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N ashville, tenn.. Aug ao
That loud wall Harry Co- ]
valeakle emitted In regard j
to the “quitting" proclivities of
Wee Willie Prough looks to be only j
another caw* of pot railing the ketta
black, and if the big Pole doesn’t J
do some fancy side.^epping. hie slams
on the Baron slabber are liable to
prove a boomerang.
Bill Schwartz and other members
of the Vols almost laughed themselves
to death when they read the yarn
Ooveleskie was spinning about Prough
picking out the soft spots and being
a bit too much of a saffron hue to
tackle the Crackers, in order to pre
serve his record for the Rose trophy
The Vols now claim that the Giant
Kider passed up hie regular turn in
the bo* to sidestep the Schwartzinen,
who always take kindly to Harry'*
bender*. It was on the Vole’ last visit
to Lookouttown that Elberfeld ad
mitted. ho the Vola assert, that tin
future Tiger would not g<» in against
Bill Schwartz's crew. The locals al
ways made the going so rough for
“Covey." You know I am nurs
ing Harry along for that medal.’* the
Tabasco Kid is quoted as having given
as hi* reaaon for sending Rudy Som
mers to the hill In the Pole's pUe*.
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N OBODY mn Mhttii? Blb»rfeld for
picking the soft place* for hie
ai ir dinger and not Jeo|**r<ilrinK his
chances for the Hose medal Dy sentl-
in* him out against a club which is
pretty apt to give him a drubbing
Bui it certainly ill becomes (he big
Pole lo holler 'quitter against
Prough. Bill Is only working on the
same system which the Lookout boss
a imllt he is following in Harry's
Sure, / heard
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Mutt Hated to See Jeff Miss What Was Coming to Him * * * By “Bud” Fisher
case.
Bill Schwartz, while on (he »uhjer<
of medals holds the opinion Ilial
n other Prough nor “Covey” Is right
fully entitled to be called the "best
pitcher in Judge Kavanaaigh's etr
cult." no matter if their records do
ehow till* pair of star* to be so far
out In front of the slabbers' field
“The man who should be entitled
t.. a medal is the pitcher who tan go
in there whenever hia club needs him.
cither to take his regular turn In the
hox or to pull a Raifie out of the
tire." says Bill. "A pitcher like El
mer Brow n. for instance. Of course,
he has no more chance to cop the
Roy* medal than 1 have the one for
base-stealing But Brown has been
■worth a whole lot more to Dobbs
tban either Prough or Ooveleakie. Il
ls always ready to work. In turn or
out. He goes In there to pitch hi*
■head off when some other pitcher 1"
being mauled, and he pitches for the
Montgomery club to win the game,
not so that' Elmer Brown can win a
gilt badge ^ ^
st-pHESE medals are all wrong, any-
1 how What good do they do?
And 1 can show you a whole lot of
harm they cause. They si Ir up bit
terness among ball players m gen
eral, they break up teamwork for
fellows will get to working for n hold
ing or batting record and won t risk
chances on a lot of plays, for lent
they will hurt their fielding or bat
ting record. ... . .
“Look at that Cobb-Lajole scandal
over in the American League, all on
account of the Chalmers trophy, and
lust us long as some fellow who
thinks he Is causing a stimulus n
hitting, running or pitching keeps
on offering prizes, lust no long are
you going to see bad feeling crop
ping out among the players."
And after you stop to .hlnk II all
over, the Vols' boy pilot hasn't had
a bad guess at that.
Cards Will Not Be
Sold, Says Britton
CINCINNATI. Aug SO—With ru
mors running wild In the East that
numerous changes would be made in
the ranks of the Cardinals, especially
In the ownership.-President Sc huyler
P Britton makes a complete denial
of any sale Britton arrived here yes
terday from Atlantic City, and will
remain with ihe team until it? return
home
After the Cardinals left New York
a etory tame out to the effect that
bidders were in the field to buy the
Cardinals and that Mrs Britton was
more than willing to dispose of her
major league club.
"Mrs Britton is not going to sell."
declared President Britton this morn
ing '! can't understand how such a
story could be printed. We are ex
tremely disappointed with the show
ing of the team this year, but Mrs
Biitton is making every effort to
strengthen the team for 1914
"Many players have been bought,
and we are willing to spend f 100,000
to secure new material I will say
one thing, and that Is that there wtl!
be several important trades during
the winter
“Manager Huggins is negotiating
■with rival managers, and we time
told him to complete any deni he atig
gests that wilt be »n Improvement
for the Cards Anybody will go if
we can improve the club."
Bonnell Sails for *
World's Ball Tour
CHICAGO Aug 30 —M Dick Bonnell.
Chari** A Contis keys ad vane* agent
for the coming New York-Chicago
world's baseball tour, sailed yesterday
from Vancouver on the Emuress of Ja
pan. the Canadian ship chartered to
carry the teams across the Pacific Mr.
Bonnell will visit Japan. G’hina the
Philippines and Australia to conclude all
details of the tour, an<j will return to
Yokohama in time to meet the Empress
of Japan when she brings out the teams
It was learned to-day that arrange
ments for the world tour have been
practically perfected for the itinerary !
Between Vancouver and Port Said. Ex
hibition games will be played at Yoko- ,
ham*, Tokio, Kobe Nagasaki. Shang
hai. Hongkong and Manila From Ma
nila the teams will proceed to Austra
lia. arriving at Brisbane New Year's
3-ay There will probably games
a: Brisbane, Sydney. Melbourne and
Adelaide, as the stay in the antipodes
will last about ten days
In anticipation of the courtesies that i
tie exiended hts team during their
n visit. Mr Comaker has turn
er hU IKhite tiox Park to the
iiari or Meter*, who are also
the v Jr id © tour.
Kit IFiGUE
National Links Sure Severe
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Low Scores Are Impossible
C HATTANOOGA. TENN.. Aug. 10.
There seems no pnslbility of the
Southern League recognizing
the new Dixie circuit.
Not that the magnates of Kava-
naugh's organization are opposed to
the project of the Memphis pro
moters, as most of them leal friendly
toward the new organiz.ution, hut be
cause of the fact that if Dixie League
clubs are allowed by the Southern
League in Nashville, Chattanooga,
Memphis. Atlanta. Birmingham and
New Orleans, a-s is suggested, the
classification of the Southern League
would be lowered to B, as only one-
half the population of the six towns
mentioned would be used in deter
mining the total source of attendance
of the circuit and in fixing its classi
fication.
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L EAGUES are ranked by the Na
tional Association of Minor
League Clubs in Class A A. Class A.
Class C. Class C and Class D. ac
cording to the total population of the
towns comprising the circuits. The
Southern, of course, is Class A, hav
ing a good margin over the required
gross population, but if Dixie League
dubs are sanctioned by the Southern
League moguls, the total population
of the circuit-that ia. from a stand
point of classification would be too
low for a Class A rating. Class B
would be the new ranking of the
league.
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T HE disadvantages of this are un
doubtedly t<*o great to be con
sidered. for it would give the West
ern League the right to draft from
this circuit at the price fixed for Class
R clubs. In other words, the dubs
of the Southern League could lose
two men by draft each year instead
of one, not to speak of the other dis
advantages of a lower classification,
such as a lower price for the men
drafted.
The fact that only half the popu
lation of towns supporting two teams
with the protection of organized ball
can be considered in determining the
classification of a league was brought
out this spring, when Charley Frank
attempted to put the Cotton States
League in New Orleans. President
Kavanaugh informed Frank at that
time that Secretary Farrell of the na
tional association would reduce the
league rating if the plan were per
sisted in.
YANKS BUY MONTREAL STAR.
NEW YORK, Aug 30 Frank Gtlhnn.
ley, th* much sought outfielder of the
Montreal club of the International
League, figured in h deal whereby he
became the property of the Yankees
George McConnell, the New York pitch-
I er, and a cash consideration wrere giv-
l en to the Montreal club for the highly
I recommended out fielder The amount
I of money paid for the outfielder was not
stated, but is understood to be $5,560
TWO SOX VISIT BLOOMINGTON.
i BLOOMINGTON ILL.. Aug 30.—
I Pitcher Scott and Shortstop Weaver, of
the ChVago White Sox. witnessed the
Bloomlngton-Davenport game here yes-
j terterday. being on a scouting tour for
| ComUkev
BALL TEAM TO TOUR JAPAN.
SEATTLE, WASH Aug 30 -The
University of Washington baseball team
•ailed on the Yokohama Marti for a two
month*' t"ur of Japan, where games
Will jMB
the
1 be clayed with ttanis representing
* leading universities
Bv Chirk Evans.
C HICAGO. Aug. 30.—A large num
ber of Western amateurs have
recently received invitation®
from the founders of the National
Golf Links of America to compete
In the annual invitation tournament,
beginning on Thursday. September
11, and ending on September 13. It
ir Indeed an honor to be asked to
complete In an event that furnishes
the severest tent of golf in America
This tournament follows so closely
ui on the National that competitors In
the latter event can easily play in
the former —if they have the time.
It is a matter of great regret to me
that my business will prevent me
from taking part In It thi* year, and
my regrot is all the deeper because
I had the pleasure of playing the first
tournament of the National Golf
Llnkn of America and realize fully
Just what 1 am missing.
Many Noted Players There.
I had heard something of the Na
tional golf links of America before T
went there. For a number of years
the building of the course had been
going on. and rumors of the great
work had traveled a* far ah Chicago.
In 1911 the national championship
was held at Apawamls, a really good
course at Rye. just outside of New
York, and this year found the Na
tional golf link* almost completed.
The first of their tourneys was then
and there Instituted, and all of th*
player* of note and some others were
invited to participate.
There were many unforgettably
pleasant circumstances surrounding
this event. Immediately after the
National final we visiting player*
were driven. in an automobile to
th* Vk .i Club ai Rye. where we
boarded a motor boat, and soon we
were headed for a large, dark-look-
‘nrr object, ntudded with twinkling
lights, which proved to be the private
yacht of Ledyard Blair. Mr. Blair
wa?» commodore of the New York
Yacht Club and hi* yacht wo* th«
flagship.
Evan* Finishes Third.
In the morning, off in the distanca
* e saw a strip of land that recalled
a bit of British coast. The new
clubhouse loomed prominently above
the sand, a nd w kn^r we
were at our journey’s end. Some of
us were put up at the clubhouse, but
Albert Seckel, Mr. Hilton and l
stayed a t Chateau Hencoop. C. B
MacDonald’s beautiful home at the
edge of the course. The tourney was
< big success, find 1 wit fortunate
to win one of the prises. The
l laying seemed remarkable at firs*
Herreshoft won low score with an
M. and something like 85 ended the
(light. 1 myself played the only
double figures of my life when I took
12 on the sixteenth. 1 made 39. and
Instead of being woefully out of the
running, as T supposed. I qualified
ihird. It seemed strange to see these
men * ho had bten consistently scor
ing 75 or better piling up stroke*
in lavish fashion. But there we were
up against the severest test of golf
in the world. It was a thoroughly
delightful event, however, only marred
by a plague of mosquitoes, and these
insects, being unaccustomed to dining
on Englishmen, seemed particularly
desirous of making a meal off Mr.
1 Hilton. Perhaps they were cham-
j pion mosquitoes.
English Course Is Model.
The history of the construction of
{ the National golf links of America
150 IN GOLF TOURNEY.
GARDEN CITY, N Y . Aug. 30 —
| The national amateur golf tourney
l which opens here Monday will have 15*0 i
j entrants Abe Mitchell. the famous
I
j has been delated m coming to this
I country to qum.TD.
ip very interesting. Lying up along
the shore at the end of Long Island
is this bit of what an Englishman
might consider ideal golfing land
treeless and sandy, with the gentle
and frequent undulations of a British
sea coast. The prime mover in the
building of this course was C. B.
MacDonald, who did so much for Chi
cago golf. The Idea was to construct
a course composed of eighteen exact
reproductions of famous British hole®.
TnU has accordingly meen done, and
the resemblance to the originals 1*
startling. Details have been carried
out with astonishing exactness, and
the only criticism to he made i» the
difficulty of the course. No poor golfer
can be expected to play successfully
eighteen ouch holes In one round.
“Commish” Picks on C. Morphy ^, W ,K2:
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Davis and Freeman
Golf Semi-Finals at
East Lake To-day
The semi-finals in the first and sec
ond flights of the Davis & Freeman
trophy golf tournament, under way
at the East Lake course of the At
lanta Athletic Club, are scheduled for
play this afternoon. The third flight
semi-finals will have only one match,
that between J. E Mellett and R. P
Jones. Jr , and the winner will meet
W. C. Warren The fourth flight al
ready has reached the finals stage,
which will be played off to-day or
to-morrow, when the finals In the
first, second and third flight* will be
settled.
Three former winners of the hand
some trophy are not in the semi-final
matches. F. G. Byrd, who has won
the cup two years, U not competing,
while w. R. Ttohenor and Hamilton
Block failed to survive the early
round*
Following 1* the remaining »ched-
nle of play:
Fir»t Flight.
8emi-finals—T. B Fay vs. C. V
Rainwater; J. A. Ellen v» Dowdell
Brown,
Second Flight.
Semi-final*—H. C. Moore vs. W. H
Glenn; G. E. Rose vs. J. D. Darling.
Third Flight.
Semi-finals—J. E. Mellett vs. R. P
Jones, Jr
Final*—W. C. Warren meets win
ner of above match.
Fourth Flight
Finals—-H. L. Dix vs. G. L. Simp-
Jock McNeil Benefit
Races Next Friday
The Jock McNeil benefit race* sched
uled to take place at the Atlanta Mo
tordrome last night were called off on
account of rain. They will be run off
next Friday
The regular program of races will be
held on Monday night The same event*
scheduled to be run off last night will
be held Monday. An added event, the
Australian pursuit, has been arranged
by the management.
KETCHEL TO BOX GOODMAN.
SUPERIOR, WIS .. Aug 30.—Dannv
Goodman and Steve Ketchel will fight
here Monday night, September 1
Billy Gibson, the New York promoter,
is trying to arrange a match between
“Harlem’’ Tommy Murphy and Packey
McFarland for next month. The two
met a couple of years ago, Packey carry
ing off the decision after twenty rounds
of hard battling. However, many think
that Murphy is a much improved fighter
now.
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Dan McKetrigk will take Joe Jean-
j nette, Young Aheam. Barney Williams,
Frank Moran and Mike Dunn to Paris
next month. He has already arranged
matches for most of his fighters
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Ad Wolgaat’s next appearance in the
ring will take place Labor Day after
noon. at Oakland, Cal His opponent
will be Joe Azevedo, a promising young-
*ter in the boxing game
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For the 99th time Jack Dillon has
been forced to call off a match with
George “Knockout’’ B rown - the Chicago
middleweight. Brown and Dillon were
matched to box In Terre Haute, Ind..
on Labor Day* but yesterday the Ihdian-
apolis boy wired the promoters that he
will not dp able to fill the date on ac
count of a broken rib. Gus Christie
has been substituted for Dillon.
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Jack Reed, an Australian lightweight
of promise, w'ho took the long trip here
with Sam l^angford, will be one of the
new attractions this season.
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Again we hear from Jimmy Grant, the
popular little bantamweight. Jimmy is
at present in Chicago helping Charlie
White train for his ten-round go with
Johnny Griffiths at Akron, Ohio, Mon
day. Jimmy wants to come here to box
either Spider Britt, Kid Young or Char
lie Lee. He has already stopped Britt
and has a draw to his credit with Kid
Young
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AI Palzer and Frank Moran are down
to hard training for their ten-round
set to at New York on September 18
Moran is training with Joe Jeannette
and Sailor White, while Palzer is box
ing with Tom Kennedy and “Soldier"
Kearns.
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A New York club is after a match
between Carl Morris and AI Kubiak. !
Local fans well remember the tough 1
scrap Kubiak gave the Oklahoma heavy- j
weight here some time ago.
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Even though he lost his match with
Johnny Dundee at Los Angele* on I^abor i
Day. Leach Croa* will not be Idle on the
holiday date. He has cinched a bout
with Jack Bo^ca^on at Vancouver.
Willie Ritchie will be an interested spec
tator at the mill.
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Billy Walters has been made a 10 to
7 favorite over Eddie Clabby in their
ten-round affair at Hammond, Ind.,
Monday Walters' recent victory over
Young Denny at New Orleans has boost
ed his stock *ky-high among the welters.
MOHR, BUCK AND HICKEY
WIN BOUTS IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK. Aug. 30 — Here are the
result* of the bdxing bouts staged at
Rockaway last night:
Walter Mohr of Brooklyn outpointed
Patsy Kline of Newark. N. J., in ten I
rounds.
Tommy Buck of Philadelphia out- j
pointed Banty Lewis of Newark, N. J.,
in ten rounds.
Young Hickey of Harlem and Kid Al
berts of Elizabeth. N. J., boxed to a
ten-round draw.
WHITE LECTURES FANS. j
MOLINE. ILL.. Aug 30 —“Doc"
White, of the Sox. spoke to more than j
500 fan* here at the reception for the
local shop league players. “The trou
bles of the big league pitcher” formed I
hi* theme
May Be a ‘Farmer! But No Rube
W
HY pick on me?” That is
what President Murphy, of
the Cubs, is asking these
days.
Usually the first matter to be taken
up at a session of the National Com
mission, that is. after the first for
malities have been disposed of, is to
decide the paramount question—
“What shall we do to Murphy to
day?”
This 1* not a defense o'f President
Murphy, but Ism’t the National Com
mission a little harsh in its treat
ment of the owner of the Cubs?
Murphy was recently fined $500 for
farming out players to Louisville.
Is it possible Murphy is the only
“farmer” in the National League, and
are no rural citizen* in Ban John
son's organization?
If there are other farms in both
leagues why Is it Murphy is made
the goat and a fine of $500 is dropped
on his shoulders?
Maybe the Commish knows, and its
word is law; In fact, the baseball
moguls who shape the destinies of
the national game, and shape them
to suit themselves, work on the the
ory^ “the King can do no wrong,”
and"they are “the King.”
It is the opinion of more than one
who has been following the national
pastime for a number of years that
if any National Commission would
do a little prospecting it might suc
ceed in finding a number of so-called
■farms” in both big leagues.
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M AYBE the National Commission
is working on the theory that
Murphy i* not only a farmer, but
also a rube. If so. there are several
baseball moguls who are slated for
a rude awakening some of these days.
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T T will be many moons before the
1 world will see another Weston.
The veteran pedestrian stands alone
In the hiking game, if one can stand
in that game. He has been walking
almost ever since he learned how to
walk, but the others find riding on
the rattlers more to their liking.
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Y\7 ILLIE RITCHIE is rapidly glv-
vv ing proof to Billy Nolan's state
ment that he won’t tackle tough
game. In Vancouver he is going to
battle FVeddie Welch's sparring part
ner. an unknown, so to *av. Think of
a real champion meeting third-raters
on a big day *uch as Labor Day with
the game full of suitable opponents.
Do these actions stamp Willie a Gans,
Nelson or Wolgast? Not much.
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T HEY use plenty of dope in the
fighting game,
Such as all sorts of booze and hops,
But the brand that make* the cham-
0 pions lose fame
Is the old-fashioned knock-out
drop*.
With Thomasville
VALDOSTA, GA., Aug 30.—Timely
hitting by Valdosta, mixed with errors
by Thomasville. gave the local club the
opening game in the post-season series,
played here yesterday.
The score was 8 to* 4. A drizzling
rain rendered play slow and faulty, and
had it not been for The importance of The
series the contest would have been rated
uninteresting.
A large crowd saw the game, many
visitors being present from Thomasville,
Quitman, Waycross and other towns.
The second game is to be played in
Thomauville this afternoon.
The score by innings:
Thomasville ..; 020 000 200—4
Valdosta 100 520 00*—8
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