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If any outfielder or infielder is hurt Al O’Dell will be sent to fill his place and Svkes will go to first base. Os course this arrangement, hinges on O'Dell's ability to show more strength on first base than Svkes can. And right now the former third baseman is on proba tion Os course, if he does not show un as well as Sykes, he will go to the bench as utility man and Sykes will return to first. Thus far O'Dell has shown such ability at first that Manager Hemp hill is delighted with his work, and it appears that he is to be At lanta's regular first baseman this year. . Despite the fact that Dessau has a bad arm and has been until he comes around, despite the fact that Ira Hogue has not been abl . to show Southern league form and S eems slated for a release, and notwithstanding the report that Miller is to be released. Charley Hemphill has issued a formal de nial that he is after any pitchers. That seems to mean that he be Moves Atkins, Johns. Paige, Dessau and Sitton will do for a regular pitching staff this year. For it Is a cmch that it is now or never with Atlanta in the matter of getting pitchers. The big leaguers will finish cutting down in a few days. And after they have finished, get ting pitchers is as pleasing and simple an operation as cutting eye teeth. * SIGNAL stealing is getting a lot of publicity these days.- As a matter of fact, the "honest kind" is no new thing. Teams have been trying it all the time and getting away with it occasionally for years. By "honest” signal stealing is meant the variety which a player in the game acquires while watch ing the opposing catcher and pitch er, dopes out for himself and passes on to the batsman. That sort of signal stealing is all in the game and as much a part of It as trying to guess the signal for the hit-and run used by the opposing batsmen. Owing to the obfusticatlon of affairs by the highly cultivated and nor 3 -so accurate magazine writers on naseball subjects the public has been asked to believe that inside baseball” is a tremendously com plicated thing and that the “sig nals” used in the game are as mys terious as the secret code of the United States navy—•which, in the language of the "true lovers.” "they ain’t.” It doesn’t take any Sherlock Homsean brain to pipe off the sig nals by which the catcher indicates to the pitcher what sort of a ball he wishes thrown. These signals are as simple as a picture puzzle. Most of them are made by the catcher, by placing the Angers of his ungloved hand against his glove. A closed hand might mean a fast ball, one finger a “pitch out,” two fingers a spit ball, the snapping of the fingers a drop and so on through the list of a pitchers repertoire Now, naturally enough, if you can get In a position where you can see the signals of the opposing catcher it will not take you long to find out what they mean. If "two fingers against the glove” is fol lowed by a.palpable pitch out and goodness knows there is noth ing on earth more palpable, unless It is an uppercut or a kick in the shins —it doesn’t take a. professional "signal thief’ long to diagnose the sign. About the only way that a catch er can guard against signa! stealing is either to make his signals in such away that they can be detected only by the pitcher, which would be difficult; or to change his code often enough to cross the opposi tion. which would likewise be dif ficult. For all of which reasons, and a few more, signal stealing Is no deep-dyed villany and. no great trick. Otto Jordan, for one, has always been pretty clever at guessing the signals of an opposing team. Eu gene DeMontreville. in his South ern league days, was another shrewd one at it. With all the clever lads there are in baseball, it is a wonder that there isn’t more of ft done. • • ♦ AND while we’re on the subject it might be worth while noting that when you read that the "catcher signalled for a high one” you are probably reading fiction. It is very rare that the catchers in this league bother to signal for a high one or a low’ one. They notify the pitcher what kind of a throw they want, whether curve, fast one, slow THE BASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Atlanta in Mobile. Chattanooga, in Montgomery. Memphis in Birmingham. Nashville in New Orleans. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C. W. L. P C Mobile . .15 12 .625 Atlanta. .10 10 500 Cnooga .12 8 .600 Mont. .9 14 .391 B'ham .15 11 .577 N. Orl ns. 814 .364 M'mp’is .11 9 .550 N’vllle ..7 12 .368 Yesterday’s Results. Atlanta 10. Mobile 7. Birmingham 3. Memphis 0. New Orleans 77 Nashville 3. Chattanooga 8. Montgomery 7. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Albany in Macon. Columbus in Columbia, Jacksonville In Savannah. Standing of the Clubs, W. L PC W. L. PC Albanv. 11 3 .786 Macon ..6 10 .375 S'van’h. .10 3 .769 Columbia 411 .267 J’ville . .10 5 .667 Columbus 312 .200 Yesterday's Results. Albany 8. Macon 6 Columbia. 7, Columbus 6. Savannah-Jacksonville, no game, rain AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today, Chicago in Washington. St. Louis in New York. Detroit in Boston. Cleveland in Philadelphia. Standing of the Clubs, W. L. PC. W. L. P.C. Chicago 14 6 .700 Phila. .. .9 8 .529 Boston . .11 7 .611 Detroit 912 .429 Wash .10 7 .588 St. Louis .6 12 .383 •C'land . 9 8 .529 N. York .4 12 .250 Yesterday's Results. Boston 5. Detroit 4. Chicago 1. Washington 0. All other games off. rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today, Boston in Chicago. Brooklyn in Pittsburg. New 7 York in St Louis. Philadelphia in Cincinnati. Standing of the Clubs. W. L PC. - W. L. PC. C’nati. .14 4 .778 P'burg .8 10 .412 N York .13 4 .765 Brooklyn .6 9 .400 Chicago 10 9 526 Phila. ..6 9 400 Boston ..8 10 .444 St. Louis .5 14 .263 Yesterday's Results. Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati 5. Chicago 9. Boston 4. New York 6. St. Louis 2. Brooklyn-Pittsburg no game. wet grounds. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Columbus in St. Paul. Toledo in Minneapolis. Louisville in Milwaukee. Indianapolis in Kansas City. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C W. L. P C. M anolis .15 6 .714 K. City. .10 13 .435 C’lumb’s 16 8 .667 L’ville .8 12 400 Toledo . 12 10 .545 M'w'ukee 813 .381 St. Paul .13 11 .542 I'apolis. .7 16 .304 Yesterday's Results. Columbus 3, Minneapolis 3. St. Pau! 9, Toledo 6. Kansas City 12. Indianapolis 5. Louisville-Milwaukee no game, rain. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: WEDNESDAY. MAY 8, 1912. one, pitch out or what not. But they leave it to the pitcher to put it high or low as he pleases. Another thing fans .overlook is that the average club even in this league passes battery signals back to the outfield. This is usually done by the second baseman. The reason for this is that the pitcher’ can, in a measure, “make the batter hit where he wants him to." That is. a fast cn“ on the outside is like ly to be hit to a certain field, a slow one to another and so on through the list. This is useful to the out fielders only when they know what is to be pitched. The second base man, by passing back word what ball is to be thrown to the batter, notifies the outfielder thereby to which field the ball is most likely to go and enables the fielder to “lay for the batter.” All of which being true, which most of it is. don’t be surprised or grieved that players are stealing signals. It isn’t a very heinous crime. It isn’t even a very hard trick. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Baltimore in Montreal. Newark in Buffalo, Jersey City in Toronto Providence in Rochester. Standing of the Clubs W L. P.C W. L. P C. J. City. .11 4 .733 Roc'ster. .77 .500 BTtlmore 9 4 .692 Newark . 6 9 .400 Buffalo. . 8 6 .571 Toronto ..5 9 .357 P'dence . 77 .500 Montreal 310 .231 Yesterday's Results. Jersey City 4. Toronto 3. Buffalo 10. Newark 4>. Rochester 9. Providence 6. Baltimore 7, Montreal 3. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Lynchburg in Newport News. Norfolk in Roanoke Richmond in Danville. Petersburg in Portsmouth. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W. L. P C. P’tsm'th 6 4 .600 P'sburg .7 6 .538 Roanoke 8 6 .571 Danville 7 6 .538 N. News 9 7 .563 K’mond .5 9 .357 Norfolk .6 5 .545 L’hburg 4 9 .308 Yesterday’s Results. Danville 2, Richmond 1. Roanoke 3. Norfolk 2 Newport News 6. Lynchburg 1. Petersburg 3, Portsmouth 1 (13 innings). COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Games Today, Meridian in Hattiesburg New Orleans in Greenwood. Only two games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P W. L. PC. M ridian 13 9 591 J’ckson 10 11 .476 N O’ns 13 10 .565 H'sburg 10 11 .476 Vsburg 11 10 .524 G'nwood 814 .364 Yesterday's Results. Vicksburg 10, Jackson 7. Greenwood 10, New Orleans 2 (first game). New Orleans 3, Greenwood 0 (second game). Hattiesburg 3, Meridian 1. CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Greensboro in Anderson. Snartanburg in Winston-Salem. Greenville in Charlotte. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C W. L. P C Sp'burg .7 4 636 C’rlotte .7 4 .636 G nsboro 4 7 .364 A'derson 6 4 .600 G'nville .3 7 .300 Yesterday's Results. Greenville 4. Charlotte 3. Winston-Salem 4, Spartanburg 3. Anderson 3. Greensboro 2. UNITED STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. Cleveland in Chicago. Cincinnati in Pittsburg New York in Washington. Richmond in Reading. Standing of the Clubs. W L. P.C W. L. P C. Reading 4 1 .800 C'nnati .3 3 .500 Rhmond 4 2 .667 W’ngton 1 3 .250 P'ttsburg 3 2 600 C'veland 1 4 .200 Chicago .3 2 .600 N. York 0 3 .000 Yesterday’s Results. Reading 5, Richmond 1. Only one game played. OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY. Riverside M. A. 3. G. M. C. 1. Clemson 4. Auburn 3. Georgia 3. Washington and Lee 0. White City Park Now Open Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game This is the way Manager Hemphill’s Crackers are hitting after yesterday’s game: Player. G. AB R. H. Av. Hogue, p . . . 2 6 2 3 .500 Hemphill, cf. . . 20 80 15 30 .375 Ganiev, rs. . . . 12 41 8 13 .317 O’Dell, utility. . 18 62 9 19 .306 Paige, p. ... 4 11 1 3 .273 Alperman, 3b. . . 21 77 11 21 .272 Kerr, c 19 64 6 16 .250 Miller, p 9 16 4 4 .250 O’Brien, ss 15 57 6 14 .246 Bailey, If2P 70 19 17 .243 Sykes, lb 20 67 11 16 .239 Graham, c. . . . 5 9 0 2 222 Dessau, p 5 14 0 3 .215 Sitton, p 3 6 11 .167 East. 2b. .... 12 35 3 5 143 Johns, p .... 6 11 0 0 .000 Atkins, p. 3 7 0 0 .000 THOMAS’ SINGLE IN NINTH WON GAME FOR CLEMSON CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C., May 8 Clemson took the second of the series from Auburn here yesterday in another close game. The score was 4 to 3. The contest was featured by the work of both pitchers and the base running of the Tigers. Thomas won the game in the ninth inning with a single to right. heavy-hitdnFcuban BOUGHT BY BARON CLUB BIRMINGHAM, ALA., May 8 —Third Baseman Almeida, of the Reds, has been purchased and will-be in Birming ham today. Birmingham paid $3,000 for the Cuban player. Last year in 29 games he batted .313. At that rate he ought to "bat a million’,’ tn the South ern. He fielded .890. MEMPHIS BUyTcATCHER WHO FAILED AT ’NOOGA CHATTANOOGA, TENN., May 8 Catcher McDonough has been sold to Memphis. McDonough’s catching has been superb, but his hitting has been light this season. (CA SS WE SPECIALIZE QUALITYFURNISHINGS! The kind you Socks Shirts Ties Underwear DO n n V a rpqcnnj Our SOCKS ’ Our Shirts In Ties our Underwear in, Pyd Hd for instance,are show pat stocks are lead- short cut, ble price for supreme val- terns, fabrics ing the field of light weight, ues. At 50c we and fashions style, freshness separate gar- ana get reaS- sell a “WIN- of unap- and pleasing merits at 50c JU ciwinrr carwicG NER,” extra proachable colors and text- __ ._ / OUR surin £ service strong heel and « class „ AH ures. Knitted C ° r from. P.-C.-H. toe, reinforced colors, plaited and woven silks union ' sole and silk and negligee, 50 c, SI.OO and suits at SI.OO EAfi values. body. SI.OO up. up . up. PARKSCHAMBERSHARDWICK 37=39 Peachtree St. I COMPANY T Atlanta, Georgia A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD RESCUED FROM MONSTER This is one of the most remarkable caA«>s on record. This little child, only a trifle over three years old. for the past year and a half has had one con tinuous fight for life. He has had sev eral bilious attacks, at times almost dying, and was taken with the mumps. Before he was over that he got the measles. Not alone were these enough, but he had this monster sapping the very life blood out of his body. Al though the child was nothing but skin and bones, the careful attention of the mother and aunty, as the mother re sides with her brother, Mr. John Geary, of Beaver Side station, on the river car line, Hollywood road. Mr. Geary is John Paul Jones Will Not Start at Olympic Meet! +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•* +•+ Fleet Cornell Man Discards Fame for Fortune ITHACA. N. Y.. May B.—Jahn Paul Janes. Cornell s phenom- ena! distance runner, does not intend to go to the Olympic games this summer, even if he is selected by 7 the American Olympic selec tion committee He has been re garded as certain of making the team, and was considered by every body to be America’s standby In the distance events in Sweden. But Jones states that the trip would seriously interfere -with his busi ness this summer. "I would like very much to go with the team if the committee should choose me,” Jones declared today, when questioned on the mat ter. “But it would mean losing the whole summer’s work, and I do not wish to do that. I expect to make s2oo'or S3OO this vacation, and that will be a big help fur my next year In college.” As Jones Is working his way through Cornell it Is natural that the prospect of such financial as sistance would appeal to him even more than the chance to win glory as a world's champion. In this case Jones discards fame for fortune. Jones likew’ise intends to aban don competition and the possibility of future laurels after graduation, which will be in June, 1913. "I mean to quit the game for good after leaving Cornell,” he said when asked about this, "so I shall not enter any athletic club. I ex pect to go Into the engineering pro fession, either as a mechanical or an electrical engineer." If Jones persists in his plans, he will thus voluntarily give up the crowning triumph of a world’s championship at the Olympic games, the most coveted achieve- an employee of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company at the trouble station on Piedmont avenue, and he will cheerfully answer questions in re gard to this case, as he feels to this child as if it were his own. In order to show the sincerity of the Health Teacher toward this child's case. Mr. Geary will tell you that the Health Teacher suggested to him to try and get the child strengthened up before giving it any treatment for worms, but the child kept going down until it was necessary for quick work, and here was where Quaker Herb Ex tract did the work quickly, completely and without starving, dieting, but ail the time building up the weak, run down system. Now. this monster will be explained and all different worms ment in the field of athletics, and one easily within his grasp. And in a year the world will see, the close of the most remarkable ath letic career of recent times, a ca reer that began only a few years ago as a school boy. When Jones was asked in regard to this famous mile whether he had ever felt that he had the race In hand during its progress, he smiled: "Only at the end. I didn’t let up till the very finish. “But this wasn’t the hardest race of my career, though Hanavan, of Michigan, made it the fastest race I've ever had. I’ve run some of my hardest' fought races up here In Ithaca, in practice with my team mates Abel Kivlat did not force me to exert, myself in our race last summer, but he was not In very good condition. "After winning that mile at Cam bridge I did not take any especial rest in preparation for the half mile later, and had only the usual rubbing down Os course I entered the half mile with increased confi dence. but I did not care particu larly about winning or making a new record. I was satisfied with getting the mile.” “Do you intend to better these records in the intercollegiate cham pionships this June?" "No; I shall simply go out to win.” So far this season Jones’ most no table success was in winning again the intercollegiate cross-country ti tle. This was the first time any athlete had ever duplicated premier honors in this event. Before the race there had been much specula tion as to whether Jones could break Ehls precedent. "On the day of the race I wasn’t that have been expelled by children and people right here in Atlanta at Coursey & Munn’s drug store. Is it any wonder the people are talking about the won derful work that the Quaker remedies are doing? Look at the hundreds of little children that were restless in their sleep, screaming out, almost scared to death, grating of teeth, breath bad, especially in the morning, picking of the nose, biting of the nails, fever flushes on the cheeks, in a weak, run down condition. Many have expelled worms, 'but if there is no worms the medicine is composed of herbs, roots, barks, berries, leaves, gums and blos soms. They are harmless to give to an infant or a delicate woman. There's no mineral or chemical poison. That’s what you are giving your children, or thinking of the hoodoo,” Jonas stated. “I felt no more nervous than the year before. I was only as anxious as one usually Is when competing on a team.” HOGUE, FARMED. SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE RECALL Pitcher Ira Hogue, the big right-hand er, will be turned by the Atlanta Baseball I association over to the Spartanburg club. The arrangement with Spartanburg wilr be that Hogue can be recalled without no tice at any time. This means that if ths Cracker pitchers get going bad and Horuej is going strong they can take him away from Spartanburg at the drop of a hat. VANDY MAY SEND 20 TO, S. I. A. A. TRACK MEET NEW ORLEANS, May B.—Vanderfj’K, university will send 20 athletes to Tulane! for the anual S. I. A. A meet. Six en-4 try blanks have been asked for by thel Clemson university track team This) team is the present championship aggre gation of the South, and has won the meet three consecutive years. COLLEGE TENNIS EVENTS POSTPONED UNTIL TODAY' Owing to the hard rain Tuesday after noon the Southern Intercollegiate tennis championship matches were postponed un- 1 til today. MOOSE PLAY FAIRBURN. The ball club of the Loya! Order 0$ Moose will make its first road trip Sat urday to Fairburn, Ga. Here is the line-up the Moose will use: First base. Woodw 7 ard; shortstop. Bartlett; catch-* er. Paries; second base. Ison; left fields Smith; center field, Barnes; third base, Dukes; right field, Askew; pitcher. Golden; pitcher, Baxter; pitcher, White; utility, Roberts. Almond. FRANK RELEASES MAPLES, NEW ORLEANS, May B—Mantgawj Charley Frank, of the New Orleans club.: has released Pitcher Maples to the Fori) Worth club. ' taking yourself, when you see the gen-*, ulne Quaker Herb Extract. Don’t let} any one tell you this or tha tis just as good. You must realize that you nevett saw such results as have been made by" Quaker Herb Extract and Oil of Balm,! See the hundreds of people who suf J sered with stomach trouble, rheumaal tism, catarrh, kidney, liver, in z n tlsm, catarrh, kidney, liver. IndigestionTJ constipation, that have been cured-] Some that have long given up all hopSi of ever seeing a well day again. Quaker Extract, 6 for $5.00, or 3 fotfi $2.50. Oil of Balm. 25c, or 5 for sl.oo*j We prepay express charges on all oral ders of SB.OO or over. Call today at Coursey & Munn's drun store, 29 Marietta street, and obtai®’ these wonderful remedies. 17