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10 D It is no ordinary “drink-it-just- to-be-drinking-something” bev erage. Coca-Cola has distinctive, individual qualities that you will recognize. Just to look at a glass of it tells the story — bright, sparkling, clear. Delicious—Refresh k Thirst-Quenching Demand the genuine- Refuse Substitutes. ATLANTA. C.V. SUNDAY. AUGUST 1ft, 1913. TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, A11 the News of the Boxing: World on These Page White Tells How He Expects to Win Bout +•+ +•+ + • + +• + + • + + • + Whitney Says He Will Make Rushing Attack TWO STAR SCRAPPERS WHO MIX WEDNESDAY By Left Hook. [AM out to win the lightweight ti tle," said Charley White yester day. "but I have a tough ‘bird' to beat in Frank Whitney here next Wednesday night. Of course I ex pect to win, but I fully realize what a worthy opponent 1 am going to be stacked up against in the ring at the Auditorium-Armory. "Do you know that up around Chi cago all the experts look on Whitney as one of the toughest trial horses in the game. He is a hard man to hit. can take an awful mess of punish ment and at the same time Is so awk wardly clever that he Is hard to make a showing against. "I saw Frank work with Packey McFarland in McConnell’s Gymna sium last Wednesday. Why he gave Packey an awful time for the four rounds they worked. "After the session was over Packey came cfver to me and said: 'Charley, old pal, that young fellow will give you a rough voyage when you meet In Atlanta, or I’m a bum Judge of a scrapper.’ "Packey didn’t have to tell me that 1 was a spectator, although Whitney didn't know it. "But, do you know, I am glad that 1 saw Whitney work out against Mc Farland. I got a. good line on his style. And I am going to tell you just how I Intend to heat him. "Frank Is a rushing fighter. Well, let hhn start leading and I will coun ter so fast that he won’t know where he is at. I believe that I can pick off or stop any of his leads and coun ter so hard that he will be willing to let me do some of the heavy work be fore the scrap has gone over three or four rounds.” With that Charley left us to go back to his training. • • • W HITE hadn’t eased his way out of the office over ten or fifteen minutes before Whitney came in. When he w r as told that White had n him work out against McFarland Frank laughed. "So he thinks that he can stop me from Fading and rushing, eh?" re marked the "Fighting Carpenter.” “Well, I’ll make him travel faster than he ever traveled before. I have never been floored yet, and If Mr. White thinks that he ran stop rne I’ll bet hlin my end of the purse on it. And take It from me, I will make a rush ing scrap of ft, too. • I'll stick on top of him and keep flaying away with so much speed that he’ll wish he was back In that dear old Chicago. He is going to pick off my leads and counter? That’s what UNUSUAL RULES AND PLAYS IN BASEBALL (No.5.) By J. W. Hoisman. N owadays no substitute can get in the game without first reporting to the umpire, and the umpire first announcing to the public and the scorers who the new comer Is and whose place he takes. This rule is all right, but it has only been In existence a couple of years. Once upon a time, a long, long tinv ago, the umpire in a big league game* had the time of his life In a dispute over this very point with the great and only Mike Kelly. The ’'KiiiK” wasn’t catching that day, on account of a bad finger. He always hated to ornament the bench when playing was going on, and as the game was a close one. he was having contdderable difficulty In maintaining his patience; In fact, he was looking for most any provocation to Jump Into the game. Directly there went up a high foul that went sailing away over toward the stands, obviously quite out of reach of either Mike's substitute catcher or of the first baseman. In stantly Mike sprang from the bench and yelled to the umpire that he was putting the other catcher out of the game and that he wan going th at once. After delivering this charm ing BON MOT -or. rather, simul taneously with it he took out after the crazy foul and neatly pulled it down. Coming In with the bull he picked up his mask and protector on the way to the plate, and with su perb nonchalance proceeded to signal his pitcher for what he wanted. But the umpire said nay! This was not according to the law and the prophets. Mike dared him *o show any rule to the contrary. The umpire couldn't show any, but refused to let Mike make any such dramatic entrance just the s-wme. In spite of the lack of law. Mike finally lost the case before the supreme court of baseball: but one can’t help admire his quickness of thought under the cir cumstances. * 4 • Y\7HEN the batter has made a foul, the base-runner must go back and touch the baMe he left. If the foul fly was caught, he must also touch all bases intervening between him and the base he left, and If while doing this the opponents get the bHll back to the base he left before ho arrives there he is out. But If the foul fly was not caught, ho need not touch intervening bases. The runner is. however, supposed to go back to the ba.^e he left with reasonable dispatch, and If he does so, the pitcher must wait for him. If the pitcher will not wait for him, but goes ahead with his delivery, the run ner has the right to start again for the next base ahead, right where he is and without losing the time to go back to the base he started from. Most pitchers do not seem to be aware that the ba.-e-runner has this right, and they do a very dangerous thing when they start in their delivery without giving the runner a reason able time to go back. • * • AFTER the pitcher has taken his ** position in the box ready to pitch, the batter is not permitted to cross over from one side of the plate to the other. If he does so, he may be called out. Should the betsrnan desire to cross over to the other side after the pitch er is In his box. the only way he can safely do so is to step backward out of the box he is In and go around behind the catcher. • • • ^ OT only should the outfield fence not be less than 235 feet from the plate, but the backstop should not be less than 90 feet distant from the plate. This is the rule, but most peo r pie are agreed that for the good of the game it is better to have the spectators closer to the Held of play than this It is more interesting and inspiring both to players and spec tators to get closer when possible. But if the backstop is less than 90 feet behind the home plate, special ground rules are an absolute neces sity. Now. it would surprise you greatly to know how many captains of amateur teams fail to grasp tlu- •igniflcance of this lessened dis t&nce and what the appropriate rule should be in puch case. When the backstop Is 90 feet back, a runner is entitled to as many bases as he can make, but he runs entirely at his own peril. If the passed baU has sufficient force to carry it clear to the backstop, it is* clear that the runner should be able to make at least one ba«e while the ball Is being re covered. for he can certainly runy 90 feet from one base to another while the catcher is running 90 feet after the ball and throwing it back to the diamond. If the passed ball doesn't go as far as the backstop, the runner must use his judgment. Now, if the backstop is less than Rivers and Wolgast Both After Ritchie he said. I should worry. He will have a fine time picking ’em off. “I was never In batter condition n my life and Til keep going at top speed from the first round to the end. And the end "Well, I’ve got a hunch that I am going to put over a decisive punch. The mill may go the entire ten round*; but not if I can help It "All I ask of White to do is to stand toe to toe with rne right In the center of the ring, and if he does I’ll guar antee that I’ll prove I have a better kick than the one he possesses. “He says he Is going to he the next lightweight champion? Say. I have got that same hunch about myself.” The photograph at the left shows Charley White as he looks in the ring. The other photo graph was snapped during a training hour in Frank Whitney’s camp. Pittsburg Citizen Doesn’t Know Hans Smoky City Scribe Claims He Is Dr. W. J. Holland, Director of Carnegie Museum. 90 feet hack, and n passed ball hits it, the high probabilities are that It had sufficient force to have gone on to a backstop 90 feet away bad the backstop been back that far. In other words had the backstop been at the regulation distance, the run- nor could no doubt easily have made one base on that passed hall. Then why shouldn’t he bo given the- one base? * * • CTRANQK to say, most captain? of fields where the backstop Is less than 90 feet away seem to think that In this case also the runner should be made to run at h1g own peril, when It Is their fault, not his. that the field was not laid out according to rule specification?. It must be cl*»ar that If the pitcher is so wild, or the catcher so unskillful, na to have a passed ball at a time when there is an opposing runner on base they should certainly be charged up with a demerit for such bad play, and what demerit should or could this be but for the opponents to get at least one ba*«e out of it. as they certlnly would <>n a regulation field? But to make him run at his own peril writh the backstop, say, within 30 feet of the place means that when the fielding tearti makes a bad play and has a passed ball that passed hall will very likely hit that near backstop with such force as to cause it to rebound right back to the catcher, and thereby he is enabled either to keep the run ner on third or. w r orse still, to put him out at the plate even, and this on their own had play and solely through the unmerited help of an Il legally-placed backstop. Clearly the runner should be given the one base and be entirely free from the liability of being put out. (To Be Continued Next Sunday) Chess Champion Returns to Cuba Jose R. Capablanca Goes Home Be fore Series in New York With Duras. NEW YORK, Aug 9.—Jose R. Cap ablanca. who equalled Or. Lasker’? r. cord last week by winning thirteen straight games in the Masters’ Tournament at the Rice Chess Club, left yesterday for Havana. The Cuban champion expects to spend about a fortnight at his home, and is due to return to New York early In September. If then arrange, ments are made for a, series between him and O. S Duras. of Prague, whom he defeated in the recent tournament after a struggle lasting seventy-five moves, the young master will tarry long enough for that purpose. After that he will depart for Europe Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion, is in receipt of an urgent invitation to play In the inter national tournament from P. P. Sa bo uroff. former president of the St. Petersburg Chess Club. Fighters Agree to Meet Champion For Nothing—Ad Wild To Get On. DOS ANGELES. CAL., Aug 9 —A unique situation exists In the fight game In Los Angeles. Both Joe Riv ers and Ad Wolgast. former cham pion. want to meet Champion Ritchie and have started bidding for the fight. "All I want Is to get into the ring with Ritchie again." said Wolgast. “Any promoter who can stage a bout can name his own terms as far as I’m concerned. If I win, he can give me anything he likes. I don’t ask a cent." "Same here, w in or lose." said Riv ers. "Whoever stages the contest can keep my share or give it to Ritchie." In the meantime Champion Ritchie, who i$ now in the city, says it makes no difference to him whom he fights I Just so long as he gets his price. C0UL0N TO DEFEND TITLE AGAINST BOBBY BURNS ST JOSEPH, MO.. August 9.—Bob- by Burns, of Dallas. Texas, sign-d article? here yesterday for a ten- round boxing contest with Johnny Couion, bantamweight champion, at Omaha September 12. 1 Burns and Jones in Battle of Invectives Managers of Arthur Pelky and Jess Willard Laugh at Each Other’s Claims. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.—Tommy Burns, manager of Arthur Pelk/,.and Tom Jones, who looks aft^r the in terests of Jess Willard, are booked to hook up In an interesting battle of Invectives and near blows within a day or two. Jones wants* to match Willard against Pelky, but Burns In a tele gram yesterday said that Wlllari must go get a reputation before pre suming to challenge a champion. "Gunboat Smith is the man Pelky wants to meet." said Burns "Smith beat Willaftl, and then, again, Char ley Miller shaded the Kansas scrap per Let him get a rep’ for him self." This sort of language Is the sort that makes Jones glad lie is alive, for he thrives on argument. "When did Pelky whip Willard, or anybody of consequence, until he landed a lucky punch on Luther Miv Carty?" asks Jones. "Willard can whip.Pelky. and Burns can name his* own terms. Pelky took one beating from Willard and wants no more." As Willard holds a decision over Pelky, it is probable that Jones* will work that argument and a side bet proposition overtime until Burns agrees to a match between the rival white hopes. NUMBER FOOTBALL PLAYERS. ITHACA, N. v.. Aug. 9 If the coaches of other colleges agree to it. Coach A1 Sharpe, of Cornell, will number his football players next fall. Sharpe is said to be highly in favor of the innovation suggested by Parke H. Davis, Princeton’s representative on the rules committee. Dr. Sharpe believes that the reform must come. REDS CAN USE THIS ONE. NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—President Lynch, of the National League, in a decision to-day holds that the result of the protested Rrooklyn-Cincinnatt games of July 11, of which Cincin nati won, 5 to 3, stands as played. / Broken Fingers Can't Stop Cy Falkenberg Cleveland Twirler Has Been Hurt Three Times This Year, But Continues Work. CLEVELAND, OHIO.. Aug. 9.— Falkenberg has been hurt three times this* year, but has not lost a turn in the box because of his injuries. Boeh- ler. of Detroit, hit him on the pitch ing arm in April, but Cy kept on win ning. Then he had a finger on his left hand broken, but he continued to win. Last week he broke another digit on his left whip, yet has won two games since. MACK WANTS NEW RULE TO PROTECT BASE RUNNERS PHILADELPHIA, PA.. Aug. 9.—Con nit* Mack has a new rule to suggest when the baseball magnates gather in the fall. The sphinxlike leader of the Athletics would have the base-runners given more protection and have intleld- ers restricted in blocking tactics. When an infielder has deliberately blocked the path. Mack believes that the umpire should grant the runner his base. He claims that the use of shin guards by catchers and other protection by In-, fielders makes it next to impossible for a base-runner to g« t the goal sought unless he has sufficient weight to bowl over the opposing infielder. Al Palzer May Lose Chance to Box Georges Carpentier in Paris. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—It is report ed here that Al Palzer is not to get the chance to fight Carpentier In France this fall, the plum going to Jeff Smith, the Bayonne, N. J., mid dleweight. A wire says they are to meet on October 20 in the Circus de Paris, the weight to be 170 and the distance 20 rounds. Al Lippe, manager for Smith, it is said, put one over on Tom O’Rourke, who may have something to say about the fight. Smith, how ever. is a good card in Paris, where he beat Adrian Hogan. Willie Lewis. M. Bernard and made Harry Mans field quit in seven rounds. In fact, only Mike Gibbons has the honor of hanging a decision on Smith. Carpentier will probably outweigh Smith about 20 pounds at the agreed weight, but this will not be such a handicap, according to Smith’s ad mirers. * m Jeff Smith to Get Big French Plum PITTSBURG, Aug 9.—Helpl Hoi- lup! There’s a citizen at Pittsburg—a prominent citizen at that—who doesn’t know Honus Wagner, of Car negie, Pa. "Wagner? Wagner? Is he really, as you allege, a baseball player?" This was Dr. William J. Holland’s reply to a question propounded by David Davies, of The Pittsburg Dis patch. Dr. Holland is director of Carnegie Museum and was said to have received from the king of ball players a letter offering to sell an old uniform for 115. T^ils information came from New York, the editor of one Gotham dally being quite hyster ical over the "possibilities" of the story, to use his own words. When Dr. Holland was approached on the matter he was surprised. "I don’t know Wagner," he said, "and we are not conducting a hero fund at the museum. No doubt this Mr. Wagner is quite a wonder in his chosen line of endeavor, and I suppose it is my misfortune never to have made his acquaintance." "But, Doctor,” protested the writer, "did you receive an offer from Wag ner—did you receive any old kind of an offer?" "Man alive!” came the crushing re ply; "haven’t I just told you that I never spoke to Mr. Wagner, that 1 never heard him speak, that I never received a letter from him, that I never was called on the ’phone by him —and that I never have given the subject of his old uniforms any con sideration at all? Next thing I know they’ll be making an old-clothes man out of me.” Dr Holland was positive that there was no chance of Honus’ discarded raiment finding repose within the classic confines of the big building erected at Mr. Carnegie’s expense. "The whole thing is arrant non sense,” he said. "I don’t know who is responsible for the circulation of the ‘story’ (I believe you newspaper chaps call it that); but I do know that the entire yarn has been made out of whole cloth.” Poor old Honus doesn’t know where he is since the circulation of this uniform-museum story. Vowing that he never has made any tender of his worn-out scenery, he said yesterday that he guessed "somebody was try ing to kid him.” "When I get through with a uni form,’’said he, "there’s not much left of it. Still, if Dr. Holland, the Car negie Museum or any other body or place wants what remains, I’ll sell for $15. And I’ll be making money at that.” WENDELL. WELL KNOWN ATHLETE, QUITS FOR GOOD LAKE GEORGE. N. Y.. Aug. 9.— James I. Wendell. Wesleyan, 1913, a member of the American team at the Olympic games in Sweden, announced here to-day that he had decided to with draw from athletics. He said he wished to retire while ‘‘good’ rather than to be forced out by declining ability. He has accepted a position to teach at Pottstown, Pa., next year. HEAVYWEIGHTS TO MIX IN 20-ROUND GO ON SEPT. 23 LOS ANGELES, CAL., Aug. 6—Arthur Pelkey, white heavyweight champion of the world, to-day matched to meet Charley Miller, the San Francisco motor- man, in a 20-round bout at Vernon, Cal., on the night of September 23. This will be Pelkey’s first engagement since his bout with Luther McCarty In Calgary, which ended in the death of the latter. Luck Begins to Break for Griff +•+ +•+ +•+ Injuries Gave Boehling a Start By W. J. McBeth. N EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Manager Clark Griffith of the Washing tons Is a firm believer in luck, at le&jrt as applied to baseball. The "Old Fox” certainly has had his share of bumps. With the least iota of breaks or good fortune he would have landed at least two pennants for Frank Farrell. This year he mignt have driven the Athletics to cover had his fine, aggressive young team not been so seriously handicapped by in juries to players Griffith has had some pretty tough luck in his career, and particularly this sason. He seems a man destined to always be on the threshold of great fame without being able to find the latchstring. „ He has had many buf fets; but he has likewise enjoyed some few favors of fickle fortune. These came along now and then as blessings in disguise. And not the least of the lot by any means has been Joe Boehling. the young southpaw who so far has been the sensation of the major leagues this season. It wag on'y last spring that the "Old Fox" deplored the. decay of competent left-handed pitching. "Fork-hand fling,” opined Griff "has become a dead art.” Why Griff should have been so melancholy on the sub ject when two such able experts as "Rube” Marquard and Eddie Plank were on hand to refute the insinuation is very hard to figure. It may have been that all his life Griffith had been disappointed in digging up a porrside of real merit when at times such a one would have spelled victory. * * • DT'T at the time when the ‘‘Old 1 Fox” was grieving most sorely over his years of disappointment, he had with him a young man who in a •very few months to blossom out into one of the real wonders of baseball. Not since Russell Ford, of the Yankees, and "King” Cole, of the Cubs, in 1910, averaged well above the .800 mark ip victory percentage for over thirty games their first sea son in fast company has any young ster displayed the class of Washing ton’s prize southpaw. Boehling reeled off eleven straight victories. * Boehling is going to be of great help to Griffith and Washington. The team is pretty well out of the race now. yet still has an outside chance. Certainly next year, unless Mack braces his pitching staff, the Old Fox is likely to give the Athletics a fight to the last ditch. Walter Johnson and Joe Boehling form a pretty good pitching staff as modern purling corps go. And Griff has several other young men, among them Engel, who can give a pretty fair account of themselves in the box. But getting back to Boehling. He has divided in hearts of loyal Wash ington fandom a place this year usurped by the great and only Walter Johnson. His advent to fame has been more or less of an accident. But for the fact that Griffith was forced to utilize him in the face of injuries to seasoned twirlers. young Joe might BOSTON, Aug 9.—Sam Langford, the Boston tar baby, through his manager, Joe Woodman, to^dav confirmed the re port that he had agreed to meet Jack Johnson in Paris this fall to settle the question of the heavyweight champion ship of the world. According to the announcement, the fight is to go twenty rounds. Johnson is to receive $30,000 guarantee, win, lose of draw, and Langford is to receive 25 per cent of the gross receipts. Leading fight promoters estimate that the fight will draw more than $100,000 at the gate. MAIL YOUR FILMS TO US For developing We are film special lata, with the larg est laboratory fn the South. All prlnte made on Pria*- Wlnning Cyko Paper. All roll films developed FREE, no matter where purchased Brownie Prints, 3c each. Write for descriptive Camera Catalogue G. Prices $2.00 to $85.00. Use that fast Ansc© film; fits any camera or kodak; costs no more, but also gives true oolor values. Mail Order Department. E. H. CONE, lnc. v 2 Stores, Atlanta, Ga. GABBY STREET WILL BE BACK IN MAJOR LEAGUES CHATTANOOGA. TENN , Aug. 9.— Chattanooga fans are already beginning to look over the prospects of 1914. The continued absence of Elberfeld from the battle array has exploded all hopes of a pennant this season. There Is every possibility that Gabby Street will be drafted or sold outright to a major league club, but if he is not It is a certainty that he will not play another season in a league where the maximum salary is but $300 per month. Street Is in good condition as ever in life, and he realizes that he is worth more than the local club can pay him. CLUBS AFTER CATCHER. TERRE HAUTE. 1ND . Aug. 9--White Sox officials have made telegraphic of fers for Catcher Hargrove, of the Terre Haute club Pittsburg, the Highlanders* and the Cubs also have asked for terms on him, as has an American Association club. OLMSTEAD IS RELEASED. SPOKANE. Aug 9.—Pitcher Olmstead I who was obtained recently from the Oakland Coast League club, was re- I leased to-day by the local baseball club. In his try-out yesterday Olmstead did not show to advantage. TIGERS GET TWIRLER. OTTUMWA. b>\V A Aug 9.—Pitcher 1-oranzen. a left-hander of the Ottumwa I club in the Central Association, was I sold to the L>etroit Americans for $2,500. 1 CATARRH OF THE. BLADDER RsIIsybiI In 24 Hours Each Cap- /—N sule bears I ha ft^lQY, name Send for our free Booklet. Whenever ' you see an Arrow think of Coca-Cola. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, Atlanta, ga. now be wasting "his sweetneaa on the desert air of some bush league. * * • H ERE is his history: Only back in the year 1911, when Dr. William H. Parker, the dean of amateur athletics in the Keystone City of the South, kindled an Interest in amateur athletics of every sort, particularly devoting himself to ama teur baseball, the medical man of cherubic countenance, who la also a police commissioner in R#*hmond, formed and managed the Battle Axe team, which won the championship of the city In a league comprised of eight clubs. Joe Boehling and Bill Kay formed the star battery of the Battle Axe team, which lost but two games out of sixteen played. Succeeding the amateur baseball season, an intercity championship ee- ries was arranged with the winners of similar championships in Wasri- ington and Baltimore, In which the championship was won by the Pepcos of Washington, the games directing » attention to the splendid battery work \ of the Battle Axes Bill Peet, of the Washington Herald, was the wide- eyed visual artist who paw In Boeh ling possibilities sufficient to con vince ‘‘Old Fox” Griffith of the ad visability of adding Boehling to the staff headed by that strong-armed genius, Walter Johnson. . • • • TOURING the training trip of 1912, f , ^ Washington scribes proclaimed > the worth of Boehling and predicted that he would prove a tower of strength for the Climbers. The brtl- liant attack of the Senators during 1912, during which they rolled up a succession of sixteen successive vic tories—which record was ruined in the seventeenth effort by “Home Run” Raker, of the Athletics—prevented Griffith from risking the club's climtj with a game pitched by Boehling. so Griff farmed him out to Chattanooga. Climatic conditions there hindered the upbuilding of the youngster, and Kid Elberfeld returned the youngster to Washington, w hen Griff turned him over to Worcester, where, under Jest-e Burkett, he achieved a winning per centage of .635. Again to Charlottesville and under the tutelage of Griffith and Jack Ryan the experience gained assterted itself A boy of big frame and intelligently acquisitive. Boehling earned his right to Ftay wuth the Senators, and Griff, while bemoaning the dearth of good left-handed pitchers, intrusted the fortunes of one game to the young ster. w ho returned It as a victory. LANGFORDAGREES TO BOX JACK JOHNSON IN PARIS