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HEABST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 10. 1913. 9 £) * StT OOVAJ^ - - v0 oft£. A^OT A/v/AJOV/NCr AwVO^E - VOU 57AV ^ HERE uautil 1 5AV j EluouGrH _ ^ IT3 TVjO OCLoO — 1 H^TE. TO 9UIT WHEN I'M AMEJAO - g^T / ai AF(?-A.iD W£ AutUON TU& MISSUS I'M ONTO Y0U£ ■STU EF-VOU'&E LOOIC/^6 FOfl avy out- voue.e ahead ,—-* VN&.LL- f’M TH ETRE~ wrwJO ucks / FOR- THE l Shcmjoowiw loo iT A/WT THAT 6UT OJHATSA MATTER OOlOT OOOR-Rv A 80uT aooow/Y(j Aa^voajG - 7MIS IS fv\N/ HOUSE you Kajgv/j- vurto 00 vou TH/MIC R.UWS THE PLAGE vjElg go Ahead friovu Bun*k - DEAL EM Op - ONCE AfROU*' 0 POLCAft. C/M I T" TVlEAJ VUE QUIT A Yu - Sric(t AROOHT) AMO BELOW & 'AlECKTHAK/DER ITTH r/ME l TO TH A S( 1 GOOD a^lCtHTj \UELL WHO f*UT TtiOit kU&HTS OMTil MINOR MANAGERS ARE AFTER CAL’S CASTOFFS Why Is a Hard-Working Player? QOOOOO0 He Isn’t—If He Loves the Game They would he playing baseball for fun if they weren’t making a living at it. Max Carey said of ‘‘Big Six” Math- ewson the other day: “Matty always looks as if he’d rather be out there pitching than doing anything else in the world. I never have seen him in a game when I didn't think of that. After thirteen years of baseball as a profession, baseball still is Mathewson’s favorite sport.” RITCHIE’S FATHER STAYS IN CHURCH WHEN WILLIE HAS RING ENGAGEMENT BOSTON, Aug. 9.—Some one called Manager Callahan, of the Chicago White Sox, the "David Harum" of organized baseball after Prank Chance complained that he was "stung" in the Hal Ohase- Borton Zeider deal, but despite that act minor league managers were in Boston recently to try their hand at swapping with the White Sox leader. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5.—Willie Ritchie’s father, who is down here with his son on an automobile tour, has never seen Willie in a ring. Mr. Steffens (Willie Ritchie’s real name Is* Geary Sti ffen), is of a devoutly religious nature and has very serious doubts as to the pro priety of prize fighting. As long as Willie is in the business, how ever the old man wants him to win. Whenever Willie is in the ring, his father is in church. He won’t go to the ringside for fear of Fee ing his boy hurt and he can’t stay at home with anxiety for society; so he always goes to church and remains there until the battle is over. rian vocal encouragement of his mates while the game was on. By O. B. Keeler. K NOCKING about with a profes sional ball club, you get one ear full after arrother concern ing “work,” “business.” “toil.” “drudg ery.” and so forth. And so on. You might get the hunch that the athletes had set out from very early in their young lives determined to hammer out a living by working at baseball. That is. you might get the hunch if you didn’t travel with them more than one day. and never sat on the bench during a game, and never looked at a game very understanding- ly. anyway. In that case you might feel sorry for the hard-working ball player, un der contract providing that lie must play In order to eat. hut not play for any other club than the party of the second part, or whatever party th-- party of the second part shall assign him to play with. A good many rather well-meaning and entirely sap-headed persons these days are wasting perfectly good sorrow over the assumed griev ous lot of the toiling ball player. They seem to get the Idea that he is playing ball because he has to. • * * "M" OW. take it from one who has seen some little chapters In the life of a professional ball player, the said ball player is playing ball for money because he can make more money that way than he can any other way. And, above all, he is playing ball because he likes to play ball. I BELIEVE that goes for eight out ijoj Xiupnjao ‘.BjaX'Bid puq tie} jo the hall players who are the most successful. They don’t “slow up” quickly, these men who love the game. “Slowing up" may be due in some cases to failing legs or dimming eyes. But in other cases it is due to getting stal« in the game, because the first incentive is gone—the keen edge worn off. But take it from the ball players themselves, if you please, no man ever set out deliberately to earn a living by working at baseball. Every single professional ball play er in this country started out in the beginning for one and the same rea son. And that reason was because he loved to play ball. A FINE example nearer home is Joe ** Agler. Joe never could work around that old first sack the way ho plays around it. The class of the Southern League in fielding, Joe per forms with a speed and dash that can spring only from a real joy in the game. Watch him, next time you go to see the Crackers play ball. And see if you can imagine Joe as a mere hireling, plugging along to earn his daily bread with the same ambition as a man with a heavy ham mer making little ones out of big ones. Eight out of ten professional ball players enjoy the gam« of baseball in the same way a sunburned kid on a vacant lot enjoys playing the game. So Declare Newspaper Scribes Recent Gathering Held in New York City. Does Best Clouting Playing Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Boston Fields. LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Real Estate Security iLEVELAND, OHIO. Aug. 9.—Joe hit .400 or better N EW' YORK, Aug. 9.—At an in formal gathering of newspaper men in New York the other day the topic of baseball was being dis cussed. The name of Mathewson fig ured prominently in the conversation, as is inevitable whenever the national pastime is the theme. After most ot the scribes had borne their testimony as to the personal and professional worth of “Big Six,” an old baseball reporter put a cap on the eulogies by remarking: “Matty isn’t a mere baseball player —he’s an institution.” That remarkable tribute was hailed with delight, as being a most apt ex planation of the Giants’ great twirler. There are a number of stars in base ball at the present time who have made and are making a marvelous stand against the inroads of time. Prominent among these may be men tioned Hans Wagner, Napoleon La- joie, Eddie Plank and Mordecai Brown. But of them all Matty is putting up the most brilliant opposition to the ravages of the years. The best that the others are doing just now is holding their own. They are holding Father Time off at arm’s length, but the old fellow is close enough to them to worry them in their playing. But in the case of Mathewson it is dif ferent. Instead of stopping to spar with the old gentleman with the scythe, he is going steadily on—im proving his game—mastering his technique and acquiring the supreme artistry of the mound. This year of 1913. which many had thought would mark the last of his active service, finds Mathewson again at the zenith of his prowess with a little added craftiness. He is an artist and all true artists never cease striving to improve their art—and they never cease loving it. Who can look upon the eager, smiling and boy ish countenance of Matty as he stands in the box and say that he does not love the game? The position he holds in the es teem of the baseball fans* and the public at large, which, of course, Is the same thing, is unique. If a vote were taken to-morrow to settl** the question as to who is the most popular man in organized baseball, there is no doubt that Matty would carry the election by a large majority. Jackson ha: on four diamonds this year, the fields being those of Cleveland. Chi cago, Detroit and Boston. At home the Slugging Southerner up to last Wednesday had piled up an average of .441. in the Windy City his record was .419, and in Detroit and Boston it was an even .400. Jackson, on his visits to St. Louis, has walloped the sphere at a .303 clip; at the Polo Grounds his record is .333 and at Shi be Park it is .133. The Clouting Clevelander, who ranked ninth in the competition for the Chalmers car last season and who is likely to rank higher this season if he keeps up his present timely stick- work, possibly would set a world’s record for a batting percentage could he stay at home and bat only against the Washington pitcher. Jackson has torn off 16 safeties in the seven games the Senators have played in Cleve land this year and he only has been at the bat 23 times, the extremely high percentage of .694 being the result of his activities against Walter Johnson & Co. Jackson collected five hits in the two full games the Idaho Phenom pitched against the Naps in Cleve land and his percentage for the sea son against Sir Walter is .456. * * * T ACKSON has hit at a .531 clip J against the Browns on his home field. .471 against Boston, 412 against New Tork, .400 against Detroit, 296 against Chicago and .286 against Phil adelphia. Up to last Monday he had made 40 runs and 79 hits in the Forest City and 24 tallies and 39 safeties on foreign diamonds. Of the 44 long wallops then to his credit, 28 were manufactured in Charles IV. Som ers’ ball orchard and the rest in other parks. • • * Jackson has twice this year come to the bat with the bases full and emp tied the sacks of all their inhabitants. The first cruel blow the Southerner struck was in the game of May 10 with the Boston Red Sox. Then he tripled against Charley Hall. The next day the Highlanders played the iW-'/M T RECALL in particular one ”011101!'’ A Autrey, first baseman for St. Paul, in the American Association, and the least shade under big league caliber in hitting. Chick is an extreme sample of the ball player who likes to play hall. When the club is at home. Chick is out on the field in uniform half an hour before his mates get to the club house to dress, playing catch or hat ting up files with any stray young sters he can find about the lot. Lead a the World The Hop Growers of old Bohemia know that Anheuser-Busch are by far the world s largest buyers of SaazerHops. It’s the exclusive Hop flavor which makes Jackson last season led his team in driving in runs and this season it looks as if he would again show the way to his mates. Thus far this sea son he has put the finishing touches to 58 counters, batting in 52 of these on safe hits, two on sacrifice flies and four on infield outs. If Cleveland fans want to honor their eminent slugologist their atten tion is respectively called to the fact that on August 25 Jackson will cele brate his fourth major league birth day. The Naps will then be at home playing the Highlanders. Joe broke into the American League on August 25, 1908. playing with the Athletics against Cleveland in a game that the Naps won, 3 to 2. He made one hit off Rube Vickers in four times at bat and accepted three out of four chances in the field. dHT HAT would happen to Me* Graw?” asked this same old scribe, who had characterized Matty as an institution, “if he were to in continently fire Mathewson after the manner of Murphy in giving old Mor decai Brown the gate?” The consensus of opinion was that if McGrnw did such a thing he might just as well lock up the Polo Grounds. That is just how close “Big Six” is to the hearts of the baseball public. But there is no danger of John J. ever doing ?»uch a thing. In the first place he Is not a Murphy in any’cor puscle of h - s compact being, and in the second place Matty’s art will con tinue in his head long after it has departed from his arm, and as a mere instructor he would be more valuable to McGraw than the average twirler Is on the mound. Popular Everywhere Its high reputation is not the result of acci dent but the product of brewing and agin? from only the best materials grown. ' Bottled only at the home plant in St. Louis ^ Anheuser-Busch Brewery St. Louis JAS. F. LYNCH, Distributor SY. Atlanta, Ga. DROPSY SPECIALISTS fire quirt; relief usually from the first does. Die- treealni Symptom* rapid ly disappear Swelling and short breath soon removed; often gives en tire relief In 15 to 24 days A trial treatment FRKE by mall. ,'4*AtfAv v. ■: r. a*.’/*'. -A-' INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT C&3 0^3 C&J C&J Copjrlfht, 1913. International News Rerrtca. By Tad Tom McCarey, Ban Johnson and James E. Sullivan Are Big Pow ers in Athletic World. D ETROIT, Aug. 9.—Uncle Sam puts it over Russia in several ways. Not the least Interest ing fact to note, in this connection, is that whereas the most despotic of all great civilized governments has only one czar, the United States at present has no less than three. First, we have Byron Bancroft Johnson. “Capital I” Ban, dictator in the baseball world; next we have James E. Sullivan, “Flret 3?er»on Singular” Jim, who makes us forget that a sporting goods concern con trols our amateur sports; and of late we have Thomas McCarty, of Ed- waxdsvflle and Los Angeles, “I’m There” Tom, who creates a new champion in pugilism whenever fol lowers of boxing on the coast begin to dig a little reluctantly for their pocketbooks. Sullivan and Johnson are too well known to need further exploitation, but the rise of McCarey to fame has not been accompanied by any fanfare. Thomas has been gaining notoriety as chief agitator of pugilism out in Los Angeles for six or more years. His first big move was to bid for the Jeffries-Johnson fight. He next grad uated into the clairvoyant world by predicting the downfall of Bat Nelson, a few' months before it occurred. But it ’s only in the last two or three years that he has set himself up as a king maker. In this field, McCarey has now reached the stage where he can start a new champion ship contest regardless of the whether a living title holder is one of the prin cipals. ... M 'CARET did this twice and he's about to pull it again. He be gan. by hanging up a championship belt in the bantamweight division tor Monte Atteil and Frankie Conley, the latter winning by a knockout. The new title didn’t stick because the pub lic had previously come to believe Johnny Coulon was the title holder. Later, however, he put up a heavy weight championship belt, while Jack Johnson .was till conscious and able to bo about, without Inviting that chafhpioft to compete. Lute McCarty won it and a lot of fame, and was on the verge of being recognized as the real thing„when his untimely end oc curred af-'Calgary. Now MqCarney is going into cham pionship making again. Although Johnny Coulon is still alive and is still the accepted titleholder in the bantamweight division, McCarney do nated a diamond championship belt to Kid Williams for defeating the French champion, Charles Ledoux. 7 * * + S OME class to McCarney's nerve. all right, especially as Eddie Campi has a look-in at the title. Nev ertheless the conditions governing the donation of the new belt make for action in the boxing world and for less four-flushing on the part of future champions. The conditions governing the retention of the belt and title compel the holder to defend his honors not less than once every six months in a twenty-round fight. Also McCarney has amputated an other canker from the bantamweight situation in stipulating that 116 pounds ringside shall be the cham pionship figure. Almost every fighter who has sought an engagement with Coulon has come to grief on the weight question. It is interesting to note, however, that McCarney's is the figure for which Coulon has nearly always held out. ... M 'CARET'S attempt to create a new champion in the little men's di vision, regardless of the existence of a titleholder. will not meet with gen eral approval, however. Coulon is one of the best liked little men in the game and until he resigns or is beaten many will decline to credit a surces- BRANNIGAN WILL BATTLE MEXICAN IN LONG BOUT NEWCASTLE. Aug. 9.—Jimmy Dime and Patsy Brannigan left last night for ) Denver, -where, on August 11, Branni- gan meets Benny Chavez, Western ban- tarn, in a scheduled twenty-round bout. Brannigan knocked Chavez out in six rounds in Trinidad, Colo., about three yeafs ago. but the Western sports believe the Mexican has improved enough sin’ce to beat Dime’s lad. T he bout is for a side bet of $1,000. Before returning home, Dime wall get in touch with “I’ncle” Tom McCarey', of the Pacific Coast Athletic Club, at Los Angeles, in reference to a bout on the coast between Brannigan and Cam- pi the native son who has been clean ing up generally on the aspirants Tor Coulon’s crown If satisfactory arrange ments are made. Dime and Brannigan . will proceed immediately to the coast. STAR COLLEGE ATHLETE IS DISCOVERED BY NAPS NEW TORK, Aug. 9.—William ("Hiker") Joy. the Holy Cross pitcher, who joined the Naps, is one of the greatest all-around athletes who has ever been a member of the Naps. Pitch ing is one of his accomplishments in the realm of athletics. Joy also played halfback on the varsity- eleven was a forward on the basket ball team and the crack sprinter and. hurdler of the college. Incidentally, he was captain of all four teams in his se nior year. 1912. While pitching for his team he also hatted in the clean-up position. His last football eleven won eight and lost three games, losing only to Harvard, Tale and Princeton. On the track he won a heat In the New England intercolle giate league games by sprinting In 10 1-5. He was barred from the final because of professionalism. CATCHER HENRY OUT OF GAME. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—John Henrv. Griffith’s first-string catcher, will be out of the game for at least a week' on account of an injury to his instep He was struck by a bat ted ball Thursday.