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A WAll U H WHITING WWNAUGHTON, TAD.
IWIO SWF Mly ™w
Crackers Combine With Umpire
To Give Decision to Lookouts
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE firm of Rudderham. Crack
ers & Company shipped out
a consignment of defeat ad
dressed to Veddt r Sitton and it was
delivered yesterday afternoon in
the presence of a couple of thou
sand disconsolate fans.
As far ajs mere pitching could go
Sitton won the game, bdt after the
Crackers and the umpire had fin
ished with It the score stood 4 to
0 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 azr for the outfield
it made only one bobble, but that,
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-Umpire Rudder
ham presented the Lookouts with
a run
Fifth inning—The Lookouts ac
tually earned a run
• U.
COYLE, the first man up tn 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 Ral
entl and Sentell. but Coyle counted
on the outs Then Noyes hoisted a
fly to right field. It was a nice, lit
tle, easy fly. hut 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 tt T
• • •
rtMPTRE RUDDERHAM than
presented the lookouts with a
run. Tt will be recalled, perhaps,
that Atlanta papers aren’t in the
habit of yelling "Help! The umpire
robbed us.” In fact it 1s a rule
of the Atlanta press box "Let the
FODDER FOR FANS
Rube Marquand han had a peck of the
atrical offers already If hes wise he'll
pass them up.
• • •
Dick Hnblitzel will probably retire After
this season to practice dentistry
• • •
BiUy Gilbert, ex-Giant, now manager of
the Erie club, has had so many run-ins
with umpires that he has bean Indefinite
ly suspended by the president of the Cen
tral league
The Highlanders will get Smith. Barry
and Howard 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 nt the end of
this year and he may decide not to renew
it. And then again lie may
Virginia league papers say Erskine
Mayer was bought and paid for by Ports
b mouth and that he must stick out the sea-
V son The local opinion ts that he was
\ bought, but that the transaction stopped
\ there
; Lou Castro 1s after Pitcher Mdlivane of
the dear departed United States league.
Even Richmond now admits that the
■Waited States league Is reallv dead
• • •
Del Howard haa been sold by the St
Paul team to San Francisco. Howard will
manage the coast club
• • •
Cincinnati trying tn re* Pitches
Packard and Fred Bruck from Columbus.
Ohio, for immediate use, but ibere Is small
chance.
• • •
The Mbrenlnjr \\ Isconsin says. Ditcher
Walter Millet ba* been signed by Kort
Wayne. He was with <Unaha last year ”
We have a few seeds to bet he was with
Atlanta, not Omaha
• • •
Mayor Gaynor 1s for Sunday ball in
cities and doesn't mind saying so. Here
1b his line of talk, as given to a minister
who protested against Sunday games
“Os course, yon know that many of our
city men and boys have no day of recre
ation except Sunday What would you
do with them? If they do not play in
the fields they will go somewhere elae, as
you know. No doubt your church has
solved that problem, and I should be very
glad to have you let me know how ft has
been solved Some of our clergymen who
have not been able to solve It are offer
‘ <ng to go into the fields and plat with
the boys of their congregation on Sunday
afternoons They dread to have the hoys
driven to the saloons or to worse places "
» • •
. Here'are some Western league batting
averages Lindsay, Denver. 357, Berg
hammer, bincoin 296; Rickert. Topeka.
291' Cobb, bincoin. 273. Stratton, bin
coin, .190
• • •
When the Ohio Interstate league hit a
financial iceberg and floundered Bob
Spade, manager of the Greenville 'earn tn
that league, was one of the
haven't been breaking very strong for Bob
of late ...
Sa vs The Cleburne Review. “Every
bodv swatted the ball and run on one side
yesterday."’ bike a crab, maybe
Connie Mack has picked up Johmiy
King, a college pitcher of the Sacred
Heart team of Denver
Do you recall a really*fast infielder who
was dropped from the majors to h
minor league and never recalls! though
his playing justified It? It is now claimed
he was ,"ught chea<ng at poker and I was
condemned to the bushes in consequent,
which is entertaining if veracious
* • •
A while back Columbus, Ohio, had both
a Grefe and a Grieve on the team Then
Grieve was canned *
Carl Nichols, of the Framingham. Mass
high school team, pitched three no-hit
games this spring eou«e. you know
what Connie Mack dki U> him
There is talk of sending Charley Frank
up to manage the Boston Nationals
umpire umpire.” But occasion
ally there comes a decision, like th p
classic one of Shuster’s, that pre
cipitated a riot and that of Bill
t’arpenter’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 hdme. Callahan
made a grand peg ap<l Donahue
caught the leather on the first
bound. Sentell was tearing for
the plate arid 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 Sentell’s way and
touching him out a foot before he
reached the plate.
Then Rudderham called Sentell
safe and the storm broke. 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 Coveles
kle, the next man up. ended the
inning with a fly-out to Hemphill.
The Cracker manager grabbed the
ball, took careful alm at Rudder
ham and planted the ball in the
middle 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. Bui "Rud
dy.” knowing he was wrong on the
Sentell decision, made a bad mat
ter infinitely • worse by letting
Hemphill gwt away with the rougli
stuff
• • •
JUST 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-
Irc to move the procession home
ward.
Ah, yes. It was a grand after
noon's sport!
which wouldn't be bad for the Braves,
but the Pelican owners swear thev would
never release him.
• • •
Beals Recker must have improved a lot
since he played In the Southern league
1 hey tout him now as one of the great
est fielders In the game In his Southern
league days he fielded like a truck horse.
Russell Ford has lost more close games
than any pitcher In the American league
• • •
Earl Gardner, of tha Yanka. Is the vic
tim of a badly injured ankle
• • «
One day recently the South Bend team
played to so small a crowd that the re
ceipts did not pay for the balls used.
• • •
The Washington players are to get a
nurse of SIO,OOO If they win the American
league pennant this year. That's some
better than little red automobiles
• * «
Marquard has mastered Christy Mathew
son's high drop and Is looking for new
curves to conquer.
• • • -
The Giants are still stealing a few
bases. Schafer. Becker. Doyle and Herzog
are among the National (league's ten best
base stealers
• * •
They are reinforcing the bottom of the
American league tn 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
• • •
Ereddle Meyers. \hna college pitcher,
who has been with the Charlotte team
for awhile, has signed with Grand Rapids,
FINALS TOMORROW IN
PIEDMONT 0. C. TENNIS
Play continued In the annual tennift
tournament nf the Piedmont Driving club
yesterday, and the semi-finals in the
men's slntfpe will probably be played this
afternonn/ with the finals tomorrow
The follnwtng are the of the
matches 1n the men's singles and doubles
yesterday afternoon
Singles
Varden defeated Douglas. 6-6. d-A
Varden defeated Martin. 6-0; 6-3
Varden defeated Foreman. 6-0. 6 a
Williams defeated Hurt bv default
Scott defeated Ooley by default
Draper defeated Scott. 6-3; 9-7
Dorsey defeated Thornton. 6-4. 6-3.
<’lay defeated <’ Smith by default
The Hoyt-A Smith match stood 6-4,
6-10 in Hoyt’s favor when darkness
stopped the match, which will bp contin
ued this afternoon
Doubles
Draper and Colquitt defeated Mien mci
Gray by default
Draper ami Colquitt defeated Roy tnd
Williams, 7-5; 7 0
Clav and Hall defeated Scott and Mr
Clesk’pv. 6 4 6-2
FLYNN AND JOHNSON
PICK TIMEKEEPERS
EAST LAS VEGAS. N M. June ’»
With the Johnson-Flynn contest but a
; week off. preparations for the fight have
been completed The list of those who
will officiate today was completed, with
the naming of Otto Floto. of Denver, as
official timekeeper for Flynn, and Al
Teamey. of Chicago, and Tom Flanagan,
of Toronto, for Johnson
COLUMBUS GETS HURLER
COLUMBt’S. GA . .Hine 28—The- Co
lumbus baseball officials have closed a
deal with the Milwaukee club of the
American association for Pitcher Wet
dell. but it is not known when he will
report. Manager Fox has begun to
strengthen the Foxes for the fight in
the second half of the league season
JHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDA?, JUNE 28. 1912.
FARMER ALLEN, LOOKOUT WHO
IS SCHEDULED TO PITCH TODA Y
Last year this man was the Allen has been doing good
Crackers' official jinx. He work since he has transferred
was with Memphis then and // his affiliations from Memphis
whenever he worked Atlanta to Chattanooga.
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Averages, Including
Yesterday*s Game
These averages include games played
to date:
Players. G. AB. R. H. Av. j
Dessau, p. . . . 13 39 8 13 .333 '
Harbison, ss 12 43 4 14 .326
Hemphill, c. ... 61 240 27 75 .313
Ballev* if H'4 236 42 71 .301
O'Dell, lb 60 206 32 54 .262
O'Brien, ss. . . . ft 172 19 42 .244
Alperman. 2b. . . 65 249 34 60 241
Callahan, rs. . . . 23 101 11 24 .240
Graham, c. ... 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
Brady, p 7 21 0 '2 .095
Agler, 1b 2 6 0 0 .000 1
BIG CROWD WILL WATCH I
PALZER AND WELLS BOX ;
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NEW YORK. June 28.—One of the I
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
hardier Wells, heavyweight champion
of England.
Palzer, who has been working at I
New dorp. Staten Island, has finished up '
his training, having reduced himself
to fighting weight—22s pounds <
Johnny Coulon, the sturdy little ban- i
tamwelght champion, has been at Pal- J
zer's headquarters, giving him lectures
on the science of boxing. Conlon Is j
too little to attempt to box with the (
giant heavyweight.
Wells, who has been working at Rye.
N. V . has also finished ills preliminary i
worjt. 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
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OLYMPIC ATHLETES TO
START WORK TOMORROW
STOCKHOLM. June 28. When the
liner Finland arrives here tomorrow
the American athletes r>n board will ■
begin their final training for the Olym
pic games at once. It is expected that
Trainer Mike Murphy pill lose no time,
but will have his charges in action
within six hours after the arrival of
the ship at her destination.
The injuries sustained by Mel Shep
pard and Mike Ryan have proved less
serious than at first expected Bath
will be able to compete, according to a
message received here today from Ant
werp, where the ship lay over earlier
In the week
Tile people of Stockholm are showing
■ much interest over the coming games,
and a rousing greeting is being planned.
The games proper will begin Saturday.
July 6
STEINFELDT IS CANNED;
COLLINS SUCCEEDS HIM
MERIDIAN MISS. June 28. The 10.
cal baseball association has released '
Harry Steinfeldt as manager and elect
ed in tli Collins as his successor.
Steinfeldt succeeded Kennedy a,
manager at the beginning of the sec
ond half of the Cotton States season
but failed to make gooii. His arm is
In very bad shape. < >rth Collins, the
new manager, was a member of the
local team until the advent of Stein
ft hit. when he "as released.
S'
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Harry Baker Is scheduled to box One-
Round Davis In Baltimore tonight. <
•* • i
Because Frank B. Vfer 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 i
from his milllon-dollar manager Mor
ris says as I’fer got the largest share of :
his earnings he should pay the bill.
• w •
I’fer 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 i
scheduled lo box ten rounds at the Or- i
leans Athletic club in New Orleans the i
afternoon of July the 4th
• • •
Dodie 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
Toklo and Yokohama and will carry a
trunkful of gloves and other parapher
nalia which be will introduce to the Nip
on ese.
Robinson was managing Young Togo,
the little Japanese 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 theg
globe During his six-round match with
Battling Nelson the Durable Dane
knocked the little fighter down some
thing like twenty times. However, be
was there at the end and going as
strong as at the start
Willie Gibbs will box ten rounds with
Frankie Russell in New Orleans tomor
row night.
Willie Ritchie, who is 'till in New Or
leans. resting up after his fight with Joe
Mandot. will probably be the man to of
ficiate at the Gibbs-Russell match.
• 4 •
Eddie McGoorty is in receipt of an of
fer from Paris to box Frank Klaus there
some time in August
• • •
If McGoorty successfully defeats ’’Chi
cago” K. O Brown at Benton Harbor on
the Fourth be will leave for the other
side to arrange matches
• • u
’l'he proposed match between Rattling
j Hernsheim
PllworyLV
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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 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 are
not satisfied with the outcome of the mill
and have practically rematched the b<A
ers for a tw-enty-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 unable to get into
the club at the last tight, and as the pro-,
posed match would be staged on Sunday
promoters expect to 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 Ray Bronson are scheduled to mix it
in a return bout at Indianapolis.
BET SAUSAGE AGAINST
GAS ON 3 BALL GAMES
BATTLE GREEK. MICH., June 28.
At the opening of the Battle Creek-
Lansing series, with the temporary
leadership of the South Michigan
league at stake. George Black, form
er owner of the Ideal. 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 Blashfield,
a barber, 500 feet of gas against one
tub of liquid shaving soap, that his bet
was good.
Black lost his bets.
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.)
E4ST LAS VEGAS, N. M., June
28.—Jack Johnson appears to
be casting covetous eyes at
Australia. There are numerous fat
and juicy purses dangling befpre
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 never were deposfted 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, 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, hut evidently the ultimate
aim is a contest with Sam Lang
ford; over which so much perfect
ly good paper and ink has been
wasted in the last two years.
Os course. 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 wdthin a few
ounces of 212 pounds. It was the
original intention of the champion
to ge.t down to about 215 pounds
about a week before the contest
and remain there until he
’ 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
is in direct contra
diction M 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 show's them. During
the course of an afternoon 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. When« Johnson discovered
their condition yesterday morning
he ordered out his* car and had
himself taken to the railroad
tracks, whefe he did his rosfS 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 ip
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
iOpp. Peters Bldg.)
"If It’s Correct. It's at Hartman's” j
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 tn 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
w’ho could possibly do him a bit
of good. »
He announced yesterday that he
would do at least ten rounds of
boxing every aflernoon 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 fireman's appearance. He went
twelve miles on the road and did S(D '
minutes of Indoor work in his hill
fop gymnasium, boxing two rounds
with the Turk, two with Chic Cole
man. four with Williams and two
w’ith 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 somew here, the
tnid-figure probably being the one
he w’ill 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 in
a physical sense, and 1 have seen
him almost every day of my 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-f *
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 them
had been flirting with faro layouts
and roulette whqpls 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- jl
tlon 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
the affirmative. The proposition
surely carried and now’ comes the
staggering intelligence that the
president of the road has issued an
"unofficial” notice to employees that
he is much opposed to affairs of
41ifs 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 W’as revoked and Butcher
will go to the Portland team, of the Pa
cific Coast league. Instead.
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