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"CRACKERSnUT
= TO OHM FINAL"
: TOOM SLA GULLS
W A jf OBIbE ALA.. May B—The
- |\/| Cracker? and the Gulls hook
It® •*■ up this afternoon in the final
f fame of their first series. This
>u contest meajis a lot to the Craek-
lt ers and they are going after it
)Ui strong.
After today’s game the Crackers
move on to New Orleans, where
?b they ought to find the sledding a
” little easier than it has been here.
&'-■ Yesterday's ball game came to a ,
head in the fourth inning. The
Gulls had scored two in the second
and two in the third In the
fourth the Crackers uncorked a
rally. By batting Burleson out of
**_ the box and mauling Duggan, they
tied the score and filled the bases
It was 4 to 4. one man gone the
bases filled and the pitcher wab
bling when Robert Ganiev, ex-big
leaguer, skipped jauntilv to the
platter He doesn't look like much
of a hitter He is small and duck
legged. But he has some breadth
of shoulder and is a dangerous man
withal!. Once at bat he wasted no
time. He stamped hi- feet, grab
bed his bat, took another hack at
his tobacco, looked over the first
f ball and then smacked the second
• one fair upon the seam. The ball
► tailed over first base, out over right
a field. across the fence and out intn 1
e the great beyond, where some small
e boy froze onto it, no doubt As
y soon as it passed over the fence
0R Ganley lost interest and trotted
f around the bags. -coring some
•' three men ahead of him. After j
I that there was nothing more to the
< taif-f-
. It was anothei tough dav for the
Atlanta pitchers Vikins and Mil-
• ler were both knocked out of the
' box. but Harry Johns saved the
t day
‘ JUMPS JACKSON CLUB TO
RESCUE OLD HOME TEAM
ST. LOUIS. Mat 8 The plaudits of the
I multitude, earned titrough twirling a
etrange team to victory, are as nothing
to Rube St hlansker. of Grafton, w hen the
I home aggregation is gome down to defeat ,
day after dav before the despised neigh
' bore. Not even though he is attached t<
• life-sized pay roll and lives at thr
best hotels, will Rube forsake the home
1 folks
Rube earned fame In the pitching line .
by putting the Grafton team up In the
. championship class. This vear he re- I
celved an offer from the Jackson. Miss . I
; team, in the «'niton States league, and i
accepted. He made good and was
destined to be a fixture for the sea
son, until he read tn an obscure corner
v of a sport page that the Grafton, cham
| pions had not won a game this year
That was too much for Rube Hr •
•hipped his contract with the Jackson
f team and hoarded a train for the old
home town Hr says hr liked the sal- I
■:? ary and the good hotels, but couldn't ■
stand for Grafton being a loser.
«. He told his friends that he will not
E consider a contract in the professional
ranks until Grafton can find a successor
; . who will keep them up in front.
COVINGTON DRIVES IN
ENOUGH RUNS TO WIN,
ATHENS, GA , Mat R Georgia shut
out Washington and Leo in the second
•nd laet gam* hero Tuesday by thp score
of 3 t«» 0. thtrs winning the series, as
the first game whr a tie It was one of
the prettiest games of the season, though
the grounds «ere wet
Ifc Carl Thompson pitched for Georgia, and
. save up onh one bit. a th rec-bagger h\
Bnne. with non* nut in the third Bone
I was unable to score as Thompson fanned
I two of the next three men who f;u-ed
him. He fanner] ten men in the six in-
> ning? played The gam** was caller] early
to allow the visitors to catch a train for
Marfin, where thev plat .Mercer W ednes
day
Covington was the star of the battle
tn the hitting line He made two two
’ baggers nut .if two times up. and he
. drove in all three of the runs of the
game Bob McWhorter made one of the
prettiest < atchas ever seen here of St*s\ -
art's long drhe in the fifth, robbing him
of a probable home run No more games
•re to be played b> the Georgia team now
I until th* first Tech contest scheduled to
be played in Atlanta May
CHICAGO PUTS CRIMP IN
PERDUE'S WILD CAREER
Hub Perdue's w inning streak was a I
great thing while it lasted He whipped
Alexander the Great and his tram. !
trimmed the Giants with Mathewson |-
pitching and walloped the Superbas with
Rucker in the box But the streak Is
over It ended yesterdav I’itted against j
♦he Cubs. Perdue proved a tegular squash i
and lasted only a few minutes
It was sort of all-Southern day in Chi- i
cage Lavender, the Georgian, pitched i
for the Cubs, and Archei former Cracker,
caught. Perdue was succeeded I" M •
Tigue. a fellow Tennesseean Johnston i
and Eason, the umpires, were both former I
Southern leaguers
ATLANTA MOTORCYCLISTS I
WILL RACE AT COLUMBUS'
r
COLt MBI S, May 8 - The Columbus
motorcycle races begin at the Driving park i
in this city Friday On Thursday night!,
a parade will be held in which 7.’> to
lOh automobiles and probably as many
motorcycles will take part The races '
will be in progress two days Among '
the cities that will be represented by I
contestants will be Macon, Lugvsta. \t
lanta and Birmingham.
MANY TARGET EXPERTS
TO SHOOT AT COLUMBUS
COLUMBI A. .May R. The Southern:
• handicap begins in this city Monday an<i
will continue through Thursday of nex’
week. Elmer R Shaner, secretary of the 1
Interstate Trap Shooting association, will I
arrive tn the cit\ Friday night and will 1
open headquarters \i least 150 crack I
shots from various parts of the country |
are expected m attend the handicap
TEN LOCAL GOLFERS GO
TO BIRMINGHAM TOURNEY
Ten golfers, representing the Vlanti» I
Athletic club, have gone nr wtl go tn
Birmingham for the invitation tourna
ment which begins ’here tomorrow In ;
the party from Atlanta are George W i
Adair. W R Tichenor. T A Hammond. I;
W. H Glenn. S C Williams. Charles
King. G H Atkinson and Dr Frank Hol I
land j i
SPALDING DOWNS JEMISON.
Four matches in the first flight and five '
in the second remain to re placed to :
complete the first round of 'he A I.
. Dunn trnph- event a' East Lake
Tuesday afternoon W y Spalding de
feated Dick Jemison. 3 up and 1 to play. I
The Georgian’s Sport Page
WHAT CARTOONIST CARTER SAW AT BIG PERRY-DEVLIN BATTLE
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Jimmy Perry Wins Fast Mill From Tommy Devlin
Ten Rounds of Rapid Action at Gate City Club
By Left Hook.
JIMMY PFCRRY delivered the
goods again when he defeat
ed Tommy Devlin, of Phila
delphia, in a smashing ten-round
mill at the Gate City club. But
Devlin, weighing fully ten pounds
less than the Pittsburg mixer,
fought a game, uphill battle and
earned the friendship of every fan
in the house.
it was a give-and-take battle
from start to finish. During the ear
ly rounds Devlin, who is a mighty
shifty boy. outboxed Perry, but the
latter's extra weight and rugged
ness proved too much for the Qua
ker after the fifth round.
Perry would have, undoubtedly,
stopped Devlin had he been in first
class condition. Jimmy Is troubled
with a lame back and was unable
to do hardly any training. Rut,
nevertheless, he made good. ’A few
more Perrys and Atlanta fight fans
would always be sure of getting a
.’tin for their money.
Perry packs an awful kick in his
right hand and he doesn't have to
FODDER FOR FANS |
Zack Wheat, of the Brooklyn?, has con- ■
traded the X-rax habit and in conse
quence of an examination has been order
ed tn his boarding house for a week or
two of rest
• • •
If Hank •» 1 »ay continues to get away
with it as he has to date well have a
score of px-umpires managing bah teams
next year.
Speaking of the success of the Reds.
"? wonder how much of it is due to
''Pax s management and how much to
the spring climate of Columbus. Ga_? It
(ant bp altogether the Columbus cli
mate. judged by th? xxay it has affected
th? Columbus dub, xvhich is ■absolute
ly’"
The Nashxili? earn has been force*! to
play some of its games at Pud lex field,
on the Vanderbilt campus, owing to the
muddy condition of the Sulphur Pell
park
• • •
Catcher Elliott xx ill hardly be able to
work again for another two weeks Good
ness knows what sort of a percentage
Nashville will have by that ti«ie
ner which the Cincinnati Commercial as
*•“ alien will give to the officers and di
r»- o-’s of the Cincinnati ball club <»n
Ma' I*. the date of the formal dedication
of Ho- Reds’ new nearly-a-half-million
dollar field
• * •
The Boston Braves are finding a lot of
thing- • k'.’k about (in? is that they
ate ni'w ■ ” ced to Itig ‘heir own suit cases
and bat bags from stations to hotels and
back again The omnibuses that ar? pro
vided tor all other big league ball clubs
1 and the St L««»ns Browns* are not for
the Braves Hence H ere is a veil and
a loud one
Magee will g?t bark in the game wth
the Pnlilies ?oon —and th?” need him
Jack Coombs win begin light work soon I
But it may be a l-ng time before be ts
able to pitch
...
If Mobl’e keeps -. n - -no a t
Sunday ba!! game? ■ •> : a ’.-'re while
before anybod; can • the Guil fran-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS:WEDNESDAY. MAY 8. 1912.
-± >WRII -y
JJEVLIN D'D A
BR.ODIE ON HIS HACE Ls
POR NINE BELLS I™ ” TH - TEHTH
shoot ft over six inches to bring
home the money. Devlin verily had
been tipped off to the fact, for he
was always on the lookout for It.
Rut he didn't know that Jimmy has
the happy faculty of whipping a
stinging left to the stomach. And
he kept the south paw going all
evening. *
I'p to the fifth round it was fair
ly’ even. Jimmy then let out a
couple of notches and handed out
a severe walloping to the Philadel
phian. Near the end of the round
Jimmy got it close and jammed a
wicked right uppercut to the jaw
that shook Devlin. A clinch fol
lowed.
Fell to Save Himself.
When the referee tore the men
apart Devlin was a bit wabbly and
as Perry started to measure him
for a right he deliberately dropped
to the floor. There was no ex
cuse 1 for the tumble other than to
save himself, and when the referee
refused to give a count Devlin
scrambled to his feet.
That he was not hurt was clear
ly demonstrated by the fact that he
shot a stiff left to Perry’s head, one
chise. Also the association will be able
to spend enough money to get a ball
club not but what the.' seem to have
one already.
The Western Canada league is a flossy
little organization The circuit hasn't been
arranged, but the clubs that want to
break in are Bassano, Red Peer. I'algarv
and Saskatoon.
■ • •
With th? ball team losing, a receiver
ship. temporarily a pointed for the asso
ciation. Sunday ball on the blink, th? park
flooded, and most of the star players in
jured. the Nashville team is having a
dickens of a time
• • •
Within four days one player was killed
and four seriously injured at baseball in
Washington city. Tn follow the football
fashion there should be an immediate call
for changes in the rules.
George Grable, left-hander with Atlanta
last year, for awhile, is now back in th?
Texas league from whence he came How
ever. he Is with Fori Worth this year,
while he started baseball in 1909 with
Galveston
Pan Riley, the outfielder with th? Pitts
burg club of the I’nited States league, was
with Jacksonville the latter part of last
year. From what can be learned of the
famous outlaw organization it has about
the strength of the Sally league, or maybe
a bit less.
• • •
Rax lor and Texas A and M play May 10
and 11 at Waco for the college cham
pionship of Texas
Roger Bresnahan ha a contract that
gives him a percentage of the profits of
the team.
• ♦ •
Gus Eng has been released bv Jackson
ville It's a shame to get rid' of a man
■with as handy a 'cog as that
Tom Gilroy, former!" of Mobile, has
been signed bv Tom Ftouch for the
Greenville club
After all. Lou Castro didn't ouit Ports- I
mouth to manage the Richmond I" 5 i
league, club. A! Newnham is leading that'
organization
of the best blows ho landed during
the ten rounds.
John Wille, who was in Devlin’s
corner, jumped into the ring when
■fomrny located the soft spot on the
floor, and many of Perry's friends
thought the referee should have de
clared him the winner right then
and there. But Wille jumped back
to the floor as soon as he saw Dev
lin was not injured. As both boys
were still full of action, it would
have proven a big disappointment
to the fans to have declared Jim
my a winner on such a technicality.
The seventh and eighth rounds
yvere all Perry’s, and while he land
ed many telling blows he found
Devlin too clever to stop. In the
ninth Jimmy eased up a bit and the
milling was fairly even during this
period.
In the final session Perry fought
at top speed. A right hook to the
jaw dropped Devlin for the count
of nine, and when he arose and
rushed in close Perry worked on
the body with both hands, and the
final bell sure brought joy to the
game little Quaker.
Devlin Deserves Another Go.
Devlin deserves another bout here
with a boy of his own weight. It
tt as not the matchmaker’s fault that
Perry outweighed Devlin, as the
latter has been meeting 145-pound
ers in the East and making good.
Devlin knew that he was going up
against a heavier man than him
self. and he alone Is to blame for
the beating.
But let us have some more
matches with Perry and Devlin
meeting men in their own class.
Two more willing lads never
climbed through the ropes.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I respectfully ask the voters of North
Atlanta to elect me to the unexpired
term of the late Judge S. H Landrum,
Justice of the Peace of said district.
Election tn be held on the 18th day of
May. 1912, at 43 1-2 Decatur street.
Polls to be opened at 7 o’clock a. m.
and close at fi o'clock p. m.
This May Bth. 1912.
CHARLES W SEIDELL.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
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May )
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WE BUY OLD GOLD
MILLIONS TO BE SPENT
ON OLYMPIC CONTESTS
• Between 12.000.000 and $3,000,000 will be
spent by fifteen nations on the Olympic
games in Stockholm. This, of course, in
, eludes the expenses incurred in the train
ing period for the try-outs and for other
incidentals. It is expected that the $3,-
000,000 mark will be easily reached before
the last flag is hoisted. Sweden naturally
| will open its coffers more generously than
the other nations this year, because the
Swedes have the honor of supervising the
games.
More than $500,000 in Swedish money
will change hands. Os this amount $30(1,-
000 will be spent for the construction of
stands, SIOO,OOO will be squandered <>n the
nation’s guests and more than SIOO,OOO
will be expended in the development of
an athletic team that will make a pre
sentable showing.
England will be touched for the next
largest amount, probably $200,000. The
United Kingdom expects to he represent
ed by 300 athletes and a special steamer
has been chartered to convey the per
formers to the scene of activities.
America will not spend any consider
able sum before the games. The money
spending will come on the team's suc
cessful return from abroad. From pres
ent indications Uncle Sam will ‘get by"
with about $75,000. It will cost Denmark
SIOO,OOO and the other and sma'ler coun
tries smaller amounts in proportion to
their representation.
White City Park Now Open
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White Wanted Another Trial
So Conley Answered Phone
By H. M. Walker.
IOS ANGELES. May B.—The
boxer who can create a de
mand for his services through
efforts made in a losing battle is a
rare bird. Two of these in the
same ring form a curious combina
tion. Usually all that is required
of a loser is that he drop out of
sight, the quicker and harder the
drop the better.
Frankie Conley and Jack White
have been matched to box twenty
rounds before the Pacific Athletic
club at Vernon on the afternoon of
Friday. May 10. Both boys were
knocked out in this same ring by
Mexican Joe Rivers, but in the face
of these disasters each lad qlaims.
with a certain degree of truth, that
he is still a "card."
White came to the coast, with
one of those fancy “Eastern" rec
ords. His stock had been boosted
by the fact that Abraham Attell
had just "waddled" out of a New
Orleans engagement, the natural
inference being that the crafty ve-
Perry Wins Decision
Over Devlin in Hot 1
Ten-Round Battle
teran considered the “Chicago Cy
clone” too dangerous to experiment
with.
Jack entered the ring against
Rivers with an air of supreme con
fidence and a dazzling costume of
peacock green. In the opening
round he shaped up like a top
notcher and we al! settled back In
our seats expecting a long and des
perate struggle.
A chin shot in the second round
took all the fight out of the Chl-
After this point his fin
ish was a mere matter of gameness.
From a loser's chair Jack shook
hands with Rivers and frankly ad
mitted that he had been beaten by
a better man. He made no ex
cuses whatever except to say that
but for the jaw jolt in the second
he would have put up a better fight.
This manly stand won him many
friends, and immediately there was
a demand that Jack be sent back
into the Los Angeles ring for an
other trial. Frankie Conley was
waiting to box anybody from Abe
Attell to Jack Johnson.