davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

one OF the best first basemen in the coun-
wy. lie works like Hal Chase and | be
iieve him to be in class with that peer
less performer. Names has just been re-
leased by the Northwestern league"
And there you are,
The appalachian league mas sold half
dozen players to clubs of higher classifi-
cation already and is negotiating for the
disposal of others. Knoxville got SO, 600
for Pitcher Davis-which is almost more
than the salary of all the players on the
team for all the season.
Pitcher Dixie Walker. kicked out bv
Washington, has sumped from Baltimore
to Wilkesbarre Pitcher Martin has also
been sent to that club.
Vernon. recently picked UP by Wash
ington, is the Amherst college star, signed
originally by the Cubs.
If Washington should happen to beat
, the Red SoX, Jim McAleer would feel that
he had been whipsawed.
Armando Marsans is said to be the one
best bet of the Red team this year Next
year the Reds viii have two Cubans play
ing with them regularly
The bitterest cup for O'Day to gulp
down is the thought that. but for those
fifteen straight games that his Reds
handed McGraw, the New York team
wouldn't have an absolutely commanding
lead in the National
The extremely high price paid for mod
ern pitchers is said to be due to the
lively ball. II is a lot harder to get
awaN'with II now than IT used to he
Thorpe, the all-round athletic champion
of the world viii probably begin pitch
ing for the Pirates at the end OF the 1873
college season. Thorpe is said to he Il
sac tor Saul>s) Indian, with some con
siderable white blood in his veins.
Lee Hanuehill lasted long time in the
big leagues and all he had was fielding
ability. lie couldn't hit and he was slow
on bases
Hank ODay admits that enough is
! plenty He has passed on the news that
he is through as a manager and that he
will ask for his old job of umpire back
again,
| Harry Stahlhoefer, of Evansville. is a
| candidate for the $4,000 job Of president
| of the Central league Unfortunately for
| Harry they offered him the Wheeling
! franchise last year and he tactfully re
| marked, Give IS goo for the Wheeling
! franchise Why ! wouldn't give IS 600
| for the whole league And now they re
! holding that bright remark against him
| and somebody else will get the $4,000
job,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
FROM RINGSIDE

Packey Hommey was signed up few
Gays ago to meet either jim Coffey or
Boyo Driscoll for next Mondays show at
the Garden A. {. in New York If HON.
mey gains the decision Matchmaker Glib
son has promised him a scrap with Young
Shugroe or some other leading feather
weight.
Although Luther Mccarthy lost the
popular decision to Jim Stewart in Co
than few days ago, he is not a bit de
spondent Luther is matched with Tom
Kennedy week from today and says he
the crowd got his goat last time, but
that now he has got used to the mob and
will show them some speed next out.
Mike Gibbons is about ready to descend
upon the East once more. This time
Michael will carry along his brother
Tommy, who is IS good as Mike, so Mike
says Anyway. the pair will reach Co
than early next month.
Eastern sport scribes believe Jack
Johnson's retirement from the ring is
simply a bluff to get larger nurses for
his fights. Johnson could stay in seclu-
sion for several months until some hope"
has made such an impression on the pub
lie that the promoters would be willing to
offer another purse, such as was posted
when Johnson fought Jeffries, then all
LII Arthur would have to do would be
hammer him around awhile, collect the
money and then retire again.
Harry Rafael. who is managing Charley
Miller, the latest entrant to the white
hope ranks, was in New York a few
days ago blowing about what Miller could
do He says what Charley will do to Pal
ger and the rest of the big pugs will be
enough to send him to the electric chat
Miller will leave for the East after his
battle with Jim Flynn on Labor Day.
Luther Mccarthy and Jess Willard are
scheduled to mingle at the Garden A c.
in New York August 10
Jim Stewart has challenged AL Palzer
for a ten-round battle to be staged in
Gotham Stewart has won eight of his
recent fights by the X. Q. route and says
he has earned crack a the big fighter
The Terre Haute boxing club is trying
to match George X. Q. Brown with Kid
Slelly for match there Labor Day
Packey Mcfarland will signalize his
return to the ring and the start of his
fall campaign of 1912 by a round en-
gs cement with Joe Hirst in Philadelphia
August 80.
Johnnie D~Aa~a 49, Ala Rros>L Will
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
Johnson Wise Champion in Retiring From Ring
Flynn Fight Made Him Realize He's Going Back

is out of the game to stay. The
heart knoweth it's own bitterness,
and no one knows better than
Johnson what rough Shedding it was
with Fireman James Flynn at Las
Vegas.
Two years ago Johnson would
have literally spanked Flynn for his
bad ring manners. AS it was, the
best Johnson could do was hold on
and boiler for help. Two years of
acquaintance with the Paris cafes
and the pleasure haunts of London
had told in Johnson's case just as
similar dalliance had done in the
case of Peter Jackson.
When the state police were clam
bering into the ring in New Mexi-
co and Referee Smith was hopping
his perspiring brow. a little bird
whispered in Jack Johnsons ear,
The time is ripe for retiring"
And who can blame him? He
has acquired a competence through
the use of his gloves, and now that
he feels he is not as Spry or as sure
listed as he used to be, he is show
ing good judgment in sidestepping
possible disaster. Because other
champions made mistakes is no
reason why Johnson should.
Wants To Quit Unbeaten.
In getting out at this time, John
son is catering to an ambition he
has long felt, even though he may
not have given expression to it. He
would dearly like to be known as
the only negro who held the worlds
championship and then retired I'M
defeated
In support of this view. it is only
necessary to recall Johnson's atti-
tude toward other colored fighters
since he became champion. 1t is
claimed that he deliberately back
ed out of match with Sam Lang
ford in London after signing con-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
By Tad
+s+

tracts. He has been a ver1table
will o the wisp to Joe Jeanette,
who has been after him for a long
time. He has often talked Of going
to Australia to box Langford and
McVea, but. judging by his actions,
he was never for an instant sincere
in this.
If the last has really been seen
of Johnson as pugilist, he will be
remembered as a fighter who was
seldom if ever fully extended. Some
say that his fight with Tommy
Burns in Australia was his hardest.
This may be so. He certainly
never had any hard fights in the
ordinary acceptance of the term in
this country. His go with Jeffries.
from which so much was expected.
was so extremely one-sid that it
lives in memory as the joke Of the
century.
A Great Uppercut Fighter.
Johnson's style of boxing was all
his own He was master of the
straight left and right crosses that
educated boxers usually employ, but
he seldom relied upon them. In
the use of hooks, uppercuts and
lifting punches generally he prob
ably never had an equal.
Arguments frequently arise as to
how Johnson would have Jared if
he had been sent against a Queens
berry crackajack like Peter Jack
son when the latter was at his best
Well, there is no harm in forming
and holding an opinion on the point.
but right there the discussion ends.
1t is a sporting aphorism that it is
bootless to argue any matter that
can not be settled by a bet, and
certainly there is no way of deter
mining which was the better man
Peter Jackson or Jack Johnson.
The remark is often heard that
johnson was lucky-that when he
reached his prime there were really
no good heavyweights in sight
That Is true in measure. but it is
the luck of the game 1t very often
happens that staleness and long
service contribute to a champions
defeat as much as anything else.
Seldom Good Men at Same Time.
In the heavyweight division if
was seldom in recent years that two
really good men developed about
the same time. Possibly the best
instance of genuine rivalry in this
respect was when Jeffries and Shar-
key were working to the front M
more stubborn engagements than
the two in which. Jim and Tom
were the principals were ever wit
messed probably, and if Sharkey had
had a few inches more of stature.
ring history might have had an en-
tirely different twist
Who will be Johnson's successor7
Some people do not see much hone
for the hopes because Iangford
McNea and Jeanette are still ac-
tive. But these colored gIadiators
are not by any means as youthful
as they used to be, and as there is
no negro novice in sight. there is
good reason for arguing that a
white man will rule the heavv-
weight roster within the next con-
pie of years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

OF course, he has had enthusiastic
financial backing-but so did
Hemphill. So that doesn't prove
anything
l. ROM a man who claims to have
seen the letter, it is learned that
the Atlanta Baseball association is
conducting a near dicker with Nor
man Elberfeld to take the manage
ment of the Cracker club for next
year.
We are a trif1e inclined to doubt
the story. In the first place the
local club isn't going to do any
dickering with a man under con-
tract with another club. In the sec
ond place, Kid Elberfeld has had
his chance as a manager and has
failed The Kid knows baseball and
he has the pepper. But Elberfeld
never has been able to control him
self and will never be able to con-
troll others
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
BY Percy H. Whiting.

YXTELL. after losing two games
w their hrsl day away from
home, the Crackers are
fairly started on their semi final
road trip. They play in New Or
leans today and tomorrow. Then
the club gets couple of off days.
And after that it opens in Mobile
for three days of hard going.
Not that it makes any particular
difference
Nothing matters now but next
year.
And that doesn't matter so much
now.
L ORMER Southern league play
ers. with such notable excep-
tons as Daubert, Rucker, Joe Jack
son, Dode Paskert. Iris Speaker
and the chaps who always make
good, haven't shown such a ire
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

Archer is very likely to get the big
hand as one of the passing side
shows
Almost as astonishing as the
great cub catcher's backstopping
and throwing skin is his natural
speed. Few catchers are fast. But
Archer is an exception. He bellies
the theory that constant squat
ting slows up the leg muscles Of
receiver, Archer is far from a poor
hitter; in fact, he is above the
average as catchers go, He's an
all-round star any way you wish to
take him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
ALL WAIVE ON sToRcH

NASHVILLE, TENN, Aug. FIT
was announced this morning that
waivers had been secured on Harr,
Storch, utility man of the NashviIl,
team, and he did not accompany tbs
team to Montgomery last night, Storch
mas been with the Nashville team sine,
the beginning Of the 1911 season. heinz
secured from Dallas. Texas, where bs
was the leading home run hitter of tho
league He may go back to the Texas
league
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

Cobb has been out of the game for
two days now and both Speaker and
jackson have climbed up nearer to
him. In Saturday and Sunday games
Speaker garnered four hits in eiaht
times at bat. jackson did even better,
smashing forth six swats in eight at
tempts. Collins got four hits in ten
trips to the plate. Lajoie connected
twice in eight chances.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
Crackers Fairly Started on semna TW Two Defeats Day
PLAY z DAYS In new ORLEANS, THEN GO TO MOBILE

mendous lot in the big leagues this
year.
kirke. who looked like a wonder
with the Braves, isn't in the line
up now. Jackson, who went from
the Memphis team to the Braves, is
doing better though his batting av-
erage is perceptibly less than the
.S47 he made in the 80 big league
games he worked last year.
Northern is doing good work with
Brooklyn, and so is Red Smith,
while Pitcher Frank Allen manages
to hang on though he isn't going
very strong. But Brooklyn has sent
back all the other Southern leag-
uers of last years crop-Daley,
Kent, Coulson and the rest, and also
Dolly Stark.
Pat F'laherty has passed back.
Bridwell has been out of the game
virtually all of the season with an
injured foot Mcintyre. former
Memphis hurler. has dropped out OF
the running and will go in for sa-
looming. or course. Buck Becker
and Iris Speaker, graduates of the
lamented Little Rock team, con-
tinue to play big ball for league
leaders. Hank Griffin has come
back to the southern and then
dropped out of this league. Hub
Perdue manages to keep in the
limelight in one way or another,
and so does Hess. who went to the
same club from the Southern. But
Bugs Raymond has dropped out of
baseball entirely; Oldring, a former
Montgomery player, has slumped'
tremendously with the Athletics;
Neal Ball continues to be too err
ratio for regular big league service:
Lively has dropped off the Detroit
team; Lindsay didn't stick with
Cleveland. neither did Butcher;
Clarke has gone from the st. Louis
team, and Casey has departed from
Detroit.
However. at that the Southern
league is probably as brilliantly
represented in the major leagues
right now as any Glass A league. So
long as Joe Jackson, Jake Daubert.
ZaCk Wheat. Dode Paskert BeaIs
Becker, Jimmy Archer. Nap Ruck-
er, Slim Sallee. Iris Speaker. Ed
Sweeney and Russ Ford continue
to represent the Southern in the big
show as brilliantly a $ they have in
the past year. the Dixie league will
not soon be forgotten.
n OW that the Birmingham team
has got the pennant and gone
with it. it is recalled with some
amusement that at the first of the
season Baron fans and some Baron
sport writer's couldn't see the Biz
mingham team at all While At
lantans We're picking the Barons to
win the pennant, the Baron base
bail experts were poking fun at the
team and panning the life out of
Wordsworth,
It's an odd thing, but somehow
Birmingham has not been able to
appreciate Molesworth He has had
his team right up there" ever since
he really got it strai ghtened out
and going some. And he is going
to take this pennant in canter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
EAST VS.. WEST ON BOXING
CARD IN N. Y. THIS WEEK

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-The East and
the West will be pitted against each
bouts that will be staged here this
week. At Madison Square Garden to-
night Jack Britton, a Chicago light
weight, will tackle Eddie Smith of
Harlem.
On Wednesday night at the st. Mich
olas rink, Gunboat Smith, a CaIifor-
MIA heavyweight, will box ten rounds
with Porky Flynn, of Boston. There
are several other bouts on the program,
but all are of minor Importance.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

appear as the headliner of a boxing car
nlYal to be staged in Cleveland August 10.
Joe Rivers and Charley White have
been practically matched for a bout to be
staged some time next month. No club
has been mentioned but it is probable
the match will be staged in the East
somewhere near Chicago.
The only reason Young Jack O Brier
was not knocked out in the sixth round
by Leach Cross in New York the other
night was that he held on to Leach so
tight that the dentist could not hit him
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
By W. W. Naughton.

TACK JOHNSON says he has re-
tired, and it remains to be seen
- whether he means it. Just at
present his resolve is of an ada
mantine character. He swears that
the world will never hear him say,
as John L. Sullivan said, Il tried
once too often and that never
hereafter will the lure of gold bring
him back to the ring as it~brought
Jeffries back, when he was far past
his athletic prime.
The writer believes that Johnson
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
RICHIE STARTS WORK
FOR BOUT WITH HOGAN

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12-Wine
Richie, who is to meet One Round"
Hogan in fOur-round bout at Dream
land Friday, has begun training. Willie
plans only light work. Hogan also
went to work today. He fought fifteen
rounds with Tommy Mcfarland a lit
tie more than a week ago and is in ex-
csueut condition.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
MCFARLAND AND WOLGAST
TO MEET IN GOTHAM OCT. 8

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Ad WoIgast
and Packey Mcfarland will meet in a
ten-round bout under the auspices of
the Garden Athletic club in this CITY
october 3, according to word received
today from representative of that
club now in Cadillac Mich. Both men
are to weigh 1873 pounds at o'clock on
the daV of the fight
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
MILLER KNOCKS OUT VOTING

CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-Hirsch Mile,
knocked out Billy Young in the third
round of fight held over the state line
Yesterday afternoon. They boxed for ?
SIDE bet and $4,000 changed hands OF
the battle. A big crowd saw the bout.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
The Big Race

Here's how the Big Five" of the
American league are hitting the ball,
the averages including yesterdays
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

In building for next wear an the old
material Jennings intends TO use is TN-
Cobb. CraW ford. Bush and Stanage
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

Johnnie DS~AANs 49, ALan Rro.>4 Will
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

Packey Mcfarland will signalize his
return to the ring and the start of his
fall campaign of 1912 by six-round en-
ga cement with Joe Hirst in Philadelphia
August 30.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12

Hank O'Day admits that enough is
plenty He has passed on the news that
he is through as a manager and that he
will ask for his old job of umpire back
again,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19
clay Down Your Arms and surren-
der"

he was the only brigade commander
who led his brigade in that charge
of the Sixteenth Corps, and he was
on horseback at that. A lane ran
along the front of and below the high
woodland upon which the Pointe Cou-
pee battery was, and the Confederates
took the inside fence rails and placed
them on top Of the outer fence, with
the ends resting on top of the fence
and sloped towards us, the lower
ends covered with dirt to keep them
in place. They were laid close to-
gether, and it was difficult to climb
them. A shell had knocked out
part of the obstruction AS / was
looking towards the battery cit was
pouring grape, canister and shrapnel
at us all the time), did not notice
the movement of the regiment to the
right; consequently when | saw 1t
there was a break in my company of
some Is or 100 yards. told the re-
naming eight or ten boys that we
would go to that gap and go over
The boys boosted me up, and as
gained the top l saw Col. Marshall
come galloping down from the right
He rode out into the crowd Of fleeing
Confederates, calling out: Lay down
your arms and surrender l jumped
down, and telling the boys to follow
me, ran after the colonel. giving the
same call. There were apparently
thousands of them trying to get over
the hills to the Franklin pike. Our
left claimed the capture of that bat
terry, too, yet we had been in posses
sion quite awhile before their line
had fairly started"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19
Sykes Dog and Hoods Army.

After the battle of Nashville friend
asked President Lincoln If he expected
any more trouble from Hoods army.
He replied:
well, no, Medill; I think Hoods
army is about III the same fix of Bill
Sykes dog, down in Sangamon county.
Bill had a long, yellow dog that was
forever getting into the neighbors'
meat houses and chicken coops. They
had tried to kill it a hundred times,
but the dog was always too smart for
them. Finally one of them got a small
bag and filled it up with powder, tying
a piece of punk around the neck. When
he saw the dog coming he fred this
punk, split open hot biscuit and put
the bag in, then buttered it and threw
it out The dog swallowed it at
gulp. Pretty soon there was an ex.
plosion, and pieces of the dog fell all
around Bill Sykes came along, and.
seeing the scraps lying around said:
I guess that dog, as a dog, amt of
much more account There NAV be
fragments of Hoods army around. but
guess his army, as an army, amt of
much more account"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19
a>la}K WAR
Hf{fHNhNll!s.c61yg{5sS
IN PURSUIT OF HOODS ARMY
Member of Minnesota Regiment S.sss
Details Leading to Capture OF
Pointe Coupee Battery.

A sketch of the incidents leadins
to the capture of the Pointe Coupeo
Battery at Nashville is given py lneo'
dore G. Carter, captain, Co. H. IN
Minnesota, in the National Tribune as
follows:
cat Nashville the 9Th MINI. was on
the left of the Second Brigade, f1rst
Division. Sixteenth Corps. front line'
its left flank resting on the Granny
White pike. The Pointe Coupee pat'
terry was in front of my company. w
Dec. 18th we had charged and driven
the enemy's forces from two forts VI
redoubts, without stopping to piace
guards over the guns, colors ana otn'
err captured property. Our coionei,
w. r. Marshall, was in command OF
the Third Brigade on the 1otn' anu
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19
Didn't Worry Grant.

General Sherman used to say: T
know more tactics and strategy than
Grant, and have just as good a mind
and a better military training. put
what the other fellow is doing when
Grant can't see him doesn't worry him
a bit, while it worries me like tbun.
der"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19

before the same
three women came
up the short fight
of steps running
down to the street.
AS on the night be-
fore, it was left to
Ialla to barter with
me. I again took
both of her hands
in mine, to exam
inc her jewelry,
and as I did so /
slipped into one OF
them the tightly
folded note which
1 had been grip
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19
What's a Eortlficatinn7

A recruit being asked what consti.
tuted fortifcation answered: Wei
/ guess two twenty-fications make a
forty-fication"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19

He and I had been
strangely thrown together
some years before under
conditions which provoked
rather an intimate knowl-
edge of each other, and
when we met on the street
one day the recognition
was instant and mutual.
He did not inquire into my
business, but simply asked
what name l was travel
ing under, In order that
he might not embarrass
me. He stood In close
and confidential relation
to Tewf1k Pasha, the Khe-
dive, and on that account
1t is best that there
should be no hint, even
now, as to his name.
AS / was enjoying my
after-dinner cigar one eve
ming in a quiet corner of
the garden in front of the
hotel l was approached by
three women peddlers, ap-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-19

1t at the height of the tourist season, follow
Ing the Christmas holidays, and there was an
abundance of company, made of cultured Euro
peans and a few Americans of gentle birth, for
that was before Cairo was overrun with the over
rich. The time was delightfully."- whed away for
a month before anything happened to indicate
the reason for my being there, but within less
than half of that time 1 had renewed acquaint-
ance with the man who really the key to the
situation, though | did not suspect it at the time