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Here We Have the Old Query Again: What Makes Southpaws Wild?
TWO OF TH BLEW UP VESTERDAV; VOIS WON OAME
Itv Percy H. Whiting.
rESTKRPAY S ball game
Y' brought u k up
th* n|d question, vTz south
paws why arc they so wild?
Nothing the Mphlnv ever pro
pounded wfl’? any more difficult to
solve It 1w the only conundrum
with a kick to it about whi«li base
bail writers, who rush in where
manage? r fear tn tread, haven’t
on on a decent theory
The question came up hrrau 0 a
couple of southpaws heaved them
reives nut of a ball gam*-* at Ponce
ppl/pnn ball park vesterda\ after
noon, and because one of these ball
players is one of the world’s most
not able players Mr. I*rfty Ruf-sell,
late of Hap •re-town. Md , and Phil
ad*lphia. Pa
\ man oner nm t eminent a.monj;
the world’-" southpaws, t’olnnel
Theodore Rr*Hen-'tein. umpired the
ball game, m part nf it. anyhow.
After the contest, he wa* asked for
an interview on Ihe pitching of
Russell and his chances for got
ting control Hi* reply war three
gfunts and a nod
Ss for Connie Mark. the gentle
man who sent Rll sol) io Atlanta,
he professes still to believe that
Russell will got centr'd Atlanta
hop* ■ n n didn't look so yester
day when Russell lasted only two
innings Rut then you never run
toll. Rusnell has everything else
nr ( r-saiv. including a good bean
and plenty of determination, and
Manager Hemphill will put him
through a course of marksmanship
» xcr< Ise,«t that max give him the
2GAMESTODAY !
nPONCEYPARK
T’" f.., |i,i> pri. * of oil.' That
>' th* ‘iliiaiien this aTtrinoon al
f’-m*' rail. f..1 th*' i.i-ker and Vol.*
11* nr in .1 double Ji*nd*i Inabilitv to
plav off mum n-uiie loaf were ppp! -
nnnn.j on t fi. X., . I,\ill.- Diomids . . used
lh* inasur |.|. pi. lent to liifi of th*
battle* here todio Tin- fir. i contest
O oa ded to «i,irl at 2 . .".(I o'clock
A it b ;< l-o L;.<li* .)a\. t hire should
hr si*ih tow.l on i.in.l \ licit Hip
I mp; . ail tin- Atkin- ami I >c*sau
a * ■ >• .In • o . for th* 10. alt,.
*llll* Manay. 1’.,11 S.-hwailz of th*
vl«itr>r-. |>|an . . work H,ir .nil Neely
CROSS ANO REDMOND
FIGHT 10 RDS. TONIGHT
NENA Vi.rtK .rum H |.,, k Red
mond who tax ed co rounds wtih
Lightweight ’’hampMi A<; Wolgast
xx ill niak<’ In-' debut brie lomght when
tie will box ten ymind< with Lomh
f’rosv nt ih- s? .\ i< h"h< . \thl< i < club
XII Redmomi tight mu h ■ - l»< < n done
In the \\ 1
' • • -* -» ■■ ■OM
Tdrummonoß
J 3 NATURAL I ear SsEt
4 g CHEWING TOBACCO ggg
1 Uis Ji
mild , f|!
only thing he lacks of becoming
another Marquard. Wildness was
what ruined Marquard for so many
years. McGraw cured it. Hemp
hill will try the same performance
with Russell,
• • ♦
A I r TKR Russell dropped out yes-
T* ferday. the game developed into
a good on» Vedder Sitton got
going great guns, and the Nashville
team couldn’t do anything with
him until the tenth, when Wet
chonce happened to connect a wild
swing with a straight ball and sent
the sphere hurtling to the foot of
the scoreboard for a hnpier. That
one run beat Rifton, though fortu
nately for his record, the game was
lost when he took command, so it
Is not scored against him.
It was n realty good contest s
marvel, considering that It wa
being contested by a couple of tail
end teams And one thing te help
ful. No matter if we lose 'em alt
to Nashville, we can't take their
last place a.wa.v from them They
have been too consistently bad tn
make that possible vet
• • •
'P HE return to form of "Kid " El
Hott, the famous two-flsted
featherweight, hasn't hurt the Vol
unteers any. They were kicked
around a while because they didn't
have a catcher With "The Rowdy”
back in the running again, they’re
a changed nine
"I don I see where I can help my
learn much." was Rill Schwartz's
estimate of hl« club. "Blliotfs
being out hurt us. but he is alt right
no" James hasn't shown us yet
PFODDER FOR FANS
Th* first half nf the second inning of <
' esterday’• gam* was n whirlwind In it
’’ere gathered four bases «<n balls In sue
’ * M s«on two strike outs In stiercs.sjon, an <
er rot and two runs
Xot m all Rorneo is there am thing of a
wildness tn compare with • Lefty" Russell
when his control slips
• • ♦
In the first inning hr walked Storch,
advanced him to second with a wild pilch
and scored him with another
• • •
Russrh Hh: a neck of "stuff If hr can
get the location of tbr plate nobody will
ever hit him Hr ran bend the ball lUOFt
111 l rvelnysl \ Rut when be Im w ild It’s a
b.o k *<rat for Borneo
• • •
Manager Hemphill w. II take Rus.ell
under advisement, a it were Os course
it « - ome contract to perform a trick at
which that wizard of managers, t'onnin
Ma- k. fa lied Rut Hemphill knows a thing
or two about baseball himself and flgiires
that he max hr able to calm Russell dnw’n
n bit
Russell took a mean advantage nf sex
eral of the batters He pitched the hall
behind their back y where thev didn’t
have the slightest rarthh chance to
hit it
t I’at I'otud’UP aged perreptlhlx m those
m-st iwo innings Ihr mental strain had
him going and the physical strain was
worse Hr wore a little path at right
angles to the line of flight of a fair ball
where cantered back and forth behind
• the platter
• • •
A *rlri*r Siimii birin t .|*s*, v* I* ln,p
ilia! cam* \n*r b* tool Russell s pin,-*
I.* ilitln i allow * hit for four inninc* i sl
th* wholr session b» cm* up mtti thro*
AAhat cosi Sittop th* gam* was Harrv
AA *l*hnn.*s fiendish dm* in th* t*nth
AA tip it.* s. ..** ti*<l AA *l*hon** found on*
t.. sun him anrl h* tnokefi it a*s- b*
nratb th* scoreboard for th* full .-in uit
AA *|. hop.-! s offort narrowH *s. aped an
iKnoinlnlon-i finish Hemphill fielded 'he
hall ami passed it op to Callahan Have
mad* a might. Imrl to the plai* and Imp
atm* missmi \A *l*hon< * b< about ib*
nidth of thin thread
...
Pfenning*. - th* san* old spineless
umpire as of old ll* let St n.-lt bawl him
in the fourth If ban had th* .-ourac* to
lire exert pla.er who cot fresh with turn
he Atmild tank with th.- bm nm.-h um
pires.
• * •
Both "f A\ eh-home - hits were freaks
It * first one was * bunt The ball start
i-.l down th* third base line and Alp.-r
--nian, wh* -am* In fast to field ii. real
fr.e-i iwo things that it was iirtl to im
possible to get AA eh homo at first if m
threw and that ’he ball w-mid nrobabb
roll I,ml tntwa. So b* waiter ll*
trmted down tn* Im* alongside th* ball
end read; to grab it Hie second it tolled
TKE ATh ANTA GEORGLATF AND X'EWS. I I ESDAY. .JINK 11. 1912
whether or not he is a. first-class
outfielder. We hope he is. If he
isn't, of course, we need a first
class outfielder 1 thought for a,
while we would need another in
fielder. but I have dropped that idea
now. I really can't sec why the
< lub will not win Its share of games.
I worried for a while. I’ve quit
now.”
It has seemed to me all along
that the Vols were far from a bad
team. Welchonce and Young, par
ticularly the former, are corking
good outfielders. Schwartz Is as
good a first baseman as you ever
find tn this league McDonald
seems to bn a coming third base
man. Perry and Lindsay arc use
ful infielders. The pitching staff is
tolerably good, ami “Rowdy ” Flliott
Is a. gend catcher in every depart
ment e- -opt disposition. Not unless
the tea, \ meets with marvelous
hard luc ■ w ill It continue on the
bottom "on have nay word for
that
• • •
II ARKT BAILET, the man who
bit four such awful wallops
Saturday, had a weird batting ex
perience yesterday. Twice be walk
ed. Twice he fanned. Once he bit
One. big thing about Bailey’s work
at bat is that he manages to get a
base on balls once out of every
five or six times bn faces the pitch
er. In addition to doing this, he
makes an average of more than
one hit out of every four times h«
is at bat. In other words he man
ages to get on bases about twice a
game. And any man who can do
that and who can run bases like
Bailey fa a help to the dub.
Oiirnld* After AX elehnnce had reached
lh* hag lie was still chasing II Einalb .
with ’ AAhitex, an umpire, the Naslivill*
coaeher and a ermple of extra Crackers
Imterlng over it It came tn rest hardly a
foot from th* third bag and exactly on
the middle of the chalk line.
...
hummers pitched a marrelmis gam* for
Nashville up to th* s*u>nih He allowed
thr** hits, on* to an inning
• • •
H W ax. w iducs.; tb*H cost Summer.’ his
pbu f m thp bo\ The ball got from under
hi.c .-ontr.il after <»’Pcll and Ha.-U had hit
and he flllrd thr bases and gave Hemp
hill two balls before hr wa« removed.
• ♦ •
I .arl Klrharty faerd a desperate situa
tion when hr took his place m the box
The score was 8 to 2 in Naahvllla’s favor.
Ihe bases wci p full. There w err two
halls on thr batter When hr did g*t in
hr gave iwo more balls, walked Hemphill
and forced home East. \ftrr lhal he
pitched wonderfully good ball
• • •
Hlanta ought to have won the game
I here were times without number w hen
a pinch hit would haxr spilled th«» Vols
in a heap Rut nobody ever kicked in
with it
• • •
Pittsburg ha released Pitchrr Harry
Gardner, last x.-ar with Vancouver t<»
St 1’? u l
« • •
Birmingham players are yelling he< au-r
Rick Woodward going to have a brass
band m action every day the team is at
home They sax music i« a known jinx
• «
Thr Boston Hi axes arc m the bad for
"Utfiehlrrs. X’rithrr Jackson nor Kirke
<an field. Roy Millet doesn't kimw how
to stop a ground ball and A'tn Campbell,
the best in the lot. lacks a hit of bring
the greatest outfielder in the world
♦ • *
Birmingham papers are sicking" I’resi
.lmt ‘X H Vndrcws. nf the Chattanooga
i club, on in hi: . base for more players.
The more hr spends thr better time the
I Hamns expect to have Ml tbex nerd
imw is competition \n<l maybe Mlanta
x\ ill furnish a little of that
Through Sleeping Car At
lanta to Lake Toxoway,
N. C.
Efi.-itiAe fir*i .nr IcaAing Atlanta
Sunday. .lune 2". Southern Railwa> will
operate through sleeping eai service
between Atlanta and T.ake Toxoway,
N f. on the following schedule I,cave
Atlant . x .t> o in.; arrive Hendcr.aon
a ill* N <’ K■ mi h, m. urriA* Lake
Tmonsj S:O a m. Returning, leave j
Lak* Toxowha 7.20 p. m.. arrive At-j
Iwrita a. m.
Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday*s Game
These are the Crackers' ba.tmc sver
agca. Liflivli’-.g Saturday's game wi’h the
Volunteers:
Players— | G. |AB7|~R~r H. |A~
Dessau, p 9 27 2 9 .353
Hemphill, cf ! H 171 23 :68 -.828
Bailey, If■ 45 :171 34 48 1.381
Sykes, lb 30 '59 14 23 ! .258
Alperman. 3bl 45 1188 29 48 .255
O'Dell, lb! 44 1154 33 39 1.253
East. 2b( 35 1121 11 29 .240
Sitton, p. I 9 ! 21 1 5 .238
Donahue, ci 11. I 34 4 8 :.235
O'Brien, ss 45 1151 t7 35 .232
Graham, ci 15 i 39 I 4 9 1.231
Callahan, cf 6 I 25 I 1 5 200
Atkins, p' 9 I 24 I 3 4 1.167
Brad y,p| 21 7| 0 1 [.143
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Nashville in Atlanta: Ponce Del.eon:
two games, first game called at 3:30.
■Mobile In Birmingham
Montgomery in New Orleans
Memphis in Chattanooga
Standing of the Clubs.
W D PC W L PC
B ham. 33 30 623 M'mphis 26 36 500
Mobile 31 35 554 Mom .25 29 .'463
C'nooga. 26 24 520 Atlanta. 21 25 .457
New Or. 35 24 .510 N’ville 18 32 .360
Yesterday's Results.
Nashville 4, Atlanta 3.
t'hattanooga 6. Memphis 3
Memphis 3, Chattanooga 1
Mobile 5. Birmingham 1.
New Orleans-Montgomery, rain.
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Today.
Albanv m Columbia
Columbus in. Jacksonville.
Savannah in Macon.
Standing cf the Club*.
W 1.. PC W. I, PC.
J’ville .35 It 641 C'bus. . 19 23 .452
Albany 37 16 .628 Macon . .15 36 ,366
S'van’ah 26 17 .605 C'l'bia. 12 28 .*OO
Yeaterday’a Resulta.
Savannah 11. Macon 8
Columbia fl. Albany I.
Jacksonville-Columbia, rain
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
New York m Chicago.
Boston in St. Louis.
Washington in Detroit
Philadelphia In Cleveland
Standing of the Cluba.
W. t. P.C W. L. PC.
■Chicago ”1 19 620 C'land. . 33 23 500
Boston 39 18 617 Detroit .35 25 500
Wash 28 31 ,571 N. York 15 29 .341
Phils 37 23 540 S Louis 14 34 .292
Yesterday's Results.
Washington 7. Detroit 3.
New York 5. Chicago 1
Philadelphia 6. Cleveland 3.
Boston 8, St. Louis 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE-
Games Today.
St Louis in Boston
Pittsburg in Brooklyn.
Chicago in New York
Cincinnati in Philadelphia
Standing o’ the Clubs.
W I, P.C W L. F C
N York .34 s 810 phila ig 22 .450
Chicago 26 15 .‘S’ s. Louis 2:! 27 449
Cnati. . 26 21 553 Brook 14 27 .841
P’hurg 33 20 524 Boston 14 32 .304
Yesterday's Results.
Philadelphia .10, Cincinnati 1
Brooklyn 1. Pittsburg 0
Boston 11. St Louis *
' 'hlcago 9. New York 8
REDS LAND NEW HURLER.
CINCINNATI, OHIO. June 11. Pre-,
tdent Herrmann, of the Cincinnati Na
tional baseball olub. announced today
that be had secured Charles H. Thomp
kins. a promising young Southern
pitcher, for his team. Thompkins
pitched for the Arkansas university last
year, and this -ear he has pitched for
Washingion and Lee university.
HERNSHEIM
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Rk v-\.
Gate City Club, Under Pressure, Spends $3,000 to Abolish Fire Trap
810 FIGHT WON TO PROTECT LOCAL BOXING FANS
THE GEORGIAN has won its
fight to insure the safety of
the fight fans of Atlanta
against fire-traps in which bouts
here in the past have been held.
The fight will be held tonight at
the Gate City Athletic club, but
everything that might endanger
the life of one of the patrons of the
dub has been removed.
All automobile' except those in
the store room of the Buick Motor
Company on the third floor will be
moved and every drop of gasoline
will be taken from lite building be
fore 6 o’clock this afternoon.
This comes as a result of The
Georgian's fight against holding
bouts in places which endanger
life. The duh was not willing to
tale these precautionary steps un
til forced tp do so because it has
cost them in the neighborhood of
$3,000 to make necessary arrange
ments to remove al) semblance of
danger from the building.
Henry Norton, owner of the club
bought the lease on the entire
building on James street today
RACE TRACK OWNERS
WILL MAKE TEST CASE
NEW YORK, June 11.—The question
whether the directors of a racing as
sociation may be held originally re
sponsible under the anti-betting law
w lien a bookmaker, without their
knowledge, accepts wages within the
race track indosure. is to be carried to
the courts for determination.
This decision was announced by Au
gust Belmont, chairman of the Jockey
club and president of the Westchester
Racing association, and Perry Bel
mont. president of the United Hunts
association.
The test will revolve around the ar
rest during the United Hunts meet at
Belmont park last week of Paul Shane,
who was accused of accepting bets on
the races. '
BIG BEACH MOTORDROME
IN N. Y. OPENS JUNE 29TH
NEW YORK. June 11.—The inaugu
ral meet of the Stadium-Motordrome at
Brighton Beach park will be staged on
the new third-of-a-mile board walk on
Saturday night. Juno 29. and the stars
of the East will be invited to partici
pate in ihe events for the rich stakes.
An army of carpenters is raisings mon
strous course, with seating space for
m oon people, upon what was a vacant
property a short time ago. and the
opening date will be played with the
plant complete.
INVITATIONS ARE OUT FOR
MONTGOMERY GOLF EVENT
Invitations are out for the third an
nual tournament of the Country dub
of Montgomery, which will be held
July 4. 5 and 6. Five "sixteens” will
be qualified and there will he cups for
the losing eight in each flight, which
means that all who qualify In the tour
ney will get a good run for their money.
No handicap will be played. The finals
w 111 be at 18 holes
The Atlanta Athletic club has always
sent a good delegation to this event,
and wilt doubtless do so this year.
BUT IT WASN'T HANK.
SPRINGFIELD. <>Hl<>, June 11.—
Outfielder "Red” Farrell, of the Reap
ers. has been suspended for running
Manager O'Day out of a hotel at
Zanesville during the club's visit to
that city.
and at once gave notice to all ten
ants to vacate by 6 o’clock tonighl.
This includes the Firestone-Col
umbus Southern Company and
Pope-Hartford Auto Company, on
the ground floor.
The Buick Motor Company,
which uses the third floor above
the fight arena, will not be dis
turbed. They have in the neigh
borhood of 100 cars stored there,
but all are new and. they declare,
contain no gasoline When Fire
Inspector Oattls makes his inspec
tion of the building this afternoon,
he. declares that he will examine
these machines, and If any gaso
line at all is found he will imme
diately notify the Rulrk people, sn
that the car containing the fluid
may be moved before the fight com
mences.
Atlanta fight sane will now have
a chance to see a bout without
feeling that their lives are in dan
ger should a fire break out. They
have been paying their good money
to see fights and they deserved
protection The Georgian tried to
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Mike Gibbons has signed articles to box
ten rounds with Jimmy Clabby in Buf
falo July 4. Clabby is on bis way from
Australia, where he has been boxing some
of the topnotehers.
• « •
If Clabby turns down the hniit Billy
Adams will probably be substituted to
fight Gibbons
• • •
Packey McFarland announces that he
will sail for Europe the last of this month
to take an extended vacation. Many
American fighters go to European coun
tries. but McFarland will probably be the
first one to go abroad and not fight.
« « •
Packey has been offered a July 4 date
with Ray Temple If he accepts the offer
the bout will be staged just outside of
Chicago, and his vacation put off ten
days.
♦ • •
lark Curley «ays the big fight out in
Mexico will be started at noon a« he wants
the people tn know the result before the
afternoon ball games.
• • •
Ad Wolgast refuses io meet Packey Mc-
Farland at 135 pounds ringside Yet he
offers to meet George Carpentier at 154
pounds ringside if he is guaranteed
enough money.
♦ • •
if the inducements are strong enough
Ray Bronson and Barry Brewer may
transfer their fight scheduled for St.
Louis. June 21. to Kansas City.
• ♦ •
In his agreement with Joe Rivers. Ad
One=won! One prod uc t
and one purpose---that’s why
the Ford has won. All Fords
are alike—except the bodies.
We have focused our effort
upon the making of one
; good car-—and the consequent
j big production has battered
l the selling cost down to a
minimum.
I Seventy fit t thousand iioaa Fords "o into
| service this season—proof of their unc-
I qualed merit. The price is $590 for the
I roadster. $690 for the five-passenger car,
I and S7OO for the delivery car complete
j with all equipment, f. o. h. Detroit Latest
I catalogue from Cord .Motor Company. 311
I Peachtree St.. Atlanta, or direct from !)<•.
| troit factory.
convince the dub promotcßF that
it was to their interest to protect
their patrons, but the club turned a
deaf car until the law. barked by
Pirc Chief Cummings was turned
on them. Then they listened, and
tn avoid arrest took tho precau
tion of expelling all tenants from
the place by leasing the buildin?.
According to the fire chief, the
building will be safe tonight. Tt is
hoped that it will bo kept so, but
should the club In the fnfuro fall
to keep up these precautions, Th 1 "
Georgian will again turn the light
on them and see that the law is
compiled with.
As fm the card tonight. Tommy
Devlin is a clever txvo-handed
fighter. Fir gave a game exhibi
tion against Jimmy Ferry, al
though outweighed ten pounds
Devlin’s opponent. Tommy O’Keefe,
however, is only a third-rater. H»
is fairly clever, but larks a punch
According to Ihe chrb’s press
agents, hr has decisions over Wil
lie Moody. Young Erne «nd many
other top-notrhrrs. Thc?<e re
ports arc absolutely wrong
• I’Krrfe does pot class with such
fighters as Erne.
Wolgast uaa to be back in Los Angeles
June 10 or lose a forfeit of? 300. 1 low
ever, the champ does not lose the forfeit,
as he arrived in the West ahead of time
Jack Dillon, thr latest claimant tn th®
middleweight title, will go ten rounds with
Alike Twin Sullivan in Buffalo toniorr-'W
night.
♦ • «
George Chirp has signed to box ten
rounds with Leo at Lancaster, Pa..
June. 13
• • •
.lark Redmond, who stood Rattling Nel
son r»ff for twenty rounds, will be in good
shape when he enters the ring against
Leach Cross in New York tonight
• • •
Reports from Milwaukrr say’ Ad Wnl
gast has bought a prominent saloon and
case in that city. The case will he In
charge of the lightweight's brother
VERY LOW RATES TO NOR
FOLK ACCOUNT RARACA
PHILATHEA UNION.
Tickets sold .Tune 19. 20 and 21. limit
ed July 3. Special arrangements for
Atlanta delegation leavinif 1:15 p m
Friday, 21st. Get full information al
Seaboard City Ticket Office. 8S Peach
tree.