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I 5HE* 6o7 A PtPi ry CAME BV PAKCLl'S Post -fmi MORWiNG ,4WD ^ n ms" hek lire Jg -THl R4PPR atJ /c— Tfit \>/4ll! >-iE1 1 6ui£S IF /4 ROM TUB'S- DID ME FER. FORtV Vty4R^ I rim <3i~r ALotJ& vtffTHcwr “THE OC9AU FER ^ YmKa a S^eu Vrr‘. T ~T/4RE it from M6 # Perrin. HAR 1 . fLtf>! I kTU JEiT Pitcher M4 om The beach ikj &ort Skirts ah’ 5Tlk f TyrocKitlGS! i- L'JuSt FimiSheo HElPlWCr HER INTO 17 AH' BELIEUE ME. &UE'S <>oM£ GnOtttt! V'NEV/ER WILL* (Come iw hlre a OUTTA "TMIs R»6 HEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913. PROMOTERS FOR DEATH IF THE Slain Fighter Did Not Possess Sufficient Skill to Cope With Boxer Like Willard. B EC A TIKE a novice, a eparrlng partner and hangar on around training cam pa dJad aa tha re- •ntt of a match In which ha engaged last weak at Lob Angel an, a great cry 1b raised by opponents of the game in all parts of the country. They ana making more stir over the acci dent to an almost unknown bo*er than is made If a doaen men i a killed playing football, baseball, polo or other sports, as they are each As a matter of foot deaths ooonr Ma Must Have Seen Herseit m the Glass Polly and Her Pals *** ** 'Sol A For |M50.R4. US' 1 WTTH World on These Pares AH the News of the Boxim every once In a while In running rare* through overexertion and there has been quite a number of deaths In wrestling contests. The Los An geles fatality was doe to a good man being eent against a boxer >f no clcee at all, the latter being so badly beaten he succumbed. The promoters of the one-sided match and not the boring game In general should be blamed for the fatality. The cases are few and far between of ring fatalities where the contest ants are well trained boxers some where near equally matched. Some times the promoters become over- greedy. as seems to have been the case In Los Angeles, and match good men against men they outclass tlm- P>7 because a good gate can be G RHJHJDT promoters and Incompe tent referees are more often re sponsible for deaths In the ring than are the contestants Capable ref erees will stop matches In which one of the contestants Is beaten down 10 the point of danger through a hard blow, as the Willard-Young bout In Los Angeles should have been •topped. But It should never have been staged Willard Is a fairly clas sy heavyweight and one of the big gest men who ever crawied through the ropes Young was big and that about let him out. Much ado was made over Lnther McCarty's death, yet It developed afterward that his heart was very weak and that no blow that his op ponent landed greatly Injured him, his death rather being due to overen- ertlon than any other cause. Grand Rapid* saw a death several years ago that was due to the referee not stopping the contest when for several rodnds before the unfortunate boxer hit the floor with the back of his head with fatal result It was plain to be seen he stood no chance of winning. • • • FjOWlt In Hewtlnrs last spring two * * amstsur boxers engaged In a bou f that was part of an athletic program, they traveling together and being the best of friends. Overexertion caused the death of one of them. Th it caused the ban to be placed on boxing in Michigan. Those States which have legalised boxing and appointed commissions which pass upon promoters and have the power to forbid one-sided con tests have the right Idea. They al»7 Insist on capable referees and pla.’e safeguards around it that none witn the best interests of the game nt heart will oppose. There always have been such contest# and there always will be boxing In America. Why not surround It with all possible tafa- guardsT Bull Yonng they called the so sailed boxer who met his death 1n the California mill. Tt Is doubtful if one In 100 of those who follow the game closely had ever heard of him. Yet he was matched agains* a top-notcher among the white heavy-weight* Charley Herzog May Be Traded to Cards Recent Deal Between Pirates and Phillies Not Completed, Say Pittsburg Rumors. 8T. LOU1B, Sept «.—The recent trade between the Pirates and Phillies which sent Bobby Byrne and Howard Cam nit* to the Quakers and "Coxy" Dolan to the Corsairs has brought out consider able oomment In different baseball head quarters. According to a tip received yesterday, the swap la not completed, but will oaue« several more changes during the winter season. One rumor from Pittsburg Is that Bobby Byrne will land with the Giants and that Charley Herzog will become a Cardinal The Phils, having Hans l>o- bert on third, surely can not find any room for the St. Louis boy, and Bob is far too clever to be used for utility pur poses. When the Cardinals sent "Doc” Cran dall back to the Giants, Manager Hug gins announced that he was to receive another player from McGraw, and ac cording to the reports, Herzog is the * 01 one who will come here during the win ter That will leave a vacancy in the Giants - Infield, b it the trade between the Pirates and Phils Is expected to ship Byrne over to the Giants Byrne Joined the Pirates in 11*09, being traded by Roger Biesnahan, when boss of the Cardinals, for "Jap -- Barbeau and the late Allan Siorke. The North Side boy really saved the pennant for the Pirates that year, and was a star In the world’s series with the Tigers. catarrh: OF THE J bladder; Relieved la j 24 Hours; Each Cap- ✓—■>, , oule bears the (m|QY) % name */* , JSet/xare of cmiv\ terfHta \ S.BJ.FDDTBIlLL Ritch ^ WeIsh * n Next Title G +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•* TEAM SHOULD BE Champion Has Dodged ToughOnes Six Veterans to Return for Places on Second District Agricul tural Gridiron Squad. T IFTON, OA., 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 Ihstrlct 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 better than that of last. Six of last year’s warriors have already signi fied their Intention of returning to the fold, and with them will come a number of men who have had ex perience at other schools, besides the scrubs of last year and the raw ma terial. Probably the brightest hope of the new students Is Hancock, from Worth County. He Is the lad who won the marathon race from Albany to Syl vester. Hancock Is well acquainted with football, having had experience on the Norman Institute team. • • • THE old men hack are Bob Glover. * captain and full back of the team, and Leo Jones, right end. It was the Glover-Jones forward pass combination that made the 1912 team possible. Then there are Owens, the big center, and also the best the school ever had. and Kid Reynolds, 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 year for the Aggies • • • PROFESSOR J. M. THRASH is, of * course, coming bark. Coach Thrash served his time under the ma chine man of Tech, J. W. Helsm&n, and be must have been a mighty apt pupil, Judging from the plays he has taught the Partners. Word from Coach Thrash at his Rummer home states that he has evolved a number of fast and tricky plays during the summer, and will Jump right Into teaching them to his team 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. I. 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 McMuth. Which is nearly all of the old team. However, It is good to know that N. 1. is to have a good learn. No one likes to see a walk away. Professor Scoggins will coach his brothers and the team. Mrs, Locke Joins Women Club Owners; Controls Phillies PHILADELPHIA. Bept 6.—Women** rights are becoming real and earnest In the major leagues To-dav three wo rm n control the majority stock In three National League clubs—Philadelphia. New York and St Ixuiis. The hand or I Providence gave this power to the wo men in each instance, j Mrs. Locke, widow of the president , of the Phillies, is the most reoent of the trio of women magnates. She ob- ! mined a controlling interest in the lo- . cal National League club recently when j her husband died In Atlantic City. Al- 1 though n official announcement was 1 made at the time Mr. Locke purchased ! the Phillies last January, it is under stood that he was able to provide enough (•pital to get a big block, sufficient to J c utrol the club. Since Mrs Lxcke Is said to be thf sole beneficiary of his estate in Mr Locke's will, that stock will revert By W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO. Sept. The next contest for the lightweight championship of the world will take place on British territory. The principals will he Willie Ritchie, the title holder, and Freddie Welsh, who la the proud possessor of the Lord Lons dale belt, for superiority on the Eng lish side of the water. * So far the match ha* had Its share of tribulation and trial* September 1 was the date originally set, but owing to an accident to Welsh the plans were changed. It was a sprained ankle that kept Freddie from living up to his agreement with Ritchie, but now the wrenched foot Is right again and new articles have been drawn up calling for a bout on September 20. ^ _ F Freddie Is careful, there la noth ing to prevent everything going as merrily as a championship bill, al though many of the harder headed sports who were skeptical in regard to Welsh’s chances, have grown more skeptical still. They know that a sprained ankle Is a treacherous thing, often taking months to heal. They argue that if you scratch a fighter he is merely human and that when It comfs to a matter of twisted liga ments there Is no reason for suppos ing that a ring man will recover quicker than a man in any Other walk of Ufa. , . . . However, there are sprained ankles and sprained ankles. It Is Just possi ble that Welsh suffered from a very light form of the visitation and that he "rounded to” quickly. He Is said to be a worldly young man. and, sup posing the match is what it is adver tised to be, a genuine struggle for the mastery, it is hardly likely that he would risk his prestige unless he knew himself to he thoroughly sound In wind and limb. While the writer ha* held, and still holds, that others among the world’s lightweights are as much entitled to a crack at the championship as Welsh. 1 am willing to concede that he is the flower of the British light weight flock. He has beaten Matt Wells, who recently vanquished Hughle Mehegan, champion of Aus tralia, and that places him at the top of the tree. • • • \imiLE T believe there are several VV youngsters in this country who could * defeat Welsh If given the chance, I am free to confess that he is more thoroughly a national represen tative in pugilism than Ritchie. The latter has not shown himself to be the best lightweight In America. He has sidetracked a meeting with Har lem Tommy Murphy, on the plea that "Murphy will keep” and if there Is a suggestion of reciprocity anywhere concealed about the fighting game he owes Ad Wolgast a return match. But the Welsh-Ritchie match has been consummated, for better or for worse, and it la to wait and see what comes of it. There is considerable shrewdness 1n Ritchie’s contention that "Murphy will keep." It Is the sage remark of a youth who prefers tackling the easier lob first. For, no matter what is really In store for him when he faces Welsh In the Vancouver arena on September 20, Willie believes that defeating Welsh will prove a less strenuous task than conquering Tom my Murphy. • • • T'HTfl much 1s gained from a man ■ who was in Ritchie’s confidence when the successor of Wolgast was touring the vaudeville circuit. While Ritchie has given out very little about his ring plans, he was watching the trend of affairs pugilistic closely and talking a good deal in private of what would happen when his theatrical en gagements came to an end. Like the brainy youth he Is. he classified his prospective opponents and placed them and considered the least dan gerous on the preferred list. He promised himself that he would box Joe Rivers, Leach Cross and Freddie Welsh, If possible in the order named, and that the others "would keep.” He expressed the opinion that none of the three named would hurt him, and when he said it he meant that It was not In Joe, Leach or Freddie to hurt him physically or damage his prestige. He showed himself a wire prophet, «o far as Rivers was con cerned and it remains to be seen how his estimate of Welsh pans out. • * • H E certainly should have known more about Freddie than either <ft the others named, as he has met him before And he was in a position to furnish good reason for opining that it was not in Welsh to damage him. At a few hours’ notice he took Ad Wolgast’s place against Welsh In a contest staged in Los Angeles. With out training and little knowledge of the professional ring, Ritchie made such a close thing of it with Welsh that there were times when Freddie’s friends around the ring were looking for opportunities to hedge their bets. Now. if Ritchie, the novice, could do well against the talented Britisher a couple of years ago It is far from presumption on Ritchie’s part to fig ure that he can hold Welsh safelj under altered conditions. Ritchie has had much experience since then and has all the confidence a champion should possess, w’hiie Welsh is thought to be less dashing than he was at the time of the las' meeting. But you can’t always tell. Welsh, while he has had a few setbacks as far as health is concerned, has been going strong for several months. His performance with Wells is suf ficient to show that Freddie is far from a weakling, for Welsh Is as rug ged a fellow as the lightweight divi sion boasts. First Battle Under New Wiscon sin Law Will Probably Be for Bantam Title. F RANK MTHUCERN, the newsboy millionaire promoter of prize fight* In Milwaukee, is expect ing to be first in the field with a box ing contest staged under the new ten-round boxing law passed by Wis consin. Mulkern announces that he ha* practically closed arrangements for a bout between John Gutenko, known a* Kid Williams, of Baltimore, and Johnny Coulon, still bantamweight champion. * * • T HE affair will be ten rounds and decisionless, but the chances are that Kid Williams will be there with the kick hard enough to stop It before the limit. Mulkern states that Coulon has al ready consented and that Sam Harris, who Is handling Williams, has prac tically agreed to the match, to take place this month. • • • \17HILE the affair can not be strict- ly called a championship con test, the fact that the two men con cerned are the two most likely candi dates for the title will enhance Inter est In the meeting Coulon is supposed to be "all in.” Tf this Is the case, he is picking out a dangerous foe to exhibit with. Food for Sport Fans c ■y QKOMaa a. phair. SUCSM IS FAME. “I just got bad vacationing,” quoth I To one ic-bo reads the paper every day, And in surprise the lowlife made re- ply: “/ never knew that you had been away /” We shall not go Into the details of our vacation except to say that the shoot ing wu exceptionally good. In one game we shot six naturals in succes sion. \ Larry McLean feels deeply Insulted over the fact 'hat 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 Vioao, 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 K oungster he ever saw. It is said that e has almost as much nerve as a pea nut peddler In the grand stand. LOST IN THE JUNGLE. A vacation is a pleasure, A delight beyond all measure. IVs rapture with a sweet celestial thrill. But it banishes all gladness And it fills your heart with sad ness When you haven't got the nuihin’s of a pill Frank Chance does not like Bermuda as a training camp. This la due to the fact that the odor of onions reminds him of the work of his athlete* 8 i sojourn in Wisconsin, we found the pop ulation 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 team* We note that one Ralph Bell has won nineteen straight games for Winona. This reminds us that Winona Is the place where Bill Taft was knocked off ths slab. Those Cardinals, who are alleged to play baseball In St. Louis are said 'o be financially embarrassed. No, Rollo, yon gentleman In tears Is not Roger Bresnahan. Tom Burrows, an English athlete, swung a pair of Indian clubs 97 hours and then collapsed. And yet English sportsmen go all the way to Africa to hunt Ivory. BEAR STORIES. Oft, as the fall dags wane And dead leaves fall around us, We feel an awful pain As football writers hound us, The howls, the wails, the tearful tales Of arms and ankles fractured. The cries of grief beyond belief By fakers manufactured. Oft, as the fall days wane \ And dead leaves fall around us, ' We feel an awful pain As hard luck stories hound us. Boxing Fatalities of The Last Five Years Jlmmle Ryan Young Evens..1909 John Vanderbeck.. William Kaney.1909 John Murray John Taylor...1909 Harrison Foster... John Taylor...1909 Tommy McCarthy. Owen Mora*.. .1909 Max Lundy Jos. O’Brle*.. .1910 Frank Cole. ...^.. .Stanley Roger*1910 Gilbert Trehon.... Frank Kelxer.,1910 Ginger Williams... Kid Kranmeth.1910 Alois Wllkowskl... Harry Gilmore.1910 Curley Watson.... Frank lnglla..1910 John Heflin Willis Elder...1910 Fred Castor Wm. Clothier..1910 Kid Fisher Frank Hail....1910 Kid Hyland Fred Munne. ..T910 W. H. Brlnkmeyer. Fred Munne. ..1910 Ed Scully Tommy Welch.1910 Kid Gardner John Kaln 1911 William Lake Joe Choynskl. 1911 Joe Ketchel Billy Walters..1911 Raphael Belli Bill Evernden..1912 George Nusseln.. ..Joe Dragons...1912 Clyde Lincoln Reno Tyson....1912 Kid Rose... Sailor Smith...1912 Albert Vefle Young Rltchle.1912 Tommy Lavelle... Swat Adamson.1913 Bill Allen T'r'm’n Brady.1913 Luther McCarty. ..Arthur Pelky..1913 John Young, Jr....Jess Willard...1913 Nick Altrock May Be Let Out by Griffith WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 6.—Nick Altrock may find himself released ere long to make way for youngsters, who will be given every opportunity to make good. Nick is a philosopher of the first water, and knows Just about where he stands. He has been of great value to the team this year, and while he has helped turn the funny ones right along, there Is a whole lot of solid good turned in by the handsomest man In baseball, which has warranted his being kept on the roll. unless some other arrangement rs MORE RACES FOR DECATUR. DECATUR. ILL, Sept. 6.—As a re sult of the success of the Great Western I raco circuit meeting here, it has been decided to give a September race meet- I ing Entries are now being received, j The dates selected will be In the third j w eek of tl e month, BOXING CLUB IS CHARTERED. MADISON, WIS., 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 Queensberrv Athletic Club of the same city in giving boxing allows next win- Plank andMathewson Will Renew Old Feud NEW YORK. Sept. 6—Since the Na tlonal Commission has seen flt to set ai this early day the opening date of the world’s series it Is In order to remark that pitchers may be Christopher Ma thewson for the Giants and Eddie Plarik for the Athletics. It will be a sort of continuation of their long-standing feud. “Matty" has been pitching about the same number of years as Connie’s star and both are go ing great now Back in 1905. when they were both comparatively youngsters, they began their battle and they continued It in 1911, but the result was satisfactory to neither Plank nor to M&thewson. They are regarded a* the mainstays of their teams. Therefore about them are built the prospects of the expected clash between the Athletics and the Giants. They both will be primed for the struggle. "Matty” is going to be better than he ha* in some time. Plank’s breaks and shoots are still puzzling good batters. Under such conditions It Is but logical to expect that It will be a battle royal be tween them when they meet on the field In the opening clash of the biggest event baseball, provided, of course, their respective teams win the honor to sup port the standards of the National and American leagues. Matty” has been pitted •**’Ttinst the Athletics before and his teammates have already predicted that he will have them ■m> sized up by The time the contesi comes there will be nothing to It but “Matty” and the Giants. But this Is purely a New' York viewpoint. Is there any reason to believe tnat Plank will not have Just as much of an edge on the Giants? He has pitched against New York be fore and he knows how to use his head; therefore, why should he not know when a hatter likes a curve and when he I likes a fast one and when he likes ’em j "o Hie side and when he’d rather have | them outekie, aieo kifh and low? 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 great 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 degJh, did not train a lick, as he was continent 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 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 bard 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 Sharkey. Joe Cbovnski. Kid McCoy, Peter Maher and many other big fellows held the public attention. They fought, with real clev erness. FELTON REFUSES $15,000 PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Sept it-Sam Felton, famous ex-Harvard pitcher, to day turned down Connie Mack's offer of $15,009 for a three-year contract. Sev eral other major league clubs are said W be alter Hit some pitches. Won Firtt MmrU A. •J A - * * .8 " > .8 '* .. , A- A ^ * A Anheuser-Busch Will BuyThis Barley Only the pick, of Americas Barley crops and 3<v ''nia's Saazer Hops are good enough from which to brew and age Budweiser America’s National Bevera^ c> The uniform flavor, quality and purity of Budweiser remains always the same because only the best material- '—ter our plant. Booled only at the home plant in St. Louis Anheuser-Busch Brewery-St-Louis JAS. 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