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Jacket Team Is in Athens
Determined to Redeem Itself
For Yesterday's Poor Effort
Bv Percy 11. Whiting.
• THEN.- GA. May 17 The
AX streets of Athens toda> look
X like a walking mass meeting
of Tech f&natks About all that is
movable in the way of Tech fan
dom i.« here for the tame this aft
ernoon —and the rest is coming to
morrow sure The second Tech-
Georgia game is undoubtedly the
loud murmur In these diggings now.
The town is buzzing with it. t'oj
lege, colors, the red and black pre
dominating of course, here in the
very home of th. Georgia fans are
seen on the people, on the automo
biles. on the horse« in the store
windows— everywhere For this is
Georgia-Tech day in Athens, and
ft s some festival.
The Tech team and the Tech
fanatics came over on the Seaboard
train that leave.- Atlanta at 7a. tn. ,
an unearthly hoil" co leave any
ahe’K. be it admitted. JudgrTT by
the antics of the Tellowjaeket play
ers. they might have been the vic
tors instead of the vanquished in
yesterdays game. They were as
chipper as you please, and while
they no doubt felt a lurking fear
of the outcome, they'kept it out of
sight, t'oaiit Heisman was imper
turbable. as usual. He has been at
It too long to be either unduly
elated or cast down by any turn
of baseball fate. He was a bit dis
heartened that hfs team did not
play its best in yesterday's game,
but was not at all inclined to let it
interfere with his appetite
There was much skylarking and
joking on the train This Is the
last outing of the Tech team this
year, and with examinations Im
pending and the end of the colleg..
year looming big beyond them, the
boys Were keen to enjoy them
selves and the situation.
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ANTE in Athens, the players cut
out their foolishness and got
busy. There was a quick hike to
the hotel, where lunch was eaten,
and the Jackets could barely hold
tn until time to get in the uniforms
and get started at practice.
It was easy to see that the At
amans Mere determined to redeem
themselves for the rather unfortu
nale shotting yesterday. They
don't mind being beaten, but they
rather object to losing «hen there
White Brothers Sure Form
Hot Team of Featherweights
]■ F 126 pounds «■>' th- feather
weight in America, as it Is in
England. two Chicago brothers,
Chai lie anti Jack White, would be
just now dividing the championship
tn a family waj When one looks
them ail over, from coast to coast,
this pat: of clew t. experienced,
mau'rts appear the classiest of the
lot around that poundage. Joe Rh
ers trimmed Jack and Joe Mandot
beat Charlie, but the Mexican sen
sation and the French baker boy
ate lightweights now. too big for
the White boys
Charlie White, who has. Ilk, his
brother, been boxing for some years,
is at his best right now. Last w in
ter he made 122 pounds for Johnny
Kilbane in ,< twelve-round bout
staged at Cleveland. He weighed
ISO when he started to train and
lopped over the required eight
pounds in seven days. He 'educed
a little too rapidly and told Man
ager Mate Lewis when he entered
the ring that lie thought his
strength was cm lie got off to a
bad start, but after a few rounds
had the Cleveland colt running and
backing away from ■tt hooks and
right uppercuts Charlie unques
tionably earned a draw- with John
ny. it was a no-decision bout. and.
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Mas so much bone mixed up with
I the playing as there was yesterday.
With the Georgia play Ors there
wa.< big rejoicing and a determina
tion to close out the Tech nine to
day. The Athenians returned home
date last night and. after a per
functory bluff at doing class room
work. they began preparations for
the game.
Th. Geoigia pitching situation is
so complicated now, with Wilder
I and Carl Thompson out of the
game, with Beddingfield out of ii
a- a r.-sult of yesterday's lumpy
shoving, and with Brannen in none
too good shape as a result of hav
ing been used yesterday, there is no
I telling who will be worked.
Il seems most likely that Bran
nen will lie sent right hack at Tech,
j He had the Jackets where he want
ed them yesterday and he believes
he can repeat today. He will doubt
less get a good work-out before
the game and if he is in trim will
be worked.
Tiie Tech pitcher is a matter of
grand uncertainty. Coach H. Isinan
when tackled for a verdict, said.
"Bless my soul. I’m sure I don't
know. We have such a wealth of
material, all mu,ch alike, that I
can't for the life of me tell. It
will depend on how the boy s warm
tip.”
j F th* weather continues good.
* there will be record crowds for
the games today and tomorrow.
Athens and the surrounding coun
try is absolutely wild on the sub
ject. and everybody who is any
body, and a lot who aren't, will be
here for the celebrations. If Tech
gets away with today's game, ft is
likely that a larger crowd will
come over from Atlanta for the de
ciding game Saturday than ever be
fore iny aded Athens for any base
ball event. Even if Tech loses to
day ami the third game does not
count as anything but an exhibi
tion. several hundred Tech men will
make the journey. It's a cinch,
for they have already bought their
tickets. But let Tech cop today,
and the S. aboard will wear out its
engines hauling the folks here.
Tech is going to make a most
di-perate effort to win today. They,
realize that they tossed off yester
days game, and are going tq try
to redeem themselves.
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of course, the Cleveland papers
gave the verdict to the home boy.
But they spent paragraph after
paiagraph paying tribute to the
ng wizandrv of the Chicago lad
Only a few weeks after that bout
Kilbanr won the featherweight
championship from Attell.
Has Whipped Good Boys.
Sim.- the Kilbane tight Charlie
White has laced such rough ones
as Boyo Driscoll, Battling Schultz,
Steve Ketchel, Kid Julian and
Johnny Dundee. As Harry Forbes
says, ho is fighting like a champion
th'-se days.
Charlie is at his best around 126
pounds But with plenty of time in
which to prepare he can scale 122
and tight like a tiger cat. He is
living in the hope that some day
Kflbane will consent to give him a
crack at the championship over the
twenty -round route on the coast
Jack Hardest Hitter.
Jack White stacks right up with
Charlie. Jack Is a harder hitter
anti perhaps a bit stronger, but
lacks the uncanny cleverness of his
kin. Jack took an awful lacing
from Rivers, bn: they weighed 12<
at 10 in the morning for an after
noon tight, and the Mexican jump
ed through the ropes a lightweight.
Jack stayed on the coast after this
defeat and begged for another
chance H- got it last Saturday
and made K ’".I by forcing Frankie
Conley to surrender in twelve
rounds
Jack also can do 122 in a pinch
he made 123 four hours before for
• onley and almost do himself jus
tice. He. too, wants a champion
ship match with Kilbane. and It
vvili tie interesting to see which of
the two brothers win- the race for
the big battle.
THE ATLANTA GEORGfAN AXD XEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 17. 1912,
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Tom Flanagan Again I
Will Have Charge of
Jack Johnson Camp
By Ed. W. Smith.
CHICAGO. May 17. Tom Flan
agan, Toronto hotel keeper
and one of the sharpest ath
letic experts in tlie Dominion's bor
ders, again will have charge of the
Jack Johnson training camp when
the big colored fellow gets into ac
tion about June 1 in training for
the Jim Flynn match.
Jack extracted a promise from
Tom on the train coming back from
Reno nearly two years ago. The
then new champion was bidding the
young Irishman good-bye just be
fore the train got into Chicago, be
cause Flanagan was going right on
to Toronto arid a mob was await
ing Johnson to welcome him at the
station. Hence there would be no
time for farewells after Chicago
was reached.
"Tom, you've done wonders for
me and I want you to promise me
that you'll be with me the next
time 1 fight, whether it is within
the next three months or the next
three years," Johnson said.
Tom Makes a Promise.
"If I have my health I'll be with
you any time you call me." returned
Flanagan, and with that they part
ed.
Johnson nudged Flanagan up
about his promise a short time ago
and Tom replied that he would be
ready for the word any time after
May 1.
As at Reno. Flanagnn will have
absolute control of the camp in
every- particular, Johnson agreeing
to bind himself to what Flanagan
says In the matter of work. etc. As
helpers, Johnson already has picked
out Perkins as his masseur and
• Marty Cutler, who was with him
part of the time during the torrid
times leading up to file Jeffries
fight. Marty will have to stand the
biggest part of the "rough work."
although Johnson at present plans
to use three or four others in the
camp for the sparring
Knows Boxing Too Wed. •
"Nobody can tell me anything
about boxing." Johnson said th--
other night in discussing his plans.
'■•Therefore. I am not seeking great
artists like Tommy Ryan and Jim
Corbett to help me. All I want Is
a capable staff of men who can
box with me w hen 1 want to box,
rough it when 1 choose that style
of work and a good rubber or two.
That'll fix m< fine for the camp
"Here's one thing that I'm going
to be careful about in training for
this Flynn tight. I'm going to have
nobody but young, smart, bright
fellows around the camp this time.
They said I was crazy to do this
before, but 1 proved that my idea
was the right one.
"I'm going to tram for speed this
time and won t pay so much atten
tion to the strength end of it. I
have enough of that naturally and
am figuring that speed and skill
with a good husky wallop now amt
then will In the medicine that will
put the damper on Mr. Flynn."
Fnder the present arrangement
of things, Johnson will not leave
Chicago until some time In June,
but expects to be safely established
in th<- Las V<sg;ts quarters within
two days after his departure from
Chicago.
Jack intends to lose no time aft
er lie gets to New MeXiio. jumping
1 into the training grind at once.
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Georgian's Baseball Expert
| Tells About Cobb's Fist Go
Ty Cobb has been suspended by Ban ’
Johnson, president of the American •
league, for whipping a spectator the
other day on the New York grounds.
The following humorous story of the
affair is well told by Damon Runyon,
one of The Georgian's baseball experts
in New York:
By Damon Runyon.
X TEW YORK, May 17. -Tyrus
Cobh, the famous Georgia
Jabber, leaped lightly into
the grandstand back of the Detroit
bench the other afternoon, speared
for himself A. Fan, and hastily
scrambled the features of same.
Rut wait'll you hear!
Tyrus, the two-handed, did not
know that a spectator to his fret
fulness was Mr. Bancroft B. John
son. president, and everything, of
the American league. Mr. Johnson
was sitting high up in the grand
stand, as large as life, which is
truly large, and after he had seen
what he had seen, he was observed
to breathe heavily, and to issue
w ords of speech.
Ty was engaged in his business
us Cobbing for Hughey Jennings, of
Detroit, and that accounts for his
presence in Frank Farrell's ball
yard. A. Fan went there to see a
good game of baseball, so the de
tectives have something to work on
in the way of motive a- far as lie j s
concerned.
A. Fan sat right back of the vis
iting ball players' bench, and T.
Cobb and the other Detroit players
claim that lie made offensive re
marks to the Southern gem. A. Fan
says and he is supported by oth
ers that he merely jested with the
Georgian about a fumble of Co’ob's
in the second inning, and that Cobh
replied with language that was
scarcely tit to eat. A. Fan's version
of tl/e trouble appears to be as well
supported as t 'obb's.
Ty Hops Over Barrier.
\nyway, Tyrus suddenly .boiled
over into the grandstand. In the
fourth inning, when the Tigers
were at bat, be hopped the low
barrier between the scats and the
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PAPKE CLAIMS BROKEN
HAND: SUBSTITUTE MILL
NEW YnRK, May 17 The attempt of
former Middleweight Champion Bilb
f’apke to come back has Been postponed
indefinite)' Papke s scheduled ten-round
hout with Eredd} Hicks, of Detroit. Mich .
at the National Sporting club last night
was called off because Papke claimed he
had broken his hand in training. A bout
between Harry Kutch and Bull \nder
sen iwn local fighters, was substituted,
Xnderson winning easilx
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C. W. L. PC.
I'nooga 16 11 .593 Atlanta .13 15 .464
B liaui . 20 14 .588 Mont. .14 17 453
M’mp’is 16 13 .552 N.Or'ns .12 17 .414
Mobile 18 15 .545 N'ville .10 18 357
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
• i Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C. W L .F.C.
J Ville 17 7.70 S C'bus. . 914 .391
! Vlbany 15 7 .682 Macon 815 .348
I S'vann'h 14 8 .636 C'bla. .5 17 227- I
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C I W L P C
Chicago .21 6 .778 Detroit .13 14 481
; Boston 16 8 667 f-hlla 19 12 455
I '"land II H 500 N York 615 286
I Wash. 12 12 500 St. Louis 617 261
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L P C W L F C
> York 19 » Louis.il 1* »"7
I C nat! 20 5 800 Boston ’io
I Chirag- 12 12 50n Fb > a '7 13 3=9>
F burg 913 .409 Brook! -n 715 3’B
Bowden stealing second. Sid Holland, the Tech second base
man. is shown putting the ball on the pilferer, but too late.
I field, and began shaking rights and
lefts out of his system full upon the
upturned face of A. Fan.
Some confusion resulted. "Silk"
o'Loughlin and Westervelt, the um
pires, hastened to the scene, re
marking to one another upon what
a busy place the Hill yard has be
come. All the ball players flocked
to the spot in large quantities—the
Detroit delegation being especially
energetic in flocking. Those of the
spectators who held ringside seats
moved closer.
Meantime. Mr. Bancroft B. John
son. of the American league, sat up
yonder, and took notes on Tv's de
scription for future, reference. It
was not a long mill, but a canvass
of the audience gives the popular
decision to Cobb by a plurality of
354. Ty managed to dra.w a little
blond from A. Fan, but A. Fan was
not injured.
Wanted Cobb Arrested.
Also, A. Fan, who was Claude
Lueker. secretary to former Sheriff
Thomas F. Foley, believed so
strongly in the justice of his own
cause, and the injustice of his as
sault. he wanted to have Cobb ar
rested. He left that particular por
tion of the stand with Tom Davis,
secretary of the Yankees, and Tom
O’Neil, of the special detective
service, while Ty left the game at
the earnest behest of O'Loughlin
and Westervelt, who love their
peace.
, And all this time Bancroft B.
Johnson eyed Tyrus Cobb with a
baleful glare, and made mental note
of his name and address.
Several spectators wont, to A. Fan
after the dust of battle had settled
on him -and offered to testify in
court against Cobb, but the fiery
Georgian finally left the field unmo
lested, and was cheered by the
< rowd. Manager Jennings and other
Detroit players claim they heard
the man who was assaulted using
offensive language to Cobb— and
there you are.
"There's no justification for a ball
play er going into the grandstand to
fight a spectator." Mr. Johnson is
quoted as saying.
!COBB SUSPENDED FOR
PUNCHING A SPECTATOR
PHILADELPHIA. May 17. Manager
Jennings has received notice from
President Johnson of th'- indefinite sus
pension of Ty Cobb, the star Detroit
outfielder. Jennings would not com
ment on the suspension, but Cobb said
that he thought he had been unfairly
dealt with.
"I should at least have had an oppor
tunity to state my case." said ''obit. "I
feel that a great injustice has been
don.',"
Cobb exptessed regret that he hail
struck '.i .-pe’etator at th-- American
league grounds in New York. He said
the spectator was the aggressor and
that the same man had annoyed him on
other occasions. "I tried to avoid tiie
man. but when his language became too
much for me to stand. 1 lost my head."
said i'obb
CUBS OUTBID CRACKERS
AND LAND PITCHER TONEY
CHI' AGO. May 17. —Louisville. ot
the American association, outbid At
lanta. of the Southern league, for tile
services of Pitcher Fred Toney, of the
' übs. the play er being turned ny ■ r to
' : lie t olonf -by Manage: < "hanc*
I'lanta wanted the pitchm- badly >od
was willing to pay a good piic« so.
bin bit' t7han.ee bad promised ! 'U’.s
a hur>»r. and a- Toney .- yy avail
able he was s°nt there.
: CRACKERS LET GOOD :
: CATCHER GO FOR A :
: BROKEN-DOWN VET:
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» Catcher John Kerr has been sold •
• by the Crackers to the Trenton •
• club of the Tri-State league, and •
• Pat Donahue, a poor, crippled •
o catcher, who in his palmy days •
o was no "bearcat." secured to take •
• the place of the clever, heady, good •
• Kerr. •
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Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Games
This is the Crackers' batting averages
after yesterday's double-header;
"'PLAYERS?
Hemphill. Isl 28 112 1161 38 .339
Graham, c' 7 13 1 4 .308
Sitton, p 5 I 0 I’3 .300
t>l tell. Hi 25 89 11 25 I .281
Ganley, rs i2O 69 10 : 19 .275
Alperman. 3b 29 103 18 26 .254
Bailee. If 29 104 22 ;26 ; .250
Kerr, ci 26 85 9 \ 19 .224
Dessau, pI 5 1 1.4 0 3 i .215
Sykes, lb 23 75 11 16 .213
East. 2b 19 61 4I 13 .213
Miller, plO I 9 4 4 .211
Paige, p. 7 21 1 2 I 4 1 .190
<>'Brien, ss 23 86 9 16 .1.86
Atkins, p 5 12 I 1 .083
Johns, p S 14 1 I 0 .000
GIBBONS STARTS TRAINING.
NEW YORK. May 17.--Welterweight
Champion Mike Gibbons, of St. Paul, who
defeated Paddy Lavin in Buffalo Tuesday
night, today began active training for his
ten-round contest with Sid Burns, wel
terweight champion of England, which
will take place at Madison Square Gar
den next Tuesday night.
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NATURAL LEAF 1
j CHEWING TOBACCO I
TORRID BATTLE
■ By GEORGIA
BUI I BONE PLAT
rpo the unusual individual who
1 can go to a ball game with
out caring particularly w,ho
wins, a college struggle is a great
form of pastime—and yesterday's
contest in particular would have
been stimulating and amusing. But
tn the red-hot roosters, to whom
victory meant everything desirable
and defeat everything undesirable
and more, the conflict was nerve
racking and heart-wrenching—and
eventually Georgia won. 6 to 4.
The game had as many crises as
a cheap melodrama. The first came
when the runless monotony was
broken in the fourth by the Jack
ets, who worked across a tally, by
dint of a base on balls, a wild pitch,
a sacrifice and an out. Then Geor
gia hammered out a brace in the
sixth. Tech evened it in the last of
the sixth. Georgia made two in the
seventh. Tech dittoed.
Enti ring the ninth, the score
stood 4 io 4. Then Tech put on a
capable, though not really brilliant,
exhibition of the way baseball
should not be played. Brannen,
the first man up. stung a fly to cen
ter field. It was pretty deep, but
Sloan could have got it. But he
didn't. Instead of scampering back,
he scampered in, and the ball went
ten feel over his head and netted
Brannen two bags. Then came the
mighty McWhorter, the Tech jinx.
He had just made three successive:
singles. It was an awful pinch for
Hubert, but he met it like a man.
tin three pitched balls he struck
out McWhorter, who took a hack
at each one of them. This was a.
fine piece of work for Hubert and
showed rare gameness. He piled
another good play on top of It when
lie flagged Hutchens' tough one and
retired the Georgia first baseman
at first.
Then he pulled three plays In suc
cession that cost the game. First,
he made a wild pitch, on which
Brannen went to third. Then he
walked Bowden <>f course. Bow
den lit out for second. Catcher
Montague snapped the ball to Hu
bert. Goodness knows what he was
supposed to do with it. But what
he did was to turn toward second
and fiddle around long enough to
allow the agile Brannen to get a.
tremendous lead for home. Then
he snapped the ball and Montague
made a marvelous stop and tag.
From the press box It looked an
out, but Umpire Turner ruled that
it was safe, which stuck. Twitty's
single scored Bowden, but it was
not necessary for Brannen, who -had
taken up the hurling assignment
when Beddingfield blew up, handled
the Jackets without gloves in the
last of the ninth, and they didn’t
make any more runs, or even got a
man to first.
M'FARLAND TO MEET MORAN.
<'lll< ’At.it>. May 17. Packer McFarland
and Owen Moran, the English scrapper,
are !• meet some time in June before
Toni Carey's Vernon. Cal., club, accord
ing to advices received today by friends
of the Chicago lad. The weight agreed
on is 135 pounds at 3 o’clock, a figure
that gives Paekey no trouble.