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BALL HARD. BBT
GAMEJSLDST
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
way 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 Palg? 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
one two-base hit. one three-base hit
and a home run. Paige also put a home
run to his credit. 'Piggy," O'Brien,
East and Alperman made all the Crack
er hits. Bailey. Giaham. 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
BEEN LENDING
LIFE OF HOBO
By W. \V. 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 are 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 tn 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
he was destined to be a fighter.
According to Cox, he saw M< -
Earthy for the first .time when the
latter was doing a weight-lifting
act with some small show in a Mis
souri town.
"He nas such a splendidly devel
oped specimen of humanity that T
became interested in him.” said
Cox. "T talked with him and ques
tioned him as to his leanings to
ward pugilism. He told me hr had
had but one fight, and that he had
won it. Being a boxer myself. I
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. Ho
had a few fight? while 1 was inter
ested in him and won them easily.
Then my business took me out of
the country and I lost sight of him.
I always felt that once he got prop
erly started on a pugilistic career
he would create a sensation.
''lt's my belief that he will beat
every man he is sent against and
become the champion of the world.
1 have an idea McCarthy has In
dian blood in him. His father is a
wealthy business man, but Luther,
while he does not dissipate, always
lived the life of a hobo, wandering
from place to place."
Jus: fancy. We used to ihink it
added a zest to a champion's life
story io know that he sprung from
a boiler shop or bank desk, but
« hat of a fellow who is a confirmed
hobo, an itinerant cannon-ball toss
er and who ha? Indian blood in
him'.' The crowds along the vaude
ville circuit will -ureli be crazt to
' r him If hr ever gets to the top
of the tree.
TFTE ATLANTA HFOPGIAN AND NPWSt MONDAY. MAY 20, 1912.
Union of Ball Players Will Result From Cobb Row
Baseball Trust Takes a Hot Fight on Its Hands
By Pprey 11. Whiting.
THE baseball trust will soon
find itself opposed by a play -
ers' union. No man can say
what tlie ultimate and complete
outcome of the Cobb rucus 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 tlie 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
ball would bring the magnates to
time on the run.
A baseball union will grow out of
the Cobb incident, sure as fate.
• * *
f\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
been 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
w ould do w orlds 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 Home of
the best work that the league has seen
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 “made two hits each
time up." That was surely “some clout
ing." The average player is satisfied to
get one hit each lime up. Kellogg’s bai
ting average on the. game must have been
2.000.
• • •
George Suggs outpitched Red Ames in
Cincinnati yesterday and the Reds nosed
McGraw's Giants out of first place in the
National league chase.
• • *
Empire I’fenninger is another who
doesn't mind changing his decisions. In
a game at New Orleans yesterday, after
• ailing Netzcr out on his attempt to steal
home changed h»s mind, (ailed him safe
and presented Mernphis with a thirtecn
inning game.
• • •
Another t hirteen-inning game was
played in the Southern, this one tn Mo
bile. and it war won by the Gulls from
I 'hattanooga, with ftemaree pitching In
thirteen Innings Al allowed :> hits. Chap
pelle pitched a good game for the Look
|outa.
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 wilt
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 ow ners of baseball teams to af
ford the players protection from
abusive spectators. This can be
easily 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 plane 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 is kept decent. Once it
becomes a pastime too coarse to he
worthy the patronage of ladles its
decline begins.
• • •
pOLLEGE 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
fight and usually they got it. At
the very best, the supporters of the
opposing teams would burl billings
gate and assorted vituperation at
each other. Usually they took tlie
thing in earnest, though, and hurled
bricks, rocks, hotties and such.
Free fights were a regular occur
rence. This Isn'l an exaggeration.
It hardly puts the situation strong
enough.
Gradually there has been a change
in sentiment and a desire lias
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 tlie 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 w ere most royally entertained
and most courteously treated.
When, after the third straight
defeat of the Jackets, the Tech
band and the Georgia band
marched shoulder to shoulder
through the streets of Athens, lead
ing a parade of Tech rooters, who
Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday’s Game
This is the way the Crackers are hit- ;
ting through yesterday s game:
PLAYERS, IG. LXB ’ IL H. AV. |
Hemphill, cf 31 123 17 4<i .3251
Sitton, p 5 10 1 3 .390 |
O'Dell. 1b 28 99 12 27 .272 f
Alperman. 3b 32 111 20 31 .27 ’1
Ganiev, rs 23 78 12 20 .256
Bailey. If 32 111 25 27 .243
Graham, c 10 22 3 5 .227
Dessau, p 5 1 14 0 3 .215
Sykes, lb 23 75 11 10 212
‘ East. 2b 22 71 5 15 .211
Paige, p 8 25 2 5 .200
Miller, p 12 25 4 5 .200
O'Brien, ss 26 98 10 19 .194'
Atkins. P 5 12 11 .083
Johns, p 9 | 17 3 1 .059
BASEBALL ~
TUESDAY
ATLANTA vs. MONTGOMERY
Game Called 3:30
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than brickbats, the older inhabi
tants of the Classic City rubbed
their eyes and agreed that indeed
times had changed.
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\ getting the lake in shape for the
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IN BULL RING BOXERS
FIGHT 20-ROUND DRAW
EL PASO, TEXAS. May 20. Fight
ing In a bull ring, the scene in years
past of many sanguinary encounters
between bulls and matadors, r.ickcy
Mitchell, of Ei Paso, and Jack Herrick,
of Chicago, went twenty founds 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
The qualifying round for the Dr. T.
I’ Hinman golf trophy will he played
ovet 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, 36
holes in the tiist flight and 18 holes in
the others, bv June