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Crackers Return Home and Mix With Lookouts
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New Men Expected Here Before the Series Is Over
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE home-coming of the
Crackers and the debut of
the rejuvenated team at
Ponce DeLeon park today is really
something of an event. The t rank
er fans are more than keen to see
Douglas Habison. the new infleld
er. to sret a squint at Joe Agler, the
famous first baseman: to lamp the
classic countenance of Buck"
Becker They ate also wild to get
a look at the new team, as a team,
and to form their own estimates as
to whether this club has or has not
a chance tq make a big noise in the
Southern league this season.
If this new Atlanta team is good
enough to pull up In the race there
is going to he the grandest three
cornered two-fisted, knock-down
gnd-’kick-out fight that the South
has had in years. If the Crackers
could once get up in the battle
with Birmingham and New Or
leans. there would be high old times
in the Sunny Southland. Whether
or not the Cracker* have a chance
to make this rise in the world
whether or not their fortunes ran
be Improved will soon be told.
And the coming series at Ponce
DeLeon will have a lot to do with
the telling.
If the Crackers are going to edge
up into the thick of the fight, they
must soon be about it. The season
is getting decidedly close to half
way over The Crackers are sehed
uled to play 140 games. As a mat
ter of fact, considering all the post
ponements that have already been
piled up, the locals will be lucky
to sret awav with 186 games this
year. Already' they have played 60,
which is 44 per cent of that num
ber. and decidedly close to one-half.
Arid right now the Crackers ate
next to last.
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epHIS has been a great year for
* a lot of things but particular
ly for records What with the fa
mous Marquard out for a new
mark, the Washington Senators
just through with the greatest con
secutive road run that ever a team
made, with the Giants off for a new'
mark for games won and a few
minor records going down every
few days, it is verily a great ses
sion.
Colonel Richard W. Marqtiard's
record is probably' the most re
markable of the hunch. And one
odd feature of ft is that no two
writers can seem to agree on w hat
the dickens the real record is, any
how The dopesters started off with
the Chesbro-Reulbach mark of 14
straight games and boosted that for
a while Then somebody alleged
to discover that Jack Lqhy once
ran 20 straight before they got him.
Then somebody bobbed up with 24
straight for McCormack And now
comes a man who alleges that
Thomas Lovett. pitching for
Bridgeport in the Eastern league in
1887, ran 24 in a row—all full length
contests.
And no sooner does somebody set
up one mark as the real record be
fore somebody comes along and
bowls it over Colonel Marquard
collared the Chesbro-Reulbach
mark, and is still going, with 17 to
hie credit. Then somebody’ discred
ited the Luby performance, with
the proof that Jack only ran 17;
anyhow -Shortly after that the
dopesters took- a fall out of Mc-
Cormack's mark, showing that the
former Chicago man never beat 15
consecutive victories
Lovett s mark of 24 in a row
seems to be all to the good, but he
started hi* winning streak in the
exhibition season, which rather
spoils the mark as a real record.
It was a gtand performance,
though, for Lovett won all his ex-
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hlbition games against teams of
stronger leagues than the Eastern
and every game of the 24 was a
full-length affair.
Timothy J. Keefe, who flourished
back In the dark and devious days
of 1888, perhaps has a better claim
to the real major league record
than any other man Tim ran 19
in amu There is just one flaw in
his title Orrte he was taken out
in the fifth inning of a game that
was won in order to save him for
work the next day. The whole
thing is so shrouded by the haze
of antiquity that it is hard to tell
whether or not he was really enti
tled to the credit of that game. At
any rate, he has 18 in a row to his
credit.
The two most marvelous pitching
marks of all recorded baseball his
tory were these:
Radbourne's winning of 18 games
in 18 days.
Ed Cushman’s run of 26 victories,
with only one defeat against him in
an entile season.
Radbourne’s mark will stand for
all time. No pitcher in these days
of pampering is ever asked to pitch
two days in succession, much less
eighteen, and never will Rad
bourne’s mark be touched. Neyer,
the old-timers will tell you. will
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there be such a great pitcher,
either -though this can't be proved.
Cushman ought to have had 26
straight. One little 2 to 1 defeat,
and this one a ten-inning affair,
put hint to the bad. He won 12
in a row before it cropped out.
He won 13 more in a row after
ward. Cushman was with Milwau
kee when the record was made, and
the present American association
town was then in the Northwest
league. It happened tn 1884. some
years back, it will be noted As
a season's work It has never been
equaled.
MARQfARD'S record Is. all
things considered, as great
as any of the past. He went the
full distance In all hts games ex
cept three. He has had a grand
team behind him, hut the sort of
ball he has been pitching would
win games for Brooklyn.
Marquard was born at Cleveland
in 1889. He began, as usual, on
the sand lots His first regular en
gagement was with the Canton
club of the Central league the
club, by the way. with which Cy
Young started. Indianapolis got
Marquard from Canton and from
the Indians the Giants bought him
for the then unheard of price of
811,001' -all real money.
Marquard didn't break into real
big league ball with any loud noise.
His first attempt Atas an awful
drubbing, a defeat so terrific in its
consequences that the Rube wasn't
worth a hang for the next two
years.
In the spring of last year Wil
bert Robinson took Marquard In
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. .TTNE 26. 1912.
hand and managed to give him
back his nerve and his curves to
such an extent that he was able to
win 24 and lost but 7 last year.
He was an aw ful disappointment in
the world’s series, but so was
everything that bore the Giant ti
tle. What Marquard is doing this
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year is baseball history.
Here is a list of the pitchers who
have won twelve or more games
In a row (no game of less than
five innings' in the major leagues
since 1882:
Games
Pitcher. Year. Won.
Keefe 1888 19
McCormack 1886 13
McCormack .. . . 1885 14
Chesbro 1904 14
Meekin 1894 12
Gastright 1890 13
Radbourne 1884 18
lathy 1891 17
Young 1902 13
Reulba-ch 1909 14
Ferguson 1886 12
Killen 1893 12
Welsh 1885 IS
Rusie 1894 15
Young . . . 191'3 13
McCormack 1884 15
Waddell 1903 13
Hecker 1884 12
DAVID BRUCE-BROWN
WINS GRAND PRIZE RACE
DIEPPE, FRANCE. June 26—David
Bruce-Brown, of New York, won the
first half of the automobile grand
prize race, which started here at dawn
yesterday. He was, however. not
representing the I’nited States. but
was driving an Italian Fiat machine
He completed the ten laps (a dis
tance of 770 kilometers, or about 452
miles 5 1-2 furlongs), composing the
first day’s progress. In 6 hours 36 min
utes 3S seconds.
Bollot. driving a French Feon Pou
guet machine, was second, only about
two minutes behind, his time being 6
hours 38 minutes 40 seconds.
The start was marred by an accident
in the morning. Colinet, who was pi
loting a Cregoire machine, when try
ing to pass a competitor on the course,
shot into the air and capsized. His
mechanician. Bessagnana. was instant
ly killed and Colinet himself seriously
injured.
JENNINGS SEEMS TO BE
IN BAD WITH OWNERS
DETROIT, June 26. -Is "F.-Yafi"
Jennings slated for the minors" Is
the three-time lender of the American
league pennant winners about to be
thrown into the discard? Reports say
he is, and that Owners Navin and Yaw
key are vastly dissatisfied with the
way things are going True the Tigers
have Cqbb and Crawford and Rush and
other stats, but they keep losing Th
brunt of,the blame fails upon the red
headed manager.
"I am not at all satisfied with the
way things are going <>n the team," de
clared Navin. "Jennings appears tn
have lost his hold on the njen. They
seem to have no confidence in his
judgment. Ou: pitchers have been
handled poorly and the team has shown
little science. What we do next season
depends on the showing of the Tigris
between now and October."
FIGHT ARENA FINISHED.
EAST LAS VEGAS N M , June 26.
The arena in which the Flynn-John
son battle for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world will be fought
here on July Fourth is < ompleted. and
A Pair of Lookouts
Who Play Here Today
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ABEL'S MANAGER COMES
ACROSS WITH A LETTER
This letter explains itself.
Sporting Editor The Georgian
Dear Sir- I notice in a recent issue of a
local morning paper a criticism of Jake
Abel's fighting ability, written presuma
bly by some one strange to ring methods.
The criticism mentions the fact that Abel
can not he considered a first-class light
weight until be disposes of such dubs as
Terry Nelson and the like, claiming that
the recent fight between Abel and Nel
son tn Nashville, although Tailed a draw,
was really a victory for the Grepk. •■Fur
ther stating that Abel is always talking
about meeting Whitney. decla.ring that if
not able to dispose of Nelson and such,
he had better steer clear of Frank Whit
ney if he does not want to go to the hos
pital.
In answer, wish to state that Abel is
really a first-class lightweight, as his
record shows. He has had 26 fights, lost
only two of them, one of them a question
able decision. He is open to meet the best
in the business in the lightweight divi
sion.
Abel lias really disposed of Nelson in a
finish contest, held only recently. Nelson
was stopped in 41 rounds.
In reference to talking about meeting
Whitney. Abel is willing to meet 'Whitney
any time before a club that will offer a
sufficient guarantee, or whose patronage
Is such as will permit him fighting on a
percentage basis.
Mould also like to make a wager that
Whitney could not dispose of Nelson in
side of one tn 20 rounds, as I consider
Nelson the toughest lightweight In the
South.
Thanking you for this favor. I remain.
Respectfully-.
M J. ABELSON.
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Packey McFarland Makes Some Rules for Boxers
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Fighter Defends His Career as a Real Profession
PACKET M’FARLAND is acknowl
edged to be the greatest boxer in
the world and the real gentleman
of the ring For the past eight
years his marvelous skill and wonderful
defense have been simply phenomenal
During that time he has engaged in over
250 battles, and has yet to be known as
a lover.
Packey has written fche following nar
rative fnr the readers of'The Georgian, in
which he tries to explain his successful
career Also he gives the boys of the
country a few words of advice. McFar
land has amassed a fortune and intends
to give up boxing and study law
By Packey McFarland.
WRITING a’history of yourself is
not the nicest task, in the world.
If you try tq give yourself a
little boost the knockers become active
If you hide a few good deeds you play
false tn yourself.
Therefore. I will try to do my best.
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ROY MORAN.
which is all that can be asked of a
man. It goes without contradiction
that ,1 have been more than fortunate
in my ring career. The fact that I
never lost a decision and also that I
managed to accumulate enough money
to make my folks and myself com
fortable is something to be proud of.
Many times I have been asked:
"Packey. yvhat accounts for your suc
cess?"
That’s a very hard question, and
really I could not give a sensible an
syy er. When I started off to box there
were four rules that I made up my
mind to pay strict attention tn: Don't
drink' Don't smoke! Live a clean life!
Avoid bad companionship!
Now, because I pull these rules, don't
Imagine that I'm a killjoy. Far from
that. I only want to tell you what I
think helped me in the world.
Don’t Violate Agreements,
Another point that I made an iron
clad rule is: Never break your word.
As long as I have been in the boxing
business there is not a single manager,
promoter or any body that had any
dealings with me who can say that I
have violated an agreement.
Recently there have been a quite a
few complaints over agreements being
treated contemptuously by some of the
budding stars. That is a terrible error,
for It should he realized by successful
fighters that promoters are entitled to
big consideration for the chances they
take in staging bouts. One tip worth
taking is. never get a swelled head.
For as soon as you do then you are.
gone. The history of the ring will
prove this.
Now, that I have told all that I
think Is Interesting from a personal
standpoint. I will touch on the profes
sion of boxing. I use the word profes
sion In its fullest sense. Boxing is so
different from fighting that there is no
possible comparison. Boxing is the
science of attack and defense. It does
not mean rushing in with head lowered,
striking away in a wild fashion and
doing your best to render your rival
helpless.
Boxing Exhibition of Skill.
On the contrary, it is an exhibition
of skill. You can not pick up boxing.
Without the aid of a competent in
structor nobody can become a real
finished boxer. That boxing is con-
sidered a decent folloyving is my firmest
belief. In the present era it is taught
in nearly all colleges, academies and
schools.
Boxing to me should be taught to
every' youngster. In the first place it
teaches them self reliance and again
makes them apt in the art of self de
fense. Take any big man in life, he is
always boxing, as you may say, and
though lie may get the worst of it now
and then, he always comes back That
is drilled into you through boxing.
As an instance. I was going into the .
Fairmount A. <'. in New York one aft- ■
ernqpn. There were a few y oungsters i
playing around the door. I invited i
them in to spar. One little fellow re j
fused to put on the gloves, and was 1
almost ready to cry at the suggestion. !
That convinced me that the little fel- ■
low lacked spirit. Without that nec- ,
essary requirement yvhat chance will
he have when he Is thrown on his own !
resources? If he had boxed a. little and |
received a few stinging wallops it would |
make him brace up and also teach the
lesson that as we travel through life j
everything Is not a sweet song
First Lessons Important.
In many cases a good boxer is ruined ;
in his first lesson. He puts on the ,
gloves with a finished teacher, and ’
naturally, has no chartce. Time and
again the pupil is discouraged. He !
quits or enters the ranks of the slug- I
gers and goes just so far. For any 1
strong man can slug, but only a few
can box.
For a youth who studies boxing, his
first thought must to be to act nat
urally. This artificial posing or cruch
ing is a big handicap, especially if he
meets a dangerous rival. Common
sense will show you that when moving
about one must bo natural to retain
a firm balance.
Another important point is to un-
derstand that boxing is a science. You
don’t have to strike your hardest, for
points are what you are after. That
brings me to something that I hear
often—"Packey can not knock out hi«
men."
Before 1 go farther I wish to
say that Packey can knock out his
men, but Packey doesn’t believe in
that sort of boxing. If any man can
show me the advantage of rendering
insensible an opponent that is practi
cally at your mercy, I would like tc
know it.
Boxing Better Than Fighting.
I firmly believe that the public ap
preciates a boxing exhibition more
than it does a fight. This is not ths
day of London prize ring rules. It is
the era of boxing. The states where
boxing is permitted strictly rule
against fighting, but favor boxing.
That is quite an argument to over
come. I believe strictly in elevating
the sport. When two men enter the
ring it is not to slaughter each other,
but to box.
Take the life of a prize fighter and
that of a boxer. The latter perform
for years, while the former disappears
from the scene very quickly.
Again carrying around a broken
nose or cauliflower ears is not the
nicest thing when you quit the ring.
And very few fighters escape those
disfigurements. I have knocked out
men In my career but believe me I
didn’t feel proud over the stunts. I
never have had any crowd yelling
"Take them off” while I have beer!
fighting When I had a. man so help
less that he didn’t have a possible
chance I always appealed to the ref
eree to stop the affair. In my many
bouts I always made it a point to study
my man and then try to beat him to the
blow. This quickens the brain and will
be of benefit in latter years.
SOUTH ATLANTIC FIRST
SEASON CLOSES TODAY
The first haif of the South Atlantic
baseball season will come to a close
with the games played this afternoon.
The Jacksonville Scouts are the win
ners of the flr«t season grabbing the
lead about three weeks ago. and by
consistent winning hanging on to the
top and during the past week cinching
the first half with a margin to spare.
The second half of the season will
begin tomorrow. The winner of the
second season, if it is any other club
but Jacksonville, will play off the tie
for the pennant with the Scouts in a
post-season series after the second half
of the season efids.
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