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CRACKERS WILL
FIGHT IMO TO
WIN LAST EfflE
MCBTIjE. July 46. It Is getaway day
’or the Crackers here, and Manager
Jharley HemphlD announced this noon
hat his warriors were going to cop the
final game of the series or bust in the
attempt. Hemp has not fully decided
juet which pitcher ho will use this aft
ernoon. but Atkins is long overdue and
will probably 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 3 to 2.
losing out in the lart of the ninth.
Hemp’s men tallied first, in the third
inning. The run was forthcoming♦ on
Itonahtu - single, a walk to Waldorf,
a wild pitch and Alperman's one-bag
ger
Mobile tied up the count in the sev
enth after two were out. Jacobsen sin.
gled. moved up a notch when Paulet
was Slammed In the ribs with an in
’ shoot and earned op O'Brien's timely
bingle.
In the eighth the Grackera again took
the lead Agler was safe when Paulet
fumbled his grasser He went,to third
on Alperman's double and tallied on
McElveen's sacrifice hoist.
But in the last spasm the home team
won out. O'Dell singled and scored
when McE’veen threw Ixmg's crasser a
mile over Agler’s head. Long got all
the way to third on the peg and on a
eeml-passed ban and Waldorf's 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
played to date:
Players. G. AB. R. H, Av.
Becker, p. . . . 3 8 . 1 3 .375
Hat bison, ss. . . 2fi 85 9 27 .318
Hemphill, cf, . . 7K 290 35 91 .31 4
Bailey, if. ... 80 283 51 82 .290
Alperman, 2b.. . 80 303 41 s;, .281
Donahue, r. ... 31 96 9 24 .250
Callahan. If. . . 38 162 ?o 38 23.’.
Graham, ~ . . . 29 86 9 20 .233
McElveen. 3b., . 8R 315 38 72 .230
Atkins, p. . . . 15 39 3 8 .20.',
1 oombs, utility .4 5 0 1.200
Brady, p tl 35 -1 7.200
Sitton, p 16 40 17 .175
Agler. lb 17 53 6 9 .170
Waldorf, p 2 5 0 0 .000
STREET CAR MEN TO
HAVE BENEFIT GAME
Tin Georgia Railway anad Electric
company Employees association will be
the hosts to local fans at a benefit ball
game it Pome DeLeon park Saturday
a stet noon.
This game is a yearly event, and the
proceeds derived from same, go to this
asso nation to help in its upkeep yearly.
The Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Southern
Railway Inman Yards teams of the
City league will be the contestants in
the gam-, and a warm battle can be
expected.
T. J. DRISCOLL CAPTURES
CHECKER CHAMPIONSHIP
T. .1 Driscoll, of Atlanta, is the
Georgia checker champion, winning tin
lit!, in the tournament which was heli!
in At'.inta at No 2 engine house last
week, with a percentage of .822
J S Hull was second. R. M. Nether
land third and E A. R'sse fourth Elf
teen players entered the tournament.
BUCK CROUSE KNOCKS OUT
KURTZ IN EIGHT ROUNDS
NEW YORK, July 16. Ruck Crouse,
who stopped Welterweight Pave Kurtz, of
Newark. N J . in eight rounds at Madi
son Suuare Garden last night, will try to
get a bout with Champion Mike Gibbons
RECRUIT IS HURT.
DVBVQVE. IOWA. July 16— Pltehet
Ray Benight, a recruit who arrived
from Austin. Minn., yesterday. has
been sent home by Manager Row land.
Benight's knee, due to an old injury,
gave way during practice and lu will
be laid up the balance of the season.
SIGN NEW PITCHER
CINCINNATI. OHIO. July 16
Pitcher Tnylor, who was obtained by
the Cincinnati baseball club from the
United States league, was sold to the
Indianapolis club of the American as
sociation
AL KAUFMAN IS SICK,
RAN FR A NCIFCO. July 16. M Kattf.
man. the local heavyweight who was
m itched to fight Charlie Miller on July
21, is seriously ill with pleurisy The
fight has been postponed.
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, rcr, ATLANTA ''-vOHOtAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. JULY 16. Isia.
Money Running Low Because of Bad Weather, Southern Lets Out Best Umpires
BAD SEASON MAY CAUSE CHANGES IN CIRCUIT
By Percy H. Whiting.
1 I THEN President Kavanaugh
yy began cutting 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 succeesfu!
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 uittpii s of modern days. He
made mistakes—bad ones, some
times, which the league reversed—
as when last year he let a game
in \tlanta 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 had season.
Another is likely to be the chang
ing of ow nership of some Southern
league franchises before the year is
out.
• • •
TT'S been a hard season financial
-1 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
play 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
series, 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. The
league is run out of a fund created
by taking ten per cent out of the
gross 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
Kavanaugh, w ho is nothing if not
a good fin A ter. began cutting ex
penses. He couldn't cut the scorers
without danger of their putting up
a jell He certainly didn't Intend
to cuj into his own salary. So
there was nobody ’-ft ... economize
on except the umpires.
Herne the cut in umpires
♦ • •
I*HE league'? B hone of pulling out
of the hole thle season lie? In
the closeness of the rave For it's
certainly tight Atlanta, even
though last. ?till less than 200
points behind the league leaders.
Ard Atlanta is nr xerx bad last.
n week of « f ‘-ady winn'ng would
put the (’’■'ackers in !h c first di\'i
sion even now
There are likely s o be tr*-
rr>fndous change® in the Southern
league r?< e :inx old time. Bir
mingham of course has a fairly
impre nr lead on the bunch Rut
Mobile’* hold on second place <« ex
trpinciv feeble and ‘ ’hattannoga
in- third plac’* b\ the <kdn of It®
teeth only A® for Memphis, it. is
onh in the first dixi-i*n bx grace of
* Hilf tarn**, and the ■Dm of New
j'lrh v 1 on the leadership of the
.v ond dix ision is not strong
. ’di’p ■ ’ » be troublesome. Nash
ville sixth by grace of » wbls
k ( v wide lead ox’ev Montgomery
Nnd N’lanti’. a? you xxeH know, is
ar • \M.r’v»-iy inipr» sjive last
1 X 1 qplf. pf ffinv- in the ’eagUP
' begin to (lose m on Birming
ham m.lZht F.V’lv h.jpppp .nrj
if A' .ir’.i t A braca—x.-» u 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 th'ese things do not happen,
look out for changes in the South
ern league, one thing that is like
ly to happen is 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 ends.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
The senators have already won as many
games from Cleveland as they grabbed al!
last season.
« * •
The Phillies admit that they put a dis
infectant on the ball rhe other day when
Marty O'Toole was pitching They claim
that the spit hall is Insanitary and that
they have to protect themselves. The
Pirates are asking that some of the Phil
lies be fined for the offense.
...
Manager Edward Maguire, of the Brock
ton team, has been suspended for failure
to appear on time for a recent double
header. M that few fans blame him.
• • •
The Highlanders are to be reconstructed
around Birdie Cree. Ed Sweeney and Hal
Chase. That's all that is left of the old
Highlanders.
• • •
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.
• • •
From 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 injure
* ♦ •
Charley Dryden says that just before
the Giants left Chicago McGraw bought a
bottle of Grubbin’s Foot Ease for Man and
Beast
• • »
Ty Cobb is being greatly touted as Jen
nings' successor at Detroit.
» * •
Charley Faust, the Giants' mascot, has
gone to Cincinnati to appear before the
national commission in person to ask for
a year’s salary from the Giants His
chance of getting it is a fat one
w • •
It »s 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! 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 nla'e'-s than the Cubans The
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 he started next week on the
Yanks’ new grounds.
4 *
Harrx Wolter has been suspended by
Manager Wolverton This is dore because
♦he Yanks were threatened with going
oxer the player limit of 25 He gets his
salary just the as though he was
w orking
« • a
Mrs Coline Grineau t *ioie mother
I am L.ilo’e. died Fridax night
» * *
Manager Dooin trying to develop
Runt - Walsh into a catcher That's the
only pos’tmn be doesn't know how to plax
Young pitchers on t h e Frowns staff are
citching thunder and 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 Frowns while “Brother George ’ is in
vest’gating some young hurler
• • »
The Jmernatinna! league circuit may be
changed so.”u b' the substitution of Syra
.>.. » t.* •. r . i> f i a<>'
ttART and Fitzsimmons, the two
1 - 1 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 of stuff
that would have ruined other um
pires. Bill 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. well meaning but in
competent and cursed with a back
bone the consistency of mush; Rud-
well meaning but slipping;
O'Toole, who makes a good deci
sion once in a while, but a lot of
bad ones, too: Kellum. w;ho is a
passable man, but no wonder, and
Breitenstein, who has never been
as good as an umpire as he was as
a twirier.
[boxing
Late News and Views
L_
New Orleans boxing promoters are ar
ranging to stage a figbt between Willie
Gibbs and Monte Attell in that citv some
time in the near future. Monte, who is a
i brother of Abe Atteil, 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
Ihe big tighter, who was returning front
Australia recently, thought he owned the
boat, and because the captain of the ship
disagreed with him he proceeded to hand
the officer a few uppercuts and left jabs
much to tlte latter's disliking. When the
boat landed in Vancouver Barrx 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 at 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. <’.. in New York, to aopear 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. Packey McFarland and
possibly Jack Britton.
In meeting any of the above pugs
Young Jack would be forced to extend
himsejf. However, Big Jawn places much
confidence in his little brother's abilltv
« e »
Tommy O'Keefe and Joe Mandot are
scheduled to box eight rounds in Memphis
the first week in August
(f 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 Harrv Trenda!! and
Jack Britton, scheduled for St. I_z>uis,
July 17. has been called off because Brit
ton's left arm is affected with poison
caused bv a run-in with an ivy vine
• • •
Bombardier Wells will have to deliver
the goods Friday night when he is billed
to meet Tom Kenned'- or he will have to
step back to make room for some other
promising "White Hone '
• • «
There were but two blows struck in the
Car! Morris-Con Com’skey flgh* staged a*
Sapulpa recently The ex-engineer Struck
both of these and they were enough to
put Comlskev to sleep. The fighters were
scheduled to go fifteen rounds
* * *
Petitions-to restore horse racing and do
away with boxing of any form tn Califor
nia are being circulated throughout the
state for the signature of th» voters
• » *
Although Johnny Kilbane has chal
’en.ged Ad Wolgast for the lightweight
championship, he says he would prefer to
meet Joe Rivers, as he thinks the Mexican
w ould be a better d’-awing . ard than 'he
titleholder
• • •
tohhny Kilbane, accompanied hr h's
w'fe and manager. Jimmy Dunn has
left his home in Cleveland for several
weeks' vacation in Canada
Harr'- Pollock has taken Johnnv Daly
under h's wing and has already chal
lenged Johnnv Coulon for the bantatn
we'ght title
Curlev Jordan remains a favorite in hts
eight-round go with Terry Nelson at.
Chattanooga tonight Red Ames and
lack Km- -'•!! make up the second mam
f'ard alu! should fnrn-.s’h a a-
Athletic Club Will
Have Course Immense
For Big Tournament
The 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
-hip was played In Atlanta have such
preparations been made for an event.
The tees have been re-turfed and '‘rest
ed,” the greens have 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 th* 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 present 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. (Cyi Morgan to the
Kansas City team of the American
association. Morgan came to the Phil- :
adelphia* team in 19"9 from 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 1
Vernon July 20 The Chicago scrap- 1
per's sojou n at Wheeler Springs has
put him in tip-top condition I
You can buy a ton of steel
for twenty-eight dollars.
Rut a ton of steel made into
watch springs is worth twenty
eight thousand. The differ
ence? A matter of refinement.
Ford Vanadium is the most
highly refined steel used in
automobi 1 e construction---
lightest---strongest—-safest.
More than 75,000 new Fords into service
this season—proof that thev must he right.
Three passenger Roadster five
passenger touring car ro9o—delivery ear
,•£7OO f o. h Detroit, with pl] equipment.
Catalogue from Ford Motor Company,
311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct
from Detroit factory.
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’FRISCO CLUB
AFTER BIBS
ANDWOLGAST
SAN FRANCISCO. CAD., Jnhy 1A—
Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast and
Joe Rivers, of Los Angeles, may
straighten out the tangle caused bv
the outcome of their botrt on July 4 bv
coming together in a return match In
this city on Admission day, September
9. The dispute connected wtt.h 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 a. move tn
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 taJse another shot
at the championship. Coffroth quite
naturally would not divulge the terms
he offered, but It is 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 Wolgaet *
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 gates
Then, too, the local promoter says the
boys are well matched and that every
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
been 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 fizht it'
the class of which he was champion ;
long.
Kaufman May B°x Flynn,
True, the supervisors of old Colma
refused Attell and Murphy the right to
fight, but Attell is not barred from ba'
tling hereabouts. And the fans here
would welcome a. meeting between the
lightweight champion and Attell. The
are w’onderlng whether the Hebrew is
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 whit h
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 «h'
still believe Al has a good fight /-ft
in him.