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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 t . --- 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 I Porto k» I 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. a* >z o ,—, m ca © ”5 ® . Q fg d VCJ it l— o »- - -3 c ■•a F- hi . 2 “j g tsli® i Ir.“ 3E a b ” J 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 10% Oversize Adds 25% to the Mileage Goodyear No-Rim-Cut tires are cut. These new-type tires-No never less than 10 per cent over the Rim-Cut tires—save that 23 per rated size. cent. H ! Actual comparison was lately These two features totmther made with five leading makes of No-Rim-Cut and oversize-under clincher tires. And No-Rim-Cut average conditions, cut tire bills tires, measured by air capacity, j n two. averaged 16.7 per cent larger. ' . ; But call the oversize merely 10 That is why No-Rim-Cut tires per cent. That means 10 per now far outsell any other tire. They cent more air—lo per cent added are use< i today on some 200,000 carrying capacity. And that, with cars. the average car, adds 25 per cent You to come to them, to the tire mileage. But, while you are waiting, your tire cost is twice what it need be. No Rim-Cutting Let us prove this t 0 >' ou - Then, these patent tires end rim- Our 1912 Tire Book, baaed on 13 cutting forever. years of tire making, is filled with Statistics show that 23 per cent facts you should know. Ask us to of all ruined old-type tires are rim- mail it to you. Goodyear] No-Rim-Cut Tires THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., Akron, Ohio Thia Company haa no connection whatever with any other rubber concern which usea the Goodyear name. Atlanta Branch ZZ j Peachtree St. ' Telephone Bell Ivy 915 and 797 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.