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It played phenomenally good ball. In the first place there was Ved 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 long enough to say that he pitched one thunder ing fine game of baseball. Real flossy fielding around second when Moulton tapped to Alperman would have given him the shut-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 th it Whitey was neat 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 Kerr 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 Carollnan pitched some real baseball. ♦ • • 1,0) or" NEWTON, he of the huge 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 tun. McElveen stung what was admittedly a mean one to handle. Moulton’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 probably eminently cor rect. O'Dell then executed a sacri fice. and O'Brien chipped in with a two-bagger. That scored the first run The second tally came 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 such a happening immi nent. Al O'Dell hacked off a one sacker and stol- second. O'Brien, who had delivered before, could C* O HEALS 0.0.0. SORES AND ULCERS S. 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 the means of keeping the ulcer open are 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 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 sore a quantity of impure, germ-laden matter which gradually eats into the surrounding healthy 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. S. brings about a healthv condition of the flesh by supplying it with rich healthy blood, and thus makes the cure permanent and lasting. Book on | ©ores and Ulcers and any medical advice free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA only fly out. but Pat Donahue, who has been there with a lot of the pinch stuff this year, stung out a single, on which 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 bad about what was offered, and it was a clean and as bard fought a game o* 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 fort of production of it. Yet no man should kick at the home-made ex hibitions put on by the Crackers in recent spasms. • • • r T HE game, though almost too A good to be true, was enlivened by a few snappy incidents. In the third Inning Pitcher Sitton served Baerwald with 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. 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 FODDER FOR FANS Baseball must be a peaceful game at Marion. The other day Ered <>dwell was suspended for a run-in with Empire O'Brien and O'Brien was arrested for mauling a newspaper man. Earl Mack. Connie's son. is managing the Atlantic City team this year. It seems to run in the family. Charley Frank's wild man, A! Bonner, was let go to Montgbnterj when Hunk Griffin reported. That 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 bls <-lub now have pre viously played with some other clu> in the Southern league • • • Another freakish thing about the Rilli kens Is that seven of the fourteen men on the payroll are pitchers. They are Bills, Bonner. l ively, Altchlson, Johns. Paige and Batla ba ugh Three of those men are former Crackers; Bills was with Memphis once Bonner is an ex-Pelican; Altchlson formerly performed for Nashville • • • If Montgomery ever gets going as it ought to anti forces Chattanooga back where it belongs, and unless the Crackers get started, the four southern division dubs of the Southern league are likely to finish the season one-two-three-four, Johnny Dobbs quit playing because, no matter how much he exercised and how little he ate. he couldn't reduce weight This year he hasn't played, but he has coached Ami right now he is lighter than before in years • • • Crazed with winning baseball. Wash ington is now trying to get the game on Sunday as well as on week days. It may take time, but It is coming • • « Blanchard, the ambidextrous pitcher, has been signed by Guelph, of the Ca nadian league He was with the Ath letics once That’s the way all the ambi dextrous chaps g<' It's hard enough to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 15. 1912. swell chance to beat 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 ball changed its notion, rolled back 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 Absteln. and ’ Whitey," making a virtue of necessity (or whatever the saying is to that general effect), romped on toward second. Crandall came in fast to take the throw at sec ond, but. finding the ground slip pery. he plumped gracefully to a sitting posture exactly on the bag. Sitting there, he received the ball and touched Alperman out as he slid in. It would be poor business to make any bets that there will be a game today. It rained bloody murder Thursday night. It was a terrific shower that prevented the second game of yesterday's double header. Nobody will be surprised at bad weather today. If there is much more rain, it’s all off. If there is a game, it will be started at 2:15. 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 <ieal, Kelly, is proving so good with Pittsburg that he is forcing Gibson Into the background. Mike Donlin says the Giants are about due to pop. Maybe he thinks that Maybe he only hopes It. • • • Hyatt, the West Pointer secured by Detroit, is to be farmed. • • • 'They are passing the hat now for the Richmond ciuh of the U S. league. Maybe by d’at of an occasional strawberry fes tival. with a grand amateur minstrel show on Fourth of .Inly 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 bull The combination is said to be deadlx • • • 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 M’hitey Guese. formerly of the Dixie circuit, has been released by Man ager Bill 1 hillips. also an ex-Southern leaguer. • • • The Rochester team did a lot in bolster ing up the Washington team for the great race it has 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 Up to this vear 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 wish to announces that they are now ’eady to receive entries for the innual sparring contests to be held by the regiment. All entries must be in bv Monday. June 24. same to be ad dressed to Lieutenant G AV. McCarty. Jr . Company F. and to be 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 and class. There will be four classes, viz.: Heavy, middle, welter and lightweight. Lightweights are to range from 125 to 135 pounds; welterweights from 135 t> 150 pounds; middleweights from 150 to 165 pounds, heavyweights from 16* on. JACK GRIM TO MARRY. CINCINNATI. OHIO, June 15 —Jack Grim, the manager of the Newport News (Va > baseball team, will be married to Mary Ellen Gleason at Old Point Comport, Va., on June 19. Grim is a Cincinnati hoy and was formerly a scout for the Reds. The Mysterious Guy Is Shown Up at Last CRACKERS GET AGLER.ACRACK FIRST SACKER 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 league that was last season, per-’ forming with Joe 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 hltn. 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 ful worth. He 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 bear on the defensive end of the game. With the coining 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. Ever since he was moved up to the top of the batting order he has been clout ing the ball in al! directions. George always was as good a fielder 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 hit a bounder be tween first and second. Hobby went over and handled the bail, 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 Eromme would have his back turned to the plate and would be in no position to turn for a quick throw to the pan. so he kept right on coming. He took Eromme 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 15—Plans for the $170,000 grandstand ano wall for the ath letic field at the University of Chicago have been announced They 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 with 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 held, the total seating capaeitt will be 27.000. The improve ment will be completed about October 1. LIMA BUYS TWO PLAYERS. LIMA. OHIO. June 15. Lima has purchased Pitcher Dot le from the Ak ron club of the Central league. Doyle has been pitching for Terre Haute. Tom Plunime, outfielder with last year's Piqua club, was signed and joins the team soon. Ed M/. Smith Interviews Challenger in His Training Camp “I’LL BEAT JOHNSON OR DIE IN RING” Bv Ed. W. Smith. East la§. 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. He 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 fight 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. "1 may prove to be the snap he thinks I am, but there is a bare 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. Why 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. I.ouis, 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 the 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. But 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 box- Copyright, 1912, National News Ass'n. 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 sleepy and tired. But it was the most useful sort 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 mall and Treasurer Murk 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 the 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 be 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 say his manager, Tom Jones, 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 the 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 501 T men present paid more attention to the semi-disguised women than they did to the boxers. 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. And “the Winged Pyramid” stands for all that’s best in automobile construction. Seventy-five thousand new Fords go into , service this season—proof of their une ijualed merit. The price is $590 for the roadster, $690 for the jive-passenger car, and S7OO for the delivery ear—complete with all equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Latest catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree St., Atlanta, or direct from De troit factory. By Tad ===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 tfie 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. Capon! 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 SI,OOO guarantee if 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 Exnicos, 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, but if he gets into shape he wil prove of much assistance to the Dobb ites and round out a good Infield. With the signing of Elberfeld Dobbs will probably remain a bench manager. Joey’ Bills staying in the out field.