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A AFI T[ H WHITING SAATOAI WwAaKHTON. TAD, (WW X Iws ILwAHX SSI"' MW<S . mw WORK JT CLOSE OUARTERSWINS 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. 5 ti 3 —— iTj Gee- 3 -■ pji “< E $ C 3 ZJ. c -js ». »S < :”=O MM SUJ c C 3 c f E T = mj 5 S S* o® 1 i-bJI s ’= ■“ fl 11 way s rj /1 Goodj.srr|pke er V J ’ r l£' [ , 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 “Cwrecl Preus tor Men” New Summer Shirts 1 1 1 ffipl fl iw I i?' I I Fl’ L .*• Basis “qTAR SHIRTS” violate all the old traditions in patterns, but none of the old traditions m good values. See some of the striking, new novelties. $1.50, $2, $2.50 and up Essigßros.Co. ‘‘Correct Dress for Men” 26 WhitehaU St. both of them out of the way fast. 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- Baseball Birmingh'm is. Atlanta THURSDAY PONCE DELEON PARK GAME CALLED AT 3:30 SANTAL-MIDY Relieves in 24 Hours Catarrh of the Bladder All Druggists of Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY G 5c fl 5c > yIwSSsSiX \gwgt Deli cious—Refreshing IN BOITLES-ICE COLD 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. Summer Comfort /JmwvA Absolutely Depends Upon I I thinness and roomy fit of your “furnishings.” /-* aiWxwaavY Ours are cut to conform to the body’s shape, but not. to bind, tighten or limit physical freedom. SHIRTS TIES. . I\| 1/ I Tn colors to ffracp - vol ’ r Snit Tn “stunning” color effects in til''/ I anr l harmonize with your Cra- Knitted Silks. SI.OO to $3:00. 'vV / '* vats ’ P la ’ted. and Woven Silks 50c up. Wash \i 1 / j with soft (’tiffs and Collar, Ties, white and colors. 50c. '' t S IOO t 0 s s ' oo, IWuS SOCKS UNDERWEAR In distinguished colors, tex- . In ganae-weight, sleeveless knee tures and make, double, inter- length Suits, 50c a garment. L woven heel and toe. reinforced One-piece Suits, sure of fit, sole—2sc, 50c, SI.OO, $1.50. SI.OO up. u Parks=Chambers=Hardwiclf I I COMPANY E Peachtree | I - -| 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. 15