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1. ) ) I 1 i it { , 4 J l l r. AlUAiUA MiiV;n\nrui mi j; udmO: THUS SELLS BALL CLUB Bringing Up Father George McManus M NTGOMERY. ALA., Aug. 7.—It | was announced here last night that Richard Tillls. owner of the Montgomery Baseball club’s fran chise, has sold out to an organization of business men, headed by M. P. Wilcox. The price was reported as $12,800. The transfer of ownership took place ** once. This is taken to mean that Mont gomery will remain indefinitely in the Southern League. The new owners are popular here, and it also is ex pected that there will be a consider able revival of interest among local fans. Baseball Summary SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Thursday. Atlanta at Nashville. Birmingham at Chattanooga. No other games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. Mont. 60 42 .588 Mobile 64 46 .582 Atlanta. 56 49 .533 B'ham. 57 50 .533 W. L. Pc. Chatt.... 53 51 .510 M’mphis 53 57 .482 N’ville.. . 45 62 .421 N. Or. 35 66 .347 Wednesday’s Results. Chattanooga, 4-4; Atlanta, 2-5. Birmingham. 5; Nashville, 1 No other games Scheduled. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Thursday. Jacksonville at Columbus. Charleston at Macon. Albany at Savannah. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. | \V. L. Pc Col’bus. 20 15 .571 i Ch’ston. 18 19 .486 Sav’nah 20 15 .571 ! J’ville... 17 19 .472 Albany. 19 18 .514 \ Macon.. 14 22 .380 Wednesday’s Results. Macon, 6; Jacksonville, 5. Savannah, 4; Columbus, 2. Charleston, 2; Albany, 0 (ten innings). and Her Pals •< ** <** Copyright. 1918, International Xrw» Wrrrtea. Speaking of That Diaphanous Stuff NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Thursday. Boston at Pittsburg. New’ York at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. New Y.. 68 31 .687 Phila... 60 35 .632 Chicago 53 48 .525 P’burg.. 52 48 .520 B’klyn.. Boston C’nati. St. L.. Wednesday's Results. Pittsburg, 9; New York, 1. Chicago. 4; Brooklyn, 3. Philadelphia, 7; St. Louis. 1. Boston-Cinclnnati game off; rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Thursday. Chicago at Washington. Cleveland at Philadelphia. Detroit at New York. St. Louis at Boston. Standing of the Clubs. W. L Pc. | W. L. Pc. Phila... 70 31 .693 Boston. 48 52 .480 Cl’land. 64 40 .616 Detroit. 44 61 419 W’gton. 57 44 .564 St. L. . . 42 66 .389 ! Chicago 54 52 .509 I New Y. 32 65 .330 Wednesday's Results. Washington, 11; Chicago, 2. Philadelphia. 7; Cleveland. 1. Boston. 4; St. Louis, 1. Detroit, 2; New York, 1. GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Thursday. Newnan at Anniston. Gadsden at Talladega. LaC.range at Opelika. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. I W. L. Pc. G'sden.. 46 33 .583 An’ston 40 42 487 N’nan.. 41 39 513 Opelika 39 42 .481 L’Gr’ge. $9 41 .487 1 T’dega.. 36 46 .439 Wednesday’s Result. Anniston, 6; Opelika. 3. Gadsden, 6; Newnan, 5. Talladega, 4; LaC.range, 0. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Thursday. Valdosta at Americus. Thomasville at Waycross. Cordele at Brunswick. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. L. Pc T'ville.. 19 13 .594 B’swlcK -485 C’dele... 18 15 .545 Am’cus. 16 18 .470 V’dosta. 16 17 .485 1 W’cross 14 19 .424 Wednesday's Results. Americus, 6; Brunswick, 1. Waycross. 3; Valdosta, 0. Thomasville, 5; Cordele, 0 Texas League. Dallas. 6; Galveston, 3. Houston, 3; Waco, 0. San Antonio. 8; Austin, 1 Fort Worth, 2; Beaumont, 1. Obstinate Acne Quickly Yields Fine Remedy That Clears Skin of Pimples on Cheeks, Temples, Sides of Nose and Chin. Acne attacks the glandular struc ture of the skin, more particularly those tiny glands that secrete fat. And it is here that S. S. S., the famous blood puririer, is most active in Its influence. 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And if your blood condition is such that you would like to consult a specialist freelv. address the Medical Dept., The Swift Specific Company. 181 Swift B'dg AGanta. Ga. Even Break With the Lookouts *•+ •1- • V •I**-!- Giants and Sox May Play Here By 0. B. Keeler. O NE morfe vindication of the the ory that the conventional man ner of prorating a double- header is for each side to take one. It was largely a matter of pitchers. In the first game Joe Conzelman w’asn’t eiuite so good as Floyd Kroh, and in the aftermath, Gilbert Price plus Elliott Dent, had a thin eldge on Howell and Coveleskie. The fact that the tall Pole was sum moned again from the lumber yard testifies to the gentle affection for the Crackers that abounds in the shadow of Lookout Mountain. The Tabasco Kid was doing his durndest to beat us all two of the games. And quite properly. Let's trim ’em fighting, or get trimmed tl e same way. That’s what makes baseball worth while. * * ♦ W E are going to have some distin guished company in a few days. Ted Sullivan, one-time Southern Leaguer and now managing director of the Giants-White Sox world tour, is In New Orleans to-day arranging a lease on the Pelicans’ ball park for an exhibition game late in October. Mr. Sullivan expects to visit Bir mingham and Mobile on a similar mission. And then he is coming to Atlanta. Would Atlanta fans care to watch the White Sox and the Giants play ball? We pause for no answer. ... M AJOR CALLAWAY, home again from Chattanooga, says Re hasn't heard anything about the proposed visitation, but doesn’t see anything in the way of pulling it off. The president of the Crackers fancies there should be no trouble in arranging to let the big Ieagu»rs have Ponce DeLeon Park as a battle ground. And he is of the opinion that it would be some considerable drawing card. « * * I T is rumored that Jud Daley, left fielder for the Vols, may wear an Atlanta uniform soon. The understanding hereabout is indefinite, ami P1U Smith probably will make the decision while in Nashville on the series beginning to-day. Dalev is a good ball player and is I very popular in Atlanta, but it ap pears unlikely that the Atlanta club | will take him on if anything sub- j stantial has to be paid for him. If it comes about that Judson is available for his stipend alone, he may but into the present seria3 against his old friends. * * * H ERE’S one we lamp from up Syra cuse-way, in the New York State League: j An umpire named Harrison lmd a tumultuous rur-in with a ball player working under the entire misnomer of Good. Good had tried to steal third and was tagged when about fifteen feet off the bag. True to his reputation. Good let out an awful yelp and the fans an swered the call of the wild. “You’re out of the game!” the um pire ordered. Good declined to s«ee it that way. “Get out of the lot,” was the next command. Good stayed where he was as If he had taken root. Harrisfln called a big cop. standing in the crowd near the bleachers. “Take that man off the field.” he directed. The cop shook his head. “Nope.” he said firmly. Harrison was outraged. “Y o u won't?” he roared, “And why not?” “He wasn’t out,” said the cop. And he stuck to it. * * * XCE more is the eternal and Emersonian law of oompemia- tion glutted with justification. For weeks the sport columns have echoed with the piteous roars of 1*'. Chance, sometime Peerless Leader. It. seems Mr. Chance swapped Hal Chase for Zeider and Horton, of the White Sox, with the idea that Rollie was sound in wind and limb and his stide- kick able to swing on the pill like a garden gate. We gather from the twittering that Mr. Zeider was afflicted with a bun ion and had to do his running on one side, while Mr. Horton's batting re sembled the performance of the old est inhabitant of the Soldiers’ Home killing flies with a newspaper. So. Rut now comes Mr. Callahan, who lately paid $18,500 in Comiskey coin and White Sox players for Larry Chappelle. "He’s got a warped knee and a kink in his hip,” wails Jimmy, “and he had ’em when I got him!” Mr. Chance should lie awake nigh'.s and grieve. Great Tribute Paid Hal Chase by Harry Lord, of White Sox WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — Harry Lord, the White Sox captain, discuss ing first basemen to-day. paid a great tribute to Hal (’base. Here is what the third baseman of the White Sox has to say about the former Yankee player: “Chase will save any inflelder thirty errors in a season if the pair would work together through the year. Look what Chase did for me in the one game at St. Louis. I would have had two black mark's to my discredit on that day. The papers would have said Lord’s errors were responsible for the White Sox losing to the Browns 6 to 3, or something like that. With Chase over there we don’t have to worry. We can.field the ball, shut our eyes, and make a throw. «nd he .'^11 get it some w ay or other. ’ PLAIN NUTTY. He'd seen upon the sport page The ican that Tp Cobh cottars. And alt the other dope that deals With betting odds and dollars; With gate receipts, percentages, Expenses, kicks and hollers. And then he put a question: His friends were filled with gloom. With sorrow did they cast him Into a padded room. He'd asked : “Is there a sport gup Not out for the mazumet” * • • HAVING DEMONSTRATED TO our entire satisfaction that the Pacific coast players do not play tennis properly.‘the Eastern experts now have nothing to do but dig up some one to beat them. Still i{ seems a man’s size assignment. * * * BOTH GUNBOAT SMITH and Jim Flynn announce that they are training earnestly for their coming spear-running, but both omit to say- why. * • • THE FIGHT PROMOTERS In Montana are breaking the law’ again. The Legislature having au thorized fights the promoters put on Jimmy Clabby and Freddy Hicks. • * • YALE HAS NOT decided on her rowing system for next year. After her experience with English coaching she has apparently decided only on what system she w’on’t use • • • JOHNSON AND LANGFORD are to fight in Paris for a small for tune; not ho small, either. But the French are notoriously callous about inculctfting these principles of manliness and fair play in the youth of their city. They are so unrefined that they w’ant to see a fight when they pay for one. * » * “THE FANS ARE plentifully supplied with amusement in the two big leagues,” observes Hughey Jennings. Sure! There is the $18,000 outfielder, the Chase deal, the Browns and the Cardinal*'—a new laugh every day. ♦ * • ENCOURAGE BY THE atten dance at the opening day the turf bonses at Saratoga will extend that conference five days, feeling that the breed of horses will be im measurably benefitted in the extra time. * • • THE CHAP WHO tried to swim to Sandy Hook was probably try ing to catch the “four-day” boat, which leaves from that point. NO CHANCE FOR LAJ0IE TO LEAVE NAPS, SAYS BARNARD CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug. 7.—An ab solute denial of the rumor that Chicago, Boston and Cleveland teams are arrang ing a three-cornered deal which will take Second Baseman Lajoie awy from Cleveland was made to-day by E. S. Rarnard. Vice President of the Naps. Manager Birmingham, of the Cleveland team, wired from Philadelphia saying he pad no trade under way for Lajoie. ALLIS STARTED PLAYING GOLF ! BASEBALL ^Diamond News and Gossip N EW YORK, Aug. 7.—Ned Allis, who was runner-up in the West ern Golf Association at Chicago and in the sensation in the Western golf world, began to play golf when he was only five years old, taking part in a tournament that year, with his father as tutor It was not until four or five years ago. however, that Ned began to come to the front with the older men. His first public performance of con sequence was in an invitation tourna ment held by the Milwaukee Country Club In which he met Harold Wyatt, of Fond du Lac. The two youngsters then only 17 years olrl, gave the fast est exhibition of match play of the enlirc tournament. Allis is a very fine putter, as %nay be neen by the fact that in his match against R. A. Gardner, ex-national champion, in the semi-final at Home- wood. Allis had onlv 27 puts for the 18 holes of the morning round. To learn how a gblfor’s game may improve in a f»w months one has but to consult the United States Golf As sociation’s handicap rating list for 1913. There Allis is placed among the handicap five men. Among the others in the five list are Devereux Lord, the three-time winner of The Brook- Ivn Eagle trophy; B. T. Allen. Fox Hills; Chisholm Beach, Fox Hills; S I) Bowers, Brooklawn; T. V. Ber- mingham. Wykagyl; James R. Hyde. South Shore; Philip Carter. Nassau. Metropolitan Junior champion; Max R. Marston, Baltusrol, interscholastic champion; c H. Seely, ex-Metropoli- tan champion, and others. Allis would more likely be handicapped at 2, or 3. at least. The onlv time that Metropolitan District golfers have feen the quality of Allis’ golf was at Lakewood. N. J., on April 17-19. last. Here Allis just fell outside the medal prize in the qualifying round by a c ingle stroke, tying with Walter J. Travis, of Gar den City, at 78. W’hile H. K. Kerr. South Shore, got the best card with a 77. Allis lasted till the semi-final, when he was defeated by Horace C. Cook, of Trenton the youthful player from Trenton, N J.. who. in the afternoon final with Travis, held the former in ternational champion at evens till a penalty stroke at the seventeenth hole threw him off his game on the horn** hole, the match going to Travis by two up. On IPs way to the semi final Allis had beaten J F. Shanley. the best of the Deal players. Since Allis first swung a club at the age of five, he has been carefully coached by his father. Louis Allis, who firmly believes that his boy will some day be the premier amateur golfer of the world. • Manager Frank Chance, of the New York Yankees, has shifted his line-up so as to send in Cook and Williams, the two recruits from the Texas League, fins afternoon. Williams is a first base man a%d Cook a fielder. * * * After breaking Marquard's winning streak, the Pittsburg Pirates Jumped on Mathewson in the Pittsburg-New York game, knocking the “Old Master” out of the box. * • • Barney Dreyfuss, of the Pirates, has returned Kent, a pitcher, to Brooklyn. • * * Pitcher Johnson, of the Washington Senators, tied the season’s record by winning his eleventh consecutive vic tory yesterday. Before Johnson pitched his team to victory against the Chi cago White Sox, the record was held by his teammate, Boehling. * * * During the Brooklyn-Cubs game, Fisher, Cutshaw' and Daubert pulled off live double plays. * * * Home Run Baker again turned the trick and his four-cushion wallop helped largely to beat out the Naps. OTHER RESULTS. American Association. Iyoulsville, 3; Kansas City, 3. Minneapolis. 4; Indianapolis, 3. Toledo. 9; St Paul, 4. Columbus, 11; Milwaukee, 2. International League. Toronto-Baltimore game off; rain. Newark, 2. Buffalo, 2. Jersey City, 5; Montreal, 1. Providence, 4; Rochester, 2. Virginia League. Richmond. 3-2; Portsmouth, 2-0. Norfolk. 4; Roanoke. 3 Newport News, 2; Petersburg, 0. Carolina Association. Greensboro, 3* Raleigh. 0. Durham, 3; Winston-Salem, 1. Charlotte, 10; Asheville, 1. Appalachian League. Johnson City, 6; Knoxville, 5. Morristown, 5; Mlddlesboro, 1. Bristol, 12; Rome, 7. Love or Dent Will Pitch To-day •j*#*}* *!••*{• *i*a*l* *I*a*r* ' Slow Fielding Cost One Game Annual Mountain Excursion Southern Railway Saturday, August 16. $6.00 Asheville, N. 0. $6.00 Lake Toxaway, N. C. $6.00 Hendersonville, N. C. $6.00 Hot Springs, N. C. $6.00 Tate Springs, N. C. $6.50 Bristol, Tenn. Final Limit September 1. Three trains to Asheville. Morning Noon Night 8:00 a.m. 11:16 a.m. 9:30 p.m. MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW By Joe AgTer. N ashville, tenn.. aur. 7.— Love or Elliott Dent, life-saver in yesterday’s second game, w ill be shot at the Vols this afternoon, with ChapmAn back of the wood. Dent looked great In his one and one-third innings yesterday, and Love seems to have got over his slight touch of ill ness. The Crackers got an even break in the twin bill yesterday and also on the series at Chattanooga. Joe Con- zelrnan lost the first game, 4 to 2, and It ought to have been a shut-out for him. Manush was in right field and misjudged two long fly balls, one of which went for a triple and the other for a home run. We had no luck at bat. Twice with the bases full and only one dow’n, Dunn hit Into a double play. Chap man was sent in to bat for Conzelman In the ninth and whaled a home run far over the fence, hut nobody was on the towpath. In the second game we got to Grimes early and got a nice lead. Howell came on and pitched well un til he was taken out for a pinch hitter. Then we had another chance at th< Rig Pole, and we nicked him for two runs, wihch won the game. Price pitched well until the eighth when a savage batting rally chased him from the rubber. Elliott Dent stopped the Vole and saved the game. We play here four games, including the disputed one. which probaljy will be played Sunday. Harry Holland batted for a percentage of .500 yes terday. He looks better every day, and is stinging the ball hard. All he lacks is a little experience, and he is getting that fast. PRESIDENT WILSON WANTS “SQUARE DEAL” FOR “UMPS” WASHINGTON. Aug 7.-—President Wilson wants a “square deal” from baseball umpires, should t^ey have oc casion to pass upon his political decis ions. He told George Hildebrand and Hilly” Evans so in an interview at the bile House. Hildebrand and Evans are arbiters of the American League. They promised to grant the President's request. FORSYTH HERE IS A GREAT Variety Show REAL VAUDEVILLE 8 Berlin Madcaps—Van Hov- ;n—Annie Kent—Harry Hay ward & Co.—Pero A Wilson. Freeman & Dunham and Ev erest's Monkey Hippodrome. 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