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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
BRITTON HANGS
k. D. WALLOP On
JIMMY EVANS
ACK BRITTON. the masterfuI

T ACK BRITTON. the masterful
New York lightweight. who
~ may be matched with Frank
Whitney over the ten-round route
at the Auditorium Armory on
February 6, is today a step nearer
the coveted title of best 1885,
FOUNDER in the ring" as a result
of the beating he handed Jimmy
Evans, the X. c. welter in Mem
phis. The referee stopped the bout
in the seventh round to save Evans
from gamely taking further pun
ishment.
Britton proved to the satisfaction
OF Memphis fans that there was
lot to his contentious he could spill
any of them if he could get time in
the ring. Evans was outclassed
from the tap of the gong, and after
the second round never had look
in Memphis newspaper men as
serted that the bout ceased to be
fight after the fourth round. Evans
was "A choppinS block for BrittOn's
shots from then on.
Evans claimed that he was hit
low near the end of the second
session, and that the gong saved
him. He was given time to recuper-
ate, but Britton was his master at
all times and had him practically
helpless after the fourth round.
Evans came to Memphis from
Kansas City, a highly touted well
ter, with draws and things with
Ray Bronson, Wildcat" Ferns and
several other we'll known Welters
Britton gave him some eight
pounds, but the additional weight
awaited MIN nothing save to staye
off a knockout.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

-, Bill schwartz will report in Nashville
teoruary 10 to begin the Job of building
up the Nashville ball club. That does
probably will not build up much team,
which is fai" enough
uary %.
The International league has finally
FOUND out that 1t has a $4,000 salary
UNIT, but no limit on the amount to be
The Baltimore team is having an awful
lme signing Downey and Houser. These
FORMER big leaguers play the wild in the
international. just as they do everywhere
else.
Nick Cullop writes, from Chilhowie that
made his choice of Clues.
President o. Is. Andrews tried to gel a
schedule recommended by the committee
that gave Chattanooga thirteen SaturIays
at home Atlanta only nine
The, new southern league schedule will
give New Orleans and Memphis all the
SUNDAYS Atlanta and Birmingham all the
hotldaNs
"Rff' Lee, star hitter Of the Gary team.
has pIa$Stered contract with his sigma
Baseball writers in New York have
boosted Frank Chance so high that he has
a tremendous distance to fall
Newark has signed a chap named
Barcklow and is scouting around for
guy named Howlloud TO complete the
sketch.
Not only win the WASHINGTON team
train a charlottesville, but the Montreal
team VIII do likewise. March would be
n swell time to take the census there
VIII ForueN, manager Of team In the
Northern Indiana league last season. has
quit baseball. He's a deputy sheriff of
Porter county Indiana.
Charley swain. the fence lracturer who
trained here with Washington. has been
canned by sacramento He forgot the
fence busting art and never knew any
thing else
Del Howard will be field captain Of the
san francisco team thls season.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
Pelicans Have Been the Most
Consistent Club in History Of
League; Have Averaged 3rd
Ho,OSouthern League Races Have Been Decided
col 9O2 19Oa 904 19O5 laos 007 1QOS 1ana IAN 1a1 o1

TTONOR of being the most con-
sistent club in the South
ern league goes to the PeIs.
In twelve years the New Orleans
club finished in the second divt-
sion only once. That was back in
1908, the year before Cholly Frank
came to the Crescent City. That
year, however, the locals made 1t a
good drop by winding up absolutely
last. In the twelve years the Pels
have won three pennants. finished
second once, third four times
fourth three times. and eighth once.
For the twelve years the average
position is third. Under ChoIly
Frank the local team has averaged
2 40.
While the Pels have the best
average position, the BOBBY prize in
this respect finds a tie between the
Birmingham and Chattanooga clubs
with 6.3. Next to the Pels come
the Crackers with 3.e, just a shade
better than an average of fourth.
When the present league was in
augurated in 1901, it contained on
its roster eight clubs: Nashville.
Little Rock. Chattanooga. New Or
leans, Memphis. Shreveport. Biz
mingham and Selma, Ala. More
or less financial success was expe-
rienced In each city with the ex-
ceptton OF Selma. which turned out
to be a heavy loser and the league
officials to prevent suicide. placed
the club on the road about mid
season, where it remained, journey
ing from one town to another and
never playing at home because the
gate receipts at the little Alabama
hamlet were not enough to support
a team.
Three Time Winners.
Each of the four veterans of the
circuit has little feature all its
own. Nashville and New Orleans
have each won three pennants in
their time and it is a noticeable
fact that two Of the number of
championships of each club have
been in successive years. Nash
vile in 1901 and 1902 and New Or
leans in 1910 and 1911. During its
time Birmingham has finished in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30

every position in the league-all the
way from top to bottom and Mem
phis lacks but fourth place of hay
ing the same distinction.
AS previously stated. Nashville
Won remnants while under the
management of Newt Fisher in
1901 and 1903, the locals first years
out. Five seasons then elapsed be-
fore the Vols finished at the top of
the heap again and the third ooca-
sion was in 1908, when Vedder Sit
tons pitching beat New Orleans
out of the hOnors by a fraction of
a point. In the ensuing years they
finished in three different places.
twice in fifth. a like number of
times in seventh and once in eighth.
In 1909 they came second and 1910
they finished fifth The last two
years they have finished fourth.
getting the honor only by a small
margin last year when they were
almost tied with Memphis.
Little Rock plugged along in sec
ond place for three seasons, then
dropped back 70 sixth eighth a
couple of times, finally fourth. sew
enth and seventh again and then
threw up the sponge. Chattanooga
coming up from the South Atlantic
league to take a place in the South
ern for the second time.
Memphis in twelve wears has
Won two pennants, and. in fact, fin
tshed In every place conceivable
Fourth. In 1901 the Turtles came
third, fifth in 1902. first in 10000
sixth in 1905, second in f9os-O7
third in 1908, eighth in 1909 sew
enth in 1910, sixth in 1911 and ffth
In 1912
BOBBY Prizes For Bills
Speaking Of the BOBBY prizes
Montgomery has played ten wears
without ever winning a remnant.
Shreveport seven without once fin
lSning at the top Mobile ana
Chattanooga five each without can
turing the honors.
Atlanta has plugged away con-
slstently since 1902. when thev ~.
placed Selma, and have twice boen
rewarded with pennants. once in
1907, and again in 1903.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
GEORGETOWN cErs o,.,vr,

w NSltlNGToN, Jan 20 -"pat'' Dvr,.a,
,''S hteh engaged as coach of me ,;sng,,s-
"Nh university football team for ma
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
OEMAREE SIGNS;
IS EXPECTED To
MAKE GOOD
BY Sam Crane.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Al De
" maree has affixed his sigma
ture to a Giant contract and
the document was received by Sec
rotary John Foster in time to make
the announcement yesterday.
Denaree made his big league de-
but last year at the Polo grounds.
and II was so sensational that the
Giant partisans regretted that he
had not joined the National league
cha npions in time to take part in
the worlds series. BUT unfortu-
nately ne did not report 10 Man
aver McGraw until the time limit
that would have admitted him to
the select circle had expired, and
the best that he could get was only
a pick at the contests that decided
the baseball supremacy of the uni
verse.
Demaree is not spring chicken
IS a ball player, He has had his
UPS and downs in the Southern
league for several years and was
tossed from pillar to post in South
land before no finally landed on
his feet in Mobile, Ala, and with
Mike Flynn as his manager, the
pitcher was the shutout sensation
OF the Southern league.
Finn is Giants Best Scout.
Finn had been the best scout that
McGraw had in his service and by
a diplomatic shift of youngsters to
Mobile last spring that included
Big Bill Jacobson. the Giants Sc
cured the first call on Demaree
and the latter Joined the Giants in
Philadelphia during the last visit
Of the National league champions
10 the Quaker City last fan II
was on that trip that Horace Fogel
made the raw" statements against
umpires and honesty Of the sport
that resulted in his being showed
out Of baseball altogether Al q mag
nate.
Experience viii Help Demsree.
Demaree's experience win stand
both the Giants and himself In
good stead when he hls in as a
regular on McGraw's pitching staff
He has the reputation Of being a
fine spring pitcher and that quail
ity always appeals to the Giants
manager.
II Demaree can live up to that
reputation, possibly Rube Marquard
will not be so very badly missed,
should the big but erratic minded
southpaw decide to stick 10 vaude-
Vile until the June roses blossom.
But Notwithstanding Ruhe's threat
or was Il promise to sail
vate' audiences up to June. II is
better than an even bet that lie
Marquis win be introducing an
other turkey trot' delivery or
something like II when the Giants
are down I'm Marlin this spring
working the winters rust out Of
,heir muscles
ue'nsree viii lac a handy man 20
have around. anyhow either in the
spring, mid-sunmer or the fall.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
FORTUNE AWAITS
JIM THORPE IN
PRIZE RING

TARLISLE, PA, Jan. 9O,-Jim
Thorpe. the disqualified
olympic hero, win be a Red
hope If Harry Edwards. of Phila-
delphia, succeeds in inducing the
great Indian athlete to reject the
multitude of offers made him by
ball clubs, vaudeville and moving
picture show agents. and go into
training for the prize ring.
Thorpe has long been regarded
as one of the greatest boxers in
the college world, He has superb
physique. can hit with the force Of
an army mules kick, is cool head
cd, knows all the fine points of the
ring game and could develop with
a few months training into the
greatest human fighting machine
Of the age, in the opinion of Ed
wards.
Thorpe would develop into a
wonderful fighter" declared Ed
wards today. with just few
months of training in the hands Of
man familiar with the prize ring.
! believe Thorpe would be unbeat-
able"
Thorpe in all probability will
keep the prizes he won in the
olympic games in Stockholm. Word
was received here today that Swed-
ish officials connected with the
olympic meeting last year stated
that the prizes could not be taken
from Thorpe since the Olympic
rules expressly state that all tro-
phies shall remain the permanent
property of the victor, unless
charges are preferred against him
within 80 days after the prizes have
been awarded.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
SOME WATER FOR BROWNS,

WACO TENAS. Jan. 3O.-The waters
in which the s. Louis Browns will
battle during their training season here
contain silica, sodium. sodium chloride,
alumina, iron sequioNide calcium, po-
tassium sulphates calcium cabonate.
magnesa. carbonate and sodium car
Donate and bicarbouate.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
By Percy Fl. Whiting.

i
II ACK in the wild old days of
II football in Dixie they used
to let anybody play-prize
fighters, professors, truck drivers
and even students
In those days Auburn had a
coach who was not over particular
as to language. Also 1t played one
of it's instructors, q certain Pro-
fessor McKissck 1t is related that
this coach, in the heat of scrtm-
mage. would shout
Get down, Professor McKissick,
blank you. Blank. blank you, Pro
fessor McKissick; play lower; you
blank blanked, ring tailed old foe
sil!"
And thus adjured Professor Nc
kissick would bend to the task.
1t is related that this instructor
player was a corker on the grid
iron--a good fighter and strong
guard.
If You will wander to Pelzer. s.
c., YOU will find that Mr.. McKissick
Che has dropped the title now is
the owner OF one of the largest cot
ton mills in the world And rich.
Why, he just Oozes money He
made ii all himself too.
And there we have another man
who was good alike on football feld
and in the grand scramble for
fame and coin that comes when col
lege days end.
DIFFERENTIATION and grit are
two characteristics needed
alike on football field and in the
Game Of Life. For instance, take
6. n. Mitcham.
When the fall Of 1898 rolled
around Mtcham found himself the
captain OF the Auburn team, Also
he was most OF the rest of the team.
Fact is. Of the eleven men who had
played regularly the wear before ten
had departed. II was a CHASTITY out
look. But Mitcham was game.
Somehow team was patched up,
but il didn't amount to much
couldn't with an average weight of
t49 pounds, back in the stormy old
days when weight was almost
everything, But somehow it man
aged to win a lot of games. Final
ly the Georgia game tame At the
end of the first half Georgia led,
Is to 4 In the second half Mitch
am, almost maided, made three
touchdowne and won the game. It
was the greatest piece Of single
handed football the South ever saw.
And where's Mitcham now? Why,
he's head of the civil engineering
department at Auburn lie could
have been mighty near anywhere,
but that's the job he happened to
pick for his own, and ne went OFF
with IT,
IT HE successes didn't all play
football either. For instance
there was Mayhu Cunningham. Of
Georgia. They called him shrimp"
in the old days and he was sec
ond hasemau, and a good one
That wasn't 40 many years ago
But II was long enough 40 that he
has forged to the front Ia a lawyer
and is now the general counsel for
the Central Of Georgia railway and
the Savannah ocean Steamship
Company.
HEN, there is Major Frank Cal
laway, president Of the Atlanta
Baseball association and leader
among Atlanta LAWYERS. Back in
the days when Frank Galloway was
in Georgia he was catcher and
corker too, as good as they ever
had, the old-timers say. He was
whale OF a man. batted pretty we'll
and could stop anything He was
also good boxer and pretty much
Of an all-round athletic star
THEN, ~ course, there was char
ley Jerty BOW professor
charles Herty. head of the depart
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-30
SHUGRUE BEATS CROSS:
LOOKS LIKE A CHAMPION

NEW YORK. Jan. 3o-Youna Shu-
Erue. Of Jersey City. looms up as
lightweight champion possibility today
because Of the decisive victory he
scored last night over Leach Cross in
their ten round bout here
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
No ARRESTS IN
BROWN CASE
SHERIFF LEAVES CITY TO lNVES.
TIGATE A CLUE-NEGROES ARE
INVESTIGATING.

Although Sunday brought with 1t
rest for many thousands of toilers,
the day was one Of considerable ac-
tivity at police headquarters. Detec-
tives engaged in the task of establish
ing the identity o. the person who
killed Miss Florence Brown were
conspicuous by their absence from
the office throughout the greater part
of the day. Sheriff Ben F, Branden-
burg was equally active and left the
city to investigate certain circum-
stances. which, it is hoped, may de-
velop a clew. He is not expected
to return until some time today.
1t is an assured fact that no ar
rests have been made in the case thus
far, and that there is no foundation
in the hands of the Pinkerton detec
tiyes, the city detectives or the sher-
IFS department which would warrant
the arrest of any one. The authori-
ties seem to be as much in doubt
as ever
One officer expressed the opinion
last night that the circumstances,
when developed, will prove so simple
that the public will be surprised at
having given credence to the as
sumption that there is any mystery of
unusual proportions.
1t was learned that three trust
worthy negroes have been detailed b
make certain investigations Of mat
ters which, it was hoped, might thro s.
some light on the case, but subse-
quent developments showed that
these suppositions were not worthy
of serious consideration.
At police headquarters it was said
that the last knife found upon tho
blade Of which was though to have
been an impression Of finger, is not
regarded Of sufficient importance TO
warrant further consideration. They
say the knife was not bloodstained
and that this fact was borne out b.
a chemist after an examination .--
Dallas News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
SHOWERS REPORTED TODAY lin
SOME PARTS OF KANSAS AND
OKLAHOMA.
HEAT WAVE CONTINUES
Weather Forecaster Predicts contin-
ued Hot Weather for the Southwest
-Cioudiness Today Cause Slight
Temporary Drop in Temperature.

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. II Light
showers sufficient only to soften the
surface o. parched soil and Of little
benefit to the withered vegetation
fell in scattered sections of Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma this morning.
Good rains are reported from central
Iowa and parts Of Nebraska.
The weather observer here said
that the clouds would keep the tenn
perature down five to ten degrees to-
day but a return to the extreme heat
is coming again tomorrow. The
chances for more rain now seem
slight.
The Kansas showers were mostly
confined tC the northeastern and
southwestern parts of the state.
MacksyiIle reported 80 inches OF
rainfall, and at Horton .23. Here
there was .0l and at St. Joe .O2 with
light showers at Marysyille, Bruns-
vic kand Lexington, Mo.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
MURDERED FRIEND
d. AND BURNED BODY
WILLIAM COLLINS MURDERED AT
BRAYMER, MO. FOR MURDER IN
CANADA.

Braymer, Mo, Aug. 11.-William
J. Collins, aged %, according to the
county officials confessed that he
killed his friend JOHN p. Benson, for
merly an attorney here and burned
the body in Benson's shanty on a
claim near Clemens, Alberta, Can
ada last May after taking some
thing over eighteen hundred dollars
from Benson's clothing. Collins will
be taken to the county Jail at King
ston and held for Canadian authort-
ties. When Collins returned here
shortly alter Benscns death, he said
his friend was burned to death in 4
fire resulting from the explosion Of
an oil stove. An autopsy showed that
the skull had been crushed and there
was a bullet through the heart. Ben
son leaves a widow and five year
cid son here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
ORDERED
THROUGHOUT ITALY
GENERAL STRIKE OF UNION
WORKERS THROUGHOUT THE
WHOLE COUNTRY.

Milan, Italy Aug. IA general
strike throughout Italy has been pro-
claimed in a manifesto issued by the
syndicalist and socialist workmen's
organization here.
The manifesto urges all workmen's
unions to take immediate action and
carry the strike to the bitter end.
The strikers seek economic advantag
es and aim to overturn the present
basis Of capitalistic ohgarchy. one
strike leader said "Our strike must
become kind of national earthquake
overthrowing the social organ7ation
which rests on the exploitation Of
workers for private advantage. ."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
TEMP PERATURE
CONTINUES HIGH
MORE WARM WEATHER MAY BE
EXPECTED DURING THE WEEK
is FORECAST.

Washington, Aug. .-Tempera-
lures below normal are promised Cor
this week only to The northwestern
states and the Pacific slope.
THE distribution Of atmospheric
pressure over the American contin-
ent and the adjacent oceans" said
the weather bureaus weekly bulletin
tonight is such as to indicate tenn
peratures below the normal during the
week in the northwestern states and
on the Pacific slope; high tempera-
lures the first half of the week in
the southern plains states and the
lower Mississippi valley, followed by
lower temperatures in these regions
Thursday or Friday; warm weather
during the week in the gulf and south
Atlantic states and moderate tenn
peratures in the first half Of the week
in the Great Lakes region, the upper
Ohio valley and the Middle Atlantic
and New England states will be fol-
lowed by warmer temperature in
these regions after Wednesday.
In the regions'of drouth, tie mid
die mississippi valley and the middle
and southern plains states tempera-
lures will continue high during the
first half of the week, while during
the latter half the weather in these
districts will become cooler with a
probability of we'll distributed show
ers The precipitation during the
week Will be fairly well distributed.
- There are no indications at pres
ent of disturbance in the West In
dies"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
PUT TUBE IN PERlCARDIUM.
Daring Operation on ST. Louis Boy
May Be Successful.


st. Louis, Aug 10.-The life OF
Monroe Rodgers, a 12-year-old boy
now in the city hospital, is believed
by the superintendent to have been
saved by an unusual operation on the
heart. A stone bruise on the boys
leg a month ago developed blood pois-
oning. AS a result matter acoumu
lated in the pericardium, sack
surrounding the heart and inflated
the pericardium to thrice its normal
size. This caused compression ON
the heart, making breathing 50 di6.i
cult that the boys face began to turn
blue and death seemed imminent.
An X-ray examination located the
cause Of the trouble, a rib over the
heart was removed, and a tube insert
ed in the pericardium to draw off
the foreign matter. Great care was
necessary to avoid piercing the heart
with the tube and cause instant
death.
The operation was performed
few days ago and today the improve
ment in the boys condition was so
marked that the physicians felt con
fident of his complete recovery.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
No MORE LAND
FOR JAP PANESE
CALIFORNIA ALIEN ACT is NOW
IN EFFECT-CAN HOLD LAND
TILL DEATH.

San Francisco, Aug. 10.-This was
the last day, under the alien land
act passed by the late legislature,
On which Japanese, either as indiyid
uals or corporations, could acquire
lend in California.
Individuals now holding land may
continue to do so during their nat
ural life but may not devise it to
Japanese heirs. Corporations form
ed before the law goes into effect
tomorrow may hold the land for fifty
years. A number of such corpora
tions have recently been recorded
"No object Of the law has been
defeated by these corporations" says
Attorney General Webb, who revised
the bill into its present form. The
law was not intended to force the
japanese now owning land to part
with it at once or within any fixed
period. They were to be permitted
to hold it during their lives. b.
forming corporations the ymerely eX-
tended their period Of ownership.
But after August 10 the object OF
the law, which is to prevent an in
crease in the amount of alien hold
ings and gradually break up the col
onies now existing, will be attained.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-11
Was With Lind in Cuba

Guthrie Okla Aug n. Edwin Il.
Brown, editor of the saltwater, Okla
Gazette. served with John Lind, whom
President Wilson has named envoy 70
Mexico, in commissary headquarters
during the Cuban war at Camp Thorn
as. fifteen years ago. Brown said
today that Lind, who was a Twelfth
Minnesota officer, was brigade com
missary at Camp Thomas and adds.
'if Lind makes as efficient an envoy
as he was commissary, President
Wilson is to be congratulated, for the
country will be well served" Brown
was with an Iowa regiment.