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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 flllweykS yi Good a 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.