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Was Wolgast Playing Possum
To Ritchie for Next Battle
By H. M. Walker.
LOS ANGELES, May 25—Lit
tle Ad Wolgast might grab
Mark Twain's humorous bul
letin and Issue a statement as fol
lows: "The reports of my death
have been greatly exaggerated."
A week ago today the San Fran
cisco scribes "wrote" the light
weight champion into the cooling
room. Ad was reported to be on
the verge of a collapse after his
short bout with Ritchie. He was
tagged with a lame spine, a "to
bacco" heart and a few other com
plaints ranging from the pip to
housemaid’s knee.
Whether Ad was carried to the
train on a stretcher is not known,
but it appears that he stood the
trip back to the “houn’ dawg” state
in good shape and was able to lam
baste Freddie Daniels in four
rounds last Fridav night.
* * •
THE Spring street regulars are a
suspicious lot. More than one
of the cement creepers who follow
the trail between Jim Jeffries' corn
counter and Greenewald's stogie
store have been heard to express
the opinion that Wolgast played
the "possum" act with Ritchie,
It was pointed out that Wolgast
always bets heavily upon himself to
win when signed up for an impor
tant contest. Also it is recalled
that Ad named Rivers as the one
man “made to order for nte," anil
added. "I hope they don't crimp the
odds. If I can get any kind of a
price for my money I II make the
killing of a lifetime when 1 lick the
Mex.”
What would be more natural
than that Ad would let Ritchie
FODDER FOR FANS
Pete Lister, former Cracker first base
man. has been turned loose by the Utica
team, of the New York State league.
They have a stiff salary limit in that or
ganization and Lister was turned loose
for a younger and cheaper man.
♦ ♦ ♦
Warm weather is thawing out the
Birmingham pitchers, all of whom are
hoi weather artists; and they are begin
ning to go some. Trough looked bad yes
terday. but the rest of them are coming
Much of the success of the Reds is said
to be due to the fact that Hank O'Day,
who has been umpiring since the War
of 1812. knows the weakness of virtually
evert batter in the league.
« • •
Rube Benton has defeated every club
in the National league least once
Joe Benz, the Sox pitcher, when asked
what he served to Ty Cobb and Joe
Jackson in a pinch, said: "1 don't know.
I always shut my ejes just as 1 start
the ball ”
• * •
Waco. San Antonio and Fort Smith have
made bids for the White Sox next spring,
but thev will not be chosen. Comiskey
promised his team the last time they
won a world's championship that if they
won another be would take them to 1 uca
tan or Europe to train.
• • ♦
Chan Blair, a member of the historic
"Haymakers of Troy." who played "be
fore the war.” has decided to retire as a
manager Chan is but 88. yet he feels
that perhaps a younger man could do
better as a leader of the Pontiac club.
Pitcher Erank Barberich has been sold
by Montreal to Indianapolis.
If the Chattanooga team could play
New Orleans all the time it would win
the pennant without getting up a perspi
ration. . , «
Lively, former Billiken and Tiger, cele
brated his reentry into the Southern
league yesterday by pitching wretched
ball for .1. Dobbs.
The Phillies' run of hard luck is ap
parently never to end In yesterday s
game Moore's hand was broken by a
batted ball. * ,
Rube Marquard made it nine victories
yesterday when he trimmed Brooklyn.
He had some close calls.
Zinn former Memphis outfielder, now
a Highlander, hit another home run yes
terday. This helped the banks to down
Washington. It to 6.. *
The Crackers stole five bases yesterday
on Vance, including one pilfer of home.
Not a Gull stole on Graham.
The Gull- nearb pulled an old play
yesterday Hemphill w-as on first arid
Alperman bounded a slow one down to
.Second. Baseman Starr. Hemphill was utt
muss him up a bit just to shorten
the odds on the July 4 fight, to say
nothing of “icing” the San Fran
cisco sluggei for a return match.
This is the Spring street argument.
* • •
t ACK CURLEY is working like
J the true hustler that he is to put
“life" into the Las Vegas affair. If
Jack can "come back" after the
last Goteh-Hackenschmidt show he
deserves every dollar that he rings
up.
It is a plain path that the pro
moter is following in his advertis
ing. Johnson is instructed to make
light of the July 4 event and show
little or no inclination to start
training. On the other hand. Flynn
has already opened his training
camp and is preparing for honest
work in the hope of catching the
heavyweight champion asleep.
On top of this, we get the daily
guessing contest as to what the
"fast life of the past t‘wo years"
has done for Johnsoty
As Blinky Ben once remarked.
"Anybody worth doing is worth
doing well.”
• • •
r T is within keeping of the
* straight methods always em
ployed by Johnny Kilbane that the
featherweight champion should
make good on his promise to Pro
moter McCarey to return to this
city and box Abie Attell here on
Labor day.
At the presenl writing, it ap
pears far more probable that the
title bidder will keep this engage
ment than that Attell will be on
hand for the return bout. Attell’s
talk of returning to the game as a
legitimate lightweight sort of fogs
the plans made for this affair.
with the crack of the hat and so was Al
perman. When the ball reached the Gull
infielder it was too late to head “Whitey”
at first. So he threw’ to second. Hemp
hill was in the way. however, and the ball
hit hfs shoulders and bounded in the air.
It hounded straight on. however, and fell
squarely into the, hands of Walsh, who
was waiting on the bag However,
Hemphill had had more speed than the
sphere and beat it to the sack
• ♦ ♦
O’Dell immediately followed this with a
lucky hit. He grounded slowly to Pau
let. The Gull first sacker grabbed at the
ball, fell down, and threw from a sitting
posture. The. throwing wasn’t good and
O’Dell reached first safely.
• ♦ ♦
Alperman gained a trifle on O'Dell in
their race for second batting honors yes
terday by making two hits to Al's one
• * ♦
Hub Perdue hasn’t won a game In two
weeks and seems to have struck his regu
lar stride.
• • ♦
Rumor has it that Hank O’Day’s first
nickname was “Tank.” but that they
changed it to “Hank” when he climbed
on the water wagon—where, by the way,
he has remained seated for twenty years,
* * *
June 3 will be “Mike Finn day” in Lit
tle Rock. It will be the day that they
celebrate the return of Southern league
hall for a while at least —to Arkansas.
♦ ♦ »
When Williamsport signed John Kerr
it immediately released all their other
catchers and will let John go it alone
this season as he did last year for Tren
ton.
...
It is doubtful if Charley Frank mate
rially strengthened his club by singing
Swann and Stanley. Swann must be
pretty nearly all in and the same is no
doubt true of Stanley.
■4 • •
Douglas Baird, of the Westminster col
lege, shortstop, has been signed by Louis
ville. Lest it chance that you don't hap
pen to be versed in educational matters
we hasten to add that Westminster col
lege is located in Fulton. Mo., and that
the Westminster ball club has Just won
the college championship of Missouri.
JUNIOR OARSMEN BATTLE
ON SCHUYLKILL TODAY
PHILADELPHIA, May 25.—The best
talent among the Eastern junior oars
men was gathered hero today for the
tenth annual American Henley regatta
on the Schuylkill river. It was expect
ed that the junior collegiate eight
oared event would be one of the best
contests in the history of the regatta
Columbia was the favorite. with
chances favoring either Princeton or
Harvwtti for second place.
TTTE ATL.AVTA crnPGIAN AND SATUBBAT. MAY 25. 1912.
Miller, who Was Knocked Out of the Box Yesterday, Is Credited With Game
SOUTHERN LEAGUE PITCHERS’ AVERAGES A JOKE
By Percy H. Whiting.
<4 T BONDER if I am never going
?’ to win a ball game.” was the
plaintive query of Walter
Miller, when he began to warm up
for yesterday's battle. The aver
age man who saw the game will
say that his query was answered in
the negative. But if you look in
the big records of the league you
will find that the game goes to the
credit of Walter Miller. And this
in spite of the fact that he was
clearly knocked out of the box.
The Southern league’s method of
arriving at the decision of which
of two or more pitchers in a game
is entitled to the credit for win
ning is as idiotic as the raving of a
wild lunatic. If a majority of the
league directors could think about
anything at league meetings except
how to have tickets printed and
whether or not to use registering
turnstiles, or if the league president
had an occasional spare minute
from his duties of running Little
Rock and most of Arkansas to
give to the league, this silly rule
would be changed. But "they
don't." and "he hasn’t.” and there
you are. So Miller, and not Des
sau, gets credit for yesterday's
game, which the Crackers won, 7
to 3.
Miller is the Crackers' puzzle.
He has pitched just one good
game this season that he won. He
has pitched a few that the team
drizzled away behind him. And
he has pitched a few bad ones.
Yesterday he pitched a bad one
and won it-—which means, maybe,
that he is experieticing a change.
All Atlanta hopes so, for he is a
popular pitcher and last year could
win games when all the rest of
them were losing.
• • •
A RATHER weird feature of the
1 game was the fact that the first
two runs scored (and they came
within three innings) were made
on home runs. Charley Hemphill
paid his compliments to “Dutch”
Berger first. With two gone In the
first inning, he ripped one Io the
right-hand side of the scoreboard.
It wasn’t a tremendously long hit
and he certainly earned the tally.
The hall was fielded in to Starr,
who made a great throw to the
plate, and nothing but Hemphill’s
speed made it possible to get home
ahead of the ball.
Bailey's hit. which came with no
body gone in the third inning, was
tremendously long. The Cracker
speedster was rounding third base
when the ball began its return trip.
So long was Bailey’s hit that it
suggested a new rule. In case of a
long hit inside the inclosure, why
not let the Dinner keep right on
going and make five bases if he
can? Let it score a run when the
batter reaches home and then let
him get to first if he is fast
enough.
This idea of a baseball Marathon
isn't patented, and it's all right
with us if they include it In the
rules.
• • •
rpRANK DESSAU got away mighty
well when he was sent in to
relieve Miller. To the careful ob
server it didn’t appear that Dessau
had anything when he started to
pitch. And certainly he didn’t put
anything on the ball but a little
shove—until he got in a pinch.
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Mrs. Rumhauser Is So Suspicious
Then he opened up. As the game
progressed he got better and bet
ter, and in the eighth and ninth he
had the Gulls chopipng holes in the
scenery without visible results.
What made the game easy for
him was thie tremendous batting of
the Crackers. They were there with
the old-time slapsticks.
Hemphill was the big noise bat
ter yesterday, and made two sin
gles and walked once, in addition
to walloping that homer. Bailey,
in addition to his homer, made a
single and walked once. The big
gest surprise of all. perhaps, came
when Pete O’Brien made three hits
for four bases. He set the fans wild
with his stick work. Ever ready
to knock when a man is “going
bad,” they are especially anxious
to applaud the man they have
knocked when .he gives them an
opportunity. And O'Brien was
there with the opportunity, all
right.
O'Brien has had hard luck about
errors lately. He has got them for
balls that were tough ones to han-
A. A. C. PLAYERS GOING
TO TWO TENNIS EVENTS
Southern tennis players are begin
ning to work hard now to get in shape
for the coming tennis tournaments. The
first Southern event is the Cotton
States champinoship, which will be
started in Montgomery June 3. This
will be followed by two big ones June
10—the Virginia event at Richmond
and the Guif States at New Orleans.
Dr. Nat Thornton and Forrest Adair,
Jr., will represent the Atlanta Athletic
club at Richmond. The team has not
been picked for the Gulf States event,
but one will surely be sent.
The Southern tennis championship
starts here July 1.
TO CINCH TITLE, VANDY
MUST DEFEAT SEWANEE
SEWANEE, TENN., May 25.—Van
derbilt has the Sewanee team to beat
Southern college championship.
The mighty Commodores so far this
season have found things easy for them.
They have met and defeated the best of
the S. I. A. A. teams, including the
strong Georgia Tech team, which won
the series from Sewanee. But the Ti
gers are not beaten yet, and they can
be counted on to give the Commodores
a warm reception.
Baseball
Atlanta is. Birmlngh'm
MONDAY
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die, and at times when they cut no
earthly figure in the final result.
But he has got them just the same,
and people who have not seen the
games and who have gone by the
box scores doubtless gave him more
discredit than he is entitled to.
• • •
/"ANE bad thing about the game—
it dragged. Any nine-inning
game that lasts over two hours is
short on pepper. And this short
ness is due to the umpires. Os
course, the players do the lagging.
But the umpires are the men who
can hustle them out of it. In
modern baseball umpires have,
among their other pleasing du
ties, that of stage managers of the
game. They are supposed to see
that the curtain is rung up on time;
that everybody is on hand to ap
pear when the cue is given, and
that the final curtain comes down
before the audience becomes bored.
Bill Hart was on as bead stage
manager yesterday, and he let the
players dawdle too much. If At
lanta had lost, such a waste of
time would have been a crime. As
.the Crackers won —and made it
three straight, by the w ay—it didn't
look so bad.
The Price of
Bedrock
GINGER ALE
is a lot smaller than its
quality. The price is only a
nickel. The quality is the
same as that of the most
expensive imported brand.
At Founts and Stores—by the glass, small
bottle, pint or quart.
Yes, we make that good LEMO-LI ME you buy at the
ball park and all stands.
Copyright. 1912, National News As/t By Tad
British and Yankee Types of
Boxers Are Vastly Different
By W. W. Naughton.
NOW that Bombardier Wells,
best heavyweight in England
—at least, he is holder at the
present time of the Lonsdale belt,
emblematic of that title —is in
America the time is fitting to com
pare him with some of the rugged
American fighters lie will be called
upon to dispose of before he can be
taken seriously here.
American fight fans are comlpa
cent with foreigners -to a certain
extent. A fighter may come to this
country with a fairish reputation
on the other side and the fans will
patronize him and perhaps root for
him even against the American op
ponent—once. Upon that one oc
casion the foreigner must prove
that lie is "the goods," otherwise
the fans will good naturedly con
sider themselves stung and will go
near that tighter no more.
So it will be with Wells, who will
have tn stand the acid test right
off the reel. If he can not do this
his earning powers will be nil in
America ami he will have to spend
the remainder of his. time in this
country in a mere sightseeing trip.
Now, Wells is to be tested se
verely. One of the mm he will be
called upon to meet is Al Paizes
the big lowa fighter. Palzer may
not be Wells' first opponent here.
That would hardly be fair. Well*
should be given a couple of me
dium hard opponents for a starter,
or until he gets his bearings, learna
a little of the American style of
doing things, and gets a couple of
lungfuls of American air.
We are told Wells is not rugged
enough—that he lacks that some
thing that is extremely hard to de
fine. Even the sharp English crit
ics admit that "something" is lack
ing. but they can not determine
what it is. Some say it is what is
known in this country as a tissue
paper jaw. Others say the trouble
is in the wasp-like waist of the big
man. At any rate, the English
critics, eager as they are to possess
a contender for the heavyweight ti
tle. say Wells has a. fatal weakness
“somewhere.”
Americans who have seen Wells
work on the other .side say Jim
Flynn. Al Kaufman, Al Palzer and
men of that type, the rugged de
mons of the ring and the fearless
punchers who are ever willing to /
go In and mix. will upset Wells
and overthrow his pretensions in,
short order.
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