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Roy Moran Is
With Luck He
By Percy H. Whiting.
IE Roy Moron keeps his present
base-stealing clip he will come
within six bases of the great
est base-stealing record of South
ern league history. If he speeds
up a bit he will give the league a
new mark.
The Southern mark for base pil
fering was made by Joe Rickert,
now almost at the end of a base
ball decline in some ultra-bushy
league, in the good season of 1904.
That season "Diamond Joe” got
away with 77 bases. The next best
mark was the 57 bases stolen by
Artie Phelan last season for Bir
mingham. Phelan stole his way
back into the big league, as it were,
and Is now a star with Cincinnati.
Up to today Roy Moran, ex-
Cracker, has stolen SI bases In SI
games. If he continues this clip he
will grab off 71 for the season. That
will put him a mile ahead of any
body who ever played ball In the
Southern save only Joe Rickert.
Moran Is a far better man on
bases than Joe Rickert ever dared
to be—good as Rickert was. Joe
was a neat man on bases. He was
a great judge of pitchers and could
come very close to telling whether
the twtrler was going to throw to
the bag or the plate. He was fairly
quick to start and a terror for
speed on the paths. Going into the
bases he was clever, but the art of
base stealing has advanced since
tho days of 1904 and the Rickert of
those days' wasn’t a circumstance
to the Moran of today.
Moran lacks the mind-reading
ability of Rickert. He Is pretty
clever, however, at sizing up a
pitcher’s motions and he gets away
like a flash. Once started he Is
lightning Itself, and he slides Into
a base as neatly as any man in the
Southern.
One of Moran’s specialties Is
stealing home. He can get farther
off third base with safety than any
man who has played in the league
in years, and he is a demon when
he starts for the plate. His slid
ing Is so clever that he is a difficult
man to touch and he gets away
with a lot of them. Os course
stealing home Isn’t an easy trick
for any man, but Moran can work
It as often as anybody.
The Johnston brothers, Jimmy
and Doc, are stealing bases pretty
cleverly themselves. Johnstpn, of
MANDOT IS OUTCLASSED
IN BOUT WITH RITCHIE
, NEW ORLEANS. June 26.—A1l that
keijt Willie Ritchie, of San Francisco,
from knocking out Joe Mandot, of this
city, in a ten-round bout here last night
was the bell. Mandot, groggy from
Ritchie's stunning rights and lefts to
the face and stomach, held on and
fought weakly.
Ritchie never let up for a second and
was In good condition at the end of the
fight.
From the first round to the last it
was all Ritchie. The great little fellow
from the coast took the aggressive at
the start and had Mandot on the run
throughout. Mandot made him work
hard for the first six rounds, but the
coast sensation had a shade In every
chapter. He cut Mandot’s face to rib
bons with snappy lefts, and time and
again he drove the local man to cover
with a stinging right cross.
Mandot tried hard to rally in the
seventh. He landed a wild swing to
Ritchie’s jaw and Willie staggered and
barked up for an instant. He cleared
up, however, and chased Mandot about
the ring for the remainder of the round,
landing repeatedly.
YANKEE ATHLETES WORK
AT PARK NEAR ‘ANTWERP
ANTWERP, June 25.—Nearly all of
the American athletes who are In port
here on tlie liner Finland en route for
Stockholm for the Olympic games took
' part in workouts today In the driving
park near Antwerp.
It is possible that the plan to have
the men live aboard the Finland while
In Stockholm harbor will not be fol
lowed. Trainer Murfthy is afraid that
the monotony of life aboard the ship
would have a bad effect on the high
strung athletes.
Jim Duncan, the discus thrower; C.
Bi •Wilson, the sprinter from Coe col
; lege. lowa N J. Patterson, of Chicago:
Harry Worthington, of Boston, and F.
M. McGuire, of North Attleboro. Mass.,
'■ have been the worst sufferers from sea
sickness.
KLAUS-CARPENTIER GO
ENDS IN A SORRY MIX
DIEPPE, FRANCE, June 25.—George
Carpentier, the middleweight champion
of France and England, was disquali
fied in the nineteenth round of his fight
with Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg mid
dleweight, here today.
Both men used rough tactics, and
Klaua worked his elbows into the
Frenchman's face and body in the
clinches. In the nineteenth. Carpen
tier's managers, believing that Klaus
had struck the Frenchman a foul blow
on the chin with his elbow, jumped into
th< ring and threw up the sponge.
Carpentier protested that he was
abb- and willing to finish, but. owing
to the interference of his managers, the
referee disqualified Carpentier.
YOUNG BROWN IS BEST.
bNEW YORK. June 25.—Young
Brown, of New York, who made a good
showing recently In hl» bout with Matt
Weds, conceded six pounds and suc
ceeded In outpointing Jack Goodman,
also a local boy. In a ten-round bout
here last night.
Headed for Base-Stealing Record
+•+ +•+
Can Pass Rickert’s Mark of 77
Birmingham, has already ripped off
25 bases in 62 games. If he keeps
that clip he will round out 59 this
year, which will pass any mark
made In previous years in the
Southern save Rickert’s 77. John
ston. of New Orleans, has 23 to his
credit in 60 games. If he keeps it
up he will make it 54 for the sea
son, a creditable mark.
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'P HH Southern league i« remark
able, really, for the small
number of bases stolen. There
have been three years when the
record fell as low as 42.
Hero are the best stealing rec
ords of past Southern leagues:
Year. Player*. Stolen B.
1901 .Gilbert 56
1903 ...Smith 48
1904 Rickert 77
1905 Williams 42
1906 . .Brouther* 42
1906 Byrne 46
1901 Ball 50
1901. .Paskert 50
1908 .....Downey 42
1909.. Henllne 43
1910.. McGilvray 45
1911 Phelan 57
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'J' HE honors for the past four
years in succession in base
stealing have gone to the Barons.
(Phelan. McGilvray, Henline and
Downey were all members of
Moleeworth’s team. The only At
lantan who ever eopped was George
Paskert.
Bill McGilvray was one of the
most remarkable of the leaders. He
is a big brute of a chap and looks
slow. He is a rough-neck on the
bases, however, and got a lot of
steals just because he slid Into the
bases, feet flying and kept the
basemen off for fear of spikes.
Paskert was one of tho neatest
of base thlefs. His methods and
Moran’s are decidedly similar. Both
are slight, agile chaps, who have
studied the art of sliding and who
run bases with good determina
tion. That Paskert hasn’t entirely
forgotten the knack of stealing he
demonstrated In 1910, when he
grabbed off 51 in the National
league. However, last year and In
1909 he was not so good. He put
28 to his credit the former year and
28 the latter.
• • •
JJ ABE stealing is a larger part of
baseball now than It ever was
before. The rules have made base
stealing difficult, but by studying
MAY “CAN” OUT SEVERAL
AMERICAN OLYMPIC MEN
NEW YORK, June 25.—Failure to
obey the training rules laid down by
Mike Murphy may result in the send
ing home of several athletes on the
American Olymptc team. From the
innland cornea word that a committee,
of which James E. Sullivan is the head,
may, however, decide to let the men- In
question off with a severe reprimand.
A number of the athletes, all with In
ternational reputations, clashed with
Murphy on a question of training rou
tine and refused to follow his Instruc
tions. It 1b possible that after further
■consideration the Olympic committee
will reverse a decision It reached, but
If it should decide not to, several ath
letes never will get any closer to Stock
holm than Antwerp, unless they are
willing to pay their own expenses and
travel alone. Their entries, of course,
would be withdrawn.
The entire team is more than ever
confidetft that, to all intents and pur
poses, the Olympiad is over, all but the
shouting. Murphy, after two w.orkouts
under his direction, is willing to go on
record as predicting the Americans will
win everything they have been claim
ing.
FIGHT LID AT KENOSHA
GETS A DECIDED TILT
KENOSHA. WIS., June 25. Repeated
efforts to lift the tight lid in Kenosha
have finally succeeded and it was stated
here today that the fistic fans will have
a chance to gather to Kenosha on July 4
for a big open show at which Eddie Mc-
Goorty and either George i Knockout)
Brown or Frank Klaus will offer the
feature bout. Sheriff A. F. Stahl said
tliis morning:
"I have about agreed to grant a per
mit for an open-air show to be held on
the Fourth of July. It Is to be put on by
local men. and I have the assurance that
it will be put on in an orderly manner."
The sheriff let it be understood that
this was not throwing down the bars for
the return of any old promoters The
show Is'to be pulled off at one of the big
parks about Kenosha and it Is probable
that tlie agreement for the bouts will be
signed in Chicago on Thursday.
WELL. ANYHOW, LOOKOUTS
GET THEIR3SDOLLARS BACK
CINCINNATI. June 25.—The claim
of Player Carl Flick, who was released
by the Detroit American league blub to
Chattanooga and later recalled and re
leased to New Haven, for salary from
April 11 to April 26, was dismissed by
the National baseball commission yes
terday, and a counter claim against the
player by the Chattanooga club for $35
borrowed money was allowed.
AUSTRALIA WANTS CHAMP
FOR BOUT WITH LANGFORD
EAST LAS VEGAS, June 25 Hugh
Mclntosh wrote Johnson today, stating
that he would post SIO,OOO on this side of
the pond for the champion’s appearance
In \ustralla early in the fall
No opponent was named, but Sam latr.g
ford is no doubt the man picked out as
Johnson s victim.
GIBBS BEATS OLLIE KIRKE.
MEMPHIS, TENN., June 25—Willie
Gibbs, of Philadelphia, was awarded it
decision over Ollie Kirke. of St Louie,
before the National A. C. Monday night.
The affair went eight rounds.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, J L’NE 2&>, 1912.
the art. by working out novel
slides, by sizing up pitchers’ mo
tions and by increasing speed the
leading teams have been able to
get more bat-es in recent years
than they used to before the im
portance of stealing was really rec
ognized.
The Giants, of course, made the
thing particularly popular by their
great work on the bases last year,
which did so rrtiich toward giving
them the National league cham
pionship.
As a result there was more base
stealing praotice this spring than
ever before. Sliding pits were
rigged up by all the teams and
the art of base running carne In
for deep study. In consequence it
is likely that more bases will be
Stolen in the major leagues this
year than ever before in baseball’s
history.
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Diamond News and Gossip
The Giants seem to be in earnest in
planning a tour around the world. -The
financial difficulties loom large, but if
they can get the national commission to
waive its rule that world’s series learns
must not play exhibition games they have
a chance They plan to play exhibitions
across the continent and then lump to
Honolulu. Erum there they would go to
the Philippines and then on to Japan.
They would be in big baseball country all
the way and ought to pile up a lot of
money. From’ the way the Giants are
planning this trip It is evident that they
consider the world’s series already won—
which it Isn’t.
• • •
It has now been officially decided that
the New York Americans haven’t any
thing that looks like a hall club, they
have quit bothering with this year and
are trying to build something presentable
for next year,
Things have come to an awful pass
when Brooklyn sends Northern in to bat
for “Red” Smith.
• • •
The Reds have sent Pitcher Floyd Corn
well back to Huntington, W. Vh . from
whence, he came. They said Floyd had a
nice disposition, but that let him out.
• • •
The Cincinnati team is virtually down
to five pitchers Suggs, Benton, Keefe,
bromme and Humphries.
« • •
There may not be any Topeka team for
long. The stockholders are getting tired
of handling a losing financial venture.
• • •
Well it's getting like old times They're
having n scandal down in the Sally league.
Macon papers say that Columbia and pos
sibly Savannah flamed up to give Jack
sonville the pennant for the first half of
the season.
• • •
Howard Camnltz appears now to be in
a fairway toward making with the top
pitchers of the National league. lie has
more this season than he has been able
to display in a long time
• • ■
Wow. what a slump! Eddie Slever has
become an umpire In the South Michigan
league.
• • *
The Central league, as a 12-club organi
zation, is a wonderful artistic success.
The teams are bunched and the race is
thrilling But the crowds don't turn out.
And there will not be another 12-c.lub
Central league in a long time.
• • •
By passing the hat to the extent of
$6,000 the South Bend team has raised
enough money to stick in the Centra!
league.
• • •
John Gansel is a great manager, but a
bum scout Last fall, when he was a
candidate for the management of the New
York Americans, he touted that team onto
McConnell. Simmons and Osborn, and let
Moeller, Foster and Moran slip to other
< lubs McConnell and ’ ‘shorn failed mis
erably. Moeller, Foster and Moran are
making baseball history.
We thought so. Elberfeld is about
! ready to quit baseball and return to his
i home In Chattanooga The old b<»\ is
all in
• • •
Jake Da übert has forsaken bls borne
burg of Llewellyn. I’a. and will hereafter
live in Brooklyn Also, be has sold his
pod parlor and will hereafter travel for
a cigar firm, which specialises on a cab
bage named “Daubert.”
• • •
Artie Hofmsn seems al! In. He has gone
home for a rest and may never be worth
his keep again. He has never been him
self since n* was hit behind the ear b>
a thrown ball
• • •
Rochester baseball writer* express th<*
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This is Alex Smith, Jr., 01
at the Piedmont Driving club,
merit which starts there today
fear that Tommy McMillan may become
plate shy as a result of the awful blow
given him recently.
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The Washington team, maybe byway of
“alabying" for the broken winning streak,
charge that the Philadelphia players
‘Toyghed” them and deliberately tried to
injure them. That sounds like Connie
Mack work!
• • •
Anadarko, Okla., has forfeited its fran
chise tn the Oklahoma State league. This
is not likely to have any effect on the Na
tional league race.
• • •
The Napa have started their shake-un
by releasing the boy who kept the play
ers' gate. Owner Summers happened to
sit behind him when he yelled “Take 'im
out” at one of the Nap pitchers.
■ ♦ •
You remember a guy offered a red au
tomobile to every Cincinnati player in
case the club won the championship.
Well, he was approached recently and
when interviewed stated that the offer
still stands.
- • •
The Pittsburg club of the United States
| league u ill stand <»ft the inevitable a while
• longer by playing some semi-professional
teams around Chicago. After that—
smash, bang!
• • •
Perrill Pratt hovers just below the .300
mark. But that's going some, consider
ing the demoralized crew he is with.
• ■ •
The worst hitters among the American
league regulars is Zeider of Chicago—.2oo
even In 52 games.
• • •
Myers of the Giants is rapidly slumping
to his normal hatting record Zimmerman
of the Cubs now has a 24-polnt lead on
him.
• • •
Kirkpatrick, ex-Cracker, is leading the
Newark team in the matter of extra base
hitting, with 26 total extra bases Bill
Zimmerman, also an* ex-Cracker. is the
leading base stealer
• * •
Have you noticed that you don't hear
so much of Ty Cobb since the Tigers; have
(trapped back to nowhere. The only no
toriety Cobb has really acquired this 'eat
came when lie soaked a spectator.
Speaker of Texas. Cobb of Georgia and
Jackson of South Carolina are the reul
leaders . f the American leagueAiattlng
order The Order of the Sons of the
i? c/f the best of the tennis players
He will take part in the tourna-
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Sunny South isn’t a large one. but look
who belongs.
• ♦ •
Bert Maxwell is showing the Interna
tional league something about a slow ball.
He surely has a marvel.
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28 WHITEHALL STREET
Record of Kelly Is Faked by .
Gate City Club Press Agents
By W. S. Farnsworth.
ONCE again the Gate City is
trying to bunk the tight fans
of Atlanta. Frank Whitney
is scheduled to meet Leo Kelly
there tonight. Whitney is a top
notcher, while Kelly is a third
rater, or, at least, that is what they
think of him out in St. Louis.
Never having heard of Kelly,
the writer last night wired Harry
Nelly, sporting editor of The St.
Louis Times, asking what the
Mount City fans think of Kelly, for
it is in that city on the banks
of the Mississippi that he has done
all of his fighting.
Here is Nelly’s reply:
St. Louis, Mo,, June 24, 1912.
W. S. Farnsworth,
The Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga.
Leon Kelly never beat anybody
of importance; nice boy personally;
clean boxer, but without a wallop.
Slipping you bunk in stating he
beat Trendall. Trendall gave him
terrific lacing in eight rounds a
few months back. Trendall beat
Kelly with one hand tied. Kelly's
most important matches—two de
cisions over Harry Donahue, Peo
ria, III.; draw, Kid Farmer; kicked
out’ Adolph Eaton; lost foul, Eaton;
beat Kid Graves, Cleveland, ten
rounds. Kelly will beat a third
rater, but nobody of any class,
HARRY NEILY.
» • »
TA ESPITE the fact that Trendall
handed Kelly a walloping, the
Gate City club’s press agents have
been printing stories that Kelly de
feated Trendall. They have been
telling about Kelly's terrible wal
lop and according to Nelly, one of
the best fight experts in the mid
dle West, Kelly can’t break an elec
tric bulb.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Joe Jeannette 1b scheduled to go twelve
rounds with Sandy Ferguson in Boston
tomorrow night.
Jeannette has also signed articles for a
six-round bout with Kid Cotton in Pitts
burg either July « or 9.
* • •
Tommy Murphy arrived on the coast re
cently and started preparing for his fight
with Abe Attell. Murphy will train ’in
Oakland.
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Fighters have different methods of try
ing to frighten their opponents before the
gong clangs. Ad Wolgast doesn't sit In
his corner and scowl at his opponent as
many fighters do. His way is simple—he
Just goes ahead and signs up for several
bouts to be staged after the fight as
though the match he is going to tight
first was only a sparring tryout.
• • •
The San Francisco Examiner says Joe
Rivers has seen his fight with Wolgast in
a dream. The Mexican says it was not a
one-sided fight; that, in fact, he was
floored several times. However, little
Joe says along about the twelfth round
he slipped the sleep punch over on the
champion.
* . ♦
The early betting on the Johnson-Flynn
fight makes the champion a 10 to 4 favor
ite.
• • •
Pal Brown is the lad secured to fight
Battling Nelson in Winnipeg, Canada.
July 1. .The fighters have not signed
articles for the bout yet, but the match
is almost a certainty.
Brown recently whipped Ray Temple at
Hibbing, Minn., and all but knocked out '
the Southerner.
K. O. Brown is scheduled to box ten
rounds with Jimmy Duffy in Buffalo on
July 3. Brown will receive SBOO as his ,
share of tlie prize, with a privilege of '
taking 30 per cent. Pretty good for
K. O.
« « «
Phil Brock eliminated Timmy Kilhane
from the lightweight ranks the other
night when he knocked him out in the
sixth round of a scheduled ten-round
bout.
• • •
Bob Mohn lost a good chance for ad
vancement as well as a good chance to
pick up some coin when he tailed to post
a forfeit and lost a return match with
t r ELLY may not get am opportu
nity to display his wares tonight,
for chances are even that Whitney
won’t fight him. Not that Frank z
is afraid of his opponent, for Frank
doesn’t fear any man of his weight.
But. knowing that the Gate City
club is on its last legs he intends
to see to It that his guarantee Is
posted in the hands of a reputable
person.
And this money must be posted
before Whitney climbs into the
ring. He doesn’t want to disap
point the fans at the last minute
by refusing to box. So we wish
to announce that chances are even
that he will not perform this even
ing.
Frank, realizing that Kelly is no
drawing card, insisted on a guaran
tee. He knows that Kelly is noth
ing but a third-rater, and it looks
as though he put one over on the
Gate City club.
» • •
XT7HY didn’t the club match Tom-
’ my O'Keefe with Whitney?
Well, 1 will tell you. The club is
getting Kelly for about one-half
what O’Keefe would get. They '
figured tliat Whitney would draw
against anydne, and they don’t care
a rap if the bout is one-sided if
only the money is there.
Some day there will be a real
boxing club in this city, and be
fore very long. too. One of At
lanta’s most prominent real es
tate men is already planning to
erect a club that will stage the
brand of mills that local fans de
serve.
1* * *
THAT the Gate City officials know
nothing about fighters, will
stand for anything and in turn have
proven fine boobs for wise boxers,
will be shown in the columns of
The* Georgian sporting pages to
morrow. ■ s
Eddie McGoorty. George K. O Brown,
the Chicago Greek, was given tlie match
in place of Moha.
• • »
As soon as the contract which binds
Tom O’Rourke as manager of Al Palzer
is settled the big white hope will try to
land Jim Corbett as official handler of
his affairs.
• • •
Joe Stein has wagered $250 that he will
be fighting at the end of his ten-round go
with Mike Gibbons tonight.
• • •
Jack Goodman is trying to secure a
return mutch with Packey McFarland.
The last time they fought the stockyard
champion stopped Goodman.
• • *
.Benton Harbor promoters are trying to
sign Willie Ritchie and Eddie Murphy for
a ten-round bout on the Fourth.
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Lond Du Lac, Mich., boxing promoters
have practically closed for a Fourth of
July bout between Jesse Willard and
John Wille. Wille’s fight in this city was
a ten-round draw with Tony Ross.
“BRAVES" WILL TRY OUT
ARTY BUES NEXT SPRING
BOSTON. MASS.. June 25.—The Bos
ton National club has purchased In
fielder Arthur Bues. of the Buffalo cjub.
of the International league. Bues was
with Seattle last year and led the North
western league in batting with an av- >
erage of .352. He made 27 home runs.
Bues will stay with Buffalo till the
end of the International league sea
son.
Baseball
WEDNESDAY
ATLANTA vs. CHATTANOOGA
Ponce Deleon—Game Called 4:00
