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Crackers Have Played Cinches Thus Far; Sunday They Begin On Toughest Teams of League Ry Perry H. Whiting. A little woolly lamb > mid hold its own pretty well In a pen of similarly undersized woolly lambs. But when you turn said 1 '' lamb loose in a den of ravenous lions you find out mighty quirk about his scrapping ability. Leaving Atlanta out of the dis tussion. for the present, ui the grounds that it is a doubtful quan ’ity, we can divide up the rest of - Southern league two ways: . Geographically—into northern clubs, Chattanooga. Nashville and Memphis; southern clubs, Birming ham. Mobile. Montgomery and New Orleans. 2 Zoologically—lnto little, woolly lambs —Chattanooga, Nashville and Memphis. ravenous lions —Bir- mingham. Montgomery. Mobile and New Orleans In other words, leaving Atlanta out. the tough clubs are in the southern division this year, the cinches in the northern. And thus far the Crackers have plated only northern clubs —the 1 w lambs On Sunday come- the beginning of the real fight For the locals Invade the real Jungle of the league and match teeth, claws, bats, tricks, wisdom and speed with the man eaters. If the Crackers can hold their own in the southern section of the circuit this trip it will be most en couraging With a team in had condition be cause of the bad weather through the practice season, and torn to pieces bv const <nt changes, with a team that ha® been held back by weak pitching, the Crackers have managed to get an even break in the games In the northern section. If they can hold that 500 percent age through the corning trip into the southern division, when the Birmingham. Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans teams are tackled, they will be ready to jump back home, with the players all In trim, the team shaken down to normal and the pitchers in good order and win games right and left. • • • I T'S too bad about Pete O'Brien! 1 Pete, has been read oft the team by baseball writers and baseball fans. So shockingly against him is the sentiment that the only thing that keeps him on the club, the only thing. Is the fact that Manager Hemphill wants him When you come to think of It, though, that’s about all O'Brien needs to hold the job. Our personal opinion Is that Hemphill has better men on his bench than Pete O'Brien But ten years of experience at writing base ball has taught us a couple of Johnson Doing Active Work Now For Battle With Flynn For Title CHICAGO May 3.—. lark Johnson, the world's heavyweight champion pu gilist, hit the turnpike aS his first bit of work for the championship tight with Jim Flynn at La . Vegas, New Mexico, on Independence day John son did eight miles at a fast walk with a few short Jogs Interspersed He pulled little stiff and sore, but in another week the lameness will disap pear Contrary to the schedule mapped out, the champion did no boxing. He was tired after his run and inmvoi that he would not don the gloves until next week. Johnson weighs 225 pounds stripped today. Hi thinks ho will tike off about fifteen pounds by May 20. when he leaves here for the battleground. He expects to jump into the arena with Flynn weighing around 210 pounds MAIDEN TOURNEY NEARS END: “SEMIS" SATURDAY The semi-final matches tn the woman s tournament f - the Maiden trophies will be played tom-wr'W In the first fligl ’ Mrs Harrlnct—t Qiy- Miss Drummond and Miss S’ir'mg Mt' - M’ Broyle. In the defeated eighth ’light Mrs Jaine plavs Mrs Frederick and Miss Black plays Mrs Hude IREMEDT form E N MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY S t r i c t ly confidential. Unredeemed pledges Im diamonds f<»r sale. 30 per cent less than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul A Mav ) H 1-2 PEACH REE ST. UPSTAIRS Absoiuloiv Priv.-He. Opposite Fourth Nat. 14 Hank Bldg Both Phones 15X4 WE BUY OLD GOLD *>”l. ’• 'i ‘J The Black Veil” By Dr. John E. White Sunday Night at Second Baptist Church things, and one is that it is a waste of time to try to manage a ball club. Let the. manager manage the club, say we We'll take the games as they come and handle them for what they are worth But we will waste neither time nor space in telling Manager Hemphill how to conduct his affairs. It is reasonable to suppose that Hemphill knows more about the capabilities of O'Brien than you or I do. And If he didn't have good reaeon to think that Pete is the best man for the job he surely wouldn't keep him. He doesn’t owe Pete anything. Hemphill has been playing ball for sixteen years. It is currently reported that, he knows something about the game. He says that O'Brien is the best man he has for the shortstop job Who are YOU to back your judgment against Hemphill's'’ It is a cinch that he has more at risk than you have. If he fails as manager in Atlanta he is mighty nearly out of baseball. He MUST make good. He knows It. And, knowing it, he has staked his reputation on Pete O'Brien as the best man for the shortstop Job. (P S —Poor old Pete only got a single and a double yesterday and fielded sensationally!) • • • 'T'HE report, coming from Chat tanooga. that Walter Miller is for sale, was no great surprise. Mil ler was awfully good last year. He hasn’t been good this year. Cutting down time is near and somebody must, be released. Naturally the man who has been doing the poor work is the man who may reason ably expect the can. Another report from Chattanooga that O’Dell might be tided at first base sounds interesting. Last year O'Del! batted .278 and stole 34 bases. Sykes batted .258 and stole 20 bases That makes O'Dell ap pear somewhat the stronger man offensively It is pretty nearly a cinch that O'Dell would field the position all right. He has the height and the reach. Sykes and O'Dell are both valu able men. It seems a shame to have either of them off the club However, when we get a team so good that men like Sykes and O'Dell hang in the balance we ought to be in the chase for the pennant. • • • If VERY team that won in the ■*“' Southern league yesterday scored six runs. So uid every team that won in the United States league. The following other teams also won w ith six runs yesterday: Albany, Ga.. New York Nationals, Pittsburg, Boston Americans, Jer sey City, Dallas and Meridian. Papke Sends Leech On His Way Back to Pounding Pavement NF TV YORK. May’ 3.-—Billy Leech, hold er of many amateur titles, who quit, the New- York police force to become a pugil istic champion, realized his mistake today as he sadly reviewed the events of last night. Leech's professional debut was made with former Middleweight Cham poin Billy Papke as an opponent at the National Sporting club- \fter the ex-cop had been knocked down twice In the first round and three limes In the second his seconds threw up the sponge Leech may go hack to the force CURLEY EXPECTS $150,000 GATE AT TITLE BATTLE CHICAGO, Mav 3—That the gate of the Johnson-Flynn fight will bring the promoters $150,000 was the statement ■M Jack Curley just before leaving Chi cago for Las Vegas with Jim Flynn Details of the seating at the arena have been worked out. according to Curley, and the prices to be charged range from $25 to $lO. Unlike the Reno fight, there will be no SSO seats, and there will he no $5 seats Every seat is to be reserved. The $lO variety will be those fartherest from the arena The arena is to be modeled <fter that built for the cham pionship go at Reno It will seat ap proximately 10.D00 people. JACKETS AND AUBURN IN SECOND BATTLE TODAY I In one of the best games of the col lege season, the Yellow Jackets defeat ed Auburn by the close score of 3 to 2 In the first part of the ninth it looked as though tubum would tie the score, but timely fielding and a strikeout saved the day for the home collegians. Auburn will play here today and to morrow. It has gotten to be a habit with Auburn to take the football game annually from Tech, but the Jackets are determined to turn the tables and capture a goat on the diamond at least. CAPONI MEETS GORMAN. CHATTANOOGA, TENN May 3 Tony Caponi and Joe Gorman have be<m matched to fight here May 15. White City Park Now Open THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS; FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1912. The Geoirgiam’s Sport Page -■ SWELL POLE VAULTING BY LOCAL SCHOOL BOYS Lvxrl i \ ’ ) II ? : / J / / 2 / A && • >;. . f / 11 \\ \\ ' A H Av' OP s- Jr ra? Wdt // ts iA F 4 6 N\ «MF . HARGRAVE (Tech H. S. Star) Perry Starts Work For Devlin Battle At Gate City Club Jimmy’ Perry’ returned from Chat tanooga this morning and started in work at once for his bout with Tommy Devlin, the hard-hitting Philadelphia boy. at the Gate City’ club next Tues day night. Perry beat Fighting Char ley Kennedy all the way over in Chat tanooga, but the referee called it a draw. "1 would have knocked Kennedy out had he stood up and fought clean,'' said Jimmy "But he was wrestling, butt ing and running all the time. I un derstand that Devlin is a great mixer, who is always fighting. Well, if this is so. I will be able to show at my best against him." Perry will do only light work for the Devlin match, as he is already in fine condition. He worked hard for the Kennedy scrap and is only a pound or two over the weight he is to make for the Quaker. ALABAMA PILES IT UP ON TENNESSEE’S TEAM UNIVERSITY. ALA. May 3. .Alabama defeated Tennessee easily yesterday 11 to 1 Four bingles in a row by the Knoxville batters prevented the game from being a shut out The contest was characterized by superb fielding by the Alabama team. Joplin, especially, at short field contrib uting a lion's share of spectacular work Two fast double plavs by the Alabama infield enlivened matters Today's game concludes Alabama's con tests on the home ground until after the Vanderbilt series next Friday and Sat urday. when the two team- will battle for Dixie's championship in Nashville »»»»»»••••••»•»•«••••••••• • PLEASE DON'T PHONE • • ASKING FOR SCORE * • OF BASEBALL GAMES o • • • So marv hundred fans < all up • • the sporting department ”f Th • • Georgian every afternoon .asking « • for baseball s wes that it is abs.i • • luteb necessary to refuse to in * • swer queries of t'ois ■'!>”>■ ’er * • Every effort has been made to • • ot>lie«= th” anxious fo"ow .- r ■ ■ f •'• • game, but it Is Impossible ’ . ( o ♦ e swer all. Therefore it has been * • decided to answer none es • • queries, putting alt fans on ar. • s equal footing. * •••••••••••«••«•*••*••»••• HOLTSSENDORF. These photographs were sn Mathewson and show the vault were snapped at Marist college lanta Prep league. Inside Baseball Wins First For Crackers in Chattanooga CHATTANOOGA. TENN., May 3. In all the fine little points that combine to make a fin ished bail club the Atlanta team excelled the locals here yesterday Also in the big things, such as making hits and runs, they’ were better. And the Hemphillites won. G to 2. This game was the fourth test In the Youth -and-Age stakes. Bill Smith, i will be recalled, after be coming disgusted with old-timers on the strength of their poor work for him last season, announced this year that he wanted no’hing but ki lr. Os course, in the face of that announcement, he got Jordan and Moran. But in the main the club is made up ”f mere infants. Hemp hill, on the other hand, has the old ■■ st trim that ever ’".ayed in th? ” n l”:gu“. The average •'«« of th? l ookouts was pmbably hard ly over 22. The average age of the Crackers must have been close to 32. The contest was one between I veterans and kids And the vet erans won. However, thus far this i season the Lookouts have won two games and the Crackers two. sc there isn't anything conclusive re corded yet. At inside baseball and at head work the Crackers had all the ad vantage their ’.ge entitled them to and then a bit more. The Lookouts | were < instantly tricked In the ; first inning, after Bailey had walk ed, Ganley bunted him to second. Then Hemphill made most elabo- I rate pre pa ■ a tions to bunt. McDon ough fell for it. came wav tn. and couldn't get back in time to stop Fa:!”', when he stole third. It was a cold-blooded t-i’k. -til Hemp hill mad” it count by singling Im mediately thereafter. In the seventh the Crackers nearly gm through with one of thel' famous relays from the out field With Evans on second. Co vr-leskie hi' - terror to left field Failey fielded it briskly, and threw to Alperman. Whitey made a great ‘White Sox Best Looking Team in West’—Drydn +•+ +••{• +•+ +•+ +•’’* ‘lf They Sting Horsehide, Nothing Can Stop ’En’ By Charles Dryden. CHICAGO, May 3.—Jeems Cal lahan loitered about a down town hotel wearing a wad of tobacco inside his face and an ex pression of pennant winning de termination on the outside of same face. Why not? There is nothing in the West that seems to class with the 'White Sox. and the East • ern athletes are having troubles of tfieir own. Over in Detroit the other day Callahan was Interviewed by Tiger scribes and he predicted a first division berth for the local lads. aßy ’WLjL „ 'JgsgLAAXV x \ I jr / . .' j '.Y ’/ 'C.’ 7 •*■'"<<?<. i ■ ■■■ * J / o’Zx' — // I r , >i J'X.-A'X 1 // (B. H S. Champion) napped by Staff Camera Artist ters, going over the bar. They e during the meet of the At- peg to the plate and all but nipped the speedy Evans at this point. [the Union Tailoring means BEST Tailoring and at a 1 fair price. Union Tailored Clothes are made for Il long wear and to stand up and ABi TTi I £2s hold their shape. 0, I T ( Every Suit that leaves this shop $ 'l' V' hears the “Union Label,” as n G I | tA-T •i y well as our iron-clad guarantee ) 111 i K °f P er^ect ht and satisfaction. Id/ \ U k J Let Us Measure aWB LIJ ll* You Tomorrow HAP4D J OME NEW FABRICS Not sample?, but full holts of pure wool summer fabrics by the hundreds are here awaiting your selection. Come in. Suits tailored to your taste at S2O. $22.50. $25. $27.50. S3O and $35. EAGLE TAILORING COMPANY “The Union Tailors" 18-20 S. FRYOR STREET Opposite Temple Court Bldg. The extreme modesty for which James John is noted alone prevent ed him from splitting the world series money by the Fourth of July. We hate to see a cuss belittling himself, but modesty will prevail, particularly at this time of year. It would be more like it to split the purse by the last of June. Some of the lads need the money and are already drawing on their pros pects. This is the season for fun ny shirts with safety pins in the collar, and the classy members of the Sox entourage must live up to their pictures in the public prints. Leading citizens of Detroit are puzzled to know why the Tigers should be creeping along in the middle distance while the Sox are out in front leading the bunch. Certain of the experts claim that Hugh Jennings has quit using his head. When he was a student at Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday*s Battle This Is the way the Crackers are hitting through yesterday’s game. Players— I G lAB. RIH.I Aw Hogue, p.. 1 4 j 2 1 3 1.750 Hemphill, cfl 15 59 i 13 |25 .425 Ganley. rs. 7 I 24 I 2 1 9 1 .375 Wells c 2< 3 I 1 i 1 .333 O'Dell. 3bl 15 50 $ 16 .320 Paige, p 3 71 2 .286 Alperman, 3b 16 59 10 il6 1.271 Sykes, lbl 16 159 I 9 15 .264 Sitton, p 2 4 I 11 .250 East. 2b| 7 20 1 5 .250 Kerr. c. 15 49 5 12 .245 Bailev. If. 16 53 16 13 .225 O'Brien, ss 10 37 3 8 .216 Dessau, p 4 14 0 3 .215 Miller, p 7 14 4 I 3 .215 Graham, c 3 6 0 1 .167 Howard. 2b 10 34 4 4 .118 Johns, p 4 8 0 0 .000 Phelan, lbl 11 i 0 0 .000 Atkins, p 2 6 0 0 .000 DILLON 6-TO-5 CHOICE OVER KLAUS TONIGHT NEW YORK, May 3—A personal feud will be fought out tonight when Frank Klaus, of Pittsburg, claimant to the mid dleweight championship, and Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis, Ind., collide in a ten rourtd battle at Madison Square Garden. Despite the fact that Klaus got a de cision over Dillon in their fight in Cali fornia recently, the Hoosier rules a 6 to 5 1 favorite. Sam Austin, who refereed the McFarland-Wells bout, will be the third man in the ring. Cornell the boss professor advised Hugh to use his head, and he did, but not in the way the professor indicated. Edward Walsh, who does net love Mr. Jennings like a brother, avers that the only way Hugh could use his head was to dive into an empty swimming tank and crack the crown of the said bean. This is a line of bunk used only on the ball field, and to com bat it Jennings declares the Walsh family once stole the steeple off a church and would have takei the basement only the watclman chased them away. Sox Pitchers Best in Years The real story is that the Sox are crowning the pill and the Ti gers are not. Not in years live the Sox pitchers shown srh promise, and while they are shor ing it opposing teams have more chance than a snowball r the Isthmus of Panama. Let Ty Cobb come up and whi. a couple of times, and the peppe oozes out of VVahoo Sam Crawford The Tigers must hit to win, anc they are not doing it in the pres ence of the Sox. Callahan has com piled the best hitting team in years, and if the lads keep up their lick there is nothing to stop them. The best hurlers in the Nap and Tiger stables tried it and the Sox kept on going. Joe Benz Acquires Fame. Baseball fame spreads faster than smallpox or spinal meningitis. Joe Benz had forgot:en the swell game he pitched at Cleveland un til a fine looking gent in a plug hat tackled him at the park yesterday. Joe was warming up near the stand when the gent approa'hed him. j “Are you the Benz from Bates- J vllle, Ind?" the stranger asked. ” The great pitcher sad he was. ’ “Does your paw run , meat shop there?" "Surest thing you knw," replied Joe. "I know him well." th stranger chuckled. "Many is the tne I have seen him drive his met wagon past my house, and I hav bought liver from him, too.” "Fine," said Joe, and >e con versation ceased. It does nt do to grow too familiar on meatwagon acquaintance, and Mr. Ber ( j S a stickler for Indiana etiquetr t ATLANTA SELLS HOWBD TO WASHINGTON EAM D. Austin Howard, resident ofVash ington, D. C., former Cornell third baseman and utility man for tl At , lanta club part of last year and tbg far , this season, has been sold to the 'ash > ington club. , Howard's arm has been in bad tape ; this year and Hemphill found hi self unable to handle the man. So he fined 1 him over to the Washington club, wich 1 has hankered for him all this seaso ■‘RAJAH” ONCE OFFERED HALF-MILLION FOR CARS ; ST LOUIS. May 3 —That Roger Be i nahan once offered $500,000 for the It. i Louis Nationals' baseball park and qb came out here yesterday in the heang of the action by which Mrs. H. H Bt fon hopes to prevent E A. Steinlnjr from voting the stock of Mrs. Britton ad her mother at meetings of the club, n answer to a question as to the valuers the plant Mrs. Britton quoted Brest han’s offer. M'INTOSH TO OPEN N. Y. CLUB. NEW YORK. May 3.—According ton, well-grounded report In sporting circll, Hugh Mclntosh, the Australian fight pr. moter. is soon to invade the boxing fid in this city Mclntosh is winding up h affairs in the antipodes and is said to 1 preparing to start a big boxing club hei in opposition to the Garden Athletic clu which has a lease on Madison Squat Garden. Mclntosh promoted the Johnson Burns fight when Jack Johnson won th heavyweight title.