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IIITU1 IS BEST j[s^.«5^|«LEI!5T, ONLY U YEARS OLO, IT \JMHV ^or HME rHP Of O SCHOOL HoiMt AT POpl/WSR- Ai mt J>VM»Mm/ajo- HoLjE O? BACK VAtO ETH * W/iy Not Stage Elimination Bout Between Johnny Dobbs and Kid Elberfeld? MANAGERIAL TANGLE SEEMS AT NEW ORLEANS By O. B. Keeler. C OMES now a rumor that the Dobbs-Lookouts deal Is entire ly off. with both side? shedding srief to resemble a lawn-sprinkler. The rumor is twofold—a sort of Siamese rumor, in fact. One end of it has Johnny aching to get on with the Honorable An drews. and prevented by some occult influence, merely hinted at in veiled, guarded and scary terms. The other angle has a certain bold ness about It. Tt comes right out and aays J. Dobbs is under ignature with (V I Frank to operate the New Orleans | breadwinner in the next campaign. • • * A LL of which moves one to inquire what has become of K. Elber feld Or is it possible the Pelicans will require TWO managers in addition to i\ Frank’s overseeing job next sea FK>n ? Hardly If ®o, you would envy J. Dobbs as co-manager with the Pepper Kid, j would you not? You would not. • • • N OW that it seems certain Harry Welchonce finished In front of Dave Robertson by a batting spurt at the wire. It does seem rather a pity Harry isn't to be decorated with the medal of honor Dave's slump came coincidentally with that of his club, right at the most important stage of the whole race. Harry’s sound walloping kept step ■with the sprint of his club—and helped the sprint. Not heaving Irish confetti at Dave, of course—but which batsman would havt won the Rose medal had it i been awarded like the Chalmers j tropnles in the big leagues? • * • PEAKING of Dave, however, it is noted that a $500 option—a scan dalously economical figure, by the •way—has just been exercised by John AfcGraw, who hap hauled the big is lugger out of this league to join his Giants. It is said to be Muggsiy’s intention to use Davev in most of the remain- i ing gamer this year, provided the race doesn’t grow too close—which it ! won’t. A good many fans around the j Southern League, by the way, don’t j know that Dave primarily is a pitcher with a busted shoulder. A football j gav* accounted for the bum whip. wTic» Mnce has worked around in good j*. so that McGr..w has > cdmbinfttkn* the new man. But we i s ee Dave nosing j Matty. T • . c «u Mtrquard or Dem.t- 4ee out of a -ilar turn on the *iab. Not next seab, a, ■» « VICK O'. J; .end, . La- om itc nlv known as tne Human Of- fee BuiiJ'ng. is making quite a hit Jn Washington. Slim got into a game for one in ning the other da\ and dazzled the opposition quite successfully, being pine b; ml. • in the next frame. taken a fancy to the tall boy’s fast ball—Walter having quite a fondness for smoke, it «voms- while Boehllng. another forkhander, Is teaching Slim to throw hooks. A good curve would be a huge as set to Slim, especially If he could approximate the control with which he directs .•* fast one. Slim's curve ball while with the Crackers looked about the size of a shoe-hook, or perhaps a glove-bqttoner • • • H ERE'S one on Trip Speakev. who Is remembered a r o u n d the Southern League circuit by reawn of his terrific hitting and long-distance pegging. Some smart guy recently bet Trls a miit of ilothes that he couldn’t peg 223 feet. That sounded pretty soft, but there was an additional stipula tion that 223 feet must stand on end -the peg must go straight up in the air. Tris still th night the proposition was easy, so he went out into Fourth street in St. Louis and tried to chuck a baseball onto the top of the Pierce Building, just 223 feet in heighth. Tris tried a number of times, to the imminent Ganger of twelfth-story windows, and then gave up the job. Another surprising feature of the adventure is that St. Louis has a building 223 feet. high. YY71TH reference to that first-basing ** job with the Crackers next year —where it must be confessed Joe Agler’s shoes loom up very large and empty—notew from the Springfield club in the Central League have Browne Keene, an Atlanta boy. play ing second base with much fervor and knocking the pill over the fence with astonishing regularity Keene has rung the bell fourteen tlines this year, and is ge ting some shorter hits, too. First base always was easier for Dim to play than sec ond to hear him tell it--and there may be something doing for Keene in his Home 'luwn next spring. Kilbane Is Out To Battle All Foes This Fall FODDER FOR FANS j By Chick Evans. T HE crisp, cool September weath er has sent the blood of the golfer bounding through hi* veins in a wonderful manner and made these last few days most en joyable on the links. Many players find the autumn, when the terrible heat ol’ summer is over and compe titions and crowds are things of the past, the best season of the year for golf. There are friendly games, early and late, and much social enjoyment mingled ^ith the pleasures of the game. t There are still, however, interest ing events to come. The Ladies- Western and National have not vet been played, and there is the Na tional Open at Hrookline next week —the very .iggest event in America —and every one of us golfers Is fair ly aching to see Rav and Vardon and Masstv and Telller. as well as our own players, get off their pret tiest shots for our pleasure and in formation. • * * T\ T an editorial in that fine magazine 1 called Golf we have the following quotation from The Spectator. "Ul timately, in a more perfect world than promises itself at present, It N EW YORK, Sept. 13.—The man- ! agement of the Atlantic Gar- | fien, on the Bowery, which has j been promoting boxing matches of j late, helped the manly art of self- I defense considerably by slipping it j a shot of ground glass and then wal- i loping it over the head with a siedge 1 hammer. They put on John Lester Johnson, a meerschaum brother, with Samuel Langford, formerly connected with the boxing business, but now busily j engaged In cornering the greatest j crop of inanimate flesh worn by any | one person alive. The management of the Atlantic Garden, with the aid of a press agent, had their bout advertised as one of the greatest boxing matches of the age. They drew an enormous crowd. , * • M R. JOHNSON, a small negro, en tered the arena just about the way a man meets the electric chair. Had he worn clappers on his knees we might have thought a minstrel show was coming. Mr. Langford fol lowed immediately, wearing a green kimono which just barely reached around his enormous stomach. Had he been stuffed for a thanksgiving dinner a la turkey, he couldn't have been any fatter e.H trained con scientiously on chops, cigars, chicken and watermelon. He was thoroughly prepared to give New Yorkers the best fight that was in him. He looked more like John Bunny blacked up than he did like a pugilist who was advertised to be in fine form. Of course the Boxing Com mission and the club management saw that the people were not being bunkoed, and saw to it that Mr. Langford trained properly. W T e may be admitted that It is after all | ^‘‘T dn ' t for a moment, say that a finer and happier thing to know j either neglected his duty. 1 C hicago, sept. 13.—johnny kii- bune, the Cleveland colt, who hold;. the featherweight title, is out with the announcement that he will be as busy as any champion In the business this fall. Little hac been heard of the featherweight boss since he was held to a draw by John ny Dundee at Los Angeles In a cham pion, hip tight. Kilbane went up to Oakland. Cal., a short time after that, outboxed a feather named Fox. and then went quietly to his Cleveland home. When Nate Lewis and Charlie White went to Canton on I^abor Day for the White-Griffiths quarrel Kilbane was there with his manager, Dunn. The iatter was betting mono on White to win. Kilbane, with a talk with Lewis outlined his plans for the coming boxing season. “I will admit," he said, "that I have not been ver\ active in the defens of my title of late. But I am going to get busy soon. I will make n- more careful fights from now on Every bout I engage in will be a bat tle. I intend to become the Terr\ McGovern of the feathers and stop as many challengers as 1 can. I have spent most of the summer on a farm outside «;f Cleveland and now weigh about 127 pounds. However, 122 ringside will still be easy for me. I am in the finest physical condition of my life and just itching for fights. ’ Lewis remarked when he returned to Chicago "Kilbane looks unbeatable to me at 122 pounds. He will be great for four or five years yet. probably as the king of the oIhmf Where is there a bo> of that weight who ha?* a chance with him? He will not risk bit title at any other notch, though he may box a few lightweights in short bouts. I asked him to give Charlie White a chance at the Eng lish featherweight limit of 126 pounds but he refused to listen to such a proposition. He’s a great fighter, and it will take a wonder to beat him -some oriv- like Abe Attell at his best." 35 WILLIAM MEN REPORT. WILLI AM STO\\N. PA. Sept. 13.— Thirty-five Caini’dates have reported for < positions Abe Williams College foot- Johnaon has 1 ball tattn Baumgardner, the apitball hurler of the Browns, so completely lost control of one of his vaj*ory flings yesterday that the hall Whirled into the fourth tier of the grandstand at the Polo Grounds,‘where a masculine tan reached out and grabbed it just as It seemed about to crash Into the head of a fem inine fan sitting alongside. • * * Maranville, the brilliant shortstop of the Braves, who has made a great rec ord in his first year In the big league. Is drawing only $1,800 for the season's work. However, it is stated that his contract for next year will be for a sti pend just about double that of this year. • <» o With each of them enjoying a lead of eight and a half games over their nearest ravils. it seemed an absolute certainty today that the Giants and Athletics would win the pennant in their respective leagues. # * • It also seemed a certainty that unless the Athletics get back into the stride they used earlier in the season, when they piled up a huge lead, tlie Giants will be rather easy victors in the world's series games. • * » For more than a month the batting orbs of the Quakertown sluggers have been very dim. the fielding has been of the wobbly sort, while the pitching staff has been "shot to pieces." Plank, the veteran southpaw, has been driven from the box in nearly ail his past ten starts; Bender, the Indian, has fared little bet ter. Connie Mack lias had to depend on ids youngsters to pull games out i f the fire, and they have been going none too well in the last month, as Is shown by •be fact that the Athletics have not won half the games they have played in that time. * w • The five straight defeats handed the Naps by the Senators not only has put the Clevelanders out of the race, but has , so loosened their hold on second place that they were shoved down under the fast-travel ing Senators by .003 points yesterday • • • The Naps, with a one-game lead over the Senators for second place position, open a three-gsme series with- the Ath- ! letics to-day. while the Sox grapp e with .the Washington outfit It wouldn't he I surprising if by nightfall the Naps will be routed from the position of "runner I up," which they have held practically j all season * • • Another shift in the American League I standing may come Ttbout to-day. The I Yanks by handing several drubbuigs to | the Browns, have lifted themsHves up | so high and mighty that a victory for them to-day and a reversal foi the Browns w ill mean the rea ? za , ion of *ho all*.' ear d:earn ot Frank Chance—of seeing his team out of the cellar posi tion. * * * Ray Caldwell, the rejuvenated twirler of th.' Yankees, continued his wdnning ways yesterday by again pitching an article of ball that added one more unit to his string of victories. * • * Frank Baker, the Athletic slugger, evidently is practicing up for the world’s scries games. Be punched out a four- bagger yesterday, which came just right giving the Athletics the game after the White Sox apparently had it "sewed" up The Red Sox got greai .revenge for 1 the heating widen the Tigers handed them on Thursday by yesterday mauling three Tiger pitchers for eighteen runs and 21 hits, including three doubles and three triples. • • • Walter Johnson was at bis best yes terday and as a result the Naps got only one run and four hits off ins delivery. Nothing More Now Except Pope ’Sixes' The Pope Manufacturing Company j of Hartford, Conn., makers of the Pope-Hartford motor cars, Pope mo- ! toroyeles and nineteen different makes 1 of bicycles, have made the announce ment that beginning with their new 1914 models they will devote their efforts exclusively to the manufac ture of "Sixes.” Prices have not def initely been decided on, but it is un derstood that they will not market ; anything under $4,000. The remaining stock of four-cylin der models, which have heretofore sold from $2,250 to $3,250. will i be disposed of at somewhat lower prices. Umpire Perrine Held On Insanity Warrant I OAKLAND, CAL., Sept. 13.—'‘Bull*’ . Perrine. who was an umpire in the American League last season, is held j here on an insanity warrant. His men tal breakdown is said to have been caused by sunstroke, wni^h he suffered j in a game in Cleveland in 1911 how to play a game than how to | win a game." This English sentiment, spoken from a higher plane than moPt of us are accustomed to stand upon, ought to fall as a healing' balm on the wounded spirits of those of us who have failed often and yet pos sess somewhat of skill, for many fac tors besides skill, ability and courage enter into a successful golf match. The trouble with this high British thought, however, is that for a time after a lost match even the best play er doubts his own skill; it has un doubtedly failed in a great emer gency and has not met a test of utility. But there is a pleasure In a con sciousness of skill that no mere win ning can ever give, for golf is not a business with a deal to be put through at any cost at a certain mo ment, but a great sport, perhaps an art, in which a high average of abil ity gives an ever and increasing sense of pleasure as the days go on. I suppose, furthermore, that most of us will acknowledge that medal play demonstrates the highest skill in the game, while match play, not to be underrated, shows a business like quality of "getting there," some times regardless of the means. It demonstrates skill, of course, but not always of the hjghest degree. It is a contest between man and man, where skill for skill’s sake frequently gives way to various experiences. If I were not afraid of being mis understood I should like to say that match play bears about tne same re semblance to medal play that the "best seller" does to a bit of real literature. One is a triumph of the very ex cellent and useful American faculty of "getting there." while the other, untouched at its best oy the condi tion of another man’s work, can be | made an aporoxirnatelv perfect ex ponent of pure skill; and the pursuit of the perfect round i9 the joy and the soul In golf. _ bell rang. Mr. Langford crouched over a roll of fat as big T he Cl as a sack of wheat. Mr. Johnson. Charley White Will Fight Sheridan CHICAGO. September 13.—Charley White finished his training to-day for his 10-round battle in Racine Mon day night with Mickey Sheridan. The latter hopes to upset White and will find valuable aid in his endeavor. Harry Gilmore, Sr., veteran light weight. will second Sheridan. The winner is to get a cnance at Ad Wolgast or Willie Ritchie. Ad already has made a bid for the match and Ritchie recently expressed a will ingness to battle White the black demon, his opponent, im mediately proceeded to break all in door records for a mile. He did. Shadow Langford swung once and almost fell over. It touched Johnson on the foot and he fell. Cheers. He fell again and *.hey counted 400. Mr. Langford then put on his kimono again, gave three cheers for the box ing commissioners and the Atlantic Garden, lit a oig cigar and eased his way out. Lieut, Devore Will Coach 17th Eleven Of interest to football fans In this sec tion is the announcement coming Friday from Fort McPherson which states that Lieutenant Devore, United States Army, former West Point football captain, and all-American tackle, is to coach the Fort McPherson eleven this fall. Lieu tenant Devore was recently assigned to the Seventeenth Infantry, and arrived in Atlanta Friday afternoon. The largest and best squad in some years has turned out for the fall prac tice at Fort McPherson, and under the coaching of Lieutenant Devore, who is considered by a number of gridiron ex perts to be the best tackle of his time, an eleven to be feared by all contenders for Southern honors will probably be developed. The first game on the schedule for the soldiers is set for September 27, when thev will battle with the Georgia Tech huskies on the Grant Park field McGoorty Will Start Training on Monday CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Eddie McGoortr. Oshkosh middleweight, spent a few hours in town to-day before his de parture for his home city, where he will spend Sunday with his folks. On Mon day he will return to this city and be gin training for his ten-round contest at Milwaukee with Frank Klaus, the bout being billed for September 22. McGoorty declares he will beat the Pittsburg "bear cat" and then take on Jimmy Clabby. By Ed W. Smith. A D WOLGAST has moved on. He says he never will don an other pair of boxing gloves for a serious encounter in the ring and doubts very much whether he will ever be induced to even look at the modern tools of ring warfare again What is happening to the boxing game when a man is passe at 25 years of age, for Wolgast doubtless is passe and spent in a physical sense? Does this incident serve to show that the general speed of the world these days is reflected in ath letics to this extent? In the old days a man was pretty good until he was well by the 30-year mark and wasn't considered old as long as he had a spark of vitality left in him. In the present boxing age a man gets a couple of defeats and he is considered thoroughly down and out and past all athletic redemption. • * • T HE ring never had a flashier ca reer in its history than that 9hown by Wolgast. He started bat tling in 1906, was a sensation out on the Pacific coast in 1908, became lightweight champion of the world by defeating Battling Nelson on Feb ruary 22. 1910, twice broke his arm on mediocre opponents, suffered an attack of appendicitis and went through an operation, and then lost his title to Willie Ritchie on a foul on November 28, 1912. Less than ten months later, after vainly trying twice to come back and regain his old laurels, the Cadil lac boy, now £^even months past his twenty-fifth birthday, Is written down as a dead one so far as possi bilities are concerned. Surely the world do move swiftly these days! , « • D ESPITE the fact that Wolgast must be tabbed as one of the world’s greatest fighting machines he always had a tough time getting any sort of recognition. Perhaps it was an indifferent personality and the fact that he whipped one of the coun try's idols in order to gain pre-emi nence in his class that brought about the conditions for the little German Perhaps it tvas a noisy manager who wasn’t particular whether or not he made friends that framed these unhappy conditions for the tough lit tle Michigan boy. At any rate, he never was a popu lar champion, even in the face of sterling fighting qualities. • • • O NE thing always will stand out magnificently in the Wolgast record and it is something that no body can take tway from him. No more courageous man ever tapped a pair of hands n the boxing arena than this selfsame boy from Cadillac. His fearlessness* was of the dare devil type that makes the success ful aviator and the leading jockey. Had he been less ably handled in his business dealings with other fighters he would have been whipped to a frazzle long before he was. be cause he never realized the impor tance of drawing the line closely in the matter of weight. I once heard him offer to fight Stanley Ketchel for the champion ship of Michigan, and that. too. when Stanley w r as at his best and the un doubted champion among the 158- pounders of the day! Rickey Takes Lessons From Ban Johnson CHICAGO, September 13.—Branch Rickey, newly ordained leader of the St. Louis Browns, attended President B. B. Johnson’s class in baseball ethics to-day and picked up con siderable valuable information to be applied in his new field of enueavoi as successor to George Stovall. The Mound City manager arrived in Chicago during the morning, attend ed rehearsal in the afternoon ahd made ready to catch a train for Cin cinnati, where he will be present Monday at the annual drafting pro. eeedings of the big leaguers. During his connection with the Browns Rickey devoted the bulk of his time and attention to the bust ness affairs of the club and admit ted upon his arrival here that there are many angles in the game or which he needs enlightenment. That’e why he called on the league execu tive. By releasing three players Thurs day. Manager Rickey reduced the personnel of the Browns to permit of angling for ten new athletes at Cincinnati. Rickey has high hopes of putting the trailing organization w'ell up in the pennant race next sea son. ANOTHER CINCH FOR SAWRO CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Prombters from Kenosha were In Chicago yesterday tt close a match between Sam Langford, the negro fighter from Boston, and Cleva Hawkins, one of Chicago’s best ebony' skinned battlere. Hawkins Immedlatel} agreed to the contest and Langford’s answer is awaited from the East. 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