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i nr. AiuAiviA irrL/v^mTiAiN j\ry±s unrrm. B&B GIVING THINGS THE ONCE OVER Oapy right. 19 IS. Ini a (-national New* Rirnea. By TAD pltes. Btiirro* of* •me sr-uw/s gat/sj}f£H me mcc oreft.- THAT u»i EW-UF. PSWOO- Crackers Reel Under Double Blow +•+ •!' • *r + •+ Second Contest a Ghastly loke By O. B. Keeler W HILE declining to yield to any one in our willingness to die game, we are of the opinion that no tinge of ecru attaches to the ' following observation: Our little ball club is sticking to day to the outside rim of the cham pionship reel. . And the reel is revolving at high •peed. { A very few more revolutions like those of yesterday, and we will be flying off at the old familiar tan gent While collecting the fragments and collecting our breath between whiles, we assimilate the cold fact that Mo bile Is exactly seven and one-half full games ahead of the Crackers. • • * T HERE is a certain amount of mel ancholy satisfaction in the thought that at least our brave la-a-ads did not go to their doom un warned. We recall distinctly predicting that old Pepper Sauce would shake the ginger in this series. He did it. For the infernal details, see a couple of box scores elsewhere on exhibition. • • * TT will be noted that the regular * game finished on a 2 to 1 ba^is and bore other earmarks of an actual struggle. It was excessively tire some. but fairly well played. Som mers pitched airtight ball up to the ninth inning, and came near unset tling the historic fame of Cuppy as the slowest pitcher, barring Rame- aes II. . The ninth inning produced the most \ promising ydtuation of the day, so far as the Crackers were concerned. But the promise was not fulfilled. ^Needing two runs to tie, Bislard singled and Holland lived on an er ror Calvo’s grounder forced Bis- land at third and Dunn struck out terrifically. John D. Rockefeller Voss * was summoned to debut in the pinch, and his sharp single to center scored Holland. Agler walked. and the as sembly succumbed to hysterics in platoons. Then Mannsh, subbing for Tommy T ong, hit to Graff near third and Voss was forced when Graff slid headfirst to the sack. • • • E LLIOTT DENT was dented only once in the matter of runs, but he wasn’t up to his usual form, at that. He was hit rather freely, gave three bases on balls, and was saved a ; number of tiifles by brisk fielding and some luck. Love pitched th» eighth and ninth innings and yielded the other half of the Lookouts’ score without giving them a hit. The other feature of the opening gamp were the castomary visit of J. Pluviur, who dropped in for a ten- rainute call, and the canning of Mr Elberfeld. Norman said nothing about calling the game until it had traveled five innings. Then he became suddenly Imprpysed with the cruelty of expos ing eighteen honest and hard-work ing ball players to the fury of the elements. Mr. Elberfeld’s hands were in the lead at that time, which may have stimulated his righteous fury. Anyw-ay, he made a speech to Umps w’ifleld and was thrown out, after whff’n Mr Fifleld called “time." But MW Elberfeld wan not permitted to V take any further active part In the proceedings. • • • LJAVING stalled as long as pos- 1A sible, it now' becomes necessary to refer to the aftermath, which may be done quite comfortably by hold ing the camphor bottle in one hand and operating the typewriter with the other. * • • A i- me mat lniuxig, wueix “ “ if* ice uuU a.i *1-0 iucrw Oil. *.v - 0 l'U,C ti.il tiitt UUliUiL, LUC ai- xwu ua.se s on bails ancx a saexx- iXCC W ci’fe Ka^lbU Uj LliC liUUlUJUU, auu biittlif YViiii it*U UUl aiiU tt UUUilivC L>1 i OtbUUU UJ a " lilii till Li ci ACAl, kJiiiiiii ,iiflCU tiliCl DlDiUilU UUUUlLU. iiiui iiittuc «.ii iiiti i uiia and twu- ifuiua ox tiiC il\tO Uii tiiC VJriO.iiL-Xi.UiCi VV tlXJ VlilJ life lit.el‘ tiiOll a .\U. iaiiOc Uli O iNU. XX .UUk liiC 1VOL Ui LilLJ VYUj. * * * T HE rest of the way extended only io xxxciuue me mill inning, uuw Liitil was where ine tiuuule came in. The game didn’t get started until 5:07 o’clock—too late, by the way— when the sun made a dying kick and illumined the scene of the prospective slaughter for a few minutes before retiring. There was plenty of light for Mr. Price to be neatly slaughtered by, after which Mi*. Voss came in for his, all the trouble In both innings oc curring after two were out. * * * P OUR runs to the Fritz, the Crack- A ers gave up trying to split the Foie and began pulling down the shades of night. The Chattanooga idea was to get five innings played before dark. The Cracker idea was diametrically opposite. The result was a ghastly farce. Elberfeld’s hands tried to get them selves put out in their half of the fifth, and they had an awful job. One sample will" be enough. With one dead, Street bunted care fully into Voss’s hands and trotted slowly to first. Voss stuttered with his mitts until the pill finally stuck to him and ho had to do something with It. So he threw* it to Agler, w T ho was strolling casually over to ward the slab to see what was the matter. Street stopped a couple of yards off first and dared Agler to tag him. Agler got into an argument with Voss and couldn’t hear Gabby. Umpire Hart waved Street to the base and he had a hit forced upon him—technically he had beat it out. * * * T HAT was the sort of stuff that’ incited the big crowd to shower cushions knee deep on the field and make noises like the angry mob off stage. Mr. Elberfeld booted himself out of he game for the second time in the afternoon, and Hart would have been justified in forfeiting the rame to the visitors at any time after the fourth inning. He w'ould have been justified in invoking baseball’s most horrid penalties on both clubs, for that mat ter, w*hlle the disorderly spectators w*ho took part in the cushion shower ought at leas* to be made to witness a game like the afterpiece every day for a week. That would be punishment enough. * . • S eriously, though, the cushion episode was a raw and unsports manlike exhibition. The Lookouts fairly earned the victory while it was still a ball game; they were doing their honeet duty in trying to whip the Crackers, which is the very thing that makes baseball worth while. And no matter what they may cost us in the way of pennants, it is up to this town to give every visiting club the treatment-due an honest opponent in any sport. Let us say It once more—if we can’t whip them fighting we don’t deserve to whip them at ail. There are bigger things than cham pionships in baseball. Sports andSuch FAMOUS IN SPORT.—VI. ‘ * The America Cup. SINCE IT IS WORTH ONLY about $100 and is a half-century old w*e can not give much space to this junk; for this Is a live, up-to- date column. Briefly, the America Cup was won by the yacht America and has since been successfully de fended by the ablest body of in ternational law experts in this country. As even under the Deed of Gift (see below) it if faintly possible that a challenger might accidentally get a look-in,’ it is the duty of these experts to make water contests impossible. Designed to foster Interest in yachting, the America Cup has thufi promoted some of the noblest contests in word-twisting, haggling and skullduggery of which any rec ord is preserved. It also keeps the New f York Yacht Club on the map of international sport, which is. however, a service of doubtful value. The America Cup, furthermore, gives wealthy Britons something to think about. On half a dozen occasions they have had legal talent enough to force the shifting of the contest from the postoffice to the ocean. On such occasions it has sometimes been the custom of the American boat to sneak off in the night and make beneficial changes, thus causing Englishmen to rage, at which every true pa triot should always exult. The chief defense of the Cup is, how*ever, the Deed of Gift, herein before mentioned. When this docu ment is well oiled and in its best form anv Englishman who could lift the Cup in a year w'ould make light of lifting the crown jewels any afternoon off. If any reader contemplates stak ing us to a bank roll, we earnest ly request that he will hand us a Deed of Gift along with it. as we would then cease to feel nervous about our old age. (It’s your own fault if you miss the next one—“The Pight Man- ag.',”) . . . AFTER LISTENING TO HOR- ace Fogel talk for several days the president of the Federal League has resigned his job because of overwork. MR. EBBETS SAYS THAT HE is going to spend $60,000 for ball players. We should love to hear his remarks at the dedication of that bank roll. • • • ANOTHER “QUEER RIDE” AT Saratoga. Since there are no book makers to pay for such service**, we can only assume that the jockeys this year must have a lot of 'personal friends.” • • • CHAMPION KILBANE PRE fers the broadening influence of travel to the flattening Influence of a right swing. • • • WALTER JOHNSON IS MAK- ing a game fight for second place in the American League, although badly handicapped by the Wash ington team. • * • A MAN WITH HAL CHASE'S ability for underground work is lost In baseball when there are so many subways to be dug. • • • PRESIDENT EBBETS SAYS there Is no truth in the report that the name of his new ball park Is to be changed to Dedication Field, as it Is his intention to ar range some ball games to be played when there are no dedication ceremonies on. GOLFERS item LIE ST ESST L 1 -» HE qualifying round in the golf tournament for the Lane Tro phy is to be played this after noon at East Lake, when about 60 members of the Atlanta Athletic Club will make the circuit. Play in the qualifying round is at scratch, but the following match play will be with handicaps. Another departure from usual cus tom in this tourney is to be the flight divisions. Instead of the customary sixteen players, each flight will con tain eight, which, of course, will mako the competitive play more open and uncertain than under the usual ru 4 - ing. The finals in this tourney are to 1)3 played by next Thursday, the final round being of 18 holes. HIGHBROWS FAVOR SLANG IN BASEBALL WRITE-UPS CHICAGO. Aug. IT—Charles A. Co- miskey. owner of the Chicago Ameri cans. likes baseball reports best when they are written in plain English, while professors at the University of Chicago deplore the possibility of the elimina tion of slang from the accounts of games. These unexpecteu attitudes were learned to-day in a vote being taken by a local daily to determine just how* the followers of the national pas time want the games described “I am In favor of a clean, plain Eng lish story of a baseball game,'' said Co- miskey. who has just returned from the woods of Northern Wisconsin. “What readers want to know is who won the p-ame and how it w*as won. When those facts are covered up with a lot of use less words the reader is apt to grow tired.” x “I think it would be pretty tame to report baseball in plain, ordinary Eng lish," said Professor Nathaniel Butler. "There is a species of humor on the sporting page which is enjoyable. We want the picturesque in the reports, but the writer shows a defect when it is impossible for the layman to understand him.’’ Several other professors at the uni versity declared their preference for stories sprinkled with slang. KENOSHA WANTS C. WHITE TO BOX EDDIE MURPHY CHICAGO, ILL.. Aug. 16.—If Eddie Murphy, Boston lightweight, can be in duced to come on here for August 22 he can seclre a match at Kenosha with Charlie White, local 126-pounder. The club matchmaker to-day closed terms with Nate Lewis, White’s pilot. Nate agreeing to allow Murphy to come into the ring at 133 pounds at 6 o'clock. This means a 10-pound handicap for White. As an inducement, the club will pit Jack Britton against the winner, e* chance both White and Murphy should welcome. This will be Kenosha’s first show under the Heddlng law. ATHLETICS BUY ADAMS. SAVANNAH, Aug. 16.—It was an nounced here that Pitcher Babe Adams, of the Savannah South Atlantic League club, had been sold to the Philadelphia Americans, to Join the Athletics In the fall The price was not given out. SOX TO GET MAGGERT. LOS ANGELES. Aug. IS.—President Comiskey, of the Chicago Americans, has exercised hi? option on' Maggert, center fielder of the local club, who has been leading the Coast league in batting and who has been second in stolen bases. BOSTON GETS PITCHER. BOSTON, Aug 16.—The Boston Americans added another pitcher to their roster when rank Kelly was pur chased from the Seattle club. Sporting Food [ *— By QBOftOB B. FHAIPI —> NO GAME—NO KALE. The baseball magnate wept, His soul was sad and sore; While breezes through the turnstile crept, And nothing more. His joy in life had fled, His hope had flown away, The baseball sched. that morning read: "No game to-day." When we reflect on the fact that the gents who framed up the schedules lef 1 Chicago without a game for three days, we have a hunch that Ivory le not con fined exclusively to the ball yard. . . Charles Lobert, an Inmate of St. Louis, ran a marathon race wearing two left shoes. Charles Is now recognized as the world’s champion sou t hpaw run ner. BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT. Frank Newhouse, the umpire who smote Fred Merkle over the head with his mask, announces that he has pur chased a new mask. Napoleon Lajoie has been playing baseball seventeen years. If he plays baseball seventeen years more, some of the fans may learn how to pronounce hla name. The fan In Louisville who sttempted to assault an umpire with a hammer was merely trying to Imitate the base ball scribes. THOU’RT A DROLL WAG! Hon. Sir: When Foote Prince won the 2:07 pace at Kalamazoo did he leave Foote Prlnca on the sands of time? STEVE. It Is said that George Stovall will not manage the Browns next year. Evident ly the Governor has handed him a re prieve. It le further claimed that George has filed chargee against Silk O’Loughlln, an alleged umpire. George has either run short of saliva or has become a gol darn dude. AT LEAST, WE HOPE SO. Who'll cure Ed Walsh f "I” said Bonesetter. "I'll make him better— I'll cure Ed Walsh." We note by the papers that the Cubs have taken seven pitchers on their Eastern trip. As we understand It, the pitchers are Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney and Cheney. Rarer than a day in June I* one of those days wherein neither J. Sheckard nor J. Devore moves to a new team. STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE. (By John P Brady.) Mary had a little yacht. Its sails wei'e white as snow. She sailed it down the other side of the I. C. station, And you ought to see those dog gone sails now. CHARLEY MURPHY ‘JOLLIES’ HARGROVE, NEW CATCHER TERRE HAUTE, IND., Aug 16.— Eugene "Dubbles" Hargrove, the young catcher of the Terro Haute olub, bought by the Cubs, has received a letter from Owner Charlee W. Murphy, who tells him that he and Manager Evers watch ed him at Fort Wayne last week and that "both believe that you are to go higher In the profession.” The magnate says he is sorry he did not have a chance to talk with the player, but that Owner Wagner of the Terre Haute club told him that Har grove was “a boy of good habits and does not drink intoxicating liquor*.” By Sam Crane. N EW YORK, Aug. 16.—During the recent series of games the Yankees played against their Western rivals at the Polo Grounds, I noticed that it was the invariable custom of the Yankees in particular, and also with some of the Western teams, for the man at bat. whether the runner on first got a good lead or not, to foul off the ball even if he had to throw his bat at the horse- hide. Giants Use Other Tactics. Sweeney never once that I can re member failed to foul the ball or to try to do so, whenever a runner, no matter who It was, dashed off on a pilfer occasion. The system seemed to be so gener ally prevalent among American League teams that I begun to fhlnk that it was an established rule by ali the club managers. With the Giants!, Manager McGraw follows an exactly opposite plan and as a result, the National League champions have in nearly every year McGraw has had them In charge led all their rivals in team base running. It is -ossible that Manager Chance, knowing that he hn# not a fast lot of players, has ordered his batters to save his base runners at every opportunity, but at that the plan looks very cheesy and surely tends to eliminate more or less one of the prettiest points of baseball. It looks ridiculous to see a good base runner after getting a big lead, to have his good Judgment and commendable am bition squashed bv some ''bonehead" at bat purposely fouling off the ball. Kills Chance of Runner. What possible chance has a speedy man on the bases to show results if he Is constantly made to come back to first, winded and chagrined? Not a chance on earth. And still the Yanks followed what appeared to me asinine methods con tinuously. The Clevelands, loo. followed that scheme little less frequently than the Yanks, the veteran Lajoie being foremost in doing it. Naps Waste Many Runs. When Clark Griffith was manager of the Yankees he often said to me. "The Clevelands waste more oppor. tunttles to make runs than any otlisr team in the business, and they have one of the best batting teams In the country, and more Naps reach first bane than any other team in the American League." Now, why was that? Nothing can be plainer. They sim ply prevented their runners from stealing bases, and instead of playing for the "hit and run" and hitting be hind the runner and doing other in- alde batting, they kept ’’fouling' em off" with the ridiculous Idea imbed ded In their noddles to "save" the base stealers at all hazards. And Lajoie has never played on a cham pionship club. The batter wastes a strike every time he makes an intentional foul, and there are not so very many bat ters In the business who do not re quire all the swipes that are coming to them. Why, it is Just a pitcher's "pie” to nave any batter throw away a strike or two. Three-Cornered Race To-night •bad* +•+ *•* +•* •be* +»*b Graves, Swartz, Lockner Clash J ACK PRINCE’S Motordrome was not open last night. It was Fri day, it was the scheduled thir teenth meet, and goodness know s that Jup Pluv couldn’t overlook that chance. And he didn’t. It rained hard late In the afternoon and the track was pronounced unsafe. So the meet was put over until to night. The same excellent card that was arranged for last night will be run to-night. It looks to be the best bal anced bunch of events that have yet been run at the Saucer. A three-cornered match race be tween Graves, Lockner and Swartz, best two out of three heats, two heats 2 miles and the third 3 miles, is the feature. A point system of scoring In the sweepstakes, which will be run in M’GRATH LOSES SIGHT OF ONE EYE IN FIGHT NEW YORK. Aug. 16—Matty Mc Grath, the noted American athlete, has lost the sight of one eye. Pending the court’s determination of his status as a policeman, McGrath has been floor man ager of the .lardin DeDanse, on the New York tlieater roof. In a fight in the lobby yesterday, a man poked the point of his cane In his eye. Dr. Pryon, of the Polytechnic Hospital, who trok twelve stitches in McGrath's face, said that the pupil of the eye had been destroyed and that the hammer thrower would be blind in that eye. three heats. 3, 5 and 7 miles, with Richards, Renel, Glenn, Luther and Lewis participating in the three heats, will also be interesting. Here is the complete program: MOTORDROME PURSE. (One Mile to Qualify; 2-Mile Final. Two Men in Each Heat to Qualify for Final.) First Heat—Swartz, Graves, Rich ards and Glenn. Second Heat—Lewis, Luther, Renel and Lockner. SPECIAL MATCH RACE. (One, Two and Three-Mile Heata. Beet Two Out of Three Heats.) First Heat—Swartz, Lockner and Graves. Final of Motordrome Purse—Two miles. VELEDROME DE BUFFALO SWEEPSTAKES. (French Point System. Ten Points for First, 6 for Second and 3 for Third. Distance, 3, 5 and 7 Miles.) First Heat, Three Miles—Richards, Renel, Glenn, Luther and Lewis. Second Heat of Special Match Race Two Miles—Swartz, Lockner and Graves. Second Heat of Sweepstakes, Five Miles—Richards, Renel, Glenn, Luther and Lewis. Third Heat of Special Match Race, Three Miles—Swartz, Lockner and Graves. Third Heat of Sweepstakes, Seven Miles—Richards, Rone!, Glenn, Luther and* Lewis. CLOTHIER WILL BATTLE TOUCHARD IN FINALS SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y , Aug. 16.— William J. Clothier, of Philadelphia, and Gustav F. Touchard, of New York, will meet in the final round of the men’s singles In tho Meadow Club invitation tournament here this afternoon. J. S. Rtrachan and C. J. Griffin, hold ers of the Weatern doubels champion ship. will play Thomas C. Bundy and William Johnson, the other California pair, in the semi-final rounds of the doubles this afternoon. The winners will then oppose W. F Earned and W. J. Clothier In the finals. FORSYTH To-day S3 KEITH VA UDEVILLE RALPH HMZ-W1. A. WfSTQN A CQHPANY ADAS FAWLY-WGOO A ''Of MILO BELDOfl &. CO.-RAHOAlLS, BRAMAH A SAVIUE--PATHE PICTURES BASEBALL TO-DAY PHILLIES SECURE INDIAN. SHERMAN, TEXAS, Aug 16.—An nouncement was made by the manage ment of the Sherman (Texas-Oklahoma) League that Ben Tincup, a pitcher, has been sold to the Philadelphia Nationals for $1,500. Tincup. who is an Indian, w’ill report to the Philadelphia club Au gust 20. Chattanooga vs. Atlanta Double-Header F " 2 ',fr* plum Wklikey and Drug Habit* 'rooted ;at Ifomoor at Sanitarium. Bookonaob wS Free. DR B. M. WOOLLEY, M-N, VI-** Atlanta. Gaorgta LEOPARDS WIN POLO MATCH. NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. I.. 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