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Crackers Take On Doughty Barons for Four Games
If They Keep Their Stride They Should Win Three
By Percy IL Whiting.
THE Crackers enter today on
what should be a peculiarly
giddy week of baseball. Be
ginning today, Hemphill’> huskies
take on the Birmingham team for
four games And as this Baron
club is leading the league, it is but
natural to suppose that they can go
some.
The Barons will find themselves
or; • : b> a team that is playing
b The Crackers have "got
Wi ;.l] said, "Waft till hot weath
i r gets here." It has come —and so
have the Crackers come strong.
They didn’t play perfect ball any
last week, but they played winning
hall —as five victories out of six
starts demonstrates. The club lack
ed a lot of playing the defensive
game it ought to play. But offen
sively it was a wonder. It made
thirty runs in six games, which is
an average of five to the game—
enough to win seven contests but
of ten.
If the Crackers can get to the
Birmingham pitchers .as strong .as
they did last week to those of
Montgomery and Mobile, they will
take three games out of four, if
their luck is good. Then they go
over to Montgomery for a series.
After four games in Slumberville.
the;- ton • back to the home sod for
another big bat< h.
* * •
rpHE statement that the. Nash-
I Ville baseball franchise is for
sal? is hot to be taken too literally.
Apparently the present owners see
away out of their legal difficulties
by making either a real or a phony
transfer of ownership. Perhaps it
works out that the old association
Is restrained legally from allowing
Its ball club to play in Nashville,
but that the same ball team, if
owned by another association, could
play there all right. It Is extreme
ly doubtful if the Southern league
will ever- lose the Nashville club.
The town is too good a one to
pass up.
• • •
-r he famous "Cobb case” has,
"■ worked out just about as It
should. Cobb got a mild fine and
a short sentence, and Ban John
son got a chance to stamp home his
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attitude toward rowdy work by ball
players. The players secured what
they wanted—more adequate pro
tection from abuse by spectators.
Here is Ban Johnson's statement In
regard to the Cobb case:
After a careful investigation in
to the causes and circumstances of
the encounter between Player
Cobh and Claude Lucker, a spec
tator at the New York grounds
on May 15, I find that direct re
sponsibility for the unfortunate
occurrence rests upon the play
er.
Evidence in the form of affi
davits clearly shows that the play
er was the first to employ vicious
language in replying to a taunt
ing remark of the spectator.
Cobb did not seek redress by
an appeal to the umpire, but took
the law Into his own hands. His
language and conduct were high-',
ly censurable
As a lesson to the accused and
a warning to all other players, I
fix the term of the player's sus
pension at ten days and impose a
fine of SSO He will be eligible to
play on May 20.
Full protection will be afforded
to all American league players
against abuse or attack from pa
trons, but sure and severe punish
ment will be meted out. to those'
who, in disregard to their club ,
and league, assume to act as judge
and avenger of real or fancied
wrongs while on duty.
In pursuance of this policy the
American league has arranged to
increase the police force at each
of its parks, and the home club,
on Instructions from the umpire,
will be required to remove from
its grounds spectators whose ac
tions or comments are offensive to
players and fellow patrons.
This looks like a square deal all
P FODDER FOR FANS
Bill Smith found himself overstocked
with outfielders Saturday. when Barr
from the Pelicans and Tutweiler from De
troit reported at about the same time As
he had planked down his money for Barr
he sent Tutweiler back to the Tigers.
• • •
The Barons have made an even dozen
more hits this season than the Crackers.
But the locals have a better batting aver
age by .019.
Also the Crackers have scored more
runs.
In 37 games Hemphill’s men have
grabbed 156 runs In 42 games the
Barons have made 141 runs. That gives
the home club an average of 4 8-37 runs
to a game, while the- visitors have made
but 3 15-42 to a contest.
» ♦ •
All Atlanta fandom is curious to see
Almeida, the Cuban who Is playing with
the Birmingham team. He has been more
than punishing the ball since he has been
v. ith the Molesworthltes.
• » *
I Derrill Pratt couldn’t see Walter John
i son’s shoots at all the first time he faced
i the speedster. But the following game he
vindicated his eyesight by smashing into
i Groom s offerings* for two three-baggers.
| Punch Knoll, former Southern leaguer.
I now managing Dayton, Is out of the game
I with a bad ankle.
When Bill Bernhard won a pennant for
Nashville he had Tonneyman and Sea
bough as. catchers. He has them now at
Memphis—and a blamed good team, too,
in spite of that fact.
“.Jack Knight is a disappointment." say.
Washington papers.
"Gabby Street is considerable of a
lemon" Is the New York verdict
Its usually that way with trades Ev
erybody gets the worst of it.
In Washington they say that the White
Sox are playing three or four pegs above
their real form.
• ♦ •
Jack McGinn, once a pretry good pock
ev. as jockeys go, is now selling peanuts
and pop at the Dallas ball park.
Harry Niles, former Southern leaguer,
with Toledo now, has scored an average
of one run a game this season,
• * •
Ed Sweeney isn’t throwing well to sec
ond as yet. That's a by-product of his
hold-out
• • *
Caldwell’s failure as a pitcher with the
Yanks this season is due to the fact that
he has no speed Nobody seems to know
where It has gone
» • •
Nashville will get outfielder James from
Brooklyn.
• • •
Wingo Anderson Is looking around for
. i joi as is usual at this season of the
■ rear. Wingo is one of our best little
b vkers each spring.
• • •
There may be something in all these de-
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around, Cobb deserved punish
ment. It would be the ruin of
baseball to pass over a case like
that. It would mean that every
player who had a real or imaginary
grouch' at a spectator would climb
over the fence and wallop the fan.
That would bb one lovely state of
-affairs
The increasing of the police pro
tection at the parks should make a
recurrence of the Cobb case an im
possibility. If a fan "gets raw” he
will be thrown from the park, which
is right. But he should he thrown
out by the police and not by the
players.
The Southern league would do
well to instruct its umpires to give
instant attention to any complaints
from players about abuse and vitu
peration from the stands, and
should ordor home clubs to see that
spectators guilty of any "rough
stuff" are thrown from the stands.
• » V
THAT this will be a treat base
-1 ball season in Atlanta provided
the Crackers hit a. winning stride
was demonstrated Saturday
The crowd that turned out to see
if Atlanta could really beat, the
hitherto invincible Demaree was a
corker. And they ripped a hole in
the skies when Bailey's three-bag
ger in the seventh put the contest
in cold storage. Tommy Atkins
pitched, all ground the . hitherto
lucky right-hander, and deserved
the victory. One of the bright fea
tures of the contest was the amaz
ing fielding of O'Brien. He pulled
some stuff that. ■ was better than
good.
nials from American league managers,
that they are NOT on anv deal for Hal
Chase. It is likely that at last Harry
Wolverton has tumbled to- the disdom of
getting all ex-managers oft his ball club.
It took nerve for Harry Davis to trade
Stovall and for Hemphill to sell Jordan.
But It was for the best in both cases
• • »
Harry Mclntyre, former Memphis hurl
er, ought to do well for Kansas City.
♦ • •
Pitcher George Davis, of Williams col
lege. has had a lot of swell offers from
rndjpr league managers
• • •
The usual congressional baseball game
played each spring for several years is
off The senators and representatives
have their minds on more serious things.
TY COBB’S SUSPENSION
ENDS: HE PLAYS AGAIN
CHICAGO. May 27.—Ty Cobb broke
back into the game yesterday, after a
ten-day suspension for thrashing a
spectator, but he didn’t break very
hard. Out of four times at bat he suc
ceeded in making but one hit and no
runs, which is considerably below- his
average. He fielded well, however,
making five put-outs and one sensa
tional assist on a great throw from the
field.
The Detroit team celebrated Cobb’s
return by walloping the White Sox.
6 to 2.
UNITED~STATES LEAGIJE
WILL TRYST. LOUIS NOW
ST. LOUIS, MO.. May 27.—The Unit
ed States league is to Invade St. Louis.
The franchise of the Cleveland team
has been transferred here, according to
gossip in baseball circles today.
M. Henderson, president of the Pitts
burg club and the financial backer of
the league, is financing the deal. Jack
O'<'onnor, former manager of the
Browns, will have charge of the new
club.
AUTOS IN ELIMINATION TESTS.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. May 27.
Elimination tests of the giant racers
that will contest at the motor speed
way in th® 500-mile race on Memorial
day began here today. The big cars,
driven by the men who will be at the
wheel during the long grind, were sent
around the brick track at top speed.
Each car must show a speed of 75 miles
per hour for on* lap—2 1-2 miles or It
will not be qualified to enter the main
event Regular judges timed the cars l
in the elimination trials.
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TO HUE CINCH
ON GONFALON
By Monty.
RACES in both National and
American leagues have now
reached such a point that a
more or less definite line can be
had on the way the different team's
stack up against each other. As
things look now, Cincinnati will
continue throughout the season to
be the chief rival of the Giants,
and the two Sox-—Red and White—
will provide the chief opposition for
the Athletics.
The Giants just now look like a
1 to 50 het for the National league
gonfalon. It is impossible to see
how any of the opposition teams
can attain the pace that has been
set and is being kept up by the
New York cian of McGraw. With
all his men In shape, to play, Mugg
sy's outfit has something in every
department to play on all its ri
vals. and the team would still be
the strongest even after several
stars are injured, because of the
high class of the substitutes.
McGraw Has Great Pitchers.
As for McGraw's pitching staff, it
is at least the par of any other in
Tom Lunch's organization. Mar
quard, Mathewson. Ames and Tes
reau have done the bulk- of the
work to date, and without stretch
ing a point it can be said that any
one of them is pitching right now
as well as any man on any other
team In the world. With this ar
ray to carry his bets, who can beat
out McGraw for the pennant? An
swer: No one, apparently.
The Reds of Hank O'Day are
coming along at a great clip flying
the colors of Taft's home town,
Cincinnati. Though they do not
compare with the Giants, they seem
to possess an edge on the other
contenders. O'Day has some great
young ball players in Esmond. Phe
lan and the Cuban, Marsans. His
pitching staff is delivering the,
goods in more than passing shape,
and the whole outfit is playing to
gether well as a team.
In the American league the White
Sox are merrily cavorting out in
the front, with Boston still the real
opposition. The wealth of batting
power on the Chicago outfit is a
hard thing to stop. Ping Bodie,
Jimmie Callahan. Rollie Zeider and
Harry Lord are all whanging the
ball to a fare-you-well, and Ed
Walsh is bulwark enough to ob
struct the progress of any man’s
team when the issue looks doubt
ful.
Red Sox Look Good.
The Red Sox, with a corps of
young flingers that are at the same
time sensational and consistent and
with strength in practically all oth
er branches of play, will likewise
continue to stay among the group
at the top above the Athletics for
a number of weeks, if not a number
of months. Bedient, Pape, O’Brien
and Wood are a quartet of twirlers,
none of them old, who will stump
the opposition many a time more.
The great outfield of the Red Sox
will continue to be the ba’ne of
many pitchers' lives. Lewis, Hoop
er and Speaker form one of the
greatest gardening trio in the his
tone of I'ncle Sam's greatest game.
Nothing need be said now or at
any other time about the chances
of Connie Mack’s Athletics They
still are figured the class of the
American league and still' appear
as the most likely winners, al
though they are a goodly number of
games front the fore.
M'GOORTY IS FAVORITE.
NEW YORK. May 27.—The Moha-
McGoorty bout here tomorrow is mo
nopolizing the attention of the fight
fans in things pugilistic. The middle
weights will weigh in at 158 pounds at
3 o'clock. McGoorty, known as the
cleverest of the middleweights, is a
slight favorite in the betting The
j bout will take place at the St. Nicho
| las A. C.
Wolverton Was Wise When He Secured “Gabby n
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Yanks Have Great Pair in Sweeney and Street
By AV. J. Mcßeth.
New Y.ORK, May 27.—Manager
Harry Wolverton, of the Yan
kees, pulled a mighty fine stroke
of business when he landed Catcher
Street from the Washington club. Scof
fers were inclined to disagree with such
a statement, especially when the vet
eran backstop got away to a bad start
this spring. But, somehow, since Ed
Sweeney came to terms with the New
York management a change for the
better has come over the only sea
soned receiver with the Yanks up to
the time of Sweeney’s appearance on
the scene.
Sweeney was just the tonic neces
sary for Street's greatest good. Far be
it from any intent to intimate that
Street had loafed while the club was at
his tender mercy. He was a sick man
all spring—so sick that he often should
have been in bed when he was Sporting
the chest protector and the mitt He
had just commenced to find himself
when Sweeney bobbed up. But prob
ably he would not have found himself
quickly but for his rival veteran’s re
turn. *
Competition a Great Thing.
They tell'us that competition is the
soul of trade. The same holds good in
athletic endeavor, especially so In the
professional ranks. Fortunate, indeed,
is the big league manager who is well
stocked with capable substitutes. Look
at McGraw’s Giants. He’s out there
[news from ringside
Charley White, who defeated Owen
Moran a few days ago, will box Young
Shugrn at the St. Nicholas rink In New-
York June 4.
• • •
Al Wolgast has signed up to box six
rounds with Young Jack O'Brien at the
American Athletic club. New York, on
May 31.
• • •
Johnny Kilbane was lucky to ret a draw
with Jimmy Walsh In their 12-rnund bout
a few nights agn. according to the Bos
ton papers With the exception of the
even rounds Walsh had the shade al! the
way, at least sn say the Hub scribes.
• • •
Phil Brock and Ad Wolgast are sched
uled to box six rounds in Pittsburg on
June 8.
• • •
Jack Curley has wired Luther McCar
thy offering him a return bout with Carl
Morris. If McCarthy accepts they will
make' up <he preliminary to the Johnson-
Flynn fight.
• • B
Ray Bronson and Parky McFarland are
training hard for their ten-round fight In
Indianapolis Monday. The boys will box
in the Indians' ball park.
Ray Temple and Joe Mandot will meet
In a return bout in New Orleans next
July 4
♦ » •
The McMahon brothers, of New York,
went the Garden Athletic club fl.OOn bet
ter and have offered sl3,not) for a ten
round bout between Al Palzer and Bom
badier Wells.
Abe Attell will weigh 133 pounds
ringside June 30 or win a SIOO bet Nolan,
who has charge of Ahe pow, has prom
ised to build his protege up to the light
weight standard. If Nolan is successful
it is likely that Attell will meet the win
ner of the Rivers-Wolgast bout next July.
• • «
Attell now weighs 130 pounds, although
he is working hard every day Abie Is
delighted at his weight and says he will
make 133 by the last of June.
• • •
Frankie Russell and Babe Picato will
box ten rounds in New Orleans tomorrow
night.
• • •
Johnny Kilbane will receive $4,000 as
his side for a ten-round fight with Johhny
Dundee in New York June 18.
Hessheim Ogar
Ji (joodpnrpke
VJenuinie
o Ricjtq,
because his second string men are
practically as valuable as his recognized
regulars. And, fully appreciating that
fact, can you for a minute imagine one
' of the veterans letting down an iota
' from his topmost speed? He dare not.
His best work alone stands between
him and his job. Those substitutes
are a prod—the proper kind of a prod
and one of the Giant regulars would
play -with a broken leg if he could
rather than give ground to his under
- study.
Thus it is with “Gabby" Street. T'n
' til Sweeney came he had no worries.
He was the main “guy,” the whole
noise. The world was at hfs feet, as It
were. Street is no longer young and
■ you can not blame him for favoring
himself as much as possible until he
had rounded into tip-top physical form,
i But what a change when Sweeney hove
I in vtew! No longer any nursing of the
1 sore pinion; no longer any sparing of
' the "chariey-horse.” The shadow of
the younger man fell between "Gabby”
and his sinecure.
Street will help Sweeney every bit as
much as Sweeney will benefit Street.
They are two of the finest catchers in
the American league Sweeney was
the class of the circuit in 1910. There
was no better catcher anywhere in 1909
than Street. Rheumatism put him out
of commission in 1910. Last year he
was almost himself again. Now he is
traveling as well as at any time in bls
career. And with Sweeney at his coat
Kilbane Is scheduled to box Tommy
O'Toole six rounds in Philadelphia June
5, and Dundee will meet an unknown on
June 3 These bouts will put the boys on
edge for their big scrap on the 18th.
Con Comlskey Is training hard for his
15-round fight with Luther McCarthy in
Springfield. Mo,, Decoration day.
• • •
Australia was nearly deserted by Amer
ican fighters when Sam Langford, Sam
McVey, Johnny Thompson. Porky Flynn,
Jimmy Clahby and Jack Lester sailed for
America.
• • •
Jumbo Wells Is up East seeking
matches with some of the best welters
in the business Wells is keen for a
match with Eddie McGoorty and it is
likely that some promoter will bring the
boys together. V elis is the lad who did
a brodie on his face in the second round
of a fight with Al Kubiak here awhile
bark and refused to fight any more, pre
tending he was knocked out.
• • •
Packey McFarland says he expects to
make a. million dollars before he quits the
ring.
Billy Papke's first fight abroad will be
with George Carpentier in Paris June 30
It is probable that Eddie McGoorty will
trail Papke to Europe for the purpose of
getting a chance at the winer of the Car
pentier-Papke go
BRONSON READY TO WEIGH IN.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 27.—Ray
Bronson has succeeded in getting down
to 138 pounds, the figure required by
Packey McFarland for their ten-round
bout here Wednesday night.
BASEBALL
TUESDAY
BIRMINGHAM VS. ATLANTA
Ponce DeLeon Park 3:30
• tails all the time he.’ll have to keep ori
1 traveling.
t Sweeney and street should easily
» prove the greatest catching combina-<
i tlon In the big show Each is a strap
ping big fellow, capable of catching
i practically the entire schedule of games
s if fortunate pnough to escape injury.
Street can hold any pitcher. For years
1 he teapoed with Walter Johnson, who
1 packs the fastest ball of the age. Ha
has also had lots of experience with
spitball receiving. Sweeney Is the only
. catcher in the country who can prop
. erly handle Russell Ford’s freak dellv
- ery. The pair worked together since
t they were ki<js in the “bushes." They
1 are so familiar with each other that
> often this star battery works without
e signs.
i. Hot Friendly Rivalry.
e The season promises to develop a
e great fight in friendly rivalry between
f Street and Sweeney and the harder
f they tussle the better off will they and
• the club be. Sweeney had one slight
advantage In the fact that he will be
? assigned with Russell Ford, the pitch
ing star. Yet. Street has a qualiflca-
i tlon that offsets this, at least.
s Street is the greatest catcher of the
> age on a. high lift. He never muffs
i one. Anything that he has time to get
, under he van hold, whether it be a tall
. fly to the infield or a towering foul back
, near the stand. He sets himself right
under th? ball, holding his glove over
’ his head. And anything that hits his
t mitt sticks, you may bet on that.
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