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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. s By Joe Agler. B irmingham, aha., ah*. i» — Carl Thompson Is going to get the Anal shot at the Barons In Birmingham, and Carl Is going to do his level best to lick his old team mates. Carl will be on his mettle in this contest, as Prough, the Barons’ celebrated right-hander and a sure trial horse in the Big Show' next year, has been saved for the 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 like Prough. But in the last two games we have been hammering the ball savagely, and it didn’t seem to make any dif ference who was slinging it. Moley has used up all his pitchers except Prough in the last two games. And maybe we can keep up the good work. • • • T^JENT 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. H&rd- grove. was easy and Gregory was no improvement. Kvans got into the going after our tongues were hanging out with running around the banes, 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 I home in the best possible shape for the long ami decisive home series. • • • MANAGER SMITH has shipped i ' A Price, Dent and Conzelman home to rest up for the furious grind that starts Thursday with a double- header against the Lookouts. 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 w e should be able to worry along through the game to day, especially’ as we are hoping w*e won’t need anybody but Carl. If Mutt Loses To-day, It 9 s Right to the Cleaners for Him • • • • By “Bud” Fisher mutt miued on ANfiYHeH 6£ T UNClE MOM WAS 5< R ATtHtU ' How/eve<v, Hurr IS SHOOTIHfr Trtfc UMOtt &ANKRJ5U. Too ao ve aoan\*> estpfUEsv uose^ tstsyt, NVUTTV40NT HKNC MoMet enomn To A PArtA. OS» A HOOSMtttfe ©1*0. KRAZY KAT • • It All Depends On the Kind of “Hitting” ?AlO / i6naT2^ 41ThowThi=*£. wA-i A , feftSAT AmOiA/T of tfROet-tX 4M0AJG- , TVltM CHIA^SF ORlEMTACS^ M-AT I HEV £i-5TEA)££> ' WMWj'maTSkX Do/uV TheV All The 77/wes Hit "The Pipes, Hirr/ue- is a KnvELiy IS> IT AJ0T Sports and Such ijWalsh to Visit Bonesetter Reese! sporting FoodiiGeorgeLockner Won Sweepstakes FAM °V S J. N SPORT V. i +•+ +•+ +•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ ! . ....... *•+ +•+ *•* *•* *•+ +•+ FAMOUS IN SPORT—V. The Marathon. THE MARATHON WAS star'ed some two thousand years ago by a young Greek who didn’t realize what he was doing or he won't! never have done it. hm the Greeks were a highly civilized and intelli gent people. He can be excused only on the ground that tv* was young and flighty, and easily be came excited over trifles. A inan named Darius had come over from Persia—which was the home of the White Hopes dn those days—to fight for the title. Twelvt men wanted first slam at him, and in the draw for the privilege one Mlltiades won. The mill was pulled off at a little place called Marathon, and Ml It lades knocked* him dead in a punch, showing that White Hopes are much the same in all ages. Although everyone expected th*s result, one young man, who is now- believed to have been a cub re porter. got so excited that he ran 25 miles to Athens to beat everyone in with the news. The run killed him. the Greeks always being lucky In these matters. Ever since that evil day other young men of unstable mental poise have gone forth in the’r un- denvear to run 25 miles on the slightest provocation, although only a few have died immediately after the finish. Many comparatively sane and useful citizens have been cast into the booby-haUh for leva than a voluntary run of 25 miles *n heat and dust, but the alienists have not yet taken up this species. In this much the Marathon is a glorious institution. The fact that there is 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.) • • • “THE GERMAN COMMISSION will study various phases of ama teur sports In America" i*» an nounced. Ah—or—Including "sum mer baseball?” THERE IS OBVIOUS INCON- Mistency 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 improvement of the breed not to overwork them. • • • AS THESE LINES ARE batted out Connie Mack has for the sec ond time conceded the victory of the Athletics in the American League race. We are beginning to think that he is nervous. • • • THE FIGHT IN NEW YORK the other nisht demonstrates that Smith can hit hard enough to knock oat Jim Flynn, ami is knocking out '•'Ivnii has ever V “°n simply a ques- 'on of hlttlnsr hard enough, the .attie doesn't prove much. jiTANNETTE-LANGFORD GO MAY BE DECLARED OFF LOS ANGELES Aug 13—The pro posed Lane ford-Jeannette match is "up in the air." Jeannette claims that be must sail for Paris on October 10 to fill an engagem* nt with Georger Carpen- tler, and asks for a September date *.n I-os Angeles. Promot<r M*Carey. of the Pacific A r\, replied that the September date flhed. Jeanne*tc 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 mountains last nigh? inti will open an « ar y f rayid at Ven ice. Cross Is due tf .a ^Jlalina to- Ad Wolgaat Is en met# t* iV- foev. Dreg., for a rest. He will rr» 2?rn here to train eight days for hi« admission day match against til? * oner of to-night’s fight between Dundee and White. Mighty Arm Loses Old Cunning By Ed W. Smith. C hicago, ill,, Aug is.—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 th3 team when it was going at its worst ha» lost its strength its cunning and its power—and the Sox are flounder ing. Nobody seems to know what ia the matter with Walsh and they are asking 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 seemed to be as good as ever when the spring season opened this year. He pitched and won and the Sox fans settled down comfortably to see “Big Kd” give them another season of phenomenal work. • • • OUT »t wasn’t to be. In a little while Walsh discovered that h** “w-nsn’t there," and it didn’t take much longer for his friends to see the s\me thing. That shrieW’ng sp« had dwindled and the “stpitter" that formerly almost dropped at the feel of the batter us he swung far over It didn’t drop at all The arm wasn’t sore, but something 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 shoulderu that weren’t very far gone. But If Walsh doesn’t come back it will be a tremendous blow to President Comiskev and his hones. And it emphasizes again and again the tremendous value to a team of a single star pitcher. PUB fans and Sox fans used to ^ argue and even fight over the question of whether Mordecai Brown or Ed Walsh was 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; that Walsh was as good as ever and probably would go on for years skinning the Cubs in the city series and generally being an eyesore and a thorn in the .‘tide of the West Slder. Brownie was sent to the 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 when that was remedied, Brownie was as good as ever. That smart young fel low. Joe Tinker, knew and quickly grabbed Brown back from the minora. Brownie Ip beating National League teams In the same old style—has benten the Cubs, too. This is both pain and sorrow- for the West Side fan-comfort, though. In the thought that Brown Is still going while Walsh isn’t. Which may or may not settle the arguments of long ago. THE pitcher is a tremendous factor * in the bnfieball of to-day. And only a manager in Jimmy Callahan’s present fix can realize what 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 batters. He has been gtting a lot of good pitching out of Scott Clcotte and Russell, and especially hue worked the latter at a terrific pace. Hence the general fear that he may break the Texas wonder down. Oh. for an Ed Walsh at this stage of the ; battle! 1 -■y QCORQa a. PH AIR- RE V E N G E. (A Baseball Tragedy in Three Acts.) ACT 1. Ike Sicntt, the mighty baseball star, was smitten with a dame Who owned a flock of lucre and an old and honored name, Rut when he offered her his hand she coldly spurned the same. ACT II. It was the final inning and they needed (me 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 I/I. For she had bet her fortune on the prowess of his bat, And when he took the final strike it left the poor girl flat. “Revenge!” she cried, in accents wild. “I'll marry him for that I 9 * John McGraw arises to remark that the Giants this year are stronger than they ever were Reports from the front indicate that they are particularly strong with the left jab and the right | hook Morty Graves Injured an Eye T 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. w-ith 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 at first looked ns if it might cause him the loss of his right eye. Morty was tinkering on a pedal af;- 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 summaries: Southern Merchants' Purse. Heats, one mile: final, tw-o miles. First Heat—Jock McNeil, first; Freddie Luther, second. Time, :43. Second Heat—Morty Graves, first; The rough house among the Giants | Wilmer Richards. second. Time, : 42. erely proves the o!d theory that Larry I Third Heat—George Lockner. firs- ; First Heat—Tex Richards, first; George Lockner, second. Time, 1:27 3-5. Second Heat—George Renal, first; Freddie Luther, second. Time, 1:26 D5. Final—George Locktaer, first; George Renal, second; Henry Lewis, third. Time, 3:39 4-5. DILLON TO BOX KLAUS IN 12-ROUND BOUT AT POSTON INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 1*.— Jack Dillon has accepted terms for a tw-eive-round bout with Frank Klaus at Boston, August 26. Theae men have been recogmized generally as the best of the middleweights dur ing the last year. Klaus defeated Dillon in San Francisco, the bout being a tw’enty-round affair, and Dil lon squarely beat the Pittsburg cham pion here in a ten-round go last May. McLean is contagious. In spite of the fact that Mr. McGraw once owned a billiard hall he does not seem able to handle the ivories. GAMENESS — THAT’S NESS. A BUSI- BASEBALL SUMMARY 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 fight promoters that fighters are getting more money than they earn. A man who can amputate money from a fight promoter earns it. The report that Porter track will be opened again Indicates that the fall guy has saved up another bank roll. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Atlanta at Birmingham. Memphis at New Orleans. Chattanooga at Nashville. Montgomery at Mobile. Standing of the Clubs W L. IV 67 48 .583 , 63 45 -583 I Mobile Mont. Atiunta B'ham. 59 54 .522 C'rooga. M’phis N* villa.' N 1 >r W L 55 54 55 59 48 64 37 69 Vr .505 181 429 .319 Appalachian League. AtfOxville 5. Bristol 4 WoFst.twn «. Middlesboro 4 V«ne 7, Johnson City 2. Tuesday’s Results. Atlanta 12. Birmingham 3. Mobile 5. Montgomery 3. New Orleans 1. Memphis 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Chicago at Boston New V°fk at Brooklyn St. Louis at New York. Standing of the Clubs. W L. Pc ' W L N Y. 72 32 .963 Boston 44 58 Phi la. 61 37 .622 Bklyn. 44 56 P'burg. 55 49 .629 C’nati. 43 67 Chicago 5 61 .619 S. Louis 41 65 Tuesday’s Results. Boston 7-9 Chicago 3-3. Pittsburg 5, Cincinnati 2. New York 6. Brooklyn 5. Pc 43] .446 .391 1 .387 I AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. \V L Pc | W. L. Phila. 72 34 .679 Boston. 50 54 Cl’land. 66 43 .606 , Detroit. 46 63 W’gton. 59 47 557 ■>. Louis 44 69 Chicago 58 53 .523 i \\ Y. 35 67 Tuesday's Results. Chimso 4. Philadelphia 2. St. Li'ii's 7. New York 2. Texas League. DaJiaa • San Antonio 3. Austin 0. Beaumont 6. Fort Worth 6. Houston 4. Waco x. Galveston 2. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Macon at Charleston. Albany at Columbus. Savannah at Jacksonville. Standing of the Clubs. w ! w l r~ Pav’nah. 24 16 .600 ! Albany 20 22 .476 C’bus 23 19 .648 : Chas'n 19 23 .450 J'viUe. 20 22 .476 . Macon 18 22 .450 —— ■ « Tuesdays Results. Savannah 4. Jacksonville 0. Macon 4. Charleston 2. Albany 10, Columbus 0. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Newnan at LaGrange. Anniston at Talladega. Gadsden at Opelika. Standing of the Clubs W. L. P C t W L Pc G’den. 49 34 .590 | An’ton. 42 45 483 N’nan. 43 42 .506 L’G’ge. 41 45 .477 Ojelika 43 44 .494 T’dega. 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 Americus. Valdosta at Thomasvllle. Brunswick at Way cross. Standing of the Clubs. W L Pc » W L. Pc. T’ville. 20 16 .556 Am’eus. 19 19 .500 V’dosta. 19 19 .500 B’wlck 18 20 .474 C’dele. 19 19 .500 W’cross. 18 20 .474 Tuesday’s Results. Way cross 8. Brunswick 2 Thomasvllle 6. Valdosta 0. Americus 4. Cordele 1. OTHER RESULTS. Virginia League Norfolk 6. Roanoke 4. Others post poned. TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION. Harry Glenn, second. Time. :43 Final—Harry Swartz, first; Jock McNeil, second. Time. 1:26. Three-Cornered Match Race. B. st two OUt Of three heats. First heat, one mile; second heat, two; th'rd. 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. T’me, 2:12 1-5. Heats, two miles; final, five miles. 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 A heavyweight fighter named Flynn order to w-in over I^eonard Beekman, Was endmi't’d with an ironclad chynn. i ot New York, in the third round of Hr didn’t much rare ' Meadow Club's invitation men s ten- 7, .7 „ " \ ar S . nis tournament here yesterday. Beek- If they walloped him there man surprised the Western crack by Just as long as he gathered the tynn. w inning 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- I feated C. F. Walston. Jr., at 12-10. 6-1. Wallace F Possibly some ore can tell us whether 1 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 tei! us whether M'ke has am putated h Islegs or his thirst. WHY? “7 came from California,” remarked a Western gent, “Rut strange *to say. I never won a tennis tournament.” “It is a noble sight!” he said—“the river marathon! It is a noble sight to sec the athletes fighting on. It is a noble sight to see them stem the sullen tide. Rut why do they prefer to swim when there arc boats to ridel” Johnson, of Philadelphia, member of the American Davis cup team, scored an easy victory over Brie Winston in the second round in straight sets 6-1, 6-3. William A. Lamed, the seven-time champion, defaulted to A. S. Dabney ard afterward said he would not com pete at Newport next week. Play 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 o. Indianapolis 4. Pittsburg 10. Chicago 2. Kansas City 6-4, St. Louis 8-3. Annual Mountain Excursion Southern Railway Saturday, Aug. 16. $6.00 Asheville, N. 0. $6.00 Lake To:cav/ay, N. 0. $6.00 Hendersonville, N. C. $6.00 Hot Springs, N. C. $6.00 Tate Springs, N. C. $6.60 Bristol, Tenn. Final Limit September 1. Three trains to Asheville. Morning Noon Night 8:00 a.m. 11:16 a.m. 9:30p. m. j MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW SSj Is a Wholesome Delightful Drink A Ginger Ale that is Recognized as 7 because it s stood the test Thousands. As a summer drink it has no equal. REFRESHING RESTFUL Sc a glass at founts Also scld in Pints and Quarts AUGUSTA AND TAMPA MAY JOIN SALLY LEAGUE COLUMBUS, GA., Aug. 13.—Ther© la a movement on foot to add two cluba to the South Atlantlo 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 month* that will result in the addition of two other teams to the league.