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CRACKERS WILL
FIGHT ■ ID
WIN LAST GAME
MOBILE, July 16. It 1s getaway dav
for the Trackers here, and Manager
Charlev Hemphill announced this noon
that hte warriors were going to cop the
fina l game of the series nr bust in the
attempt Hemp has not fully decided
Jus* which pitcher he wl’l use this aft
ernoon. hut \tkins i« long overdue md
will nrohablv decorate the mound with
his presence Berger Is slated to work
for the Gulls
Yesterday the Crackers went down to
defeat again to the tune of ,i to 2.
losing opt in the la*» nt rhe ninth
Hemp’s men 'allied first. in the third
, Inning The run was forthcoming on
Donahues Singh a walk t.. \\ ildo'f
a wild pi' h and Alpr-rmans one-bag
ger.
Mobile tied up the count in the sev
enth after two were nut .Jacobsen sin.
gled. moved tin a notch when P.i'ilet
was “lammed in the ribs with an In
shoot and earned on rcßrien'a timely
hingle
In the eighth the Crackers again took
the lead tgler was safe when Paulo*
fumbled his grasser. He went to third
on Alperman's double and tallied on
McElveen's sacrifice hoist.
But in the last spasm the honi< team
won out. O'Dell singled and scored
when McElveen threw Teng's g: ■.-ser a
mile over Agler's head. Dong got all
the way to third on the peg and on a
serp! - passed ball and Waldorfs muff of
Donahue's recovery he brought in the
deciding run
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Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday’s Game
These averages Include all games
pl iyed to date:
Players. G. AB. R. H. Av.
Be< ker, p. . . . 3 8 1 3 375
Harbison, ss. . . 26 85 9 27 .318
Hemphill, (f, . . 76 290 35 91 314
Bailey, rs . . 80 283 51 82 290
Alperman. 2b.. . so 303 41 85 .281
Donahue, c. ... 31 96 9 24 .250
Callahan, If. . . 38 162 20 38 235
Graham, c, . , . 29 86 9 20 .233
McElveen. 3b.. . 86 315 38 72 .230
Atkins, p. . . .15 39 3 8 .205
Coombs, utilitj 4 5 0 1.200
Brady, p 11 35 17 .200
Sitton, p 16 40 17 175
Agler, lb 17 53 6 9 .170
\\ aldorf, p 2 5 0 0 .000
STREET CAR MEN TO
HAVE BENEFIT GAME
The G orgia Railway mad . Electric
' ompany Employeos a-sociation will be
the hosts to local fans it a benefit ball
game at Ponce Del,eon park Saturday
afternoon
This game is a yearly event, and th*
proceeds derived from same go to this
i?so iation to help in its upkeep yearly.
The Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Southern
Railway Inman Yards teams of the
C'ity league will be the <ontestants in
tin ya'o" and a warm battle ran be
expected,
T. I. DRISCOLL CAPTURES
CHECKER CHAMPIONSHIP
T .1 Driscoll, of Ml.mm Is 'h
Geo 1 tti.i . In • k< r ch" midon w inning the
title ■!■ tli.- tom tvi meet which wu h-ld
in li'.itiln it No. 2 engine house last
week, with .1 i'C!. ent.ige of ,522
.1 S Hull was seeond. R \l Nether
land 'lilt'd, and E A. Rlsse fourth. Eif
leen players entered the tournament.
BUCK CROUSE KNOCKS OUT
KURTZ IN EIGHT ROUNDS
NF'.\\ Y'>RK. July IK Burk <’r«»usn.
ho slopped Weltrrw* Pave Kintz, of
Newark. X .1 . in eipbt i<nin<ls at Madi-
■ n Square tianlen last nigh’, will tr\ to
at I a bout with Champion Mike Gibbons
RECRUIT IS HURT.
Dl’Bryl’l'!, IOWA. July 16. Pitcher
Ray Benight, a recruit who arrived
from Austin. Minn, yesteruay, has
been sent hoim by M.magi Rowland
fl. night's knee, due to an old injuiy.
gave way during practice and hf will
be laid up the balance of the season,
SIGN NEW PITCHER.
i '1 N< 'IN N A IT. < >Hl< i. July 16.
Pitcher Taylor, who was obtained by
the (Tneinnnti baseball club from the
I'nitod States league, was sold to the
Indianapolis club of the Ameriian .is
soeia ti"n.
AL KAUFMAN IS SICK.
SAN T’RANTTSI'O. July 16. Al Kauf
man. the local heavy-weight who was
matched to fight Charlie Miller on July
21. o so iouvly ill with pleurisy. The
tight lias lieen post polled.
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. ATLANTA CRORGTAX AND NEWS. TUESDAY. .11 LY 16.
Money Running Low Because of Bad Weather, Southern Lets Out Best Umpires
BAI> SEASON MAY CAUSE CHANCES IN CIRCUIT
By Pprry H. Whiting.
T I THEN President Kavanaugh
L'y began nutting the umpire
staff of the Southern
league by sending Billy Carpenter
to the International and letting Bill
Hart and Dan Fitzsimmons resign,
he hit the game in the South a
smashing blow. Nothing is. much
less likely to promote a successful
financial season for the league than
a poor staff of umpires. And Kav
anaugh certainly sent away some
of his best ones. Bill Carpenter
was easily the best of Southern
league umpires of modern days. He
made mistakes bad ones, some
times, which the league reversed—
as u hen last year he let a game
in Atlanta run beyond the fixed
time instead of forfeiting it against
Atlanta, as he should have done.
But in the main Billy Carpenter
was the king-pin umpire of the
Southern
The departure of Carpenter and
the cutting of expenses is one of
the by products of a bad season
Another is likely to be the chang
ing of ownership of some Southern
league franchises before the year is
ou*.
« • •
IT'S been a hard season financial
*■ ly. Never in the history of
Southern baseball has there been
so much rain during a baseball sea
son. It has caused the postpone
ment of innumerable games. It has
scared half the normal attendance
away from a lot of games that
were actually played.
Then there have been other trou
bles. In Nashville they tried to
plat Sunday ball, ran foul of a
state law and were in an awful
pickle for a time. Then Atlanta, a
town where all the visiting teams
expect to make money well in ex
cess of the guarantee out of every
scries, has had a tail-end team.
And that, on top of a tail-ender last
year, has kept the receipts below
normal.
Os course, smaller gate receipts
cut into the league’s finances. I'he
league is run out of a fund created
by taking ten per cent out of the
gios.-, receipts of every game. Nat
urally when the receipts fall off
the league's income falls off ac
cordingly And when the slump
hit the league this year President
K iv.inaugh. who is nothing if not
■i good tim V began cutting ex
penses. He couldn’t cut the scorers
without danger of their putting up
a yell. He certainly didn't intend
lo cut into his own salary. *So
there was nobody left to economize
mi except the umpires.
Hem e the cut in umpires.
• ♦ ♦
-T'HE leagues hope of pulling out
of the bob' this season lies In
the closeness of the race. For It's
certain 1 ' tight. Atlanta, even
though last, is still less than 200
pointe behind th' league leaders.
And Atlanta is no very bad last.
\ week of steady winning would
put the <'lackers in the first divi
sion even now.
Then nn likely to be some tre
mendous changes in the Southern
. .igue ran an' old time. Bir
mingham. of course, has a fairly
impressive lead on the bunch. But
Mobile's hold on second place la ex
tremely feeble, and Chattanooga
has third place by the skin of its
teeth only. As for Memphis, it is
only in the first division by grace of
[ a half game, and th. claim of New
'i Orleans on the leadership of the
, -o, end dir ision is not strong
enough i" bi troublesome. Nash
villt is sixth by gra-e of a whis
ker-wide lead ovei Montgomery.
J \nd Atlanta, as you well know, is
an extremely impressive last.
• ♦
|F a tuple of t mis in the league
I begin tn clos. in on Birming
| ham. as might easily happen, and
if Atlanta takes a brace--as it is
more than probable it will—and if
the weather braces up a bit. the
Southern league may yet emerge
from this season with prosperity
and honor, despite the worst start
it ever made.
If these things do not happen,
look out for changes in the South
ern league. One thing that is like
ly to happen ie that a franchise or
two will change ownership, but, will
stay in the same town. There are
several clubs In the league that tot
ter every year things break bad
They are tottering worse than
usual this year and may need some
rescuing before the season goes
much further.
There is always an extra likeli
hood of a change in circuit on an
off year.
The Mobile and Montgomery
franchises are always tentatively
on the market. The Little Rock
Baseball association is always ac
tively in the market for a franchise
It will be immensely surprising If
there aren't some franchise deals
pulled before this season end*.
'baseball
Diamond News and Gossip
Tbe Senators have already won as many
games from Cleveland as they grabbed all
last season.
• • •
The Phillies admit that they put a dis
infectant on the ball the other day when
Marty O'Toole was pitching They claim
that the spit ball is insanitary and that
they have to protect themselves. The
Pirates are asking that some of the Phil
lies be fined for the offense.
• • »
Manage!' Edward .Maguire, of the Brock
ton team, has been suspended for failure
to appear on time for a recent double
header. \t that few fans blame him.
• • •
The Highlanders are to he reconstructed
around Birdie ("rep. Ed Sweeney and Hal
Chase. That’s all that Is left of the old
Highlanders
• • 4
The announcement of bad business in
the Southern league has led to the report
that there will be changes in ownership
of several cities and possibly a change in
circuit.
• • •
Prom a mere foot Blister an injury to
Charley Case has developed into a threat
ened attack of blood poisoning He has
been in tolerably bad condition as a re
sult of the injury.
♦ ♦ t
Charley Dryden says that just before
the Giants left Chicago McGraw bought a
bottle of Grubbin’s Foot Ease for Man and
Beast.
• • •
T\ Cobb is being greatly touted as Jen
nings' successor at Detroit.
• « •
Charley Faust, the Giants' mascot, has
gone to Cincinnati to appeal' before the
national commission in person to ask for
a year's salary front the Giants. His
chance of getting it is a fat one.
• • •
It is probably lucky for the Pelicans
that President Kavanaugh decided to re
tain Theodore Breitenstein as an umpire
He would never have done as a pitcher.
• • •
Rock Island may get the Dubuque fran
chise in the Three-1 league Attendance
is off at Dubuque and the backers of the
club are discouraged.
• •
In the Texas league they are talking
of recruiting their teams from across the
Mexican border. They say the Mexicans
arc better players than the Cubans. Th* 1
only trouble is in oxercoming the Texan's
natural antipathy for all "greasers. ’’
• • •
Despite all the reports that the Yankees
would use the Polo grounds in the future
work will bp started next week on the
Yanks' new grounds.
~ • •
Harrx Wolter lias been suspended by
Man.iger Wolverton This is done because
the Yanks were threatened with going
over the player limit of 25 He gets his
salary just the same as though lie was
working.
• • •
Mrs. Coline Grineau Lajoie. mother of
Larrv Lajoie, died Friday night.
• ♦ •
Manager Dooin is trying to develop
"Runt - Walsh mtn a catcher That's the
only position he doesn t know how to play
now
• • •
Young pitchers on the Browns' staff are
<atching thunder ami blazes these days
Stovall doesn't care a hang about winnig
games But he does want to know what
his recruit hurlers can do under fire And
he's finding out Some team Is going to
make a hundred hits in one game against
the Browns while "Brother George’’ Is in
vestigating some young hur!e r
• • •
The Internationa! league circuit ma' be !
changed soon by the substitution of Syra- I
euse for Montreal.
ttART and Fitzsimmons, the two
umpires who have followed
Billy Carpenter into the discard,
were among the best in the league.
Old Bill Hart was no wonder, but
everybody was so entirely con
vinced of his honesty of purpose
that he got past with a lot Rf stuff
that would have ruined other um
pires. Rill was on the square. He
was doing his best all the time.
The players all liked him. He knew
the game. His eyesight might not
have been the best, but it was
good enough.
Dan Fitzsimmons has ranked next
to Carpenter as the best umpire of
’em all. He has always been fair,
impartial and efficient.
And what does it leave us—Dan
Pfenninger. wey meaning but in
competent and cursed with a back
bone the consistency of mush; Rud
derham. well meaning but slipping.
O’Toole, who makes a good deci
sion once in a while, but a lot of
bad ones, too: Kellum, who is a
passable man. but no wonder, and
Breitenstein, who has never been
as good as an umpire as he was as
a twirler.
[boxing ~l
Late News and Views
New Orleans boxing promoters are ar
ranging to stage a fight between Willie
Gibbs and Monte Attell in that city some
time in the near future. Monte, who is a
brother of Abe Attell, was at one time
considered a near champ In the feather
weight class.
Jimmy Barry, the Chicago heavyweight
is doing eight days in a Vancouver jail
The big fighter, -who was returning from
Australia recently, thought be owned the
boat, and because the captain of the ship
; disagreed with him he proceeded to hand
the officer a few uppercuts and left faba
much to the latter’s disliking. When' the
boat landed in Vancouver Barr-. was
placed under arrest and the imprisonment
followed.
• • •
When the officer nabbed Jimmv as he
left the gangplank he denied beating up
the superior officer, but one look al the
latter’s face dispelled all doubt as to the
lacing he administered.
• • •
Young Jack O’Brien has signed a con
tract with Manager Billy Gibson, of the
Garden A. C.. in New York, to appear in
three bouts at Gibson’s club before Labor
day.
• * *
No opponents have been announced as
yet for the Philadelphia lightweight, but
it Is known they will be selected from a
list including Ad Wolgast. Joe Rivers,
Willie Ritchie. Packer McFarland and
possibly Jack Britton.
In meeting any of the above pugs
Young Jack would be forced to extend
himself However. Big lawn places much
confidence in his little brother's ability.
• • •
Tommy O'Keefe and Joe Mandot are
scheduled to box eight rounds in Memphis
the first week in August.
If O'Keefe is defeated by Mattv Bald
win In Boston tonight it is likelv Mattv
will be given the Mandot date at Mem
phis in place of the Philadelphia pug
The bout between Harry Tjendatl and
Jack Britton, scheduled for St. Louis.
July 17. has been called off because Brit
ton's left arm is affected with poison
caused by a run-in with an ivv vine
• • •
Bombardier Wells will have to deliver
the goods Friday night when he is billed
to meet Tom Kennedy nr he will have to
step back to make room for some other
promising "White Hope. '
• « •
There were but two blows struck in the
Carl Morris-Con Comlskey fighi staged at
Sapulpa recently . The ex-engineer struck
both of these and they were enough to
put Comiskey to sleep. The fighters were
scheduled to go fifteen rounds
• * •
Petitions to restore horse racing and do
away with boxing of any form in Califor
nia are being circulated throughout the
state for the signature of the voters
Although Johnny Kilbane has chal
lenged Ad Wolgast for the lightweight
championship, he says he would prefer to
meet Joe Rivers, as he thinks the Mexican
would be a better drawing hard than the
titleholder.
• • •
Johhny Kilbane. accompanied by his
wife and manager. Jimmy Dunn has
lefl his home in Cleveland for several
weeks' vacation in Canada.
• • »
Harry Pollock has taken Johnny Dal'
under his wing and has already chaf
lenged Johnny Coulon tor the bantam
weight title
• • •
Curley Jordan remains a favorite tn bi
eight-round go with Terry Nelson at
I Chattanooga tonight Red Ames and
I Jack Foy u ill make up the second mam
I card and should furnish a goc-i bout
Athletic Qub Will
Have Course Immense
For Big Tournament
T’ne Atlanta Athletic club is using
thirteen men. a half dozen mule teams,
two mule-drawn lawn mowers, one
gasoline mower and a keg of money in
getting its course ready for the invi
tation tournament that will be started
Thursday morning.
Not since the last Southern champion
ship was played in Atlanta have such
preparations been made for an event.
The tees have been re-turfed and "rest
ed," the greens havn been carefully
sanded and cut, the fair green has been
manicured to the last gasp and all is
ready for the tournament.
Probably something like 60 Atlanta
players will take part in the tourna
ment. In addition there should be fully
as many from other clubs. If there
are it will be the largest and most
successful Invitation event of Southern
year-around-course history.
HART AND FITZSIMMONS
RESIGN UMPIRE BERTHS
MEMPHIS, TENN., July 16.—Dan
Fitzsimmons and Bill Hart umpired
their last games in the Southern league
yesterday, at least for the preeifnt sea
son. Hart went to his home in Cincin
nati and Fitzsimmons left for his home
in Rochester.
Hart stated he resigned on account
of the illness of his wife. Fitzsimmons
intimated that he resigned on account
of the recent decision of Judge Kava
naugh in cutting down the umpire staff.
Fitzsimmons stated that he would not
work single-handed as hot as the
weather is in the Southern league. Fitz
simmons also intimated that the rea
son of Hart’s resignation was also on
account of not being willing to work
single-handed in such hot weather.
MACK SELLS CY MORGAN
TO KANSAS CITY CLUB
PHILADELPHIA, July 16.—The first
break in the quartet of great pitchers
that helped to bring two American
league pennants to this city came when
Manager Mack announced that he had
released Harry R. (Cy) Morgan to the
Kansas City team of the American
association. Morgan came to the Phil
adelphia team in 1909 front the Boston
Americans.
JACK WHITE TRAINING.
LOS ANGELES. July 16.—Jack
White, the Chicago lightweight, has
begun training for his scheduled twen
ty-round fight with Owen Moran at
Vernon July 20. The Chicago scrap
per’s sojourn at Wheeler Springs has
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FRISCO CLUB
HR RIVERS
AND WOLGASI
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 16.
Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast and
Joe Rivers, of Los Angeles, may
straighten out the tangle caused by
' the outcome of their bout on July 4 bv
coming together in a return match in
■ this city on Admission day, September
9. The dispute connected with the end
ing of the Los Angeles bout Is bound to
force the. rival lightweights into an
other meeting, and Jimmy Coffroth
seeks to be the lucky promoter to grab
the plum.
Coffroth has already made T.
making a flattering offer to Wolgast,
and is confident that if he lands the
champion Rivers will be only too glad
of the opportunity to take another shot
at the championship. Coffroth quite
naturally would not divulge the terms
he offered, but it ie known to run well
up in the thousands.
Attell to Get Winner.
James was in Los Angeles when. Riv
ers and Wolgast fought on the after
noon of July’ 4 and he lost no time in
getting to Manager Jones for Wolgast's
services. Coffroth realized that the
ending left lots of doubt in the minds
of the fans and that battles of just such
unsatisfactory finishes draw big ga’es
Then, too, the local promoter says the
boys are well matched and that even
spectator would get a run for his
money. It Is Jim’s plan to send the
winner against Abe Attell. who now
Is a fullfledged lightweight. Abe has
boon in the care of Billy Nolan for
months now and the former feather
weight has packed on so much solid
weight that he will never again fight in
the class of which he was champion so
long.
Kaufman May Box Flynn.
True, the supervisors of old Colma
refused Attell and Murphy the right to
fight, but Attell is not barred from bat
tling hereabouts. And the fans here
would welcome a meeting between the
lightweight champion and Attell They
are wondering whether the Hebre 1 D
still as clever as a lightweight as he
was as a featherweight
With these fights in mind, Coffroth : =
also laying plans for a match in whi'T
Jim Flynn will figure. If he can secure
a suitable heavyweight he would stage
the go. Al Kaufman Is likely to be
selected by Coffroth as Flynn's oppo
nent. for there are a number here wh >
still believe Al has a good figh' ft
in him.