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COLUMN
Bv W. S. Farnsworth.
H-AL ('HARE rni’M of all
first b< licvcs th*»
t'rack?**? made a ten-strike
t* they landed Jc? \gler In
reply to a telegram I smt him yes
terday tame tlv following wire
New York. June 19. 1912.
W S, Farnsworth, The Georgian.
Atlanta. Ga.:
Agler is as good as any big-'
league first baseman playing today.
Hemo deserves big boost fo r land
ing him. HAL CHASE.
During 1 'has'- ' term as manager
c e the New York Americans last
season he went over to Newark one
Sundae tn get a line on Aglet.
That same night the Yankees pulled
out for Boston The writer ac
companied the team to the Huh
In trving to unearth a story for
Monday's paper 1 asked t'hase
what was doing
"Sav. I just san a big league
first baseman in Newark today." he
exclaimed "His name is Xgler and
is placing for Joe MeGlnnity If
I continue for the next few years
as manage! <»f th c Yankees and
find that 1 am slowing up around
that opening peg I an’ g"ing to
land this fellow "
Being the best first baseman
that ever wore the small mitt,
Chase's opinion of Agler sure
counts for a heap.
• • •
AT IKE MURPHY is a g’-eat
trainer of athlete? He 1*
in charge of th* Yankee Olym
ph athlftes who are non sail
ing for Stockholm Rut it se*ms tn
mi though he Is woiking the
men t st enuous|> on board the
good ship.
Champions who have th.-
ocean in the past rare’’ >■ ' 1
much 'w hi k nn the sb in 1 ■ • ' Haim
it was hardlx product iv- of good
results on th* ir arri’ <’ <>n the other
<lde Arthur Duff ' the worlds
champion sprinter f.»i irs. < ross
ed the pond mam ' Re
M\ fxperipp' in < emitting in
foreign been that ship
training fm running abroad, com
bined with tbnialir condi-
tions. pre\e«o d the best f<»’in be
ing shown in th* < The
hard boa> : running, with th* lurch
and tos- ’g of th* ship knotted the
must >• ' so i hi’ <1 took (lays la g« t
rid of th* cha’b v hoi>» l <nnll\
th* custom v .t' £• t in ocife. *
condition befor* tai Kling th* long
tr<p and then spending the thn*
prin'ipa’lx tn long ua’ks until th*
arrival on the other sid*."
Mike Mu phy. how ♦ ver in s
own views *m th* subject, and a«
he has nri-h good in th* past, it i
not up to me to rpc 's- him
a • •
UNI. ESS some yy re-tl*> come,
forth with the neeess-art build,
stamina and th* ab’litv tn solve i
ficfppsp for the deadly to, bold.
Frank Gotch will f<>r nianv y, <rs
have a strangle grip on the wrest
Ung title
M hat looked to be as near i
championship bout a~ could b®
found was the recent ma'vh b
tween Gotch and Xmericus at Ba’
fimore Th* Humboldt farmer,
however, had a 'cinch in winning
and by no other method than his
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th* cleverest light heavyweight in
th* world. could not solve an\ way
to get away from Ihi grip And
if he couldn't do it there is no
other grapple*- v hr> can.
* ♦ *
'J' HE fart that Hughey Jennings
ha waivers on George
Mullin probably doesn't amount to
anything mor* than to wake up the
fat burler It doesn’t s*em possi
ble that th* Detroit club would
part with th*ir mainstay of so
many vea.rs
Mullin slmplv has taken on a
grouch of lat* and has not been
pirching his best ball Now that
h* realizes that he is on the mar
ket he will probablx brace up.
It Is an old trick of clubs to a.-K
waivers’ on men xx ho are not deliv
ering th*ir best brand Quinn and
Vaughn, of the 'ankees were In
th* same boat last fall, but xvh*n
the newspapers announced that
xxaivers had beep asked, both
hraesd up and pitched corking ball
thereafter.
NO MORE EASY SUNDAY
COIN FOR BALL PLAYERS
NEW Y<*RK. .lorn 19. « iaN n1
both the Rational ami Xmeritan'
leagues Fax * .begun an in''- ligation
'•f charges that members of th* >'•
York and Brooklyn team l ixe been
playing Sunday baseball hme in ’mi
professional team- under a-.-mmed
nam *s
It is Hleged that from s!<’*» to $250
is regular!' paid to the big league
stars sot their service b> semi pro
fe si ’iial teams here and in subuiban
t«"\n <>n sox eral occasions II is
said star pitchers on th* payrolls of
ths lo* al major league f lubs have
4 »rL H -u Sundays for as much as
' ’ nr i » 1\ to fail utterly w hen < ailed
upon to enter the box the next dax
by thci! regulai etupboers.
Th* fust move If E v ill be a
<xxeeping order prohibiting players tin
dei contract to org inized < >ubs from
accepting ••ffei,- ftnm semi professional
CHARLEY WHITE LOSES
ROUT WITH SHUGRUE
NI W A’i )RK June 19 Tim ,i,
t ''jr>us Eastern < ainpaiKti of I'lvojcj
White, th, -list I fomjl little t'hii ig<
frAlhern ' Ight. hn« received a check at
th* 1 hands ,*f Young: Shugruo, of Jet
s-r-v i'itr Shugrue outpointed Whi'e
in :> spirited ten-tound bout at rhe yt
Ni' hola’ Mhletic club The 6,900 fight
fans olio ,- tn tlte contest were treated
*’ time to boxing "f championship
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hatch IN OLYMPIC RUN
t'HU AGtt, June 19 Sidney Hatch,
local Marathon runner of national rep.
utation. n ill be sent to Stockholm to
compete In the Olympic games bv the
t. sclents of Rio, I'.’rt-t, the suburb
nhere Hatch resides.
The runner was chosen ns a supple
ments'y candidate by the <'lvmph
committee, but elo ted to remain at
home rather than pay his own ex
penses, one of the conditions to the
supplemental berth Hatch wilt sail next
n eek,
RFTORT NEW PIFLE MARK
NEW Y'tRK. June 19. Report of a
■,< or’d' rr-.-or.j in rifle sh" »>>’e
'•t< lust reached this city from Axi
shire. Seotl >nd The record was made
b’ Sergeant Martin, of the British
army Faring at 900. 1.000 end l.ltni
yards, he made an tggr< gate of '' ‘ out
of > possible ' ’points yt 1.900 ’’’t-1s
Marti’ s- <’r-'d IS bull’s eves in .-tt, <, -
sion
DP ROLLER WINS MATCH
DALLAS. TEXAS. June to Dt R
F. Roller, of Seattle, wrestbr. non two
straight falls from Yusslff Httssane.
the Turk, hero Th« first fill . ,0,0
et the end of one hour tnd t*l’i' teen
minutes and the second In .31 mimito
ATTELL VS. MURPHY AGAIN
SAN" FRANtTSt'tt. June 19 Abe \t.
te'l and Tommy Murphy hive boon
matched to fight twenty rounds at Dab
City on July 4. They ar» to < nter the
ring at 13.3 pounds
VALE DOWNS HARVARD.
NEW HAVEN t’ONN June 19
Yale defeated the Harvard baseball
team here 9 to 6. Both teams showed
to poor adxantagt In pitchers.
THE ATT .ANTA GEOBGTAX T AX’D NEWS WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19. 1912.
It Takes Confidence to Win Ball Cames—That’s About All Senators Have
IF CRACKERS CiET NERVE BACK MI«HT WIN RAO
By Perry H. Whiting.
WINNING baseball games Is
partly a matter of pitch
ing and hits and partly a
stat* of mind, You can know as
little about psychology as a dog
a bom doggerel and still ha ve a pr*f -
ty cl*ar hunch that when a team
grtp the winning bug 4n its bonnet
It’s hard to heat and that if it
get? in a losing notion It can’t win,
just merely for dubbing 'em away.
l ook at th* cases in point
■Washington am] Atlanta.
Th* Senator? have about as much
lic*ns* to be winning umpsteen in
a row as a ?nn-to 1 phot has of
winning a rar*, only less
■W hy, drat that team. It ought to
go to a lunatl* asylum, en mas?*,
as It w *r* ; just for the erazx way
It is "gonlng" up the American
league rar*
Took at th* team It's virtually
th* sam* old collection nf misfits
that has b**n the laughing stock of
civilized baseball for years Look
at the pitching staff M’.Hter John
son and a < nllectbm of eleventh
raters. Look at the manager: Griz
zlx- bld (’lark Griffith, who hasn’t
been able tn create even a faint
Putter in either league since Jack
<’hesb'«» was a kid -and goodness
. )<n<Mx p that was several years back.
What’s the matter with Wash
ington ?
There ipn’t but one answer. Gone
plumb crazy.
They have got into a winning no
tion They've hit a streak. Th*'
can’t lose for winning The old
psychology stuff Is getting in its
deadly work They think they are
winners Normallx- it would be a
bum think, but thex are getting
an ax with !♦ And on* e let a team
of one-legged men get to thinking
that nobody can beat them and
they are likely to win a world's
championship.
• « •
'PHF Xtlanta team is playing the
imp shot with a reverse Eng
ijsb, is hooking instead nf slicing
this psx - hologx <tuff. a? it were
They are obsepsed with the losing
h.»hit and ■ an't seem to shake it
off
It wou’d take a thousand years to
< mvince me that there isn't a win
ning combination in the placer?
Hemphill has on hand It’s a first
division ball dub right toda*
The addition of Russell and Br.a
d\ has Ptrengtbened th* pitching
staff, provided th* last games
pitched by th* pair are to be taken
a? a criterion, Dessau. Pitton and
\tkln? win win three-quarterp of
their game? with a fighting, zippy,
onfident team behind them. Hemp
hill is bound tn be able tn w-ork
out a good infield from the mate
'•ial on hand. Th* outfield is strong,
c peciallx- now that Have Callahan
seenip to Fax * got his stride
\II th* Cra* ker«s need now is a ’
little of that hop stuff that started
->ff the Washington chib on <♦ mad
career if the plaxprs can recover
from their grou»‘h. get a little con
fidence and g*r in the winning «pir
it, there will be nothing more to it
» » •
r T'*HE Southern league racers are
® nearing the half pde. Xnd it’s
a great struggle. Anv time the
field Ir bunched so it can be cov
ered with a point blanket
there's a race in progress Here is
bow the contest In the Southern
size* up
Birmingham Running nicelx-,
with Jockev Moieaworth riding as
if e-irh post were bls las* nne
' ‘H?tdn't do any better under pun
tshment It all depends on the rest
■>f the fi» id If anything challenge
loud, ther* will be no answer.
Mobile —A hop" horse, running
strictlx on the “tea." When th*
dope dies out good-night. Has a
w >se jo> key who is riding as though
h* feared h'? horse w ould die und*t
I him.
New Orleans —Under whip and
spur has managed to get up in the
pictures. Was crowded at th* start,
sulked and appeared beaten Un
certain nag. May or may not.
Chattanooga—Strictly a "roarer."
It had a lot of early speed, but no
telling where It got it. Is wheezing
badly now and owner is tearing up
his tickets. The jockey is a rough
ri<ler. but he can’t club this one in
ahead.
Memphis—Moving along steadi
ly. a little too far back. Jockey
a «
Pfqdder for fans I
Sammy Strang Nicklin is bark from
Paris, w here he had bls voice manicured
The fa< t that he has been practicing with
th* Giants max- mean that when his vch'p
was thoroughly manicured there wasn't
much left of it
Kay Caldwell of the Yanks has a stiff
arm and max- g” to Bonesetter Reese for
treatment
♦ ♦ •
Same old stotx Ed Sweeney has a
busted hand and i? in no trim to catch
Ed is a grand catcher, but verx fragile
• ♦ •
Chance has his suspicions of McGraw
He doesn’t let his ball plaxers drink water
while they are playing on the Polo
grounds.
And all the while we supposed that this
trick of ‘‘pizening" the opposition was
strictlx bush league
* « «
The Cardinal? and the Dodgers have
talked trades Bresnahan wants to get
rid of George Ellis. "Rebel" (bakes and
Miller Huggins Ebbets couldn’t see how
any of 'em would help his team any.
which was surelx some knock.
♦ • *
Rowland Howell, the Louisiana pitcher,
made an awful debut with the Cards He
was allowed to pitch to two men H*
walked both on nine pitched balls. Then
he went to the club house
• • •
"Ex Manager Wallace is tn quit the
Brow ns. ' sax s Rumor
‘ Not me." says Wallace
‘ He will not." says President Hedges
He shall not.' says Manager Stovall
And he doesn't
• • •
Washington newspaper men have been
explaining the wonderful playing of the
Washington club by saying that Griffith
seems to have a hypnotic influence oxer
rhe men Oh. well, that’s as near aS any
explanation will ever come. But say, he
must have developed it recentlx
» • •
"Names don't win ball games," sax the
Washington plaxers No But then, sire
us names like Walter Johnson, Rub* Mar
quard. Ed Walsh. Tx- Cobb. Tris Speaker
.foe Jackson, and we d ’"in a few
» • 4
Kid Elberfeld hasn't played any ball
this season and it max be some time be
fore he can do the Montgomery club any
real good
• • a
Speaking: of "the Kid." If Fnbhs let Mc-
Elveen go be, ause he wh« an anarchist
and a disorganizer and then took on El
| berte'd. be didn't better himself a lot.
The Battle Creek team won fifteen
i straights In the Southern Michigan
league
'Veil, bv beck, whiskers have broken
I back into baseball but It was wav back
Thev are being sported by a player
named Gravelle with the Gladstone team I
of rhe Epner Peninsula league
Pitcher 'Veils, of the Green Ba’ team,
has von seven straight game? this season
Xnd then there's Marunard
A ...
.lean Dubuc has a slow ball that is
voted the best in the Vmeriean league.
A nervous batter swings twice around be
, fr, re the leather even gets to the plate
• a •
Wilbert Robinson, the Giants' willowy
coach, has trained down, to .330 pounds,
but has buna up there
• ♦ •
Hc’nie Zimmerman i? a wit MTH? h*
was suspended be sat in the pre-s? box
l.qrrx- T»o\Je. passing b* . railed in. What
paper are vou on? Whereupon Heinle
cjme ba*k with. "I’m on l ynch'? Bui’*
I in "
* ♦ *
The Manattan team of the Central Kan
?a<*je»Eue has three Indians on its line
tin Hoag. Smith and Muri* The op’v
name lacking n*w’ is that of Bugs Ray
mord, th* orlg'nal Indian of baseball
• • •
\1 Demaree has pitched three shut-outs
aea'n.st the Pelican team this season
Th c have piled up a batting average
»)f i_h in games he has worked
<• • •
Gleisrhman. *f the Xnderson team, is
leading ’Arolina association with a"
average '* f 373 Harbison hammered the
ball whi’e he was with Spartan
burg
Brent, of the Winston-Salem team, has
batted in 22 games
* * «
Th* Naps are playing Nan-like ball n*w
and Harry Daxis is selecting some hand
some cans, but before he applies then*
will probablx round up Kenneth Nash,
third baseman of Brown university; Rax
Chapman, shortstop of Toledo; and Rax
Spencer, the Pelican outfielder
The Highlander® thought the' bad
Pitcher Ray Keating, of Lawrence, for
know c his business, but can’t seem
to get his mount going right. Will
b* heard from.
Atlanta—Just getting straight
ened out after lot of accidents. It
has the stamina to maintain a rush,
if it can once get going right.
Jockey has steadied the mount
nlcelv and should be a contender
Ftill.
Montgomery—All ’in.
Nashville —A dust eater En
tered merely to fill out the race.
$7,000. but the deal has hung up and Law
rence row has better offers for the man
Hughev Hearne, the old Baltimore
catcher, will probablx g*t the manager s
job with the Troy team
"Brick" Mclnnes, brother of "Stuffy."
is captaining a high school team* now
Doubtless when he is graduated Connie
Mack will gather him in Two to one
"Brick” has signed an Athletic contract
already
• ♦ •
It I? sort of a coincidence that the
South should develop two Tommy McMil
lans Both were college players. Both
were infielders. Both have gone in for
professional ball One is our own Tommy,
now with Rochester. The other Is the
Tommy that Charlotte has just grabbed
fmm South Carolina universltx
• a •
Eppa Rixey. the Virginia player who
signed a Philly contract, had better offers
from other clubs than he got from the
Dooin crew But somehow he fancied the
Phillies.
• 9 •
Many complications have arisen in
baseball because of the death of players
The Vancouver club sold a player named
Lock wood to the Boston club, paying
down S6OO of the promised $2,000 Lock
wood was later sold to Sacramento, but
he died before he reported 'Vancouver
wanted the rest of Its $2,000, but the na
tional commission turned down their re
quest. It was ruled that Boston was not
required to pay the remainder nf the
money because the club had had no
T.ance to try out the man.
Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday*s Game
These averages include yesterday’s dou
e-Jill! aT Nashville:
Players— | G. ! AB.| R I H. jAv.
Harbison, ss I 3 12 I 2 8 : 667
Dessau, p .1! 32 4 11 344
Hemphill, rs ' 52 205 25 I 65 317
Bailey. If ... 56 204 36 59 289
Donahue, c . .... 17 51 7 14 274
Callahan, cf... 14 65 6 17 1.262
O'Dell. 1b 52 179 28 46 257
Alperman. 2b .. .. • 56 220 32 54 245
O’Brien, ss 50 108 19 41 244
Graham, c |lB 48 i 4 11 22 Q
McElveen, 3b 61 224 31 51 228
Sitton. P .. . in 23 ! 5 217
Russell, p 2 5 1 ' 1200
Atkins, p 11 1 30 ' 3 1 6 200
Bradx, p .414 0 1 071
MHTIIFI, S SHORT-CHANGE
MAN BUT PAY IT BACK
LEXINGTON, KY . June 19 —That
the bettor Is carefully anti absolutely
protected under the pari-mutuel sys
tem. noo operated on Kentucky race
track? under the direction of the state
racing commission, was illustrated the
other day when Prof Rocco Grella. di
rector of Grella's band, received from
Secretarx G D Wilson, of the Ken
tucky Racing association, S9O. which
was due Prof Grella as a mistake in
change when h° made a bet during
the recent spring race meeting
Prof. Grella placed a $5 bet on the last
race of the meeting and handed tlte
■ ashler wbtt he thought was a $lO
bill and th® cashier gave him the $5
change Later when he went to pay
off his band, which was playing at the
track. Prof Grella found that he must
have given the cashier a SIOO bill in
stead of sio He was not sure, how
ever but Immediately notified Secre
tarv Wilson of what he thought was
the error. Yesterday he was noti
fied by Mr. Wilson that S9O awaited
him. as such overbalance had been
found by the finance committee in Clos
ing up the book? of the spring meet
ing
CREWS FINISH WORK.
NEW LONDON. CONN, June 19
This was final practice day for the
Yale-Harvard rowing teams, which will
clash in their annual struggle on the
Thames on Friday, Tomorrow starts
will be practiced and the teams will
toss for position. The members of both
varsity eights are in excellent physical
condition.
|NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
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Harry Brewer is scheduled to box eight
rounds with KM Johnson, a welterweight,
in St. Louis Friday night.
• • •
Bombardier Wells is training at Rye
Beach, N. Y„ for his ten-round fight with
Al Palzer in New York city. Wells says
if he defeats Palzer he will have earned
the right to meet Jack Johnson for the
title.
• • •
Freddie Andrews has trained hard for
his match with Ben Borgardus at Janes
ville. Wis.. tonight.
• • •
Jack Britton, who is now looked on as
one of the best lightweights in the busi
ness, will probably be matched with Tack
Goodman for a bout in New York some
time this month.
• • •
Leach Cross is the latest one to side
step Britton. Maybe Leach thought there
was money enough In slamming second
raters around without taking any chances
with Britton.
• • •
Mike Gibbon will receive $3,500 for a
ten-round fight in Buffalo July 4 If Jim
my Clabby returns from abroad in time to
train he will be Mike's opponent, but in
case he doesn't K. O. Brennan will prob
ably be sent in against the St. Paul boxer
• • •
Willie Ritchie and Joe Mand*t will en-
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Eddie Murphv has been made a 9 to 10
10 favorite over Matty Baldwin in their
12-round scrap In Boston tonight.
• * ♦
By defeating Tom Kennedy in New
York the other night Jim Stewart earned
the right to meet Luther McCarthy. It
is likely the two will be matched for a
mill on July 4.
• « •
The Steve Ketchel Harry Donahue bout
scheduled for Peoria June 17 was post
poned until tomorrow so as to give Dona
hue a little more time tn train.
K. O. Brown has at. last decided to for
sake Gotham and go West to seek a fort
une The no-decisi'-’n fighter has signed
up for a July 4 date In San Francisco.
His opponent has not been selected as vet.
» * «
The French fight promoters hax e cabled
Jack Johnson an offer of $30,000 fnr a
30-round match between the champ and
Joe Jeannette. And the ‘dark champ"
gets th* SIO,OOO win. lose or d»*aw
• * •
If Joe Rivers defeats \d for
the lightweight title July 4 it is likely he
will b* unable to hold it longer than a
year, as the little Mexican is growing so
fast he would have to relinquish the title.