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BEWARE.ARTHA!
IT'S J BAD YEAR
FDR CHAMPIONS
UyHfZwas it mad» that dlre-
/ ful prediction a short time
back that the year 1912 was
to be a mighty bad one for the flstic
champions?
Perhaps It was Jim FTynn, Pu*b
so’s fireman gladiator, who was
moved to make the remark after
Johnny Kilbane had put a defeat on
4be Attell, but at any rate the re
nark Is coming true in many ways.
Ad Wolgast hasn't stalled out in
a reassuring way, either, since his
operation in Los Angeles for ap
pendicitis.
The lightweight champion's show
ing in a four-round contest In Ran
Prancisco with Willie Ritchie has
started a wild buzzing and many
of the shrewd judges of the game
are saying that Wolgast never will
be the same tough piece of whale
bone that he used to be.
Os course, there Is plenty of ex
cuse |n the Wolgast case. Just as
there were excuses for him when be
went against Knockout Brown In
the East after the second time that
he snapped a bone in his forearm.
It was a test bout tn each case
and didn't count seriously against
the champion.
But the effects of an operation
of this kind are far reaching and
said to be definitely felt for years
afterward, hence the pessimistic
statements about Wolgast's future.
Naturally neither the Kilbane nor
th* Wolgast party expresses the
slightest doubt about the future.
Rtil! there are a world of doubters,
many believing that Johnny Kll
ban* doesn't carry guns of sufficient
caliber to hold hie titl* long. Many
others are inclined to think that
that other tough chap Jose Rivers,
will take the measure of Wolgast
when they clash on July 4. If they
do
And the question naturally sug
gests itself —How about Jack John
son at Las Vegan July 4”
The big colored fellow is the next
to get his test, and despite the
general opinion that F’lynn is one
of the longest short-< nders that
ever entered a championship bat
tle, It will be a mighty severe test
for the champion unless he Is In the
very best of condition
Johnson hasn’t so much time left
in which to mold his big form into
condition for the kind of battle he
is reasonably sure to get from the
Flynn party In New Mexico.
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
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Johnny Kling trie<l to recall his waiver
nn Almeida, the Cuban, now with the
Barons, but the pardon came too late
“AL would have looked pretty useful with
the Braves.
• • •
Herbert More, renterfielder, has been
ejected captain of the I niverslty <»f Texas
bavrba 11 train for next spring
John McGraw bias offered s|t>,ooo (talk
money) for Germany Schaefer for use as
si < each
• • •
Harry Welchonc* has Just been awarded
s*2 70 on an old claim dating buck tn the
time he played in the O and P. league
The decision was based on the principle
that the lowering of the rating of a league
dl<l not relieve It of Its obligations
• • «
Hyder Barr has only to play with
Montgomery. Nashville and Memphis to
complete his circuit of the league He
has performed with the rest of them
• • •
Guy Zinn, moet sensational of Highland
youngsters, was dug out of the brush by
Charley Babb three years ago and played
part of the season wdth Memphis.
• • •
Considering the amount of rain that has
fallen In Atlanta this spring, but few
games have been called off on account of
wet grounds or a downpour
Two marvelous things happened in New
York yesterday, viz.
1 The Yanks won their fourth straight
2 Caldwell, who bad lost six straight,
won one
• • •
So long as Brooklyn remains in the Na
tional league the Giants ought to win
every pennant The ease with which Mc-
Graw's men down the ginks from across
the rolling water is painful. Yesterday
the Giants made six hits and six runs off
Brooklyn pitchers The Dodgers made
twice as many hits and one-third as many
runs
• • •
The Reds seem to he slipping back
where they belong They are pie for
every team now
• • •
T’helan, ex-Baron, made a homer for the
Reds yesterday and scored their only run
• • •
The terrible Turtles were soft for the
Rillikens yesterday Ilopprr gave up 15
hits for bases Gribbens was the only
Bill who made as many as three hits
Elwert knocked the only home run
BILTZ GETS RELEASE:
JORDAN REJOINS CLUB
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. May 28
Outfielder Blitz was sold today tn the
Beaumont. Texas, club.
Otto Jordan will rejoin the team to
day and be on the coaching lines
Otto will be unable tn play for sev
eral weeks on account of his dislo
cated shoulder.
MOHA PICK OVER M'GOORTY.
NEW YORK. May 28. -Bob Moha
will enter the ring a slight favorite over
Eddie McGoorty when these two clai
mants to the middleweight title clash
at St. Nicholas rink In a ten-round
bout tonight. Each agreed to weigh in
lat 158 pounds at 3 o’clock this after
noon
rTTF. ATT.WTI wp x-rws- TUESDAY. MAY 28. 1912.
Vols “Get Right” by Dint of Legal Legerdemain
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Baron Team Will Make Strongest of ’Em Go Some
By Percy H. Whiting.
<"Ti HE Nashville club has found
I away out of its difficulties.
Ry beating the devil around
the bush a couple of times, crossing
its fingers, changing Its name and
In going through a few similar le
gal gyrations, ft has escaped from
the clutches of the law.
The way the Nashville club got.
itself out of trouble was by making
a phony transfer of the franchise
to Dan McGugin. of course Hirsig
and his old associates still own It.
But to escape from the injunction
against the old association they
have turned everything over to Dan
McGugin. who will form a new as
sociation Os course it may trans
pire in time that the new associa
tion will buy out the old one. but
we hardly expect to see it happen.
The old association is restrained
legally from allowing its ball club
to play In the state of Tennessee.
Rut there Is nothing to restrain the
old club from playing for the new
association And there you arc.
Rut note this: Nashville will not
have any more Sunday ball for a
long time, unless they can get a
bill through the legislature allow
ing it. which isn't probable.
Over in .Memphis they are hold
ing their breath for a legal action
similar to the one that crabbed
Sunday ball in Nashville would
have the same effect in the Bluff
City. And Memphis, without Sun
day ball, would be a queer place, In
deed.
/-s ARI.ETON MOLESWORTH has
brought quite a remarkable
collection of ball players with him
to Atlanta. It's a club that Is good
enough to lead the league now and
It threatens to finish so close to the
front that it will crowd the leaders
mightily.
Molesworth has some of the same
olq gang—that team that didn't
lack but one real player of winning
the pennant last year. In the lot
are Rill McGilvray. always a
mighty hitter. Bill Eoxen, Atlanta
cast-off. Rm Ellam, speedy Infield
er; Marcan. also a speedy Infield
er. .Jimmy Johnston, playing a
grand game this year In the out
field; Mcßride, and Prough, a
pitcher who has "been tip there"
and come back again.
Bill McGilvray is known to the
fans as a fair fielder and a really
good batter. The players know him
as a master of vituperation and the
most dangerous man of the league
to "sick’’ on a nervous pitcher.
When Bill McGilvray takes up his
position at third base and opens up
his battery of billingsgate It is
marvellous to hear. Yet, so artisti
cally does lie work it that nobody
hears him but the pitcher and a
few of the opposing players. Bill
megaphones it with his hands to
his lips and it; must make callous
spots on his paws as it passes out.
It IPLESWORTH is using several
*** new men this year. Notable
among them are Almeida. Carroll.
Dilger. Hardgrove. Smith and Boyd.
Here is something about each man
R. ALMEIDA — He is the newest
of Batons He comes from Cin
cinnati. where he played with bril
liancy last year, acquiring a batting
average of 31.1. It is '■•■ported that
after John Kling waived on this
man he thought it all over again
and then hired a strong man to
kick him for letting such a tre
mendous batter get aw’ay
CHARLEY CARROLL— This lad
is being carried as utility man.
Last yea: he played shortstop for
the Greensboro team of the Caro
lina association, where he batted
287 and fielded .926. Dale Gear and
Mike Einn both liked him so well
that they offered to bin" him from
Molesworth. but "Gladys" decided
to hang on.
PICKLE" D'LGER H ■- onr
of the teams new catchers. He
hails from Kewanee of the Central
association, where he backstopped
with credit last year, but batted
.222, which is rather more feebly
than the law requires.
808 MESSENGER He is back
from the White Sox with the Baron
team again this year. Messenger
was a wonderful player in the
Southern in 19tn, He batted .285
and stole 1.1 bases. Also, he fielded
.962 and was a very marvel. He
didn't shine in the big show, for
some reason we can't seem to un
derstand. but he ought to make
Molesworth a peach of a man this
yea r.
"BUGS" HARDGROVE -This
one came to the Birons from Mon
mouth. 111., In the Central associa
tion. and Monmouth is his home
town He was formerly with the
Indianapolis team, but went down
with typhoid and after he recovered
was shipped back to the bushes.
He won 18 and lost 13 games last
year. He averaged two bases on
balls, seven strlke-outs and gave
up an average of seven hits to the
game last year. In the entire sea
son he made but three errors.
CLARENCE SMITH —A new one
and a bush leaguer, this chap, hut
a corker, they say. He halls from
Birmingham and got a try-out last
spring with the Barons. They sent
him over to Anniston, where he did
wen last year. Now he has stepped
up a few pegs and is doing well
with hls home club.
RAYMOND BOYD — A man who
looks good on past records and
recent performances is this Boyd.
He was born in Indianapolis, but
worked last year with Ottumwa,
Ohio. He led the Central asso
ciation. with 30 victories and 7 de-
MATT McGRATH IS SHOT
WHILE CHASING ITALIAN
NEW YORK. May 28. Matt Mc-
Grath. the worlds champion hammer
thrower. was nearly lost to the Ameri
can Olympic team as the result of an
Italian s attack. McGrath, who is a po
liceman on the New York force, was
shot twice while chasing the Italian,
who was charged with attempting to
kill a man in Harlem
Both bullets entered the fleshy part
of McGrath's left shoulder and Inflict
ed wounds that were painful, but will
not interfere with hls going to Stock
holm. though he will be relieved from
police duty for some days.
JOHNSON SETTLES DOWN
TO HARD TRAINING WORK
EAST LAS VEGAS. N. M . May 28
Training work at Jack Johnson's camp
settled quickly into routine today. The
big champion, eager to get down to
hard work at once, mapped out a ptc
gram of road work and gymnasium
stunts that will fill his time for the next
week All the work will be iton- in the
open
Carpenters are putting a big platform
in the back yard of the training quar
ters and there Johnson will furnish
daily entertainment for his sparring
partners For the present he plans to
devote most of his time to road work to
accustom his lungs to the high altitude
SAM LANGFORD STOPS
FLYNN IN 14 ROUNDS
MELBOURNE, MSTRALIA. Mai
28 Sam Langford, the heavyweight
negro boxer. of Boston. defeated
"Porky" Flynn. also of Boston, here.
Flynn was being so i.aiily natnmered
that the referee stopped the fight in
the fourteenth round
CITY OFFICIALS HAVE TO PAY.
MACON. GA.. May 28—The refusal
of the Macon baseball officials to admit
city officials to games tree of charge
has extended to firemen and policemen,
and. in fact, to all persons other than
newspaper reporters Notwithstanding
tha' the city spent over SLO0 n this
spring on improvements upon the
gtandstand and park, the mayor an 1
; council w ere not given the customary
, season passes President New ‘ Elh
‘t'.dgf declines to say why this action
has been taken
feats, and has been going mighty
good this vear. ,
W HBN all is said and done the
the most remarkable man of
the Birmingham team is the ro
tund leader himself. Carleton
Molesworth In seventeen years of
ball playing Molesworth batted for
a grand average of 314 Once he
led the Southern league batters
Molesworth entered the Southern
league as a player in 1901. He was
with Chattanooga in 1901 and 1902.
Then he went to Montgomery for
three seasons. In 1906 he turned
up in Birmingham, where he has
since been.
Here is bis record.
Year *1895. Washington club. Na
tional league. .297.
Year *1896 Rockford. 111., club,
Wisconsin-Illinois league, 325.
Year *1897. Shamoykin. Pennsyl
vania State league, .427.
Year XIB9B, Pelmara club, New
York State league. .325.
Year xIB9B, Binghamton club.
New York State league, .347
Year XI9OO, Schenectady club,
New York State league .300
Year X 1902. Chattanooga club,
Southern league. .320.
Year X 1902. Chattanooga club.
Southern league. .327.
Year X 1903. Montgomery club.
Southern league, .319.
Year X 1904, Montgomery club,
Southern league. .319.
Year x 1905. Montgomery club.
Southern league. .322.
Year x 1906, Birmingham club.
Southern league. .275.
Year X 1907. Birmingham club,
Southern league. .303.
Year ||l9oß, Birmingham club,
Southern league. .293.
Year 1)1909. Birmingham club.
Southern league. .288.
Year "1910, Birmingham club.
Southern league 300
Year 1911, Birmingham club.
Southern league. .243
•Pitched. xOutflelder. Outfield
er and manager.
Southern league average. .303.
Grand average. .314.
PLAY MATCHES FOR THE
T. P. HINMAN TROPHY
Match play started In the four flights i
yesterday for the Dr. T. P. Hinman
golf trophy. The following are the re
sults:
Eirst Elight Eirst round. D. Jemison
defeated C J. Holditch, 2 up and 1 to
play; J. P. Webster defeated E. R.
James, 2 up. Second round. J. P. Web
ster defeated D. Jemison, up.
Second Plight—First round, R. J.
Norris defeated R. P Jones. 4 up and"
2 to play; I. L. Graves defeated J. D
Osborne, 3 up and 2 to play; C. Knowles
defeated G. A. Howell. 4 up and 2 to
play; J. Q. Burton defeated W. Mark
ham. 1 up, 26 holes. E. M. Blount de
feated W. J. Tilson, by default.
Third Flight—First round. W. O.
Marshburn defeated J. J. Hastings's?
up and 1 to play; C. G. Giddings de
feated G. H. Atkisson, 3 up and 2 to
play; E. R. Austin defeated W. R. Tich
! enor, by default.
Fourth Flight—First round. I. L. In
, gram defeated L. M. Crichton, 2 up.
VANDY WINS TITLE BY
DEFEATING SEWANEE
SEWANEE. TENN.. May 28.—Van
derbilt clinched the claim of the South
ern college championship by taking the I
: deciding game of the series from Se
' w anee today. 6 to 2. Gordon and Coi
' lins were worked in the box for Se
wanee and Vanderbilt, respectively,
both working well, Collins having a
slight edge and the best support.
FOXES LAND NEW MEN.
' COLVMBVS. GA May 28.—Manager
Fox. of the Columbus baseball team,
has Just completed a deal whereby he
has secured three new men to help pull
I the Foxes out of the hole they have
been in since the season opened The
: new men are Siegfried, shortstop; Web
i her. second baseman, and Hurley, an
outfielder, all secured from Columbia
by purchase outright and by trading.
The new men are expected to strength-
• en the team considerably.
Baseball
Atlanta vs. Birmingh’m
WEDNESDAY
PONCE DELEON PARK
GAME CALLED AT 3:301
BOXING
Late News and Views
Red Ames and Charley Kennedy will
box ten rounds at the Auditorium In Chat
tanooga June 11. Both boys have boxed
here
• • »
Reports from New York say K (1
Brown and Johnny Kilbane have finally
come to terms. The boys will box ten
rounds before the St. Nicholas rink in
New York June 11
• • •
Tom O’Rourke, the canned manager
who still claims he has a contract with Al
Palzer that can't be broken, is demand
ing $50,000 for his contract.
• • •
Arrangements have practically been
dosed for a short bout between Ra\ Tern
pie and Ad Wolgast, If the bout goes
through ft will be staged in Memphis
some time in June.
• • *
Young Delmont is scheduled to box
Tickle Sanders in Memphis some time in
the near future.
• • •
Ray Bronson, somewhat discouraged
over being defeated by Harry Brewer, is
training hard for his bout with Packey
McFarland next month.
• * •
If Jimmy Perry wins over Robinson to
night he will probably challenge the win
ner of ttye Bob Moha-Eddie McGoortv
bout
OLSEN DEPOSED AS
CAPTAIN OF THE NAPS
CLEVELAND. OHIO. May 28.—Ivan
Olsen. Nap shortstop, who has recently
played at third base, has been removed
as captain of the team. l.t is said that
Manager Harry Davis took this action
because Olsen slugged Willie Mitchell,
southpaw pitcher, on the return trip
from Boston. Mitchell has a black eye.
Joe Birmingham will probably suc
ceed Olsen.
BROOKS BEATS KENNEDY.
ALBANY. N. Y., May 28. —Joe Brooks,
of England, and Steve Kennedy, of
Boston, both lightweights, put up a rat
tling good fight here last night before
the Knickerbocker Athletic club. Rrooks
had all the early rounds, hut Kennedy
by a strong finish earned a draw.
All life is a “whiz”-—and
every third whiz on the road
is a Ford. It’s the car of the
millionsand the millionaire
—lightest, rightest, most
economical. Many thou
sands of the seventy-five
thousand we’re building this
year are being sold to own
ers of more expensive cars.
All Fords are Model T’s—all alike ex
cept the bodies. The two-passenger
runabout costs $590 —the five-pas
senger touring car s69o—the deliv
ery car s7oo—the town ear s9oo—
o. b. Detroit, completely equipped.
Get latest catalogue from Ford Motor
Company. 311 Peachtree street, At
lanta. or direct from Detroit factory.
Good
lyicp
RDRINWND i
PERRY MINGLE
HERE TONIGHT T
THE most talked of event in
town is th<> Perry-Robinson ■
scrap which will be staged fl
at the Gate City A. <’ tonight. The ,
boys will box ten rounds
Robinson has not boxed any in
over a year, but he says it was not
his fault, as no one would fight
him at his weight. He knows well
if he defeats Perry he will be able
to secure several good matches,
which would mean plentv of cash,
and that is what Jack wants,
Perry, as usual, has nothing to fl
say in regard to the outcome of the "
fight. Jimmy came to Atlanta In
hopes that the climate would help
his lame back. And now' he says
it is practically O. K.. and that he
will enter the ring tonight in the
best of condition. He had to post
pone his debut in N' w York on |
account of his back, but he says if ‘
he wins tonight he will leave for
the East, w here he hopes to secure
matches with Eddie McGoorty. Bob J|
Moha and the rest of the top- 9
notchers in the welter class. ™
Eddie Hanbm and Young Sey
mour are to clash in the semi
windup. while Spider Britt and
Johnnie Herndon go in the pre
liminary A buttle royal will open |
the card. ■
KENNEDY MEETS FERGUSON. 1
BOSTON, May 28. —Tom Kennedy, J
the New York white hope, will enter j
the ring favorite over Sandy Ferguson 1
at the Pilgrim Athletic association to- I
night. They will box ten rounds. 1