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TTTE ATLANTA OEOROTAN AND NEWS
HELP GIANTS
If Mutt Loses To-day It Looks the Bastile for Him
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* By “Bud” Fisher
By -Tamos Clarkson.
Despite the fart that hi* Jeff Tea-
reau, a Riant of the Ozark Mountains
before he became a New York Giant,
has not been going any too well this
season. Manager McGraw, the smart
and brainy leader of the probable
winners of the National League bunt
ing, is pinning his faith in the big
1 wirier, whom he believes will ^prove
one of the stars of the world's se
rie.s during the coming fall.
Tesreau Joined the New' York club
in the fall of 1911. He was not given
much w'ork that fall, but when the
Giants went to Marlin to open their
1912 training season the big moun
taineer war taken in charge by Wll
berr Robinson, McGraw** chief ad
viser and coacher of young pitchers,
and before the camp waa three week.**
old great things were predicted for
Tesreau Before Joining the Giants.
“Big Jeff*’ performed with the Shreve-
port club in the Texas-Oklahoma
League.
He made good all of his advance
noticea by pitching winning ball for
McGraw all of last season In fort,
It was Tesreau’s work, along with
that of the famous Mathewson and
Marquard, that piloted the New York
machine safely over the National
League goal. He won and lost, a
game each during the 1913 cham
pionship against the Boston Red Sox.
his victory having been witnessed by
a brother who had traveled all the
wav from Seattle, Wash., to see him
perform In a world series game.
Tesreau Is a popular fellow among
his fellow players, and his quaint
humor and stories of bear hunts arid
the like In the Ozark Mountains do
much toward keeping McGraw’a men
Jn a good humor when things on
the diamond appear to be a little bad
for them
The big right-hander has the honor
this season of leading the National
League (lingers as to atrike-outs. He
also leads the league In the issuance
of passes, a record which he does
not care about retaining.
McGraw figures that with Tesreau
pitching the kind of ball of which
ho Is capable, and with Mathewnon
and Marquard. to say nothing of
Demaree, all In first-class shape, his
New York Giants should experience
little difficulty in grabbing the big
end of the series with the PhiladephlA
Athletics w'hen the two clubs battle
for the world's championship In
October.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Turn Out for McNeil Benefit
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Dead Rider's Mother Needs Aid
Frankie Bums, the claesy Jersey City
bantam, will exchange wallops with
Benny Chavez, the crack Trinidad boy.
In a ten-round set-to at Denver to-mor
row night. Both these boys have been
fighting good of late and should put up
an interesting mill.
Jim Griffin, the ooaat referee has
been selected to Judge the Willie
Ritchie-Freddy Welch bout at Van
rouver next month The rival scrap^
l»er8 agreed on Griffin yesterday
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Young Shugrue. who la matched to
box Jack Britton at New York on Sep
tember 10. will take on Young Brown
next week Brown is a tough light
weight, having met such stars at I.each
Cross. Tommy Murphy and “Knockout"
Brown. He should give Shugrue a
tough scrap for ten rounds
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Toni Capon! and Jack Dillon are
scheduled to clash In a ten-round en
gagement at Winnipeg, Canada, on Sep
tember 16 They have agreed to weigh
ItfO pounds for a night fight.
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Not so very long ago Arthur Pelky
swore that he had retired from the lx>x
ing game forever But he ('hanged his
mind when he learned that the only
other way he could earn a living was to
work
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Iijeach Cross has left Ix>a Angeles for
Vancouver The “Fighting Dentist”
wants to he on hand when Ritchie and
Welch clash in the squared ring Cross
was accompanied by his brother. Sammy
Wallach
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If Charlie White succeeds in defeat
log Johnny Griffiths at Akron, Ohio, on
Ijibor Day he will probably get a match
with Tommy Murphy In Cofffmth’s arena
at San Francisco. Nate Lewis, manager
of White, writes from Chicago that he
received'an offer from the coast promo
ter last week
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Tom O’Rourke says that A! Falser 1*
the real works among the “white
hopes “ Reason, because Palzer In bis
last tight drew more gate money than
cither Smith or Flynn
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Billy Walters, who recently defeated
Young Denny at New Orleans, signed
articles yesterday to meet Eddie Flabby,
brother to Jimmy Clabby, in a ten round
mill at Hammond. Ind on Iaibor Day
flabby is a big card in Hammond where
be baa still to suffer his first defeat
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Jeff O'Connell, the veteran feather
weight. and Freddie FJnck are billed to
meet In a ten-round go at Aurora. Dl.,
to-night O'Connell Is anxious to stop
Knck. so as to get a return scrap with
Matty McCue.
BIG LEAGUE SCOUTS ARE
AFTER EX-CLEMSON STAR
E VERY motorcycle fan In Atlanta
should be at the Motordrome
Friday night. It will be a. bene
fit performance, every cent above ex
penses going to Jock McNeil's mother
In Scotland.
This same Jock McNeil, hero of
many a thrilling race at the Saucer,
time and again gladdened the hearts
of his admirers by dare-devil riding
before he was killed. And It Is up
to those admirers to dig down in
their pockets and see to it that Jock’s
mother is given aid In thin great
distress.
Nobody Is going to be allowed
within the wooden walls Friday night
UnleflB they i«v to enter. The <»f
fteials, the newspaper men and even
the riders must “kick in.”
Let’s make it a banner night. The
program arranged is a “bear" and
the riders promise to ride hs they
never have ridden before. They will
risk their own lives to help out a
most worthy cause.
Ho let the fans risk the price of
admission. And. by the way. If you
have a little extra change, take along
a few friend*
Her* is the complete card of eventa:
First Event.
First Heat Southern Championship
(trial heats, one mile, final, two miles.
First two men in each trial heat to
qualify)—-Swart*. Graves. T^ewls and
Glenn. Distance, one mile.
Second Event.
Second Heat Southern Champion
ship—Richards. Luther, Lockner and
Renel. Distance, one mile.
Third Event.
First Heat Special Match Race—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, one
mile.
Fourth Event.
Final Southern Championship. Dis
tance, two miles.
Fifth Event.
First Heat McNeil Sweepstakes to
be scored by French point system—
10 points for winner, 0 for second and
3 for third)—Swartz, Luther, Lewis.
Lockner, Renel and Glenn. Distance,
two miles.
Sixth Event.
Second Heat Special Match Race—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, two
miles.
Seventh Event.
Second Heat McNeil 8weep*t*kes—
Swartz. Luther, I^ewls, Ix>ckner. Renel
and Glenn. Distance, four mile*.
Eighth Event.
Third Heat Special Match Rare—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, three
miles.
Ninth Event.
Third Heat McNeil Sweepstakes—
Swartz, Luther, I/ewla, Lockner,
Renel and Ginn. Distance, six miles.
Johnson's Speed Beats Curves
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Often Tells What He'll Throw
ROME. GA.. Aug 28 Big league
scouts are looking over John Cochran,
left fielder of the Rome baseball team,
and it is probable that he will be drafted
direct to the majors
Cochran is declared to be a second
Tv Cobb by his fellow-players In the
Appalachian League.
Tie holds the league record for home
runs having knocked twenty this s*-a
8"n in one hundred games His batting
average for the season to date is 397
Cochran is an old Clemaon College plac
er. and played last year with Bessemer,
in the Southeastern league
COAST OWNER TURNS~DOWN
$350,000 OFFER FOR CLUB
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 28 George
K Burnham, who owns a part of the
New York club, of the National league,
was at the ball grounds to-day and of
fered J Cal Ewing 1350.000 for the San
Francisco club, its franchise, its grounds
and its good will. Ewing laughed at
the offer
“I have beer offered as high as $400,-
000 for the San Francisco club." said
Ewing, “and have refused It The club
is making money in apite of its lowly
Volition in the pennant race.”
DODGERS SIGN COLI EGIAN.
BROOKLYN. Aug. 28.—The Brook -
Vn National League club to-day an-
vounced that it had signed Fred 11
«Toss, captain, second baseman and
hortstop of the Leland Stanford
[’diversity team of California. Gross
itte# "VG for his college year. Ho
HU Import next month.
By Bill Bailey.
C HICAGO, Aug 2R.—Walter John
son. marvel of the Senatorial
pitching stafT, not only Is one
of the greatest twlrlers who ever
stepped on a slab, but he is a hurl
ing freak.
He Is the only pitcher I ever looked
at who apparently didn’t care whether
the batter knew what wan coming or
not. There may be other twlrlers
who tell the hatter in advance what
is coming when they are so far ahead
that it makes no difference, or so far
behind that the gHmc is a Jok»\ but
this Johnson does it right along He
even does it when the game is close.
He beat Jim Scott 2 to 1 last Sun
clay on the South Side. It’s very
true that Johnson had to possess
much luck to get the verdict, which
gave him his fourteenth straight win
With two on and two out. Ping Bodie
lost a fly ball In the sun and permit
ted two runs to count. Those two
runs gave the Senators the victory.
But that isn't the burden of this
story.
This story is of Johnson aa a
| pitcher, und it isn’t based upon that
single game. Did you notice how he
i pitched to Chase In the first round”
Heady Work on Slab.
Berger reached first becauqg of
Morgan's error and went to second
on Lord’s infield out. Chase trod
to the plate. Now a base hit would
have put Berger across and the Sox
would have had a lead of one run.
Mind you, this first game of the se
ries was n fight for a run. Both man
agers figured that one run would win.
Chase knew very well that Johnson
was going tq stick that first ball over
the plate. And Chase knew Just as
well that he was going to step Into
It and drive it out for a base hit if
* he could. Likewise, this Johnson pei*-
1 son out on the slab knew that Hal
would step into it. Did he put it
anywhere except over the plate? He
did not If he had possessed a rifle
of a bore that shot a baseball he
couldn’t have put It nearer the center
of the plate.
"One strike" howled the umpire.
The next ball was In the same place,
and Hal swung again.
“Two strikes,” howled the ump.
Then Johnson pulled the unexpect
ed. He started a curve hall for the
plate and Hal swung It broke wide
and the first sac^ fanned on a near
wild pitcl*
But the first two times that Chose
swung he knew* exactly what was
coming Yet he couldn't hit. Why?
It wa«* the tremendous speed that the
elongated twirier was using
Didn’t Waste Any Balls.
Johnson didn't give a base on balls
during that game, and i f is doubtful
if he wasted as many as half a do-en
throughout ihe battle. You know what
the average pitcher trie* If he has
control he pitches inside or outside,
he tries for the comers If he has
the batter in the hole, he tempts him
with pitches that the batt*r dare not
l*t g-' by and which he can’t drive
far If he connects.
Johnson may do that occasionally,
but In the majority of cases he puts
tha< hall straight across.
Did you happen to notice how he
pitched to John Collins in the ninth?
It would have been foolhardy for al
most anv other twdrler In the business
to have pitched as he did to Shano.
With two gone. Bodie and Chappell
singled and Schalk, who ran for Ping,
was on second. Collins had been hit
ting fairly well. This time he whipped
the first ball pitched into the stands
for a foul and a strike. The aecond
likewise was a strike.
Now. the ordinary twlrler would
h*.ve kept the bail Inside or outside
or high or low, as he ftgured th*
weakness of the batter, because a
base hit meant a run and a tied
score.
What did Johnson do? He put on
a bit more steam and whipped the
ball square across the plate and waist
high. Collins swung and the game
was over.
“Kidded” Ping Bodie Out.
I say there may be other twlrlers
who don’t cafe whether the batter
knows what la coming or not. But
they are mighty scarce
Bodie came up in the sixth. H
had Just lost that fly ball In the sun
and was feeling pretty bad, so John
son began to “kid" him.
"Here’s a good one,” said the Wash
ington twirler.
"One strike.” howded the ump. But
Johnson had kept the faith. The ball
was square across the plate. The
only trouble was that It was a bit
too fast.
"Well, you didn’t hit that one. so
I’ll give you another chance." laughed
Johnson.
"Two strikes," howled the ump.
Yes, It was .straight across. The
only trouble was that Ping's eye
wasn’t quick enough to telegraph
Ping's brain that it was time to
swing that club.
Yes. Ping struck out. But telling
is quite a habit with this Johnson. He
tells you what's coming, and it comes.
The only trouble is that you are no
better off than !f he handed you the
"double cross."
AUTO RACERS FINED.
DALTON. Aug 28.—Seriously ob
jecting to two automobile drivers us
ing Hamilton street, Dalton’s main
business thoroughfare, for a motor
drome. Recorder Tarver yesterday
?ftemoon fined Dr. B. L. Kennedy and
Jim Caylor $j each for indulging in a
i^ce night beXer*
‘PERSONAL LIBERTY.”
: s~\r R Glorious Constitution”
G j'he sad Bookmaker said,
“Ordains for each of us the right
To grab his daily bread.
All night I'm firin’ jockeys,
And work all day the same,
To pry the sucker from his rush—
And here comes this reformer push
And tries to crab my garnet"
"Me, toot" the Fight Promoter
Took up the woeful tale.
“They're tryin’ hard to stop me
From nailin' any kale,.
I’m grabbin' easy money
By matchin’ White Hope Jokes,
An' then when some bone-headed
plug
Can't take o wallop (n the mug,
They blame me when he croaks!"
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IT 19 TO BE HOPED that the
Powers that Be will now' take some
steps to abolish the White Hope
Parodies from the box fight map.
Killing them off, even at the rate
of two every three months, is a
slow and unnecessarily harsh
method
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HAVING LOST $60,000 this sea
son, Mrs Britton is willing to sell
the St. Louie Cardinals for $500,-
000 Which gives rise to the ap
palling thought of what a club 1*
worth that makes $60,000.
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OLD BILL NAUGHTON SAYS
that the "something-ln-the-tea”
ftory about the Jeffries-Johnson
fight is "gaining credence," but ap
parently those with whom It is
gaining credence are keeping awful
ly quiet about it.
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PITCHER JOE LAKE, OF THE
Tigers, has been sent to Minneapo
lis. this being considered the largest
single consignment of Ivory ever
shipped to a minor league city.
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“WHITE HOPES PLACE BOX
ING IN JEOPARDY,” announce! a
contemporary, which we consider
a big news beat. If true. We never
heard of any white hopes who got
near enough to boxing to place it
in Jeopardy or anywhere else.
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BY WAY OF FURTHER demon
strating that professional baseball
Is a great sport, the Giants are
claiming the deal by which Byrne
and Camnitz go to Philadelphia
was framed lip with the idea of
beating them out of the pennant.
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IF THE BIG LEAGUE CHIEFS
keep on Insisting, year after year,
that baseball Isn’t on the level,
people will begin to believe them
after a while.
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PRESIDENT EBBETS IS NOW
thinking about building: a bicycle
track at Tvbbetg Field. It will be a
coetly undertaking, but It will cer
tainly call for a bear of a dedica
tion trpeech.
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when you figure on the
amounts that W. J. Bryan draws to
tbs gate, Owner Shlbe Is Justified
In Insisting that Connie Mack
looaen up and talk more than has
been his wont.
WAYCR0SS AND BRUNSWICK
PLAY IN RECORD TIME
H-ATCTtOSS. OA . Aug 21.—Way-
cross and Brunswick teams of the
Empire League yesterday morning
played a nlne-lnnlng game in one
hour anl nineteen minutes, breaking
the league’s record and establishing
what is believed to be a new record
for Class D leagues.
Hartner pitched for Brunswick and
Clark for Waycross, the locals win
ning 5 to l. McLaughlin was the
umpire and he kept players on the
Jump from start to finish.
SPENCER WISHART SMASHES
RECORDS ON ELGIN COURSE
ET/3IN, ILL., Aug. 28.—All previous
practice records for the Elgin Auto
mobile Speedway were smashed dur
ing the tuning-up for Friday and Sat
urday’s races yesterday, when Spen
cer Wishart in his Mercer was clocked
on two successive laps at 6: 4C for the
eight and a fraction miles speed
way This gave him an average spe Q d
of 78 miles per hour.
Long Sets New Record for Runs
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Great Work Boosts Mark to .101
Y OU Just have to hand it to those
Crackers. If you didn’t, they
probably would run away with
it, anyhow.
Yesterday was field day at Ponce
DeLeon, and the Crackers made a
clean sweep of the field. They cap
tured first place In every one of the
five events, getting unto themselves,
In addition to honor and glory ^nd
the plaudits of a big crowd, sundry
shoes and bats and silk shirts and
umbrellas and like usuabies, offered
by enterprising Atlanta merchants
to stimulate competition with Bir
mingham in the Grand Attendance
Contest now waging fearfully be
tween the two cities.
Tommy Long was the Individual
hero, winning the 100-yaru dash like
a regular sprinter, and circling the
bases in 14 seconds, only 2-5 of a
second south of Hans Lobert’s fa
mous mark, set in Cincinnati a num
ber of year# ago.
Our new outfielder, Mr. Nixon,
showed a powerful whip, winging the
pill In from deep center w’eli beyond
the plate. The distance was too great
to measure, but it looked not far from
400 feet. The record. 421 feet and a
few Inches, 1* held by Sheldon Le-
Jeune.
Frank Manush also was a double
prize winner, copping $5 for expedi
tion in a sack race and a brace of silk
shirts for enterprise in fungo hitting,
walloping the ball nearly to the score
board on the fly.
A N old-established Southern
League record went glimmer
ing yesterday in the fifth in
ning of the combat between the Tur
tles and the Crackers.
Tommy Long started the game with
98 runs to his credit Xor the season of
1913.
The league record was 99 runs,
scored by Gus Hill, of Naihvllle, in
1902.
Tommy went right after the record.
He doubled himself on in the domestic
portion of the first inning and scored
the record-tying run when Smith
tripled.
A lot of ball players might have
stopped there, figuring on a dozen
games more in which to break the
record. But Tommy had other ideas.
Beside*, the Crackers got to needing
more runs right then.
So in the fifth inning Tommy scored
another run, rounding out his cen
tury mark and breaking Mr. Hill’s
record.
Then in the seventh Tommy got up
with Agler on the towpath and Just
naturally kissed that old pill nearly
to the edge of the visible universe.
That was the third run, making 101
in all, and putting Tommy two ahead
of the former record.
And Tommy still has a dozen games
In which to add other runs to the
mark.
RITCHIE AND WELSH SIGN
FOR TITLE BOUT SEPT. 20
VANCOUVER, B C„ Aug. 2S —Ar-
tides for the world’s lightweight
championship bout l.ere between Wil
li* Ritchie and Freddie Welsh Sep
tember 20 were signed to-day. For
feits will be posted to-morrow\ Jim
Griffin, of San Francisco, will ref
eree.
Indiana Race Track
Closed By Governor
PORTER, IND., Aug 28.—Step* were
taken to-day to dissolve the Mineral
Springs Jockey Club, and announcement
was made that there would be no fur
ther attempt to hold raoes at the Min
eral Springs track this year. Two com
panies of state militiamen, ordered here
by Governor Ralston to stop the racing
because of alleged violation* of the In
diana betting laws, were ordered to re
main a few days longer, to make sure
no attempt would be made to resume the
racing program.
Ben Hymen, track manager, speaking
for the raclna association, said to-day
that the stand taken by Governor Ral
ston was "worse than anything ever
pulled off in Mexico.”
D00IN GIVES FREE REIN
TO STRENGTHEN PHILLIES
PHILADEJIaPHIA, Aug. 28.—Manager
Dooln, of the Phillies, announces that he
haa received word from the club owners
that there is an almost unlimited
amount of money at his disposal, for
the purchase of playera
Dooln Is to start Immediately In an
effort to strengthen the Phillies.
COCHRAN TRIUMPHS OVER
EAST POINT IN TITLE GAME
COCHRAN, QA., Aug. 2*.—Coch-
ran, by winning two out of three
games from East Point, claims the
State championship among the ama- I
teur baseball teams. In a fast game, !
the last of a series of three with the
crack team from East Point was won j
by Cochran, 4 to 3.
The game throughout was replete
with brilliant plays, darinr base run
ning and fast fielding from the time
the umpire called “play ball” until the
last man w’as out in the ninth Inning.
“ZIM” LOST; CUBS LEAVE
FOR HOME WITHOUT STAR
NEW YORK. Aug 28 As The Chicago
Cubs were leaving here It developed to-
dav that Heine Zimmerman, the famous
third baseman, has been missing since
Tuesday morning. Zimmerman was sus
pended for three days because of a rum
pus with the umpire at the Polo Grounds
on Saturday, and some of the Chicago
players seemed to think that he looked
for this penalty so that he could get a
vacation. In fact. It was asserted that
Zimmerman had not treated Manager
Evers with fairness
Pure, Delicious,
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NASHVILLE. TEXX. Aug 28.—
The management of the Nashville
baseball club has purchased Smith, a
promising young catcher ,f the Hop
kinsville. K>\. club, and Snyder, a
pitcher from the H^iderson, Ky., club.
To Cure Salt Rheum
and Scaly Skin
A Most Effective Treatment,
Quick in Results.
Salt rheum, scaly skin and other
Itching skin afflictions may be soothed
by frequent applications of witch hazel.
But the cure must come from the ac
tivity of the fine network of blood
vessels that make up the skin forma
tion. You should use S. S. 8. for the
blood. This splendid remedy is a mar
vel for salt rheum, eczema, lupus, pso
riasis and scrofula. Ask at any drug I
store for a bottle of S. S S., and you j
are on the road to health The j
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direct, positive, certain in its influence.
It is one of those rare medical forces
which act In the blood with the same |
degree of certainty that Is found In all
natural tendencies The matter In
which It dominates and controls the
mysterious transference of the rich,
red. pure arterial blood for the im
paired blood Is marvelous.
Out through every skin pore. acid*,
germs and other blood Impurities are
forced In the form of Invisible vapor.
The lungs breathe It out. the liver Is
stimulated to consume a gTeat propor
tion of impurities, the stomach and In
testines cease to convey harmful germs
Into the blood; the bowels, kidneys,
bladder and all emunctories of the body
are marshaled into a fighting force to
expel every vestige of impurities.
Get a bottle of this famous remedy
to-day. and if your case is stubborn
or peculiar, write to The Swift Specific
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At the Ball Game, Motordrome and All
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Keep it in the ice box at home,
the family will enjoy it.
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