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I the Atlanta oeokgian and news. HELP CHITS O GIQBGW SPORTS’ GOVffiBD^ BCPER.T If Mutt Loses To-day It Looks the Basiile for Him li * 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 +•+ +•+ +•*!• +•+ +•+ +•+ 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. • • • 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. 0 » • 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. 0 0 0 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, • • • 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 • • • 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 • • • 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. t • * 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 • * • 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 • * • 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 v • v -!- • *!* *!*••*• Johnson’s Speed Beats Curves -!-•+ +•+ +«+ -t-»+ +•+ +•-!- 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!" 0 0 0 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * “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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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 9 SPENCER WISHART SMASHES RECORDS ON ELGIN COURSE ELGIN, ILL.. 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