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I lilt ♦ eioEOM Bv Pullback. T HE thing that has handicapped I the Tech team for the past throe years is now a thing of! the past and Coach Heisman ha* men who will stack up with the bf of them In weight. Beef, in the line especially, has boon 1 the crying need as the barks never j had a chance to make any headway with a lino in front of them tint would cave in before they got started being outweighed from 20 to 3o ; pounds to the man. It sill be an entirely different stor# this year,' There are at leant five or . lx men trying out for each , position. Hut after thd weeding out has been accomplished, which by the way, will be a difficult proposition foi Heisman, the men who are most like ly to fight it out to a finish for a place on the varsity are as follows: Three Out for Center. At center are the scrappy Al T»el>. who Ik heavier than last year and can hold his own with most any of them Patterson, the Chattanooga High School man, and Trawick, big 200-pounder from last year’s scrubs. Big F>1 Means will be on one guard, while Morrison. Merrill© and Cole man will mix it for the other. The learn will be well fortified at tackles by Rainey, « hefty sub of la*d 5 efljr Johnston, t he < ‘hat fanooga crark; Spence, a big 200-pounder, and Mallory* the Louisville High School star Any two of these men will average 180 pounds and will lie hard to set by, as they are aggressive be- fdden. Many Out for Ends. The ends will he taken care of hy Cushman, the Chattanooga epeed merchant; Lucas, a fast man. Moore. <i last \ ear’s scrub. Beard and Rels- nlder, who is a good dropkicker, and will be a valuable man for that rea son. In th# back fie Id Tapia in Took will take a half. Big G**ne Patton, the famops East Tennessee halfback, ulli he at full, while the other half li between Tommy Hancock, a last year's scrub; McDonuld, a varsit> man of last year; Gardner, a scrub, j and Murphee, another Louisville star who is leading the punters, shooting 'Jxin pretty .‘fpirals 45 and 50 yards <t\\y n the held. \Yith F’atton to do the line plung ing \nd Captain (Took and the othei half with the speed to circle the ends the team will have the wonted driv ing power which has been lacking so long The quarterback position is uncer tain ns yet. There are several good men out for the place, but most of them are too light. The tackling dummy has been in Njse for two days now nnd the men are getting their muscles in nhap.' for the harder work, (’barging prac tice and falling on the ball have be* r going on every day and with n fin days of fK'riromuge. beginning next -week, they will be In tiptop shape for the first game, September 27. with the Seventeenth Jnfuotry at Grant Field Golf Tournament for Hammond Trophy Is Last of A.A.C.Season That brief, crisp season that exists betwixt the ending of Southern base ball and the beginning of football is to be tided nor in Atlanta by the Anal golf tournament of the year — that put on by the Atlanta Athletic Club at East Lake for the T. A Hammond trophy. * The tourney is a handicap affair, flayers qualifying according to net scores In a round played next Katur- tfay. The first and second rounds of match play are scheduled to be fin ished by September 26; the third round by September 27. nnd the finals on September 28. Match play will be at 18 holes in all rounds except the finals in the first flight, which will be 36 holes The Hammond tourney will round out the most popular and successful golfing season the Athletic Club has enjoyed, both in general interest and in the quality of the average play. The final tournament is attrating much attention, both by reason of the handsome trophy and because it is the last of the season. Pelky Now Retracts Burns Confession CALGARY, ALBERTA. Sept. 16 — Arthur Pelkey. the heavyweight pugil ist, to-day retracted the “confession" which he signed about a wek ago In which he accused Tommy Burns of forcing him to fake in the Rurn,s-Telkey match last spring. Pelkey declared that he was under the inTlueno -if liquor when he made *nd signed the *'confession. Want Ritchie-Cross Bout in Gay Gotham NEW YORK. Sept. 15. -Efforts were made here to-day ti thatch Willis Ritchie, the lightweight champion, and J^each Cross, the New York aspirant for tiie crowm for a ten-round bout in this city during September. Cross is willing, l ut It is not known whether Ritchie will consent or not Mantell Loses to Gage on a Foul EL PASO. TEXAS, Sept 15 —Frank Gage, Los Angeles lightweight, won on a foul from Battling Mantell in the fourth round of their scheduled twenty- round bout at Juarez. KLAUS STARTS WORK TO DAY, CHICAGO, Sept 15. -Frank Klaus. known to the ring as the “Pitsburg Bearcat,” is due hero.to-da> The East erner was billed to meet Eddb Men* • >r;y In a middleweight championship battle at Milwaukee on September 22. but be cause of an injured eye. the taxing com mission of that city set the date hack a week, to September 29. Klaus has ar ranged for quarters at O’Conneli a gym- N ASHVILLE. TENN.. Sept. 15.— Now that the chief topic of conversation in connection with Southern League baseball has grown to be a guessing contest as to what club Johnny Dobbs will head next season. Montgomery and Chattanooga having been eliminated by Johnny’s own st.iiement, considerable specula tion is attached to a dark and mys terious conference held in Nashville between Dobbs and Barney Barnard, of the Cleveland Naps, while the Montgomery club was paying a Until \Mslt to the Vols. Bill Schwartz and Barnard have for many years been very close friends, and the Cleveland mogul never fails, to drop around to see the Vols* pilot whenever he happens to he in Nashville. That’s what made it seem strange to the Boy Manager, when, one afternoon, during the last series with the BilMkens. he walked over to the visitors’ bench to speak to Dobbs ind. lo, and toehold, there sat Barney engaged in a very earnest and low converation Barney looked a little sheepish, hut never advanced any information as t<> the nature of hie chin-feet with the Montgomery boss. And Schwartz, after he had passed the time of day, and pulling his sweater a little closer arotind him to protect himself from the chilly weather (?). beat it back to the Vo!»* dugout. •It'didn't take Schwartz long to put two and two together, after Dobbs admitted ’ that he and Barnard had bqen discin«ing some of the Pelican Vlflverrt. in answer to a request from Bill as to Dobbs’ opinion of Kratf. the New Orleans first-sucker, on whom the Vols' chief had gotten sweet. Bar nard told Dobbs, !*» Johnny gave it out. that Kraft was impossible as a fielder, the Naps having tried him for two years and found him not up tvi grade. It’s a curious thing about managers, that when they want to re tain a bab player, how much fault they can find with his fielding, hit ting and h. ©running. but when he is on the block, for sale, "phenom" makes the tall timbers sound like or chard gras a Dobbs may not go to New Orleans but it is just possible that he and Baraev framed .p a deal that after noon for a berth in Pelieantown. SPORTING COMMENT GREAT FALLS WINS RAG. OGDEN. UTAH, *ept. ' 15.—The season of the Union Asociation of ficially closed to-day here with games at Salt Lake. Great Falls and Helena. Great Falls takes the iwn nant with Halt Lake us the conten der. By Fid W. Smith. W HY Is it that the big men of the ring, the heavyweights, have been the pests that have stirred up trouble nnd more or less* have always been the disturbing element in having the game stopped in various places? You've noticed, haven’t you, that big fel lows usually are concerned when trouble starts? This idea is sug gested by the "confession” made by Arthur Pelky, the man who was in the ring with Luther McCarty when the latter dropped dead In a Calgary ring. Pelky says his battle with Tommy Burns, a six-round af fair of last March, was a "frame" and that It was previously re hearsed several times. Burns later managed Pelky and a abort time ago announced that he Intended to take him to Europe and possibly get on a match with Jack Johnson. • • • CTOLLOWING recent fatalities in * the ring this "confession," even If it is afterwards found to have no foundation, is going to do a whole lot of harm. Unfortunately, the target of Pelky’• remarks, who makes vehement denial to the whole thing, has been mixed up in pecu liar looking affairs before and in stantly that old scandal out In Los Angeles between Tommy Burns and Jack O’Brien, of Philadelphia, is brought to mind when the former’s connection with this latest off color scandal is uncovered. Burns and O'Brien were matched out there and later developments were to the effect that Burns had agreed to let O’Brien stay the distance or let him win or something of the kind. As they were ready to start the content Burns advised O'Brien that the battle would have to be on the level. O’Brien thereupon made a desperate effort to have the bets called off, but failed and the ring side scandal that ensiled is still being discussed out that way. • • • CCANDAL has trailed Burns 'n other directions. There was a row when he failed to battle Bob Fitzsimmons at Bsstngton, Pa., and there was much sour talk around here when Mike Schreek was bat tling at his best and Tommy re fused to meet him. Nasty telegrams were produced to show that Burns wanted to "talk tt over” with John Wllle, but all of this was forgot ten when Burns won the heavy weight championship by defeating Marvin Hart. • * • T HERE’S sn old ringside saying that the "bigger they are the harder they fall " In the light of re cent events we'll have to change that to read: "The bigger they are. the less courage they have." At least the assumption is that fixers are entirely lacking in courage or elw» they wouldn't want to fix. Good little men like Bat Nelson, Ad Wol ff art. Freddie Welsh. Packey Mc Farland, Willie Ritchie, and dozens of others we could name, have al ways been content to otand on their own merits and fight their best, losing if they must, but always losing honorably. TV-TOST notable of all the scan* dalous fights of the ring that entailed a lot of suspicion have been among the bigger men. There was an awful stench following the night that Big McVay jumped into the ring the night Jim Corbett and Tom Sharkey were boxing and lost the fight for Corbett on a foul. The facts of the Wyatt Earp decision in San Francisco the night Sharkey is supposed to have been beaten by Bob Fitzsimmons on a foul are still fresh In the minds of those who follow such matters, to say nothing of the scandal that followed the Jim Corbett-Kid McCoy encounter at the expiration of the boxing law in New York in 1899. • • • r T"'H ERE was much trouble over * the Jack Root-Tommy Ryan battle in Philadelphia and more recently almost everybody will re call that scandal came out of the Jack Jobnson-Stanley Ketchel bat tle on the coast, during which Johnson "took” a knockdown from hia opponent when it didn’t look , possible that Ketchel could knock him down with the aid of a base ball bat. So it looks as if the mon umental faking has been done among the big fellows, though doubtless there are many entirely honest and upright men trying to battle their way into a prominent place in that division. Probably there are a lot of shady boys among the minor classes, too, but they cer tainly never pulled off things as rotten as some of those shown by the heavies. • • • IT BEHOOVES those Athletics to * look a little out. Mack’s base ball team can not lose many more games, although they can continue to do no safely unless the Cleve land bunch braces and wins now and then while the Sox and a few other teams are taking vigorous wallops at the Philadelphia gang. The Naps certainly have wilted sad ly under the present strain, worse even th ui d4d Mark’- crew. They haven’t shown a high degree of courage, that's sure. • • • THE ©nd of the baseball raoes is * a bit too near us to prove very' exciting One league or the other may pull a close finish, but it isn't likely. Those birds out in front are used to the fire nnd nothing is going to stop either of them—seriously. Carl Morris Will Battle Al Reich NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Carl Mor ris, the Oklahoma heavyweight, was to-day matched by Billy Gibson to battle Al Reich, the former amateur heavyweight champion, in the feature bout of ten rounds at the Garden Athletic Club next Friday night. Reich entered the professional ranks last FTiday night at the Garden A. C. in a bout with Sailor White. After rive rounds, in which Reich had all the better of the fight. Referee Joh stopped the bout to save the Sailor from a knockout. C LEMSON COLLEGE. S. C., Sept. 15.—The fact that only the old students have as yet reported at Clemson makes it impossible to make a satisfactory prediction as to the make-up of the Tiger team. Coles, Kangeter and Turbevllle will not be back. Captain Gandy, nevertheless, is quite hopeful over the prospects for a winning team. Coach Williams is hero and he has already inspired the men with hope. The Tigers believe in Bob Williams, and they work for him as they will for no other coach. Coach Williams is among the silent men when it comes to giving out the dope, but there is no more faithful worker to be found on the gridiron. The football field is full of candi dates every afternoon. The men move around like veterans. There Is plentv of material among the old men, and it is said that there are several prom ising men among the recruits who are to report next week. Rip Major, the captain of last year's Auburn, is the assistant coach. He once wore a Clemson uniform and is familiar with the Tiger tactics. Major has starred at nearly every position on a football team, and will render valuable service In whipping the Tigers into shape. Clemson has a stiff schedule for this fall, as follows: October 4.—Davidson at Clemson. October 11—Alabama in Tuscaloosa. October 18—Auburn at Clemson. October 29—South Carolina in Co lumbia. November 1—Citadel in Charleston. November 8—Georgia in Athens or Augusta November 15—Mercer at Clemson. November 27—Georgia Tech in At lanta. J. R Douthit is the manager of the team. He is arranging several games for the second string of play ers. There is considerable satisfac tion here over the fact that Clinton. Furman ami Newberry have all en tered the lists, and the Tigers hope that all these institutions may have strong teams this fall. Baseball Summary. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Chicago at Washington. Detroit at New York. Cleveland at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. f'c. W. L. Pc Phila . .86 47 .652 | Chicago. 71 68 .611 Cl’land. 81 57 .587 : Detroit. 58 78 .527 Wash... 78 58 .573 SL Lo.. 52 88 .371 Boston. 69 64 .519 | New Yo.'49 84 .370 Yesterday’s Results. No games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games To-day. Boston at Pittsburg. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs W I New Yo. 90 45 .667 Phila. . 80 49 .620 Chicago 78 59 .569 P’burg. 72 64 .529 W L. Pc Br’klyn 68 75 .436 Boston. 67 74 .435 Cin’nati 59 82 .419 St. Lo.. 48 94 .338 Richards Makes Big With No Tide Change NEW YORK Sept. 14.—The oft-at tempted feat of swimming from Battery Park to Sandy Hook in one tide was accomplished yesterday for the first time by Samuel Richards, the Boston amateur, who covered the 25 miles in eight hours and twenty minutes. He still was fresh at the end of the long grind and swam a mile or metre back toward the Manhattan shore be fore he would consent to entering the boat, t Yesterday’s Results. Chicago. 7; New York, 0. Philadelphia. 7; Cincinnati. 6. St. Louis. 7: Brooklyn, 6. Others not scheduled. OTHER RESULTS. International League. Newark, 8; Jersey City, 4. Jersey City, 6 .Newark, 1. Montreal, 4; Rochester, 3. Rochester, 2; Montreal. 1. Federal League. Kansas City, 2; Chicago. 3. Kansas City, 1; Chicago. 0. Indianapolis 9; 8t. Louis. 2. Indianapolis, 11; St. Louis, 3. American Association. Columbus. 6; Milwaukee, 5. Indianapolis, 3; Kansas City, Kansas City. 1; Indianapolis, St. Paul. 4; Toledo, 1. St. Paul. 10; Toledo. 7 Minneapolis. 2; Louisville. 1. Louisville, 3; Minneapolis. 1. Cotton States Titles Are Here +•4* +*v •*•••!* ^**4 Smith and MansfieldWinDoubles A TLANTA tennis cracks made a clean sw-eep of the Cotton States championships, just fin ished on the courts of the Atlanta Athletic Club at East Lake, bv tak ing the challenge match in doubles. Smith and Mansfield defeating Brooks and Bartlett, the Birmingham defenders, In a hard-fought match that had to be continued over from Saturday Into this week. Carlton Smith won the singles chal lenge match handily Saturday morn ing, defeating Lee Allen Brooks, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2, In straight sets. The afternoon was set for the con solation match in singles and the challenge match in doubles. Harry Hallman won the consolation cup, defeating T M. Wilson In straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. The doubles match turned out to be a spectacular strug gle and at dusk, when play ceased, the match stood two sets all, Smith and Mansfield having won the first and third, and Brooks and Bartlett the second and fourth. The play-off was set for the fol SEABOARD EXCUR SION TO BIRMINGHAM Monday, September 22, $2.50 round trip. Leaves Old Depot 8:30 a. m. Tick ets good returning on regu lar trains. lowing week, and a sharp and well* played final set went to Smith and Mansfield, 6-2, giving them the matQb and the championship. The full scores were, 11-9, 4-6. ft-7, 2-6, 6-2, The visiting players expressed themselves as delighted with the hos pitality of the club and the soclaJ attentions shown them while guests in Atlanta, It is probable the Cot* ton States tourney will be played here next year. M'DEVITT TO COACH GOPHERS. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15.—E. W, McDevltt, former linesman on the Yale football team, will be assistant coach at the University of Mlrne-4 sota, according to an announcement made to-day. McDevitt’s home Is a4 Duluth. ONEY LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Real Estate Security NATIONAL DISCOUNT CO. ia 1 ’-IS rssrth National Bank Bide ANOTHER LOCAL LADY WONDERFULLY BENEFITED It certainly must be a pleasant surprise for a person to find a re lief from long- years of suffering, especially when they have tried al most every treatment on the mar ket. Quaker Herb Extract and Oil of Balm are surprising these suf ferers every day. There have been thousands of bottles of the Quaker Herb Extract sold in this city, and the sale is increasing every day. What is the cause of this wonderful demand? Here is a report that will explain, and others that you read about every' day. 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