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♦ I »• » « I ■» * 1 i THE ATLANTA REOKGIAN AM) NEWS. L 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. * * * 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 $600,000 to make the English quit. WHY NOT CALL THEM THE Subscription Qames? THERE ISN’T ANY INCUL- cating nonsense about Tom O’Rourke. He wmites us to state that Palzer is the real works among the “white hopes” because Palzer, at his last fight, drew more gate money than Smith and Flynn. ANOTHER CHAP WRITES US a letter which begins: “If the Pelicans wip, all of their remain ing games—* And that’s as far as we got. WILLIAMS ISSUES DEFI TO ALL EASTERN BANTAMS NEW YORK. Aug. 26.—KM Williams, the Baltimore bantam, through his man. eger, to-day issued a broadcast chal lenge to all Eastern bantams, Frankie Burns, of Jersey City, preferred. Frankie, a few days back, murmured something about the Kid being afraid to meet him in the ring. SHEEHAN GOES TO DODGERS. FON DU LAC, WIS., Aug. 26.— Jack Sheehan, inflelder of the Fon Du Lac club of the W. I. League, a nnd of this season, has been sold to tne Brooklyn club of the National League, to report on September 7, the close of the W I. schedule. INKY HAIR T.eVt fool yourself by using some preparation which claims to straighten your hair. Ki£ky hair can rn>t be made straight. You have Lo havs hah- be fore you can straighten fct. y;«? use Exelente Quinine li feed< of th* kair and the ioalp arw —KJt*; makes f&w you will haycj ft-ng naSr srl ha^> nm* hair srhteh will be Iona, soft and silky It stops falling hair and cleans dandruff at once. Price 25 cents by all druggists or t y mail on receiut of stamps or coin. Exelento Medicine Co., Atlanta. Ga. *4J*nU w ?o everywhere. WJfiU for We’ll Have lo Excuse Mutt for This One it it it By “Bud’’ Fisher ^ ho HeM.TH'*. X OOC.HY TO tex AT LEAST %$■ r-OR. Hiw\. FlV/e fcJEA 1 - , Pieces op Coin on SILTRl" TO vaiin 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 *!*••{• *1* • t *}*•+ •!••-!- •!*•*!* 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. • • * 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 1 LESLIE’S PLACE 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. BROU’S . THE SCENIC WAY WITH DINING CARS