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Farnsworth, The Georgian. Atlanta. Ga.: Agler is as good as any big league first baseman playing today. Hemp deserves big boost for land ing him. HAL CHASE. During Chase's term as manager of the New York Americans last season he went over to Newark one Sunday to get a line on Agler. That same night the Yankees pulled out for Boston. The writer ac companied the team to the Hub. In trying to unearth a story for Monday's paper 1 asked chase what was doing "Say. I just saw a big" league first baseman In Newark today." he exclaimed "His name is Agler and he is playing for Joe McGinnity. If I continue for the next few years as manage, of the Yankees and find that 1 am slowing up around that opening peg I am going to land this fellow." Being the best first baseman that ever wore the small mitt. Chase’s opinion of Aglet sure counts for a heap • • • Al IKE MURPHY Is a great 1 trainer of athletes He is in charge of the Yankee Olym pic athletes who are now sail ing for Stockholm. But it seems to me as though he Is working the men too strenuously on board the good ship. Champions who have crossed rh ocean in the past rarely r ■ s • ■ ■ t • much work on the ship. They ( lain, it was hardly protluetivr of good results on their arr'it ,1 on the other side Arthur Duff't . the world's champion sprinter- I'm years, cross ed the pond many times. He says. “My experience in competing in foreign games been that ship training for running abroad, com bined with foreign climatic condi tions, prevented the best form be ing shown in the contests The hard board running, with the lurch and tossing of the ship, knotted the tnusrlr - so that it took days io get rid of rh- •■Hurley horse.' Usually the custom w.i- to get in perfect condition before tackling the long trit, and thin spending the time principally In long walks until the arrival on the other side." Mike Murphy. however, has his own views on the subject, and a« be has mini, good tn tin- past, ir ■ not up to me to iritieish him ITN LESS some wirstiii corm . forth with the necessary build, stamina and the ability to solve a defense for the dead \ toe bold. F r ank Gotch will for many years have a strangle grip in tire wres'■ ling title What looked to he as near a championship bout as could be found was the recent match be tween Gotch and Americus at Bal timore. The Humboldt farmer however, had a cinch in winning, and by no other method than hrs «*• £ 4 3 ■** S ? 3< -a <- o t *'> ®e« I ap (j «JZ • T to 2 C UJ ,f\ *r- —' =l4 s “2K*xO <=3 z“ 8 ° S C» “< o S ‘O g iijMjn •? rfi’ i l“bl! = ' s > pet toe hold. Americus, reputed the cleverest light-heavyweight in the world, could not solve any way to get away from this gulp. And if he couldn't do it there is no other grappler who can. • ♦ • 'ptlE fact that Hughey Jennings has asked waivers on George Mullin probably doesn't amount to anything more than to wake up the fat irurler. 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 that 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 arc not deliv ering their best brand. Quinn and Vaughn, of the Yankees, were In the same boat last fall, bul wh»n the newspapers announced that waivers had been asked. both braced up and pitched corking ball t hereafter. NO MORE EASY SUNDAY COIN FOR BALL PLAYERS NEW YORK. Jump 19. Otlv ials <»t both thp National and American leagues have begun an inv- <t iga; ion of charges that members of the New Ymk and Brooklyn teams have been playing Sunday baseball here in >utni professlonal teams under a sinned names It is alleged that from sl"n io is regularly paid to the big league stats for theii service b\ st ml-pro fe'sional 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 S’J.iO, <»nl> to fail utterly when vailed upon io enter the box the next day by theii regular employers The first move. It is -aid. will be a sweeping order prohibiting players un der contract to organized clubs from accepting offers from send professional managers. CHARLEY WHITE LOSES BOUT WITH SHUGRUE NE w YORK. June 19 The vic torious Eastern campaign of t'hurley White, the sensational little Chivagt featherweight, has received a check at the hands of Young Shugrue. of Jer S, A ’’Uy Shugrue outpointed White In a spirited ten-round bout at the St. Nicholas Athletic club Tire 6.000 fight fairs who saw tire contest were treated at tim*- to boxing of championship caliber. HATCH IN OLYMPIC RUN. <"HI('AG<>, June 19. Sidney Hatch, local Marathon runner of national rep utation, Win be sent to Stockholm to < ompetc in the Olympic games by the residents nf River l-’orest, the suburb w here Hatch resides, I runner was chosen ns a supple mentary candidate bv the Olympic committee, but elected to remain at home rather than pay his own ex penses, one of the conditions to the supplemental berth Hatch wflls.rH next week. REPORT NEW RIFLE MARK. NEW YORK. June 19. Report of a new world's record in rille shooting has just reached this city from Ayr shire. Scotland The record was made by Sergeant Martin, of the British army Firing at 900, i.ooo H nd LHIO yards, he made an aggregate of 222 out of a possible points At 1,001) yards Martin scored 15 bull's-eyes in succes sion DR ROLLER WINS MATCH. DALLAS. TEXAS. June 19 Dr. B. | I . Roller, of Seattle, w testier, won two straight falls from Yussift' Hussane. the Turk. hero. The first fall came at the end of one hour ami thirteen minutes and the second In 31 minutes. ATTELL VS. MURPHY AGAIN. SAN FRANt'lSt'<>. June 19 Abe At. tell and Tommy Murphy have b.-r-n matched to tight twenty rounds at Daly City on July 4. They are to enter the ring at 133 pounds YALE DOWNS HARVARD. NEW HAVEN. <’GNN. lune 19 - Yale defeated the Harvard baseball team here. 9to 6. Both teams showed to poor advantage in pitchers. 7 x ... ■ - _ x '■•■.;• THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19. 1912. If Takes Confidence to Win Ball Games—That's About All Senators Have IF CRACKERS GET NERVE BACK WIGHT WIN RAG By Percy 11. Whiting. WINNING baseball games is 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 bug in its bonnet it's hard to boat—and that If it gets tn 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 he yvfnnlng timpsteen In a row as a 9on-to-1 shot has of winning a race, only less. Why. drat that team, it ought to go to a lunatic asylujn, cn masse, as It were, just for the crazy way it is "goolng” up the American league race Look at the team It's virtually the same old collection of misfits that has been the laughing stor k of civilized baseball for years. Look at the pitching staff: Walter John son and a collection of eleventh raters. Look at the manager: Griz zly old Clark Griffith, who hasn't been able to create even a faint flutter in either league since Jack Chesbro was a kid—and goodness knows thal was several years back. 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 st'ulY is getting in Its deadly work They think they are whiners. Normally it would he a bum think, but they are getting away with It. And once let a team of one-legged men get to thinking that tjobody can beat them and they are likely to win a world's i hampionship. • • • r pHE Atlanta team Is playing th* 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 convince me that therp isn't a win ning combination in the players 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 bp taken as a criterion Dessau. Sitton and Atkins will win three-quarters of their games with a fighting, zippy, confident team behind them. Hemp hill is bound tn be able tn work out a good infield from the mate rial on hand. The outfield Is strong, (specially now that Daxe Callahan seems to have got his stride. All the (’racket’s need now is a little of that hop-stuff that started, off the Washington club on it<» mad career If the players can recover from their grouch, get a little con fidence and got in the winning spir it. there will be nothing more to it • • • 'VHE Southern league rvreers are 1 nearing the half pole. Ami It's i great struggle. Any time the field Is bunched so it can be cov ered with a ,200-point blanket there's a rare in progress. Here is how the contest in rhe Southern sizes up Birmingham Running nicely, with Jockey Molesworth 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 "hop" horse, running strictly on the "tea." When the dope dies out —good-night. Has a wise jockey who is riding as though he feared his horse would die under him. New Orleans —Under 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 get 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 th* (Pants may mean that when his voice was thoroughly manicured there much left of it. * ♦ ♦ Ray Caldwell of the Yanks has a stiff arm and may go to Bonesetter Reese for treatment * * • Same old storj Ed Sweeney lias a busted hand and is in no trim to catch. Ed is a grand catcher, but very fragile. ♦ • ♦ Chance has his suspicions of McGraw. He doesn't let his ball players drink water while they are playing on the Polo grounds. And all the while we supposed that this trick of “plzening" the opposition was strictly bush league. • * * The Cardinals and the Dodgers have talked trades. Bresnahan wants to get rid of George Ellis. “Rebel'' < >akes and Miller Huggins. Ebbets couldn’t see how any 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. Then he went to the club house • • • “Ex Manager Wallace is to quit the Browns,” says 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 over the men Oh. well, that’s as near as any explanation will ever come. But say, Ire must have developed it recently • • • "Names don't win ball games," say the Washington players. No. But then, give us names like Walter Johnson, Rube Mqr quard. Ed Walsh. Ty Cobb. Tris Speaker. Joe Jackson, and we’d win a few • • • Kid Elberfeld hasn’t played any ball this season and it niaj be some time be fore lie can do the Montgomery club any real good. * • • Speaking of "the Kid." if Dobbs let Mc- Elveen go because he was an anarchist I and a disorganizer and then took on El berfeld, he didn’t better himself a lot. • • • The Battle (’reek team won fifteen straights in the Southern Michigan league ♦ ♦ * Well, by heck, whiskers have broken • back into baseball - but it was way back, j They are being sported bj a player named Gravelie with the Gladstone team; of the Upper Peninsula league • • • Pitcher Wells, of the Green Bay team, has won seven straight games this season And then there’s Marquard Jean Dubuc has a slow hall that is voted the best in the American league. A nervous batter swings twice around be fore the leather even gets to the plate • • • Wilbert Robinson, the Giants' willowy coach, lias trained down to 350 pounds, but has hung up there • * • U*inie Zimmerman is a wit While he was suspended he sat in the press box. Larry Doyle, passing b\. called in. “What paper ar* you on ’" Whereupon Heinie < ame back with, “I'm on Lynch's Bulle tin." ♦ ♦ • The Manattan team of the Central Kan sas league has three Indians on its line up Hoag. Smith and Yfurie. The only name lacking now is that of Hugs Ra\ mond. the original Indian of baseball. ■ « * M Demaree has pitched three shut-outs against the Pelican team this season. The Pels have piled up a batting average of I‘JG in games he has worked. • • • Gleischman. of the \nderson team, is leading the Carolina association with an average of .378. Harbison hammered the ball JBR 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 probably round up Kenneth Nash, third baseman of Brown university. Ray (bapnian. short stop of Toledo, and Ray Spencer, the Pelican outfielder • • • The Highlander? 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—.lust 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. a * a Hughey Hearne, the. old Baltimore catcher, will probably get the manager’s job with the Troy team. a • a "Brick” Mclnnes, brother of "Stuffy," is captaining a high school team now. Doubtless when he is graduated Connie Maek 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 Charlotte has just grabbed from South Carolina university. 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. • , • Many complications have arisen In baseball because of the death of players. The Vancouver club sold a player named Lockwood to th< Boston club, paying down S6OO of the promised $2,000 Lock wood was later sold to Sacramento, but lie died before, he. reported. A'ancouver 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 of the money because the club had had no chance to try out the man. Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game These averages include yesterday's dou ble bill at Nashville: Players— | G. |AB.| R. I H. Av. Harbison, ss 3j12 I 2 3 .667 Dessau, p 11 32 4 11 .344 Hemphill, cf 52 |205 ' 25 65 . 317 Bailey, If 56 1204 36 59 .289 Donahue, c 17 I 51 7 14 .274 Callahan, cf 14 165 6 17 .262 O’Dell, lb 52 1179 28 46 .257 Alperman, 2b 56 220 32 54 .245 O'Brien, ss 50 108 19 41 .244 Graham, c 18 48 4 11 .229 McElveen. 3b 61 224 31 5t .228 Sitton, p 10 23 1 5 .217 Russell, p 2 5 11 200 Atkins, p 1 11 30 I 3 6 1.200 Brady, p 4 14 0 t 1.071 MUTUELS SHORT-CHANGE MAN-BUT PAY IT BACK LEXINGTON. KY.. June 19.—That the bettor Is carefully and absolutely protected under the pari-mutuel sys tem, now operated on Kentucky race tracks 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 Secretary G. D. Wilson, of the Ken tucky Racing association, S9O. which was due Prof. Grella as a mistake in change when he made a bet during the recent spring race meeting. Prof. Grella placed a $5 bet on the last race of the meeting and handed the cashier what he thought was a $lO bill and the 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 $lO. He was not sure, how ever, but Immediately notified Secre tary Wilson of what he thought was the error. Yesterday he was noti fied bv Mr Wilson that S9O awaited him, as such overbalance had been found by the finance committee in clos ing up the books of the spring meet ing CREWS FINISH WORK. NEW LONDON. CONN., June 19. This was final practice day for the Yale-Hurvard rowing teams, which Willi 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. INEWS FROM RINGSIDE L_ - Harry Brewer is scheduled to box eight rounds with Kid 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 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 wnth Britton. • • • Mike Gibbon will receive $2,509 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 Mandot will en- Soft Shirts A Skirt should be a friend of proper spirit when it s hot— tho not the sort that “sticketh, etc. The spirit of summer is in our shirt department, and suck a friendly spirit there never was —the welcome sort that invites you like cool shades and breezy companionship. Clever they are, too—clev erly fashioned for the outing cool and smart for the office— "officially ’ effective for society’s sake—tho delightfully soft and comfortable—-free and easy, loose and light. Dozens of fabrics, fine and sheer—embracing many particu larly handsome white ones. Ev erything that s on the market in shirts that are good is at Muse's. Cool Underwear Th is kind of underwear for this kind of weather--you are seeking comfort on a hot day, you 11 find it in this cool under wear. This means our offering of loose-fitting, breeze-inviting garments. Muslin, Pongee, Silk and Linen or Aii-s;ik. and these are the word s best makes at MUSTS —1 ter the ring at New Orleans next Monday night with odds about even. a • • Eddie Murphy has been made a 9 to 10 10 favorite over Matty Baldwin in their 12-round scrap in Boston tonight. a a • 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 to train. * • . K. o. Brown has at last decided to for sake Gotham and go West to seek a fort une. The no-decision fighter has signed up for a July 4 date in San Francisco. His opponent has not been selected as yet. • * * The French fight promoters have cabled Jack Johnson an offer of $30,000 for a 30-round match between the champ and Joe Jeannette. And the "dark champ” gets the SIO,OOO win. lose or draw. • • * If Joe Rlverif defeats Ad Wolgast for the lightweight title July 4 it is likely he . will be unable to hold it longer than a I year, as the little Mexican is growing so fast he ■would have to relinquish the title.