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mm 10 TTTE ATLANTA C.EOKGTAN AND NEWS. THAT IF RITCHIE By Left Hook. W HAT chance has blffer Fred die Welsh, supreme among English lightweights, In the championship struggle with Willie Ritchie at McCarey's Vernon Arena Labor Day Don’t ponder and fret trying to solve this query, but Just peruse the dope and It will not be surprising should the news arrive that a new 133-pound conqueror has been ac claimed after the holiday presenta tion. Welsh, who gained the title of Great Britain and England from Matt Wells in 1912. licked the present champ. William Ritchie, alias Geary A. Steffen, In a 20-round scrap at Vernon, Gal., November 30, 1911. Freddie also has shown Matty Bald win the high precipice to the woods, earning the verdict In a 20-round skit at San Francisco June 23, 1911. Just to dig furor In boxing realms, Fred backed Harry Trendall away with a kayo blow In 1908 Welsh’s only defeats have been delivered by Packey McFarland and Matt Wells. To further exhibit his utter contempt for those blffers who conquer, the British highbrow challenged Wells for the English crown in 1912. It took Welsh Just 20 chapters to show Matt how easy it is to gain prominent recognition. Ritchie Will Have to Go Some. In donning the padded mitts against Welsh. Ritchie has bit off a most ro- I bust chunk. Not to Infer that Willie will be beaten, but the performance of the “dontcherno” champ in the last seven years indicates that Mr. Cham pion is due for a fearful tussle. Willie hasn’t the class that his Nemesis pos sesses—that is, if records tell the f ale. Willie Ritchie gained the honors from Adolph Wolgast on a foul deliv ery. Freddie pulled and tugged, took and gave, for all he was worth In convincing the third man that ne was the better in the Marathon with Wells. In 1909 Welsh defeated Young Erne, considered one of the claimants for the laurels. In 1912, when Champion Ritchie was supposed to be touching the zenith of superiority, he was un able to earn a decision over the clever Erne. Phil Brock was a cinch for Freddie in 1907 and once again in 1909. William Ritchie couldn’t begin to rout Phil in a six-stanza ditty last year. Even Harry Trendall spent u short seance with Willie in 1912, re ceiving a no-declsion finish, while Welsh dropped Trendall in six rounds for a K. O. Ritchie’s one boast over Freddie may be the Jack Britton go. In 1911 Ritchie slammed away at the aggres sive pounder, decisively whipping his opponent. But Welsh can come right back producing the dope that he has walloped Jem Driscoll. Ray Bronson, Johnny Owens, Joe White, and good ness knows how many other less im portant mlttists. Mayb# Leach Will Bo Sorry. Welsh has a teasing method of em ploying the crouch system of bom bardment. He’s not to be pooh-poohed in summing up the swatting powers. If advance enlightenment from the training camps can be molded as facts. Welsh owns a more wicked stab than his rival. The Labor Day bout should be one of the great events of the year. While Ritchie and Welsh are trying to pound the points. Leach Cross and Joe Rivers will please the pugilistic patrons by tapping and hopping to and fro. And the winner is to get the victor In the Rltchle-Welsh bout. In further diving into the specula tion waves, it seems pretty foolish to many critics that Cross passed up ■the Labor Day battle with Ritchie. By all rules of the game, the Gotham tooth expert cleaned the side road to a title match. Joe Rivers is no slouch with the gloves. Many a famed hammerer has been swished to the “has-been” class by a lucky blow. Evidently, Wallaeh & Co. wanted the dough first and the glories next. o Polly and Her Pals ©»prrt*t*. 1*1*. lateraAttoTMil New* Serflea. Pa Doesn’t Understand It Even Now Yea Bo! / o*je PIECT 8>nwiw& Sbcr! J KRAZY KAT *-• Krazy Is Way Behind Times [ \WNA~r Do Voe TkiNK OP Tut 'SrnMTiOm'- iv Mexico (OH, 50 ItsmT /M^aco * r~" '/vow — t ^3 Why, Tnt“ Wu^T/oat- ( Tue Z.ast | heard Vkoai ir IT WA-s »J Them &AIK7/VG STAT ETS (A /MuRM/RJ 'OW Thee PCBt-S /UOftfi. A BftiCK v 'V, ' Scouts Look Over Welchonce? sportsandSuch I ’Walsh Now Pitching for Sox’ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ \ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Also Have Hunch on Joe Agler Sr Tickers Don’t Flash That Now KENOSHA BOXING CLUB IS ASKING FOR PERMIT KENOSHA. WIS., Aug. 21.—John E Keating, president of the Kenosha Ath letic club this morning made formal ap plication to the Secretary of State for a permit to hold boxing shows at Keno sha The club has secured a long term lease on the Coliseum and It is planned to stage the first show the latter part of this month If a permit can be secured by that time. M The Kenosha Ciub has been incor porated under the State law and the in corporators are all well known enthu siasts of Kenosha. No Chicago promot ers will be connected with the activi ties of the club in the future. The Coliseum will be rebuilt with a view of taking care of the boxing crowds. Look Out For Poison Ivy By Ed W. Smith. C HICAGO, Aug. 21.—When Frank Farrell, of New York, signed Frank Chance, of California, to manage the Highlander ball learn he told the newspaper men here In Chi cago that Chance was to have carte blanche and that he would support his Judgment to the last penny In the matter of purchasing new men for the team. It begins to look as If Far rell meant every word that he said, for the Highlander boss is beginning to unbelt In great shape and to buy up young players by the car lot. This Is the time of the year when all of the magnates, even those who are reasonably assured of a pennant, are loosening the strings and getting In some new material, but Farrell is leading the field !n great style. • * • t? ARRELL got Malsel, a young 1 Eastern star, at a price esti mated to be close, to $16,000, and the young man looks as if he surely would make good as a big league ln- flelder. Right, on top of this is the announcement that Farrell has loosened up to the extent of $9,000 more for three star minor league pitchers. There certainly Is some thing mighty convincing about Chance’s method of going after what he wants*. He Inoculated his former boss with the buying germ to such an extent the Cub team quickly be came the baseball factor of the coun try. It was Chance’s trading skill, however, more than anything, that brought the Cub machine together, cog by cog. Chance hasn’t much to trade off in the Highlander bunch, but Farrell has the coin, which Is just us good, apparently. • • • J OHNNY EVERS’ demonstration of “How I Made the Cubs a Har monious Club" is one of the brightest things of the season of 1918—for everybody who didn’t happen to feel the ux on his neck. It took Johnny some time to discover that his club was teeming with the artful knocker and the double-crossing hammer- sllnger. When he located them he fired them almost to a man and now there is little or nothing left of that famous old machine that Selee and Chance put- together. • * • f^HAJlLBY CUTLER says he has ^ discovered Frank Gotch’s secret. Writing from Newaygo, Mich., on Hess I^ake, the big North Sider says: “It’s easy to see why Gotch is such a great wrestler. Living on a farm ts the greatest training In the world, because you don’t realize at all that you are training.’’ Cutler intends to remain there until well into the fall and warns us not to be surprised if in the meantime he uncovers a real “white hope” among the farmer boys in that locality. B )BBY GILKS and Billy Gilbert, veteran ball players and scouts, respectively, for the Cleveland Americans and the New York Na tionals, sat out in front of the hotel last night and talked about the gum shoe trade and its prospects. The prospects seemed to be pretty dismal, to hear them tell it. Neither would admit any specific “looking over" proceedings here, but both would talk—guardedly—about this player or that player; merely from a disinterested viewpoint, of course. For example, Mr. Gilbert gave it as his opinion that Joe Agler, sold to Jersey City recently, would be work ing for Frank Chance next year. “He’s a sweet first baseman, that hoy," said Billy. “Only has one little fault in fielding and one In batting, and he should get over both easily. He seems to have a little trouble with the force play at second on a sacrifice bunt, but with his natural HANNES K0LEHMAINEN TO TRY FOR ONE-HOUR RECORD NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—OppQrtunity to see the most marvelous pair of running legs in the world, and to see them in action trying their level best to lower the record for an hour, will be the privilege of all who go to Crystal Beach Saturday, August 30. On that day Hannes Kolehmainen, the world’s mightiest runner, will appear as the stellar attraction of a big field meet. Besides the exhibition by the world’s most famous runner, there will be two preliminary events—open to all registered A. A* U. athletes, The four men selected to race against Kolehmainen are the fastest of the 100*1 rnilem They will ruft In relays and will pull Kolehmainen along as he has never been run before. It is to be hoped that Hannes will beat the world’s record, as his heart is set on annexing this record to the other world’s records which now dangle at hU belt. speed and fielding abllty, coupled with the fact that he is left-handed, he should get over that quickly. "In batting, he is a little inclined to pull, but it evidently isn’t because he's gun-shy. Also, he has a fine eye for a pitched ball, and a little ’spreading’ applied to his feet will correct the pulling tendency. Then he ought to hit well in any league.” Both scouts maintain a lot of dark some mystery as to their visit here. They admit it is not for their health, but that is all. Taking a scatter shot at it, the best hunch is that the sleuths are looking at Harry Welchonce. That Is only a hunch, mind you, and there was equally as much conversation spilled over Wally Smith and Bisland and Tommy Long. But the Welchonce stuff sounded sort of different. Still, you can’t tell about a scout. Billy Gilbert will probably depart to-night, while Bobby Is likely to stay the week out in our midst. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. (These figures do r.ot Include Thurs day’s games.) 5QUTHERN LEAGUE. W L. Pc Mobile 72 49 .595 Mont. 64 61 .587 Atlanta. 65 54 .546 Chatt... 60 57 .613 B’ham.. Nash.... M’phls. N. O. W L Pc. 62 59 .612 61 69 .426 59 61 .492 39 72 .345 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Phila... C’land. Wash W. L. Pc. 1 75 38 .664 ! 69 46 .600 63 49 .563 Chicago 63 65 .634 Boston.. Detroit. St. L.. . New Y. TV L. Po. 63 58 .477 49 67 .422 47 73 .392 38 71 .349 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. W L. Pc Sav’nah 29 21 .580 Col’bus. 26 22 .542 J’ville.. 26 23 .631 W. L Pc. Albany. 22 27 .449 Ch’ston. 31 26 .447 Macon.. 21 26 .447 NATIONAL LEAGUE. ■f clearing brush, picnickers, hunters, fishermen—look out for poison Wy. And In the meantime keep ydur blood pure by using S S. 8. 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BOB M'ALLISTER TO RETIRE FROM GAME FOR ONE YEAR SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—Bob Me- Allister, the San Francisco fighter who achieved prominence in the middle weight division when he fought twenty rounds to a draw with Senor Ed TVtros- key. will probably retire temporarily from the prize ring, according to the announcement made to-day by his brother. A1 McAllister, who is his man ager. "Bob is only 20 years of age,” the brother explained, “and I think it will be for his best interests to step out of the game for a year He practically has promised he will follow my advice.’ McAllister, an amateur until a few months ago. went into the professional field to make money faster than he was getting as an employee In an Insurance office. His receipts thus far are re ported as about $7,000. HANK 0’DAY HAS LAST SAY AS PERSONALITIES FLY BROOKLYN, Au*. 23.—When the Dodgers want to bat in the twelfth Inning the other day Manager Clarke, who had been warned to keep quiet on the bench, began to taunt Umpire O’Day. “You're as good an umpire as you were a manager last year. You’re a back number!" he shouted. O’Day glared at the Pirate chief a moment, then waved him to the bench, exclaiming hotly: “If you don’t keep quiet you won’t be a manager for the rest of the day and maybe longer!” Clarke quickly retired and remained silent until the next inning, when he addressed O’Day In the sweetest pos. eible manner. The umpire turned his back. ALFRED SHRUBB CONDEMNS LONG-DISTANCE RACING NEW YORK. Aug. 21.—Alfred Shrubb, one of the world’s greatest long distance runners, has come out with a state ment condemning marathon racing and declaring that he believe that it will soon be dropped from Olympic pro grams. "Marathon racing saps a man’s life and cuts him five years short of the time he should be in the thickest of the fray," he said. Shrubb is holder of the 10-mile world’s record. W L. Pc. New Y. 77 35 .688 Phila-... 65 41 .612 Chicago 62 52 .544 P'burg.. 69 63 .627 W. L Pc. F’klyn.. 50 50 .500 Boston . 46 64 .418 Cin’natl 46 72 .390 St. L. .. 43 72 .374 EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. W L Pc. T’ville.. 27 16 628 Atn’cus. 22 22 .600 W’cross 22 23 .489 W. L Pc. V’dosta 22 23 .489 B’swlck 20 24 .455 Cordele 20 25 .445 CAPT. SPRATT OF GEORGIA IS SECOND IN B.G SHOOT Specific it Swift Bldg.. Atlanta. STOVALL CANS INFIELDER. RT. LOUIS, Aug. 21.—Manager Stovall, of the local American League club, to-duy announced that he had given Charles Flanagan ten days’ no tice of release and that If no club signed him during the time he would be a free agent. Flanagan is a sec ond boatman. “COMMY” EXERCISES OPTION ON PACIFIC COAST LEAGUER LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.—President Charles A. Comlskey, of the Chicago White Sox. has exercised an option on Outfielder Maggert, of the Angels, who will report at once to the Windy City club. Maggert has been one of the real sen sations of the Pacific Coast league this season. He has led the circuit in bat ting and ranks second in stolen bates. CAMP PERRY. OHIO, Aug. 21.—The fifth day of the matches of the National Rifle Association shoot produced more record scores. The Leech cup match, flred on the 800-yard, the 900 yard and 1.000-yard ranges, opened with 671 entries. The match was won by George Chesiey, of Connecticut, who scored a possible of 105 plus 13 bull’s-eyes. Besides the cup, he will be awarded a cash prize of $30. Second place was taken by Captain W. T. Spratt, of Georgia, with a score of 105 and six bull's-eyes. In the championship regimental team match, open to all service teams, mili tary organizations and United States military and naval academies and ca dets organizatlonss. there were thirty- five teams entered This match was shot on the 200 yard and the 600-vard and 1.000-yard ranges. The winner was the first team of the Massachusetts militia, which scored S32. while the Fifty-fifth Iowa was second with 829. The Argentine Republic team and the Peruvian team did some good work in the Leech cup match by using the new service Springfield rifles loaned them for this match. ,T. H. Pettit, of ihe Argentine team, scored 101 in the I*ach match, with scores of 34 at 800 vards 33 at 900 yards and 34 at 1,000 yards LORD ST. i FnnFRS TO TRY FOR POLO CUP NEXT YEAR LONDON, Aug. 21.—Lord Ashby St. Ledgers is organizing a polo team which will attempt in 1914 to recover the in ternational cup. now held in the United States He Is arranging with the Hur- lingham Club to isw:a a challenge to the American Pule Awsiooeupu, OCTOBER 6. / SAW a line of weary men All hollow-eyed and sore. And hordes of cops did urge them on In slow march, four by four; And some were fanned with ashen clubs And none did make a roar. And as they reached a gateway grim Rough guardians there did stand. Who wrenched from them their hoarded coin And cussed them something „ grand; And all who did except thereto Upon their ears did land. And once inside the keepers shove Each into a hard seat, And there are other myrmidons To stamp upon their feet; And they must sit in mist and chill Without a bite to eat. Ah, who could merit such a deal— What have these lorn ones donef Why, you poor boob, they like il well, It’s their idea of funt They go through this each Au tumn—the World's Series has begun! UNLESS THERE IS A BREAK in the high cost of athletes many hard-working magnates will soon be reduced to two or three autos. • . • BASEBALL, AS SAM CRANE says, Is uncertain. Here, Owner Gaffney refuses to buy Player Gllhooley. probably because Player Gllhooley allowed himself to be owned by Owner Lichthelm. • • • THE BOX-FIGHT IS ALMOST equally uncertain. You would never suppose that Ah Chung would make Paddy McCarthy quit, JOE TINKER STRENUOUSLY declares that he will not resign the managership of the Cincinnati club. It only shows how far stub bornness will carry a man. • * • A MANAGER OF A NEW ENG- land League club forfeits a game for talking. We should love to watch Horace Fogel perform In that league. TIS OFTEN THUS. Under the spreading chestnut tree The village blacksmith mopes, Until one day he gets a hunch And packs his shirt and slopes; And next week we hear of him As King of the White Hopes. • * • MANAGER HUGGINS IS SOME- what handicapped in his efforts to trade the Cardinals because of the Government’s attitude toward car rying on fraudulent transactions through the mails. * * • • THE NEXT ENGLISH polo challengers are going to Spain to practice, though we can not recall that in the last international con test the Spanish put anything over on us. • • • THE HORRIBLE CARNAGE which Freddie Welch and Willie Ritchie were to engage in has been postponed because Welch has sprained an ankle, news which will be received with the utmost equanimity by every one but the moving picture people. • • • GUNBOAT SMITH SAYS that Ai Palzer must "defeat Moran be fore he is entitled to a match.” If we attempted to comment on this we would laugh ourselves to death. • * * THE MAYOR OF PANAMA is crudely putting on the blink in that city the inculcating of these princi ples of manliness and fair play. When a fight was “lost on a foul in the first round” there the other night he grabbed the gate receipts and refunded the money to the in culcated. SUCCEEDED If E D WALSH is not with the White Sox on their Eastern trip. In all the games Callahan’s men play during their stay in the East, the ticker will never flash. ’NINTH INNING: WALSH NOW PITCHING FOR CHICAGO.’’ The Big Moose, the greatest of iron men. isn’t the Walsh of 1912. The averages give hipi seven won and three lost for a percentage of .700. He has pitched 10 games, with the season half over. If he pitches 10 more during the remainder of 1913 it will be a surprise. Walsh is worn out. He has the heart and head of last year, but his arm Isn’t able to perform what he wills. He is Just a shadow of his 1912 self, so far as pitching goes. Too many Innings of relief work, too many Innings pitched did for his iron arm. For years he was “THE WHITE SOX,” practically all there was to the White Sox, and the only reason any one went to see the club. Last sea son, with ordinary backing, he pitched Chicago into fourth nlaee. There were 78 games won by the club. Walsh Is credited with 27 of them in his own record. Many more he saved for other twlrlers, going In with the Sox ahead and stopping rallies, Callahan pitched his willing worker 393 innings, or 43 nine-inning games, during the American League season. This shows on the books, but there Is no record of the innings Walsh warmed up and used up his arm by so doing. This season Comlskey, the Sox owner, thought Walsh would pitch more than 400 Innlners. Callahan thought so Wash thought so. But the Iron Man was through. He had held the White Sox up so long that his arm was weary, even if he didn’t know it. His record of 393 innir gs in the American League sea son, topped off by his feat of twirling the Sox to victory by pitching 40 in nings of the Chicago city series with the Cubs—which he won practically by himself—has taken toll. Whether Ed Walsh will come back Is a thing the future will have to tell. Sometimes they do, but oftener they don’t. Rest may bring him back, 11 Callahan gives It to hlrrr. But again It may be that 393 Innings of fiercely competitive ball have ruined his arm for good and all and that one of the greatest pitchers the game has known is now a has-been. DEE WALSH TALKED SELF OUT OF MAJOR LEAGUES Umpire Silk O'Loughlin says Dee Walsh, the Chattanooga shortstop, talked himself out of the American League. According to O'Loughlin, Walsh's specialty was to strut up to the plate and dare the pitcher to put It over “Can you Imagine a snip of a kid like Walsh, who isn't much bigger than a peanut, daring a big fellow like Walter Johnson to stick It over the pan?” said O'Loughlin. "The average American League pitcher would make two of Dee Walsh. The kid got himself In bad trying to bluff 'em. He thought it the proper caper, but It worked the other way. The pitchers tabbed him a fresh kid, and tipped each other off. Every now and then some big twlrler would shot the pill at Dee’s bean and scare him stiff. They had him ducking and dodging wild pitches until he couldn't hit the pipe. But Dee is a game kid and will come back. He needs expe rience.” BASEBALL TRADES AS ANNOUNCED BY JOHNSON CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—Over 100 base ball players were Involved in reoent deals by American League clubs and the trades, purchases and contracts were officially sanctioned and announc ed by President Johnson. Releases re corded Include: To Detroit, by Chattanooga. Bert Grover; by Mobile. Cavett; hv Winston- Salem, Charles Harding; by Waco. Tlm- beek; by Cleveland to Beaumont, Charles Betts; to New Orleans, John Clancy To Cleveland, by Charleston, Ed Hov- 11k and George J. Young; by New Or leans, L. C. Brenton. To Washington by AtlantaMontreal, George Clarke; by Petersburg, Harry Hedgpetli. To Washington by Petersburg. Ben jamin Spencer; by Atlanta. Wallace Smith and Pitcher Love. To New York by Dallas, Boone; by Galveston. H. Williams; by Richmond, J. Rogers. WORLD SOCCER ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZES AMERICAN BODY NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Secretary T. W. Cahill, of the United States of America Football Asociation. received a cablegram to-day from C. A. W. Hirschman. secretary of the Interna tional Football Association, saying the emergency committee of that organiza tion had admitted provisionally to mem bership the United States of America Football Association. This recognition by the governing soccer committee of the world makes it possible for this country to compete in the Olympic soccer games at Berlin in 1916. It also means, according to the announcement made here, that the United States Association will conduct the international soccer competition at the Panama Canal Exposition aA San Francisco in 1915, \ DOOIN BELIEVES QUAKERS WILL BEAT OUT GIANTS PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 21.—'’1 am more than satisfied with our team and am justly proud of our record,” said Manager Dooin, of the Quakers, to-day. “I firmly believe that we will come mighty near to tumbling the Giants out of their perch before we are called upon to go West again. We are go ing at the right clip Just now, and with the boys simply aching for a chance to get busy I can not but feel that we will soon be on top. “I have succeeded in getting Josh De vore from the Reds, and, believe me, I am very much pleased, because Josh Is a corking good ball player and we will find plenty for him to do. I have not heard from him as yea. but I ex pect him to come In to-night ready for work. ‘‘Then I will be ready for duty my self. I was Just right When Bescher, the big outfielder of the Cincinnati Reds, Jumped on me with his spikes and laid me on the side lines again. How ever, It Is only a question of a few days when we will all be as good as ever, and ready to give battle to any of them.” C HICAGO, Aug. 21.—Word reached Chicago to-day that George Stovall, manager of the SL Louis Browne, would be succeeded at the end of the year by Branch Rickey, present secretary of the club. It was reported that the official statement to that effect would be made within a few days. Rickey was formerly a catcher, and before his appointment to his present position was director of athletics at the University of Michigan. That Stovall would have a succes sor has been common belief for sev eral weeks. The talk of a successor began first when he and Umpire Fer guson had a run-in, which terminated in the manager spitting upon the of ficial. That aroused the Ire of Presi dent Johnson and drew for Stovall words of condemnation as well as a suspension and a fine. The manager also was compelled to apologize. The American League head is said to believe that Stovall failed to learn a lesson from this. President Hedges also is said to think his team de serves a higher standing in the race with the material he has given the manager. 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