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8 T 5) A To) An IT PLR<By'"'' H WHITING T^/A : AWnTi\J/A W . TAD. — BAsXIaME, ww Here’s Real Story About Bat That Home-Run Baker Wields Ry W. J. Mcßeth. Nr-EW YORK. May 15.—‘The world's championship base ball series of 1911 is a closed book. It dwells now in the public mind—-the sport-loving public, that is—as an interesting epoch of an cient history. Random lives In the present, never upon the past. Even to analytic minds the carnage and glory of last fall must have faded long ago. Memory is revived here only to throw additional light upon one feature, of the past classic. That feature embraces the . hub by, big bat that robbed McGraw of the world's championship pen nant. The bat belonged to Frank Baker, third baseman of the Ath letics He garnered two home runs in the s*ies; the first off ' Rube" Marquard. the second off the mas ter of all pitchers. Christy Math ewson. Philadelphia could never have won either game without Ba ker's pinch home runs. Had the two games in question fallen to the lot of New York, the Polo ground ers would have taken the series by four games to two. the margin by which Connie Mack’s wonderful team triumphed. S'mmone First Owner. Now about the well-oiled bat of Baker. A dozen different stories hate been told as to how he came into possession of it. Here is the true story, told, we sincerely be lieve, for the first time. The ex istence of that famous stick of sec ond-growth ash is due to the good fellowship that obtains in profes sional baseball as in other walks of life. The bat was made espe Cially for George Simmons. the Rochester recruit of the Yankees, who has done considerable subbing for Hairr Wolverton this spring. An admirer of this Brooklyn lad. a couple of years ago. w hile Simmons was a member of Hughie Jennings' Tigers, turned the sitek with his own hands and presented it to, the consistent minor league slugger. Simmons never had a great amount of luck with the cudgel. It was a trifle %hort and top-heavy for him He gave it a thorough trial, then discarded it. He kept it only because it had been a present to him. Owen Bush, the clever lit tle shortstop of the Tigers, bor rowed Simmons’ bat one day after he had broken his own favorite shlllaleh As a result, he had a very favorable and profitable aft ernoon. With that innate nuper stition of ball players in general, he fell in love with the stick. H> wanted to buy it, but Simmons wouldn’t sell. Finally Simmons was turned back to the Eastern league h\ ftetroit Rush bCggiel SO SANTAL-MIDY (G) Relieves in 24 Hours @ Catarrh of the Bladder All Druggists Hetvart oj Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY The Supremacy of Sumar V ou have before you a hot summer x* J] and you are expecting a cool, breezy /Vi, time. Are you getting ready for it? Have you chosen the suit supreme—- y/ \ suit of Sumar? It’s the coolest 1 / K of all—it has a decided aversion to heat, v I Being porous, it does not retain heat, \ I ever y hide breeze whistles through -JU \ it at a merry clip. j A § It’s just the thing—and just the Ts thought puts you on good terms with a v Sil hot day. It’s all in the yarn—the little I /I ] I bard twisted worsted threads—-that’s the V jy || secret of Sumar success. \ I Our Sumar Suits have style distinctive, as | | ! well as being eno] and airy—Blue. tan. Ha| j, gray and brown with pin stripe of white.. $25.00 Geo, Muse Clothing Co. hard for his favorite weapon that Simmons finally made a present of it to the midget shortstopper. Bush Gave It To Baker. For a time Bush prospered in his new mace. Only a fair hitter, he began to climb up to the ,300 notch. He had many extra base hits in his collection of swats. But after a cnuple of months he fell away in form. He stuck to the hat until it was apparent that something was radically wrong with his form. Mentors advised hint that the bat was too heavy and clumsy for such a little fellow. Bush found a new stick. More than a year later, the Ath letics were In Detroit for a very' important series. Prior to the game, the third sacker of the Athletics borrowed Bush's discarded bludgeon for batting practice. He was so w ell pleased w ith its swing and bal ance that he approached Ownie on the matter of a swap. Bush had no particular use for the club. Re sides. he is a generous little chap. If the stick is any good to you. Frank.” he said. "why. go ahead and take it. It's yours. Only don't tell Simmons. He gave it to me." That afternoon the world's cham pions turned the tables on the Ti gers. Baker led the onslaught against Mullin. Donovan and Sum mers. He had four hits in five times to the jfiate. the collection includ ing a homer and two doubles. Ba ker has never since let that good * stick out of his sight. It is said he slept with it during the world's series last fall. YESTERDAY’SGAME~' Birmingham - ab. r. h po. a e Martan. 2b. 3 n n 4 n 0 .Messenger, rs 4 0 1 3 ft 0 Johnston, cf 4 ft n 2 ft ft Mtnelda. 3b 4 ft 1 ft 2 ft McGilvray. lb 3 11 10 n ft Mcßride. If 3 ft ft 1 n ft Ellant. ss. 2 I 1 4 3 ft liliger, e 3 ft ft 3 3 1 Hardgrove, p .... 2 ft 0 0 3 ft Totals 28 2 4 27 11 1 Atlanta ah. r. h po. a e Bailey. If 4 ft n S ft n Hanley, rs 3 1 I ft ft ft Hemphill, cf 3 0 2 ft ft 0 O'Dell, lb 4 n 1 is ft ft Alperman. ss 2 ft ft ft 3 ft East. 2b 3 n 1 0 4 ft O’Brien, ss 4 0 ft 1 4 | Kerr, c 3 0 11 ft n Miller, p '.3 ft n ft 4 ft Totals 29 1 ft 24 18 1 Score by innings It Birmingham ftftft 020 OOx 2 Atlanta 001. 000 000- I Summary Three-base hits. Hemphill. McGilvray; sacrifice hits. Ellam. Hard grove; stolen bases. Ellam 2. Almeida; bases on balls, off Miller 1. off Hardgrove 4; hit by pitched ball. Alperman; struck out Millet 1. Hardgrove 3 Time, I:3ft Empires. Fitzsimmons and Hart. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Home in Bessemer Gadsden in Huntsville Selma in Anniston. Standing of the Clubs W. I. PC W L. PC. Selma 1.3 9 591 H'svilly II in 524 A nlst'n 13 !< 591 B'semer Ift 111 435 Home 1.3 9 .591 G'dsden 515 .250 Yesterday’s Results. Gadsden 11. Huntsville 1. Anniston 3. Selma 2 Rome 5, Bessemer 4. GAINESVILLE ORGANIZES CLUB. GAINESVILLE. GA.. May 15. Gainesville is this season to have a good amateur baseball team. The play ers are now getting ready for a se ries of games, the first of which will be played next week with the team of Riverside < ademy THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: WEDNESDAY. MAY 15. 1912 Tech-Georgia Series Will Be a Red-Hot Argument First flame To Be Played at Flats Tomorrow By Percy H. Whiting, "ITT ITH the Atlanta ball club Vy giving an Imitation of an unsinkable ocean liner aft er being hit by an Iceberg, it is re freshing to turn the doping spot light in the direction of the com ing Tech-Georgia series. For this will be a plpazoo, come what may in the way of results. The firtl and only game in At lanta will he played Tbursdsy. Tt win be played at Tech park. And it will played for blood—rich, red gore. It will start at 3:30 o’clock, but Himmel only knows when or where it will wind up. These Tech-Georgia games are pos tively the most uncertain thing in the world. With Thursday's game out of the way. the scene of hostilities will shift to Athens where games will be played Friday and Saturday. If either team wins on Thursday and Friday, the game Saturday will be a calm affair. But if. as is most likely, each team grabs one, the game Saturday will be a classic. • • • r T was depressing that the Crack -1 ers kicked away yesterday’s ball game in Birmingham, but one fea ture stuck out that encouraged the Cracker fans "Doggy” Miller found himself. Miller has been wild this year, until yesterday. Wilder than the original March hare. Yester day he came back Into his own. In a tough game, facing batters like McGilvray. Almeida. Johnston and other big hitters, he allowed four hits and walked only one man. And that looks like the old Miller—the "Doggie” of 1911. If Miller can continue to pitch good ball, it will be "helpful. It will take a few more games to demonstrate. Perhaps, like several other Atlanta pitchers he ' will prove an in-and-outer But local fans have confidence In him and believe he will do all right. His queer old hooks fooled the best of them in the league last year. There is no reason wh> they shouldn't keep on fooling. ♦ • ♦ p ICK WOODWARD, the Bir mingharn mogul, has offered two .suggestions for the betterment of conditions in the Southern league. They are: 1. Kill the salary limit. 2. Begin playing ball May 1. Think 'em over. The salary limit is. was. and ever will bo the league’s pet joke. There is no funnier sight in all baseball than a league meeting when the salary limit is up for considera tion. The moguls make impas sioned addresses about it. Presi dent Kavanaugh swears it is the salvation of the league- and there are loud ' ament.” And just as soon as the meeting is over, the whole bunch goes outx and ducks. By midsumemr there will not be three clubs out of eight that are in the limit or anywhere near it. Right now there aren't enough Southern league teams within the limit to constitute a quorum. It is likely that New Orleans is within the limit-for a refreshing change, Probablj Mobile is—by dint of having the Giants pay part of the salaries of several of the best players. And. miracle of mir acles. we suspect that Atlanta is. Hemphill has taken a lot of play ers who were regarded by other managers as has-beens and by doing it he has grabbed a team that is inside the limit. But we'd hate to guarantee any of the rest. This has always been the case. Newt .Fisher really wished the salary limit on the Southern league. -And since he has departed. Presi dent Kavanaugh has been its real champion. Theoretically, the salary limit is the finest sort of an affair.' It keeps the clubs all on the same basis, it evens things up, it pro motes a great race—yes. it doesn't. The salary limit Is a farce be cause it can not be enforced. But nobody can foresee what would fie the result 'of yanking it off. In THE BASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Atlanta in Birmingham. Memphis in Mobile. Nashville In Montgomery Chattanooga in New Orleans. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. PC. W L. P.C C’nooga 16 I*l -615 Atlanta .12 14 .462 B'ham . 19 13 594 Mont 13 16 .448 M'tnp'is .15 12 .556 N Or’ns .11 17 ,393 Mobile , ,17 14 .548 N vflle ..9 17 .346 Yesterday's Results. Birmingham 2. Atlanta 1. Chattanooga 4, New- Orleans 0. Memphis <, Mobile 0. Montgomery 2. Nashville 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Savannah in Albany. Columbia in Jacksonville. Macon in Columbus. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C W. L. P C. Albany. .14 6 .700 C'bus 813 .381 J’vllle . .15 7 582 Macon 8 14 364 S'vann’h 13 7 .650 C'bia. . . 516 .238 Yesterday’s Results. Savannah 5. Albany 0 Jacksonville 2. Columbia 1. Columbus 9, Macon 8. e AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today, Chicago in Philadelphia. St. Louis in Boston. Detroit in New' York. Cleveland in Washington. Standing of the Clubs. W P C W L. P C Chicago .21 5 80S Detroit. 12 14 .462 Boston .15 8 .652 Thila 912 .429 C land .11 11 500 N. York .6 14 300 Wash. . 12 12 ,500 St. Louis. «16 .273 Yesterday's Results. Boston 6. St. Louis 5. Cleveland 3. Washington 2. Chicago 7. Philadelphia 0. Detroit 5. New York 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. New York in Pittsburg Boston in Cincinnati. Philadelphia in Chicago. Brooklyn in St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W L PC. W L. P C N York .17 4 810 Boston 914 .391 C'nati - .18 5 .783 St. Louis. 916 .360 Chicago .12 12 500 Brooklyn 713 .350 P’burg 911 450 Phila. 713 .350 Yesterday's Results. st. Louis 6, Brooklyn 0. Chicago 2. Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati-Boston, rain Pittsburg- Ney York. rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Columbus in Indianapolis. Louisville In Toledo. Minneanolis in Kansas City. St. Paul in Milwaukee Standing of the Clubs. W. I. PC W L PC C'bus. 21 9 .700 K City, .13 15 .464 M'nn’lis 17 11 .607 M w'kee .10 16 .385 Toledo .16 12 .571 L'ville . .10 16 .385 St. Paul .16 15 .516 In'ap'lis 10 19 .345 Yesterday's Results. ‘St Paul 3. Milwaukee 2. Columbus 1. Indianapolis 0. Toledo 6. Louisville 5, Kansas City 16. Minneapolis 3. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Roanoke in Norfolk Portsmouth in Danville. Newport News in Lynchburg. Richmond in Petersburg Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W L. P C. P’sm'th 10 5 .667 R h'm’d 1.0 10 .500 P'sburg 11 8 .57'9 N NewslO 12 .455 K'noke 10 9 526 D'nville 810 44 1 Norfolk 8 8 500 L'hburg 612 333 Yesterday's Results. Portsmouth 4, Danville 2 Richmond 3. Petersburg ft. Roanoke 5. Norfolk 3 Newport News 5, Lynchburg 2 113 in pingsi. • CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Greensboro in Greenville Spartanburg in Charlotte Anderson In Winston-Salem. Standing of the Clubs. W LIC I W I. PC C rlotte 11 6 647 I G'nsboro 8 9 471 Sp’burg 10 7 588 G'nville sto 333 Anerson 9 7 .563 I W.-STm 5 12 .294 Yesterday's Results. Greensboro 2. Winston-Salem 1. Greenville 6. Spartanburg 3 Anderson 5. Charlotte 1. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Asheville tn Johnson City Cleveland in Bristol Knoxville in Morristown Stand'ng of the Clubs. M L PC W L PC B-’Sto! 2 ft 190 ft M rist r 11 500 J city 1 0 1 000 Vb.evllle n ’ opa K xville 11 500 C'veJand 0 2 .000 i Yastardav's Resu'ts. Morristown 5. Knoxville 4 Bristol 1. C'ex eland ft Johnson City-Asheville, rain baseball's first cousin, the noble game of draw poker, a limit is a pestiferous thing if you have mon ey and things are coming good, but it's helpful When conditions are re versefl. Doubtless it would be the same in baseball. It would be a hot experiment to yank off the salary limit, drop Mo bile and Montgomery a>ut of the league, and "let her run wide open" for a while. But goodness only knows where the old boat would bring up. As for the scheme for a later start, it would hardly do in tc-is league. We get a lot of good weather before May 1. and a lot of clubs usually make good money then. Os course, this year, on ac count of the rains, everybody lost money on the April games, but weather bureau records show that such a spring as this one is not to be expected once in ten years. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Baltimore in Buffalo. Providence In Toronto. Jersey City in Rochester, Standing of the Clubs W. L. P.C W L P C J. City. .14 7 .667 Toronto 910 474 R'ches r 12 8 .600 Newark . 8 12 .400 Buffalo. .H 8 .579 P'dence 712 .368 Balt. ... 9 9 .500 Montreal. 712 .368 Yesterday's Results. Buffalo 13, Providence 5. Rochester 5. Newark t Toronto 5. Baltimore 1 •jersey City.7. Montreal 4 UNITED STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. Pittsburg in Chicago. Cincinnati in Cleveland. Washington in Reading. Richmond in New York. Standing of the Clubs. W L. P.C W. L. P C Reading 8 2 800 R'h'm’nd 6 5 .545 Chicago 6 2 750 C'nnati 5 5 .500 PTts’h'g 5 4 .556 C'veland 2 7 .222 W'ngton 5 4 .556 N. York 17 .125 Yesterday's Results. Reading 10. New York 4. Pittsburg-Cleveland, rain. Richmond 6, Washington 5. Washington 3. Richmond 1. TEXAS LEAGUE. Games Today. Houston in Austin. Waco in Beaumont. Fort Worth in San Antonio. Dallas in Galveston. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W. L. P C. Waco 19 11 .633 S. An’io 16 16 .500 B'um’nt 16 12 .571 Dallas 13 16 .448 H uston 17 14 .548 F. W'th 12 18 .400 Austin 15 15 .500 G’vest’n 11 IS .37.9 Yesterday's Results. Fort Worth 2. Houston 1. Waco 2. Galveston 1. San Antonio 1. Austin 0. Dallas 4. Beaumont 0 COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. Yazoo City in Hattiesburg Jackson in Greenwood. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. . W L. P. M’rid'n 18 10 .843 H'sburg 13 14 .481 V'ksb’g 15 11 .577 J'kson 12 15 441 Y. City 15 14 .517 G'wood 10 18 .357 Yesterday's Results. Hattiesburg 5, Yazoo City 0. Greenwood 5, Jackson 3. \‘'-.A ; It n D° You Appreciate Convenience * \\ •S In a Motor Car? V Ik ; THE WHITE SIX, with left side drive and \ electric starting and lighting system, makes ; ILT it possible to reach the driving seat, start, . ! and light the car without the necessity of step- . d '?? ping into the street. - . t • y.- This is one of the many reasons why the White * is the most advanced car of the present day. . ■ I The WhitelpMCompanv J E-i ■ S & F-.. ; : > / ' i E l Manufacturers of Gasoline Motor Cars.-Trucks and Taxicabs. I ’i i. J n-T ATLANTA BRANCH . / Peachtree St. JI J Atlell Won $23,000 at Poker: Now Training to “Come Back" By W. W. Naughton. SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.—Abe Attell, deposed featherweight champion, is now located among the whispering redwoods on Billy Nolan's mountain ranch in Lake county. Abe left the city, carrying a stiff upper lip and with the "never again” pennant flying at tile fore peak.- He intends to spend several months on the Nolan estate and saturate himself thoroughly with whatever brand of ozone they ad vertise up there. He is to eat ranch farq, follow the plow and retire to rest with the birds, or rather at a corresponding hour. Above all, he is not to touch dards, or at least not in games where a yellow chip represents an outlay of S2O and whites are re deemable at $1 apiece. This is one of the clauses in the contract which binds Attell and Nolan. Had Reasons to Quit Poker. Under ordinary circumstances, it mjght have been hard for Nolan to induce Abe to relinquish his be loved poker, but they say there w ere reasons why the ex-champion was quite satisfied to have a para graph forbidding dalliance with straights and flushes inserted in his newest agreement. Here they are: Attell has done little else but play pojter since he lost to Tommy Mur phy. It's away he has of forget ting the jibes and sneers of this cruel world. Some ’ellows drown their sorrows in the flowing bow-l. Attell buys a stack and dull care vanishes. Abe had phenomenal luck. It may sound like a fairy tale, but If the votaries of the circular tables are to be believed, the one-time featherweight king won $30,000 in a couple of weeks. Then Dame Fortune began to feel as though she had done enough for Abey. The cards ran against him and $7,000 slipped away like sand through the fingers. Just about that time Nolan come along. He unfolded his scheme of rejuvenation and remarked that poker was the first thing he w-ould insist on having tabooed. Abe was all too ready to fall in with No lan’s views. The scheme enabled Attell to hang on to $23,000 of some one else's money and absolved him from a suspicion of "cold feet.” He could not play any more because his new’ manager’ had made him re nounce the pastnne. And so they went to the range country. And if, as has been said, good resolutfbns are sometimes con verted into paving stones, Abe’s output will be ample to build an esplanade from acre to Santa Cruz. Nolan thinks that a few- months of simple life wdll enable Attell to regain his championship and howl over an ■ assortment of light weights on the side. Abe is of the same way of thinking. "But such is the incredulity of human nature that bets are being made Abe will pp seen around his old haunts In the city before two wee.ts go by. Going After Murphy Again. When Attell is himself again he intends to go after Tommy Mur phy. He is afraid his new stock of fighting ginger may not be last ing, and tie wants to fall upon the Harlem boy while he is feeling supple and tigerish. He hae a score to wipe out with both Murphy and Manager Buckley, and he intends to kill two biros with one stone. Johnnie Kilbane can wMit. Abe has no complaint against Kilbane, apart from the chagrin he feels at losing his championship. 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