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GO FOR PERRY
BRUTE strength alone won a
decision for Jimmy Perry
over Jack Robinson at the
Gate City club. The bout went the
ten rounds scheduled and neither
man In any danger of being knock
ed out at any stage of the milling.
A long left hand, which Robinson
seldom failed to land at range, gave
the boy from Chicago the best of
the boxing, but that let him out.
Every time Perry got In close he
would work both hands to the body
until Robinson tightened up like a
clam.
Perry announced before the fight
that he intended going East after
bigger game after he finished with
Robinson. On the showing he made
last night he would prove a mark
for such men as McGoorty, Moha
and Gibbons. It was by far the
worst fight he ever put up in this
city.
Perry forced the fighting all the
way; he landed ftie heavier punches
and the cleanest ones, too, Robin
son kept popping away with a left
Jab that didn’t have enough sting
to it to break an electric bulb. And
that is the only punch he uncorked
all.during the. mill.
The first three rounds belonged
to Perry'. In the fourth Robinson’s
left hand won him the spasm. The
fifth and sixth were even. In the
seventh Perry hooked two. hard
lefts to the jaw and thereafter
during the session Robinson did
nothing but stall and hold on
Perry was every bit as tired as
Robinson in the eighth and there
Was nothing but wrestling and
clinching in this session. The ninth
belonged to Robinson, because he
outboxed the Pittsburgor, although
neither man landed a blow that,
counted for much.
The final round was even. Roth
boys were over-anxious. During
the first part of his session Robin
son got his left hand’ working pret
tily, but during the latter part,
Jimmy brushed the southpaw leads
away and worked in close. At the
bell he was pounding Jack’s bodv
good and plenty.
All the fancy work was executed
by Robinson, and this caused his
admirers to believe he earned at
least a draw Rut the real fight
ing was all done by Perry.
Another fight between this pair
would, undoubtedly, draw the big
gest house that ever attended a
mill In Atlanta.
In the semi-windup Spider Britt
stopped Johnny Herndon in three
rounds.
AUTO RACERS WILL DRIVE
ON WET TRACK TOMORROW
INDIANAPOLIS, May 29.—That
death will take its toll from sport to
morrow when the giant racing cars en
tered for the 500-mile races here pound
their way around the motor speedway
is the belief of automobile experts who
are here to watch the race. That it
may mean the end of big auto racing
events was the prediction of some of
these men
The track is slippery from recent
rains. Even a slight shower between
now and the time for the opening of
the race would keep it in that condition
The cars racing this year are larger
and faster than any ever before entered.
The time made in the elimination trials
indicates that the big < ars will maintain
a speed never before dreamed of in such
an event. Twenty-five cars with the
most daring drivers in the country will
compete.
All these things, say the motor ex
perts, indicate that many accidents will
occur before, the race is over.
KAVANAUGH MAY CUT
DOWN UMPIRE STAFF
MONTGOMERY. May 29—One-half
of the umpires in the Southern league
will lose their jobs shortly, is the re
port that reached here today.
President Kavanaugh has reached
this decision because the poor attend
ance at many of the parks does not jus
tify the league jn the expense of a
double system.
It is likely that the staff will be cut
from eight to five. giving one man for
each game and one extra.
The financial condition of the league
is none too prosperous, owing to the
lack of attendance, but there is no es
pecial danger of a receiver stepping in
so long as the guarantee fund of $lO,-
000 remains intact.
3 CHAMPIONS WIIUsEE
N. Y. BATTLE TONIGHT
NEW YORK, May 29.—Three cham
pions will be at the ringside tonight
when Frankie Burns, of Jersey City,
meets Young g. of Brooklyn, in
a ten-round bout at the Royal Athletic
club. The champions who have prom
ised to be on deck are Johnny Coulon,
bantam belt holder, who recently de
feated Solsberg; Bombardier Well.-,
heavy weight champion of England, and
Matt Wells, holder of the British light
weight title
Burns recently was bested by Feath
erweight Champion Johnny Kilbane in.
this city. The boys agreed to weigh in;
at 116 pounds at 6 p. m.
FORMER ATHENS COACH
TO TEACH MATHEMATICS
ATHENS. GA . May 29.—Frank B An
derson, coach of .the university baseball
team and assistant football coach, was
last night elected to the department of
mathematics in the city public schools
He has many friends, who are pleased
at the action of the -board of educa
tion in selecting him for this position.
OLD~RACE DRIVER DIES.
KALAMAZOO. MICH Mav 29.- Peter
V Johnston, the famous race horse driver,
died suddenly at hist home here from the
effects "f an apoplectic stroke.
I’LL GOME BACK,
SAYS GY YOUNG;
DOCTORING ARM
By Denton T. Young.
PAOLI. OHIO, May 29.—1 am
not through with baseball
yet. and I hope to round out
my career as a major leaguer and
baseball player for all time in old
Boston,
I know that my statement that
I was withdrawing from the Bos
ton Nationals and coming back to
my farm has been taken as mean
ing that I have said farewell to
baseball.
But, while it is true that my arm
is sore and weak, still I can not
make myself believe that it has
outlived its usefulness. And I have
hopes that I will sound to before
long and win enough games for
Boston to land the team in the
first division.
First Time Ever Had Lame Arm.
A sore arm Is something decid
edly new to “the old man." In all
my experience on the diamond I
never was troubled with a sore arm
until this spring. I’can’t recall do
ing anything different than I have
been doing each spring for almost
the past quarter of a century.
If I thought my arm had "run its
race," I would be the first to tell
Manager Kling. I do not want to
take anybody's money under false
pretenses. I feel confident that it
is only a cold tn my arm which I
contracted this spring, and it per
sists in hanging on so long that it
has become annoying.
However, 1 intend to convince
myself as to the truth about my
arm and plan to consult "Roneset
ter” Reese at Youngstown within a
day or two. If he tells me my good
right arm is no more I will wire
Manager Kling that he need not
look for "Old Cy” to join his team
again, for it would be useless for
me to have my heart in the game
without the necessary strength and
cunning in my arm to follow the
dictates of my heart.
In intend to remain at my Paoli
farm and enjoy a sort of vacation
for a couple of weeks. Probably I
ought not to say “enjoy,” as 1 want
to be frank when I say I am great
ly concerned about my aim.
Os course. I realize that I can't go
and pitch forever.
Rut it was my ambition In life to
pitch for a quarter of a century.
I felt certain that with such a rec
ord In the big leagues no other
twirler would ever equal It.
Don't misunderstand me and
think that I just wanted to "hang
on" and round out 25 years of serv
ice as a major league pitcher. Not
me. I hoped-to complete a quarter
of a century and be as useful to
my team in the twenty-fifth year as
I was in my most balmy days.
It would indeed be a feat of
which any pitcher could well feel
proud to pitch for 25 years and
then after It was all over turn to
his final year and say, "Well, I won
more games than I lost, and now
I am satisfied to retire from the
grand old game.”
A Word to Boston "Fans.”
What has to be, must be—that's
all there is to it. But. boys, it will
be hard on me if I have to quit. I
have loved the grand old game as
the one big thing in my life. It
was dearer to me than everything
else.
Next tn my parting with the
sport itself is that I will have to
separate from my thousands upon
thousands of friends and admirers
in Boston and New England.
They are the fairest and squar
es! of all the "fans" in the coun
try. They -have been mighty good
to “Old Cy” in the last decade of
service I have seen there with the
American and National league
teams, and I wish I could have
them all here with me on the farm
to tell them how much I really care
for them and appreciate their many
kind acts.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1912.
Cracker Pitchers Are Helpless Before Barons, Who Run Amuck
LOCALS DROP TWO IN DRAOfiY DOUBLE-HEADER
By Percy H. Whiting.
DID you ever a staid old
buggy horse run away? It
begins by feeling frisky.
Then something startles it. In a
flash it is off. Down the road it
goes, the buggy rattling and sway
ing along behind it. And all Heck
couldn’t stop it!
Well, It was exactly that way
with the Birmingham team yester
day, Nothing could have headed
it. The Barons are usually staid
and sober enough But yesterday
was their skittish day. And they
sure skitted. They, tore round and
round the bases, through a deadly
long afternoon, with the Crackers
waving their hands and shouting,
“Whoa, boy; whoa," at the top of
their lungs. And it did about as
much good as it would to say,
“Fie, fie!" to a Malay when he.
started to run amuck.
The result of the whole sad af
fair was that when the long shad
ows began to fall athwart the bat
tle-scarred field, which they even
tually did. to the extreme relief of
all, the Barons had acquired two
more games, scores 13 to 4 and 3
to 1.
The brunt of the Barons' rush
ing attack fell on the Cracker
pitchers. And the . full responsi
bility of the defeat was theirs. Not
an error was made that cut any
material figure in the sad, sad to
tals. The Crackers kicked the ball
around a bit in the first game, but
the slaughter was directly trace
. able to the fifteen hits for nineteen
bases and the four bases on balls,
not to mention the one wild pitch,
that were given up by the Cracker
hurlers.
• • ♦
■pHE mistake of trying to play
double-headers of the full
eighteen-lnning variety was never
more clearly demonstrated than
yesterday. Os course, owing to the
depressing length of the first game
It was possible to play only seven
innings of the second game, or six
teen innings in all. But they took
from 2:30 to 6:30 o'clock, and it
was too much.
If the players had known that
two seven-inning games were be
fore them, they would have gone
at. the thing with a rush and got
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But when they were confronted
with two nine-inning contests, they
knew that they would have to go to
dark, anyhow, so they asked them
selves: "What's the use of hurry
ing?" And, there being no answer
except one in the negative, they
didn't hustle. They just loafed
along like a lot of old cows in a
shady pasture lot on a hot summer
afternoon, and the game dragged
like a foreign missions sermon at
dinner time.
This nine-inning double-header
stuff is going to be felt in the box
office. Every man, woman, child
and yaller dog at the park yester
day was gorged on baseball before
the affair was over. They showed
it by beginning to depart soon aft
,er the first game ended. They not
only had enough for the day, but
enough for the week. A double
header like that of yesterday elimi
nates the enthusiasm from every
person who sees it. And its ill ef
fects will be felt at the box office
all the rest of the week.
If there Is a logical reason for
playing nine innings in double
headers. we haven't heard it ad
vanced. There isn't any especial
reason why a game should go nine
innings, anyhow. It is an entirely
arbitrary matter. It might as well
be eight innings or ten, as far as
any logical reason goes. And for
any manager to maintain that his
team has a better chance to win
in nine innings than it has in seven
is ridiculous and demonstrates that
he overlooks the fact that the two
added innings give his opponents
just as good a chance to change the
results as It does his own team.
♦ ♦ •
rIMMY JOHNSON, whose work
J has been one of the sensations
of the Southern league this season,
pulled something on the Crackers
yesterday. He scored from first on
a single. Do you get that? From
first on a one-base hit!
Os course, if the scorers had
cared to be vicious they could have
given Walter East an error on the
play and.not been far wrong. With
Johnson on first, Marcan. the dem
on Cuban, singled over second. It
was a hit-and-run play and John-
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AT THE GAME
“Call the Boy With the Khaki Coat”
son started with the windup. He
passed second as the ball did,
reached third when Hemphill start
ed the ball home, and then raced it
for the plate. East.relayed the pill
and his throw was way toward
third base, instead of being right at
the plate, as it should have been.
The result was that Johnson had a
chance to slide to safety. It was
grand base running and Johnson
deserved it. At the same time if
East's throw had been even fairly
good, Johnson would have perished
at the platter.
• • •
J JOHNSON wasn't the only man
who pulled an odd-play yester
day. Please iTedlt R, Almeida, of
Cuba, with one. For he pulled a
wild throw <to second and then
backed himself up on it.
It was in the seventh inning of
the first game. East had walked
and O'Brien grounded to Almeida.
The Cuban fielded the ball handily,
but threw low to second and the
ball got by Marcan. who dashed in
to force East at second. The sphere
hit the bag and rolled on toward
right field, with nobody to field it.
Like a flash. Almeida set sail for
It. And before Marcan or Ellam
or Messenger could get to it, the
gent from the Red. Republic had
swooped down on the pill and man
aged to hold East at second. It
Isn't every day in baseball that
a baseman backs himself up on a
wild throw to another base.
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-| JACK DILLON KNOCKS OUT
HUGO KELLY IN 3 ROUNDS
INDIANAPOLIS. IND, May 29
Jack Dillon is a step nearer the middle
weight title today following his victory
over Hugo Kelly here last night. Dil
lon put Kelly down for the count in
th" third round.
Kelly, evidently in good condition
and fighting carefully, was no match
for the local lad. who went into the
battle like a whirlwind, evidently de
termined to win in the shortest possible
time.
FERGUSON AND KENNEDY
BATTLE 10-ROUNDDRAW
BOSTON, May 39.—Sandy Ferguson
will not have to go back to the ice
wagon for several months at least.
1 Chelsea’s esteemed citizerf held Tom
Kennedy New York’s "white hope," to
’ a ten-round draw at the Pilgram A. A.
last night.
JIMMY CALLAHAN SET DOWN.
• CLEVELAND. OHIO Mav 29—Man
ager Callahan, of the Chicago Ameri
cans. today received notice from Presi
dent Johnson, of the American league,
of a three days suspension for Calla
han's run-fn with Umpire Westervelt
. during the Chicago-Detroit game last
Saturday.
U. S. SENDS 460 ENTRIES.
NEW YORK. May 29 James E. Sul
livan, secretary of the American Olym
pic committee, has cabled 460 entries >t
United States athletes to Stockholm
for the international game this sum
mer. The largest number of entries was
sent for the 400-meter run for which
40 names were forwarded. -
Crackers' Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Games
PLAYERS— g. ab. r. h. p, e
Donahue, c 4 12 1 5 .417
Hemphill, cf 39 152 22 51 .336
Sitton, p 7 15 1 5 333
Dessau, p 7 20 0 6 .306
Alperman. 3b40 153 27 43 .274
O'Dell. 1d36 125 18 34 .272
Bailey.' If4o 140 29 37 .264
Ganiev, rf3l 107 18 25 .233
Sykes, 1b...2.6, 78 11 18 .231
O'BrJen, 55.34 135 13 27 .216
East, 2b30 94 7 19 .202
Graham, cl 4 35 4 7.200
Paige, .8 25 2 5 .200
Miller, pl 4 27 4 5 .185
Johns, plO .20 3 3 .150
Atkins, p... 7 18 2 2 .111
GIANTS PLAY TEAM OF
NEGROES; ARE MOBBED
NEW YORK, May 29.—N0 m6rs of
that Paterson for the Giants. The
Natinhai league champions journeyed
over there Tuesday to plav a team of
colored players, and, after battling to a
3 to 3 tie, were mobbed as they quit the
field in disgust over an umpire's de
cision. All kinds of missiles were hurl
ed at the Giants, including fifty-seven
kinds of ancient vegetables, as they
attempted to get into their carriages.
Every man had 1.000 per cent average
Holding the numerous articles hurled at
them. Josh Devore made a wonderful
catch of a tin can. leaping high out of
the carriage and pulling it down as It
was headed for the hackman's dome.
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