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WHITNEY ROBBED IN
FIGHT WITH O'KEEFE
UrHE X Pooh-Bah Brownfield.
/ th® matchmaker-referee
prnmo’er manager ■ Janitor
of th® transplanted Gate City Ath
letic club of the fir®-trap fame,
grave Tommy O'Keefe, of Philadel
phia, a decision over Frank Whit
net. of Cedar Rapids, after their
ten-round bout h® hit the boxing
game In Atlanta another foul blow
For it was Whitney's fight, not
O'Keefe’s Whitney's b\ a shad®
•o big as to be pt-rr eptabto to any
competent Judge of fighting
Whether this decision was due to
incompetence spite, favoritism or
gome other cans® Is hard to deter
mine, hut so raw was it that when
It war rendered by th® Handy
Andv of the. Gate t'ity club there
were howls from the spectators.
And this morning there was rough
talk In sporting circles, ’specially
among those who had wagered
their money on Whltnev and then
Been It taken from them by an un
fair decision
Whitney had th® first round and
the tenth by margins that were im
CUNNINGHAM CUP PLAY
NEARING SEMI FINALS
Plav has nearly reached th® semi
finals stage In the four flights of th®
golf tournament for the VV W. Cun
ningham gold trophy, several matches
Being plaved v®sterdav Here they are
FIRST FLIGHT.
Second Round,
R P. Jones defeated C Knowles,
* up and 2 tn play
R E. RJchards defeated G W Adair.
P up and 2 to plat
SECOND FLIGHT.
Second Round.
T A H ammond defeated C G Lip-I
pold. S up and 4 to play
C Angler defeated D. Brown. 2 up
•nd 1 to piav
Semi - Finals,
C Angle! defeated T A Hammond,
g up. 1? holes
THIRD FLIGHT
Seoond Round.
H K Neei defeated A H. Llppold. 1
up. 24 holes
W W Cunningham defeated W. M
Markham. 2 up and 1 to play.
D R Henry defeated E D Ttuncan.
P up and t to plat
FOURTH flight.
First Round.
H A Rodgers defeated B M Blount
Vy default
T H, Latham defeated j >t Beasley
by default
Second Round.
E G Ot’tley defeated R F Jones.
Jr. 7 up and 5 to plav
Semi Finals
E G Ottlev defeated W. L Hudson.
F up and 2 to p!a\
DICK GILBERT RFATS
KREIDER IN 4 ROUNDS
CHATTANOOGA TENN. July 5.-
“Fighting Dick Gilbert of Jackson
vllle was given the rie< Islon over Rude
Kreider n f Rome, <;a . tn the fourth
round of a scheduled eight-round fight
here, When Kreider went to the mat
his seconds claimed a foul It was not
allowed.
Kid Sylvester, of Kansas Citv end
Johnny Flynn, of .Memphis, negroes,
fought eight rounds to a draw.
MOBIL!? IN HUNTSVILLE
HI. NTS’! II I F.. ALA dub ", The Mo
bile baseball team win play a game with
the Huntsville team <.f i b ® Southeaster"
league on Ju!' ,n Manager Finn has
telegraphed a> oeptan< ® of an otter to
bring th< Guth here tha' dal* being
open The Re>ma team wilt be placing
here at the time and arrangements wilt
fee made to have a double t'eader on
July f
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pressive. He got as good as an
even break in every other round
O'Keefe used bull ring methods,
making a big : how of aggressive
ness with bluff rushes that did
about as much damage as a good
stiff Jolt from a house fly.
If wasn't a. bad bout, except that
there was too much wrestling and
not enough punching. Whitney’s
cleverness gave him ah the edg®
and h!«= defensive work against the
well-meant blows of O'Keefe saved
him from any serious damage
There was nothing about the
scrap at any stage that gave
O'Keefe anv edge He did not land
as man' blows as his opponent. He
<Hd not land as hard He had noth
ing on points or in execution.
Boxing is in a bad way In At
lanta. If is merely tolerated here
now The first crusade .against it
"ill put the everla«tlng kibosh on
it. The only chance of keeping it
is to run it fairly and decently.
\ny other tactics will kill fl. And
it Isn't feeling very well this morn
ing.
NATIONAL COMMISSION
ANNOUNCES NEW RULING
’ INf INN A TI. July 5. The national
baseball commission announced the fol
io" Ing notice to al! national agreement
clubs
"To establish uniformity In action by
chibs when a player. Released by a
major league club to a minor league
■ lub and by a minor* league eliih to a
major league club, refuses to report to
and contract with the club to which he
is transferred, the commission directs
that club to protect both parties to the
deal from responsiblliy for his salary
during his Insubordination by promptly
suspending him
"Payment, in part fln whole, of the
consideration for the release of such
player will not lie enforced until lie is
reinstated and actually enters the serv
ice of the purchasing club"
CHAMPION KILBANE IS
VICTOR OVER DIXON
CLEVELAND OHIO. July s—Ac
cording to popular verdict Johnny Kil
bane defeated Tommy Dixon in a
twelve-round contest here last night.
The bout was fast and Interesting
Dixon was strong for nine rounds,
but in the 'enth KIP aw carried the
fight steadily to the Kansas <'!ty lad.
and in th® eleventh had him hanging
on the ropes.
The fight was delayed two hours by
a great crowd breaking down the
turnstile; giving admittam e to the
arena. Until those who had not paid
were weeded out the management
would not proceed with the bout
LOOKOUTS RUY PAIR
OF CRACK INFIEL DERS
CHATTANOOGA. TENN. tulv 5.
Chattanooga pun based Third Baseman
Hunting from New Orhans and Infield
er Miller from St l,nuk Robe will
plav third for New Orleans, ’'bafta
nooga wdi! release Runser Otto Jor
dan 1« threatened with typhoid fever
and may he out for the rest of the sea-
RASFRALI. FEUD OVER.
iICKWiX MISS, titty :> v„ arnica
He adju-'men’ of the centrovers' be
tween President V I ewts, of the Cotton
Sta>e« league, and the Jm-Ason and Yazoo
’’itv clubs, was rriched at a meeting of
’he league director- vesterdav and the
baseball fend Is apparent!; at an end.
Mth no barm done -eve t frw feeling'
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.THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. FRIDAY. .TCLY 5. 1912.
Hemp Has a Real Ball Club Now, If It Is Losing
+•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ 4>«4. 4«4.
Agler Is the Best First Baseman Dug Up in Ages
By Perry H. Whiting.
t t v HERE’S a lot of fun watch
ing the Crackers play these
days, even If they do lose at.
least every« other game For
Hemphill’s bunch is a real ball
club, mad® up of r®al ball players,
and when its pitching strength Is
increased until it is on a par with
its playing and its batting strength
ft Is going to sweep th® league
And I don't care If they did lose
to th® debilitated Billlkens yester
day afternoon, score 5 to 3.
The Cracker and Billiken teams
showed about equal offensive and
defensive, strength yesterday af
ternoon. outside the slab position.
Rut Paige pinned It on the Crack
ers, while Atkins was hit hard.
Yes, true enough. Palg® was,
Just the other day. a Cracker. And
be couldn’t have won regularly in
that uniform against the tail-end
team of th* Federal Penitentiary
Leagu® Neither was Bert Max
well any good as a. Cracker, nor
Neal Ball, nor Al Demare* (though
they didn’t even bother to find out
in Al's case ) They were no good
as Crackers They become won
ders elsewhere. We don't atempt
an explanation It’s Just "one of
them things " Th® fact remains,
though, that Paige, who couldn't
win for th® Crackers, managed to
win from them yesterday with
something almost® bordering on
ease tnd h® won because he out
pitcheri Tommy Atkins and not
through anv failure on the part of
his teammates
• • •
ALL ®f which brings us hack to
’ ‘ the original contention that
Atlanta has a real ball club. And
more than that. Atlanta has the
best fielding first baseman that's
been In the league since the days
of Jake TFaubert His name is Joe
Agl»r, and he hasn’t been a Crack
er long
Any time you want to see a real
baseball player In action, come out
to the park and watch Joe go to It.
Now, of course, when in any mi
nor league It becomes necessary to
talk of great performing on the
first sack it is customary to lug
in the name of Harold Chase, erst
while great player of the.never
very-wonderful Highlanders. Now
Agier Is no Hal Chase and he's
not even a Jake Daubert or a
Frank Chance But his fielding
certainly does 'emlnd one. in a
mild "ay. of Chase's work. He
pulled some stuff yesterday after
noon that would have been some
what to the credit even of Chas®
Agier Is built mor® along the
physical lines of Chase than he Is
of the conventional first baseman
(if the Jim Fox or th® Abstain type
He is slight, flexible, agile, quick.
And he'll do for the Cracker team.
You expect pretty good ball for
Agier. for he has been playing in
the International league, and has
had the benefit of the tutoring of
the Cub staff of experts. But a
man who is showing a lot, nf whom
so much is not reasonably to be
expected. Is Douglas Harbison
This youngster from the deep and
dingv bushes came almost unher
alded. hut h® came with* a rush
and he has been coming right
along ever since.
• * *
\V HV J'-fl’ that Atifln’a team
’ b's a real ba" club as it
stands today Callahan has bios
out to f? point hp
better th.-Mi h® was bi? best
dav t v*ar Rr’lpx is improv
ing \ minutft Mt Rlvppn 1 >
rutting up n game that is on a par
xx ’th hl? best Rvev shown in thr
Southam The ' Etching staff con*
tinupß to de well And the two
uho h.«' e been going- good pve’\v
minute of *v«»ry game all the ?e.»-
-■vt Hemphill ind
• ontinu" in th° sam* stride
\nd \ b! * the luck, the
I Cracker team continues to hover
around the bottom of the ladder,
with no real symptoms erf going
higher. You can’t kee.p a squirrel
club on the ground, though, and
the Cracker club is a squirrel club
if we ever saw' one.
All that will keep the Crackers
down now is the pitching staff
And if we’re any Judge of the bird,
that "Bucko” Becker, the Pride of
the Navy Yard, is not going to
hold the Crackers back any. This
new left-hander pitched a mighty
impressive game yesterday morn
ing. He Just breezed along and he
had the Billikens calling for help
for nine full innings On the
strength of his work yesterday he
will make Atlanta a winning
pitcher.
If this other new man, Waldorf,
proves to be anything worth talk
ing about, the Crackers will be-
FODDER FOR FANS
A farmer lad named William Traynor
was killed by being hit over the heart by
a pltrhed ball in a game at Charley Bluff,
Wis He dropped when the ball hit him
and was picked up dead
* • «
The Cards have won every game that
Roger Bresnahan has worked as catcher
this year
• • •
Artie Hofman is charging in published
interviews that Charley Murphy knew he
was suffering a nervous breakdown when
he traded him to Pittsburg Dreyfuss is
®afd to have stated that Murphy repre
sented that Hofoyan was in excellent
health Nasty stench about this thing
somewhere
• • «
Anyhow the St Louis Browns are plan
ning ahead They have placed Outfielder
Robert Young in care of Charley Stls at
Peoria for a season's seasoning, they will
get Bunny Brief from Travers City next
month for a trial and they have purchased
Pitcher Napier, who recently pitched a
one hit no-pass no-run game for the
Sherman team of the Texas-Oklahoma
league.
• • •
The Brow ns have but one ambition this
year, which is to win more games than
Rube Marquard.
• • •
Somebody has characterized the Na
tional league race as a three-monihs
yawn
• • •
limmy Adams, the youngster who
pitched the Browns to victory against the
Naps, hails from Albright college in Penn
sylvania. At that It took a rescue crew
to get him through alive
• • «
Edgar Willett set a new long-distance
hitting mark for Detroit when he made
two home runs in two consecutive in
nings
• • •
Charley Ebbetts wants to open his new
ball park on some historic date He se-
DODGERS STOP GIANTS
BY WINNING 2 GAMES
NEW YORK. July s—Brooklyn broke
New York's winning streak yesterday by
taking two games The scores were .10
tn 4 and stn 3 In the first game Math
ewsnn was knocked nut of the box Tes
reau. who relieved him. was also knocked
nut. and Crandall finished the game but
was hammered hard Yingling, caved in
under the excessive heat in the fourth '
and bad to be assisted off the field Ra
gnn finished strong for Brooklvn.
Wiltse was hammered hard In the early
innings of the second game, while Stack
was effective in every inning but the
fourth, when *.ew York bunched three
of their hits for two runs i
TOMMY DEVLIN WINNER
OVER YANKEE SCHWARTZ
XASHVH.LE. TENN. Jul' s—Tom- ■
mv Devlin, of Philadelphia, complete- :
!y outfought Yankee Schwartz, of i
Philadelphia, in an eight-round Fourth ’
of Ju!' bout here Schwartz held his
opponent in the first round, but aft®r
that ’he battle was all Devlin's
The fight was an exciting one with
pientv of good blows, and Schwartz
fought steadily until the end. Both ‘
of th® fighters showed c’assy footwork
in the opening rounds. i
GOTCH DOWNS SMEJKAL
CHICAGO. July 5. —Champion Frank
Gotch defeated Joe Smejka! in straight
falls hr-e Th® firs-d fall came in sev
en minutes and twenty seconds oh
hammer-lock hold, and the second in j
f iur minute - and fifty-five seconds on 1
a crotch hold.
come the squirrel chib for sure.
• » »
'J' HE scouting days are here. Mike
Kahoe, of the Washington
team, watched the performance
yesterday, an d from now on the
big league sleuths will be dropping
in on Atlanta every few days and
looking over the talent.
Unless Harbison can set ' the
team ablaze, the Crackers are not
likely to have anything this year
which will get the scouts on the
run. Bailey, who is doing bril
liant work, belongs to the New
York Americans, and will prob
ably be called back for a trial
with them next spring The . only
Atlanta pitcher who is doing real
ly first-class work is Vedder Sit
ton, and he is hardly likely to be
recalled into fast company—
though you never can Bob
Spade was, and Otto Hees and a
few others.
f n ?; seh «du!e committee
crabbed It. However.” says Charles,
ii lst ? r ? ' s incidents and August
full of dates
♦ • •
In the recent Nap-Brown series Joe
Jackson and Larry Lajoie produced 26
runs
• • •
President Frank Nevin, of the Tigers,
has issued a denial of the report that he
said he was dissatisfied with Jennings as
a manager He admits that he is dissat
isfied with the team, but he has nothing
on Jennings in that
» • «
tb : e epigrams of Tom Sharkey.
Kids don t care any more about boxing
It s all baseball "
• • •
Harry Mclntyre, former Chicago and
Memphis pitcher, ts going to cult base
bail soon and open a booze place in Chi
cago.
A sheriff has been chasing Rube Mar
quard In an effort to collect a bill due a
theatrical paper for advertising his act
last year.
• • •
Jimmy Dygert. ex-Pel!can, has been
unconditionally released bv Baltimore
-- • • •
Speaking of the fact that Rube Mar
quard has got all of an even break in his
race for the consecutive winning record,
one of the Giant players said the other
day. "The scorers should have given Mar
quard credit for that game yesterday.
Didn’t he warm up in the ninth?”
* • •
The New York fans are after Hal Chase
and he will be traded That, with bad
health, business troubles and family rows
he is playing punk bail. Therefore, there
seems nothing to do but let him out
• • •
Ed Sweeney was late in reporting and
late in rounding to, but they say now
that he is easily the best catcher in the
American league
McGOORTY BEATS BROWN;
SHERIFF_STOPS BATTLE
BENTON HARBOR. MICH . July 5.
The Eddl® McGdorty-Knockout Brown
fight was stopped by the sheriff, who
arrested the fighters and officials in the
last ten seconds of the tenth and last
round, charging thepi with violating
the Michigan boxing laws It was Mc-
Goorty’s fight al! through.
HERRICK BESTS M’KENNA.
FORT WATNE. IND, July s.—Nei
ther Joe Herrick, a young puilist from
Chicago, nor Patsy McKenna, who
claims the welterweight, championship
of California, show s a disfiguring mark
today as a result o f a ten-round bout
yesterday afternoon. There was no
ring decision, hut the popular opinion
favored Herrick. The rounds were
slow and without feature Both fight
ers were under 150 pounds. Eddie San
ley was referee.
I’ORAN STOPS MILLS
EL FASO. TEXAS. Julv s.—Frank
Moran, an English fighter, was gh-en the
decision in the tuarez bull ring veste-da'
over Dave Mills, an Oakland. Cal , negro
in the eighth round. The negro broke
hfs thumb in th® second round, but stuck
to the fight. Tommy Ryan refereed the
battle
PRINCETON STAR LET OUT.
SACRAMENTO. CAL . July a.—Herb
R'ram. former Princeton star, has been
given his unconditional release by the
Sacramento club Byram has pitched
and lost eight games this season.
SMITH JOLTS TALENT
BY DOWNING THORNTON
THAT you never can tell how a of large proportions both this aft.
•porting event is going to emoon and tomorrow. Referee
come out until the coming Is Frank Reynolds will schedule some
all over was never better demon- good stuff for both gnrj
strated than when Carleton Smith * S !s J ee ™ R to t b \ a bl » ar ?or
, . tennis in Atlanta, the seating ca-
i defeated Nat Thornton yesterday in paclty of the Lake 6tacd3 lg
the Southern championship tourna- !!kel y to be wel) te9ted
rnent at Bast Lake in the third Only two matrhes were pla<ved up
round of men s singles. And worse to poon todav> whi , 6 a coup!e
than that, he did it.in straight sets, put over by default. The results
7 ' 5 ' 6 ' 3 follow:
After the singles drawing had Mljted Doubles. Seml-fina-lg-Mra
been made for the present tourna- Seymour and Thornton defeated
L hornton sa!d: Mrs. Taylor and Hochendale by
Smith will probably beat me. These default. Mrs. O’Brien and Carle
hard courts suit him. He plays a ton Srnltb def eatet i Miss Sturgeon
back line game. I play the net, and C!ark bv default.
You can't play a net game on this Mep . g Slngles ConsolaHon. Semi
vitrtfled clay. That gives him the flnal Round—Orr defeated Bailev.
advantage.’ And so It proved.
When the man who has won the Women's Consolation. Final
Old Dominion and the South At- Round—Mrs. John Milan defeated
lantic championships this year met Mlgs o»R r fp n 5.3 g.g,
the man who won the Tennessee The Southern Lawn Tennis as
title the latter won. And It was relation announces that the fol-
unquestionably the deciding match lowing prizeg wl! , bg 3Warded
of the tournament. Men’s singles, silver vase, run-
The outcome of this match might ne r-up, silver pitcher. Men's dou-
have been expected, though it b!eSi fwo sl!ver gn blets; ladies' sin-
wasn’t For Carleton Smith has gles . gi!ver hand mlrror . runner-up.
been plaj ing improved tennis of silver clothes brush Mixed dou-
late and his brilliant game Is the b!eg unbrellas; men’s consolations,
sort that is calculated to take any- be!t w)th 9l!ver b u O k!e; ladies' con-
body's measure any old time. In solation, silver loving cup.
the semi-finals Smith meets E V.
Carter. Jr, and he will give the
conqueror of Thornton a big game. WORLD’S FASTEST MOTOR
BOAT IN-CHICAGO RACES
meet L. D. Scott. This veteran is Mawdesley Brooke's hydroplane
playing a corking game and should Baby the fastest
motor craft ever
defeat < barest, constructed in Great Britain, has beer.
The men's doubles, unlike the !aun . ch ed and given her first trials. She
singles, have come through to the hag proved a g , lccess ln ever y way. and
final round without an upset. In Brnok e has cabled Commodor® William
the upper frame B. M. Grant and Hale Thompson, of the Associa’ed
E. V. Carter. Jr., reached the finals Yarht and Power Boa t Clubs of A- r-
without a single hard match. In lca that the Htt!e flyer wou jd ba
the lower frame Smith and Thom- shipped to America next week
ton did the same thing. When they The boat will be shipped
cotne together it will be a match for through to Chicago, where she 11 ■ _
blood. Smith and Thornton should A^ ca UP fo r f °which IP-o""'"-’1 P -o""'"-’
win. but they are erratic, while Car- during naval pageant week, Augus’ 10
ter and Grant are steady. All four to 17.
are brilliant players, and the match. —— ■
W shoSd r^l d c^:; day aft ‘ GEHRING THROWS BERRY
The women's singles came IN TWO STRAIGHT FALLS
through entirely according to
schedule, and Mrs. Taylor, of CLEVELAND, OHIO. July s—-He"-
Brooklyn, was the winner. In the ry Gehring, of Cleveland, who
entire tournament she lost only the middleweight wrestling champion;
. c j ship Friday threw Rob Bern
seven games. She will not find the En | ligh contender for th® horn"'.
going so good when she meets Miss straight falls.
Irving Murphy, of New Orleans, in It required 24 minutes for G«n r "‘?
the challenge round. This, by the to win the first with a cro"■ J
way, will be the only challenge I he second fa >
, . , „ . 1 tn 25 minutes with a toe horn
round of the tournament, unless
Conrad Doyle turns up unexpected- ————.
!y, which isn't likely. i 1
A crowd of considerable size ’LI O "
turned out yesterday afternoon to | (ffilHp r*' » v <t_T roX -A F r.g„ 1
watch the matches, and with fair * m'.XEYT CURF*
weather there should b® galleries of aemost rt.tin.te cases gnaran’erdVT- i
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