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Sitton Pitches Magnificent Game and Locals Play Like Whirlwind Behind Him
CRACKERS' LOSING STREAK SMASHED AT LAST
By Percy 11. Whiting.
* LOSING streak which, for
ZA duration and intensity, set a
lot of new records was
smashed by the Crackers here yes
terday afternoon when they won a
tight game from Memphis, 2 to 1.
It was the first spasm of a-dou
bleheader. Rain prevented the
second
It was I game with whiskers on
—a regular prehistoric neolithic
megathariurn. a tar baby with a
punch. The Cracker team, which
has been wallowing in a slump as
deep as the bottomless pit and
fully as depressing. suddenly pulled
out. It didn't play Just ordinarily
good ball against the Turtles. It
played phenomenally good ball
In the first place there was red
der Sitton! Now. Vedder doesn’t
like to see his name in print, but
we'll have to trespass on his well
known good nature Jong enough to
say ttwt he pitched one thunder
ing fine game of baseball. Real
flossy fielding around second when
Moulton tapped to Alperman would
have given him the xhut-out he de
served.
The only run by Memphis was
scored in the fourth. Crandall sin
gled cleanly enough to left. Moul
ton then stung one down toward
second that was awkward to handle.
It appeared that "Whitey" was near
enough to the second bag to have
stepped to it before Crandall got
there Instead, he tried to throw to
O'Brien. Pete was coming in fast,
got the ball over his left ear, and
finally didn't accomplish the out.
Then Keir singled neatly to right,
and the only Memphis run was
over. The Turtles only made three
hits, aside from that pair in the
fourth.
Yea. verily, the South Carolinan
pitched some real baseball.
• • •
uJWOC" NEWTON, he of the huge
U size and the slab-sided de
livery. didn't pitch any bad game
of ball himself. A shade better
fielding by Moulton in the second
inning might have prevented the
first Cracker run. McElveen stung
what was admittedly a mean one
to handle Moldton's throw to first
was a shade wide, and empire
Breitenstein, after deliberating a
bit. called McElveen safe. To the
crowd it was a doubtful decision,
but as the Turtles kicked but faint
ly, it was probtldv eminently cor
rect. O'Dell then executed a sacri
fice, and O'Brien Hepped in with a
two-bagger. That scored the first
run
The second tally < ime across in
the seventh. Black storm clouds
were piling up then, and it looked
as though rain might fall and chop
off the game while it was still a
tie. With sui li a happening immi
nent, AJ O'Dell hacked off a one
sacker and stop sc.-oml, <' Brien,
who had delivered before, could
C 5 HEALS
O. O. O. SORES ANO ULCERS
8. S. S. heals Sores and Ulcers in the very simplest way. It just goes
right down into the blood and removes the cause, and the place is bound
to heal because the impurities and morbid matters which have been ths
means of keeping the ulcer open ar« no longer absorbed from the blood.
External applications of salves, lotions, plasters, etc., can never produce a
cure because they do not reach the source of the trouble. At best they;
can only allay pain or reduce inflammation; such treatment is working on 1
symptoms and not reaching the cause. Every nutritive corpuscle in the
blood is weakened or infected, they cannot nourish the fibrous tissue around
the place, but instead they constantly discharge into the flesh around the
Bore a quantity of impure, germ-laden matter which gradually eats into the |
surrounding healthv tissue and causes the ulcer to enlarge. Since impute
blood is responsible for Sores and Ulcers, a medicine that can purify the
blood is the only hope of a cure. S. S. S. has long been recognized as the (
greatest of all blood purifiers, possessing the qualities necessary to remove
every impurity from the blood. While curing the sore or ulcer S. S. 3. |
brings about a healthy condition of the flesh by supplying it with rich
Urcalth'- blond, and thus makes the cure permanent and lasting. Book on
bus and Ulcers arid any medical advice free to all who write.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLAHTA, GA
only fly out. but Pat Donahue, who
has been there with a lot of the
pinch stuff this year, stung out a
.-ingle, on w hich O’Dell scored with
the winning run
It was all good, clean baseball
Phenomenal work might have
changed the result But there
wasn’t anything had about what
was offered, and It was a clean
and as hard fought a game of ball
as a man often sees It was so
exceptionally good that it wasn’t
spectacular. Machine-like work on
both sides made a mechanical sort
of production of It Yet no man
should kick at the home-made ex
hibitions put on by the Crackers in
recent spasms
qr HE game, though almost too
good to be true, was enlivened
by a few snappy incidents. In the
third Inning Pitcher Sitton served
Baerwald w ith a bean ball. "Rudy"
fell to avoid a fractured skull, and
his bat struck the ball, lifting a
puny pop that Sitton nabbed.
This was a good joke for Sitton.
FODDER FOR FANS
Baseball must he a peaceful game at
Marlon The other day Ered ('dwell was
suspended for a run-in with Empire
<' Brien and O’Brien was arrested for
mauling a newspaper man.
• • •
Marl Mack, t’onnie's son. is managing
th'“ Atlantic City team this year It
seems to run in the family.
• • •
Charley Frank s wild man. M Ronner,
was let g<» to Montgomery when Hank
Griffin reported. ’('hat Dutchman likes
em savage but not wild
• • •
Dobbs seems to be trying to make up a
team of cast-offs A good bit more than
half the men on his club now have pre
vlourlv played with some other club in the
Southern league
• • •
Another freakish thing about the Billi
kens is that seven of the fourteen men on
the payroll are pitchers The? are Bills.
Bonner. Lively, \itchlson. Johns. Paige
and Radabaugh Three of those men are
former Crackers Bills was with Memphis
once Bonne: is an ex Pelican. Aitchisnn
former!? performed for Nashville
• • •
If Montgomery ever gets going as it
ought to and forces Chattanooga back
where it belongs, and unless the Crackers
get started, the four southern division
clubs of the Southern league are likely
to finish the season one-two-thrae-four
• • •
.John«y Dobbs quit playing because, no
matter how much he exercised and how
little he ate. he couldn’t reduce weight
This ? ear he hasn't played, but he has
coached \nd right now he is lighter than
before in y ears
• • •
Craxed with winning baseball, Wash
ington is now trying to get the game on
Sunday as well as on week days It ma?
take time, but it is coming
• • •
Blanchard, the ambidextrous pitcher,
has been signed b\ Guelph, of the Ca
nadian league He was with the Ath
letic* once That a the wa\ all the ambi
dextrous chaps go It s hard enough to
get by with one-handed pitching, with
out mixing up with the two-fisted article
• * •
The man who was thrown in on the
O'Toole deal. Kelb , is proving so good
with Pittsburg that he is forcing Gibson
Into the background
• • •
Mike Dunlin nay si the Giants are about
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, SATURDAY. JUNE 15. 1912.
Then there was one against him
in the eighth. Vedder Is the fastest
man on the team over to first
base. So when one of his wild
swings resulted in a feeble roller
down the first base line, he had a
swell chance to heat It. He dashed'
away, but Just as he reached the
ball it rolled foul. So Vedder
turned , and walked back to the
plate. After rolling foul for a while,
the hall changed Its notion, rolled
hack into fair territory, and Sit
ton was out from Newton to Ab
stein.
Crandall, in the fourth inning,
demonstrated that it is possible to
play pretty good ball sitting down.
After Alperman had walked. New
ton snapped one over to Ahstein,
and "Whitey,” making a virtue cf
necessity (or whatever the saying
is to thaj general effect), romped
on toward second. Crandall came
in fast Io take the throw at sec
ond. but. finding the ground slip
pery. he plumped gracefully to a
sitting post m e exactly on the hag
Sitting the.re, he received the hail
and touched Alperman out as he
slid in.
due to pop. Maybe he thinks that. Mavbe
he only hopes it.
• • •
Hyatt, the West Pointer secured by
Detroit, is to bp farmed.
• • •
They are passing the hat now for the
Richmond club of the I’. S. league Maybe
by dint of an occasional strawberry fes
tival. with a grand amateur minstrel
show <m Fourth of July night, they can
keep the old tub afloat awhile
• • •
Joe Wood, of Boston, has developed a
slow, round-house, side-arm curve that
he delivers with the. same motion as his
fast ball The combination is said to be
deadly.
• • •
Memphis has an M D" battery in
"Doc' Newton and "Doc" Seabough.
Ed Pfeffer has dropped to the Grand
Rapids team of the Central league
« • «
Big old Whitey Gues*, formerly of the
Dixie circuit, lias been released by Man
ager Bill Phillips, also an ex-South*rn
leaguer.
The Rochester team did a lot tn bolster
ing up the Washington team for the great
race It lias been running It sent Moeller
and Foster there and both are doing help
ful work.
• • •
Walter Johnson has rounded out his
repertoire this year with a slow ball and
a slow curve Ip to this year the Swede
hadn't anything much but speed—and
didn't need It
FIFTH REGIMENT TO
HOLD BOXING BOUTS
The athletic committee of the Fifth
regiment has announced that it Is
now ready to receive entries for the
annual sparring contests to be held by
the regiment. All entries must be in
by Monday, June 24 They should be
addressed to Lieutenant G. W McCar
ty. Jr. Company F. and placed in the
mail box of that company at the ar
mory. Men wishing to enter must give
name in full, company, date of enlist
ment. weight Ind class
There will he four classes. viz.:
Heavy, middle, welter and lightweight
Lightweights ate to range from 125 to
135 pounds, welterweights from 135 to
150 pounds, middleweights from 150
to 165 pounds, heavyweights from 165
on.
SCHOELIN IS THROWN
TWICE BY FRANK GOTCH
BALTIMORE, MD„ June 15.—Frank
Gotch, of lowa, champion heavyweight
wrestler, defeated Gus Sehoelin (Amer
icus). of Baltimore, champion light
hen w« eight, In two straight falls at
Oriole park here Gotch's famous toe
hold won him both falls, the first in 62
minutes and 10 seconds and the second
in 34 seconds
JACK GRIM TO MARRY.
CINCINNATI OHIO. j un e 15—Jack
Grim, the manager of the Newport
N*«s (Va.) baseball team, will be
married to Mary Ellen Gleeson at Oil
Point Comport. Va . on June 19. Grim
is a Cincinnati bo* and was formerlj a
scout for the Role
CRACKERS GET
AGLEMCRACK
FIRST SACKER
>— t
CHARLEY HEMPHILL, In his
struggle to give Atlanta fans
a winner, has just secured
Joe Agler, a corking young first
baseman, from the Chicago Na
tionals. He will report to the
Crackers Monday. Agler was the
star initial sacker in the Eastern
who was last season. per
forming with .Toe McGinnity's
Newark team. The Cubs secured
him last fall.
Agler has not been bought out
right by the Crackers. He comes
here under an optional agreement,
which means that a big string Is
tied to him. In sending him here,
Charley Murphy. president and
owner of the Cubs, has informed
President Callaway that next
spring the young man will again
join the Windy City aggregation.
Although his records are not
anything to cause alarm, Agler,
nevertheless, is one of the most
promising first basemen in the
country. In his case, figures do
not show his full yvorth. Hf bat
ted .255 for Newark last season,
garnering 122 hits for a total of 156
bases. He swatted out ten doubles
and twelve triples. Twenty-five
bases did he pilfer. His fielding
average in 140 games was .988,
which shows that he is a hear on
the defensive end of the game.
With the coming of Agler. O'Dell
will have to be shifted to some oth
er position than first base. Man
ager Hemphill Is undecided just
where he will place Al. It may be
that he will keep him as pinch hit
ter and utility man.
President Callaway denies that
he gave up Sykes, Paige, Johns and
a couple of million dollars for Mc-
Elveen. "We got McElveen, at a
very reasonable price," Said the
Cracker head today.
PASKERT. EX-CRACKER.
RANKS WITH BEST NOW
Dode Paskert, former Cracker, is
playing the game of his life this year.
Eyer since he was moved up to the top
of the batting order he has been clout
ing the ball In all directions.
George always was as good a flelder
as anybody, and in his present streak
of hitting makes him one of the great
est outfielders in the business. He
worked a neat play the other day in a
Cincinnati game in scoring from second
on an infield hit. He had doubled in.
the fifth, when Titus lift a bounder be
tween first and second. Hobby went
over and handled the ball, and Fromme
covered first, apparently in time for the
out. but Empire Johnstone called Titus
safe. Paskert saw that the play was
going to be close and that Fromm*
would have his back turned to the plate
and would be in no position to turn for
a quick throw tn the pan, so he kept
right on coming Ho took Fromme by
surprise and the throw home was too
late to get the speedy runner. Some
base running
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY TO
BUILD $170,000 STAND
CHICAGO, June T 5. Plan? for the
$170,000 grandstand and wall for the ath
letic field at the I’niversity of Chicago
have been announced
The? provide for a concrete stand of
10.000 capacity, bleachers to seat 5.000
and a concrete wall fourteen feet high
The improvement will be Gothic style to
correspond ulth the campus buildings
A movable steel stand will be erected
on the east side of the field Including
the room for temporary stands at the
south end of the field, the total seating
eapacit? "11l be 27.000. The improve
ment will be completed about October I.
LIMA BUYS TWO PLAYERS.
LIMA OHIO, June 15 Lima has
purchased Pitcher Doyle from the Ak
ron club of the Central league. Doyle
has been pitching fni Terre Haute.
Tom Plumme. outfielder with last year’s
Piqua club, was signed and joins the
team soon.
Ed W. Smith Interviews Challenger in His Training Camp
“I'LL BEAT JOHNSON OR DIE IN RING"
Bv Ed. W. Smith.
East las vegas, n. m„
June 15.—"1f I don't win
this fight I want to die be
fore they carry me out of the
arena." This was the fervent state
ment made today by Jim Flynn.
Pueblo fireman, challenger of Jack
Johnson, and Jim meant every
word of it.
rte had just come out of the
gymnasium after one of the best
workouts of his month's , stay here,
and the gleam of the Colorado
fighter told of the coming of good
condition, if not actually’ of the
arrival of it right now.
"What I want is to make Curley’
have a gun trained on me during
the tight and if I am not returned
as the winner I want him to touch
it off right at my head," Jim con
tinued.
This Is indicative of the confi
dence held by the Pueblo man. I
haven’t seen anything like its spir
it in a championship contender in
a long time.
"They tell me Johnson isn’t
training the way he should.” Jim
worried along in his earnest way.
"I may prove to be the snap he
thinks I am. but there is a hare
chance that he may be mistaken
and I would hate to have it said
afterward that I whipped a man
who wasn't in any sort of shape.
don’t somebody make him
work?”
When assured that Johnson was
doing all that was considered nec
essary to get himself In first-class
condition for the meeting. Flynn
was partially’ mollified.
Jim’s brother, Louis, met John
son on the road the morning be
fore and told Jim of it, telling him
that Johnson looked as if he was
just finishing a long journey over
the hills.
Fight Three Weeks Away.
Three weeks more and the big
gladiators will, take to the arena
and th« work of training has de
veloped Into the final stage. It
hasn't changed a great deal, ex
cepting in spirit, from what has
been during the past two weeks.
Rut you can all wager heavily
that the spirit is there, and there
in large gobs. There is a feeling
of quiet confidence and subdued
willingness in the camp of the
champion, out at Old Town, where
everybody is smilingly polite and
suave, from the boss of the job
down to the most lowly of the
helpers.
Johnson is accepting the situa
tion and all of its strange and pic
turesque details with a great deal
of complacency. Indeed, this feel
ing borders to the casual onlook
er upon actual carelessness and
indifference. The champion him
self loafs along through his idle
hours and some of the sharps now
here are complaining that he is
not displaying the snap and gin
ger that he should three weeks in
advance of such an important fight.
Johnson a Plodder.
But when one digs down under
the crust of the big black man one
finds that the right spirit is there
Johnson is not full of fuss or flur
ry, differing vastly from the hur
rah methods of the challenger.
Jack plods along through his work,
laughing and kidding with his help
ers and the few spectators that he
knows, in those quaint cosmo
politan crowds that watch his daily
offerings in the way of work. But
he gets a whole lot out of what he
does. He never makes his work
look like work. To the ordinary
onlooker he seems to be merely
putting in the time. But when
one digs deep one sees that John
son is training as hard for this
contest as he ever did for any. and
is slowly and surely getting the re
sults
Yesterday, for instance, in bnx-
Ing with both Cutler and Respress,
he pulled the triggers of some of
his best guns and as a result the
boxing work was cut down to six
full rounds. But they were good
rounds, every one of them full of
vigor and hard smashing, coupled
with plenty of speed. Johnson put
in exactly an hour and five minutes
at all sorts of work, and at the
close of his work he looked ajeepy
and tirqd. But it was the most
useful iort of work that he could
have put in.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
The portable arena to be used for the
Johnson-Flynn fight at Las Vegas has ar
rived and is now being put in place The
arena has a seating capacity of 17,150
people. The fans sitting on the last row
will be but 87 feet from the ring.
• • •
Orders for seats are constantly coming
in through the mail and Treasurer Mark
Lewis is finding it a hard job to fill them
as fast as they arrive.
* ♦ •
The largest orders for tickets are com
ing from different parts of Colorado, the
Fireman's home state.
• * *
Tex Rickard, who promoted the famous
Jeffries-Johnson fight, is promoting a
trans-Andean railroad near Argentina
• ♦ ♦
Although reports have been sent out
that James J. Jeffries will referee rhe
Wolgast-Rivers fight next July, Jeffries
says he does not care to be seen in the
ring again, not even as referee. However,
he says If no one else suitable can bp se
cured to decide the winner, he will be
glad to accommodate Tom McCarev.
• • «
Although Wolgast is signed up to box
Joe Rivers in Los Angeles July 4. reports
sa\ his manager. Tom Tones, has wired
Promoter James Coffroth in San Fran-
WOMEN ATTEND FIGHTS
AND SMOKE CIGARETTES
NEW YORK, June 15. —Officials of
the St. Nicholas Athletic club an
nounced today that stricter precautions
would be taken in the future relative
to tlie admission of persons desiring to
see the fights. This announcement
came with the presence of two women
in boy’s clothing at the ringside last
night. Each of the women smoked
cigarettes constantly during the bouts.
Ten separate bouts were on the pro
gram. The 500 men present paid more
attention to the semi-disguised women
than they did to the boxers.
II
Out of oldest Eygpt comes
■ this new trade-mark of ours.
The pyramid of the Pharaohs
typifies strength, substantial
ity, permanency. The
wings of the sacred ibis signi
» fy lightness, speed, grace,
j And “the Winged Pyramid”
I stands for all that’s best in
automobile construction.
3 Seventy-five thousand new Fords go into
I service this season—proof of their une-
I merit. The price is s:Till f or the
j roadster, $690 for the five-passenger car,
? flhd S7OO for the delivery car—complete
i with all equipment, f. o. b*. Detroit. Latest
I catalogue from Ford Motor ('ompanv, 311
I Peachtree St., Atlanta, or direct froin Do-
—FLYNN
Both Flynn and Johnson have
received several offers of exhibi
tions around this section of the
country the night Immediately fol
lowing the battle, the offers being,
of course, to the winner of the con
test.
Johnson, it is said. Intends to
hurry away the night of the Fourth
for Chicago, win or lose. But, of
course, he believes he will have the
winner's honors safely stored away
when he boards the eastbound
limited at 11:05 that night.
cisco that he will consider a July 4 offer
for Ad to box in 'Frisco.
• • •
Joe Gorman is training hard for his
eight-round handicap match with Tony
Caponi in Chattanooga June 18, Canon!
had agreed to put the Westerner to sleep
inside of eight rounds.
• « *
Johnny Coulon has entered a protest
against the claim that his fight with
Frankie Hayes was a fake. Coulon says
he was to forfeit the $1,006 guarantee it
he was disqualified, and for this reason
he was boxing cautiously until the ref
eree left the ring, declaring it to be a
frame-up. He says after the chief of
police ordered the fight to go on he saw
he could easily put Hayes out. so he
rushed in and knocked him cold.
• • •
Ed Exnlcos, who has been promoting
boxing matches in Nashville, has thrown
up the sponge, claiming there is no
money to be made in the game in that
city. However, it Is likely that some one
else will take over the club and continue
to stage bouts in the Tennessee capital.
♦ • «
The last fight staged in Nashville was
between Yankee Schwartz and Tommy
Kilbane, a brother of the famous Johnny.
Tommy used such rough tactics in his'
bout with Schwartz that many fans left
the hall in disgust.
KID ELBERFELD TO PLAY
SHORT FOR MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY, ALA.. June 15.
Norman Elberfeld, the "Tabasco Kid."
former Yankee and Senator, will suc
ceed Humpty McElveen, now a Crack
er, on the short field of the Blllikens.
Elberfeld has not played any this
season and may not help the Billies
any, hut if he gets into shape he will
prove of much assistance to the Dobb
ites and round out a good infi°ld.
With the signing of Elberfeld,
Dobhs will probably remain a bench
manager. Joey Rills staying in the nut-