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©OMAN STOW COWED * KMOT EDITED W. S FARNSWORTH CHAMPIONS WHO WILL FIGURE IN OLYMPIC GAMES :: :: :: :: Th(NGS To A bc ’°T H»«M Jump |HUNk»o ■ ’ 1? $ M f >SL Wwwr 1 *^ 5 wtF T oj aj'aV $i Vv « —.,-• - ftJi • tarsi’■•■’■■«. ' \ Isrwi XxXyJb/^rV.I 1//jff&rSS \ r ;}) <C \/ ™r : <Jg. A t\ \ / • // &>•• ■ "WF- W w "s°° M<W* WmVi rIT--X. h// Es U i* 3MW .55% z / <£# , jL» ■• x Wl* # I ..uAfri .ui- ' '/A- c QPORTING IDfiOFS column By W. S. Farnsworth. DON’T be surprised if Charley Hemphill Is president as well as manager of the Crackers next season. The local club is on the market, or will be at the end of the present schedule. And one FTank Carrell, owner of the New York American league team. Is very likely to separate himself from the amount needed to purchase the Crackers. If he does Hemphill will be the high tnuck-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. Crank Farrell has no farm. He wants one. The writer knows that he has looked wltU 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 in the big leagues. The White Sox claimed Hemp. Farrell gave up $1,500 to Comlsky to get him away so he could come here All of w r hich looks as though Farrell has been figuring on land ing the local club and franchise for some time. Hemphill stands O. K. with Farrell. So good that in case the Yankee club had failed to land Harry Wolverton as manager Hemp would have led the New York club this season. • « • IT sure would be a great thing for Atlanta to have a big league owner secure the local franchise. A minor league team backed by a big leaguer Is sure to be a win ning one, inasmuch as tney can al ways get players on short notice when they are needed. NoJSouthem league club al pres ent * a farm for a big league team New Orleans has second call over 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 the Crackers, but Far rell does not own a cent of stock in the International league lead ers He wants a farm, and Atlanta is very likely to be his property next season. So don't be surprised If C. Hemp hill in 1913 will have to be address ed "President and Manager.'' • • • j T begin* to look after all as * though Detroit intends to part with Mullin and Summers The in side story Is that the management of the Tigers is gettin<- tired of paying fancy salaries to men who do not deliver. Tt has been the gossip of the American league for several sea- . sons that Detroit would win "If they had the pitchers." President 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 sickness 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, thus supplying a certain means for restoring strength and, invigorating the system. The healthful, vegetable ingredients of which 8 S S is composed make it splendidly fitted to the needs of those systems which are delicate from any cause. It is Nature’s Perfect Tonic, free from all harmful minerals, a safe and pleasant acting medicine for persons of everv age. S. S. S. rids the body of that tired, worn-out feeling so common at this season improves the appetite and digestion, tones up the stomach, -with nleasing effects on the nervous system, and reinvigorates every I portionJf P th.Xdy. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA I Navin has found to his satisfaction that his young hurlers deliver bet ter than his high-priced veterars. Hence, he really intends to get nd of Mullin and Summers Mullin has been with the Tigers since 1902. When in fotmj hr Jias been the equal of any pitcher in lhe league, but in only one season of the eleven has he kept in condi tion. That was in 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 other pitcher. This spring he roundet; into form early but went out again just as quickly. His last few games nave been poor exhibitions. It was his turn to work today. Summit’s went to Detroit in 1908 and had a good season, and in Sep tember of that year lie pitched and won a double-Header against the Athletics, allowing them but one run in nineteen innings. Evidently he worked himself all out, for he has pitched few good games since. This year he has pitched but one full game and two Innings of an other. YOUNG may go back to Bos- V* ton. Not as a ball player, but as manager of the sporting goods line in one of the Hub’s biggest department stores He has been offered the job and can write his own contract. In Boston. Cy Is bigger limn ibe mayor. He oan have anything in the antiquated city for the ask Ing. SECOND ROUND OF MATCH PLAY IN ALL FLIGHTS The second rounu of match play in the three flights for the J. C. Mc- Michael golf cup must be played todav over the East course of the At lanta Athletic club. Today is the time 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. W. F. Spalding defeated R i' Jones, 2 up and 1 t oplay. T. P. Hinman defeated W. M. Rich ards, 5 up and 3 to play. J P. Webster defeated H P. Thorn 8 up and 7 to play Second Flight. J. D. Gsborne defeated W R Tiche nor by default. H. J. Hopkins defeated R A. Palmer by default. Third Flight. G. W. Adair defeated J. W Peaice, 6 up and 5 to play. W. C. Warren defeated A. W Hod nett, 7 up and 6 to play. L, H. Bech defeated J D. Eby. 2 up and 1 to play. H. G. Butler defeated Scott Hudson. 1 up. 20 holes. YANKEES GIVE $7,000 FOR PITCHER KEATING LAWRENCE. MASS., June 20.—The New York American league team has closed its option on Pitcher Keating, of the Lawrence club. The option did not expire until July 20, but Vice Pres ident Arthur Irwin of the New York club watched Keating strike out ten New Bedford batsmen yesterday and closed the deal. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. «••••••••••••••••••••'••••• ; Crackers Pay SI,OOO • For Infielder Harbison • : With Heap of Joy : • "Good-bye, thousand dollars!” • • That will be the tune of the At- • • lanta baseball office in a day or • • 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. • • The Crackers bought Harbison • •on a week's trial. If he made • • good the Crackers paid the thou- • • 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 • • been forced to do so by the na- • • tional commission. • • Judged by the way Harbison has • • cinched his place, the Spartan- • • burg man need not have worried. • • The bush leaguer is batting .667 • • and his fielding, while not notably • • good, is enough above the average • • to make his position safe • ••••••••••wee >•••••••••••• [baseball Diamond News and Gossip — I The Highlanders have decided to hang on to Carl Thompson. ex-Georgia pitcher, tor awhile longer, at least. Wolverton is inclined to like his work. • • * They <io give ihese ball chibs such uni.pic end original names. For instance, tbe.i are now calling the Washington team the Climbers.'” This originality extends even to the nicknames of players. example. "Sis" Hopkins, of Chattanooga • • « The Pelicans, who couldn’t win from a southpaw early in the season, are trim * mlng portsiders in almost every game . now. However, they haven’t met "Lefty” Russell yet 1 The Pelicans have discovered Gardella's weakness They yell " Black Hand” at j him a few times and he always sees red and plays punk. • • « Somebody opines that the United States league will wind up in the United States > courts • • ♦ Pittsburg fans say there Is only one brain in the entire Giant outfit and that if McGraw ever sprains a ligament in his bean It will be alt off with the New York ers. The Cincinnati club of the United , States league is going to move across the river to the Kentucky side. The attend ance certainly can’t be any worse there. Newark, the Brooklyn farm, has to take any players that Brooklyn can't use. That ought to give them an awfully strong team! The Internatlonalers recently got Second Baseman Fisher, who was sick . and couldn’t do anything for Brooklyn. • » • Arthur Irwin says that outside the Giant. Pirate and Cub teams the National , leaguers are bushers. « • V Billy Murray. ex-Phlllie manager, is tickled blue with his job of scouting for the pirates. "It has managing beaten to a pulp,” says Bill. It was on Murray's recommendation that Dreyfuss coughed up $22,500 for O'Toole. i. * . .McGinnity paid SSOO for Pitcher Barbe , rich, used him two weeks, didn’t win a game with him and then released him out right. Based on a proportionate valua tion Marquard would be worth $67,000,000 : bones. Hans l.obert has been able to discard his crutches Rut he is still a long wavs from being right, as might be expected of a gink who busted a knee pan It Is doubtful if he will be of any use this , season ». • • • Hank O’Day says that he’s going to fire some pitchers that can’t get the ball across the plate unless they carry It. No j names mentioned—-but Rube Benton iducked. • • • George Stovall now has his players go j ing so strong that he believes the Browns I will finish in seventh place ■ • • Civilization has reached a high state in ! the international league. The other day Joe McGlnnlty had to be held to keep him | from knocking I’mpire Jack Doyle's block off And then the Newark fans poked I rocks and bottles at Doyle • • * Del Gainers, of the. Tigers, is loose I again and liable to fetch up anywhere That boy is a romp when be starts to hitting c • • Waller Johnson won six out of the Sen- I ators" first sixteen straights ... A hunk of baseball wisdom from the lips ; of Deacon Phillippi "There's always one ■ | more game to win.” • • • Poor Richmond Is in hard luck The fans can't stand for Class C baseball and Ithe outlaw stuff la a joke, though the.i try bravely to hide that fact from them selves. Might try organizing a city league. 3<A/*\€. s ’.r'wroi xjohcaih “■ UtSCM* Tititoww* 156 FT. Ife >M. ■STA’;- ’ W T ■ B-W M V / poke VAUt.T A ' I 13 FT. Z/4 '*• If Charley Frank Is After Local Team Something Is Going to Happen CRACKER FRANCHISE LIKELY TO CHANGE HANDS By Percy 11. Whiting. i 7~ OU have to go out of Y town to get the news of your own ball club,” says a diamond proverb. For instance, witness the yarn from Nashville that Hemphill Js going to quit, the 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 baseball franchise. The talk about Hemphill was too silly 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 the 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 he will be gin crawling right up the ladder again. • • « "pHAT 'internal dissension" storv is always sprung on every down-in-its-luck team. And usu ally there is just enough truth to it to justify the rumor. A team that is losing steadily is a collec tion of grouches. The men get sore at one another, on themselves and on the 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. Another thing that lends color to the report that the Atlanta camp is torn to bits is the fact that Man ager Hemphill is a disciplinarian of the stiffest sort. Baseball has ever been a serious matter with 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 know why not. What's the result? Why, Hemphill is tolerably hard on his men. If. as was charged, he fined Piggy Paige for "kidding” on the bench, it is pretty well iru line with the trend. Baseball is no "kid” with Hemp. He's in deadly earnest and he means that every man 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 the Atlanta team than there would be on any team, kick ing around in the second division under a manager who has staked everything on making a showing with his club and wno is naturally a rigid disciplinarian. • • • ■pHE third report, that Frank is ' after the local franchise, is con siderably • easier to believe. The Crackers 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 to 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 the 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 got the franchise. And if he does he will give Atlanta a great ball team, for there was never a man in the South who had the trick down any finer. He would undoubtedly retire as an active managed and handle the club as president. If Frank doesn’t buy the club, it is entirely within the possibilities that somebody else will. The local franchise is known to be the best in the Southern league. Os course, $40,000, the price asked for the fran chise last 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 $40,000 for any franchise-and-players proposition is a lot of money. • • • IF the Georgia Railway and Pow er Company does quit as owner of the Atlanta franchise and the Cracker team, it 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 Iras been en gendered. This corporation, sup- MONEY TO LOAM ON BIAMONDS AMD JEWELRY S t r I c t ly confidential. Unredeemed pledges la diamonds for sale. 30 per cent less than elaewhera MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul * May.) 11 1-2 PEACH REc ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg Both Phones 1554 W£ 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 ball 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 that 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 who 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 the Atlanta franchise owned by a big corporation is that Atlanta has been relieved of ail the unsavory advertising that comes when a bail club is always on the point of quit ting. There has never once been a yell from the owners of the 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 it. 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 Jans 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 Eord-wise. Seventy-five thousand new Fords go info service this season—proof of their une qualed merit. The price is $590 for the roadster, $690 for the five-passenger ear and S7OO for the delivery car—complete with all equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Latest catalogue from Ford Motor Company 311 Peachtree St., Atlanta, or direct from De troit factory. By Hal Coffman Crackers’ Batting < Averages, Including Yesterday's Game These averages Include yesterday’s game with Chattanooga: Players—| G. |AB.| R. | H, |Av. Harbison, ss 4 17 2 10 .588 Dessau, p 11 33 4 11 .344 Hemphill, cf 53 210 26 68 .324 Bailey, If 57 209 38 62 .297 Donahue, c 17 51 7 14 .274 Callahan, cf 15 70 8 19 .271 O'Dell, lb 53 184 29 48 .261 Graham, c 19 53 5 13 .245 O’Brien, ss,| 50 |IOB |l9 41 .244 Alperman, 2b 57 224 33 54 .241 McElveen, 3b 63 229 31 58 .231 Sitton, p 11 26 1 6 .222 Russell, p 2 5 11 .200 Atkina, p H 80 3 6 .200 Brady, p 4 14 0 1 .071 McCarthy fails to show CLASS IN PHILADEPHIA GO PHILADELPHIA, June 20.—Local fight fans saw Luther McCarthy, of Springfield, Mo., the newest “white 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. K SELMA WINS FIRST HALF T OF SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE ANNISTON. AI*A., 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 .593 Anniston 30 24 .556 - Rome 26 26 .500 Gadsden 24 28 .462 Huntsville 24 29 .453 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 1-912 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 the 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, Yale won the 1912 baseball series from the Crimson in straight games. Yesterday’s game was cleanly played before a large class day crowd.