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FODDER FOR FANS~I
When Mike Finn reached Atlanta he but the contest in this circuit should im
said: "We haven’t seen but one team in prove as it goes along,
this league that beat us so it made, us . « «
took bad real BAD. And that was Bir
mingham ” Montgomery gets Albert Swaim from
He can now add Atlanta to the collec- Memphis, though what the Billikens want
tion. with him we're blessed if we know.
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Not since Ed Hurlburt stole a 'L" l ' s ani Crawford has been playing ball for
1904. or maybe 1905, ',Xn l oiter in‘tl <> fifteen years and ten of them he hit over
su<-h performance as Dunn s pillet ln :!00 (|js grand average is .315. -|'lie
third. Any ttine sti fa 1 i r ”^ n .;’ e ? )n '', first year he played ball he was with
it is a joke. But any time ,loe Dunn ge « cn at |iam in the Canadian league. That
away with one it s a crime. season he hit .870.
Paul Stowers. I 'ra' l '«‘r l ,l,l ' l ’ t ' l ' t „ fa ''' 1 ' t ’’. l Al O'Dell and tVhitey Alperman are
to Spartanbing. is bat k n j ' ‘ , f making a grand race for second batting
ing a bum wrist. He will be out ot the hl)nors B of « 1)e Atlanta teain . Both me *
game sot some t b’ le ]( # are slugging tremendously and both are
. closing tn slowly on the Atlanta manager.
Murphv is batting wretchedly for tbe ” . » .
Athletics—yes, indeed. He got nothing
yesterday but three singles ami a double Idel Howard, ex-manager of the Louis
out of four times up. ville club, now with St. Paul, has been
’ * * elected mayor of Kennedy , 111.
The Cracker club Is only 4i. z games be- ...
hind Birmingham, the leading club ot The Memphis club has bought Doc Sea
ttle league. A couple of weeks of consist- . ~ from Nashville
ent winning would put tbe Crackers right bo " sh fro,Tl Aashviue,
up around the top
» • • Al Orth, who coached the Washington
No verv tight races have developed yet and T.ee team this spring and who is now
in the Southern. Sally. American or Na- umpiring in the Virginia league, says
tional league. The Southern contest is that Moran, the Washington and Lee
tp P best in the lot In the National New pitcher, who went to Detroit, and Dave
York has "got it and gone.'' In the Robertson, now a Giant, will both make
American Chicago has a tremendous lead, wonders in the big show.
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THF. ATL ANT \ 'Voi.M ;I A X \\ I ‘ NEWSL FRIDAY. MAY 2-1. 1912.
Though Crippled, Sitton Pitches a MAsterly Game
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Scheme Hatched to Wear Him Out Didn’t Work
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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
• 'rackers 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.
"Heel like pitching today,’Vedder?”
Vedder grunted, "Can't tell, my
prop is pretty bad yet. I could
try It."
"Aw well,” answered the man
ager, somewhat tartly, "we can't
afford to spend a game finding out
how your leg feels.”
"I 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
of the Gull team —one hit and (hree
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.
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» SCHEME was hatched up on the
A 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 the
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
-1 couraging points—was a regu
lars porcupine of them, in fact.
One that it will not do'to overlook
w as 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
event. As Halley’s comet
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
game*.
So there was clearly some class
to his pilfer yesterday.
So unusual was the happening
that when the announcement was
Hashed from the press box over lite
Western Union w ire by <'a Iler King I
to Mobile the town was unable to 1
believe it and the Gulltown opera
tor w*ired back for a confirmation
of the rumor.
JACOBSON pulled an awfully dull_
J 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
near-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 hack 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
tiiat a ten-day sentence was placed
against Cobb at the special session,
but this was not announced.
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SATURDAY IS BIG DAY:
ALDEMAREETO PITCH
Manager Michael Finn alw’ays has
one eye on the gate and the other on
his ball chib. And with a view of mak
ing Saturday a big day he has an
nounced that at that time he will use
Smiling Albert Demaree, the gent w no
has won eight straight games this sea
son.
The use of tlemaree makes it cer
tain that there will be one howling
mob out for the game. Demaree is site
very best in the business this year in
the South.
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NASHVILLE CASE NOW
I TIED UP FOR A WHILE
NASH VII.LK. TENN.. May 24. Now
t that the court of civil appeals at Knox
ville has passed on the case of the
■ Nashville baseball club, the suit will
■ next come before Chancellor Allison
> probably Friday on the demurrer of the
■ defendant club If this demurrer is
overruled the case will then go to trial
- on its merits. Pending the injunction
t that prevents the dull from playing
■ games in Tennessee, it is about settled
i that, all such games will be transferred
to Little Rock.
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