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New York Scribe Praises Work
Os Carl Thompson, Now a Yank
CARL THOMPSON, the former University of Georgia
1 wirier, made his first appearance on the mound in a
Yankee uniform last Wednesday, when he finished a
game against the Naps in Cleveland. Harry Glaser, war cor
respondent with the team for Hearst's New York Evening
Journal, had the following to say about the work of the
Athens hero:
By Harry Glaser.
CLEVELAND. OHIO, June B.
Carl Thompson, the tall col
legian who joined Wolver
ton's outfield a f'W days ago, had
his first opportunity of pitching in
a big league game yesterday, and
although the big blonde twirler did
not have a chanCe to cover himself
with glory by scoring a victory, he
certainly made good.
The game was tucked away by
the Naps when Thompson made his
debut in the fifth inning, Davis’
hopefuls having a lead of seven
runs at the time, with Kaier going
at his best. The Naps had been
getting to Jack Quinn hard and
often, banging his delivery for sev
en hits, which, with the aid of a
few misplays, gave them a com
manding lead, but Thompson walk
• ed to the mound cool and self-pos
sessed and nary a fear of going
against the fence breaking crowd.
Fanned Birmingham at Star*.
His first act was to fan Bir
mingham, one of the Naps’ collec
tion of .300 hitters, and before the
game was over three other aspiring
Clevelanders had tossed away their
bats after vainly trying to connect
with his puzzling curves. When
Thompson wasn't striking them out
he had the Naps popping up easy
flies. Only twice did they get the
ball out pf the infield, once when
Lajoie singled and on the other
occasion Birmingham tiled to Cree.
Lajoie’s hit was the only real solid
hit made off the youngster. Ball
U. OF M. REINSTATES
ALL ITS "HIRED HANDS"
JACKSON. MISS., June 8. --The gen
eral college board lias ordered the re
instatement of six students at the Uni
versity of Mississippi, members of the
1911 football team, who were suspended
because of alleged acceptance of money
for their participation in athletics.
The college board also rescinds tnc
action of the faculty in dismissing Dr.
N P. Stauffer, coach of the "Ole Miss’’
football team, and generally recognized
as one of the ablest football coaches in
the South. Dr Stauffer, who is now at
his home in Philadelphia, was notified
by telegraph of his reinstatement.
Briefly stated, it was charged that
the ru • s of the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic association had been violated
at the university, and that the six stu
dents who formed the principal strength
of the 1911 team had been, in vaiious
ways, paid so their services The trus
tees could find no merit in the charges
and ordered th it (lie boys be reinstated.
McCarthy, conqueror of
MORRIS. LANDS IN GOTHAM
NEW YORK. June B. Luther Mc-
Carthy, the promising Missouri heavy
weight who recently knocked out t’arl
Morris, has coni' to New York from
Springfield, Mo., to show Metropolitan
fight fans his line of fistic wares. ,
Manager Gibson of the Garden Ath
letic club is trying to irrange a bout
between McCarthy and Bombardier
Wells, heavyweight champion of Eng
land.
CORNELL TRACK FOUND
TO BE YARDS TOO LONG
ITHACA, N Y. June x. Mea.-me
ntent of the P« • x field trek on which
the Cornell track meets are In id showed
that Tell Bet mi. Cornell - great dis
tance runnet, ran 3* yards mote than
two miles when he established the m w
American record of 9 17 4 May 4
Th" track is four yard.- too long on ■
each quarter.
It is figured Berna ran two miles in
about 9 minutes 2 s< oonds. The for
mer mark set by Berna was 9:251-5.
BALL WINS TOURNEY.
LONDON Jun- S.- John Ball yt-s-
Sfe- M ifrcla.' won tin- am it.-ni golf elian -
pion- , .
mem played al Westw.i:d H
also got a safe swat, but it was of
the scratch variety. Stump making
a swell one-hand stop and falling
by a few feet of getting the batter
at first.
Thompson uses a fast drop and
out curve. His main dependence is
a change of pace, possessing the
ability to mix them in deceiving
manner. Speed he also has in
plenty, and while his performance
of yesterday w as hardly a test suf
ficient on which to risk any predic
tion as to his future, his big league
debut could not have been more
promising under the circumstances.
The new twirler hails from the
land of cotton. He was born at
Spring City, Tenn., twenty yeais
ago. All the baseball experience he
possesses was gained while with
prep school and college teams.
Irwin Unearthed Thompson.
During the last three years he
played with the U. V. U. of Georgia
and while there pitched a few times
against the Yankees in spring ex
hibition games. It was on one of
these occasions that he attracted
the attention of Scout Irwin, who
secured him.
A month ago in a game against
the Auburn college nine of Ala
bama Thompson struck out 22 men
in a nine-inning contest. Last sea
son he won eleven out of twelve
games for his alma mater. Wolver
ton Is greatly pleased with the
showing made by' him yesterday,
and will undoubtly coach him along
carefully. He may get a chance to
start a game in the near future.
DOUBLE UMPIRE SYSTEM
TO LAST WHILE LONGER
MEMPHIS. June B.—Advices from
Southern league headquarters are to
the effect that the threatened curtail
ment of the umplrical force wilt not
taJte place at any time soon, and there
!- more than an outside impossibility
that the dual judgeship proposition will
remain Intact until the yellow and sere
of the autumnal period becomes sea
sonable matter. This, coming straight
and direct from his Judicial excellency.
\V Marmaduke Kavanaugh, and almost
immediately in the wake of a state
ment to the contrary, is a signal for nu
merous and voeiferoifs yelps of joy. It
is needless to recount the virtues of
the modern system. It has many, and
all add to the betterment of the game.
However, it wasn’t doubt as to the
effectiveness of the system that placed
it in jeopardy in this circuit. It was
the additional cost incident to the em
ployment of new umpires. Gyving to
the horrible weather and the other
tragic feats engineered by the
the opening weeks of the league were
fai from successful, financially or ai -
I tistlcally. Inasmuch as there are cer
tain cities in the circuit whose gate
receipts never require tile hiring of ex
pert mathematicians, there is never a
world of coin made in Dixie’s major
league. When an unusually' bad start
wa- made it. therefore, became neces
sary to reduce expenses. For a time it
looked as if the umpires would be the
ones to feel the keen cutter in the
locality where the celluloid is hung.
PRATT SENT TO RIGHT
FOR KEEPS BY STOVALL
ST. I.GUIS, MO„ June 8. The first
switch in the make-up of the Browns
by New Boss George Stovall and one
that is going to stick is the assigning
of Frank Laporte to second base duty
and Derrlll Pratt to the job as right
fielder Stovall announces that the
men are in their new places to remain.
Although performing at second base
dining most of his minor league career.
Pratt had a few weaknesses and the
faef that Laporte wasn't getting over
enough ground in right field cause .1
Manager Stovall to make the change.
Laporte has played second base- dur
ing nine-tenths of his service in the big
show, while Piatt is young and Can be
taught the fine' points of fly chasing
The change should do good for both
players, as well as the Browns.
11110 ;1 1 raNTA GEORGIAN AXD XEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912
Hemphill Discouraged Over Weather; His Players Need Work
RACE IN SOUTHERN GETS BETTER EVERY MINUTE
By Percy 11. Whiting.
r-pxHIS weather is playing the
j wild with the Atlanta ball
club, with the gate receipts
and with our dispositions. About
three solid weeks of sunshine is all
that will save us. Manager Hemp
hill is fairly wild over the weather.
"Here 1 have a team,’’ he says,
"that needs work. And can I give
it to ’em? I can not. I can’t play
in the rain.’'
Tlie Crackers are not unlike the
Irishman with the light boots who
said: "Faith, an' I’ll never be able
to get ’em on till after I wear ’em
a bit.” In their ease they'll never
be able to win any games until
they play a few.
Some teams .get good on loafing.
They are the ones made up of well
behaved youngsters. No team of
veterans ever played good ball un
less it was playing steadily.
• ♦ •
tt/fANY fans have wondered this
■*■*■*• year why Manager Hemphill
loaded up his team with so many
veterans. The official explanation
is that "Hemp” took over a tail
end team, with little material on it
that he could use. When the wreck
ing crew got through with the
Southern league anti-Champs of
1911 all that was left was tor
"were,'” it’s immaterial to me)
Sykes, O'Dell. Sitton and Atkins.
Naturally Hemphill had to build
up the team from the bottom. And
naturally he picked up old players
to do it.
Did you ever notice that w hen a
man comes down from the big
leagues to manage a minor league
club he always lugs a lot of old
timers with him? It never fails.
That's easy to explain, too.
A manager coming down from
above knows the big leaguers and
the ex-big leaguers. But the vast
mess of minor league performers is
as queer as kraut to him. So he
grabs for what he knows.
• • •
NTEXT year the local basebfil! as
1’ sociation plans to’ dally more
with young players. There are two
reasons for this. One is that the
kids liven up a team and add to the
speed. Tlie other is that a minor
league club must depend, quite
largely, for its income on develop
ing young players for sale to the
major leagues.
In these days, when any ordina
rily good player is worth $5,000 and
a star brings more than a score of
thousands, it pays to dig them up.
• a •
J-JAS anybody noticed that the
Southern league race is getting
good? If not, please notice. Yes
terday three teams were tied for
third place. Today, Chattanooga
has the position, all alone.
Right now the league leaders and
the taiKend clubs are separated by
but 13 full games.
Os course, Birmingham has a
rather exalted standing. At that, if
the Barons lose 4 games while the
Gulls are winning 5, Mike Finn’s
team will pass them.
The real tight race is between
second and seventh places, inclu
sive. Only 3 1-2 full games sep
arate the Mobile club from the
Crackers, which is moderately' near.
The Gulls, in second place, have
lost one more game this season
than the Crackers, in seventh place.
The Atlanta club, though it
stands next to last at present, isn't
lagging so tremendously far be
hind. With all of its wretched .477
standing it is only 7 1-2 games be
hind the Barons, who are out in
front.
Every team in the league except
B1 s l [ MONDAY
Atlanta vs. Nashville
PONCE DELEON PARK
Game Called 4:00
the Barons is strengthening. In
side of a week the Crackers should
be twice as strong as they were a
week ago. That sounds pretty
strong, but it will not miss it much.
If Brady and Russell are the men
they ought to be, the pitching staff
will be a good bit more than twice
as strong. If Coleman and the
new’ man, name unknown, are as
big an Improvement over East and
the man who goes as baseball
headquarters expects, the infield
will be pretty nearly three times
as strong. The addition of Calla
han and the departure of Ganley
should holster up the outfield mate
rially. And the catching .staff was
doing very well, anyway.
New Orleans Gets Championship;
Rainwater,of Atlanta, Wins Cup
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CHATTANOOGA. TENN., June
B.—Nelson Whitney and
"Bill'’ Stewart, both of New
Orleans, embarked this morning on
the long 36-hole grind that will de
cide the championship of the
Southern Golf association for 1912.
Each man has already tasted the
honors of golfing leadership. Whit
ney is the only American born golf
er who ever held first honors twice.
He was champion in 1907 and 1908.
Stewart won the title last year. It
was considered more or less of a
fluke then, but his work this sea
son has given the lie to that dope,
for he has fought his way to the
finals through the very thickest of
the fight.
One other match is in progress
that goes all day. That is the 36-
hole finals in the first flight. Al
bert Schwartz and Whitney Bou
den. a veteran and a kid. are fight
ing it out in that division. The re
mainder of the final matches are
being played at 18 holes.
A big gallery is following the
championship contest.
After one of the most spectacu
lar matches seen in the local tour
nament. the last Atlanta golfer was
eliminated from the Southern
championship yesterday afternoon.
The hopes of the Gate City expired
in the big gully separating the
eighteenth tee from the green. F.
G. Byrd, champion of 1910, and the
only Atlantan who reached the
semi-finals, and W. P. Stewart, of
New Orleans, champion of 1911,
reached the seventeenth hole all
even. Stewart made a tremendous
shot from the last tee and virtually
reached the green, a distance of
over 200 yards, In attempting to
duplicate this. Byrd pressed, top
ped his ball, and it rolled down to
the depths below. The sphere found
an unplayable lie and lodged there.
So the Atlanta man picked it up
and gave up the match.
In the other semi-final match in
the championship flight yesterday,
Nelson Whitney, of New Orleans,
champion of 1907 and 1908, trim
med J. E. England, Jr., a newcomer
from Little Rock. 3-2,
The two other New Orleans play
ers. A F Schwartz, champion of
1902, and Whitney Bouden, the 17-
year-old lad. won in the first flight
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This chap Pat Donahue is mak
ing the croakers sing a changed
tune. When he came here most of
us thought he had one foot and
both arms iif the grave. But
blessed if he is not proving the best
man who has worked behind the
bat for Atlanta since Sid Smith’s
day. And of late he has had a
tremendous advantage over Smith
in pegging to second. The way he
flagged those four New’ Orleans
runners Wednesday was something
that the Pelicans will remember as
long as this season lasts.
Graham continues to look good,
too. He was certainly a bully good
trade for McMurray. At first he
looked like another McMurray, but
he has proved to be vastly better.
semi-finals, Schwartz from D. S.
Weaver, Memphis, 2-1. and Bouden
from Robert Davidson, Chattanoo
ga. 3-2.
In tlie second flight F. C. Stahl
man, Nashville, defeated W. A.
Knight. Asheville, 1 up, and Law
son Watts, Nashville, won from A.
M. Post. New Orleans. 3-1.
So L. Probasco. Chattanooga, de
feated J. W. Stokes. Nashville, and
W. A. Dewees. Jr., Chattanooga,
won from E. Martin. Chattanooga,
in the third flight.
The w inners in the semi-finals of
the fourth flight were J. E. Morgan,
Memphis, who defeated N. T. Mon
tague. Chattanooga, 4-3. and S. D.
Baxter, Nashville, who won from R.
G. Watkins, Chattanooga. 4-3.
In the fifth flight R. E. Richards,
Atlanta, defeated P. A. Wright, At
lanta, 3-1. and W. W. Simmons,
Memphis, won from C. E. Foust,
Birmingham, 8-6.
Despite the defeat of Byrd in the
semi-finals yesterday, the Atlanta
delegation will not return cupless.
C. V. Rainwater, of the Atlanta
Athletic club, turned in the low net
score in the handicap. This man is
far from a brilliant player, but is
one of the steadiest In Atlanta, and
his steady plugging down the mid
dle of the course netted him an 87,
which, with a handicap of 15. gave
him a net of 72.
“NO JOB FOR EAST WITH
US.” SAYS B. BERNHARD
MEMPHIS, TENN.. June B.—Walter
East will not be bought from Atlanta
by the Memphis club, and Second Base
man Moulton will not be displaced by
anybody.
That's the announcement from base
ball headquarters and puts an end to
the rumor that East would be bought
by the Turtles.
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Big Shake-Up Coming in Ranks'
Os Bill Schwartz's Volunteers
NASHVILLE, TENN., June B.
Although Nashville has a
good hitting team and one
that is leading the league in field
ing. Manager Bill Schwartz seems
unable to get any results from the
present line-up, and it is probable
that several changes will be made
in the personnel of the team before
many days. Negotiations are now
being made with Brooklyn for Cut
shaw, a, fast and hard-hitting sec
ond baseman, and Frank Allen,
whom Mobile sold to the Dodgers
last season for $5,000. The addition
of these two players, Manager
Schwartz believes, would bolster up
the weakest spots on his team.
Clayton Perry, who was last sea
son one of the hardest hitting sec
ond basemen in the league, has
slumped a good deal this season
and has been playing erratic ball.
He is not hitting anywhere near
his old-time form, and his fielding
has been decidedly' off color. If
Cutshaw is secured from Brooklyn,
he will probably be placed at sec
ond, and Perry will fill the utility
role instead of Storch, who is slated
for the discard. Schwartz had
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hopes that Storch would begin to
hit this season, but he is the weak
est man in the league with the wil
low and his good fielding is not
enough to keep him.
Cutshaw played last season in
the Pacific Coast league, hitting
.261 and stealing 90 bases. Speed
is needed more than anything else
on the local team at present, and
he is, therefore, doubly valuable.
Allen was one of the leading left
handers in this league last year be
fore being bought by Brooklyn and
should be equally effective this sea
son. Manager Dahlen has hope,
tlaat he will be ready for fast com
pany next year.
Poor base running has been the
chief defect of the Volunteers this
season and there is a decided lack ,
of team play and brain work
among the players. Jesse James,
who recently came from Brooklyn,
has made a fine impression in the '
outfield and seems destined to be
one of the leading batters of the
league. He also shows plenty of
ginger on the bases and is a good
fielder.
Rowdy Elliott's work behind the
bat has been poor up to this time,
and it looks as if he is not going to
be as valuable to Manager
Schwartz as was expected.