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V AmOttum 0 p or ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1913. WIELDS II PEN Some New Stunts in the Georgia State Senate for Univer sity Athlete. ‘YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL,’HE SAYS But the Great Halfback Tackles the Various Bills and Plugs Away at the Line. By O. B. Keeler. O VER In the Senate chamber of the State Capitol a husky youth slta week days at a flat-topped desk, his sleeves well tucked up, writ ing in the well-known easy, flowing hand that is always used to describe the chlrography of the counting room. He is the Engrossing Clerk. But he does not look like a cleTk. He looks like Bob McWhorter. And that's who he is. It’s perfectly true that to about 96 per cent of Bob McWhorter’s large assembly of admirers Bob would look unfamiliar in his capacity as Engross ing Clerk. He wields a fairly heavy pen, but nothing to compare with the bit of cordwood he handles so deftly in the gentle springtime. He tackles legislative documents with ease and certainty, but he doesn't sweep their props out from under them and stand them on one ear and shake them loose from a pigskin spheroid, so called because it is made of horsehide. So Bob McWhorter isn't served c.u naturel as Engrossing Clerk—not to those who have whooped and stood on each other’s shoulders and busted each other's hats about his doings in other lines of endeavor. But he gets away with it Just the same. It's a New Game. McWhorter of Georgia considered a moment. "No,” he said, reflectively, "I don't know that a course in football and baseball stands me in very much on this Job. Except,” he added, “you have to keep your eye on the ball, and there seem to be men on bases most of the time. We don’t have much trouble with the umpire, though, and that helps.” And Bob goes after the bills, nr whatever they are, in an earnest, conscientious, deep-chested sort cf way that might be kidded into re minding you of his well-known line plunging at Ponce DeLeon. Some build on that youth. His chest and shoulders are those of a heavyweight wrestler. Farther south his anatomy is trimly constructed, like that of a middleweight boxer. lie looks to weigh about 165 in his clothes, and when he steps on the scales the beam rises at 191. Another mark of the athlete is the fact that the fewer duds he has on the bigger he looks. In a May morning pose Mr. Me Whorter wouldn’t make a bad-looking sparring partner for the Hercules Farnese in statuary, and when it came to ground gaining, we’d let Herk take over a job on the scrub. ' How He Started. By the way, did you ever hear how Bob McWhorter started playing foot ball? As everyone knows, he spent three prep school years at Gordon. He played baseball right from the jumr, but he never had tried the rougher sport. When the second year season came on, Bob and his pa] decided to have a shy at the game Just for luck. They went over to the training quarters and the coach had Just finished giving ©fit all the uniforms. All but one pair of trousers. They were too big for anybody in school. And there was no correspond Ing Jersey. Bob and his pal flipped a quarter to see who got the pants. Bob won There being no shirt or jersey, Bob reported for practice that afternoon clad principally in the pants. But the pants were very lar-e, and Bob was by no means as husky as he is now. “To keep from stepping on them, I had to pull ’em clear up to my arm pits,” Bob said, and grinned reminis cently. “My waist line was right un der my shoulders. So I didn't need any jersey.” Then on to Victory. The second practice found Bob at guard in the first squad. The rest was a march of triumph'. Two years of football and three of baseball at the prep school; three years of football and three years of baseball at Georgia; captain of the ■ baseball team in the last season; cap tain of the football team for the com ing fall. . . . _ , , And the record of being Georgia s greatest halfback. Oh, pretty fair—pretty fair! And when he g“ts through with the last vear at Georgia, and the baseball and the football, and the ’tween sea sons desk of the Engrossing Clerk? Well then comes the East, or may be Michigan, and the finishing touches of Bob s law course. For brilliantly as Bob McWhorter performs on diamond and gridiron be is of the birth and the breed to real ize there is another great game to I be well played out before the final • whistle— the s-s’wif^xat is called Life. Here Is the Great Bob Me Whorter on Football Gridiron and Baseball Field Probably you have seen Bob McWhorter in scenery similar to one or both of these portraits. And very likely you would recog nize Georgia’s great halfback and outfielder in the same togs again. But over in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol this ses sion—well, Bob is engrossing clerk over there. And if you were to look right straight at him you might miss him. And yet it could be called a case of clothes making the man. IN TENTH INNING, M Bisland and Welchonce Work Hit- and-Run Play for Winning Tally. Great Fielding in Pinches Marks the Third Contest at Nashville. By Joe Agler. N ASHVILLE, TENN., Aug. 9.—Carl Thompson and Forrest More staged a brilliant ten-inning pitching duel in the third game of the series, the Cracker slabman nosing out a victory by another one-run margin, when Welchonce and Bisland success fully worked the hit-and-run play in the tenth, Harry crossing tha platter with the tally which gave Atlanta a pair of runs, while the Vols produced only one. More deserved a shut-out, costly bobbles in the opening round robbing him of a scoreless game. Thompson, however, held the Schwartzmen to six hits, one a recruit clout by Del. Young, and, coupled with his grand twirling, he was again accorded perfect support. At Last We Win Sporting Food •y QBORQI ft. PHAIR- BASEBALL SUMMARY CONCERNING T. LEACH. When Cobb leas a tadpole and Zim teas a fish (At least in a bascballic sense) Men spoke of the doings of old Tom-1 my Leach, Who teas hitting 'em out to the fence, When Cobb is a hasbeen and Heine is through, And the Speakers and Jacksons are nil, And the Wagners and Crawfords have passed from the scene, Tommy Leach will be clouting them still. Philosophers tell us that Youth will be served, And that Age always slackens the gait. But if Youth waits around for Tom Leach to cave in, It is in for a hcluva wait. A report from Indianapolis informs us that Horace Fogel refuses to discuss his plans, just as if Horace would refuse to discuss anything. One reason for the recent slump of those Brooklyn athletes is that they do not feel natural unless Charlie Ebbetts is there to dedicate something. BATTLE CRY OF THE CUBS. Let us then be up and scrapping With each other every day. Howling, growling, beefing, yapping— We would rather fight than play. Up to date, Miller Huggins has not been able to trade his team. This is due to the fact that he has not found the necessary blind man. Having witnessed a roque match, we are willing to admit that there is some thing slower than a game between the Cardinals and the Braves. Our best little tennis players are rais ed in California. Likewise some of our best little racquets. No. Rollo, Frank Chance will not quit. But the same can hardly be said of his ball players. LAMENT. Slowly is the summer waning With its superheated rays. And the Fall is in the offing With its melancholy dags. Dismal days when leaves are falling % Days of chills and wind and rain. When the verdure kicks the bucket And the wrestlers bloom again. Tom McCarey avers that he will make a welterweight out of Packey McFar land, but Nature beat him to It by sev eral parasangs. Ofttimes we are led to wonder how the said McFarland can look a weighing ma chine in the eye without blushing. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Sunday. Atlanta at Nashville. Memphis at Mobile. Montgomery at New Orleans. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. Mobile. .64 48 .571 Mont.. .62 42 .596 B’ham. .59 52 .532 Atlanta 57 51 .528 W. L. Po Chatt.. .56 53 .509 Me’phis 55 57 .491 Nash... .47 63 .428 N. O.. .35 68 .340 Saturday’s Results. Atlanta 2, Nashville 1 (10 innings.) Birmingham 2-8, Chattanooga 0-2. Memphis 5-6, Mobile 4-2. Montgomery 2, New Orleans L NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Sunday. Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis. New’ York at Cincinnati. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pe. [ 4V. L. Pc. New’ Y...70 32 .686 B’klyn.. 43 55 .439 Phi la.. . 61 37 .622 Boston. 42 58 .420 Chicago 55 49 .529 | C’nati... 42 64 .396 F’burg.. 53 48 .525 I, St. L... 41 64 .390 Saturday’s Results. Boston, 3; Pittsburg. 2. Chicago. 4; Philadelphia, 3. New York, 11; Cincinnati, 2. St. Louis, 5; Brooklyn, 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Sunday. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc I W. T*. Pc. Phila. .. 71 33 .683 Boston.. 50 53 .485 Cl'land.. 65 42 .607 Detroit. 45 63 .417 W’gton. 58 46 .5*8 St. L... 43 68 .387. Chicago 57 52 .523 j New Y.. 34 66 .340 Saturday’s Results. Cleveland. 3; Washington, 1. Chicago, 1; Philadelphia, 0. New York, 6; St. Louis, 6- Detroit, 6; Boston, 3. >SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Sunday. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. TV. Ij. Pr » W L. Sav’nah 23 15 .603 .T’ville.. 19 21 .475 Col’bus. 1 22 18 .550 Ch’ston. 18 22 .450 Albany. 19 21 .475 Macon.. 17 21 .447 Saturday’s Results. Savannah, 3-4; Albany, 2-1. Macon. 4; Charleston, 0. Columbus. 6; Jacksonville, 4 GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Sunday. No games screduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. i W. L. Pe. G’dsden 48 33 .593 Opelika 42 43 .494 Newnan 42 41 .506 j LaG’rge 40 44 .476 An’ston 42 43 .494 ! Talla’ga 36 46 .439 Saturday’s Results. Anniston 6, Newnan 5. Gadsden 3, Talladega 2. Oepllka 4, LaGrange 3. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Sunday. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L Pc I W. L. Pc. T’sville. 20 15 .571 Am’cus. 18 19 .486 Cord el e. 19 17 .528 V’dosta. 17 19 .472 B’swick 18 18 .500 I W r ’cross 16 20 .444 Saturday's Results. Brunswick, 3; Cordele, ?. Americus, 5; Valdosta, 4. Waycross, 4; Thomasvllle, 1. OTHER RF.SULTS. Virginia League. Norfolk, 7-2; Newport, News, 3-3. Richmond, 2-5; Roanoke, 0-4. Petersburg. 6-5; Portsmouth, 4-2. Carolina Association. Durham. 5; Charlotte, 2. Greensboro, 12; Asheville, 7. Raleigh, 6; Salem, 5 (ten Innings). American Association. Columbus, 10; St. Paul, 5. Indianapolis, 4; Kansas City, 2. Milwaukee, 3; Toledo, 0. Louisville, 1; Minneapolis, 0. International League. Buffalo, 4; Jersey City, 0. Montreal, 6; Newark, 3. Toronto, 5; Providence, 3. Rochester, 8-6; Baltimore, 0-2. MATTY BALDWIN IS ONE OF FEW FLAT-FOOTED BOXERS LOS ANGELES, CAD. Aug. 9.—Matty Baldwin is firmly of the opinion that he and Willie Ritchie art* the only scrap pers now actively engaged in the ring who fight In the style used and made famous by Sam Langford. Joe Gans and Jack Johnson. These three wonderful fighters all fought flat-footed and circled around their adversaries, forcing them to make their own opening. Also, they were all waiters, holding back and waiting for an opportunity to slip over the punch which should finish the fight. Baldwin admits that he is not a one- punch fighter. Ritchie, however, is. in his opinion, as he waits patiently for a chance to slip the right across to his opponent’s Jaw, and when he does, the fight is as good as over. Baldwin says that the fighter of to-day lacks head- work and tries to hit too often. Dr. J.D. Osborn Wins President's Cup on Brookhaven Course Dr. Joseph D. Osborne captured the President’s Cup in the final round of the Capital City golf tournament on the course at Brookhaven yesterday. He defeated R. L. Reed, 8 up and 1 to play, after a hard-fought match. E. A. Thornwell was winner of the second flight. He downed Keith Con way, 2 up. The winner of the third flight was J. K. Ottley. who had an easy time beating John Aldredge, 6 up and 5 to play. MAURICE M’LOUGHLIN TOOK UP TENNIS AT AGE OF 13 YVOTO? AKkeckir ♦ CTlrr _ -pucvYOGfcAPHfcfc ANNISTON TEAM GIVEN BANQUET BY ROOTERS ANNISTON, ALA., Aug. 9.—The Anniston baseball team w’ere honor guests at a love feast given by the Anniston fan» at the Alabama Ho tel this evening. J. H. Edmondson, president of the local club, presided, and toasts were drunk to Manager Shepperd, former Manager Hannon, President Edmortdson and others. Anniston will take the road this* week, playing at Talladega and La- Grange. The Georgia-Alabama sea son closed on August 16. NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—Maurice E. McLoughlin, who has made complete the supremacy of the Californians on the lawn tennis courts and rounding out his career by returning the Dwight F. Davis international challenge cup to i this country, Is a thoroughly represent ative American player. He la but 23 years of age and he fulfilled his bril liant promise by winning the All-Comers national championship at Newport last August. McLoughlin was bom at Carson City, Nev.. January 7, }890. It was when 13 years of age that he took up the game in which he has won the highest Ameri can honors by taking both the national singles and doubles In the same year. This has not happened since 1905, when Beals C. Wright scored on both titles, in the doubles, having Holcombe Ward as his partner. McLoughlin early in his career began to win championships, be ginning with the Junior titles In San Francisco. In 1905 he entered the Cali fornia State championship, but did not win an important title until 1907, when he took the San Francisco city cham pionship. and from that time on his rU»« has been rapid. SUPERBAS KEEP STORK BUSY. BROOKLYN. Aug. 9.—Zach Wheat, Carlisle Smith and Herb Moran, of Brooklyn, have all become proud fathers since the season opened. Tak ing it all around, the ball players have kept Dr. Stork busy this year. Cubs Trade Richie For Vaughn, No-Hit Wild Man of the A. A, CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—It was an nounced here this afternoon that “Lurid Lew” Richie, known last year as the famous Giant Killer of the Cubs, had been traded to the Kansas City club of the American Associa tion for “Big Jim” Vaughn, the wild est southpaw In existence, so far as Is known. Vaughn recently lost a no-hlt game by his excessive wildness, and earlier in the season he won another no-hlt affair, giving seven bases on balls and fanning twelve batsmen. His work this year has been characterized by terrific speed and a wonderful jump ball, with little control. He formerly pitched for New York and Washing ton, in the American League. Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Agler, lb.. ..513310 Long, If. ... 4 0 1 3 0 0 Welchonce, cf. 4 1 1 4 0 0 Smith, 2b. . . 5 0 0 1 2 0 Bisland ss. . 4 0 2 4 4 0 Holland', 3b. . 3 0 1 1 0 0 Holtz, rf. . . 4 0 1 3 0 0 Chapman, c. . 4 0 0 8 1 0 Thompson, p. 4 0 0 0 1 0 Totals . . .37 2 7 30 9 0 Nashville ab. r. h. po. a. e. Daley, It . . 4 0 1 3 0 0 Callahan, cf. . 4 0 2 2 0 0 Spratt, 8b. . . 3 0 0 0 3 0 Gibson, c. . . 4 0 0 4 1 1 Young, rf. . . 4 1 1 2 0 0 Hofman, 2b. . 4 0 1 2 5 0 Schwartz, lb.. 3 0 1 16 0 0 Perry .... 1 0 0 0 0 0 IJndsay, ss. . 2 0 0 1 6 2 Noyes .... 1 0 0 0 0 0 More, p. . . . 3 0 0 0 3 0 Totals . . .33 * 1 6 30 18 Perry hatted for Schwartz tenth. Noyes batted for Lindsay In tenth. .Score by Innings: Atlanta 100 000 000 1—2 Nashville .... 000 010 000 0—1 Summary: Sacrifice hits—Long, Welchonce, Spratt. Stolen base— Callahan. Two-base hit—Holtz. Three-base hit—Callahan. Home run—Young. Double play—Agler to Bisland to Agler. Left on bases Nashville, 5; Atlanta, 8. Hit by pitcher—By More, 1. Bases on balls—Off Thompson, 1; off More, 1. Struck out—By Thompson, 6; by More, 2. Time—2:00. Umpires— Wright and Kerin. Here’s Some Pitcher! Blanton Wins Six Games in Five Days And Trio of These Remarkable Vic tories Were Scored In Double-Headers. Scout After Syracuse Pitcher for Red Sox BOSTON, GA., Aug. 9.—In pitch ing six ball games in five days Kid Blanton, an amateur pitcher of this town, has no doubt established a new world's record. In two of the six games he shut out his opponents completely, and in another he would have scored a no-hlt game had not a grounder took a bad bound after the game had gone Into extra innings. In Perry, Fla., last Monday Blan ton worked In a game against the Perry club, which is considered to be the fastest independent club in Flor ida. Due to the non-arrival of the other pitchers, Blanton was obliged to pitch two games against the Perry team on the next day. On Wednesday he pitched for Bos ton against Quitman, Ga. On Thurs day he didn’t work, but on Friday he went to Camilla. Ga., where he pitched another double-header, win ning the first game by a score of ? to 5 and also the last by a score of 2 to 0. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug 9.—Patsy Donovan, the Boston American scout, left here yesterday for Binghamton to look over Pitcher Rankin Johnson, of the Syracuse team, who recently held the Athletics to seven hits in an ex hibition game Here. It Is understood that two other major league clubs are after Johnson. KELLY AND SHEEHAN SIGN FOR TEN-ROUND FIGHT CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—“Spike” Kelly and Tommy Sheehan, Chicago welter weights, yesterday were matched to fight ten rounds In Superior, Wls., on Labor Day night. They agreed to weigh 145 at 6 o’clock. Fred Gilmore signed the papers for Kelly, who has been Idle since he beat Billy Walters at Kenosha. Crackers Buy Voss, Macon's Star Pitcher, Paying$2,000 forHim Reinforcements for the Crackers In the person of a new pitcher, John D. Voss, will arrive in Birmingham to morrow to Join the Smith forces. The new hand has been pitching for Ma con in the Sally League, where he has made a fine reputation this sea son. The purchase price is said to have been $2,000. Voss pitched yesterday for Macon against the Charleston club, winning, 4 to 0, and allowing only three hits. It Is probable that the new hurler will be used in one of the games with the Barons, probably taking Price’s turn on the rubber while the latter is under suspension. Bifland, by a remarkable field ing {51ay, pulled the game out of the fire in the ninth, when the Vols threatened to pull another Garrison finish. Daley had opened the round by beating out a smash to Wally Smith, and after Callahan had forced him at second on his at tempted sacrifice, Dave swiped the bag. Long, by a great leap ing catch, speared Spratt’g drive, and then Gibson cut one at short a mile a minute, making the out • at first impossible. Scooping the j pill with one hand, Bis tossed to 1 Holland, cutting Callahan down and breaking up the rally. Crackers Score First. The Crackers were the first to sc<jt\ Aklrr getting a life at first whan Lindsay, who had an off day, messed up Joe’s roller. He reached second on Long’s sacrifice and took third on Welchonce’s out to center. Then Wal ly Smith lifted a skyscraper, which oozed out of Gibson’s mitt, Joe saun tering In. Bisland slashed a two-sacker to th» dump, sending Wally to third, and More cracked Holland on the hand, filling the sacks, but Holtz ended the agony, fouling out to first. With blinding speed, Thompsoa whiffed four of the first five Vols to face him, Callahan getting the first hit In the fourth, with one out, bu* died at second. Young Hit a Homer. Young opened the count In the fifth with a “once-over.” After fouling one over the left field fence, he cams right back, pasting the ball not two feet from where the first had fallen foul. The blow failed to shake Thomp son, who took care of Hofman’a grouner, and Schwartz, who bounced a single off Holland's glove, was out stealing, while Lindsay fanned. More pitched himself out of a deep hole In the fourth, after Holtz had opened with a double to right. Chap man fouled to Schwartz, Holtz tak ing third on the play. Linds* v camped under Thompson's pqp, and Agler struck out Schwartz called on all hts pinch hit ters in the tenth after Hofman had started a rally by singling through the box, Holtz having gobbled up Young's long fly to the dump. Artie never budged from second, which ho reached on Perry's out to Smith, Carl whipping over three fast strikes on Noyes, batting for Lindsay, who fell a victim to Thompson’s curves every time up. The Vols put a crippled Une-up In the field, Hofman working at second In place of Perry, who was nursing a Charley horse, A Great Sprint. Welchonce’s sprint from first to the plate on a single with the winning run was easily the feature of the game, but Holtz contributed two fine catches in right, and Blsland's hitting was hard and timely. Conze'man and Chapman ** 111 work in to-morrow’i game. LUTE M’CARTY SPENT MUCH. SPRINGFIELD. OHIO. Aug. 9 —In his last month on earth. Luther McCarty spent a llttla more than 14.000, accord ing to an expense account approved by the administrator of his estate yester day. The account was filed by Billy McCarney. manager of the dead fighter, to show why only $26 of the $4,300 share . of the Calgary receipts remained after bis burial at Piqua. Ohio, J,