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GIOWAN CCMRB IfXHETf EDITED ty W l . 9 FARNSWQHTH jSjJIc Hdt I HO«oo y ouoo> j — 'i (!A V w< THOUGH / POOM UNTIL tMEP£ A * ] (?££ IF THE SHE'LL PggAiK- < > AS THOUGH y 0 U p j ' looxiou minute AGO ; & JfcES YOU /✓ TMEOOOftOOWM ‘ npjER. M mE I IfSOUUKe\J V y '. I+&ILE (6A A Sooiu —OF J \ BEFOAC fT~. r '■ t w^ ,Mwu - —i — 1 j fefei th ~&h ' P SO Si «3> 1® w ( W jMly ™ ’ i | : ' 11 HI I I W'H MO fi . w* jj JI i|| I . ■ V" IR,. Crackers Take On Doughty Barons for Four Games **••*? 4*®4* V®4* 4* •4* 4 • 4* 4*®4* If They Keep Their Stride They Should Win Three By Percy H. Whiting. THE Crackers enter today on what should be a peculiarly giddy week of baseball. Be ginning today, Hemphill’s huskies take on the Birmingham team for fhur 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 opposed by a team that is playing baseball. The Crackers have "got together." We all said. "Wait till hot weath er 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 ball—as five victories out of six starts demonstrates. The club lack ed a lot of playing the defensive gtenie it ought to play. But offen sively it was a wonder. It made thirty runs in six. games, w hich is an average of five to the game— —enough to win. .seven contests out of ten. If the Crackers can get to the j 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. they come back to the home sod for another big batch. ■ • • THE statement that the Nash ville baseball franchise is for sale is not to be taken too literally. Apparently the present owners see away out of their legal difficulties by making either a real o r a phony transfer of ownership. Perhaps it works out that the old association is restrained legally from allow ing 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 over lose the Nashville club The town is too good a one to pass up. mHE 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 ti'llfilu, ■ UIIHIV I iffjgl SBlitjr It stands alone In its 30 years of unbroken success; in its power to cure the most obstinate blood and skin diseases; and in the pos itive guarantee that goes wit everv bottle Blood Balm stands alone. money back if it fails to help you. Don t be deceived nor put of . If your druggist cannot supply vou write to The Blood Balm Co. Philadelphia or St. Louts. attitude toward rowdy work by ball players. The players secured what they wanted—more adequate pro tection from abuse by spectators. Here is Ran Johnson’s statement in regard tn the Cobb case: After a careful investigation in to the causes and circumstances of the encounter between Player Cobb and Claude Lucker, a spec tator at the New York grounds on May 15. 1 find that direct re sponsibility for the unfortunate occurrence rests upon the play er. Evidence in rhe 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. 1 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 Mai- 26. 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, nn 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*ail | FODDER FOR Bill Smith found himself overstocked r with outfielders Saturday. when .Barr, t • from the Pelicans and Tutweiler from t>e- < troit reported at about the same time As ’ he. had nlanked down his money for Barr I he sent Tutweiler back to the Tigers. •• • c The Barons have made an even dozen 1 more hits this season than the Crackers. Rut the locals have a better batting aver age by .019. Also the Crackers have scored more runs. . In 37 games Hemphills men have grabbed 156 runs. In 42 games the r 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 I but 315-42 to a contest | All Atlanta fandom is curious to see Almeida, the Cuban who is playing with ■ I the Birmingham team. He has been more | than punishing the ball since he has been i with the Molesworthites. Derrill Pratt couldn't see Walter John son's shoots at all the first time he faced . I the speedster. But the following game he vindicated his eyesight by smashing into t Croom's offerings, for two three-baggers s ; Punch Knoll, former Southern leaguer. t now managing Payton. Is out of the game , with a bad ankle When Bill Bernhard won a pennant for 1 Nashville he had Tonneyman and Sea- 1 bough as catchers He has them now at f Memphis and a blamed good team. too. in spite of that fact. i • Jack Knight is a disappointment." say ' Washington papers. "Gabby Street is considerable of a lemon" is the New 1 ork verdit t. It s usually that way with trades Ev erybody gets the worst of it. In Washington thev say that the White Sox are playing three or four pegs above , their real form. Jack McGinn, once a pretty good pock- 1 ev as jockeys go. is now selling peanuts i and pop at the Dallas ball park Harrv Niles, former Southern leaguer, with Toledo now. has scored an average , of one run a game this season. Ed Sweenev isn't throwing well to sec- ' end as yet That's a by-product of his hold-out ... Caldwell’s failure as a pitcher with the. Variks 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. , , t Wingo \nderson Is looking around for a jm as is usual at this season of the .par Wingo is one of our best little I lookers each spring , , I There may be something in ail these de- THK ATT.Kti WTvnr R , MONDAY. MAY 27, 1912. around. Cobb deserved punish ment It would be the ruin of baseball to pass over a ease 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 be one level}’ state of affairs « The increasing of the police pro tection at the parks should make a recurrence of the t'obb case an im possibility If a fan ''gets raw” he will be thrown from the park, which is right. But he should be thrown out by the police anji 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 order home clubs to see that spectators guilty of any “rough stuff" are thrown from the stands. • • • THAT this will be a great hase 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 around 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, 'hat they are NOT on any deal for Hal Chase. It is likely that at last Harry Wolverton has tumbled to the dis.lorn of getting all ex-managers off 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, farmer Memphis hurl er. ought to do well for Kansas City. * * * I’itcher George I'avis; of Williams col lege, lias had a lot of swell offers from major 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 < 'obb broke back into the game yesterday, after a ten-day suspension for thrashing a spectator, but he didn't break ve'y 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 tic field. The Detroit team celebrated Cobb's return by walloping the White Sox. 6 to 2. UNITED STATES LEAGUE 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 hacker of tlie league, is financing the deal. Jack O'Connor, former manager of the Browns, will have charge of the new club. AUTOS IN ELIMINATION TESTS. INDIANAPOLIS. LND. May 27. Elimination tests of the giant racers that will contest at the motor speed way in the 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 foi one lap—2 1-2 miles or it will not be qualified to enter the main event Regular judges timed the cars in -the elimination trials. giants appear TO ONT 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 teams stack up against each other. As things ls»nk 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 bet 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 clan of McGraw. With all his men in shape to play, M ugg ay’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 Lynch's organization. Mar quard, Mathewson. Ames and Tee 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'l lay are coming along at a great clip fixing 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 >he 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 aquartet 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 bane of many pitchers' lives. Lewis, Hoop er and Speaker form one of the greatest gardening trio in the his tory of Cncle 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 from the fore. M'GOORTY IS FAVORITE. NEW YORK. May 27. The Moha- McGoorty bout here tomorrow is mo nopolizing the attention of the fignt funs in things pugilistic. The middle weights will weigh in at 158 pounds at 3 o'clock McGoorty, known as the (leverest of the middleweigh ts. is a slight favorite in the betting The I bout w ill take place at the St. No ho |las A. C. Wolverton Was Wise When He Secured “Gabby” 4* • v 4* • v “r • *r *r • *r 4* • 4* • 4 Yanks Have Great Pair in Sweeney and Street By \V. J. Mcßeth. NEW YORK. 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 w ith 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 w ith 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 Ear 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. Hi. 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 Shugro at the St, Nicholas rink in New York June 4. « * « Al Wnlgast 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 get a draw with Jimmy Walsh in their 12-round bout a few nights ago, according to the Bos ton papers With the exception of the. even rounds Walsh had the shade all the was. at least so say the Hub scribes. • • • Phil Brock and Ad Wolgast are sched uled to box six rounds in Pittsburg on lune 6. • » • Jack Curley has wired Luther McCar thy offering him a return bnut with Carl Morris If McCarthy accepts they will make up the preliminary to the Johnson- Flynn fight. • ■ • Ray Bronson and Packy McFarland are training hard for their ten-round fight in Indianapolis Mondaj The boys will box in the Indians' ball park Ray Temple ana Joe Mandot will meet in a return bout in New Orleans next Julv 4 ♦ • • The McMahon brothers, of New York, went the Garden Athletic club sl,noo bet ter and have offered $13,000 for a ten round bout between Al Palzer and Bom badier Wells. • ♦ ♦ Ahe Attell will weigh 133 pounds ringside June 30 or win a SIOO bet Nolan, who has charge of Abe now. 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 Julv I • • • Attell now weighs 130 pounds, although he is working hard every day Abie is delighted at his weight and says he will make 133 b\ the last of June. ... Frankie Russell and Balis Picato will box ten rounds in New Orleans tomorrow night. Johnny Kilbane will receive J 4.000 as his side for a ten-round fight with Johhnyl Dundee in New York June 18. [ Hernsheim Qgar yillways rj /l Good C.-^vLy/porto (* I because his second string men arc 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. Un til Sweeney came he had no worries. He was the main “guy,” the whole noise. The world was at his feet, as it were. Street is no longer young and you can not blame him tor favoring himself as much as possible until he had rounded into tip-top physical form. But what a change when Sweeney hovt in view! No longer any nursing of the sore pinion: no longer any sparing of the “charley-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 thin Street Rheumatism put him out of commission in 1910. Last year h» was almost himself again Now he is traveling as well as at any time in his career And with Sweeney at his coat Kilbane is scheduled to box Tommy O'Toole six rounds in Philadelphia Juno 5. anti Dundee will meet an unknown on June. 3 These bouts will put the boys on edge for their big scrap on the 18th • • • <’on (’omlskey is training hard for his 15-round fight with Luther M<’<'arthy in Springfield, Mo., Decoration day • • ♦ Australia was nearly deserted by Amer ican fighters when Sam Langford. Sam McVey. Johnny Thompson. Porky Flynn, Jimmy Clabby and Jack Lester sailed for America. • • • Jumbo Wells is up East seeking 1 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. Wells is the lari who did a brodie on his face in the second round of a fight with Al Kubiak here awhile back ami refused to fight any more, pre tending he was knocked out. • • • Pa< key McFarland sa> s 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 tn 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 lias succeeded In getting down to 138 pounds, the figure required by Paekey 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 on traveling. Sweeney and street should easily prove the greatest catching combina tion In the big show. Each is a strap ping big fellow, cipable of catching practically the entire schedule of games If fortunate enough to escape Injury. Street can hold any pitcher. For years he teamed with Walter Johnson, who packs the fastest ball of the age. He has also had lots of experience with spitball receiving. Sweeney is the only catcher in the country who can prop erly handle Russell Eord's freak deliv ery. The pair worked together since they were kids in the "bushes." They are so familiar with each other that often this star battery works without - signs. Hot Friendly Rivalry. The -season promises to develop a great fight in friendly rivalry between 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 qualifica tion that offsets this, at least. Street is the greatest catcher of the age on a high lift. He never muffs one. Anything that he has time to get under he can hold, whether it be a tall fly to the Infield or a towering foul back near the stand He sets himself right under the ball, holding his glove over his head. And anything that hits his mitt sticks, you may bet on that. Have You? Have you tried a pair of the shoes made right here in Georgia? Have you in this way voted fora new and bigger industrial South? ShoeManufacturingisa brand new thing in Geor gia. We want you tc see its product. Ask your dealer tc show you the King Bee and Easy Street styles. Among the most popu lar lasts are ‘‘Ty Cobb” and ‘‘Dope.” Have a look. We’ll leave the verdict with you. • E? |J o) \ J J. K. Orr Shoe Co.J Red Seal Shoe Factory, Atlanta. 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