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SAYS MEYERS Bv John (Chief) Meyers. (Star Catcher of the Champion New York Giants and one of the loading 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 is 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 Boehllng. the sensational southpaw of Washington. Boehllng is doubtless a grand pitcher. He has shown it by fretting a record of eleven straight vic tories for the season before he met defeat. Naturally, I 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 McGraw that our very able manager from almost the very start of the season assigned the youngster to the same consideration as a regu lar tosser. That fact tn 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 results—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 came to our club. He Is one of those very, very rare young men possessed with the head of an cld 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—is better versed in the strength and weakness of opposing batsmen. Much of his knowledge A1 has gleaned from personal observation. A great •tore 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 is truly phenomenal. But one of his greatest attributes is con trol. This very important adjunct of the pitching art is usually acquired only after hng years of experience. Dem aree possesses it at the very begin ning. Were he equipped physically as nobly as was xMathewson 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 many, many years He may never be able to shoulder the same amount of work that Mathewson has per formed. But "he will come through triumphantly in the great majority of his starts, because he pitches as much with his head as with his arm. When in easy going he depends upon his support. Only when absolutely necessary does he employ all the cun ning at his command. Master at Changing Pace. I said before that Demaree is a 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 runners 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 flatfooted. Demaree is very easy on hi* catch er. He throws what -is known in baseball parlance as a “light” balk 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 dlsadvan- taue. „ 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, I quit the doctors, and ‘there was marked improvement from the •tart. I used thirteen bottles of S. 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I fcIN'T SEEN a UOU-Mt FOft- so lone You cool'd pass CONFEDERATE MONEY on N\£ TiIACS ARJ6 AWFUL HARD. I'M ASHANVED TO THINK OF WHAT I'D do" eoO. Fifty ceNTs^^^-jMP CLEAN UP ElfeHTY OR. NINETY THOUSAND Dollars / Bur you <n.ow that isn't V/ORYH ONE'S ia/HILE 1 .THIS wiarn\ weatheR I] ETC - • > Y 6 s, I’M Going Down to the country for. the REST OF THE SOfAMEK • BUSINESS ISN'T UN ELY ENOUGH TO WAR.R.ENY KEEPING OPEN this KlMD OF U/6ATHER.. WE ONLY took in-$3ooo last l weejc amd — Hex. GET UP? here COMES the PHILADELPHIA ey-pre s s L Know YAS Sir am' Thev'.S DONY! OLE Topi i aiht &ot '"The hurt! V* Poor ‘Jimp 1 . You BEEN STleepiw' eiGifT IN FRONT OF YEB 5HAC-L im a burglar \ B'TRADE, 5ee ?/u' id Crack a Cate. FER A P/ME, See 1 gdT This here. vtf/OULD MORRy ME -I CoSJSCiEUOE 1 r WADDYE MEAk/, V'/MT Got r hSrT? j # jo IM iy Fer The 6l>y woT Leads Mt To IT 1 ^ ’KOZV KAMP' WALK INN Packey McFarland PraisesWhite *•-!- ‘5 More Lbs. and He’d Be Champ’ By Packey McFarland. C HICAGO, ILL., 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 lie 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 the 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 a fact, as I boxed with him four days before he went to box Britton at New Orleans on July 4, and he tipped the beam at 127. I also told Nate Lewis a 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. I was to get $6,000 guar antee to box Moran, but 1 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 assertion. I lost the match and $6,000. 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. White 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, anf. 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’s- claim for a chance at Ritchie's crown. Luckily Charlie hue 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 the 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 against 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 1^3 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 1 had his wallop I would box any heavyweight in the world to-day. Take my tit) and watch this boy’s rise in the next year. All Set for Polo Match To-morrow The Atlanta polo four await with interest tl\e announcement of the quartet representing the Seventeenth regiment, W'hich will meet them in the first polo match ever put on in Atlanta, scheduled for to-morrow at the big parade ground. There has been much rivalry for places on the officers’ team, and there probably will be along list of substitutes left over when the final selection is made. The Atlanta squad is composed of Captain .1. O. Seamans, Albert S. J. Tucker. E. M. Landrum and Milton Wise. All are experienced 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 are Colonel M. E. Carthew-Yorstoun, referee; Robert F. Maddox, timer; Wilmer L. Moore, scorer; and James R. Gray and Clark Howell, goal judges. austrahaFha¥gs1p new MARK FOR 300-YARD RACE MANCHESTER. ENGLAND, Aug. 6. —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 YWlls,, the English heavyweight fighter, knocked out Pat O’Keefe, welterweight ■ hampion of Ireland, in the fifteenth round of a bout held in the Blackfrial's District last night. 1NYH0HLERS ARE OFF H THIS SEEM By Sam Crane. N EW YORK, A-ig. 5.—There has not been a season in my re membrance during which so many pitchers have been out of com mission on account of lame arms as this. Now, why is it? I do not think it is due to any peculiarity of the weather this year that has been different from oth<*r years, but there surely must be some reason for it. As for the Yankees, their arm trou bles came in the early months of the championship season, and just at the time, too, when their inability to get into proper form counted most dis astrously. It was, In fact, failure of his pitchers- to get into shape that placed .Manager Chance in the posi tion where he could not escape the tail-end place. It Is reasonable to presume that the spring training in Bermuda was the chief cause of the Yanks’ pitchers’ failure, to “get there.” The sudden change from the enervating climate of Bermuda to the bleakness of an early spring in New York surely tied up the arms of the Yanks». Russ Ford has told me that his arm never felt better than when he left Bermuda to sail for New York, and others of his fellow pitchers say the same of their wings. Will Not Train at Bermuda, Now. it has taken the Yanks’ box- men until midsummer to round into shape. It therefore required lots of hot weather to enable them to re cover their true form. None of them ha.« been overworked. Keating, being young and strong, was not so much influenced by the srudden change of climate as was older pitchers of his team, and he did great work at the start, but Bermuda as a training place appears to have been thrown into the discard. Am to Walsh, of the White Sox. it Seems to me that his slump is because he has been over worked. Walsh in the heyday of his youth and physical prime was a “horse” for work. an<t he loved It. He couldn’t go in the box enough to suit himself, and the managers who had him in charge, taking advantage of his youthful ambition and willing ness to further their own ends, sim ply worked the youngster to death. It was Walsh’s splendid physique that enabled him to stand the ter rible strain he was put to so long. It is a pity that all pitchers of the caliber of Walsh. Brown and others did not have the head of our great Giant. Christie Mathewson. Johns-on is a star performer still, but he has not been in the business nearly as long as Matty. RED SOX BUY SHORTSTOP. BOSTON, Aug. 5. The Boston R*»d Sox have purchased Jimmy Cooney, the shortstop of the Worcester team of the New England League. He will report to the World’s Champions at the close i of the New England League season. Copyright, 1018, International Nows Service. All Pa I lad to Do Was Walk In At That, the Way Some Guys Talk About Coin Would Drive You Dippy :: By u Bud” Fisher BOXING News of the Ring Game Eddie Hanlon and Mike Saul are still wrangling over the weight question for their coming bout on August 13. Billy Lutz, 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. « » i Kid Ruff, local featherweight, is 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 McKetrlck. manager of Frunk Moran, claims that all the big fellows are side-stepping his protege. A1 I’alzor 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 passer! one of those fool rules which, in effect, was that, there should not be over 10 peunds difference in weight below the heavyweight class. How about the Beecher Attell go? Frank Loughrey, the Eastern welter weight, has been engaged by a Boston club to meet “Wildcat” Ferns in about two weeks’ time. * * * A Milwaukee promoter has offered Knockout Brown, of New York, a guar antee of $3,600 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 he the principals in the next boxing show' to be staged on the coast. The pair are billed to clash in a 20-round set-to in Tom McCarey’s arena on Au- gust 11. Following this bout comes the heavyweight affair of August 22 be tween Jess Willard and “Bull” Youngs • * * “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 Attell’s challenge in The Georgian the other day. Brooks says the sonrierfAttell signs for the match the better. * * * Terry Nelson is seeking some trouble with the padded mitts again. Terry is particularly wild t<» get a certain gen tleman, Mike Saul, into the ring with him. Nelson says he will make any weight suitable to Saul. * * * 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. * * * Jack 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 he a lucky party if he is on his feet at the end of 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 Nev. York Friday, while > n the same day Bob McAJhster ar.d Sailor Petroskey are billed to g<> over the twenty-round route at Frisco. Big Race at Motordrome To-night *1* • *!- *r •*!* *1* ♦•!* Richards and Graves to Clash E. 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., club drop ped In the day the Browns arrived, and wild 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 ns he arrived at the Dela ware hall yard. Hence $6 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. w r ho Is managing a club in the Tri-State League. Bill g»tlll plays once in a w'hlle, and says managing In the minors Is no slouch job. Wanted Elmer Brown. Stovall, by the way, is greatly dis appointed that Elmer Brown got away, “t told Mr. Hedges,’’ he said, “when Brown wa» sent to Montgom ery last year that he should send him with a string attached, and he led me to believe that Brown went out that way. “Last year he was not exactly right physically, and could last for only six or seven innings. In that time he showed everything, hut he would blow up. ”T have follewed his work carefully this year, and I understand he has been leading the Southern League. “I 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 sure from what Brown showed and from hi* 1 record this/ year he was Just the man to strengthen our staff next season. Nobody Consulted Stoval. “However, I was not consulted in the matter. It may be that the club scouts have dug up a world beater it. this Manning. “I know nothing of him, but I do know that I would like to have had Elmer Brown back next reason, and I know he would have been a lot of use to our club.” “THE OLD RELIABLE ' H 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. Rich ards .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- * night,” raid 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 surprise 1 man on the track when the race Is «' I - r ” Graves will ride 1n the Atlanta Sweepstakes, the classic event of the local season. In the 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 be. The distance in the final of the Sweepstakes will be ten miles. • • * THERE 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 bugs. Here Is the complete program: First Event. Motordrome Purse—Three 1-nrle 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 Putso—* Renel, McNeil, Lewis, Glenn. Fourth Event. Special match race between Glenn and Shields. Distance, 3 miles. Best two heats In three. Fifth Event. Final of Motordrome Purse, 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-mile trial heats 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, match 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 Tetterlne cures tetter. Read what Mr*. V. C. MiQuldUy, Eatlll Bering*. Tenn. say*: I had a severe cate of tetter on both hand* and I Anally got helpleu. A leading phyeclan knew of no oure. I decided to give Tetterlne a trial. To my utter aurprlse and •attraction It worked a epeedy euro. Use Tetterlne It cur** eeawna. tetter, rryalpela*. Itching piloa, ground Itch and all skin maladies. 50c at dru3Ql*t«, or by maU. SHUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH, QA. •the victor" D[ti y/00LLEY’S SANITARIUM and all Inebriety an4 drug addletlons eotentl- flcally treated. Our 30 Opium and Whisky ject free. DR. B. B WOOLLEY 4 Ne. Vlftc Lr ban liar tuun. Atlanta. Qa± AT DRUGGISTfi.OAf TRIAL BOX D Y MAlLSOc » ROM PLANTEN 93 HENRYST. BROOKLYN.rtY. P EWA?l r OF 2 EXCURSIONS Two great tours East and West; special trains, exclusive ships; all ex pert >• paid; best hotels. On August 9 8outhe.ni Merchants’ Tour (free to merchants) visiting Cincinnati, In dianapolis. Chicago. Milwaukee and Lake Michigan. An eight-day ex pense-paid trip for only $43.75 (ticket good for thirty daysi, August 16. Our great S.O^-mlle circle tour of Cin- cinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, Niagara Falls. Great Gorge. Toronto. Thou sand Islands, Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Washington, Baltimore and Savan nah. with steamer trips an lakes, river and ocean. An eighteen-day expense-paid trip for only $88.85 (tickets good for thirty days, with stop-overs). Special irafns on both tours leave Atlanta, Birmingham. Chattanooga and Knoxville. Limited and select party. Special cars for iadAs alone. Write to-day (or reser vation and full particulars J. F. Mo Box 1524, MM Farland, Agt., _ _ o- Atlanta, Ga. You Cay Youye Got a Cottage out here. 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