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4 ErDITLD S FARNSWORTH WE’UPSET IN MAJORLEAGUES’ PENNANTHUNTS By Damon 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 race in the older organization would be a thrilling affair, while the American league campaign was figured as simply an uninteresting parade, with the Athletics in 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 its opponents off their feet, early in the game and have the pennant cinched early in the sea son. Hard Fight in Younger League. In other words, it seemed certain that the National league would again afford ail the excitement, while the American league race would be tame and uninteresting Conditions are just reversed. While most people arc engaged in figuring out just how far the Giants 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 the Na tional league, while It was hardly even money at the close of the 1911 season. Connie Mack s dele gation was considered a cinch at any odds to win another pennant In the American league this year, particularly after the world's series, but now in the merry month of June it is believed that he will have the fight of his life to overhaul the White and Red Sox. He may do ft —probably most fans believe 'he will—but a strong element of un certainty has entered into the mat ter. Phillies Big 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 tn 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 slowly to do them any good, while the other clubs are running to form. In the American league there have been two distinct surprises— the White Sox ahd Washington. The Red Sox are living up to the winter books, as they were always fig’ tred in the fight for the job of runner-up. at least. Cleveland did not do as well as expected, and De troit has failed to justify the win ter prophecies Meanwhile, the champions of the world are lagging along and showing but 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 WAIVERS ASKED BY TIGERS ON MULLIN AND SUMMERS DETROIT. June It 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 it is claimed Mullin has been indifferent. FREE RHEUMATISM cure: Old. Deep-Seated Cases Take Notice! 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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. Simple fill in your name and address on dot’«d lines below anti mall to SMITHS BLOOD SYRUP CO., 34 Wall St., At ianta. Ga. VE’RE OFF TO CHICAGO, FELLERS By Tad \ x \ ( iFTMe-n' MOVE'S \ . Aka ' \ THE CONVEMTI OV 1 •F f ’ TO CONE-/ e--" \ ''w ’ THINK OFTME \ ! layout- S> z S Mev FSILEKS i AcHfcieen f* I ( 7Xfcg A SLANT* F~ -~T.—w - r -TEAR- ( BSLfMO- LOOK ' VLLL Wfe.// -♦ » A I Owl - 'Sow— — —— e - - ——• » - —- —~ ~ \ JBf - - BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Catcher Lemon, discarded by a brace of Southern league clubs, no sooner reached the Texas league than he busted a hand and can't earn his pay. He only earned part of it in the Southern • • • In his last KO trips to the plate George Paskert has made 24 hits. • • • The Tri-State league makes more fran chise changes than the Southeast Ar kansas league and is a close second to the Kitty. The Altoona franchise has been transferred t<» Reading You all know why. It was due to our old friend. "1 of p whicji, being interpreted means lack of patronage. « • • There are several clubs in the South ern league suffering from that same "1 of p ” complaint. * • • The Columbia. S. C.. team has bought four players from the Cincinnati team. But not the Beds Nixie. The I’. S. league thing. * • • “Red” Keating, who fizzled with Al bany. has been signed by Jacksonville. * • • Every time the Mobile team wins as many as two games in a row the Gulville scribes swear the team has just struck its stride • • • Wild Bill Donovan is doing a little scouting among American association dubs for the Detroit team The Southern league has a grand lot of I road teams this year Only two of the • eight clubs have non more games at . homo than away frrom home The Crack- | ers have played nearly a hundred points , bettor on foreign soil than at Ponce De- Leon. • « • 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 out of his ten games this 'ear Scouts for the Browns are looking into his case, but he hopes with luck to be saved from any such misfortune • • • Luck and Bad Umpiring Wreck Cubs Chance. ' says a Chicago headline They could have reversed to read, “Wreck Chance’s Cubs ' It is ever thus- when you are losing • • • The I'nlted States league may be con tinued with four clubs this season And then again it may not be continued at all. • • • Peaches ' Graham will go to Toronto if waivers are secured. • ♦ • <)’Da> would have claimed Pelty for the Beds if Washington had waived on him Hank ’ thinks Pel tvs arm is all right, but that he needs a new team. • • • Reumiller. ex Cracker shortstop who has been playing nhenomenalb good ball f<»r the phenomenally had Louisville team, is out n-'W with a broken thumb. • • • Herman Schaefer, as his baseball abil it\ slips away, replaces it with new vaudeville stuff lie now does an imita tion high wire act along a chalk line that is said to be funny enough to make “Slivers swallow his make-up • * • The other day Schaefer was sent in to hat for John Henrx As the giant catcher walked to the bench Schaefer grabbed i him and holding him b\ the band, turned to the stands and announced: “Ladles and Gtiitlofvon: Allow me to introduce to you Mr Henrx He Is the i gentleman I am to hat for* Whim S< hacfvr walked to the plate Um pire Bills Evans asked him who he was i hatting for “XL yelled S. la. ter. “Who. ME ' 1 Who am I. batting for ’ I’m batting for < Xvreise Constant shifts of plaxvrs Ipive hurt ’ Tigers this yea/ They have never (tiled down into a real tram yet QUITS TEAM BECAUSE HE COULD NOT ROOM ALONE MAC'iX. GA Jme 17 Because the ; proprietors of a local hotel, wno are also owners of the Ma. on ball club, refused t • gi ■ e him a room to himself at a less late than was charged the other pla\*»r«». Shortstop i. hn Cook has quit the team All of the plaxer stoj at the hotel, and *wo are asdpned tn a room Conk wanted to be by himself at half the price charge,’ two players tor a room, ,nd when this was denied him be de clined to play with the air longer. Pre Aden’ E«heridg€ says he will be sus-‘ ' ut-ntied indefinitely. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, TTNE 17, 1912. League Schedule Hands Atlanta Awful Lemon in Short Saturday Games KAVANAUfiH COULD HELP SOME, BUT NEVER WILL By Percy 11. XV hi ting. * SK any baseball man what Is ZA the best baseball town in the Southern league and he'll tell you "Atlanta." Ask anybody in Atlanta what city is getting all the tytirst, pf thia year's schedule and every year's schedule, and they'll give you the kame' answer, "At lanta." Os all punk arrangements ever inflicted on the public this schedule that makes Atlanta the victim of six-inning games on Saturday aft ernoon is the most outrageous. The Standard Oil Company never in flicted anything worse on a com petitor. WHOSE fault is it? Not the lo- * cal association's surely, for the directors put up an elegant yell against it. But they had one vote against seven, 'the local associa tion has been protesting for years hgainst an arrangement that neces- 1 sltated short Saturday games. And | all it has achieved was some ex ercise for the lungs. The Southern league is responsi ble primarily and thejeague sched ule committee secondarily And. since the main cheese of the sched ule committee is President AV. M. Kavanaugh, it is likely that he is the ring leader in unloading such an imposition on the best baseball city in the league. * * • A TLANTA gets short games on - * Saturday so that the teams playing here can get awky in time to play Sunday games. It so hap pens that the big Sunday towns — Memphis. MoSilo and New Orleans are reached by trains that leave Atlanta early in the evening, so early that, teams playing with the Crackers must get an early start in order to catch them. The whole rotten arrangement arose from the obsession of the Southern league that the money it makes on Sunday is a little better than the money made on week days. And the league will delib erately cripple its sixtduy-a-week cities for the benefit of those which play Sunday ball. it; HAT'S to be done about it? •’ It's too lite to change the schedule this year and it would be impossible to get a majority in At lanta's fax or. anyhow. title thing that could be done Mould be to wail this silly rule that the game must be called one hour before train time. Waiting automobiles could hurry players to either station in 15 or minutes. It would cost visiting teams a shade more and it would he duced ly unpleasant tor the visiting play ers to have to dress on the train. But It seems to us that the added expense and the added trouble would be more than justified by the f<v t that the fieoVle of Atlan ta would a little more baseball for their moi.- v. These early game? are hurting ■ Atlanta's attendance. Another liiinX that rould be. ch ne would be to instruct the umpires to V They" could ' increase the speed of any game-a good 25 per cgnt., .if they only would. By 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 ever\- Saturday afternoon. * The baseball fans 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 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. But -: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 These averages Include Saturday’s game with Memphis. Players - ! G-JAB/ R _H Av. r i), p 11 32 I 11 344 Hemphill, cf 49 191 24 61 318 Bailey. If. 53 190 35 54 .284 Donahue, c 15 43 5 11 205 O’Dell, lb 4 r ‘ 170 26 43 2a3 Alpertnan. ss 53 206 29 51 24< O’Brien. ss.-2b 50 168 19 41 .<*44 East. 2b 41 130 11 29 223 Graham, c 17 45 4 1 10 222 Sitton, p 10 23 1 5 21 « Atkins, pi 10 26 2 n 19- 'T !■ o ' TH i HOW THEY PAIR OFF for McMichael cup The following are the pairings in the three flights of the golf tournament for the J. C. McMichael cup: First Flight. T B Fax vs. 1 L. Grave? C. Knowles vs <" .1 Holditch. D R. Henry vs. XV. C Holleyman T. J McGill vs. .1. S. Raine, Jr. C. P King vs H. U. Moore XX’HHam Richards vs. T P Hinman. R P Jont> vs XX . F. Spalding Dr. F Holland vs <’ E Corwin Second Flight. C. Angler vs D. Jemison. .1. P W ebstar vs H P Thorn G \ Nicholson. Jr . vs. G A Howell. .1 D Osborn vs XX’. R Tichenor P. Adait vs. 13 M Blount R \ Palmer vs H L Hopkins A Tb 'rnton vs. J U McMichael. J. AL’ 'r«* vs E R Janies Third Flight. W L Hudson vs T A. Hammond. J XX Pearce vs G XX* Adair N K Bro> les vs XX XX <'unningham. A XX’ Hodnett vs XX 'Warren L H Beck xs .1 L' EK? C. M Seiple vs. XX F Unshaw. Stott Hudson v> H G Butler C. S Davis vs K. E Richards OFFER JOHNSON 530.000 TO BATTLE JEANNETTE I.AS VEGAS. June 17.—John Arthur Johnson 1s certainly a lucky man. The Eren< h boxing promoters, through Vic tor Brey er, have cabled an offer of SSfl,- 00fl to the champion it he will fight Joe Jeannette rm rounds in the fair ■ ity of Faris, And that’s3o. n( kf goes whether j Lil Artha 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 be«n 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 his 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 his 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 (Tty a square deal with the Sunday- ball 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 I worst of it. That ulcer can be cured y 'our 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. "I used only three bottles of 8.8 B. and it did me more good than fifty-six bottles of another remedy. Those who knew my | condition and saw what 8.8.8. did for me were surprised.” Mr. R. J. Irving of Center Point, Texas, writes: "I had a bad sore leg which I could not get cured. I 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., writes: "I had a very bad foot. I could i not walk for six months. I spent much I money trying to be cured. Since using i 8.8. B. the foot has healed up. All in ' flammation is gone and I can walk ■ withoutpain. B. B. B. 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. I’oar money back if 8.8.8. 1 fails to help yoa BOXING Late News and Views Joe Mandot 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 don the gloves with the Southern champ. > • • .Tim 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 enforced at the John son- Flynn fight next July. Many fans antfeipated open betting. ♦ • • The Gowanus A. C., of New York, will hold its last fight two months from to day, when M illie Fitzgerald and Al Mc- Coy will mix It in a ten-round bout • « • Now* that Al Palzer has clinched the match with Bombardier Wells for June 28 he is working out every day in order to he in the best of condition when he enters the ring against the Englishman. LONG SHOT CAPTURES $37,200 FRENCH DERBY PARIS. June 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 6 to 1, finished second, and Compte De- Berteux's Ukase 11.. at 17 to 1, was third. TV. K. Vanderbilt’s Sightly finished fourth, but Didlus, also a Vanderbilt entry, ran unplaced. The French derby is a three-.vear 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 ORI.EANS to TEXAS, OLD and NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA. CALIFORNIA OREGON and WASHINGTON TWO daily TRAIN'S to PACIFIC f'OAST with connections for PORT LAND and SEATTLE. Leave New Orleans 11:30 A. M. and 9:25 P. M. THREE daily trains to HOUSTON with direct connections for NORTH TEXAS POINTS. Through Standard and Tourist Sleeping Oars 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 T'O California And * Oregon Washington In effe t 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, call on nr write O. P. BARTLETT, Gen. Ag-nt, R, o. BEAN. T. P. A , 1301 First Avenue. 121 Peachtree Street, Birmingham. Ala. Atlanta. Ga. YANKEES ANO GIANTSTOPLAY ON SAME ID By W. J. Mcßeth. NEW YORK, June 17.—1 n this sordid age of business a man who wilfully closes his eyes to an opportunity 'or doubling his profits is usually regarded as a fit candidate for the ‘white house on the hill." They may be born every minute —but they are not so dense as to stumble across a bundle of yellowbacks without taking the trouble to pick it up. Al! 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 w.ith his rival promoter. The sentiment springs from no philanthropic in stinct on the part 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 affer 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 1750.000 ex penditure. It comes from excel lent authority that the sum even tually proved far greater. For un scrupulous under-officials —perhaps the number -hould be held to a singular—taking advantage of Mr. Brush's poor health, let out con tracts irrespective of bids at self profit and consequent disadvantage to the owner of the Giants. Yet, calculating the. cost of Brush stadium at no more than $750,000, we find Brush with a gigantic financial proposition on his hands. That sum, at the low rate of 5 per cent, would earn $37,500 annually. Before building his remarkable plant it was nec essary for the boss of the Giants to take out a 30 years lease on his grounds from the Coogan estate. The rent is said to be $40,000 a year. Wherefore, before he makes one cent profit on his investment Brush must clear $77,500 each sea son. That sum doesn't cut a great figure to a promoter blessed -with such an aggregation as McGraw's championship Giants. Yet there haye 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 for a dull campaign. Farrell pays SB,OOO 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 the landlord will not listen to sane fig ures. The property that was made valuable by the occupation of the American league team a mighty fine real estate 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 be quite feasible, for there have been no local major league conflicts for some years. It is said that Brush is willing to lease his grounds for half the rent he pays, s2n.nno a year.