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Crackers Are Short of Work, But Are Coming Around All Right
PELS PLAY LIKE WILD MEN AND WIN HANDILY
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By Percy 11. Whiting.
i 4 T we ' ose today I know what’s
I the matter with us,” said
Charley Hemphill before yes
terday's 3-1 defeat, 'it's because
we need more work. Some teams
do better with occasional rests, but
the Atlanta team this year needs
seven games a week, every week,
to keep in shape. We have pitch
ers who need work to be good. The
bad weather lately has kept us
from getting right.”
This is offered as the Extenuat
ing Circumstances, which is anoth
er title for our old friend, Colonel
A. N. Alibi.
The Crackers lost, hut they lost a
good game, a corking game as far
as fielding stunts went. The Peli
can fielders went "plum crazy” and
pulled stuff that ought to land them
In Milledgeville. Spencer, for ex
ample. went twice up the, right
field bank after balls, and once he,
fell down, balanced on one shoul
der, caught the ball, rolled over
down the bank, but HELD THE
BALL.
Any tpam is hard to beat when it
is going like that, but It is especial
ly hard to stop when it has a pitch
er working as Ducky Swann was
working yesterday. This lad, who
is as old as lie is small, and as con
fident as he is old, had the Crack
ers feeding from his mitt.
Maybe it was the old "pygmy
pitcher hoodoo," varnished up and
put in running order for the 1912
season. In years past the Crack
ers could drub the big guys, and
the bigger they were the harder
they fell; but the little ones were
jinks. Gordon Hickman, no bigger
than a self-respecting flea, used to
make the Crackers look like jokes.
And now along comes Swann,
who is little larger than Hickman
and probably a good bit older, and
he hands the locals some of the
old-time stuff.
The Crackers sent their smallest
pitcher, Tommy Atkins, against the
Pelicans, but it was of no avail.
Atkins pitched a first-class game.
If it had not been for one error he
would have held Frank's men to
two runs, and that's surely all you
can reasonably ask of a pitcher. It
has been Tommy's curse for years
that his teams wouldn’t make any
runs for him and the hoodoo seems
still to hover over his head.
J T seemed odd not to see Mana
ager Hemphill in the game.
The manager explains his absence
from the line-up as follows:
"What chance have 1 got to break
in, with all of them hitting the way
they are? I can't afford to break
up a good combination. Besides, 1
want to give Earl Sykes some
work. What good is a utility man
if he doesn't get a chance to do
something now and then? They
are all doing all right and 1 may
Stay out several days.”
That's what Hemphill says.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
DIAMONDS ANO JEWELRY
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Unredeemed pledges la
diamonds for sale, 30 per
cent less than elsewhere
MARTIN MAY
(Formerly of Schaul &
May )
1! 1-2 PEACHTREE ST.
UPSTAIRS
Absolutely Private.
Opposite Fourth Nat
Hank Bldg
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WE BUY OLD GOLD
Ball Friday
Atlanta vs. N. Orleans
PONCE DELEON PARK
Game Called 4:00
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: PRIZE COMPETITIONS :
: IN SERIES BETWEEN J
: CRACKERS AND PELS J
• Al O’Dell won the prize for the •
• most brilliant play in yesterday’s •
• game, on the strength of his fly- •
• Ing catch of Johnston's liner in the •
• third. •
• Hairy Bailey is the only Crack- •
• er who scored a point for the •
• Maier & Berkele prize. He made •
• tile hit that drove in the Crack- •
• ers’ only.run of the day. •
• Sykes and East are tied for the •
• leadership for the Parks-Cham- •
• bers-Hardwick Company prize, •
• which goes to the man who makes •
• the most hits. Each made two •
• yesterday. •
• Walter East lias the leadership •
• in the long-hit contest, for the •
• George Muse prize, with a terrific •
• three-bagger. •
• Tommy Atkins put a 7-hlt, 4- •
• strikeout, no-bases-on-balls game •
• to his credit for the Law Brothers •
• prize. •
• All contests, except that for the •
• most brilliant play, which was de- •
• elded yesterday, will go for the •
• whole New Orleans series. •
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What we think is that “Hemp"
will be back in a couple of days,
...
'■pHE Shriners added much to the
* interest in the day's doings—
especially the Arab patrol. This
body, attired In uniforms which
are the gayest of the g iy In color
and design, marched through the
[baseball
Diamond News and Gossip
George Stovall, the new Browns' man
ager. made his big league debut in 1904.
And after all these, years he has sunk to
his present low station.
• « •
When Bert Schotten was hit on the
head by a fly to the outfield the other day
It appeared to amuse Germany Schaeffer.
. When the next man came to bat the
comedian yelled: "Hit 'em over the
heads. Don't kill anybody.”
* ♦ •
Fred Clarke Is after Empire Klein, and
all because of his continued velp that the
umpires of the National are giving Ex
I?! 1 Q Day the best of it. He claims that
when he asks umpires to investigate the
legality of an opposing pitcher’s position
they laugh at him. but that when O’Day
asks the same thing the umpires hound
his pitchers for hours. It's really awfully
ttagic.
• • •
President Fielder Jones isn’t having anv
too smooth a time with his North western
league. Tacoma has just died out as a
ball town and Jonee has a franchise on
his hands.
• • •
•b’hn Kerr, with a batting average of
is right around the top with the
ri-btate league hitteft? He caught his
first five games without an error.
• • •
Jake Daubert has walloped in with a
suggestion that walls which placers ma\
run into when chasing foul balls be pro
tected by wire screens a foot or so from
the obstruction. He figures that this
would save players from such injuries as
that which Hans Lobert acquired
• • •
Honolulu is the wildest baseball town
on the map. Chinese and Japanese teams
play and the feeling is torrid. Fans camp
all night on the field to be in time for
good seats. About 2.000 is an average
crowd for a week day game and 8,000 on
Sunday.
• • •
You can prove that the sacrifice is a
great play bj the Sox. who lead the
American league in using It: and that It
isn’t by the (Hants, who have made less
than any other team in the National.
• • •
You don’t see the name of that esti
mable old German. Hans Wagner, In the
papers so often these flavs. but the old
lad continues to wallop the ball better
than 300 and to field like a fiend.
i FOOTBALL PUT IN GOOD
STANDING BY COLUMBIA
N FAX WRh, June 6 In a demonstra
tion lasting twenty minutes »»00 gradu
ates «>t Columbia university cheered yes
terday for rhf reinstatement of football
as a sport in the university.
rhe game was banished several years
ago by President Nicholas Murray Butler.
He was present at yesterday's meeting
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. J'HL’KSDAY, J USE 6, 1912.
• streets, headed by a band, before
the game, and then, Just before the
> umpires called, “Play bail.” they
> gave an exhibition of plain and
1 fancy marching and a sabre drill
' that was a wonder.
, Then came Illustrious Potentate
( John Hynds, who thi-eyv the first
, ball. And be it said, to the lasting
honor of Illustrious Potentate
! Hynds, he threw a vastly better
, first, ball than the average.
, By no stretch of imagination
, could an umpire have called it a
t strike —if Johnston hadn’t obliging-
ly hit at it. It wasn’t even near.
But it didn’t roll along the ground,
nor did it sail over the catcher’s
head, which was out of the ordi
nary.
One special feature of the day
, was the fact that the Shriners had
! offered sls to the Atlanta player
! who made th® most brilliant play.
, Al O’Dell won ’t in a canter and he
didn’t waste any time about doing
! It. It was in the third inning, whqn
, Johnston hit a hard semi-liner out
( O’Dell's way. Al ran for it awhile
( and then flew a bit. When he had
leached an altitude of six feet or so
, lie stuck out both hands, grabbed
the bail, fluttered a bit in mid air
and slowly settled back to earth.
It was worth the sls.
• • •
DONAHUE was one of the
bright lights of the game.
He didn't lilt any and his fielding,
while excellent, was not brilliant.
At throwing, though, he was a won.-
der. Four Pelicans tried to steal end
four Pelicans failed miserably. Ev
ery throw was sent away fast and
was winged to exactly the right
spot. Haigh,, the New Orleans
catcher, also threw well and per
formed creditably.
| BOXING
Late News and Views
L
Luther McCarthy and Al Kaufman have
been practically matched for a tight in
o San Francisco June 26.
» ♦ •
Howard Morrow has refused to box Ed
p die McGoorty at Benton Harbor July 4.
J as he wants to stay at Las Vegas and
■ witness the Johnsdn-Flynn scrap
♦ ♦ ♦
e Frank Moran and Harry West will mix
in a ten-round affair at Columbus June 7.
p Ihe twenty-round bout between Joe
. Jeannette and Sam Langford, scheduled
t for Los Angeles July 27, has been called
p oft as will be detained in Aus
i tralia on account of a lawsuit pending
r there.
►’ fu To E ,ny <b.odman was disqualified by
the New ork boxing commission for
stalling in a bout with Jack McHenry at
, Albany last week.
i • ♦ *
i Eddie Murphy and Ray Temple have
i been matched to fight ten rounds at Clary,
Ind.. June 14.
• • •
f New York boxing promoters are ar
’ ranging to stage a ten-round fight be
’ tween Ad Wolgast ami Willie Ritchie if
they can get the champion to agree to
reasonable terms
i ♦ • ♦
I’ackey McFarland and Frank Brennan
are scheduled to box in Muskegon Mich
i tonight.
• • •
! Chief of Police Young, of St. Louis, has
Issued an order that will stop boxing in
that city. However. promoters believe
i they will be able to resume boxing again
> in the fall.
• ♦ • •
""ells is scheduled to box Bobby
’ ilson at Utica tomorrow night
i • • •
K. <> Brennan and Honey Mellodv will
box ten rounds in Baltimore June lb
• • •
Jim Corbett says Toninn Ityan has no
equal In the world as a trainer.
George Brown and Jack Dillon will mix
It in t olumbus tomorrow night.
The proposed bout between Eddie Mur
phy and Matty Baldwin, which was to be
staged In Boston, has fallen through.
Tat White and Dan Ridge will box in
Brooklyn tonight.
Joe Rivers will begin hard training next
week for his bout with Wolgast tn Los
Angeles July 24.
MRS. BARLOW WINNER.
ST. MARTINS, PA., June 6.—-Mrs.
Ronald H. Barlow , of the Merlon Crick
et club, today won the women's East
ern golf championship. She went out
on 43 and came in 4S, a total of 91
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Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Game
These are the Crackers' batting av
erages, including yesterday's game:
Players. G. AB. R. H. Av.
Dessau, p 9 27 2 9 .333
Hemphill, «cf. . .42 163 23 54 .331
Donahue, c. . . . 9 27 4 8 .296
Sitton, p 8 18 1 5 .278
Alperman, 3b.. .46 179 29 48 .268
Bailey, If 46 164 31 43 .262
Sykes, lb 30 89 14 23 .258
O'Dell, utility . .42 145 21 37 .255
Brady, p 1 4 0 1 .250
East, 2b 36 114 10 28 .246
Graham, c. . . .15 39 4 9 .231
O'Brien, ss. . . .40 146 17 33 .226
Callahan, cf. . . 4 17 1 3 .176
Atkins, p 9 24 2 4 .167
Johns, p 10 20 3 3 .150
ASSORTED FIST FIGHTS
ENLIVEN GAME AT TULSA
TULSA, OKLA., June 6.—Four first
fights, the ejectment from the grounds
and jailing of the umpire and the fainting
of a ball player who was in the grand
stand served as a. prelude to yesterday’s
game between Tulsa and Okmulgee, of
the Oklahoma State league. It was ladies'
day, too.
First some one questioned the sobriety
of Umpire McKee. Then came a fisticuff
between the umpire and Owner Bleckley,
of the Tulsa club. Umps McKee came
out second best, but had sufficiently re
covered when Manager Gardner, es the
Okmulgee team, who is under suspension
anil who, McKee alleges, assaulted him
after yesterday's game, came on the field
to engage him in battle. At this stage
spectators swarmed on the field, and Mc-
Kee was carried bodily into the dressing
room under the grandstand, where two
Okmulgeeans acted as his opponents in
bout No. 3.
in the absence of the umpire, two spec
tators were selected as umpires, and the
game started. It had not progressed far.
however, before McKee was on the field
again, and exchanging blows with Man
ager Price, of Tulsa. This fray was at
its height when Shortstop Black, of Ok
mulgee, fainted.
Four policemen put an end to hostili
ties by arresting McKee. Tulsa won the
- game, 4 to 1.
HORRINE CLEARS BAR
AT 6 -4 INCHES
NEW YORK, June 6.—George Hor
iine, the Stanford university athlete
who Is here practicing for the interna-
J? tional Olympic games, today expressed
the opinion that he would be able to
duplicate the record-breaking high
. jump which he accomplished yesterday
, at Travers Island in a tryout when he
1 leaped over a bar 6 feet 8 1-4 inches
above the earth.
Although this beats the world's rec
c ord. it can not be regarded as a new
' world's mark, because it was not made
o in an athletic competition. Horrine’s
! previous mark was 6 feet 7 inches,
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’ WOLGAST TO INSIST ON
133 POUNDS RINGSIDE!
t CHICAGO, June 6. —Lightweight
Champion Ad Wolgast, while in Chica
go last night, declared he would follow
‘ the example set by Battling Nelson and
■ Joe Gans while they held the title and
insist that hereafter all challengers for
the championship would be required to
make 133 pounds ringside.
Lines to the Lowly
By William F. Kirk.
i How sleep the brave who in the spring
Aspired to honors stellar,
And now, in spite of everything
Are resting in the cellar?
Boston and Brooklyn, do not cry.
Though your home fans may roar.
The Giants can't jump through the sky
And j ou can't journey lower.
...
A battered man lay dying on a sultry
summer day—
The choicest kind of day to die, if one
must pass away.
A comrade knelt beside him and saw
his life-blood ooze
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needs sotnc shoes).
The comrade asked his fellow fan.
"Why do you want to perish, Dan?"
The dying rooter raised his head and
whispered with a whine:
"1 was born In Cincinnati—Cincinnati
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George Adair Trims Schwartz, Medal Winner; Byrd Also a Victor
ATLANTANS MAKE BIC SHOWING IN GOLF EVENT
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. June
6.—The second round of the
championship flight and the
fii'st round of the first, second,
third, fourth and fifth flights of the
eleventh annual tournament of the
Southern Golf association began
this morning. H. M. Block, of At
lanta, and A. M. Post, of New Or
leans, inaugurated the day’s play
promptly at 8:30 o'clock. The
weather was cloudy and rain
threatened.
At the meeting of the association
last night Montgomery was chosen
as the place for the 1913 tourney.
In the matter of officers H. F.
Smith, of Nashville, was re-elected
president and J. C. Ryan, of Nash
ville. secretary. George W. Adair,
of Atlanta, was unanimously re
elected vice president.
The new board of directors is as
follows: H. F. Smith, Nashville;
George W. Adair, Atlanta; Leigh
Carroll, New Orleans; R. H. Baugh,
Birmingham; D. M. Goodwyn,
Louisville; E. D. Thomasson, Chat
tanooga; A. S. Mallory, Memphis;
W. C. Redding, Macon: W. A. Gun
ter, Montgomery.
A resolution was adopted to the
effect that all members of the as
sociation should adopt the U. S. G.
A. method of arriving at handicaps.
Schwartz Wins Medal.
A tremendous surprise was
sprung yesterday morning when
Albert Schwartz, of New Orleans,
winner of the first Southern cham
pionship, held in Nashville in 1902,
makes hot
days cool
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In Bottles-—lce Cold at
the ball game.
IT’S
SIMPLY
D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S
“Call the Boy with the Khaki Coat”
turned up the winner of the low
score prize. He was second on
Monday, with a 78. but it was pre
sumed that Rube Bush, who had a
stroke on him, could hold the lead.
He failed to do it, however, and
Schwartz’s 79 yesterday morning
gave him the low score medal, with
a total of 157.
Yesterday afternoon the first
match rounds were played, and
some surprises resulted. George
W. Adair, of Atlanta, defeated Al
bert Schwartz in a great match,
3- Another former champion
went down when B.ooke, of New
Orleans, bested Leigh Carroll, of
New Orleans, one up. Another sur
prise came when Arch Henderson,
a Birmingham golfer, who is short
on form, but long on results, trim
med H. G. Scott, of Atlanta. Two
former champions met when Gaines
played Whitney, and naturally the
latter won, 6-4. Stewart, of New
Orleans, the present title holder,
downed W. R. Tichenor, of Atlanta,
4- F. G. Byrd, of Atlanta, a for
mer champion, defeated D. S. Hen
derson. of Chattanooga. 4-3. As
the men defeated in the first round
of the championship flight form the
first flight. Atlanta kicks into that
division with a pair of great play
ers, W. R. Tichenor and H. G.
Scott, either of whom should be
good enough to win.
Results in First Round.
The results of the match play in
the first championship round fol
low :
Adair defeated Schwartz, 3-2;
England defeated McAfee, 3-2;
Brooks defeated Leigh Carroll, 1
up; Henderson defeated Scott. 1
up; Wright defeated "'eaver. 1 up;
Edrlngton defeated Spurlock, 6-5;
Crawford defeated White. 1 up, 19
holes; Whitney defeated Gaines,
6-4; Bush defeated Davidson, 4-2;
Ward defeated H. T. Wilson. 1 up.
19 holes; Webb defeated E. H. Coy,
3- Stewart defeated Tichenor,
4- Byrd defeated D. S. Hender
son, 4-3; Selden defeated A. Stew
art, 6-4; Baugh defeated Daley,
5- Rotvan defeated Bouden, 1 up.
The Atlanta golfers who got in
other flights were H. Block, second
flight; C. V. Rainwater and T. B.
Paine, third flight; R. E. Richards
and Paul A. Wright, fifth flight.
DANVILLE QUITS WHEN
GATE RECEIPTS SLUMP '
DANVILLE. VA... June 6.—At a meet- t
ing of the stockholders and directors of *
the Danville Athletic club it was unan
imously decided last night to surren
der the franchise.
The franchise was turned over to J.
O. Boatwright, president of the league,
who will endeavor to place it with Suf
folk.
The team left here last night to plav
at Petersburg, according to schedule,
and will continue to plav until some
city is found to take it.
Baseball in this city has been a losing
proposition since the beginning of the
season and latterly, with constant re
verses and poor gate receipts, it be
came apparent that the local club could
not weather the storm.