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Georgia Owned Foal, by Lee Axworthy, Sold tor Record Price in Keniucky
By JAMES M. ROSS,
EXINGTON KY., March 13
The best light harness sou! of
the year, with the hest price,
wWas reported here tonigh when
John K. Madden announced he had
bought from the Pastime Stables the
VY-month-old foal, by lee Axworthy,
out of Wilinut Tree, for 32,400
The colt now & at Thomasyille
Ga., in charge of the Pastime Stables
and Trainer W. J. Andrews
lee Axworthy, sire of the foal, wa
the world champion stallion when he
died three months ago. The dam
Walnut Tree, is a noted winner all
over the Grand Cilrouit and o sud
cess in the stud,
The colt will be sent in the early
spring !to the Lexington track for
training
The announcement »f the record
price of the season set by a Georgla
owned foal caused deep satinfaction
here among horsemen. The Pustime
Stables long has maintained winte;
training quarters in sunny Thoma
yille and have found the ctimate par
ticularly friendly for the raising and
training of light harness horses
Not only does the price of %3500
for a 9-vonth foal indicate the
healthy tone of the light harness
racing game, but it conclusive
groof that Georgia offers an fdea
Yocation for breeding and training
slables
Not a little bit of sentiment nt
taches to the fact that the foal i# one
of the sons of that game little trot
ter fthat carried with him to his
frave unchallenged the Georgia trot
ux record of L:698-4 which was
made at the first Grand Cireuit meet
g held at Lakewood in 1016 [.ee
Axworthy has demonstrated his ahil
Hy to make good, both on the truck
and In the stud. MHe was a Georgla
tramed and owned horse and it isx a
great blow to the light harness game
that he died just as hix career as the
founder of a family of trotters wus
beginning
Frank Dobson Athletic
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Director At Jackson
CAMP JAOKBON, Coluwhia, 8. ( Mare by
17~ Frank M. Dobson, weil-known college
conch, has been named athietic dircotor
for Camp Jackson by Hrigadier Genera
William E. Cole. Ceach Dobson will have
seneral supervision of all athletios n
Camp Jackson. 1. ¥ Liles will be h
chilef assistant
There will be major and minor basebal
clubs in all the outfitsa of the cantor
ment, and once each month there will he
A track and field meel for the entire can
tonment
Major and minor bhasehstl clubs will 1y
organiged in the following outfits, which
Are to be more or leas permianent Forty
eighth Infantry Regimont, Ome Hur
dred and Wifty-sizth Depot Prigade, haw
hosapital detachment, quatriermnster ot
ordnance department, medical dotachiment
‘utifities diviston, the sergeants of the 405t}
Labor Battalion, the camp Judge dve
oate's office, the camp personnel office
and the convalescent conter. In fact
every organigation and mont overy ind
vidual in the cantonment will he given an
epportunity to cugage in athletios
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igers Arrive for
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T'raining in Manoc
MACON, March 17 --Manager M
Jonnings and his first sgua dos Detroit
American League players arrived Macon
today for the spring training seas Phve
first practice will be temorrow A 1 '
bunch of players is expected tonight
With Jeunings wers Oscar Bilanage i
Arghie Yelle, catehers: Rennie Hols
Bill James, pitchers; Harey Tuthill, tra
or, and Don MHawley, u scou here
#iso a delegation of newspsper men frov
Detroit here, Bddie Ainsmith ' teher
arrived in Macon severanl days ago, an
Bas been waitching the Mercer Uniyversity
and Lanier Migh School tesms work
Jennings declared that Ty Cobbh woeuld
be bhere when the inficlders and outfield
ors arrived nest week The only idout
now is Ownle Bush, the fleet-footed 1
shortstep.
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Calcher Earl Smith
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Signs With McGraw
NEW YORK, March 17 Oatoher Ea
Smith is now a Giant. His signed contract
Was received by Seoretary John 1 Foster
and the promising youngster will report
at the training camp in Gainesville, Fiu
with the first Giant squad In fact, It
took® &8 If there will not be uny second
uRd. Al the players are hungry to be.
b“\l practice
Manager McoGraw's wind was much re-
Meved when Sccretary Foster banded him
#mith's contract. - The youthful ealcher
had refused to gocept the terms sent him
when the original contracts were sent out
to all the players Smith was evidently
advised by some older plaver whoe had
glven Wim an exaggerated iden of the sal
ary he ought to get
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Prison Barracks Wins
Over Quartermasters
Before & crowd of more than 1,000 the
War Prison Barracks ball team defeated
the %\uv(rmm-tm Corpa, of Fort MoPher
son, Bunday afterneon at the forey, 10 to 4,
hammering Clifford and Palwtag for four
teen hits
The winners used two pitchers noth
twirling good bul!
Hoore R H.}
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Batteries: Colerus. Deßolt and Hetwes
o‘:\9".'o. Palmtag and Hoorhest L'mpirs
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with meals gives delighttul relief, or
no charge for the first dozen used
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cannot supply you telephone
MeCORD STEWARYT (0
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'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
dire of High Priced Foal Holds Ga, Record
His Last Start Made on Lakewood Park Oval
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his pieture of Lee Axworthy 1:58 1.4, the now dead sire of the re ord-breaking foal, was made
he d; before his famous mile on the Lakewood track, Octobe 0, 1056 Wheh Ba st ths Oosreis
ecord tor trotting stalbions at 1:59 3.4
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RACK practice has started in
earnest at Tech and every aft.
ernoon from 4 to 6§ one can
heur the thud of the spiked shoes go.
ing into the cinders, the pole falling
after the vaulter has cleared the bar
and the shot and discus as they fall
some hundred feet away from the
athletes It certainly is a sight to
See some 60 men working at the dif
ferent forms of athletios that will put
hiz college ut the top.
The tearn, this year, although not
baving the material of former vears,
should be a well balanoed and reliable
bunch of track athletes. In the
Eprints Tech will be well represented
in Halst, this yeafs captaln, and a
four-year man. Holst is now a senior
and has made his letter in track
€ver since his freshman vear He
will he hard to bheat and Tech can
rely an him for quite a few points in
this year's meets
Another Four-Year Man.
Parker, also a four-year letder man,
is back at school, after training for
the chemical warfare branch of the
seryice, and should be better this year
than ever before. Parker .will take
care of the half and mile. L. W. Pol.
lard, manager ~of this years team,
will again reprexent "Tech in the high
Jump. This year should be a good
one for Pollard, as the tall boy was
improving mmdl‘, fit the cloge of last
track season. He was then jumping
over §B. He should come near the
B-foot mark this year
John Rogers, of foothall fame, will
in all probability, be the chief factor
in the weight events, Rogers is ex
pecially good with the discus, and
together with W. K. Mncher should
have little trouble in scoring points in
the shotput. Fincher s also good
with the juvelin,
/ MeClellan for Murdles.
MoClellan, who made his letter jast
year in the hordles, is back in schaol
and should have s good vear Mo
Cleskey, lant vear's miler, recently
hurt his foot in practicing for the
cross country, but should be in shape
for trick about the middle of April
There are other letter men at Tech
and together with the wealth of new
material that has reported for prac
tice Captain Holst should develop a
mighty fine team.
Last year. due to the war, only one
meet was scheduled and Tech hadg lit.
tie trouble in winning that, but this
Year there is wlready W large invita
tion meet arranged for the first week
in May and several other colleges have
written the manager for meets out of
town, It is also possible that this
year's team will go to the Penn relays,
which will be held in May
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Newnan Hi Has Six
| 1918 Regulars Back
- NEWNAN, March 17 cofudging from the
Appearances of & week's practics Newnan
Hi is to have & great haseball team this
Vear About thirty _candidiates were out
for practice last wetk The entive infield
of last year is back and two outlieiders,
Meßride and Gepreeld Potta, o pitcher
of MK and captain of this year's team,
& back, and it (s expected that he will
nake et of the best prep pitehers in the
Htate
The new men whe have shewn up hest
nothe infleid are Weloh, Notth, )., Potts
and Lovern In the outfield are Barnes
and Kendrick, who are axpected (o Push
somnebody for a position
The new pitchers are Barron and Red.
Wine, Iwe voungrters who will assist in
the siah work ‘vnh Hood conching, Neow.
fan High should have one of the best
Prep teams i the State
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Pirates Won't Waive on
Robertson; Deal Halted
NEW YORK, March 17 <« The refusal of
the Pittsburg olub to waive claim on Davey
Robertason, of the Giants, & today holding
Bp & threeccornered deal between the
Gtants, Cardinals and Washington Senas
tors, according to rumors along the bases
Lall rialte If the deal is made, the
Giants will get Cateher Gonzales from the
Cardinale, Davey Robertson will ge te
the Washingtons und Bt Louis will get
Jobnny Lavan feom Clark Origtith, 11 i
i Manager Branch Rickey. of the
Cardinals, s vn\tvml tn be confident of
signing Lavan he recently announesd
that he intesded (o remalh in the nas Y.
ABothepgrimor soyvs thut the Dodgors are
QM Wih Pittsburg for the servicve
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EXINGTON, VA, March 17,
A The Washington and Lu§
§ football scheduls for the |
! 1919 season, as formally ratified |
| by the faculty committee on ath- '
letics, has been announced by W. §
) B. Watts, of Rome, Ga, manager
| of the Generals’' gridiron squad, |
0 next fall. It includes the follow- '
§ in%gnmu: $
¢ ctober 4 — Randolph-Macon
‘: College, at Lexington.
| October 11—Davidson College,
. at Lexington.
. October 18—Richmond College, |
. at Lexington. ;
| October 25.—Roanoke College, at <
» Lexington. ‘
§ November I—Virginia Polytech
' nic Institute, at Roanoke.
i November 8-—-Georgia Tech, at
) Atlanta,
§ _ November 15—University of 1
! South Carolina, at Lexington. f
§ November 22--Georgetown, at f
. Washington, (|
; November 27-—Open. : |
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News and Gossip
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‘3 P
A se s A P
APTAIN JOE BENNETT gave a
banquet to the Tegh High basket- :
‘ ball team WFriday night at Ma;‘
home The team enjoyed itselr \'My‘
much and the merriment ran high The
members of the team to be back next
year #re Joe Bennett, Joe Gaston, Tom- |
‘u._\ Cogging and Green Warren, ‘
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The Wulton High girl's basketball
team, champlons of Atlanta and \wmv‘
Ly, will be given » banquer next Friday
’muhl, The donor is not certain, \vul‘
the banguet is At this meeting the
‘vm-luin of next year's team will l\«]
olected Three of the champlonship
‘lwun will be in sehool next year. They
are Misses Martha Branham and Frances
'l‘hllm-s, guards, and Ruth Willlams,
center. Miss Nina CGraves and Kstella
Martin, forwards, are graduating this
year. Mlss Graves will go to New York
to school next year |
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The Fulton High girls expressed their
opinion last night g 2 te the much talked
of game between Fulton dnd Gaines
ville for the State flag. Noune of the
players are anxious to play the game
because as Mr. Hopkins expressed it,
some studying has to be dope. They
are confident of being able to defeat
the North Georgla girls anywhere, but
are turning their avtention te baseball,
Yes, it is true, F®iton is planning a
givls' nine. and are going to try and
Rot the other girls' schools Interested
And according to Miss Phillips, football
muy be on the menit next year,
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Tech Migh will have its first swim
mlng‘ practice a 8 A team Monday The
members of the team were picked sev
eral nights ago at the “Y" in an elimi
nation contest. The personnel of the
team i as follows: Kloiz, Willingham
DiChristina, Carter, Willlams, Malone,
Thomas, Ryan ur« R few specials. G|
M. A ds practicing twice & week and
» umn{ to hfih« its edimination bout
|OO toys igh 1= golng strong, 80 |
Is Marist. Fulton MHigh is ;n&nr to be
heard trom gocording to Mr. Hopkings.
Swimming is the new sport added to the
events indulged in by memßers of the
prep league, and 18 being well received,
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The prep league moguls are to hn\'o!
A mesting some time soon to adopt the |
constitution drawn up by the commit. |
toe composed of Mr, }Y\mknm Mr. Niche
olson and Mr. Romser. The league has
been operating without any by-laws for
some time, and as it is geting too big
for an Individual to run, a constitution
has been drawn up and will be adopted
soon,
Harry Coveleskie Is a
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Lookout, Says Nicklin
CHATTANOOGA, "PENN., March 17
President« Manager Nicklin, of the Chatta
noows chub, stated today that the report
that Harry Covelieskie had signed with
Littie Rock was a mistake He stated
that Caveleskie had agreed to terms with
Chattanoogn and would report this week
JACK WHITE IS IN NEW YORK.
| LHITAGO. Mureh 17 - Juck White
brether of Chartie, s making New York
his lisadquarters and hoxing (n nm%hl\wo "
ing New Sorsey rings, The “sack White'
tmnfl‘unul to Fart Leavenworth barracks
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A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes
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ght Games On
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U. T. Gridi
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! NOXVILLE, TENN. March 17
K Athleties are being revived at
E the University of Tennessee
here. The football schedule for next
| fall has been arranged by Professor
\ W. Dougherty, of the university
| athletic couneil. It follows:
| October 4-—Maryville or Tusculum
at Knoxville,
| October 11--Vanderbilt at Nash
i ville
. October 18-—Mississippi A. and M
o 1 Maryville at Knoxville
- October 25—Clemson at (lemson
November 1--North Carolina at
Knoxville,
November 8- South Carolina at Co
lumbia -
| November 15--Clneinnati at Knox
ville
‘ November 27--Kentucky State at
- Lexington
. In the fall of 1817 the university,
because of the absence of the coach
and bdecause practically all of the
I players of 1916 were in the army, can
celed its regular football schedule.
; An informal team was organized from
‘tha‘ military departinent, and games
L were arranged with military canton
| ments. Bince 1916 the university has
been without a regular coach, and, of |
[ course, without regular varsity teams.
. The big date will probably be No-
L vember | with Nerth Carolina in
Knoxviile, North Carolina has a great
number of followers here, and this
game should be of great interest to
them. In 1908 North Carolina was
in Knoxville as the second game on
the 1908 schedulé,
, In the fall of 1920 Vanderbilt will
| come to Knoxville for a return game
"l'he game with Kentucky State at
‘!.c-xlngtmv is the usual Thanksgiving
game, Kentueky will return to
‘ Knoxville in 1920 for Thanksgiving.
The schedule for 1920 should be one
'of the best that the University of
"l'vnm‘ns‘u- has ever plaved. At least
) five of the gamese will be played with
the following teams: Clemson. Ken
tucky State, Vanderbilt, Mississippi
iA and M, and Auburn.”
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Harry Hooper Signs;
" Ruth Wants $15,000
~ (By International News Service.)
BOSTON March 17.-Harry Hooper. long
the idot of Hoston Red Rox boosters, |
coming back Hooper let it be known
early in the winter that he doubted . if
he wauld be able to “afford" to play
hall this season However, he sent his
terms ta Harry H. Frazee, president of
the eclub Toduy 1t was announced that
Hooper had wired Red Box headquarters
that he would report at the Tampa train.
ing camp. A signed contract from “Stuffy”
Molnnis was alse on file at Sox headquar
ters today
l’l'lu: !\‘!nvnu of Hooper and Melnnis re
duces the Sox important hoeldouts te
‘PFabe"” Ruth, whe continues to dectare he
will not play uniess he gets the $15.000
docunient he has been demanding all wine
ter; Dave Shean and Carl Mays
SIOO,OOO in Purses
For Harness Racers
HOSTON, March 17 The Bay State
clreuit. which plans to conduet twelve
horse racing evehis on New England
halt-mile tracks this season, will dis
tribute more than SIOO,OOO among the
campaigning horsemen. This was an
nounced by G. Bernard Austin, secre
tary of the cirenit
In addition to open classes offered by
each member q{ the circuit the aggre
gate value of stake races will ID%M”‘
$60,000. Meets will be heid ‘at Woon
socket, R. 1, Hillsgrove "R, |, Windser,
Conn., Worcester, Mass., Springfield,
Mass., Northampton, Mass. Greenfleld,
Masa., Readville, Muss. and Roston, Two
meets will be held at Woonsocket, Hills
grove and Worcester,
Winn, Mercer Star,
With Boston Red Sox
MACON . March 17 wGoorge “Bréeay"
Winn, all:Southern wselection and siar
piteher as the Mercer University baseball
tean: last yoar, will report to the Roston
Red Rox at Tampa in & few days for the
Spring training
Wikn wos o momm of the Richmond
bin the \“l';'mh AR ue lawt yenr and
played a cons rm:»n n winning the
s At k. SPalithe nawivad
Mass Athletics
MEETING of the faculty and
A student body of the Georgia
Institute of Technology was
scheduled for 11:50 o'clock Monday
to seiect a committee to control the
program of mass athleties that is to
be incorporated into the school,
A member from the faculty, one
from the military department and;
three students from each of the four
classes were to form the board of
control ‘
The complete schedule of mass ath
letics, as now in force at many South- ‘
ern colleges, notably University of
Georgia, University of Alabama and
Auburn, is to he adopted. Athletics
for every student is the plan, stamp
out “physical illiteracy” is the slogan
President K. (G. Matheson heartily
indorses the plan. Having seen the
great benefits arising from such work
in army camps, he is determined that
the State-owned institution shall
have a thorough course. It is not to
interfere with the officers’ training
work, according to President Mathe
son
The first activity in line with the
mass athletic movement will be a
mass boxing 'esson and exhibition unl
Grant Tleld Tuesday afternoon, un
der the direction of J. Hume McDon
ald, the noted pugilist and Y. M. €', A,
instructor, who is expected to come
here after his boxing tournament at
the University of Georgia Monday.
The second pushball contest of the
season also will be added. The first
contesgt went over so successfully
that the promoters of mass athletics
feel that the student body will ac
cord them full support
.
Decatur Girls Want ‘
Postponed Game Played
The Decatur High basketball team has
filed a request with the president of the
girle’ prep league that the postponed game
between College Park and Marietta be
played A 2 the teams now stand, (College
Park 18 half a game ahead of the D«
Kalb county girls, while they claim: that
the two teams should be tied for third
place
No official action has been taken in the
matter
AN EAR
uE“:p. Elyrowru
' course, it took a Gotham
copv reader to pull the naive
headline over a yarn recording
a set of ring battles staged by some
second-raters for the benefit of the
wounded soldiers: “Heroes See Real
Fights.” Of course, the little 45~
krmlnd decision bout in the Argonne
was just a fairly good show, to say
’nuthinx of the one-round knockout
scrap down at Chateau Thierry.
| LATE SPORT BULLETIN:
A domino tournament is in prog
| gruc at the New York Athletic
~ Club,
_Everything is ready for the opening
of the season at Ponce Del.eon Park,
except the order for plavers to re
port, and the discharge of several
signers of contracts from the army
and a schedule,
Wilbur, the elevator boy, has
weritten his cousin in Newnan:
“Come up here to see me during
gnnd opera: we can go to see some
ne movies."”
Firemen at the North Pryor street
engine house have broken out the
dollar and a quarter and the two
glu,\'eu. It's a sure sign that G. Spring
Is with us when they forsake the
stove and pass ball in the alley,
What has become of the old
fashioned fireman who wore red
flannel shirts and Star Navy plug?
Greek George says Henry Ford is
going 10 make a cheaper car, but he
guesses he can afford it,
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Sign: “Elevator Not Running.”
In making your racing selections
today pick out the horse with an
Irish name, and then bet on the horse
fourth removed in the entry list.
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French and Wilson Win
Best Match of Season
PINKHURST, N. ~ March 17— Emmet
French, of York, and Willie Wilson, of
York Huarbor, defeated Herbert Lager
blade, of Youngstown, and Walter Howe,
of Worcester, by 2 and | on the cham
pionship course at Piuchurst Sunday in
the best professional mateh played here
this season
The winper's best was 36-30-66 and the
fosers’ 356-34-69. Lagerblade and French
halved th: par & fourteenth in a pair
of threes. Howe won the fifteenth by
sinking bis second shot from twenty yards
off the green and French took the sev
enteenth in two, playing out of a trap.
The individual medal scores were:
French, 38-33.71; Wilson, 39-37-76, Lager
blade, 36-36-72, Howe, 17-40-77
FlßßTClaiming: purse $600; for
three-year-olde; five and & half furlongs
Carawuy, 101. Effie's Pre, 101; xM.
Galvin, 104; Nick Kilein, 106; J. P House,
106; Tantalus, 109; Miss Orb, 101; Gray
ling Ina, 104: Cocottee, 104; Byrne, 106;
Montague, 108, Tyranny, 109
SECOND- laiming, purse $600; for
three-year-olds; five and a half furiongs
xVerity, 100; xE. Marie, 103; Bh. Green,
106: Ch. Holters, 108: T. F. MeMann, 116
Ringleader, 113, xE. Randall, 100, xMika,
103; Minawand, 108; Legotal, 108; B O,
Keener, 110
THIRD-—Claiming. purse SSOB, for fours
yvear-olds and vpward, six furlongs: xJane,
108;: B. Shilling, 111; xßr. Favorite, 113;
Tom Care, 118; Fl. of Steel, 118: Bolala,
118; xHan. Rose, 108; Hinal, 113; Lib
Star, 116; Homan, 118; R. Mantell, 118;
Onwa, 11¥
FOURTH-~Claiming, purse §600; for
four-year-olds and upward; six furlongs
tLily Luxury 106; xTrusty., 116; xF'y
Griff, 115: RKttahe, 118; Key Mar, 115;
Liberator s xErmitang, 106 XAt'h
Plot'y, 115 H. . Basch, 116; Jack K._‘
116, Lucius, 118 ‘
FIFTH - Purse K4OO, Patrick's
Purse;” for three-year-olds and u|-wurrl;j
five furlongs: Sherman A, 104; Brmi’l‘
Choice, 114: Top Coat, 114: American
Ace, 104; Top ‘0 Morn, 114; Brs wd
Btars, 114
SIXTH-Ciaiming ;. purse $800; for three
year-olde and upward \* and one-sixe
teenth miles: Petit Bleu, #97 x 8& lllul-q-)t;
104; Mab, 104 Honolulu Boy, 108; Grumpy,;
108, Tite, 109: xßajazet, 103; Gleipner,
104) % Wakely, 104: Bilison, 109, Wil
Do, 108; Waterproof, 112
xFive pounds apprentice allowance
claimed,
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| N the night of March 31 it i 8 more
| than probable that the City Au
| ditorium will be dressed up like a
| circus, it I 8 announced by Fight Pro
moter Cooper
Cooper, an old pal of Lew Tendler
and Phil Glassman, Lew's manager, is
tired of seeing such places as Nash
ville and Little Rock putting it over on
Atlania as a fight town. Thix, in spite
of the fact that such ring celebrities
| as Charlie White, Benny Leonard, Joe
\
Rivers, Joe Burman, Pal Moore and
| Chariie Metrie have been hounding At
lanta for fights here,
| Eagh and every one of these men have
asked for a bout here against any avail
able man leonard, White or Moore
would draw a tremendous crowd. Ben
'ny, the lightweight champion, has never
appeared in a locai ring, and he would
surely go big, for he is the most popu
| lar title-holder in the game
’ Cooper is m;n)\m{: efforts 1o get Benny
on here against Phil Bloom, the great
little Brooklyn boy, who fought Morrie
lux here sometime ago.
Harrison Disappoints.
There doesn’t seem to be a wounded
soldier anywhere in the world who would
like to become an umpire. George Har
rison, the Atlanta boy, who is at Fort
McPherson, with a bad arm, has re
turned his unsigned contract to Presi
dent Martin, of the Southern League,
along with a letter saying that he doesn't
care to accept.
The league boss is still without a
wounded soldier on the list, but he has
'not yet given up, and i 8 still desirous
of getting four of them to work with a
quartet of veterans
Loockouts First.
President-Manager Strang Nicklin, of
Chattanooga., will see his Lookouts all
in a bunch for the first time Wednesday
i for that is the reporting date of the club.
Freddie Graff and Zeke Lehman have
| already arrived in Chattanooga, and also
' a couple of others, but practically all of
| the players will reach that city by Wed
nesday, and they will immediately get
\llu\\n to practice
| The other teams report during the lat
| ter part of this month or the first of
l April
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CANTON, OHIO, March 17 Jack Brit.
ton will tonight be given an opportunity
l win back the welterweight champion
ship when he meets Ted Lewis here in a
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MONDAY, YA'RCH 17, 1919,
Giants and Cubs
Strongest in
National
EW YORK, March 17—The
N time-honored feud between
the Giants and Cubs will be
renewed with a vengeance when the
National League launches its 1919
campaign.
Baseball experts are making this
prediction freely today on the eve
of the departure of the major
teaguers for Southern training camps.
Advance “dope” on the strength of
the New York and Chicago teams,
they say, indicates that they will
dominate the race,
The Cubs, 1918 National cham
pions, will enter the coming battle
with the same team that won the
pennant last season, augmented by
the services of Grover Cleveland Al
exander, who is expected to return
from France in time to open the cam
paign with them.
Manager FKFred Mitcheil, according
to Western experts, is confident that
his club will be able to repeat. In
New York and other Eastern cities
it is felt that John McGraw will make
the_fight of his managerial career to
land the flag, after which he intends
to run the business affairs of the
club,
While the Cubs are admitted to be
a dangerous combination, it is point
ed out that the 1919 Giants will be
a much stronger all-around team than
they were last year., For this reason
the New York club will stack up on
a par with the champinos when the
race starts, and the old feud will be
reopened.
The Giants were handicapped last
year by the loss of Benton, Sallee
and Barnes in mid-season, the loss
of Benny Kauff in the draft and the
inability of Ferd Schupp to round
into form. This vear, with Chase re
placing Holke on the infield, the reg
ulars back in harness in all other
positions, and a pitching staff that
will apparently be capable of the
hardest kind of work, the Giants will
be a much harder club to beat.
BAIRD SIGNS WITH PHILS.
ST, LOUIS, March 17.—Douglas Baird,
who was traded by the St. Louis Na
tionals to the Philadelphia Nationals,
announced he had signed his Philadel
phia contract.
CLEVELAND
By JACK VEIOCK,
Sporting Editor of the I. N. S.
EW YORK, March 17.—Don't over-
N look the Cleveland Indians in sig
ing up the pennant prospects in
the coming American lLeague race.
This was one of the tips being passed
around ‘by the baseball sharps today as
the major leagues began mobilization,
preparatory to spring operations below
the Mason-Dixon line
Under the leadership of Lee Fohl, the
Indians finished a close second to the
Red Sox in the 1918 campalgn, and
thig, in face of the fact that the Cleve
land club was one of the hardest hit in
either league by the army draft and en
listments in the navy
The official standing of the Ameri
can l..ague for 19218 shows that the
champion Red Sox were but two and
one-half games to the fore when all
contests were checked up, and this year
reinforced by several players who will
come back to the fold with the war at
an end, the Indians give promise of be
ing much more formidable
Baseball crities in general agree that
Meveland made a good move when it
secured Third Baseman Larry Gardner
from Connie Mack Gardner is a vet
eran player, it is true, but he is one of
the steadiest infielders in the business
and always a dangerous hitter,
Cleveland has a formidable array of
pitchers in Bagby, Coveleskie, Morton,
Coumbe, Enzmann, Myers, Klepfer and
Uhle. Klepfer is in France, where he
was wounded twice in the fighting, but
his wounds are not serious, and he will
return in time to start the season with
the Tribe
‘Manager Fohl has three firgt-base
candidates in Harris, Guisto and “Doc"
Johuston Gardner will play third,
Wambsganss second and Chapman, one
of the daddies of 'em all, shortstop.
Tris Speaker, Jack Graney, Jamieson,
Elmer Smith and Joe Wood comprise
the outfielding material, and the Indians
have Steve O'Neil, Leslie Nunamaker
and Chet Thomas, formerly of the Bos
ton club, to do the catching
In the face of the spirited fizht made
last season by the Cleveland Indians, it
can not be overlooked in sizing up the
coming campaign * .
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