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' ‘ LPITE-D W 9 FARNSWORTH THE CONQUERING BOSTON RED SOX ON THEIR SPEEDY BUZ WAGON ~ ■ ■ -¥■ * / . ■ ■ ■ - • X ■■ •■'Sb *■> ■• ■ ■ Z W" • ' • * Il .11,;,, ■J 111 kTF 11 /ifcL«~ -A a» -rw *■ J-f -t -''W "r gw • Rr .X 1 r-T. ; K a SEr* WtX 1-: ; 5 O ww, <a wSi """Mf t*v4P • M ■■ •- N i-41 IJ’ 5® ' s - J -*' " . __. ffiP* - - ■ - -- I, '-''^ , ' v w 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.” - 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. Don’t Overlook An ) Men’sd»q en r dj/2 \ in our shoe stocks. Shoes IM tDM Opportunity To • 1 I T’i /A I , "’ 1 ;t l’P'T'r."Hie... and in quality BoVS tf* 1 E? fl X Q* Q Look I hese Over ’ » shoes *P 1 *OvIO «pu Parks; Ch ambers=Hardwick J7- j 9 Peac/i/ree S/. j COMPANY Atlanta, Georgia 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.