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6 oaMAJi sictbwp »niHiFi EDITLD & W. S FARNSWORTH _ CHAMPIONS WHU ILL FI A IN OLYMPIC GAMES :: :: :: :: By Hal Coffman fr'eoraee Morons. ~ , TuiNGS T> W>R*Y - C7J :. _ ' rffttol! /®F w - -a \ V flk ft' w- isoomctrm h// / \ ’r* H 3 min. 55% 'wa /*, i &L& > W ' w \ a . \ ''- / 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. • » ♦ 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. «•••••••••••••••••£••••••• • 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. • • e •••••eeoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo 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. • • • 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. • * ♦ The Pelicans have discovered (Jardella’s weakness. They yell ’ Black Hand’’ at him a few times and he always sees red and plflys punk. • a « 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. • • ■ 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. « * * 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. * * » 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. • ♦ ♦ 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. • • 9 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. * * • 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 • V 9 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 • • • A hunk of baseball wisdom from the lips of beacon Phillipni “There's always one more game to u in " » ♦ • 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. 'W IrSfe - Mm. ’(is<» ft. Us >n- .•■.''ar B w X 't ' 4 ’■,• A'-1 I' w - "Wr Nk cjA' w Iw V z V’oue vauvt A I • ri FT. 2/4 '«• __ /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. • « « 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 • w <■ ’■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. • « • 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- « ■ I II ■ ■l.llll ■' . - ..1,.1. Il» ■ 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.