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4 - ®d®> toa® * ram J ______ EDITED Sy V/3 FARNSWORTH _J ■tWORTING EDITOR? COLUMN Bv NV. S. Earnswort h. NEW ¥(>RK fans aie rlahning thai Rube Marquard now holds the record for straight wins. <»n Erlda'y. when he defeat • d th* Bostons, ip’ was <•: edited with his > xtornth victory. But he still has three games i<» garnet in a row b*?f«-re he e-aehes the high mark. •Iphn Lnby. in I*9o, while a mom he- of the ‘'hirago Naliona h agtm club, won twrnt' straight games. .And stii! all of the tintham papers claim that when Marquard passed fourteen straight, the joint :e< ord of Ed R< ulbach and Jack (*hesb?o. the lank' southpaw won for him seif a crow n Thf following extract from Sporting Life of August 21. 19(»9. is nf muc h interest on this iupi*\ “during the past week I’rtcher Retjlhacb. of the t’hicago National league club, aroused universal inter est when he reached his fourteenth straight victory, thus equaling the re< ord made by I’itrher ('heshro. «»f the New York American team in 1904, and which is the best record at the present pitching distance of Hi) 1 - feet from the home plate It was hoped, in National league circles at least, that Reulbarh would surpass (‘hes bro's record, and perhaps even equal John Luby's high water-mark, which has stood for nearly two-score years, but the Giants destroyed that hope on Saturday. August 11. when they low ered Reulhach’s colors, after fourteen straight victories “Reulbarh Ums remains tied with t’hesbro for ihe record at modern fltytiince. and John Lu by remains in possession of the supreme record twenty straight made in 1890. in which year that remarkable pitcher »lso led the National league batsnirn with the great average of .342 for 30 games. This pitching record was made under the old distance of 50 feel and a s’«x4 box. which, as ex perience has demonstrated, was real ly less advantageous to tin- pitcher than the present distance, which per mits much better curves, without perceptible effect on speed or change of pace “In this connection we must once mor - call to order some Chicago crit les. who will persist in crediting Mc- Cormick. of the old Chicago team, with a record of 24 straight victories in 1888 and who last week once more sent this misinformation broadcast •net the country. McCormick did not pitch in 24 consecutive victories, in FODDER FOR FANS ovef In Portsmouth, Va . the.' are going 1 have a ‘Hollar Day” at the ball park. ]f you kirk in It's a dollar, even for bleacher seats The kicking will pr<»h ablj not be extra good • • • Orth Collins. who lost out as a manager in the Potton States league, alleges hr has y job with Minneapolis. Bai boy, maybe. • • • Bill Bernhard still lias 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 *;3O. The' must have a cook problem down there, too • * • Johnny Hates has a slight Charley horse and Larr\ McLean is nursing a lame fool. Except for that and the fact that the Reds < an twin ball games everything is going all right in the camp of o’Daj • • • “Irish ' t'ahill has jumped the < nrlando, Fla . team "Tn many mosquitoes and alligators down there" chirped “Irish" as he brat it for Indiana • • • Catcher Waring, of the Terre Haute team, recent!' jumped into the stand and thrashed a >pe».-uu-r This sort of stuff. If continue*!. will hr fine for the hall play ers But it "ill play heck with attend an* e. y When in Evening Dress your Shirt Front must radiate Whiteness It does, if we laundered it We give particular alien lion to linen foe dress wear. White ties—white vests etc., that we launder look like new Your laundry can't go wrong if we do il. We call and deliver. I no Laundrv & Cleaning C). Phones. 8011. I io*>9. 1091 . Atlanta, loo'i He sterilize all our Work -886 or any other year, and never ap proached Luhy a record of 20 straight, a feat which even the great Itad boiirne never equaled. McCormick a _ record in 1886 wa-- fifteen straight vic tories, which performance he had not equaled before 1886, and never an prottched after flat year, which was the best <> f his <areer Why such a persistent effort slmuld be made to rob dead Luip. of the wonderful rec ord of a very short professional career is as mystifying as it is disgraceful.” ■ « « 'pi i I K I-' i- some question as to whether .Marquard did win one of th- sixteen victories lie claims, in the game between the Giants ami Cubs on June 12. the Rube was taken out tn the eighth inning tn allow Shafer to bat. New York seoied two runs In this Inning, winning th' game. 8 Io 2. Nov. York (tapers credited Ma. - quard with the victory. on the ground that although "New Yolk was behind when Shafer baited for Marquard. when I'randail went in lite locals had forged Io the front.” Late lite Gotham patters defended tills 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 of the limit Io be set determining when and when not games ate "in shape to w in.” How few tuns will have to be made In games of this sort? It may as well be 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 as soon as Shafer was sent up to bat, 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, but to simply put bird on record as having been taken out. Tin- whole situation secins to have been brought about by undue haste of Now York scribes to give Marquard a modern-day record. Still, a few days later, .lolm Heytl .|cr, who Is official statistician of the National league, decided io award this doubtful victory to Mar quard. • j Heiiilr Zimmerman gave up a plumber s life to take up baseball • • • Johnny Kling wants a change in the baseball rules which shall provide that club presidents are out for interference. • * * John War<l says that, baseball hasn't improved any in 20 years. Possibly lie refers to the kind his team plays. • • • John Daly from Savannah has joined i the Jersey City team. i' * * Add leagues in distress New Y’ork- < ‘onnectimt. • • • , Jack Warner, after losing a peck of ! money with his team, that started at Kingston, moved to Poughkeepsie ami ended in the ditch, has paid off his play ers and quit Yes. it was in the N. V - > Conn, league. r J. Hank Robinson is the best faniyn ’ player of the National league • • ♦ Jimmy Williams is to retire after this j season He is doing well with Minneap olis. but he has been fifteen years in baseball, has plenty of money and is going to drop out • • • Since Arlle Lathan has been canned ami Charles Faust has jumped, the (bants have to depend virtually ’on their own strength to win games • • • Roy Radabaugb. ex-Cracker and ex • Billiken, has hooked up with the Win stun Salem team and ought to be a won der in that company * * ♦ Wallace has been playing marvelous . ball since he has dropped th** manager ship of ihe Browns. The relief must be | intense. h seems improbable now that Tommy McMillan’s ja" "as broken when he "as hit by a pitched ball the other- day. How ever. make matters certain, an X-ray examination will be made We knew it. \ fan has gone crazy .•ver the Reds' slump Yes. of course, a Cincinnati fan They committed him to the luny-lmuse because he thought he had bee n signed to play short for O’ Day I’he thought was enough to drive any body crazy GIANTS OUT TO BREAK -GAMES WON” RECORD NEW YORK .lune -I Manager Mi iljtaw. of the Giants. believes his learn [this year will hold up a n w major i league record for games won. The ' ii i ord no" is held up lit the ChieagQ National' club, which won 116 games ' In 19u<i The Boston Nationals tier-- ■the fir.-i Io win more than 100 chain | pion-hip games when they < tptured I 102 in 1892. The New York team had 106 vie lories in 191*4 atm lus in Itqtj The Cliii ago Cubs, after theft record break ing performance in 1906. won 107 in lt‘i'7 and I<»4 in 1910 The Pittsburg* took I l«i games in 1909 Tite Philadelphia* are the only Aiint , itan league champions to pass the cen ttirx mark They won 102 games in 1910 mil lu.’i i.ist tear, when the New York Nationals finished the season with 99 vieb'i tvs to their i i edit. K WOLGAST LOOKS FIT. 1.1 iS XN'GELES .June .1 Ad Wol ■sasi appeared to be In the best of eon ditioti today and in good shape to enter upon the strenuous grind of i.guh., 'raining for the I'oufth of dull go with M»x !■ in Joe . Bit er-. lie dommt SI ial ed to an imti" n < crowd ~f baal fandom « < .» f 11 ''l v '1 i g ■! hi li • 1•.• » eu THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. .TUNE 2'4. 1912. ' Stars of Former Olympiad, Who Compete Again Under Stars and Stripes lb. « w i W mmW WH w I wWmr SMB .• k I \ / If i ■ / ( Sp smL ' < .«rw \ / l J - laPJllwrTJLjEfl'.w .»? irf'’'' '"rtTW -UJLgfi'' tviliLVIN SHtPPARD. FRANK C. IRONS. RALPH ROSE. Sltep.pard, Irons and Rose did their full share toward capturing the Olympic honors for this country in the Olympiad at London four years ago and next month they are expected tc more than hold their own again, in the last games Sheppard won the 800-nictre run and the 1,500-nietre event, establishing new records for each. His time in the SOO was 1 minute Battle for Southern Tennis Title Starts Here Next Week By Ppih-v 11. Whiting. sta HE tennis season is closing | right in. The big doings are on in Augusta thisweek ami 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 i,til a prominent figure, tine week from today the South ern championship will start on the courts of the Atlanta Athletic club al (Cast Lake. Just what tiip tennis eomiuittee " ill have to offer in the , way of stars for I his event can't be told now, but it has a keg of money on hand to pat expenses and such, and will get some stars here or know why not. t if the tennis committee is look ing for tile leal star of the season it ought to round up Gustave F. Houehard, for lie is the king pin tennis player of tiie year Aheady J ouchard has won the Bronx championship and the Englewood Held club’s chief prize, and got to , the challenge round at Chevy * h.gse, whore lie lost to Conrad Doyle, present Southern champion. Die list of tournament winners of 1912 in the North follows: Bronx Championship at the Bed ford Bark Tennis Club Gustave E. Touchard: runner-up. Theodore Roosevelt Dell The Army (’up at Chevy Chase -(Tonrad B. Ihiyle* runner-up. Touchard New York Lawn Tennis Club I rophy Wylie c. (Irani; runner up. S. Howard Voshell Amacksssin Club Trophy Fred erick C. Baggs; runner-up, Joseph 11. Condon. . New England Championship st the Hartford Golf Club-Fred H Harris; runner-up. Frederick C. Inman Nassau and Queens Counties Championship at the Great Neck Hills Country Club L Milens Burt, runner-up. Walter L Pate Cedarhurst Cup ai ' the Rock away Hunt Club -Theodore Roose velt Pell; runner-up, Karl Behr Englewood Field Club ('up Gustave F. Touchard; runner-up, Lyle E Mahan. Pennsylvania State Champion ship at the Morion (Ticket Club R. Norris Williams; runner-up. P. Siverd ■» ♦ • We live in hope (even if a faint onei that some day the Southern Lawn Tennis association will cut out this rot of opening its tourna- I ments to the world and will nuilv it a strictly Southern event. The people who run the tourna ments say. "dll. we have tn have a famous star or two from tile East to create interest if we don't have them we will not get any attend ance and if w <■ don't get the crowds bow a e we to pay lot the sending of tiie Southern doubles winners to plat tor tiie national titie*'.'" N a, it may be that the p up;, go out l ' see a . ouple of famous East' in stars play , but to tiie best of out iolli'. tion tiie mo-l intel e-t that Ytlanta evet felt in tennis was back in ihe good old day w hen Nat Thornton and t'owan Hog. ;s Were the big limn ill singles and when G;ant and Tim nton and the Kogcis biotlici- (of Knoxville! acre the main guy - in the doubh-s It > lust thy same In tennis that i' in hh 11’ ” 1 11<■ i •«n il< tt -4»»t when the tournament will be limit ed to members of Southern clubs only. Then, if the tennis commit tee has some money to spend fm expenses, let it bring to Atlanta some of tiie Southern stars. We'd like to see some of those famous Texas players. There are alway s a few Virginians who .might be "in duced." Let tiie committee scour the South for star Southern play ers. Bring them heie and there would be a hundred tight matches, instead of a sorry walk-over, as there is when a star ,or two from outside is brought here. 'P Ni iTHER refoim. we hope, for— ■ 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 in progress. Nine players out of ten in 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 will see a man start a serve with his foot clear across the lint 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 sei i e w ith 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 tiie way across, why can’t he go to the net to serve? If you want to know, tiie real reason for this wretched condition that (he big tennis men of the i lub, 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 mole to say about this subject when the tournament gets undei way, provided tiie rule is not bet ter enforced than in the past. We'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 wliii will do something though, as we admitted before, our hopes are not i tinning very high. QUALIFY ON SATURDAY FOR CUNNINGHAM PRIZE The qualifying round for the W. W. Cunningham golf trophy will be play ed by tiie golfers of the Atlanta Athletic i lub over the East l.ake course on Sat urday. All players will qualify from latch. In the match piay rounds which will i follow shortly thereafter, the players ( will play with theii club handicaps. A.» many flights as filled will be played. The first and second rounds of match piay must be play, d by July 5. the third round by July 6 and the finals by July 7. In the first flight the finals will he at •hi holes. HOPPER WINS RICH CHASE. I’AillS. Jiim- 24. Tiie grand Steep:, tliase de Paris, run over the Autehuil l ourst. wag won by M. Gerlain s chest nut i "It IJ<qqi<-'. with Gaston Dreyfus’ S. .< Lord s' < ond and Jami s Henm s- DOUBLE BILL FOB GR/KM TOOII 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 tiie closing stanza, Kain prevented the game scheduled here yesterday, he.n'db the double,biJi 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 iong 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 Av^iges f Including Y terday's Game <'lt A''Kbits BATTING SETS. The averages include games placed to date. Play ers— ' | b. jAB.j R. | H. |Av Harbison, ssl g ; 32 4 i 13 1.406 Dessau, p 1 12 96 I 8I 12 L 333 Hemphill, cfl 57 ,226 27 74 .328 Bailey . lil 61 224 42 :68 .304 O'Dell, lb' 57 H 99 , 32 53 ,26b Alpermnn. 2b* fit 236 34 59 .249 O'Brien, ss’ 53 169 19 42 1.249 Donahue, c 19 57 1 7 1 14 1246 Callahan, rs 19 86 10 21 .244 Graham. <■....( 21 62 7I 15 242 McElveen. Sb.' 67 '245 33 '56 1.229 Sitton, pt 11 ' 26 > t I 6 '.222 Atkins, p' 12 32 3 17 .219 Brady . p 6 19 0 ' 2.105 ROY MORAN NOW LEADS LEAGUE IN STOLEN BASES The base running In the Southern league this season has been very pool. 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. jhe .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-stealet s of each team, including tiie games played Friday. June 2 I : Players and Teams. G. SB. P.C. Moran. Chattanooga ... 61 31 .508 Johnston. Birmingham. 62 26 .403 Johnston, New Orleans . 60 23 .383 Maloney. .Mobile .... 69 22 .319 Callahan. Atlanta .... 61 17 .279 I Netzel. Memphis's 9 16 .271 ' St angle. Montgomery. . . 61 16 .262 ' Perry. Nashville 60 9 .150 WOMEN GOLFERS PLAY SECOND ROUND TODAY Witli a lead of two points at the con clusion of th ti: st day of play, tiie 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. \y Stirling has offered a hand some silver loving cup —r the victori ous team. A low medal seme match wip also be played, The Atlanta team is Mts. T R. Paine, Mi. - Alexa Stirling, Mrs. N. R. Rtny les. Mis Mac (I'Hlipn ai d M s R. p. .lone Th< N'a-liville i an. i« Miss Jcan-'tt- '■’■ ! 'ti. M ». \ B Newell. Mi-. E. W. Dole.' Mi- I-' H Sey mout and Mr- Ri w. - Smit lx. 52 4-5 seconds, the former mark being 1 minute 56 seconds. His time for the 1.500 metres was 4 minutes 3 2-s'seeconds. the former record standing at 4 minutes 5 2-5 seconds. Irons won the running broad jump and also established an Olympic record. He jumped 24 feet 6 1-2 inches. The record was 24 feet 1 inch. Rose, the giant Californian, placed the 16-pound shot put to the credit of this country with a put of 46 feet 7 1-2 inches. Matty Still Premier Hurler, Claim of Big League Batters By Damon Runyan. HOW long will Christy Mathew son last as a big league star? Tire permanent passing of old <'y Young from the big league leaves but a single man believed to have any sort of chance to equal tiie famous Ohioan's pitching ret - ord, and already fandom Is looking al 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 is 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 lie 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 watch every ball player is subject —an "off" year—and next seas<|n lie 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 pitciting 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 Cy Young’s record. Mat ty would have to keep going for the next ten years at better than average speed, and most people are rather inclined to doubt that. 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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. ir some of bis games this spring when that support has tailed him and runners have thronged tiie base line. "Big Six" has opened out and pitched with all his old wizardry. He is not much of an early sea son pitcher, but beginning late he 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 move 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, when a pitcher was going bad the lank figure of the blonde right-hander could always be seen in tiie out field warming up. and the cry Mathewson now pitching for New- York” was a familiar one to the Polo ground crowd. It will be a sad loss to baseball when Matty quits, but it will lie a sadder loss to tile Giants. Mathewson certainly still has all his wonderful control, and con trol has been one of the secrets of his success. You will find, on con-- sulting his record last year, that he gave but 38 bases on balls in 45 games, of which 29 games weie stalled and completed by the big fellow. He was charged with but two wild pitches in all that service Marquard gave 106 bases on bails in the same number of .games. Matty "itched and delivered ten wild pitches. Alexander, for in stance gave 227 bases on halls.