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14 Tb) A7 F PLRCY^H WHITING V TAD, VI I m/A\ SAM CRANE, WJ HS BETH, rN( ))).< v(( TT LEFT HOOK. SOL Crackers Combine With Umpire To Give Decision to Lookouts By Percy H. Whiting. THE firm of Rudderfram. Crack ers & Company shipped out a consignment of defeat ad dressed to Vedder Sitton and it was delivered yesterday afternoon in tiie presence of a couple of thou sand disconsolate fans. As far as mere pitching could go Sitton won the game, but after the Cracker!? and the umpire had fin ished with It the score stood 4 to n In the favor of the hated Look outs. It was a distressing game. The Crackers' Infield cracked. On Wednesday it looked as tight as a new shoe. On Thursday it had holes in It like a sieve—only bigger. And as for the outfield It made only one bobbin, but )hat, was enough itself to cost the game. Consider the Lookout runs in their order Second inning—Crackers kicked In two for the Lookouts. Fourth inning-Vmplre Rudder ham presented the Lookouts with a run Fifth Inning—The lookouts ac tnaJly earned a run. • *. C-OTTjE, th* first man up in the second Inning was walked. Barr banted and McElveen mussed up the play. Balinti dittoed, like wise McElveen. Then an odd thing happened for a man scored on a. double play. Sen tell’s grounder to Alperman result ed in the retirement of both Bal - and Sentell. but Coyle counted on the outs. Then Noyes hoisted a fly to right field. It was a nice, lit tle, easy fly, but Bailey ran In on It when he should have stood still and his big jump wasn’t quite high enough to spear It. There wasn't anything to call It but a hit and on the fluke Barr scored. Now that was a fine Inning, wasn’t ft ? • • • T’METRE RUDDERHAM then presented the Iziokouts wf,th a run. It will be recalled, perhaps, that Atlanta papers aren’t In the habit of yelling Help! The umpire robbed us." In fact ft Is a rule of the Atlanta press box “Let the i FODDER FOR FANS I—- ■ , Rube Marquand Hrs had a neck of the i atrlcal offers alreadx If he's wise he'll I pass them up. j • • • Dirk Hoblltzel will probably retire after this season to practice dentistry. i • • * Billy Gilbert. ex-Glant, now manager of . the Erie club, has had so many' run-ins 1 with umpires that he has been indefinite ly suspended by the president of the Cen tral league I The Highlanders will get Smith. Barry and Howard from Brockton at the end of this season. ’ • • • Frank Chance say's he win not desert baseball until the end of this season, at 1 least. His contract expires at the end of ' this year and he may decide not to renew it And then again he may Virginia league papers say Erskine ! Mayer was bought and paid for by Ports mouth and that he must stick out the sea son The local opinion is that he was bought, but that the transaction stopped there • • • Lou Castro ts after Pitcher Mclllvane of the dear departed United States league. Even Richmond now admits that the Vnited States league is really dead • • • Del Howard has been sold by the St Paul team to San Francisco. Howard w ill manage the coast club. • ♦ • Cincinnati is trying to get Pitcher Packard and Fred Bruck from Columbus. Ohio, for immediate use, but there is small chance The Evening Wisconsin says. ' Pitcher Walter Miller has been signed by Fort Wayne He was with Omaha last year " We hnve a few seeds to het he was with Atlanta, not Omaha. Mayor Gaynor is for Sunday ball in cities and doesn t mind saying «o Here is his line of talk, as given to a minister Who protested against Sunday games "Os course, von know that many of our city men and boys have no day of recre ation except Sunday What would you do with them 0 If they do not play tn the fields they v'll go somewhere else, as vou know No doubt your church has solved that problem, and 1 should be very glad to have vou let me know how It has been solved Some of our clergymen who hate not been able to solve it are offer Ing to go into the fields and play with the bets of their congregation on Sunday afternoons They dread to hate the boys driven to the saloons or to worse places " • • • Here are some Western league batting averages: Lindsay. Denver. 857: Berg hammer. Lincoln. 2'*6. Rickert. Topeka. ?91 Cobb. IJncoin, 273; Stratton, Lin coln. .190 • • • When ’he Ohio Interstate league hit a financial iceberg and floundered. Boh Snade. manager "f the Greenville team in that league, was one of the victims They haven't been breaking very strong for Fob of late. * • * Sgrg The Cleburne Review. "Ever) body ’«»''•<’ the ball and rmr on one side vesferdat " Like a crab, maybe « • Connie Mack has picked up Johnny King, a college pitcher of the Sacred Heart team of Denver • • • Do vou recall a really fast infieldet who vat- dropped from the majors to a big minor league and never recalled, though his plaving justified it? It is now claimed he was caught cheating at poker ami was condemned to th. bushes in < onsequetwe. which is entertaining if veracious a • • A while back Columbus. Ohio. had both a Grefe and a Grieve »n the team Then Grieve was canned Carl Nichols, of the Framingham Ma.-s high school team, pitched three no hit games this spring. Os course, vou know wTtat Connie Mgek did to h'm There is talk of sending Charles Hank up to manage the Boston Nationals-- umpire umpire." But occasion ally there comes a decision, like the classic one of Shuster's, that pre cipitated a riot and that of Bill Carpenter's last year, which the league reversed, so raw that a blind man could improve on them. And such a decision was Rudderham’s! Sentell had singled In the fourth and stolen second. Noyes then cracked a single to left and Sen tell started for home. Callahan mad* a M-and peg and Donahue caught the leather on the first bound. Sentell was tearing for the plate and Donahue faced an awkward play. He had to turn, and touch Sentell, running a big chance of being spiked while he was doing it. Pat showed the stuff he is made of by grabbing the ball, whirling into Sent.ell’s way and touching him out a foot before he reached the plate Then Rudderham called Sentell safe and the storm bi*oke. Dona hue raved and ranted. Hemphill fussed and fumed. The other play ers cussed and'discussed. But of course nothing came of It—that Is, not for the moment. But Cnveles k.ie, the next man up. ended the Inning with a fl.v-out to Hemphill. The Cracker manager grabbed ball, took careful aim at Rudder ham and planted the ball in the Itiddle of Ruddy’s back The marksmanship was excel lent, but ft wasn’t a very edifying performance. If Ruddy had had the courage of a dill pickle he would have put Hemphill out of the game and fined him besides, which "Hemp" richly deserved. But "Rud dy,” knowing he was wrong on the Sentell decision, made a bad mat ter Infinitely worse by letting Hemphill got away with the rough stuff. • • • I UST by the way of heaping one misery on another, the Cracker fans piled out of the ball park yes terday to find the current gone and the car service dead. They swarm ed Into the waiting cars and wait ed. It was 30 minutes or more be fore enough juice was forthcom to move the procession home ward Ah, yes, It was a grand after noon's sport! I which wouldn't, he had for the Braves hut the Pelican owners swear they would never release him • • • Reals Becker must have improved a lot since he played in the Southern league. . i J? 11 hlm now ' as one of Hie great est fielders tn the game In his Southern league days he fielded like a truck horse • • • Russell Ford has loaf more close games than any pitcher tn the American league. Earl Gardner, of the Yanks, ts the vic ttm of a badly injured ankle • • • One day recently the South Rmi.l team played to so small a crowd that the re ceipts did not pay for the halls used The Washington placers are to get a nurse of $1,0.000 If they win the American league pennant this year. That's some better than little red automobiles Marquard haw mastered Christy Mathew soti s high drop and Is looking for nrw curves to conquer • • • The Giants are still stealing a few l>«ses. Schafer, Becker. Dovl? and Herzog are among the National leagues ten best base stealers. They are reinforcing ihe bottom of the Amertean league in view of all that ap pears to be coming down • • • Seventeen 3-hit games have been pitched In the American league this sea son «nd only five In the National Freddie Meyers. \lma college pitcher, who has been with the Charlotte team for awhile, has signed with Grand Rapids. FINALS TOMORROW IN PIEDMONT D. C. TENNIS Plaj continued in the annual tennis tournament of the Piedmont Driving club vesterdav, and the semi-finals in the men's slnglre will probably be played this afternoon, with the finals tomorrow The following are the results of the matches In the men's singles and doubles yesterday afternoon Singles. Varden defeated I‘miglas, A ft K a Varden defeated Martin. RO 6 3 Varden defeated Foreman, 6-0. 6 0 Williams defeated Hurt b\ default. Senft defeated Golex by default Draper detested Scott, 6-3. 9-7 Dorsex defeated Thornton. •» 1. 6 1 <’lay defeated C Smith by default The Hoyt - \ Smith match stood 64. R -10 in Hoyt's favor when darkness stopped the match, which will bp rontln ued this afternoon Doubles Draper and Colquitt defeated Allen and Gray ny default Draper and Colquitt defeated Rnx and Williams. 7 5. 7 0 (’lax and Hall defeated Scott and M« (’leskev, 6-4 6-2 FLYNN AND JOHNSON PICK TIMEKEEPERS FAST LAS AEG AS. N M . tube '2B Wish the Johnson-Flynn contest but a week off. preparations for the fight ba\e been completed The list of those who will officiate todai was completed. with the flaming of otto Holo, of Denver, us official timekeeper for Flynn, and 11 Tearney. of Chicago, and Tom Flanagan, of Toronto, for Johnson. COLUMBUS GETS HURLER. COLUMBUS. GA . June 28 The tv lumbus baseball officials have closed a deal with the Milwaukee club of the American association for Pitcher V • i dell. but it is not known when lit will report Manager Fox has begun Io strengthen <h' Foxes for the fight m the second half of the league season. jHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAT, JUNE 28, 1912. FARMER ALLEN, LOOKOUT WHO IS SCHEDULED TO PITCH TODA Y Last tear this man was the „„ Allen has been doing good Crackers’ official jinx. He" , c . . , 7/ XX work since he has transferred was with Memphis then and Z/ ' , , ,mi- u- , , , , , , Z/G ' his affiliations from Memphis whenever he worked Atlanta to Chattanooga. lost. // \ // -MrWMfegSMfe/V'SXX r - k \ _ //A M 0 \ NTv ' vSmJ \v # a/ A- wll \\ \\ X \ Eb' ZZ \ -U Jnk ■ \lx . Ba fc\\ r \ 7Mb -W Kg&\ z*\LnRW/ ••GBBLJBEkx i ■nnun-r ur*_j|F // 3 \ s B Be i 11 YA r - / \\ //\. < ns? \\ V ' V -. ■. 'Ve.-y X 11,. ! Crackers* Batting Averages* Including Yesterday *s Game These averages include games played to date: Players. G. AB. R. H. Av. I lessau, p 18 39 8 13 .333 I Harbison, ss. . . 1 2 43 4 1 4 .326 Hemphill, c. ... 61 240 27 75 .313 Bailey, If 64 236 42 71 .301 O'Dell, lb 60 206 32 54 .262 O'Brien, ss. . . 52 172 19 42 *244 Alperman, 2b. . . 65 249 34 60 .241 Callahan, rs. . . . 23 101 11 24 .240 Graham, e. . . . 22 65 7 15 .‘231 McElveen, 3b. . . 71 258 33 59 .229 Sitton, p. . 13 32 17 .219 Atkins, p 12 32 3 7' .219 Donahue, c. . .22 67 7 14 .209 Bradv, p 7 21 0 2 .095 Agler, lb 2 6 0 0 .000 BIG CROWD WILL WATCH PALZER AND WELLS BOX NEW YORK. June 28. One nf the biggest crowds ever seen in Madison Square Garden will be on hand tonight when Al Palzer. the New York "white hope," will box ten rounds with Bom bardier Wells, heavyweight champion of England. Palzer. who has been working at Newdorp. Staten Island, has finished up his training, having reduced himself to fighting weight -225 pounds. Johnny <‘onion, the sturdy little ban tamweight champion, has been at Pal zer’s headquarters, giving him lectures on Hie science of boxing. Coulon is too little to attempt io box with the glam heavyweight. Wells, who has been working at Rye. N V , has also finished his preliminary work Wells will enter the ring weigh ing about 200 pounds, it is stated. On account of his advantage in weight. Palzer will rule favorite In the bet ting OLYMPIC ATHLETES TO START WORK TOMORROW STOCKHOLM. June I’B Wheh the liner Finland arrives here tomorrow the American athletes on board will begin their final training for the Olym pic games at once, it is expected that Trainer Mike Murph) " 111 lose no time, hut will have his charges in action withfn six hours after the arrival of tlte ship at her destination. The Injuries sustained by Mei Shep pard and Mike Ryan have proved less serious than at first expected. Both will be able to compete, according to a message receiver! here today from Ant werp where the ship lay over earlier ip the week. The people of Stockholm are showing much interest over the coming games, and a rousing greeting is being planned. The games proper will begin Saturday. .1 uly 6 > STEINFELOT IS CANNED: COLLINS SUCCEEDS HIM MERIDIAN, MISS.. June 28. The 10. cal baseball association has released Harry Stcinfeldt us manager and elect ed Drth Collins as his successor. Steinfeldt succeeded Kennedy ar manager at the beginning of the sec ond half of the Cotton States season but failed to make good. His arm is In very bad shape, firth Collins, the nen manager. was a member of the local team until the advent of Stein feldt, when he wae released 11 • \ ) "Vt *♦ *♦ / I \ Zj |news fro~m ringside Harry Baker is scheduled to box One- Round Davis in Baltimore tonight. * ♦ ♦ Because Frank B. User refused to pay a dentist sll for surgical work done on Carl Morris after the latter’s fight with Jim Flynn, the big engineer has parted from his mi Ilion-dollar manager. Mor ris says as l T fer got the largest share of his earnings he should pay the bill. • • • User probably doesn't care to fool away any more time or money with Morris, as the big white hope is all In as a fighter. • • • Willie Beecher and Joe Thomas are scheduled to box ten rounds at the Or leans Athletic club' in New’ Orleans the afternoon of July the 4th. • • • Lodie Robinson will leave San Fran cisco tomorrow Tor Japan where be plans to boost the boxing game in that coun try Robinson will open fight clubs in Toklo and Yokohama and will carry a trunkful of gloves and other parapher nalia which he will introduce to the Nip onese. ♦ « • Robinson was managing Young Togo, the little fighter, until he re cently went blind from punishment he received in the padded ring Although Togo only weighed 103 pounds, he often fought men who weighed 150 ♦ • ■ Togo was probably the gamest boxer that ever appeared on this side of the globe During his six-round match with Battling Nelson the Durable Dane knocked the little tighter down some thing like, twenty times However, he was there at the end and going as strong as at the start « • • Willie Gibbs will box ten rounds with Frankie Russel) in New Orleans tomor row night Willie Ritchie, who is still in \>w Or leans, resting up after bis fight with Joe Mandot. will probably be the man to of delate at the Gibbs-Rdssell match. • ♦ « Eddie McGoorty is in receipt of an of fer from Paris to box Frank Klaus there some rime in August • ■ • If McGoortx successfully defeats "Chi cago" K. <» Brown at Benton Harbor on the Fourth be will leave for the other side to arrange matches • • k The proposed match between Battling |[ Hessheim Oga l. /Uiwayis 0 /l Goodjsrr|pke Qnu y 6 Porto Nelson and Grover Hayes has been called off because of a disagreement between the two fighters. Hayes claims Nelson wanted a lion's share of the prize money. ♦ * • Dr. James Barnes, who refereed the recent ten-round fight between AVillle Ritchie and Joe Mandot in New Orleans says the papers did Mandot an injustice bj giving Ritchie credit for a win. He says if be had been permitted to give a decision he would have raised both boys’ hands. • • • However, fans and promoters alike are not satisfied with the outcome of the mill and have practically rematched the box ers for a twenty-round return match to he fought in New Orleans Sunday, Aug ust 4. • • • New Orleans promoters plan to stage the Ritchie-Mandot scrap across the river where the arena is much larger. About 1.000 fans were unabff to get Into ’he club at the last fight, and as the pro posed match would be staged on Sunday promoters expect tn break all records for attendance. • • • Harry Donahue and Phil Harrison are scheduled to go ten rounds in Peoria on the Fourth. ♦ ♦ • Tomorrow is the day Harry Brewer and Ra\ Bronson are scheduled to mix it in a return bout at Indianapolis, BET SAUSAGE AGAINST GAS ON 3 BALL GAMES BATTI.E CREEK. MICH.. June 28. Aj the opening of the Battle Creek- I.arising series, with the temporary leadership of the South Michigan league at stake.. George Black, form er owner of the local franchise, now a gas magnate, bet 1.000 feet of gas against two yards of frankfurters, with Charles Binder, a local meat market proprietor, that the Crickets would clean up the series of three games. Then he bet Frank Rlashfield. a barbel', 500 feet of gas against one tub of liquid shaving soap, that his bet was good. Black lost his hets. Johnson Likely to Sail for Australia After Flynn Fight By Ed W. Smith. (The Georgian's fight expert, who has been selected to refecee the Johnson-Flynn battle.) EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M.. June 28. —Jack Johnson appears to be casting covetous eyes at Australia. There are numerous fat and juicy purses dangling before his eyes In the far-away land of the kangaroo, and Jack is getting nerv ous about it. He likes to be up and at the work of harvesting them. Jack has received a letter from Hugh Mclntosh, the whole thing in the promoting line over there. Hugh did not treat Jack right at one stage of the game and Jack was not a little peeved as a result of it. Once Jack had his duds and his racing cars and all the remainder of the kit of a first-class champion fighter packed and ready to ship toward Australia, where Mclntosh had offered him stunningly attrac tive terms for some battles, but the tickets were deposited and that was the last Jack ever heard from Mclntosh until now. Langford as Bait. In this latest letter Mclntosh says he will deposit Sin.OOO as a guaran tee In any bank over there, the same to be payable to Johnson as soon as he arrives and fulfills, his ' part of the agreement. Just what that agreement, is, is not made plain, but evidently the ultimate aim is a contest with Sam Lang ford. over whic’h so much perfect ly good paper and ink has been wasted in the last two years. Os 'ourse. Johnson must first re move this Flynn person from his path before he can make many plans for the future, and there also Is that case Idea in Chicago, to which Jack expects to retire on the night of September 4 and forever after give all promoters and clubs the laugh. But you never can tell, especial ly after the way Johnson talks about this latest bit of palaver from Kangaroo land. But one need not be surprised to hear of Jack hik ing off toward the under side of the world pretty soon after July 4, case and retirement to contrary not withstanding. Tom Flanagan has a new idea. He sprang it on the champion yes terday and it met with his entire approval. Johnson will enter the ring July 4 weighing within a few ounces of 212 pounds. It was the original intention of the champion to get down to about 215 pounds about a week before the contest and remain there until he entered the ring. But Inasmuch as he is down to that figure already and has a chance to take off a little more weight, the loss of which probably would increase his speed considerably, the decision naturally comes in favor of the lighter weight. Johnson looked fit and ready yes terday afternoon during his work out and has but a few more steps of it to perfect himself entirely for the fray with the Pueblo rusher. Johnson Weighs in Public. There is one strange thing about Johnson that is in direct contra diction to the usual plan of fighters. Jack delights to have people see him weigh in, and he Is ever ready to hop on the scales and let them look for themselves. The cham pion never asks anybody to take his word for it; he gets right on the scales and shows them. During the course of an afternpon Johnson is apt to weigh in anywhere from a dozen to twenty times a day. and he always does it cheerfully, too. It rained mighty hard here Sun day night and another cloudburst struck the town yesterday noon, and as a result the roads all about the meadow cities are in horrible shape. Wheti Johnson discovered their condition yesterday morning he ordered out his ear and had himself taken to the railroad tracks, where he did his road work "If It’s at Hartman's. It’s Correct” Soft Summery SHIRTS Add 50 per cent to the enjoyment of your vaca tion or to jour comfort during business hours in one of these breezy negli gees. soft-fold cuffs, sepa rate soft collars to match or collarless. All the new est colorings and fabrics. Representative Hartman values at From SI.OO to $3.50 Six Peachtree Street < Opp. Peters Bldg.) "If It’s Correct, It’s at Hartman's” on the cinder right of way, which always is in fine shape. « This is something new in the way of road work. A fighter riding to the starting point and then fighting his way back to the camp. John son is strong for road work—that’s apparent—and never misses a morning, no matter what the weather may be. He believes in this * far more than he does in boxing, because he always insists that there is not a man in the world he could get for his training camp who could possibly do him a bit of good. He announced yesterday that he / would do at least ten rounds of boxing every afternoon until July 2. Flynn made the positive an nouncement after he had finished his work yesterday afternoon that he never felt better in his life and that he was fit for the ring now, which statement is borne out by the flyman’s appearance. He went twelvf miles on the road and did 50 minutes of indoor work in his hill- * top gymnasium, boxing two rounds with the Turk, two with Chic Cole man. four with Williams and two with Marshall. He did not weigh at the finish at all. He does not know exactly, but he says he will enter the ring between 185 and 190 pounds somewhere, the mid-figure probably being the one he will strive to reach. There is very little left on the bulky frame of the fireman to be taken off. only a pick here and there being visible. * He certainly looks great to me”ln a physical sense, and I have seen him almost every day of niy stay here. Mayor Clamps Lid on City, One of the first bolts to hit Las Vegas amidships today was an or der from Mayor Robert J. Taupert advising all of the local buffet man agers and the like that hereafter those quiet little poker games that have been flourishing—they are the only thing in the "amusement" line that have been offered to visitors so far—must be closed down forth with. » Mow! It was one horrible swat for the gamblers, all of whom have dug down for a pretty penny in or der to help Las Vegas out with the big battle and put the town on the sporting map. And many of ..them had been flirting with farp -layouts and roulette wheels for the big do ings around the Fourth, when, ac cording to their figuring, everybody would want amusement of this sort. Only Fun Is Poker . It was almost unbelievable, for * 'tis said that the festive poker game flourishes like the alfalfa in this section, and all over the state for the matter of that, and always has. The P. G. has been the compro mise between out and out gam bling and merely nothing, and now that it is off the map the weeping and wailing hereabouts is awful. Here’s another hot one. The only * road running through this man’s town ordered its employees some time back to vote strongly In favor of having the fight take place in Las Vegas. There was a town elec tion on the proposition and placards said to be displayed along the line of this road informed the employees that they were expected to vote tn the affirmative. The proposition surely carried and now comes the staggering intelligence that the president of the road has IssTied an "unofficial” notice to employees that he is much opposed to affairs of this kind and that he does not want any of the road’s employees to at tend. PORTLAND GETS BUTCHER. CLEVELAND, OHIO. June 28.- The recent sale of Outfielder Butcher, of the Cleveland American league team, to the New Orleans team, of the Southern league, today was revoked and Butcher will go to the Portland team, of the Pa cific Coast league, instead. S IWk LyJECTioy-A PER. > < * MANF. N T CERE c S c th* most, obstinate cases guaranteed in from c / J to 6 days ; no other treatment required. C c Sold hy all druggists C iREMEDYFoaIvtENI B r ~ASEBAILL FRIDAY ATLANTA is. CHaTTANOOfia Ponce Del enn—Rome Called 4:Df) MONEY TO LOAN ON aiAMDNDS AND JEWELRY S t r I c t ly confidential. Unredeemed pledges e» diamonds for sale. 30 per cent less than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of ScbauJ * May.) 11 1-2 PEACHTREE ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat Bank Bldg Both Phones 1584. WE BUY OLD GOLD