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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
CLUB
FORV|OLAT|ONOF
LOCAL FIRE LAWS

City officials today took action to pro-
tect Atlanta fight fans from the peril of
fire when Fire Inspector Otis made case
against the Gate City Athletic club Sc
James street. for violation Of the fire laws
by conducting fights in a building occu-
pied by automobile garages Henry Nor
ton. owner of the club, was served with a
copy of charges citing him to appear be-
fore Recorder Broyles this afternoon
Agents of two automobile concerns were
cited to appear at the same time, as they
are involved by the technical terms of the
law The fight Of the city, however is di-
rected against the athletic club on the
ground that lives are endangered every
time fight is pulled off in the James
street building, by reason OF the two
garages in the same building
The court action today is based direct
ly on the Kelly Whitney bout in the Gate
City club last night. Inspector Otis at
tended the fight, thoroughly investigated
the perious situation and determined to
appeal at once to the courts for relief
The inspector held a conference with
City Attorney Mayson, and the latter
ruled that the fight was held in clear vio-
lation of law. The city attorney will be
present and prosecute the case this after
noon
The matter of fire protection for fight
fans has been agtated for several weeks.
The club owners would have been hailed
into court on the occasion OF the last
fight had it not been for what the Of
.fcials term "a clever move to evade the
law"
on the day prior to that fight, w. H.
George, lessee of the building, and who
sub-leases 1t, is said to have signed pa
pers releasing the two automobile con
Germs from their lease in order that they
might move out and thus prevent a viola
ton of law. The two concerns did get
out, and the fight proceeded with no law
being violated.
It was generally supposed that the
building would no longer be occupied as a
garage, and the situation was regarded
as relieved. But according to officials,
the removal of the garages was but tenn
porary. They came back. They are said
to have failed to move out for last night S
oout and hence the police court cases,
When the case was made today, Nor
ton told Inspector Otis he was willing to
move. his club If ne was violating the
law. The Inspector informed him he was
too late, claiming he would have to make
his proposition to the court.
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CHE oPORTING EDITORS
'COLUi1N

place him, then shot my right to the jaw,
1t landed right, and Battling Larry Ryan
sank to the Moor with that careless sban-
don of man deprived of his senses. The
referee looked at me. then began his
count, and gave Ryan all that was al
lowed. pointed to me and shouted, Kid
Morrill, wins took another peek at me
to ascertain If he had been right and
then shouted for the next preliminary.
The bout lasted just one minute and four
teen seconds
Il got the hand OF my life that night.
Every one was on his toes looking at the
novice that whipped Battling Larry Ryan.
the Brooklyn terror. The manager met
me at the door of his office. grasped my
hand and wanted to match me with some
one for the next show He said You're
all right, kid you'll make good some day
II took the $3.50 he handed me. smiled,
moved on. Invested myself OF my bor-
rowed suit, dressed up and took my seat
that | paid two bucks for and sat at the
ringside to the finish of the show SIS so to
the good.
81 was the hero of the hour Every
one wanted 10 grasp the hand of Kid Nor
ril l don't know whether Battling Larry
ever discovered my identity, but l slipped
out Of town without tipping any one off
that Buck Grouse and Kid Morrill, are
identical
Some day shall take a trip to Atlanta
and maybe l will fight under my real
name there. but I'll bet If I ever visit
that place again the greeting will be.
How are you, Kid Morrill,"
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my. TENN|SMEN
|. HOLD SPOTLIGHT.

PITTsBURG, PA, June 26-In the
third days play of the tennis tourna-
ment for the clay court championship
of the United States, being held on the
Pittsburg Athletic association courts,
several surprises were offered from the
New York players. Ideal weather pre-
vailed and the court was in perfect
condition None of the Atlanta men
started yesterday
G. A. Touchard, of New York, beat
J. F. Mclean, of Pittsburg; w Merrill
Hall, also OF New York defeated w H.
Gardner; R. D. Little, of New York,
defeated Wendell Kuhn, OF this city;
George Meyers Church of New York,
defeated S. j. Adams.
Cedric Major, of New York, lost his
match to H. G. Whitehead, of Nor
folk, In two sets, the scores being 6-4
and I'd.
In the doubles C. L. Childs and w.
Kuhn lost to R. H. Palmer. Of New
York, and J. ]. Armstrong, OF st. Paul.
Cedric Major won his game in the
doubles, having for partner c. l. Ben
ton of Cleveland. r. q. Little and G.
F.. Touchard beat C. H. Karr and ]. G.
Crookston.
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FODDER FOR FANS

Danny Coogan. coach of the Cornell
team since Hughie Jennings gave up the
job to take over the Tiger handling job,
will handle the Columbia college team
next spring.
The Reds are squirting at a Covington,
Ky, kid who is with the Charleston club
of the Mountain State league. All the
lad is doing is batting 400 and pitching
nearly thousand. II he ripens well he
will be hummer.
If Marty O'Tooe had to pitch against
the Reds every game he would look like a
out of four from the Boomers.
John r.. Blossom. of Cleveland, was
awarded the honor of captaining the Yale
baseball team next spring
A lot of close games were played the
other day in the United States league
and then they woke up.
Hans Wagner is having hard luck with
ms live stock First his dog died. Then
his grounding slipped his collar and de-
camped. Hans says the grounding WIN
be back that it is only visiting relatives
in Punxsutawney.
The Pelicans only won something like
eighteen out of the last twenty-fou
games They'll take deal of heading
before mid-september.
Considering how loud New Orleans
laughed at the Cracker old timers they
must have a lot of trouble explaining
about George Robe and Joe Stanley. Pete
O Brien was a little boy when they broke
into the big leagues
The Pelicans need another pitcher and
Frank is said to be looking over Hy West
of Toledo, and Dygert and Danforth, of
Baltimore. All were good in their day
but none of them has shown anything
fancy this year,
A town too big for a league is nearly
as bad as a town too small Witness
Evansville in the Kitty They are talking
of giving up there because of bad attend
ance.
Pitcher Harry Hoyt, Cracker for a
minute, if our memory serves, has just
been released by Evansville.
A contract with Cairo. Ill., has just been
signed by Heck He is shortstop.
The Barons are trying out chap
named Bell from Ensley AS a semi pro-
fessional he batted 400 and his personal
habits are said to stack up with his bat
ting
Some pessimistic Washington baseball
writer has dug up the fact that in the
old days the Nationals once won eleven
victories in the West-and never smiled
again.
The hidden ball trick is an old one--but
it can be worked with novel variations
Hans Wagner tells that once he caught
Jake Becker hiding a ball under his arm
The umpire wasn't looking. so Hans
grabbed the ball, threw 1t into the ont
field and scooted for second. Whereupon
the pitcher disgorged the real ball and
threw Wagner out a mile. The ball
Becker had was merely bait-and Wagner
bit.
Roy Thomas, formerly a Philly out
fielder, Is managing a semi-pr team at
Cape May.
Pitcher Fucich tit must be the same
one that once wore a Cracker uniforml,
had weird luck the other day. He gave
but il was a homer, and his team, Okla
homa City, was defeated.
Well here's something radical The
Washington State league has voted that
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Bv W. S. Farnsworth.
.HE promoters of a fight cll

TIME promoters of a fight club
must know their business. If
they don't, the fans are go
ing to suffer. The promoters of
the Gate City club do not know
how to run their club. They don't
know fighters when they see one.
Any colored fighter could come
here, pose as Jack Johnson and I'M
doubtedly get away with it.
Buck Grouse. a near champion.
who has fought all the top-notch-
ers, came to Atlanta a few months
ago and. under the name of Kid
Morrill,, fought at the Gate City
club. He only fought for the fun
Of 1t, but it only goes to show how
easy il was for him to pull the wool
over the eyes of the Gate City pro-
motors.
The promoters didn't know a
near-champion, so what chance
would they have if Leach Cross,
Knockout Brown, Packey McFar-
land, Willie Richie, Johnny Kill
bane or any Of the other top
notchers were represented here by
takers? None at all!
And in being bunked themselves
they in turn are bunking their pa
irons.
The following story from a Buff
falo paper well explains how Buck
Grouse made boobs out of the Gate
City promoters
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FLYNN HAS FOUR
REASONSFORW WIN
Bv Ed w. Smith.

EAST LAS VEGAS, n. NJ. June 26.-
Jim Flynn came into the city last
evening for look about and to shake
hands with some friends who arrived
during the day to remain for the CON
test next week with Jack Johnson.
During one of the lapses in the con-
versational fire that beseged the Pu-
eblo man l asked him why he felt so
confident of whipping the champion
Without any hesitancy, Flynn reeled
off four reasons that he figured to be
very good ones, He is betting heavily
lated in the order he doled them out:
1. I'm bigger and stronger and faster
than ever before.
2. know how to hit straight now
didn't before.
3. I will make Johnson come to me;
fighting cautiously and thus neutraliz-
ing the Johnson method of milling
4. I'm fit now to go 100 rounds at any
clip he may fancy.
Thus you will notice perhaps that
Flynn didn't include to me the much
mooted question of his opponents con
dition. Generally it is inserted in con-
versation here relative to the result of
the battle thus IF Johnson is in the
shape he was at Reno" etc. The same
if boding i'll for Flynn.
"As matter of fact I'm not figuring
on what condition he is in at ALL" said
Flynn. For the sake of making my
victory all the more pronounced and
clean cut, I'm hoping that he won't
have any excuses on the matter of
condition. But good or not, feel that
I can trim him this time"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
ABLES BADLY HURT IN
FIST FIGHT WITH FAN

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S-Harry
Ables, former Southern and American
league twirler, now with the coast league,
seems to have sustained more serious in
iuries than was reported after his fight
with fan here two weeks ago. One of
his eyes is injured and his sight is en-
dangered. He will not be able to work
again for some time. His idleness means
a big handicap for the oaks
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its patrons must not make too much noise
and the clubs have posted signs prohib-
iting the blowing of horns and the use of
rattlers.
Clark Griffith says that If he had one
reliable southpaw he could win the Amer
lean league pennant. We recommend
Lefty Russell.
The Washington club is after Bert
Gardin, of Roanoke, and Heinie Schultz,
of Savannah
Hughie Jennings says it's the Red Sox
sure. He touts Speaker, Hooper and
Lewis as the best in the world
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
HUB TEAM GETS sHoRrsrop.

BOSTON, June 2s.-shortstop Ma
ranville, of the New Bedford club Of
the New England league, has been pur-
chased by the Boston Nationals. He
will report at the end of the New Eng
land league season.
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DILLON no BOX THOMAS.

INDIANAPOLIS. June 25.-Jack Dill
Ion, claimant of the middleweight
championship, has been matched to
meet Joe Thomas. the California light
heavyweight, in a round contest to
be held at the ball park at Terra Haute
July 4. Tommy Dillon Jacks brother.
will take on Eddie Hart. of Terra
Haute, and Jimmy Watts will meet
frankie Mason in the other ten-round
bout on the boxing program
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Yesterdays Results.

Yesterdays Results.
Brooklyn T, Boston o.
Chicago Il, Cincinnati FIRST game
Cincinnati 8, Chicago l tsecond game)
New York 2, Philadelphia l.
Pittsburg 10, st. Louis 4 first game)
Pittsburg 49, St Louis second game
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Yssterciau.n -Rnn,nlta.

Blrmlngham- MOntgomery, off day.
Memphis |, Atlanta 0 first gamel
Memphis ., Atlanta 0 Second game,)
Nashville T. Chattanooga (frst game
Chattanooga 5, Nashville (second
game.)
Mobile 2, New Orleans O.
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Yesterdays Resuls..

Yesterdays Results
Columbia 5, Savannah 3 (frst game)
Savannah s, Columbia 3 tsecond game j.
Macon Z, Columbus l.
Jacksonville Albany rain
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Vesteruay's Results.
Washington Boston, rain.
New York Philadelphia, rain.
St Louis Z. Chicago 2.
Cleveland T, Detroit 5.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Gar11Ae TrdaN

Brooklyn in Boston.
Philadelphia in New York.
Chicago in Cincinnati
Pittsburg in ST. Louis.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games TO-DAY.

Chattanooga in Atlanta at Ponce De-
Leon. Game called at 4 o'clock.
Only one game scheduled,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Games To-Day.
ST. Louis in Chicago
Detroit in Cleveland.
Boston in Washington.
New York in Philadelphia
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26

SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Today.
Albany in Jacksonville
Savannah in Columbia,
Macon in Columbus.
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one that once wore a Cracker uniform),
had weird luck the other day He gave
up but one hit to the Holdenville club,
but it was homer and his team, Okla
hona City, was defeated
Well, here's something radical: The
Washington State league has voted that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26

Roy Thomas, formerly a Phlly out
fielder, is managing a semipro team at
Cane Nav
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-24

into the wrongs of the oppressed, to do the true, wise, noble thing in the people s name"
 Even he begins to speak, vast throng bustles up and would trample on his toes, but for the fact that. being a spirit and a Shade, he runs no risk of if. "Who are they?" he asks, and learns that some are eoroners. eager to put the finish ing touch on corpses, but most are boards of revenue, which is to say, blanks or at least slvers. And yet not sol For they all, trampling and crushing, seem chiefly eager to sit at the board and put some of the revenue, by way of salary. in their own jeans. Is there one of these would-be judges. coroners, treasurers, board members, clerks, who merely thirsts for work or hungers only to bless the pub lie by toll? There is-perhaps, But be- cause il admirably suits their present financial interests. they are especially willing to receive anywhere from 5000 to s3OoOO worth of this or that Far be it from me to islander the worthy and the strong and the noble. But there are othersi
 Did anyone hunt them up and impress upon them that the public veal demands their sacrifice of home comforts and their plunge into the wild and whirling waters of public strife? No one did. With strange
 and astonishing, but complete victory
 over native dinidence. they have stepped boldly out, waving cards. button-holing pedestrians, confessing their willingness to do the work and accept the guerdon.
 Great Cincinnatus," calculates the Chelsea Shade. Mournfully he descen9s from the first floor to the basement or
 the court house, not using the stairway. because that is crowded with aspirants l for the honor of holding the purse strings
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and sitting on the cofrers of Jefferson county. On the whole I get little satisfac- ton from Mir. Thomas Carlyle. He seems strangely silent. quite dumb with amaze ment. Beyond the briefest question and the Latin swear-word above quoted from ohio. l can draw nothing out of him. 1t is clearly q region of things in which his mind refuses to work. He fades away ana disappears over the top of the jail and l merely notice a queer grin as he looks down at the iron execution machine whic1 adorns the jail yard and confronts the First Presbyterian church. conclude that al least he approves of the method with which we handle a murderer now and then, and the mob of the accused both now and then. The grin let me say. is sardonc. but fingers on the cloud after the Shade has passed, in the manner of MT. Lewis Carroll's narrative of 5he Cheshire cat! He perhaps sniffed the Jail soup he passed.
 But I reflect, without the the insplra- ton Of the Scot, that ours is surely most odd and heterogeneous assembly and church or eccesia of the wisest How winnow the thing? Do we not need some far wiser than these self-nominated wisest to discover who's who? If these are in- deed ecclesla and congregation of the Best, the very cream of Jefferson county's milk pail. how may we express the water and obtain creme de Ia creme, potted creme, clotted cream, cream warranted to keep?
 For our board of revnue. now, we must have able business men, good judicious experienced, practical men, who have some sense of the meaning of this city which in a true sense is Jefferson county Because the city exists the county Is wealthy, and the board of revenue has
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other things and more for the public well I fare! It is possible for Il man to win any better than another astute butler of wires. With such high prizes to lure him almost any man may be expected to de velop political smartness; but political smartness Is the last thing to be rewarded when the aim is to get difficult business done I do not ask my tailor whether he fig an orthodox Trinitaran. nor whether he is a democrat. The hungry are willing to make professions which might change with new attitudes A mans fitness for tailoring does not depend on his hunger any more than on his heresies Whed shall we learn to insist that the man who nominates himself must show exain- ination papers or record of work done?
 I should like to see non-partisan cit izen's committee take 1t in hand to dis cover and report on the efficiency of every man who seeks nomination. should like to see primary which would refuse to step outside the list approved by such a bipartisan committee and welcome the light thus afforded.
 Certainly man may both need the job and be able to perform the duty. But esurience in itself is no commenda ton. and sentiment. or neighborliness, or prom
 ses are nothing compared with the sol emn obligation of the citizens mind to public welfare
 We have emerged from the former state of agriculture and village fellowship into the imperial life of metropolis It is the moment when old agricultural politics easily become ward politics. corrupt and menacing. Other cities have passed through, or have not yet passed through this stage of evolution, and have groan ed or will groan under the boss and the thug and the incompetent official. year after year. Whoever have won or lost
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riders, drifts upon especially in the bar rooms, and thrusts himself upon In their private residences or business places. But happily he has one place sacred to his pur- posc dedicated from time immemorial 10 his cardboard and his craft. It is the Jef- ferson county court house.
 Would that the shade of Thomas, the grouchy Scot, could but be exported from Eccefechan, or wherever he prefers 70 haunt this mundane sphere, and gain per- mission of the powers of Shadowland to tell us what he thinks of Alabama method of choosing the wisest for her public ser- vice. Let him but learn that this year we are seeking clerks and treasurers and ex- perts in road building, earthly Rhada- manthi whom we call coroners. who judge the dead and tell the living whether they who have gone had any right to go with out permission. chancellors of the county eXchequer each man being indeed one fifth of chancellor, judges of the living, and other officers too numerous to men ton Would that our late lamented phil losopher and sage of Chelsea could read the pasteboard which filters the court house from end to end Would that he might be with us at the democratic pri- mary, at which the goose will be cooked for some of these esurients, and they new ertheless loathe to eat their inevitable slice because it is so much like cannibal- ism
 How choose your wisest?" asks the Shade of the Sage. "Ye men of Alabama, it is a matter of tragic significance to you. Know ye not that if ye fail to find and enthrone your wise, ye shall be led of fools? By some means then ye must sort out, discover, identify the man whom ye need to judge the lawbreaker, to arbi- trate between the litigious to examine
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revenue to handle, far In excess of similar boards elsewhere. The county takes about four sevenths of the taxes which accumulate by the consent of the citizens and proceeds to decide what portion there the not city.
 Here is problem that requires strong. sure. mathematical mind The city makes the wealth. The city creates a center into which much human wreckage is drawn or flung by the surglng tides and currenys, and So the city creates poverty. It cre- ates a world of needs-pavements. road ways. sidewalks. hospitals. almshouses, orphanages, institutions of benevolenCe and institutions of common necessty--in great and growing numbers. Every day we learn of something more that the city must have to keep it's health and to avoid corrupting its people, and to make it's smoky life less grey and more sweet.
 But amid all this throng of would-be masters in Israel how many have learned what are the problems of city govern ment? Which of them could say what is the first concern of government? Which knows the relative importance, for in- stance, of schools and sewage? Here are some aspiring to be the Five Kings. in- deed. masters of 2O0,000 or 3O0,000 human beings. vast host increasing every day, second in mass to only one other south ern city. Are these kings trained in king ship? Or is their one great equipment that they have learned 10 raise corn and cotton and a loan?
 Tn asking these questions I am offering myself as target for all sorts of arrows. Even so. But l wis the democratic pri- mary is no sufficient strainer for these esurient atoms
 Surely 1t is time that we cared less for