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The fresh crop looks as formidable as the oftk and new reputations are likely to be made on the strength of the damp sling in 1912. Some managers are not particu larly. partial to the spitballers, but they are willing to have a good one around if they can get him. The talk of legislation against the de livery has practically died out, and it has long since come to be recog nized as an institution in the game. The.' are developing spitballers now, Just as they develop curve ball .pitchers. .Manager MqGiaw, of the Giants, is one of the successful club lead ers who is supposed tn be rather opposed to the wet delivery, and yet he went to further lengths with a. spitball tosser than he ever did with any other man again, sim ply because he recognized his greatness ns a pitcher, and his. value in winning games for the New York club. This was’ "Bugs" Raymond, the erratic Chicagoan, who McGraw declares has the greatest natural pitching grace of Any heaver he has ever seen. Ray mond relied almost entirely on th spitti'r. Raymond Great Wet Flinger. With’ his ability, Raymond should ’have achieved the fame and for tune of any pitcher ever in the game—and his ability consisted of a superb mastery of the spitter. McGraw now has another spht bafi pitcher and a star in Charley Tft'greau, the Giant who is ranked . with Matln u son and Marquarcl. Until he mastered the spitball Tes • MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELS S t r t c t ly confidential. Unredeemed pledges la diamonds for sale. 30 per cent less than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul A May.) 1! 1-2 PEACH: REE ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat Bank Bldg Both Phones 1534 WE BUY OLD GOLD F"RLEF” RHEUMATISM CURE Old. Deep-Seated Cases Take Notice! 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This coupon cut from The Atlanta Georgian is good for one sample of Smith’s Blood and Liver Syrup mailed in plain package. Simply fill in 'our name and address on dotted lines below and mail to SMITH'S BLOOP' SYRUP CO., 34 Wall St.. At lanta. Ga I I i reau was not much of a pitcher. H» was signed by McGraw when he was with Shreveport, in the Texas league, largely on his size. Then he was turned over to To ronto, in the International league. He was apparently unable to get any "stuff" on his fast ball, and he had no durve when McGraw first took hold of him, out he com menced picking up the spitball de livery, and McGraw encouraged him in that, as he saw little hope for him with the other slants. To day Tesrcau has developed a Splen did spitter. “Buckey" .O'Brien. th« Boston Red Sox pitcher, who promises tn lie a sensation, uses the spithall freely, although it is said that half the time he merely bluffs at it, masking his mouth with bis 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 "t'y" 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. Mai-C O'Toole, the $22.500 beauty purchased by Pittsburg last sea son, is a Spitball heaver. Hi.- value . for some tiim 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 hooks baited I with the latest improved southpaw bait. • but tlie biting has not been very strong yet. due perhaps <> the high water. Frank almost landed Pleister from the Cubs, but i Milwaukee just beat That Dutchman to the Culj. i » • ♦ There is no danger of any legislation against the spitball so long as the Ameri can league has so many good ones The i list includes Walsh, I'hieagn; Gy .Morgan, 1 Athletics; Russell Ford, New York; Joe Lake. St. Louis; Buck O'Brien, Boston; Bill Steen, Naps. < ♦ * • The \ <»ls have let <>ut !><»<• Seabaugh. 1 one of the veterans of the game in the South. * • ♦ Three* <lean-up hitlers in the major 1 Sagues now are recent graduates from the Southern league. The list includes Jackson with the Boston Braves, North ern ’with Brooklyn, anil Pratt with the St. Louis Browns. • ♦ In a game that lasted almost three ■ hours recently Kansas City and Milwau kee hurlers issued 20 passes. * • • I'ip McCarthx. Indianapolis utility man. has been passed down to Wilkesharre. ♦ * • Irving Higganbolham has been released by Toledo to Portland. Qregon ♦ * • Tim Savannah duh is hatting .308. The leading hitter is a gent named Glenn Colby. ♦ * * Harvey Bussey, who trained with the ! Washington club in Atlanta two years 1 ’ 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 I bis credit with th** Reds. That s better I than he did with Chattanooga last year. 'Che famous Jack Knight-Gabby Street trade seems to have panned out about as • usual. Knight is so bus' taking den ‘ tistry examinations and such that he ■ isn't worth a hang to the Nationals, while Street isn't showing mm-h and may ’ go back to the minors ♦ ♦ -» Hein* l Berger. Mobile hurler. is likely ' • to wind up eventuallv at Akron. ' I x • » » The second raid on baseball bettors at Philadelphia netted two wagon loads of victims. They are making gambling an unhealthy outdoor pastime in Sleepv ville ♦ • • i Heine I’ietz is getting so good in hi-'- old age that Hank <»'Da' is threatening” i to use the veteran coacher in a game soon. « • « Edward Lewis, first baseman three \ears ago for the Addison dub. has just mat ried 1 kidie w eighs 42*1 H if- bi ide s ' a dainty little thine, totaling a mere 30°, I avoirdupois. ♦ • • 1 ■ Sam Mertes is out of baseball. He lias THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS: THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1912. spitball pitchers, carrying more than /tn\ other club in the big leagues. They have Russell Ford, one of the greatest of them all; George McUonrfell, Ray Fisher and Jack Quinn. They are accounted above the average. Ford's mastery of the spitball is nothing short of uncanny, and only Ed Walsh, the daddy 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 t better than any in the National, and half a dozen others in the younger or ganization could be named who outclass ‘heir fellow spitters of the other league. Thei'f seems to be no ria son for this except that the old organization does not tiave the hick In picking up the spitters that the other has. The old argument that the spit ball sfhortens a .pitcher's career in baseball is still advanced, but the long service of Ed Walsh shows that there may al least be excep tions tn the rule, and it is it ques tion whether the spitballers who i have come ami quickly gone would have lasted any longer if they stuck Io the old styles. tailed as an umpire on the coast and h.as dropped out entirely. ♦ ♦ • Heinie Heitnuiller. who might have been a Cracker if he had so desired, has just been 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 Kulz, last year with Wilkes barre and Utica. who was tried out by the Athletics this spring, has been sent to Allentown • • * <>n seeing an announcement in Secre tary Farrell's bulletin: “Ed Goes, from Youngstown." some fresh guy remarked, “He sure does." • « * Frank < ovens, once a Turtle, is desired by the Phillies Frank is with Minneap olis now. but may go even to the luck less 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 experts to have Charles Tompkins, now at the Washington and Lee university, back here in a few days. Tompkins was the heaviest hitting pitcher in the league lasi year. Pilcher Charles Reese has been suspended for the present because he has not rounded into form Pitcher James Allen has been released to the Hastings. Nebr . tram of the Mink league. "Pop" Eyler. former Southern league pitcher, who got "ff badly in his first tryout here Sat to-day. nas been placed with the Green wood. M’ss.. team in the Cotton Stales league The tegular pitching «ialY of the Mountaineers is now composed of Finch. Luhrson. Wylie and Rusa. NAT BUTLER HAS RACED 20 YEARS ON STRETCH Nat Butler, bike rider well known in Atlanta and the South, has just cele brated bis 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 open in three «ml four thousand contests. Butler has probably not won as many »«res a- Frank Kramer, who for eleven vears has been ihe champion nf Amer ica. or Thorwald Ellegaard. who has copped the six world’s championships, hut he is not far behind. CRACKERS AND BARONS CLASH IN TWO GAMES BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. May IS.—As a result <»f yesterday's rain, which brought to a timely death what looked like a joke ball game, the Crackers will close their firAt 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 he op posed Foxen. a <'racket 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 Crackefs' runs w ere made also on gifts, and both tejtms 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 ONTECHNICALITY BIRMINGHAM, ALA , May Ift.—The Tech track team may be awarded se<‘- ond place in the recent Birmingham Athletic Flub track and field meet be cause of the disqualification of R. <'. 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 <m that ground was ineligible to compete. His disqualification would put Smith, of Tech, first, and Goree, ~f Te. h. second and give the Atlantans 32 points in the meet, only one point loss than the'Bir mingham Athietic (Tub made in win ning first place. ‘ s CAPONI AND GORMAN FIGHT A FAST DRAW CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. May 18. • Tnny Capnni. of Chicago, and Joe Gor man, of Loa Angeles, fougb eight rounds to a draw before the Southern Athletic duh. The battle was very fast for mid dleweight?. <’aponi proved the superior in the in fighting. hut Gorman employed a left jab to the fa<e and head that was very ef ’fertive. Neither man was able to send his opponent to the floor, though each slag i gered his man al intervals. In ibe second main bout. Terry Nelson, of Chicago, vs «»n a clear decision over Jack Dougherty, of this city. Dougherty was groggy at the finish. PAPKE AND HICKS BATTLE IN GOTHAM RING TONIGHT NEW Y<»RK. May 16. Ex-Middleweight Champion Billy Papke will make an ef fort to “come back’’ ’onigbt when he will box ten rounds with Freddie Hick.s. of Detroit. Mich., al the National Sporting club Some doubt was expressed as to whether the state boxing commission woubl allow the contest to go on because of the investigation which is being made into the comiuet <»f she dtib The inquiry into'the arliorf of Daisy Haley; referjee. tn giving a decision at the National'dub 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 Maiist 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 YORK. May 16. Tom Dwyer, the English heavyweight who recently in vaded this country, believes that he is > the original hard luck man and his • friends are predicting that be will fight no more in thia country At the end «»f the third round of bis bout with George i Ashe, of Philadelphia, at the Sharke.’ Athletic Huh last night Dwyer fainted in his corner and could fight no more, ’n his fir»t contest* in thta country two months ago Dwyer broke his arm. ‘Til Fight ’Em All, One a Week”—Jack Johnson -("••I- Champion Makes a Big Offer to the White Hopes Ry Ed. W. Smith. CHICAGO. May IS.— "Bring 'em all on. one a week for as long .a,s they last. IT) \\Jiin the en tire lot. but I must hurry, because I surely will retire at midnight next Labor day." *Thls was the confident statement made yesterday by Jack Johnson while discussing his plans for the immediate future. “There are a lot of 'w hite hopes' around, eh? Well. If thev can cmn niand any backing in the way <>f purses I'll take a shot at all of them w ithout exception one week apart for as many weeks as theta are fighters or as long as the inducements last." he continued. "That's how < onfident I feel that I can (lean up the entire lot." Johnson Feels That Way. And there isn't a bit rif- doubt ahottt'the real feelings of the b:g fellow or his confident way of look ing at the general situation. “Why am I setting the date of my retirement on Labor day?" he ‘ repeated. “Simply because that is a good fighting day aJI over the |news from ringside Frank Whitney has just received a tele gram from St. Joseph offering him three bouts I here. The promoters tried to get Joe Mandot for Whitney, but the New Orleans hoy said “nix <)wen Mnrnn will bp the Fighting (’arpentcr’s oppo nent in one of the contests * • • Mike Gibbons and Kid Burns, a new comer from England, will box ten rounds in Madison Squate Garden May 21 • • • Eddie McGoorty will meet the winner of the Gibbons-Burns bout about the first of June. It is likely that Matty Baldwin will bp seen in' the ring with Vi Wojgast before very long. When Baldwin heard the \\«>l - match bad fallen through hr wired the Garden A in New York, stating that hq would like to meet the champion. * * V Cyclone Johnny Thompson nas just re turned from Australia ami is seeking matches with E-ldie McGoorty and Frank Klaus • * * Digger Danley, the Engl’sn bantam champion, is now talking “come hack stuff He :s seeking a match with John nv Coulon. » r # '« llrpnrts from New York say .Matt Wells ami Owen Moran have signed up to bat tle ten rounds in Madison Square Gar den May ?0. < * » Janies .1. Corbett is of the opinion that I'aeke' .McFarland is the onlj light weight in the world who would have a chanee against Wolgast. Joe .Man<lot and Ray Temple have been matched to box eight rounds be fore the National A in .Memphis May 20 . . No. ''ar! Mojgis isn't going to retire vet. Morris says he will rest up for awhile ami 'ill again enter the pugib*tit . ranks. Carl's excuse for his bad show ing against Luther McCarty a few nights ago is that it was a frame-up bj M< - Carty's followers and the city oftleials where the bout was held/ • • • |i will be a Mexican against .in Amer iean when Kid Mi'-ludl. of El I’'iso, and . Jack Herrick. <»f Ghicag<>, mingle hi the old bull ring in Juarez <>n Sunday* Billy Papke and Frank Klaus have been matched f<>r a six-round bout, to l>c staged in Pittsburg before long Battling Nelson is planning a t<mr <u the world. The Nelson party will be composed of the Battler, Frank Gotrh and Harry Lewis. I’aukey McFarland is in r<<eipt of an offer from Los Angeles boxing promoters to meet Frank Picato. who recently re ’ turned from Australia, - where he met many topnotchers. • • • Jake Abel and Terry Nelson an train ling in Chattanooga for their ten-round go at the Atlanta A here May 25 • * • ► Tony t'aponi. who has fought most of the lop-notchers. including Sam Langfor<L » says Jim Flynn hasn t a ghost of a l iiapce i against Jack Johnson July I t’aponi !»♦•- lieves Langford’ is the logical man to fight' Johnson. Mik? Gibbons say s he has just foupd nit i that he 'an make 112 pounds easily and ) that if Ray Bronson is anixi"us -lor .< ) match with him that he wflf- make 142 for the St Joseph boy. country’ and perhaps some promoter would like to engage my sei vibes for that day after I g<T through with Flynn. “There's always a hettei 'hanep of getting the right sort of a purse on a holiday than on the ordinary day. “By right sort of a purse’ I n.oan »nc that is well worth going for. # Now, I’m getting in Las - gas for winking with Flvnn. in ad dition to my training expenses of $l,lOO. As Flynn looks for the time being to be the very be-t of the white fighters who aspire to take the title away from me I, naturally ask“d a big price for fighting him. John L. Graded Prices. “You kno" | lo \x John L. Sullivan Used to grade the pricey when he was tighimg. He onee'sald $10.0'»o for while men, negroes double price. ■He did that because h< want to lldle J’ci<T .JacJvsMU for the title r-because he-. kne,\\ £ laelty yvell what , mighl happvn to him if.he. did. And it there had b* en a pronrotei .who w«»uid have paid the price at the time Sullivan wouldn’t have made the match anyway. Bui I'll show a different spirit. I'll start any timb Pa< key McFarland has agreed i<» make 133 pounds at o'clock l'<»r a teu-round bout with Ail Wolgast in New York, ami it is likely that the champion will accept. 'iJiat Perry-Bronson chase is beginning to Took like the chase between Johnson and Langford. Perry is anxious Io meet the Si. Joseph boy, who seems to l»< continually’ dodging him. Bronson was anxious for the match until Perry < leaned up ail the Southern welters ami now h* doesn’t seem to « are for any of Jimmy s goods. Ivah Kintiey. of Milwaukie, is now the lightweight champion <»f the navy * * * The .New York Stair Boxing (’ommis sum has issued I", referee licenses. « * • <>n account of receiving many good of fers here. Billy Papke has postponed his trip to Paris for several weeks. • * ♦ I'Mdie MeGnoriv anil Leo Hou<k will box in 'PhilaMelpiiia in the neat' future. Arrangement.* f<*r this bout are being ma<le,.but no dale has been set. -Shmihl Xb'bxtrix sueeess fully defeat Houek he "ill then he matched with either Frank Klaus or Jack I'llion. You can’t get beyond the domain of “The Winge d'- Pyramid.”- The world over you’ll find I'ord service sta tions near at hand—a distinct Ford advantage. .Anda rea son why you should place an early order tor one of the seventy-five thousand new • Fords to be. sold this season. All Eni'tls tii'o Ald'li‘l T s —all like exi'ppt the htidies. The two-passenger rnnaboiit ousts $•'>!!(I Ihe live passenger toiu'inm ear S6!M) the delivery car #7<Ml the town ear sllOll f. o. b. Detroit. completely !,‘t|iii|ipi‘d. < let latest cat all-in from Ford Motor I'onipanv. 311 I’eachtree St.. Atlanta,- or direct ITom Detroit far- > t—BTCT—Wl—am I . ■ l I,H in il III' |«|| - —i-- ”■ 'rey ■* Biqnßß I get the price. "Mon that) this. I want to -ay that I'll bo ready for a battle with ally of these 'hopes' three 'weeks from this day. "There ate good reasons-for my retirement, one. and the chief one. is that 1 am going in business at 41 \\Tst Fort.'-first street, and will have a line place there. Yes, I’m getting to the age now when I ana sick of the game of training. But. mind you. I'm not saving that I can not train. Far from that, be cause' I feel .1- easy about the work as ever I did. Doesn't Have to Fight. "As for the money end of the game. 1 have enough to keep forty wolves front the door for the 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 i i-spei table citizen and like Chi cago better than any place I’ve ever been in. "Eight -i-n years in the fleht game! That's long enough. Yes. you can bet your life that I'm sin cere about this retiring business. No mon for John Arthur after next September." YALE'S SECOND CREW WILL ROW AT PHILLY NEW HAVEN, CONN. May-!«.—The sei ond crew, and not Illi- varsity eight, will in sent h.v Yelf 1,1 the American regatta at Philadelphia on May 25. ac eorditig to an onnuum •■inent made to day. Harvard. Pennsylvania, Prince ton and Columbia will compete in thia event. Yale's 'l'-w will bo made up as fol lows: Bow, Allen; N<>. 2. Brvce; No. 3. I’ei-i . No I Ross. No. 5, Peck; No. 6, Freeman; No. 7 Ives; stroke, Beck; ■coxswain, Barger. FORMER CRACKER HOWARD PURCHASED BY_ RICHMOND "Kid" Ib'Wiird. lite former f'raeken utibli man sold recently to Washington, has been turned over to the R'l-lmtond chili of the Virginia league by. Manager Griffith. After looking Howard over in Wash, ingion tin ''ld Fox decided thai what Howard m edml was a lot ol steady work with a i.ist - lull and therefore sent him tu Richmond. r 11