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Whisper a srandal against the fair name of Fred .Merkle it you are contemplating suicide. Yet a brief spell bmk the enthusiasts who now worship al tip shrine of this grand pair were denying them with oaths and i iiis<’“. \Ve will deal Just now with Mer kle's case. Hero Is a tribute paid him recently by Tom Lynch, presi dent of the National league. "Merkle,” said Lynch. I consid er one of the most wonderful tnen that ever broke into baseball. He Is a man in every sotjse of the word. His heart is as big as lint of an ox. Cithern iso h>- wouldn't lie In major league company today . How many professional baseball play ers. do you think, could have stood the panning and the roasting and the abuse heaped upon the head of this young gentleman ttflet he fail ed to touch secot d base In that memoiable game of 19U8 I'll tell you. Not one In ten. no, not one in fifty "You can not find many belter first basemen today titan Merkle. Why Simply because he realized his mistake and deckled to live it down by deeds of worth. He didn't sulk. He didn't slouch. He held a high head and kept a stiff tippet lip. And instead of worrying over that one mistake, as most fellows would have done, lie profited by ills experience and let it stand as a warning Hi- game improved He was a fat better first baseman in 1909 titan in Ilttlx; fat better still in 191** This year he is among the best m the game. I take my hat oft to Merkle He's the ptop ri Stuff He'll be. better still in 1913 Merkle » Corking Fielder. Tom Lynch comes prettv near to knowing what he's talking about before lie ovet expresses himself. I - very doubtful If there Is a fit st baseman tn the game move \ piti able than Fred Merkle There are flashier player* Hall • 'base and Jake ftaube’t possessing more natural idvantagis in that they throw left handed, appea* a bit more gtareful. perhaps Yet it I* doubtful if eitbet has anything op the Giant as a fielder. Merkle is not show y But he is wonderfully sut* and a.- expert in making pick ups of mean bounders as even the great * Ims' He covers as much’ground it- Hal. is as skillful a ba-e runner and a more rlangeious hitter. He is a trifle less agile ami van not go so high for strong arm pegs, nor >- Im 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 'tin ningly as either Chase or Dau bert No one versed in baseball win deny that Merkle ranks among the first three baseball's first base guardians That is an honm in deed for a youngster that the fans were trying to hound back to the brush four short summers ago. But then II” Hus unfortunate, simply the victim of circumstances. Hid Mike Donlin, Arthur Devlin or the great Matty been on first when VI Htidwrll knocked out the clean single that should have won th* I’tile would naie been d the ve’ -ian's oversight The fact that it was a recruit . tin- knockers a chance. Or If New 'York had won the play-off with thefubs. as they should, Merkle’s lot would not have been so hard in 1 9H9. A- a matter of fact, both Mc- Graw and Mathewson were so imp’ll yes. oven 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 Erod Tenny's style of play. Took Tenny's Place. When Tenny's underpinning went to the had the 'Kid” was called upon. Now. when Merkle pulled his oversight Matty wa= coaching at first base and McGraw at third. When Rridwell went to bat with two out, Merkle on first and Me t'ormick on third there was Identi cally the same situation as the one at Pitsburg ten days previous ly w hen Johnny Evers and the Hubs 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. f'hicago lost its protest over Pittsburg's victory because Hank O'Day, who was umpire-in -chief that day, had failed to note wheth er or not the runner did touch sec ond. Now, Chicago had certainly tipped its tnlts 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 poachers -McGraw and Mathewson—were caught napping Just the same as was Merkle? It is quite true that the Giants were entitled t# the pennant save for a little technicality. Yet technicali ties have lost empires as well as pennants and ball games If you sent a letter or telegram to the wrong address, you would hardly expect an answer, would i ou" The same is true when you select the wrong medium to hue all your wants filled Try the right way The Georgian Want Ad way A thirst— a fountain—and Hires t There's one sure way to feel just as if you were tr bw sitting in a draft from an iceberg. Here it is—try it y f/BJ and see: Step into the nearest store where the fountain L sizzles—and just say Hires. Needless to say rootbeer. /I It’s so cooling. And besides, there’s a tonic value to I /. 1 Hires that makes it far better for you than any other I summer drink. Natural juices of flowers, roots and / Jra CMk herbs, the sap of forest trees. All these give it that / tonic bracing property. But not a trace of drugs. f / J Hires only helps—never harms. Drink X a &l ass and’see. y'l 5 C —sparkling, snappy—simply fine. \ I . 1, inOr in bottles, carbonated. VA TITI Yj TlTlxj XII Ti xJ T1 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. JULY 8, 1912. Crackers Will Be Lucky if They Aren't Last by Saturday Night PLAY 9 GAMES 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 belter this week than it did last to keep from It. We have led up, by easy stages, to rhe 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 jbj) this summer hasn't been mate rially better. "What's the matter with the • Tackers?” Plenty! Chiefly. they 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 the South, and ought to know some thing about it if we don't, but that's as close to an explanation as we can get. • • • '"J'HE 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 $ MAYOR SAYS ARRESTI i PLAYERS WHO “TALK I X BACK” TO “HIS UMPS”± + —.— 4. 4- WALLA WALLA, WASH.. July 4. 4- 8. —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- -1- era who feel like expressing them- 4- 4- selves emphatically to the dictator 4- 4- person face arrest for disorderly 4 4- conduct. 4 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- 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- 4- 4 44-4-m4-H-H-r4“H-H~H~H"i~H>4-v4-i« 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 • 'rackets is the fact that they can 4nake 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 hut 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. It 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. And there you have it. Os course. In that first game Sat urday the Bi'llkens were lucky. Or the Crackers were unlucky. Figure it either way you please. But this bad luck is going too far. • • • jF tin umpires had wanted to earn 1 their salaries Saturday they would have enforced the rule against delaying the game. The Blllikens 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. • • • VITE 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 thd pennant. We haven’t yet seen any reason to change our de cision. The Barons lack a lot of being the greatest ball club in the world, but they are Useful. The team has some clean-up barters, some fair fielders 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 for four games in .three-days. They play a . double-header Tuesday. The Crack ers have managed to defeat the Barons one? this season, so' the. chances for winning a lot of these games ate 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. arthurWapplehangs 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 from the record held by Johnny Albright, of Den ver. > Fifteen minutes later be retained bis Eastern championship title by defeat ing Harry Thomas, of Philadelphia, in the tive-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 fit 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 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 under 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 humor. 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 « 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 M■ b gySpecialist in Nerve, tJia nUgIICS Blood and Skin Diseases !#'/» NORTH BROAD ST., OPPOSITE THIRD NAT. BANK. ATLANTA. GA 1 AM AGAINST HIGH AND EXTORTIONATE FEES CHARGED RY SOME DOCTORS AND SPECIALISTS To men and women my fee is ?5.00t0 SIO.OO in all catarrhal chronic disor hers and simple maladies. 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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 a vantage which other specialists do not offer HOURS: S A M TO " P M. SUNDAYS 9TO 1. FREE—CONSULTATION AND EXAMINATION-FREE. Call or write for information before taking treatment, as you "ill r tnv charges lower and treatment mileker and better than elsewhere DR. J. D. HUGHES Charlie Miller was to appear. In time Miller became a standby with promoters of four-round bout? 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. lif the ordinary leads and counters of boxing he did not seem able to obtain a grasp. As they used tn say of Sharkey in his cub days, he could not hit the postoffice 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 Dreahiland on the evening of June 21, and Miller gained the decision after four rounds of furious work. Miller* great bulk 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 an" kind of ring polish, hut he ha? 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. 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