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a«w siicw covaro * exmetc EDITLV A- V/. 9 FARNSWORTH ’DOPE' UPSET IN NW LEWS’ PENNINTHUNTS By Danmn Runyon. BASEBALL has away of In variably upsetting all prog nostications The only sure thing about the game Is that it will always be different from what Is expected. After the hairline finish In the National league last season It was generally believed that the 1912 '•ace in the older organisation would be a thrilling affair, while the American league campaign was figured as simply a.n uninteresting parade, with the Athletics 1n the band wagon showing the way Many fans believed that the Giants were lucky in winning the pennant In the National and that the Phillies, the Pirates and the Cubs would give them a terrible battle this season They also be lieved that the Athletic band would run tls opponents off their feet early in the game and have the pennant cinched early in the sea son. Hard Fiqht In Younger Leaque. In other words, tt seemed certain that the National league would again afford ah the excitement, while the American league race would be tame and uninteresting Conditions are lust reversed Wh<l* most people are engaged in figuring out Just how far the Gianta will win, the Johnsonian organization has settled down to a hand-to-hand struggle with six clubs in the melee. John J McGraw's club is now believed to have better than a 2- to-1 chance of repeating in th» Na tional lesgite while 1t was hardly even monev at the close of the ( 1911 season Connie Mack's dele gation was considered a cinch nt any odds to win another pennant In the American league this year, particular’'- aft»r the world's series, but now tn the merry month of June 11 *« believed that he will have •he ■-* h:s life to overhaul the tv- ■' -r - Red Sox He may do 1t probab'- most fans believe he w h,.- a strong element of un *■•■ has entered into the mat te - Phillies Biq Disappointment. It is a remarkable upsetting of the "dope." The Phillies supposedly the Giants' most dangerous foe after last season —are nowhere. The McGraw machine is far out in front and the only other new sen sation of the National league—the Cincinnati Reds.—faded early. Pittsburg and Chicago are coming very very slowly, probably too •lowlv to do them any good, while the other cluhg are running to form In the American league there have been two distinct surprises— the White Sox nnd Washington. The Red Ser are living up to the winter books, as they were always figured 1n the fight for the job of runner-up, at least Cleveland did not do as well ns expected, and De troit has failed to Justify the win ter prophecies Meanwhile, the champions of the world are lagging along and showing hut little of their 1911 form It may be argued that they lagged last season, too, but with such delegations as the vari-colored Sox out in front. It behooves the champs to be up and doing—for this is the middle of the merry month of June waiversTsked by tigers ON MULLIN AND SUMMERS DETROIT. June 17.—The Detroit Amer ican league baseball club. It was learned today, has asked waivers on George Mullin and Eddie Summers, veteran pitchers and stars of season past Sum mers has been in poor health, and ft Is claimed Mullin has been indifferent J— 11 '* "■ FREE RHEUMATISM CURE OH. 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This coupon cut from The Atlanta Georgian is good for one sample of Smith's Blood and Liver Syrup mailed in plain package Simply fill in your name and address on dotted lines below and mail to SMITH'S BLOOD SYRUP CO., 34 Wall St., At lanta. Ga. WE’RE OFF TO CHICAGO, FELLERS By Tad r OGEET\ z— — - rjTNRSMHN \ ( IFTMEM A*.CWE D \ 1 AAA U* COMMENT! Oh/ ' I I , * f 1 TWIHk OpTUC’j < L 7S“' r ' . - Z ‘ r== z=. ( \ i z_ 1 a ,5 511 \ ( ~- - J 7-AKt a scant- ) r v V*)J!a V — YbMf : cAosI/cja rne. eoad > ' K34YNQ- look • wkf. f< i —~ ** ~~~~~~ ( mrtO'S INfTW OS -- ■-' - ' NS- \ z 2 - ? ~ ~ 7=7 ~ r v- - I '"w«j tßi'-aSy J / WM&g-cyiagraA / A'' WT.W!T'4 y ( ri-—I, ■' 'A **»\/ ~ _ IB| . --iZ'ffl sJxT <;> X ** >— £ BASEBA ELI! Diamond News and Gossip _j Catcher Lem nr. r ' by a nf i Southern leagpi* : - n - s ner reached ; the Texa* league : * • . <’*d a hind | and can't earn h< - H* r? earned, part of h in r> * - ' ■ •rr In hie la«t *>o rr « ? o *-* plate George . Paskert has made -4 r.‘. • • • The Trl-State ragL f ir.ak*? mor* fran chise changes than the Southeast Ar kansas league and is a clobe second to the Kitty The Altoona franchise has been transferred to Reading You all know why It was due to our old friend. “1. of p ." which, being interpreted means lack of patronage • • • There are several clubs in the South ern league suffering from that same “L of p.“ complaint. • ♦ • The Pnhitiibln. S C.. team has bought four players from the Cincinnati team. But not the Reds. Nixie The V. S. leagme thing “Red" Keating, who fizzled with Al bany, has Bren signed by Jacksonville. • • • Every time the Mobile team wins as many as two games in a row the Gulvllle scribes swear the team has just struck its stride Wild Bill Donovan is doing a little scouting among American association clubs for the Detroit team. • • • The Southern league has a grand lot of road teams this year. Only two of the | eight clubs have won more games at . home than away frrom home The Crack ers have played nearly A hundred points ’ Better on foreign soil than at Ponce De- I icon. • • • Cy Watson, the man who recently pitched a no hit no-run one-base on-balls game for Houston, has only managed to win five nut of his ton games this year Scouts for the Browns are looking Into his case, but he hopes with luck to be saved from any such misfortune. • • « "Luck and Bad I’mpiring Wreck Cubs' Chance.” says a Chicago headline They <umld have reversed to read. “Wreck Chance's Cubs ' it la ever thus when you are losing • • « The United States leagtie may be con tinued with four dubs this season And then again It ma\ not be continued at all. • • • ’Peaches’’ Graham will go to Toronto if waivers are secured • • • o'Day would have claimed Pel tv for the Reds if Washington had waived on him Hank" thinks Pelty’s arm is all right, but that ha needs a new team • • « Reumiller, ex-Cracker shortstop who has been playing phenomenally good ball lor the phenomenally had Louisville team, ’s out now with a broken thumb. • • * Herman Schaefer, as hi:- baseball abil ity slips away, replace:- it with new vaudeville stuff He now does an Imlta tion high wire act along a chalk line that ’s said to be funny enough to make "Slivers swallow bls make up • • • The other da\ Schaefer was sent in to ha? for John Het” \ \s the giant catcher walked to the bench Schaefer grabbed him and holding him h> the hand, turned to the stands and announced "Ladies and Gentlemen \llow me to | mtrcMluce to yon M? Henr> He is the i gentleman 1 am to bat (nr" When Schaefer w.'krtl to the plate fm I pire Bijl\ I’vrnu mk.-d pun who he wa - batting for \|. ' \ .died h.<Hi ’ Who, M E • Win am I hatting •. r ■ p, n batting for exercise • • • Constant l ift - o' playei s have hurt the Tigers th>s vr,r They have never -- ?thd down into < real lean’ vet. QUITS TEAM BECAUSE HE COULD NO I ROOM ALONE MACON G \ June 1” Because the pr oprieto’ : of a local b'»tcl w"o are al • • ovneis of the Macon ball club, ’nfused ’,<» give him a loom to himself at a less r.itY than w.«> 'bargod the other plaxerc M or’stop John <’ >o!, ha* quit the team 'll of the play rt > stop at the ho’el, and ’wo ate a* -' U pp.t t,. a room i ’onk wan’r l to h< b\ himself at half I price chaigfd l.u • Haser- for a ■ when this wa ’• »”• I him h, ‘ brr.l to plav witl th' ’• m lonrrr I ir e ident t imoi ( ., K , he will be sus- j uenutd mdehniteb rHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, JUNE 17. 1912. League Schedule Hands Atlanta Awful Lemon in Short Saturday Games KAVAVtI fiH COO HELP SOME, BUT NEVER Will B\ Percy 11. Whiting. * SK any bast-ball man what is Z-X the best baseball town in the Southern league and he'll tell you "Atlanta.'' Ask anybody in Atlanta what city is getting all the worst of this year’s schedule and every year’s schedule, and they'll give you the same answer, "At lanta." Os all punk arrangements ever inflicted or» the public this schedule that makes Atlanta the victim of slx-lnnlng games on Saturday aft ernoon is the most outrageous. The Standard oil Company never in flicted anything worse on a com petitor. VUHOSE fault Is it? Not the lo ’’ cal association's surely, for the directors put up an elegapt yell against It. Rut they had one vote against seven The local associa tion has been protesting for years against an arrangement that neces sitated short Saturday games. And all it has achieved whs some ex orcist, for the lungs. The Southern league is responsi ble primarily and the league sched ule committee secondarily. And. since the main cheese of the sched ule committee is President W. M Kavanaugh. It is likely that he is the ring leader in unloading such an imposition on the best baseball city in the leae-ue. * • • I TLANTA gets short games on Saturday so that the teams playing here can get away in time to play Sunday games. It so hap pens that the big Sunday towns— Memphis, Mobile and New Orleans are reached by trains that leave Atlanta early in the exening, so earl, that teams playing with the Crackers must get an earls start in order to catch them. The whole rotten arrangement arose from the obsession of the Southern league that the inoned it makes on Sundav is a little better than the money made on week days. And the league will delib it it elx ci ipplc it. . vttl.ix a- w cek > it it-- for the benefit of tho.-e which plax Sunday l>all W7 11 'l' S to be d"Hr ibout it ’ * * It's too hilt to ■ nange the schedule ihis y< al and it would be imiu .sfbl. to get a majority in At lanta's lux "r, .nn iiow . < >ne thing that ■ 'mid hr done xxould lie to xx,,ive tills silly rule that the game must be railed one limit lietore (ruin time. Waiting automobiles > .mid hurt) players to eifhet station in 1J or 211 minutes. II would <■ st xtsiting te mi- a shade more imi it would be duced h unph asani for the x isiting plax el s to bax e t > dt • - ; op fhr 11 ailt. Blit it 'em. to it.- that tin added expetc-e and the added trouble • x\o||ld l>" more than justified bx tie tut that the pt opig of \tlan- t t would '- t ,i lltib' more baseb ill for their nt"n< v. The milt game are liurftns V ’ lanta’-, attend , n, ■ '. not l> ; ">•.!>. ; 11, I f be ,1m 1 would be to insUUU the uuituta lx; 1 hustle these abbreviated games They could increase the speed of any game a good 25 per cent., if they only would. Bx playing these games at very top speed and by keeping them going until 20 or 30 minutes of train time it ought to be possible to play a full game every Saturday afternoon. The ba-ebttll tans do not so much mind the early start. What is hurting the attendance is the fear of the fans that they will not see a full game, even if they go early. Os course Saturday's game was particularly short because the rain just before game time made a slight delay in starting necessary. A game that starts at 2:15 is all wrong. Three o'clock is not bad. Very probable 3:30 would be the ideal game time in Atlanta in mid summer. Rut 2:15 is too early. Doubtless early starting of Sat urday ball games have cost the Atlanta Baseball association three Crackers' Batting Averages, Including Saturday's Game Those averages include Saturday's game w 1111 .X loin phis: Players [O. AB. IR. I _H•_I Ay- Dessau, p.l 11 I 32 I 4 I 11 | iJ44 Hemphill, es 491191 24 hl .318 Bailey. If. 53 190 35 54 .284 Donahue, c 15 43 5 11 -t'J <' I 'ell. th I'.' 170 2b 43 253 Alperntan. ss 53 206 29 51 Li, O'Brien. ss.-2b . ...i 50 168 19 1 41 ..>l4 Cast, 2b 41 130 11 29 -223 Graham. <• 17 45 4 10 .222 stltton. p 10 23 1 5 -1 ‘ | xtkins. pI 10 26 2 •> ’['2 Callahan, cf '1 1 53 3 9 1,0 Bra.lx. p 3 11 0 . 1 031 HOW THEY PAIR OFF for mc.michael cup The following are the pairings in the three flights of the golf tournament for the I <’ McMichael cup: First Flight. T H Fax- vs 1.1, Graves. C. Knowles vs. C. .1 Holditch, I> R Hcnrx vs. W. C Holleytnan T J Mi i;111 vs J. S Itaine. Jr. C I’ King vs. H. C Moore William Richards vs T. I’. Hinman. | R I’ Jones xs W F Spalding Dr F Holland vs C E. CorwTn Second Flight. C Angier xs D. Jemison J F. W ebster vs. H D Thorn G A Nicholson. Jr., vs <» A Howell. I |> Osborn vs W' R Tichenor. r Minh- vs H M Blount It \ Palmer vs it J Hopkins C X rbornton vs. J C McMichael I Moore xs. It. James. Third Flight W I, Hudson vs X Hammond .1 w Pearce vs * » w- \dair N It Brovles vs \v W Cunningham. X W Hoilnett \s W. C Warren. I. II Beck vs J D. Eby. *' M Selple vs. W F I pshaw Si mt Hudson vs H 'I. Butler C S Davis vs R. E Richards. OFFER JOHNSON $30,000 TO RATTLE JEANNETTE I,IS VEGAS. June 17 John Arthur John op is certainlx a lucky man The i s ,meh boxing promoters, through Vic tor Brey, r. have < abled an offer of $30.- UOO to th" champion if he will fight Joe . i. intiMtti- in rounda in th< fair < ttx nt , j i > 't'.| that •.!!.<> m o - "hethet j Lil Altha wins, loses or draws. or four thousand iron men in the last two years. ♦ * ♦ 'T' HERE is small chance of ma terially bettering conditions this year. President Kavanaugh is, of course, too busy with the task of running Little Rock to give any attention to the Southern league. Witness that when Nashville was about ready to drop out of the league, which would have been the severest blow that had fallen since the league was organized. Presi dent Kavanaugh couldn't waste the time to go over and look out for things himself. He sent bis sec retary. Small thanks are due the league's chief executive that the tangle was straightened out as well as it was. Because the league president is getting his fat salary for giving the league ills moral support only, which some of us believe isn’t worth the price paid, no remedy is is sight right now. Whether the future will offer any improvement can't be determined. The anti-Atlanta forces of the Southern league would be in the majority if the matter of giving the Gate City a square deal with the Sunday hall towns came for a vote at the next schedule meeting President Kavanaugh, who will, of course, be elected president again next year by a doting and misguid ed following, will make the sched ule and if past schedules can be taken as a criterion he can be counted on to give Atlanta all the worst of it ! I That ulcer can be cured Your case is no worse than what these people had. Yet see how quickly 8.8.8. cured them. “I was down three years with an ulcer on the leg,” writes Mrs. Marie Cooper of Mobile, Ala. ‘‘l used only three bottles of R.R.R. and it did me more good than fifty-six bottles of another remedy. Those who knew my condition and saw what ß.B.B. did for I me were surprised.” Mr. R. L Irving of Center Point, I Texas, writes: "I had a bad sore leg which I could not get cured. T had the best physicians; and tried various rem edies. All failed until I used 8.8.8. : Now my leg is cured entirely and gives me no pain.” Miss Florence King of Atlanta. Ga., I writes: "I had a very bad foot. I could I not walk for six months. I spent much ; money trying to be cured. Since using R.R.R. the foot has healed up. All in flammation is gone and I can walk without pain. R.R.R. is the best blood Medicine I ever took.” These are only three cases out' of thousands, which 8.8.8. has cured quickly and completely after every other treatment failed. Any good druggist will supply you with 8.8.8. Insist on having it. hate* ,7 * R.B, fails to help you BOXING Late News and Views Joe Alandot is certainly training hard for his bout with Willie Ritchie in New Orleans June 24. Joe boxes daily with ambitious youngsters who are willing to cion the gloves with the Southern champ * • • Jim Flynn is now down to 195 pounds The fireman will probably enter the ring against Johnson at this weight ♦ * ♦ Johnson will probably weigh 215 pounds when he faces the Pueblo fireman Al though he will have some weight on the white man, Flynn says his speed will even matters up • • < Governor Donald says the anti-betting law will be strictly enforce* 1 , at the John son-Flynn fight next Julv Many fans anticipated open betting. • • • The Gowanus A. C., of New York, will hold it« last fight two months from to day. when Willie Fitzgerald and Al .Mc- Coy wdli mix it in a ten-round bout • • • Now that Al F’alzer has clinched the match with Bombardier Wells for June 28 he is working out every day in order to be in the best of condition when ho enters the ring against th*» Englishman. LONG SHOT CAPTURES $37,200 FRENCH DERBY PARIS, .lune 17. The Prix du Jockey club, the French derby at the Chantilly course, was won by a rank outsider. Prince Murat's Friant 11.. at 32 to 1 Au gust Belmont's Amoreux 111., quoted at 5 to 1, finished second, and Compte De- Berteux's l.'kase 11., at 17 to 1. was third. W K. Vanderbilt's Sightly finished fourth, hut Dldlus. also a Vanderbilt entry, ran unplaced. The French derby is a three-year event at one and one-half miles It is worth this year $37.‘200. Seventeen horses started Friant won easily by two lengths. The Road of a, Thousand Wonders SUPERIOR SERVICE Via. NEW ORLEANS to TEXAS. OLD and NEW MEXICO, \RIZONA. CALIFORNIA OREGON and WASHINGTON TWO dailv TRAINS to PACIFIC COAST with connection* toy PORT LAND and SEATTLE. Leave New Orleans 11:30 A M. and 3:26 p M. THREE daily trains HOUSTON with direct connections for NORTH TEXAS POINTS. Through Standard and Tourist. Sleeping Cars The Safest Route, Every Inch Protected by Automatic Electric Block Signals Oil-Burning Locomotives—No Smoke—No Dust—No Cinders Best Dining Car Service in the World LOW ROUND TRIP EXCURSION FARES TO California And * Oregon Washington In effect during May, June July. August. September October DELIGHTFUL OCEAN VOYAGE ONE HUNDRED GOLDEN HOURS AT SEA NEW ORLEANS TO NEW YORK SERVICE For particulars and literature, cal! iw or write O. P. BARTLETT, Gen, Aaent, R. O. BEAN, T. P A , 1901 FCst Avenue. 121 Peachtree Street, Birmingham, Ala. Atlanta. Ga. MEES ffl GIANTS TO M ON SfflE 10 Bv W. J. Mcßeth. N’EW YORK, June 17.—1 r thle sordid age of business aman who wilfully closes his eyes to an opportunity for doubling his profits is usually regarded as fit candidate for the "white house on the hill.” They may be bom ewry minute —but they are not so deise as to stumble across a bundle of yellowbacks without taking ti» trouble to pick it up All of which is apropos of the local baseball situation. Frank Far rell has the privilege of playing on the Polo grounds in the future. President Brush is willing to share the beautiful Brush staudium with his rival promoter. The sentiment springs from no philanthropic in stinct on the paYt of John T. He does not intend to welcome the competi tor as a hallowed guest. With him it Is a plain business proposition and consequently entails profit to himself. Brush stadium, the most gor geous, monumental tribute to or ganized baseball, was conceived after the old wooden stands at the Polo grounds had been burned in the spring of 1911. Erected of re inforced .concrete and steel, the edifice proved correspondingly cost ly. Before the foundations were laid Brush estimated a $750.00(1 ex penditure. It comes from excel lent authority that the sum even tually proved far greater. For un scrupulous under-offli ials—perhap* the number should be held to a singular—taking advantage of Mr Brush's poor health, let out con tracts Irrespective of blds at self profit and consequent disad' antag> to the owner of the Giants. Yet, calculating the cost o Biajsh stadium at no more tha $750,000, we find Brush with gigantic financial proposition o his hands That sum. at the io' rate of 5 per cent, would ear $37,500 annually. Before buildin his remarkable plant it was nec essary for the boss of the Giant to take out a 30 years lease on hi grounds from the Coogan estate The rent is said to be $40,000 year. Wherefore, before he make one cent profit on his investmen Brush must clear $77,500 each sea son. That sum doesn't cut a grea figure to a promoter blessed witl such an aggregation as McGraw’s championship Giants. Yet there have been years—and they may come again—when the Polo grounders found little in the treas ury after paying salaries, travel ing expenses, rent and office held foi' a dull campaign. Farrell pays s3.non yearly rent for the Hilltop. He got the prop erty, when it was practically val ueless. on a ten years lease. It cost him considerable money to convert a huge boulder into a playing field, so his rent altogeth er has not been as modest as the lease figures would imply. Mr. Farrell's lease has almost expired. It is up to him to move, tor 'he landlord will not listen to sane tig ures. The rGoperty that was made valuable by the occupation of the American league team is now a mighly fine real estate proposition. Brush has offered to rent his stadium to Frank J, Farrell. By such an arrangement both the Giants and Highlanders would util ize the historic Polo grounds. Such a plan would he quite feasible, for there have been no local major league conflicts for some years. It is said that Brush is willing to lease ills grounds for half the rent be pays. J'.’n.ono a. year.