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6 di a Ann h Td) w wnaughton . tad, IWM BOXilwO tow ~ —■■ ■■" "■■■ ' ' - —I ' „ ■■ „ ~ Crackers Combine With Umpire To Give Decision to Lookouts By Percy H. Whiting. rnr>HE firm «»f Rudderham. Crack- I ers Ar Company shipped out a consignment of defeat ad dressed to Vedder Sitton and it was delivered yesterday afternoon in the presence of a couple of thou sand disconsolate fans. As far as mere pitching ■ ould g<» Rifton w"ii the game, but after the Crackers and the umpire had fin ished with it the score stood 4 to 0 in the favor of the hated Look out®. It was a distressing game The Crackers’ infield cracked. On Wedrhedav it looked as tight as a nrv< shoe On Thursday it had holes in it like a sieve -onh bigger. And as for the outfield it made but one hobble, but that was enough itself to cost the game Consider the Lookout runs in ♦heir ord‘*r Second inning -Crackers kicked in two for the Lookouts Fourth inning Umpire Rudder ham presented the Lookouts with a run. Fifth inning The Lookouts ac tually earned a run • « PoYI.E. the first man up In the second inning was walked. Barr bunted and McElveen mussed up the play Balfnti dittoed, like wise McElveen. Then an odd tiling hapl>ened for a man scored on a double play. Sen tell's grounder to Alperman result ed in the retirement of both Bal enti and Senteli, but Coyle counted on the outs Then Noyes hoisted a fly to tight field, it wms-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 higlt enough to spear it. There wasn't anything to call it but a hit and on the fluke Hair scored. Now that was a fine inning, wasn't It * t’MI'IRE Hl DHERHAM then presented the Lookouts with a run. It will lie recalled, perhaps, that Atlanta paper.s aren’t in the habit of yelling “Help! The umpire robbed us.” in fact It is a rule of the Atlanta press box '’ls<t the FODDER FOiTfaNS . - _ _— r i Rube Marquard has had a peck of the atrical offers already If lie’s wise he’ll pass them up. • • • Dick Hoblitzel will probably retire after this season to practice dentistry • • • Billy Gilbert, ex-Giantanow manager of the Erie club, has had so many run-ins with umpires that lie has been indefinite ly suspended by the president of the Cen tral league • • • she Highlanders will get Smith. Barry and Hnwanl from Brockton at the end of this season • • • Frank Chance says he will not desert baseball until the end of this season, at least His contract expires at the end <»f this year and he may decide not to renew it. Ami then again he may Virginia league papers say Erskine Mayer was bought ami paid for by Ports mouth an*i that he must stick out the sea son. The local opinion Is that he was .bought, but that the transaction slopped there * • ♦ ’ Eon Castro is after Pitcher Mcllivane of the dear departed I’nited States league. • • • Even Richmond now admits that the ’United States league is really dead ♦ • • Pel Howard has been sold by the St. Paul team to San Francisco Howard u ill manage the roast dub • • • Cincinnati is trying to get Pitcher Packard and Fred Bruck from Columbus. Ohio, for immediate is?. but there Is small chance « • • The Evening Wis- »nsin says. “Pitcher Walter Miller has been signed by Fort Wayne. He was w ''maha last year AV? have a few seeds to bet he was with Atlanta, not Omaha • • • Mayor Gaynor is for Sunday hall in cities and doesn't mind saving so. Here is his line of talk, as given t" a minister r-who protested against Sunday games. V’Of course, you know that many of our city men and hoys have no day of recre ation except Sundfl' What would you dA with them? If the' do not play In thd fields they will go somewhere else, as youk, know No doubt your church has asolved that problem, and I should be very glad to have you let me know how h ha* • been solved Some of our clergy men w ho have not been able io solve it are offer ing to go into the fields ami play with the boys of their congregation on Sunday afternoons They dread to have the boys driven to the saloons m to worse pla« es • • • Here ate some Wesiein league batting averages: Lindsay. Denver. 357. Berg hammer. Lincoln. 296, Rickert. Topeka. 291 Cobb. Lincoln. 273. Stratton. Lin coln. .190 • • • When the Ohio Interstate league bit a financial iceberg and floundered. Bob Spade, manager of the Greenville team in that league was one of the victims They haven’t neen breaking very strong for Bob of late • • • Says The Cleburne Review. “Every body’ swatted the ball and run on one sid» yesterday ' Like a crab, maybe Connie Mack has picked up Johnny King, a college pitcher of the Sacred Heart learn of Denver • • • Do you recall a really fast infielder who was dropped from the majors to a big minor league and never recalled, though da playing justified It” It is now claimed ie was t aught cheating at poker and was •ondemne*! to the bushes in consequence, ahit.di is entertaining If veracious • • • v while biH’k ColumbuH. Ohio, had both t Grefe and a Grieve <>n rhe team Then Jrie’. e whs canned • • • ‘'a*! N !< I ols. of the Framingham. Ma<a ugh school learn pitched three no-hp ramet- this spring (»f < ourae. you know that ‘ ojuiie Ma< U did to him bl’l'tr s talk of sending < ’barley Frank to u.a? ;tg» fbt HoMor .Nationals umpire umpire.” Rut occasion ally there comes a decision, Uk> the ■ lassie one of Shuster’s, that pre cipitated a riot and that of Bill < 'ar[ienter’s last y ear, which the league reversed, so raw that a blind man could Improve on them. And such a decision was Rudderham’s! Senteli had singled In the fourth and stolen second. Noyes then < racked a single to left and Sen tell -tailed for home. Callahan made a grand peg and Donahue caught the leathei on th? first bound. Senteli was tearing for Ihe plate and Donahue faced an awkward play. He tried to turn, and touch Senteli, running a big chalice of being spiked while he was doing it. f’at showed the stuff he Is made of by grabbing the ball, whirling Into Sentell’s way anti touching him out a foot before he reached the plate. Then Rudderham called Senteli safe and the storm broke. Dona hue raved and ranted. Hemphill fussed and fumed. Tile other play ers cussed and discussed. But of course nothing came of it—-that is, not for the moment Hut Coveles kie, the next man up. ended the. inning with a fly-out to Hemphill. The Cracker manager grabbed the ball, took careful aim at Rudder ham and planted the ball in the middle of Ruddy’s back. The marksmanship was excel lent. but It 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. Rut ’ Rud dy.” knowing he was wrong on the Senteli decision, made a bad mat ter infinitely worse by letting Hemphill get away with the rough stuff. TI’ST b.v the way of heaping one J misery on another, the Cracker fans piled nut of the ball park ye« terday to find the current gone and the car service dead. They swarm ed into the waiting cars and wall ed. It was 30 minutes or mote be fore enough juice was fortheom !n- to move the procession honie wa rd. Ah. yes, it was a paid afternoon’s sport! he ha ' l for " le Brave*. »;ever7el.aM^nr ner " BWMr • • • K im. e . al L ße ? k,r . ,n . u ’' hav * a lot Oh f I'la.yeii In the Southern league they out h fm now as one of the great' pt flelders In the game In his Romhern league days he fielded fike a truck horse Kussell I*ord has lost more close games than any pitcher tn the American league. P.arl Gardner, of the Yanka, is th* vic ttm of a badly injured ankle • • • One day recently the South Bend team played to so small a crowd that the re ceipts did not pax for the balls used The Washington plavers are to gef a purse of Jltf.ooo if they win the American league pennant this year. That's some better than little red automobiles • • • Marquard has mastered Chrlstv Mathew son's high drop and Is looking for new curves to conquer ... The Giants are still stealing a few bases. Schafer. Recker. Doyle and Herzog are among the National league s ten best base stealers • • • They are reinforcing the bottom of the American 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 and only five In the National • • • Freddie Meyers, Alma college pitcher, who has been with the Charlotte learn for awhile, has signed with Grand Rapids FINALS TOMORROW IN PIEDMONT D. C. TENNIS Play continued in the annual tennis tournament of the Piedmont Driving chib yesterday, and the semi finale in the men's singles will probably be played this afternoon, with the finals tomorrow The following arc the results of the matches in th* men's singles and doubles yesterday Singles Varden defeated Douglas, 6-0. 6 n Varden defeated Martin. 6-0. 6-3 Varden defeated Foreman. 6-0, 6-0 Williams defeated Hurt bv default Scott defeated <’oley by default Draper defeated Scott. 6-3. 9-7 Dorsey defeated Thornton. 6 4 6-3 (’lay defeated C Smith by default The Hoyt-A Smith match stood 6-4. 6-10 In Hoyts favor when darkness stopped the mate!), which will be contin ued this afternoon Doubles Draper and Colquitt defeated Allen ann Gray by default Draper and Colquitt defeated Rm «n<l Williams, 7-5: 7 0 Clay and Hall defeated Scott and Mc- Cleskey. 6-4 6-2 FLYNN AND JOHNSON PICK TIMEKEEPERS 1 \ST I.AS VEGAS. N M. .lune 28 'Aith tbt- Johnson-Flynn contest but x week off. preparations for the fight ha.f born completed The Hat of those who will officiate today wae completed, with I the naming of Otto Kioto, of Denver hs official timekeeper for Flynn, and Al Tearney, of Chicago and Tom Flanagan, of Toronto, for Johnson. COLUMBUS GETS HURLER. i’t>IJ'.MHI'K, GA June 28 The t'o umhus baseball official* have used a d'al with the Milwaukee club of the Xmi-ri an auxoclation fn Ffitchei Woi- I tit'll but It Is not known when he wjff jiepot Manager Fox has begun to -ttengtiten th. Foxes the fight In I th> »e<ond half of the league reason. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JUNE 28. 1912. FARMER ALLEN, LOOKOUT WHO IS SCHEDULED TO PITCH TODA Y Last year this man was the Crackers' official jinx. He was with Memphis then ami whenever he worked Atlanta lost. \\ k Trrorx //«lr « wlk \\ A ' i M ’ W* \\ \\ w/ XL X'* xw® \\ K \\Z/ \ \ v/ ’ w ' iglk r /fLrlll'lF/ BB\\ /A\. I | K\\ // // OH w J / TMral I /Ze H- H. t- /A \ ■. \\W fTO •''<//\ toßn ;/ \\ • .// 'c.i y yV ' ■' : '3pA \ s| \ -'T4 Crackers" Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game , These average* include games player! to date: Players. G. AB. R. H. Av Dessau, p 13 39 8 13 . Harbison, ss.. . . 12 43 4 1 4 .324! Hemphill, c. ... 61 240 27 75 .313 Ballov. If 64 236 42 71 .301 O'Dell, lb 60 206 32 54 .262 O’Brien, 96. . . . 52 172 19 42 244 Alperman. 2b. . . 65 249 34 60 241 ('allahan, if. ... 23 101 11 24 .240 Graham, c. . . 22 65 7 15 .231 McElveen. 3b. . . 71 258 33 59 .229 Hitton, p 1 3 32 17 .219 Atkins, p 12 32 3 7 .219 Donahue, c. . . . 22 67 7 14 .209 Brady, p 7 21 o 2 .095 Agler, lb 2 6 0 o .oop BIG CROWD WILL WATCH PALZER AND WELLS BOX NEW YORK. June 28 -One of the biggest crowds ever seen In Madison Square Garden will be on hand tonight when Al Palzei. the New York "white hope.” wit! box ten rounds with Bom bardier Wells, heavyweight champion of England. I’alzer. who has been .working at Newdorp, Staten Island, has finished up his training, hating reduced himself to fighting weight—22s pounds Johnny Coulon. the sturdy little ban tamweight champion, has been at I’af zer's headquarters, giving him lectures on the silence of boxing, t'oulon Is too little to attempt to box xvith the giant heavyweight. Wells, who has been working at Rye. K Y . 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, Balzer will rule favorite In the bet ting OLYMPIC ATHLETES TO START WORK TOMORROW SToi 'KHOI..M. June 28. When the liner Finland arrives heir tomorrow the American athletes on hoard will begin, their final training for the Olym pic games at once It Is expected that Trainer Mike Murpiiy will lose no time, but will have his charges in action within six hours aftei the arrival of the ship at her destination The injuries sustained by Mel Shep p.’iil ami Mike Ryan have proved less serious than ,<t first expected. Both w ill he able to compete, according to a message received here today from Ant werp, where the ship lav over earlier in the week I’lie people of Stockholm are show ing much interest over the coming games, and a rousing greeting is being planned. The games proper will begin Saturdai July 6. STEINFELDT IS CANNED: COLLINS SUCCEEDS HIM MERIDIAA'. MISS . June 2S -The lo cal baseball association has released ' H.irry Steinfeldt as manager and ei. ct ed Orth Collins as his successor. Steinfeldt su. . ended Kennedy n> manager at the beginning o’ the s. ond half of the Cotton States season but fallol to make good His arm I- In very bail shape Orth Collins, the new manager, was ,i member of the 10. al team until the ulveni of Stein feldt. when lie was leleased. i y X //z> 'x - * w i —l. .II - - ■ ■ , ■ . .... , [news from ringside Harry Baker is scheduled 4o box line Routid Davis in Baltimore' tonight. Because Frank B. Utter, 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 tnillion-dollar manager. Mor ris says as I'fer got the largest share of his earnings be should pay the bill. • • * I'fer probably doesn't care to fool away any mor? time or money with Morris, as th? 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 for Japan where he plans to boost the boxing game In that coun try. Robinson will open fight clubs in Tokio and Yokohama and will carry a trunkful As gloves and other parapher nalia which he will introduce to the Nip onese. • * • Rol»inson was managing Young Togo, the little Japanese fighter, until he re cently went blind from punishment he received in the padded ring \lt hough Togo only weighed 103 pounds, he often fought men who weighed 150 • • • T’ogo was probably the gainst boxer that ever appeared on this side of th? globe During his six-round match with I Battling Nelson the Durable Dane knocked the little tighter down some thing Ilk? twentx ti’T.rs However, hp I was there at the etui and going as strong as at the start * • • Willie <;tl»bs will h<»x ten rounds with Franki*’ Russell in New Orhans tomor row night • « * Willi? Ritchi?. who is still in New • »r --leans. resting up after his tight with Joe Mandot. will probably be the man to of ficiate hi the Gibbs-Russell match * * * Eddie McGoorty is in receipt of an of fer from Paris to box Frank KJaus there s »m« time in Angus’. If McGoorty successfully defeats t’hi < ago 1< o Brow n at Benton Harbor on the Fourth he will leave for the other side to arrange matches • • •» T’he proposed match between Battling [ Hernsheim equiqe/ Rjsm, i L. * Alien has been doing good work since he has transferred his affiliations from Memphis to Chattanooga. Nelson and Grover Hayes has been called off because of a disagreement between the two fighters. Hayes claims Nelson . and Grover Hayes has been called off be , cause of a disagreement between the two , fighters. Hayes claims Nelson wanted a I lion's share of the prize money. ♦ ♦ ♦ f Dr. James Barnes, who refereed the recent ten-round fight between Willie Ritchie and Joe Mandot in New Orleans • says the papers did Mandot an injustice ; by giving Ritchie credit for a win. He says if he had been permitted to give a decision he would have raised both boys > hands. • • • However, fans and promoters alike ar? not satisfied with the outcome of the mill and have practically rematched the box ers for a twenty-round return match to ! be fought in New Orleans Sunday, Aug ust 4. • New Orleans promoters plan to stage the Ritchie-Mandot scrap across the river where th? arena is much larger. About 1,000 fans were unable to get into the club at th? last fight, and as the pro posed match woujd be staged on Sunday promoters expect to break all records for ’ attendance. Harr\ Donahue and Phil Harrison ar? scheduled to go ten rounds in Peoria on the Fourth. ♦ • • Promoter James ('offroth is a busy man these days hunting a place where he <an schclule Fourth of July bouts be tween Abe At tell and Tommy Murphy (’offroth is now looking to Port Rich mond. the scene of the Wolgast - Nelson mill as a last resort. Kenosha promoters are arranging m stage a return bout between Johnny Cou lon and Frankie Burns for the bantam weight title • • • Tomorrow is the day Harr\ Brewer and Ra\ Bronson ar? s< heduled to mix it In a return bout at Indianapolis. ’FRISCO GETS BIG BOUT. SAN FRANCISCO, .lune 28.—The At tcll-Murphy fight, driven from Daly City by the trustees who objected to the after math of the previous bout between the fighters, will be staged In Sai) Francisco Saturday afternoon. August 3. Th? fight ers will weigh in at 133 pounds at noon. Johnson Likely to Sail for Australia After Flynn Fight By Ed W. Smith. (The Georgian’s fight expert, who has been selected to referee 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 >t. 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 .lack was not a little peeved as a result of it. < )nce Jack had his duds and his racing cars and all the of the kit of a first-class champion fighter packed and ready to ship toward Australia, where Mclntosh had offered him stunningly attrac- * tlve terms for some battles, but the tickets never 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 SIO,OOO as a guaran tee in any bank over there, tile same to be payable to Johnson as soon as he arrives and fulfills his part of tlte agreement. Just what that agreement is. is not made plain, but evidently the ultimate alm is a contest with Sam Lang ford, over which so much perfect ly good paper and ink lias been wasted In the last two years. Os course. Johnson must first re move this Flynn person from Ills 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 tlte under side of the world pretty soon after July 4. case and retirement to contrary not withstanding. , Tom Flantigan 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 tlte ’champion to get down to about’2ls pounds about a week before the contest and remain there until he entered the ring. But inasmuch as lie is down to that figure already and has a chance to take off a little mole 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 \ es terday afternoon during his work out and has but a few mote steps of it to perfect himself entirely for the fray witlt the Pueblo rusjter. 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 hlnj 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 afternoon Johnson is apt to w’elgh in anywhere from a dozen to twenty times a day, anil he always does if 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. When Jqhnson discovered their condition yesterday morning he ordered out his car and had himself taken Io 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 your 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 i Opp. Peters Bldg. > “If It's Correct, It's at Hartman's", on tlte 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 lie could get for his training camp who could possibly do him a bit of good. He announced yesterday that hr would do at least ten rounds of boxing evert afternoon until July 2. Flymn 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 fireman's appearance. He went twelve miles on the road and did 50 tninu.tes of indoor work in his Hlll top gymnasium, boxing two rounds with tlte Turk, two with ('hie Cole man, four with Williams and two with Marshall. He did not weigh at the finish at all. He does not know exactly, hut he says he will enter the ring between 185 ami 190 pounds somew here, 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 he taken off, only a pick here and there being visible. He certainly looks great to me In a physical sense, and I have seen him almost every day of my Ntay' 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 ail 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 he closed down forth with. ' Wow! 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’jhem had been flirting with fab'o iay'oirt’e' and roulette wheels for the big do ings around the Fourth, when, ac cording to their figuring, everybody would want amusemeirt o's tiffs 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 alway s has. I’he P. has been the compro mise between out anti' 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 erhployees some time back to vote strongly in favor of having tlte fight take place in I.as 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 in tlte affirmative. The proposition surely carried and now comes the staggering intelligence that the president of tlte road has issued an "unofficial" notice to employees that lie is much opposed to affairs of tills kind anti that ha does not, want J any of the road’s employees tn 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 wilt go to the Portland team, of the Pa cific Coast league, instead. —' 1 111 S * w Is ’■>Fr r! n > 4p I R > 5 * M4Sr,NT (TB E , 5 S ohs, ' nn| e cases guaranteed In from { < » to a days ; no other treatment required. C C [REM E DYVorM ENI Ba seball FRIDAY ATLANTA vs. CHATTANOOGA Ponce Deleon-Gome Called 4:00 - “ - 5 “*£ -U - “ irf •* .U d r—j uu c ».o-f “ a .** ■* ° ■»»J tut C - ” zi ®2> 4Jj . * 1 ’ 5 K ... —a 5— 3 fag _ .tiV'-Ac-i* O®CO w*‘-5 T* 3uj« « •gg. >- S c 6a x H i ’ > uui SrtcSCt® CM S 5 g S -?r« ! " ;M