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>-V f'." ... ■' - THE AJ i>AM A (H.OKtil AN A N U A I'JYVW ©QYERIM BEST FORCOLF • By Chick Evans. T O mv mind a gray day give? the ideal golfing weather. This sort of a day frequently precedes or follow* rain and there is something in the moi#t freshness of the atmos phere and absence of glare that ly Wholly delightful. The clubs at such j a time seem unusually light and If I they are your own there Is a wonder- j ful balance and the blades appear to lie supremely well. The grip also j seems perfect because the moisture of the air gets into the leather and gives that feeling of absolute security to the grip. While this feeling in damp weather is true of all grips. It Is particularly true of the oiled leath er kind. For some reason, whether it is a quality of the atmosphere or because one’s clubs feel so gooT the flight of the ball seems steadier and the j picture of the little white globe float, ing in a true and steady line agalnsi a dull gray background of sky la a sight to warm the heart of every golfer Sun’s Glare Hamper* Player. On a bright, warm day the glare from the sun is often distressing to the eyas of the golfer, and a round of golf under a midsummer sun leaves him exhausted. But an overcast day Is a comfort to the eyes and a strengthening tonic to the whole physique. One’s game itself is bet ter. too. for the moist greens hold the iron shots and permit accurate placing. The game of golf evolved under gray skies, along wide, moist, grassy places by the sea. In Great Britain there are hundreds and hundreds of overcast days. Then, on these match less courses, in sight and sound of the waves, with the smell of the sea and the moist freshness of its breath in one's nostrils, the game Is enjoyed in all of Its natural flavor. Prairie Courses Herder. We miss, perhaps, a good deal of this subtle enjoyment of the game on our sun-baked courses. When the greens are like lightning and the fair- way cracked and seamed Iron shots will not stay where put and fine points of the game are Impossible of application. But while we miss much, we are spared that frequent British affliction—a downpour of rain in the midst of an interesting match. I love an overcast day for golf, the gray sky and moist breeze are like an Inspiring draught, but heaven pre serve me from a rainy day upon the links. A Hunch Is a Hunch, Any Way You Get i r t :: :: :: . :: By “Bud ” Fisher ( CNO~U±E TALKING, A GUV JA*t T I pick a mNNee oovoam/tHetE . t*Yy. H6'i <u>* To NAxe AO»«ve INMt>e INACUNVAVION OR. A Hunch, x cam tewse #2 on lA't WATCH tE- l CAN ONUV <*6"T 401*6 INS 106 InV0AN\AT*ON BOXING News of the Ring Game C66*. A FeLLOw VIIVU A Bum on . I'LL OPPEP. .To take HIn\ hoca€. ano He _f\u»ht sup N\e a *=ew Bucks *wR.e to Put vjct-h n^y * 2 . e- veuse ■*«*-. but can 1 CAU-YOU^A C.AB P <VA\n'. (HlG You CAN'T Call m.6 .(niG a cab O'G OR. anythin EL'bt AN^ GET AWAY VliTH IT, SEE'. (HlOj ~rne lavt <£oy That cALcefc (hicY soHvert^iNE is in T Hfe HOSPITAL ChiO f I'M M\6AN<.HlG T AM t H, L I ‘UNV 'ftUGM (H't) I'M BAV faq two seeps B/»yTo kT" “TO Wnvi KRAZY KAT • • • • • * • e Sure Krazy Knows What a Watermelon Is OH, \ Th/mic twELL. ofTrW 1 T6AJATX- V Quite uiecl - I Mea\) / Do Ybu 1 Thiwk ITS A fruit ok a Vegetable ' Tuesday Society Night at ’Drome r»v +•+ +•+ •!*•+ R.F.MaddoxSweepstakes Feature Tommy Walsh, of* New Orleans, who looks after the affairs of Joe Mandot, has also taken George "Knockout” Brown, the Chicago middleweight, under his management He has matched# Brown to meet Jack Dillon, th^ Indian apolis fighter, in a ten-round bout at a show to be brought off at Terre Haute. Ind. t on Labor Day. • • V Tom McCarey, the fight promoter, has offered to assist Jim Goffroth, the Han Francisco promoter, in getting a star bout for his show on Libor Day after noon. As Champion Willie Ritchie has agreed to fight Freddie Welch at Van couver on that day, Coffroth has been left without an attraction. McCarey is willing to let Coffroth have Johnny Dundee, Ad Wolgaat or any fighter that is under contract to him. • • • Charley White, who defeated Frank Whitney here lust week, will meet Johnny Griffiths in a twelve-round bout at Akron, Ohio, on I*abor Day. Griffiths recently defeated Young Saylor and also knocked out Phil Brock In three rounds. After this scrap White may go to the coast for a set-to with Harlem Tommy Murphy. • • * Jimmy Clabby, the veteran middle weight. is in Han Francisco trying to get a match with Bob McAllister. Jim Coffroth is trying to match the pair for a September date Clabby is one of the r^al marvels of the boxing game and should be a big hit on the coast. • • • The San I.angford-Joe Jeannette match, which has been hanging fire for some time, is now a settled affair. Tom McCarey has received assurances from both fighters that they will be ready to go the marathon route on October 7. • * • If the proposed match between Willie Ritchie and Freddie Welch goes through It will be the first International contest for the lightweight championship since Georg** Lavigne and Dick Burge fought in England a number of years ago. • • • * It is impossible to any longer over look Gunboat Smith as a candidate for the heavyweight championship honors Smith has gone right along whipping every man be has b>*en matched with. His latest victory over Jim Flynn has certainly addtxi a big feather injiis cap. • • • Charley Lee is one boy who looks to have the makings of a real fighter. The way Charley dishes out punish ment when he himself is taking a beat ing makes it look as if he is a battler of much class. • • * Young Shugrue la coming to the front in rapid strides The other night the Easterner handed "Fighting Joe” Hy land a great lacing in ten rounds. Shu- grue is now after a return match with Matty Baldwin. • • • A1 Palzer. the big Iowa farmer, plans to celebrate his return to form again with a bout against Frank Moran at New York on September 3 Both fight ers expect to start training shortly for the scrap. T UESDAY night has been selected as ^‘society night” at the Mo tordrome, and a special card has been arranged to delight the large attendance that is expected to witness the events. The feature event on the program Is to be the Robert F. Maddox Sweep stakes, to be run in thre* heats of six riders each. The award will be on points. Then there is a ’hree-cornered race among Jock McNeil, Harry Glenn and Harry Swartz, which also promises a lot of excitement. Here is the program: Motordrome Puree. (Hfate, 1 mile flinal, 2 miles; win ner in each heat and second man in fastest' heat.) First Heat—Graves, Swartz and Lockner. Second Heat—Ric .ards, Luther and Glenn. Third Heat—McNeil, Lewis and Glenn. Three-Cornered Match Race. (Three heats, 1 mile, 2 miles and 3 miles.) First Heat—Glenn, McNeil and Swartz. One mile. Final Motordrome Purse, two miles Second Heat — Three - cornered match race, two miles. R. F. uiaddox Sweepstakes. (French point system, 10 for first, 6 for second and 2 for third; throe heats, 2, 4 and 6 miles.) First Heat—Two miles: Graves, Richards, Luther, Lewis, Renel and Lockner. Third Heat—Three-cornered match race, two miles. Second Heat—Maddox Sweepstakes, four miles. Third heat—Maddox Sweepstake?, six mile#. Food for Sport Fans " y QE °RHA -- 1 TWO MINUS ONE. (Paraphrasing a well-known author.) Two thing* greater than all things are. One is a hush league baseball star Who smites the ball with a heart of vim ind earns the kale they have paid tor him. P.8.—The other thing doesn't count. It Is said Fred Merkle Is the lad who smote John McGraw on the Jowl. This shows that Ivory never melts. In golf, which Mr. Merkle Is alleged to play every morn, the slogan Is: "Keep your eye on the ball." In baseball, which Mr. Merkle Is alleged to play every after noon, the slogan Is: "Keep your eye on the base." Charlie Ebbets is said to be figuring on a new manager, thus showing that he is willing to go to any expense to get something new to dedicate. One Is not surprised to read that Miller Huggins wants an entirely new team. But one might be surprised to read that he is satlafied with the team he has. Occasionally a youth from California gets a trimming In a tennis tournament. We said occasionally. Ban Johnson announces that the world's series will open on October 6. The announcement Is received with f treat enthusiasm among ticket specu* atore. It is claimed that tickets speculation on the world series has been reduced to a minimum. Figuring #husly, a maxi mum would be approximately 176 per cent of the gate receipts. The report that Clack Griffith has of fered $100,000 for Ty Cobb leads one to suspect that he is hitting .400 in the hop league. We note in the newspapers that one Ar Chung, a Chinese lightweight, made one Pat McCarty quit. The A. O. H. will now proceed to start » libel suit It is rumored that Freddie Welch haa saved $100,000 out of his earnings. This reveals the fact that his earnings were $100,000.05. THIS PARAGRAPH IS WRITTEN TO IMMORTALIZE ONE HUMID KALLA PASHA, AN HONEST WRESTLER. HUMID IS HONEST ENOUGH TO AD MIT THAT THERE AIN'T NO 8UCH THING. FRANK GOTCH RETIRES AGAIN FOR STEENTH TIME MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. Aug It.— Frank Gotch. greatest of all wrestlers. Is through with me mat forever. In a letter to the sporting editor of The Minneapolis Daily News, received to day, Gotch says: -While the Minnesota State fair peo ple made me an excellent offer to ■wrestle Zbyszko on September 5, I have turned it down, as I will all other propo sitions to return to the game "I have enough money, am happily mgrried, and will spend the balance f my days with the people of Humboldt Iowa, which means more to me than living in a mansion in New York City or in a castle in England 1 shall al- wa3's be an intercs^e.’ follower of the wrestling game, but will be satisfied to sit an the outside of the ring in the future." Connie Mack Can Develop Youngsters, But He Fails in Grooming Managers CoJinie Mac 1s regarded as being one of baseball’* «marteit man agers. He has the lcnack of developing raw recruit# into marvels, but he doesn’t produce managers who can make good. While the Athle ics were winning two world's championships Topsy Hartsel and Harry Davis were his two lieutenants, and whan they started to fade as major leaguers Mack found managerial berths for them. Davis didn't even last a complete season as director f the Cleveland Naps, and now Topsy Hartsel has been dropped as manager of the Toledo (A. A.) club. Toledo and Cleveland looked for their teams to play Connie Mack baseball, which means a pennant, but neither could produce the Connie results, although they were members of Mack's board of #trategy. "Handy" Anderson, who Is playing I third for Way cross, has developed into I a remarkably fine player for a young- j •‘•ter. He joined Wayeros* from a school | team, and made good with a rush He plays short splendidly and is at home ' <n the field His bunting is a feature find he seldom fails to reach first when he gets one placed to his notion. Stewart, the new' pitcher with Bruns wick, has a cross-fire ball that is mighty hard to hit. He has worked it with success on the best batters and fooled them every time. His brother, playing with Amerlcus, is also able to work some deceptive balls over the plate. • PLUY TO-DAY H CRE’3 a grain of comfort. The Crackers will be able to send their regular line-up against the Barons this afternoon, when the first game of the series begin# at 3:30 o’clock—note the change in the time. Manager Smith said this morning that Tommy Long had about got over his severe cold and would be In left field this afternoon. Chapman’s wrenched ankle has come around in good shape and Harry will be back of the wood. As to the first slabman to get a whack at the Moles, Bill is going to try out the Gil Price jinx again. Gil has had something on the Barons all season; they haven't seemed able to make a start against the big left hander, and Gil himself is eager to tackle them in the jump game. A report from Birmingham an nounces the purchase of Ed Ery, leading pitcher of the Georgia-Ala- bama League, who is to report here to-day. "Rube” Evans, the big left hander. has been suspended for fail ure to keep in condition, and Bill Proirgh was called away from the club by a sister’s illness, so Moles- worth’s slab staff is badly in need of bolstering. The Barons' manager said this morning that Prough was expected on almost any train from the direc tion of Athens, Ala., and that Ery was being looked for hourly, also. McGilvray is out of the line-up, too. Hardgrove is scheduled to pitch this afternoon. J. Clabby On Coast; After 20-Round Bout “Jeems” Wants to Step With Bob McAllister or Sailor Petroskey. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 18—Jimmy Clabby, of Hammond, Ind., one of the foremost of American middleweights, dropped into town yesterday, accompa nied by Jimmy Regan, a promoter, who dabbles in pugilism up at Butte. Mont. Clabby has received tempting offers to take his Queensberry wares to Aus tralia, but would prefer to linger in San Fianoisco a while if he receives the right kind of encouragement. Prior to the McAllister, Petroskey bout, Clab by expressed a desire to meet the win ner. Of course there was no winner, hut Clabby was equal to the emergency. He said he would not mind boxing both McAllister and Petroskey, but would prefer to tackle the Olympic Club grad uate first. It is understood that Promoter Jim Coffroth has taken up the matter and will endeavor to bring about a meeting between Jimmy and Bob And for the sake of those who admire really clever glove play, it is to be hoped that Cof froth succeeds in his undertaking. Thousands at Burial Of Mine War Victims CALUMET. MICH.. Aug. 18.—A big public funeral for the two copper strikers killed in a fight Thursday night between Deputy Sheriffs and strikers was held here yesterday. A special train brought the bodies hei*e from the Champion mine and thou sands of strikers from every part of the copper district attended the ser vices. Sports andSuch I FAMOUS IN SPCET—VII. The Fight Manager. THE FIGHT MANAGER IS AN ever-present example of the value of human endeavor, so long as you can get somebody else to do the endeavoring. It is the mission ot the Fight Manager to live by the toil of other men, and, so far as w<* are a judge, he does his duty. We never neard of one who starved to death. Managing fighters ha# all of the advantages of managing a bank, with none of the risks. When a bank gets in bad you can not shake it and pick up another one; but the average Fight Manager continues to blow expensive cigar smoke into the eye of the Sporting Editor long after dozens of fighters he has marf- pg®d have gone back to sparring for pork chops-in the outskirts of Detroit and Cincinnati. Le^t you be thus pneouraged to rush blindly into the business, it is our duty to warn you that certain natural gifts are essential. The successful Fight Manager must have tireless vocal chords, a barb- proof hide, a property smile and the imagination of a mining-stock i-talesman. Also, the gall of a po liceman. It is by no means necessary that he have a fighter. Many men have tried to get by with merely a fighter and have failed. It is much better to tow around some muscu lar misfit with a ten-ounce brain and by persistent talking and "gettin’ in with the right guys” convince the public that he is a fighter. A real fighter usually has enough intelligence to want to audit accounts every now and then, and this is a serious handi cap to real success in this pro fession. But for the kind of man that fits into the profession it is certainly the kind of profession for him to fit into. Two or three thousand per cent profits are common. For instance. Lute McCarty won $4,000 in hi# last fight, and when every one had gotten his there was $26 left for the estate. That’s a busi- ness - . . (Get set for the next one— The Queer Ride.”) • * * A CORRESPONDENT WHO takes prize fights seriously and i# so ashamed of it that he conceal# his name, write# to charge us with attempting to ‘‘discredit’ Gunboat Smith. Before pleading to the in dictment we shall have to know what the Gunboat is credited with and by whom • * • YOUNG MR. JOHNSTONE has earned the distinction of being the only Californian who has lost a tennis title this year. • • * IF HIS VOICE IS anything like some we have heard this year, we can hardly blame those Raleigh fans for choking the umpire. # * • WHILE PRESIDENT EBBETS denies the purchase of an out fielder and pitcher from the Ameri can Association it is believed that it is only because he has not had time to prepare the dedication speech. BARRY ACCEPTS GREER’S CHAL LENGE. LONDON, Aug 18.—Ernest Barry, of London professional sculling champion of the world, to-day accepted a chal lenge from Frank B. Greer, of Boston. Mass., professional sculling champion | of the United States, for a race on the, Thames in November for the champion ship of the world. The stakes are to be $2,500 each. HANLON GETS PLAYERS. CHICAGO. Aug. 18.—E. J. Hanlon, president of the Sioux City Western j League club, obtained from the Detroit I Americans the outfielder anti pitcher he ' needed for his team, it was learned to day. Hanlon's visit here was brief and ] he did not give out the names of his new players. JEFFRIES WE ESI EMPIRE LEAGUE NOTES N EW YORK, Aug. 18.—The direct statement that James T. Jef fries, after his defeat Jacx Johnson at Reno, sought and secured proof that he had been drugged before the battle with the negro was made in a signed article written by a New York sporting editor and published an evening paper to-day. The statement follows, in part: “Jeffries hired one of the greatest detective ae r encie e - in the world to run dow r n the facts. The details he gath ered make un a complete story of the most sordid plot that ever turned fair sport into a #ure-thing gamble. Pos sibly Johnson would have won in any case, but the clique that handled th3 betting made it a certainty by drug ging Jeffries with the help of men who were in his confidence and who had the run of his camp. They cleaned up a fortune through betting com missioners .stationed in many cities. In Paris alone they wagered $24,000 and won $40,000. In Reno and San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York their eains went into the hun dred# of thousands. "The ‘tip’ for the big killing was received by the waiting commission ers less than 24 hours before the fight when the gambler# knew that Jef fries w?ts ‘safe.’ "The grst plot was broached in a back room; the last man necessary to its success accented his part in a meeting in a Reno alley two nights before the fieht, after having learned that he could make no more money with Jeffries and that he could win thousand# by turning Judas. One man whose available cash was also secret ly watered on Johnson smilingly posed as a friendly adviser of Jef fries during the fleht.” Intense rivalry in Empire League cities is in evidence now In every game played. Charges and counter charges are being hurled at first one team, then another, while the president of the league gets his full share, too. * * • Babe Wilder, the wonder of the league, has lost the last three games he pitched for Cordele. The losses were not his fault, as errors behind him let his opponents score enough to win. • * * Brouthers, playing in the field for Americus, came mighty near pulling off a fatal play for his team recently. He tried to get a stone in center field, thinking it was the ball which had Just been hit safely. A fellow fielder saw the mistake and nipped the real article up in time to save a run. * * • Left Fielder Powers, of the Waycross team, has returned to Jacksonville. He was declared ineligible and Waycross had nothing to do but let him go. He is a fleet fielder and has made a neat record during his stay with Waycross. • * * Ten victories to one defeat is the pitching record held by Dacey, of the Americus team. He was signed origi nally as a fielder but has developed into a pitcher as good as the best in the league. * * * Outfielder Schuyler, of the Bruns wick team, is climbing rapidly in bat ting. He hits the ball hard regularly. * * * Day came back strong against the Valdosta team after they knocked him out of the box and won his game with ease for Thomasville. His shut-out rec ord in the Empire is a good one. * * * Otto Jordan seems good on picking up good players. He has landed Wise, a catcher, and from the way the fel low plays he is slated for faster com pany. Gordon and Vaughan, pitchers, will both land , in the Sally and perhaps higher. Gordon has already gone to Macon and ought to make good. And the Valdosta team has others just as reliable. • • * Umpire baiting in the league has ruined a number of games recently and the fans generally are in hopes of changes before another season arrives that will make this impossible. At tacks on umpires by players have re ceived only minor treatment. * * * By winning four straight games, two from the league leaders, Waycross climbed out of the cellar position for the first time since early in July, wh^n the second half of the season started. * • * Added to his fielding ability Doc Fen ton, playing center for Waycross, has started hitting at a terrific clip. He got two home runs in succession and four hits in succession the next day. His put-out record is eight for one game, and has no equal in the league. • * • Red Stiles, who started the season with Waycross and went to Thomasville when he was released, has been sus pended for the balance of the season at his own request. Pennsylvania Lines English High Cost Cure, ‘Don’tEat’ Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, ENG.,. 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