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8v Damon Runyon.
N EW YORK, Aug. 20.—Handsome
Harold McCormick, president of
the Amalgamated Assassination
of Pinch Punchers, has called a meet
ing of the board of directors to con
sider the application of Sir Mique
Donlin, who desires membership in
the organization so he can go around
pinching with the Yankees, or some
one.
The puchritudlnous, but otherwise
all right Harold, has notified Messrs.
Ham Hyatt, of Pittsburg; Charley
McDonald, of Boston; Doc Miller of
Philadelphia; Benny Myers, of Brook
lyn; Johnny Bates, of Cincinnati;
Jack Lelivelt, of Cleveland; Otey
Crandall, of St. Louis; Olaf Hinrick-
een, of Boston, and Hugh High, of
Detroit, to meet him in a dark alley
some night so he can poll the delega
tion.
It is believed that Sir Mique will
be admitted, if he can survive Jersey
City, and his residence there will not
be in any way held against him. as
it is well understood that Mike is a
Rroadwayite at heart.
When John J. McGraw founded the
Pinch Hitter, little did he think that
it would flourish and spread across
all the leagues, as it most certainly
has flourished and spread. When the
Giant chief employed Samuel Strang,
the best baritone ever in baseball,
to pinch hit for him. it was because
k John J. McGraw desired pinch hits
and not that he desired to encourage
pinch hitters, but from the lowly be
ginning of S. Strang grew the great
army that we know to-day.
Strang "Some Pincher.”
It is related of S. Strang that he
went up fourteen times in the tight
places and tore off eleven hits, and
so when S. Strang went away from
here to sing and such McGraw lay
in wait for another pincher of his
caliber. Handsome Harold McCor
mick is the answer.
Meantime, However, other clubs
had adopted the pincher. and now we
have among others, the illustrious
persons named above, most of whom
do nothing but pinch hit, but who get
fat salaries for so doing, while com
mon, or garden, ball players work
from day to day for the same amount
of money.
* And who shall sav that they do not
pay for themselves? Not us. We
shall not say it, because we have a
high regard for the pincher, and,
moreover, we envy him his job.
Sir Mique could always spank the
baseball, and he had that peculiar
quality of confidence that makes
the pincher pinch. Take Harold Me.
Cormick. for example. Harold does
not believe the pitcher ever lived
who had anything on him. Harold
reasons that he has something on
the pitchers, especially when he goes
up in the pinch.
Pitchers Fear Harry.
He argues that the pitcher is the
man who is entitled to be afraid
and not Handsome Harold McCor
mick. Wherefore, he pinches punctil-
' iously, and wherefore, he is retained
at what may be enormous expense,
for all we know, on the payroll ai
the New York Giants,
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A HASTY compilation of the Schush
family now playing professional
baseball, shows the following line-up:
^ Schalk, Schang. Schmutz, Schardt,
Schact and Schauer.
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J OE TINKER says he will resign.
which is the same thing in a gen
eral way that the Cincinnati fans
said when the'" saw him coming.
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C HRIS MATHEWSON was once
quoted as saying that he could
tell what Honus Wagner intended
doing by watching his feet. Events
of last Saturday prove that Chris
is either becoming nearsighted, or
that Honus has new feet.
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C HARLEY M. TESREATT. the pitch
ing pachyderm, is still In there
leading the boys in number of strike
outs. Charley M. ha9 whiffed 132
batsmen, which record is topped only
by Wonderful Walter Johnson, of
Washington. D. C. Walter lias breezed
163; Tom Seaton, of Philadelphia, is
next to Tesreau In the Nationa!
League with 126 strike-outs, and he
Is the champion base-on-baller, with
89 passes, while Charley M. has a
matter of 87. »
I T appears that John J. McGraw is
determined to have at least one
look at “Preacher” Perrvman, the the
ological hurler of the Virginia League,
at all hazards. He has exercised an
option on the young man, who is now
at Roanoke. Perrvman was supposed
to report at Marlin last spring, and
for days and days the Giant * chief
anxiously searched the horizon for a
glimpse of the youth, who is said to
be several stories In height, but
Perryman came not. It is said he
remained In Georgia to complete his
college course, and then he returned
to the Virginia League, where Mc-
‘raw first heard of him a year ago.
BUCK O’BRIEN NOT WANTED
BY A COAST LEAGUE CLUB
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 20.—The
services of “Buck” O’Brien, one of the
pitchers who helped the Boston Red
Sox win the world’s series last fall,
were declined with thanks by ' the
management of the Venice club of the
Pacific Coast League last night.
O’Brien is now a member of the
Chicago White Sox. Captain Calla
han telegraphed President Eddie
Maier offering to sell O’Brien. Maier
wired that he could not use the vet
eran. Reports that O’Brien Is a hard
man to handle probably had much to
do with Maier’* decision.
SMITH, ATLANTA, LOSES
TENNIS MATCH TO ADOUE
DALLAS, TEXAS. Aug 20—Yester
day's play in the first tennis tournament
for the championship of the Southwest
narrowed the contestants for singles
honors to eight. Roland Hoerr, of St.
Louis. Missouri Valley champion, and
J. B. Adoue, Jr., of Dallas, one of the
Southern champions in doubles, are
w among survivors. Hoerr and Adoue will
be opponents in the fourth round to
morrow. Yesterday Hoerr defeated
* Paul D. Macquiston. of Dallas, 1-6, 6-3,
7-6. Adoue disposed of V. H. Smith,
of Atlanta. 6-3, 6-4.
Play in the doubles was started to
day.
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The Old Mans a Fan, Although He Didn’t Know It
Swartz and Renel Star at Drome
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Glenn Loses Special Match Race
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
H ARRY SWARTZ and Georges
Renel had their machines in
great shape last night, and as a
result captured all the honors at the
Motordrome last night. Renel won
all three heats in the Maddox Sweep-
stakes, while Swartz copped the finals
in the Southern championship.
Glenn and Swartz gave the fans a
thrill in the special race when they
finished in a dead heat after Swartz
captured the first heat. Swartz,
however, took .the third and final heat
from Glenn by a great snurt at the
finished after Glenn had led for three-
quarters of the distance.
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T HE final heat of the Maddox
Sweepstakes was easily the
best race of the night. Tex
Richards and Renel had a neck and
neck race, and for a time it looked
as i fRichards were sure to cop
the honors. Renel was there at the
finish about two feet ahead of Rich
ards. Luther also crowded the lead
ers in this race.
Harry Glenn finished second to
Swartz in the Southern champion
ship. Swartz took the lead at the
start and was never headed.
Following are the comrlete sum
maries:
SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIP.
(Heats. 1 Mile, Final 2 Miles.)
First Heat—Harry Swartz, first;
Morty Graves, second. Time. : 43 2-5.
Second Heat—Georges Renel, first;
Tex Richards, second. Time, : 43 1-5.
Third Heat—Harry Glenn, first;
Henry Lewis, second. Time. : 44.
(Final, 25 Points for First; 15 for
Second; 5 for Third.
Won by Harry Swartz; Harry
Glenn, second; Georges Renel, third.
Time, 1:26.
SPECIAL MATCH RACE.
FMrst Heat (1 Mile)—Harry
Swartz, won. Time, : 43 2-5.
Second Heat (2 miles)—Dead heat.
Time. 1:30.
Third Heat (3 miles)—Harry
Swartz, won. Time, 2:15.
ROBERT F. MADDOX SWEEP-
STAKES.
(Ten Points to Winner; 6 for Second;
3 for Third.)
First Heat (2 miles)—Georges Re
nel, first; Tex Richards, second;
Freddie Luther, third. Time, 1:27 4-5.
Second Heat (4 miles)—Georges
Renel, first; Henry Lewis, second;
Freddie Luther, third. Time, 2:57.
Third Heat (6 miles)—Georges Re
nel, first; Tex Richards, second;
Freddie Luther, third. Time, 4:24 4-5.
Points—Renel. 30; Richards, 12;
Luther, 9; Lewis, 6.
EX-CHAMPION WRESTLER
NEAR DEATH IN JOLIET, ILL.
JOLIET. ILL., Aug. 20.—James
Bardell, former tialner of the White
Sox and ex-champion lightweight
wrestler of the world, is dying in a
Joliet hospital.
Bardell has been failing for months
and suffered a co'mplete nervous
breakdown a week ago. Physicians
declare there is only a small chance
for him to live. He is known through
out the country among sporting men
as a trainer and boxing referee, and
is an old personal friend of Charles
Comiskey, Jim Jeffries, Tommy Can
non and other sportsmen. He was one
of the three sponsors of Packey Mc
Farland’s first fight at Tattersall’s
old fight arena in Chicago.
LEACH CROSS AND DUNDEE
SIGN FOR LABOR DAY BOUT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—Leach
Cross, the lightweight, and Johnny
Dundee., the New York featherweight,
who lately has been fighting iu the
lightweight division, have been
matched for a 20-round fight on La
bor Day at the Vernon arena.
JACK JOHNSON MAY NOT BE
ALLOWED ON LONDON STAGE
LONDON, Aug. 20.—There is a
possibility that Jack Johnson, the
American negro puglist. will not be
allowed to appear on the stage in this
city.
The announcement that he would
do a turn next week at one of the
music halls brought a number of re
monstrances to the management to
the effect that the London public,
after the recelations of Johnson’s
violations of the white slave laws of
the United States, would not stand
for the negro pugilist as an enter
tainer.
The manager retorted that he did
not think the question of morality en
tered lnt> the matter if the boxing
exhibition by Johnson was a good
one. Besides, the term “white
slavery” doeu not mean the same in
England as it does in the United
States, and the crime with which
Johnson i» charged in the United
States would not be an offense
against the law here. The Federa
tion of Variety Artists will discuss
the question at a mee’ing in this city
on Thursday.
‘Bill Smith Day’ at Ball Park
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Mike Kelly, the Indianapolis boy, has
entered upon the boxing scene. Kelly
wished to announce that he is open to |
meet any boy around these parts and ;
is particularly anxious to get on with
Charley Lee. "I will agree to box I^ee
on a winner-take-all basis, if he will
sign for the bout now,” wailed Mike
yesterday when we met him at Five
Points.
The next big scrap to be staged on
the coast will be a twenty-round en
gagement between Joe Rivers and Leach
Cross for Labor Day. The mill will be
held in Tom McCarey’s arena. Charley
Eyton has been named as referee.
Kenosha, Wis., plans to open the box
ing game next month. John Keating,
promoter In the Wisconsin city, is after
Tommy Murphy or Leach Cross to box
Charley White at his opening show.
However, both these boys do not seem
overanxious to don the mitts with the
Chicago whirlwind.
Jimmy Grant writes from Chicago
that he is boxing daily and expects to
be in fighting condition soon. Jimmy
is trying to get on with some of the
stars around the “Windy City” and says
he will probably sign for a match
within the next few days. Grant is to
help train Charley White for his match
with Johnny Griffiths at Akron, Ohio,
on Labor Day
Danny Goodman,- the veteran light
weight, has signed articles for two
bouts. On August 28. at Hibbing. Minn.,
Danny meets Young Thomas, and on
September 1, at Superior, Wis., Johnny
Tillman is to be his foe.
Steve Ketchel, the Chicago light
weight. will don the padded mitts with
Eddie Johnson, of Denver, at Pueblo,
Col., on September 16. They are sched
uled to go twenty rounds and are to
weigh 133 pounds at 3 o’clock.
* * *
Fred Gilmore has matched his light
weight. Mickey Sheridan, to box Patsy
Drouillard. at Peoria. Ill., on Labor Day.
This will be their fourth meeting.
Regular Baseball Party Planned
T HIS is Bill Smith’s birthday, and
you are invited to his little par
ty at Ponce DeLeon ball park
this afternoon, 3:30 o’clock, R. S. P.
D. Q., only there’s no use making ex
cuses if you don’t come out.
There will be several kinds of en
tertainment provided.
First off, there is the ball game—
the concluding struggle of the season
between the Barons and. the Crackers.
Then there will be a band. The band
will parade before the game and ren
der appropriate incidental music to
the various passages after the man in
the blue overalls says, “Play.”
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T HEN there will be Bill Smith.
guest of honor, admitting modest
ly that he is 32 years old—he admits
that much. And this is the time to
show Bill Smith that his work in be
half of Atlanta has been, and is. ap
preciated.
Bill is not a man to flourish the
trumpets about himself or his work.
He is a quiet, earnest man—and a
dynamo in action when it comes to
energy. He is a man of one idea
when it comes to his work. That
idea is baseball. He has brought two
pennants to Atlanta, and has taken
a club hopelessly in the ruck the last
two years and made it fight for a
third pennant this time.
Atlanta fans owe Bill Smith much
in the way of appreciation. To-day
is a good time to show it.
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T HE lay-out includes Carl Thomp
son. who couldn’t win for Bir
mingham. in the role of trying to
show why it was. Mr. Molesworth
hasn’t nominated his entry yet. It
may be young Ery, the rookie. Bill
Prough isn’t here, and his chance for
revenge this year is gone forever.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
KING BRADY AND PITTS TO
HURL FOR NEWBORN TEAM
MADISON GA., Aug 20—Madison
plays her last series of three games
here for this season to-day, Thursday
and Friday with Newborn. King
Brady, ex-pitcher for the Atlanta team,
and Pitts. ex-Tech pitcher, will do th*
hurling for Newborn, while Perryman
and Gheesling will hold down the slab
tor Madison.
“OUTLAW ” SAYS KAVANAUGH
OF NEW “DIXIE LEAGUE”
MEMPHIS, Aug. 20.—President W.
W. Kavanaugh, of the Southern As
sociation, in discussing the entry of
the proposed new league into base
ball In the South characterized them
as “outlaws” and said he could not
see where they would be supported
enough to last a season.
STILL AFTER M’ALLISTER
AND PETR0SKEY MATCH
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Aug. 20—
Promter Jim CofProth is still struggling
with the Bob McAlllster-Sailor Petros-
key-Jimmy Clabby problem. Jim wants
first of all to arrange a return match
between McAllister and Petroskey, be
ing satisfied that there is an insistent
demand for the same.
In making his deductions. Coffroth is
Influenced by the fact that McAllister's
friends believe Bob should have received
the decision in the recent bout, while
Ptroskey’s followers are calling upon ail
non-partisan sports to bear testimony
that McAllister would have been
knocked out had the affair lasted a fev'
rounds longer.
In such a case, of course, a return
match would fill a long felt want If
it takes place Clabby is assured a
match with the winner, something worth
hanging around for. If McAllister, after
due consideration, decides he has had
enough of the boxing game for a while,
Coffroth will turn his attention to a Pet-
roskey-Clabby match.
FORMER MAGNATE TO SUE
CHAS. MURPHY FOR $2,000
ST LOUIS. Aug 20.—William
Grayson, Jr., of St. Louis, millionaire,
former owner of the Louisville Amer
ican Association Club, said to-day he
intended to sue Charles Webb Mur
phy. owner of the Chicago Cubs, for
$2,000, the amount of Grayson’s claim,
disallowed Monday by the National
Commission. Grayson says his suit
will be based on Murphy’s unfulfilled
promise to pay $2,000 if Pitcher Che
ney, sent to the Cubs by Louisville in
1912. made good. Cheney did make
good, and is the most dependable man
on the Cubs’ staff. Murphy was fined
$500, while Grayson was debarred
from organized baseball.
EIGHTEEN PLAYERS SOLD BY
CLUBS IN CENTRAL LEAGUE
WELSH INJURED IN FIGHT
WITH DRUNKEN LOGGER
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA,
Aug.20.—Injuries to Freddy Welsh.
English lightweight champion, which
caused the postponement of his titular
battle with Willie Ritchie, were caused
by a fight with a drunken logger in a
downtown street saloon a week ago.
Welsh was kicked in the stomach by
his 200-pound opponent and his ankle
was hurt. He returned to training a
day or two later. While he was run
ning in Stanley Park on Saturday his
foot turned on a pebble and was
sprained.
FORT WAYNE. IND., Aug 20 —
Eighteen players sold in addition to six
returned through optional agreements
for a total consideration of $40,000. gives
the Central League the season's record
in disposing of players. President Heil-
broner said to-day The league is a six-
club circuit, with players’ limit of four
teen
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
The Southern Railway an
nounces reduced round trip fare
of $15.00 from Atlanta to Cincin
nati, Ohio; tickets on sale August
22, 23 and 25, good for return un
til September 1. City Ticket Of
fice. No. 1 Peachtree street. Both
phones Main 142.
The Giants’ lead over the Phillies was
unimpaired by the defeat at the hands
of the Pittsburg Pirates at the Polu
grounds yesterday, as the Cubs tripped
the Quakers in Philadelphia. The Cin
cinnati Re.ds surprised themselves with
two victories over the Boston Braves.
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Max Carey, left fielder for Pittsburg,
slammed out two home runs in yester
day’s game.
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While rain was keeping the Yankees
idle in St lx>uis the Athletics, leaders
of the American League, were gaining
at the expense of the Naps.
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Walter Johnson, of the Washington
Senators, pitched his thirteenth con
secutive victory in the game against
the Naps, setting a new record for the
present season. The standing record Is
19 games, held by Marquard. The
American League record is sixteen.
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Ronesetter Reese, the Youngstown,
Ohio specialist, has assured Pitcher Ed
Walsh, of the Chicago White Sox. that
he will be as good as ever next sea
son. Walsh's trouble is a misplaced
tendon.
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Leo Callahan, released by Brooklyn to
the Toronto club in th^ International
League, will report to the Canadian nine
to-morrow
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The Boston Red Sox used three pitch
ers against the White Sox, but the
Whites gauged them all.
PHILADELPHIA STARS OUT
OF GAME WITH INJURIES
PHILADELPHIA. Aug 20—Paskert
and Walsh, of the Philadelphia National
League club, are out of the game for a
time with injuries. An x-ray exami
nation yesterday showed that Paskert
had broken a finger c f hi® right hant
a catching a drive of Schulte's bat yes
terday, and that Walsh had suffered a
broken bone in his foot *hen hit by a
bat during practice
ShrrtMcp Bridwell. ot the Chicago Na-
t inna!s. was notified here to-day that
ho haJ been suspended for three days
for throwing dirt toward Umnire O’Day,
fo.'.owMng a decision at the home plate
in yesterday’s game.
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ORPHINE
WILLIAMS HANDS WHITE
LACING IN TEN ROUNDS
NEW YORK, Augr. 20.—Barney Wll-
liams, a light heavyweight, of Phila
delphia, beat Sailor White, the big lo
cal bruiser, after ten rounds of mill
ing at Far Rockaway last night.
White barely weathered a tempest of
blows In the fourth round. The bel)
was very welcome. Again in the sev
enth the Quaker City boxer had his
big adversary all to the bad, but waa
unable to connect with p finishing
punch. Williams weighed only 165 to
White’s 206.
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