Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, July 15, 1912, EXTRA, Page 6, Image 6

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1 Advance Guard of Golfers on
Hand for East Lake Tourney
rpsHE golf courss "f th<> Atlanta
I Athletic club at East Lake
is undetgoing its final mani
curing A big force is working two
shifts putting on the last finishing
touches. For on Thursday morn
ing the qualifying round of the
second annua' invitation tourna
ment of the Atlanta Athletic club
Will be started And throughout
the track the course will be ;tli\>
with local and visiting golfers
Already the advance gund of
players ha= arrived W. F Stew
art, of New t means. Southern
champion, was In Atlanta last
week He w ill not be here for the
championship. but he brought
word that a good delegation was
coming Birmingham Is counted
lon strong The Country club there
sends more players to tournaments
than any other in the South and is
sure to send nearly a score to the
local tournament A W. Gaine*
a former Southern champion, has
sent word that he will be unable
to be present at the tournament,
but that Chattanooga will have a
delegation. Nashville will un
U doubtedb send several players,
while Macon is counted on for a
strong ’earn
The rourpA should bp in good
Fhapp for tfap tournament. The
I regular tee? ha\? been returfed
and are being "rested up” for the
affair bx the use of the second
string” tees. It is likely that the
ne-\» tee on fourteen will be put In
order for the tournament, provided
it does not rain steadily f’oni now
until Thursday morning. Thp
greens and the fair am In
MAY RACE THIS SUMMER
ON LONG BRANCH TRACK
NEW YORK. July 15 Elkwood park.
Long Branch, mar provide racing two
days a week for the rest of the sum-
At the track th’s 'report Is on the tip
of the tongue but nobody in authority
will confirm it
That the top has gone out. however
seemed certain, inasmuch as several
prominent bookmakers came .-ill the
”av from Canada to look ovei th.
ground.
The constitutional amendment pass
ed in New Jersey in 189! closing all
tracks expires this fall and many resi
dents of Long Branch say the. intend
to make a strong effort to restore tar
ing The passing of Monmouth park
they declare "a- a blow from w hi. 'i
the famous resort ha never i-ecovr-red.
"If It’s at Hartman's, H’s Correct"
More of That Fine
Neckwear
We have always tnartp a
strong feature of our
neck'vpar department and
with a hunch of new ar
rivals the showing right
now is broader than ever.
Stylish, cool-looking wash
four-in-hands in white
and dainty coloring
Pure Silk Tie? in ever'
wanted coloring or com
bination
25c to SI.OO
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Peachtree Street
Opp Pffrry
If I! $ Correct, l! s al Haffman's”
reasonably good condition The
rains have kept the turf alive and
vigorous, but have washed away a
lot of top soil and left the ground
somewhat gullied.
A very largo local one.' has al
ready been made and it is probable
that fill or 70 local players will be
ready to face the starter, along
with the pick of the Southern
players on Thursday.
It seems probable that the At
lanta tournament is destined each
yea to furnish full' a 1 go > I a lim
on golfing ability in the South as
the Southern championship itself.
The local course 's so well recog
nized as the greatest, in the South
that it naturally attracts the really
top notch players. ’I ho East Luk*
outfit is the stiffest golf course in
the* South and one of the stiffest
in all America. It bristles with
bunkers, is punctuated with haz
ards of amazing size and attraction
and offers: trouble of high degree
to any golfer who can't play a
good, long ball, straight down the
course
Natural!' the Atlanta course is
not one which furnishes a big at
traction Io duffers But It does
attract good golfers and every
tournament ever held on the local
< uirse has proved a fine test of real
golf
The comic- tourna merit should
prove one of the big golfing events
of the South this year and a field
of unusual excellence will tew off
Thursdav The man who wins the
first cup will be entitled to rank
next to the Southern champion
among Southern golfers
RILLY SMITH RACK IN
CENTER FIELD AGAIN
XEW <YRI FAX’S July r> Bill
’ Smith manager of thp Chattanooga
•.'tub, broke bark in the Southern
i-ague ;j? a play*’ \«’-».erday aft-' ar
' absence of s'v ware. During this
renew’ RUh has <’Uitinually b*en a
ben-b. manager In the circuit with the
( “xc* ption of nv ' car. when he nv>-
jguled at Buffalo tn the Internationa’
league
Manager Smith recently stated that
.ho might get back In the game, and a
. I days ago signed a player’s contract
p'hith gave him the right tn appea on
. jthe coaching line Saturday Hvder
'Barr was seriously injured, and Hilly
'’mined the spa.ngle*? and jumped m the;
at X-w Orleans \cst»’da> He
’ tecentlx stated that tie believed lu
i w aiid hit 260 if he got back in the
.’same again His average vnsterdu'
W 4 s SCO
' i Billy retired from the Southern
| agm ,i an active play m on Julv 4
limfi y> that time h- v>. manugwi f
, i e A’’’ n1 -t -' u b n n,’ paved *n t<”
i field. Op th« afternoon of the Fourth
h< do ricked Do, Childs. a native son
who was pitching for the Crackers,
aft, - the opponents had made a tally
The fans thought Smith's playing in
icnt'*’ field wa= mo e responsible fm i
I the rally than was Child's pitching
land when Bill < ame to the hat they '
visaed him fm- several minuses At
■tl . .-lose of th- game Smith said he I
■ would nevi r play another game in th* |
iguc. He observed the threat until
TY COBB NOW SIX POINTS
TO THE GOOD ON SPEAKER
I. ' nob t* now icing *h vtpe'i
■.'.in 'eague b.t’tp'- Hr has pa -rd
Tris Speaker of th.- 8p...,,, R e( ] g ox
Today Cobb I.- found < "u'tng the pc..
' ■ a 40? .'t; ■■'olr the Hub * -tar |
■ outfielder - -' S'cagt i. 79" l„e Jack- I
I -'m. of th' Naps is third with .993
Solutions to THE GEOR
GIAN'S Proverb Contest
Picture Puzzles should bear
sufficient postage. Have
parka fje:; weighed before
’ i mailing
CHE ATLANTA GEOKGIAX AND MONDAY, JULY 15. 1912.
IVe//, IVs /\ll Off Now—Cracker Team Is Absolutely LAST!
DEFEAT IN MOBILE SETTLED IT--HOPE IS liONE
By Percy 11. W hiting.
lAST dicy hnrd. Rut then
it dicn. sometimes! Atlanta
fans are abnormally hopeful.
But n their buoyant spirits have
been somewhat doprc-s*d by recent
baseball ha openings. What <an a
man sa.v about it? And what can
be d<me n
Verily, it is a puzzler!
'l’h.it A’lania ha< a baseball club
< an he demonstrated to the entire
satisfaction of an.' reasonable hu
man being it ■an be demonstrated
mathematic lly. The figures show
j pr«»\ e it.
Yet today- the ‘’racket team
lands last and has just hit the
road for a trip that Is likely to be
unlm k\ . Hope is failing fast.
• « •
mH E home stay that andfd Satur-
C lay was an in-and-out 'per
formance fop keeps. The Crackers
won X games and lost 8. They won
3; out of 4 from their .hated Chat
tanooga rivals. That looked good.
Then came t h’e Cheese team from
Mobile. But the < Tuckers couldn't
do anything with them and won
only 1 out of 3. Next at rived the
"ven ehecsier Montgomery club,
the cast-off outfit of the league,
made up of odds and ends dicard
"d from other clubs.
The Crackers were painfully anx
ious m down the Bdlikens because
of the Pobbs-McElveen incident.
I'noues tl"mtbly the t'racket' team is
the stronger of the two. Yet ail the
<'l ackers could get from the Bil
lies was a measly and depressing
1 mit of 4.
By thi- time Hope was in a bad
BELMONT GIVES OPTION
ON $125,000 STALLION
NEW YORK. July 15. August Belmont
today admitted that he lias given Mr.
Hallronn. head of a French syndicate, an
option on his stallion. Rock Sand, for
breeding purposes, in the interest of
French and American turfmen The price
to be pa >d wn * .450."0il
Mr Bein' mt w ill rerrn" Rock Sand to
remain m France for four year. He has
at his breeding farm there ,te mare* and
u- st Illions i'.thelbert and Rockflmt
<>ne reason given for Mr Belmont per
mitting Rock Sand to go to France t*
heiau.w any progem y of the horse w ould
be eligible to all French races, whereas
those sued by him in America or England
woulo be eligible to only a 'er* few
French rai es
Rock Sand is now- twelve 'ears old.
and hl.- progem were stake winners tn
, France. England and America One ot
his daughters recent!'- won the French
links and his son. Tracery, ran third in
the r»erbv and later defeated Sweepet I!
St lju' < - t'alaer stakes it Ascot
A 'wo 'ear-old b' Rock Sand, bred b'
''later, c Macks' and sold as a yearling
in England last , M r. won t|.p ' ihmble
Ju!' stakes las' week \s a three-year
"ld Rock Sand won for hi* owner. Sir
lames .Millet, the three English classic*
the 'oo guineas -he t'erto and St
Lege' and after the death of his ownet
bad put the horse ■"> the market Mt
Belmont paid 4135.000 for him and located
him m .Kentucky for breeding purposes.
FAN CLAIMS HE MADE
WALSH GREA.T HURLER
' Hlt'AGo July 15 There was a
i time when Ed W.tlsh wa« not .i great
I I'itche' In I9'i4 his speed was ter-
I t'ifi . but his lontrol w.ts sA bad that
he had literally no idea where the ball
i wa* going. H > could eeldom get catch
■ '’»• to h'd| him m.ictiie >nd bad to fall
'vtek on >ti rn. hits! tstii fan
Thi; f<n afi»! handling hts erratic
h> gave E' soni'? advr-. He
dot-n ' 'know if " at*)’ 'ook >'. but his
" ork indii >tr. th ,* he ijc] something.
After the season of 1905,' said ’he
hug I walked to the station with
■" tls’’. ! ts-ked him " ha> h« intended
, s o do in the w-inter H- said he was
I going to do nothing
Then 1 told him he wa= about the
i "or-. 1 pitcher I had e'er seen and de
* till' d to him inw t'hristy Matthew
-mt. b. I 'to he gained control, had rent-
L ii a barn, painting t tat get at one end
I .’id pi' iivd into t”- t.irgm all winter
I unt’l hi ■merged tn the spring with the
i best ' ■mt rol in tim league.
- I don * know if Walsh took t ’«■ hint.
’' h,’ ,in ’' "id the ■mt ro’ ah on
Ar '■..',l no , 'h, Wh''.-- g.ty ... tl-.
1 1" nn.int n: :<t : ea;■
"'ay., with temperature high, pulse
wabbly and the d°ath rattle right
in among its teeth. At this awful
stage in the proceedings the Crack
ers took 2 games out of 2 from the
league leaders and the fans breath
ed again. But once more Hope
suffered o relapse. For the lout
flushing Pelicans arrived next and
the only game the <’racket's could
win from them was by forfeit.
• • •
\ I'TER an exhibition like this on
1 * home ground, what can be
hoped for the Cracker* on the road?
Not much, of course, except that
the local team has run by contra
ries this season, and it may go out
and win about umpsteen straight
on the road. Washington did. so
It isn't Impossible. Howevet we re
not going to pawn the family jewels
to het on it.
If anybody " ants to know where
the fault lies they needn't ask here.
It seems as. though the baseball
association itself can prove an alibi.
It has bought players great gobs of
'em. But whether Hemphill can't
make ’em play or whether nobody
could and it's the players' fault
we re blessed if "e know.
What makes it a hard matter-to
diagnose is that the Crackers ne'er
lose any two games for the same
reason If they kick off one today
with errors, they will lose tomor
row's with a hatting slump. Wed
nesday's because the pitcher goes
w rong. Thursday s with dull base
ball and maybe they'll win Friday
b' playing baseball the Giants
couldn't beat.
If you study back box scores
IO’DAYIO’DAY LEARNED INSIDE
i BASEBALL BY UMPIRING
Hank O'Day, who is getting good
work out of the Cincinnati Reds,
i pitched for the champion Giants in
18S9 and 1890 His catcher was the
r famous William Buckingham Ewing
and it "as some battery, too. O’Day
wasn’t pa'ticularly careful as to his
j habits in those days and was proud of
the fact that be could drink more beer
I than any other pitcher in the league.
When Hank's arm went back on him
he was forced to ask for an un.pires
> i berth, and in order to make good he '
'cut off the amber fluid. At fl-st the
i players treated him with disrespect.
: but he soon made them understand
that he "as not to be trifled with.
Sticking to his temperance pledge,
i O'Day umpired for nearly twenty
years a record of which he is justly
proud. He learned the meaning of in
side baseball and the weak points of
every player tn the game With this
knowledge, therefore. O'Day’ has been I
; able, to tell the Cincinnati Reds many
things they never knew before.
I thought 1 knew all about catch
ing." said long Larry McLean the
I other, day at the Polo grounds. 'But
I after a heart-to-heart talk with M
1 O'Day I found that 1 didn't know a
I thing. Fm catching better hall now
than ever before, and Mr. O'Day is
"boll' responsible for it."
RUBE MARQUARD LOSES
2 GAMES TO CARDINALS
ST. LOVIS. July 15. - Rube Ma -
quard lost two games yesterday to the
lowly St Louis I 'ardinals. About a
week ago Jimmy Lavender beat the
'Giants' southpaw his first game, after
a string of nineteen victories, and veri
-1 y the Rub" hasn't ye s ’' r co'ered from
the shock
S’ Louis won the first game yester
day l to ' wh°n Marquard. who re
listed Wilts* in the eighth, was hit tor
’’hree singles and gave a base on balls.
. M i"quard went in 'o pit'-h the second
I game, bu’ was relieved by Crandall in
I the seventh inning when the locals
leading 3 to 2. a single and a
’wild throw by Myers in the next in
i nine save Sit. Louis another run
ENGLISH TEAM COMING HERE.
FOLKSTONE ENGLA ND. July 15.
I’he Engli-h team defeated their
l French rivals In the international ten
|nis chamnionship match here toda'
i Th* English team will meet next in
' 'w c» I ,1 an J Ihr win no, nt t h.l 1 mate *
■’. ’’.tllengf Australia • th Da'L=
I cup..
you’ll think you are on the trail
of the elusive First Causes of de
feat when you note that it takes an
average of four or five hits to score
a • 'racket' run. Not since the his
torical days when Tris Speaker and
B*als Becker were both play ing on
the Little Rock team has there been
an organization in the South which
made as many hits and as few runs
as the ('racket's.
Going further into the complaint,
though, you find that the poor
scoring work seems to result part
ly from poor base running and
partly from an entire absence of
pinch hitting.
The Crackers' ill luck in devel
oping runs has ben uncanny. They
always seem to play it the wrong
w ay. If a man singles and the next
man sacrifices the next pair are al
ways easy outs. If the scheme of
things is shifted and the hit-and
run play flashed, with a man on
first, the batter always lines out
and the runner who was on first is
doubled off. Then, if a reversion to
old-fashioned baseball is tried and
*'erybody takes a wallop at the
bail the first man will single, the
next man will hit a short single,
sending the first runner to second,
and the third man will scratch one
to th» infield, filling the bases. Then
the next three men iri a row will
strike out! Goodness only knows
why. But they always do.
Lack of timeliness in the offen
sive displays, lack of consistency
in the defensive work—those ar«
the things that are keeping the
("Tackers down at the bottom.
ENTRY BLANKS OUT SOON
FOR MILWAUKEE RACES
MILAVAUKEE. July 15.—Entry
blanks for the Vanderbilt cup and grand
prize races to be run in Milwaukee
in September "ill be ready fo> distri
bution within a few days.
The A. A. A. has not vet granted
official sanction for the race, but will
put an O K. on the program and the
dates as soon as the arrangements sot
policing the course have been com
pie' ed.
<r -'' ■ :
m Drink Hires and Let jf
its Worst S
\'ll 3° good to Icno'«'then* i-s nnp rirtnk that will JSSSSB
.A g/K i> co °* and > n ''’gyrate you without ill effects.
F J * / !Jr 5 *"J to know a drink that iz made from MB
Iw® Nature s recipe—that combines the. tonic
T', ' Aw virtues of herbg and roots and forest =ap=. s o
jjnr vou !rn3t delectable of all summer
drinks, raßy
Uy I I"rv it rtchf n<w<', 7,re iiir n«-3r*t FourHatn
_/■ , T T \ iSk l 'X Man. and sav "Hires." '*
' r Mote coolinc than other drinks and more 00,
■7».7 W healthful. Not a trace of drugs. Just helps
HSgy 7 C“ » J - never harms. No need to say " rootbeer.'’
Just say "Hires."
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Anm r rnr hennicri • n /I'
Hemphill Will Use Waldorf on
Mound Today Against Finnifes
K MOBILE, ALA., Julv 15.—With
/I 'Buck" Becker injured,
with the team last and with
the players as gloomy as life-term
ers. the Crackers enter today on
the second game with Mike Finn's
Gulls.
The jump into last place jarred
the Crackers to the marrow of
their bones. They have been fight
ing against it and staving it off
for months past. Now they're
there —absolutely last. And it was
a grumpy crowd of ball players
who moped around the hotel last
night and this morning, waiting for
a chance to get at the Gulls again.
Manager Hemphill will probably
de ide to send Waldorf against the
Gulls. (t is his turn and the
Cracker mogul figures that it does
not make much difference. For the
Gulls, it Is Demaree's turn, and as
Mike Finn usually sticks religious
ly to the regular order, he will un
doubtedly work.
Yesterday's game, that dbopped
the Crackers to the very bottom,
was a typical Cracker game of the
vintage of 1912. The Atlanta play
ers excelled in e\ orything but
scoring runs. They made more hits
and less errors than the Gulls.
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EBBETS WORKED HIMSELF
UP FROM TICKET SELLER
NEAt YORK. July 14.—Charles H
Ebbets. of the Brookly n club, is a self
made baseball magnate.' When the
Brooklyn?, owned by Byrne. Doyle and
Abell, played at old Washington park
-25 years ago Ebbets was a ticket seller
and a schedule maker. Ho made up
his mind oven then to become the own
er of the club some day. and ho never
stopped trying.
When the Brooklyns were consoli
dated with the rival Players league
team at Eastern park, Ebbets was made
secretary, and when C. H. Byrne died
ho was elected president. He held that
office after th" Brooklyn-Baltimore deal
was consummated, fourteen years ago,
and gradually he bought up the stock,
until today he controls 90 per cent of
the club
Somebody asked Ebbets recenfly If
he would sell the Brooklyn club and he
replied: "If I did. what would 1 do to
pass the time!' Baseball is a life study
w ith me and I would be lost without it."
HH JM .. ■ ’ l J Ji gn-MBMEXM—
fielded more brilliantly and sho'e.'
more baseball sense —at everything
except the scoring of runs, v
the Crackers, it was the old. erd
story . Nine runners died "n ha?"-.
It was a cinch to get cra( k'’rs on.
'nut impossible to put th.° rm*,
across.
The Crackers looked like winners
up to the last of the seventh Then
the Gulls fell on Sitton and ?. „ r! '
two runs—not many, it is true, but
quite enough to win rhe gam*
The Atlanta players had a hard
time with Jack O'Toole, the um
pire who presented them with 4
game in the New Orleans series.
Jack sent Donahue to the tall grass
for jawing, and made the rest nf
the Crackers "walk turk* l '”
throughout the remainder "f the
spasm
From the viewpoint of ’h* At
lantans. the best feature rtf 'he
game was the work of Douglas
Harbison. This eleyer little young
ster pulled some really phenome
nal fielding stuff and smacked out
a brace of hits as well It looks
now as though, if this lad keeps hi'
present clip, he w ill get a call from
the big leagues this fall and w>. 1 be
tried out tn faster compart'' next
spring.
WELLS AND KENNEDY TO
MEET IN GOTHAM FRIDAY
NEW YORK, July 15—Featured in
’ this week's boxing card is a tert- ound
1 bout between Bombardier Wells ' ’*•
’ heavyweight champion of England. >:’.d
5 Tom Kennedy, former amateur hea- ’ -
weight champion of America, at Madi
son Square Garden, on Friday mzh’
This will be Wells' second appea ar -
. in this country- and his friend- ;--itr'
j a better showing than he made or. Iv-'
1 first appearance.
Among the other contests "n
1 week's program are th* f""o--.n?
Buck Crouse, of Pittsburg. < - Young
f Kurtz, a Newark. N. J., middlewe gh’.
at the Madison Athletic ■ 'uh Ja r ’<
Britton, a Chicago lightweigh'. ?
’ Pommy Ginty. of Scranton. Pa . at ’ne
St Nicholas Athletic club Wt ■■ t
■ night.