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-ATONDAY. JUNE 14, 1915.
Whiskey Isn’t a Good Thing to Take on a Bear Hunt
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Thrilling Combat with Big Cinnamon Ends in
Victory for Man, Only W hen Aid Comes—
Temperance Sermon in Final Outcome—
Says Jess Will ard in His Auto-biography.
All rights
(Copyright, 19IS, by 4 Merritt.
Reserved.)
I N'EVER w»nt to havo a better time than
when I lived amon* the Indiana. I
worked hard, but It waa all out In the
open and I had plenty of time for akylarkln*
around.
I used to Ilka to go to the Indian dances,
and because I always took some trinkets
along I was a mighty popular fellow.
Funny, but the dancing we did was a lot
like the present day “rag," although we
didn't put our arm around the girl's waist
The drums pounded out the time, and we
all wore sleigh bells, so that when things
wanned up there was a good deal of noise.
On Winter nights I would sit around a
roaring fire with the old men, and they
would fill me to the brim with stories about
how brave and warlike the Pottowattomles
used to be.
Tbetr one great fight against the whites
was way back In 1811, when they Joined
forces with the Shawnees, Wyandottes,
Klckapoos, Ottawas and Chippewa*. Old
'“Tippecanoe” Harrison whipped them to a
standstill In a single battle.
The Pottowattomles handed the story
down from father to son, and, Just like prize
fighters, they had a good alibi. It seems
that the Prophet, who was making medi
cine on a hill, turned his back for a minute,
and his wife touched the pots. That broke
the charm that was to give them victory
over the palefaces.
That was about all the fighting the Pot-
towattomles did, and I figure that the great
ness of their chiefs lay In keeping out of
trouble. I found them a kindly, well behaved
lot of people, with the makings of good
farmers If It hadn’t bean for whiskey.
Even If my experience with the drunken
tramp had not given me a horror of drink
ing, seeing what whlakey dtd to the Indians
would have made me a sober man.
With my own eyes 1 saw “fire waver” turn
many a big, fine man Into a crawling beast,
robbing them of their strength and cutting
their lives right In half.
You can talk about civilisation all you
want to, but a civilization that walks hand
In hand with whiskey Is a devilish thing,
and the world would be better ofT without It,
I have seen Indians drink Jamaica ginger,
which Is 95 per cent alcohol. I have seen
them swill down lemon and vanilla extracts,
and there are cases where the unfortunate
wretches have even taken shellac vamtsh
and floated the alcohol In It.
The Government did Its bast to protect
the Indian from whiskey, but In those days
there were still a good many "boot loggers."
These fellows would sneak through the
country with whiskey In a wagon, In their
saddle bags or In their pockets, and drive
hard bargains with the Indians, who would
give anything they had for "Are water.”
The beat thing that ever happened to
Kansas was when It went “dry." Each year
has put more drug stores out of business,
and to-day the boys of Kansas are growing
up without ever knowing the Inside of a
saloon or being bothered with temptations
at a time when they haven't got sense
enough to resist.
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After I left Woodchuck and went into
business for myself, my next big move was
a Journey to Wyoming The ponies I was
getting In Kansas weren't very big or
strong and could hardly do the heavy field
work that was wanted of them. So I made
up my mind to visit the Wyoming ranges
and see If I couldn't pick up a better lot.
I hit Cheyenne first, and worked out from
tbere. The Wyoming ponies looked mighty
good to mo, and I bought quite a number,
sending them back to my place In Kansas
to be broken when I went back. 1 had a
fine time In Wyoming, although I didn’t find
the "had man” that I had hoped to see.
All through, my boyhood I had heard
stories of men with notches on their guns—
fellows who could shoot from the hip and
hit the heart every time. I reckon the breed
must have died out, for I never met a single
one.
The only fight 1 saw was between a
Indian Dances Much Like Preseht Day Rag
—All Wore Sleigh Bells, so Noise Drowned
Out the Music of the Drums—Story of Old
‘Tippecanoe Harrison Woven in to Legend.
Mark and the big cinnamon were m lxed up entirely too close for us to shoot.
drunken man and a town marshal. At first
I thought that the cowpuncher was a bad
man, and lie thought so himself It didn't
take the marshal long to prove that It waa
Just a case of bad whiskey.
It was In a saloon, and the fellow had a
gun out and was waving it around with a
lot of wild talk. He told everybody that he
was a rattlesnake whose bite was sudden
death, and then he changed his mind, and
decided that he was a timber wolf. an*l that
r\
when he howled the whole population had
better take to the cyclone cellar. The mar
shal heard the noise and came in the saloon
and told the cowpuncher to drop his gun
and come along to Jail.
"Me go to Jail?” He couldn't believe his
ears. "Why, there ain't a pen In the world
that can hold me. I bite my way through
steel. I’m a grizzly bear and I’m looking for
meat.”
1 thought sure I was going to see a kill
ing, but the marshal didn't even draw a
gun. He Just looked the cowpuncher square
In the face ,for a minute or so, and then he
walked up to him slow and gave him an
awful slap In the face.
"You ain't no gfijzzly bear,” he said.
"You’re Just a plain cur with a bad case of
mange.”
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The best sport I had in Wyoming was a
bear hunt in the Medicine Bow range coun
try. I went with two fellows who were said
to be great hunters, and I reckon they were.
Anyway, we got a bear.
For two weeks we tramped the mountain
sides, crawling up and down canyons and
digging our way through pinon patches aad
scrub oak without ever catching sight of
anything bigger than rabbit and grouse. The
last few days 1 got to believing that there
wasn’t any such things as bears, and took
up trout fishing as a steady sport.
I had always been used tij still water fish
ing, and whipping a mountain stream was a
new experience to me. Every morning 1
would get up and spend the day sliding
down the mountain side on my hip pockets.
If ever I have a fight anywhere near the
mountains I am going to take up trout fish
ing as a way of getting in shape.
Like almost everything In a fellow s life,
the bear happened when I wasn't watching
for him. We were moving camp, and I 'had
my fishing rod in my hand, watching out for
likely pools. My gun was piled In with the
pack on the burro.
Mack, one of the hunters, had been hit
ting up his bottle the night before, and was
feeling mighty sick and sullen. Whenever
he had anything to say it was some mean
remark to Bill, a nice, quiet, sober little fel
low, who wrs always busy minding his own
business.
Mack was a strapping fellow, standing
over six feet, and weighing close to two hun
dred and eighty. He was mighty proud of
his strength, and always boasting that he
could kill a bear with his hands
Well, he was given his chance. We struck
a big cinnamon right In the middle of a
berry patch. He didn’t have any chance to
run, and neither did we. Bill had dropped
far behind, the Durro bolted when he saw
the bear, and there was only Mack to do
business with the big brown boy.
Grizzly bears hit with their paws like a
boxer, black bears bite like a bulldog, but a
big cinnamon always hugs. This ons
lurched forward, and as he rose to his hind
feet I yelled to Mack to shoot. Lord, he
wasn't ten feet away, and he looked as big
as the side of a house.
It wasn’t fear that made Mack's hands
tremble. It was his jag of the night before.
When he raised his gun it wabbled like a
bean pole in a high wind. His nerves were
on edge, and that smashed his "nerve.” Be
fore he shot I knew that he would miss!
The bear had him before his finger left
the trigger. As for me, I didn’t even have a
knife. What with the bear's growling and
me and Mack yelling, there was noise
lenough to bring Bill on the run.
He didn't dare try for a shot, for Mack and
the cinnamon were mixed up entirely too
close, so he dropped his gun and drew the
big dirk that was at his belt.
He didn't waste any time, Bill didn’t He
^^umped into the middle of the mess, and in
a minute bin knife hand was going up and
down like a , ump handle. I’m not saying
that he could have done it if the bear hadn t
been busy with Mack, but Just the same he
killed that cinnamon with that knife. The
last smash he put in sent the dirk right up
to the hilt In the bear’s heart.
Mack was pretty badly clawed, but at that
he was more scared than hurj,. When wa
made camp that evening Bill opened up the
pack and took out the whiskey bottles and
smashed them on a rock. He didn't say
anything, neither dtd Mack.
I left for home soon after that, broke my
ponies, and sold them for better prices than
1 had ever gotten before.
(To-morrow Willard will tell his reasons
for drawing the color line.)
[ Southern League^
Mobil* 3, Birmingham 0.
MOBILE. June 14.— Holmquiat pitched
a remarkable game for Mobile yesterday
and Birmingham was beaten, 3 to 0.
Only 29 batsmen faced Holmqulst, the
vlsltora going out In order except In the
second, when Magee singled, and In the
ninth, when Robertson walked
Score by Innings R.H E.
Birmingham . . OOO 000 000 -0 1 H
Mobile 001 011 00x—3 fi 1
Batteries Robertson and Hale, Holm-
qulst and Schmidt.
4
Nashville 5, Chattanooga 1.
NASHVILLE, June 14.—Rube Kis
singer won his fourth straight game
yesterday, giving Nashville an easy
game from Chattanooga. 5 to 1. The
single run made by Chattanooga was a
home run over the right field fence
Johnaton was knocked unconscious in
the sixth when one of Kissinger's fast
ones struck him in the temple.
Score by Innings R.H.E.
Chattanooga . . . .001 O00 000—1 6 1
Nashville 013 010 00*—5 11 1
Batteries: Clarke and Peters; Kis
singer and Street.
National League
Chicago, 6; Boston, 4.
CHICAGO. June 14 Chicago defeated
Boat on 6 to 4 in the first game of th<*
series here Sunday. The world's cham
pion* hit Vaughn hard in the opening in
ning. scoring four runs. Kniseley's dou
ble and two sacrifices put Chicago In
the lead In the third.
Score by innings R.H.E.
Boston 400 000 000—4 3 O
Chicago 401 100 00* * 12 1
Batteries Rudolph, Hess and Gowdy;
Vaughn. Lavender and Archer.
St. Louis, 9; Brooklyn, 2.
ST. LOUIS. June 14. St Louis de
feated Brooklyn, 9 to 2. in the opening
game of their series yesterday. The
visitors were saved from a shut-out by
a series of hunched singles in the sev
enth.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
Brooklyn 000 000 200 -2 8 4
St Louis 200 034 00*—9 7 2
Batteries. Pfeffer, Cad ore ami Mc
Carty, M. Wheat : Robinson and Snyder.
New York-Cincinnati; rain.
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%1X>RT NE\
4 Sty George
FAMOUS KNOCKOUTS I HAVE
SEEN.
By OSCAR HIP.
CALOMEL TO-DAY.
SICK MORROW
Dose of Nasty Calomel Makes
You Sick and You Lose a
Day's Work.
Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug-
giah liver When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you fee! bilious, head-chy, consti
pated and all knocked out. Just go to
your druggist and get a 50-cent bot
tle of Dodson's Liver Tone, v hich is a
harmless vegetable substitute for dan
gerous calomel. Take a spoonful, and
if it doesn’t start your liver and
straighten you up better and quicker
than nasty calomel and without mak
ing you sick, you Just go back and get
your money.
If you take calomel to-day you’ll be
sick and nauseated to-morrow; be
dsides. it ma\ salivate you; while if ,ou
Dodson's Liver Tone you will
Ike up feelmg great f.; ..? ambit m.,
gd ready for work or play. It's harm
iss, pleasant and safe to g*ve to chil
dren; they like It.—Adveruiement.
turn to this office and receive the fab
ulous sum of $2.50.°
“Nix!" replied the young man. “I
am an honest wrestler.”
Whitewash tried to speak, but mere
ly gurgled and fell from his chair.
A fitting monument has been placed
over hie grave. It is a double cross.
No. 1.
No man ever was knocked out cold
er than was Hank O'Day one dark and
dismal afternoon at the Polo Grounds.
The Cubs and Giants were fighting
for the pennant, and the natural bit
terness between them was increased
by the disagreeable condition of the
weather. All afternoon the players
and umpires had been calling each
other by their right names until the
eighth inning, when the knockout
came.
Johnny Evers was batting, with the
bases jammed and the score tied. It
was a battle of wits between Evers
and Mathewson until the count stood
3 to 2. The crowd was in an uproar
and the athletes were hurlina soft and
gentle epithets at each other. The
next ball cut the heart of the plate,
and Evers stood and watched it go
past.
“Strike!” hollered O'Day in his
usual nonchalant manner.
Evers turned to the umpire with an
appreciative smile on hi* face and
held out his hand.
“Hank,” he said, “I want to con
gratulate you. That was the best de
cision you have ever mad*. It wee a
perfect strike.”
O'Day was revived later in St.
Luke’s Hospital, but has never fuliv
recovered. He even went so far as to
attempt to manage a team for Charley
Murphy.
NO. 2.
One of *the most sensational knock
outs I have ever seen took place > n
the Morristown Hotel in Chicago. It
was put over by Tom Jones, manager
of the greatest white heavyweight
champion that ever traveled with a I
Wild West show. I
Tom had been putting on the feed
bag, or, as Henry James would sjy,
had been feeding his mush. The
waiter, who had served him before,
thought he knew Tom's every move,
but subsequent events showed that he
was mistaken.
When the waiter had served the fin
ger bowl and returned with the
change he laid down a two-bit piece
and a jitney. Jones, without the
slightest trace of anguish on his face,
handed the waiter the two-bit piece.
The waiter may get over it, but he
will never look the same.
NO. 3.
One of the most terrific knockout
blows I have seen, and one which end
ed fatally, happened in the wrestling
game. Ed Whitewash, whom you
probably remember as manager of the
Great Veiled Mystery, was the victim.
Whitewash was managing Humid
Kalla Muhmont. the Bulgarian cham
pion from back of the stockyards
Humid was at that time meeting all
comers, and forfeiting fifty dollars
($50.00) to any man he could not
throw in twenty minutes.
One night there appeared a voung
man with a mitt like a Westohallan
ham and a neck that could have
served as a dummy for a horse col
lar.
“I want to win that fifty bones.” he
said, simply, with the accent on the
timp.
“Of course, vou know," said the
manager, wheeling in his revolving
charr, “that you are to flop in seven
teen minutes, after which you will re-
NO. 4.
Frank L. Tinker, the famous base
ball manager, delivered a knockout
one day that was unique in more ways
than one. His victi'm was Bill Ford,
sporting editor of The Morning Squir
rel.
Bill had called Frank to his office
in order to make terms for a series of
Sunday stories dealing with the hu
morous side of Frank’s long career on
the diamond.
“The idea ie this,” said Bill. “All
you have to do '• to hand us a bunch
of dope and one of the bunch will
write it for you. Or, if necessary, you
won’t have to hand us any dope. We’ll
write it for you, anyhow.”
Frank arose from his seat with
flashing eye and his famous bowlegs
became knock-kneed with suppressed
emotion.
“Sir,” he said, shifting his chew
from his right cheek to his left, “I al
ways write my own stuff!”
Bill staggered to the ropes and then
crumpled to the floor.
RED ROCK FEDS LOSE, 5 TO 4
The Red Rock Federal* lost to the
Nassau nine yesterday, ft to 4. The
winning run was scored in the ninth in
ning The fielding and hitting of Da
vis for the Feds and two spectacular
running catches by C. Harris featured
the game.
Score by innings R.H.E.
Red Rock 800 010 000 -4 ft 0
Nassaus .100 003 001—6 6 0
Batteries' Butler and Charles; C.
McCoy and R. McCoy.
Federal League
Newfedt Get Even Break.
NEWARK. N. .1., June 14 -An even
break was the best Newark could do
against Buffalo.
First game. Score: R.H.E.
Buffalo OOO O00 000—0 ft 1
Newark 100 010 03*—5 10 l
Batteries Ford, Bedient and Blair;
Moaely and Rariden.
Second game. Score: R.H.E.
Buffalo OOO 220 000—4 8 2
Newark 000 000 003—3 4 4
Batteries; Schllz and Allen; Kaiser-
ling, Brandom and Rariden.
Kawfeds Divide Two.
KANSAS CITY. June 14.—Kansas City
and Chicago divided a double-header
here yesterday. Kansas City taking the
first. 6 to 4, and Chicago the second,
3 to 2.
First game.. Score; R.H.E.
Chicago 101 200 000—4 14 2
Kansas City OOO 000 24*—6 11 0
Batteries; Black. M. Brown and
Fischer; Main, Johnson, Cullop, Pack
ard and D Brown.
. Second game. Score: R.H.E.
Chicago 001 010 000 1—3 10 2
Kansas City OOO Oil OOO 0—2 ft 1
Ratteries: McConnell and Wilson;
Henning and Easterly.
St. Louis Grabs Couple.
ST. LOUIS. June 14. St. Louis nosed
out a double victory from Pittsburg
here, winning the double-header, 6 to 5
and 2 to 1.
First game. Score: R.H.E.
Pittsburg 010 002 002 0—5 9 2
St. Louis 020 120 000 1—6 9 2
Batteries: Knetzer. Allen and O’Con
nor. Berry. Groom, Davenport. Crandall
and Hartley.
Second game. Score: R.H.E.
Pittsburg 000 OOO 010—1 6 0
St. Louis 001 100 00*—2 6 1
Batteries: Hearne. Rogge and Berry;
Crandall and Hartley.
STRIKE WILL NOT STOP GAME
CHICAGO. June 14.—President Thom
as, of the Cubs, announced this morn
ing that to-day's game with the Braves
would he played in spite of the strike of
the surface and elevated employees, but
if the tie-up wrecked the patronage too
completely, the rest of the series might
he postponed until Boston’s next trip
here.
T
FOR
Billy Knows Baseball and Is Also
Able to Handle His Fists,
Says Matty.
By Christy Mathewson.
(Giants’ Famous Hurler.)
I HAVE heard some talk of making
Billy Evans the manager of the
Cleveland team, and several hun
dred prominent fans of Cleveland,
|*y\ Iwro Evans makes his home in the
w inter, have petitioned Mr. Somers to
select him for the job.
Billy is popular in the home town in
spite of the fact he is an umpire. He
spends his winters there writing some
literature, boxing every day at the
athletic club, and playing a little draw-
poker.
Whether Evans would make a good
manager or not is hard to say, be
cause the qualifications of a leader
can not be easily discovered until he
has tried the Job But Billy knows
baseball, as American league players,
who have taken up questions of the
rules with him at various times, can
tell you.
He also knows a little bit about
boxing and should be able to con
vince a refractory player, without
much trouble, that he was the boss.
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Moreover, he is an excellent umpire.
To make him manager would ruin a
good official.
Boxed With Kid McCoy.
I saw Evans put on the gloves with
Kid McCoy one day, a couple pf years
ago, and there was quite a lively bout.
However. Billy had not trained faith
fully. and unfortunately had eaten a
chocolate ice cream soda just before
he went to the ringside, not knowing
he was going. The Kid, with those
elusive feet of his. shifted and dug
his right into Billy’s stomach. The
Ice cream ‘soda beat Bill, but then
every ball player is not a Kid Mc
Coy—not by a long shot—although
most of them think they are until
taught differently. Billy is the boy
who could teach many of them. He
has convinced some already.
When Evans was asked whether he
would accept the job* of manager, he
very sensibly replied that he could
not very well accept anything which
had not yet been offered to him.
Evans Is Ambitious.
"But," he added. “I would certainly
consider it. since I am anxious to ad
vance in baseball, and I count a Job as
manager ahead of that of an umpire."
Perhaps Evans made a mistake in
admitting this Time will tell. But,
If he is not selected, it is a good line
for several irate managers to use on
Bill in a pinch, should they care to be
unsportsmanlike, in the event of a
close one called against them.
To me Stovail looked like the best
manager the Cleveland club ever had,
and this opinion was apparently con
firmed because he did not get a
chance the next season. That looks
like a sure sign in Cleveland.
(Copyright, 191ft. by Christy Math
ewson.)
New First Baseman
Signed by Crackers
The Crackers have signed a new first
baseman. Major Callaway announced
this morning that First Sacker Kauf
man has been added to the local's
roster. He was scored from the St.
Louis Browns.
ELIMINATION FINALS START.
CHICAGO, June
trials were started to-day on the new
two-mile Chicago motor speedway to
select the speediest of 30 racing autos
entered In the first 500-mile race
June 19. The trials will continue for
three days. Nearly 10,000 persons ’-'aid
to see Barney Oldfield and DeLloyd
Thompson, the aviator, supported by-
doze nof the most famous driver nf
the world, who, without exception
drove their mounts around the two-mile
heard oval at averages of better than
95 miles an hour.
RACINE FIGHT CLUB IS 0. K.
MILWAUKEE, WIS., June 14.—
The State Boxing Commission has an
nounced tha»t Racine's boxing club had
entirely straightened out its boxing
affairs and that the commission was
now satisfied with conditions there.
It was intimated that there would be
no difficulty in getting a permit for the
Racine fights booked for June 14.
If He Had Killed
Herzog This Fan
Would Not Change
Words He Yelled
) Mike Mitchell is even-tempered >
j and tolerably good - natured.
/ “Only once in my life did I ever <
1 get fighting mad at a fan,” said ;
Mike. “That was at Cincinnati.
We were playing New York, and
Mathewson was pitching.
H. Elimination ! ‘‘Matty’. f » st one *" d hi ?, fade : \
> looked easy to me. Three times I :
> hit it solidly and drove it straight
at some fielder.
“In the tenth I came up with one
out and two on. I never hit a ball ]
much harder. It went like a bullet ?
and straight at Herzog. He grab- ]
! bed it. staggered and hung on. The ?
I ball almost tore his hands off. As
I turned, some bug yelled: ‘That's ij
right, Mike—pop 'em up—keep
poppin’ 'em up.
Most people who are constiptaed are
always taking pills, wafers, salts or
mineral waters just something to
move the bowels. They never think
of the after effect; they don't realize
that they are goii\g to have to keep
taking something, only a little more
every day. until it has no effect at all,
and the bowels are in worse condition
than at first. The safe and sensible
treatment for constipation is a veg
etable tonic laxative. If people would
eat enough vegetables and fruit, they
would not be constipated, but they
don’t; so the sensible thing is to use
the pure Juice of vegetables to move
the bowels and keep the liver working
nature's way Digestit Elixir is the
best thing to take It is a purely veg
etable tonic laxative—pleasant to take
and sure to act. It i« a tonic for the
bowels and liver; so you don’t have to
keep taking it a!’ the time The Di
gestit tablets should be taken along
after meals to digest the food and
keep It from souring, so. there will
be no decayed waste to accumulate In
the bowels You can get this treat
ment from your druggist, or if you
want to try it on the guarantee write
the Digestit Co.. 929 Canal St New
Orleans. You can try it first; if
it fails, don’t pay.—Advertisement.
“Spunk up, ’ * don't be blue—
“A man is but as old as he feels;”
And reverses, oft, at the meridian line,
The best “stuff ” in a fellow reveals !
Moody meditations won’t materialize a maintenance.
"Blue funk” fosters failure. 75 per cent, of men at
Forty or more, are 90 per cent, efficient.
If you are IN that class, and OUT of employment,
DON'T KEEP IT A SECRET !
Let the World Know it in a Want Ad!
Nobody will hunt you up, unless you give them
a “clew”—
Write a forceful, pointed, compelling “POSI
TION WANTED” Ad and pri*t it in the
“CLASSIFIED” columns of the
GEORGIAN AMERICAN.
IT GETS RESULTS ! 1
And pulls men out of hard kick “ruts.'*
Try It and See ! 1
CHANGES IN DUBUQUE CLUB.
DUBUQUE, LOW A, June 14.—Forest
Flass, former manager of the Dubuque
Three-1 club, is employed to look after
the management of the team tempo
rarily. He has released McCuff, first
baseman, and signed Steve Brewer, now
playing Independent ball at Awatonna.