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14 MOM Club Without a HUSKY Catcher Is Handicapped Grand Line-Bucking Wins Game for Billikens By Ppivv H. Whiting. THERE.® a world of football mixed up in a lively bale ball game. And most of the defensive work must he performed 'ey the catcher. When the players begin to stream across the plate the catcher is in the unenviable posi tion of the linesman in a football game upon whom the attack is cen tered Every play that is made goes right across his usually pros trate body. It is largely be auss the catcher has such a tough job that only big men are reallv successful at the work. One thing that made Sid Smith a wonder was the fact that he had placed football as well ns baseball at college. Nothing pleased him more than to stand up at home piate and let some big husky run into him. He could usually spill the said husky all over the lot, and •he runner that could make Sid Sm'th break ground would have nee. ■■ ■'■ the -ize of an elephant combmed with the speed of a deer. This ntav seem somewhat be sde the point, hut it isn't. It could b< > * tom:-Irated that the i r .r r« I .' p- lerda' s bail game a> .-(pt sxt..i> different ways, whir 1 ’ they did. Hut if <'ateher Graham had been a busting big lad are tnable of standing the impact of hug hotly hurled at him hard, • -<|.feat might have been stalled rs„ fjret two runner- < Hills and who scored in the fate ful eighth inning, when th* game was 'oat. made their runs over Graham <if course, if Bailey and O'Brien hadn't hooted one each it would not have been necessary for Graham to play any football. Hu' the errors were made and vs it h men on bases the Crackers tight ened up. Aitchison, the third man up for the Billies, was fanned for the third successive time. McAlis ter. who batted for Stingle. ground ed to East This man threw quick ly to the plate and Graham got the hall and set himself for the shock of meeting the oncoming Rills. The Montgomery player came Into the plate like a madman, and he caught Graham right in his midst. The Cracker catcher spun round, spilled over and dropped the ball. One run was across and the score was tied Wares followed at bat and the previous play was repeated to the last wretched detail, except that Grthber.s didn't hit Gralwtm squarely enough tn spill him. but nevartheles*- landed on him hard enough to knock the. bail-out of his hands Those two plays beat the t'rock ers. • • • rpHE eighth Inning of yesterday’s * game was made notable by* the fact that five eYrors were made before it ended. Graham had to hate errors for dropping the ball both times he was hit. <if course, morally he wasn't to blame, for the players who bumped into him were larger than he and had all the ad vantage of momentum, mass and general preparedness Rut tinder the Inexorable scoring rules the play had to be explained somehow and there was no way except to give Graham a bntce of errors. Then, in addition to the bobbles of Bailey And O'Brien. Alperman made on., Whitey's was so entirely ex cusable that it was really hardly an error. Ganzig hit an awful wal- ■ p h e way that only a miracle . •■>ni 1 have enabled him to stop. After the error flurry set In Tom my Atkins, who. op to that time, had pitched one of the best games of his career, became d i pgi ist ed with the way things were going and eased up materially. The Rll tjps re<n’onded with a flurry of hits “Correct Dress for Men’’ Essig’s Shirts for Hot Days Everyone's astoni<hed .it <»nr splendid J 4 ftfl showing of fast color shirts at . $ I >UU Thoy looked trood to us when placed our order, hot. ■ fa r t is. tlwiy "opened up" even better. Vadrac and percale soft shirts in clear ent stripes and peat figured effects. 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He growled like a sore-toed grizzly during the practice period, and when the do ings began he quarreled with the umpires and with his teammates. And the madder he got the better he pitched. He paid no more atten tion to Dobbs' yapping than to the gurgling of the sewer, and he was clearly set for a shutout when his team blew awav behind him. * • • 1-HE Crackers are frequently beat en. hut they never quit. In the ninth yesterday, with the score 7 to 1 against them, they sprang a rally. Os course, they didn't do much but allow the Billikens to run amuck, but that took some baseball sense. Two errors, a base on balls, a wild pitch ami a hit by Sykes, Him was stuck in tn bat for Atkin*, made things look interest ing, even if two were gone hefo”e the hit and O’Dell's run developed. However. Aitchison proved the mantel in th*, end, and by fanning Bailey ended the rally and the game. iF the Crackers hadn't kicked • away the game and if the At lantans had won. as they deserved to, 1 to 0, “Whitey” Alperman would have been due a batch of credit. He scored Atlanta's first run. It was in the second and h, was the firsl man up. He went up with a hunoh tha.t he could get on without hitting, and he did It. After the count on him was thres- RUSSELL, EX-CRACKER. GOES TO BRIDGEPORT BRIDGEPORT, CONN.. May 22. Kid Russell, the young catcher who was sent by the Highlanders for a season of seasoning In Bridgeport last year, Is back on the old job. Russell was tried out hv the Atlanta team this spring and then sent tdi Spar tanburg He was recalled by the Crack ers anti then turned over to New York. Manager Wolverton placed him with Bridgeport again. The Highland chief believes that tn time Russell will de velop into a great catcher. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs W. 1.. PC W L P C B’liarn . .23 15 .503 Mont. . 17 IB .472 Mobile 21 IB st»B Allanta 15 IB 455 Cnooga. 17 1 4 .548 N < >Ts. 14 18 438 Mphis 18 15 545 N'ville. 11 21 .344 SOUTH ATLANTIC. Standing of the Clubs. \V I. .PC W L. PC Albany. .18 8 .892 Col'bus, 12 16 .444 J ville. .19 '• .579 Macon 10 17 370 K'nah. 14 II 560 Columbia 720 .269 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of the Club*. iV 1. P.C W L P C Chicago 22 '• 710 Detroit. 15 15 5041 Boston. IS 10 >142 B'd'phia 11 1 4 440 C’land .14 12 j3B X York Xl7 320 W'ton 14 14 500 St I.ouis S lit .296 NATIONAL league , Standing of the Club*. W I. P.O W L PC N Tork .21 6 778 St. Louis 19 19 406 C'nati . .22 8 733 P'd'phia 10 17 .370 Chicago 14 14 500 Brooklyn 917 .346 P’burg 12 13 ISO Boston . 10 19 345 kZjvZz'ezr- & PERCY H WHITING SAM CRANE. WJ MSdLTH, DAMON RUNYON, CHARLES DRYDEN ♦ and-two he gave s noble example of the nearly lost art of “fouling 'em off." This practice has fallen into disuse since the days of the foul strike, but Alperman made good use of it. Every good ball that came along he spoiled with a foul. Ho ’must have ruined a dozen strikes before Aitchison weakened and slid a ball over. Alperman let it go by’, the umpire called it and Alperman scampered to first. O'Dell and East followed with sin gles and Alperman scored with the run that ought to have the game—but which lacked such an awful lot of doing it. IK Secondary Defense Important Part Baseball Team Nowadays By Damon Runyan. MANAGER John J. McGraw, of the Giants, places almost as much impendence In his sec ondary defense as he does in his tegu lar line, and the fact that the Giants are making such a wonderful show ing this early in the season proves that the McGraw theory is a sound one. But for the capabilities of that second line the New York National league club might have been in dire straits for several weeks, as some of the most val uable regulars were Injured or ailing at the start of the season. McGraw has always argued that the strength of a club is in its substitutes. He has made it a point to pay as much attention to getting high-class ball players on his bench as on the field. There is rarely a time that he does not have a second string of half a dozen prominent youngsters taking their edu cation from cover of the players’ coop, and he usually has two or three finish ed men who can Jump in and handle any position. All managers now endeavor to or ganize a reserve force, and practically every club in the two big leagues car ries its full allowance of twenty-five men—which means that half of them <1 I'o O > I K c-f i 4 11 4 z.f . . . . , , 4 1 V* 4 . . are substitutes. not counting the pitchers Some managers run largely tn twirlwrs. and carry a big flock of reserve heaving talent, but the major ity are content to hold on to just a fair-sized star that can be worked in rotation, and devote the other space to utility infielders, outfielders and catchers. The system now generally j in vogue, of having a coach for the I young pitchers with the team, displaces one working player. Jennings Used Pitchers in Garden. At the Gotham hilltop the other day. Hughey Jennings, manager of the De troit club, erstwhile champions of the American league, sent three pitchers in as pinch hitters, and wound up with ' a pitcher playing the outfield. Jen- I nings declared that it was the first I time in his big league career that he had to use a pit* her as an outfielder. Os course pitchers are frequently used as pinch hitters, because many twirlers are crack batsmen, but the average manager dislikes using his fingers for utility purposes. So the second line of defense has become all important with most big league baseball clubs Now and then had luck so persistently pursues some clubs thai both the first and second lines are shot to pieces, as was the case with the Philadelphia Nationals this spring. and with the Detroit Tigers, but these are exceptional cases AVhen a manager is forced to place his reliance in his regulars alone, and those regulars hwomp incapaci- HerN-Sheim.Ck,af?~l Good ><sn)pke eq.uin.e- •THE ATL \ V T ' ■ “Tex” Griffin, Who May Come to Atlanta X’ Jz //fl fl I I wjH K . y,- Jr -jrl I , X. *•* _3flrL TtßHffiSaSggE / / ... ' c--L' flflflflflfeL •--* £***■ flßflHMaiSflEr / / tated. the result is sometimes very disastrous. Harry Wolverton, manager of the Yankees, ran against such a condition. His second line of defense could not produce sufficient strength w hen Cree, Wolter and Chase were out of the game, and his pitchers were nearly all going bad at the same time. Wolverton has gradually developed a pretty fair second line, and It is un likely that another season will ever catch him short handed in any de partment. But it takes almost as much time to build up the reserve force as it does to build up the first line. Since the return of Ed Sweeney to tite Yanks, he presumably again takes his place as "first catcher." with "Gabby"” Street as second man, and Williams as third. Ford is said to work better with Sweeney than with any other receiver. Johnson. the Washington wonder, has ben paired off with Ainsmith by Clarke Griffith and Bobby Groom with John Henry. It would be hard to choose between these two catchers in point of mere" ability. Lapp usually catches Coombs, of the Athletics, although Thomas is Sup posed to be the “first string" man. Thomas generally works with Bend ir and Plank. Nunamaker and Carrigan apparently work impartially for the Boston Red Sox and Kling divides the work with Kiarden for the Boston Na tionals. McGraw Is Well Fortified. McGraw could now lose the services of practically his entire first line, and still have a formidable team in the field. If Devore, Snodgrass and Murray were Incapacitated at the same time, McGrawxcould use Beals Recker, Mc- Cormick and Burns in the outfield. Murray has been out recently and Becker filled his place acceptably. Doyle and Fletcher have also been laid up at the same time, and the infield was Just as strong with Shafer and Groh working at second and short. Herzog could be out and Shafer could be shifted to third. If Merkle were in capacitated Snodgrass would be pulled in from the outfield, and the Califor ian plays a rattling good first base So. too. does Shafer, a fact gen erallt known. While the Giants were in Texas this spring, Shafer played first sot the kid team, and was a strong reminder of "Stuffy" Mclnnis, the slugging first baseman of the world's champion Athletics. There is no more versatile infielder than Shafer. All jobs look alike to him. Behind the hat. McGrew has Meyers, Wilson and Grover Cleveland Hartley. Here again. Snodgrass can be used. FRANK GRABS TWO PLAYERS FROM NAPS. VIA TOLEDO NEW ORLEANS, LA . May 22. Manager Frank, of the New Orleans club of the Southern league, has pur chased Outfielder Meloan and Pitcher Swann f-om the Toledo duh of the American association. WEDNESDAY. MAY 22. 1912. W W NAUGHTON , TAD, LLFT HOOK. SOL PLLX, H M WALKLR-z. LD W. SMITH. * • * CRACKERS MAY LAND GRIFFIN FROM BRAVES John Griffin, better as “Hank” or "Texas," who pitched for Atlanta In 1910. but who has since then bee.n In the National league with Chicago and Boston, may again become a Crack er. Griffin has never had inite enough to make him a big leaguer but for all that he is a wonder. In 1908 in Fort Worth he led the Texas league. Out of 32 games he won 22. The following year Atlanta got him but farmed him in Augusta, where he did only pass ably w'ell, winning 13 and losing 9 with a team that won 64 and lost 49. The Crackers brought him back and used him in 23 games in 1910. He won 11 and lost 12. The club that season won When Ifs Summer Ifs Sumar For Suits The charm of Summer is its possibilities. Warm weather takes off the handicap and one is free to find what he seeks if he goes after it. F irst of these is personal comfort, and such is the prime essential to all else. The personal part of comfort in Summer is the Summer Suit. The suit of Sumar is the surest avenue, because it’s the porous fabric with naught to bar the breezes. Feather weight—but strong—that’s because of the hard-twisted worsted threads that lend them selves so perfectly to the loose weave. Blue, tan and gray with C white silk thread decoration Geo. Muse Clothing Co. I 75 and lost 63. Despite this not over impressive showing the Cubs grabbed him. Griffin has never had enough w’ork in the big leagues to show what he could do. Yet despite the fact that he hasn't won any games to speak of he has con tinued to look so good that nobody had the heart to let him go. Now. however, there is a likelihood that Boston will turn him loose and if the Braves sell Griffin Atlanta is likely to buy him. VOLS TRANSFER GAMES. MONTGOMERY. ALA.. May 22.—The Montgomery-Nashville series of games, scheduled in Nashville beginning on Thursday, have been* transferred to Montgomery. @©]l,lF=* MUND pm TO MIK IN N T. IF COIN 15 810 By Sol Pl ex. Chicago . May 22.—Ad ifad gast and Packey McFarland are closer to a match this morning than ever before, unless it be when that Milwaukee sheriff kept them apart last September. Tom Jones and Emil Thiry, the managers of the men, conferred on the matter of a ten-round fight between their famous charges veg. terday. Jones and Thiry have con ferred many times before and long and bitter have been the disputes. But this time everything was as calm as the old mill pond. When they’ separated It was understood that Packey and Ad would fight it out in New York between June 1 and June s—-provided Wolgast gets what he wants In a financial w ay. “It's up to the New York pro moters now," said Jones, after the talk. "Wolgast and McFarland will agree on all terms in five min utes if I get what I ask in the way of a guarantee and percent age. There will be no trouble on the weight. We'll be lenient with Packey. All we ask is money enough, and I guess that is what the McFarland bunch desires. to°. "Don’t let anybody tel] you that Wolgast is not as good as ever. In my opinion, he is better than before his appendicitis operation, and you know lhat -Is saying a whole lot. He simply toyed with Ritchie and Daniels because I re fused to. let him cut loose. They were just test bouts. From now on he'll be sent in to win ae quickly as he can. “Wolgast will fight once a week from now until next Thanksgiving day. If 1 can get a lucrative match for him each week. I would like to give him three short fights in the next ten days. He won’t travel far ther than ten rounds with anybody until he meets Rivers. "Wolgast gets 60 per cent of the gross gate n’ith Rivers, as we.ll ae a big guarantee. He won't make less than $20,000 off that fight. Will he win? The Mexican will be as soft for him as Moran was. and Owen could not hurt Ad. Just watch Wolgast clean up the light weights in the next few months. He’s a real champion, that boy.” RICE LEADS MERCER TEAM. MACON. GA.. May 22.—Howard Rlc« has been elected captain of the Mercer ball club for 1913. [SANTAL-MIDY @ Relieves in 24 Honrs Catarrh of the Bladder AH Druggists Betvore of Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY