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THE ATLANTA UEUKUIAN AND NEW& By W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, Au( 1 — Money talk* So says the old sporting slo gan, and by the same token there are times when money proclaims itaelf in clarion tones. Ad Wolgast, who haa been mooning around In a half-hearted way ever fines It was brought home to him that an operation for appendicitis had robbed him of much of his fight ing force, had almost despaired of getting into the limelight again, when a happy thought struck h<m. He challenged Willie Ritchie for $25,000 a side, and the sporting world, hearing the chink of so much money, immediately stopped to listen. Then, right at the psychological moment, Ritchie said the proposition looked good to him. and the sporting world’s sense of hearing became more acute than ever. Now, in this case, as In others, money’s voice may dwindle to a whisper, and finally merge into com plete silence. That is. so far as threats of a big side wager are con cerned. Ring men from time Im mortal have brandished bales of cur rency! and Jingled $20 piece* only to deride after mature consideration that it was as well to let the ticket- purchasing public supply the sinews of war. And the public, happy in the pros pect of a match between fighters with pretensions to class, was quite con tent to have it that way. » • * T F Wolgast and Ritchie decide to 1 have it out, never a single mem ber of the grand army of fight fan? will insist that the wager feature of the affair be lived up to. Of course, if the lads are stubborn about risk ing some of their accumulations, no one will object. The notable thing about the situa tion Just now Is that there seems to have been a genera! awakening to the fact that Wolgast is entitled to a return match with Ritchie. It might be said that the feeling that little Ad should he given a chance to retrieve the laurels he lost on a technicality has existed ever since the day Ritchie became champion. But the absence of enthusiasm on the point was due to Wolgast’s tactics In many of ills matches he was careless about his training, and even now, while hurling defiance at Ritchie, he is going around with his hand Incased in u plaster cast. What he needs Is a couple of months far from the maddening crowd to give his splintered knuc kles a chance to knit and enable the Wolgast frame to store up a little vitality. The Ritchie match will keep, and there Is little fear of the public forgetting that the chance Is coming to WolgaM. • • • DII.I.Y NOLAN, ex-manager of * * Ritchie, is in town, and was ask ed w'hat he thought of the Rltchie- Wolgast contest as an “attraction.” "I suppose,’* said Nolan, "that Tommy Murphy haa the best right of them all to a match with Ritchie, but I honestly believe that a Wolgast- Ritchie bout would draw a big gate. To my way of thinking It Is the best card in sight. I have always made it a point to keep track of public sentiment in these matters, and I know r that 70 per cent of the spec tators who passed out through the gates the day Ritchie won the title from Wolgast on a foul felt that Wol gast should be given a chaneo to re gain what he had lost. And that sentiment still exists.” And whisper, Nolan is skeptical about Ritchle’e good faith in saying he is willing to box Wolgast again Now that the strings that held manager and man together are sever ed. Nolan is prone to call a spade a spade, and he says that Ritchie never relished the thought of one day hav ing to stand in front of Wolgaftt again. According to Nolan, the names on Ritchie’s roll of eligible* were Riv ers, Freddie Welsh and Leach Cross. Ad Wolgast’s name was "nivver mln- tloned” In any of the councils of war that Nolan and Ritchie held. • • • T> !TCH1E suid in Los Angeles a day 1 ^ or so ago that he held aloof from Wolgast. thinking Ad would prove a poor card. That is poppy-cock Wol gast. were he to train right, Is the best lightweight card in sight to-day. He Is a card for the reason that fighters who perform as well as Wol gast has done are always strong with the fight-going public until signallv defeated, and nothing like that has happened to Wolgast as yet He is a card for the further rea son that the breath of suspicion has never attached to any of hla contests He always gave the public the beet he was capable of, and In the matter of square dealing. Wolgast’s record is on a par with that of Battling Nel son. TM'i "leKKAN MCK. Tht UNfreD SfATVS W ®* N 0rr ^ Dervo. i "' C *XO I. 4CT NHILD. I COULD MM. * course fryyRx lOEOM fPOETS’ COVXEED^ EXPERT Mutt’s Patriotism Makes It Tough for the Canine By ‘Bud’ fisher IE WILSON NATS Am NeflNC l He*o send about nm err* halx.) fturAs oveR-Twe une and co&an OP. T CANT- STAFFS ANYTHING Mexican. A msxkan to "ve r% UKe A R-Et> ala* to a Bull Price Good and Thompson Bad + • + + • + +•+ +•+ +•+ Another Bargain Bill for To-day McQILL GOES TO MACON. MOBILE. ALA.. Aug 2 Outfielder William McGill, recalled from Pens* cola when the Cotton States finished its season, was sent to Macon, In the South Atlantic League Miller, an out fielder from Duluth, Minn . batting 3«0. has wired Manager Finn that he will report at Montgomery next week FORSYTH twice to-day rUn31 1 n 2:30 and 3:30 JOE WELCH Robt. L. Dailev & Co. Dolan-Lenha r Co. Elsa Ward Cunningham & Marten Lafat Trio---Karl Crass NEXT WEEK Everest's Monkey Hippo drome By O. B. Keeler. I N the sparsely occurring Intervals w'hen we have nothing else to do. we sit and wonder solemnly at the number Hnd variety of the kinds of baseball that can be produced In the course of one reasonably p*hort afternoon Once in a while It doesn’t seem hu manly po slble. But we turn to the old score book, and it Is even so. There was yesterday afternoon, now. You might frisk the Big Show with a vacuum cleaner and not bring to light a prettier or more workmanlike eomhnt than that first game. Four hits apiece, tight pitching, clean and brilliant fielding, and the score 3 to 1. settled up in the eighth round by a eharp attack. And the home club on the long end. Can you beat it? • • • A ND then, ns the well-known Bard ** of Avon puts it. having gazed on this picture, unwind another reel and turn in the riot call. The bald fact that Fleharty slipped it to us conveys only a small percent age of the devastation. The redeem ing feature of the aftermath was the fact that It traveled only six frames In other words, the rain rut In at the wrong time, or else it stopped too early. • * • I T N fact, the afternoon was consumed 1 In a battle between the element*, two thousand earnest fans and a cou ple of ball clubs. At the end of the sixth Inning, game No. 1. the heavens opened as usual and proceeded to .save some more of the corn crop In the immediate vicinity of the ball parje. The umpires held up the proceed ings for the entire 30 minutes pre scribed by law. and then started the cruel war again. Atlanta was lead ing by a ?*core of 1 to 0 at the time, but the Volunteers, taking advantage of the only flivvers of the game, knot ted the count. Joe Agler then shot off a triple that scored Chapman, and added his own run when the useful Welchonce scraped a wallop off Jack Spratt’s upholsterv. • a • ILBERT PRICE was in complete '-T control of the situation from start to finish. The four hits of the opposition were in widely separated inning* 1 —one in the first, one in the fourth, one In the sixth and one in the eighth. Mr. More, who yielded the same number, was not so Judici ous In placing them One was wasted in the fourth but ad the rest were produced In the eighth. A base on balls, a sacrifice hit. an out and a wild chuck by More spotted the Town Roys their first tally without the aid of a hit. • • • TN addition to his valuable triple, Joe * Agler put on a bit of circus stuff In the sixth, when he made a neat steal of second while More clung to the ball, as If he was afraid somebody was going to take It away from him. Joe began to slide about the lime' More came to • • • C IRCUS SOLLY HOPMAN contin ued to meet with poor luck on the towpath. In the fifth inning of the first game, he walked, after two were down, and tried for second on a short passed ball. Chapman made a quick recovery, nnd Risland stuck the pill on the Hiding Artie for a hair line decision. It was fast work a!! ’round. • • • IT took two misplays. only one of * which shows in the box. to help the Volunteers to their one run in the first game. In the eighth Inning. Hot- man singled and Lindsay sacrificed. More hit to Holland who threw wide and the pitcher was safe. Artie reach ing third The infield crept up on the gras”, and Price did his part, T0 2! ^ y grand to .3 , o omt CARNEGIE MUSEUM ALASKA-SIBERIA PICTURES And High-Class First Run Movies Mat.lOc; Night 10c, 15c A 25c IASE BALL TO-DAY- Nashville vs. Atlanta DOUBLE HEADER-FIRS! GAME 2:15 SEASHORE EXCURSION AUGUST 7. Jacksonville, Brunswick, St. Simon, Cumberland, At lantic Beach, $6.00—Limit ed 6 days. Tampa, Fla., $8 —Limited 8 days. TWO SPECIAL TRAINS. 10 p. m. solid Pullman train. 10:15 p. m. Coach train. Make Reservations Now. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. SINGING CONVENTION IN ELBERT TO BE REPEATED EI.BERTON. Aug. 2—The Elbert County Singing Convention, which met in an all-dav session at the courthouse here, was a success in every way. The singing was enjoyed so much that it was decided to have another session here on Saturday be fore the fourth Sunday in September. r oh, mvtt, see t-hc Swell little a man ME. Hfc’s * iwtLfc, NJLL BLOODED Ha's valuable too. He’s a — Hfc'S A POLL &LOOD MexiceH HAIR.LEVS SPITZ , prom MEXICO Br 5-t>ss<2>„ making Daley hit weakly to short. Rialand stuttered with his hands, and Solly was over, but the runner was retired at first, saving Bisland a boot. • • • C ARL THOMPSON ran into some thing In the second game and bounced back before a hand was out. Daley singled to left, Callahan tripled to center, and Spratt .Mngled in the same hole, in rapid and terrifying succession. Clarke came on, and Spratt went out stealing, aftsr which two more singles went to waste, the five solid smashes producing only two runs. Clarke got in the next round, an error, a sacrifice and three hits—one of the fluke Cincinnati va riety—putting over two more runs and cinching things for the smiling Fleharty. • • • A FTER Manush had filed out for Clarke in the fifth, the fans got a belated treat. There was a slight delay, and then ’’String" Love, the human office building, was wheeled to the center of the arena. The long chap got a great hand an responded with a burst of speed that in the thickening du*k was sim ply unhittable. Half dodging a shoot. Callahan scratched a Texus Leaguer into left, but the tall boy put some more swift on the pill, and Spratt’s twisting short fly resulted in a sensa tional double play, put on by Tommy Long Callahan had reached second, when one of Love’s fast ones got clean through Dunn, nnd when Tommy came sprinting In for Spratt’s short pop. Cally broke for third. Tommy froze the fly on the dead run, and raced on over to second for the other out. Then Noyes fanned, bewildered by the speed of the long fork-hander. • * • A NOTHER bargain matinee for this afternoon, the trouble beginning at 2:15 o'clock. Manager Smith said this morning he had a good mind to shoot Thompson right back at the Void in one of the games. He was undecided as to Conzelman and Love for the other. Manager Schwartz an nounced that Williams would work In the opener, with Brackenridge In the afterpiece. “That’s all I've got,” said Bill, cheerfully. Belgium Puts Ban On Jack Johnson BRUSSELS, Aug. 2.—Jack John son ma.v soon be without a country to tight in. England does not want him. He can not return to America be cause of the sentence for white slavery hanging over his head. France harbors him, but not enough to allow him to mix with the guests In first- class hotels. Now* Belgium has put the ban on him. Following the announcement that the champion was to give boxing ex hibitions in Belgium, the Minister of Justice yesterday Issued an order that all boxing contests in the future should be Investigated. This move was made to prevent faking in matches. The hue and cry against Johnson’s exhibiting In Belgium became so great, however, that the Minister of Justice was forced to issue another edict. To-day he put the lid down on all boxing No further matches, whether between blacks or whites or inlxed, will be allowed to be staged In the kingdom. GRIFFIN AND ARMSTRONG IN WESTERN TENNIS FINAL CHICAGO, Aug 2—Clarence Griffin, California's latest tsnnls marvel, up held the reputation of his State by qualifying for the Western champion ship finals through a victory In his hardest match of the tournament over William Blair, of Lake Geneva. Wls . 6-2, 7-5. 6-2 To-day in the final round, upon whlc:., through the absence of Cham I pion Maurice MeLoughlln, depends the title, Griffin will meet Joseph Arm strong. of St. Paul, who yesterday downed Harry Waldner. of Chicago. 4-6. 6-1. 6-2. 6-3 Sports and Such FAMOUS IN SPORT—I. THE BASEBALL IDOL. THE BASEBALL IDOL (CF. IDLE) Is a state of mind. He was created by a lot of honest but thoughtless newspaper writers who were fond of Jokes and never ex pected to be taken seriously. Thus we see that Joking is a dangerous habit. The Baseball Idol leads a life of busy inactivity. In the winter months he is on the stage or In the newspapers telling all and sundry how’ many thousands of dollars he will demand in the spring. In the spring he is hard at work demand ing In the summer he is In the hospital suffering with a commi nuted fracture of the feelings or on the bench recovering from the effects of a collision with the um pire. He takes a much-needed rest in the fall. Hailing from Marissa, HI., or Broken Bow, Nebr., he begins at once to talk for publication*about his "loyalty to our city,” that being the one that has bid highest for his services. His loyalty fluctuates with hla pay, and is changed with his uniform. Occasionally he adds to the sum of human Joy by nod ding to some otherwise intelligent man In the grandstand w’ho at once rushes down to his office and demands a 50 per cent increase of salary on the strength of it. On the field he can always be rec ognized, as he is the last member to emerge from the clubhouse and is languid and aloof. We knew one also who could be Identified by the skill with which he could quarter an oval dish of mashed po tatoes and empty It clean in four swift scoops of the knife. He is the one financial fly in the golden ointment of the magnate. Whenever a club owner groans and tosses in his sleep he Is thinking about some item or $10,000 on his payroll. From this w’e learn that in the wonderful scheme of things even a Baseball Idol has his use. Don’t mlR« the next article of the great series—“The Alibi." THE RULE PROVIDING heavily padded head-gears for motor cyclists in track competition is a wife one. We have always under stood that it cost a lot of money to build a good motor track. • • • IF JOHN BULL HAS ANY more valuable Junk lying around over there, let’s send somebody over after it and get the whole thing finished up. • • • THERE IS A LOT OF unneces sary excitement about betting in ball parks, which is bound to die a natural death. The few with so little Intelligence as to bet on base ball can not acquire much money or keep it long—so there you are. • • • AD WOLGAST HAS DECIDED to re-enter the ring in a match with Johnny Dundee, which is about as safe an entrance as could be de vised. • • • CHANCE’S DIFFICULTY IN making trades Is occasioned by the fact that since the Chicago deal the other managers resent his want ing anything in return. Three Naps Using Matty’s Fadeaway CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.—Three mem bers of the Naps' pitching staff have mastered the fadeaway ball Invented by Christy Mathewson aud have been using It lately to deceive batters. Cy Falkenborg learned the deliver^ while with Toledo, and his employment of it is the chief factor in his successful comeback, he says. Falkenberg show ed Vean Gregg and George Kahler how } to throw it. and after experimenting for a month, both added It to their regular repertoire about six weeks ago. Gregg is believed to be the only southpaw In the big leagues that uses a fadeaway. The ball Is hard to con trol, but the three Naps have achieved good results with it. By Damon Runyon. C hicago, ill., Aug. 2.—Rube Marquard, McGraw’s eminent southpaw, who hung up a rec ord for straight victories last sea son that will probably be a mark to shoot at for some time to come, is loose again upon a record-making ex pedition. The Rube has now’ com piled nine consecutive victories, or nearly one-half of the number he un furled last year, and is still going strong. It may be that Marquard will never again reach the mark he set him self last season and which such hurl- ers as Walter Johnson and Joe Wood have tried for and failed. But he ha3 gone nearly half the dlsta^e with out any difficulty whatever, and has a good chance to equal if not pass the nineteen straight, which now’ stands as the record. Has Good Chance for Record. The thing that stands very much in his* favor Just now is that the Giants are going at top speed. They are winning Just as often as they were early last year w’hen he started his large run, and what is more, they are apt to continue their pace through the balance of the season, as was the case last season, for they have already had their annual sliimp, and are now- in the ascendant. Has Changed His Style. Marquard has changed his style of pitching since he made his big run of nineteen straight. He was under :• heavy strain during that time last year, because he tried to get every man that faced him at the plate. He had not learned then to save him self for the tight place, but he now permits his teammates to do a little work whenever he has a lead, and, like Matty, only- uses all of his stuff when the situation demands it. For that reason he may be able to go along and win repeatedly without in any way impairing his arm and bring ing on a slump such as followed his streak last year. 40 BAPTIZED AT DALTON. DALTON, Aug. 2.—As a result of the revival meeting In progress in North Dalton, the Rev. E. B. Farrar. In charge of the meeting, baptized 40 people In a large pool near the Crown Cotton Mills, the baptizing attracting hundreds of people. FIREMEN GOING TO TAMPA. DALTON, Aug. 2 —Instead of spending the!.* annual outing at St. Simons Lsland. as planned, the Dalton fire department will go to Tampa, Fla., and will leave a^ere on August I 7 in stead of August Z. Ranks of Champion Clubs Are Depleted Queer how quickly a world’s championship team will disintegrate. Already eight of the champion Ath letics of 1911 have severed their con nection with that club, while six of the Red Sox who helped to win the American League bunting and later down the New- York Giants are no longer with Boston. Of the 1911 array of Athletics. Liv ingston, Hartsel. Lord. Kraus. Dan- forth, Martin, Morgan and Derrick are no longer on the Philadelphia roster, while Danny Murphy, Harry Davis and Ira Thomas are but extras, with Jack Coombs prevented by ill ness from playing. It is something new. however, for a world's championship manager to lose out before the following season is ended, but the going of Stahl was preceded by the release of Pitchers Pape and O’Brien and extra Inflelders Ball. Krug and Bradley. Of the Giants w-ho lost to the Ath letics in 1911, Ames, Becker, Devore. Devlin, Drucke. Latham and Paulette are now- missing. Motorcycle Races Off Until Tuesday Rain again caused a postponement of the motorcycle races. Just when everything looked rosy for some fast going at Jack Prince’s saucer yester- dav afternoon, a big shower blew up and put everything "on the bum.” So the management decided to call proceedings off for the week. Next Tuesday night the same card that was to have been held last evening will be run. In the meantime all the riders will be working on their machines in hope of establishing some new records. ELBERT0N PASTOR IS ON THREE WEEKS' VACATION ELBERTON. Aug. 2.—The Rev. R. C. Cleckler, of the First Methodist Church, is attending camp meeting in Har: County. After the camp meeting he will attend the conference of the Sundav school and Epworth League near Waynesboro. N. C. There will be no services at the First Church for three weeks. Sporting Food OIORQB ■. SPORT. McLoughlin smote the hall so hard he made them all look lame; And English critics up and wrote: “It is a crying shame! Such nide, uncultured tennis play will kill the grand old game" IT MIGHT HAPPEN THU8LY: Old Honus Wagner came to bat and hit one to the fence. “O, Roughneck! Roughneck!" yelled the fans, whose feelings were in tense. The umpire fined him fifty bones and told \im beat it hence. OR THUSLY: Ad Wolgast poked a wallop through the other fellow's guard. “Yo. l-ose," the referee remarked. ‘‘You hit that man too hard, And as a member of this club you are forever barred." OR IT MIGHT BE THIS: Chick Evans drove the pellet far across the grassy lea. “Disqualified!" they said to him. “And wherefore?" questioned he. ‘Because " they said, ”you smote the ball with too much energy.” While the*e English expert* are about It, why not have McLoughlin Indicted for cruelty to tennis balls. ay be as our beloved English brethren opine, but so is Walter Johnson when he heaves his imoke ball. Lavem Chappell has been relegated to the bench as a result of a sore leg and paralysis of the batting average. Mr. Evers’ Idea of the national pastime is to walk right in. bawl the umps and walk right out again. The Intrepid gent who threw the brickbat at Ty Cobb escaped to parts unknown. He probably is at home beat ing his wife. EXERCISE. “O, baseball is a healthful game," a fan remarked to me. “It stirs the sluggish blood and makes the heart beat merrily. It clears the eye, it clears the brain, it makes the body strong; It lays aside a store of health to live and prosper long." “How often do you piny the gamef" / calmly made reply. And as he spoke there was a look of pity in his eye. “What? Me? Get out there in the sun and sweat to death?" he said. “Perchance you have a notion I am crazy in the head." There are those who hold that Larry Chappell has not struck his stride and there are others who hold that he has. Mr. Weston’s hike to Minneapolis may be considerable feat (not feet), but why should any one go to all that trouble to get to Minneapolis? After months of persistent endeavor, the Cards have achieved last place, demonstrating that perseverance always brings its reward. Even a pugilist believes In taking an occasional vacation. For Instance. Ad Wolaast haa offered to bet $25,000 In the last two days. THAT FAMILIAR RAG. Warble not in mournful numbers: “Sox are getting bumped again." I can hear it iH my slumbers. So familiar is the strain. BENTON TO LOSE SALARY AND PA* DOCTOR BilLS CINCINNATI. Aug 2.—President Gar ry Herrmann, of the Cincinnati baseball team, says that Rube Benton, who was seriously injured when his motorcycle collided with a street car. would not be allowed one nenny of salary and that the flub would not stand any expenses while he is at the hospital. Herrmann says that he had repeatedly requested Benton not to ride his cycle “The whole affair Is an Injustice to the club,” said Mr. Herrmann. “The injury to Benton means that we will have to get a pitcher or two and good pitchers are hard to get." RED SOX BUY PLAYERS. BOSTON. Aug. 2.—Announcement was made to-day of the purchase by the Boston club, of the American League, of Pitcher Reiger, of the St. Paul team, of the American Association, and In- fielder Carl Strom, of the Lawrence, Mass . team, of the New England League. Satisfaction in glasses depends upon their fitting properly. Our skillful fitting will satisfy the most critical. Oculist service at Opticians’ prices. L. X. Huff Optical. Co. Two Stores, 70 Whitehall. 52 W. Mitchell. Adv. To Call New Club Atlanta A. A. *£■•+ +•+ •*••4* White Has Fought 4 Champions , By Left Hook. A TLANTA Athletic Association. That Is the name of Lou Castro’s boxing club at Ponce DeLeon. Lou Is forming a regular club, and he expects to have some of Atlanta’s mest prosperous business men as members within the next few days. It is going to cost a heap of money to get the skating rink at Ponce De Leon fixed into a "regular” clubhouse, but the Count Is going to spend the money. All yesterday he had an architect going over the building. The plans will be ready within a day or two, and next Monday the carpenters will start work. There will be seats for 6,000 fans. Boxes, containing six chairs, will en circle the ring. Back of these will be row after row- of opera chairs. The ring is to be of regulation size. 24 feet by 24. The ropes are to be extra heavy and covered with reii plush. The posts will be of heavy brass, and highly polished. The “seconds” will be forced to wear white uniforms. And so will the ushers, ticket sellers and takers. Class will stick out prominently everywhere. * a * AND to open his classy club, the ** Count has by far the classiesr bout ever staged in Atlanta. In Char ley White he has a real contender for the lightweight title. Whitney is a tough fellow, and the most popular that ever fought here. Frank has boxed some tough lads here, too. Among them Clarence Eng lish. Jake Abel, Joe Thomas. Charley "Twin” Miller, Battling Nelson and Tommy O’Keefe. And since leaving here last spring he has been defeating all comers through the West. Only the other night he handed out Phil Knight a tough beating in Denver And Denver fans had been boosting this same Knight as a coming tltls holder. White has fought four champions. He has stopped Joe Thomas twice and Jake Abel once within the past two months. He fought Abe Attell to a standstill twice w-hile the Hebrew was a real champion He made Ad Wol gast look like a Joke in a six-round no-decision mill when Ad possessed the lightweight crown. And he held Johnny Kilbane even Charley gave Joe Mandot a terrific eight-round scrap when Joe was look ed upon as a champion two years ago. It was called a draw, although Char ley did all the forcing. He gave Pal Moore a severe trouncing. And he stopped Owen Moran, for mer English champion, in nine rounds. Young Shugrue. the man who defeat ed Leach Cross in New York last soring, twice lost the decision > White. W r ith a broken hand, broken in the fourth round, he gave Jack Britton the fight of his life in New Orleans* a few weeks ago. Tire bout was stopped in the eighteenth round be cause the sheriff thought the going was getting too rough. After the bout. Britton openly de clared that W T hite was the hardes: puncher he ever met. * * Y\7HITNEY has never been knocked ^ * out. Can White turn the trick that hundreds of others have failed to accomplish? No Class D league in the country is putting up a prettier pennant race than the Empire Just at this time. Every team in the league is within striking distance of first place and each day sees the race becoming warmer. Waycrosn has cut loose one of the most helpful winning streaks seen in the league in weeks. Although at the bot tom AVayeross has brought the league teams close together by winnings from teams higher up. The last at home se ries resulted in four victories, one tie and one defeat. Thomasville has added a few new men in anticipation of the post-season pennant games with Valdosta. Thomas ville has a team that is to be reckoned with, too. * • • Otto Jordan nearly always furnishes a lot of fun In even’ game he plays. Recently after he was thrown out easily at first on a slow one to the pitcher he rushed to first, sliding into the bag. lumped up and romped to second. He actually looked peeved when the umpire motioned that he was out. • • • Whitey Morse, who once played with the Atlanta team, and more recently of the South Atlantic League, is again signing * manager" after his name. He was released by Valdosta and signed with Brunswick, succeeding Charlie Moran, formerly of the Chattanooga team. • • • Doc Fenton continues his splendid work in center field for Waveross. In the m it of the series at Thomasville he caught three line drives against the fence, and only a short time ago did the same thing at Way cross. • • • As far as is known E?aby Wilder and Fillingim established a new no-hit rec ord for organized baseball when they pitched two no-hit games at Cordele re cently. Fillingim pitched a nine-inning no-hlt game and was followed by Wil der. who gave up no hits for six in nings. • • • Americus has been playing better baseball for the past few weeks than any team in the league. A casual re view of the scores of games played shows that the team has put up some mighty pretty exhibitions. • * • Wild Bill Clark has added a one-hit game to his credit. Pitching for W r ay- cross against Thomasville he let down the hard-hitting Thomasville bunch with but one hit. a single that was se cured In the first Inning • * • Signed as an outfielder, Pacey, of the Americus team, has developed into one of the best pitchers In the league. HH string of victories is apt to establish a new record in the Empire. A few of his games were won by mere luck, but most of them have been deserved vic tories. • • • Americus and Brunswick hare two pitchers who are brothers and they arq * apt to oppose each other most any day now They are the Stewarts and both seem to have the goods. • * • To Outfielder Medlock goes credit fo» the second home run hit on the Valdosta field. Bittlna, now with Charleston, formerly with Waycross, got th e first home run in Valdosta. Medlock played 4 with Waycross before he was slened b? Valdosta. • • • It Is quite probable that the firs* games of the pennant series In the Em pire will be played the last week in Au gust. 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