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TTEATIST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1013, STAR ATHLETES Bringing Up Father By George McManus KILL' SPORT Bf GREEDINESS Exorbitant Demands for Appear ance Cause Many Promoters to Abandon Meets. Bv James S. Mitchell. World’s Champion Weight Thrower. B OSTON, Au*. SO.—-In athletics the roose that laid the golden egg la dead, and this prolific bird of yore passed away nicely and calmly from overwork. She could no longer yield appearance money and prizes to the ambitious athletes, and, not being of any further use, thought she would give up the earthly ghost and flit to the happy hunting ground. What a disheartening effect the passing of the goose has had on the track and field aports this season! Outside of a couple of big meets of fered by the New York A. C. and the Irish-American A. C., It might easily rank as the tamest year the East has ever seen in the history of athletics. On the Saturdays and Sundays no crowds of wild-eyed young men have been seen tearing to the local tracks, full of Are anrl vim snd on edge for the fray. Instead there has been a few measly meets, with hungry pro grams and poor attendance. Not only have the golden eggs faded away, but the angels that fed the bird have grown weary of the game. The athletes grew so keen on raking in the coin that they wanted everything, while there was nothing left for the "angels” and the promoters. Big Demands by 8tar«. As a general rule, a first-class per former would demand from $T>0 to $100 and a gold watch for his ap pearance; and when two or three per meet were paid there was very little left for the club or association hold ing the affair. A promoter who used to run off a big set of guinea every year tells an interesting story about h1s Inst ven ture The rent of the pnrk, the cost of prizes, advertising and the appear ance money to four star athletes came to $1,060, and the total of the gate receipts was $1,081; so, he said, he reasoned with himself that his la bor was in vain. The athletes got It all and his club got nothing. This year the man’s association gave a picnic and dance, out of which there was nearly $500 profit. So, he said, they were through with the ath letic games. The athletes deplore the poor sea son themselves and ore blaming each other as being the cause. During the week a story leaked out about one of the “regulars” and a man who was a great stickler for price, especially when It came to traveling out of town. A man who was running off a set of games in a neighboring town of fered a "star" $5 and his railroad faxe, which wak about $2, if he would com pete in the events. At first the ath lete writs inclined to spurn the offer, but the V’s were so few and far be tween nowadays that the "star” ac cepted the offer. Ireland Unearths Great Runner. In the international athletic match recently between Scotland and Ireland a phenom distance runner was brought to light in the person of an elghteen-year-old Irish lad who won the four-mile run for the Green Isle. The English experts hail him as the greatest find of the decade . For the first two miles Flynn, w hich ts the youngsters name, did 9:49. Very soon afterward the Scotch run ner, Wallack, gave up. and the Irish boy finished alon© in 21:04 for the full Journey. The Englishmen are afraid that Flynn will be coaxed to America At '^he spine meet Shaw, of Dublin Uni versity. won the 100 yards In a shade better than 10 seconds, which was quoted a rattling fine performance. Track Men in Training. The New York A. U. squad of track and field men are In training at Travers Island, where they will work till about the first of October Con trary to report. Jim Wendell will train for the hurdle H . and he will be helped out in that department by Braun. Wendell has been summering at l*ak© George and had intended to re tire permanently, but the lure of the track wa* too much for him and he bad to come back among the boys for a while longer. The Adams brothers and Eddie Frick have planned to get married In the fall, but for the present they will train and try and help the Mercury Foot to win the Metropolitan cham pionship on September 21 BASEBALL SALARIES OF OLD WERE RIDICULOUS CHICAGO, Aug, 30.—Baftebtill man- Mrer« and players of a quarter cen tury ago wiy they drew salaries that appear ridiculous compared with fab ulous sums which those of to-duy are •aid to receive, according to figures gathered by a local sporting writer "Captain" Adrian C Anion we. said to have received the 'princely" turn of f J 700 for managing the Chi cago "White Stockings In IS88 the year after he had ttniahed the season with a batting average of .421 Of thle amount J700 repre-«enled his services as acting captain and man ager of the team. R E. Smith, of Chicago, says he possesses the contract Smith has also the contracts made by N. Fred Pfeffer and Edward X. Williamson when they placed In the Brotherhood League in P8S9. These two players were talked of at Ihat time ae the greatest In the game. The Chicago club paid Williamson 13.000. while Pfeffer. one of the greatest of all aec- orid basemen, received only I2.0U0 and the score card privileges. A larger salary than any of these old-time stars was paid to Charles l omiskey. present owner of the Chi cago White Sox. when he jumped to the Brotherhood League. His con tract, also held by Smith, called for *7 000 in 1880. Coml»ke> was then regarded as the dean of fielding first basemen, although he was not re garded as good at bat as Anson. 9 * W l f r I i t Big League Clubs in Homestretch +•+ +•+ +•-: +•+ +•+ +»+ Ma jorRacesHave Been Interesting By Monty, N EW YORK, Aug. 30—See that date line? “August thirtieth.” It means that only the home stretch stage of the baseball season remains. Glance at the schedule, in the American League the West ha*> had Its last glance at the Eastern teams. In the National League the East has had its last look at the Western teams. Only one more spell of Interac tional battling remains. On Septem ber 9, a week from next Tuesday, the Western clubs of the American trek eastward and the Eastern clubs of the National go westward on the last long road trips of the year. After being absent until September 23. the tourists skldoo back to their native heaths, there to finish the cam paign against rivals In their own sect Ions, with the big wind-up on Oc tober 5. It seems hardly a month ago when the season got under way. Odd how every bawball campaign has a knack of appearing shorter than its prede cessor. We take the liberty of pre suming that other fans are like those with whom we are In contact, that as they grow older time flies Just that much faster. In the spring we all looked forward to the possibility of two of the closest races In the his tory of the major leagues. Where are your close races now? Gone, absent, departed—wafted away in the heat of midseason, with the expectod run ners-up so far from the pacemakers that hope has been abandoned, even In their home towns. • • • S URELY the season Just cloning has not been an uninteresting one. In many wavs It has excelled most of those that have gone before. Rut It has proved a great disappointment In one way. The best part should be the last. Just as devsert comes after the soup, entrees and salad. Rut there Is little dessert this time, except for the followers of the Giants and Ath letics and the moderate number of broad-minded enthusiasts who enjoy good baoeball whether It is by their own team or the rival. Manager of the world’s champions one year and out of baseball entirely the next—poor Jake Stahl! R AGK In April we had laid out be fore us the greatest little three- team contest ever offered In the American League. The Athletics. Senators and Red Sox were to battle neck and neck all the way down to the wire, with the hottest finisher clutching the pennant. Instead, wliai have we? The Athletics have sewed up the race and the dash down the final five weeks of the way will be .sans com petition. Where are the Senators and Red Sox They have given wav to a new white hope, the Naps. who. fig ured by practically nobody to be in better than fourth or fifth place, have slashed their way ahead of both the expected contenders Into second place. The Senators even have a battle on for third place, with the White Sox providing the ' orry, and the Red Sox are nowhere. ' absolute fixture in fifth place unless perchance the Ti gers should perk up and take that from them, shoving the Rostonese down to sixth. World's champions one year and second dlvislonera the next. Truly hard lines for Hub fans. f ^ AST your eye upon the Pirates-^ that crestfallen band of Bucca neers that had hoped to run .the Giant* ragged. It probably is safe to say that there were more persons who picked the Pirates to win the National League gonfalon than there were who thought the Giants would triumph. Vet third is the best that the Pirates can possibly get now’, and the Cubs may beat them out of that. Again In the National we have that grand old inatitutlon—the dark horse —springing Into view In the shape of the Phillies, who have wrenched off second niche when hardly anyone consldcrd them in talking of the race before It got under way. An unusual condition exists among the fans of the American League cir cuit. Those of every city are dis gruntled at the showing of their hom* teams, odd as this may seem, It would be expected that somebody would bs satisfied, but not so. The Athletics’ rabid followers had expected to see their favorites make a tremendous walkover of the race, with a margin of probably fifteen or twenty full games over the next club at this time. It's funny how great things are de manded of Connie Mack Just because he and his team, taken together, rep resent enough combined strength win a few’ more games In a season than any rival. Rut only three weeks ago they were talking In Philadelphia of the possibility that the Markmen w’ould win 112 games this aeason an 1 break the record. They couldn’t do that now* even If they should win every remaining game. Though the Naps had been figured only as outsiders by fans In other cities, Clevelanders spoke o? their pennant chAnce* with alacrity, and when they got up there near the Quakers they said, "It’s all over now; the Naps will breeze In." Just at a time when they seemed likely to make trouble for the Athletics, the Naps failed at the psychological moment and will have to accept second place. Chicago fans feel about the same to ward the White Sox. The attitude of Hub fans toward the Red 3ox Is easy to Imagine, and as for the other tall- enders -St Louis, New York and De troit—It Is the same old story of false hopes gone to wreck. L FOR MRS TB SPURT 1 1514 Manager of Washington Team Expects Coveleskie To Be Big Help to Jennings Next Year, D etroit, auk so —Leave it to Mr. C. Griffith, manager of the Washington team, to break in to the public prints with something new. Not that said Mr. C. Griffith is a publicity-seeking pest, or anything ' like that, but ideas Just naturally gravitate to him. lie was the person who saved money for other American League managers and club owners by refusing to pay fabulous sums for sensational minor leaguers, and he molded the Nationals into a pennant contender in a spring’s training trip. Now. with the close of the major league season nearly two months dis tant and the winner of the pennant not yet settled—that Is to say, settled beyond argun\ent—Griffith comes out with the statement that Washington, Philadelphia and Detroit look like the active contenders for the 1914 pennant. 7 ATHLETES FOR HARVARD. BOSTON, Aug. 30.—Harvard’s ath letic forces will get much material from Groton School this fall. No less than seven athletes from that insti tution intepd to prolong their scho lastic duties at Harvard. CATCHER IN POLITICAL GAME. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30—It was announced to-day that Ira H. Thomas, catcher of the Athletics, after helping the Athletics to win their fifth pen nant, will enter the race for civic hon ors as common Councilman from the Thirty-eighth Ward. EVANSVILLE TO GET HOMER. EVANSVILLE. IND., Aug. 30.— The Evansville Central League base ball team has an option on First Baseman Homer of the Henderson ,Ky., team of the Kitty League, and is expected to close the deal In a few days. DOWNEY LOANED TO COLONELS INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 30.— Tom Downey, inflelder, was sold by the local American Association man agement to-day to Louisville under an optional agreement and will join the Colonels for the remainder of the season. A Car Not too Large, Not too Costly, and Splendidly Efficient 1 N the National League the fans that * are well satisfied with their club* are those who follow the Giants, the Phillies and the Boston Rraves, who under Stalling** have fought out of the cellar Into a place where thev have a chance to bent out Brooklyn for the leadership of the second division. The Dodgers have had a discouraging ml 1- senson after an encouraging stall, and will have to wait for next year, when Bill Pahlen will give way a» manager to Harry Smith, of Newark. Pittsburg Cincinnati and St. Louis are the other teams that have carrltd the hopes of their admirers up .-*a!t Creek. The Cubs lost so much pop ularity through letting Chance and Tinker go that Chicago fans did not even want them to do as well as they have done, so there Is no disappoint ment in Cubland. rifFITTI’S disposition would not permit that he count the Nation als out of the running, the tenants of his head would not allow him to place the Athletics in the second di vision. and his baseball sense leads him to believe that Jenplngs will have a dangerous aggregation of players next season. "The Detroit team has shown a vast amount of Improvement in the past two or three months," said Clark re cently. "In the spring it w r as a hope less aggregation of pluyers. But Jen nings has whipped the men into line and he will give us a fight next year. He has two fine young pitchers In Hall and Dauss. Dauss Is one of the best-looking young pitchers to come into the American League in years. Dubuc is also a fine pitcher, although he seems to have had an off year. Veach is a slugging outfielder, and the Detroit infield, as it stands, is a fine one. Need Three Referees To Determine Winner Promoter McIntosh Offers Scheme to Decide Master in Boxing Bouts. Hugh McIntosh, formerly the lead ing boxing promoter In Australia. Is strongly opposed to the referee sys tem which is In vogue In both Amer ica and Europe. According to McIntosh, one man can not see more than half of the point* scored in a boxing match be cause of the human limitations which prevent him from seeing from dif ferent angles what two men are doing. The custom of having three men give their decisions at the close of a match, *»ach unknown to the other, and have a fourth man act ua a teller, is McIntosh's idea. . Japanese Collegians Adopt Rugby Football The beautiful lines and handsome finish of the Studebaker. 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Not some other day, but now! Specifications Studebaker “25” HQN'E man G. Griffith - Is flouring on how to beat Detroit next year." Griffith says that Coveleskie. the big left-hander, purchased from the Chattanooga club, has a lot of natural ability, and that it is quite possible that Detroit has picked up a star per former. Coveleskie was with Griffith In Cin cinnati, but was shunted on to the minors. He lacked experience. The Washington players were con siderably surprised a few day ago to "learn that George McBride would succeed Rill Carrigan as manager of the Boston Red Sox.” And. inciden tally, McBride was more surprised than any. Ixing stroke, silent motor Five passengers Three speeds, forward and reverse Heavy nickel trim Carburetor dash adjustment Demountable rims Extra rim. Prest-O-Lite tank Studebaker Jiffy curtains) Deep upholstery Speedometer Flectric horn Tire holders Ventilating clear-visioa windshield I.amps, Tool box. Tools, etc. <<gUCH a story is so Idle that- It’s Pacific Coast Pastime Is Added to Curriculum of Sports at Keio University. STANFORD, CAL., Aug. 3^,—Rug by football Is the latest addition to the curriculum of sports which have been adopted by the colleges in Ja pan, according to the members of the Stanford University baseball team, which has returned from a tour of the Orient. Louis Cass, varsity Rugby captain last ev'ns m. was enlisted to coach tho players of Keio University during the stay of the Cardinal nine In Toklo According to the Branford boys the sons of the chrysanthemum empire are remarkably fast in following the hall and are adept in passing and dodging, but have not yet learned much of the fine points of the game. illy." declared McRride, before the team left here. "I do not know where it originated and l can only say that the subject has never been broached to mo. In the first place I do not care for the position, and, sec ondly. I would not take it if it was offered to me. "President McAleer. of the Boston club, is a good friend—that’s all.” "Boston would have to pay a pretty price to get McBride,” declared Grif fith. "George is one of the most val uable players In th*» major le ue. It Is my opinion that the yarn was man ufactured.” I ^jgpgoCATARRHj OF THE BLADDER I Reiisvsd id 24 Hours; ( Price, Complete, f. o. b. DETROIT | Add Freight to Point of Dm E77?0/r\ Delivery/ Buy it Because It’s a Studebaker Studebaker Standards The Studebaker “25” is as well built, with the same pains-taking attention to details, as every other Studebaker car, no matter what the price. The design of the Studebaker “25” motor can be compared in exellence only with one or two of the most famous for eign cars. The position of the pump and magneto on a silent cross shaft in front of the mo tor has forever answered the question of where they should be placed. Your ex amination will bear out this contention. 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