The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-22

for Bert Maxwell the Scotty Walker benefit would have gone down in base ball annals as the most colossal fizzle in all history. Locally little or no money was raised for the injured in- fielder The Atlanta players worked at the soliciting of funds in half heart ed way, and the response of local fans was anything but liberal.
 But Bert Maxwell raised the money nearly a thousand and a quarter!
 Of course, Maxwell felt 1t his duty, for he threw the ball that injured l Seotty. However, il was a duty that only one man in a million would have performed He work ed day and night to raise money He solicited in every grandstand in the circuit. And he got the money. In Chattanooga. in Mem phs and in Birmingham he grabbed hundreds of dollars. In every Southern league city he picked up the cash.
 The rest of the benefit was much of a falldown. Only one player who was not here Saturday night came to take part in the games. That one was DerriIl Pratt Flint. Moran. Higgins and More of the Lookout team stuck around for the games and did their share. So did the Atlanta players, with few exceptions, like Walter Miller.
 You have to hand it to the players who took part in the benefit They knew they were getting virtually noth- l ing for their services and that they were participating in a fizzle. But they went al it as hard as though < pennant depended on their exertions. and they played good ball.
 Well. al last it's oYer-the regular games, the benefits and the departures. There's nothing big in sight now un- l til the worlds championship series.
 Memphis News -scimitar: It is a far cry from that squint eyed, tanned and determined Irish face of Johnny Mo Graw to that of the mysterious, haunt ing and much talked about counte- nance of Mona Lisa, the subject of the stolen masterpiece which is getting so much space in the public prints just now. The only thing in common be- 1 tween them is that each has a smile that is all it's own.
 Muggsy McGfaw is all smiles just now, because he believes that he has a toe hold on the National league pennant, with the chances of getting the winning num- Der of falls from the Athletics if they should go to the mat in the worlds championship series. But Connie Mack is smiling also. Far be 1t from that game leader of the Philadelphia Americans to figure that he has anything worse than an even break when it comes to winning the worlds series from anybodys team. Yesterday the Giants slipped another defeat to the Pirates, while out in Chi eago. upon their own grounds mark you, the Cubs were shut out by the Philles. The continual winning streak that has at tended the Giants on their trip away from home. and the many losses suffered by the Cubs makes the National league race look so good to the Giant packers that they have almost stopped thinking about 1 that and are turning their attention to l the worlds series.
 Fans who tipped the Giants to win the National flag are now tipping them 10 beat the American prize winners. Here's the dope they use:
 Fitching-Staffs about even, with a shade, if any. to the Giants.
 9ielding-Abilities about even.
 Hitting-Athletics have the call
 Base running and score getting-In fa- NOF or the Giants.
 To prove this, look at the list of base stealers. Six of the first ten in the Ma tional are Giants. Of the whole ten in the Americans the Athletics have but one Eddie Collins. who is sixth.
 If Bender should not get back, and there is possibility of it, the Giants will have just that much bigger shade, for the pig Indian is the strongest part of the Ath- letics' pitching staff
 Chattanooga Times: Students of Ken lucky Wesleyan college are threatening to desert the school because of the abol- tion of intercollegiate athletics.
 1t would be a good stunt for the boys to pull off. The school that doesn't offer advantages for the physical development Of it's students, well as mental train hs, is unworthy of anyones patronage. But thcre'll be athletics without the intercollegiate contests you say Hardly. More especially is it true that there'll be no athletics with experienced coac ching and half the value of exercises is lost without good teaching, just as the pupil cannot dig the real meat out of his text books without the guidance of the professor, who has already been pioted over tine road
 Why should intercollegiate contests be prohibited? Except for few trips
 
 days absence from school during term, the athlete is no more taken from his studies than if he took systematic exer- else daily In themselves, the games need not detract one inta from the mental education for which the youth is originally sent 10 college
 The contests arouse the spirit or the students and make them cling closer to tho college. They soidify the student body and you know the old adage. limited we stand" etc. Besides, the l feeling of competition spurs them on to action and makes fellows work whose natural tendency is to take things easy. 1 The removal of the intercollegiate | games leaves a conspicuous and depress- l Ing vacuum in the life of the school. and 1 few youngsters are so near to homeless 1 bookworms that their lives do not require 1 some additional excitement in odd hours outside Of class work, to keep them ready for the harder tasks
 Mont somery Journal: At last Chatta- l noosa is beginning to realize that it lost | q great manager when it allowed Jnhu | Dobbs to get away from it's baseball club.
 It has never been told what the reason was that Dobbs was discarded and Bnlv smith taken on in his place, but the gen | eral supposition has been that because | Dobbs did not take a south Atlantlc team and win the Southern league pen nant 1t created dissatisfaction with tho association in that city.
 l Since Dobbs came to Montgor1erv and | his record during the past season is put before the sporting fraternity of the Lookout City, it seems as if at least some eyes have been opened. Following is what the sporting scribe of the News of