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'I'M L*. ATIjAJN'J'A <t!L,UKHJAlN ANU NKWH ♦GB eo: IEG1 AM Si POI RfS 1 CO¥EKED^lSCPE] ms* DOING THE MRS. PANKHURST LIKE A MAJOR-- ^ ... By TAD Luck Reversed in Second Game +•+ +•+ 4-»+ +•+ *•+ Crackers Win, lust the Same D ETROIT. Aug. 20.—“If Cleve land is going to win a pennant, It better do it this year, for it 8e my honest opinion that it will have no chance next year, for I figure that 1 will then have the best team 2 ever had.” Such Is the remark made by Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics. Connie ha.*' little to say about the race this year. He is not given to boasting and has not put in u claim for the championship of 1913, but lie is taking time by the forelock and putting in his bid for the 1914 bunt ing. Connie likes the material h* has «t hand. He is nursing it carefully and by virtue of that caution may succeed in winning the title this year. Pot win or lose this year, he can not see anything but auceens ahead next aeason. His reasons are man/ While Ira Thomas has slowed up and Jack Lapp is no-t hitting as well as he should and has, Walter Schang al ready looks as good as any catcher in the league and he should Improve next year over the great form dis played this season. Connie probably will pick off a youngster this fail to help the former Buffalonian and Lapp. Pitohers Performing Well. Take his nltchers. Bender and Plank have done grand work this year. They may not be as good next season, but that Is what the experts have been saying for years. Jack Coombs must be reckoned as an un certainty. but looks in better physi cal condition than he has for several campaigns. But Connie is not counting on his three veterans. He has already quietly announced his plans, which are to use Bush, Shaw key. Brown and Houck regularly In the box In 1914 and give his three veterans a fair amount of reel and only call upon them for relief work and in emergencies. He asserts, moat emphatically, that Bush, Shawkey. Houck and Brown form the best quartet of youngsters in the country, and he counts on them being better in 1914 than this year, when they have shown ability to go along and keep the Athletics in the face Then there is no telling Just what prizes Mack will pick up in the draft and by purchase He got Schang. Bush and Shawkey this season, and the plums may again fall into his basket. Has Only Great Infield. Of course Connie has no infield worth mentioning—has no one except Molnnis. Collins. Barry and Baker only three of whom can hit .330 or better and only four of whom can field with consistent brilliancy Pretty tough outfit—that $100,000 infield. They say the weak spot in the Athletics is the outfield. So it is com pared with the remainder of the team, nut lined up against the outer garden representatives of other clubs, H ghows superiority over St. Louis. ^ Rshlngto^ Chicago and New York Bv O. B. Keeler. r KING the first, game with the Barons, and then taking the second, and stacking them up, one against the other, they look pretty much the same. That is, in the box scores. Two games in one series hardly ever look more twln-like. In the first game the count in R.. H. and E., you know, was Crackers. 7-13-3; Moles. 2-8-2. In the second game it was: Crack ers. 7-11-4; Moles, 3-6-1. That is to say, the general propor tions of the two games were about even. The similarity ends Just about there. • * * QlL PRICE, in his game, had all V - T the luck In the wide, wide world, and was not scored on or hit con secutively until tb ninth Inning Elliott Dent. In the second contest, ran Into streak after streak of tough luck, and It was only after the Moles had clawed their way to a three-run lead that things began to brighten up a little. • • • OlLL POXEN was elected unani mously to work against E. Dent, and hie amiable ambition to slip it to the Crackers Is well enough known not to require explanation. Right at the outset, Mr. Foxen'a equipment appeared to consist solelv of his ambition and a second-hand glove, worn on the near .‘tide. Rut he was getting by with it. somehow, and that Is the chief end of baseball. I • * • WHILE Mr Foxen was getting by * with it, Mr. Dent was suffering from neglect. He started trouble for himself, right off the reel, by mak ing a two-base throw on Marcan’s bunt Then Marcan was nipped it third on Messenger’s grounder, which was followed by a steal and a bare* on balls, ending in a safe hit by the pestiferous Knlseley. who Is so strong he can’t roll a cigarette without tearing the paper. • • • VK7 E filled the bases In the third with one out, but all the set ting amounted to was to show off Mr Welchonce In a strange and en tirely bush league role. Mr. W. was the guy who came up with the bases reeling. So was Mr Foxen. who had Just passed a coupl** and allowed a hit. But Mr. Wel chonce didn’t give Mr. Foxen a fair chance to walk him. With the in field drawn close. Harry swung at the first one Mr. Foxen put near the platter and Dent was neatly forced at the pan on a feeble bounder to Ellam. Then Wally Smith, dazed by the mischance, struck out sadly. • • • T? NCOURAGED by this evidence of favor on the parr of Providence, the enemy got another run in the next frame when Blsland let Mayer's lin^ drive sift through his system and Dent walked the next two men up and allowed even Mr. Foxen to hit a sacril^e fly—a foul, by the way, which Calvo should have allowed to hit the dirt, unless—as probably was the case—the little Cuban was leg ging it so hard that he didn’t know the ball was outside. One more run the Moles made in the fifth, and It wasn’t an honest one. either. Blsland put that run on. too— shoved It clear around to second, in fact, by a wild heave to the south east of Joe Agler. Knlseley let out another single and the Moles were through. • • • ^ OBODT knew that, how ever, and the Crackers ruined another pretty situation In the domestic half of that inning when Long, with the bases full and nobody out, hit into a two-ply killing and only one run got over. But Harry Holland and Blsland did a brother act in the next Inning. Harry’s hard drive getting through McBride for the circuit on what should have been a very fine little single. • • • THAT tied the Mrore. and here is * the point we have been driving at for quite some time: Mr. Foxen’s amblsh departed right there. We got ahead in thp seventh when Agler beat out a hit that Ellam fell over fielding, a base on balls and Wel- chonce’s single. Then, with the real explosion of the happy afternoon. Wally Smith shot off a home run far over Kniseley’s head and the game was on Ice. • • • Cl’MMING up, Dent got better as ^ hie luck Improved, while Foxen fell completely through as soon as Providence removed Its beneficent arms. Worthy of note: Dent’s pitching after he go* wound up,’ and Wally Smith’s .wallop. Other features: None. * • • P OR those who enjoy the calcula tions incident to a stern chase, it may be stated frankly that the Crackers now are six and a half games back of Mobile, and one and a half laps south of Montgomery. Remaining games: Twenty. To catch Mobile, if the Gulls break even, the Crackers must win seven teen of the twenty games. Chance for first place: 1 in 6.667.3 —estimated. • • • F) OFT forget this is “Bill Smith Day” at the park, and you have an important engagement there not later than 3:30 o’clock this after noon. RESULTS. International League. Baltimore 7-6. Montreal 1-5 Rochester 2, Jersey City 1. Providence 8. Buffalo 2* Newark 14, Toronto 1. Appalachian League. Morristown 13-5, Middlesboro 1-0. Johnson City 2, Bristol 1. Knoxville-Rome. rain. Texas League. Waco 5, Austin 0. Beaumont 6. Hoston 3. San Antonio 6. Galveston 3 Fort Worth 7, Dallas 6. Integrity Essential to Baseball Success +•4* +•+ +•+ Giant Manager M'Graw Detests Laggard FAMOUS IN SPORTS—vm. The Queer Ride. T he queer ride is a cor- rollary to the Breed of Horses, which was discussed in an earlier paper of this series. The two are fast woven together. All efforts to separate them have, up to this time, failed. Thus is it now generally recog nized that the Queer Ride is an inevitable agency in improving the Breed of Horses. The owners of race tracks are against gambling anywhere but in their clubs and on the Stock Exchange. Any of them will tell you so. But in spite of this fact humbler men insist on betting on the results of horse races, and the Queer Ride was in troduced to eliminate th^ slight element of chance, without which there can be no true gambling. The Bookmakers have responded nobly to the call, and have made free use of the Queer Ride In car rying on the crusade against gam bling. -It is believed that by per sistent use of this device betting on horse races can be finally abolished. It is figured that even a man with so little primary Intelligence as to buck another man’s game will eventually see a light after he has blown his bank roll against a sure thing every day for several years. The Bookmaker is usually, though not always, the author of the Queer Ride, and the Jockey is the active agent. Successful demon stration of the phenomenon is very simple. It requires only the morals of the race track and a well-de- vcloped forearm On the whole, an unpretentious but valuable Institu tion. (“The Amateur” will be the next victim. Get a ringside seat.) • • • WITH THE ARRIVAL OF MR. Vardon and Mr. Ray, the English golfers, we have a profound hunch that the American string of inter national victories is about due to be badly mangled. ♦ • • LET IT NEVER BE CHARGED that we are hoggish. We hope the English will win the golf cham pionship and that they will continue to lead the world in cricket. Noth ing could be fairer than this. • • • IF HUGHEY JENNINGS EVER r»ads the news of the chess mas ters’ tournament he will never let a guy with a name like Tenen- w uni el get away. • • • WE ARE GLAD TO LEARN that a pitcher named Tincup i« about to break into the big leagues. He will fill a hole left by the pass ing of Lush. • * • MORAN AND PALZER ARE about to fight for the “right” to meet Gunboat Smith—which is a pretty good laugh Just as it stand®. We will not add anything. BRAVES SELL COLLINS. BOSTON. Aug 20 —Wilson Collins, a pitcher and outfielder, who has been with the Boston National League team several months, was sold outright to-day to the Buffalo club of the International League. Collins formerly played on the baseball and football teams of Vander bilt University. Bv John “Chief” Meyers. (Star Catoher of the Champion Giants and One of the Leading Sluggers of the National League.) E arnestness of purpose win carry a professional baseball player a long way. An a/thlete who is not prepared to do his very best for the common cause at all times sacrifices a great part of his effectiveness. I have been associated with Mc- Graw long enough to realize that this most successful manager places Integrity above all the other virtues. Anyone who shows the least dis position ever to “quit” or to “loaf” on John J. McGravv, in doing so seals his ow r n doom. I have made a close study of our boss during the annual spring training trips. To attract ^ the serious notice of our boss in those days is something of an accomplishment, I can tell you. But the youngster who Is thoroughly In earnest in all be does and serious In his efforts to put Instructions to the best advantage has always the verv keenest sympathy of McGraw from the very start. Even if McGraw might have no im mediate opening for a recruit he would go a long distance out of his w’ay to advise a colt ambitious to rise in his profession. At the same time McGraw has absolutely no use for a man .who Is not truly serious In his work all of the time. Indifference Is Fatal. I have neen many and many a mort promising young player at the Marlin camp sacrifice his whole future, so far as any connection with the Giant9 might be concerned, through some apparent Indifference. What may be accomplished through d1ltg?nt application might well be illustrated 1n the case of almost ar.v one of the Giants. Outfielder Jack Murray certainly is a very striking example. Murray was a pretty good ball player when he came to New York from St. Louis. But though well ex perienced at that time he was not half e»o valuable to our club as he is to-day. He found in working for a champion team new and more pleasant $ venues for the exercise of his skill. It takes something out of the stoutest heart to be forced to buck the fate of a tail-end team year by year. I consider Jack Murray to-day one of the very best assetn of our team. If we win our third straight pen nant—and I feel verv confident that we will—the auburn-haired guardian of the right field will have had a9 much to do with our triumph as Mattv or Marquard. “Red’s’’ record *^®aks prettv plainly and strongly for Itself His work is the admiration of thousands of our supporters. I do not know how many games he has saved us already this season by his wonderful throw ing arm. but I realize that if he had failed even several times on what ap peared the most desperate chances, we would not now be enjoying the advantageous lead which favors us. Murray a Great “Pegger.” I think Murray is the best thrower I have ever seen His arm is not onL* strong to a phenomenal degree, bu-t. best of all. is deadly accurate. Jack has the knack of bouncing the ball true to the mark and in such a way as to leave the receiver in the verv best position to tag the base- runner. I am told that Joe Birming- him, manager of the Cleveland Americans, is the best thrower in his company. I would like to stack up Murray against him in any kind of a throwing test. Murray, of course, brought his good arm to New Yonk from the Mound City. But it was more frac tious than now. The plucky outfielder has worked very hard to perfect that defensive system which is the pride cf his fellows and the amazement and consternation of the enemy. Jack had several striking weak nesses when he first reported to Mc Graw. His throwing was not the most accurate in the world, and he was somewhat slow in getting the ball away from him. This was the direct result of a weakness for ground balls. Jack could always come in fast or go to either side of him for difficult catches. But he had trouble in going back. Perhaps he never will be able to go back with the speed and accuracy of a Milan or a Carey, but he im proved so much that to-day he com pares favorably with any outfielder in the game. Murray’s hitting ha« improved every bit as much as his throwing and his judgment of fly balls. He Is not a slugger of the Doyle stamp. but he i9 a very dangerous man in the pinch. He generally puts in his wallops where they do the most good, is Heady Base Runner. Jack is a good, heady base runner —a much Improved one over his St. Louis form. Of course, for this Mc- Graw must get a lot of credit. Mac has the knack of inculcating true base running principles Into his fol lowers. He knows that branch of the science as well as any man living, for he was the king of the paths in the old Oriole days. Nobody, however, can take any credit for the general improvement of Murray, save the player himself. No man in the history of the pastime ever mastered a playing territory any better than “Red” has conquered that right pasture. He holds to singles caroms off the wall that would be good doubles and triples with the average fielder. Murray 1 ad to familiarize himself with every square inch of the fence to accomplish this cunning. It meant a great deal of time and patience in practice and the same purpose of mind that cured him of biting at bad balls when the pitcher used to have him In a hole BASEBALL SUMMARY “SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Birmingham at Atlanta. Game called at 3:30 o’clock. Nashville at Chattanooga. Standing of the Clubs. * W. L» Pc t W. L. Pe Mobile 72 49 .696 i Chat. 69 66 .513 Mont. 64 51 .667 M’phis 59 fit .492 Atlanta 64 54 .542 | Nash. 50 68 .424 B’ham. 62 58 .617 \ N. O. 39 72 .345 Tuesday’s Results. Atlanta 7, Birmingham 3. Chattonaago 4-2 Nashville 3-2 (sec ond game nine innings.) No other eames scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet N. Y. 77 34 .694 I B’klyn. 49 60 .454 Phi-la. 64 41 .610 Boston 46 63 .422 Chicago 62 61 .649 C’nati. 45 72 .385 P’burg. 68 53 .623 I S. Louis 43 71 .877 Tuesday's Results. Chicago 3. Philadelphia 2. Pittsburg 8. New York 3. St. Louis 5, Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 4-2, Boston 2-0. iOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Macon at Albany. Savannah at Columbus. Charleston at Jacksonville. Standing of the Clubs. Sav’nah C’bus J’ville W L Pf 27 20 .574 26 21 .563 25 23 .524 W. L Pc Chas’n. 21 26 .467 Macon 21 25 .457 Albany 21 27 .437 Tuesday’s Results. Jacksonville 3, Charleston 2. Savannah 1, Columbus 0. Albany 6, Macon 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Boston at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. Standing of the Clubs. Phila. C’land. Wash. Chicago W. L Pc. 74 38 .661 69 46 .600 63 49 .563 62 55 .530 W. Boston 53 Detroit 49 St. L... 45 New Y. 38 L. Pet. 57 .482 66 .421 73 .381 69 .355 Tuesday's Results. Washington 6. Cleveland 1. Chicago 5. Boston 1. Philadelphia 4. Detroit 3. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Brunswick at Thomasville. Valdosta at Americus. Cordele at Waycross. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. T'ville. 26 16 .619 V’dosta. A’cus. 22 21 .512 B’wick. W’cross. 21 22 .488 Cordele Tuesday’s Results. Valdosta 11, Americus 6. Thomasville 5. Brunswick 3. Waycross 9, Cordele 8. . ab. r. h. po. a. e. . 5 0 2 4 1 0 . 4 1 0 1 0 0 . 3 1 0 0 0 0 . 4 0 3 4 0 0 . 4 0 0 2 0 1 . 4 1 0 4 1 0 . 3 0 1 6 0 0 . 2 0 0 3 6 ft . 3 0 0 0 1 0 .32 3 6 24 9 1 ab. r. h. po. a. a. . 5 1 3 10 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 . 4 1 1 0 0 0 . 4 1 1 1 4 0 . 4 1 2 1 4 2 . 4 1 1 2 0 0 . 4 0 0 3 0 0 . 4 1 2 7 0 1 . 3 0 1 0 3 0 TO-DAY AT 2:30 & 8:30 FORSYTH TOOTS PAHA AND THE HAWAIIAN MUSICIANS Willie Weston, Kennedy&Roon*y,Grae« DeMer, Foster A Lovett, Nlkko Troupe OTHER RESULTS. Virginia League. Petersburg 5, Norfolk 4. Newport News 3. Portsmouth 3. Roanoke 3-7. Richmond 0-3. Carolina Association. Charlotte 10, Greensboro 5. Durham 0, Raleigh 0. Asheville 5, Winston-Salem 4 Federal League. Pittsburg 13-0. Kansas Citv 5-4 Cleveland 4, Chicago 3. St. Louis-Indlanapolis rain. American Association. Indianapolis 6. Toledo 4. Minneapolis 3, Milwaukee 0 Kansas City 8, St. Paul 3 Columbus 6-1, Louisville 0-2 S&NT/I i CAPSULES , IHIDH NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Cincinnati at Boston St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. tobacco habit sT.jrV I i-covt your health, prolong your life. >*o mor* •tomii h trouble, no foul breath, no heart weak* nena Regain manly vigor, calm norvoa, elear e>o* and I auperlor mental strength. Whether you eh a * or amoke pipe, cigarette*, cigars, tet my Interesting Tobacco Book. Worth Its weight In gold. Mallod frsa. If. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Am.. 741 8.. Haw Ysrk. N. V. ONEY LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Real Estate Security NATIONAL DISCOUNT CO. 1211-12Fourth National Bank Bids. T TUESDAY’S GAME. Marcan, 2b. . . 5 Messenger, rf McDonald, 3b. 3 Kniseley, cf. McBride, If. . . 4 Mayer, c. . McGilvray, lb. 3 Ellam, ss Foxen, p. . . . 3 Atlanta. Agler, lb. . . Long, If. . . Welchonce, cf Smith, 2b. . . Bisland, ss. . Holland, 3b. . Calvo, rf. . . Chapman, c. Dent, p 3 Totals. . .34 7 11 27 11 3 Score by innings: Birmingham 100 110 000—3 Atlanta 000 012 40*—7 Summary: Home run—Smith. Double plays—Ellam to Marcan to McGilvray; Bisland to Smith to Ag ler. Struck out—By Dent 7, by Foxen 3. Bases on balls—Off Dent 3, off Foxen 3. Sacrifice hits—Foxen. Stolen bases—Messenger, Ellam. Wild pitches—Foxen. Time—2:05. Umpires—Rudderham and Fifield. KEOKUK SIGNS PITCHER. MOBERLY, MO., Aug. 20.—Charles Parrick, a pitcher for a local amateur team, has been signed by Keokuk. BASEBALL —TO-DAY Birmingham vs. Atlanta Ponce de Leon Park 0 ?c? o ° k / catarrh; OF THE BLADDER < Relieved In « F24 Hours< f Each Cap- s—J •ule bearsthe(MlDY)4 name A*- J Beware of counterfeits 4 *4