the whole show at Homewood, and certainly did remarkably well. In consequence, much interest was taken in an analy sis of his game. Golfers I consulted were unable to decide whether he had good golfing form or not. It was easy to be seen that he has been playing for a long time, for his game was developed during the era of the hook, and he plays every shot with that addition, except his puts. This is an excellent way of playing, when it goes right, but without constant practice it has many dangers. Allis plays all his shots off hi9 right foot— that is. the position of his ball is nearer the right foot than the left, a stance not seen very often. His swing was not too full, but of a strong, even, full length. Approach Puts His Best Shot. His best shot is an approach put. and I am glad to see that he uses an iron putter rather than a barred cen ter-shafted type. Not only does he put his approach put so close that it Is impossible to miss the next one. but he frequently holes it. His put ting stance is a good one. but known a long time. He puts both elbows out along the line of play, he hangs his putter well and he does not in dulge in the needless habit of nut ting the blade in front of the ball. Mr. Allis' next best shot is his ap proach shot, which he plays with a pitcher, a club with a rounded bot tom and a loft, between a mashle and a niblick. Strange to say. l^e hooks this shot with a turn-over of the head and gets splendid results. The rest of his game is fair. He has lit tle confidence in wooden clubs, and his long irons have too large a hook to be reliable. He knows little about bunker shots, but had little use for this knowledge at Homewood; also, his shots ou f of the long grass are not good. These shots will come in time, and his golf future looks rosy, indeed. Possessing an ideal -"'lflr~ tem perament and an abundance of “nerve” and everv thoroughgoing sportsmanlike "”' i lity, a champion- shi- of nation-wide importance may not be far awav from him. His nam = must be added to the ten or twelve National possibilities thi>* year. Too Many Good Golfers Absent. From a golfing standpoint, the tournament last week was not very strong. It Is true that there wer? good golfers there, but .the plavers who oualified did not comprise all of the very best players in the West. ^Vre were too many absentees. The b^«t golfing round was a 72. and the best two rounds were Ned’s medal plav, 72 in the morning against me and an easy finish for the fame score 1n the afternoon. Th» scores ran be tween 75 and 80, rather than below 7" The weather, the golfer’s best friend or worst enemv. was perfect. SHFLTON BEATS NEELY IN WESTERN TOURNAMENT CHICAGO, July 30—John C, Neely, of the Wanderers’ fluh. one of the favorites in the Western tennis tour nament, was defeated by Robert Shel ton, of Texas, one of the doubles champions of the South. Neely won the first set 6-4. and defaulted on the third. Shelton took the second 6-3. W. T. Hayes defeated A. L. Green, Western Intercollegiate champion, 6-2, 6-2. Miss Gwendolin Rees, of Minneapo lis. Central Western champion, won an easy victory over Miss Elizabeth Moore, of Chicago. 6-1, 6-1, in the women's singles. Miss Rees and Miss Carrie Neely, of Chicago, are consid ered leading candidates for the wom en's Western title, now held by Mrs. Thomas Bundy, formerly May Sutton, of San Francisco. Miss Neely won from Miss Elizabeth Bruce, 6-2, 6-1. Neither Mrs. Bundy nor Maurice McLoughlin, Western champion in the men’s singles, who is now in Eng land, will be on hand to defend their titles, so the winners in the tourna ment finals will assume the cham pionships by default. Bringing Up Father • m rn » — o By George McManus TRy HIS ART 1 BRITISH PAPER FINDS AN ALIBi FOR TENNIS TEAM LONDON, July 30.—An anonymous letter appearing in The Standard to day declares that the English compet itors in the Davis cup tennis matches were the better all-round players, but that the Americans won the trophj- because McLoughlin had mastered and concentrated his play on a smash ing service, In which any number 01 English players could have equally perfected themselves. “Thus the cup was won.” the letter continues, ”bv a trick, though a per- fectly legitimate trick within the rules, which does not further the besl interests of lawn tennis, and unless this smash service is barred, like the spot stroke in billiards, tennis is witn- ing measurable distance of death. CHICAGO FOLLOWS LOCAL EXAMPLE IN MARATHON HICAGO. July 30.—A 26-mile •athon race will be the feature of card at the Riverview Motordrome light, it being the first event of Us ! ever scheduled for decision at North Side track. Wiley Gibson. 5t. Louis, who holds the Marathon 1 record of 19:45. will ride against field, which will be composed of e Caffarella. Kenneth Verrill. AJ alak, George Meyers and Ed Har- D ON’T be surprised if this com ing campaign you read of Pat rick McFarland butting into the heavier fellows’ game. For unless the authorities govern ing the execution of the mailed fist, whoever they are, move the weight beam of the lightweight class, that is what will happen. McFarland learned while in train ing for his ten-round contest with Jack Britton that he can take the measure, inch by inch, of middle- weights. Eddie McGoortv, one of our most prominent 158-scale artisans, worked out with Packey for the Brit ton go. The black-haired and Sven- gali-orbed Irishman, gave Ed a box ing lesson every day of the jousting. • « • N OW. McGoorty is accredited a clever gentleman, the cleverest in his department outside of Gibbons, and a stiffer hitter with his left. He can feint out an opening and drive his punch in ahead of an opponent al most as well as anybody, and he knows the counters. Still McFar land, ring parlance adopted for the moment, "made a monkey out of him.” While working out for the Britton festival, Packey likewise learned that the fat does not leave his body as readily as it used to. for the reason that there’s not much fat on him. An ounce over a certain small amount and he is removing solid flesh. A good trainer will not allow his man to train off solid flesh except under rare circumstances, such as w r hen a big forfeit must be saved. • * * P ACKET did not train hard enough for Britton, or rather did not give himself enough time to reduce to the prescribed figure. It does take time in Packev’s case. As a consequence, when he got in New York, he had to resort to the Turkish bath to make the weight and he went into the ring registering In the neighborhood of 140, with a yellow look on his face and circles underlining his eyes. McFarland has not been a legiti mate lightweight fod two years or over. But he is a smart fellow and has been getting away with more stuff than any boxer in the profes sion. He has had pounds on most every man he’s boxed for many a day. More power to him for doing it but the end probably came in the Britton affair. The public saw how big he was, and now he will indeed have to show* some sharp tactics to get on with any more lightweights. What’s more. I don’t think Packey wants to. He’s taking on more muscle. * * * T HE hardest task McFarland faces is that of making weight. He does not do this often—only when the coin is thick and tawny—-but there's no doubt he considers it m the light of a crime, for who wouldn't if he were as wealthy as Packey and as high in his chosen trade. It is not the fighting that's distasteful to these veterans; it's the training. It’s not hard to detect the close of Paekey's tirade among the light weights. He can’t get on with Rit chie, for he's too big. He has whipped Britton. Cross and Murphy, so there is not much show for him there unless he wants to undergo the agony of again making a low weight and I surmise he is past that stage. There's a load of money in the bigger divisions for Packey Mack, without as much effort as his "light weight" affairs call for, and he has a noble chance for the halo of the middle ranks. Packey wants to be called a champion before he leaves fistic warfare—another authorized fact—so the zodiac seems to point to an enlargement of activity for the stockyard star. DANVILLE HURLER WORKS NO-HIT SHUT-OUT GAME DANVILLE. ILL, July 30.—Harry Chapman, pitching for the locals, shut out Bloomington yesterday without a hit Danville winning 5 to 0. This is the first time this feat has been ac complished in the Three I League this season. No Place to Stage Mixed Match ^*•4* *I***i* v#*h Promoters After Best White Man Bv Ed W. Smith. C HICAGO, ILL., July 30.—They are saying; a lot of sarcastic things about the white hopes just now because one or two of them made the statement when Sam Langford landed in this country that they had put up the bars and would not meet a colored fighter. Jess Willard, out on the Pacific Coast, is credited with the statement that he would have nothing to do with the black fighter, and Arthur Pelky, Tommy Burns’ gladiator.- is said to have given ut terance to somthing along the same order. These statements caused many sporting writers to say mean things about the “white hopes.” • * * T T is a queer situation. It can be A summed up in this wise: The white man is roasted and toasted for declining to have anything to do with the blacks. Yet not one of the men who are, saying these unkind things about the white men could find a sin gle place in America where a match between a big white man and a star black .could be staged! There Is no such place on the map. So why should there be a howl because the whites decline to mingle? If Willard or Pel ky agreed to take on Sam Langford they couldn’t find a promoter any where who would stage It. » * * ALMOST as soon as the announce- ment was made that Langford was on his way back, looking for a lot of trouble, .the subject of mixed matches came up. and they were promptly tabooed In the chief boxing centers. New York was one of the first to put the ban on. and Cali fornia followed in a hurry. In most of the other spots where boxing is tolerated, and is not protected by any State law. it would be the next thing to suicide for a promoter to suggest such a thing as a mixed match, es pecially with such a man as La.ng- ford engaged. Why, then, with no chance of any such matches in sight, comes all this talk about this one or that one being afraid? • * • THERE are enough blacks to go 1 around, and there is only one chance for them. That is to battle among tjiemselves and settle the question. They say Langford isn’t what he was, that Jack Johnson has passed his best day. that Jeanette is there strong, and that McVey, etc. With the black heavies placed the way they are, there should be little trouble in getting a settlement among them- selvec. During the trouble the white heavies can settle their own conten tion among themselves, and every body will be-satisfied. » * * THE first of these white contests 1 will be flashed in New York Au gust 5 between Jim Flynn, of Pueblo, and Gunboat Smith, of Philadelphia. Jack Curley, who is handling Flynn’s affairs, very truthfully and tritely re marks: “They may be a bad lot. these big white fellows, but there must be a best man among them. That’s what we want to try and un cover.’,’ There is every reason to be lieve that the public will become in terested if we ever succeed in get ting a “best man.” one who stuck out as Luther McCarty did when he met his unfortunate end. m m • B UT there isn't now and won't be for a good long time any de mand by the public for mixed matches. The public was taught a severe lesson in the last big mixed match, and there doesn’t sepm to be any hankering for a repetition, or even the possibility of a repetition of such an affair as that at Reno in 1910. BASEBALL SUMMARY SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Atlanta at Mobile (two games). Chattanooga at Birmingham. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. | W. L. Pc Mont. 59 40 .596 1 Chatta. 49 47 .510 Mobile 61 44 .681 M’phis. 50 56 .472 B’ham. 53 46 .535 Nash. ’ 42 57 .424 Atlanta 60 45 .626 I N. Or. 34 63 .351 Tuesday's Results. Birmingham 4, New Orleans 3. Chattanooga 2. Montgomery 2 (six innings, rain). Nashville 2, Memphis 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Detroit at Washington. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Boston. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Macon at Charleston. Albany at Columbus Savannah at Jacksonville. Standln W L. Pc. Col'bus. 19 10 .655 Sav’nah 16 11 .603 J’ville. 14 14 .500 of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. Albany 14 16 .467 Ohas’n 14 17 .452 Macon 10 19 .345 Standing < W L. Pc Phila 66 28 .702 C’land. 58 38 .604 Wash’n. 55 40 .579 Chicago 61 49 .510 of the Clubs. W. L. Boston 46 46 Detroit 40 59 S. Louis 39 62 Pr .500 .404 386 N. York 29 62 .319 Tuesday’s Results. Philadelphia 8, Detroit 0. Washington 2. St. Louis 1. Boston 5-2, Chicago 3-0. Cleveland 6-6, New York 3-2. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Brooklyn at Pittsburg. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. New York at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pet N York 65 27 .707 Phila 53 34 .655 Chicago 48 45 .616 P’burg. 45 46 .495 W. L. Pet Brioklyn 42 45 .483 Boston 39 51 .433 C’nati. 37 59 .385 S. Louis 36 58 .381 Tuesday’s Results. 1-3, St. Louis 0-1. New* York Philadelphia 7. Pittsburg 4 Cincinnati 6, Brooklyn 5. Boston 9. Chicago 1. Virginia League. Petersburg 1. Newport News 0. Roanoke 1, Portsmouth 4 Richmond 8 Norfolk 4. Carolina Association. Winston 6, Charlotte 3 Durham 4. Greensboro 3. Tuesday’s Results. Jacksonville 6. Savannah 5. Charleston 4, Macon 2. Columbus 2, Albany 0. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Cordele at Thomasville. Valdosta at Waycross. Americus at. Brunswick. Standing of the Clubs. W L Pet Cordele 15 11 .577 T’ville. 14 11 .560 B'wick. 14 12 .538 W. L. Pet Valdosta 12 14 462 Am’cus. 12 16 .444 W’cross. 11 16 .423 Tuesday’s Results. Brunswick 4, Americus 0. Waycross 7, Valdosta 4 Thomasville 4. Cordele 2. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Talladega at Opelika Gadsden at LaGrange. Anniston at Newnan. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pet. — G'den 43 31 .581 Newnan 38 34 .528 Opelika 38 36 .314 W L. Pet L’G’ge. 35 38 479 Annis'n 34 40 .459 Tal’dega 33 42 .440 Tuesday’s Results. Gadsden 10 LaGrange 2. Opelika 8. Talladega 0 Anniston-Newnan. rain. sporting Food I Clarke and Conzelman Selected Two Games W1 th Gulls—Perhaps By QKORQft ft. PH AIR— FLY CASTERS TO ORGANIZE. Atlantans interested in fly and bait casting are to meet Friday night, August 1, 8 o’clock, at the Yancey Hardware Company. Peachtree street. All inter ested in the sport are invited to be pres ent and participate in the organization. Fly and bait casting clubs are in exist ence all over the country, and tourna ments are held. Chicago. Denver. San Francisco all have clubs and one of the most interesting sights of the New York and Boston Sportsman Shows is the casting tournaments. Prizes are of fered for distance and accuracy. ABSENCE. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder: That is why / long for you." Thus a lovesick poet warbled When his chicken up and blew. Absence makes the fan grow fonder When the team is far away, And is burning up the circuit, Winning pastimes every day. But when things are breaking badly And the team goes on the blink. Absence makes the fan grow fonder 1—DON'T—THINK! Quoth Charlie Somers, the well-known baseball Impresario: “Few of the major league clubs will show a dollar profit this year.” We notice Mr. Somers and his fellow Impressarios sellina out, do we not? We note that Sam Langford is match ed to fight some mysterious person whom he does not know. We might also say that said fighter’s relatives will not know him when Sam has finished the Job. It is said that red-headed men have great executive ability. Likewise it is rumored in England that red-headed men can play lawn tennis. While we look upon tennis as con siderable pastime, we do not hesitate to say that a snapshot of a woman play ing that game would never win a prize in a beauty contest. Washington fans are raising a fund to buy a loving cup for Walter Johnson, and it is rumored that seven American League managers are raising a fund to retire him on a pension. Ad Wolgast having parted with Tom Jones, it might be said that he has lost hla voice. In view of the success of Napoleon Lajole after every session on the bench, it would be advisable for Frank Chance to bench his whole team every other da^. E. WALSH.* The little old spitter is on the frittz And feeble and weak it floats, .Vo more like a shot through the air it flits To capture the foe men's goats. Time teas when Ms little old arm was new And he was a strong young geek, And they never gave him a thing to do But work seven days per week. It Is true, as the papers say, that Pal Brown is off for Australia. In fact, Joe Woodman will vouch for the statement that any fighter who goes to Australia is off. SPEAKING OF LEFTY RUSSELL. Lives of pitchers all remind us can kill our pitching arm. And a few short years will find us Bitching hay upon the farm. MIDSEASON MUSING8. The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, When baseball teams go on the bum And not a fan to cheer— When fans no longer rise to shout And often rise to jeer. And managers are trying out Recruits to use next year. When Ray Schalk is chased out of the game for protesting a decision there Is a general suspicion that the said decision could not have stood up under the pure food laws. Sam Langford and Joe Jeannette are said to have been matched. We were about to add the word “again,” but we considered it unnecessary. The fa^t that Carl Morris knocked out A1 Benedict reveals the sad fact that you can always find something worse. By Joe Agler. M obile, ala., July 30.—one of the hardest rains I ever saw spoiled our chances of cleaning up on the Gulls yesterday, or maybe It spoiled the Gulls’ chances for cleaning up on us, the way things have been going lately. Anyway, about ten minutes before time for the game to be called, the bottom fell out and there never w u s a chance for the game. We are going to try to wind up the full series by playing two games this afternoon. Clarke and Conzelman will do the pitching for our aide, with Chapman and Dunn back of the wood. The team will present a new link up. and may not work very smooth ly at first. But at any rate the Crackers will go into the rest of the campaign without cripples. Holiz, the new outfielder, will play in right this afternoon, Manush will be at third and the captain. Wallop Smith, will play second. Wally, by the way. is a proud fath er to-day, and he is about the proud est I ever saw. He got a telegram yesterday afternoon late that Wallop Junior, weight 9 pounds, had arrived at the Smith home in St. Louis and was stopping with his mother. Wally immediately converted his home run of the day before into cigars and all the boys were smoking on him last night. We will be mighty glad to get back home, if only for three days, and our friends will have a chance to look over Clarke, Love and Iloltz, who have joined the team since it left home. BE ERECTED I HONEST IF BEL PICEDELEl SUIT GAMES S D sure are those who are pro moting the exhibition polo game at Fort McPherson a week from to-day that the game will prove a success that they are planning for a permanent club and grounds. It Is not unlikely that the club wjll be located on Ponce DeLeon avenue just opposite the baseball park. This would be an Ideal spot. It wouldn’t cost a heap of money to tear down the old amusement buildings that now “decorate" the grounds. Would Be an Ideal Spot. The club would surely prove a suc cess if locatel there. It would be only a fifteen-minute ride on the street car, and the members could easily get out there after business hours, enjoy an hour or two of playing, and still be home in time for dinner. The backers df the polo venture have also looked over a stretch of land out Peachtree Road, not far from Buckhead. Another desirable location would be at the Speedway. The track could be torn down There Is an Ideal clubhouse there now. while the grandstand would surely be a marvel to witness a polo match from. Game Sure to Be a Success. There is no doubt about the game next Wednesday being a success. Everybody Is talking about it. The Capitol City and Athletic clubs will turn out en masse It is not un likely that these two foremost clubs will form teams for a match a few weeks later. The Fort McPherson team, which comprises four lieutenants, captained by Lieutenant Hornsby Evans, is hard at work training. Tom Weaver Lamar Hill, Dr. J. O. Seamons, who will play on the All-Southern team, will start practising to-morrow. Two crack players from South Caro lina are expected to arrive Friday to help the All-Southerns- in their at tempt to down the soldier boys. »VOULD you give 25 cents for a good job? Place a “Want Ad" in The Geor gian and get one. Bv Billy Sunday. Old-Time Ball Player and World- Famous Evangelist. E verywhere i go i am asked: “Are you still interested in baseball?” You might as well ask a Califor nian. “Do you love the sunshine?” or ask an old ex-fire horse, “Do you re member the sound of the gong?” Baseball Is and always will be loved and honored by the American people as long as it is kept clean and free from gamblers and crooks and from the taint of suspicion that it’s not on the square. It is on the square, al though a bunch of lobsters have tried to cast a cloud over the game. I don’t believe the game is any faster to-day than twenty years ago I do not beiieve the players are any classier or speedier than In the past. • * * T *HERE are some fine twlrlers in the game, but I will put old John Clarkson, Amos Rusie or Charlie Rad- bourn^ up with any of the pill sllng- ers of to-day. Why, when any of these old sports cut loose In the box all you could see was a white streak j going over the plate, and the tem perature would drop three degrees as the ball shot past. They double-columned the fact that Ty Cobb scored from second base on an infield hit. Why, Bud. I pulled off that same stunt two times in one se ries over twenty years ago. I used to go around the bases in fourteen seconds from a standing start. It’s the player who has plenty of gray matter and passes up the booze who keeps in the spotlight. BATS HEDGES S T. LOUIS, MO., July 30.—Presi dent R. L. Hedges of the Browns returned from a trip to Montgomery. Ala., last night, with Branch Rickey, the club’s secretary, and the announcement that he ha$ exercised his option on Pitcher Ed Manning and bought Outfielder Wal ker, of the Montgomery team. Still another player from the same club may be obtained before the close of the season. The Browns paid $4,006 for Walker, who is esteemed the best asset on the club, in the fielding de partment. * Doesn’t Want to Buy Club. President Hedges, when asked if he had closed a deal to buy the Mont gomery club, said he had not. “Furthermore, I don’t expect to. The club Is a loser, and worth noth ing. Montgomery Is a town of 40.000 persons, half of whom are negroes. The team has never been a money maker, and in my opinion can neveh be made a paying investment. For the sake of a place to send my play ers, I might have bought the club* but the price was laughable.” Incidentally, Hedges took occasion to deny the rumor that has been go ing the Southern rounds that Man ager Johnny Dobbs, of the Montgom ery club, would be made manager of the Browns. Dobbs Will Not Lead Browns. “Dobbs is the smartest man In the Southern League to-day.” declared Hedges. “He could be manager of any one of four teams if he cared to accept the job. But ay for his com ing here, you can dismiss that from your mind. “Dobbs, however, is a better major league manager than half the men now in charge of big clubs to-day.” President Hedges stated that he ex pected to go to Indianapolis Satur day. He wants to look over the play ers of that club. Hedges will also take a peek at Niehoff, of the Louis ville club. Secretary Branch Rickey departs to-day for a tour of the bushes in search of good-looking baseball ma terial. LOOK—You have read this; it you want anything, others will read your ad If it’s in the Want Ad Section. Headaches caused by eye-strain are cured by our scientifically fitted lenses. Oculist service at opticians’ prices. L. N. Huff Optical Company, two stores, 52 West Mitchell, 70 Whitehall. adv. FULL OF SCABS What could be more pitiful than the condi tion told of In this letter from A R. Avery. Waterloo. N. Y. We have been using your Tetterlne. It’a the beat on earth for skin ailments. Mrt. S C. Hart was a eight to see. Her face waa a mats of scabs. Tetterlne has cured It. Cured by Tettenne Tetterlne cures eczema, ground Itch, ring worm aud all skin troubles. Its efTect Is magical 50c at druggists, or by mall. 6HUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. GA. Coast - Wise Ships for Pleasant Trips CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. TO Savannah, Ga. Thence a cool ocean voyage on palatial steamships. Round-trip Fares from Atlanta Including meals and berth while at sea New York. .. $38.23 . Boston 42.25 ✓Q Baltimore .... 29.25 ^25 Philadelphia 34.05 Correspondingly low fares from and to other places. Ask nearest Ticket Agent. W. H. Fooo, District Passenger Agent, Central of Georgia Railway, Atlanta, Ga.