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13 THE ATLANTA dEORflTAN AND NEWS. 4 > SHIS MEYERS By John (Chief) Meyers. (Star Catcher of the Champion New York Giants and one of the leading sluggers of the National League.) A L DEMAREE is, to my mind, one of the most picturesque characters in baseball. He Is but a colt, yet he is one of the chief resources of the Giants. His career has been meteoric—as professional baseball careers go—yet It Is one that In not liable to flivver and sputter out before many, many years of use fulness. » Demaree Is to-day Just about the best young pitcher In the business. That is putting it pretty strongly, I will admit. One must not overlook such class as that boasted by Joe Boehling, the sensational southpaw of Washington. Boehling Is doubtless a grand pitcher. He has shown it by wetting a record of eleven straight vic tories for the season before he met defeat. Naturally. 1 am not familiar with his work—he is in a different league. But I would go broke that he pos sesses no more stuff than Demaree, nor knows how to use to better ad vantage his natural endowments. Demaree Forces Recognition. Griffith, hounded by misfortune, was forced to take a chance on the recruit. It is to the credit of Joe that he won his spurs. But Demaree forced recognition through pure class alone. He so im pressed McGravv that our very able manager from almost the very start of the season assigned the youngster to the same consideration aw a regu lar tosser. That fact in Itself Is the highest praise. It Is not McGraw’s wont to accept a green man as a regular. His time-honored custom—and it has pro duced wonderful result®—has been to cultivate talent through observation of “inside” baseball from the bench Outside of Demaree there are practi cally no exceptions to this rule. Demaree needed no further school ing when he fame to our club. He is one of those very, very rare young men pos®essed with the head of an old man He seems to have shed his youth in his boyhood days. He is a very close student of the game; he never forgets to profit by experience. Knows Batters' Failings. No man In our club—with the ex ception of the grand old master, Mat ty—i s better versed in the strength and weakness of opposing batsmen. Much of his knowledge A1 has gleaned from personal observation. A great store he has laid in from conversa tion with his teammates. Demaree is the closest approach to Mathewson I have ever seen. In many respects he resembles the “Old Master." Like “Big Six,” he is pos sessed of a beautiful delivery—one from which the ball comes right on top of the batsman before he sees it. For a youngster of his limited ex perience, Demaree possesses a change of pace that i-s truly phenomenal. But one of his greatest attributes is con trol. „ . This very important adjunct of the pitching art is usually acquired only after long years of experience. Dem aree possesses It at the very begin ning. Were he equipped physically as nobly as was Mathewson when “Big Six” broke into the big show. I should predict for A1 every bit as brilliant a future. Demaree is a pitcher who will last for manv. many years. He may never be able to shoulder the same amount of work that Mathewson has per formed. Rut he will come through triumphantly in the great majority of his starts, because he pitches as much with h’s head as with his arm. When in easy going he depends upon his support. Only when absolutely’ neepfysarv does he employ all the cun ning at his command. Master at Changing Pace. I said before that Demaree Is * master at changing pace. His con trol is well nigh perfect. Add to this a good curve ball and a fine turn of speed and you will see he has quali fications of worth possessed by very few recruits. Furthermore, he holds runnerp to their bases very well. He hasn't caught a great many of them nap ping. Yet his delivery is so puzzling that they are always fooled and forced to hug the cushions. They do not know when he is going to throw to first, and those few he has caught have been nailed fiatfooted. Demaree is very easy’ on hl« catch er. He throws what is Known n baseball parlance as a light ball. It Is not hard to handle. Because of the known quality of steadiness A1 s catcher can always be in a position to throw well. This, with his afore mentioned deceptive delivery puts the base-runner at a distinct disadvan tage. Wonderful Blood Remedy Brings Health to a Host of Sufferers The remarkable action of S. S. S. in the blood is giv en Impetus by a letter received from Earl C. Cook, 708 South Center St.. Bloom ington, Ill. He says, “I suffered several months and took treat ment here, but ob tained relief only for a few days at a time. Becoming doubtful of re sults, 1 quit the doctors, and there was marked improvement from the start. I used thirteen bottles of S. S. S. and was entirely cured. My blood was In a dreadful condition, and 1 can not thank S. S. S. enough for my wonderful recovery.” This preparation stands alone among specific remedies as a blood purifier, since it accomplishes all that was ever claimed for mercury, io dides, arsenic and other destructive mineral drugs, and yet it Is absolute ly a purely vegetable product. These facts are brought out in a highly in teresting book compiled by the medi cal department of The Swift Specific Co., 192 Swift Bldg.. Atlanta, Ga. It is mailed free, together with a special letter of advice to all who are strug gling with a blood disease. Get a bottle of S. S. to-day of your druggist. It will surprise you with its wonderful action in the blood. At That, the Way Some Guys Talk About Coin Would Drive You Dippy By “Bud” Fisher THl'i IS A. 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Aug. 5.—Five pounds in weight is the only thing that stands between Charlie White and the lightweight championship. I firmly believe that Charlie to-day can take either Ad Wolgast. Johnny Dundee or any other boy weighing around 128 or 130 pounds and stop him. Furthermore. I will say that if the lightweight limit was 133 pounds ringside. White would have a great chance to cop the title. I have boxed with Charlie several times, and can truthfully say he packs the hardest wallop of any boy I have ever met. This may sound a little boastful, but, nevertheless, It is true. If I could give Charlie my excess poundage—that is, the added weight that keeps me from being a legiti mate lightweight—I think a battle between White and myself would be the greatest of all battles. Charlie’s big handicap now is his weight. Wil- lle Ritchie, the present title holder, can not make 133 pounds ringside. If White were to meet Willie, the lat ter would make 133 pounds In thii morning, which would bring him Into the ring around 136. Charlie Weighs Only 128. Now. Charlie never weighs more than 128 in condition. I know this to be u fact, as I boxed with him four day® before he went to box Britton at New Orleans* on July 4, and he tipped the beam at 127. I also told Nate Lewis & year ago. when Charlie left to box Owen Moran that his protege would surely defeat the Englishman. At that time I had a match pending with Moran on 'he coast, and when Lewis told me he had White signed to box Owen I nearly cried. 1 was to get $5,000 guar antee to box Moran, but I knew White would beat him and rob me of the bout. Many of the local sporting men laughed at me when I told them Charlie would beat Moran. They told me that Charlie was too light and all that. But I knew Moran was making 133 ringside, and Owen was taking White lightly. Charlie stopped Moran In nine rounds and proved my asi’ertion. I lost the match and $5,000. Moran never has been any good since that fight, and I don’t think he ever will amount to much again. That left hook of Charlie's will take the heart out of anyone Whits Has Stiff Punch. When Lewis matched White with Britton. I told Nate that White’s only hope was to stop Jack. It was a good match at that, as Charlie has a good chance with any of them, and had everything to gain and nothing to lose. And. believe me, if Charlie ever caught Jack on the jaw instead of on the neck in the seventh round, it would have been good night with Britton’.* claim for a chance «t Ritchie’s crown, Luckily Charlie hur f his hand landing the wallop, and had to do the rest of the milling with his right member. Charlie After Britton. When Charlie returned from the match he begged Lewis to get him a return engagement. Lewis, how ever, told Charlie to wait until took on a couple of pounds. During the entire eighteen rounds of milling in the recent Britton-White go. the former never even floored White Charlie told me that Britton never even staggered him. A badly cut lip caused blood to flow from Charlie’s mouth and made it look bad to the ministers around ^he ringside, and they appealed to the Sheriff to stop the bout. Now, can you Imagine a boy weigh ing 128 pounds fighting Jack Britton at 138 and putting up the battle he did. Jack is one of the leading claim ants to a match with Ritchie, and is also one of my greatest rivals. Yet Charlie to-day would be nearly an even-money bet agninst him. Blow Travels Four Inches. Yes, if Charlie White had five more pounds in weight he would be light weight champion of the world. If the lightweights were fighting at 133 pounds ringside, Charlie White would be an even money bet against the best of them. He has the one big advantage over all the 133 pounders to-day. He has the punch, and it only travels four inches. If I had his wallop 1 would box any heavy weight In the world to-day. Take my tip and watch this boy's rise in the next year. All Set for Polo Match To-morrow The Atlanta polo four await with interest the announcement of the quartet representing the Seventeenth Regiment, which will meet them in the first polo match ever put on in Atlanta, scheduled for to-morrow at the big parade around. There has been much rival**} for places on the officers’ team, and toer© probably will be a long list of substitutes left over when the final selection is made. The Atlanta squad is composed of Captain J. O. Seamans, Albert S. J. Tucker, E. M. Landrum fw* Milton Wise. All ar© experienceu in the game. Preliminary to the match there will be gymkhana events—wrestling on horseback, a mounted tug-of-war, and other equestrian sports and ex hibitions. The officials for the match ar© Colonel M. E. Carthew-Yorstoun, referee; Robert F. Maddox, timer; Wilmer L. Moore, scorer; and James R. Gray and Clark Howell, goal judges. AUSTRALIAN HANGS UP NEW MARK FOR 300-YARD RACE MANCHESTER. ENGLAND. Aug. 5. —Jack Donaldson, of Australia, world’s champion sprinter, broke the 300-yard running record at a professional athletic meet here yesterday, covering the dis tance in 29% seconds. The former rec ord of 30 seconds was made by H. Hutchins and had stood since 1884 WELLS CAN LICK SOMEBODY. LONDON. Aug. 5.—Bombardier Wells, the English heavyweight lighter, knocked out Pat O’Keefe, welterweight 1 champion of Ireland, in the ufteenth round of a bout held in the Biackfriars District last sight. C HICAGO, ILL., Aug. 5.—Johnny Evers, manager of the Cubs, started to weed out several of his veterans yesterday when he announced the disposal of Ed Rcul- bach, for years a West Side star, and Mike Mitchell, outfielder. Reulbach was traded to Brooklyn for Eddie Stack. The latter is a for mer Chicago semi-pro t wirier and has pitched fairly good ball for Dah- len’s crew. Reulbach has been an in and outer all season. When in form he is one of the greatest hurlers in the country. Waivers were asked on Mike Mitchell, but Fred Clarke, of the Pi rates, refused to allow him to go to the minors. He will probably be used regularly in center field or may be kept as a pinch hitter. Ward Miller will be used in left field for the Cubs. HOT SCRAP EXPECTED WHEN FLYNN AND SMITH HOOK UP NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—If there is not a real slugging match at Madison Square Garden next Friday night there will be a good many fight fans badly dis appointed. With Jim Flynn and Gun boat Smith to provide the slugging, it is hard for any one to believe or even suspect that there Isn’t going to be a fight. Two better men for the job would he hard to find So far as condition goes, botn men are fit and ready for the gong The consensus of opinion favors Flynn, and while there isn’t much money being wagered on the result the probabili ties are that Flynn will rule a favorite in whatever betting there is. SENSATIONAL TWIRLER SIGNS WITH WHITE SOX ASHLAND, WIS., Aug 5—Jack Doyle, for the Chicago White Sox, to day signed up Quardars, the sensa tional pitcher of the Ashland baseball team. Edward Herr, of the St. Louis Na tionals. made an ineffectual attempt to g#*t Mm two weeks ago. Quardars’ every day stunt is to strike out from twenty to twenty five men. TOMMY RYAN, 43 YEARS OLD, INTENDS TO “COME BACK’ SYRACUSE. N. Y . Aug 4. - Tommy Ryan, the former welterweight cham pion. to-day began road work for his “come back" ir. the ring this fall and winter. Ryan is 43 years old. He declares that he can beat ary middleweight whom he has seen box in the past two years, and says that he will go after the 158-pound title RED SOX BUY SHORTSTOP. BOSTON, Aug 5.—The Boston Red Sox have purchased Jimmy Cooney the shortstop of the Worcester team of the New Phi gland League. He will report to the World’s Champions at the close of Urn New England League season. BOXING News of the Ring Game Eddie Hanlon and Mike Saul are still wrangling over the weight question for t*-ei r * coming bout on August 13. Billy i u17. manager of Hanlon called at The Georgian Sporting Department yester day and stated that he would let Eddie make 138 pounds at 4:30 for the Fight ing Hebrew. He is now waiting to hear from Mike. • * a Kid Ruff, local featherweight, la after bouts with some boys in his division. Ruff says he is particularly anxious to get on with either Kid Young or Charlie Lee. • * * Dan McKetrick. manager of Frank Moran, claims that all the big fellows are side stepping his protege. A1 Palzer has been offered a date with the Pitts- burger, but he is holding out for more money. * • * Kid Williams. of Baltimore, and Frankie Burns, of Jersey City, may be matched for a 20-round go on the coast. Tom McCarey is after the match for a September date. * * • Some time ago the New York Box ing Commission passed one of those fool rules which. In effect, was that there should not be over 10 peundu difference in weight below the heavyweight class. How about the iieecher-Attell go? • * • Frank Loughrey, the Eastern welter weight, has bet club to meet two weeks' time Big Race at Motordrome To-night *1*#*1* Richards and Graves to Clash H ten engaged a Boston “Wildcat Ferns in about A Milwaukee promoter has offered Knockout Brown, of New York, a guar antee of $3,500 to box Ad Wolgast on Labor Day Danny Morgan, acting for Brown, has accepted. Wolgast Is now being sought by the Brewer City club. * «■ • Johnny Dundee and Jack White will be the principals In the next boxing show to he staged on the coast The pair are billed to clash in a 20-round set-to in Tom McCarey’s arena on Au gust 1L Following this bout comes the heavyweight uffalr of August 22 be tween Jes. Willard and “Bull” Young. * • • "If Young Abe Attell Is seeking action in the padded ring, T will sign up for a match at once. chirped Kid Brooks after reading Audi's challenge in The Georgian the other day. Brooks Hays the sooner Attell signs for the match the better. • * * Terry Nelson is seeking some trouble with the padded mitts again. Terry is particularly wild to get a certain gen tleman, Mike Saul, into the ring with him. Nelson says he will make any weight suitable to Raul. * # • Ritchie and Wolgast, two fighters, side bet of $25,000 and a purse of steen millions. Can't tell whether it's the heat or not, but the press agent is earning his coin for the way he bats them out. Jack Robinson and Danny Morgan, take notice. • * * Jimmy Murphy, the Chicago newsboy boxer, has been matched to box Mickey Sheridan in a ten round go at. Terre Haute, Ind . on Thursday night. Mur phy recently knocked out Danny Good- man in the Hoosier City, and is a big card there. • • • lack Dillon, claimant of the middle weight title, will trade wallops with George Ashe at Winnipeg. Man., on Fri day night. They are scheduled to go 15 rounds, but George will be a lucky party If he is on his feet at the end or the tenth. • * • Two other good battles are scheduled for this week Jim Flynn is carded to take on Gunboat Smith in a ten-round engagement at New York Friday, while or. the same day Bob McAllister and Sailor Petroskey are hilled to go over the twenty-round route at Frisco. N EW YORK, Aug. 1.—Manager George Stovall has departed from hitherto to yon In search of talent. A friend of his connected with the Wilmington, Del., dub drop ped in the day the Browns arrived, and said he knew two pitchers and a catcher who can hit. Stovall is not so keen for the pitch ers, but he most surely would like a receiver who can swat the pill. Hence he departed for Wilmington In search of the Juvenile phenom. He will look him over carefully and make recom mendation to Colonel Hedges', who has said he will join the club in Bos ton Manager Stovall did not get a chance to see the Wilmington phe- noms perform, as an adult rain broke loose just as he arrived at the Dela ware ball yard. Hence $5 worth of perfectly good expense money was wasted on a vain mission. Stovall did have a pleasant after noon with Bill Coughlin, the old De troit star who Is managing a club in the Tri-State League. Bill still plays once in a while, and says managing in the minors i? no slouch job. Wantad Elmer Brown. Stovall, by the way, Is greatly dis appointed that Elmer Brown got away. “( told Mr. Hedges," he said, “when Brown was sent to Montgom ery last year that he should send him with a string attached, and he led me to believe thaJ Brown went out that way. "Lawt year he whs not exactly right physically, and could last for only six or seven innings, in that time he showed everything, but he would blow up. “I have follewed his work carefully this year, and i understand he has been leading the Southern League. "T considered him too good a man to get away, and I was disappointed when shown clippings that he was go ing to Brooklyn. We need good right- handed pitchers, and I am mire fror what Brown showed and from h record this year he was Just the m to strengthen our staff next season Nobody Consulted Stoval. “However, I was not consulted the matter. It may be that the club scouts have dug up a world beater i this Manning. "I know nothing of him, but I d< know that I would like to have had Elmer Brown hack next season, and I know he would have been a lot of us* 1 to our club.” AS Tex Richards' days of su- premacy over the motorcycle * demons at Atlanta at the pres ent time come to an end? Morty Graves thinks It has, and says he will prove it to-night when the pair clash at Jack Prince’s Motordrome. Local fans had their first chance to see Morty on his new machine last week, and those that were present know what happened. Graves defeat ed Richards by a nose in the only race they clashed In, and is out to prove that it wasn’t a fluke. On the other hand. Richards thinks he is still king of the demons who are spending their time here. Rlch- irds says that Morty took him by surprise last week, as he underrated the speed of Graves’ new machine. • * • “J T will be a different story to- 1 night,” «aid Tex yesterday. "I am going to let my machine out at full speed, and If Morty beats me, he will have to break some record. I have my machine in perfect shape, and Graves will be the most surprised man on the track when the race is over.” Graves will ride in the Atlanta Sweepstakes, the classic event of the local season. In tlv* same race will be “Tex” Richards. Swartz, Lewis and Lockner. They are all ready for the sound of the gong, and some race *t should he. The distance in the final of the Sweepstakes will be ten miles. • * * 'T'HERE will be two heats to the 1 race, with five men in each event. In the second. Renel, Shields. Glenn, Luther and McNeil will compete. A special match race between Glenn and Shields and the Motordrome purse and other events are to be put on. so one can readily see that some real sport Is to be handed the motor cycle hugs. Here is the complete program: First Event. Motordrome Purse—Three 1-m'le qualifying heats: final 2 miles First heat. Graves, Swartz and Shields. Second Event. Second Heat Motordrome Purse-— Lockner, Richards, Luther. Third Event. Third Heat Motordrome Purse— Renel, McNeil, Lewis, Glenn. Fourth Event. Special match race between Glenn and Shielda Distance, 3 miles. Best two heats In three. Fifth Event. Final of Motordrome Puree, 2 Miles —First in each trial heat and second man In fastest trial heat. Sixth Event. Special Match Race -Second heat between Glenn and Shields. Seventh Event, Atlanta Sweepstakes—Two 1-mlle trial heat* and 10-mile final. First heat, Graves, Richards, Swartz, Lew is, Lockner. Eighth Event. Second Heat Atlanta Sweepstakes^ Renel. Shields, Glenn, Luther, McNeil, Ninth Event Third heat, if necessary, mate!* race between Glenn and Shields. Tenth Event. Final Heat Atlanta Sweepstakes, 10 Miles—First and second men in each trial heat and third man In fastest trial heat to start TETTER TtUerine cures tetter. Bo»rt what Mr*. V. C. McQulddy. KsUll Springs. Tenn. aajs: I had a never* out* of tetter on both hand* and I finally got helpleee. A leading ( hviulan knew of no cur*. I decided to glv* etterlne a trial. To my utter surprise and satisfaction It worked a speedy cur*. Use Tetterine It cure* ecaejna. tetter, erysipelas. 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Our great 5,(KM) mile circle tour of Cin cinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Greo.t Gorge, Toronto, Thou sand Islands, Montreal, Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Atlantic City. Washington. Baltimore and Savan nah, with steamer trips on lakes, river and ocean. An expel w . stop-overs). 8pedal trains on both tours leave Atlanta, Birmingham. Chattanooga and Knoxville. Limited and ael«ot party. Special cars for ladles alone, write to-day for resets vat ion and full particulars. J. F Mc Farland. Agt , Box 1624, Atlanta, Ga.