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The fresh crop loots formidable as the old, and ne /eputations are likely to be m Jnn the strength of the damp sip 1912. he managers are not narticu ]a partial to the spitbalßrs, but t jare willing to have a gtod one a nd if they can get hint The t of legislation against tie de fy has practically died ou\ and ps long since come to be rtcog sd as an institution in the game. »y are developing spitbalers just as they develop curve IT pitchers. Manager McGraw, of the Giarts, s one of the successful club’ lesd rs who is supposed to be ratter apposed to the wet delivery. :nd yet he went to further lenghs with a spitball tosser than he *er did with any other man again, am ply because he recognized his greatness as a pitcher, and his value in winning games for the New York club. This was "Bigs” Raymond, the erratic Chicapan, who McGraw declares has the greatest natural pitching grfte of any heaver he has ever seen. Ray mond relied almost entirely 0 the spitter. Raymond Great Wet Fliner. With his ability, Raymond hould have achieved the fame ad for tune of any pitcher ever .n the game—and his ability consstcd of a superb mastery of the sitter McGraw now’ has anothr spit hall pitcher and a star in 'barley Tesreau, the Giant who pranked with Mathewson and .Mrquard. Until he mastered the spifall Tes- MONEY TO LOIN ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY S t r I c t ly confidential. Unredeemed pledges la diamonds for sale, 30 per cent less than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul 4k - May.) • 1 1-4 ILn.v’nrf <jt UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg Both Phones 1584. WE BUY OLD GOLD FREE RHEUMATISM CU<E Old. Deep-Seated «e» Take Notice! «mith's Blood and-lver Syrup in the ■Rheumatics after «ry known remedy has failed. Smith’ Blood and Liver Syrup does this by Jrifylng and enrich ing the blood—semdK a flood of vivify ing blood direct tone paralyzed nerves bones and joint?, flying strength and warmth just where* Is needed. 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He was apparently unable to get any "stuff" on his fast ball, and he had no curve when McGraw first took hold of him. -out he com menced picking up the spitbal! de livery. and McGraw encouraged him in that, as he saw little hope for him with the other slants. To day Tesreau has developed a splen did spitter. "Buckey" O’Brien, .the Boston Red Sox pitcher, who promises to be a sensation, uses the spitball freely, although it is said that half the time he merely bluffs at it, masking his mouth with his glove before he pitches, as a matter of habit more than anything else. Connie Mack recognizes the value, of the spitball by hanging on to "Cy" Morgan. Claude Hendrix, a Pittsburg youngster, is regarded as one of the coming stars of the' game, and he uses a spitter. Be fore he acquired that delivery, however, he was not considered of big league class. Marty O'Toole, the $22,509 beauty purchas'd by Pittsburg last sea son, is a spitball heaver. His value for some time a little problematical on account of his bad arm is no longer In doubt in the minds 'of Pittsburg fans. They consider him a world beater. The Yankees have a corner of FODDER FOR FANS The Pelicans have a lot of hocks baited with the latest improved southpaw bait, but the biting has not been very strong yet, due perhaps to the high water. Frank almost landed Pleister from the Cubs, but Milwaukee just beat That Dutchman to the Cub. ♦ * ♦ There is no danger of any legislation against the spit ball so long as the Ameri can league has so many good ones. The list includes Walsh. Chicago; <’y Morgan. Athletics; Russell Ford. New York; -D»e Lake. St. Louis: Buck O’ Brien, Boston; Bill Steen, Naps. * * * Tho Vols have let out Doc Seabaugh, one of the veterans of the game in the South. • • • Three clean-up hitters in the major leagues now are recent graduates from the Southern league The list includes Jackson with the Boston Braves, North ern with Brooklyn, and Bratt with the St. Louis Browns. * ♦ * In a game that lasted almost three hours recently Kansas City and Milwau kee hurlers issued 20 passes. * * ♦ Joe McCarthy. Indianapolis utility man. has been passed down to Wilkesbarre. * * * Irving Higganbotham has been released by Toledo to Portland. Oregon. • • • The Savannah club is batting .308. The leading hitter is a gent named Glenn Colby. • * * Harvey Bussey, who trained with the Washington club in Atlanta two years ago and who couldn't win for losing last year in any league—and he tried several —is doing grand work now for Danville in the 'Virginia league. • * * Rube Benton has five straight wins to his credit with the Reds. That's better than he did with Chattanooga last year. ♦ • • The famous lack Knight-Gabby Street trade seems to have panned out about as usual. Knight is so busy taking den tistry examinations and such that he isn't worth a bang to the Nationals, while Street isn’t showing much and may go back to the minors. « « « Heine Berger, Mobile hurler. is likely to wind up eventually at Akron. • » • The second raid on baseball bettors at Philadelphia netted two wagon loads of victims. They are making gambling an unhealthy outdoor pastime in Sleepy ville. • * • Heine Pietz Is getting so good in his old age that Hank o'Day is threatening to use the veteran coacher in a game soon. * * * Edward Dewis, first baseman three vears ago for the Addison club, has lust married. Eddie weighs 427 His bride is a dainty little thing, totaling a mere 300, avoirdupois. Sam Mertes is out of baseball. He has THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THVRSDAY. MAY 16. 1912. spitball pitchers, carrying more than any other club In the big leagues. They have Russell Ford, one of the greatest of them all; George McConnell, Ray Fisher and Jack Quinn. They are accounted above the average. Ford's masteiV of the spithall is nothing short of uncanny, and only Ed Walsh, the daddj- of them all, has.anything on the Yankees, when it comes to making the queer delivery perform. Frank Smith, now of Cincinnati, the old Chicago White Sox star, and Harry Mclntire, of the Chi cago Cubs, are masters of the de livery, but they are hardly the pitchers they were a few years ago. Joe Lake Fair Spittballer. Joe Lake, of the St. Louis Browns in the American league, Is a good spitball pitcher—probably better than any in the National, and half a dozen others in the younger or ganization could be named who outclass their fellow spitters of the other league. There seems to be no reason for this except that the old organization does not have the luck in picking up the spitters that the other has. The old argument that the spit ball shortens a pitcher’s career in baseball is still advanced, but the long service of Ed Walsh shows that there may at least be excep tions to the rule, and it is a ques tion whether the spitbailers who have come and quickly gone would have lasted any longer if they stuck to the old styles. tailed as an umpire on the coast and has dropped out entirely. ♦ ♦ ♦ Heinic Heitinuller, who might have been a Cracker if he had so desired, has just hem suspended from activities in the coast league for rough doings. ♦ • ♦ Baseball experts figure that Russ Ford will be about ten times more effective now than he has been this season. He has Sweeney back to catch him. ♦ ♦ • Harry Wolverton still holds the confi dence of New York fans, despite one of •he poorest early showings that ever a manager made. * * ♦ Herbert Kutz, last year with Wilkea barre and Utica. who was tried out by the Athletics this spring, has been sent to Allentown. • ♦ • On seeing an announcement in Secre tary Farrell’s bulletin; ’Ed Goes, from Youngstown.” some fresh guy remarked, "He sure does.” • * * Frank Dwefs, once a Turtle, is desired by the Phillies. Frank is with Minneap olis now. hut may go even to the luck les? Philadelphia Nationals. “POP” EYLER, ONCE IN SOUTHERN,DROPS A PEG HUNTSVILLE. ALA . May 16. Manager Riggs, of the Huntsville team, has made some alterations In his pitching staff and expects to have Charles Tompkins, now at the Washington and Lee university, back here in a few <lays. Tompkins was the heaviest hitting pitcher in the league last year. Pitcher (diaries Reese has been suspended for the present because he has not rounded into form. Pitcher James Allen has been released to the Hastings, Nebr., team of the Mink league. “Pop” Eyler, former Southern league pitcher, who got ofT badly in his first tryout here Saturday, has been placed with the Green wood. Miss., team in the Cotton States league. Tdie regular pitching staff of the Mountaineers is now composed of Finch, Luhrson, Wylie and Rusa. NAT BUTLER HAS RACED 20 YEARS ON STRETCH Nat Butlei. bike rider well known in Atlanta and the South, has just cele brated h«s twentieth anniversary of his start in the cycling game. No other rider in the world has ever lasted so long or ridden in so many races. It is probable that Butler has been in three and four thousand < ontests Butler has probably not won as many races as Frank Kramer, who for eleven vea» : ba- been the champion of Arret ica. nr Thorwald EHegaard, who has copped the six world's championships, but he is not far behind. CRACKERS AND BARONS CLASH IN ffl CAMES BIRMINGHAM, ALA., May 16.—As a result of yesterday's rain, which brought to a timely death what looked like a joke ball game, the Crackers will close their first long road trip with a double-header. Manager Hemphill will offer an as sortment of pitchers—Sitton, a husky right-hander, and Atkins, a diminutive southpaw. Against them will be op-, posed Eoxen, a Cracker fizzle of last year, and Prough, one of the Barons' best in the 1911 season. The score was 2 to 2 yesterday in the second inning when the game was called. It was a fright of .a game up to that point. A wild toss by Alper man. usually the steadiest of infield ers. let in the -two Baron runs. The Crackers' runs were made also on gifts, and both teams seemed to be off form. It was Ad Men’s day in Birmingham, but the crowd was small, owing to the bad weather. SECOND PLACE WON BY TECH ON TECHNICALITY BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Mat 16.—The Tech track team may be awarded sec ond place in the recent Birmingham Athletic Club track and field meet be cause of the disqualification of R. C. Stevens, of Mobile, who won the pole vault. Stevens, it is charged, is as sistant secretary of the Mobile Young Men’s Christian Asociation, and on that ground was ineligible to compete. His disqualification would put Smith, of Tech, first, and Goree, of Tech, second and give the Atlantans 32 points in the meet, only one point less than the Bir mingham Athletic Club made in win ning first idace. CAPONI AND GORMAN FIGHT A FAST DRAW (MLXTTANOOGA. TENN.. May 16. Tony Caponi, of Chicago, and Joe Gor man, of Lo.s .Angeles, fongh eight rounds Io a draw before the Southern Athletic dub The battle was very fast for mid dle, weights. (’anoni proved the superior in Hie in fighting. but Corman employed a left jab to the face and head that was very ef fective. Neither man was able to send his opponent to the floor, though each stag gered his man at intervals In the second main bout. Terry Nelson, of Chicago, won a clear decision over .lack Dougheitx. of this city. Dougherty was groggy at the finish. PAPKE AND HICKS BATTLE IN GOTHAM RING TONIGHT NEW YORK. May 16.—Ex-Middleweight Champion Billy I’apke will make an es fort to “come back" tonight when he will hox ten rounds with Freddie Hicks, of Detroit. Mich., at the National Sporting club. Some doubt was expressed as to whether the state boxing commission would allow the contest io go on because of the investigation which is being made into the conduct of the club. The inquiry into the. action of Patsy Haley, referee, in giving a decision al the National club in the bout between Jim Stewart and Gunboat Smith, is still under way. and another sitting of the investi gators was scheduled for this afternoon. PREP TITLE IS DECIDED BY MARIST-GORDON GAME The Marist and Gordon teams clash today in Barnesville in the game that will decide the prep championship of the state. Marist has cleaned up Stone Mountain and all the teams of the At lanta Prep league. The Gordon nine, under Coach Bob Williams, 'has not lost a game this year. Gordon has the advantage in everv way in today’s game and should win. TOM DWYER FAINTS AT END OF THIRD ROUND NEW Y‘»RK. Max' 16. Tom Dwyer, the English heavyweight wh<« recently in ,vade<l this <-ovntrx, believes that he is the original hard luck man and his friends are predicting that he xx'll e tight no more in this country At the end of the third round of his bout with George Ashe, of Philadelphia at ’he Sharks Athletic club last night fainted in h’- corner and could fight no m«»rc. In bis first contest in this country two months ago I>wyer broke his arm. “Hl Fight ’Em AH, One a Week”—Jack Johnson Champion Makes a Big Offer to the White Hopes • Ry Ed. W. Smith. CHICAGO. May 16.—" Bring 'em all on: one a week for as long as they last. I'll whip the en tire lot, but I must hurry, because I surely will retire at midnight next Labor day.” This was the confident statement made yesterday bx .lack Johnson while discussing his plans for the immediate future. "There ate a lot of 'white hopes' around, eh? Well, if thev can com mand any backing in the way of purses I'll take A shot at all of them without exception- one w eek apart for as many weeks as there are fighters or as long as the inducements last.” he continued. "That's how confident 1 feel that 1 can < lean up the entire lot.” Johnson Feels That Way. And there isn't a bit of doubt about the real feelings of the big fellow or his confident way of look ing at the general situation. "Why am I setting the date of my retirement on Labor day?" be repeated. “Simply because that is a. good fighting day all over the NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Frank W hitney has just received a tele gram from St. Joseph offering him three bouts there. The promoters tried to get Joe Mandot for W’hitney, but the New Orleans boy said "nix Owen Moran will be the Fighting Carpenter’s nent in one of the contests. • * * Mike Gibbons and Sid Burns, a new comer from England, will box ten rounds in Madison Square Garden May 21 Eddie McGoorty will meet the winner of the Gibbons-Burns bout about the first of .Tune. It is likely that Matty Baldwin will be seen in the ring with Ad W’olgast before very long. W hen Baldwin heard the W <»1 gasl-Cross match had fallen through he wired the Garden A C , in New York, stating that he would like to meet the champion. • ♦ ♦ Cyclone Johnny Thompson has just re turned from .Australia and is seeking matches with Eddie McGoorty and Frank Klaus. ♦ ♦ * Digger Stanley, the English bantam champinn, is now talking “come bark" stuff He is seeking a match with John nv < ’oulon. * ♦ • Reports from New York sa> Malt Wells and <>wen Moran have signed up to bat tle ten rounds in Madison Square Gar den Max 20. * ♦ ♦ James J Corbett is of the opinion that F’ackey M< Farland is the only light weight in the world who would have a chance against W’olgast. ■ * * Joe .Mandot and Rax Temple have been matched to box eight, rounds be fore the National A. in Memphis May 20. « • ♦ No, Carl Morris isn't going to retire yet. Morris says he xvill rest up for awhile and will again enter the pugilistic ranks. Carl’s excuse for his bad show ing against Luther McCarty a few nights ago is that it was a frame-up by Mc- Carty's followers and the city officials where the bout was held. • ♦ ♦ It will be a Mexican against an Amer ican when Kid Michell, of El Paso, and Jack Herrick, of Chicago, mingle in the old bull ring in Juarez on Sunday. ’ Hilly I’apke and Frank Klaus have been matched for a six-round bout, to lie staged in Pittsburg before long. Battling Nelson is planning a tour of tlie world. The Nelson party will be composed of the Battler, Frank Goteh and Harry Lewis. I'ackey McFarland is in receipt of an offer from Los Angeles l.oxmg promoters to meet Frank Picato, who recently re turned from Australia, where he met man y t opnot chcr s. •lake Abel and Terr? Nelson arc train ing iu Chattanooga for their ten-round go ai the Atlanta A C here May 25. • * • Tonx Caponi. who ha:- fought most of tlie top-notchet s. including Sam Langford, sues Jim Flynn hasn't a ghost of a chance against Jack Johnson July I. Caponi be lieves Langford is the logical man to tight Johnson. Mike Gibbons -axs lie has just found out ihal lie ' in make 142 potinrls easil.X, and that if Ray Bronson is anixious for a match xxith him that he will make 142 fur the St. Joseph boj. country and perhaps some promoter would like to engage my services for that day after I get through with Flynn. ’'There's alxvays a better chance of getting the right sort of a purse on a holiday -than on the ordinary day. "By ‘right sort of a purse' I mean one that is well worth going for. Now, I'm getting $30,000 in Las Ve gas for working xvith Flynn, in ad dition to my training expenses of $l,lOO. As Flynn looks for the time being to be the very best of the white fighters who aspire to take the title axvay from me I naturally asked a big price for fighting him. John L. Graded Prices. “You know how John L. Sullivan used to grade the prices when he was fighting. He once said SIO,OOO for white men, negroes double price. He did that because he didn’t want to battle Peter Jackson for the title, because ,he knew pretty well what might happen to him if he did. And if there had been a promoter who would have paid the price at the time Sullivan wouldn't have made the match anyway. But I’ll show a different spirit. I’ll start any time Packey McFarland has agreed to make 133 pounds at 3 o’clock for a ten-round bout with Ad Wolgast in New York, and it is likely that the champion will accept. • * • 'l'hat Perry-Bronson chase is beginning to look like the chase between .Johnson and Langford. Perry is anxious to meet the St. Joseph boy, who seems to be continually dodging him. Bronson was anxious for the match until Perry cleaned op all the Southern welters and now he doesn’t seem to care for any of Jimmy's goods. Ivali Kinney, of Milwaukee, is now’ the lightweight champion <>f the navy. 'l’he New York Stale Boxing Commis sion has issued 43 referee licenses. * * « On account of receiving many good of fers here, Billy I’apke has postponed his frij. to Paris for several weeks. * ♦ ♦ Eddie McGoorty and Leo Houck will box in Philadelphia in the near future. Arrangements for Hits bout are being made, but no date has been set. Should McGoorty successfully defeat Houck he xvill then be matched with either Frank Klaus or Jack Dillon. < You can’t get beyond the domain of “The Winged- Pyramid.” The world over you’ll find Ford service sta tions near at hand—a distinct Ford advantage. Anri a rea son why you should place an early order for one of the seventy-five thousand new Fords to be sold this season. All Eords are Model T’s—all like except the bodies. The two-passenger runabout costs $590 i—the five-passenger touring ear $690- the delivery ear S7O0 —the town car $!l()(i—f. o. h. Detroit. completely equipped. Get latest catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree St.. Atlanta, or direct from Detroit fac tory. V I 11... III.I'HH.I ■ U".—11,11. .-Uli!'"'!"" _ 11. I..3">I|III HIIWHW I get the price. "More than this, I want t® say that I'll be ready for a battle with any of these ‘hopes' three weeks from this day. “There are good reasons for my retirement. One, and the chief one. is that I am going in business at 41 West Forty-first street, and will have a fine place there. Yea, I’m getting to the ag» now when I am sick of the game of training. But, mind you. I’m not saying that I can not train. Far from that, be cause I feel as easy about the work as ever I did. Doesn't Have to Fight. "As for the money end of the game. I have enough to keep forty wolves from the door for th.e re mainder of my life. So I don’t have to fight. Neither do I have to go into business, but I want to become a respectable citizen and like Chi cago better than any place I’ve ever been in. “Eighteen years In the fight game! That's long enough. Yes, you can bet your life that I’m sin cere about this retiring, business. No more for John Arthur/after next September." YALE’S SECOND CREW WILL ROW AT PHILLY NEW HAVEN. CONN.IMay 16.—The second crew, and not varsity eight, will be sent by Yale to/ the American regatta at Philadelphia ion May 26, ac cording to an onnouncefment made to day. Harvard, Pennsylvania, Prince ton and Columbia in this event. Yale’s crew will be (made up as fol lows: Bow, Allen; Na 2. Bryce; No. 3. Pease: No. 4, Ross; Nio. 6, Peck; No. 6, Freeman; No. 7, Ives; stroke, Beck; coxswain, Barger. FORMER ’cRACKEThOWARD PURCHASED BY RICHMOND '■Kid” Howard, the former Cracker utility man sold recently to Washington, has been turned over' to the Richmond club of the Virginia league by Manager Griffith. After looking Howard over tn Wash ington the Old Fox (decided that what Howard needed was a< lot of steady work with a fast club and therefore sent him to Richmond.