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J, EDITED Zy 9 FARNSWORTH ——-— ——.— _____ I Slllc I~JCIt , ' ■ we/ Bunk - ( got a aaouie a 1"\. ” (oh helpn ' pL£Ase’' (oh ro , j\ IHGtP (mj - x. I7<i M LET HIM Loose AWUHP . K’A-HA”! "~~—X ! 1 —VQU A THAru. ! WTiOME \ g i<k i mwma; y > K Nouj WSLL AU. SEAT/roi/T-Afr/' GET TH £ G-RAnel j i GiODM N | ';! MF >i- 'I xf? V— - 'V* » hE? I < X 5 -' "§? «~~X m 1 •»•«- ( ;l . w s Vvfebj w A_iW x ‘. t> kmL A' \® 1 I i-Ji - *W X- \ QXi Tv '■- 1 '" IW aS jll ■* ;,j ! JBxJU WLjgn • Ml ' 9 | J * 11 ' ?ii K '- L . ! H■ ,]■ W ‘-4s x««®> ""' 1 ; ’ f' l W■ . MMl —*—"**" ' l *" 11 1 11 - - in-wn—i i »,,,, , *■■» I 1 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. • * * ♦ • ♦ 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. IjsFjl 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 tOwr LJ|P / « THF. ATL ANT \ 'Voi.M ;I A X \\ I ‘ NEWSL FRIDAY. MAY 2-1. 1912. Though Crippled, Sitton Pitches a MAsterly Game 4*«v 4-« t 4**4* Scheme Hatched to Wear Him Out Didn’t Work • - ■ —...- -—1 ■■■■— 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. • • • » 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. EEEyTlie XpA ■nman ever pui j pUn his And d [drummdnd] NATURAL LEAF I CHEWING TOBACCO I — . = -- •.-..”-.,-.tz==zz: a $35 Suit To Order For S2O SPECIAL TEN DAYS OFFER A well known Atlanta tailoring concern was coihpelled to discontinue busi ness. We bought their entire stock of summer Suit Fabrics at about half price. Over 300 Fine Woolens Worth to $35 For the next ten days, beginning tomorrow. Saturday, May 25. we offer un restricted choice of the entire lot—made up into any style suit you want, for only $20.00. Every Suit will be “Union Made,” and the best of trimmings and workmanship employed. Remember the sale starts tomorrow and lasts only 1<) days. OUR GUARANTEE of Perfect Fit and Satisfaction Goes With Every Suit “The Union Tailors” yZ aS? 7?l/Z.O/?3 18-20 South Pryor Street 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. Studebaker Builds Better Than You Would for Yourself Your Studebaker car is built with more attention to perfect results than you could possibly require if you oversaw the whole process. Little details, you would think unimportant, receive the most thorough care, because Studebaker never built a slip-shod product, and never will. Degrees of hardness of steel and the fitness of each —hidden parts which only long service proves— the very core of every piece of metal in your car. these things we know, and in our own factories we carefully make them right. Ycu would be careful if you could build your own car. We are far more careful because we care as much and know nxxe about it. \ StudebaJcer-Flanders “20” Roadstar Mca, Standard Equipped. $750 Our Nets Art Cattrfagut wifi biteresf You s end for ff. The Studebaker Corporation Detroit. Michigan E M. F. ATLANTA CO., G. W. Hanson, Mgr. / 45 Auburn Avenue. Phone Ivy 1694. 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. 15