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4 TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICA^, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEAfRER 7, 1913. All the News of the Boxinir World ,e Pasre: S.DJ. FOOTBALL TEAM SHOULD BE BEST IN HISTORE Six Veterans to Return for Places on Second District Agricul tural Gridiron Squad. T 1FTON, GA., Sept. 6.—Looking at It through the typewriter, before school has opened and the grueling gridiron battles begun, the 1913 pigskin team of the Second District Agricultural team is going to be the best ever put out by this Institution of huskies. At the present time it looks as though the team for this year will be belter than that of last Six of laat year's warriors have a 1 ready signi fied their intention of returning to th* fold, and with them will < orne a number of men who have had ex perience at other school**, besides the scrubs of last year and the raw ma terial. Probably the brightest hope of the new students is Hancock, from Worth Giving an Idea of the ( < \uiet, Restful Poses in the Speediest Game of All These three players are among those helping to make handball, as played on the courts of the Atlanta Athletic Club, famous in the South as the fastest game, indoors or out, that the realm of athletics has yet produced. At the top is M. E. (“Willie”) Keeler; at 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 wonderinglv by members who have never tackled the “speediest game in the world.” Cliance Roasts Yanks, Calls Club 'Dummies/ AndMaybeHe'sRight County. He is the lad who won the marathon race from Albany to Syl- Yester. Hancock is* well acquainted with football, having had experience on the Norman Institute team. • • • 'THE old men back are Bob Glover. * captain and full back <>f the team, and Leo Jones, right end. It v cMov^r-Jones forward pass Combination that made the 1912 team p * neu Ha re arc Owens, the big center, and also the best the school ever had and Kid Reynoloj, right tackle. This kid was the fast est man on the team last year. Jen kins. left guard, and Royals, left half, are both coming back. The old play ers will constitute the most important places on the team, and with them back it looks like a walk-away this l KOFESSOR J. M THRASH la. of * . ..uiar, coming LmcK. Coach Thrash served his time under the ma chine man of Tech. J. W. Hetsman, and he must have been a mighty apt pupil. Judging from the plays he has taught the Farmers. Word from Coach Thrash at his summer home state gnat he has evolved a number of fast and tricky plays during the summer, and will ju lip right into teaching them to his (earn when he hits the campus. It wouldn t be half told to tell about the Farmers without taking a glance Into the back yard of that N. 1. camp. There are a number of the old boys coming back to help N. I. try to win from the Farmers, among whom are Noble, fullback; Austin. Arzo and Berry Scoggins, the three brothers; Cochran, Lee, Welch. White. Elrod and McMath. Which is nearly all of the old team. However, it is good to know that N. I is to have a good team. No one likes to see a walk away. Professor Scoggins will coach his brothers and the team. NO TRACK IN VALE STADIUM. NEW YORK Sept 6.—Coach Johnny Mack, of Yale, says that there will be no track for athletic meets in the new Tale Stadium and that New Haven can never hope to hold the Eastern inter collegiate track and field championships. The staudlum is built in a natural de pression and the only way to have a tigck would be a tunnel. BP PA her Jacobs and Catcher Hale, of Burlington Pathfinders, have been HVd to the St Louis Browns for $5 000. "he men have formed one of the classi est ba’firies in the Central Association tLis season. NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—‘'Don’t think for a minute i tulk this way to protect myself because we’re ast." says Frank Chance. manager A the New York Americans. “I didn’t believe such a bunch of dummies could he assembled on one club until 1 joined the Yankees. They didn't know the first principles of baseball. Not only that, they didn't try lr 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 was nothing hut baseball with them. "Of course, now. a smart manager can get everything out of a player He must study his hoys, see how he is going to direct them. "But if you haven't the class you can't squeeze wuter out of a rock, and 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 Does Not Care to Sell Providence Team. DETROIT, MICH.. Sept 6.—Presi dent Navin this afternoon denied that be had been offered $70,000 for the Providence club by a syndicate of Providence capitalists, as reported from that city. "I wouldn’t sell the club for that price, anyway,” he said ”1 paid $75.- 000 for it two years ago, and have sent about $25,000 worth of players there since. We don’t care particu larly to sell it. though, of course, we would If offered money enough. We had a pretty good team there this year except for lack of good pitching, even though It Is finishing low. We will have a better one next year Be sides. it’s a good place to train Ti gers.” BROWNS BUY TWO PLAYERS. URLINGTON, IOWA, Sept. 6 — MITCHELL TO BE GOLF "PRO.” LONDON, Sept. 6.—"Abe” Mitchell, the English amateur golfer, who has entered for the American amateur golf championship at Garden City. L 1. to- j lay announced his intention of becom ing a professional as soon as he is of- I fered a suitable position. He was the runner-up for the British amateur championship last year PUGH BOAT IS SENT ABROAD NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The Disturber fill, the hydroulane which won the free- for-all championship and the Wrigley cup at Chicago, has hen shipped by I James A. Pugh. her owner, to England to compete in the forthcoming races for the Briush international trophy for mo tor boaaa. Heavies of To-day Are Lacking in Skill Some persons 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 groat strain. However, there has been so much demand for a heavyweight hope to beat Jack Johnson that many young men of stalwart appearance, and not even half fitted for such a rugged un dertaking, but who have been attracted by the call of gold, 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 trained 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 I’elkey without half trying Over confidence and the lack of physical fit ness caused McCarty's untimely end. In the more recent accidental killing of Bull Young by Jess Willard again the lack 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 prize ring history, when men possessed real cleverness, show there were no fatalities when Jem Mace. Jake Kilrain. Paddy Ryan. Jim Corbett. Jim Jeffries. Tom Sharkev, Joe Choynskl, KM McCoy, Peter Maher and many other big fellows held the public attention They fought with real clev erness Branch Rickey To Lead Browns, St. Louis Rumor ST. LOUIS. MO., Sept. 6.—That Branch Rickey, scout and legal ad viser of the Browns, will succeed George Stovall as 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 le 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 without an important reason for be ing here. Ban Johnson is said to have dis liked Stovall ever since the umpire spitting episode. • What Is World’s Fastest Game? +•+ Answer: Handball—See A.A.C. By O. B. Keeler. Y OU keejj hearing and reading about tennis these days, with the Atlanta Athletic Club tour ney Just over and the Cotton States championships about to start at East Lake. And then you hear and read a lot about golf, with a tourney every week or so, staged by the A. A. C. And there are the celebrated water sports. And basket ball coming on. And tango dancing, which is getting to be regarded as an athletic diversion par excellence. So this i9 going to be a modef»t lit tle word for handball, the Fastest Game in the World. • * • \V ITLL make that assertion flat- vv footed, which is a style that will get you next to nothing at handball. Handball is the FASTEST GAME. Tennis la a pretty fast game. Bas ket ball is not exactly a sedative ex ercise. Boxing not accomplished with any degree of success on crutches, and even wrestling has been known to move perceptibly to the un aided vision. But handball bears the same rela tion to these gentle diversions that the sweet gazelle with the silvery feet has to a kind-faced Jersey cow, pre supposing the cow to be sitting down fn the shade while the s. g. w. t. s. f. has Just heard a loud ki-yl in its im mediate vicinity. • • * T HERE are three kinds of handball played in this country—the origi nal Irish, or four-wall court game; the two-wall court modification, and the one-wall or open-face 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 game In the world, which you are hereby permitted to select for your self. according as your tastes run to tennis, tidale-de-winks football 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 regular game is in progress that com paratively limited space is fuller of compressed action than a Waterbury watch when the governor slips. The first time you see a four-hand game in progress—watching it safely from the running track above—you remark in full accord 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 it sounds like a sextet on the bass drum. Four little figures exhibiting large expanses of sleek and velvety epi dermis hammer a white ball against a black wall with a ferocity and vigor that reduce the unaccustomed mind to a palpitating blank until somebody misses and the thumping roar flat tens out Into a chorus of alibis. Left and right, swinging like old Terry McGovern in a corner rally, those four figures hammer the ball in streaking lines of white until some desperate shot flies outside, or some 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 breath. Oh, they hit it pretty hard. • • • T HEY wear specially designed gloves to protect the hands from 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 clenched fist, and the pill shoots back, less than six Inches from the floor, a mere white streak. But those chaps trap it—standing on one ear at times (vide Dr. Claude Smith) or lying at full 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 inflelder pulls that play once in a week— maybe; these chaps pull it a dozen times a game. • • • J IM CORBETT in his palmiest day played handball—was handball champion of America at one time— because handball was the only thin# he could find that would test the limit of his marvelous footwork. Jim never reached the limit in handball. Nobody ever will. • • • TJANDBALL Is as personal a strug- ** gle as boxing, with fewer black eyes. It is a man-to-man 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 old Irish game of handball began and remains a man’s game. It’s that kind of a game. # * * I_J ANDBALL played 30 minutes a A 1 day the way they play it at the athletic club will keep any man in prime physical condition, If all the Test of his exercise consists in roll ing his own cigarettes. And he won’t roll many cigarettes, either, if he plays 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 dome of thought, It will put somethnlg in there, too— something of swift thinking 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 Club, and every player of experience has his 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 man for himself, and you know the rest. * * * 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 inear 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 same rank are listed Howard Arnold, a crack right-hander known as the “Speed Boy;” Dr. Claude Smith, who makes the most Sports andSuch SUCH IS FAME. “J just got back vacationing," quoth I To one who reads the paper every day. And in surprise the lowlife made re* ply- "I never knew that you had been awayt" We shall not go into the details of our vacation except to say that the shoot ing was exceptionally good. In one game we shot six naturals in succes sion. Larry McLean feels deeply Insulted over the fact that a vulgar person In Philadelphia threw a bottle at him. The bottle was empty. Philadelphia may be a slumbrous ham let, but John J. McGraw & Gang have a deep suspicion that It is subject to nightmares. It Is rumored 'hat a spectator was seen recently in the Cincinnati baseball park, but the rumor Is unconfirmed. SOME BOIX. There was a young fellow named Viox, Who labored in Pittsburg's emplois. At fielding he starred, And he batted so hard That Fred Clarke sang a paean of joix. Hugh Jennings Informs us that Ralph Comstock has more nerve than any youngster he ever saw. It is said that he has almost as much nerve at a pea nut peddler In the grand stand. LOST IN THE JUNGLE. A vacation is a pleasure, A delight beyond all measure, It's rapture with a sweet celestial thrill. Rut it banishes all gladness And it fills your heart with sad ness When you haven't got the makin's of a pill. Frank Chance does not like Bermuda as a training camp. This is due to the fact that the odor of onions reminds him of the work of his athletes. ob ® Prva Uons during our J ? ™ Wisconsin, we found the pop. u-atlon of the state equally divided be tween fight promoters and people. As we understand It. Willie Ritchie and Freddie Welch will fight for the world's lightweight moving picture championship. A baseball scribe avers -that there is no choice between the St. Louis major league teams. But he does not tell us where he has discovered the St. Louis major league teams. We note that one Ralph Bell has won 1 nineteen straight games for Winona. ! This reminds us that Winona is the ! place where Bill Taft was knocked off the slab. [ T But Johnny Reconsidered and Now He Is Champion Among Featherweights. speotaoualr “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, W alter 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. • • • T T’S a great game to watch, hand- 1 ball. And It’s a much greater game to play. And it’s the FASTEST game in the world. C LEVELAND, Sept. 6.—Kilbane— the champion—talked recently at his Avon Beach camp of some of the fights he’s had. He was chief gaffer of the fanfest between a half-dozen ardent followers of the mitt. “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. 1 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 sturdier 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 decision about quitting the game. Johnny Knew Attell's otyle. “I beat Attell because I knew his style from having previously boxed him in Kansas City months before the championship 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 you were not pre pared for it and slowed you up for a half minute. I watched * for that punch at Los Angeles and was able to keep away from it and the left hook to the jaw which invariably fol lowed. “When I knocked out George Kirk wood in New York the crowd jeered me so hard I knew I had to deliver my very best fight. “'Come on, you Irish staller; are you going to fight to-night?’ was the salutation that was shot at me as I took my corner. Kirkwood came out wiM-eyed and swinging his big right hand from the floor. I took a few of them on the top of the head, and after that I got inside with my left and I dropped him a couple of times. I had no more trouble with him. Was Sore 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 was the reason. He was the most confident fellow you ever saw before a fight, and I was so anx ious to get even with him I didn't 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-flusher I was in the boxing line. I paid him for It when we met in St. Louis. I refused t( 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.” MORE RACES FOR DECATUR. DECATUR. ILL.. Sept 6.—As a re sult of the success of the Great Western race circuit meeting here, it has been I decided to give a September race meet- I ing Entries are now being received The dates selected will be in the third : week of the month. U. S. RIFLE TEAM NAMED. CAMP PERRY. OHIO. Sept. »>.— Twelve sharpshooters were yesterday appointed on the Palma team to repre sent the United States in the contest with Canada. Sweden and other coun tries for the Palma trophy on Septem ber 8 The United States defeated Can ada in this contest in 1907 and again last year, each time by world records. HOBE FERRIS RELEASED. ST. PAUL. Sept. 6.—Hobe Ferris, utility inflelder for the local team of the American Association. ha.-i been j given his unconditional release. He will leave for his home at Providence. ! R. I. Ferris’ release came as the re sult of the addition of McKochnie to i the team. BOXING CLUB IS CHARTERED. MADISON. \V1S., Sept. 6 —The Secre tary of State has issued a charter to the South Side Athletic Club of Milwaukee, which will be a competitor of the Queensberry Athletic Club of the same city in giving boxing shows next win ter ONEY LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collators! Security Without Roal Eetata Security NATIONAL DISCOUNT CO. 1211-13 NHM Bank Btdg. 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