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TTEAUST** KTNDAT XTfEKrCXX, ATLANTA. GK. PTNDAT, e TTTT.ArP-FR 7, 1«T!.
All the News off the Boxing World on These Pages
S. D. 1. FOOTBALL
TEAM SHOULD BL
f BEST IN HISTDHlf
Sh Vetera-s to Ret’jr; for P aces
on Second District Agncul-
tara! Gridiron Squad.
r-r\LTT<ys GA., Sept C- Ty-v-r.r
I at tt Ximngt. th« typeirr.XeT
befor» school has of^r-1 tai
Chs gratl'.rjf *Ti<i.‘ror. baf->» b-cim
ths 2t:t tcaro ' - tb* BucorA
ZMatrKt Aar'-culxursl \srvm U eoir.g
to b* the heat <rrer pvt out by thj
Inert. .Gcrp of busfe-#a
At the preser.t Ume it looks
though the team for this year will be
better than that of iaet. Si* of las*
year's warriors have a'ready aigr..-
•*: their inter.' r. of re'.rr.ng to
the fold, ar.-i with
a number of men
perien.-« at otter w
scrubs of last year
terU.
Probably tb» trlghteat hope of the
’ •t j'SenU is Hahooca. from Worth
Giving an Idea of the Quiet, Restful
Poses in the Speediest Game of All
What Is World’s Fastest Game? ! sportsandSuch
■i-e-r tSv *ra*S* -j-e-h *s-a*f -i-••5* :
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Answer: Handball—See A.A.C.
These three players are among
those helping to make handball,
as played on the courts of the
Atlanta Athletic Club, famon* in
the South as the fastest game,
indoors or out, that the reaim of
athletics has yet produced. At
the top is ii. E. (‘’Willie”)
Keeler: st the right, Howard -Ar
nold, and at the left 'Gene Kelly.
The daily
matches,
played at noon
and in the
evening on the
.A A. C. courts,
are watched
wondericgly by
members who
have never
tackled the
‘speediest
game in the
world.”
raw ma
CliciDCG Roasts Y anks >
Calls Club 'Dummies/
And Maybe He’s Right
Branch Rickey
To Lead Browns,
St. Louis Rumor
By O. B. Keeler.
! T 7 QV keep nMr.ng and reading
V about tennis tb-ss days; with
the Atlanta Ath.su:: Club tour*
! ^<7 just ov«r and tbs Cotton Statss
‘ r.-. amp: on ships about to star: st Cast
Lake. And then you rear and read &
■ lot about gr&lf. with a tourney erery
j week or so, staged by the A, A. C.
And there are the celebrated water
f;orts. And basket ball coming on.
And tango dancing, which is getting
Uf be regarded aa an athletic diversion
par exceiienca.
So this .3 going to l>e a mode** lit
tle word for hard bail, the Fastest
Game in the World.
• • •
U’lTLL make that assertion ftat-
* * footed vrnlch is a style that wi^
get you nert to nothing at handball.
Handball is the FASTEST GAM EL
Tennis is a pretty fast game. Bas
ket b«ul Is not exactly a ^e-dative ex
ercise. Boxing le not accomplished
with any degree of success on
crutches, and even wrestling has been
known to move perceptibly to the un
added virion.
But handbell bears the same rela
tion to these gentle diversions that
the sweet gazelle with the si.very feet
has to a kind-faced Jersey cow, pre
supposing the cow to be sitting down
in the shade while tne s. g. w l s. f.
has just heard a loud ki-yi in its im
mediate vicinity.
• • •
T HKP.E are three kinds of handball
played in this country—the origi
nal Irish, or four-wal court game;
the two-wail court modification, and
the one-v. all or oper.-fae^ court used
by the Atlanta Athletic Club.
Each type has its advantages and
its drawbacks.
But any one of the three is sixteen
times faster than the next fastest
grime in the world, which you are
, hereby permitted to select for your-
eelf. according as your tastes run to
i tennis, ticdle-de-winks, foetball or
chess.
• • •
T HE open-face courts in the lower
gym at the A. C. measure 24 feet
in length by 12 In width, and when a
regu:ar game is in progress that com
paratively limited space Is fuller of
compressed action than a Water bury
watch when the goverror slips.
The first time you see a four-hand
grime in progress—watching it safely
from the running track above—you
remark In full ac: -rd with the coun
tryman at the circus, giving Friend
Camel the once-over:
"There AIN'T no such game!*’
• • •
I T doesn’t look possible, sure enough.
And !t wounds like a sextet on the
bass firum
Four little figures exhibiting largf
I expanses of sie<-k and velvety epi-
• dermis hammer a white ball against
„ a black wall with a ferocity and vigor
j that reduce the unaccustomed mind
1 to a palpitating blank until somebody
misses and the thumping roar flat
tens out into a chorus of alibi-
Left and right. • swinging like old
Terry McGovern in a corner rally,
those four figures hammer the ball in
streaking lin*-s of white until some
desperate shot flies outside, or som*
well-aimed "kill” plunks solidly at
the base-board.
• • •
D O they hit it hard?
Well there are three standard
makes of tennis ball, and only one of
them will stand up through five
games of regular handball doubles.
Sometimes a single game is the
limit, and a ball that will resist Carle-
ton Smith s driving tennis service all
afternoon will come feebly apart at
the seams and gasp for breach.
Oh, they bit It pretty Lard.
• • •
T HEY wear specially designed
gloves to protect the hands fr m
that terrible battering. and the
punches handed that helpless pellet
would carry the K. O. label in any
ring contest. Service Is done with
the clem-bed fist and the pill shoots
back, less than six inches from the
floor, a mere white streak.
But those chap? trap :t—standing
on one ear at times < vide Dr Claude
Smith) or lying at toil length (see
Cone Maddox) or lunging this way
or that, like a big league infielder
scooping a fast one in his meat hand
in a play that brings the stands up
roaring The big league infielder
pulls that play once .n a week—
maybe: these chaps pull it a dozen
urnes a game.
SUCH IS FAME.
'/ fust got back vacationing," quoth I
To one icho reads the paper every
day
And tn surprise the lowlife made re-
fhr-
“l never knew that you had been :
a»c<jy
ms FIRST BIT
n
J
IM CORBETT In his palmiest day
played handball—was handball
champion of America at one time—
because handball was the only thing
he could find that would test the limit
of his marvelous footwork.
Jim never reached the limit in
handball.
Nobody ever will
• • •
T_J\KDBALL is as personal a strug-
j * * gle as boxing, with fewer black
eyes It is a man-to-mar. game Wom
en play tennis—lots of them. Women
play golf, and even baseball and foot
ball; and basket-ball is a favorite
woman's game.
But somehow the oid Irish game
of handball began and remains a
man’s game.
It*s that kind of a game.
• • •
I_I AXDBALL played to minutes a
1 * day the way they play it at the
athletic club will keep any man in
prime physical condition, if all the
rest of his exercise consist? In roll
ing his own cigarettes. And he won’t
roll many cigarettes, either, if he
piays handball the way It is played
at the A. C.
It develops a man from The crown
of his head to the soles of his feet,
and if there is a perforable space in
side his alleged come of thought, it
will put somethnig in there, too—
something of swift tMr.king and
prompt decision; something of the
control of* mind over muscle—and
a whole lot of the old sportsmanship
that stands to a man in the game of
life, as well as in handball.
• • •
T HEY have tournaments at the
Athletic Clab. and every player
of experience has hi? established rat
ing They pair off for practice daily,
in singles and doubles, so as to get
the most even matches possible.
And often three of them play the
well-known and desperate game of
“cut-throat.” every t;an for himself,
and you know the i^st.
• • •
*“T ARLETON SMITH enjoys the
* highest rating, probably. There
are a number who can make him
travel in high, however, and handball
is such a delightfully temperamental
game that almost anybody is likely
to trim anybody else, provided they
are anywhere near equally matched.
“Willie” Keeler and ’Gene Kelly, both
southpaws, make up a formidable
team in the doubles, their terrific
service from the port side being es
pecially hard for a right-hand team
to combat. Both are top-notchers at
singles, too.
And in the =ame rank are listed
Howard Arnold, a crack right-hander
known as the “Speed Boy;’’ Dr.
Ciaude Smith, who makes the most
We shaT not go teto the details of our
i vacation except to say that the shoot
ing wu exceptionally good In one
ri*r.e we shot six cat orals in SUCCeS-
SiOn.
Larry McLean 4 ee<* deeply fntulted
ever the fact teat a v- ga* person In t
Ph.iadeipnJa thre,* a bott.e at him. The j
bettie waa empty.
, < Philadelphia may be a slumbrous ham-
i let. but Jofcr. J McGraw & Garg have
a deep suspicion that it is subject to
nightznarea
It li himotj that a spectator was
seen recently In the Cine nnat; baseball
parte, but the rumor s unconfirmed.
SOME BOIX*
There seas a young fellow named Viox,
IYAo labored v* Pittsburgh9 emplois.
At fUldsng he starred.
And he batted so hard
That Fred Clarke sang a paean of
joir.
But Johnny Reconsidered and
Now He Is Champion Among
Featherweights.
Hugh J^rir.j, Inform* u« that Ra oh
Comstock has more nerve than any
youngster he ever aaw. It s ta d that
he has a.moet as much re-ve as a pea
nut peddler in the grand stand.
LOST IN THE JUNGLE.
A caoafi/m it a pleasure,
•1 dWtphi beyond gl/ meatven,
I ft rapture with a tweet celestial
thrill.
But it rushes all pladnett
And it fill* your heart with tad-
nett
i Wfcen you haven't got the mabin t of
a pill.
,. p r\"* c , ha "« e ‘** ' 3t , ke Bermuda
iact c, " , ° Th: » • <*■-• to tee
eii? t ^‘ aaor ° f or » r * rem.rds
him of the work ef hi* athlete*.
*.”**"•»«<** *»r!r.e otrr
•s^rf Jr. 1L €*r-i*iJy <2ivjde*d he-
1 - frfci. fight promoters ^r..~ peopj©
As we jrde-stand *t. W: e P tch e
ai^FreddeWe^ w fi fl nt fc- tr>e
w - c * S-’twe.ght - ov r a - -
cmmponsh.p.
picture
A baseball scribe avers that there is
no chc.ce between the St. Lcuis major
*eague teams Bet he does not tell js
^ here he has discovered the St. Lo' Is
major league teams
We ncte that cn e Ra ph Be » has won
nineteen stra.ght games for W.nora
Ths rtmnfls us tnat Winona s the
p'ace where B II Taft was knocked off
ths slab.
spectacualr “falling shots” ever seen:
Jack Beasley, with a penchant for[
‘killing'’ a shot with count ten-all;
Cone Maddox, heavyweight cham
pion; Fred Brine, Joe Gregg. Jr, a
veteran; Henry DeGive, Charlie Bar
ker. Ed Gay, Alvin Cates. “Tie”
Weaver, Walter DuBard, Gus Sisson
and a long list of others, notably some
new* hands on the “night side,” who
have recently been bitten by the
handball bug.
• • •
I T’S a great game to watch, hand
ball.
And lt’a & much greater game to
play.
And It's the FASTEST game in the
world.
C LEVELAND, Sept 6,—Kllbane—
the champion—talked recently
at his Avon Beach camp of
some of the fights he's had. He waa
chief gaffer of the fanfeat between &
half-dozen ardent followers of the
mitL
• The first bout I ever fought In the
ring was my last, I thought at the
time," declared Kilbane. “It was with
Herman Zahnizer at New Castle, Pa.
I was nervous and excited from the
paper talk that preceded the contest.
And when I ducked under the ropes
the crowd around the ringside de
cried my physical proportions as com
pared to the bigger and Fturdler
Zahnizer. They thought I wouldn’t
last a round, and I had much the
same feeling myself.
As they put the gloves on me I
had a conversation with myself, and
It amounted to this: ‘If I ever get
out of this ring alive I will never enter
another one I not only got out of
it heart whole and fancy free, but I
stopped Zahnizer in nine rounds, and
then, having won and being full of
enthusiasm, I naturally revised my
r. about quitting the game.
JcHnny Knew Atteli’s otyle.
“I beat Attell because I knew hie
style from having previously boxed
him in Kansas City months before the
cham pionship battle. He tried all his
stuff on me then and gave me a line
on what he had. Attell had the best
left-hand stomach punch I ever went
up against- It was just a little under-
jab into the wind, but it generally
caught you when j'ou were not pre
pared for it and slowed you up for a
half minute. I watched for that
punch at Los Aneelea and was able
to keep away from It and the left
hook to the ;aw which invariably fol
lowed.
“When I knocked out George Klris-
wood in New York the crowd Jeered
me so Lard I knew I had to deliver
my very best fighL
“ ‘Come on. you Irish staller; are
E-u going to fight to-night?’ was the
salutation that was shot at me as I
took my oraer. Kirkwood came out
wlM-eyed and swinging his big right
hand iFjm the floor. I took a few of
mem on the top of the head, and after
that I g r ’t inside with my left and I
dropped him a couple of times. I had
no more trouble with him.
Was So*’* When He Met Kirk*
“In St. Louis, when I fought Ollie
Kirk. I was so mad I could have
whipped a dozen featherweights.
Kirk had made me miss my train
home—that w^s the reason. He was
the most confident fellow you eve?
saw before a fighL and I was so anx
ious to get even with him I didirt
give him a chance to make a punch.
I stopped him quick.
“Tommy Dixon went around the
East and talked about me, telling
what a four-fiusher I was in the
boxing line. I paid him for It when
we met in SL Louis. I refused tc
knock him out, but I beat him around
the head until he couldn’t see. In
Oakland. Cal., when I defeated Jimmy
Fox I had to stand up between the
rounds. A copper who was at the
ringside stole my chair.”
County. He is the lad who won the
marathon race from Albany to 8>i-
v**t#-r Hancock is well ac quainted
with foo»bail, having had * xperienoe
on the Norman Institute t*am.
• • •
THE old men ^ * ire Bob Glover.
4 oapta;n and f ill b k of the
team. *tnd I>eo Jones, r.ght end. It
we* *h«. Glover-Jones forward pass
wombination that mad** the 1912 team
r
Wg center, and aiso the best the
school ever had and K.d Reynolds.
right tackle. This kid wa» the fast
est man on the team laet >ear Jen
kins left guard and Royals, left half,
are both coming bark. The old play
ers will constitute th* raont important
plaoejc on th«- team and w *h them
ba^k it looks like a walk away this
year for tne At*.”
P ROFESSOR J. M. THRASH Is. of
cour»e. coming back- Coacn
*ft)rash served his time under tHe ma
chine man of Tech. J. W. Hein man.
mrid he must have been a mighty apt
pupil, judging from the plays he has
taught th- Farmers W rd from
Coach Thrash at his surnmef home
■tatefe that he has evolved a number
of ?
aumnj**r and will jump right into
teaching them to his team when he
hit> the campus.
It wouldn t be half told to tell about
the Farmers without taking a glance
into the back yard of that N. i amp
There are a number of the old boys
coming back to help N L try to win
from the Farmers, among whom are
Noble, fullha/k; Austin. Arzo and
Berry Boogglns. the thr^*- brothers;
Cochran, ]>*«*, Welch White, Kir d
\! list) .rly all
art the olo team However, it is good
to know that N I. is to have a good
team. No one liken to s**e a walk
away. l'rofesrtor Scoggins will coach
his brothers and the team.
NO TRACK. IN YALE STADIUM.
NEW YORK. Kept, k -Coach Johnny
Mack, of l ale say- that there u il!
no tra/-k for athletic meet* In the new
Ya’e Htadium and that New Haven « un
never hope to hold th*- Eastern Jt.tei- *
ooUeglate tra< k and field chainp onshlp*. |
The slaudium m built In a natural de :
•cession ana the only way to have at
track would be a tunnel.
BROWNS BUY TWO PLAYERS.
BI RLINGTON, IOWA. Sent 6 -
Pitcher .Jacobs and Catcher Hale, of
th* Burlington Pathflr.o. * ^ have b*en
•old to the St I>ju1s Br< u n* for $r. <KX»
The men have formed on*- ■<( the classi-
est batten*-* in the Central Association
tLt* sea&ju.
NEW YORK Kept i.—“Don’t think
for a minute I talk thi* way to protect
rr -* f because we re a*t.“ says Frank
manager A the New York
Americans 1 didn’t believe such a
bunch of dummies could be assembled
on one club until I Joined the Yankees.
The> didn't know ths first principles of
baseball Not only that, they didn't
try In the clubhouse when we were
losing in the spring, everybody laughed,
whistled and told funny stories
That doesn't win ball games Base
ball is serious. If you want to get on
top The Cubs were on top because
the boys had one thought baseball and
to win They figured out plays before
each game how to fool the enemy. It
I was nothlrg but baseball with them.
"Of course, now. a smart manager can
: fr*» ever'‘thing out of a player H** must
► * idy h s boys, see how he is going to
direct them
“But If you haven’t the class you
! can’t squeeze water out of a rock, and
J If you haven’t the class you’re not go
ing to win."
Navin Denies $70,000
Offer for Ball Club
Detroit Magnate Adds He Docs Not
Care to Sell Providence
Team.
DETROIT, MICH., Sept. 6 -Presi
dent Navin this afternoon denied that
he had been offered $70,000 for the
Providence club by a syndicate of
Providence capitalists, as reported
from that city.
“I wouldn't “ell the club for that
price, anyway," he said. “I paid $75,-
000 for it two years ago, and have
sent about $-'5,000 worth of players
there since We don’t care particu
larly to »eil it. though, of course, we
would if offered money enough. We
had a pretty good team there this
year except for lark of good pitching,
even though it is finishing low. We
will have a better one next year. Be-
sl'Je* it’s a good place to train Ti
gers."
MITCHELL TO BE GOLF “PRO."
LONDON. Kept. 4—"Abe” Mitchell,
the English amateur golfer, who has
entered for the American amateur golf
championship at Garden City, L. I to
day announced his intention of becom
ing a professional as soon as he Is of
fered a suitable position. He was the
runner-up for the British amateur
* hampionship last year
Heavies of To-day
Are Lacking in Skill
Borne persona have remarked that
more of the heavyweight fighters have
been killed in 1912 by blows than in any
one year that the oldest fans can re
member Why is it, do you suppose?
Many answers have been advanced, but
the most plausible one appears to be
that the present crop of heavyweights
is one that lacks cleverness
A fighter must have some natural abil
ity and must be fitted by nature to stand
great strain However, there has been
so much demand for a heavyweight hope
t<» beat Jack Johnson that many young
men <>f stalwart appearance, and not
ever, half fitted for Buch a rugged, un
dertaking but who have been Attracted
by ths call of goid, have become mar
tyrs to the game. One has but to cite
the Calgary affair of May. when a
fourth-rater killed Luther McCarty by a
blow McCarty In previous fights had
trait ed to the minute. Luther, accord
ing to the statements of his trainers
following his death, did not train a lick,
as he was confident that he would de
feat Pelkey without half trying Over-
confidence and the lack of physical fit
ness caused McCarty's untimely end. In
the more recent accidental killing of
BuU Young by Jess Willard again the
la*'ft of condition of the former resulted
In his death. Willard is considered but
a third rater, and to have killed Young
indicates that Bull must have been
practically a novice Willard never has
claimed to be a hard hitter.
The pages of the priie ring history,
when men possessed real cleverness,
show' there w»*re no fatalities when Jem
Mace, Jake Kllrain. Paddy Ryan. Jim
Corbett. Jim Jeffries, Tom Bharkey, Joe
Choynski. KM McCoy. Peter Maher and
many other big fellows held the public
attention They fought with real clev-
8T. LOUIS, MO, Sept 6.—That
i Branch Rickey, scout and legal ad-
1 viser of the Browns, will succeed
* George Stovall a» manager on Sep-
| tember 8. when the club departs on
Its last Eastern trip, was authorita
tively reported to-day. Although the
Browns’ management would not con
firm the report, it is generally un
derstood that the change will be
made.
President Ban Johnson of the
American League reached this city
unannounced and was closeted with
President Hedges of the Browns the
greater part of the day.
Ban Johnson's visit to this city
usually eventuates in important base
ball developments. He seldom calls
j without an Important reason for be-
I ing here.
Ban Johnson is said to have dis
liked Stovall ever since the urnpire-
j spitting episode.
MORE RACES FOR DECATUR.
! DECATUR. ILL.. Kept 6—As a re-
i suit of the sucres* of the Great Western
! race circuit meeting here, it has been
! decided to give a September race meet
ing Entries are now being received
! The dates selected will be in the third
week of the month.
Has Won First Ffocs
os Merit
® * rl
BOXING CLUB IS CHARTERED.
MADISON. WIS . Sept «.-The Secre- I
tary of State ha* Issued a charter to the ,
South Side Athletic Club of Milwaukee,
which will be a competitor of the !
Queer sberry Athletic Club of th* same j
city In giving boxing sbo6s next win
ter
PUGH BOAT IS SENT ABROAD.
NKW YORK. Kept. 6.—The Disturber
III . the hydroplane which won th* free-
for-all championship and the Wrigiey
cup at Chicago, ha* ben shipped by
Jarne- A I’ugn. her owner, to England
to compete In the forthcoming race* for
the Briti*h International trophy for mo
tor boats.
U. S. RIFLE TEAM NAMED.
CAMP PERKY. OHIO. Kept 6 —
Twelve sharpshooters were yesterday
appointed on the Palma team to repre- I
sent the United Ktates In the contest
with Canada, Sweden and other coun
tries for the Palma trophy on Septem- }
her h The United State* defeated Gan- i
»da in this contest in 1?0T and again
last year, each time by world records.
HOBE FERRIS RELEASED.
ST. PAUL, Sept 6.—Hobe Ferris, :
utility Infielder for the local tear# of i
the American Association, ha* been '
given hi* unconditional release. He i
will leave for his home at Providence,
R. I. Ferris’ release came a* the re
sult of the addition of McKochnie to
1 the team. .
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