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FODDER FOR FANS I
When Mike Finn reached Atlanta he
said: "We haven't seen but one team tn
this league that beat us so it made us
look bad real BAD. And that was Bir-
m He h ca n n now add Atlanta to the collec
tion.
• • •
X'ot since Ed Hurlburt stole a base in
1904. or maybe 1905, has there been any
such performance as Dunn's pilfer in the
third Anv time a fat man steals a base
it is a joke But any time .loe Dunn get#
anav with one it's a crime.
* * *
Paul Stowers, Cracker pitcher farmed
to Spartanburg, is back in Atlanta nurs
ing a bum wrist. He will be out of the
game for some time.
♦ * •
Murphy is batting wretchedly for the
Athletics ves, Indeed. He got nothing
yesterday but three singles and a double
out of four times up. (
The Cracker club is only 4 1 ? games be
hind Birmingham, the leading club of
the league. A couple of weeks of consist
ent winning would put the Crackers right
up around the top.
No very tight races have developed yet
in the Southern, Sally, American or Na
tional league. The Southern contest is
the best in the lot. tn the National New
York has “got it and gone.” In the
American Chicago has a tremendous lead,
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Go to it, old
sport.
It won’t hurt you, n
matter how much you
drink.
Wholesome as well as de
licious.
AT THE BALL GAME
And All Stands===ln Bottles 5c
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but the contest in this circuit should im
prove as it goes along.
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Montgomery gets Albert Swaim from
Memphis, though what the Billikens want
with him we're blessed if we know.
• • •
Sam Crawford has been playing ball for
fifteen sears and ten of them he hit over
.300. His grand average is .315. The
first year he played ball he was with
Chatham in the Canadian league. That
season he hit .370.
* • •
Al O'Dell and Whitey Alperman are
making a grand race for second batting
honors of the Atlanta team. Both men
are slugging tremendously and both are
closing in slowly on the Atlanta manager.
• • •
Del Howard, ex-manager of the Louis
ville club, now wdth St. Paul, has been
elected mayor of Kennedy, 111.
• • •
The Memphis club has bought Doc Sea
bough from Nashville.
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Al Orth, who coached the Washington
and I>ee team this spring and who is now
umpiring in the A irginla league, says
that Moran, the Washington and Lee
pitcher, who w'ent to Detroit, and Dave
Robertson, now a Giant, will both make
wonders in the big show.
THE ATT.avt ' \N WD VFWRt FRIDAY. MAA’ 24, 1912.
Though Crippled,
•pad* d-«-i-
Scheme Hatched
By Percy H. Whiting.
GIVE the Atlanta team of 1912
a pitching staff and it will
win the pennant, or come
mighty near it. Three-quarters of
the games this season have borne
out his contention.
Yesterday's was one of them.
Before the game started, as the
Crackers were watching the Gulls
at batting practice and each man
was contributing his bit of infor
mation about what sort of balls the
Gull batters liked and disliked,
Hemphill called over to Sitton,
"Feel like pitching today, Vedder?"
Vedder grunted. “Can't tell, my
i prop is pretty bad yet. I could
i try it."
"Aw well,” answered the man
ager, somewhat tartly, "we can’t
, Sitton Pitches a Masterly Game
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to Wear Him Out Didn’t Work
afford, to spend a game finding out
how j-our leg feels.”
"1 can tell you one thing,” came
back the South Carolinan. "I never
threw a game for anybody."
"All right, you pitch," was the
verdict, 'and you, Miller." Hemp
hill continued, turning to "Doggie,”
"get warm and be ready."
If Miller kept right on warming
up until he was called for he ought
to be tolerably heated by now, for
there was never a second in a long
game when his services were need
ed.
Sitton pitched like an old master.
For five innings they couldn’t get
even an imitation hit off his deliv
ery. In the sixth and seventh they
got scratches only. In the eighth
Maloney hit an unmistakable three
bagger. In the ninth Paulet
scratched one through the infield.
That was the total batting effort
1 of the Gull team —one hit and three
scratches. Os course, Sitton was
wild and he contributed one error
that counted against him. But not
until the score stood 7 to 0 in At
ranta's favor did he perpetrate a
flicker that was perceptible to the
uncovered optic. Eventually the
Gulls made three runs, but they
didn't count for much, for Atlanta
had a total of eight.
. • •
. SCHEME was hatched up on the
4» Mobile bench to run Sitton to
death. In the second inning, after
Sitton had singled, Bailey made two
futile efforts to bunt and both
times, though the ball rolled foul,
the decision was so close that th«
pitcher had to "run ’em out.” The
Gulls noticed that he limped pain
fully. and that his running was la
bored.
The next time Sitton came up he
had just finished pitching his fifth
no-hit, no-run inning and the
Gulls realized that as he was no
team on earth could beat him.
So the fertile brain of Charley
Starr hatched out a scheme.
"Let's run Sitton to death." he
tipped off the team. So Cavet
walked him and then pegged time
and again to first, to force the
Cracker to run back to the bag.
Bailey rather spoiled the scheme
by bunting so sharply to Walsh
that Sitton was forced out at sec
ond. And because the Crackers
' were getting to Cavet so strong the
plan petered out.
It was a good scheme, though,
and with a feeble pitcher and a
close game it might have worked
out successfully. As it was. the
ninth inning found Sitton weaken
ing, though by then it did not make
any difference.
-pHE game fairly bristled with en
' couraging points—was a regu
larg porcupine of them, in fact.
One thaf it will not do to overlook
was the nice work of Donahue, the
new catcher. This man looked good
Wednesday. But he looked still bet
ter Thursday.
Donahue, for one thing, made a
two-bagger and a three-bagger out
of four times up. His work behind
the bat was excellent and his peg
ging good. Campbell’s steal in the
ninth didn’t really count against
him, because there was a man on
third at the time. The only man
who really stole was Dunn. But
this happening in itself Is worth a
separate story
• • •
» STOLEN base by' Dunn is an
ui event. As Halley's cornet
grazes by the earth once every
seventy-odd years, so does Joe
Dunn now and again pilfer a bag.
But not often. Last year Dunn
stole one base in 95 games. The
year before he stole four in 110
games. That gives him an average
of one stolen base in every 41
games.
So ihwre was clearly some class
to hie pilfer yesterday.
So unusual was the happening
that when the announcement was
flashed from the press box over the
Western Union wire by caller King
to Mobile the town was unable to
believe it and the Gulltown opera
tor wired back for a confirmation
of the rumor.
JACOBSON pulled an awfully dull_
play in the fifth. With Bailey
on second and Ganley on first, Al
perman singled. Os course. Bailey
scored and Jacobson couldn't have
caught him if he’d had a cannon.
But instead of pegging the ball to
third he held it pensively and let
Ganley canter on to third. This
ncar-play cost the Gulls a run. for
it enabled Ganley to get in scoring
territory. He scored when Alper
man intentionally got himself tan
‘gled up in a rundown between first
and second that lasted long enough
to let Ganley home.
COBB WILL BE BACK
IN HARNESS TOMORROW
CHICAGO, May 24.—Tyrus Cobb, the
suspended Detroit star, will be back In
the game by tomorrow, according to
President Comiskey. of the Chicago
American club, who has returned from
the special meeting of the American
league held at Philadelphia, as a result
of the strike of Jennings' players.
Comiskey conveyed the impression
that a ten-day sentence was placed
against Cobb at the special session,
but this was not announced.
Cp/besi
ever
his
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SATURDAY IS BIG DAY:
: AL DEMAREE TO PITCH
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one eye on the gate and the other on
, his ball club. And w ith a \ tew of mak
ing Saturday a big day he has an
‘ nounced that at that time he will use
■ Smiling Albert Demarei . the gent who
has won eight straight games this sea
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The use of Dcmaree makes it cer
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the South
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NASHVILLE CASE NOW
I TIED UP FOR A WHILE
- NASHVILLE. TENN., May 24—Now
t that the court of civil appeals at Knox-
- villi has passed on the ease of the
Nashville baseball club, the suit w’iil
■ next come before Chancellor Allison
i probably Friday on the demurrer of ths
- defendant club. If this demurrer is
overt tiled the vise will then go to trial
- mt its merits Ponding the Injunction
that prevents the club from playing
■ games in Tennessee, it is about settled
t that all such games will be transferred
to Little Rock.