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®OMiAR ."'O' COT® i' X EDITED 4r Vs. 9 FARNSWORTH licit I f MOWOOYOUOOA ( AsUSQCTH-ANOE.It OIVORCS jotT- fAA (SVEXT ( f NES** Keen \ | 0P34 rHM~ DOOR- . /TZ7 . tt N /' \ / 3UST 5<T gi <HW~ \ I'M A TTtiFcs EARL>r I ' nA,t ' , n My Go ih < | hVy \Nlf-tx... VIHAT INILLI sfty - , | KNOY'H I Oowa/ Asr<o LOOlc. sB&l la wb N -ra O .g> O <»»» c«® M Mb ® TgWb H _inlOw'gW wIMJIffIR | x® 11 wM ,ji| s ’ ~l z —* 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 ■swbMiw ■ tThrtP = 1 Ijm _j»L Eqs, ■ !.:„ I IgWq iWl®* Ss 1 1fmWIlSMfc H ' 11 1 |r|||fl wiiiillr 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 with everv bottle Rolanic Blood I Balm stands alone. y«w money back if it fails to help you. ■ Don't be deceived nor put off. If your driicgist cannot supply you write to The Blood Balm Co. Philadelphia or St. Louis. 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” +*4" +•+ +•+ +•+ •i**+ 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 s [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 ■li c ... 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. Have You? Have you tried a pair of the shoes made right [ here in Georgia? 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