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THE ATLANTA GEOHCTAN AND NEWS.
COLONEL PEEL
Bringing Up Father
By George McManus
T HE Colonel William La^on Peel
Sweepstakes will be P feature
event at the Atlan/ Motor
drome to-morrow night Colonel
Peel has agreed to star'the three
heats of this event.
Six riders will corripetei each heat
andj»they will ride thr* four and
five miles. The winne^vill he ad
judged by the number'f points he
has at the finish. Tfl points will
be allotted for first, 9 for second
place and three for thipin each heat.
Speed fans are pronged some fast
riding in the Sweepstff'-s event, and
It would not be surpsing if one of
the speed demons setP a new mark.
* *
Deans have beenhiade to . c *tage
1 the second of tt- series of races
for the Southern ch^pionship in the
mile and two-mile ents. The first
two men in each ho will qualify for
the finals. There 111 be two heats
and four riders 7II race in each
heat.
Twenty-five poitf goes to the win
ner in the Sout‘ r n championship
event, fifteen poi* 5 to second and
nve points to tfi third man. The
rider having thehost points, bv the
middle of next pnth will be pitted
against some o'the fastest racers
from the East ad West, who are to
be brought heritor.
1 * *
A SPECIAL atch race betJveen
. Morty Gr/es and George Kenel
.will also be stf e d. Tnree heats will
run off.
The riders hold a social bene
fit at the tr’k for Jock McNeil’s
mother Frida night. Mrs. McNeil is
in Scotland j? the present time. No
passes will 1 acknowledged at ‘the
gate. All tfse interested in the
meet have greed to donate their
services fref
Following^ the complete program
for to-morrv night:
Soutlrn Championship.
(One-mile |ats. two mile s final. First
m^n in sach heat to qualify.
Twenty-^e points for first, fifteen
for secoi and five for third.)
First Hf—Graves, Renel. Lewis*
and Glenn
Second peat—Swartz, Richards,
Luther at Lockner.
$ecial Match Race.
(Thre e l*ats, one, two and three
miles, 1st two out of th'-ee heats.)
First —Graves vs. Renel, one
mile. 1
Finapouthern championship, two
miles, j
/. L. Peel Sweepstakes.
(Frerp point system, ten for first,
six * or second, three for third.
The heats, three, four, five miles.)
Fiji Heat—Lewis. Glenn. Swartz,
Riort'ds, Luther and Lockner, thr< >
mile
Sfond . heat special match race,
twenties.
Srond heat sweepstakes, four
mi/- .
flird heat special match race,
thje miles.
I ^ nird heat sweeprtakes. five miles.
Gayson Says Murphy
^ Must Quit Baseball
1st. LOUIS. Aug. 23.—Barred by
rganized baseball, William Gray-
1 Em, Jr., of St. Louts, ex-Louis-
( lle magnate, puts this question
the baseball world to prove the
6ak laws that govern the game and
Ihe National Commission:
j “If I was Macklisted for supposed
illegal business, why wasn’t Charles
W. Murphy, who was as guilty as my-
iself, given the same punishment?"
By exposing his dealings with the
j Chicago National League club, when
j president of the Louisville Colonels,
' Grayson intends to continue his fight
: , against Murphy for tke *2,000 alleged
due him for Pitcher Lurry Cheney.
Further the St. Low baseball man
I declares tie will go to 1 toe civil courts
to prove that baseball Saws are weak
and the National Commission Is nut
fair in its rulings
Grayson and Murph were judged
guilty by the supreme Jourt of base
ball.' Grayson was bla'klisted, while
Murphy drew a fine olonly $aOn for
nn offense which, acceding to base
ball laws, demands $1100 and not a
$o»0 penalty. , I . .
If the National Ctfimission w 11
keep its word and mde bv its own
laws Grayson Intendsto bring fur
ther'evidence where tfe president of
the Chicago Cubs wasguilty at least
fifteen times in Jus Hega! farming
process. Grayson cofends If he is
forced to quit baseKll, then Boss
Murphy must do llkeyse.
Sox Sell Moris Rath
To KansasJity Club
CHICAGO, ILL., ug. 25.—Morris
Path White Sox irelder, was yes-
l, the Kan-as 1 -V £ub of the
American Asocial!,. He left last
night to join bis r* team and will
likely be played ateeond base upon
his arrival. . , . „
Rath has playe« second base foi
Callahan during !•’ greater part of
Ihe present seasonbut when the Sox
were in the Kasim their last trip
Joe Berger was tven a. chance to
perform on the keystone corner.
Since the first da that Berger play
ed the position,Jath has had no
chance of getti/ back. He is a
grand little HeH' and as smart a
hall plaver as n he found in Ihe
American Leaf?, but his hitting
ability is not f the caliber that
makes him a fir-class performer for
a major club.
It was anntoced at White Sox
headquarters ft night that Short
stop Breton, fently secured from
Kansas City, tould report to Man
ager Callaha/Tuesday.
CHICAGO HI0NALS REFUSE
TO PLAY JAIN ST BLACK MAN
SCHE#ADY, N. Y.. Aug. 25.—
The Chi/# National League team
yesterd/ cfefeated the Rutland Tri-
State l/*Tie flub, 5 to 0. At no time
Mid RiZnd have a chance of making
rur y Rutland wanted to pitch
vhr\J rv ' The negro twirler «»f the
Mob/' Giants, but the Chicago
play/ refused to play aga.nst him.
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Small Chance for First Place Now CALLS YANKEE
Turtles Here for Four Games
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Track Meet Set for Wednesday
By 0. B. Keeler.
S LOWLY recovering from the ad
miring daze hung on us Satur
day by the miraculous fielding
exhibition of Rivington Bisland, Esq..
we note Mobile still is declining to
loosen up.
In fact. Mique Finn’s inexpensive
help is running along like a dollar
wafdh and sticking to that ha'f-a-
dozen games lqad like a porous plas
ter.
It looked as if the Vols would slip
them something Saturday. But no.
With victory staring them in the face.
Mr. Schwartz’s help crime apart at
the seams, and the Gulls eked out
a fragile victory, counting just as
much in the percentage column as
if it had been an honest one.
* * *
A ’CORDIKL to the latest compu-
tation. the Crackers have fifteen
more games to play—all at home.
The Gulls have thirteen scheduled
contests, with ^ couple of postponed
affairs, making the same number.
Four of the games are to be played
here.
* * *
\T7ELL, then—
» * If the Gulls manage to scrape
up wins on as many as nine of those
fifteen games, the Crackers can cop
all the rest of their comoats and still
finish second.
If, on the other hand. Mobile just
breaks even—a. difficult thing to do
in fifteen games, by the way—the
Crackers, by winning all but one of
their remaining games may sneak
over a pennant.
* * *
T hat isn’t very cheering.
Let’s suppose that Mobile en
joys a fearful kump and loses ten
or eleven games, of which we win
the four played Here. . . .You under
stand, this is not a prediction.
Well, in that case, tne Crackers
could win the flag by capturing eleven
of their fifteen starts, which is about
the limit of reasonableness.
And. at that, Montgomery might
come to life.
Or it might rain out some of the
games.
• * *
N the whole, maybe we’d better
^ devote out attention to spiking
down second place, which is a high
ly dignified and even exalted station
for the Crackers, considering their
finish last year. And year before
last.
Not so bad—what?
And not cinched either.
* * *
H OW’-DO. Turtles!
Much obliged to meet you, es
pecially after handing that little
backset to our pet enemies Sunday.
Also much obliged for Rube Kissin
ger being out of the way temporarily.
At that, the Rube will be staring us
in the face along about Wednesday,
which, by the way. is the long-looked-
for Field Day at Ponce DeLeon.
It is now up to os to turn Turtles
a while.
* * *
O H. yes—and now Montgomery and
Mobile have got to go and play
at Chattanoga a while.
Now that Tabasco Person and the
Pepper Kids will have a fine little
chance/to show some more of that
Polish stuff they used in polishing off
the Crackers recently.
Or does the Kid like the Gulls and
the Billies any better than he does the
Cracners?'
Does ho like ’em well enough to
give up his chanc at third place to
help pull the Crackers out of first and
second?
No.
We have an idea the Kid will keep
on peppering the hash.
Hope he rubs it in well on the
Gulls and Billies, too.
^T'MIE English
I us a great
Wolgast-Dundee-Go May Be Off
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Sept. 2 Bouts Cause of Trouble
Bv 11. M. Walker.
L OS ANGELES, CAL., Aub. 25 —
SOiTiebody Iia3 crossed the wires.
From San Francisco comes the
report that Ad Wolgast is to box a
little hoy named Azevedo in an Oak
land ring on Labor Day.
It is also stated that Johnnie Dun
dee has closed a contract to box
Leach Cross on the same day.
These reports are puzzling, inas
much as Wolgast and Dundee have
signed to box twenty rounds before
the Pacific Athletic Club at Vernon
on the afternoon of Admission Day,
September 9. They have posted for-
feita of $1,000 each, and, a clause
in the articles says that neither man
is to engage in a contest between
now anil the date of their meeting
here.
“Cherokee” Tom Jones, who still
acts as Wolgast's manager, is in Los
Angeles and claims to have no
knowledge of the Azevedo affair.
• * •
<iT\/[Y check for $1,000 is up to guar-
TVl antee that Wolgast will live up
to the Admission Day conditions,"
said Jones yesterday. "I have had
no advice from him other than that
his* injured hand was mending nicely
and that he intended to go through
with the Dundee date. There must
be something wrong somewhere.”
"Scotty” Monteith, Dundee’s man
ager. called Promoter T. J. McCarey
over the telephone yesterday. He
claimed that Wolgast was going to
box on Labor Day and claimed the
same privilege.
"I don't know what it is gll about,”
said McCarey last night. "Our con
tract is a plain one. Neither man
must enter the ring before they box
for me on Admission Day. If they
do. they may consider their Los An
geles date cancelled."
* * •
V\7 0LGAST is still a big drawing
card in the South. Dundee, by
the improvement shown in his work
when he so decisively beat “Chicago '
Jack White, made of himself a fair
attractiqn.
The fact that Wolgast and Dundee
would meet on a pound-for-pound
and an irteh-for-inch basis, together
with the feeling that Wolgast has
“gone back,” gives the proposed
card such an even look that the
match would in .all probability draw
a big house here on the holiday
date. Should Ad and Johnny break
their contracts they will be prac
tically passing up a house that fig
ures to run from $10,000 to $15,000.
* * *
Y\J OLGAST would be taking little
** chance of defeat in meeting
Azevedo, who is an unknown boy with
no ring record behind him. On the
other hand. Dundee courts almost cer
tain defeat in taking on the tough
veteran. Crofs. Nothing that Dundee
has ever done in the ring would jus
tify his manager in matching him
with a high-grade man like Loach
Cross.
By Chick Evans.
golf press is telling
it deal concerning the
slowness of American players.
Slow' is an adjective that 1 never
expected to see applied by a Briton to
an American; hitherto terms indica
tive of speed have usually come our
way from that quarter. Things have
changed, however, since our last in
vasion of Great Britain. It appears
Siat all of our players who went
across the w’ater this year took an
unconscionable time over every golf
stroke. First there would be a gen
eral reconnoitering all along the line
of play, then five or six practice
strokes, and then, and not till then,
the stroke proper.
* * *
THERE is considerable excuse for
1 our golfers who went abroad this
year for the British amateur cham
pionship. They w ere much impressed
by the seriousness of their undertak
ing, the unusual nature of the Brit
ish courses differing widely from our
own, iqn'd their game had suffered
from want of practice'. Heinrich
Schmidt Jiad come practically from
shipboard to St. Andrews not more
thau three days before the champion
ship began. Therefore, our American
entrantm in the British amateur were,
perhaps, justified in going slowly
along these unaccustomed ways.
But there is no doubt that, general
ly speaking, the slow player is trying
to the nerves a no tern [’or of his op
ponent and nev«# more so than dur
ing an important tournament. It seems
impossible for silch a player to realize
that there are others in the compe
tition, and if every one went at such
a pace all pleasure in the game would
be destroyed. Of course, some men
are physically faster than others',
bur that is "pot what is meant in
this ffistance.
• * *
T HERE is the man who takes three
or our practice swings; who
goes ahead to look over the ground
for a eleek, or full mid iron, or even
a half-iron shot; who throws grass
up in the air, seven or eight times,
to determine the direction of the
wind; who tries first one club and
then another, and finally he gets
down on his hands and knees, and
occasionally hie stomach, at both
ends of a putt. Sometimes he does
every one of these things and some
times after doing them ml shot fails.
Many 'of these things are excellent,
particularly taking practice shots, to
loosen one’s muscles, hut they should
not be continued indefinitely to the
detriment of others. A game should
not bo delayed unnecessarily. Con
sideration for others is an admirable
thing in golf as In other things.
T kE Memphis Turtles and the
Crackers open their final se
ries of the season at 3:30
o'clock this afternoon at Ponce De
Leon.
The series is to be a four-game
affair, and it is up to the Crackers
to take as many of the four games
as possible, the entire layout being
none too many in view r of the effort
to cinch second place and stay in the
hunt for thet itle position.
Gil Price probably will open against
the Turtles, with Chapman catching.
Bill Bernhard i n’t sure who will be
on the mound for his crew, but we
know it isn’t the dreaded Ruge Kis
singer, because the Ruge toiled yes
terday, and did us a good turn by
beating the hated Gulls.
Wednesday the much talked of
Field Day is going to be staged,
starting at 3 o’clock, half and hour
before the game. The five events will
be open to members of both clubs,
and there Is a good .deal of rivalry on
the side among members of the
Crackers s to speed and hurling
ability, so the "track meet” should
be well put on.
Atlanta merchants have offered the
following prizes in the various
events:
Hundred-yard Dash—Hat, by Law
Bros. Co.
Circling Bases—Pair of shoes, by
Byck Bros. Co.
Fungo Hitting—Two silk shirts, by
Parks- C ham bers - Hard w ick Co.
Distance* Throwing—Silk umprella,
by George Muse Clothing Company,
Sack Race, 50 Yards—$5, offered
by the Atlanta Baseball Association.
Yankees Must Deliver, Says P. L.
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Tired Of Receiving Sympathy
D etroit, Aug. 25. — Frank
Chance is tired of being pitied.
• Ho wants nt > more sympathy.
H* has brought about a crisis in the
club’s affairs by announcing to the
men, sev< rally an 1 collectively, that
NEW SPEED BOAT ENTERS
KEOKUK RACES TO-MORROW
KEOKUK. IOWA. Aug. 25.—Hydro-
Bulet a 25-foot Fauber hydroplane
owned by Earl H. Deakin, Elkhorn,
Wis.. and carrying a 100-horsepower
Van Blerck motor, was entered to-day
for the Mississippi Valley races here
August 26, 27 and 28. She is believed to
be a "dark horse, ' and is said to be
capable of sensational speed, though she
has been unknown up to this time.
That tremendous power is not al
ways necessary to attain high speed is
illustrated in the b corev William, a
i 17-foot Valley hydroplane, entered by
A. J. Ruddick, of Gregory Mo. The
Scarey William is powered with a three-
cyllnder 15-horsepower Erd high speed
motor, and at the Quincy races recently
she cleaned up every other boat except
ing the Teaser IV., which has 100-horse
power With only 15-horsepower the
Scarey William made within a fraction
of 30 miles an hour, or only about eight
miles less per hour than the big 100-
horsepower planer.
• Scarey William is expected to be one
of the sensations of the Keokuk regatta
despite her small power, and is sure to
trim everything in her clas, barring un-
j foreseen accidents.
LORE AND REILLY WILL
CLASH IN NEW YORK RING
NEW YORK. Aug. 25.—Jimmy John
ston has just closed a good m^tch for
his show at the St Nicholas Athletic
Club next Wednesday night. For the
star bout he has signed Johny I»re and
Young Reilly. This should be a “bear"
of a fight, as the keenst rivalry exists
between the tw*o boys. They are boxers
of the same type, and that presages a
whirlwind battle. Both are strong ag
gressive, good stiff punchers and fairly
clever.
In the semi-final contest, Patsy Cal
lahan, the "Fighting Irish Lad," who
has been persistently challenging Cham
pion Johnny Kllbane without success,
will mee* Joe Stacey, a Bronx feather
weight who has l>een making a fine
showing of late.
or get the gn‘c. This came about
bfcause ;h* Yankees thought that
t>ejng in iant place was funny.
"They used to sit around the club
nnd kid about being in the cellar,"
| quoted Husk. "Well,” he added grim
ly. "they don’t do It. now.”
Chance has shifted his attitude
toward the men. He is the real dis
tant hut determined leader and the
Yartks are about the worst serious
proposition in fast company.
The oldest pitcher on the club is
Warhop, who is now in New York.
a lng his ai m tr ted, a nd i i<
other veterans are Ford and Swee
ney. The latter has begun to appre
ciate that Chance is out to make good.
The big catcher never showed such
form as on this trip. Only one base
has been actually stolen on him since-
leaving New York, the other thefts
being allowed.
Eight men were turned back in
Chicago and six here. Said Sweeney
as the Yanks left. St. Louis* for De
troit:
“fHANCE will have a ball club next
year, take it from me. He has
as good a pitching staff right now as
there is in the league, barring per
haps that of the White Sox. Fisher
is a high-class man, and if the club
was hitting a lick he’d show up as a
tnp-notcher. Three other men, Ford.
Keating ind Caldwell, are better than
they have been any time this season.
"A pitching staff can either make
>'T break a catcher. Our pitchers
hove only begun to hold up runners
lately. They're all on the job now.
tava two cracker-
jack mm at short and second—Peck
and Knight. You can cut the ball
! arid feel « t-rtain they are cov
ering.
• • •
<‘I RA THOMAS was a poor catcher
1 when with New York and De
troit. He went to Philadelphia and
hooked up with clever pitchers* like
Plank, Bender and Coombs. *He im
mediately showed form. Chance’s
pitching staff will make them all sit
up before the season is over. Of
course, we’ll beat out St. Louis.”
BASEBALL SUMMARY
NEW MOTORCYCLE RECORD.
COLUMBUS, OHIO. Aug. 25 —
What is said to be a world’s record
for 100 miles on a dirt track for a mo
torcycle was made Sunday afternoon
by Harry Goudy, of Chicago, when
he rounded the local mile track 100
times in 92 minutes flat. The previ
ous record for a 100 miles on a dirt
track was 95 minutes.
Water Ball Game
Called by Ebb Tide
COLLEGE POINT. N. Y , Aug. 25.—
A game of ‘water baseball between two
teams recruited from the American Life
Saving Society, and played in Flushing
Bay, was called yesterday on account of
low tide. The umpire noticed that the
third baseman and first baseman of the
"outs" wns standing instead of swim
ming, which is against he rules. He
immediately called the game off.
TIGERS SELL JOE LAKE
TO MINNEAPOLIS CLUB
DETROIT. •Aug. 25.—Another ma
jor league veteran of many years has
been sent to ttae minors. To-day
President Navin, of the Detroit
American League Baseball club, an
nounced that Pitcher Joe Lake had
been released to Minneapolis and that
Catcher Rondeau, a recruit, would
accompany him there.
The two players go to Minneapolis
in part payment for Pitcher Com
stock, purchased last week. Lake's
last major league appearance oc
curred Saturday when New York
knocked him from the mound in two
innings.
SOUTHERN GOLF TOURNEY
TO BE HELD AT KNOXVILLE
KNOXVILLE, TENN., Aur. 25.—
A Southern golf tournament will be
held in Knoxville, September 11, 12
and 13 on the links of the Cherokee
Country Club, members of all golf
clubs belonging to the Southern Golf
Association being eligible to enter.
Twelve handsome cups will be
awarded the* winners in the tourna
ment. Nearly every golf club in any
Southern city is a member of the
Southern Golf Association.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Monday.
Memphis at Atlanta. Game called at
3:30 o’clock.
Montgomery at Chattanoga,
Mobile at Birmingham.
New Orleans at Nashville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W 1> Pc W. L. Pc
Mobile 75 50 .600 1 Chat. 61 59 .508
Atlanta. 68 56 553 , M’phis. 61 62 .508
Mont. 65 55 .542 , N’ville. 52 72 .419
B’ham... 66 59 .528 I N. Or. 40 76 .346
Sunday’s Results.
Nashville 3, Chattanooga 2.
Memphis 4. Mobile 1.
New Orleans 7. Montgomery 4.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Albany at Charleston
Columbus at Jacksonville.
Macon at Savannah.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L Pc. I W. I,. Pc
Sav’nah 29 21 .580 vlbany 22 27 .449
("bus 26 4J2 .542 i Ohas’n. 21 26 .447
J’ville. 26 23 .531 ! Mac-on 21 26 .447
Sunday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Monday.
Washington at Chicago.
Philadelphia at Ht. Louis.
Boston at Detroit.
New York at Cleveland.
Standlno of the Clubs
Phlla.
C’land.
LSI
Chicago
W \. iv
78 39 .667
70 49 ..588
66 60 .569
64 58 .525
Sunday’s Results.
W. L. Pc.
Boston 57 58 .487
Detroit 57 70 .421
S. Louis 48 76 .387
N. Yk 4074 .351
Washington 2, Chicago 1.
Boston 3, Detroit 0.
Cleveland 4, New York 0.
Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Monday.
Pittsburg at Boston.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
St. ouls at Philadelphia.
S t andina of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc
New Y. 80 35 .696
Phlla... 66 44 .596
P’burg. 62 53 .539 1 Cin’nati 48 73 .396
\V. L. Pc.
B’klyn. 51 61 .455
Boston. 49 64 .434
Chicago 62 55 .530 1 St. L... 43 75 .365
Sunday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Monday.
Valdosta at Thortmsvllle.
Brunswick at Waycross.
Cordele at Americus.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pet.
T’vllle. 27 16 628
Am’eus. 22 22 .500
W’cross. 22 23 .489
VV L. Pet
V’dosta. 22 23 .489
B’wlck. 20 24
C’dele. 20 25
.455
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Sunday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
OTHER RESULTS.
American Association.
Kansa City 8-2, Minneapolis 7-13.
Milwaukee 6, St. Paul 0
Louisville 2-4. Toledo 1-2.
Indianapolis 4-6, Columbus 0-i.
Texas League.
Dallas 4-6, Austin 2-4.
Waco 4. Fort Worth 0
Houston 2-1, San Antonio 0-4
Beaumont 8, Galveston 2.
Federal League.
Cleveland 6-1, Pitsburg 0-2.
C. W. MURPHY JINX TO CUBS.
NEW YORK. Aug. 25. —John Evers,
manager of the t’hicago Nationals,
considers t’harles Murphy, his club
owner, to be a jinx. "That’s why I
left Murphy in Chicago on this trip.”
said Evers, "for we are anxious to
finish at least second in the race.”
Motor Races
8:30 TUESDAY
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