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STAHL HOOPER. WAGNER. SPEAKER. ENGLE. O’BRIEN. CARRIGAN. LEWIS. GARDNER.
STAHL PET PE
BOSTON; PUT
TEH IN MCE
By R. W. LARDNER.
Garland Stahl, otherwise Jake, evident
ly told the truth when he said he wasn’t
ready to give up the national pastime
for good. His accomplishments as man
ager and first baseman for Boston’s Red
Sox have shown him tn be lust as good a
ball player as he ever was and a more
successful leader
The banking business may be safe and
sane, but it can't be half as interesting
or pleasant as the job of bossing a major
league club when that club is winning as
consistently as the Boston team
Jake was always popular with his
mates on the field and z particular is so
with the Red Sox. with whom he was
employed before he got the delusion that
it was time for him to retire The Bos
tonians haven’t been satisfied with their
leadership for several years Thes are
tickled to death to have Jake in charge,
for the> believe he has good baseball
sense and are f»ill\ convinced that he's
a ‘good fellow
Have Good Chance to Win Flag.
The Sox mas not win the pennant In
fact although the) are about seven
games in front, nobody is giving them
an even chance with the Athletics, who |
have been good finishers of late But
Ronton has a better opportunity than
since 1904. and the inhabitants of the
bean and fish town are therefore strong
for Jake.
Stahl had a great bail <lub to start
with What it lacked in recent years I
was a manager capable of getting the
best work out of the men If there Is a*
weak spot in the team it is seen at sec- |
ond base, and Yerkes is now performing
acceptabh there with Wagner on one
side of him and Staid on the other, ami
with this «■•••) . ompamonship he mas
hold up
Jake has used good judgment m work
ing his pitcher- ’"her Boston managers
thought Joe Wood was a delicate child
who neeieo careful ?.dueling Stahl has
used hiu- tn ;:nd out of turn ami as re
lief pitcher <ud m - enjoying Ids best
year
Tells McAleet to Keep Halt
Charley Had was slated for the minors
a year ag '•* > > ds >eu Me Uv< i <■
hold on to him ami Charley s doing al
most as well a* Wood. Ras Collins is
another Red x . . <nv win- s k«-. ping
the club up in the race, and John i
Taylor threatened several nos a-., .-ar
to ask waivers on him
Stahl’s hitt’ng is a big as et He isn’t
up m Speakers mark, but he is iikels io
break up a game at any stage and against
any pitching. Moreover, he can play first
base as if should be played and his
brotm 'mo no :ir< votwqurni is going
lions wi*h n ■ confidence thrtn they had
at any time in 1911
FUNNIEST BASEBALL
SCRIBE INTERVIEWED
From Gardner’s basebjQ) stuff tn The
Chicago Examiner this is grabbed
During our call on the Cubs we had t e
good fortune to be introduced to Charles
Dryden, a humorous baseball write- or
the staff of The Chicago Examiner
He consented to an inters lew as fol
lows
Q —Do you travel around with the
team ?
A Yes. sir
q —Do you know the ball players per
son al Is ?
A— Most of them
Q You must hate a great time on the
road
A Cndoubtedly.
Q —Do you get very much excited at the
game'*
A —Horribly.
Q —Do you w ire your repor t in every
night ?
A —No; I send it to Chicago by a yoke
of oxen
Q Well, I must go now
A -Curses and maledictions
FITCH BREAKS AUTO
RECORD FOR 5 MILES
PORTLAND. ORE. July 10. Eitch,
driving a Cinc<». at the motor car ra< cs
here yesterday, broke the world’s reeord
for five miles on a dirt track for ma
chines with less than 300-im h displace
ment. cover ng ’he distant •• in 4 minutes
»nd 4x seconds
The for no r- record of t minutes 54 set
onds was held by Hugh Hughes, Brighton
■■itMCn, made July 4, 1911.
Ad Wolgast Tells His
1 Story of Fight: Will
Battle Mexican Again
By AD WOLGAST.
LOS ANGELES, July 10 I am ready
tn take on Jne Rivers at any time and al
any place I shall demand at least a
$5,000 side bet, for I am tired of this
| squabbling and crabbing by the loser
They have talked; lei them back their
words with money, and we’ll fight it out
Labor das suits me. and so does the
Vernon arena and Jim Jeffries as referee
'This claim of Referee Welch is unjust.
Ans fair-minded fan will admit that I
had the light won and had it won decis
ively when that thirteenth round came
along Why. then, should Welch make
his decision with the motives some peo
ple are charging him with Rivers was a
bad loser he was not in it
If Rivers was fouled he wasn't fouled
as badly or hurt so much as I was. Ho
hit me was low', set even after that I
kept righting I waded in and landed two
telling punches. The first was a left
hand swing, the second was a right to
the belt line that dropped him
Declares Rivers Grabbed Him.
As Risers fell hr grabbed hold of me,
and I tumbled on top of him, for my
shoes were slippery, as any one? could see.
and In falling his knee caught me in the
groin \\ eleh pulled me off he did not
assist me to rise but as I had little
strength. I took advantage of his move
by scrambling to ms feet
Welch did not support me, but held me
back as he was counting Rivers out. This
was plenty of time before the gong rang.
I for \\ eleh had counted six when the buzz
I sounded. If Rivers is game he would
have tried to get up when he saw the ref
eree was counting him out. for after the
count of ten he got up and walked to his
corner Risers was not game that’s all.
“Mexican Yellow.” Says Champ.
I <h»n l know how the light would have
1 »-oiue out if Rivers had not displayed the
* yellow streak, and not tried to get up. I
| was in terrible pain from the two foul
blows in the groin, and would have had a
hard time of it. He was not game, and
that lets him out As to the cry of fold.
I was fouled worse than he. and was in
greater physical pain
With ms left hand and arm in bad
shap.- I went into the light with the set
idea of letting it go fifteen rounds before
l opened up. unless I found it necessary,
and I never found It so. \,Vhen I’m tn
good < ondition I can stop Rivers in ten
louti-i.' Money talks, and 111 put up any
part of $30,000 that I can lick him
TRAMPS TO PLAY BALL:
STOCKADE FOR LOSERS
w ILKESBARRE, I’A. July 10 The
, baseball diamond will take over the tunc*
lions of a court here in connection with
<!.♦* conviction of 30 i ramps recently ar
i- by the police of Plymouth borough.
When iht tramps were arraigned be
:• Burgess W. D. Morris, the burgess
who is an enthusiastic baseball fan. or
j dered that the men be divided into two
equal squads from which two teams are
I to he selected to play a full nine-inning
j game on the town common.
| The winning squad is to go free, but
j the losers will be compelled to pound
i stone for two days
It will be a great game, declared the
burgess I am anxious to see how well
;mcn ean play the national game when
i ’heir liberty depends on the outcome.”
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HERE IS ANOTHER CY YOUNG.
''Hh’AGo. luly 1(). Another Young,
known as ”C’y the Third,’’ who stands
♦> feet K inches and is said to be a prom
ising pitcher, has been signed bs Presi
dent I’orniskey of the Chicago Atnerl
• ;<ns \>ung was obtained from the
Su sans Point. Wis . club, after he had
pitched his ninth consecutive shut-out
game
Hessheim Cigaß ‘
v /i Uood j. jrr|oke
fxjciarY
THF, ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JULY 10. 1912.
Crackers Have Come to Life, After Long Sleep, and Are Playing Ball
WIN 2 FROM BA RONS—OFF NOW ON MAD CAREER
l>\ Percy 11. Whiting.
r T A HFC value of conversation v on
| the baseball Tliamond is well
known. A gabby catcher is
a great asset. A coacher with a
good line of talk can win many a
A lot of conversation will
liven up the dullest contest.
The talk that wins games for a
slumping team is sprung in the
club house, and it’s so hot some
times tlfcu it ought to cancel the
insuranee automatically.
it is said by those who know
that Charley Hemphill made a
speech to his ball club Monday
afternoon. Charles is no great
> peechmpker. He never made an
after-dinner speech in his life, anil
lew before dinner. He may talk to
himself but lie certainly doesn't
waste much conversation with
anybody else.
Yet they say that Hemphill's
speech Monday afternoon was equal
t<> anything ever delivered.
The report goes that it was a
warm, tempestuous speech—that it
pointed out the nearnes of the
Crackers to last place, dwelt on
the fact that the Atlanta players
were receiving good money and
giving poor service, and suggested
the addition of a little ginger and
action to all ball games in the fu
i me.
Oratorleally it may not have been
a great speech. But neither De
mosthenes nor William Jennings
Bryan ever had anything on it for
results.
F'or, after hearing the speech, the
Crackers went ou. yesterday and
won both ends of a double-header
from tile league leaders. And in
doing so tile <'rockers lifted them
selves a good ways from last place
and pulled the Barons down so
materially that the league teams
are again bunched, virtually with
in 200 points,
• • •
J 5 HE Crackers gave yesterday
A one of the most realistic im
personations of a ball club ever
seen on the local Held. Even the
experts couldn’t distinguish it from
the real thing. Everybody played
bail all the time. There was not
only more pepper and ginger, but
there was more artistic baseball.
Hemphill must have done- more
than go after the team, as a team.
Fie must have picked out the in
dividual flaws. F'or Aglet' was
walking right into the ball. Harbi
son wasn't breaking his back over
cuive balls Callahan wasn't run
ning' clear to the slab to meet the
pill and a hundred other little
minor Haws of technique had been
eliminated, ,
• • • '
| CCK has been breaking for rite
('rackets this year as it broke
for Napoleon at Waterloo and sot
Roosevelt at Chieag, , But the
Crackers ean safely thank their
stars for one thing, and that is
that n<»bod\ wanted Brady
A few weeks ago Bnidy looked
like the falsest alarm that ever dis
turbed the serenity of a Cracker
nightirtare. The local club was tw
keen to get rid of him as if he
had had the plague. But for one
thing they couldn’t find anybody
who wanted him, and for another
they couldn’t get anybody to take
his place. So they figured he was
a thin shade better than no pif< 'her
at all and held onto him.
On the 26th day of June, about 4
o'clock in the afternoon. James
Brady awoke. He rubbed his eyes,
asked, "Where have I been at any
how,” and then pitched a two
nit game against Chattanooga. He
w as out again three days later, and
though he allowed Chattanooga
eight hits and»four runs he won.
His next out was against Mobile on
July 3. That day Ire allowed five
hits and one run up to the eleventh
inning, after which he exploded.
Yesterday he allowed the league
leaders four hits, well scattered,
and won his game 1 to 0. Exclud
ing the fatal eleventh inning of the
SUNDAY BASEBALL IN
WASHINGTON LIKELY
Sunday baseball in Washington is a
probability in the near future. A con
ference held by President Ban B. John
son and Manager Griffith at the for
mer's office in the Fisher building in
Detroit recently resulted in the head of
the league giving his approval of such
a change in the schedule and inci
dentally immediately taking the mat
ter up with the other officials of th?
Washington club.
Griffith contends that a majority of
the people in Washington want Sun
day games. He says tlrat it has been
urged to him by those most interested
in the project that Sunday baseball
would be a blessing in disguise for
those inhabitants of the nation’s capi
tal who ean not afford to attend games
during the week, and who have no
place to spend their Sundays.
President Johnson is rm advocate of
Sunday ball. He pointed out that it
required yea:s to have the barriers
list'd against the sport on the Sab
bath in both Detroit and Cleveland, but
tlrat since it lias been tried there the
clergy of these two cities sanction the
playing of he games on that day, and
that there is trot the slightest objection
from any source.
He immediately wrote a letter to
President Noyes regarding the subject,
anil if the club can see its way to play
games at home on Sunday the sched
ule will be so arranged at once as to
make this possible during the Nation
als’ long stay at home.
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July 3 game, Brady has allowed less
than five hits, and a small frac
tion over one run to a game for
the last four games. He has sprung
curves and fast balls that are won
ders. and he has developed a
change of pace that would fool Ty
Cobb.
Also Jim kicked in with a sin
gle in the eighth when the Crack
ers uncorked the batting rally that
won the game. Graham and Agler
also furnished hits in that inning
and Alperman developed the sacri
fice fly that sent the winning run
across.
• • •
j N the second game there was a
* miracle. The Barons opened
with three consecutive singles off
Becker and with the aditional aid
of two sacrifice flys scored three
runs. The Crackers then came back
with two hits for five runs in the
second half of the first inning. After
that Becker tightened, allowed two
more hits and no runs and won the
game in a romp.
ANNAPOLIS WILL ASK OLD
COACHES TO RETAIN JOBS
ANNAPOLIS. MD„ July 10 Lieu
tenant Douglass L. Howard. U. S. N.,
and Frank W heaton, of Yale, will be
asked to continue as head coach and
field coach, respectively, of the Naval
academy football team. The other
coaches will probably be Lieutenant
W eems and Shaw, of last season’s
squad. The candidates for the new
Jonas Fl. Ingram and Captain Dalton:
fourth class will begin work September
1. and the members of the regular
squad will return for a week’s practice
before the opening of the academy, if
it van be arranged.
THREE GOLFERS SICK:
MISS TITLE TOURNEY
CHICAGO. July 10.—Three Chicago
golfers are patients in hospitals here w ith
appendicitis, among them Hr. J. B. Ellis,
who was believed to have a chance for
honors in the Western championship at
Denver, and who will be unable to com
pete. The others are Donald Edwards
and Richard Bokum, of Midlothian.
Dr. Ellis was stricken wmle playing in
a match with Charles Evans. Jr., and
Charles Furthman at Edgewater. He
was summoned to attend the wife of one
of the players who had become ill and
after administering restoratives to her at
the club house, returned to the links and
fell in a faint.
He is a member of the t’niversity of
Chicago faculty.
Palzer Now Biggest
White Hope: Giant
lowan Heavy Enough
By SOL PLEX.
Al Palzer looms up as a big white
hope right now. Even though the ex
perts are not convinced that Flynn
would have succumbed to Johnson in
their sensational struggle at Las Vegas
on the Fourth, Palzer. to our mind,
because pounds biggers than Flynn,
looks more nearly like a corning cham
pion than any white man we know of.
Al weighs about 228 in condition and
is over six feet tall. He's a regular
giant and the kind of a man Johnson
ean not push and pull around and hold
onto when he is in distress.
Palzer is two Battling Nelsons roll
ed into one, as Tommy Walsh says, and
we predict that he will be booked for
a world’s championship encounter in
side of eighteen months. Do not be
surprised, either, if lie is the man that
finally whales Jack Johnson and re
deems the white race pugilistically.
To our mind Johnson was a rather
lucky champion on July 4 afternoon.
Flynn is no w hirlwind and the fact that
he gave Jack tit for tat every step of
the nine rounds proves that he has
gone back very, very much since the
day he took Jim Jeffries to his first
and only lacing.
■Johnson probably is in for a licking
in any one of his next two fights. The
only way he can save himself Is to
retire and give up the title. They all
go the same route if they keep fight
ing. and Johnson is about due.
JOHNSON HAS BLOWN WAD
IN FANCY BAR AND CAFE
CHICAGO, July 10. —"With auspicious
inaugural function," Jack Johnson, col
ored champion, will today throw open
the doors of his new case, bar and res
taurant. .lack, glittering with diamonds
to match the glitter of cut glass, silver
and gold in his new establishment, made
a final inspection yesterday before he be
comes a "restaurateur." He was not sad
dened by the fact that most heavyweight
champions forced to hang "ex"' before
their titles have gone into the same busi
ness. There is no hoodoo tn it, Jack al
leges.
Instead, he pointed around the place
with considerable pride. Four oil paint
ings. $15,000: one bar. trimmed with sil
ver and gold. $5,000: silver water service
S 3,000: . sterling silver cuspidors, $67.50
each. These are some of the things the
champion pointed out, not omitting the
price tag
,
It was back in the olden times that thoy
had to have a person go erving it out if
any one had anything to sell or wanted
to buy. or to notify the people that so and
so hail lost this anil that. The way was
the only one available. It's different now
Your wants can be told to an audience of
over 50.000 in this section through a Want
Ad In The Georgian. No matter what
your want is ati ad in The Georgian will
till it for you. Georgian Want Ads buy.
sell, exchange, rent, secure help, find lost
articles and countless other things.
GT YOUNG SITS
COBB IS BEST
OFALLPLATERS
By CY YOUNG.
Ty Cobb is the greatest of thru all.
In my baseball experience, ‘.overinaf
almost a quarter of a century I have
never seen an all around pla/er th*
equal of the Detroit star.
There may be other players almost,
if not quite so fast as Cobb; Laj.ie hag
it on the '"Georgia Peach” for straight
away hitting; other outfielders may
throw a trifle better, but for work, day'
in and day out, Cobb hasn’t an eqtal.
At bat he hasn’t a weakness. It ha»
been my experience that you can foot
him, possibly, one day, on a certain lind
of ball, and the next time you face lira
he will whale the cover off the ball.
On the bases he is wonderful. Ie
uses both his head and his feet, anc t
sometimes wonder if the former ist’t
more responsible for his success than
the latter.
Cobb can size up a baseball situation
like a flash, and the way he divines
plays is uncanny. On the paths he
doesn't know the meaning of the word
fear, and this lack of timidity helps
him.
In the field, too. he is a wonder. He
uses splendid judgment in playing for*
batters, and his marvelous speed en
ables him to retire batters on balls that
others would play safe.
Able to hit. to field, to throw, to run
bases and to do each in phenomenal?
fashion, coupled with his nerve and*
confidence, Cobb is the greatest playstr
that ever wore a spiked shoe.
BEST HORSES IN LAND
WILL TRY FOR $15,000
LOUISVILLE, KY., July 10.—Th*
approximate value of the Kentucky’
endurance stakes, which will be run an
October 7, the opening day of the nlm
day fall meeting at Churchill Downs,
will be $15,000, more than double thalli
of last year. The value makes this tint
richest prize by far on the American
turf.
Secretary Lyman H. Davis, of tne,
new Louisville Jockey club, will send!
out entry blanks this week and expee ?
that the best long-distance horses in.
the country will be entered for this
four-mile race. The race last fall was
>von by Messenger Boy, owned by Eu
gene Lutz, and the same horse will b»
trained again for the race.