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Crackers Take On Doughty Barons for Four Games
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’- 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
sojnc.
The Bamns will find themselves
op; - .1 by a team that is playing
bn .> ill. The Crackers have “got
We all said, "Walt 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, hut they played winning
ball—as five victories out of six
starts demonstrates. The club lack
ed a Jet 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 out
of ten.
If th' Crackers can get so 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 lurk is. good. Then they go
over to Montgomery for a series.
After four games in Slumberville,
they come ba< k to the home sod for
another big batch.
T * ♦
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 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
ow ned 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. Cobh 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 spectator®.
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
Cobb 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 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,
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
| FODDER FOR FANS
Bill Smith found hjmself overstocked
with outfielders Saturday, when Barr
from the Pelicans and Tutweiler from De
troit reported at about the same time. As
he had clanked 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 hatting aver
age by .019.
Also the Crackers have scored more
runs.
In 37 games Hemphill’s men have
§-abbed 156 runs. In 42 games the
arons 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
with the Molesworthltes.
Derrill Pratt couldn’t see Walter John
i son's shoots at all the first time he faced
: ’he speedster. But the following game he
I Vindicated his evesight by smashing into
< Iroom’s offerings for two three-baggers.
Punch Knoll, former Southern leaguer,
now managing Dayton, la out of the game
i with a bad ankle.
When Bill Bernhard won a pennant for
I Nashville be had Tonneyman and Sea-
I bough as catchers. He has them now at
' Memphis—and a blamed good team, too.
I n spite of that facV *
“lark Knight is a disappointment,” say
Washington papers.
’’Gabbv Street is considerable of a
leinon” is the New York verdict.
It’s 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 pretty good pock
ev, as jockeys go, is now selling peanuts
I 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-prpduct 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
a jo, as is usual at this season of the
year Wingo is one of our best little
iij.kers ea-h spring
• • •
There may be something in all these de-
TFTR ATT AV'T 1 Avn \WR. MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912.
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 he one lovely state of
gffairs
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 be 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 order home clubs to see that
spectators guilty of any "'rough
stuff’ are thrown from the Stands.
• • •
'THAT this will be a great 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 Derharee 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 Os 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 any deal for Hal
Chase. It is likely that at last Harry
Wolverton has tumbled to the disdom 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, 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
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 Cobh 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 LEAGUE
WILL TRY ST. 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'Connor, 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 the 600-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 one lap—2 1-2 miles—or it
will’not be qualified to ontep •>>. main
event. Regular-judges timed the cars
in the elimination trials.
GIANTS APPEAR
TD HAVE CINCH
ON GONFALON
By Monty.
R ACES, 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 look now, Cincinnati will
continue throughout the season tn
he 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 tn 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 <?f McGraw. With
all his men ip. shape to play, Mugg
sy’s outfit, has something in every
Jepattment. t<i play on all its rl
’. yals/and the tea m 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
tlirard, Mathewson. Ames and Tes
rean have done the bulk of the
work to date, and without stretch
ing a point it can he said that any
one of them js pitching right now
as well as tiny 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 Zelder and
Harry Lord are all whanging the
ball to a fare-you-well, and Ed
Walsh is bulw-ark 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 twiriers.
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 Ilncle 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 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
bout will take place at the St. Nicho
las A. C.
Wolverton Was Wise When He Secured “Gabby”
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Yanks Have Great Pair in Sweeney and Street
By W. J. Mcßeth.
XTEW 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 with such
a statement, especially when the vet
eran hackstop got away to a had 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 tel! 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
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[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 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 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
way, at least so 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 the preliminary to the Johnson-
Flynn fight.
■ • ■
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 SI,OOO bet
ter and have offered $13,000 for a ten
round bout between Al Palzer and Bom
badier Walls.
• • •
Abe 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 July.
Attell now weighs 130 pounds, although
he is working hard every day. Able 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.
Hernsheim
KJenpirie
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because hfs 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 lota
' 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
-1 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 wns at his 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 view! No longer any nursing of the
;• sore pinion, no longer any sparing of
' the "charley-horse.” The shadow of
’ the j-ounger man fell between "Gabby”
and his sinecure.
Street will help Stv-eeney 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 tn his
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 Clabby 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. Wells fs the lad who did
a brodle on his face in the second round
of a fight with Al Kubiak here awhile
back and refused to fight any more, pre
tending he was knocked out.
• • •
T'ackey McFarland says hr 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 tha» 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 ijere Wednesday night.
BASEBALL
TUESDAY
BIRMINGHAM VS. ATLANTA
Ponce DeLeon Park 3:30
e tails all the time he’ll have to keep ort
1 traveling.
t Sweeney and street should easily
b prove the greatest catching combina-*
i tion In the big show. Each is a strap
. ping big fellow, capable of catching
i practically the entire schedule of games
s If fortunate enough to escape Injury.
- Street can hold any pitcher. For years
1 he teamed with Walter Johnson, who
1 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 Ford's freak dellv
s ery. The pair worked together since
t they were kids In the “bushes.’’ They
1 are so familiar with each other that
» often this star battery works without
b signs.
Hot Friendly Rivalry,
e The season promises to develop *
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
s assigned with Russell Ford, the pltch
. Ing star. Yet, Street has a quallfica
i 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
t under he can hold, whether it be a tall
. fly to the Infield or a towering foul back
s near the stand. He sets himself right
’ under the ball, holding his glove over
s his head And anything that hits his
t mitt sticks, you may bet on that.
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