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At sunset Friday night the difference between the leaflets and the tail - ruder' had been rut down to 199 points Or, to reduce it to terms of "games won and lost," if Birmingham should lose 12 games while Nash ville was winning 13 the now tail •nd Vole would pass by one point the now loading Barons. * A lead of 12 1-2 games looks Im Bressivo, but It isn't when you con sider that the league Ims yet to play 632 tor 56 per cent) of Ils scheduled 1.120 games. With the teams bunched in a heap like this, anything is liable to happen any old time. Just al present the Cracker team, which stands second hi the second divi sion. la still slightly less than 9 full games behind the leaders. If the Crackers can put in a solid week of real winning, they will be up in the chase • • • txT'TCH New Orleans’ That’s go »V i ng ;o ho the ri In th<> Southern before long. It was only a few weeks back that the PelvoHns were wallowing in the depths Now they are second, less than five full games behind the leaders Slowly, but with awful certainty, that Dutchman has been strength ening his team. He has added a player here, peeled one off there, and taught a third how to play ball until now he has a grand organi sation tlf course, the Pelicans arc no team of marvels. As h mat ter of fact, the Southern league clubs this year are not especially strong, anv of them Bitt that s what makes the race interesting, if is possible for any chib in the bunch, with a little real strength ening. to get Into the chase. • • • t»H \T Erskine Majer will be "wel * come to our city 'is too obvi ous to need comment. The famous S issors" has never been accorded am too thorough a trial with the Cracker club. This year and last he looked like the best man who was turned loose. Mayer won 12 games and lost 2 this year/ has pitched a no-hit game and has gone great guns If he can keep any thing 'lke that stride In the South ern. it will be all off with the oppo sition. The only weakness of the Crack ci club now seems to ho in the pitching staff If tnc hex men can - ' " " It’s the very last word ’WT • ■ .as regards really bay it Good IDchDAfif Ginger Ale B 1 1 IH 1 n Ye., we make that good A A AAA LEMO-LI ME you get at . the ball park and all stands perform as well as the rest of the team, the Crackers are going to the top. But somehow the box men don’t seetn to be pitching well. Dessau wasn't any too good yester day; Brady seems a very uncertain performer; Atkins is unlucky or something Sitton let probably the steadiest of the lot. C't.ME local enthusiasts have a ** scheme for giving a eash prize to the Atlanta player who does the most tor his team this season. 11 Isn’t a bad scheme, either Possi bly it runs foul of the salary limit, but we think not* There would per haps bo some hard feeling among the players as to which man was really entitled Io the credit and the cotn, but usually one man stands out on a team above all others and fs, therefore, entitled to the emolu ments Here is the proposition as sub mitted: Gentlemen: Being fans of the "dyed-in-the-wool" variety and particularly so when ft concerns the Atlanta baseball team, we be lieve we have decided on a plan that will make errors a novelty and home runs, two baggers, hair raising fielding stunts and the like commonplace and consequently give us a pennant contending team We believe the fans of At lants will give their hearty co operation to the raising of a bonus by popular subscription to be do nated to the player on the Atlanta team (excepting the manager! who, in the opinion of three Judges to he selected. Is the most useful man to the team Our idea is to select a commit tee of three baseball statisticians and experts, one from each of the local papers, to act as the above mentioned Judges, who shall de cide. beginning with the next games at home and continuing through the remainder of the sea son. which player shall receive the bonus, said Judges to take Into consideration every phase and fea ture of such player’s work and conduct on the field. Now, you gentlemen may know of a still better plan, or at least have some improvements to sug gest In this one. but we confidently believe that any plan similar to this will be popular w ith the local fans, and must Inevitably arouse a good bit of enthusiasm and ri valry among the members of the team How does the proposition appeal to you’’ if you think well of it and care to give It the sup port of your column, we would like to make the following sub scriptions : W. H H. J3.no T H D 1 00 G K C 1.00 W H HESTER. G F. CROOK. T B DAVIES f 8»l <!'(.. . I ■ ■ THE AIT.ANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATERD \Y. JUNE 22. 1912: THE Crackers are lucky tn being able to land Agler. From what everybody says, this man Is a hum mer. He Is at least a Class AA player and ought to shine In this company. If Harbison continues his groat hitting and fielding and Agler Ilves up to bls advance no tices, the Cracker team ought to be a wonder. The Infield and the outfield, as they will stand when Agler Joins, should equal th° best In the league SEMI-FINALS TODAY IN ’ McMichael cup event The tournament for the J, C Mc- Michael cup is narrowing right down and by tonight the affair will be re duced to two mon in each division. The results yesterday were: First Flight. First Round— -W. F. Spalding defeat ed Dr. F. Holland. 1 up. Second Flight. Semi-Finals —D. Jemison defeated J T Nfc.holsom. 6 up and 5 to play. Third Flight. Second Round—-W. C. Warren de feated N. P. Broyles, 3 up and 2 to play; 1.. H. Beck defeated C. M. Sci pios by default; R. Ek Richards defeat ed H. G. Butler. 5 up and 4 to play. Semi-Final Matches. The following are the semi-final matches to be played: First Flight—T. B. FAa\ vs. W C. Holleyrnan, C. P. King vs. W. F. Sprat ling. Second Flight—B. M. Blount vs. win ner of Thornton-James match. Third Flight—G. W. Adair vs. W. C. W arren, L. H. Beck vs. R. E. Richards. I tommy McMillan, hit BY BALLIS BADLY HURT BALTIMORE. June 22. — Shortstop Tommy McMillan, of the Rochester Hustlers, was so badly Injured here in a recent game by being lilt In the jaw with a pitched ball by' Dixie Walker, that he will be out of the game for several days. He is in the Union Protestant in firmary with a fractured Jaw, which the physicians say is not serious. The accident happened in the. fourth in ning. McMillan was unconscious for more than half an hour after being hit. CORNELL AND COLUMBIA FAVORITES IN REGATTA POUGHKEEPSIE, N Y.. June 22. With the big Inter-collegiate regatta but one week away the crews here are putting In their last day’s training. Early next week the tapering process will begin and the men will be let down to just enough work to hold their form. Columbia’s stock is steadily climbing and experts figure that the New York eight will go into the big varsity race an even favorite with Cornell. EJoblom Is back at his place hi the Wisconsin shell. Timo rows were again on the program for today. Tomorrow the men will rest. -—'■'■■—l- I I ■ l,. DOUBLE-HEADER TO DAY WILL BL I VICIOUS BATTLE CHATTANOOGA, TENN., June 22 With the score In games still standing one and one for the series, thanks to a tie game yesterday, the Crackers and the Ixtokouts hook up in a contest, to day that will rival in violence the Tro jan war nr a Republican convention, particularly the latter. The thing is a double-header, as both managers, Smith and Hemphill, believe that the get something on each other by playing the full nine innings, the affair will last from lunch time to sundown. 1 Vedder Sitton, the Cracker star at present, and Luckless Tommy Atkins are slated to httrl for the locals For Bill Smith. More and Coveleskie will probably mount the hurling rostrum, so to speak. Yesterday’s encounter at Lookout-- ville made the Taft-Roosevelt unpleas antness look like a peace pact. From early afternoon till black dark they ’ argued, wrestled, struggled, "cussed and fit.” And when it was all over the score stood 7 to 7. And the whole aft ernoon was wasted, so far as the stand ing of the clubs was concerned. Neither team advanced any farther in the time they played than the Republican con vention, with the committee on creden tials out. There was excitement, though, and plenty of it. And the fans who turned out—and there w-ere several of thorn had the time of their cold, gray-lives. It was nip and tuck, not to mention - nock and neck, up to the ninth. The Crackers then had a lead of 6to 4 At that point Dessau’s foot slipped, as It were, and some husky big-sticking brought home two Lookouts and tied it up. Nothing daunted, the Crackers made one in the ninth. And so did the Lookouts. The Crackers goose-egged in the eleventh, and so did the Look outs. Then the umpires took a hand and* Chairman O’Toole banged with his gavel and declared the doings off for the day. McGRAW TRIED TO PUT TRICK OVER ON CHANCE • CHICACO. June 22.—Frank Chance, who trusts McGraw so implicitly that he doesn't let his players drink water when they are playing on the Polo grounds, for fear ft is doped, now charges that the rubber provided for the visiting pitcher to work on is not the legal distance from the plate. Chance tumbled to this the last time lie was in New York, and had all his pitchers stand a full three feet behind the plate while the warm-up was in progress. Chance is non gently breaking the news to the other National league man agers. Johnson Refuses to Box Flynn in 17-Foot Ring -M4- •{••+ +•+ +•+ Challenger Says He Would Fight in a Barrel By Ed. W. Smith. (The Georgian's fight expert, who has been selected to referee the Johnson - Flynn battle.) EAST LAS VEGAS. N. M.. June 22.—They’ll have to rebuild their arena out on Eighth street before Jack Johnson will consent to do battle in It with Jim Flynn two weeks hence. The ring Is altogether too small to suit the champion of the world. He looked over the measurements of the ring I submitted to him and then shook his head sadly. "I wouldn’t think of It at all,” he said, as he handed back the slip. “It looks to me as if they built that ring, or intended to have it to suit Flynn's style of boxing, or fighting or w'hatever you may call it. "From the looks of things you're the only one that ■gave me a thought in the matter, for 1 wasn't consulted at all.” Taking a trip out to the new arena yesterday morning I ran a tape line over the unfinished ring and discovered that it was exactly nineteen feet from post to post in side. It looked horribly small to me. I asked the foreman in charge of the work what he figured would be the size of the fighting space when the (ring w’as completed. “It will be seventeen feet six Inches from rope to rope,” he re plied. Knowing this might start an argument and figuring that it would be better to have all of the row of this sort settled right now, I submitted the measurements to both men. If the ring is to be enlarged it must be enlarged now before fur ther work on the seating arrange ments is done. In another three days the place will be so far completed that any changes will be out of the ques tion. Flynn M/ants Three-F°ot Ring. We saw Flynn first, as he works earlier in the day than Johnson. “How big would you like to have the ring for this scrap'.”' Jim was asked. “About three feet, if I hqd my way.” was the confident re ply of the fireman. “As a matter of fact It doesn't matter a rap to me how big the ring Is.” he con tinued. “I’d Just as soon fight him in a barrel as not, or they can make it regulation twenty-four foot if they please. Any old thing for me.” Merely another indi«i tion of the superlatively confident spirit being displayed by the Pueblo man. With Johnson it was a different story—vastly different. When he ••••••••••••••••••••••a*** : JOHNSON INSPECTS RING;: : SAYS IT’S TOO SMALLiHE: : SEES PLOT TO “GET” HIM: * * • LAS VEGAS, N. M„ June 22. • • The fight is °n again, off again • • and on again. Although no offi - • • oial promise has been made to the • • promoters, it is now generally • • believed that Governor McDonald • • will not interfere. Both fighters • • continue training, Johnson has • • protested because the ring is much • • smaller than is contemplated by • • Marquis of Queensberry. • • Johnson harbor* the suspicion • • that some one in the Flynn camp • • is responsible for the small ring, • • which, he figures, would increase • • Flynn's chances of winning. Flynn • • prefers rough, rushing tactics, and • • Johnson, after a wary inspection, • • rejected the first set of plans pro- • • duced for the ring. The matter • • will be settled today. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a sized up the measurements of the ring he became positively mournful over them. "It won’t do,” he said. "They should have consulted me about it in the first place. Now. as a matter of fact, Td Just as soon fight Flynn or any other man tn the world on an electric wire as far as fighting fs concerned. It matters little to my style of battling, whether the ring is big or little. If I can win In a big ring I can win In a small one or vice versa, but it hurts me to think that they may be trying to ‘put one over on me* In this matter. Johnson Is Cautious. "No. sir, I must insist that the ring be at least twenty feet inside 'of the Inner ropes. You under stand what I mean. I want twen ty feet of boxing space and a good ledge on the ring so that a man will not step out of the ring or over the edge of it and hurt him self." The upshot of the whole thing was that Watson Bums, Johnson’s chief trainer, will go out to the arena today with some of the news paper men and inspect the place thoroughly. His judgment will be accepted as final by the champion, but from what Burns said last night it looks certain that they never will accept the ring In its present shape. Burns is something of a sticker for the regulation in all things. The rules, he says, call for a ring of twenty-four feet or as near that as ft Is possible to have it. He wants a twenty-foot ring, the same as the champion himself and In tends to carry his point, Judging from the snap of Ms Jaws while he was talking about It. It is supposed that a small ring would favor Flynn to a consider able extent. He Is the rushing type of fighter, constantly crowding hie opponent and trying his best to keep on top of him at all times. The smaller the space tn which the fighting is done the better for him, for a small ring gives an opponent a slimmer chance of getting away from the bulldog-like rushes of the Pueblo man. Johnson, on the other hand, being g defensive fighter and cautious to a degree, is supposed to be favored by the larger space in which he has to work with an opponent and by the same argument his chance* Os making a good fight would be lessened by the smaller ring. At least that Is the most logical way of figuring tt out. The articles of agreement, signed in Chicago, do not mention the else of the ring. They simply state that the contest Is to be decided under Queensberry rules, which In turn state the regulation ring to be twenty-four feet “or as near that Rise as practicable.” The Johnson party naturally behoves that, m there Is nothing but space whom the arena is built, the ring can be made regulation size just as well as not. Governor Still BHent. Governor McDonald again disap pointed the local business men who am interested In the big doings of July 4 He didn’t appear at all. as expected, and no word was received as to when he will be here. But tt is certain that he is to pay I,as Vegas a call within a week's timer. Instead of the governor came Fred Fornoff. chief of the mounted police of the new state of New Mexico and real Westerner, one would expect to see holding a posi tion of this kind. The chief Is a man weighing 250 pounds and with an eye that looks right through one. The chief said he was here for a twelve-hour stay only, but found time during the afternoon to visit both camps. Flynn was the only one of the principals that he saw, however, as Johnson was not In when he called. The official was well pleased with Flynn's appear ance and after watching him at his work for a full hour decided that he must be in the best of shape to stand the gruelling that he lays out for himself every afternoon'. He saw Flynn in several of his scraps hi Ig>s Angeles and thought Jim looked better now than at any time he saw him on the coast. 1 —2 '!.!■ ll!„