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14 aoKW ®ow araps’Damf LDITL-D VZ S FARNSWO’RTH . Frank Made a Boob Move When He Let ‘Cal’ Go * * ■ •*. •’••*’« *•* ® ’*• *4*®*4* Crackers Showed Up Lookouts in Painful Style By Percy 11. Whiting. rpHE* <’rark* ■> just naturally I ••had it on” the Lookout* ye*- to r .|a\ afternoon That about as good an explanation as anvbodx < ould offet When a team |c an in-and-out lunn* r (large!} nut> us the (’rankers have been this season their work doth <- explana tion When th r y at»- going right they win east!} When they arm) < they couldn't win from the tail-end team of the Sunday School league, And there you have it Yesterday was one of the Crack ers’ days. They took the unoffend ing curves "f the once dreaded ‘'Farmer” Allen and hammered them with rare vigor and enthu siasm They took the gamp in hand early and they held it all the way. The Lookouts gave Dessau a tol erably busy afternoon, but so long as the local woodsmen were at work with the timber there was small cause for fear Yesterday was one of da\* when the Crackers looked good Their errors did no harm Their batting was timely. 'The pitching was plenty good enough to* get by It was an occasion when every - bod} left the park wondering why the (’rankers hadn’t b«cn one-two three all the season instead of six seven-elght most of the time. • • • T T take® a r*;<l baseball optic to * pull a trade within the league and not get all the worst of It. And the stunt Is particularly difficult for Manager Hemphill for he was not born and brought up In the Southern league, as a lot of the managers were. But when "Hemp” grabbed Callahan and McKHcen he didn't make any boob deal The men are both proving out. Since Callahan came to Atlanta he has been hitting the ball right on the periphery, as it were, field ing faultlessly and running bases like a steam engine. McElveen has also come to life and his work has been materially benefited by the change Callahan has hit like a sledge swinger since he has been in At lanta but yesterday his work with the maul was particularly deadly. He made two singles and a three bagget and scored twice. The reason of Callahan's tremen dous hitting was that he got his bat "right," absolutely and entire ly 'right." He spent all the morn ing and some of the afternoon scratching away at the handle tin- BOXING I Late News and Views Although the betting favors Ad Wolgast to defeat Joe Rivers in Ix>s Angeles July 4 experts say one would not ml«s it far to pi< k either fighter to win. • • • Rivers and WolgHßt, who ate both in grand shape, will wind up their training about two days before the day set for the big doings and take a dux nr ;«<» «»r much needed rest. Promoters all over the country are try 'tig to bring Mike Gibbons and Eddie M< - Goorty together for a ten-round bout M< - Goorty has won most of his starts, while ‘Gibbons has a dear record • • • The latest victim t*' fall before Mikes blows was Joe Stein Gibbons gave him a terrific lacing and had him all but out when the gong sounded George K <» Rrown. the Chicago Greek, ha'* received an offer from Xus trails which guarantees him $2,000 for a bout on that side If Brown s defeated by Eddie McGoortx ri Benton Harbor on th* I •ur’h the offer doesn't hold g-»o<| • • • Pans will probably never sen Tommy , Kilbane in action in a padded ring again I While Kilbane lias n<u announced his re- I t'rement it is said he made s tch a poor showing against Phil Brock the other night that Bis announcement will >nly be j a matter of a short lime Two years ago Kilbane w ;c- haded a a coming champion However, he took 100 much punishment during his tender x, <>s and will more than likely have to retire at the age of 21 >ear< • • • Willie ‘'handler a B< ' s • bib box.a of of New York, has put up such good bouts his fen times'oi!! tha’ if be continues to show class in his oev few fights he will hr gixcn a chan<» at h»hnn\ Kilbane f v »be featherweight title ** * > Freddie I’rckler and X'-mng Hcunx I <' e been matched to g.» eight founds m Now Orleans on the Fourth Both box s ar. promising heax y weights • • • Reports sax Joe Mandot and I’al Moot,, have been re-matched to fight in Mcmplos July 4 Gunboat Smith, of I’ahfoT’ a I Uled to iner t Hugh McGann tn New York tonight O'DELL IS RELEASED TO MOBILE: JOINS MONDAY Al < > H» II the Cracker who ta- ~a >. d in almost every role on 'im ram since he became a member, has been claim'. o Ip Meddle over the waiver route Manager Hemphill tried every means known to keep < »’l ‘ell on the salary lisi but found 'I impossible, owing to the loxx salary limit in force in the league < * I mil while not a wonderful pin \ ■ one posithn. is one of the best utility men ovet seen in this league He has nlaxed excrx position from outfield i<> p’i'her His fielding has bcrni good ami nis heav' slugging ha< help'd Xfbinia to v map' game** x- M«.b.l» arrive* for a series with i‘e •'la- Gr* Monday. ‘ » Hell w >ll probably • a m-re until the arrival of the team, ar ’* rr . ’ -ip M4ke Finn’s Gulls in this ’ allawa' announced this n ornieg ’I d’ • ‘ »xa - op the lookout for 1 ' os g I't-eh,. - wl< would take < < : p ■■ ■ - d ; m i» . Met. til he reduced it to exactly the right sizi . After the Cracker batting pi;i< t ice yesterdas he handed it a few more scratches, borrowed a ,lo w of tobacco from the Official I’urvc.yor of Chewing Material to Hall Players. In Mit< hell, treated lite handle to a top dres-ing of to bacco Juice ami was ready for the ■fray What he did with that glass and tobacco treated bat Is already part of league history. I t'allahan keeps hitting at his pre-, nt stride, or anywhere neat it. the deal that brought Dave to Atlanta will be the biggest sucker performance that Charley I- rank has been guilty of since he has been in the league. M< Elveen's hatting Was right In the t'allahan class He ripped off three single* scored two runner* and was in turn scored with a base on balls when Allen an wild in the eight h. • • • DILL SMITH -cents to have a*- * ' united a tolerably us; fu'l ymmg citizen in this "Mark Hannah, his altitudinous young catcher. "Mark is no mighty w ielder of t he maul, but lie has ail ttm test of th*' stuff. "I'm not kicking at all on my eatcheis," said Bill Smith, yester day. "They'll do >ll right." And, they've surely looked it since the Lookouts have been here. Han nah'- work in throwing to bases yesterday was tremendous. Some body must have' given the Crack er- a bum steer abcpit Hannah, for about every time man got safe to first he tried to st. al. And though many a man got to first not one of them has stolen yet. Those who perished trying sei* D c'allahan. "Dromedary" McElveen. "Bug" Harbison and "Kid" Graham. The only reason the others weren't on Hannah's list of victims was because they didn’t try to steal. | • • • TjlJU' wo are. back at the old ** stand and predicting: again that, if the new pitcher* show us anything at all. the Crackers will * yet get Into the pennant hunt. Ev ery time the Crackers play a punk game it is so utt< rly and hopelessly punk that there seems no < hance that they will ever finish anywhere else than last. W hen they get go ing in their winning stride \ on can’t see what holds them out of the pen nant hunt. It has been seldom indeed in Southern league history when a team that was hitting that was made up of intelligent and lively players and that was managed by BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Elmer Brown, of the Browhs. was hit m the head the other dnv by a ball thrown from third toward first and was unconscious an hour. • « • I tines have changed w hen a pitcher right fresh from college can get a $5,000 contract That is what the Yanks gave Ha vis. the \\ dliams college wonder. • ♦ • I >uitlcl<|pr Pharlns Fox. ~f th P Knwanre team. ha< just fallen heir to $lO 000 He will continue to play hall, just as if noth ing bad happened • • • lln <» and I’ league Is nothing if not rough it has just kicked Hugh X Shan non. owner of the Salem, <».. franchise, mt of the league The claim was that was trying to <|i< po Sv of the best plax ers of the team. • • • The Rods and t|,o Naps will not pla v Ibo ii’dn ohninpionship this fall The Rods ' V, H do a little barnstorming after the season ends * ♦ « yttbo! Hile Potdin Is recovering and Alike will he helping along the Pirates I again aft era bit h "e.iv.'t has been turned down In > the national <-otnnil.ssion. H P wanted sahiri from the Braves for the time of I suspension . lairning unjust treatment. 1s t dldn t make his charges slick. The benefit game for the I' s league ■ o. i. hets Oi It;, htnond netted ea. lt man a " 'll- nn.l. t >t:. T, ideal loyalty that i.eorge i itrk. -outhpaw. has been sold i ' 'i" ' , ! : , 'o " ib'esl'arro dark iftisn't i tasted a full game this season The national . ommission has ruled that ‘ I’la'ei IS passed on front .me team ' '' '-'agm to another in the same or i g-mii-.tti.m 1,., must get as mm h salarv >: ■ Io- urieondit i.ma| >■,.|. ase I 11.'a... Fogel lias announced that the market for men and i " 1,1 J;',', . d ST thill per eaeh for • j t ig.i. km. .d pla . .-i s I louhtiess' Walt.i Reg. gralibed In .|. t , Pirates f. -m’ th. He.; Sox. has 1... p turned over I ■' ' " 11,1 ■' string att.o-110,1 • '"‘"'dan.. Mil.in are :i e ottlv \\ ashing- ' ton regulars batting over run v.i ; .m Ii; lo Re.; Sox > hr.-a in.iwful I ’' h I.Xil U S •,<!«> || W.t•: Sj | Uj{ J- ( ’ I• ‘ : " Th’ W.vC ( uin al \ ’ • lu- sa i. Johnsen Thp !hi cm,in has c-> punch.' ' ' ' ' hms sb-w rtK }bv X . > ", ;ir ' ' 'ii'- scc-rcl against d,m"' si; G- ' "K* ■'■'rG:.. ’ • -m is lie - • ,w . -i ,nt K j, -fth dTuGG ■ ‘ T. G?’“VJTN'T. I <hc la’>‘ • > • f . . . i.,1’0 s league r | ... b | Jrrv ' ' '' ; i" h< t B;<r» x i" V! THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AYD YEWS. SATURDAY. JUNE 29. 1912. h leader of brains and enterprise, couldn't cut a wide swath. But Atlanta has had one such excep tional team this year. It has lost a lot of games on errors. It has lost a lot more on poor pitching Hut it has lost mote both ways than it evet should. And it is about due to come to life. If the Crackers can get away with the struggle today they will have shown a lot of spirit and a lot of baseball. They are crippled by having only three pitchers in running order. They ate down in l the depths where despair is- catch ing. But they are playing real baseball and don't you doubt it. Il HITTING BETTER, SDK MUI CLIMB By Bill Bailey. DETROIT. MICH. June 29 Funny what a difference a few hits make. When the Sox started for Detroit to tackle tile Tigers they had all the con fidence that was theirs when they re turned. froin that triumphant journey through the East. Whj Because they got a lot of base hits off the Browns in the last game between those two teams. They w on. all right. The score was 7 to 0 in favor of the white-hosed lads. But it w asn't that so much as it was the fact that they started a batting rally in the eighth inning of that contest and hit like they did when they were mowing down the teams in lite East at the rat. of one a day. in yesterday's game hefe the big bat ting continued and 14 safe ones were piled up. Yes, the Sox lost. But they will not lose many if they keep up that slugging. The Sox figure that their batting slump is at an end and that they are qoming into their own. Maybe that's’ true. Maybe it isn't. May be a false alarm Bui you can't make the Sox believe that i< a fact. The Sox figure they ate tight back to their w inning form and that thej will he hoard from in the future It certainly is remarkable what ap effect a few base hits have on a hall club You take a fellow who's in th p habit of hitting and who isn't clouting ami he's a bad ball player. Doesn't make any difference who the fellow is and it's of no great consequence as to wTft.thet he is a star or a dub. If he isn’t hitting he doesn't look good. And he doesn't feel right. And Hip re sult is he doesn't plat much baseball, either at the plate o in the field. It's All in the Eye. Bui you let him get back his bat ting eye and he immediately becomes a different hall player A man in the habit of hitting will pull off stunts when ho is clouting that he wouldn't dream of attempting if be were in a slump. It's a fact which anv ball'player in the business will verify. Ami there's nothing in Hie world to bolster a player's courage like a few good solid’smashes That is the nu ntal condition of the Sox now Callahan slammed out a long three-bagger. Im mediately tlm bleaehe »es wanted to be friends with the manager. He felt better all through the game. Ping Bodie, wlm htts been going badly, but who recently gave indications that he was coming back to his batting form, slammed mu a couple and felt Ilk*, a whale all liming the contest. Not until July 4 will Hi,, south s.d fans have an opportunity of seeing the s "' i' l action again. After tini-hing with the Tigers the view of t'allahan will journey to st Louis for a-. ri,- with the B: owns 'coombs will probably BE SIGNED BY HEMPHILL Manager Hemphill is still worrying over the question of -ectiring more pitchers lie is giving t’ootnb-. the Spartanburg pitcher, a try-out at Policy nark every morning r. hopes of finding out what be has Spartanburg has ..ffete.l to let ' Hemphill have Coombs cheap If In make--' good. Ihe Atlanta club has not signe. i him vet. as it does not want to have t.. t release any player t... make room for bint ' However Hemphill likes his work it - likely that the trouble over Mayer I will be settled In a few days Portsmouth >*as bl ■ n ..i.lore,l pay,the vtlanta club] : I (or playet- c. .ire.l at I lie first .f the j sen or wd i* the> haxrn t the mow j lit. .Io o. it like!} Maxrt w ||| |m inirpd |ox»'t • the b»> al club in «»r»h i to quiet I TWO STAR PLAYERS IN DRIVING CLUB EVENT I - I At the top is Winship \im nnllv. one of Atlantti’s best ten- ' nis players, al the finish of a htii'il stroke at the net. Below, is .Itsse Draper, one of the Driv ing eluh cracks, al the finish of a speedy serve. These two men have done good work in rhe Piedmont Driving club tourna ment. aml'will doubtless be heard from in the Southern champion ship that opens Monday on the East Lake courts of the Atlanta) , Athletic eluh. • y ' C t / J 'st. tnw ” // ■ // 'ft /’/ ’/ * // ® lb- j 1 11 sH I I t‘ a-' JB b » ral X _ j. *— a. DRIVING CLUB TENNIS TOURNEY NEARING END The tennis tournament at the Piedr nu'iu Driving Hub w ill probably end today. The finals in the mens sup gh and doubles and in the mixed doubles are scheduled for this. after noon. The ladies’ singles may go over until next week. Tin- winners Friday were: Ladies’ Singles. Miss E. Smith defeated Mbs Mario Traylor. Miss L. Must defeated Miss <’alhoun. Mi - <Must* defeated Miss \V Muse. Miss E. Muse defeated Mbs Margtrot Traylor. Mrs. John Hill de feated Mrs. Al». Jones. Miss <*. Muse defeated Mis: M. A Phelan. Miss Ma de Traylor deb ated Miss < King. Men’s Singles. Hopkins defeated Hodgson. Dorsey defeat-d Fitzsimmons. Dor>*\ defeat ed ’’lay Hoyt defeated A. Smith. Men's Doubles. Smith and Ashe defeated Clay and Hall Dorsey ami Thornton defeated Doug is ami Morris Hoyt and Fitz simmons d» I al" Marlin and Nunn l * Mixed Doubles. Mbs Parian ami M Drape defeated Mb Hill and Mr Ashe. Miss Muse and M M< Cleskey defeated .Miss Jon* ‘ I and M Du I les, PLAY FOR CUNNINGHAM TROPHY STARTS TODAY The golf tournament for the \\ \V | • 'unningham tropin will he started at * East I ake this afternoon when the golfers pla\ the qualify mg round The contest- i ants will uualifx from scratch and the '■tub handi-aps will apple in the match i'lay The first and ’md round of the match i pla\ will he finished by July 5. the third . round hy tub k md the finals by tub 7 j In the first tbuhl <mb the final* will hr I it 3f. holes - 'LL hv/ Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday’s Game These average* include yesterday’s game with the Lookouts: I’L AVERS G. AR R H. Av. Dessau, p 1 4 42 9 14 .333 Hemphill, 0f62 243 27 76 .313 Harbison, ssl3 45 1 14 .311 Halley,* rf66 240 43 73' .304 O’Dell, th. 60 206 32 54 .262 (’allahan. 1f24 105 13 27 .257 <‘’Brien, ss 172 19 42 .244 Alpeftnan. s*. . ... 66 251 34 61 243- McElveen. 3b. . 72 262 34 62 .237 Graham, e23 HS 7 IK' .235 Siiton. pl 3 32 17 .219 Atkins, pl 2 32 3 7 .219 Donahue, c 22 67 7 14 -.200 Kradv, p 7 21 0 2 .095 Agler. lb 3 10 0 0 .000 CHAMP AND CHALLENGER DOWN TO BEST WEIGHTS EAST LAS VEGAS. N M.. .lune 29. | With ihe tight but six days; away Las | Vegas is rapidl} becoming crowded with the advance guard of the army of tight' fans Tra-ins were crowded to their ca pacity today and from now on every reg ular and special train coming into the city will be tilled with the followers of rhe gamer < >wing io the fact that Johnson’s train ing partners are in bad condition, due to the hedv\ work that the} have <>een forced io undergo the lasi week. Jack confined himself to roa«iw<»rl> today. The big black, accompanied by one of his trainers, started out on thie highways earl\ today and covered close i<s twelve miles before returning to camp The champion is being groomed to en ter the ring at 212 pounds and is near that al present. Johnson’s eamp is expected to be the Mecca of fans tomorrow, as the champion has announced he will pay 200 irou men to an> boxer who will last two rounds with him. Although Flynn failed to do any boxing yesterday, he resumed his gymnasium and sparring work today. After spend ng three-<ruartCrs of an hour in the gym nasium he went through a stiff boxing program. 'The F’ueblo fireman will not attempt to take off any more weight, as he is at the mark at which he expects to enter the ring on July 4 He Is now hov ering around the 194 mark, and expects to stay there HERNSHEIM tine/ Johnson Ready and Fit for Title Struggle With Flynn By Ed W. Smith. (The Georgian's fight expert, who has been selected to re.eree the Johnson - Flynn battle.) EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M.. June 29.—Jim Flynn won't be fac ing any shell of a man. de void of a resistive interior forma tion. next week, a man like Jack Johnson faced in Reno two years ago next Fourth of July. \Ve have Tom Flanagan's word for the statement and Tom's word goes for a whole lot. at least out in Old Town, where Jack Johnson is training. In other words Jack Johnson today is all man and not merely a mam upon the surface and something else underneath. Several of the leading critics of the country have been easting doubt upon the colored man's con dition. continually referring to the possibility of the champion's fol lowing in the footsteps of Jim Jef fries after his layoff before the Johnson battle. The other day I saw Flanagan scanning a story to this effect and 1 asked him what he thought about it. The "Merry Mick" tore off one of his big smiles and looked thoughtful for a moment or two and then said: “The whole thing about the situation is that these critics are figuring that Jack John son is just like all of the others tn the past who lias gone into decay through idleness, it is not so. Flanagan Praises Johnson. "And to begin with, champions of, the past —or rather I should say my oid chatnpoins w ho have aspired to come back—have in the main been men of indolent habits. • Most of them anything but harm in a phys business and anybody who knows anything knows what that means, others have gone into business equally confining and of similarly wasting character and as a re sult the idleness has never done them anything but harm in a phy ical sense. "How has it been with Johnson? How has he spent his idle time during the last years'.’ "Well. Just review those two years a little bit. He has done enough stage work to keep himself in reasonably good physical con dition and for a long period in England and France he trained steadily for the proposed battle In England with Bombardier Wells. And when lie wasn't training he was out in either bis racing or his touring car. getting his lungs full of the finest of fresh ait. "Jack never spent much of his time at any confining amusement. He isn't a drinking man in the sense of sitting or standing around for hours. That isn't his idea of drinking at all. He drinks beer and wine, but never to excess. His chief fun is driving one of bis cars, and the way Jack goes at these sports keeps a man in fairly good physical condition. "I can tell from his present work out that Johnson is in the finest of condition for his battle. The way he has gone at his training indicates that he realizes he is ui> against a tough man and that he Intends to be prepared for any and every thing that is liable to hap pen. Work Is a Revelation. "His work today should have been a revelation to those who know him best. I've never seen him show so much aggressiveness and force as he did against his sparring mates. The old fighting instinct seems to be aroused in him* right now and I think be will dis play greater skill and astonishing speed in this contest than he ever did before. "I doubt if Flynn has to wait for him very much. And I doubt also whether Flynn's great strength ano bls rough tactics will do much to battel' down the wonderful defen sive tactics that the colored stat always has shown. I've tried my best to figure Flynn as having bet ter than an eight Pen-round chance with Jack, but can not do so." There was some hurried confer ring yesterday and the Johnson party, with Watson Burns, train ing bead of the camp, came Into the city to settle the question of the ring. It was Burns who in sisted to Johnson that lie accept nothing smaller that a twenty-foot ting and to discard the promoter's first construction, an arena that measured just seventeen feet anti six inches inside of the ropes. The Johnson party won the ar gument. Tlie ring In which the men will contest will measure ex actly nineteen reet ten inches in side of the ropes. Johnson ex plained to Curley that he didn't cate so much what the size of the ring is so I6ng as it afforded rea sonably safe fboting. But he said that Burns, who Is in charge of the camp, had asked him to hold on the point of a bigger ring and therefore he would insist upon it. To Reconstruct Ring. The change involved a consider able amount of work and the pres ent main points of the ring will have to be sawed off flush w*ith the floor of the ring and new ones erected farther out and a new board tun around the entire platform as a safeguard against one of the box ers stepping off the ring under nr through the ropes. The ring is a decidedly solid af fair. with a heavy plank flooring, but will be well padded from edge to edge, but the footing will not be of a depth to be tiresome to the men. It will be resilient enough to be what is known as "fast.” There will be but one set of ropes under the present scheme of construction. Johnson does his training in a fif teen-foot ring Tlte arena is complete in its present form excepting that the walls around it have not been thrown into place. That will be simple matter of but a few hours, according to the contractors. Champ Vicious tn Boxing. Johnson showed singular vicious ness in workout yesterday after noon and had one of the best work outs of his entire season here. He started the work with Bob Watkins, a newcomer in the camp. Watkins is a tall, rangy colored man from Denver, where he used to shine as a fighter. They fought three rounds, and. while it was earnest and lively all the way through, it furnished a whole lot of amuse in* nt to the spectators, for Wat kins is something of a comedian. Johnson had him tired iff short order and a fervent "amen" from Watkins at the final call of time set the spectators into a roar of laugh ter. Calvin Respress followed and Johnson went at him so viciously that Rastus was in distress quick ly- and yvas forced to quit cold in the third round. Flynn Has Bad Eye. Flynn Is sporting a badly bruised eye as a result of one of his des perately hard bouts with Al. Wil liams. but it is an injury that will yield to treatment quickly and is not giving the camp any concern. He came into the city last night and before the shadows were too , deep from the western mountains was shown the old and the new ring, the way* Johnson insists upon having it. "Smaller the better for me.” he said laconically, "but he’s champion and seems to be getting everything he asks for. 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