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12 Td) A Td) An TT PLRCY^H WHITING Ww'naUGHTON. TAD, X PWM MMIWI Club Without a HUSKY Catcher Is Handicapped ■s••+ 4 , *4‘ •r*d- -r«-r Grand Line-Bucking Wins Game for Billikens By Percy H, Whiting. THERE’S a world of football mixed up in a lively base ball game. And-most of the defensive work must be performed by the catcher. When the players begin to stream across the plate the catcher is in the unenviable posi tion of the linesman in a foot bail game'upon whom the attack is cen tered. Every play that Is made goes right across his usually pros trate body. It is largely because the catcher has such a rough Job that only big men are really successful at the work. One thing that made Sid Smith a wonder was«the fact that he had played football as well as baseball at college. Nothing pleased him more than to stand up at home plate and let some big husky run Into him. He could usually spill the said husky all over the lot, and the rumner that could make Sid Smith break ground would have needed the size of an elephant combined with the speed of a deer. This may seem somewhat be side the point, but it isn’t. It could be demonstrated that the Crackers lost yesterday's ball game at least sixteen different ways, which they did. But if Catcher Graham had been a busting big lad and capable of standing the impact of a huge body hurled at him hard, the defeat might have been stalled off. The Ursa two runners (Bills and Gribbens) who .scored In the fate ful eighth inning, when the game was tost, made their runs over Graham. Os course, if Bailey and O’Brien- hadn't booted one each it would tw’t have been necessary for Graham to play any football. But the errors were made and with men on bases the <'rackets 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 Ekst. This man threw quick ly to tlw plate and Graham got the ball and set himself for the shock of meeting the oncoming Bills. The Montgomery player came Into the platte like a madman, and he caught Graham right in his midst. The Cradker catcher spun round, spilled overt and dropped the ball. One run wpis across and the score was tied. followed at bat and the previous play was repeated to the last wretched detail. except that Gritbbena didn’t hit Graham squarely to spill him. but neverthehyss landed on him hard enough to'knock the hall out of his hands. Those two<plays beat the Crack- ers • • • rHE eighth inning of yesterday’s game was made notable by the fact thatt five errors were made before It ended. Graham had to have errors for dropping the ball both times he wrw hit. Gs course, morally he wasn’t to blame, for the players w ho bui.nped into him were larger than he and had all the ad vantage of momentum, mass and general preparedness. But under the inexorable scoring rules the plat had to be explained somehow and there was no way except to give Graham a brace of errors. Then. In addition to the bobbles of Bailey and O’Brien, Alperman made one. Whitey's was so entirely ex cusable that it was really hardly an error. Ganzlg hit an awful wal lop his way that only a miracle could have enabled him to stop. A-fter the error flurry set in Tom my Atkins, who, up to that time, had pitched one of the best games of his career, became disgusted witSt the waj- things were going and. eased up materially. The Bil lies (responded with a flurry of hits Dress for Men” Essig’s Shirts for Hot Days Everyone's astonished at our splendid AA showing of fast color shirtsat I iUv They looked good to us when we placed our order, hut. fact is, they “opened up" even better. Madras and percale soft shirts in clean cut stripes- and neat figured effects. Stiff cuffs, various sleeve lengths You can quote us as stating that these ftA are typical $1 50 values at $ I «UU te. tan and blue, solid colors and Soft Silky solesettes in win neat stripes, cut full and tree Soft double cuffs. The best X 1 "™ T. $1.50 and $2.00 They're worth more. During hot weather our shirts spell coolness and comfort. New patterns in silk KAf* neckwear at vUv SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY. ESSIG BROS. CO. “Correct Dress for Men ’ 26 WHITEHALL STREET and before they were through they had piled up seven runs. • • • JOHNNY DOBBS must have de veloped a mistaken hunch that he could acquire Tommy Atkins’ nannie over the loud noise route. Anyhow, he gave the theory a workout and he expended more en ergy than any man on his regular line-up. He took a place in the coaching box. formed his hands into a rather large megaphone and hammered right at Atkins by the hour. Maybe this was what gave At kins a grouch, but probably not, for he seemed to have it before the game started at all. 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 op the sewer, and he was 'clearly set for a shutout when his team blew awav behind him. . . . rHE Crackers are frequently beat en. but they never quit. In the ninth yesterday, w-ith the score 7 to 1 against them, they sprang a rally. Os course, they didn't do much but allow the Billikens to cun amuck, but that took some baseball sense. Two errors, a base on balls, a wild pitch and a hit by Sykes, who was stuck in to bat for Atkins, made things look interest ing, even if two were gone before the hit and O’Dell's run developed. However, Aitchison proved the master in the end, and by fanning Bailey ended the rally and the ga me. • • • i F 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 he was the first man up. He went up with a hunch that he could get on without hitting, and he did it. After the count on him was threc- YESTERDAYS GAME" Montgomery. ah r. h. po. a e Stingle, rs 3 0 2 4 I 0 Wares, 2b3 2 I 3 2 0 McElveen. ss... 5 113 11 Elwert. 3b 4 0 I 0 2 0 Williams, rs 3 0 0 0 0 0 Danzig, th 3 0 0 10 11 Bills ls-cs 4 1 2 2 0 0 Gribbens. c... 4 2 1 4 2 1 Atchison, p 3 0 0 I 4 0 x Me A Hist er I 0 0 0 0 0 Coles, If I 1 0 o 0 0 Totals 34 7 X 27 13 3 Atlanta ah. r. h. po. a. e Bailee, If 5 0 1 2 0 1 Ganley. rs 3 0 0 1 0 0 Hemphill, of 4 0 17 0 0 Alperman. 3b 3 1 0 0 2 1 O’Dell, lb 3 I 2 5 0 0 East. 2b 4 0 1 4 2 0 O'Brien, ss 4 0 I 1 0 2 Graham, c 3 0 0 7 3 2 Atkins, p 3 0 0 0 3 0 xxSykes ,1 0 1 0 0 0 Totals *33 2 7 27 10 6 x-Bat ted for Stingle in eighth; xx-bat ted for Atkins in ninth Score by Innings. R Montgomery 000 000 052—7 Atlanta 010 000 001 2 Summary Home run Wares Double plays Stingle to Danzig Struck out B\ Atkins 7. by Atchison 3 Bases balls Off Atchison 4. off Atkins 1. Sacrifice hits Wares. Ganley. Atchison Wild pitches—Atkins 2. Atchison. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Baltimore in Rochester > Providence in Montreal Newark in Toronto. .Jersey City in Buffalo. Standing of the Clubs W. L. P.C W L. P C J. City 16 10 .615 Toronto 10 12 455 R'ch’ter. 15 10 .600 M’treal 10 !3 435 B'more. 13 10 545 Newark 914 391 Buffalo. 12 11 .522 P’dence . 8 14 264 Yesterday's Results. Montreal 4. Providence 0 All other games postponed, rain. THE ATL\YT< ’ and-tw'o he gave a 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. He 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 Jo first. O’Dell and East followed with sin gles and Alperman scored with the run that ought to have won the game—but which lacked such an awful lot of doing it. —"uikhli ini )\ • I ! CRACKERS MAY LAND GRIFFIN FROM BRAVES John Griffin, better known as "Hank" or “Texas," who pitched for Atlanta in 1910, but who has since then been in the National league with Chicago and Boston, may again become a Crack er. Griffin has never had quite 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 23. The following year Atlanta got him but farmed him in Augusta, where he did only pass ably well, winning 13 and losing 9 with a team that won 64 and lost -49. The SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Game* Today. Mobile in Atlanta New Orleans in Chattanooga Nashville in Birmingham. Standing of the Club*. W. L. PC W L. P.C.- B barn .23 15 .603 Mont. . 17 19 .472 Mobile .21 16 .568 Atlanta 16 18 .455 C nooga. 17 14 .618 N o l’s 14 18 438 M’phis. 18 16 .545 N’ville. ..11 21 .344 Yesterday’* Result*. Montgomery 7, Atlanta 2 Birmingham 4. Nashville 0. No other games scheduled. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Albany in Columbia. Columbus in Jacksonville. Savannah in Macon. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. PC W L P C Albany. IS 8 ,692 Colbus. 12 15 .444 J’ville. 19 9 679 Macon .10 17 870 S’nah. . 14 11 .560 Columbia 720 .259 Yesterday’* Result*. Jacksonville 4. Columbus 2. Macon 4, Savannah 3. Albany 5. Columbia 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Chicago in New York, St. Louis in Philadelphia. Detroit in Washington Cleveland in Boston. * Standing of the Clubs. W L. P C W L. PC. Chicago 22 9 .710 Detroit. 16 15 500 Boston 18 10 643 P’dphia 11 14 440 C land . 14 12 .538 N York 8 17 .820 W’lon 14 14 .500 St Louis 8 19 .296 Yesterday's Result*. Boston 3. Cleveland 1. New York 9, Chicago 8. Detroit 2, Washington 0 St. Louis 5. Philadelphia 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Boston in Pittsburg Brooklyn in Chicago. New York-in Cincinnati Philadelphia in S» Louis. Standing of the Club*. W. I, P C W L. P C N York .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 .34,6 P’burg .12 13 480 Boston . 10 19 .345 Yesterday’s Result*. Pittsburg 14. Boston 9. Philadelphia 7. St. Louis 6. Chicago 5. Brooklyn 4 New York 6. Cincinnati 3 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Columbus in Louisville Toledo in Minneapolis Only two games scheduled. Standing of the Club* W. I, P C W L P.O Cl mbus 22 13 629 St. Paul 17 20 .459 M'apolis 20 13 .606 M'w’kee 12 IS 400 Toledo 20 14 588 L’ville 11 21 400 K City IS 17 .514 I’apolis 11 20 .355 Yesterday’s Result*. Toledo 12, Columbus 11 Louisville 6. Indianapolis 0 Kansas City 8. St. Patti 5 Minneapolis-Milwaukee, no game. rain. RICE LEADS MERCER TEAM. MACON. GA. May 22—Howard Rice has been elected captain of the Mercer bail club for 1913. “Tex” Griffin, Who May Come to Atlanta of,.’ . ... > MMBn F . ■ : Jr Crackers brought hint back and used him in 23 games tn 1910. He won 11 and lost 12. The club that season won 75 and lost 63. Despite this not over impressive showing the Cubs grabbed him. Griffin has never had enough work 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 I urn him loose and if the Braves sell Griffin Atlanta is likely to buy him. UNITED STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C W. L. P.C. Reading 11 3 .786 W’ngton 6 8 .429 R’hm'd 10 5 .667 C’nnati 6 8 .429 P'sburg 9 6 .600 Cvpland 6 8 .429 Chicago 8 6 .571 N. York 111 .083 Yesterday's Results. Reading 7. Washington 3. Richmond 7, New York 4. Pittsburg 7. Chicago 4 Cincinnati-Cleveland; postponed. TEXAS LEAGUE. Games Today. Galveston in Fort Worth. Beaumont in Austin. Houston in Waco. San Antonio in Dallas. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C \V. L. P.C H’uston 24 14 .632 Dallas 16 20 .441 B’umnt 20 15 .571 Austin 16 20 .44 1 Waco 31 16 .568 F. IV'th 16 21 .432 S. An'io 19 20 .487 G'vest’n 15 20 .429 Yesterday’s Results. Houston 4. Waco 2. Dalias 2 San Antonio 1 Fori Worth 6. Galveston 0. Austin 11. Beaumont 6. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Lynchburg in Norfolk. Richmond in Portsmouth. Newport News in Danville. Petersburg in Roanoke. Standing of the Club*. W L. P.O W. L. PC. Norfolk 13 9 .591 N. N'ws 13 13 .500 P'sburg 13 11 642 R'hm'd 12 12 .500 P'sm'th 10 9 .526 D’nville 10 13 .435 R’noke 12 12 .500 L'hburg 914 .391 Yesterday’s Results. Newport News 3, Danville 1. Petersburg 4, Roanoke 0. Richmond 6. Portsmouth 2. Norfolk 4, Lynchburg 3. CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Winston-Salem in Anderson. Greenville in Greensboro. Charlotte in Spartanburg. Standing of the Clubs. W L. EC W L P C C’rlotte 15 7 .682 G'nsboro 913 .409 A'ders’n 14 8 .636 G'nville 7 13 .350 Sp'burg 13 9 .591 W.-STm 617 .261 Yesterday’s Results. Greenville 5. Greensboro 4 Anderson 3. Winston-Salem 2. Charlotte 9, Spartanburg 0. COTTON STATES LEAGUE Games Today. Greenwood in Vicksburg. Jackson in Hattiesburg Meridian in Yazoo City Standing of the Clubs W L P W L PC M'rid'n 21 13 618 J'ckson 17 17 .500 V'ksb'g 19 14 576 H'sb'rg 16 18 .471 Y City 18 17 .514 G'wood 12 23 .343 Yesterday's Result*. Vicksburg 8. Greenwood 3. Meridian 2. Jackson 0. Hattiesburg 6. Yazoo City 5. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Rome in Selma. Huntsville in Gadsden. Bessemer in Anniston. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C. W L P C A'nistn 18 10 .643 H’sville 13 14 .481 Selma 17 II 607 B'semr 12 16 .42.' Rome 14 13 .519 Gadsden 8 18 .308 Yesterday's Results. Gadsden 7. Huntsville 3. Selma 4. Rome 3 Anniston 4. Bessemer 0. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1912. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Knoxville in Asheville. Johnson ('ity in Morristown. Bristol in Cleveland. Standing of the Clubs. XV. L. r.C \V. L. P C Bristol 5 2 .711 J Citv 3 3 .506 K’xville 5 3 .625 Aheville 2 4 .333 M’town 4 4 .500 C’veland 2 5 .286 Yesterday's Results. Bristol 5. Cleveland 0. Johnson City 1. Morristown 3 Knoxville 4. Asheville 0. SANTAL-MIDY @ Relieves in 24 Hours Catarrh of the Bladder AU Druggtefs Betzare oy Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY 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 primje 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 O C • white silk thread decoration IjS Geo. Muse Clothing Co. 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 from the Toledo club of the American association. Hessheim Ogar Good AD AND PfiGKEY TD MY IN N Y. IF ODIN IS DID By Sol Plex. CHICAGO. May 22 Ad Wol 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 yes terday. Jones and Thiry have con ferred many times before and long and bitter have been the disputes. But this time everything was as i calm as the old mill pond. When they separated it w-as 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 way. "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. Al! we ask is money enough, and I guess-that is what the McFarland bunch desires, too. "Don’t let anybody tell you that Wolgast is not as good as ever. In my opinion, he is better than before his appendicitis operation, and you know that 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 as quickly as he can. "Wolgast will fight once a week from now until next Thanksgiving day, if I 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 50 per cent of ths gross gate with Rivers, as well as a big guarantee. He won’t make* less than $20,00(1 off that fight.' Will he win? The Mexican will be as soft for him as Moran '""y— 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."