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Say one cold, cruel word against "Ruha" Marquard to any citizen of Manhattan or environs and then get ready for a punch in the eye. Whisper a scandal against the fair name of Fred Merkle if you are contemplating suicide Yet a brief spell back the enthusiasts who now worship at the shrine of this grand pair were denying them with oaths and curses. We will deal Just now with Mer kle’s case. Here is a tribute paid him recently by Tom Lynch, presi dent of the National league. ■’Merkle." said Lynch, "1 consid er one of the most wonderful men that ever broke Into baseball He is a man in every sense of the word. His heart is as big as that of an ox Otherwise he wouldn't he in major league company today How many professional baseball play •re. do you think, could have stood the panning and the roasting and the abuse heaped upon the bead of this young gentleman after he fail ed to touch second base in that memorable game of 1908? I'll tell you Not one tn ten. no. not one tn fifty. "You can not find many better fleet basemen today than Merkle. Why? Simply because he realized his mietaJce and decided to live it down by deeds of worth. He didn’t •ulk He didn’t slouch He held a high bead and kept a stiff upper Up. And Instead of worrying over that one mistake aa most fellows would have done, be profited by his •xperlence and let It stand as a warning. His game improved. He tpaa a far better first baseman in 1909 than in 1908; far better still to 1910 This year he is among the best in the game. I take my hat off to Merkle. He's the prop er stuff Hell be better still in 1913 " Merkle a Corking Fielder. Tom Lynch comes pretty near to knowing what he's talking about before he ever expresses himself, ft Is very doubtful if there is a first baseman in the game more valu able than Fred Merkle There are flashier players Hall Chase and Jak* Daubert possessing more natural advantages in that they throw left-handed, appear a bit more graceful, perhaps Yet It is doubtful if either has anything on the Giant as a flelder Merkle is not showy But he Is wonderfully sure and as expert in making pick-ups of mean bounders as even the great Chase He covers as much ground as Hal. la aa. skillful a base runner and a more dangerous hitter. He i F a trifle leas agile and can not go so high for strong arm pegs nor is he so dexterous with the mitt hand Yet Merkle Is the only right-hand ed first baseman who can break up a sacrifice hit play almost as cun- 5 *ln s 1 s r 5° «_s«£«Ko i Hull: ningly as either chase or Dau bert. No one versed In baseball will deny that Merkle ranks among the first three baseball's first base guardians. That Is an honor in deed for a youngster that the fans were trying to hound back to the brush four short summers ago. But then he was unfortunate; simply the victim of circumstances. Had Mike Donlin, Arthur Devlin or the great Matty been on first when Al Bridwell knocked out the clean single that should have won the game, little would have been thought of the veteran's oversight. The fact that li mas a recruit gave the knockers a chance. Or if New York had won the play-off with the Cubs, as they should Merkle’s lot would not have been so hard tn 1909 As a matter of fact, both Mc- Graw and Mathewson were so much--yes. even more—to blame than Merkle. He 'was a raw re cruit, In the big show for the first time He had come up to one of the craftiest managers and one of the best teams in the profession from the then obscure Southern Michigan league Most of the sea son he had Spent on the bench, studying Fred Tenny's style of play. Took Tenny's Place. When Tenny’s underpinning went to the bad the "Kid" was called upon Now. when Merkle pulled his oversight Matty was coaching at first base and McGraw at third. When Bridwell went to bat with two out. Merkle on first and Mc- Cormick on third, there was Identi cally the same situation as the one at Pitsburg ten days previous ly when Johnny Evers and the Cubs tried to win over the Pirates on the same sort of technicality. In deed. If the subsequent play had been rehearsed it could not have been better played into Chicago's hand. Chicago lost Its protest over Pittsburg's victory because Hank O’Day, who was umpire-in t hies that day, had failed to note wheth er or not the runner did touch sec ond. Now, Chicago had certainly tipped its mlts by the ruction it raised over Pittsburg's triumph. What excuse, then, could New York offer for not being on the alert Is Is not reasonable to suppose that the coachers -McGraw* and Mathewson—were caught napping just the same as was Merkle" It is quite true that the Giants were entitled to the pennant save for a little technicality. Yet technicali ties have lost empires as well as pennants and ball games That was a painful afternoon for McGraw. Mathewson, the Giants and in particular Fred Merkle, Yet In the case of Merkle it perhaps was one of those rare blessings in disguise McGraw stuck by the boy and gave him every encouragement. And Merkle understood that his chief was depending upon him to make good in spite of the crowd and wipe out the stigma of Giant carelessness. That one fatal slip up has been a beacon to Fred Met kle. It has fired his zeal whenever it gave evidence of flagging. So fat as he is concerned, perhaps, it was well that he did neglect to touch second. The pennant of 19(>S is of little concern to the cham pions of 1912. And you may bet that Merkle nor any of McGraw's disciples will repeat such neglect in the world - series battles this fall BIG SHOOT ON TODAY. BISLEY. ENGLAND. July S Tfi e an nual meeting of the British National Rifle association opened here today with fine weather The targets were set at '><)(( and 1.000 yards The chief event ~f the day was the Waldegrave match. 1r!IS A I L/AN’I A GKOKGIAX AND NEWS. MONDAY. ,TULY 8, 1912 Crackers Will Be Lucky if They Aren’t Last by Saturday Night PI.AV 9fi A WES IN 6 DAYS WITH STRONG CLUBS By Percy H. Whiting. WELL, what shall we say about the Atlanta baseball team now? It has cost as much as the Panama canal; It has taken as long in the building as the pyramids. Yet it stands at present next to last, and unless It can perform miracles of valor, an unheard of feat of arms, it will drop to last place before the end of the present week We don’t say, mind you, that it will get last be fore Saturday's sun sets —for there is no accounting for Nashville’s ability to absorb punishment—but we do allege that it will have to do better this week than it did last to keep from it. We have led up, by easy stages, to the crucial question, to wit: "What’s the matter with the Atlan ta team, anyway?" It's a question we don't relish. We spent all last season trying to explain a tail-end team, and the mb this summer hasn't been mate rially better. "What's the matter with the f’lackers?" Plenty! Chiefly, thev can't win games for losing. Why do they lose" We don’t know. The other team always makes the most runs. We have spent the last ten years or thereabouts writing baseball in I the South, and ought to know some thing about it if we don’t, but that's ss close to an explanation as we can get. • • • r J"HF Crackers face a fearsome week. They must play nine games in six days with the Bir mingham and New Orleans teams. The natural supposition would be that, as the Crackers lost most of those they played last week with bum clubs, they will lose all to the good clubs. Fortunately. however, this does not necessarily follow. 'The Crack ers are batting well. Os course, whenever one of their pitchers gets going they hit a batting slump. But in the main they are hitting the ball. They made eighteen hits in the first game Saturday—and LAVENDER. GEORGIA PRODUCT. PITCHING SENSATIONAL BALL The following is from The Chicago Ex aminer of last Saturday: ■Gentlemen Jimmy' Lavender, of 4he übs, may toss his bonnet Into the arena 'in the presence of any pitcher without fear of having it booted around. That goes for mighty Reuben Marquard. the ’nineteen straight' hero of the Giants National league enthusiasts have been watching Marquard these many weeks. Rube s work has been marvelous Mar velous Is the word Still he was lucky to keep that straight string of wins, for he deserved to lose about four of them. No knock on Rube, .lust the truth. Now, however, folks are keeping one eye on Mr John Lavender. of Mr. Chance's galaxy or stars, and the other on Rube there are two to watch instead of one "Over on the west side, where fans for some time have been envious of the sAuth side because It boasted some pitchers, they are tickle.! almost to death. Laven der is the favorite color Take notice on ladies' day next week Lavendefc got a late start as a sen sation. but once started, goodness, hqw that boy has pitched' lie’s a ‘whale’ and a bear, as the slangy fans sav, all rolled Into one "June 24 Lavender hit his stride. He lost a I to n game that day to Fromms of the Reds. Cincinnati counted in the fifth inning Four days later, a Fridav. he shut Pittsburg out here with one hit. 3 to 0 The following Monday he blanked them again in twelve Innings, 1-0 Yester day he ealcimtoed the cards. 4 to 0 Some pitching’ He has won but five games out of nine this season, but he’ll beat that percentage to a certainty If Lavender and his spitball whale the Giants here next week we venture to pre dict the west side bugs will be offering him their houses and lots ’The Cut.- great when lhey have a pitcher ami I avender is a pitcher. Tha’ will be all until lit trims the Giants.” J MAYOR SAYS ARREST! iPLAYERS WHO “TALK:: XBACK” TO “HIS UMPS”? t + + WALLA WALLA, WASH.. July 4- B.—Players who have anything to 4- -I- say to the umpire—and most of them 4- 4- have—don’t talk to his nibs in Wai- 4. 4- la Walla. Not any more. Mayor 4- 4- Gillis has put a stop to that. Play- 4. 4- ers who feel like expressing them- 4- 4- selves emphatically to the dictator 4- 4- person face arrest for disorderly 4- 4* conduct. 4* Just to see that this order to the 4- 4- chief of police was carried out, May- 4. 4" or Gillis attended the Pendleton- 4" 4* Walla Walla game. Policemen were 4» 4* stationed close enough to overhear 4- 4- the diamond conversation. The 4. 4- players didn't say anything—while 4- 4- the game was under way. 4- •b 4, •H-H-W-d-l-M-Ll' M-Wd-M-t-Di-M* still managed to lose it. However, a team that is hitting the ball Is likely to win a game any' told time. So there is hope. The marvelous thing about the Crackers is the fact that they can make a million hits and never a run. Saturday, in the first inning, the Crackers made three hits and got two bases on balls and scored only one run. In the third three singles and an error netetd but one run. In the fourth three, hits in suc cession resulted in no runs. In the eighth two hits, with only one down, resulted in nothing. Tt was nobody’s fault In particu lar. In the first Agler struck out with the bases full. In the second Callahan and Alperman fizzled with a man on second. In the third Donahue hit into a double play with the bases full. In the fourth Hemphill hit into a double play with the bases full. In the eighth, with two on and one down, Sitton and Callahan failed to do anything. Ind there you have it. Os course, in that first game Sat urday the Billikens were lucky. Or the. Crackers vyere unlucky. Figure it either way you please. But this bad luck is trying too far. IF the umpires had wanted to earn 1 their salaries Saturday' they would have enforced the rule ALL-AMERICAN QUARTER TO COACH OHIO WESLEYAN DELAWARE. OHIO. July 8— M B Banks, former Syracuse player, picked by Walter Camp and others as all-American quarterback in 1906. was offered the po sition of coach at Ohio Wesleyan univer sity. succeeding L. W. St. John, who goes to Ohio State. Banks, who is 28 years old and married, has been head coach at Central university. Lexington. Ky., the past three years He has played football, basket ball and baseball, and In addition taken part in track work Although he has accepted a contract for another year at Central uni versity. Banks is expected to come here, and he visited the town last week seek ing the position. BILL CLYMER HAS SOME RECORD FOR PENNANTS Bill Clymer has outdone Bill Smith's I pennant record He won six rags in eleven years Here is hfs record: 1900. Wilkesbarre (Atlantic league!, first. 1902, Louisville (A A). second, pennant lost last day: 1903. Louisville (A. A.l. second; 1904. Columbus (A. A), sec ond; 1905. Columbus (A A.). first; 1900. Columbus (A A.i. first; 1907. Columbus 1A AJ. first; 1908. Columbus (A. A.l. third. *O9, Columbus (A. A.l resigned in inid-season; 1910. Wilkesbarre (N Y. State league), first. 1911, Wilkesbarre (N. V State league), first. PITCHER FALLS OUT OF WINDOW. BURLINGTON. IOWA. July 8. Ditch er Ed Hawk, of the Burlington (Central AssociatldYi) team, for whom the Detroit American league team is said to have offered 83,000. was fatally injured by ac cidentally falling from a third story win dow of his hotel, while attempting to ' adjust a window shade It you sent a letter or telegram to the wrong address, you would hardly expect ' at answer, would rou" The same is tru< . when you select the wrong medium to hfve al! yout wants filled Try the right) way—The Georgian Want Ad way. | against delaying the game. The Billikens were persistent and dis gusting offenders. In the second game they Just kicked away the time, throwing the ball around the lot and wasting time in other ways. This stuff hurts baseball. The league president ought to do some thing to speed up the games. • • 4 have with us today the league leaders—that tight little ball club gathered together by Colonel Carleton Molesworth We picked them, at the first of the season, to win the pennant. We haven't yet seen any reason to change our de cision. The Barons lick a lot of being the greatest ball club in the world, but they are useful. The team has some clean-up batters, gome fair flelders and a lot of spirit. It is winning chiefly with that spirit. The men have gotten together and are playing ball to win. The Barons are due fori four games In three days. They play a double-header Tuesday. The Crack ers have managed, to. defeat the Barons «oncc this season, so the chances for winning a lot of these games are none too good. When the Barons depart the Pel icans arrive. They play double headers Thurday and Friday and a single on Saturday. The locals have won one game this season from the Pelicans, so the outlook for a clean-up the latter part of the week is none too blooming bright. Yea, verily, if the Crackers are to be better than last on Saturday night they will have to go some. ARTHUR CHAPPLE HANGS UP NEW MOTORCYCLE MARK NEW YORK, July B.—Arthur Chap pe, on a trial against time, traveled three miles in 2:03 4-5 minutes on a motorcycle at Brighton Beach, clipping one and three-fifths seconds front the record held by Johnny Albright, of Deft, ver. Fifteen minutes later he retained his Eastern championship title by defeat ing Harry Thomas, of Philadelphia, in the five-mile match race in two straight heats. His time in both heats was 4:38 2-5. If Your Are Buying a Truss Remember that if it doesn't nt properly. It will not only rub ' and chafe and hurt, but It may result in a very dangerous con dition. Don’t ever take chances with children's trusses. Jacobs’ Pharmacy Has the Best Equipped Truss Department In the South, and by far the largest stock of Trusses, Elastic Hosiery, Belts. Bandages. Abdominal Sup porters. etc. At our Main Store we have Private Fitting Rooms, quiet and secluded, with ,men and women attendants, and the best professional advice is always at your command free of charge. Rupture is serious Always get the best professional service—at j Jacobs' Pharmacy. It costs no more. Jacobs' Pharmacy Atlanta, Ga, Charlie Miller, the Latest Hope, Has Swell Wallop and Is Game By W. W. Naughton. SAN FRANCISCO, July B. There have been white hopes and white hopes, but assur edly no possible restorer of pu gilistic prestige to the Caucasian race ever developed undjr circum stances similar to those which marked the coming out of big Charlie Miller, of San Francisco. Miller is a Herculean Roumanian with literally no sense of h % >r. With him every incident of the day’s existence is as serious as a smash on the jaw. Once, out at Colma training camp, they fixed up an electric chair with a push but ton attachment for him, and it was a long time before they could ex plain the joke to him. He thought the conversion of the chair into a galvanic battery was due to some vagary of the climate or that may be it was something he ate that af fected his muscles. When Miller first became enam ored of prize ring paStimes he was employed as a motorman on the street cars. He used to present himself at the training quarters of any prominent pugilist who hap pened to be undergoing prepara tion for a match and volunteer as sparring partner. He asked no mercy, and for that matter the harder they slugged him the better he liked it. Once Stan ley Ketchell picked the largest pair of gloves he could find and flogged at Miller without stint. The mo torman was knocked out that aft ernoon. but the next day he was on hand again ready to take his medi cine. It got to be that he was quite a drawing card around the camps, the attendance being visibly swelled whenever it was known that big Fir UnollACt Specialist in Nerve, ■ rlUgllcS Blood and Skin Diseases 16' 2 NORTH BROAD ST., OPPOSITE THIRD NAT. BANK, ATLANTA. GA 1 AM AGAINST HIGH AND EXTORTIONATE FEES CHARGED BY SOME DOCTORS AND SPECIALISTS To men and women ray fee is $5.00t0 SIO.OO in all catarrhal chronic disor ders and simple maladies. I furnish you the medicine with the fee which is prepared by me personally in my private laboratory from the purest and best of drugs. If your ailment is chronic and you have failed to find a cure consult DR HUGHES without the slightest obligation on your part. If he finds your case incurable he will frankly tell you so and advise vou against spending your money for useless treatment. But remember DR HUGHES has cured many chronic sufferers whom other doctors had pronounced incurable. If he accepts vour case for treatment he will positively make you no charge if he fails to effect a cure. SI make the above statement so that you will know you consult a regular physician and sur geon who is making a specialty of certain dis eases. I possess skill and experience which few can share, and you can feel assured when you come to my office no deceit will be prac ticed. I meet you as man to man, open and above board. I Invite you to come to my office. I will ex plain to you my treatment for Varicocele. Strir ture. Hydrocele. Hernia, Nervous Debility. Blood Poison, Piles, Fistula, Kidney, Bladder and Prostatic Troubles, and give you FREE a physical examination; If necessary, a microsco pical and chemical analysis of secretions to de termine pathological and bacteriological condi tions. Every person should learn their true condition. A permanent cure is what you want Specific or Non-Speclfls Chronic Dieeases. My Treatment For Disorders. Kidney and Bladder, "Nervous Debility." inflammation and irrita- I rinary Trouble, Blood You have proba tion stopped In day or Poison (contracted or been treated for this two. This bad disease inherited). Piles, Pirn- so-called trouble and Fc* to always 8 ' 8 '” ° n pies. Ulcers. Skin Dis- helped temporarily er I also cure Contagious eases, Nervous Trou- maybe not at all 1 hi- Blood Poison and all bles condition is merely ’ complications from „ . . ~, symptom of some deep- these ailments. My C atarrh successfully seated and obscure com treatment and cure is tre at e d —all dropping plication My 'U r *s l no new discovery with and hawking stopped treatment removes the me and has long since in a few days. Chronic cause, thereby making passed the experimental Diseases of Men and permanent cures anfi stage I cure this dis- Women cured to stay restoring strength, ease never to return cured. health and hapiness MY SERVICES COST YOU NOTHING UNLESS YOU ARE PERMA NENTLY CURED AND SATISFIED. It is because my well tried, effective methods cure such a large per cent of cases that I am able to give this ad vantage which other specialists do not offer HOURS: 8 A M. TO 7 P. M. SUNDAYS 9TO I FREE—CONSULTATION AND EXAMINATION-FREE. Call or write for Information before taking treatment, as you will find my charges lower and treatment quicker and better than elsewhere rx r> r r\ IHTCIirO Opposite Third Nat Bank DR. J. D. rIUCiHEb Charlie Miller was to appear. In time Miller became a standbv with promoters of four-round bouts in San Francisco, and he continued to be the heavyweight comedian of the Queensberry ring. He loved the stress of- fierce fighting, and he has an utter disregard for punish ment. But he did not-catch on to the technique of things, somehow Os the ordinary leads and counters of boxing he did not seem able to obtain a grasp. As they used to say of §harkey in his cub days, he could not hit the postofflee unless you let him swing at it. Miller’s most brilliant achieve ment was the spoiling of Al Kauf man’s come-back dream. The two heavies met at Dreamland on the evening of June 21, and Miller gained the decision after four rounds of furious work. Millers great bul., strength and assimi lative qualities stood him in good stead. By continued rushing he. Kept Kaufman off balance, and did not permit Billy Delaney’s former protege to set himself properly for a right clip at the chin. Has Heap of Confidence, From being a joke. Miller has merged into a conundrum. It Is felt that he will never acquire any kind of ring polish, but he has gained confidence and has formu lated a style of fighting that is baf fling to the fellows who are sup posed to know how. Miller is elated with his success He is still modest, but he is ambi tious. He claims the right to rank with Luther McCarthy and Al Pal zer, and it really seems as though he is to be reckoned with. His real name, by the way. is Joseph Costamagna: so there is a prospect of his being christened "Costermogger Joe” if he ever rises to the pugilistic heights.