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EANING TOWER OF BASEBALL
Oapyright. 1913. International Nava Rerrica.
By Tj
AD
DRAW
I 12 ROUNDS
Aug. 9.—George
amely fought off
’ Jack Dillon, of
ve rounds last
; declared a draw,
blood flow in the
lable successfully
tage.
BRIGHTON
G PROPERTY
.—The passing of
York race track
in a foreclosure
Beach property,
28. The action
:ond mortgage of
The first mort-
AxHangsOverEversandCallahan
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One-Run Jinx Still On the lob
Psoriasis
Skin Disease
rd by a Very
ention.
iy in Lexington,
tys that before
;an using S. S. S.
is broke out at
t interval#
she thought it
But by getting
od under con-
the influence of
, the disease en- j
disappeared and
vas never again I
fhtest sign of it-1
dient in S. S. S
Imulates cellular
i to select from
5 fine network of
skin, those ©lo
res for regenera
te, eczema, lupus,
ondltion that at-
eeks an outlet
met with the an-
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roubles vanish so
r do not return.
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i navlng it. The
>ry In Atlanta.
mous blood puri-
ake no chance by
o recommend a
mur blood condi-
5U would like to
reely, address the
Swift ' Specific
L Bldg.. Atlanta.
Bv 0. B. Keeler.
S ide-stepping for the moment
the somewhat scrambled mana
gerial lay-out in our own tight
little league, and placing a large and
furry ear in immediate proximity to
the Red Old Hills "-f Georgia, we are
able to discern distant rumblings from
the general direction of Chicago.
It listens to the effect that .Take
Stahl shortly is to welcome distin
guished company in the recently or
ganized club of Canned Managers.
Jimmv Callahan, of the White Sox,
and Johnny Evers, of the Cubs, are
to be up for membership.
* • •
A LSD Thomas Chivlngton. president
** of tme American Association, who
likewise lives and moves and opens his
protests in Chicago.
We don’t know that anybody in
this precinct is likely to get much het
up over the prospective skids for
Mr. Chivington, so long as he doesn’t
come down here and start an in
surrection.
But there will he a good deal of
interest In the fate of the Silent Tro
jan and the man who could see $18,500
in Larry Chappelle.
• * •
C ALLAHAN’S case Is something
brand new, while Evers’ has been
growling and chirping alternately
since before. the present season
opened.
Cal is simply getting the hot epd
of it from the bugs, the same as any
manager in a town accustomed to a
winning ball club, when his bunch
falls into a losing streak. The bleacher
experts In particular are after his
scalp.
But that is only incidental.
It is said that Callahan’s manner
of handling his men. always sharp and
dictatorial, is rapidly getting to the
bullying and bulldozing stage. If
that is true, it is a serious state of
affairs. Most ball players are led and
kidded, not abused and nagged, into
playing their best. A sore bunch of
ball players of the best class will put
up a much sorrier fight than an in
ferior team, working and pulling to
gether. and fighting the enemy intead
of the manager.
• • •
S WITCHING to Evers, however, we
find our o. f., Chubby Cholly
Muffy, standing all puffed up in the
spotlight and Insisting he likes a
scrappy club and a scrappy manager.
“I want them to fight—fight each
other—fight the manager—fight the
EXCURSION
weep of the east-
lited States and
of Canada. A
■ visiting Cincin-
), Niagara Falls,
slands, Montreal,
Philadelphia. At-
lgton. Baltimore
Jing all expenses
), transportation,
1 meals en route,
m and meals on
days for only
$88.85. The phenomenal rates of
fered and th e high-class features pro
vided are the realization of ten years
of continued success in this line of
work. Special trains leave Atlanta,
Birmingham, Chattanooga and Knox
ville Saturday, August 16. Liberal
stopover at any point en route. Four
steamer trips on exclusive ships. Par
ty nearly filled. Room for 50 more.
Send $5 deposit for choice reserva
tion. This ad will not appear again.
Address J. F. McFarland, agent. Box
1 1624, Atlanta, Ga. Advt.
other club,” says Mr. Muffy. “Johnny
Evers has made good. He is there to
stay.’’
But Mr. Muffy said a lot of kind
words about F. Chance, too. And M.
Brown.
And it is recalled that Roger Bres-
nahan still is with the Cubs—and that
Rajah was pretty well understood to
be taken over with the idea that if
J. Evers didn’t deliver a pennant, he
(Rajah) was to have a crack at it.
We don’t know about that, except
this much:
J. Evers won’t win the pennant this
year.
• * •
A ND about Johnny. He’s a grand
little ball player, but his unruly
talking apparatus is getting him in
bad. Getting him in worse, it might
better be said.
The most ardent Cub fans are get
ting arcKyid to where they want John
ny to play ball. They want him to
stay in the game and not spend hie
valuable time debating with the um
pires and walking to the clubhouse.
Johnny may change his tactics.
And he may not.
• • *
F ROM what We can gather at this
distance, the following points
appear in evidence:
The One-Run Jinx sticks on the job.
Providence has its arms around
Fleharty.
If Slim Love was looking for a fine
place to blow, he certainly found it;
also, he did a good job of blowing.
The Volunteers’ position in the
league standing should be reversed, if
the game yesterday was a fair sam
ple of their luck.
Bill Smith had better begin cop
pering his own bets. In the last four
games he has left Thompson and
Love in too long and Dent not long
enough.
But. at that, had Billy’s maneuvers
turned out the other way, the bugs
would have been wagging their al
leged domes of thought and talking
about what a wise manager he was.
We still have a chance to make the
trip all square at Nashville.
WOLGAST AND RITCHIE IN
A MATCH FOR COMING FALL
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9 -Tom Jones
is authority for the statement that
Champion Willie Ritchie will be seen in
action wfih Ad Wolgast here the last of
October or some time in November.
“It is possible,’’ Jones says, “that they
may not get together before Thanks
giving, but a return match will be
staged here about that time, unless ne
gotiations fall through entirely.’’
Ad and Tom Jones arrived In town
yesterday morning. It is understood
that McCarey will make a strong bid
for the match and both Ritchie and
Wolgast have signified their willingness
j to be here should the terms be satis-
J factory.
TEAMS TO PLAY OFF TIE.
There will be a battle royal to-day
when the Hallet & Davis and Atlanta
National Bank teams of the Manufac
turers' League, tie up in the play-off of
a tie which now exists between them for
first honors. The game will be played
at Tenth and Boulevard and called at
S:30 o’clock.
TO PUT WELL
By Chirk Evans.
C HICAGO, Aug 9.—An article in
the August Century Magazine
by Marshall Whitlack. entitled
“Mind verjsus Muscle in Golf” seems
to have attracted much attention. Mr.
Whitlack has developed a new theory
of play and applied it to his own
game. The result has been a marked
improvement in his scores. He be
lieves that good golf is played through
the lower nerve centers and motor
channels, while poor golf is due to
the direct interference of the brain
or consciousness.
“Apparently we play our good golf
in a subconscious condition.” he says,
“and that is why all interruptions are
so disastrous to one’s game. Accord
ing to this theory one must depend
upon muscular sense and the pre
liminary waggle assumes unusual Im
portance, as the right feel must be
obtained in action, the waggle must
be continued until the muscles feel
the balance and poise of the body
while in motion.”
The chief idea of the whole theory
seems to be that the ball must be ad
dressed In motion and not in repose,
because in the latter condition the
muscles will set and stiffen to the
detriment of one's game.
So much for the theory. The,other
day I met Mr. McCordic, one of
Skokie’s most prominent golfers, and
he asked me if I had read the Cen
tury article. He and Douglass Smith
read it last Friday night. Saturday
morning they went out and made 75
and 77, and attributed that good score
to the new idea.
• * •
US MUDD, one of Beverly’s golf-
^ J ers. has sent me the following
question:
“What is the penalty when caddy
goes into bunker with player In match
play or qualifying round?”
I am not an authority on rules, but
I have never heard of any penalty
attaching to such an act. I consulted
Tom Bendelow. who assnjres me there
is no such penalty. If by chance he
is mistaken I should be glad to hea
from other golfers.
The reason I do not think there is
any such ruling as Indicated by the
question is the enormous size of the
bunkers in Great Britain. If a caddy
could not go into such a bunker It
w'ould work great hardship upon the
player.
• • •
C APTAIN R. H. PETERS, a civil
war veteran, and an enthusiastic
member of the Ravenswood Goif
Club, made a wonderful shot on his
home course the other day. He was
about twenty yards from the fourth
green and his ball lay In a grassy
hollow and he had to use a well-
lofted club to get out. Undismayed,
the captain caught the ball deftly and
landed it in the hole. It was a very
unu5*ual shot and Captain Peters has
every reason to be proud of his
achievement.
Schwartz Wants to Quit Vols
•{•••S- +•+ +•+ +•+ •£•+
Hirsig Stingy With “Coin Bag”
By Paul W. Treanor.
N ashville, tenn., Aug. 9 —
Flying distress signals from
every mast, leaking from stem
to stern, the poor old hulk in which
the Vols have been floundering about
in the rough seas has been deserted
by the Voltown bugs, and inquiring
glances are being turned to a new
and up to.date craft to be launched
next season Every hope of landing in
even decent company has been aban
doned and the only thing left to con
sider Is the building up of a club, out
of entirely new material.
On top of the multitude of woes of
the Schwartzmen, who have expe
rienced the most appalling disasters
on their road trips, comes the well-
defined gossip that the Boy Manager
has thrown up the sponge and a?«ked
to be relieved of the managerial wor
ries in 1914. To the thousands of fans
who have long been clamoring for
Bill Schwartz’s scalp the news will be
hailed with wild delight, while to a
few more thousand who will never
believe that Bill has had a fair chance,
his resignation will be a tough blow.
The latter clan are asking just
who will be the Moses to lead the
Vols back to the top rung of the
ladder, of which they clambered by
only a toe hold, back in 1908 when
Bill Bernhard was the pilot. Where
are they going to find a leader who
can produce better results than Bill
Schwartz, when one pauses to analyze
the bunch of has-been and discards
with which he has been forced to
fight, and echo, always on the job,
cuts in 'With the well-known answer.
Hirsig Pleads With Manager.
President Hirsig, according to the
dope going the rounds, has pleaded
with the boy pilot to reconsider his
retirement from the game and direct
the club next season frofn the bench,
at the same time offering Bill a
mighty fat job in the big garage
which the Alibi Boss Is building. Bill
Is a big ace wherever tires and auto
mobiles are concerned and can hook
himself on to a soft Job any time he
wants to send his uniform to a mu
seum.
If anything will prevail upon
Schwartz to once more head the Vols.
it is going to be the sting of past
defeats which prod his ambition to
bring a flag to Voltown, for no man
lives who can brand the boy manager
as a quitter.
The time for post-mortems passed
long ago. likewise the weeps over the
upset milk can, but Hirsig doesn't
know as much about ball players and
how the game should be played as a
sparrow’ does about the Panama toll
argument, and he Just naturally can’t
keep from Jabbing h7* fins In the pie
and deciding on the merits of ball
tossers, some thousand mile# or more
away from his office.
The Murphy of Southern League.
The man who PRESENTED Harry
Welchonce to the Trackers, who
passed up a chance early in the year
to grab off Third-sacker Dodge from
the Reds, when they were crazy to
get rid of him. who handed down ad
verse weighty (?) opinions on pitch
ing deals, when the slabbers were
cracking, wa# Hirsig. Time without
number he meddled and wrecked the
club’s chances, for the Charles Webb
Murphy of the Southern League is
about the best little meddler at large
When the Vols, after a grueling
drive and fighting on sheer nerve,
crawled into second place, Bill
Schwartz, realizing the club was skat
ing on thin ice, went to his boss on
his knees for help, pointed out the
weak places and faltering twirlers,
And did Hirsig heed the warning?
With padlocks that would baffle a
burglar’s kit, he clamped the lid on
the strong box and laughed at the
fears of the Vols ever slumping.
Some, wMth more sentiment than
brains, are gaping their heads off
for Artie Hofman to be elevated from
the ranks, but you can go broke that
the former Cub wouldn’t touch th«
leadership if Schwartz has any no
tion of leading another forlorn hope,
and even If Bill should lay the span
gles aside. Circus Solly is far too wise
a ball player to allow the present
flock of Vols to bo saddled off on him
and put more gray hairs on his scalp.
CHURCH BALL PLAYER UNRULY.
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO, Aug 9.—J. Pow
ers, a member of the United Brethren
Church team, is under arrest here on
a charge of assault and held by the
police under $300 bond.
Powers, it is alleged, assaulted F. R
Pollock an umpire here, during a ball
game, fracturing his skull. The hearing
was delaved pending the outcome of
Pollock’s injuries The assault took
place during a twilight game late yes
terday. Powers took exception to a
ruling of the umpire and a fight fol
lowed.
FRIDAY’S GAME.
The Box Score.
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Agler, lb ... .3 2 2 8 0 0
Long. If ... .3 1 2 2 0 0
Welchonce, 2b . 4 1 2 6 0 0
Smith, 3b ... 1 0 0 4 3 0
Bisland, ss . . .4 0 2 1 3 0
Holland. 3b . .2 0 0 0 2 0
Holtz, rf . . .4 0 1 1 0 0
Chapman, c . . . 4 0 0 2 2 0
Love, p .... 4 0 0 0 0 0
Totals ... .29 4 9 x24 10 0
xNone out when winning run was
scored.
Nashville. ah. r. h. po. a. e.
Callahan, cf . . 3 0 0 2 0 0
Spratt, 3b. . . .3 0 0 0 4 0
Young, rf . . .3 0 1 0 1 0
Daley 0 1 0 0 0 0
Perry. 2b . . .2 2 1 4 4 0
Hofman, If . . .4 1 2 1 0 0
Schwartz, lb . . 3 0 0 12 1 1
Gibson .... 1 0 1 0 0 0
Lindsay, ss . . .3 0 2 2 2 1
Noyes, c . . . 3 0 0 6 1 0
Fleharty, p . . .2 1 1 0 4 0
STOPS FLYNN
N EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Gunboat
Smith is believed to have add
ed some slight weight to h's
claim of the heavyweight title last
night when he whipped Jim Flynn so
thoroughly in five rounds that Referee
Joh stopped the bout, which was
scheduled for ten rounds. The Pueblo
fireman was knocked down four times
In the fifth round, and was battered
fiercely throughout the battle after
the opening session.
Smith weighed 183 1-2 pounds and
Flynn was five pounds heavier. He
started rushing at the first gong and
crowded Smith back to his corner,
working short-arm Jabs to the body.
Smith broke away and straightened
his adversary up wdth a savage right
uppercut. Then he managed to keep
the fireman away from him and
Jabbed him enough to even things in
that round. ' y
Smith continued the same tafctics In
the next three rounds, keeping Flynn
away from him and Jabbing him vi
ciously. In the fifth round 1 the Gun
boat stopped a fierce swing with his
ribs, and on recovering he sailed In
savagely with a hail of right and left
Jabs, followed by a right uppercut
flush on the jaw that sent the fireman
down for the count of eight. He got
up and was knocked down again, and
when this had been repeated twice
more, Joh stopped the fight.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Pitcher Johnson, of the Washington
team, won his twelfth straight victory
yesterday when the Senators defeated
Cleveland 4 to 3.
• • •
The home run smashed out by Hob-
litzell, of the Cincinnati Reds, in the
ninth inning of the game with the Giants
not only gave Cincinnati the victory, but
erased the record of Pitcher A1 De-
maree, of the New Yorks, who had
won eight consecutive games
First Baseman Miller, of the Pirates,
has only two put outs to his credit in
the Pittsburg-Boston game, the out
fielders doing all the work
Browns and Yankees are now battling
ferociously for the cellar position.
# * •
The Phillies cut the Giants' lead to six
games by beating the Cubs, while the
Reds were nosing out the Giants The
Cubs went down to fourth place and
Pittsburg went into third position. The
Dodgers were shut out by the St. Louis
tail-enders.
• * •
John H. Gaffney, formerly known as
"king of umpires.” when he was ar
bitrating in the National League, is dead
a New York city.
• * •
Lively slugging reminiscent of the
early part of the 1911 season is featur
ing games in the major leagues. Lu-
derus, of the Phillies, knocked two home
runs yesterday. Among the others who
smashed out four-base hits were Catch
er Wingo, of the St. Louis Browns:
T^eft Fielder Becker, of the Phillies;
Rodie, of the White Sox; Hoblitzell. of
the Reds, and Wilson, of the Pirates.
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Totals ... .27 5 8 27 17 2
Daley ran for Young In ninth. Gib
son batted for Schwartz in ninth.
Score by Innings:
Atlanta 300 000 100—4
Nashville 011 000 003—5
Summary: Bases on halls—Off
Love, 4; off Fleharty, 3. Struck out—
By Love. 1; by Fleharty, 4. Hit by
pitcher—By Fleharty, 2. Two-base
hits—Long, Lindsay, Holtz, Hofman.
Gibson Three-base hit—Long. Dou
ble play—Bisland to Smith to Agler.
Left on bases—Nashville, 4; Atlanta.
6. Time—1:57. Umpires—Kerin and
Wright.