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14 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. lost. // — . X i \ / w\ \ ft Ju -wA a k ' ii \\ aw 7 A\ // / \\ \\ // r \V \\ Av f Kko. \\ . \/Z Z r ZAtAflB WV Bern V\ //W' \\ // Jfl Sbh, Z JBMK MIL- aa Crackers* Batting 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 ; i 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 tln» <. 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 I o c* t t 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. 5 !u|BP jßjy INJECTION A PF R \ > MAN EN T CURE \ obstinate cases guaranteed in from ' c 3to 6 days; no other treatment required. < < Sold by all drnggtatß. I, IREMEDT FORM g N | Baseball FRIDAY ATLANTA vs. CHATTANOOGA Pnnr,e DeLeon—-Game Called 4:oorf * s « t- 3 .J " *> *** £ Ma qJ £1 tn ©<£ ’*% *3 •'W . O 5 * ihl Is F F 2>— c=) r n f IXJ 4, c K 4) MO 1 - ° J !