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THE ATLANTA REOKGIAN AM) NEWS.
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DOUBLE BILL
T O-DAY la a pood day to start
the Attendance Record for At
lanta and Beat Birmingham
Movement.
It’s a bargain day.
The dogfall yesterday between the
Memphis and Atlanta clubs necessi
tates a two-ply engagement this aft
ernoon. the first game beginning at
2:15 o’clock.
Manager Smith said this morning
\e was hoping to capture both ends
of the bill, and that Thompson and
Dove would be Intrusted with the
hurling.
The Memphis boss fancied Harrell
and Parsons as the marksmen for his
crew, and was equally hopeful of
boosting the Turtles a few points at
the expense of the Crackers.
The coincidental occurrence of the
grocers’ half-holiday to-morrow with
the special layout of field sports at the
ball park is expected to produce a
whale of a crowd in the stands when
the sprints and pegging and batting
bee commences at 3 o’clock.
Sports andSuch
CINCINNATI IS DISSATISFIED
with Joe Tinker as manager, thus
maintaining its batting average of
1.000 in dissatisfaction with mana
gers. As the poet might have said:
*'Oh, city of fat-head and dub!
Oh, who would wish to run thy
clubT
IT IS REPORTED THAT Jockey
Wilson pulled a horse at Saratoga
to accommodate a man who had
made large bets with a num
ber of personal friends. Well,
every man likes to put a little Joke
over on his pals now and then.
HANNES KOLEH MAI NEN, of
the Irish - American club, has
smashed the record for the three-
mile run. “May the Shamrock of
old ! ”
THE FACT THAT IT TAKES
the entire power of the National
Commission to collect a $16 ba:
from one ball player to another
leads one to believe that there
isn’t much money In baseball—for
the player.
NO CHANCE.
A ‘baseball star who makes a touch
Must now refund the same.
Ah, would that certain guys ice
know
Would break into the game!
LAJOIE HAS JUST COM-
pleted his seventeenth year in the
big leagues, but as we go to press
Joe Birmingham, the Boy Manager,
has not yet succeeded in canning
him.
THERE IS SOME NATURAL
indignation over the report that
an umpire addressed a ball player
as “a yellow cur;’’ but when we
recall some of the remarks we
have heard ball players address to
umpires we Incline to think the
former will have to come stronger
than that if they want to get even.
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WE ARE RELIEVED T 0
learn that Mr. J. P. Morgan, Jr.,
has won a yachting cup. He can
doubtless hock it for enough to
keep him in sandwiches until well
into the winter.
DECADENT.
An undertaker watched the champs
Upon the motor track;
But neither spilled nor broke his
neck,
yor fetched his bean a crack.
u The sport is deadhe sadly said,
And then he moseyed back.
DECLARING THE LACK OF
funds cost England the iast Olym
pic meet, wealthy Englishmen are
being asked to subscribe $500,000
for the Berlin gathering. It is
now probably up to us to raise
$600,000 to make the English quit.
WHY NOT CALL THEM THE
Subscription Qames?
THERE ISN’T ANY INCUL-
cating nonsense about Tom
O’Rourke. He wmites us to state
that Palzer is the real works
among the “white hopes” because
Palzer, at his last fight, drew more
gate money than Smith and Flynn.
ANOTHER CHAP WRITES US
a letter which begins: “If the
Pelicans wip, all of their remain
ing games—* And that’s as far
as we got.
WILLIAMS ISSUES DEFI
TO ALL EASTERN BANTAMS
NEW YORK. Aug. 26.—KM Williams,
the Baltimore bantam, through his man.
eger, to-day issued a broadcast chal
lenge to all Eastern bantams, Frankie
Burns, of Jersey City, preferred.
Frankie, a few days back, murmured
something about the Kid being afraid
to meet him in the ring.
SHEEHAN GOES TO DODGERS.
FON DU LAC, WIS., Aug. 26.—
Jack Sheehan, inflelder of the Fon
Du Lac club of the W. I. League, a
nnd of this season, has been sold to
tne Brooklyn club of the National
League, to report on September 7, the
close of the W I. schedule.
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KRAZY KAT
Krazy Pulls Some Shakespeare Stuff
Go Out to See the Crackers
Play Whenever You Can
If We Want to Prove That We Have the Best Baseball City
in the South We Must Beat Out Birmingham for the
Biggest Yearly Attendance.
Young’s Death Puts
California Fight
Game in Very Bad
The Atlanta ball club is fighting desperately to finish one-two
in the Southern League race this year.
Prospects look fine for “two.” There is a fighting chance
for “one.”
Either position is honorable—particularly in view of the fin
ish of the Crackers in 1912 and 1911.
The fight the club has made deserves the warm and hearty
support of the Atlanta fans.
THERE IS A BIT MORE TO IT THAN THAT, TOO.
The Atlanta fans are engaged in a fight, the nature of which
most of them probably do not realize.
Birmingham has tossed down the glove.
“We have the best baseball town in the Southern League,”
the Birmingham fans say.
‘ ‘ We ’re proving it this season, ’ ’ the Birmingham fans add.
“We’re turning out more in attendance, supporting a near-
second division club, than Atlanta is to boost a pennant con
tender.”
And—soft pedal here—that is a cold fact, to date.
The Crackers put the Barons out of the fight for the 1913
pennant. They did it by trimming the scrappy Barons three
times in a row in their own town, and then three times in a row
in Atlanta. /
Bill Smith and his hands did that for Atlanta.
BILL SMITH AND HIS HANDS ARE MAKING A BETTER
FIGHT FOR THE RAG THAN THE BULKY MOLESWORTH
AND HIS HANDS.
But Molesworth and Company are drawing better support
from the Birmingham fans.
And the Birmingham fans, and the Birmingham papers, are
bragging about it.
They laugh, and they say:
“We’ve got the best ball town in the league.”
THEY HAVE NOT!
We know—you and I—that WE’VE got the best ball town
in this league.
We’ve still got time to SHOW THEM, this season, so narrow
is the bragging margin in Birmingham.
There’s only one way to SHOW THEM.
Go out to that old ball park every day you can.
Strain a point.
SHOW BIRMINGHAM WHICH IS THE EEST BASEBALL
TOWN IN THE SOUTH.
You live in it—do something for it.
LOS ANGELES, An*. 26.—The
fight game is dead in Southern Call-
j fornia, as a result of the .... ath of
(John (“Bull”) Young, who died of a
j fractured skull after his ooul with
I Jess Willard. At least, pending
fights here have been declared off,
and Willard says he is done with the
ring.
Announcement of the cancellation
of all dates was marie u -< ay by-
Thomas J. McCarey, promo ; r. an<l
Earl Rogers, attorney for the Pa
eifle Athletic Club, which staged the
Young-Willard match.
Chief of the fights thus declared off
is the Cross-Dundee Labor Day n-
test. The Pelky-Miller fight also will
be abandoned.
The action of the club came nf-
ter the death of Young had ben
made the theme of discourses from
the pulpits of many churches in the
city and after bitter attacks by the
press on the game as it is conducted.
Ministers occupying the most
prominent and influential pulpits in
the city denounced the law that al
lows prize fighting in tills State, and
many urged their parishioners not to
forget the Young incident when the
next Legislature meets in 1915.
While there is yet no concrete
movement afoot to abolish the sport,
the Iowa State Society, at a picnic u‘
which 20,000 persons attended, passed
resolutions condemning prize fight
ing and advocating the abolition of
the sport entirely.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Jimmy Dime, the Pittsburg promoter,
is manager of more boxers than any
other man in the country.
Harry Foley, the former San Fran
cisco boxer, will train Champion Willie
FODDER FOR FANS
Cleveland’s victory over the New
York Yankees yesterday was the twelfth
thi9 season. The Naps did not gain
in their pennant race, though, for the
Athletics shut out the Browns.
Pitchel McConnell, of the Yankees,
broke a finger in the Cleveland game,
and will not be able to pitch for several
weeks.
It wasn’t until the ninth inning that
the Giants clinched a victory over the
Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds
Monday.
In consequence of the default of the
Pirates and victory of the Cubs, Pitts
burg and Chicago are now tied for third
place in the National League, each club
having a percentage of .534.
j'ame all along the line in the
National League were close yesterday,
about the ca-Z'esf victory being that of
the Phillies over the Cardinals.
Word from Chicago says that a new
baseball league is being organized to
fight the Federal League.
Y*.C<il&luU4 w* 44m *MUicad(ci
White Sox, has been indefinitely sus
pended for arguing with Umpire Mc-
Greevy during Saturday’s game.
Ritchie for his coming bout with Fred-
lie Welch.
Johnny Griffiths and Charlie White
are rounding into shape for their twelve-
tound oatiie which takes place be-
lore Bertiey Strapp’s club in Akron’
Ohio, on September 1. White has been
guaranteed $.1,000 win, lose or draw.
Griffiths has fought marly seventy-five
fights and has still to suffer his first
(It feat.
COLLIER, EX-JACKET, TO
PITCH FOR GEORGIA
ATHENS, OA., Aug. 26.—It has been
announced as a positive fact that H. L.
Colier. the former star pitcher of Tech,
will be with the Red and Black forces
this year. He has writbn Coach Cun
ningham that he will enter Georgia for
special work and will transfer his ath
letic allegiance from the Atlanta end of
the university system to the Athens
end—and will use his best endeavors in
future to defeat his former teammates.
The Red and Black fans are jubilant
over the acquisition of "Col.”
JOHN YOUNG, PUGILIST,
WILL BE BURIED TO-DAY
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—Inquest
over the remains of John Young, the
prizefighter who died from the result of
injuries received in a fight last Friday
night, was held this morning at the
Pierce Bros, undertaking parlors.
Following the inquest the funeral
services over the unfortunate pugilist
will be held during the afternoon.
Eddie McGoorty, Wisconsin’s star
middleweight, is in Chicago working out
at one of the “Windy City” gymnasiums
for a busy fall campaign. McGoorty
says he will not he ready to do any box
ing until about September 20. It is pos
sible that he will meet Jack Dillon or
Frank Klaus for the opening show at
Milwaukee.
After considerable trouble, Jim Cof-
froth, the light promoter of San Fran
cisco, has finally signed up a pair of
lighters for his show on Admission Day,
September 9. Bob McAllister, the former
• hampion of the Pacific coast, and Sailor
Petroskey will be the principals. They
will clash In a 20-round battle. They
recently fought a twenty-round draw at
San Francisco.
Those world-famous rivals. Terry Me
Govern and Young Corbett have been
brought together and induced to agree
lo appear together on the vaudeville
circuit. Joe Humphries is the sponsor
• »f the partnership and he will manage
tile act and secure the bookings.
A State commission to regulate boxing
in Wisconsin in accordance with the
provisions of the recent law enacted by
the Legislature has been named by Gov
ernor McGovern. The three members of
the commission will elect a salaried sec
retary. The law provides for ten-round,
no-decision contests
Barney Willems and Soldier Kearns,
heavyweights, will clash in a ten-round
set-to at New York tomorrow night.
Kearns rules a 10 to 6 favorite over his
opponent.
Kid Williams, Baltimore’s bantam,
who has been hounding Johnny Gordon
for a bout, has been matched to battle
Frankie Burns before the Gurden Ath
letic Club of New York on September 5
This will be the first meeting between
the pair.
The White Sox have bought Pitcher
Faber, of the D*s» Moines, Iowa, club.
BRAVES RELEASE DEVLIN
TO ROCHESTER BALL CLUB
BOSTON, Aug. 26.—President
James Gaffney, of the Boston Na
tionals, has announced that Arthur
Devlin, third baseman, has been re
leased to Rochester of the Interna
tional League. The Braves secured
Devlin from the New York Giants.
He was at one time considered the
best third baseman in the National
League.
TIGERS PURCHASE PLAYERS.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug. 26.—The
Detroit team of the American League
has purchased A1 Platte, right field
er, and Eddie Onslow, first baseman
of the Providence team. Both men
MONDAY’S GAME.
Memphis. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Love, 2b.. . . 5 1 4 1 4 1
Merritt, cf. . . 5 1 0 2 0 0
Baerwald, rf. . 5 1 1 2 0 0
Ward, 3b.. . . 4 0 2 0 5 0
Schweitzer, If.. 3 0 0 3 0 0
Abstein, lb. . . 3 0 1 15 0 0
Shanley, ss. . . 5 0 1 1 4 0
Seabough, c.. . 4 0 0 9 0 0
Liebhardt, p.. . 4 0 0 0 2 0
Totals ... .38 3 9 33 15 1
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Agler, lb.. . . 4 2 2 14 0 1
Long, If. ... 4 1 3 2 0 1
Welchonce, cf.. 4 0 1 1 0 0
Smith, 2b. . . 5 0 1 6 3 0
Bisland, ss.. . 5 0 0 3 6 0
Holland, 3b.. . 6 0 0 2 3 0
Nixon, rf. . . . 5 0 0 0 1 0
Chapman, c.. . 4 0 1 5 2 1
Conzelman, p. . 4 0 0 0 2 0
Totals ... .40 3 8 33 17 3
Score by ii.nings:
Memphis- 000 003 000 00—3
Atlanta 000 002 010 00—3
Summary: Three-base hit—Long.
Struck out—By Liebhardt 6; by Con
zelman, 5. Bases on balls—Off Lieb
hardt, 2; off Conzelman, 3. Sacrifice
hits—Seabough. Long. Stolen bases
—Abstein Love, 2; Long. 2- Smith;
Agler. Wild pitch—Conzelman. Time
—2:40. UduuL - -**—Stockdale ani
FXenninjfgp
What has become of Billy Papke? He
came home from Europe last spring
smarting under a defeat handed to him
by Frank Klaus and breathing ven
geance. When Klaus returned to Amer
lean soil, Papke went West and hasn’t
said a word since Perhaps he has de
cided to quit the ring.
De Palma Makes a
Record Trip Around
The Elgin Course
ELGIN, ILL., Aug. 26.—Auto race
drivers entered in the two days’
events on the Elgin road race course
beginning Friday were out on the
track early to-day, trying out their
racers and learning the track inch by
inch. Ralph DePalmo, winner of last
year’s Elgin trophy and free-for-all
purse, hung up a track record for the
practice runs when he made the eight
and one-half miles around the track
in 7 minutes and 43 seconds.
The record was made in freshly
laid oil and at the risk of wrecking
the racing car and ending the driver’s
life. DePalma’s teammates, Pullen
and Wishart, tried out their Mercer
cars, but did not attempt any records.
Joe Dawson tried out his Marmon in
slow runs. Hundreds of visitors were
in Elgin to-day and the crowds at
this year’s races are expected to
eclipse those of any previous year.
Col. Peel to Start Big Race
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Good Card at Saucer To-night
S OCIETY has taken an awful
“Brodle" for the motorcycle
game. We have had the Forrest
Adair and Bob Maddox Sweepstakes,
and they were huge successes. To
night at the Saucer we will witness
the Colonel William Lawson Peel
Sweepstakes. And to add a real touch
of the “400” stuff the Colonel will
start this event himself.
There will be three heats and six
of the dare-devils will ride in each.
The first heat will be three miles,
the second four miles, and the third,
five miles. The riders who have en
tered are Lewis. Glenn, Swartz, Rich
ards, Luther and Lockner.
WOLGAST’S HAND IS 0. K.;
MAY FIGHT M’FARLAND
RAN FRANCISCO, Aug 26 —Ad Wol-
gast, looking the picture of health has
returned to San Francisco, and will at
once start training for his ten-round
bout with Joe Azevedo before the Oak
land Wheelmen’s Club on Labor Dtry.
’Hie injured hand which has kept Ad
from taking on any matches for some
time is now in good shape, and he an-
ticiftttes no further trouble from it.
Wolgast has received an offer from
Milwaukee for a ten-round bout with
Packoy McFarland late in September,
and he intimates that he. will accept it.
McFarland has offered to make 134
pounds at 3 o'clock for a night fight.
CHOW MEIN! Y0KA MEIN!!
CHINKS HOLD TRACK MEET
T HE .second Reries of races for the
Southern championship will also
be staged to-night. There will be two
trial heats <>f one mile, with “a final
of two miles. The first heat will find
Graves, Rcnel, Lewis and Glenn bat
tling. while the second heat will have
as starters Swartz, Richards, Luther
and Lockner.
Twenty-five points go to the win
ner, fifteen to the second man and
five to the third. The rider having
the most pointy by the middle of next
month will be pitted against the
champions of the West. Middle West
and East, who are to be brought here
with the one purpose of deciding who
is the champion of the good old (J. S.
A SPECIAL match race between
Morty Graves and Georges Renel
will be another attraction offered to
night. These lads have the fastest
machines at the Saucer right now.
and this event should be a corker.
There will be three heats of one, two
and three miles.
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U*< )LLOWING la the complete pro-
1 gram for to-night:
Southern Championship. «,
(One-mile heats, two miles final. First ^
man in each heat to qualify.
Twenty-five points for first, fifteen
for second and five for third.)
First Heat—Graves, Renel, Lewis
and Olenn.
Second Heat—Swartz, Richards,
Luther and Lockner.
Special Match Race.
(Three heats, one, two and three
miles, best two out of three heats.)
First Heat—Graves vs. Renel, one
mile.
Final Southern championship, two
miles.
W. L. Peel Sweepstakes.
(French point system, ten for first,
six for second, three for third.
Three heats, three, four, five miles.)
First Heat—Lewis, Glenn, Swart/.,
Richards, Luther and Lockner, three
miles.
Second heat special match race,
two miles.
Second heat sweepstakes, four
miles.
Third heat special match race,
three miles.
Third heat sweepetakes, five miles.
ITHACA, N. Y., Aug 26 —The Cornell
Ghinese track team yesterday defeated I
Chinese aggregations rrom the other-
leading colleges In a inert conducted ,
here by the Associated Chinese Stu- j
dents’ Club.
JIMMY CUBBY SIGNS TO
BATTLE SAILOR GRANDE
RAN FRANCIRCO, Aug. 26— Jimmy
Clabby, the middleweight from Ham
mond, Tnd , has been signed to meet
Sailor Grande in a awenfy-round bout
:if Sacramento on the night of Septem
ber 1. The men will meet in the open
air at the ball park. Clabby has been
in training in San Francisco and is
in first-class condition.
Young Abe Attell, tire local paper
weight. left these parts yesterday for
New York. He will try to get bouts
with boys of his weight in the Eastern
city.
Matty McCue, the Racine sensation,
will make his next fight against Your g
Kppy some time next month. The scrap
will be staged at Pittsburg
The Dundee-J/each Gross go, sched
uled to take place at !.<•- Angeles on
Labor Day. has been called off. The
death <>f "Bull” Young has caused Me
Carey to cancel all Ia<bor Day engage
ments.
OUR FRIEND RITCHIE HAS
‘CHILLED PEDALS’ AGAIN
VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA,
Aug 26.—Willie Ritchie, lightweight
champion, to-day was act used of trying
to hack out of his scheduled twenty-
round fight in this city on September
20, with Freddie Welsh, the British
champion. Ritchie and his manager
have declared that the champion would
not fight unless Jim Griffin, of San
Francisco, acted as refer**-. Griffin has
emphatically announced that he did not
care to be referee and would not act.
WHY NOT??
Try Leslie’s once? All the fellows
go there. It's the best yet! Ask
the boys on The Georgian.
"THE LITTLE WHITE SHOP
3} AROUND THE CORNER."
NEW 1914 PRICES
Effective August 1, 1913
Model T Runabout $500
ModelTTouringCar 550
Model T Town Car 750
With Full Equipment, f. o. b. Detroit.
Ford Motor Company
Detroit, Michigan
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lO E. Alabama
SMITH SOLD TO VOLS.
CAIRO, ILL., Aug. 26. Red Smith,
the Cairo catcher, by fur the best
backstop in the K 1. T. League, who
was sold to Nashville, departed to-day
to join that team.
M A N V N I fl'KR
of the most obstinate cai»<'H guaranteed iu from
3 to G dayB ; n<> other treatment required.
Sold by all druggiits.
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