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Strengthening of Pitching Staff Will Put Crackers in Race
RIISSEI.L REPORTS SATURDAY; BRADY ARRIVES
Bv Porev 11. Whiting.
Ul F.FTY" RI'SSELL, in his
I day the greatest minor
league pitcher that baseball
ever saw and a hurler so good that
Connie Mack gave up $12,000 for
him, will Join the Cracker club the
last of this week, probably on Sat
urday.
This news Just filtered through
the wires from Philadelphia, and
Russell will soon follow the dis
patch. though by rail and not by
wire
The < omlng of Russell, along
with the arrival of Brady, who has
with th" arrival of Brady, who re
ported to this club this afternoon.
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“Safety”-—spell it the new
way and it's “F-o-r-d.” Cer
tainty of operation—-strength
and lightness, made possible
by Vanadium steel-—simplic
ity of construction-—these
make the Ford the safest car
in the world. A reason whv
every third car on the high
way this year will be a Ford.
All Fords are Model I s all alike ex
cept the bodies. The two-passenger
runabout costs S.V>O the five pas
senger touring car $690 the deliv
ery car S7OO the town car S9OO--
f. o. b. Detroit, completely equipped.
Get latest catalogue from Ford Motor
CompanN. 311 Peachtree street. At
lanta, or direct from Detroit factory
should change the entire Cracker
outlook
Russel! ought tn be the greatest
pitcher in the league this year. In
1910 with Baltimore h" won 24
games and lost 14 for an average
of .649, while the Baltimore club*
stood .544 That year he led both
In strikeouts and In bases on balls.
With the Athletics Russell has
boon very wild, but Mark has never
lost confidence tn the man and be
lieves that In time he will find him
self. He has sent him to the ('rack
ets to get the benefit of Hemphill's
training
If Russell and Brady pitch up
to form the Cracker pitching staff
will be as strong as any in the
I league
• • •
and Birmingham each
have a pitcher this year who Is
with the club becauss he couldn’t
- be given away
The local case that of Johns is
I well known. Every- effort on earth |
was made to get rid of him—and
all failed While they were letting
him hang around, because they
weren’t paying him any’ salary any
how. he suddenly whirled In and
bi gan pitching great ball He Is
non one of the stars of the staff
! The Birmingham case In that of
I Hardgrove. He has won some-
I thing like seven out of eight games
this year and yet before the season
I opened Manager Molesworth tried
J to give him to Bessemer —AND
FAILED!
Hardgrove w asn't well during the
training season, came around but
• slowly, and at first exhibited noth-
I ing except a hearty appetite. Moles-
I worth liked him personally, but
’ didn’t see a chance for him to earn
1 his pay. So he tried to sell him.
' lend him. and finally to give him
away. All on earth Moley asked In
return for Hardgrove's services
was a string And nobody would
give him even that.
Now $3.00n cash wouldn't he ac
cepted for him for immediate de
livery no. nor $5,000
If Hardgrove had been canned
just as he was on the verge of be
l oming a wonder, he wouldn't have
been the first one The cases of
comers who were canned and
bloomers who were retained are
multitudinous in the Southern
league. Bill Smith released Neal
Ball In 1907 to keep ('astro, t'as-
THE ATT, A VTA AFORGTAN AND \WR> THURSDAY. MAY 30. 1912.
tro soon dropped back tn Class C.
Ball went to the American league
at a good price Otto Jordan, when
he was first a manager, gave Nap
Rucker a half-hearted try-out and
sent him packing off Any club
could have bought Zack Wheat
cheap Ihe batted but 326 tn 1908),
but none of them wanted him —
until Brooklyn got him and he de
veloped Into a wonder Zinn, the
sensation of the otherwise quite
hopeless 1912 Highlanders, was
passed back by Memphis after all
the Southern league clubs had
waived on him.
The Atlanta club has been pecu
liarly luckless in turning back play
ers who were destined tn become
stars In addition to Rucker, who
became one of the game's greatest
left-handers, they let go the great
est right-handed pitcher of 1911,
Bert Maxwell, and the greatest
pitcher of the present season, Al
r Demaree. They canned Bill Vle
bahn. who went to the American
association and did well. They
passed up Berkle (or Bierkotte, or
whatever his blamed name was. for
he seemed uncertain about it while
here), who "went higher," and they
did as much for Kirkpatrick, who
is also on the up-slant now. Joe
Jackson. second best batter In the
American league, was offered to At
lanta and refused.
The other Southern league clubs
have overlooked their share of
hets. “Dolly” Stark, now a star
with Brooklyn, was passed back to
the bushes once or twice from the
Southern Walter East, now a
Cracker, was turned loose by Lit
tle Rock as useless, only to go to
the Nashville team and furnish
about 25 per cent of the playing
strength of the Vols the year they
won their last pennant.
Prince Gaskill was allowed to
drop from the Southern league as a
joke, but now he has become a
star of Class \A ball.
All of which goes to prove noth
ing In particular, hut in a general
way
1 That baseball is very uncer
tain.
2. That when tain interferes with
baseball we hate to fill our space
w ith something
• • •
PEAKING of space fillers here s
° a good yarn about how the Bar
ons were slung with an infielder.
President Woodward wanted an In
fielder early this season, and Man
ager Callahan, of the White Sox.
offered him Berghammer Wood
ward wanted to know something
about the man. so he wrote Berger,
a former Southern leaguer, also
with the Sox. A hit later Berger
and the manager were discussing
Berghammer.
“By the way. 1 had a letter from
an owner asking about him." said
< 'al
"So did I." said Berger
"Did you give him a good repu
tation?" asked the Sox manager.
“Say. I gave him the finest rec
ommendation that anj ball player
eyer received.” chirped "Lim."
“The greatest infielder 1 ever saw.
The greatest hitter that ever wield
ed a bat A fellow who could catch
on quicker than any man that ever
stepped in shoeleather, and with
never the trace of bone in his head.
Did I give him a good recommen
dation? Say. there was one fellow
I did not want fighting for a job.
I fixed him so they couldn't heip
hut buy him."
We can't recall what became of
Berghammer. but he doesn’t seem
to be with the Barons now.
GRAVES ARE DECORATED.
j LOUISVILLE. KT.. May 30.-Th<
I graves of Harry Pulliam, former presi
| dent of the National league, and o
| Mike Powers, late catcher of the Phila
i drlphta Athletics. in Cave Hill , erne
’cry, were decorated with flower- lode
. • :dtm e with the Memorial da:
custom of local friends.
AO'S IM
ADDS KAUFMAN
ID HIS STABLE
By Ed AV. Smith.
CHICAGO, May 30.—Hereaf
ter, we are told, Ad Wol
gast Is to have a stablemate.
His name is Al Kaufman, twice
punctured championship possibil
ity Tom Jones, who handles the
business of the lightweight cham
pion. recently accepted the task of
guiding Al back into the spot
light of publicity among the big
fellows
Jones himself is authority for
the story and announced Just be
fore he went to New York re
cently. that he soon would start
boosting the big (Terman from the
coast along toward something
good in the way of purses. First
Kaufman will take on some me
diocre men out on the coast in
four-round contests. Among them
will be Soldier Elder. Miller and
Horne. Kaufman hopes in this
way to fight his way back Into
shape and then show them some
thing when he gets among the real
tough ones of the class.
Wolgast's manager accepted the
Kaufman duties only after a long
and thorough discussion with
Kaufman Al represented to Jones
that most of his trouble In the
past was caused by a failure to
train properly, a condition brought
on by the overconfident state of
his mind when he accepted certain
matches that turned out disas
trously.
Kaufman has many natural
qualifications to make him one of
the world’s best boxers. He is big
and heavy, has a certain amount
of speed and skill' and best of all
can punch hard and is game as a
pebble. There isn’t any question
of his gameness at all. He has
shown it a dozen times.
Twice Kaufman has been given
the severest of setbacks when it
looked possible for him to fight his
way into a match for the real
title. Once he tackled Jack O'Brien
out on the Pacific coast and was
cut into ribbons by the speedy
Philadelphia fighter. That was one
of the few mistakes that Billy
Delaney made with his men. He
matched Kaufman with O'Brien
when the former wasn't ready for
such game.
Something over a year ago
Kaufman made a match with Jim
Flynn in Kansas City that gave
him even a greater setback than
the O'Brien affair Kaufman took
Flynn on because the Pueblo fire
man looked easy and the money of
the K. ('. club looked like find
ing it. Al never‘trained a serious
lick for the encounter, it is said,
and Flynn sprung one of the sen
sations of the year by stopping
Kaufman in nine rounds.
Al never quite recovered from
that beating and later proved
rather east picking for Al Palzer
in New York. So it is plain that
Al has quite a lot of ground to
make up before he can hope to re
ceive any attention from the lead
er of the class, whoever he may
be. after th< July 4 affair in Las
Vegas.
KENTUCKIAN GOES BROKE
ON RACES AND KILLS SELF
L< >l’lß VILLE. KY. May 30. Roland
Wise. 24 years old, society man and
athlete, shot and killed himself in
Heath's billiard room late last night
while a friend to whom he had left a
note indicating his purpose was vainly
seeking him Heavy losses on the
spring r.o <■ meeting are believed to
have caused the deed.
Nature’s Laws Must Be Held Sacred by Athletes
THE VALUE OF CLEAN LIVING IN ATHLETICS
FRED C. THOMSON, amateur Champion all-around athlete of the world, has written the first
of a series of articles for The Georgian. describing “The Value of Clean Living in Athlet
ics.”
These articles should prove not alone of interest, but of utmost importance to amateur and
professional athletes alike. Mr. Thomson is firm in his contention that a good athlete who has
always observed the rules of clean living is a better athlete than a Erood athlete who has failed
to do so. Records of many prominent figures in American athletics testify to the statement.
By Fred C. Thomson.
World's Champion All-Around Athlete.
CLEAN living is of value in ath
!eti> <. You may be able to
poin to men of impure lives
that are great athletes. I'll admit
that. You may be able to point to
men of clean lives that are poor
athletes. I'll admit that. But the
good athlete of impure life is good
in spite of that fact and the poor
athlete of pure life is poor as an
athlete because of some other lim
iting condition. I’ve made my ad
missions. now you must make this
one: All things being equal, the
man of clean life will w in out over
the man of loose habits
Let me tell you a story. It Is a
very simple tale and will take but
a few words. Some time ago a
hoy, ft makes no difference who he
was, was signed up to enter a big
contest —a contest that few men
could stand. A very few days be
fore the test day he arrived at the
prescribed place—where it was
would not influence our tale. A
reasonable time before he had
started in on the regular prepara
tion for his contest The second day
of his preparation he had been in
jured. injured In such away that
all preparation had to be dropped.
The bov was tn despair The corn
ing day’s work was heavy. The
boy was hopeless in preparing for
the time. But he had traveled far
for the day and he was determined
to see It out. A few days—a pit
iable few days—before the test time
he tried himself through the paces
—easily, gradually. Heavy work
was Impossible. He was not in
shape; he knew it. In those last
few days the boy and a man were
thrown together They had both
come a long wav and from the
same direction. They were after
the same prize. Rut a friendship
grew up in those few hours. They
were strangers together in a
strange land, and they felt them
selves to be kindred spirits. But
they had been differently brought
up—the boy so that the things that
had to be dropped for strict train
ing did not have to be dropped,
they had never been taken up. The
man when in training had to fol
low a certain schedule of absti
nence. for his life hid several
things in it that did not make for
good training. The boy preferred
nothing, but the man drew from
him his usual mode of life and
showed no amusement at what he
found only because he was too fine
grained.
The day came. The test began.
The man was the better, the more
finished athlete. He was mature.
He had been through it all before.
The boy was far from being a
great athlete and was new at the
game. The day w ore on. The man
led in the events where ability
counted. The race was even,
with the odds all seemingly
with the man. It was nearly over.
But one test lay before the weary
men. for there were many others
in the race, though the man and
the boy bad forged ahead, shoul
der to shoulder, till now they could
all but see the finish of the day's
w ork.
The day had been trying; the
sultry sky; the wearing drive of
flagging muscles. But it was near
ly over In a few minutes it would
be done and one the victor, the
other beaten. Which would it be?
The man led already in the after
noon's work. The task still before
was the test of stamina, endurance,
of reaction from the strain Just
past. A shot was fired! A rush
inch crunch of many feet, and the
tale was rapidly being told. At
first a hopeless confusion of swing
ing arms and driving legs Then
the heavy burden of w-eary- mus
cles began to tell, till the throng
dwindled and became a straggling
line.
But the man and the boy! Yes,
there they
line The man was leading, the boy
a stride behind, and they measured
stride and stride. Arm followed
arm in its swing The crunch of
their feet in the cinders was as the
crunch of one foot. A lap was gone
Then two The man still led. The
boy followed a stride behind, stride
for stride. The man seemed run
ning lighter. The boy was heavy’
and his weight was seeming to tell.
Another shot rang out. Now was
the time. Forgetting the incom
plete training, the boy for the first
time broke stride and swung out
for the pole. The man left, too.
But It was Just a lean, for the hours
of pleasure hung heavy on the
pounding heart. The capillaries re-
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fused to flow clear, and, beaten, In
a moment he dropped back- to see
a younger man. a poorer athlete,
win, untired.
Many months had passed, scenes
had changed. The hot received a
letter addressed with an unknown
hand Many things he read that .
made him glad. Rut of what he
read but this much will I let you
see. for this alone com erns you:
"I’VE CUT OUT THE 'JOY
BOWL’ ENTIRELY AND AM
LETTING THE WEED FOLLOW
IT. YOU WERE RIGHT. IT’S
WORTH WHILE."
Other stories by Mr. Thomson
will appear in The Georgian from
time to time. The next will be
published in a few days.
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