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MONTGOMERY, ALA., May 20.
That it doesn’t pay a pitcher to get hits
was brilliantly demonstrated here yes
terday afternoon. Kellogg. Montgom
ery's erratic twirler, managed to get
hits both times up. Once he got all the
wa> around. Another time he got to
the third station. Both times he had to
run his blooming legs off. The result
was that he was chased to a point of
exhaustion and he weakened As soon
as he did the Cracker club got to him
and he was on the run, full tilt, when
Manager Dobbs extracted him from his
dilemma and sent in the reliable Joey
Bills to finish it out. Joey held the
Crackers safe and as the local players
found’ Paige easy they rang up a vic
tory, 9 to 4.
The Billikens piled up enough runs in
the first and second innings to win the
game. After that they* just breezed
along and watched the heroic but en
tirely futile efforts of the Crackers to
deliver the goods.
The hitting of the Billikens was
amazing. Eleven hits were made out of
30 times at bat, and among them were
onP two-base hit, one three-base hit
and a home run. Paige also put a home
run to his credit. -Piggy." O'Brien,
East mid Alperman made all the Crack
er hits. Bailey, Graham. Alperman and
Ganley scored the runs.
PAT DONAHUE. CATCHER.
IS DUE HERE ON TUESDAY
Pat Donahue, the new Cracker catch
er. will report in Atlanta Tuesday aft
ernoon.
Manager Hemphill believes that he
has a winner in this man and expects
that he will strengthen the team.
It is not improbable, however, that
there may be more changes in the
Cracker catching staff before it finally
•hakes down to normal.
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LATEST HOPE HAS
DEEN LEADING
LIFE DE HOBO
By W. W. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 20.--A
new star has appeared in the
pugilistic firmament. He tum
bled big Carl Morris and his name
is Luther McCarthy. Sounds more
like the name of a historian or a
revivalist than a bruiser, doesn’t it?
Anyhow. McCarthy is the "latest
wheeze," as the Britishers say. A
fellow who was connected with the
Morris-McCarthy disaster In some
way sent telegrams—marked night
press rates, collect—to several
Western sporting editors, the con
cluding sentence in the majority of
the dispatches being "the name of
Luther McCarthy 'will soon be a
household word."
It is to wonder if Luther would
not have it otherwise. So many
things come to be known as house
hold words—principally cleaning
compounds, breakfast foods and
fireless cookers —that it seems as
though McCarthy's threatened
greatness should be suggested by
some more inspiring figure of
speech.
If we can not disentangle Luther
from the merchandise in any other
way, let us continue to play on a
much twanged string and call him
the newest thing in white hopes.
McCarthy, if those who appear to
know something about him have
not' been over-enthusiastic, may
possibly fill a long-felt want. And
the strange thing about it is that
there ate so many persons at wide
apart points who claim the distinc
tion of discovering McCarthy and
steering him against the game of
the ring.
One of these we have in San
Francisco, one Douglas G. Hertz,
who says he was known as D G.
Cox in the sporting world, and who
avers that he saw fighting possi
bilities in the newest hope before
McCarthy himself even knew that
h® was destined to be a fighter.
According to Cox. ho saw Mc-
Carthy for the first time when the
latter was doing a weight-lifting
act. with some small show in a Mis
souri town
"He was such a splendidly devel
oped specimen of humanity that I
became interested in him." said
Cox. "I talked with him and ques
tioned him as to bis leanings to
ward pugilism. He told me he had
had but one fight, and that he had
won It. Being a boxer myself. T
arranged to spar with him at a
gymnasium I frequented and I soon
saw that he had the makings of a
champion in him.
"He is barely twenty years old,
stands six feet four and is as strong
as a bear. He is without doubt the
strongest man I ever set eyes on,
and I do not believe it is possible
for any one to knock him out. He
had. a few fights while I was inter
ested in him and won them easily.
Then my business took me out of
the country and 1 lost sight of him.
I always felt that once he got prop
erly started on a pugilistic career
he would create a sensation.
"It’s my belief that he will beat
every man he is sent against and
become the champion of the world.
I have #n idea McCarthy has In
dian blood in him. His father is a
wealthy business man. but Luther,
while he does not dissipate, always
Jived the life of a hobo, wandering
from place to place."
Just fan<>. We used to think it
added a zest to a champion's life
story to know that be sprung from
,i boiler shop or bank desk, but
what of » fellow who is a confirmed
hob',', an itinerant cannon-bail toss
cr and who has Indian blood tn
him" The crowd’ along th» vaude
ville circuit will sureb h* rraz l to
‘«c hire •* u - ever g«-‘« «e Mie
of the tree.
TTTE A TLA NT \ GP.ORGT AN AN D NEWS • As OND AV.M A V 20. 1912.
Union of Ball Players Will Result From Cobb Row
•J* • 4* 4* • 4* 4* • 4* 4* • 4* 4* • 4* 4* • 4*
Baseball Trust Takes a Hot Fight on Its Hands
By Percy FL Whiting.
THE baseball trust will soon
find itself opposed by a play
ers’ union. No man can say
what the ultimate and complete
outcome of the Cobb rueus will be.
But the thing that is as certain as
election day Is that a union of the
players must come. The players
have needed a union for a long
time. Os late they have had to de
pend on the fairness of a few men.
mostly rich, for everything—their
’’wage scale,” the conditions of
their contract, playing conditions,
playing rules—everything. And you
all know what chance the average
citizen has at the hands of any
small group of men. mostly rich.
There is a baseball trust. It has
been fairly run, in the main, and
the players have received a rea
sonably fair deal. As the years roll
on. though, the players—if unpro
tected—would slowly but surely get
a little the worst of it each year
until the baseball trust had them
all where it wanted them. There is
one way for the players to avoid
this, and this is by the organization
of a strong union. It can easily be
done, and it will be done.
Once unionized, the ball players
could get anything they wanted
that was within reason. For a
strike of all players in organized
hall would bring the magnates to
tinSe on the run.
A baseball union will grow out cf
the Cobb incident, sure as fate.
* • •
r\F course, the popular way of
treating this Cobb matter is to
laud the Georgia lad for his act of
Jumping on a speculator and to
make a great hero out of him.
Sober consideration of the mat
ter demonstrates that Cobb had re
dress under the laws of baseball
and those of the state of New York
for the insults of the man he at
tacked. And. heaven knows, as civ
ilization advances we are getting
further and further away from the
good old fist-and-gun method of
settling disagreements.
On the other hand the provoca
tion was great and Cobb has never
heen one to hold himself In hand
when the circumstances provoked
him to anger.
What does loom big; though, is
that the baseball players are enti
tled to better protection from the
• gibes and abuses of fans than they
get. All states are doubtless pro
vided with laws to punish those
who use foul and abusive language.
The arrest and prosecution of a few
fans who overstep the bounds
would do worlds of good.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
The hardest thing about the Atlanta
team to figure is the pitching staff. There
isn’t a man on it who hasn’t pitched su
perlatively good: and. alas, superlatively
poor, baseball Paige has done some of
the best work tiiat the league has seer,
this year. Yet yesterday the Billikens
fairly romped over him.
♦ ♦ •
A dispatch from Montgomery, narrat
ing the happenings of yesterday's game,
stated that Kellogg 'Tiade two hits each
time up.” Thar was surely "some clout
ing.” The average player is satisfied to
get one hit each time up. Kellogg's bat
ting average on the game must have, been
2.000.
• » •
George Suggs out pitched Red Ames in
Cincinnati yesterday and the Reds nosed
McGraw's Giants out of first place in the
National league chase.
« • •
I’mnire Pfennlnger is another who
dbesn t mind changing his decisions. In
a »ame at New Orleans yesterday, after
calling Netzer out on his attempt to steal
home changed his mind, called him safe
and presented Memphis with a thirteen
- game
• ♦ •
Another tbirteen-inning game was
placed in thn Southern, t'h's one in Mo
bile. and it non by the Gulls from
< hattanooga with Demare'- pitching In
thirteen innings A! allowed 5 hits Chap
pell* pitched a good game for the Look
outs
Baseball has become great In
America because it is a decent
sport. Do you suppose It will stay
great if the patrons are to expect
now and then that a player will
climb over into the stands and
whale a spectator? Or that spec
tators will be allowed to use foul
language? If such things are to be.
ladies will desert the game. And
when their support is withdrawn
baseball begins its decline.
The solution of the trouble Is for
the owners of baseball teams to af
ford the players protection from
abusive spectators. This can be
easil.v done. Such protection will
go double —it will protect fans and
players alike from foul and pro
fane language. It will remove from
the players any excuse for attacks
on patrons.
The first time baseball sinks to
the pianb of prize fighting, wres
tling and the like, its decline begins,
it behooves not only baseball mag
nates, who have their money tied
up, but players as well, who have
their livelihood involved, to see that
the game la kept decent. Once it
becomes a pastime too coarse to be
worthy the patronage of ladies its
decline begins,
• • •
z"'OLLEGE boys used to have
pleasant little ways with each
other a few years ago. A bunch
from one college would go to an
other college to witness a game.
. They went always prepared for a
flgjit and usually they got It. At
tllfe very best, the supporters of the
opposing teams would hurl billings
gate and assorted vituperation at
each other. Usually they took the
thing in earnest, though, and hurled
bricks, rocks, bottles and such.
Free fights were a regular occur
rence. This isn’t an exaggeration.
It hardly puts the situation strong
enough.
Gradually there has been a change
in sentiment and a desire has
sprung up to treat visitors from
other colleges as guests. This
change was well shown in the re
cent Tech-Georgia series. Through
the great work of the athletic au
thorities and the alumni of both
colleges, with occasionally some
help from the newspapers, the best
kind of feeling has been developed.
This was particularly apparent
when the big delegation of Tech
men went to Athens Saturday.
They were most royally entertained
and most courteously treated.
When, after th® third straight
defeat of the Jackets, the Tech
band and the Georgia band
marched shoulder to shoulder
through the streets of Athens, l®ad
ing a parade of Tech rooters, who
Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Gamej
This is the way the Crackers are hit- j
ting through yesterday s game:
PLAYERS. - I G. IAB.f R. I H. I AV.
Hemphill, cf: 31 1123 I 17 |4O .325)
Sitton, p 5 10 1 3 .300
O'Dell, tb 28 M 12 27 .273
Alperman. 3b 32 114 120 31 .272
Ganiev, rs 23 78 12 20 .258
Bailev. If 32 HI 25 27 .243
Graham, c 10 22 3 5 .227
Dessau, p ' 5 14 0 3 .215
Sykes, lb 23 75 11 i I fi ’ 213
East. 2b 22 71 6 15 21 1
Paige, p 8 25 2 5 .200
Miller, p 12 25 4 5 .200
O’Brien, ss‘ 26 198 10 19 I .194
Atkins, p 5 12 I : 1 .083 |
Johns, p| 9|17 ' 3 1 1 .059
BASEBALL
TUESDAY
ATLANTA IS. MONTGOMERY
Game Called 3:30
were showered with cheers rather
than brickbats, the older inhabi
tants of the Classic City rubbed
their eyes and agreed that indeed
times had.changed.
Let’s Go Swimming in Piedmont!
bThe beautiful lake is now ready for
the people. The park commissioners
h have spent several thousand dollars
ft getting the lake in shape for the
B- bathing season. The inclosure is
H about three times larger than last
\ year. Hundreds of streams of pure,
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IN BULL RING BOXERS
FIGHT 20-ROUND DRAW
EL PASO, TEXAS, May 20.—Blight
ing in a bull ring, the scene In years
past of many sanguinary encounters
between bulls and matadors, Packcy
Mitchell, of El Paso, and J%ck Herrick,
of Chicago, went twenty rounds Sun
day afternoon to a draw.
It was the first fight of any earthly
consequence held here in years.
PLAY STARTS SATURDAY
FOR DR. HINMAN TROPHY
Tlie qualifying round for the Dr. T.
P Hinman golf trophy will be played
over the East Lake course of the At
lanta Athletic club on Saturday, play
ers qualifying according to their net
scores.
The first and second rounds of match
play must be played by May 30, the
semi-finals by June 1 and the finals, 38
holes in the first flight and IS holes In
the others, by June 2.