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The SPORTING EDITOR?
"COLUMN
By W. S. Farnsworth.
DON'T be surprised if Charley
Hemphill Is president as well
as manager of the Crackers ■
next reason. The local club is on
the market, or will be at the end
of the present schedule. And one
Frank Farrell, owner of the New
. York American league team, is very
likely to separate himself front the
amount needed to purchase the
Crackers. If he does Hemphill will
be the high muck-a-muck in this
village.
All this talk that Hemp is to be
ousted as manager is cheap, loose
lingo. He will not be ousted, but,
very likely, advanced from plain
manager to the presidential chair
as well.
Frank Farrell has no farm. He
wants one. The write, knows that
he has looked with longing eyes on
Atlanta as the proper spot to de
velop his youngsters. He gave up
fifteen hundred cold iron men to
let Hemphill come here this sea
son. Fifteen hundred being the
waiver price iit the big leagues. l b ’li<
White Sox claimed Hemp. Farrell
gave up $1,500 to Comisky to get
him away so he could come here.
All ol which looks as though
Farrell has been figuring on land
ing the local club and franchise lot
some time, Hemphill stands <>. K.
with Farrell. So good that in ease
the Yankee club had failed to land
Harry Wolverton a- manager Hemp
would hare led tie- New Y*»t k club
this season.
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tT sure would he a great thing for
Atlanta to have a big league
owner secure the local franchise.
A minor league teamelaoisnhrdlun
big leagti' is sur. to be a win
ning one. Inasmuch as tney can al
ways get players on short notice
when they are needed.
No Southern league club at pres
ent is t farm for a big league team.
New Orleans has second call or er
Toledo on Cleveland. Toronto has
first "claim on Brooklyn, Nashville
getting the others. Detroit sends
most of their men to Providence,
Chattanooga being next in line.
Now. stop and think what it
would mean to Atlanta to get first
call on the Yankees' players. At
present Rochester gets the prefer
ence over Hie t'racket s, but Far
rell does not own a rent of stork
in the International league liad
ti s He wants a farm ind Atlant <
is very likely to be his property
nev season.
So don't be surprised If c Hemp
hill in 1913 will hurt o> be .uldr<ss
cd President and Manager."
r!' begins to look if lei di as
‘ though Detroit intend- m part
with Mullin ami Summer The m
aid ' story is that ti"- managem..nt
of the Tigers Is getiin tiled of
paying fam r s.italic lo nun who
do not deliver.
It has been tin go .-io .if • >.■
Amr rii an It ig u< to, sevei.il
sons that Detroit would wh, if
they had the pilei • r-. IT. fid'nt
CC C NATURE’S
0.0.0. PERFECT TONIC
Something more than an ordinary tonic is required to restore health to
a weakened, run-down system; the medicine must possess blood-purifying
properties as well, because the weakness and impurity of the circulation is
responsible for the poor physical condition. The blood does not contain
the necessary quantity of rich, red corpuscles, and is therefore a weak,
watery stream which cannot afford sufficient nourishment to sustain the
system in ordinary health. A poorly nourished body cannot resist disease,
and this explains why so many persons are attacked by a spell of
f-.ckness when the use of a good tonic would have prevented the trouble.
In S. S. S. will be found both blood-cleansing and tonic qualities combined.
It builds up weak constitutions by removing all impurities and germs from
the blood, th is supplying a certain means for restoring strength and
invigorating the system. The healthful, vegetable "ingredients of which
S. S. S. is composed make it splendidly fitted to the needs of those systems
which are delicate from any chuse. It is Nature’s Perfect Tonic, free from
all ti i-'iiful minerals, a safe and pleasant acting medicine for persons oi
every . ge. S.S. S. rids the Ijody of that, tired, worn-out feeling so common
nt this -e-won, j- iproves tlie appetite and digestion, tones up the stomach,
■' ' ’ ■ p'". ■ u effects o: ;he nervou. svstem. and reinvigorates every
nortiou <Z cue body. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA.
Navin lia ■ found to his satisfaction
that his young hurlers deliver bet
tor than his high-priced veterans.
Hirice. he really intends to get fid
of Mullin and Summers.
Mullin has been with the Tigers
since 1902. When in form he has
been the equal of any pitcher in the
league, but in only one season of
the eleven has he kept In condi
tion. “That tYBS 111 1909. In 1907,
when Detroit won their first pen
nant, he won less than half his
games, though he worked in a great
many more than any oilier pitcher.
Ti ls spring he rounded into form
early but went out again just as
quickly. His last few games have
been poor exhibitions. ft was his
turn to work today.
S umners went to Detroit in 190 S
ami had a good season, and in Sep
tember of I hat year he pitched and
won a double-header against the
Athletics, allowing them but one
run in nineteen innings. Evidently
l«< worked himself all out. for lie
lias pitched few good games since.
This yea: he ims pitched but one
full game and two innings of an
ot he r.
z*Y VOI’NG may go back to Bos-
' — ton. Not as a ball player, but
as manager of the sporting goods
line in one of the Hub's biggest
deimrtinent stores. He lias been
offered tlie job and can w 1 ile his
own contract.
In Boston. Cy is bigger than the
mayor. He can have anything in
the antiquated city for the ask
ing.
SECOND ROUND OF MATCH
PLAY IN ALL FLIGHTS
1 Tlie second rouno of match play in
tile three flights for the .1. C. Mc-
Michael golf cup must bo played today
over the East Lake course of the At
lanta Athletic club. Today is the lime
limit set for the playing.
Here are the results of some of the
matches in the first round of the three
flights played Wednesday:
First Flight.
A F. Spalding defeated R. P. Jones.
2 up and I t oplay.
T. P. Hinman defeated W. M Rich
ards. 5 up ami 3 to play.
J. P. Webster defeated H. P. Thorn,
5 up and 7 to piny.
Second Flight.
.1. I>. Osborne defeated W. R. Ticlie
nm bv default.
H J Hopkin- defeated R. A. Palme
by default.
Third Flight.
1 W \dair defeated .1 W Pearce,
6 up ami 5 to play.
W <' Warren defeated A W ILid
uett. up and « to play
L H. Bech defeated .1 D. Eby ’ up
ami 1 to play.
H G. Butler defeated Scott Hudson.
I up. 20 holes.
YANKEES GIVE $7,000
FOR PITCHER KEATING
•LAWRENi'E. MASS.. June 20 The
New York American league team lias
•sed its option on Pitchei Keating,
of tlie Lawrence club. The option did
n it i xpin until July 2". but Vice Pres
ident Arthur Irwin of the New York
■ lull watched Keating strike out ten
New Bedford batsmen yesterday and
closed the deal.
i jIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXT) NEWS. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912.
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• Crackers Pay SI,OOO •
• For Infielder Harbison •
• With Heap of Joy :
• •
• ‘'Good-bye, thousand dollars!” •
• That will be the tune of the At- e
• lanta baseball office in a day or e
• two, and it will be a joyful lay. •
• For the money will go as the pur- •
• chase price of Infielder Harbison «
• —and he appears worth it. e
• The Crackers bought Harbison •
• on a week’s trial. If he made •
• good the Crackers paid the thou- e
• sand for him. If he fell down he •
• went back to Spartanburg. It was •
• on this very deal that the presi- •
• dent of the Spartanburg club •
• balked and he would not have •
• gone through with it if he had not e
• been forced to do so by the na- •
• tional commission. e
• Judged by the way Harbison has e
• cinched his place, the Spartan- o
• burg man need not have worried, e
• The bush leaguer is batting .667 e
• and his fielding, while not notably •
• good.is enough above the average e
• to make his position safe. •
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
L— j
I 11* 4 Highlanders have decided to hang
on to <’arl Thompson, ex-Geurgia pitcher,
for awhile longer, at least. Wolverton is
inclined to like his work.
• • •
riip.x do give these hall clubs such
unique and original names. For instance,
they are now calling the Washington
team “the (.’limbers.“
• • •
This originality extends even to the
nicknames of players. For example, “Sis”
Hopkins, of Chattanooga.
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The Pelicans, who couldn't win from a
southpaw early in the season, are trim
ming port Aiders in almost every game
now. However, they haven’t met “Lefty"
Russell yet.
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The Pelicans have discovered (Jardella’s
weakness. They yell ’ Black Hand’’ at
him a few times and he always sees
red and plflys punk.
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Somebody opines that the i'nited States
league will wind up in the I'nited States
courts.
• • •
Pittsburg fans say there is onlv one
brain in tlie entire Giant outfit and that if
McGraw ever sprains a ligament in his
bean it will be all off with the New York
ers.
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The Cincinnati club of the I’nited
States league is going to move across the
river to the Kentucky side. The attend
ance certainly can't he any worse there.
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Newark, the Brookly n farm, lias to take
any players that Brooklyn can't use. That
ought to give them an awfully strong
teanp file Internationalers recently got
Second Baseman Fisher, who was sick
and couldn't do anything tor Brooklyn.
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Xrthur Irwin says that outside the
Giant. Pirate and <’ub teams Hie National
leaguers are bushers.
• • •
Hilly Murray. ex-Phillie manager, is
tickled blue with his job of scouting for
the Pirates “It has managing beaten to
a pulp.” sass Bill. It was on dlurray's
recommendation that coughed up
$22,500 for O'Toole.
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McGinnity paid <SOO for Pitcher Barbe
rich, used him two weeks, didn't win a
game with him ami then released him out
right Based on a proportionate valua
tion Marquard would be worth $67,000,000
bones.
Hans Lohert has been able to discard
his crutches. But he is still a long ways
from being right, as might be expected of
a gink who busted a knee pan II is
doubtful if he will he of any use this
season.
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Hank o'Pay says that he's going to Hit
some pitchers that can't get the ball
across the plate unless they carrx it. No
names mentioned but Rube Benton
ducked.
• • •
George Stovall now has his players go
ing so strong that be believes the Browns
will finish in seventh place.
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Civilisation has reached a high state in
tile International league The other day
Joe McGinnity had to be held to keep him
from knocking Umpire Jack Doyle's block
off. And then the Newark fans poked
rocks and bottles at Doyle
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Del Gainers, of the Tigers, is loose
again and liable to fetch up anywhere.
That boy is a romp when he starts to
hitting.
Walter Johnson won six out of the Sen
ators' first sixteen straights
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A hunk of baseball wisdom from the lips
of beacon Phillipni “There's always one
more game to u in "
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Pour Richmond is in hard lock The
lans can't stand for Class C baseball ami
tl c omlav stuff is a joke, though the> ,
»r\ brawl.' to hide that fact from them j
--‘iws Might u\\ organizing a cil>
league.
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/f Charley Frank Is After Local Team Something Is Going to Happen
CRACKER FRANCHISE LIKELY TO CHANGE HANDS
By Percy 11. Whiting.
OX Z’ 1 ’ 1 ' have tn go out of
Y town to get the news of
your own bail club," says
a diamond proverb. For instance,
witness the yarn from Nashville
that Hemphill is going to quit, tile
fake from New Orleans that the
Cracker team is torn by internal
riots and the tip from Nashville
that Charley Frank Is out to buy
the local basebail franchise.
The talk about Hemphill was too
s-iH,v for notice. Charley Hemphill
is no quitter. He'll see this
Cracker *team through this season
if it drops through to China—
which it isn't going to do. Hemp
hill's middle name is "Stick." The
baseball association, while not en
tirely satisfied with tile results, so
far as the standing of the club in
the race is concerned, is confident
that Hemphill has the right stuff
in him and that in time lie will be
gin crawling right up the ladder
again.
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THAT "internal dissension" story
is always sprung on every
down-in-its-luck team. And usu
ally there is just enough truth to
it to justify tlie rumor. A team
that is losing steadily is a collec
tion of grouches. Tlie men get sore
at one another, on themselves and
on tin fans. • Their digestions go
all to blazes. Their livers get out
of whack. Their dispositions are
wrecked. And. of course, there is
dissension, and plenty of it.
\nothor tiling that lends color to
the report that the Atlanta camp
is torn to bits is the fact that Man
ager Hemphill is a disciplinarian
us tin- stiff'st sort. Baseball has
ever been .1 serious maltei «ith
Hemphill. He isn't playing for the
fun of the thing. He isn't playing
for the mere money. It's his life
work. And he intends to make
good or knot' why not.
What’s the 1 "suit
Why, Hemphill is tolerably hard
on his men. If. as was charged, he
fined Piggy Paige for "kidding" on
tlie bench, it i- pretty well in line
with the trend. Baseball is no
"kid” witii Hemp. He's in deadly
earnest and he means that every
mar. on his club shall be. Natural
ly that means more or less’kicking
among the men and a lot of talk
by those who are let. out and who
want to register a knock before
they depart- and afterward.
But there isn't any more dissen
sion on tite Atlanta team thin
there would be on any team, kick
ing around in thi second division
under a manager «ho has staked
eyeiy tiling vii making i slmwing
with his club and wno is naturally
a rigid disciplinarian
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’■pHE tri: poll, tli.it Frank is
* after the local Ganchise. isen
.-li'i rably eas in to bi lle'c. The
Crackeis are likely to go on the
block at the end of this season.
They were on the market last fall
and were all but sold.
The Georgia Railway and Power
Company undoubtedly feels it a
trifle beneath the dignity of a $57,-
000,000 organization 10 be fooling
with any side line which has as
uncertain an earning power as a
baseball club—even the Atlanta
baseball club. If you owned a gold
mine you wouldn’t personally fool
with the pop privilege. Well, it's
tile same with the Georgia Railway
and Power Company. Nixie on
such stuff for them.
Whether Frank stands any
chance of getting the franchise de
pends strictly on his backing. If
he has the money and is willing to
spend it., he’ll get the franchise.
And if he does ho will give Atlanta
a great ball team, for there was
never a man in the South yvho had
the Jrick down any finer. He
would undoubtedly retire as an
active manager and handle the club
as president.
if Frank doesn't buy tile club, it
is entirely within the possibilities
. that somebody else wilt The local
franchise is known to be the best
in the Southern league. Os course,
$40,000. the price asked for the fran
chise iasl year, is mighty stiff, even
for a good franchise. Absolutely
nothing goes with the document
except the players and the bless
ing of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company. And in these days
of baseball's uncertainty in the
Southern league $4(1.000 for any
franchise-a nd-pl ayers proposition
is a lot of money.
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TF the Georgia Railway and Pow
er Company does quit as owner
of the Atlanta franchise and the
Cracker team. |t will mark the
termination of an alliance between
capital and sport that has seldom
been equaled in baseball's history.
Public service corporations are usu
ally despised affairs. And when
one adds to its possibilities of un
popularity by running a ball club
as a side line, it stands a chance
of being hated with a depth of
animus most awful to contemplate.
Yet in the case of the local com
pany no such feeling has been en
gendered. This corporation, sup-
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MONEY TO LOAN
ON
DIAMONDS ANO JEWELRY
Strictly confidential.
Unredeemed pledges la
diamonds for sale, 30 per
cent less than elsewhere.
MARTIN MAY
(Formerly of Schaul &
May.)
19 1-2 PEAGHIREE ST.
UPSTAIRS
Absolutely Private.
Opposite Fourth Nat
Bank Bldg
Both. Phones 1584.
WE SUY OLD GOLD
posedly as soulless as a keg of
nails, has proved itself a dead game
sport. It has spent money like a
Pittsburg millionaire in getting
bail players. It has given Atlanta
a ball park that, when it was built,
was the wonder of the minor
leagues and better than many ma
jor parks, and tiiat now ranks with
the best. It gave the fans a good
street car service to the park. It
put the running of the club in the
hands of men yvho were competent
and enthusiastic fans as well. It
has taken its gains without com
ment and its losses (and they have
had some stunners) the same way.
The big advantage of having tlie
Atlanta franchise owned* by a big
corporation is that Atlanta has
been relieved of all the unsavory
advertising that comes when a ball
club is always on the point of quit
ting. There has never once been a
yell from the owners of tlie Atlanta
franchise.
Os course, this is the unpopular
attitude for one to take. The fans
aren't happy unless somebody is
knocking the ball club and the as
sociation that owns if. And in our
day we’ve done our share. We
cherish the notion, however, that if
the local club changes hands, times
will come in the future when local
fans will look back at the “good old
days." ,
In the meantime, the Atlanta
Baseball association has plenty of
money to spend for ball players
and is spending it: with results that
threaten to be satisfactory.
You can’t judge a man by
the power of his lungs—-
neither can you judge an
automobile by what printers’
ink says about it. By every
test you can impose the Ford
will demonstrate its economy
and worth to you. You
can’t be car-wise until you
are Ford-wise.
Seventy-five thousand new Fords go into
service this season—proof of their une
qualed merit. The price is $590 for the
roadster, $690 for the five-passenger car
and S7OO for the delivery ear—complete
with all equipment, f. u . b. Detroit. Latest
catalogue from Ford Motor Company. 311
Peachtree Si., Atlanta, or direct from De
troit factory.
MMBMBOR. ■-
Crackers' Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Game
These .averages include yesterday's game
With Chattanooga:
Flayed i G. I AB. I R. | H. |Av.
Harbison, ss 4 I 17 I 2 1 10 1.588
Dessau, p 11 i 32 : 4 i 11. i. 344
Hemphill, cfl 53 210 1 26 I «» 1.334
Bailey. Ifi 57 209 38 : 62 .297
Donahue, ci 17 i 51 7 I 14 1.274
Callahan, cf' 15 70 8 ' 19 [.271
O'Dell, lb; 53 181 29 48 ;.261
Graham, ci 19 53 5I 13 1.245
< I'Brien. ss 50 108 19 • 41 .211
Alperman, abl 57 (224 i 33 i 54 .211
McElveen, 3b! 63 [229 I 31 I 53 1.231
Sitton, p 11 26 | 11 6 [.222
Russell, PI 2 1 5 1 I 1.200
Atkins, p! 11 I 30 I 3 1 6 .200
Brady, p 4' 14 (I 11 .071
McCarthy fails to show
CLASS IN PHILADEPHIA GO
PHILADELPHIA. June 20.—Local
tight fans saw Luther McCarthy, of
Springfield, Mo., the newest “whita
hope,” in action last night, and Were
not enthusiastic today over his chances
against Jack Johnson. McCarthy boxed
six time rounds with Tim Logan at
the National Athletic club last night
without showing the form which re
cently won for him against Carl Mor ■
ris.
SELMA WINS FIRST HALF
OF SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE
ANNISTON. ALA.. June 20.—The
first half of the Southeastern league
came to a close yesterday. Selma win
ning the final game from Anniston, and
thus taking the championship. The
second half starts/ tomorrow .
Here is the standing for the first
half:
Won. Lost. Pct.
Selma 32 22 .592
•Anniston 30 24 .556
Rone 26 26 .500
Gadsden 24 28 .462
Huntsville 2j 29 .45.1
Bessemer 23 30 .434
VICKSBURG IS WINNER IN
COTTON STATES LEAGUE
JACKSON, MISS., June 20. The
first half of the Cotton States league
season of 1912 ended yesterday with
Vicksburg the winner of the half-sea
son pennant. Yazoo City was second
and Meridian third. Vicksburg had a
percentage of .633, thirty-eight games
won and twenty-two lost.
The second half of tlie season will be
gin today.
YALE AGAIN DEFEATS
HARVARD:SCORE 5 TO 2
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. June 20.—Top
ping Tuesday's 9 to 6 victory at New
Haven with a win yesterday over Har
vard by a score of 5 to 2, Vale won the
1912 ba.-eball series from the Crimson
in straight games. Yesterday’s game
was cleanly played before a large class
day crowd.