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COLUMN
By W. S. Farnsworth.
L TtAL CHASE, griatest of all
r—l first basemen, believes the
1 Crackers marie a t.-n-.strike
I ; when they landed .Joe Agler In
EV' reply to a telegram 1 sent him >< s-
K terday came the following wire:
> New York. June 19. 1912.
W. S. Farnsworth, The Georgian.
Atlanta, Ga.t
Agler is as good as any big
league first heseman playing today.
Hemp deserves big boost for land
ing him. HAL CHASE.
During Chase's term as manager
LI Os the New Ymk Americans last
■ season he wont over to Newark one
sci Sunday to get a line on .Aglet.
I That same night the Yankees pulled
Spout for Boston. The writer ae-
S: companied the team to the Hub.
g in trying to unearth a story for
H-« Monday's paper I asked Chase
r' | what was doing.
HK' “Say. I just saw a big league
first baseman In Newark todhv," Im
Eg;- exclaimed. "His name Is Agler and
he is playing for Joe MeGinnilv if
* 1 continue for the next few years
st as manage; of the Yankees and
f find that I am slowing up around
E that 'opening peg ] am going to
»'■ land this fellow."
Being the best first baseman
S' that ever wore tin small mitt,
K Chase's opinion >f Agler sure
K. counts for a heap.
• • *
KT IKE MURPHY is- a great
K trainer of athletes. H- is
» in charge of the Yankee (ilym-
Bfe pic athletes who are now sail
ip Ing for Stockholm. But it s.-i ms to
| me as though he is working the
men too strenuously on board the
1 good ship.
Champions wim have eross.-d the
g,' ocean in the past rarely resorted to
■ much work mi the ship. They claim
| It was hardly productive of good
K results on their arrival on the other
| side. Arthur Duffey, the world's
; |. champion splinter for ' eat s. < ross-
| cd the pond many times. He rays:
“My experience in competing in
| foreign games ha: been that ship
E training for running abroad, eom-
T bined with foreign climatic emidi-
£ tions. prevented the best fo'tn be
| ing shown in the contests. Tin
! hard board running, with the lurch
B. and tossing of th" ship knotted t tie
E muscles so that it took days to get
K- rid of the charley Imre. .' I'sui'J
Bgl- the custom was to get in perfect
condition before tackling the long
E trip and then spending the time
E principally in long walks until the
arrival on the otliei sid. "
i Mike Murphy, however, has his
I own views on the subject, atu! is
» he has made goo.: in the past, it is
not up to me to criticise him
• • •
TTNLESS some wti; e-miej
forth will: til. ne. ess X b'li'..,
5 stamina and the ability to solve a
| defense for the deadly toe hold.
Frank Gotch will for many years
[ have a strangle grip on the wt. st
| ling . itle.
What looked to be as neat a
I* championship bout as could b
‘found was the tecent match b, .
• tween Gotch and Americus at 8...
timore. The Humboldt fa n-r
however, had a cinch tn winning
and by no other method than h:s
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pet toe hold. Americus, reputed
the cleverest light-heavyweight in
the world, could not solve any way
to get away from this grip And
if he couldn't do it there is no
other grappler who can.
• * •
'J' HE fact that Hughey Jennings
has asked waivers on George
Mullin probably doesn't amount to
any thing more than to wake up the
fat hurler. It doesn’t seem possi
ble that the Detroit club would
part with their mainstay of so
many years.
Mullin simply has taken on a
, grouch of late and has not been
pitching his best ball. Now that
he realizes I hat he Is on the mar
ket he will probably brace up.
It is an old trick of clubs to a.-K
waivers on men who are not deliv
ering their best brand. Quinn and
Vaughn, of the Yankees, were in
the same, boat last fall, but when
the newspapers announced that
waivers had been asked. both
braced up and pitched corking ball
thereafter.
NO MORE EASY SUNDAY
COIN FOR BALL PLAYERS
NEW YORK, June 19.—Officials of
both the National and American
cagues have begun an investigation
of charges that members of ttie New
York and Brooklyn teams have been
play ing Sunday baseball here in Semi
professional teams under assumed
names.
It is alleged that from SIOO to $250
is regularly paid to the big leagut
stars for their service by semi-pro
fessional teams here and in suburban
towns. On several, occasions It is
said star pitchers on the payrolls of
the local major league clubs have
worked on Sundays for as much as
$250. only tn fall utterly w lien called
upon to enter the box the next day
by their regular employers.
The (list move, it Is said, will tie a
sweeping order prohibiting players un
der contract to organized clubs from
accepting offers from semi-professional
managers.
CHARLEY WHITE LOSES
BOUT WITH SHUGRUE
XT VVYDRK. June 19. The vic,
torious Eastern campaign of Charley
White, the sensational little Chicago
featherweight, has received a check at
the hands of Young Shugrue. of Jer
sey City. Shugrue outpointed White
in a spirited ten-round bout at the St.
Xa Im .o Athletic club The 6.000 fight
fans who saw the contest were treated
it tim s to boxing of championship
caliber.
HATCH IN OLYMPIC RUN.
Chicago. June 19. -Sidney Hatch,
ova! Marathon runner of national rep
utation, will be sent to Stockholm to
compete in the Olympic games by the
residents of River Forest, the suburb
where Hatch resides.
I'' runner was chosen as a supple
mentary candidate by the Olympic
> ommittee, but elected to remain at
Irmie rather than pay his own ex
pi t;s,. s . one of the conditions to the
I "iippl'mental berth. Hatch will sail next
week
REPORT NEW RIFLE MARK.
NEW York. June 19. Report of a
new world's record in rifle shooting
has just ’• >• 1 this city from Ayr-
shire Scotland. The record was made
o Sergeant Ma tin, of the British
army. Firing at 900, 1.000 and 1,100
! .c’-. h< made an aggregate of 222 out
,i f a poss Me 225 points. \t 1,000 yards
• | M..r-i; s n.'d 15 bull’s-eyes tn SUeces
' slop.
DR. ROLLER WINS MATCH.
DALI.AS, TEXAS. June 19.—Dr. B.
Ro ’’ r. of Seattle, wrestler, won two
str.,.ght fails from Yusslff Hussane.
, he Turk. here. The first fall came
: the end of one hour and thirteen
minutes and the second In 31 minutes.
ATTELL VS. MURPHY AGAIN.
SAN FRAN<’ISC< >. June 19. Abe At.
'■ am! Tommy Murphy have been
n.a’ched ■ ■ tight twenty rounds at Daly
City on July 4. They are to enter the
ring at 133 pounds.
YALE DOWNS HARVARD.
NEV HAVEN. CONN June 19.-
Yale defeated the- Harvard baseball
[ team here. 9t> S Both teams showed
to poor advantage in pitchers.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD XEWS. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19, 1912/
It Takes Confidence to Win Ball Games---Thaf’s About All Senators Have
IF CRACKERS GET NERVE BACK MIGHT WIN RAfi
By Percy 11. Whiting.
-IT TINNING baseball games is
y y partly a matter of pitch
ing and hits and partly a
state of mind. You can know as
little about psychology as a dog
about doggerel and still have a pret
ty clear hunch that when a team
gets the winning hug in Its bonnet
it’s hard to beat -and that if it
gels in a losing notion it can't win,
just merely for dubbing ’em away.
Look at the cases in point -
Washington and Atlanta.
The Senators have about as much
license to be winning umpstecn in
a row' as a 900-to-l shot has of
winning a race, only less.
Why, drat that team, it ought, to
go to a lunatic asylum, en masse,
as it were: just for the crazy way
it is "gooing” up the American
league race
Look pt the team: It's virtually
the same old collection of misfits :
that has been the laughing stock of I
civilized baseball for years. Look
at the pitching staff: Walter John
son and a collection of eleventh
raters. Look at the manager: Griz- I
zly old Clark Griffith, who hasn’t I
been able to create even a faint
Hutter in either league since Jack
Chesbro was a kid -and goodness
knows that was several years hack.
What’s the matter with Wash
ington
There isn't but one answer; Gone
plumb crazy.
They have got Into a winning no
tion. They've hit a streak. They
can't lose for winning The old
psychology stuff is getting In its
deadly work They think they are
winners. Normailt it would he a
bum think, hut they are getting
away with it. And once 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.
• • •
'T’HE Atlanta team is playing the
same shot with a reverse Eng
lish, is hooking instead of slicing
this psychology stuff, as it were.
They are obsessed with the losing
habit and can't seem to shake it.
off
It would take a thousand years to i
convince me that there isn't a win- I
nitig combination In the players i
Hemphill has on hand It's a first
division ball club right today.
The addition of Russell and Bra
dy has strengthened the pitching
staff, provided the last games
pitched by the pair are to be taken |
as a criterion. Dessau. Sitton and
Atkins will win three-quarters of
their games with a fighting, z ppv,
confident team behind them. Hemp
hill is bound to be able to work
out a good infield from the mate
rial on hand. The outfield is strong,
especially now that Date Callahan
seems to have got his stride.
All the Crackers need now is a
little of that hop-stuff that started
off the Washington club On its mari
career If the players can recover
from their grouch, get a little con
fidence and get in the w inning spir
it, there will be nothing more to it.
r pHE Southern league racers are
1 nearing the half pole. And it's
a great struggle. Any time the
field is bunched so it can be cov
ered with a ,200-point blanket
there's a race in progress. Here is
how the contest in the Southern
sizes up:
Birmingham Running niceiv.
with Jockey Molysworth riding as
if each post were his last one.
Couldn't do any better under pun
ishment. It all depends on the rest
of the field. If anything challenges
loud, there will be no answer.
Mobile —A imp" hors< . running
strictly on the "tea " When the
dope dies out—good-night. Has a
w ise jockey who is riding :is though
he feared his horse would die under
him.
New Orleans —t’nder whip and
spur has managed to get up in the
pictures. Was crowded at the 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
rider, but he can’t club this one in
ahead.
Memphis—Moving along steadi
ly, a little too far back. Jockey
| FODDER FOR FANS
Sammy Strang Nicklin is back from
Paris, where he had his voice manicured.
The fact that he has been practicing with
the Giants may mean that when his "voice
was thoroughly manicured there wasn't
much left of it.
* ♦ ♦
Ray Caldwell of ti e Yankfc has a stiff
arm and may go to Bonesetter Reese for
treatment.
I Same old story Ikl Sweeney has a
j iiiisted band and is in no trim *o < atrh.
I Ed is a grand catcher, hut very fragile.
t’hance has his suspicions of McGraw.
I Fie doesn’t iet his bail players drink water
j while they are playing on the Polo
grounds.
And all the while we supposed that this
trick of ‘pizening” the opposition was
strictly bush league.
« • ■
The (’ardinals and the Dodgers have
talked trades. Bresnahan wants to get
rid of ileorge Ellis. “Rebel” <)akes and
Miller Huggins. Ebbets couldn’t see how
an\ of 'em would help his team any,
which was surely some knock.
• • *
Rowland Howell, the Louisiana pitcher,
made an awful debut with the Cards. He
was allowed to pitch to two men. He
walked both on nine pitched balls. Thun
he went to the club house.
• • w
“Ex Manager Wallace Is to quit the
Brawns. ’ says Rumor
“Xot 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 over
the men <>h. well, that's as near as any
explanation will ever come. But say, he
must have developed it recently.
• • ■
“Names don’t win ball games,” say the
Washington players. No. But then, givei
is names like Walter Johnson, Rube Mar
quard. Eil Walsh, r r.\ < ’obb. Tris Speaker.
Joe Jackson, and we d win a few.
Ki<l Elberfeld hasn't played any ball
I this season and it ma' he some time be
i fore be in do the Montgomery club any
lical good
Speaking >f “the Kid,’ if Dobbs let M •
! Ebeen go because he was an anarchist
’ and a disorganizer and then took on El
i berfeld, he didn't better himself a lot.
•« • •
I'hc Battle Creek team won fifteen
l straights in the Southern Michigan
1 league.
I• * •
Weil. Py heck, whiskers have broken
back 'nto basebail- but it was way back
They ar. being sported In a pla'er
named Gravel!.- with the Gladstone team
of the t pix-r Peninsula league.
I'iti’lier Weils, of the Green Bay team,
has won seven straight games this season
And then there’s Marquard
-P-.tr. Duhim lias a slow ball that is :
vote- the lust in the American league j
A nervous batter swings twice around be- i
fore li t- leather even gets to the plate.
• • •
Wilbert Robinson, the Giants’ willowx
coach, has trained down to 350 pounds,
but has hung up there.
Heinie Zimmei m;< n is a wit. Whilt* he
whs suspended lu sa* in the press box
. l arry Doyle, passing b\ , called in. “What
’ paper are you on “ W hereupon Heinie
| camt back with, “I’m on Lynch’s Bulle-
l tin " . ( .
The Manattan team of the Central Kan
sas league has three Indians on its line
up ll 'dg. Smith and Murie. The only
name lacking now is that of Hugs Ray
mond. the original Indian of baseball.
* * »
\l Demarco has pitched three shut-outs
against the Pelican team this season.
The Pols have piled up a batting average
of ,1-jn in games he has worked
• • •
Gleisehman. of lhe \nderson team, is
leading the Carolina assoeiaron with an
average of 375. Harbison hammered the
ball -SS while he was with Spartan
burg
• • •
Brent, of the Winston-Salem team, has
batted .092 in 22 games
* ♦ *
The Naps are playing Nap-like ball now
and Harry Davis is selecting some hand
some cans, but before he applies them
will probabb round up Kenneth Nash,
third baseman of Brown university, Ray
■ ’ apman, shortst of Toledo, and Raj 1
Spencer, the Pelican outfielder.
• • •
The H igb.landers thought they had
Pitcher Ray Keating, of Lawrence, for
knows his business, but can't seem
to get his mount going right. Will
be 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
nicely and should be a contender
still.
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 now has better offers for the man
Hughey Hearne, the old Baltimore
catcher, will probably get the manager’s
job with the Troy team.
“Brick” M< Innes, 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 is 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 <’harlotte has just grabbed
from South Carolina university.
Eppa Rixey. the Virginia player wrho
signed a Philly contract, had better offers
from other clubs than he got from the
Dooin crew. But somehow he fancied the
Phillies.
■ • •
Pitcher Killilay. with the Red Sox last
year, has brought up at last with Oak
land.
• • •
Many complications have arisen in
baseball because of the death of players.
The Vancouver club sold a player named
Lockwood to the Boston club. paying
down S6OO of th'’ promised $2,000. Lock
wood was later >old 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 nnt
required to pay the remainder of the
money because the club had had no
.hance to try out the man.
Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday*s Game
These averages include yesterday’s dou
b Nashville:
G AB R
Ha'rbison. ss7 12 2 8 667
Dessau, p 11 32 4 11 .344
Hem ph ill, cf 52 205 25 65 317
Bailey. If 56 204 36 59 289
Donahue, c 17 , 51 71 4 27 4
Callahan, cf 14 6.5 6 17 .262
(» Dell. 1b.52 179 28 46 257
Alperman. 2b'56 220 32 54 245
O’Brien, ss 50 ’OB 19 4 1 24 4
Graham, c 18 48 4 11 .229
McElveen, 3b 61 224 31 51 228
Sitton, p 10 23 1 5 217
Russell, p 2 5 11 200
Atkins, p 11 30 3 6 200
1-1 rad.v. p 4 1 4 0 1 071
!| YESTERDAYS fiAME |
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po, a. e.
Bailey, rs. ... 5 0 1 0 1 0
Hemphill, cf.. .. 5 0 1 2 0 0
Callahan. If . . 4 0 3 4 0 0
Alperman, 2b. . . 5 0 1 5 2 0
McElveen. 3b. . . 4 0 0 1 2 2
O’Dell, lb. ... 4 2 2 6 11
Harbison, ss. . . 4 2 3 2 3 1
Donahue, c. . . . 4 1 2 4 3 9
Atkins, p 4 11 0 0 0
Totals . . ..39 6 14 24 12 3
Nashville. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Storch. If., ss. . 4 .1 2 5 3 1
Lindsay, ss. . . 1 0 1 0 0 0
James, If. ... 3 11 1 0 0
Welchonee, cf. .. 5 2 3 1 0 0
Young, rs. ... 4 1 2 3 1 0
Perry, 2b ... 5 1 0 2 2 0
Schwartz, lb. . . 5 11 11 0 0
McDonald, 3b. . 4 11 1 3 0
Elliott, c. . . . 3 11 2 0 0
Fleharty. p. . . 5 1 2 1 3 0
Totals. . . '3B 10 14 27 12 1
Score by innings: R
Atlantaool 200 003— «
Nashvilleold 060 31*—10
Summary. Stolen bases —Hemphill,
Callahan. Harbis n. Donahue. 3Vet
chonce. Perry. Two-base hits—Harbi
son. Donahue, I.indsav, Three-base
hit. Alperman. Double play—Alper
man to O'Dell. Left on bases—Atlanta
7. Nashville 7 Bases on balls—Off At
kins 3. "ff Fleharty 1. Struck out—By
Atkins 2. by Fleharty 2. Wild pitch—
Atkins Time 1:35. Umpires, O'Toole
and Breitenstein.
|NEWS from ringside
Harry Brewer is scheduled to box eight
with Kid Johnson, a welterweight,
in St. Louis Friday night.
* • ■
Bombardier Wells is training at Rye
Beach. X Y.. for his ten-round fight with
Al Balzer in New York city. Wells says
if he defeats Balzer he will have earned j
the right to meet Jack Johnson for the ;
title.
Freddie Andrews has trained hard fori
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 Jack
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 $2,500 for a j
ten-round tight in Buffalo July 4. If Jim
my Clabby returns from abroad in time to
train he will he Mike’s opponent, hut in
case he doesn't K. O. Brennan will prob
ably be sent in against the St. Paul boxer
• * a
Willie Ritchie and Joe Mandot will en-
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• a •
Eddie Murphy has been made a 9 to 10
10 'favorite over Matty Baldwin in their
12-round scrap in Boston tonight.
• * *
I R.v defeating Tom Kennedy in New
i York the other night Jim Stewart earned
I the r : ght to meet Luther McCarthy. It
I is likely the two will be matched for a
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» » «
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 to train
» *• •
K. O. Brown has at last decided to for
sake Gotham and go West to seek a fort
une. The no-decision tighter has signed
up for a July I date in San Franc.sco.
His opponent has not been selected as yet.-
The French fight promoters have cabled
■ Jack Johnson an offer of $30,000 for a
I 20-round match between the champ and
I Joe Jeannette. And the ‘ dark champ”
gets the SIO,OOO win. h se or draw.
a « «
If Joe Rivers defeats Ad TVolgast for
the lightweight title July 4 it is likely he
will be unabie to hold it longer than a
year, as the li'tie Mexican is growing so
fast he would have to relinquish the title.