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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. HERNSHEIM (JGA Q /l Good j. Ba»wa^gsg=agjgßßTaaßMgHWsrim,'ji-, „, 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 PONCE DELEON PARK GAME CALLED AT 3:30 5 ft s 5 st I s u £ s “fill $ - ° j 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. 7