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JHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1911.
SPORTSI CRACKERS NOW TRYING THEIR LUCK IN MONTGOMERY
Is
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“Give me one more pitcher," says Otto Jordan. “Give me
one pitcher who can win a few games and the Atlanta team is
in the race.yet. _ /
“What' kills us," continued the manager, “is to get three
or four runs to the good and then have a pitcher blow up be
hind us and spill it all. It’s Heck.”
Clearly it is the weakness of the battery men that is
thumping the Crackers. Doubtless bad battery work has cost
three-fourths of the games the Crackers have lost this year.
“You can’t blame it on the catchers, tho,” defended Otto.
“Wells is young and lacking in experience, but mechanically he
is n good man, and I haven’t any complaint to make. Knotts
caught good ball for Us. They say he is a little erratic in close
plays at the plate, but he did all right in the games be worked.
He’s a good sticker. The catchers are doing their share. But
the pitchers haven’t worked right.”
EDITED BY
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LOCAL PLAYERS PASS UP TWO TOURNEYS,
BUT WILL TURN OUT STRONG AT AUGUSTA
No Atlantans at Greenville or
New Orleans Events This
Season.
Atlanta will not be represented in either
the Gulf statf* tenia championship or the
Carolina States event. With so man? Im
portant tournaments “on" this season lo
cal players have decided to pass up these
events.
But the local club will figure promt-
tengls event will take part in the South
Atlantic event on the courts of the Au.-
gusta Country club.
A full list of the players who will go to
Augusta Is not yet obtainable, but among
Ramspeck. Parks, SpratTln.
C. Smith. Several ladies will go down for
the tourney, among them Mrs. Hall, who
made such a good showing in the South
ern championship last year at Atlanta.
After the Augusta event is over the
Southern championship will bo next In
line. And as usual this event looks
promising. Just what famous Northern
or Eastern players will come South for
the event can’t be told at present, but It
Is likely that Palmer and Touchard, two
of the best performers In the’ East, will
try for the championship this year.
Other players who will make long trips
Otto Jordan is doing his best to set at rest the rumor that
Sam Frock isn’t giving his best efforts for Atlanta.
“Frock is working his best,” said Jordan. “You have my
word for that. I never saw a pitcher work harder, and there
never was one who was worse broken up over continued de
feats. It’s funny, too, because he appears to ‘have every
thing.’ He warms up like a world beater, and his past perform
ances show that he isn’t any mere ‘practice pitcher.’ I don’t
understand it. and I guess he doesn’t either.”
Frock’s release is, of course, ..forecast- by ’Jordan’s re.-
marks, tho he still has time'to redeem himself, and he will be
given every legitimate chance.
If ever a good deal went wrong, it was ’the Frock trade.
When President Heisman bought this man, he did it by a clever
piece of manipulation, and he forestalled a half dozen managers
of the Eastern league and American association, who were fairly
yammering 1 fog h chance at this former star. Baltimore of
fered to trade any man on its wonderfully good staff for him.
and several clubs, would have taken Frock at nn advance of
what Atlanta paid for him. ,
Would that frrock had been sold to Baltimore' or some
where else. It would-'havc saved the Cracker club $2,000 and a
world of games. 1 ;' All of which goes to show that you 1 never can
tell.
Jordan has returned now to his club, and will “have at
’em” again t^ithbold-time vigor.
There is one* thing you have to hand to Jordan—one of
several things—and thfit is an unbreakable-spirit. “The Cap”
never says die. Yf they have his club 27 to 0, he keeps right on
plugging, tye has that conflderice ‘in liimself 1 and His ball club
that every successful manager has. Nobody can bluff him.
They have to beat him with the real stuff.
COSTER LOSES
TO J. MAND0T
New Orleans Boxer, Well
Known In Atlanta, Wallops
Eastern Lad.
Jordan is having a hard, year of it. Men wlio should have
been good have fallen down—the two most notable cases being
Charley Milley and Sam Frock; men who started well are slump
ing, and.men who were always good are being injured. And
all in all'it doesn’t seem to be Atlanta’s year to win the pen
nant. However, the club, isn’t buried by a long ways, and may
come to life yet in time tQ make it amusing for some of the
clubs that are now going like wild things.
BROWN MATCHED WITH MOORE.
N»w York, Jun, 20.—Knockout Brown
ha» b.rn matched to fight Pal Moore,
of Philadelphia, twelve rounds at the
Armory Athletic club In Boaton next
Tuxday night.
DORSEY LASTED 12 MINUTES.
Albany, N. Y, Juna 20.—Knockout
Brown laat nljrht knocked out Bant
Doraey, a local llthtwelsht. In four
rounds of flihtlng.
Men’s
Oxfords
JOHNNY DOBBS
IS SUSPENDED
President Kavanaugh Took the
Usual Course in Punishing
Mogul For Rough Work.
Many Corking Good Players
Entering For Southern Ten
nis Championship.
for the event are W. A. Fleet, of Culver.
Ind.; the Doyles, of Washington; John T.
Bundy, of Albion, Qkla., and Winston and
some teammate from Norfolk (but not
Whitehead, with whom he has played In
H Iiuuiinu. mill WI1UIU no hum pmyvu hi
Atlanta before). There will, of course, be
the usual entries from Knoxville. Mem
phis, New Orleans, Nashville and the
other tennis playing cities of the South.
CRACKER CLUB
IDLE MONDAY
Game Scheduled For Monday
Borrowed For Use Sunday,
So Nothing Doing.
Little Rock, Ark., Jun, SO.—Manager
Johnny Dobbs, of the Montgomery team,
ha, been Indefinitely ■ depended by Presl-
Sent Kavanaugh, or the Southern league,
tor hi, alleged auault on Umpire Byron
at Montgomery Sunday.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Sruthern Leapue.
Won. Loot.
New Qrlean, 37 SO
.6(4
Birmingham.
Chattanooga.
Memphis..
Nashville..
Atlanta.. .<
Mobile.. ..
Albany.. 1 0 1.000
JOE MANDOT.
Southern Athletic club, Joe Coster, the
Eastern boxer, fought gamely thru to the
end, but lost the decision to Joe Mandot,
of New Orleans.
Costers lip was split In the Arst round,
his eye. was partly closed Jn tho third
down
Only in the Afth and last rounds did
Coster live up to the reputation that made
Mandot, however, Antshed without a
scratch and to reed the flghe most of the
way, altho Coster rarely backed up.
Manager Swacina
Bolstering Gulls
Savann’h 1 0 1.000
Columbia 1 0 l.ooo
Macon... 0 1 .000
Jack’vllle 0 1 .000
Charl ton 0 1 .000
Augusta. 0 O’ .000
Colombia 0
eague.
V. L. P
Hop’vllle 22 9 .710
Clarkv’e. 17 11 .607
Mcl/b ro 17 12 .686
llarr'bg. 17 15 .631
American League.
W. I- Pc
Detroit.. 39 II .$84
Phila.... 34 18 .6o4
Sew Y.. 28 23 .649
Boston.. 29 25 .537
Chicago. 25 24 .510
Clove.... 24 34 .414
\wu»h 20 84 .370
.8t. Louis 18 39 .£91
National League.
W. L. Pc.
Chicago. 35 19 .648
New Y.. 34 21 .618
Plttab’g. 31 23 .574
Phila.... 32 24 .571
St. Louis 29 25 .637
Clncl.... 25 30.455
Brooklyn 20 35 .364
Boston.. 13 42.236
American Aea’n.
W - T. Pr
W.'L. Po
Columh’a 39 23 .629
Kan. C.. 36 25 .690
Mobile, Ala., June 20^-Manager
Swacina has signed Outfielder Rod
Fisher, of Louisville, and Champ Oa
teen, of Montgomery.
Myera, purchased from Brooklyn. !•
expected to report at once, ns Is also
Pitcher Burleson, secured from Knox
ville.
tCENTRAL LEAGUE CLUB +
+ BROKE! GRAND RAPIDS QUITS 4-
20.—The $
4- Dayton, Ohio, Jun, .
+ Grand Rapids club nf the Central +
4- league In broke. Salarieg hare not *
+ been paid for week,. A, a laat re- +
+ sort today the director, of the +
Central league took over the club. +
Mlnn'lla. 32 33 ..
Lou'vllle 31 32 .492
8t. Paul. 29 33 .468
Toledo... 26 37 .413
Indinn’lls 26 37 ,41a
Virginia League.
W. L Pe
Norfolk.. 31 18 .(33
Roanoke.. 28 20 .588
Rlchm’d. 25 21 .548
Peterb’a. 22 25 .468
T.vnnhh'n 40 91 JIT
Lynchb' g 20 28 .417
Danville. 18 S2 .860
Appalachian.
W L. Pc.
Aahevllle II I .117
Knoxv's. 15 I .535
J. City... 16 11 .677
Morrl.Cn 13 13 ,600
Clave.... 10 17 .170
Brlatol... I 17 ,32f
Extern League.
W. L. Pc.
Roch'ter. 35 17 .673
Balto.... 31 33 .674
Toronto. 8» 36 . 537
Buffalo.. 34 33 .611
Montreal 24 36 .480
Jeraey C. 22 25 .463
T„X L.. rbc
Okla. C. 37 S3 '*■
Waco..,. 34 10—_
Fort.W.. 15 31 .530
Dallas... 33 32 .601
Auatln... 33 33 .601
Montgomery, Ala., June 20,—There
waa no ball game here ycaterday and
game here ycaterday
the Crackers and the local rilub Idled
away the day.
The game originally set for yesterday
waa borrowed Sunday and played off
then, much to the discomfiture of the
Cracker club.
JOHNS WILL WORK TODAY
AGAINST RALPH SAVIDGE
Jules Watson, Acting Manager of Crackers, Expects Jordan
Back in Time to Play Today—Britton Goes
to the Outfield.
Montgomery, Ala., June 20.—Johns will pitch ah<J Knotts
catch for Atlanta on tin's afternoon’s game with Montgomery,
The Atlanta line-up will be the same as Sunday, except
that Britton may go to right field, instead of W. Miller.
Manager Jordan will join the team before the game.
There is a possibility, according to Acting Manager Wat
son, that Jordan will get back into the game today. This
would shift Watson, into right field.
For Montgomery, Savidge will heave and Gribbens receive.
It rained last night, but the prospects this morning are for
clear weather.
Catcher Wells is still unable to play/on account of a split
finger. Watsoji does not expect him to be in trim for sev
eral days.
HEISMAN NEGOTIATING *
RACE AT ST. NICHOLAS RINK.
A roller akatlqg race waa held on
tho Bt. Nicholas rink at Ponce DeLeon
nn Saturday night In which five con
testant. took purt. -Happy Jack.” who
has been giving exhibitions at the
rink, challenged four of the local boys
n'ho had previously made good record*
to a two-mile race. After one mile nf
tho race had been pulled off, “Happy
Jack” was so badly beaten that he
stopped, claiming he was too tired to
continue. The rest of the combatant*
finished aa follow.; Flrat, Wallace
Thomaa; aecnnd, Theo DuPre; third,
Charlie DuPre; fourth, Bert Baker.
Skatingl Learn how.
American Association,
Indianapolis 7, 8t. Paul 1.
Minneapolis 6. Toledo 8.
Columbus 9, Milwaukee 4.
Other gamsa not scheduled.
.607
.iff
Cotton States.
W. L. Pc,
Vleksb’g 39 25 .609
Hatties.. 87 25 .597
Yasoo C. 30 30 .600
Meridian 30 30 .500
Jackson, 25 SI .897
23 36 .f
Greenw'd J
Southeastern.
W. L. Po.
.Gadsden. 20 14 .688
Rome.... 19 16 .643
Anniston 19 16 .643
Decatur, 17 17 .600
Helms... If 19 .488
DVIUM > t . 6* I*;*
Huntsv's IS 34 .851
Carolina Lei
Greens'o .
Greenv’e 22 38 .489
Charlotte 20 25 .444
MONDAY'S RESULTS.
Eastern League.
Baltimore 7, Buffalo 4.
Providence 12, Montreal 1L
Jersey City S, Toronto 2.
only three games.
FOR “TEXAS” GRIFFIN
Now That Boston Has Former
Cracker, Local Club Has
Good Chance For Him.
Atlanta Is after
preferred.
And there la aome chance that the slim
Texan may come to Atlanta before long.
When, it became evident that Atlanta
ton Nationals sold Frock to Atlanta, and 1
in President Helsman’s communication
they were reminded of this deal and the
iy letting Griffin come to Atlanta.
Of eourae there an a lot of formalities
that have to be gone thru with before the
to the sub-ceiTL
ing business, but President Heisman haa
high hopes of getting this man.
"They may as well let GriffingotousT’
a pitcher, John Griffin »«ld Mr. Heisman. "Hank is a world
beater In the Southern, but I don t think
he will never do in the big leagues."
"Lota of players have their limits." con
tinued the local president. “Crable la a
would have to have a wlhnlng twlrler
mighty soon, President Heisman opened
communications with the Boston Nation
al- aamllpkA In (h« meant
alai' who acquired "Hank" In tha recent
famoua "Kllng trade" with Chicago.
It will be recalled that these same Boa-
Jlaaa A. Griffin la a wonder In Class
... but can't make It li '
And that'e the way
l the major leagues.
—. It goes. They are
wanting their time fooling with Griffin.
They will have to let him go somewhere,
and I hope It will be to us.
Joe Collins, Missing Player,
Has Turned Up in Chattanooga
Petersburg 4.
Danville 3, Roanoke 1.
Richmond 2, Norfolk 0.
Cotton Staten League.
Appalachian League.
Knoxville 7, Aahevllle 6.
Brlatol 3, Johnson City 1.
Morrlatown 14, Cleveland 6.
ttounmn t, uaunoma ui
Fort Worth 5, Austin 4.
Galveeton I, Dallas 2; game called on
account of darkneea.
Kitty League.
Hopkinsville 6, Harrisburg t.
McLeansboro 3. Clarksville 1.
Paducah 3, Cairo 1.
At Birmingham (Prourili-Yants).. 0
Chattanooga (Renton-HIgglna) ... • 13
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FORD AND SHIPP RELEASED.
Anniston, Ala., Juna 80.—Man
ger Fisher, of the Anniston club
f the Southeastern league, has re-
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Russell Ford, and "Skinny" Shipp,
the former 8ewanee star.
Ford waa formerly manager of
the Models. He and Shipp were
two of the highest pried men on
the team, but they have both failed
to ahow Southeastern form.
Rica, Oa., haa been signed and will
be given a try-out In Ford's place.
Skatingl You’ll like it.
Memphis (Frits-Adama).- S
South Atlantic League.
At Savannah fPope-Glebel) ...... S
Charleaton (Buaaey-Luakey).... 0
At Columbua (Toren-Reynolds)... 2
Jacksonville (Wllder-Cuesta).... 1
At Albany (McCormack-Matthews t
Macon (Weema-Kahlkoff)....... 2
Auguatm-Columhla; rein.
At Philadelphia (Bender,
Thomas) 6 5
Washington (Johnson-Rtreet).-. 2 6
At Detroit (Wlllett-Stanage) 8 10
Chicago (Young, Lange, Baker-
Block) 3 12
At New York (Caldwell, Quinn-
Sweeney 2 8
Boaton (Wood-Nunnamaker).... 6 7
National Lsagus.
t Pittsburg iLelAeld^GIbeon).*,. S
Brooklyn (Bchardt-Bergen) 0
Only one game played In National.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
8outhtrn Lsagus.
Nashville at Mobil _
Chattanooga at Birmingham.
Momphla at Now Orleans.
South Atlantic League,
Former Cracker Who Jumped
Mobile and Dropped Out of
Sight Has Been Located.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 20.—Not
withstanding the fact that he wag com-
monly supposed to bo In Springfield,
III., Joey Collins haa turned up here In
4- HUNTSVILLE PLANS TO 4-
| BUY NEW BALL CLUB 4-
4- Huntsville, Ala., June 20.—Tho 4-
4* Huntsville Baseball association 4-
4- may put *n entirely new team In +
4- the Southeastern league next 4-
4- week to replace the team that hns 4-
+ made up the tall end of the pen- +
4- riant race during the lost month. 4-
Presldent Bradley la negotlat- 4-
. Ing with A. S. Riggs, managei 1 of 4-
4- the Fort Smith team of the West- 4-
4- ern association, to have Riggs 4-
4* bring hia team to Huntsville. The 4-
4- wires are being kept hot between 4-
4* Huntsville and Fort Smith, and It 4-
4* looks now aa If the deal will go 4-
4* thru. 4*
LYERLY 7| DRY VALLEY 0.
Lyerly, Ga„ June 20.—The Lyerly
baseball nine defeated the Dry Valley
team here Saturday In a one-sided
game by the score of 7 to 0.
Mahan, for Dry Valley, waa hit hafd..
He allowed thirteen hits.
Brady twirled a nlca game. He gave
up but five htta.
Score by Innings: R. H. E.
Lyerly.. .j 100 113 010—7 13 3i
Dry Valley 000 000 000—0 6 3
Batteries: Brady and Edwards; Ma-i
han and Cash. Umpire—McCoy.
JOE COLLIN8.
PAPKE FIGHTS THOMPSON.
HNcw York, June 20.—Middleweight,
Champion Billy Popko has been
matched to light Cyclone Johnny;
Thompson at the National Sporting
club In this city aome time next month.'
the definite date to be decided upon
«-a —— tpim A'tJnn aba of tlm Yfltlonul !
v National tloagua. \
Philadelphia at Brooklyn; clear.
New York at Boaton; cloudy.
American Laagua.
Boaton at Now York; clear.
Waahlngton at Philadelphia; clear.
ay City; clear.
Montreal at Providence; clear.
Buffalo at Baltimore; clear.
ONE OF ATLANTA’S PLAYGROUNDS
Chattanooga. Joey dose not give any
reason why he fallPd to report to the
Mobile ctub. According to the agree
ment nf the deal, whereby the locals
obtained chappelle‘ln exchange for
Demaree, Collins waa to be lent to the
later. Tim O’Bourke, of the National,’
haa received a cablegram from Papke.
In which the champion offers to right
ten rounda.
season, but
nooga this fall, ao the only punishment
practically which he can Incur will be
suspension without salary for the rest
of tha season, as he It really the prop
erty of the Chattanooga club, which
can not claim his services because of
the player and salary limit.
TIGERS WIN BY DEFAULT.
The Grant Park Tiger* were to play
the Saturday Evening Po*t team, but
the Poat boy* did not show up and the
umpire forfeited the game to the Tiger*
3 to 0.
HYLAND BE8T8 KEYE8.
New York, June 20.—"Fighting Dick"
Hyland, the rugged California light
weight. ha* demonstrated hi* superior
ity over Bert Kfyes, of New York. The
boys fought ten furious rounda at the
Olympic Athletic club Isst night and at
the flnlslr Keyea was all but nut.
WHITECAPS ARE DEFEATED.
In a fourteen-inning contest the
Roancke baseball team downed the
Whltecaps nine by the score of 5 to 4.
Sklpworth pitched a great game for
the Whltecaps. He struck out seven
teen men and only allowed seven hit*.
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if every one fried as
hard as we do to clean
things up.
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