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GIQBGW SPORTS’ GOVffiBD^ BCPER.T
If Mutt Loses To-day It Looks the Basiile for Him
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By “Bud” Fisher
P>y ,Tamos (‘lnrkson.
Denplte the fact that big Jeff Tes
reau, a giant of the Ozark Mountains
before he became a New York 'llant.
has not been going any t°° we ‘*
season. Manager McOraw, the smart
and brainv leader of the probable
winners of the National League bunt
ing. is pinning his faith in the big
twlrler whom he believes will prove
one of the stars of the world’s se
ries during the coming fall
Tesreau joined the Now York club
In the fall of 1911 He was not given
much work that fall, hut when the
Giants went to Marlin to open their
lt>12 training season the big moun
taineer was taken in charge by Wil
bert Robinson. MeOraWs chief ad
viser and eoacher of young pitchers,
and hefore the camp was three weeks
old great things were predicted for
Tesreau Before Joining the Giants.
• Big Jeff" performed with the Shreve
port club in the Texas-Oklajmma
League.
He made good all of his advnnce
notices by pitching winning ball for
McOraw all of last season. Tn fact,
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
way from Seattle, Wash., to see him
perform tn a world series game.
Tesreau is a popular fellow among
his fellow players, and his bunint
humor and stories of hear hunts and
the like In the Ozark Mountains do
much toward keeping MeGraw's men
tn a good humor when things on
the diamond appear to be a little had
for them.
The big right-hander has the honor j
this season of leading tlie National |
League flingers as to strike-outs. He
also leads the league in the issuance
of passes, a record which he does
not care about retaining.
McOraw figures that with Tesreau j
pitching the kind of ball of which
he Is capable, and with Mathewson
and Marquard, to say nothing of
Demaree, all In first-class shape, his
New York Giants should experience
little difficulty tn grabbing the tdg
end of the series with the Phlladephia
Athletics when the two clubs battle
for the world's championship in
October.
Turn Out for McNeil Benefit
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Dead Rider's Mother Needs Aid
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Frankie Rumr, the classy 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 Rood of late and should put up
an Interesting mill.
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Jim Griffin, the const referee, has
been selected to judge the Willie
Kltchla-Freddy Welch - bout at Van
couver next month. The rival scrap
pers agreed on Griffin yesterday.
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Young Shugrue, who is matched to
box Jack Britton at New York on Sep
tember 10. will take on Young Brown
next week Brown In 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 Oaponl and Jack Dillon are
scheduled to clash in a ton-round en
gagement at Winnipeg, Canada, on Sep
tember 15 They have agreed to weigh
160 pounds for a night fight,
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Not so very long ago Arthur TVlky
swore that he had retired from the box
ing game forevei But he changed his
mind when he learned that the only
other way he could earn a living was to
work
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I^each Cross has left Irxs Angeles for
Vancouver. The "Fighting Dentist”
wants to he on hand when Ritchie and
Welch clash In the sou a red ring Cross
was accompanied by his brother, Sammy
WaJlach
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If Charlie White succeeds In defeat
ing Johnny Griffiths at Akron, Ohio, <>n
Ijabor Day he will probably get a match
with Tommy Murphy in coffroth’s arena
at San Francisco Nate Lewis, manager
of White, writes from Chicago that be
received an offer from the coast promo
ter last week.
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Tom O’Rourke says that A1 Ihilfcer is
the real works among the "white
hopes " Reason, because Palzer in his
last fight drew more gate money than
either Smith or Flynn
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Billy Walters, who recently defeated
Young Denny at New Orleans, signed
articles yesterday to meet Eddie Clabby.
brother to Jimmy Clabby. In a ten-round
mill at Hammond. Ind , on Labor Day.
Clabby Is a big card in Hammond where
be has still to suffer his first defeat
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Jeff O’Connell, the veteran feather
weight, and Freddie Enck are billed to
meet in a ten-round go at Aurora, ill.,
to-night. O’Connell Is anxious to stop
Enck, 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 this great
distress.
Nobody Is going to be allowed
within the wooden walls Friday night
unless they pay to enter. The of
ficio.s, the newspaper men and even
the riders must "kick in.’’
Let’s make it a banner night. The
program arranged is a "hear” and
the riders promise to ride as they
never have ridden before. They will
risk their owji lives to help out a
most worthy cause.
So let the fans risk the price of
admission And, by the way, If you
have a little extra change, take along
a few friend*.
Here is the complete card of events:
First Event.
First Heat Southern Championship
(trial heats, one mile; final, two miles.
First two men in each trial heat to
qualify)—Swartz, Graves, Lewis 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 Sweepstake* to
be scored by French point system -
10 points for winner, 6 for second and
.1 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.
8ev«nth Event.
Second Heat McNeil Sweepstakes—
Swartz, Luther. Lewis, Lockner, Renel
and Glenn. Distance, four miles.
Eighth Event.
Third Heat Special Match Race—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, three
miles.
Ninth Event.
Third Heat McNeil Sweepstakes—
Swartz, Luther, Lewis, Lockner,
Renel and Ginn. Distance, six miles.
Long Sets New Record for Runs In p,3
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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
Ty Cobb by his fellow-played in the
Appalachian League /
lie holds the league recc^mr for home
runs, having knock.■< twVit\ tics s.-a-
*on in one hundred e.t J Mis Ditto #
average for the seas, i, 'to date is c 7
Cochran is an old Olemson College play
er, and played last year with B* --enter,
in the Southeastern League
COAST OWNER TURNSDOWN
$350,000 OFFER FOR CLUB
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 28 —George
E. 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 Ca! Ewing $350,000 for the San
Francisco club. Its franchise, its grounds
and its good will. Ewing laughed at
the offer
"I have been offered as high as $40 -
000 for the San Francisco club." said
Ewing, "and have refused it The dub
is making money in spite of its lowly
position In the pennant race.’’
DODGERS SIGN COLI EG!AN.
B1 OKLYN lug tv Th. Brook
lyn National League club to-day an
nounced that it had signed Fred H
Cross captain, second baseman and
shortstop of the Leland Stanford
University team of California. Gro> <
hatted .31*6 for his college year. H<
will leport next month.
Bv Bill Bailey.
C HICAGO. Aug. 28.—Walter John
son. marvel of the Senatorial
pitching staff, not only is one
of the greatest twlrler* 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 wag coming or
not. There may be other twtrlers
who tell the butter In advance what
is coming when they are so far ahead
that It makes no difference, or so far
behind that the game is a joke, 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
day 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 hall 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 as a
pitcher, and it isn’t based upon that
single game. Did you notice how he
pitched to Chase in the first round’’
Heady Work on Slab.
Berger reached first because of
I Morgan s error and went to second
■ on Lord’s infield out. Chase trod
I to the plate. Now a hose hit would
have put Berger across and the Sot
would have had a lead of one run.
| Mind you, this first game of the se
ries was a fight for a run. Both man
agers figured that one run would win
Chase knew very well that Johnson
was going to stick that first ball over
the plate. Acid Chase knew just as
well that lie was going to step into
j it and drive it out for a base hit if
I he could. Likewise, this Johnson per
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.
I The next ball was in the same place,
| and Hal swung again.
"Two strikes,” howled the ump.
Then Johnson pulled the unexpect-
! t*d. He started a curve hall for the
! plate and Hal swung. It broke wide
tnd the first sacker fanned on a near
wild pitch.
But the first two times that Chase
he knew exactly what wa«
coming Yet he couldn't hit. Why?
It was the tremendous speed that the
I elongated twirier was using.
Didn’t Waste Any Balls.
Johnson didn’t give a base on balls
during that game, and i 1 is doubtful
if he w asted as many as half a dozen
throughout the battle. You know what
the average pitcher tries. If he has
control he pilches Inside or outside,
lie tries for the corners. If he has
the batter in the hole, !ie tempt* him
with pitches that the hatter dare not
let go by und which he can’t drive
far if he connects.
Johnson may do that occasionally,
but In the majority of cases he puts
that ball straight across.
Did you happen to notice how he
pitched to John Collins in the ninth?
It would have been foolhardy for al
most any othex twlrler in tlie business
to have pitched as he did to 8hA.no.
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 hall pitched into the stands
for a foul and a strike. The second
likewise was a strike.
Now. the ordinary’ twlrler would
have kept the ball Inside or outside
or high or low, as he figured the
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 he other twirlers
who don't care whether the batter
knows what is coming or not. But
they are mighty scarce.
Bodie came up in the sixth. He
had just lost that tty ball in the sun
and was feeling pretty bad, so John
son began to "kici" him.
"Here’s a good one,” said the Wash
ington twlrler.
"One strike." howled the ump. But
Johnson had kept the faith. The hall
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.
Ye*, it was straight across. The
only trouble was that Ping’s eye
wasn’t quirk 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 if 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
afternoon fined Dr. B. L. Kennedy and
Jim Caylor $5 each for indulging in a
iace the night before.
“PERSONAL LIBERTY.”
<fH Glorious Constitution''
{J The sad Bookmaker said,
“Ordains far each of us the right
To grab his daily bread.
All night I'm firin' jockeys.
And work all dag the same.
To pry the sucker from his rush—
And here comes this reformer push
And tries to crab my game!"
"Mr, too!" the Fight Promoter
'took up the woeful talc.
”They're tryin' hard to stop me
From nailin' any kale.
Pm grabbin' easy money
By mat chin' White Hope Jokes.
An' then when stone bone-headed
plug
Can't take a wallop in the mug,
They blam't’ me when he croaks!"
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IT IS TO EE 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. Louis Cardinals for $500,-
000. Which gives rise to the ap
palling thought of what a club is
worth that makes $60,000.
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OLD BILL NAUGHTON SAYS’
that the "something-ln-the-tea”
story about the Jeffries-Johnson
fight is "gaining credence.” hut 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,” announces 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 up with the it^ea 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 Ehbets Field. It will he a
costly undertaking, but it will cer
tainly call for a bear of a dedica
tion speech.
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WHEN YOU FIGURE ON THE
amounts that W. J. Bryan draws to
the gate. Owner Shibe is justified
in insisting that Connie Mack
loosen up and talk more than has
been his wont.
WAYCROSS AND BRUNSWICK
PLAY IN RECORD TIME
Great Work Boosts Mark to .101
A N old-established Southern
League record went glimmer
ing yesterday in the fifth in
ning of the combat between the Tur-
tlest and the Crackers.
Tommy Long started the game with
98 runs to his credit for the season of
1913.
The league record was 99 run?’,
scored by Gus Hill, of Nashville, 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
game* more in which to break the
record. But Tommy had other ideas,
tween the two cities. j Resides, th^ Crackers got to needing
Tommy Long was the individual j more runs right then,
hero, winning the 100-yaru dash like So in the fifth inning Tommy scored
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 hats and silk shirts and
umbrellas and like usuables, offered
by enterprising Atlanta merchants
to stimulate competition with Bir
mingham in the Grand Attendance
Contest now’ w’aging fearfully be-
a regular sprinter, and circling the
bases in 14 seconds, only 2-5 of a
second south of Hans Lohert’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 well beyond
the plate. The distance was too great !
to measure hut it looked not far from
400 feet. The record. 421 feet and a |
few inches, is 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 «*f siik
shirts for enterprise in fungo hitting,
walloping the hall nearly to the score- j
board on the fly.
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 tow path and just
naturally kissed that old pill nearly
to the edge of the visible universe.
That was the third run, making 10!
in all.-and putting Tommy two ahead
of the former record.
And Tommy still ha* 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. 28.—Ar-
tides for the world’s lightweight
ehampionshi- bout here between Wil
lie 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.
Closed By Governor
PORTF.R. IND., Aug. 28.—Steps 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 races 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 violations 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
racingyu-ttgram.
BenrJymen, track manager, speaking
for the racing association, said to-day
that the stand taken by Governor Ral
ston was "worse than anything ever
pulled off in Mexico.”,
D00IN GIVEN FREE REIGN
TO STRENGTHEN PHILLIES
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 28-Manager
Dooin, of the Phillies, announces that he
has received word from the club owners
that there is an almost unlimited
amount of money at his disposal, for
the purchase of players.
Dooin is to start immediately in an
effort to strengthen the Phillies.
COCHRAN TRIUWPHS OVER
EAST POINT IN TITLE GAME
COCHRAN, GA.. Aug. 28.—Coch
ran, by winning two out of thro?
games from East Point, claims tho
State championship among the ama
teur baseball teams. In a fast gam^
the last of a series of three with the
crack team from East Point was won
by Cochran, 4 to 3.
The game throughout was replete
with brilliant plays, darine base run
ning and fast fielding from the tiim>
the umpire called "play ball” until the
last man was out in the ninth inning.
WAYCROSS. GA., Aug. 28.—Wav-
cross and Brunswick teams of the
Empire League yesterday morning
played a nine-inning game in one
hour and 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 1 McLaughlin was the
umpire and he kept players on the
jump from start to finish.
“ZHVT LOST; CUBS LEAVE
FOR HOME WITHOUT STAR
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—As the Chicago
Cubs were leaving here it developed to
day 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
elicioos
To Cure Salt Rheum
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SPENCER WISHART SMASHES
RECORDS ON ELGIN COURSE
ELGIN, 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, w’hen Spen
cer Wlshart in his Mercer was clocked
on two successive laps at 6:4G for the
eight and a fraction miles speed
way. This gave him an average speed
of 78 miles per hour.
VOLS PURCHASE TWO.
NASHVILLE. TENN. Aug. 28.—
The management of the Nashville
baseball club has purchased Smith, a
promising young catcher f the Hop
kinsville. Ky„ club, and Snyder. <
pitcher from the Henderson, Ky., club.
A Most Effective Treatment,
Quick in Results.
Salt rheum, scaly skin and other
J itching skin afflictions may be soothed
1 by frequent applications of witch hazel.
But the cute 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. S. for the
blood. This splendid remedy is a mar
vel for salt rheum, eczema, lupus, pso
riasis and scrofula. Ask at any drug
store for a bottle of S. S. S., and you
are on the road to health. The
action of this remarkable remedy is
direct, positive, certain in its influence.
It is one of those rare medical forces
which act m the blood with the same
degree of certainty that is found in all j |
natural tendencies. The matter in
which it dominates and controls the
mysterious transference of the rich,
red. pOre arterial blood for the im
paired blood is marvelous.
Out through every skin pore, acids,
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 great 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
Co., 18$ Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
At the Ball Game, Motordrome and All
STORES AND STANDS
Keep it in the ice box at home,
the family will enjoy it.
NAME IS ON THE CROWN
5 Cents a Bottle Everywhere
iS/lade by
The Red Rock Company,
Atlanta, Georgia
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