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Double Steal Went Wrong or
Crackers Would Have Copped
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., May
4.—lt took twelve good in
nings yesterday to convince
the Crackers and Lookouts that
they couldn't possibly do any more
scoring before midnight, and when
the twelfth came, with the tally 1
to 1, Umpire O'Toole called the
contest on account of darkness.
It was one of the toughest con
tests ever seen on local soil. For
seven innings big Rill Chappelle
had the Crackers right where he
wanted them. Up to that time the
Atlantans hadn't even made a hit.
In the eighth, however, things be
gan to happen. O’Brien, the vet
eran who is now engaged in show
ing the knockers that he isn't all in
yet, looked over four of Chappelle's
wild ones and walked. Sykes sacri
ficed him and J Kerr bounted one
off Moran’s toes for a two bagger.
THE BASEBALL CARD
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Atlanta in Chattanooga.
New Orleans in Birmingham.
Memphis in Nashville
Mobile in Montgomery.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. PC W. L P C
Mobile 13 7 650 Atlanta .8 8 .600
M’mp’is 10 7 .588 Mont ...8 11 .421
Cnooga 9 7 583 N OTans 712 368
B’ham . .12 10 .645 N'vllle. ..« 11 .363
Yesterday's Results.
Atlanta 1. '’hattanooga 1.
Mobile 4. Montgomery 3.
Memphis 3, Nashville 0
Birmingham 9. New Orleans 1.
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Today.
Columbus 1n Albany
Savannah in Columbia
Macon in Jacksonville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L P C W. L. PC.
S'vannah .9 3 .750 Macon ..6 7 .462
Albanv .8 3 .727 Columbia 310 .231
Tvllle' 9 4 692 Columbus 210 .167
Yesterday’s Results.
Albany 7. Columbus 7.
Savannah 8. Columbia 4
Jacksonville 5. Macon 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today,
Cleveland in Chicago.
6t Louis in Uetrolt.
Boston In Washington
New York in Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C W L PC.
Chicago 12 5 706 Phtla .. .8 8 600
Boston . .10 6 626 Detroit 810 444
Wash 9 6 .600 St. Louis .6 11 .313
C’land .8 7 533 N. York 411 267
Yesterday's Results.
Philadelphia 18, New York 15.
Detroit 16. St Louis 5.
Chicago 7, Cleveland 4
Washington 5, Boston 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today,
Brookivn in Boston.
Philadelphia in New York.
Chicago in Pittsburg
Cincinnati in St. Louts.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C W L. P C
ffnati 12 3 800 Brookljm .6 8 .429
N. York 10 4 .714 P'burg .6 9 400
Boston .. 7 8 467 Phlla. .6 8 .385
Chicago . 7 8 .467 St. Louis .6 10 .333
Yesterday s Results.
Philadelphia 8. New York 6
Chicago 9, Pittsburg 8.
Brookivn 14. Boston 3
St. Louis-Cincinnati, off day.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Games Today.
Columbus In Milwaukee.
Toledo in St Paul.
Indianapolis In Kansas City.
Louisville In Minneapolis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W I. P C W L. P C.
plumb’s 16 5 762 K city ..8 11 421
iTapolis 12 « «67 L’vtlle. 710 .412
roledn .11 7 .611 M w ukee 612 333
St. Paul .10 10 580 I'apolls . 514 .263
Yesterday's Results.
Minneapolis 4. Louisville 2.
Indianapolis 3. St Paul 0.
Milwaukee 7, Columbus 2
Only three games.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Toronto in Baltimore
Montreal In Jersey City.
Buffalo tn Providence.
Rochester in Newark
Standing of the Clubs
W L. P C W. L. P C
J. City .9 3 750 Toronto ..5 7 .417 !
Buffalo . 7 3 700 R’chester 4 6 .400
B’ltlmnre 6 4 .600 Toronto 4 7 .364
P’dence . 5 5 .500 Montreal 2 7 .222
Yesterday's Results.
Toronto 11. Baltimore 6.
Jersey City 7, Newark 2
No other games scheduled.
SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Rome in Huntsville
Bessemer in Selma
Anniston in Gadsden
Standing of the Clubs
W L. P C W L )> e I
Selma . .9 5 .643 H’svllle 7 6 5:18!
B'semer 8 6 .571 A niston .6 8 .429
Rome . .7 6 .538 Gadsden 3 9 .250 '
Yesterday's Results.
Anniston 4. Gadsden 3.
Huntsville 5, Rome 3.
Selma 1. Bessemer 0.
Four clever vaudeville
acts and motion pictures at
the Bijou.
$1.50 Athens and return
on Sundays via Seaboard.
Leave old depot.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
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8 t r I c t !▼ confidential.
Unredeemed pledges In
diamonds for sale, 30 per
cent less than elsewhere.
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O'Brien scored and the game was
tied.
A double steal that went wrong
in the ninth cost the Crackers the
game. Ganley was walked and
Hemphill bunted safe. Alperman
popped and then Ganley and
Hemphill got away for a double
steal. Dunn and Evans played it
nicely and Ganley was nipped by
about an inch. As East was passed
and as O'Brien hit safe after that
Ganley would have scored If he had
not attempted the double steal.
However, it was good baseball at
that, even if it did not produce.
The Crackers continued to threat
en through the game, but Chappells
could always pul! them up short
when danger really threatened, and
there wasn’t much kicking when
the umpires declared it too dark
for further play.
CAROLINA ASSOCIATION.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L P C W L. PC.
Sp'burg .6 2 750 A'derson 4 4 500
C rlotte .6 3 625 G'nsboro 3 6 375
W -S'lem 4 4 500 C.'nvills .8 6 .250
Yesterday's Results.
Anderson 7. Greenville 4
Charlotte 4. Winston-Salem 3.
Greensboro 2, Spartanburg 1
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VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Newport News In Norfolk.
Portsmouth In Richmond.
Danville In Lynchburg
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L P C W. L. P C.
Roanoke 7 5 583 P'sburg .5 5 .500
P’sm’uth 4 3 .571 D'nville .5 6 .455
Norfolk .5 4 .556 R'hm'nd 5 7 417
N. News 7 6 .538 L’hburg .4 6 400
Yesterday's Results.
Danville 4. Lynchburg 3.
Roanoke 3. Petersburg 2.
Norfolk 0, Newport News 1.
Richmond 11, Portsmouth 3.
UNITED STATES LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Pittsburg In Cincinnati.
Chicago in Cleveland.
Washington In New York.
Reading In Richmond.
Standing of the Clubs.
XV. L. P C. W L. PC
P’sburg .3 0 1 000 C'nnati .1 2 333
R'hm'nd 3 0 1.000 N York 0 2 .000
Reading 2 0 1.000 Claud. .0 3 .000
Chicago .2 1 .667 W ngton 0 3 .000
Yesterday’s Results.
Pittsburg 12, Cleveland 4.
CTifcago 8. Cincinnati 8.
Richmond 13. Washington 10.
Reading 13, New York 8.
COTTON STATES LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Greenwood in New Orleans,
lackson in Meridian
Vicksburg in Hattiesburg.
Standing of Jibe Clubs.
W L. P C | W L. P
M'ridian 10 8 .556 J'ksnn. .9 8 .529
N O'ns 11 9 .550 V'ksburg 8 9 .471
H’sburg 8 7 .533 I G’nwood 7 12 .368
Yesterday's Results.
New Orleans 2. Greenwood 0.
New Orleans 7. Greenwood 2.
Meridian .lackson: wet grounds.
Vicksburg-Hattiesburg: rain.
GILBERT DIDN’T PULL;
KNOCKED OUT JEFFRIES
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., May 4
Dick Gilbert didn't pull in his tight
with Frank Jeffries here, and stopped
: his opponent In the fourth round of a
I rattling mill. Jeffries fought Jtamely.
I being floored live times beforiWhe was
| finally c ■ inted out.
YESTERDAY'S GAME
\TLAXTA AB R H P.O. A E
Hallux. If 4 0 1 4 0 0
. Ganlex-. rs 3 0 0 0 0 0
Hemphill. <f 4 0 13 12
\lpernwn. 3h 5 0 0 1 3 0
I East, 2b. 4 0 A 4 4 0
•‘Brien. ss 4 11 2 3 0
svkes. lb 4 0 1 17 0 0
Kerr, c. 4 0 1 5 1 0
i T’aige, p 4 0 1 0 5 0
Totals 36 1 6 36 17 2
(’H’NOOGA- AB R H P.O A. E
Moran. Ifs 0 f 11 0
i -’.-x I lb 4 0 2 12 0 0
Hodins, rs 5 0 0 2 0 0
nt I. ss 5 11 4 0 0
H”7 x f 5 0 1 3 1 0
' 3b 5 0 2 2 1 0
’ Mur 2b 4 0 0 5 4 0
' Hannan, c 5 0 17 2 1
< happe'ie, p 4 0 2 0 5 0
Totals .. .42 1 10 36 14 1
< ore bv innings:
i At’ant.a 000 000 010 000 1
Ch.iit’ano' fra .000 100 000 000—1
Summarx Two-base bits. Paige. Kerr.
> hits, Coyle. Jordan. Sykes.
Hu’-'i mii'. stolen base. Moran, double
l'i - n- m ph ill to Sykes, Hannah tn
Bak-nH Kerr to O'Brien, base on balls,
off F.Hg- ff Chappelle fi. struck out
bv ("bar >l!e 6. by Paige 5: wild pitch,
Cl'.ippe’- Time of game. 2:15 Em
pires. O’Tnole and Carpenter
White City Park Now Open
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATVRDAY. MAY 4. 1912
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Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday*s Battle
Manager Hemphill, with an average of
413, Is still leading the Crackers In hat
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PLAYERS.I G. I AR.I R. i H. I AV,
Hogue, p I 1 4 i 2 3 1 .750
Hemphill, of 16 63 113 26 1 413
Ganley, rs 8 27 2 I 9 .370
Wells, c 2 3 1 II .333
O'Dell. 3b 115 50 8 16 i .320
Paige, p: 4 11 11 3 .273
Alperman. 3bj 17 64 ilO 16 .250
Sitton, p. 2 4 11 I .250
Bailey, If: 1.7 57 | 16. i 14 .246
Kerr, 1« 53 5 13 : .245
Sykes, lb.! 17 !63 \ 9 15 i .238
O'Brien, ss JI 41 i 4 ! 9 .219
Miller, p 7 14 4 3 .215
Dessau, p 4 14 0 3 215
Blast. 2b.18 24 1 5 .208
Graham, c 3 6 0 1 .167
Johns, p 4 8 0 0 .000
Atkins, p, . . . . . . . 2 6 I 0 0 .000
GOVERNOR’S DAUGHTER
WINS TENNIS TOURNEY
ATHENS. GA., May 4. Miss Cora
Medford Brown, daughter of Governor
Joseph M Brawn, was the winner of
the tennis tournament which was con
cluded here yesterday.
The affair was hotly contested, but
Miss Brown was a winner all the way.
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OUTFIELDER GANLEY.
These two eleventh-hour pick
ups, Bob Ganley and Kid Graham,
seem likely to stick longer on the
Cracker club than some of those
who were making a loud noise
through the training season. Gan
ley is a good hitter, a good fielder
and a tremendous worker. Graham
is a youngster and he got away
poorly in his first game. It is like
ly that he will be held, however,
as J. Kerr will do most of the
catching, anyhow.
Cracker Club Only Three Games Behind Leaders
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Must Now Measure Strength With Teams of South
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE Southern 1 league clubs
have played about a score
, of games each, and to wh°at
verdict? Just this: Thus far Mem
phis and Chattanooga have proved
themselves the stronger teams in
the northern division of the South
ern league; Mobile and Birming
ham have proved themselves the
stronger teams of the southern di
vision.
Under the workings of the pres
ent schedule the first batch ' of
games are played by each team in
their own division. You will recall
that Atlanta ha£ played Chatta
nooga, Nashville and Memphis, al!
northern clubs, at home and abroad.
It has yet to measure strength with
the four clubs in the southern divi
sion.
The first intra-sectional series is
ending. We’re off Sunday on the
first Inter-sectional. Watch for the
fur to fly then!
While Atlanta, stands third best
among the northern division clubs,
it has an even break to its credit
thus far. It is only three full games
behind the leaders. It is less than
one full game behind Birmingham.
If it wins from Chattanooga today
it will tie the Smithies.
Evidently, therefore, the Hemp
hlllites have not fared very badly
at the hands of the northern divi
sion clubs. Owing to the changes
in line-up and the lack of training
that was Inevitable because oi ba'd
weather, the Crackers naturally
made a bad start. They are going
again now, and if they had nothing
worse to tackle than, the northern
division clubs they would soon be
out in front.
But all the dopesters, however,
agreed before the season started
that three of the southern division
clubs were due for first division po
sitions. They were Birmingham.
Montgomery and New Orleans. And
then along come the despised Gulls
and blessed if they don’t clean up
with all the southern division won
ders and lead the league. So they
must be tolerably strong them
selves.
It is into this tough southern di
vision that Hemphill will pilot his
men after today’s battle. For a
couple of weeks the Crackers will
prowl through the *Far South.
When their trip is over we can
corn® a l ot nearer than ever before
to answering that most momentous
of questions:
'Where in blazes are the Crack
ers going to finish this year, any
how?”
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The very finest and only 5
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and quarts.
Yes, we make that good LEMO-LIME
you get at the ball park and all stands
it be that w’e are going to
have a race in the American
league, after all? It surely*looks it
now.
The A.thletics, twice world’s
champions, don't look so dangerous,
with Jack Ceombs hurt. The Mack
pitchers a r e certainly no wonders,
if you leave “Iron Jack” out. Ben
der is not in trim and Plank is
aging. What is likely to happen to
Mack's youngsters was demon
strated yesterday, when the feeble
Yanks hopped on them in the ninth
inning and all but beat them: to
death. When Plank was called to
the rescue ten runs had been scored
by the Yanks, in the one Inning,
which is more than they usually
make in a week.
Comiskey has a scrapping, slug
ging team at Chicago and it is go
ing some. It has a peppery man
ager and a lot of “ambish." The
Red Sox are a considerably
strengthened team this year, and
that Red Sox outfield is a wonder.
Also the Detroit team, now in the
depths, isn't likely to stay there
long. So look out. for a battle this
season in Ban Johnson’s league.
DRAKE, TECH'S HURLER.
IS SICK. AND GOES HOME
Tech must have been the thirteenth
college started in Georgia, Judged by
the ill luck of its athletic teams.
Just as the ball team looked as
though it would be a top-notcher, the
beSjt pitcher on the staff faits sick and
has to quit school. Drake, the boy
from Griffin, has left Tech and will
hardly be seen In a Tech uniform again.
Drake has been ailing since the Se
wanee trip, but he is all in now.
This leaves only two regular pitch
ers to fight Georgia with —Eubanks and
Hubert—with a possibility in Fielder.
“FITZ” CHARGES BILLS
WITH SIGNAL STEALING
NEW ORLEANS, May 4.—Accord
ing to Umpire Fitzsimmons, somebody
In the grandstand during one of the
recent Montgomery-New Orleans
games was tipping off the signals of
Catcher Knaupp to the Billiken bats
men. Fitzsimmons notified Manager
Frank that something was wrong, but
the Pelican manager ridiculed the sug.
gestion, adding: “They must be
guessing.”
“Guessing or not," said Fitzsimmons,
“they seem to be getting them right.
This thing should not be tolerated, for
it isn't fair to a team. Let the bats
men try to hit the ball without any
outside aid, for the pitchers seem to
have something on the hitters this sea
son.”
•that Bill Bernhard was about
right in saying that Otto Hess
was too old to fool with any doings
in the big leagues was pretty well
demonstrated yesterday. The husky
southpaw who pitched the Pelicans
to victory so often last year worked
for Boston against Brooklyn. For
seven innings he was invincible.
But in the last two the Dodgers
smeared things all over him. Thir
teen tallies were made In the two
innings. It is likely that Hess will
find his way back to New Orleans
before the season Is out., though al!
Atlanta hopes not. for the Crackers
never could beat him. Bill Bailey,
former Southern leaguer, also took
part in a bad game, - and he. too, is*
probably due for a release.
I’ll tell you one guy who will
probably hang on a bit longer. He
is Walter Johnson, of the Senators.
He has long been the wonder of
baseball, but he seems even a little
better this year than he used to be.
Any club that gets three hits off
him this season is going mighty
strong, and more than one run off
him is almost equal in honor to
winning a world's championship.
HOWARD MORROW EARNS
AWARD OVER. FITZGERALD
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.—Howard
Morrow was given the decision over
Jack Fitzgerald in the main event of
the Columbus club's show here last
night. The Chicago middleweight still
feels surprise today from a jarring blow
that sent him to the floor in the second
round. Morrow evened up by flooring
Fitzgerald in the third, round, and in the
foui th had so much the better of the
going that Referee Toby Irwin had no
hesitation in giving him the verdict.
MILLER. IN POOR TRIM.
TO BE RELEASED SOON
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. May 4.
Doggy Miller is shortly to be released
by the Crackers. Miller and Hemphill
had a lively conversation this morn
ing, and there appears to be some feel
ing between them.
Miller was the Crackers’ best pitch
er last year, but he has not been in
good trim this year and has been ,wili
as an Apache in all his games thus
far.
HARRY BALENTI SIGNS
WITH ASHEVILLE TEAM
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., May 4.
Harry Balenti. brother of Mike Ba
lenti, of the local club, signed today
with Asheville, tn the Appalachian
league.