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FEW SCRAPPERS
MAKE GOOD IT
FIRSTJN ODIST
By Ed. W. Smith.
IT must have been a severe shock
to Eastern fight followers to
note that Pal Moore, generally
regarded as one of th£ very best
lightweights in the Atlantic Coast
section, never had a look-in out on
the coast the other night with
Jack Britton, of this city, in a
twenty-round battle.
But when one looks at the past
performances of Eastern men who
have gone to the coast for battles,
the trimming Moore received might
have occasioned no surprise As a
matter of fact, very few men have
'eft one seaboard to go to the other
for battle and done well, especially
In their opening bouts.
Many Are Failures.
Mighty few men have gone out
there and made good offhand. Look
at the list of failures. These in
clude Leach Cross. Tommy Mur
phy, Jack Britton himself, who
couldn’t catch any matchmaker’s
eye and get a wind-up for a long
time; Frank Klaus. Jack Dillon.
George Knockout Brown of Chi
cago. Charley White and his broth
er Jack of this city, Hugo Kelly,
Buck Crouse, Joe Coster. Patsy
Kline, Jim Barry and dozens .of
others * * I
Some of these men stuck until
they did make good, but in' the
main first attempts on the Pafi/lc
of Eastern men are failures,
Kilbane Had To Prove It.
Men like Battling Nelson and Ad
Wolgast had to fight for their very
Mves out there before they got
recognition. Both were considered
Jokes when they first displayed
their wares Later both won the
lightweight championship and at
tained reputations of the highest
degree.
Johnny Kilbane was lightly con
sidered when he first showed In
Los Angeles, but compelled them to
take notice by cleaning up some of
the good men there, including Jose
Rivers, now matched with Wolgast
for the title, and Abe Attell.
Even Packey McFarland didn't
impress them with his twenty-five
round draw with Freddie Welch
and later In Kan Francisco with his
quick defeat of Jimmy Britt and his
indifferent showing with Tommy
Murphy.
Owen Moran made good there,
but he isn't a native. Billy Papke
had a hard time convincing them of
his ability and even after he
knocked out Ketchel they didn't
think he was a champion. Ketchel
proved they were right a little
later on.
Morrow an Exception.
Howard Morrow made good on
his first attempt, but then he
wasn't up against much , and is
liable to inadte good with any of
them. So It was with Johnny Con
lon. Frankie Conley wasn't well
thought of until he had battled
there, several times. Hugo Kelly
got some good matches, but failed
in most of them to Impress, even
in his twenty-round draw with
Papke
The trouble seems to be that box
ers go out there and remain too
long before fighting. The general
Impression is that the best way for
Easterners to do Is to get there
not longer than one week In ad
vance of a fight.
Reversing the order of things,
we find that mighty few of the Pa
cific. coast fighters have made good
in the East. Look at One Round
Hogan. Frankie Burns. Frankie
Neal. Frank Picato, Jimmy Britt.
Lew Powell. Joe Thomas. Johnny
McCarthy and others, who tried
luck toward the East and all failed.
Shorter Route Puzzles.
In these cases it might be that
they were unused to the shorter
routes that prevail toward the At
lantic, and never -were able to speed
up enough against men who w ere
thoroughly familiar with the six,
eight and ten-round distances
At any rate, the intersectional
exchanges have been in the main
unsatisfactory, especially to the
boxers
JENNINGS ADVISES NOT
TO BET ON BASEBALL
Here Is a lesson for the fans who try
to make money betting on ball games.
Hughey Jennings has never bet a
nickel on a ball game.
"Baseball is too uncertain for me to
risk my money on it,” said Hughey
"After a month or two of the season is
gone. I believe 1 have a good line on
the ability of the different teams, but
ball teams miss running true tn form
as often as they hit it Candidly. I
think a man is a fool to bet on base
ball."
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MONEY TO LOAN
ON
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COWAN ROGERS.
KNOXVILLE, 'VENN.. May 10. One tennis player who is
making big preparations for the coming -tennis season, and
especially for the Southern championship at Atlanta in July, is
Cowan Rogers, for years one of the best and steadiest players
in the South. Indications are that the Southern champion
ship this year will be a peculiarly open event, and that bona
tide .Southern players will have more chance than usual.
FODDER FOR FANS
The daj President Taft went nut to see
the Reds play they threw a spasm of er
rors and lost to the Phillies.
* • *
George Suggs has only lost two games
for Cincinnati this year. •
* • •
Howard Williams, the southpaw taken
by Hank O'Day to Columbus, Ga., this
spring. Is slumping O’Day sent him to
Dayton and Dayton passed him along to
Chillicothe.
• • ♦
Bill Bartley, former Cracker, has
signed with Cincinnati in the f. S.
league.
• • •
Ray Boucher, who used to perform for ’
Little Rock, is with Youngstown. Ohio.
• • •
With Hans Robert out. Tom Downey, I
the former Baron, is likely to work reg I
ularb with the Phillies.
* « •
Bert Blue, once of Birmingham, later
with St. lemls Americans, still later
traded to Philadelphia for Sid Smith, has
turned up with Richmond in the United
States league
• • •
In an effort to shorten games Ban John
son has ruled that in the American league
the Infielders must not throw the ball
around between innings.
• ♦ •
Milwaukee has asked waivers on George
Stone. The once famous batter Is on the
skids again
♦ ♦ •
Bert Whaling has been turned back by
Cleveland to Seattle.
• • •
“Bone" Zimmerman. Cracker outfielder
last year, is hitting 293 with Newark
now
• • •
Exciting news from the North Mani
towoc will not be in the latke Shore
league this year!
• • ♦
Macon is an In-and-out sori of a club ’
The Peaches got away like champions.
Then they lost eight in a row
• • •
Right now. with the season only half
way started, ttie Naps are making plans
for a training ground next season Pen
sacola is said to be the place selected.
• • *
Newark has released Bill Bergen out
right Bad habits!
The scar the Athletics trained in At-
I lanta \rnus Strunk joined the Philadel
phia club. He has been with them since
\n«.i even now he isn't a regular He is
mighty close to it. though, and ready to
go in any old minute and to play “Connie
Ma< k ball." too He has sat on the bench
long enough to learn it.
* • «
T«m Connolly, dean of the umpire staff;
of the- \meriean league, has invented a
, shoe, with a reinforced concrete front.
. that :s designed to ward off spikes and j
I baseballs.
’ * •
Baseball fans can t figure what is the 4
matter with Raj Caldwell. the Highland
pitcher He looked a wonder before the
season started and since then he hasn’t I
had anything
• ♦ •
What between the tight among the own- I
ers of the St Lottis Cardinals and the ill- I
ness of Bresnahan, it is small wonder the!
team is down.
■ • •
Third Base-man McDonald is doing such
good work for Xas' \ tile that thej have
forg'dton “Red" Smith and are beginning
:<• count on how much they ran get for
McDonald from Brooklyn in the fall
• * •
Elbert Hubbard is quoted as saying that
the best thing about baseball is the fact
that ’he parks are all so well ventilated.
Buck Brent has deserted the Wilming- i
ton club < f the Tri-S’ate league for the
V. S league
With the Mobile club plaj ing real base
ball, for the first time the Gull town has i
ever known such a thing since it has 1
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 10. 1912.
been In the Southern league, the fans are
knocking wildly evert time Einn's team
loses. They are certainly appreciative.
♦ ♦ ♦
Green, a pitcher discarded by Birming
ham, has hooked up with Roanoke.
* • ♦
Pitcher 'Burleson, of Mobile, is said to
be slated for a Roanoke berth.
• * *
The Spartanburg team, which gets a
Graeker cast-off occasionally, is stirring
up nn awful rumpus in the Carolina
league. Papers around that circuit claim
that the elun is wax over the salary limit.
RICHIE WINDS UP HIS
WORK FOR WOLGAST GO
SAN FRANCISCO, May in. Big
crowds today gathered at the training
quarters of Willie Richie at the Seal
rock gymnasium to watch his final
preparations for tomorrow's four
round go with Champion Ad Wolgast.
Richie has been working hard to get in
condition, and is confident that his
I showing will surprise the fans. The
former ,four-rounder, whose first step
upward, came when he was substituted
for Wolgast In the fight with Freddie
Welch, at the time Wolgast was strick
en with appendicitis, is alive to the pos
sibilities in tomorrow's battle.
It is Wolgast's first tight since the
operation performed in Los Angeles.
Although it is expected only to test
the champion, and goes only four
round-, fans are anxiously awaiting the
showing the champion win make.
JOHNSON STARTS REAL
WORK FOR FLYNN MILL
CHICAGO. May 10.—Two weeks of
genuine work have been begun by
Champion Jack Johnson before he
leave-- for Las Vegas to put himself in
condition for the Independence day bat
tle with ,11m Flynn. Johnson did his
first hard road work and then tried
himself out on three sparring partners.
The program will be carried out dally.
The fans who saw the first real work
out say .lack has lost nothing of his
cleverness and speed.
EXCITEMENT ON DESERT!
JIM FLYNN HAS ARRIVED
LAS VEGAS. N M. May t 0 ,11m
I Elynn. who is to meet .lack Johnson for
4 tin heavyweight championship here Julv
. 1, arrived, last night, and was met hi
hundreds of citizens with a brass band
I Elynn «ft; begin his training at Las Vegas
I Hot Springs tomorrow
MACK FINDS YOUNGSTER.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 10.--Robert
Stevenson, a I'nfversity of Minnesota
I athlete, will join the Philadelphia
i American ball team June 1,
“Is the Bible the Infallible Word of God?”
REV. E. DEAN ELLENWOOD
Universalist Church. East Harris Street. Near Peachtree.
SUNDAY. MAY 5. S P. M.
BEATPELICANS
OR QUIT DIME,
SAYS WALT FIST
NEW ORLEANS, LA.. May 10.—At
kina or Miller will work today for At
lanta. with the chances that the south,
paw will be wheeled into action. Wag
ner or Seindell, probably the latter, will
work for the Pelicans. Haigh.will be
behind the bat for the locals and Gra
ham for the Crackers.
The weather here today Is clear and
hot and is getting hotter every day.
The Crackers are now downeast over
their defeat Thursday, as they think
they outclass the Dutchman's present
team in every particular. "When we
get so we can't beat that hunch It* is
time for us ter quit." said Walter East
Thursday night, and his sentiment only
echoed tfla t of the other members of the
club
Ganley’s arm seemed very bad in yes
terday's game, hut the Pels got no ad
vantage from this, for only one hit was
sent in his direction- a short grounder
—and Ffitz, a conservative base run
ner, was satisfied to stop at second.
Hemphill announced definitely today
that he will carry only fifteen men. He
is going to give Dessau a chance, if
his arm regains its strength, but he is
afraid this sterling pitcher is out for
the year. Hemphill banked heavily on
Dessau.
Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Game
This is the way the Crackers are hitting
through yesterday's game:
Players— rd .'ABTkTh. | AV
Hogue, n! 2 ft 2 3 I .500
Hemphill. If. ... 22 189 15 i 32 500
Sitton, p 9 9 1 3 333
O'Dell, Ib. . . . 20 70 10 20 '2BO
klperman. 3b. . . 23 85- 13 24 .282
Ganiev, rs 14 50 8 : 14 .280
Miller, p 9 16 . 4 1 4 I 250
Kerr, c2l. 71 ' 6 17 ,239
Sykes, lb. . . . .» 21 71 11 1R .226
Graham, c. . . . 5 9 0 ■ 2 1 .222
Bailey, If 23 79 20 ! 17 I .215
Dessau, p 5 14 0 3 .215
O'Brien, ssl7 I 66 I 7 I 14. .212
Paige, p 5 16 113 1 .187
East. 2b13 38 3 6 .158
Johns, p,7.12: 0 0 .000
Arkins, p. ..3 7 0 n .000
DECISION OF CHANCERY
COURT HITS VOLS HARD
NASHVILLE, TENN., May 10.—
Chancellor Allison, in the chancery
court, this morning instead of dissolv
ing the injunction against the owners
of the local baseball association for
playing Sunday baseball, enlarged the
scope of his former injunction so as to
prevent the management from having
anything to do with the baseball club or
its property or from playing any games
at all in Tennessee.
The affairs of. the club were left jif.
the hands of the receiver, Robe ;t
Vaughn, clerk and master; and', the
court refused dlso to increase the bond
of the receiver from $1,200 to $20,000,
as had been prayed for.
The decision of rhe chancellor is in
effect a forfeiture of the charter of the
Nashville baseball Club.
As soon as the transcript of the court
record can be obtained an effort will be
made to take the case before the su
preme court on a supersedeas.
SALARY LIMIT STICKS;-
DESSAU NOW INELIGIBLE
The Southern league salary and
player limits will go into effect at mid
night.
In consequence of this. Frank Des
sau. Cracker pitcher who has a bad
arm. has been put on the ineligible
list, where he can be held for ten days.
At the end of that time he must be
sold, released outright or reinstated on
the unanimous vote of the league.
The attempt to get the Southern
league club owners to extend the time
for putting the salary limit in effect to
June 1 has been defeated. Three club
were against it. and that ruined it In
consequence, the Southern league clubs
are working overtime, throwing excess
players overboard, in order to be with
in the salary limit by midnight.
DODGERS MAKE BID FOR
WILDER AND H. HOLLAND
The Brooklyn ball club has offered a
fat contract to Kid Wilder, the Qeorgia
pitcher who has set the woods ablaze
this season. Wilder has not yet made
his decision and is not likely to until
after the games with Tech next week.
Brooklyn has also put in a bid for the
services of Harry Holland, the Tech
third baseman, but Holland has decided
to stick to his job with the Georgia
Railway and Electric Compahy.
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W 1,. P C W. L P.C
Mobile 16 10 .615 Atlanta .11 11 500
C'nooga 13 a 591 N. Orl'nslO 14 .417
M'mp'is 13 9 .591 Mom. 9 16 .360
B'ham 16 12 571 N ville ,7 14 ,333
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Standing of the Clubs.
W 1.. P.C W L. PC
Albany .12 4 750 Macon ..7 11 .389
S'van'h .11 5 .688 C'lumbla 512 294
J'ville . .11 7 .611 C'lumbus 512 294
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
IV. I. P.C I W L. P.C
Chicago 16 6 727 Wash. . .10 9 .526
Boston 12 7 632 Detroit. . 913 .40!,
("land 9 8 .52:' St. Louis 612 333
Phila 9 8 529 N. York 4 12 250
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L P.C. W. L. P.C
N York 15 4 .789 Blyn .7 9 438
Cnati. 15 5 .750 P'burg .7 11 389
Chicago 11 to .524 Phils. . . 7 12 36S
Boston 911 450 St. Louis. 516 .238
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KILBANE LANDS
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By Ed. Curly.
NEW YORK. May 10.— Johnny
Kilbane, the new feather
weight champion, is in town.
With the glistening of a ten-karat
headlight lighting the way. the
champion hove into sight yester
day.
"Never felt better in my life.
can beat any man my weight in
the world. Am going to start train
ing right away,; the misses and
baby are in grand shape," were a
few bright remarks Jolin wised us
to. John tried to tell us a whole
lot more about the baby, l?ut we
drew the line. Then John with his
retinue blew out and hustled for
Rye, where he has struck his train
ing camp. ’
John’s visit is due to the fact
that he is going to mingle with
Frankie Burns next week in a ten
round melee. It will be his first
appearance as a slam artist in this
part of the country and should be
quite a gala affair. He realizes
that Burns is a boy that has to be
bandied roughly to beat, so the
champ is not going to take any
’ chances.
• • *
Sam Fitzpatrick is still with us.
Samuel has dug up a real live
heavyweight named Hugh McQann,
who is going to clean up the field.
"This man.” blabbered Sam last
evening, "gave Jim Flynn the
toughest eighteen minutes of his
life in Indianapolis Why, Flynn
signed up for a match with John
son to avoid meeting McGann in a
return battle. Just let that sink
into your dome. Why, what Mc-
Gann will do to Johnson and all the
‘white hopes’ in the limelight will
be shameful."
And Sam doesn't smoke the hop.
UNASSISTED TRIPLE IS
MADE BY WACO PLAYER
HOUSTON, TEXAS, May 10.—Roy
Aiken, third baseman of the Waco club
of the Texas League, retired the Houston
team in the first inning of yesterday s
game with a triple play, unassisted With
runners <>n second and third bases the
signal was given the Houston batsman
to bunt for a “squeeze” play He bunted.,,
the runner from thir<l raced toward home
and the mpn at second hasp came to third.
But Aiken caught the bunt, on the fly,
tagged the man from second and touched
third base before the man who attempt; “■
ed to score could get back. Waco, how
ever, lost the game, 4 ,t» 5.