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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 Friday 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 me," and added. "I hope they don't crimp the odds. If I can get anv kind of a price for my money I'll mak' the killing of a lifetime w hen I lick the Mex." What would be more natural than that Ad would let Ritchie FODDER FOR FANS Pet* Lister, former Cracker first base man, has been turned loose by the L'tiea team, of the New York State league. They have a stiff salary limit in that or ganization and Lister was turned loose for a tounger and cheaper man. » • • Warm weather is thawing out the Birmingham pitchers, all of whom are hot 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 1813. knows the weakness of virtually every batter in the league. • * • Rube Benton has defeated every club In the National league at least once. ■ • ♦ Joe Benz, tue Sox pitcher, when asked he served to Ty Cobb and .loe tacksen in a pinch, said. "I don't know, t always shut my eyes just as I start .he ball." • • • Waco, San Antonio and Fort Smith have, bids for the White Sox next spring, but they will not be chosen t.omtskey promised his team the last time they won a world's championship that if they Won another he would take them to i uca tan or Europe to train* Chan Blair, a member of the historic "Hajmakers of Troy,' who played be fore the war. " lias decided to retire asi a manager. Chan is but t>B. yet he feels that perhaps a younger man could ao better as a leader of the Pontiac club. Pitcher Frank Barberich has been sold b.v Montreal to Indianapolis. • * • If the Chattanooga team tould play New Orleans all the time ft would win rhe pennant without getting up a perspl ration. ’ v * • • Lively, former Billiken and Tiger, cele brated his reentry into the Southern league yesterday by pitching wretched ball for J. Dobb? * * The Phillies' run of hard luck isi ap parently never to end In yesterdays game Moore's hand was broken by a batted ball * * Rube Marquard made it n * n « v '“ : ‘o r ‘« s 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 anks to down Washington, 11 to R. # The Crackers stole five base* on Vance, including on* pilfe, of home Not a Gull stole on Graham. The Gulls nearly pulled art old play 'esterdav Hemphill was °n first and Alperman bounded a slow on« down m Second Baseman Starr Hemphill was off muss him up a bit just tp shorten the odds on the July 4 fight, to say nothing of "icing" the San Fran cisco slugger for a return match. This is the Spring street argument. • • • JACK CURLEY is working like the true hustler that he is to put "life” into the Las Vegas affair. If Jack can "come back" after the last Gotch-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 two years” has done for Johnson. As Blinky Ben once remarked, "Anybody worth doing is worth doing well.” • • • IT 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 Able Attell here on Labor day. At the present writing, it. ap pears tar more probable that the title holder will keep this engage ment than that Attell will be on hand for the return bout. Attell’a 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 his shoulders and- bounded In the air. It bounded straight on, however, and fell squarely into the hands of Walsh, who was watting on the bag. However, Hemphill had had more speed than the sphere and beat ft 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 hall, 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." hut. that they changed it to "Hank" when he climbed on the water wagon where, by the way, he has remained seated for twenty yearti. ♦ * • June 3 will be "Mike Finn day" in Lit tle Rock. It will be the day that they celebrate the return of Southern league ball —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 inate riallv strengthened his club by singing Swann and Stanley. Swann must be pretty nearly all in and the same >s no doubt true of Stanley. * 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 here 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 th” regatta. Columbia was the favorite, with chances favoring oith— Princeton or Harvard for second place. TTTF. ATLAVTA AX’D XFAVS- SATURDAY. 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 4 T " ONDER ’f 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 I’rackers 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 experiencing 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 x game was the fact that the first two runs scored (and they came within three inning.”! were made on home runs. Charley Hemphill paid his compliments to "Dutch" Bergey first. With two gone in the first inning, he ripped one to the right-hand side of the scoreboard. It wasn't a tremendously long hit and he certainly earned the tally. The ball was fielded in to Starr, who made a great throw to the plate, and nothing but Hemphill's speed made it possible to gel 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 runner keep right on going and make five bases if ho can'.’ Let It score, a run when th” 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. • ♦ • FRANK DESSAU getaway might' 1 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 lie didn't put anything on the ball but a little shove—until he got in a pinch. HERNSHEIM flllway<s 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 the tremendous batting of the Crackers They were there with the old-time slapsticks. Hemphill was the big noise bat ter 'esterdav, 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 trt 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 thens 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 champlnoship, 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 Gulf 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 35.—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. Birmingh’m MONDAY PONCE DELEON PARK GAME CALLED AT 3:30 j-I—. ixl c 3 3 5 —S, » vß3* ar a iju jo —» 5 Sis* *325 = S 3 £s**•-* a Vg ® ” T D5~ (5 - S H f" 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. • • • ANNE 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 head 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 way—lt didn’t look so bad. j The Price of | Redßock I 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 I expensive imported brand. At Founts and Stores—by the glass, small bottle, pint or quart. Yes, we make that good LEMO-LIME you buy at the ball park and all stands. Copyrlßht. ISI2, N’a.tlona.l Newt AsZa. 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—ls in America the time la fitting to com pare him with some of the rugged American fighters he 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 he is "the goods,” otherwise the fans will good naturedly con sider themselves stung and will go near that fighter no more. So ft will be with Wells, who will have to stand the acid test right off the reel. If he tan not do this hls earning powers will be nil in America and he will have to spend the remainder of his time in this country in a mere sightseeing trip. By Tad Now, Wells is to be tested se verely. One of the men he will be called upon to meet is Al Palzer. 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, learns 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 ft 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 fata! 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 hls pretensions in short order.