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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS -IOEQLAM fPORTS' OOVH2fD4 Mutt's Patriotism Makes It Tough for the Canine • • • « By ‘Bud’ Fisher By W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, Auk 2.— | Mon ay talks. So Nyi the old sporting Ho gan. and by the same token there are time* when motley proclaims Itself in clarion tones. Ad WolfBatt who has been mooning I around in a half-hearted way ever since It was brought home to him that an operation for appendicitis | had robbe-t him of rptich of Ids fight ing force, had almost despaired of getting into the limelight again, when a happy thought struck H‘m. He challenged Willie Ritchie f<>r *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 looks*<t good to him. and the sporting w orld's st nse of hearing became more acute than ever. Now, in this case, ns in others, money's voice may dwindle to a whisper, and finally merge Into com plete silence. That Is. so fur 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 decide 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 wav. • • • • f F Wo!gost and Ritchie decide tp * have it out. never a single mem ber of the grand army of tight fan- will instst 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 slttia tion Just now is that there seems to have been a general awakening to the ffiet that Wolga-t Is entitled to a return match with Ritchie. It might be said that the feeling that little Ad should be given a chance to retrieve the laurels he lost on a technicality has existed ever since the day Ritchie became champion Hut the absence of enthusiasm on the point was due to Wolgast’s tactics. In manv of his matches he was careless abrfut his training, and even now, while hurling defiance at Ritchie, he is going around with his hand Incased in a 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 VVoigast frame to store tip a little vitality. The Ritchie match will keep, and there Is little fear of the public forgetting that the chance is coming to Wolgn«t. "'C VCK. rut UNIY6D StATFs OJWiYTo YEAR. IH , Knock ranoits D€ao. fNER-Y Y|*\(; L YHP -fCHCC) l oert -nilo. i coolD •yw. a coerce frvpRx tiR S : *KF/\Vr icd sf No about etmr cmr hall pxjias oveft-TMe use ano cte/>,N up. t cant sTanO WCrHtNGi MextCAN. A ^exKAN TO |% UKF A PLA<» TO A BVJLL Price Good and Thompson Bad +•+ + • + + •+ +•+ + • + Another Bargain Bill for To-day B ILLY NOLAN, ex-manager of Ritchie, is In town, and was ask ed what he thought of the Rltchle- Wolgast contest as an “attraction." “I suppose,“ said Nolan, “that Tommy Murphy has the best right of them all to a match with Ritchie, but 1 honestly believe that a Wolgast - Ritehie 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’ 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 f*'lt that Wol- gast should be given a chance to re gain what he had lost. And that sentiment still exists" And whisper. Nolan Is skeptical about RitrhieV good faith in saving he is willing to box Wolgast again. Now that the strings that held manager hnd 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 Wolgast 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 min- tloned" In any of the councils of war that Nolan and Ritchie held. • * • 13 1TCH1K said in Los Angeles a day 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, lt> the best lightweight card In sight to-day. He is a card for the reason that flghterj who perform as well as Wol gast has done are always .strong with the tight-going public until signally 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 hts contests. He always gave the public the best he j was capable of. and in the matter of j square dealing Wolgast’s record is on a par with that of Rattling Nel- son. McGILL GOES TO MACON. MOBILE AI-A.. 'ug Outfielder i William McGill, recalled from V’ensa- I cola when the Cotton States finished I its season, was sent to Macon. In the ! South Atlantic league. Miller, an nut fielder from Duluth. Minn . batting 1 3*0. has wired Manager Finn lhat he I v Hi re no** « ♦ •• 1 WICE TO-DAY 2:30 ant. . 30 JOhl - • Robt. L. Dailey & Co. Dolan-Lenherr Co. Elsa Ward Cunningham 4 Marlon Lafal Trio--.Karl Cross Everest’s Monkey Hippo drome Bv 0. B. Keeler. I N the sparsely occurring interval* when we have nothing else to do. we sit and wonder solemnly at the number and variety of the kinds of baseball that can be produced in the course of one reasonably «**hort afternoon. Once In a while it doesn’t seem hu manly possible. Rut we turn to the old score book, and it Is even so. Th#r« was yesterday afternoon. now. Yon might frisk the Rig Show with < vacuum leaner and not bring to light a prettier or more workmanlike cor bat ’'an that first game. Four hits apiece, tight pitching, clean and brilliant fielding, and the score 3 to 1, settled up in the oighth round by a ehnrp attack. And the home club on the long end. Fan you beat It? • • • AND then, as the well-known Bard of Avon puto 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, tjie rain cut In at the wrong time, or else it slopped too early. • ♦ • T X fact, the afternoon was consumed * in a battle between the elements, two thousand earnest fane and a cou ple of bull clubs. At the end of the sixth inning, game No. 1, the heaven* opened as usual and proceeded to pave some more of the corn crop in the immediate vicinity of the ball park. The umpires held up the proceed ings for the entire 80 minutes pre scribed by law. and then started the cruel war again. Atlanta was lead ing by a *’core of 1 to ft 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 Welchonee scraped a wallop off Jack Spratt’s upholstery. • • • 1LBKRT PRICK was in complete v 1 control of the situation from start to finish The four hits of the opposition wure in widely separated inning** 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 all the rest were produced In the eighth. A base on balls a sacriP.ce hit. an out anti a wild chuck by More spotted the Town Boys their first tally without the aid of a hit. • • • I X’ addition to his valuable triple, Joe * ‘Xgler put on a bit of clrcue 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 time More came to. • • • f^lRCFS 80T.LV HOFMAN rout in- 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 •hick recovery and B'eland stuck • pill on the Hiding Artie for a hair. ■ decision. It was fast work all ini. • * * took two mtsplavs only one of which show* in the box. to help e Volunteer* to their one run In the | first game. In the eighth Inning. Hof- h man singled and Lindsay s***'*riffled. More hit to Holland who threw widt. an.! the nlu her was safe. Artie reach ing third The infield crept up on the gras' 1 , and Price did his part, TO-DAY 2:30 GRAND TONISHT Bi30 CARNEGIE MUSEUM ALA$KA-SI3ER!A PICTURES And High-Class First Run Movl«> Mat.lOc; Night 10c, 15c & 25c SEASHORE EXCURSION AUGUST 7. Jacksonville, Brunswick, St. Simon, Cumberland, At lantic Beach, $6.00—Limit- - ed 6 days. Tampa, Fla., $3 — Limited 8 days. TWO SPECIAL TRAINS. 10 p m. solid Pullman train. 1*.-.. ... . 10:15 p. m. Coach train. tashviUe vs. Atlanta Make Reservations Now. DOUBLE HEADER-FIRST GAME 2:15 j SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 1 making Daley hit weakly to short. Rlsland stuttered with his hands, and Solly was over, but the runner was retired at first, saving Bialand » hoot. • • • PARL THOMPSON ran into some- ^ thing in the second game and bounced back before a hand was out. Daley singled to left. Callahan tripl'd to center, and Spratt Hngted in the same hole. In rapid and terrifying succession. Clarke came on. and Spratt went out stealing, after which two more singles went to waste, the five solid smashes producing only two rune. 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 flied out for Clarke in the fifth, the fans gut 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 tnat in the thickening duek was sim ply ’inhlttable. Half dodging a shoot. Callahan scratched n Texas Leaguer into left, but the tall boy put some more swift on the pill, and Spratt s twisting short fly resulted in a sens* tional double play, put on by Tommy Long Callahan had reached second, when one of Love’s fast ones got dean through Dunn, and when Tommy came sprinting In for Bpratt’s short pop. Oally 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 * • • ANOTHER bargain matinee for this o 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 Vols in cne of the games. He was undecided as to Con*elman and Love for the other. Manager Schwartz an nounced that Williams would work In the opener, with Brackenrldge In the afterpiece. "That’s all I’Ve got." said Bill, cheerfully. Belgium Puts Ban On Jack Johnson BRUSSELS, Aug. 2— Jack John son may soon be without a country to fight In. England does not want him. He can not return to America be cause of the sentence for w’hite 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 hibiiions in Belgium, th»* 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-diA he put the lid down on all boxing. No further matches, whether between blacks or whi.e* or mixed, will be allowed to be stag, d in the kingdom. GRIFFIN AND ARMSTRONG IN WESTERN TENNIS FINAL CHICAGO. Aug 2 ---Clarence Griffin. California's latest tennis 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 l-Hke Geneva. NVls.. 6-2. 7-5. 6 2. To-day in the final round, upon which, through the absence of Cham pion Maurice McLaughlin, depends the title. Griffin will meet Joseph Arm strong. of St. Taul, who yesterday downer) Harry Waidner. of Chicago. 4-6, 6-1. fl-L*. 6-3. Sports and Such (By RIGHT CROSS/” AS E BALL to-day- SINGING CONVENTION IN ELBERT TO BE REPEATED Kl.RERTON. Aug. 2.—The Elbert County Singing Convention, whicn tnet in an all-day 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. 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, Ill., or Broken Bow. Nehr., 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 his 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 who at once rushes down to his office and demands a 50 per cent increase of salary cn 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 disn of mashed po tatoes ond 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 UO.ftOO on his payroll. From this we learn that in the wonderful scheme of things even n Baseball Idol has his u*e. Don’t miss the next article of the great series—"The Alibi." • * * THE RULE PROVIDING heavily padded head-gears for motor cyclists in track competition is a wise 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 ns 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 «afe an entrance as could be de vised. 4 4 4 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 ha ye mastered the fadeaway ball invented by Christy Mathew son and have been using it lately to deceive batters. Cy Fallcenbcrg learned the delivery while with Toledo, and his employment of it is the chief factor in his successful comeback, he gcys Fslkenberg showed Venn Gregg and George Kahler how to throw It. and after experimenting for a month, both added it to thei»* regular repertoire about six weeks ago. Gregg is believed to be the only southpaw in the big leagues that uses a fadeaway. The hall is hard to con trol. but the three Naps have achieved good results with it. 40 BAPTIZED AT DALTON. DALTON. Aug. 2.— As a result of the revival meetir~ In progress in North Dalton, the Rev. E R Fnrrnr. in charee of the meeting, baptized 4ft 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 their annual outing at St. Simons Island, as planned, the Dalton fire department will go to Tampa. Fla . and will leave here on August 7 in stead of August 9. Bv Damon Run von. C hicago, ill.. Aup. •>.—Rub- 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 be un furled la9t year, and is still going strong. It may be that Marquard will never again reach the mark he set him self last eeason and which such hurl- ers as Walter Johnson and Joe Wood have tried for and failed. But he has gone nearly half the distance with out any difficulty whatever, and has a good chance to equal if not pa«s the nineteen straight, which now stands as the record. Has Good Chance for Reoord. The thing that stands very much in hN favor Just now is that the Giants are going at top speed. They are winning just as often as they were early last year when 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 slump, and are now in the ascendant. Has Changed His Style. Marquard has changed hie 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 hls streak last year. Ranks of Champion Clubs Are Depleted Queer how quickly a world's championship team wiil 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 W’in 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 I Davis and Ira Thomas are but extras. • with .lack Coombs prevented by ill ness from playing It is something new. however, for a world’s championship manager to lote 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 Infielders j Ball. Krug and Bradley. Of the Giants W'ho lost to the Ath- j letics in 1911, Ames. Becker. Devore, j Devlin. Drueke. I^atham 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 day 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 I be working on their machines in hope l of establishing some new records. Sporting Food QIORQI ft. PWAIPI-~~— SPORT. McLaughlin smote the ball so hard he made them all look lame, And English critic's up and trrote: “It Is a crying shame! Such rude, uncultured tennis play will kill the grand old game" IT MIGHT HAPPEN THU8LY: Old Honus Wagner came to bat and hit one to the fetus. "O, Roughneck! Roughneck!” yelled the fans, whose feelings were in tense. The umpire fined him fifty bones and told him beat it hence. OR THE SLY: Ad Wolgast poked a wallop through the other fellow's guard. "You lose” 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 whereforet" questioned he. 'Because," they said, "you smote the ball with too much energy While these English experts are about It, why not have McLoughlln indicted for cruelty to tennis balls. McLoughlln may be guilty of trickery, as our beloved English brethren opine, but so is Walter Johnson when he heaves his smoke ball. Lavern 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 play the garnet" / calmly made reply t And as he spoke there was a look of pity in his eye. “ Whatf Met Get out there in the sun and sweat to deatht" 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? A'ter 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 Wolgast has offered to bet $25,000 in the last two days. THAT FAMILIAR RAG. Warble not in mfturnful numbers: "Bor are getting bumped again" / can hear it in my slumbers. So familiar is the strain. ELBERTON PASTOR IS ON THREE WEEKS’ VACATION ELBERTON Au*. 2—The R*-v R. C. Clfcckler, of the First Methodist Church, is attending camp meeting in Hart County. After the camp meeting he will attend the oonferenoe of the Sundav school and Epworth League near Waynesboro, N. C There will be no services at the First Church for three weeks. BENTON TO LOSE SALARY AND PA V DOCTOR BilLS CINCINNATI. Aug 2 —President Gar ry Herrmann, of the Cincinnati baseball team, says that Rube Benton, who was seriously injured when hls motorcycle collided with a street car, woudl not be alolwed one penn> of his salary and that the club would not stand any expenses while he is at the hospital. Herrmann says that he had repeatedly requested Benton not to ride hie 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 maoe to-day of the purchase by the Boston club, of the Amelrcan League, of Pitcher Reiger. of the St. Paul team, of the American Association, and In- flelder Carl Strom, of the Lawrence, Mass., team, of the New England League Satisfaction in glasses depend* upon their fitting properly. Our skillful fitting will satisfy the most critical. Oculist service at Opticians' prices. L N Huff Optical. Co. Two Stores. 70 Whitehall, 52 W. Mitchell. Adv. To Call New Club Atlanta A. A. +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ White Has Fought 4 Champions By Left Hook. A TLANTA Athletic Association. That is the name of Lou Caetro’s boxing club at Ponce DeLeon. Lou is forming a regular club, and he expects to have some of Atlanta's rAcst prosperous business men as members within the next few days. It Is going to coat 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 artart 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 red plush. The posts will be of heavy brass, and highly polb'hed. The "seconds" will be forced to wear white uniforms. And so will the ushers, ticket sellers and takers. (Hass will stick out prominently everywhere. • • • AND to open his Glassy club, the Count ha? by far the classlesr 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 Phi! Knight a tough beating In Denver And Denver fans had been boosting this same Knight as a coming title holder. Whit* ha* 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 spring, twice lost the decision » White. With a broken hand, broken in the fourth round, he gave Jack Britton the fight of his life in New Orlean* a few weeks ago. The 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 White was the hardes puncher he ever met. • * * \\7 IT IT NET has never been knocked ^ out. Can White turn the trick that hundreds of others have failed to accomplish? EMPIRE LEAGUE NOTES 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. • • • Waycross has cut loose one of the most helpfu' winning streaks seen in the league in weeks. Although at the bot tom Waycross 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 every 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. jumped up and romped to second. Be 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 Houth Atlantic League, is again signing “manager" after nis 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 Waycross. In the first of the series at Thomasville he caught three line drives against the fence, and only a short time ago did the same thing at Waycross. • • * As far as is known Baby Wilder and Fillingim established a new no-hit rec ord for organized baseball when they pitched two no-hit games at Cordele re cently. illlnglm pitched a nine-inning no-hlt game and was followed by Wil der. who gave up no hits for six in nings. • * • AmericuB 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 Way- 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. • * * 8igned as an outfielder. Dacey. of the Amerieus tram, has developed into one of the best pitchers in the league. His 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. • * * Amerieus and Brunswick have two pitchers and they are apt to oppose each other most any day now. They are the Stewart’s and both seem to hae the goods. * * 4 To Outfielder Medlock goes credit foi the second home run hit on the Valdosta field. Bitting, now with Charleston, formerly with Waycross. got the first home run in Valdosta. Medlock played with Waycross before he was signed by Valdosta. • 44 It is quite probable that the first games of the pennant series In the Em pire will be played the last weeh In Au gust The season ends August 27. and unless the directors decide to start the pennant series the first of September the winner of the second half will plav Val. dosta the first game on August' 28 Wfclafcsy Mt Drug H.blt. tml«S or IISanitarium, book on lubi.d R. b. M. WOOLLEY. 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