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4 C 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* : ■ 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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