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I WHITNEY ROBBED IN
I FIGHT WITH O’KEEFE
x-T tHEN Pooh - Bah Browntii Id,
%/*/ the niatchinakir-referee
promoter-manager - Janitor
of the transplanted Gate City Ath
letic chib, of the fire-trap fame,
gave Tommy O'Keefe, of Philadel
phia, a decision over Prank Whit
ney, of Cedar Rapids, after their
ten-round bou' h< hit the boxing
game In Atlanta another foul blow.
For It was Whitney’s fight, not
O’Keefe's—Whitney's by a shade
so big as to tie pvrc-eptable to any
Competent judge of fighting
Whether this decision was due to
Incompetence, spite, favoritism or
some other cause is hard to deter
mine. but so raw was it that when
it was rendered by the Handy
Andy of the Gate City club there
were howls from the spectators.
And this morning there was rough
talk in sporting circles, especially
among those who had wagered
their money on Whitney and then
seen It taken from them by an un
fair decision.
Whitney had the first round and
the tenth by margins that were itn-
CUNNINGHAM CUP PLAY
NEARING SEMI-FINALS
Play has nealx reached the semi
finals stage tn the four flights of the
golf tournament for the W. W. Cun
ningham gold trophy, several match- •
being played yesterday. Hi re thev are:
FIRST FLIGHT.
Second Round.
R. P. Jon-- defeated C Knowles,
4 up and 2 to play
R. E. Richards defeated G. W. Adair,
gE ■ 3up and 2 to plav.
SECOND FLIGHT.
Second Round.
T. A. Hammond defeated C. G. Lip-
J>old. 6 up and 4 to play
C. Angier defeated I). Brown, 2 up
B.nd 1 to play
Senn - Finals.
H - C. Angier defeated T A. Hammond.
IW 1 up. 19 holes.
THIRD FLIGHT.
Second Round.
H. K Neer defeated A. 11 Lippold, 1 i
up. 24 holes.
W. W. Cunningham defeated W M
M Markham. 2 up and 1 to play .
D. R Henry defeated E D Duncan.
3 up and 1 to piav
FOURTH FLIGHT.
First Round.
H. A. Rodgers defeated B. M Blount
by default
T. H. Latham defeated ,1. m. Beasley
by default.
Second Round.
E. G. Ott’< v defeated R. P Jones,
Jr, 7 up and *> to play
Semi • Finals.
E. G. Ottley defeated \\ L Hudson,
3 up and 2 to | ’ay .
DICK GILBERT BEATS
KREIDER IN 4 ROUNDS ;
CHATTANOOGA TENN July ’•
"Fighting I Hck Gilbert, of Jackson
ville. was given th. decision ox et Rud.
K Kreider, of Rome Ga.. in the fourth
round of a schedul'd eight-round fight
here. When Kreider went to the mat
his seconds claimed a foul. It was not
». allowed.
Kid Sylvester, of Kansa> city and
Johnny Flynn, of Memphis negroes,
fought eight rounds to a draw.
MOBILE IN HUNTSVILLE
HC.NTSVIf.iI. ALA.. lui; ", The Mo
bile baseball lean, wifi play a game x\'h :
the Huntsville team of thr Southeastern
league on July 10 Manager Finn has
K. telegraflhed acceptance of ar. her to
bring the Gulls I ere, that date being
{’l Open. The Selma team will be playing
here at the time and arrangements will
be made to have a double-header on
ar- July 9
II Hernsheim.Cjgar I
Tliiwaxs I ’ ■
er > nine,
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presslve. He got as good as an
even break in every other round.
(t'Keefe used bull ring methods,
making a big show of aggressive
ness with bluff rushes that did
about as much damage as a good
stiff Jolt from a house fly.
It wasn't a bad bout, except that
there was too much wrestling and
not enough punching. Whitney’-:
cleverness gave him all the edge
and his defensive work against the
well-meant blows of O'Keefe saved
him from any -erious damage
There was nothing about the
scrap at any stage that gave
O'Keefe any edge. He did not land
as many blows as his opponent. He
did not land as hard. He had noth
ing on points or in execution.
Boxing is in a bad way in At
lanta It is merely tolerated here
now. The first crusade against it
will put the everlasting kibosh on
it. The only chance of keeping it .
is to run it fairly and decently.
Any other tactics will kill it. And
it isn't feeling very well this morn
ing.
I NATIONAL COMMISSION
ANNOUNCES NEW RULING
CINCINNATI. July 5.—-The national
baseball commission announced the fol
lowing notice to all national agreement
clubs:
"To establish uniformity in action by
clubs when a player, released by a
major league club to a minor league
club and by a minor league club 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 responsibilly for his salary
during his insubordination by promptly
suspending him.
"Payment, in part of in whole, of the
consideration for the release of such
player will not be enforced until he 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
bune defeated Tommy Dixon in a
twelve-round contest here last night.
The bout was fast and interesting.
Dixon was strong for nine rounds,
but iti the 'enth Kiltane carried the
fight steadily to the Kansas City lad.
and in the eleventh had him hanging
on the ropes.
The fight was delayed two hours by
a great crowd oreaking down the
turnstiles giving admittance to the
arena. Until those who had not paid
were weeded out the m tnagemen*
I would not proceed with the bout.
LOOKOUTS BUY PAIR
OF CRACK INFIELDERS
CHATTANOOGA TENN.. July 5
Chattanooga purchased Third Baseman
Bunting from New Orleans and Infield
er Miller from St. Louis. Rohe will
play third for Now Orleans. Chatta
nooga will releas- Runser otto Jor
dan is threatened with typhoid fever
and may be out for the rest of the sea.
son. ,
BASEBALL FEUD OVER
JACKSON. MISS July 5 An amica-
I hie adjustment of the controversy be
lt ween President A Lewis, of the Cotton
: States league, and the Jackson and Taxon
I <Tty clubs, was reached at a meeting of
j the league directors yesterday, and the
i baseball feud Is apparently at an end.
| with no harm done save a few feelings
I hurt.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN' AND NEWS. FRIDAY. JTTLY 5. 1912.
Hemp Has a Real Ball Club Now, If It Is Losing
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Agler Is the Best First Baseman Dug Up in Ages
By Percy H. Whiting.
THERE'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, made up of real ball players,
and when its pitching strength Is
increased until it is on a par with
its playing and its batting strength
it is going to sweep the league.
And I don't care if they did lose
to the debilitated Billikens 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.
But Paige pinned it on the Crack
ers. while Atkins was hit hard.
Yes, true enough, Paige was,
just the other day, a Cracker. And
he couldn't have won regularly in
that uniform against the tail-end
team of the Federal Penitentiary
League. Neither was Bert Max
well any good as a.Qracker, nor
Neal Ball, nor Al Demaree (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." The fact remains,
though, that Paige, who couldn't
win for the Crackers, managed to
win from them yesterday with
something almost bordering on
case. And ho won because he out
pitched Tommy Atkins and not
through any failure on the part of
his teammates.
• * a
A LL of which brings us back tn
** 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 Dnubert. His name is Joe
Agler, 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
Agler is no Hal Chase and he’s
not even a Jake Daubert, or a
Frank Chance. Rut his fielding
certainly does remind one. In a
mild way. of Chase’s work. He
pulled some stuff yesterday after
noon that would have been some
what to the credit even of Chase.
Agler is built more along the
physical lines of Chase than he is
of the conventional first baseman
of the Jim Fox or the Absteln type.
He is slight, flexible, agile, quick.
And he'll do for the Cracker team.
You expect pretty good ball for
Agler. for he has been playing in
the International league, and has
had the benefit of the tutoring of
the Cub staff of experts. Rut a
man who is showing a lot. of whom
so much is not reasonably to be
expected, is Douglas Harbison.
This y oungster, from the deep and
dingy bushes came almost unher
alded. but he came with a rush
and' ho has been coming right
along ever since.
• • •
tv HY. drat that Atlanta team,
*’ it's a real ball club as it
stands today. Callahan has blos
somed out to a point where he is
even better than he was his best
day last year, Bailey Is improv
ing every minute. McElveen is
putting up a game that is on a par
with his best ever shown in the
Southern. The catching staff con
tinues to de well. And the two
who have been erdng good every
minute of every game all the sea
son—Hemphill and Alperman
continue In the same stride
And ye - , blast the luck, the
Cracker team continues to hover
around the bottom of the ladder,
with no real symptoms of going
higher. You can't keep 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 pitched 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 Hofrnan is charging in published
interviews that Charley Murphy knew he
was suffering a nervous breakdown when
he traded him to Pittsburg. Dreyfuss is
said to have stated that Murphy repre
sented that Hofman 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 Stis 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 N'apier, who recently pitched a
one-hit no-pass no-run game tor the
Sherman team of the Texas-Oklahoma
league.
♦ * *
The Browns 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-months
yawn.
• a •
Jimmy Adams, the youngster who
pitched the Browns to victory against the
Naps, hails from Albright college In Penn
sylvania. At that >t 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 warns 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
to 4 and sto 2. In the first game Math
ewson was knocked out of the box. Tes
reau, who relieved him. was also knocked
out. and Crandall finished the game, but
was hamraerel hard- Yingling caved in
under the excessive heat in the fourth
and had to be assisted off the field. Ra
gon finished strong for Brooklyn.
Wiltse was hammered hard tn the early
innings of the second game, while Stack
was effective in eve’y inning but the
fourth, when New York bunched three
of their hits for two runs
TOMMY DEVLIN WINNER
OVER YANKEE SCHWARTZ
NASHVILLE, TENN.. July s.—Tom
my Devlin, of Philadelphia, complete
ly outfought Yankee Schwartz, of
Philadelphia, in an eight-round Fourth
of July bout here Schwartz held his
opponent in the first round, but aft»r
that the battle was all Devlin's.
The fight was an exciting one with
plenty of good blows, and Schwartz
fought steadily until the end. Both
of the fighters showed classy footwork
in the opening rounds
GOTCH DOWNS SMEJKAL.
CHICAGO, July s—Champion Frank
Gotcn defeated Joe Smejka; in straight
falls here. The first fall came in sev
en minuter and twenty seconds on
hammer-lock hold, and the second in
four minutes and fifty-five seconds on
a crotch hold.
come the squirrel club for sure.
♦ ♦ ♦
r J'HE scouting days are here. Mike
Kahoe, of the Washington
team, watched the performance
yesterday, and 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 dofhg 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 tell. Bob
Spade was, and Otto Hess and a
few others.
T n ?.’ but the schedule committee
"w... ? . However," says Charles.
' , ■ < s f u,! incidents and August
i full of dates
» • »
In the recent Nap-Brown series Joe
Jackson and Larry Lajoie produced 26
■ runs
* * «
President Frank Nevin, of the Tigers,
1 has issued a denial of the report that he
! said he was dissatisfied with Jennings as
1 ? manager. He admits that he is dissat
t Isfied wdth the team, but he has nothing
on Jennings' in that.
• • •
! th . e epigrams of Tom Sharkey:
Kids don t care any more about boxing
It's all baseball."
• • «
■ ~H arr> ’ Mclntyre, former Chicago and
. Memphis pitcher, is going to quit base
l ball 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.
♦ ♦ ♦
i Jimmy Dygert, ex-Pelican, has been
: unconditionally released hx- 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 Gtant players said th* other
day. "The scorers should have given Mar-
• quard credit for that game yesterday.
Didn't he warm up In the ninth?"
V • «
The New York fans are after Hal Chase
and he will be traded. What, with bad
health, business troubles and familx- rows
he Is playing punk ball. Therefore, there
seems nothing to do but Jet him out.
• • •
Ed Sweeney was late tn reporting and
late in rounding to. but thev 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 Eddie McGoorty-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 them with violating
the Michigan boxing laws. It was Mc-
Goorty's fight all through.
HERRICK BESTS M’KENNA.
FORT WAYNE. IND, July s.—Nei
ther Joe Herrick, a young puilist from
Chicago, nor Patsy McKenna, who
claims the welterweight championship
of California, shows a disfiguring mark
today as a result of a ten-round bout
yesterday afternoon. There was no
ring decision, but the popular opinion
favored Herrick. The rounds were
, slow and without feature Both fight
ers were winder 150 pounds. Eddie San
ley was referee.
MORAN STOPS MILLS.
EL PASO, TEXAS. July s.—Frank
Moran, an English fighter, tvas given the
decision in the Juarez bull ring yesterday
over Dave Mills, an Oakland, Cal , negro,
in the eighth round The negre broke
hts thumb tn the second round, but stuck
to the fight. Tommy Ryan refereed the
battle
PRINCETON STAR LET OUT.
SACRAMENTO. CAL.. July s.—Herb
Byram, former Princeton star, has been
given his unconditional release by the
Sacramento club. Eyram has pitched
and lost eight games this season.
SMITH JOLTS TALE NT
BY DOWNING THORNTON
THAT you never can tell how a.
sporting event is going to
come out until the coming is
all over was never better demon
strated than when Carleton Smith
defeated Nat Thornton yesterday in
the So’uthern championship tourna
ment at East Lake in the third
round of men’s singles. And worse
than that, he did it in straight sets,
7-5, 6-2.
After the singles drawing had
been made for the present tourna
ment, Thornton said: “Carleton
Smith will probably beat me. These
hard courts suit him. He plays a
back line game. I play the net.
You can't play a net game on this
vitrified clay. That gives him the
advantage.” And so it proved.
When the man xvho has won the
Old Dominion and the South At
lantic championships this year met
the man who won the Tennessee,
title the latter won. And it was
unquestionably the deciding match
of the tournament.
The outcome of this match might
have been expected, though it
wasn’t. For Carleton Smith has
been playing improved tennis of
late and his brilliant game is the
sort that is calculated to take any
body’s measure any old time. In
the semi-finals Smith meets E. V.
Carter, Jr., and he will give the
conqueror of Thornton a big game.
Whoever wins in the semi-finals in
that frame will doubtless have to
meet L. D. Scott. This veteran is
playing a corking game and should
HARRISON NEAR DEATH
FROM WALLOP ON HEAD
PEORIA, ILL.. July s.—Phil Harri
son. a Chicago lightweight, is hovering
between life and death today in a hos
pital here as a result of injuries in a
ring battle with Harry Donohue, of
Pekin, yesterday. The two men fought
nine desperate rounds
Up to the latter part of the eighth
round Harrison had much the better of
the fierce milling. Shortly after the
opening of that round it is thought
that Donahue caught Harrison a heavx
blow behind the ear with his bare tore
arm.
Harrison immediately became help
less. though he stood up under a ter
rible shower of bloxvs. His seconds,
seeing their man apparently helpless,
threw a sponge Into the ring, stopping
the cantest in the ninth round.
Harrison was carried to a bath hous=
near by. attended by only his seconds.
He shortly began to sink. A physician
was hastily called. He discovered a
broken artery with his patient near
death. He was hastened to a hospital,
where desperate efforts are being made
to save his life.
'"lf It’s at Hartman’s, It’s Correct”
MEN. WHY TRADE
[ AT HARTMAN’S?
Some good reasons:
1. Experience has taught
men that this is a store
of deeds, not words.
2. You can always depend
on this store to sell the
RIGHT things to wear
at the RIGHT prices.
3. We never permit our
stocks to grow stale.
Everything new and
fresh.
Six Peachtree Street
i Opp. Peters Bldgj
“If It’s Correct, It’s at Hartman's”
defeat Charest.
The men’s doubles, unlike the
singles, have come through to the
final round without an upset. In
the upper frame B. M. Grant and
E. V. Carter, Jr., reached the finals
xvithout a single hard match. In
the lower frame Smith and Thorn
ton did the same thing. When they
conic together it will be a match for
blood. Smith and Thornton should
win, but they are erratic, while Car
ter and Grant are steady. All four
are brilliant players, and the match,
w’hich will be played Saturday aft
ernoon. should be a corker.
The xvomen’s singles came
through entirely according to
schedule, and Mrs. Taylor, of
Brooklyn, was the winner. In the
entire tournament she lost only
seven games. She will not find the
going so good when she meets Miss
Irving Murphy, of New Orleans, in
the .challenge round. This, by the
way, will be the only challenge
round of the tournament, unless
Conrad Doyle turns up unexpected
ly, which isn't likely.
A crowd of considerable size
turned out yesterday afternoon to
watch the matches, and with fair
weather there should be galleries
of large proportions both this aft
ernoon and ' tomorrow. Referee
Frank Reynolds will schedule some
good stuff for both afternoons, and
as this seems to be a big year for
tennis in Atlanta, the. seating ca
pacity of the East I.ake stands is
likely to be xvell tested.
THOMAS SHADES BEECHER
IN SLUGGING BATTLE
NEW ORLEANS, July s.—Joe Thomas,
of this city, was awarded the decision
over Willie Beecher, of New York, after
a fast ten-round slugging match at the
Orleans Athletic club. Two of the sport
ing writers voted a draw and two others
thought Thomas the winner. Both fight
ers used their elbows and butted fre
quently.
JOE MANDOT DEFEATS
TEMPLE IN HOT FIGHT
MEMPHIS. TENN., July s.—After
eight, rounds of fierce fighting. Joe Man
dot, of New’ Orleans, was given the deci
sion over Ray Temple, of Milwaukee, be
fore a large crowd at the National Ath
letic club here.
FANS 24 BATTERS.
CHARLOTTE. N C.. July s.—Pitch
er Jaynes, a North Carolina college
twirler. struck out 24 men, pitching
for Morganton against a team of semi
professionals of Lenoir.
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