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pm i mv ATLANTA itftUKHIAJN Ai\J) JNfJW» A SCHOOL SUGGESTION By Tad Copyright, 1913, International News Servlet- SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT / * t J \ -^3HV nor- rtAVfc THE- Oto STCWOL Hptffe M popx*^, ~ As ate _5vj/mm«*io- move oft icelw'.r 8ac< vafco em * 4v Bv 0. B. Keeler. C ‘ UMES now a rumor that the Dobbs-Lookouts deal is entire ly off. with both side? shedding grief 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. It comes right out and sav? J. Dobbs is under signature with C. Frank to operate the N?’.v Orleans breadwinner in the next campaign. * • * ALL of which moves one to inquire tv what has become of K. Elber- feld. Or is it possible the Pelicans will require TWO managers in addition to C. Frank's overseeing job next season ? Hardly. If so. you would envy .1. Dobbs as co-manager with the Pepper Kid. would you not? You would not. • # • \1 OW that it seems certain Harry IN Welchonce finished in front of Pave Robertson by a batting spurt it the wire, it does seem rather a pity Harry isn't to be decorated with ti;e medai of honor. Dave'S slump came coincidentally with that of his club, right at the most important stage of the whole ra«‘e. Harry’s sound walloping kept step vith the sprint of his club—and helped the sprint. Not heaving Irish confetti at Dave, course—but which batsman would have won the Rose medal, had it been awarded like the Chalmers trophies in the big leagues? * * • S PEAKING of Dave, however, It is noted that a $500 option—a scan dalously economical figure, by the na yw-has just been exercised by John Ml draw. Who has hauled the big -lugger out of this league to Join his Giants. It in said to be Muggsy's intention . „se Davey in most of the remain- ttt games this year, provided the n ,'e doesn't grow too close—which It wortjt* A good many fans around the pifhern League, by the way. don't I 4IV that Dave primarily is a pitcher , ill a busted shoulder. A football lie accounted for the bum whip, eh since lias worked around In J shape, so that McGraw has a ibination in the new man. it we can't see Dave nosing Jj- Teareau. Marquard or Demtt- 0 f a regular turn on the slab, neat season. * * * old friend Slim Love, com* lonly known as the Human Of- lilding, is making quite a hit shington. got into a game for one in- he other day and dazzled the osition quite successfully. being •h batted for in the next frame. vever. hhe hunch is that W. Johnson hat taken a fancy to the tall boy's fast ball—Walter having quite a fondness for smoke, it seems—while Boehling, 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 his fast one. Slim’s curve ball while with the Crackers looked about the size of a shoe-hook, or perhaps a glove-buttoner. * * * H ERE’S one on Tris Speaker, who is remembered around the Southern League circuit by reawn of his terrific hitting and long-distance pegging. Some 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 thought 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. Trig 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. VV7ITH 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—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 times this year, and Is getting somo 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. Kilbane Is Out j Charley Hemphill To Battle All On Suspended List Foes This Fall C HICAGO, Sept. 14.—Johnny Kil bane, the Cleveland colt, w\\o holds the featherweight title, is out with the announcement that he will be as busy as 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 fight. 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 Labor Day for the White-Grifflths quarrel. Kilbane was there with his manager, Dunn. The latter was betting money 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 very active in the defense of my title of late. But l am going to get busy soon. I will make no more careful fights from now on. Every bout 1 engage in will be a bat tle. I intend to become the Terry McGovern of the feathers and stop as many challengers as I can. I have spent most of the summer on a farm outside of 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 lie 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 class. Where is there a boy of that weight who has a chance with him? He will not risk his title at any other no'ch, 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 be refusal to listen to such a proposition. He’s a great fighter, and it will take a wonder to beat him —some one like Abe Attell at his best.” 35 WILLIAM MEN REPORT. WILLIA MST< >V \. PA. Sen) M Thirty-five candidates have reported for positions on the Williams College foot ball team. CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—The following contracts and releases since August 23 ftrere announced to-day by President Chivington, of the American Associa tion : Contracts: Columbus, Charles Rob erts; Indianapolis, Cecil Wetzel, George Wheeler; Kansas City, Leslie G. Dan iels, George W. Harper, W. J. Matticks, Frank Ij&nge. Lewis Richie, Morris C. Rath; Louisville, Ben White, Thomas Downey; Milwaukee, Oscar Felsch, Wil liam Powell; Minneapolis. Joe Lake, Henry Rondeau; St. Paul, Henry Schreiber; Toledo, Clarence Teague. Releases: Indianapolis to Louisville, Thomas Downey; to Terre Haute, George Wheeler; to Springfield, Ohio, J. J. Gettman; St. Paul to Boston Amerieans. "Walter Reng; Minneapolis to Detroit Americans. Ralph Comstock. Suspenisons; Toledo. Grover Land; St. Paul, Charles Hemphill. Reinstated: Indianapolis, R. R Cot ter. Yale Expects Much Of Kicker Pumpelly PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.—Grover things are expected by the Yale coaches this year of Howard Pumpelly, w'ho as a substitute last year made a 51-foot drop kick, believed to be the longest ever made. Pumpelly has been doing some astonishing booting during the past few years nnd the coaches are giving a large part of their time to further de veloping him. The squad of candidates will not be sent into scrimmage work until next week, the coaches being satisfied to drill them just now in passing and falling on the ball. Umpire Perrine Held On Insanity Warrant OAKLAND, CAL., Sept. 14.—"Bun” Perrine, who was an umpire in the American League last season, is held here on an insanity warrant. His men tal breakdown is sa;d to have been caused by sunstroke, which he suffered in a game in Cleveland in 1011. Nothing More Now Except Pope ‘Sixes' The Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn., makers of the 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 M.1S0 to $3,250, will be disposed of at somewhat lower prices. Golfers Practicing For Open Tourney NEW HAVEN. Conn., Sep. 14 —Great Practically the entire • field of golfers, both foreign ami domestic, had arrived to-day for the open American golf championship, which starts Tuesday on the links of the Country Club. The practice has bten almost continuous during the past few days, and to-day more than 120 professionals and ama teurs made tours of the links. Nearly all the prominent foreign play ers have made many rounds of the course. Among the Americans who played to-day was Jack McDermott, the titleholder. Verder and Ray, of Eng land, who have played the course a dozen times, went to New' Jersey to day, but will return here Sunday for more practice. Walters Hands Out Beating to Denny NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14.— Billy Walters, Chicago welterweight, made it two wins over Young Denny, of thi* city, here last night. Outside of one round, the first. Walters whs the better man In six of the ten rounds the Windy City boxer established a clean lead. Although he put up a clean and cred itable tight, the local youth was clearly outfought in practically every round ex cept iho first, in which he caught Wal ters off his guard by a tigerlike jump across the ring Denny took what probably is the worst lacing he had ever been called upon to assimilate in a ring T HE crisp, cool September weath er has sent the blood of the golfer bounding through his veins in a wonderful manner and made these last few days most en joyable on the links. Many plavers 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 biggest event in America —and every one of us golfers is fair ly aching to see Ray and Vardon and Massy and Tellier, as w'ell 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 itsejf 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 most 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 somew-hat of skiil, 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 ills 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 g.ime, while match play, not to he 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 highest degree. It iR a contest between man nnd 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 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 by 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, Sept. 14.—Charley White finished his training to-day for his 10-round battle In Racine Mon day night with Mickev Sheridan. The latter hopes to upset White and will find valuable aid in his endeavor. Harry Gilmore, Hr., veteran light weight, will second Sheridan. The winner is to get a chance at Ad Wolgast or Willie Ritchie. Ad ahe«d\ has made a bid for the match and Ritchie recently expressed a wiH- ingness to battle White. N EW YORK, Sept. 14.—The man agement of the Atlantic Gar den, on the Bowery, which has been promoting boxing matches of late, helped the manly set of self- defense considerably fcj slipping it a shot of ground glass and then wal loping it over the head with a sledge hammer. They put on John Legter Johnson, a meerschaum brother, with Samuel I^vngf^rd, formerly connected with the boxing business, but now busily engaged in cornering the greatest 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 clapper,? 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 futter. ell 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. We wouldn’t for a moment say that either neglected his duty. • • • T HE bell rang. Mr. Langford crouched over a roll of fat aR big as a sack of wheat. Mr. Johnson, 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 they counted 400. Mr. Langford then put on his kimono again, gave three cheers for the box ing commissioners and the Atlantic Garden, lit a olg 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 State* Army, former West Point football captain, and all-American tackle, is to coach the Fort McPherson eleven this fall. Lieu tenant Devore wan 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 ft number of gridiron ex perts to he the best tackle of his time, an eleven to he feared by all contenders for Southern honors will probably be developed. . , _ The first gome on the schedule for the soldiers Is set for September 27. when they will battle with the Georgia Tech huskies on the Grant Park field. McGoorty Will Start Training on Monday OH7GAGO, Sept, li Fiddle McGoorty, 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 * McGoorty declares he will beat the Pittsburg “bear cat” and then take on Jimmy Clab by. By Ed W. Smith. A D WOLGAST hag 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 p\en 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 w’ell by the 30-year mark and wasn't considered old as iong as lie 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 ILE ring never had a 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 ill 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 bark and regain his old laurels, the Cadil lac boy, now seven 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 ns 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 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. • • • O NE thing always will stand out magnificently in the Wolgast record and it is something that no body can take away from him. No more courageous man ever tapped a pair of hands in the boxing arena than thin 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 wmuld have been whipped to a frazzle long before he was, be cause he never realized the In por- 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! TOBACCO HABIT * prr*v* jM»UTh*«Wh. prolong your life. N" rnnr*» *»-h trminle, no foul breath. no heart woakno** Rr gain manly vigor, ralm nerve*, eiear eye* an<i su port or mental -length. Whether yon ehevr or BrooVo pipe, rlgarotta*. rigii-*, get. my interest In* Tobacco Bof k Worth it* weight in *ni<i Mailed free E. J, WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave., 743 M.. New York. N. Y. Rickey Takes Lessons From Ban Johnson CHICAGO, September 14.--Branch Rickey, newly ordained leader of the 8L Louis Browns, attended President B. B. Johnson’s class in baaebaU ethics to-day and picked up con siderable valuable information to be applied in his new field of endeavor as successor to George Stovall. The Mound City manager arrived In 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* ceedlngs of the big leaguers. During his connection with the 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 need* enlightenment. That** 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. U —Promoters from Kenosha were in Chicago yesterday to close & match between Sam Langford, the negro fighter from Boston, and Qeve Hawkins, one. of Chicago’s best ebonv- skinned battlers Hawkins immediately agreed to the contest and Langfordfe 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 Skin Dlaeaee Wtfc Go Skulking Away If You Um 8. a. 6. A tiny pimple spreads to the stde> 04 the face and often covers th« cheeks ami bridge of the note. It is very de structive to the tissues of the skin. No external treatments will overcome it. as the cause of lupus U from Impurities In the blood supply. The onl> known method of cure Is to get the blood sup ply under the control of S. S S,, the famoun blood specific. Its action is quite remarkable and has direct influence up on the network of small blood vessels and glands In the skin. Not one drop of minerals or drugs l$ used In its preparation Ask for 8 S 8. and Insist upon having It. For illus trated book on skin diseases write The Swift Bpeclftc Oo . 188 Rwift Labora tory, Atlanta. Ga. Do not allow some zeaious clerk to larrup the atmosphere In eloquence over so” ■ tiling “just as good as 3. £. Beeaxe of all sub stitutes. BIRMINGHAM AND RE TURN. SEABOARD, round trip $2.50. Leaves Old Depot 8:30 a. m., September 22. Arrives Birmingham 1:30 p. m. PEACHTREE CITY TICKET OFFICE EITHER PHONE THE ATTRACTIVE WAY NORTH & WEST J