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tite Atlanta Georgian and news. ORD££ im \ T>4E COURT -yo b-'v 1 -x\ < UL Cjo | 'N A.Nt LOOK / THE -JUQ^/ o-ieth j r “ ."N DE-UB-ER-ATiwOr x no me Roor^v • A SCHOOL SUGGESTION By Tad Copyright, 1913. International News Service SILK 1 HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT vpHV MOT n,V* rxe OU) S <>-*OC«- Ho«!t ^ As T>tt iVJPMwift MOLE or tCELi-jyV SAtJt 'VARO EH * Why Nof Stage Elimination Bout Between J MANAGERIAL TANGLE SEEMS M ohnny Dobbs IIXED AT and NEV Kid Eiberfeld? 1 ORLEANS I»v 0. B. Keeler. C OMES now a rumor that tho Dobbs-i/ookouts deal is entire ly off. with both side?* * shedding arief 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 lias a certain bold ness about it. It comes right out and ways J. Dobbs is under signature with C !Yank to operate the New Orleans breadwinner In the next campaign. • • • \ 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 10 r. Frank’s overseeing job next seaeon? Hardly. . If so. you would envy J. Dobbs as «o-manftgcr with the Pepper Kid, would you not? You would not. • • • ^ OW that It seems certain llarrv 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 eprint of hie club and helped the sprint. Not heaving Irish confetti at Dave, of course—but which batsman would have won the Rose medal, had It been awarded ike the Chalmers trophies in the big leagues? • • • C ITAKINTj of Dave, however it is ^ noted that a $f»00 option a scan dalously economical figure, by the way—has just been exercised by John McGraw. who has hauled the big slugger out of this league to Join his Giants It i« said to be Muggsy's intention to use Davey in most of the remain ing games this year, provided the race doesn't grow too close- which it won't. A good many fans around the Southern League, by the way. don’t know that Dave primarily Is a pitcher with a busted shoulder. A foothill game accounted for the hum whip, which since has worked around in good shape, so that McGraw has a combination in the new man. But we can t see Dave nosing Matty. Tesreau. Viarquard or Dema- ree out of a regular turn on the slab. Not next sea non. taken a fancy to the tall boy’s fast ball- Walter having quite n fondness for smoke, it nee ms while Boehling, another forkhander. is teaching Hlim to throw hooks. A good curve would he a huge as set to Slim, especially if he could approximate the control with which he directs tus fast one. Slim’s curve ball while with the Crackers looked about the size of a shoe-hook, or perhaps a glove-but toner. • • • H ERE’S one on Tris Speaker, who is remembered around the Southern League circuit by reason of his terrific hitting and long-distance pegging. .Sorue smart guy recently bet Tris a suit of clothes 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. LouIh 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 danfcer 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. ’YV/ITH reference to that first-basing job with the Crackers next year — where it must be confessed Joe Ag’.er’s shoe?* loom up very large and empty—notes 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 time* this year, and is getting some shorter hits. too. First base always was easier for him to play than sec ond to hear him tell it—and there may be something doing for Keene in his Home Town next spring. UR old friend. Slim Love com monly known as the Human Of- oe Building, is making quite a hit i Washington. Slim get into a game for one in- ing the other day and dazzled the pposition quite successfully, being inch hatted for in the next frame. Kilbane Is Out To Battle All Foes This Fall C HICAGO, sept. IS.-—Johnny Kil- bane, the Cleveland colt, who Bolds the featherweight title is out with the announcement that he will be as busy ns any champion In the business this fall. Little has been heard of the featherweight boss since he was held to a draw by John ny Dundee at Los Angeles in a cham pionship light. Kilbane went up to Oakland. Cal., n short time after that, out boxed a feather named Fox, and then went quietly to his Cleveland home. When Nate Lewis and Charlie White went to Canton on Labor Day for the White-Grifflths quarrel. Kilbane was there with his manager, Dunn The latter wag betting mono on White t<« vein. Kilbane, with i talk with Lewis outlined his plans for the coming boxing season. "1 will admit,” he said, "that I have not been very active in the defens* of my title of late. But I am going to get bus\ soon 1 will make ne more careful fights from now on Every bout 1 engage in will be a bat tle. 1 intend to become the Terry McGovern o f the feathers and stor as many challengers as I < aiv 1 have spent most of the summer on a farm outside <;f Cleveland and now weigh about 127 t»ounds. 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 j four or five years yet. probably as the king of the class. Where is there j a boy of that weight who has a chance with him” He will not risk his title at any other notch, though he may box a few lightweights in short bouts. 1 asked him to give Charlie White a chance at the Eng lish featherweight limit of 126 pounds but he refused to listen to such i proposition. He’s a great fighter, and it will take a wonder to heat him —some one like Abe Attell at his bent.’ 35 WILLIAM MEN REPORT. | WTLUAM8TOWN. PA.. Sept. 13.— J Thirty-five cunduiHO s have reported f«»r I positions on the Williams c.dirv loot (ball team FODDER FOR FANS Baumgardner, the npitball hurler <?f the Brown#, so completely loat control of one of his vajKtry flings yesterday that the ball Wh’vtled into the fourth iter of the grandstand at the Polo Grounds, where a masculine fan reached out and grabbed It Just as it seemed about to crash Into the head of a fem inine fan sitting alongside • • * Matanville. tho 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 llewevcr. it is stated that ills contra« t for next year will be for a sti pend just about doqble that of this year • * * With each of them enjoying a lead of elglft atul a half gamce over their nearest ravils. it seemed an absolute certainty to-day 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, the Giants will be rather easy victors in the workl’s aeries games. • • * For more than a month the batting orbs of the Quakertown sluggers have been very dim. the fielding 1ms been of tin wobbly sort, while the pitching staff has been "shot to pieces" Plank, the veteran southpaw, has been driven from the box in nearly all his past ten starts; Bender, the Indian, has fared little hot ter Connie Mack has had to depend on his youngsters to pull games out of the fire, and they have been going none too well in the last month, ns is shown by the fact that the Athletics have not won half the games they have played in that time. • ■* * i The five straight defeats handed the Naps by the Senator* not only has put the Clevelanders out of the race, but has !•«> loosened their hold on seedhd place that they were shoved down under the fast-traveling Senators by 003 points yesterday • • • The Naps, with a one-game lead over the Senators for second place position, open a three-game series with the Ath letics to-day. while th** Sox grapple with the Washington outfit it wouldn’t be surprising if by nightfall the Naps will be routed from the position of "runner up." which they have held practically all season. • • • Another shift in the American League standing may come about to-day The Yanks, by handing several drubbings to the Browns, have lifted themselves' up so high and migbty that a victory for them to-day and a reversal for the H>"Wns wilt moan the r**a'ixrt t L>n >»f the ■ ill y.Mi dream of' trank Chance of seeing his team out of the cellar posi tion. * * * Ray Caldwell, the rejuvenated twirler of the Yankees, continued his winning ways yesterday by again pitching an article of ball that added one more unit to bis string <»f victories. * * * Frank Baker, the Athletic slugger, evidently is practicing up for the world's series games Be punched out a four- bagger yesterday , wuich came just rtgnt. giving Die Athletics the game after the White Sox apparently’ had it "sewed" up. • • * The Red Sox got great revenge for the heating which 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 his best yes terday and as a result the Naps got only one run and four hits off his delivery. Nothing More Now Except Pope 'Sixes' The Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn., makers of tho Pope-Hartford motor cars. Pope mo torcycles and nineteen different makes 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 been sold from $2,250 to $3,250, will be disposed of at somewhat lower prices. Umpire Perrine Held On Insanity Warrant OAKLAND. CAL.. Sept 13.—"Bull” Perrine. who was an umpire in the | American League last season, is held here on an insanity warrant. His men- 1 tal breakdown is said to have been I caused by sunstroke, which he suffered | in a game in Cleveland in l'Ul. DECLARES EVANS By Chick Evans, T HE crisp, cool September weath er has sent the blood of the golfer bounding through hi-s veins in a wonderful manner and marie these last few days most en joyable on the links. Many players find the autumn when the terrible heat of 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 with the pleasures of the game. There are still, however, interest ing events to come. The Ladies* Western and National have not yet been played, and there is the Na tional Open at Brookline next week —the very olggest event in America —and every one of us golfers i» fair ly aching to see Rav and Vardon and Masev and Tellisr. as well as our own players, get off their pret tiest shots for our pleasure and in formation. • • • TN an editorial in that fine magazine called Golf we have the following quotation from The Spectator: "Ul timately. in a more perfect w’orld than promises itself at present, it may be admitted that it is after all a finer and happier thing to know how to play a game than how to win a game.’ This English sentiment, spoken from a higher plane than mo?* 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 gence 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. l 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 time^ regardless of the means. It demonstrates skill, of course, but not always of the highest 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 l should like to say that match play’ hears about the 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 bv the condi tion of another man’s work, can be made an approximately perfect ex ponent of pure skill, and the pursuit of the perfect round is the joy and the soul in golf. Charley White Will Fight Sheridan CHICAGO. September* 13.—Charley White finished his training to-day for his 10-round battle In Racine Mon- nay night with Mickey Sheridan. The latter hopes to upset White and will find valuable aid in his endeavor. Harry Gilmore. Sr., vetgran light weight. will second Sheridan. The winner is to got a chance at Ad Wolgast or Willie Ritchie. Ad already has made a bid for the match rid Ritchie rocenth expressed a will Ingness to battle White SportSandSuch N EW YORK, Sept. 13.—The man agement of the Atlantic Gar den, on the Bowery, which has been promoting boxing matches* of late, helped the manly art of self- defense considerably by slipping it a shot of ground glass and then wal- . loping it over the head with a sledge | hammer. They put on John Lesu*r Johnson, a meerschaum brother, with Samuel Langford, formerly connected with the boxing business, but now busily engaged in cornering the greatest crop of Inanimate fles»h 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 ot 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 knee? 1 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 lie been stuffed for a thanksgiving dinner a la turkey, he couldn’t have been any fatter. eH trained con- seientious'y on chops, cigars, chicken and watermelon, fie 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. We wouldn’t for a moment say that either neglected his duty. • * • T HB bell ran*. -Mr. Lnngforrl crouched over a roll of fat as big as a sack of wheat. Mr. Johnson, (he black demon, hif 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 chey 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 cantain, 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 he 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 McGoorty, I Oshkosh middleweight, spent a few | hours in towm 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. T. n IN' IS FIGHTER By Ed \V. Smith. A D WOLGAST has moved on. He says he never will don an other pair of boxing gloves for a eerious 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. » * • nrilE ring never had a t flashier ca- * reer in its history than that shown 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 feven months past his twenty-fifth birthday, is written down as a dea*d 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 an> 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 was 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. m * • O NE thing always will stand out magnificently in the Wolgast record and it is something that no body can take twtfy from him. No more courageous man ever tapped i pair of hands in the boxing arena than this selfaame bov from Cadillac. His fearlessness* was of the dare devil type tnat 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 was 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 tie St. Louis Browns, attended President B. B. Johnson’s class in baseball ethics to-day and picked up con siderable valuable information to b* applied in his new field of endeavq- as successor to George Stovall. • \ The Mound City manager arrived ii Chicago during the morning, attend ed rehearsal in the afternoon and made ready to catch a train for Cin cinnati, where he will be present Monday at the annual drafting pro ceedings of the big leaguers. During his connection with th£ Browns Rickey devoted the bulk of his time and attention to the busi ness affairs of the club and admit ted upon his arrival here that there are many angles in the game on which he needs enlightenment. That's 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 well up in the pennant race next sea son. ANOTHER CINCH FOR SAMBO. CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Promoters from Kenosha were In Chicago yesterday to close a match between Sam Langford, the negro fighter from Boston, and Cleve Hawkins, one of Chicago's best ebony skinned battlers. Hawkins immediately agreed to the contest and Langford * answer is awaited from the East. Lupus Worst Form of Skin Diseases Here is a Home Treatment that Overcomes even Worst Cases. Lupus or Any Other 6km Disease Will Go Skulking Away If Yew Use S. S. S A tiny pimple spreads to the vide H fhe face and often covers the cheeks ■nd bridge of the nose It ie very de •tractive to the tissues of tho skin No external treatments will overcome it. as the cause of lupus \» from impurities In the blood supply. The only known method of cure is to get the blood sup ply under the control of S S 3.. the famous blood specific Its action Is quite remarkable and has direct influence up on the network of small blood vessel* and glands In the skin Not one drop of minerals or drum lg used tn Its preparation Ask for S S 8. i.nd insiet upon having it For illus trated book on skin dlseaaea write The Swift Specific Co.. 188 Swift labora tory. Atlanta. Ge Do not allow some sealous clerk to larrup the atmosphere In eloquence over something "lust ae good' as S. ft. ft. Beware of all sub stitute*. BIRMINGHAM AND RE TURN. SEABOARD, round trip $2.50. Leaves Old Depot 8:30 a. m., September 22. Arrives Birmingham 1:30 p. m. 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