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18 Dearth of Star Middleweights; Class in State of Dissolution Bi* Ed Curley. Tk y EX’.’ YORK. May 9 "There ain’t sich a thing as a middleweight fighter any more.” mumbled Rattling Keefe last evening, "and the fellers that's maskeradin" a.- ciaimers for the title would be arrested and sent to jail if they wus any law in this state "Ever since Stanley Ketchel took th» long and final count, the poor middleweight division has been an orphan It ain’t got no mother; it ain't got no father, and. to be on the level, it ain't got nobody to give it a car* Pretty sad case, ain’t ft? "Notv. jest think Here cofnes Frank Klaus and .Tack Dillon from the coast, where they’ wus goin’ to put the boo’s »o th»m. and they poeet as champions • They fights at Madison Square Garden Most of the patrons who spent money- to gee that show are going to sue for the return of the coin They're middleweights, all right, but not middleweight fighters ‘Then Billy- Papke comes here after graduating into the ’har been' class and tells us that he's now right and fit to defend the < town. All I has to say to th* bunch is to keep mum or some lightweights will give them a beating ” It certainly looks as if the Rat tler's dope is correct. Middle weight? are now h drug on the market They have been tried for aeveral years, and. with the excep tion of one or two, have been found wanting. There is more action and excitement in two lightweights or two featherweights boxing than in al! the middleweight division thrown together Some day a real good middleweight may loom up. Let’s hope so. It’s too bad Mike Gibbons doesn’t weigh eight pounds more and save rhe middleweight division from dis solution. • • • "Norman Selby, Lecturer on Physical Science '' If such a card is thrust Into your mitt, do not ponder as to the own- SPRAINED ANKLE KILLS WARING TWAIN’S HOPE IN TENNIS TOURNAMENT G W Waring:. representing the TTn!- verslty of South Carolina In the inter collegiate tennis tournament at East Lake, sprained his ankle today while playing against Dirk Goodwyn, of Geor gia, tn tingles. The score at that time Stood 8-3 and 5-2 in favor of Waring Owing to his Injury, Waring will he forced to default to Goodwyn in the final singles, and the Waring brothers ■will default to Hallman and Collins, of Tech, in the finals of the doubles tourney. LEE TANNEHILL’S WRIST BROKEN BY THROWN BALL WASHINGTON, May 9 A ball thrown by Walter Johnson put Lee Tannehill, utility infielder of the Chi cago White Sox, out of the game Indef initely yesterday. _ Tannehill's wrist was broken by a pitched ball The crowd jeered the White Sox infielder as he trotted to first base rubbing his arm The ball seemed to have struck th* bat. Tannehill tried tn field his position at Shortstop In the next inning, but his flrat attempt to throw to first resulted In a wild throw An X-ray examination of the arm made later showed a clean break Tannehill will return to Chi cago tomorrow and Blaekburne will take hlB place. GISSING NOT LIKELY TO GO TO OLYMPIC GAMES NEW YORK. May. 9—Harry Glaring, the fast middle distance runner of the Irish-American A C . will not be able to make the trip to Sweden with the Olym ?ic team even if he should be picked by he selection committee Uisslng. who is a former national cham pion. and who Is able to do t 55 for the r.alf-mlle. and around 4:20 for the mile, will enter the tryouts at Boston, but de Clares he can not afford to neglect his business for the long trip With J P Jones and Gissing out of the big games, the chances for America to Clean up In the middle distance races Is considerably lessened. but with Sheppard. Kivlat, Hanavan and Hedlund fi>r the 800 and I.MO meter rat es, the United States Ibay rest easy YAZOO CITY BREAKS INTO COTTON STATES LEAGUE JACKSON. MISS May 9 - President Lewis, of the Cotton States league, announced today that the sale of the franchise of the New Orleans team of that league to Yazoo Citv has been practically concluded, also, thai Catch er Dudley, of New Orleans, has been traded to Greenwood for Warner BIG FIELD OF GOLFERS PLAYING IN BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM, ALA. May 9 With the weather fair, the course of the Bir mingham Athletic club in corking con dition and the pick of Southern golfgfs here, the invitation tournament of the Birmingham Country club began this morning White City Park Now Open ’Rionev Ta LOAM ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY Strlc t Ijr confidential. Unredeemed pledges la diamonds for sale. 30 par cent less than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul A May ) 111-2 PEACH 7 REE ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth t-at Bank Bldg. Both Phones 1584 WE BUY OLD GOLD er. for it is none other than Kid McCoy, who in his time was the cleverest fighter in the game. Yes. the Kid has announced his permanent retirement from the ring: and he Insists that ft is not a Patti farewell. McCoy Is through with the ring game and henceforth will preach on the benefits of phynsi cAi science. McCoy has quit Paris for London, and will leave from the latter city in .1 few days bound’fry America McCoy says his recent Splurge in the boxing game was done purely to show that he could "come back." • • • "Gunboat" Smith. Jim Bucklev's heavyweight charge, is going to b» put to the test this evening when he faces Jim Stewart at the Na tional Sporting club. Smith has won all hit battles here since his local debut, but this will be the hardest of hi* career. • • * Owen Moran, the British light weight star, is going to hop up to Syracuse and tackle Charley White on May 20. After that affair Moran is going right back to his Lake wood camp, for he hears that Wol gast Is coming here shortly, apd the champion Is the one hoy Moran wants to battle to get even fortheir last tussle. • • * Tom O’Rourke fc. very' optimistic over the chances of Jim Flynn with Jack Johnson. Thomas was in Omaha a few days ago when the big fight became the leading topic. There were a number of Flynn rooters. O'Rourke chimed In. ex tolled Flynn, hut. added: "Just to take a little flyer I will het $5,000 on Johnson against $2,000 on Flynn.” O'Rourke was grabbed, and the money posted O'Rourke figures Flynn's chances so good that he ex pects him to be a 5 to 1 shot • a • It Is possible that Johnny Dun dee and Joe Coster will mingle at one of the local clubs before two weeks have elapsed. These two feathers are about the best in their Class around hero, and the winner will certainly be entitled to a clash with Champion Johnny Kflhane “BONESETTER” WILL WORK ON DESSAU’S SORE SALARY WINO Frank Dessau, the Cracker pitcher who has been sent to Atlanta by Man ager Hemphill on account of a ‘sore arm, will probably leave at once to vis. It "Bonesetter” Reesy, the famous re pairer of injured muscles, at Youngs town, Ohio. The Dessau ease Is somewhat com plicated by the fact that It will be im possible to suspend the man and then reinstate him this season. NATIONAL LEAGUE MAY BE USING RUBBER BALL 1 hicago. Mar 9 Something is radi cally wrong with the baseballs that are now being used tn the National league. The players op both the Pirate and Cub teams are talking about it. but they can offer no solution to the enigma. Secre tary \V. H. Locke of the Pittsburg club says it is g similar situation to that of about a year ago. when complaint was made from all quarters because of the lively ball . Heinie Zimmerman's home run smash at Forbes field on last Friday was made on a high offering that cut the inside of the plate and thus prevented the bat from catching*the ball with full force. In spite of this, the pill went screech ing straight into the distant bleachers. EDDIE McGOORTY KNOCKS JIMMY HOWARD IN SEVENTH INDIANAPOLIS IND, May 9.--Ed die McGoorty. of Oshkosh. M is., stop ped Jimmy Howard, of Chiqngo, in the seventh round of their scheduled ten-round mill before the Empire Ath letic club. McGo<>rty led tn every* round. CHRIS CATCHEL IS NOW GATE CITY SECRETARY i hrfs Catchel has been appointed secre tary of the Gate City A. c He has had much experience in this line and should bouts h * h * P thP C '" b 111 ? ’ aElr, K "SMILING" PETE FOLEY DEAD. , 1 HP AGO, May 9. "Smiling" Pete Foley, veteran of the Haymarket riots and former famous athlete, is dead here at the home of his daughter He was a .’A-pound weight thrower, pole vault er and broad Jumper He established a world’s record as a heavy weight thrower here 30 v. )IS ago Folev was KI c ears old THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. XV I, P C W L P C C noega I ; 8 fii» Atlanta 11 in 524 Mobile 15 10 SOO N Ori n* >l4 I’'i M'mn'ia 12 a 571 Mom ■■ is 375 B ham 15 12 .555 N’ville 713 350 SOUTH ATLANTIC. Standing of the Clubs. W L FC TV L P C Albany. 11 4 733 Macon 7in sj; S van h 11 4 733 C lumbla 412 250 J vtlle 11 s ,fi47 C lumbiia 412 250 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Stand'ng of the Clubs. IX’ 1 f•' I XV L pr Chicago .15 5 714 Fhlla > 8 5 0 Bnstnn 11 7 *ll Petrel' «12 42? XX ash 10 8 55« , ,-t L'tiig Kl 2 333 Cland . 9 8 5’9 1 N York 4 12 .250 national, league. Standing of the Clubs TV L P C \y L P C C nat 14 4 789 P burs 7in 41-1 I y York 14 4 .778 Bkb n R n inn Ch?ago 11 9 550 Phila. «10 375 Refton. 811 .421 St. Louis. 515 250 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1912. The Georgian’s Sport Page HYDER BARR, THE PELICANS’ STAR OUTFIELDER, WHIPPING ONE HOME Z/ x ' ‘ \ f/7 // CC k w \\ IWR T■ 1 * ii • * I vrYWT x Mo 1 "Sr 4 k /'llb lUr J \ it JY £A . lAw bT n\ lijU - ‘ '/i iSW / wt • - (x ' ■ ’WH / / W Il \V\ ■ \ \ \ \ \ To the casual observer Barr seems to have everything that goes to make a big leaguer. And the fact is that at various times the Southern lad has be longed both to the Philadel phia Americans and to the Cleveland club. Somehow h e doesn't seem to make a stick of it, and is al ways shunted back to the Southern. Atlanta had him once, but he cou I d n't seem to make the desired im pression and was turned loose. He has been kicked from club to club, always looking like a winner, but never quite de livering until he has brought up at the home of the maverick players. New Orleans. Barr is just Charley Frank's sort of a play er. He knows the game and can he depend ed upon to go right along and play his best, whether the team has any manager or not. In fact, last year Frank once named him temporary man - ager of the club, much to Barr's fright and dis gust. LOCALS BATTLE PELS IN FOUR-GAME SERIES NEW ORLEANS. LA May 9 Manager Hemphill and his 'bone proof” Atlanta Crack ers arrived here this morning. con fident of trampling on the down trodden Pelicans Clear weather, the first in i month in this city, arrived with the Crackers rnd as a consequence Manager Frank is confident ±is club will round to the form expimted Southpan Charley Fritz Is slated to do the twirling for the pelicans, while Haigh will be behind the bat. Hemphill has not decided defi nitely on his twirler. but if Fritz gr.es in. he will accept the chal lenge by using Atkins or Johns, while Kerr will be behind the bat. Today's game is scheduled to start at 3:45. . When th. Crackers and the Gulls had played eleven innings in Mo bile yesterday the s< ore stood 2 and 2. Then up camo the south end of the Crackers’ batting order and broke it up. Tt always happens that in a tight game the weak batters do the dam - age It " v- Alperman who started it - and it might be confidentially stat ad that he’s no weak batto-. even if he is swatting down in fifth place. Whitey vankcd the ball over the ’•■ft field b’.‘a ' for what would have been 1 home run if the bleachers had been a bit farther back bu’ hich went onlv Tor a two-bagger as it was Then came the awful work of warping him across. And it was done by main force. O'Brien. next up. hit a flv to cen ter field. Maloney got it, but by corking base running Alperman advanced to third. Then Borger pulled a bone, for he intentionally walked Sykes—a man who batted lower last year and who is batting lower this year than J. Kerr, the man who followed him. He kept Ke>r from hitting, but on the in field out Alperman tore home with the winning run. In the last of the twelfth Paige held the Gulls safe and the game was won The Cr.T kers should have won it in th® ninth With the score 2 to 1 against them, they got two men on Rut. only one scored, and that on Hemphill's hit. The bat teis who followed Hemphill couldn’t deliver. POPE-WASSING STABLE SHIPPED TO TORONTO VALDOSTA. GA, May 9.—Messrs. Henry Pope and J F. Wassing. who have spent the winter here training a r-tring of horses at the Pin® park track, have shipped their stables to Toronto. Canada where they will enter their hors.w in th» spring me“te. During thei- stay in Valdosta Mr. Wassing i bought th® fast-pacer, Doctor Young, from ’'hi*f of Policy Dampier and ' Sheriff Gornto. He also purchased gil ■ver Queen, one of the fastest mares in < this part of Georgia. ] Ai . * f •»w' y i ■ ■ ■ Hyder Birr is the stir of the somewhat de moralized New Orleans team this year. His hitting has been stout and his fielding, as al ways, spectacu lar. He seems set for his big gest year since he broke into baseball. Barr'a ath letic career has been a weird one. From the time he began breaking into the sport pages, back when he was playing prep football in Nashville until the present, he has jumped from team to team, always doing well, but k never tarrying \ long. /W. Hill Climb Committee Is Hustling to Secure A Monster Entry List The hill climb committee of the At lanta Automobile and Accessory Asso ciation is working two shifts today in an attempt to round up a record breaking list of entries for the climb, which will be held Saturday on the Stewart avenue hill. The following cars have already been entered: Georgia Motor Car Compa ny National, in event No. 4 and the free-for-all; L. S. Crane. Pope-Hart ford. in event No. 4 and the free-for all. I. O. Teasley. Alpharetta. Ford, in event No. 2. Buick Motor Company. Buick, 18. in event No. 4 and the free for-all; Buick Motor Company. Buick 10. in event No. 2; Studebaker Corpora tion. E-M-F. event No. 2; Studebaker Corporation. Flanders, in event No 1; Ford Motor Company, two Model T Fords, in event No. 4: Oakland Motor Company. Oakland, in event No. 4. Fully twice that many, and perhaps more, win be named before the climb committee finishes its labors tonight. The prizes for the event, in number and in value, exceed those of any past climb in Atlanta. Prizes have been of fered by the following organizations: Atlanta Automobile and Accessory Association, E. Rivers Realty Compa ny. The Atlanta Journal, The Motor Era The Georgian. Tlie Constitution. Studebaker Corporation. Ajax-Grteb Rubber Company, Diamond .Rubber Company Empire Tire Company. B F. Goodrich Company. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Fisk Rubber Com pany. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com pany. Kelly-Springfield Tire Company. Republican Rubber Company. United States Tire Company. There will, in addition, be prizes for the motorcycle events. Any car owners who wlsH to enter can secure entry blanks from E. H. El ley. 58 Auburn avenue. Array of Old Stars Preferred To Collection of Young Cracks By W. J. Mcßeth. HASBEENVTLLE Is gaining very little in its pitching population, judging from the spring census returns. The strength of several teams in both leagues is in the box work of their veterans, and a number of men supposed to hold tickets for that station in life described as Gone-Back are as sprightly as chickens of current date and apparently have no In tention of departing. If a big league manager had his pick today between a squad of vet eran pitchers and a squad of youngsters, which would he select? Would he take Marquard, Alexan der. Gregg. Johnson. Ford and Joe Wood in preference to Mathewson. Bender. Plank Rucker. Coombs and Walsh? The problem would about drive him to the home for the men tally Infirm. He would want them all. He couldn’t work them all. of course —in fact, if he had either squad he would suffer an embar rassment of riches —but he would most earnestly desire having the entire bunch sit on his bench, if only for the purpose of looking pleasant. Either crowd, with good support, would be capable of winning a pen nant. if they were all in condition at the same time, but some man agers are inclined to the belief that six star pitchers can not be worked in turn and kept in good condi tion True, the average club has more boxmen than that but none of them have more than half that number of heavers who can be tru ly called stars, and they figure themselves lucky. Matty the Greatest Pitcher. Baseball men, as a rule, accept without argument the proposition that Mathewson is the greatest pitcher in the world, and they base it upon the fact that he has been great for a decade. It seems that the old followers of the game, while always willing to admit a young pitcher's capabilities whenever he displays them, do not place a man in the category of the truly great until he has established himself by more than one or two years serv ice. Marquard, Alexander and Gregg are counted wmnderful young pitchers, but they are first year men. The indications are that they are truly great, but that stamp will not be placed upon them by the baseball world until they have dem onstrated their fltn'ess for a place in the hall of fame by longer serv ice. Ed Walsh is certainly a great pitcher Year after year the big spitbailer has gone along, and stood all tests. Napoleon Rucker is count ed a trulx- great. McGraw, of the Giants, claims that he is one of the best left handers of all times, and he bases it largely upon the fact that the Southerner has been great during all the years of his service. Bender and Plank will have ever lasting place in the hall of fame. These, too, established their class — ndt one year, but year in and year out—and there Is no indication that they have commenced to decline. One of the new generation of pitchmen who are still regarded in the light of youngsters, but who can not be denied recognition as among the greatest of his time, is Walter Johnson, the Washington speed marvel. There are many people who believe that Johnson is the best pitcher in the country to day—but that sort of proposition xx'ould always provide a long argu ment. Jack Coombs is not so much of a veteran as some of the others named with him, but he is no youngster, from the standpoint of service, and what he has done for the world's champion Athletics A tireless car —al most. Prisoners of “here” find free dom in the Ford. It’s the always-at-your-service car— and a real tire trouble eman cipator—for it puts more tire surface on the ground per pound of car than any other. And we’re making seventy- / five thousand this year. All Fords are Model TV-all alike except the nodies. 'Rie two-passenger runabout costs s,>9o—the flve-passengcr touring car s69o—th e delivery car s7oo—the town ear s9oo—f. o. b. Detroit, completely equipped- Get latest catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree St., Atlanta or direct from Detroit factory. - gives him the right to be men tioned with the greatest of the great. Marquard and Gregg, left hand ers. have had two great first years, and both have started with every indication of repeating. There is no question as to their class. The same is true of Alexander, although he is off to a poor start this season. Rut will the> be still regarded as great five years from now? The chances are in favor of the affirma tive. Thex* are youfig; they hax'e the natural ability. The rest is up to them. Baseball men will, tel! you that no matter how much "stuff" a young pitcher may have he can not be truly great until he has had the experience that makes him wise. “Bugs" Raymond was a man who “had everything." in his particu lar line, but will the eccentric heaver ever be named in the fu ture as among the great pitchers of this decade? M’lll he ever be mentioned in |,he same breath with « Mathewson. Bender. Plank Snd Walsh? Ford and Wood Rank High, Russell Ford, of the Yankees, and Joe Wood, of the Boston Red £bx. are acknowledged great young pitchers. Ford has had one splm did year, and has pitched ccn sistently good ball, even when Hs ing. In picking out a list of Tie best heavers in the game todiv, many would hesitate before leav ing off the name of Wood. The promise of the present holls a future of greatness for such’con parative unknowns as 'Buck'" O'Brien. Marty O'Toole. George Ti ler, Hugh Bedient. Claude Hendrlt Joe Steen. George Beaumgardne-. Elmer Brown. Rube Ben,ton, Jes Tesreau, "Lefty" Allen. Casey Ha german and half a doaen other- They may be the Renders. Planks. Coombs ani Walshes of another era, but thi old baseball man who was trying to win a pennant would probablx Just as soon have a Mordeca Brown, or a Bill Donovan, or a George Mullin around as several of these fellows of future promise. FRESHMEN ARE STARS IN TECH TRACK MEE’ In the annual Tech class track mee held x’esterday the freshmen came ou the winners. The meet was by far th best and most interesting ever puller off lately at the flats. First one das then the other would have the lead. Tht freshmen rolled up a total of 50 points the juniors 44. sophs 40.5, subs 31.5 anc the seniors 28. The star of the meet was Youmaqs the freshman sprinter This man wot first in the 100. 220 and 441-yard dashes Dußose. for the juniors. Eubank and Conklin, for the sophs; Goree, so the subs, and Guinn, for the seniors did the best work of their classes. The best event of the whole dav was the 220-yard low hurdles. McDonald and Eubanks ran a dead heat and were nose and nose right from the start ti> the finish. COULON HAS EASY TIME PULLING DOWN $1,250 NEW YORK. May 9. —Bantam Cham pion Johnny Coulon is $1,250 richer to day for having handed a. terrific lacing to Young Solsberg. of Brooklyn, at the Royal Athletic club last night. Coulon showed superior strength and skill and had the lead in every round. The little champion weighed in at 113 1-2, while Solsberg weighed 112 1-2. MERCER'S BAD FIELDING GIVES W. AND L. GAME MACON. GA.. May 9.—Washington and Lee defeated Mercer here yester day, 5 to 1. The Mercer plavers fielded miserably. Washington and Lee played a good, jam-up game and hit. well. Mer cer was unable to connect at critical times.