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10 ______ EDITED W 9 FARNSWORTH SPORTING EDITORS COLUMN By W. S. Farnsworth. TL TEW YORK fans arc claiming that Rube Marquard now holds the record for straight wins On Friday, when hr defeat ed th* s Bostons, ho was rrc dll e d with his sixteenth victory Rut he still has throe games to 'garner in a row before h* 1 reaches the high mark. John TaUby ’>n 1890. while a mem ber of the Chicago National league club, w’on twenty straight games. And still all of the (lotham papers claim that when Marquard passed fourteen straight, the joint record of Ed Reul ba ch and Jack Chesbro. the lanky southpaw won for him self a crown. The following extract from Sporting "Life nf August 21. 1909, is of much interest on this topic "During the nest week Pitcher Reul bach. of the Chicago National league club, aroused universal inter est when he reached his fourteenth straight victory, thus equaling the record made by Pitcher Cheshrn. of th© New York American team in 1904. and which is the best record at the present pitching distance of feet from the home plate. It was‘hoped, Id National league circles at least, that Reulbach would surpass Ches bro’s record, and perhaps even equal John Uuby’s high water mark, which has stood for nearly two-score years, but the Giants destroyed that hope on Saturday. August 14. when they low ered Reulbach’s colors, after fourteen straight victories. "Reulbach thus remains tied with Chesbro for the record at modern distance, and John Kuby remains in possession of the supreme record twenty straight made in 1890, in which year that remarkable pitcher Also led the National league batsmen with the great average of 342 for 30 games. This pitching record was made under the old distance of 60 feet and a sMix4 box. which, as ex perience has demonstrated, was real ly less advantageous to the pitcher than the present distance, which per mits much better curves, without perceptible effect on speed, or change of pace. "In this connection w*e must once more call to order some Chicago crit ics. who will persist in crediting Mc- Cormick, of the old Chicago team, with a record of 24 straight victories 1n 1886 - and who last week once more sent this misinformation broadcast •over the country. McCormick did not pitch in 24 consecutive victories, in FODDER FOR FANS Over in Portsmouth. Va , they are going to have a "Dollar Day" at the ball park It you kick in ft’s a dollar, even for bleacher seats The kicking will prob ably not be extra good Orth Collins, who lost out as a manager in the Cotton States league, alleges he has a job with Minneapolis Bat boy. Maybe • • • Bill Bernhard still has eight of the same men playing for him that started the season His only changes have been In the pitching staff * * • Why even in the South Atlantic league they are beginning to call their games at a:3O. They must have a cook problem down there, loo* • • • Johnny Bates has a slight Charley horse and Larry McLean is nursing a lame foot Except for that and the fact that the Reds can’t win ball games everything is going all right in the camp of O’Day • * * "Irish ‘ Cahill has jumped the Orlando Fla , team. "To many mosquitoes and alligators down there chirped "Irish" as he beat it for Indiana. • • • Catcher Waring, of the Terre Haute team, recently jumped into the stand and thrashed a spectator. This sort of stuff. • if continued, will be fine for the ball play ers But it will plax heck with attend ance \\ VT —~ V ■wHl‘ - - When in Evening Dress your Shirt Front must radiate Whiteness It does, if we laundered it. We give particular atten tion to linen for dress, wear White ties- white vests etc., that we launder look like new Your laitndrv can't go wrong if we do it We call and deliver Trio Laundry \ Cleaning Co. Phones: Bell 11 v 1099, 1091 ; Atlanta, 1099. "W z e sterilize all our irork \ I£BH or any other year, and nevet ap pro-p hc'l Kuby’s record of 20 straight, a feat which even the great Rad bourne never equaled. McCormick’s r< r’or«f in 1886 was fifteen straight vic tories, whh'h performance he had not equaled before 1886. and never ap proached after that year, which was the best of his career Why such a persistent effort should bp made to rob dead Kuby nf the wonderful rec ord nf a very short professional career is as mystifying as it is disgraceful • ♦ • /pHERE 1* some question as to ■ whether Marquard did win one • nf* the Ixteen victories he cluims. Tn the game between the Giants * and < *ubs nn June 12. the Rube was taken out in the eighth inning tn‘allow Shafer to bat. New York scored two runs in this inning, winning the game, 3 to 2. Naw York papers credited Mar quard with the victory. ou the ground that although "New York was behind when Shafer batted for Marquard. when Crandall went In the locals had forged to the front." T/ater the Gotham papers defended this position by claiming that Mar quard had left the game in such a shape that the New York team could win It All of which raises the Interest ing question nf the limit to be sal determining when and when not games are “in shape to win.” Hon few runs will have tn be made 1n games of this sort? It may as well ten as the two needed in the game under discussion. By section 2 of rule 28, dealing with substitutes, Marquard was out of the game an soon as Shafer was sent up to hat, and surely common sense would dictate that a player once out of the game could have no influence whatever on what hap pened in that game after he left it. It has been generally the custom in cases of the kind to charge the pitcher with neither defeat nor victory, hut to simply put him on record as having been taken out. The whole situation seems to havft been brought about by undue haste of New York scribes to give Marquard a modern-day record. Still, n few days later, John HeyH ler, who Is official statistician of the National league, decided to award this doubtful victory to Mar il ua rd. Heinie Zimmerman gave up a plumber's life to lake up baseball. • • • Johnny Kling ua*nts a change in the baseball rules which shall provide that club presidents are out for interference • • • John Ward says that baseball hasn't improved any in 20 years Possibly he refers to the kind his team plays. • • • John Daly from Savannah has joined the Jersey City team Add leagues in distress New York- Connecticut. • • • Jack Warner, after losing a peck of money with his team, that started at Kingston, moved to Poughkeepsie and ended in the ditch, has paid off his play ers and quit. Yes.»it was in the N Y.- i.’vnn. league .1 Hank Robinson is the best fantan player of the National league. Jimmy Williams is to retire after this season. He is doing well with Minneap olis, hut he has been fifteen years in baseball, has plenty of monex and is going to drop out Siner Arlie has been canned and Charles Faust has jumped, the Giants have m depend virtually on their own strength to win games Rox Radahaugh. ex-Cracker and ex Billiken, has hooked up with the Win ston Salem learn and ought to be a won der in that com pan x ♦ ♦ ♦ Wallace has been playing marvelous hall since lie has dropped the manager ship of the Browns The relief muht be intense • • • 1t seems improbable noxx that Tom in.x McMillan's jaxx was broken when he was hit b\ a pitched ball the other da.x. How exer. to make matters certain, an .X-ray examination xx ill be made • • • We knexx it. \ fan has gone crazy over the Reds' slump Yes. of course, a <’lncinnati fan Thex committed him to the lunx-house because' he thought he Juul been signed to plax short for (t'Dav The thought was enough to drive any bodx crazy GIANTS OUT TO BREAK “GAMES WON” RECORD \F\\ Y»‘RK June I Manag< r Mr <;-,i\x <>f the Gmnts. believe' his learn ihl xear will hold up :i mxx major league record for games won The lerord noxx is held Up bx the Chicago National chib, which xvnn Ilb games ip 19PK The Ho top Xitionoß xx on* th* l fir-i to x\ tn more than 100 • hwtn lup games xxlun they captured I"? ;n IS9? I’hc N* \x >'m k team h;»<l IM \p tovic; in 19i‘l .<mi iOS m tans The Chicago Hubs, ificr t.heii record break mg performance in I'.mb xxon H’7 in 19«»7 and I<H in 1910 The I'ittsburgs took IH> game in 1909 Tlo* Philadelphia*- are theonlx \mrr i< an league < ham pions to pa the < en - tur x mark Thex won io? games in I'd" and IOS l ist year, xx Inm the N» w York Nationals finisbbd the season xxitb 99 vn tofjef. to their credit. WOLGAST LOOKS FIT i < »s A NGFI.ES. June :’4 \d Wni gaM ippearcd to be in rhe be st of < op d’tion today and tn good shape in enter upon th* strenuous grind of tegular tr.lining fm the Fourth <>f Julx go with ,\|» xi- in Joe Rlxets. He dem*>n9t< tied to an tinmens*- < r«*'*l of local fandom THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, JUNE 24. 1912. Stars of Former Olympiad, Who Compete Again Under Stars and Stripes J® fb v z ;■ ■‘ # W Ata.'' :x - \ ' T J \ . i ' - / aW MELVIN SHEPPARD. FRANK r ironic ' FRANK C. IRONS. - RALPH ROSE. m OlvmZd rt A? r,!d nV”*” tOWard CaPtUrinß ,he °' ymP ‘ C hOn ° rS f ° r P 4 SeC ° ndS - the fomle ’’ mark bein « 1 m,nut “ 56 seconds - His time for the 1.500 metres iniintry in the oijmpiad at London four years agn and next month they are expected tc 4 minutes 3 2-5 seeconSs. the former record standing at 4 minutes 5 2-5 seconds. Ironswon re than hold their own again. In the last games Sheppard won the 800-mf’tre run and the le running broad Jump and also established an Olympic record. He jumped 24 feet ; 1-2 iO-motre event, establishing new records for each His time in the snn i „ i . inches. The record was 24 feet 1 inch. Rose, the giant Californian, placed the 1 fi-poundchnt n suo nas 1 m, nute put t 0 the credit of this country with a put of 46 feet 7 1-2 inches. Battle for Southern Tennis Title Starts Here Next Week By Percy H. Whiting. THE tennis season is closing rigpt in. The big doings are on in Augusta this week and a bunch of Atlantans are play ing In the annual championship there. This tennis tournament is always a big thing In the sleepy town of Augusta, and Atlanta play ers always cut a prominent figure. One week from today the South ern championship will start on the courts of the Atlanta Athletic club at East bake. •lust what the tennis committee will have to offer in the way of stars for this event can't be told now, but It has a keg of money on hand to pay expenses and such, and will get some stars here or know why not ff the tennis committee 1s look ing for the real star of the season it ought to round up Gustave F. Houchard. for he Is the king pin tennis player of the year. Already Touchard has won the Bronx championship and the Englewood Field club’s chief prize, and got to rhe challenge round at Chevy Chase, where he lost to Conrad Doyle, present Southern champion. The list of tournament winners of 1912 In the North follows: Bronx Championship at the Bed ford Park Tennis Club Gustave Touchard; runner-up. Theodore Roosevelt Pell. The Army Cup at Chevy Chase * onrad B, Doyle; runner-up. Touchard. New York lawn Tennis Club trophy Wylie C. Grant; runner up. S Howard Voshell A mackassin Club Trophy Fred erick C. Baggs; runner-up, Joseph H Condon. New England Championship at the Hartford Golf Club Frei H. Harris; runner-up. Frederick C. Inman Nassau and Queens Counties Championship at the Great Neck Hills Country Club b. Milens Burt; runner-up, Walter L Pate Cedarhurst Cup at the Rock away Hunt Club Theodore Roose velt Pell; runner-up, Karl Behr. Englewood Field Club Cup Gustave F. Touchard. runner-up. Lyle E Mahan Pennsylvania State Champion ship at the Merlon Cricket Club R Norris Wllltarnkf vrmner-up, O. P. Sherd. • * * \Y ' li' p hopp l”' pn ,f a famt one) that some day the South - Lawn Tennis association will < ut ou this rot of opening its tour naments to the world anti will make it a strictly Southern < vent The people who run the tourna ments say. "Oh. we have to have a famous star or two from the East to create Interest. If we don’t have them we will not get any attend am-c and if we don't get the crowds how .co <o to pay for the sending of the Southern double.- winners to pl iy for the national titl- ' N'-w. it may bo that the people go out to see a couple of famous Eastern stars play , but to the best of our recollection the most inter cst that Atlanta ever felt ip tennis was Hack in the good. old days when Nat Thornton and Cowan Rogers wore the big men in singles and when Grant and Thornton tnd the Rogers brothers tof Knoxville) were the main guys in llm doubles It’s just the same in tennis that it Is tn baseball'.’ The crowds want to -c. a close match Tlrey don't .are so much fm th.- notables when the tournament will be limit ed to members of Southern clubs only. Then, if the tennis commit tee has gome money to spend for expenses, let It bring to Atlanta some of the Southern stars. We'd like to see some of those famous Texas players. There a.re always a . few Virginians who might be "In duced.’’ Let the committee scour the South for star Southern play ers. Bring them here and there would be a hundred tight matches, instead of a sorry walk-over, as there Is when a star or two fyom outside Is brought here. • • * A NOTHER reform, we hope, for— -2 though there seems even less reason for hoping, is that some day somebody will reform the foot fault rule at the local tournament. It’s a pitiful sight to see the foot faulting when a Southern tourna ment is 1n progress. Nine players out of ten 1n the tournament start their serve with their toe on the line Some of them hitch forward from an Inch to a foot when they serve. Occasionally, right in an important match, with an official in charge, you wlll'see a man start a serve with his fo6t clear across the line and In the court. The officials say. “Oh. well, we don’t punish any little uninten tional violations of this rule." All right; then where will you draw the line? If it is all right for a man to serve with his foot half across the line, why Isn’t it right for him to* go all the way across the line? And If he goes all the way across, why can't he go to the net to serve? If you want to know, the real reason for this wretched condition Is that the big tennis men of the club, the men who ought to set the style for play that is In accordance with the rules, are about the worst offenders in the foot-faulting. We promise to have a good bit more to say about this subject when the tournament gets under way. provided the rule is not bet tor enforced than in the past. XX'e'll try to let everybody know that the rule Is being violated, who is doing It. and what officials are allowing it. Maybe that will wake up somebody who will do something though, as we admitted before, our hopes are not running very high QUALIFY ON SATURDAY FOR CUNNINGHAM PRIZE The qualifying round for the XX’. XV. t'unnfngham golf trophy will be played by the golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club over the East Lake course on Sat urday. Ml players will qualify from scratch in the match play rounds which will follow shortly thereafter, the players will play with their club handicaps As many flights as filled will be played. The first and second rounds of match play must be played by July B. the third round by July « and the finals by. July 7. In the first flight the finals will be at 36 holes. HOPPER WINS RICH CHASE. PARIS, June 24. The Grand Steeple chase de Paris, rum over the Autehull course, was won by M. Gerlain’s chest nut colt Hopper, with Gasten Dreyfus’ Sea lx>rd second and James Hennes sy’s Pyrrhus third. The steeplechase, valued this year at s2S.son. with a piece of plate added, resulted in one of the most interesting races in years. DOUBLE BILL FOR CRACKERS TODAY MEMPHIS, TENN., June 24.—The Crackers mingle with the Turtles in a double-header here this afternoon. Sit ton will probably oppose Kissinger in The first game, while Dessau and Mer ritt are slated to do the box work in the closing stanza. Rain prevented the game scheduled here yesterday, hence, the double bill this afternoon. The first -ontest will start at 2:30 o’clock. First Baseman Agler Is expected to join the team here today or tomorrow. He will probably not get into action un til the Crackers return home Wednes day, however, as he will need a rest after a long train ride. Pitcher Mayer will not Join the Crackers for some time yet, if at all. Portsmouth refuses to turn him back to Hemphill, and the Atlanta club must wait until Secretary Farrell of the na tional association rules where the hurl er belongs. Crackers’ Batting Averages,lncluding Yesterday's Game The averages include games played to date, ' ... Players-| G. |AB.| R. | H. |Av. Harbison, ss « I 32 I 4 1 13 .403 Dessau, p 12 36 S 12 .333 Hemphill, cf 57 226 i 27 ! 74 828 Bailey, If 61 ! 224 I 42 I 68 .304 O Dell, lb 57 199 |32 53 .266 Alpe.rman, 2b fir 2X6 ’ 34 i 59 249 O'Brien, ss 51 |169 I 19 I 42 .219 Donahue, p! 19 157 I 7 14 246 Callahan, rf 1 19 I 86 | 10 i 21 i. 244 Graham, cI 21 62 7I 15 1.242 McElveen. 3b.i 67 ]245 |33 56 .229 Sitton, p 1 11. I 26 , 1 j 6 | 222 Atkins, pI 12 i 32 3 I 71 219 Brady, pI 6 | 19 j O' 3 1.105 ROY MORAN NOW LEADS LEAGUE IN STOLEN BASES The base running in the Southern league this season has been very poor. In the main, though there are a few players who have a fairly good aver age on the paths. Roy Moran, former Cracker and now left fielder of the Chattanooga Look outs, is the leading base stealer of the league, both in the number of bases stolen and in percentage Here are the leading base stealers of each team, including the games played Friday . June 21: Players and Teams. G. SB. P.C. Moran. Chattanooga ... 61 31 .508 Johnston, Birmingham. . 62 25 .403 Johnston. New Orleans 60 23 .383 Maloney , Mobile 69 22 .319 Callahan, Atlanta .... 61 17 .279 Netzel. Memphis 59 16 .271 Stengle. Montgomery. . . 61 16 .262 Perry, Nashville . .... 60 9 150 WOMEN GOLFERS PLAY SECOND ROUND TODAY With a i»ad of two points at th o con clusion of the first day of play, the At lanta team of women golfers will today play the Nashville team the second round. The teams are playing 36 holes of Nassau. 18 having been played on Sat urday. Dr. A W. Stirling has offered a hand some silver loving cup for the victori ous team. A low medal score match jvill also be played. The Atlanta team is Mrs. T. B. Paine, Miss Alexa Stirling, Mrs. N. R. Broyles, Miss Mae O’Brien and Mrs, R. P Jones. The Nashville*team Is Miss Jeanette Acklen, Mrs A R Newell. Mrs? E. W. Daley, Mrs F. H Seymour and Mrs Rogers Smith. Matty Still Premier Hurler, Claim of Big League Batters Bx Damon Runyan. HOW long will Christy Mathew son last as a big league star? The permanent passing of old Cy Young from the big league leaves but a single man believed lo have any sort of chance to equal the famous Ohioan’s pitching rec ord, and already fandorA is looking at that man askance. Every time "Big Six” loses a game nowadays the question is ask ed: "Is Matty going back?” Lit tle attention is paid to his win nings. Gotham is accustomed to seeing him win; it ts only when he drops a game that he attracts attention. Some contended that Matty's curves are not breaking In the old way, and that he is slowly but surely retrograding, but you can’t get ball players to take any stock In that theory. A poll of the big league would probably reveal the interesting fact that the players themselves still believe that “Big Six" is the premier boxman of the time. As a matter of fact, the ques tion of Matty’s efficiency will prob ably not be settled in any one, or perhaps, even two seasons, when it is settled. Supposing he should show a decline this year—it might be merely one of those periods to which every ball player is subject —an "off” year—and next season he might show a complete reversal of form. Mathewson Is now 31 years of age. He began pitching when he was nineteen years old. and most of his pitching has been In the big league. Yet at 31 he is spoken of by the average fan as a decrepit old man—"Old Christy Mathewson." To equal <’y Young’s record, Mat ty would have to keep going for the next ten years at better than average speed. The man who will very likely de- fA DOG ON GOOD COAL Best Grade Lump $4.75 High Grade Lump $4.50 High Grade Nut - $4.25 Until July 15th, and for Cash Only THOMAS & HARVILL J FOR. SALE FT- - Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, IMMEDIATE Creosote, Road Binder, nri ivrov Metal Preservative Paints, DELIVERY Roofing Paint and Shingle Stain. Atlanta Gas Light Co, Phone 4945 termine the question of Mathew son's efficiency when the time comes is Mathewson himself. Those who know the big blonde believe that he will eventually drop baseball of his own volition and drop it the moment he is con vinced that he is slipping. Still, a ball player is never able to tell with the same degree of certainty as his manager when the slip has commenced. Matty has been husbanding his strength for some years past. In any game he pitches, the hitting Is likely to be plentiful—especially by the opposition, as the big fellow de pends much on his support. In some of his games this spring, when that support has failed him and runners have thronged the base line. "Big Six" has opened out and pitched with all his old wizardry. He is not much of an early sea son pitcher, hut beginning late be usually winds up figuring in a ma jority of the contests engaged in by the Giants, particularly if the race is close. This season McGraw is able to give his famous star more rest between games than ever be fore. The rise of the Marquard star has given the leader of the Giants . considerable leeway in his pitching staff Heretofore, in time of peril, whe» a pitcher was going bad the lant figure of the blonde right-hander could always be seen In the out field warming up. and the cty "Mathewson now pitching for Nev York” was a familiar one to tie Polo ground crowd. it will be a sad loss to basebjll when Matty quits, but it will ie a sadder loss to the Giants. Mathewson certainly still has ill his wonderful control, and cot trol has been one of the secrets >f his success. You will find, on con sulting his record last year, thfc he gave but 38 bases on balls n 45 games, of which 29 games wee started and completed by the bg fellow. Ho was charged with hit two wild pitches in all that service Marquard gave 106 bases on bail in the same number of games Matty witched and delivered ter wild pitches. Alexander, for in stance gave 227 bases on balls