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If Mutt Loses To-day, It's Right to the Cleaners for Him
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By “Bud” Fisher
By .Top Agler.
B irmingham, ai.a.. Aug. i3 —
Carl Thompson is going to get
the final shot at the Barons in
Birmingham, and Carl is going to do
his level beat to lick his old team
mates. Carl will he on his mettle in
this contest, as Protigh. the Barons’
celebrated rfght-hander an 1 a sure
trial horse in the Big Show text year,
has been saved for tb« last game with
the Crackers.
Chapman will catch, and you may
be sure we will all do our best to pull
the game out for Carl. A few days
back, we wouldn’t have been very
hopeful against a bird Ilk*. Prough.
But in the last two games we have
been hammering the ball savagely.
a.nd it didn't seem to make any dif
ference who was slinging it Moiey
has used up ail his pitchers except
Prough in the last two games. And
Xnaybe we can keep up the good work
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T’ySNT had an easy game yesterday
^ and let up after the fifth Inning
which was the proper thing to do. as
We had the game well in hand. Mard-
grove was easy and Gregory was no
improvement. Evans got into the
going after our tongues were hanging
out with running around the liases,
and got away pretty well.
Having taken the first two games
Straight, we are going to fight hard
to make it a clean sweep, so as to go
home in the best possible shape for
the long and decisive home series.
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TV f AN ACER SMITH ha shipped
1 1 FYice, Deni and Oonzelman
home to rest up for the furious grind
that starts Thursday with a double-
header against the liookmit^ They
will get a good rest and should be in
fine shape for the critical part of the
•campaign of 1913. With Thompson.
Voss and Love we should be able to
worry along through the game to
day, especially as we are hoping we
Won’t need anybody but Carl
OH.horr.or.-s*
MUTT FAILED ON
ANOTHefc 6£ T
UNCLE. MUM
WAS SCRATCHED
However, MUTT
IS 5H00T(N(, TH£
whole .Bankroll
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A HOMWAMtfc GIRD.
KRAZY KAT
It All Depends On the Kind of “Hitting”
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Sports and Such
FAMOUS IN SPORT—V.
The Marathon.
THE MARATHON WAS clamd
*ome two thousand years ago by a
young Creek who didn’t realize
what he was doing or he wou'd
never have done tt. as the Creeks
were a highly civilized and intp’li
gent people. He can be excus* d |
only on the ground that h-> wms i
young and flighty, and easily be i
came excited over trith a
A man named Darius bad come
over from Persia w hich was the
home of the White Hopes in those
days—-to fight for the title. Twelve
men wanted first slam at him. and
in the draw for the privilege one
Miltiades won. The mill was
pulled off at a little place called
Marathon, and Mlltlades knocked
him dead 1n a punch, showing that
White Hopes are much the same
in all ageF.
Although everyone expected th'x
result, one young man. who is now
believed to have been a cub re
porter. got so excited that he ran
2u miles to Athens to beat everyone
in with the news. The run killed
him, the Creeks always being lucky
in these matters.
Ever since that evil day other
young men of unstable mentul
poise have gone forth in their un
derwear to run 25 miles on the
slightest provocation, although onlv
a few have died Immediately after
the finish. Many comparatively
sane and useful citizens have been
cast into the booby-hatch for lets
than a voluntary run of 25 miles ‘n
heat and dust, but the alienists
have not yet taken up this speeies.
In this much the Marathon is a
glorious institution The fact that
there Ik no law against It is the
greatest single proof we have that
our country is still the Land of
Liberty.
(The n®xt film will be knock
out—‘‘The America Cup.” Get it
at any cost.)
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“THE GERMAN COMMISSION
■will study various phas»? of ama
teur sports in America” In an
nounced. Ah — or—including ’’sum
mer baseball?”
THERE IS OBVIOUS f NCON -
latency In the ruling off of Jockey
Wilson’ who has been nelping im
prove the breed of horses by pull
ing them up in such races in which
they seemed to be going too fast.
It is surely for the im prove men i
of the breed rot to overwork them.
AS THESE LINES ARE hiUteil
o’,it Connie Mack lias for the sec
ond lime conceded tho victory of
the Athletics In the American
league race \\ ■ are beginning to
think that he Is nervous.
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THE FIGHT IN NEW YORK
the other night demonstrates that
Smith ran hit hard enough to knock
out Jim Flynn, and is knocking out
Flynn has ever 1 -n simply a ques
tion of hitting hard enough, the
battle doesn’t prove much
J FAN NETT E-LANG FORD GO
MAY BE DECLARED OFF
LOS ANGELES. Aug 13 - The pro
posed Langford-Jeannette match is
“up in the air.”
Jeannette claims that ho must Rail
for Paris on October 10 to fill an
engagement with George r C arpen-
tier, and asks for a September date
In Los Angeles.
Promoter McCarey, of the Pacific
A replied that the September date
Ik filled Jeannette will have to post
pone his Paris bout or cancel the lo
cal date.
Mexican Joe Rivers matched to
box Leach Cross on Labor Day. re
turned from the mountain* last night
and will open an early camp at Ven
ice. Crot-s is due from Catalina to
day.
Ad Wolgast is en route to Med
ford, Oreg., for a rest. He will re
turn here to train eight days for his
admission day match against the
winner of to-night’s fight between
'Dundee and White.
Appalachian League.
Knoxville :>. Bristol 4.
M^ristown ». Middlesboro 4.
7, City 2.
I jAID, I6NAT2’; Hou/Tneee. wai-s a
Gift EAT AmOUWT OF tCRUECry AMOMG ,
them CHI^tSF ORIENTALS, from''
l/VWAT ! HEV 0"&TeMFE>
Noo lWHAT Form OF
I ciiueuy Do V00
l ACCUSE "this. PoorJ
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Yxnt They All The. Times
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Walsh to Visit Bonesetter Reese
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Mighty Arm Loses Old Cunning
By Ed W. Smith.
C HICAGO. ILL, Aug 13. -The
mighty Ed Walsh arm has gone
The terrible whip that In years
past kept the Sox in the running
when they wabbled and steadied th»
team when It was going at its worst
has lost Its strength Its cunning and
Its power—and the Sox are flounder
ing. Nobody seems to know what
l« the matter with Walsh and they
are arklng Bonesetter Reese to make
a diagnosis. Nobody is hinting that
vast overwork has “killed” one of the
greatest performers the diamond ever
knew — not that, because Walsh
jwemed to he as good as ever when
the spring seahon ojfbned this year
He pitched and won and the Sox fans
settled down comfortably to see “Big
Kd” give them another season of
phenomenal work.
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I) I T ! t wasn’t to he. In a little
while Walsh discovered that, he
’’wasn’t there.” and it didn’t take
much longer for his friends to see
the tame thing. That shrieking speod
had dwindled and the “iplttef** that
formerly almost dropped at the feel
of the batter as he swung far over it
didn't drop at all The arm wasn't
sore, hut s miething had departed
from it and it remained merely an
arm—and without baseball value.
Maybe the bonesetting man can give
Walsh some relief He has done won
ders with some arms and knees and
ankles and shoulders that weren't
very far gone. But if Walsh doesn’t
come back it will be a tremendous
blow to President Comiskev and his
hopes. And it emphasizes again and
again the tremendous value to a team
of a single star pitcher
/’’HJB Tans and Sox fans used to
^ argue and even fight over the
qiientlon of whether Mordecal Brown
or Ed VValnh wa» the greater per
former. And a year or so ago. when
the everblooming Brownie. Idol of the
West Side, started to go wrong, the
Sox fan laughed and said there was
nothing to It; tnat Walsh was as good
as ever ind probably would go on for
years skinning the Cubs In the city
series and generally being an eyesore
and a thorn in the stide of the West
, Rider. Brownie was sent to the
I minors because he wasn’t of service
| to the West Side team.
| But there never was anything the
! matter with the Brown arm. His
trouble was all In the knee, and w’hen
that was remedied. Brownie was as
good as ever That smart young fel
low. Joe Tinker, knew and quickly
grabbed Brown hack from the minors.
Brownie Is beating National League
teams in the same old style—has
beaten the Cuba, too This Is both
I pain and sorrow for the West Side
fan-comfort, though, fn the thought
that Brow n Is still going while Walsh
isn’t. Which may or may not settle
j the arguments of long ago.
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T HE pitcher is a tremendous factor
in the baseball of 10-< 1 • i\ . And
only a manager In Jimmy Callahan’s
present fix can realize w hat it means
to have Walsh gone Jimmy knows
pitching angles a little better than
other managers, because once he was
one of the greatest of them all—
certainly the greatest fielding pitcher
we ever had here, and one of the
best hatters. He has been gtting
a lot of good pitching out of Scott.
Cicotte and Russell, and especially has
worked the hitter at a terrific pace.
Hence the general fear that be may
break the Texas wonder down. Oh.
for an Ed Walsh at this stage of the
' battle!
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Atlanta at Birmingham
Memphis at New Orleans
Chattanooga at Nashville.
Montgomery at Mobile.
Stardlng of the Clubs.
Mobile
Mont.
Atlanta
B'hani.
W L IV
67 48 .5*3
63 45 .5*3
60 51 .541
69 54 .522
W L Pc
C’nooga. 55 54 505
M’phis 55 59 4*2
N'ville 48 64 429
N. Ur 37 69 .319
Tuesday’s Results.
Atlanta 12. Birmingham 3.
Mobile 5. Montgomery 3
New Orleans 1. Memphis 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Chicago at Boston
New York at Brooklyn.
St. lamia at New York.
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Chicago
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L Pe. W. L
72 32 963 Boston 44 58
61 37 622 B'klyn. 44 56
56 49 529 C’nati. 43 67
5 51 519 j S Louis 41 65
Tuesday's Results.
Boston 7-9 Chicago 3-3
Pittsburg 6. Cincinnati 2
New York 6. Brooklyn 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
No games scheduled.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L Pc. f
Phila. 72 34 679
Cl’land. 66 43 606
W'gton. 69 47 557
Chicago 58 53 523 .
W. L Pc.
Boston 50 54 481
Detroit 46 63 422
■». Louis 44 69 .389
V. Y 35 67 343
Tuesday’s Results.
Chicago 4. Philadelphia 2.
St. Louis 7. New York 2
Texas League.
Dallas 2. San Antonio 3.
Austin 0. Beaumont 5.
Fort Worth 6. Houston 4.
Waco 1, Galveston 2.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Macon at Charleston.
Albany at Columbus
Savannah at Jacksonville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. _ - I W I., Pc
Sav’nah. 24 IS 600 j Albany SO 22 476
("bum. 23 19 .546 [ I'his n 19 23 .450
J'villc. 20 22 476 I Macon 18 22 .4.70
Tuesday’s Results.
Savannah 4, Jacksonville 0.
Macon 4, Charleston 2.
Albany 10. Columbus 0
GEORGIA-ALABAMA LP AGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Newnan at LaGrange.
Anniston at Talladega
Gadsden at Opelika
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C | W. L Pe
G’den. 49 34 590 An ton. 42 45 .483
N’nan. 43 42 606 L’G'ge 41 45 477
Ojelika 43 44 494 T’degu 38 48 442
Tuesday's Results.
Talladega 4. Anniston 3
Opelika 4. Gadsden 0
LaGrange 11, Newnan 10
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Cordele at Amerlcus
Valdosta at Thomasville.
Brunswick at WaycroM.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc ’ W It. Pc.
T’ville 20 16 .666 Arncus. 19 19 500
V’dosta. 19 19 500 t B wick. 18 20 474
C’dele. 19 19 .500 ! W’cross 18 20 474
Tuesday’s Results.
Waycross 8. Brunswick 2.
Thomas villa 5. Valdosta 0.
Amertous 4 Cordele I.
Norfolk
poned.
OTHER RESULTS.
Virginia League.
6. Roanoke 4 Others post-
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Sporting Food
GeorgeLockner Won Sweepstakes
aSORQE B. PHAliK
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REVENGE.
(A Baseball Tragedy in Three Acts.)
ACT /.
Ike Sivatt, the mighty baseball star,
was smitten with a (lame
Who owned a flock of lucre and an
old and honored name,
Hut when he offered her his hand
she < yldly spurned the same.
ACT II.
ft was the final inning and they
needed one tie.
Our Hero ambled to the plate and
saw three strikes go by.
The game was lost while she looked
on with murder in her eye.
ACT III.
For she had bet her fortune on the
prowess of his bat,
And when hr took the final strike it
% left the poor girl flat.
“Revenge!*' she cried, in accents
wild. “Ml marry him for
ihatr
John McGraw arises to remark that
the Giants this year are stronger than
they ever were Reports Trom the front
indicate that they are particularly
strong with the left jab ami the right f
Morty Graves Injured an Eye
T
hook.
The rough house among the Giants
merely proves the old theory that Larry
McLean Is contagious.
In spite of the fact that Mr. McGraw. N ponl1
once owned a billiard hall he does not ' l(; — , - ‘ p -° n
seem able to handle the ivories.
GAMENESS
- THAT’S
NESS.
A BUSI -
Lew Richie once claimed that he rode
his motorcycle for pleasure, thereby
demonstrating that he was one of our
greatest comedians.
We take exception to the claims of
those Western flt/ht promoters that
lighters are getting more'money than
they earn. A m».n who can amputate
money from * ^ight promoter earns it
The report that Porter track will be
opened again indicates that the fall guy
has saved up another bank roll.
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN
FICTION.
.4 heavyweight fighter named Flynn
Was endowed with an ironclad ehynn.
He didn't much rare
If they walloped him there
Just as long as he gathered the tynn.
Possibly some one can tell us whether
the man who picks out the names for
motor boats is a victim of the hop habit
or is just naturally that way.
The press agent tells us that Mike
Schreck Is down to 177 pounds. But he
does not tell us whether Mike has am
putated h isiegs or his thirst.
WHY?
“/ came from Californiaremarked
a Westef n gent,
“Rut strange to say. / never won a
tennis tournament.**
“It is a noble sight."' he said—“the
river marathon!
It is a noble sight to see the athletes
fighting on.
It is a noble sight to see them stem
the sulU’it tide,
Rut why do they prefer to swim when
there are boats to ridet"
HE Forrest Adair Sweepstakes
at the Motordrome last night
proved to be one of the great
est speed struggles ever seen In the
big bowl, and George Lockner finally
finished in the lead in the last heat,
doing the five miles in 3:39 4-5. Tex
Richards won the first heat and
George Renal the second, each of two
miles.
The last heat was a whirlwind af
fair, with the riders bunched so close
ly that the proverbial blanket would
have covered the field most of the
time.
Morty Graves, captain of the riders,
met with a slight accident that it
first looked as if it might cause him
the loss of his right eye.
Morty was tinkering on a pedal aft
er winning the first heat of the three-
cornered match race, when the pedal
flew upward and struck him in the
eye. Medical attention was secured
at once, and late last night it was
said the injury would not be perma
nent.
Here are the complete summarieg:
Southern Merchants’ Purse.
Heats, one mile; final, two miles.
First Heat—Jock McNeil, first;
Freddie Luther, second. Time. : 43.
Second Heat—Morty Graves, first:
Wilmer Richards, second. Time. :42.
Third Heat—George lockner. firs-;
Harry Glenn, second. Time, : 43.
Final—Harry Swartz, first; Jock
Time. 1:26.
Three-Cornered Match Race.
Best two out of three heats. First
heat, one mile; second heat, two;
third, three.
First Heat—Morty Graves, first;
Harry Swartz, second. Time. ; 43 1-5.
Second Heat—Harry Swartz, first;
Jock McNeil, second. Time. 1:29.
Third Heat—Harry Swartz, first,
Jock McNeil, second. Time. 2:12 1-5.
Heats, two miles; final, five miles.
First Heat—Tex* Richards, first;
George Lockner, second. Time,
1:27 3-5.
Second Heat—George Renal, first;
Freddie Luther, second. Time. 1:26 1-5.
Final—George Lockner, first;
George Renal, second; Henry Lewis,
third. Time, 3:39 4-5.
DILLON TO BOX KLAUS IN
12-ROUND BOUT AT BOSTON
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. l t .—
Jack Dillon has accepted terms for a
twelve-round bout with Frank Klaus
at Boston, August 26. These men
have been recognized generally as
the best of the middlewelghts dur
ing the last year. Klaus defeated
Dillon in San Francisco, the bout
being a twenty-round affair, and Dil
lon squarely beat the Pittsburg cham
pion here in a ten-round go last May.
AUGUSTA AND TAMPA MAY
JOIN SALLY LEAGUE
COLUMBUS, GA., Aug. 13.—There is
a movement on foot to add. two clubs
to the South Atlantic League next sea
son, and in this movement the plan is
to take in Augusta, Ga., and Tampa.
Fla The movement had the backing
of the Columbus Board of Trade, and
Secretary Willis B. Powell has already
opened correspondence with business
men of Tampa, his old home, and they
are elated over the prospect of becom
ing members of a baseball league.
It is probable that more definite ac
tion will be taken within a few months
that will result In the addition of two
other teams to the league.
JOHNSTON FORCED HARD
BY LEONARD BEEKMAN
SOUTHAMPTON. N. Y.. Aug. 13 —
William M Johnston. the California
school boy tennis champion, was forced
to play at his best in his match in
order to win over Leonard Beekman,
of New York, in the third round of
the Meadow Club’s invitation men’s ten
nis tournament here yesterday. Beek
man surprised the. Western crack by
winning the first set of their match 6-1.
The second and third sets went to
Johnston 10-8, 6-1
In the second round Johnston de-
j feated C. F. Walston. Jr . at 12-10. 6-1.
Wallace F. Johnson, of Philadelphia,
a member of the American Davis cup
team, scored an easy victory over Eric
Winston in the second round in straight
sets 6-1, 6-3.
William A. Lamed, the seven-time
champion, defaulted to A. S. Dabney
and afterward said he would not com
pete at Newport next week.
1’lav in the third round of the singles
will be resumed to-day.
Carolina Association.
Winston 2. Greensboro 1.
Durham 5. Asheville 2.
Charlotte 8. Raleigh 1
Charlotte 5. Raleigh 1.
American Association.
St Paul 5-3. Indianapolis 1-4.
Milwaukee 5. Louisville 2
Toledo 4. Kansas City 2
Minneapolis 6, Columbus 0.
International League.
Toronto 0. Jersey City 0
Newark 2 Rochester 1
Rochester 3. Newark 2.
Providence 8, Buffalo 7
Baltimore-Montreal rain.
Federal League.
Cleveland 0. Indianapolis 4
Pittsburg 10 Chicago 2
Kansas City 6-4, SSt. Louis 8-3.
Annual Mountain
Excursion
Southern Railway
Saturday, Aug. 16.
$6.00 Asheville, N. 0.
$6.00 Lake Toxaway, N. 0.
$6.00 Hendersonville, N. C.
$6.00 Hot Springs, N. 0.
$6.00 Tate Springs, N. C.
$8.50 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.
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Also sold in Pints and Quarts
Yes, we make that good Lemo-Lime always sold at
the Ball Park, and at the Motordrome.