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SPITED S FAFNSWORTH _ ______
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, COLUMN
RUBE MARQUARD is probabi.
the most interesting
in baseball right non It's a
einch that every young boy in this
good old V. S is trying to pitch the
game brand of slants that the
Giants’ star southpaw turns loose.
And. undoubtedly, every little item
about Marqtlard's personal doings
is of interest. So here goes a little
that the writer knows about hitn
First of all, let me say that Mar
quard is the best booster Marquard
has. He can talk of nothing but
Marquard.
He Is a -pendthrlft for Marquard
He buys everything that he wants
for Marquard Rut he wouldn't tear
himself awa\ from a lead nickel
to see the Statue of Liberty swim
up New York harbor if Marquard
wasn't going to get a heap of pleas
ure out of it
But he sure will open the wallet
for Marquard. Last fall he put all
his world series money into i big
yellow touring car He ■ ouldn't
have paid over half its price when
he took it out of the ware rooms
But he promised to settle the bal
ance within a certain number of
days
He immediately bought Marquard
a swell fur ovri">>( and a poodle
dog and arm "■ •■ m 'hi ,-qi pa
raded through I’r >ad >v and I’lfth
avenue in the auto.
There ■a< a chauffeur rigged out I
in a dark green livery, well dec
orated with gold braid and large,
brass buttons A<o key grqjp hat
covered the driver's think tank In
the rear of the auto Marquard had
a footman's seat err> ted. tnd on
this seat, with arms folded. -it the
attendant, dres-ed exactly the
chauffeur.
For about a month Marquard pa
raded Gotham thoroughfares thus
ly. But finally the sheriff gave his
dream an awful black < y < . for he
put his official crip on the machine
and it went back to the owners
when the Rube couldn't come across
with his second installment.
• • •
TT begins to look as though t'har
* ley Hemphill Isn't going to
make the howling hit here that was
predicted by many of the sporting
writers, including yours truly Yet,
somehow or other, f still believe
that “Old Eagle Eye" Is going to
pull the Crackers up to a present
able position In the Southern
league race. But he sure will have
FODDER FOR FANS
President Jones, of th* Montgomery
ball club, is out with his 73d denial of the
report that he would sell the Montgomery
franchise
Dobbs has let Pitcher Bonner go to
Reading of the Tri-State There must be
quite a cluster of ex - Southern leaguers
up in that circuit
Beumiller. ex-Cracker. is batting 271
with the Brewers
• • •
Manager Stallings of Buffalo. has ac
cused Manage!' Ganzel. of Kovhester. of
trying to Intimidate the umpires Fie
charge? that before a recent game Ganzel
went into the umpires’ room, locked the
door and laid down th»* law
Tex Jones has been sent by the Buffalo
club to Des Moines in the Western league
Frank Tanner the Delaware Indian
playing now with Enid in the Oklahoma
State league, has an income of *7OO a
•week in addition his baseball -alatx.
which probably isn't much over that for
a season He owns rich oil land <nd
plays ball for re- real rm
National league players have been or
dered by President lynch under no ir
cumstances to speak t-' a spectator dur
ing the course of a game
Saginaw. a burg of t.n.noo inhabitants,
is now without baseball The promoters
there are trying tn v«< u up a Central
league franchise
• • •
Gandil’s great improvement in hatting
since he war with the White Snx is as
crlbed to the fact that he ha stopped
gripping his bat at the end and Is onok
Ing ft
• • *
Can It be that Russell Ford >• to follow
in the footsteps of lack Cheshro' He
has been off this year, but maybe it was
only because the Yanks were to the bad
Russell likes support
Indianapolis has sold Nlc Scblifr.er to
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to get a hustle on.
There is something the matter
with th< team. Individually they
look like a sure enough pennant
winner Rut collectively they are
performing like a prize bunch of
dubs. They are hitting hard enough
and their defensive work Is above
par, but the old pepper is lacking,
and 'he “breaks” are not with
them.
There is no doubt about Hemp
hill's managerial ability. He knows
baseball from soup to nuts H»
proved that last summer when Hal
Chase was sick. Hemp was put In
as temporary manager of the New
York Yankees, and with a misfit
aggregation, made a corking show
ing.
• • «
\WEEK ago last Saturday night I
had a talk with Hemphill
about his team Here is a part of
the conversation:
"Team look pretty good now."
remarked the writer.
"Looks good, nothing," replied
Hemp.
"Well, what's the matter."
"Everything."
That was as much as Hemp
could be pumped. Rut he surely
intimated very strongly that he is
far from being satisfied with his
material.
tI.MMY LAVENDER is sure mak-
J ing a howling hit up around
Chicago. And what a lucky fel
low is Chubby Charley Murphy,
the president of the Cubs. Murphy
tried his hardest to get rid of the t
Georgia boy this spring, but failed
io "do a> because the national com
mission blocked one of his many
unfafi deals.
Vnd now the man that he tried
to get 'id of Is the most valuable
member of his costly roster.
Well. Murphy was born tinder a
horseshoe. Only a few years ago
he was assistant club secretary sot
the Giants When Jim Hart an
nounced that he wanted to get out
of baseball. Murphy saw a tine
chance to advance in the world.
He managed to ease his way Into
the office of Charles Taft, brother
of the president, and his smooth
tongue soon found him a ready
buyer in the Cincinnati newspaper
man.
Taft's money and Murphy’s luck
gave Chit ago a w inner right off the
reel, and today Murphy is a rich
ma n.
Kansas City He was formerly with the
Philadelphia Americans.
e • •
It is noted that Eddie Cicotte merely
< hanged the color «»f his hosiery In flop
ping from the Ked Sox to the White Sox
• « •
Rube Marquard, who is not averse to
picking up an honest pennx here and
there, if the picking is good, hurled one
inning for the Port (’heater team against
the Bronx Independents the other day,
took his pax and departed. The Inde
pendents didn’t score any off the Rube.
• • •
Coach Willie Keeler, of the Superbas.
who was detained In New York by the
death of his father, has rejoined the
team
• • ■
George Stovall says that the Washing
ton tram is quite likely to win the Ameri
can league pennant tins year If he had
voiced that sentiment two or three months
<go they would have phoned the asylum.
♦ • •
The Reds are yelling that the\ were
sandbagged when (hex bought Pitcher
Kirsch from Meridian He is in no shape
to work and will not he for a long time
The Cotton States club unloaded a •'rip
ple. The national commission has just
passed a rule to prevent such things
• • •
Roth the Reds ami Phillies are scram
bling for Pitcher Nicholson of the defunct
Huntington team of the Mountain States
league Nicholson is a free agetit ami
< in sign where he pleases
• • ♦
Pitcher Tax lor. seem ed by the Reds
from the United States league (deceased!,
has been sent over to Indianapolis for a
30-dax- trial
• ♦ •
The Boston Nationals are suffering
from a terrific attendance slump <>f
course Kling's team 1s an awful shine
compared with the Red Sox and is stung
accordingly
• • •
Red Munson. ex-Southern leaguer,
seems to have a sure pennant winner in
the Bristol team
THE ATT, ANT A GF.GT?GT\x WP VFWS. WEDXESDAV. JUtY 17. 1912.
Two Hurlers Who May Put
Local Team in Race Again
JIM RRADY
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-of
Wnbbirf <1 i d
not make much I Wj&S ■
of an impression •' /
in his lirst start
with the (‘rack- . /811 OW /
ers. losino to the / /» a&ski//
Billikens. But I wj|K /ML ■ '
since that per- \ '
form.nice he has \
surely h it rle <1 ILA
swell ball. lie \\|MF W-
seems to have |lg|!. ••
The
( ’ 1,1,s t,irne<l
Waldorf over to OcT
the (■ r a e k er s, v*J
and it is a einch
that he will bp •
recalled next
spring.
RUDOLPH WALDORF.
BIG CROWD EXPECTED AT
STREET CAR MEN’S GAME
The benefit game, the proceeds of
which go to the Georgia Railway and
Electric Company's Employees Relief
association, which will be played al
Ponce DeLeon on Saturday, should
draw a big crowd
The Southern Hell Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Southern
Railway Inman yards teem of the City
league will be the contesting teams,
anti as these teams are regarded as
among the fastest In the city, there is
sure to be some fine baseball on tap
The street car men are deserving of a
good benefit They are always atten
tive to the demands of the public and
give them good service day in and day
out and tills is the onty chance every
year that Atlantans have the oppor
tunity of showing their appreciation
CHARLEY FRANK IS RAVING.
t’harley Frank s talk of a special meet
Ing to consider his protest against I’m
plje O'Toole’s decision for forfeiting a
game to Atlanta Is a rich scream Flue
chance to gel a decision overruled when
it was a question of judgment and not of
rules O'Toole ruled that the I'els were
delaying the game That ended it The
rest Is mereb to string along the Pelican
sport writers
FIVE JOCKEYS INJURED
WHEN MOUNTS TUMBLE
VALLEY FIELD. QUEBEC. July 17
Five jockeys were injured, three se
riously. and a horse was hurt, when
five of eight horses in the first ’ace of
the meeting fell at the local track. The
spill occurred at the first bend, when
two horses collided and tumbled in the
path of three animals closely following
them. The dusty track and field were
responsible.
The injured jockeys are:
Striven, suffering frpm brain concus
sion: Williams, injured Internally, and
Robins, leg broken, who were carried
off on stretchers, and Knight and
White, who. with assistance, limped
from the track Elizabeth O. received
a broken leg.
NELSON AND AMES WIN
FROM JORDAN AND FOY
CHATTANOOGA. TENN . July 17
Terry Nelson, of Philadelphia, won an
easy decision over Curley Jordan, of
Springfield. Mo., here in eight fast
rot’in ds.
Red Arnes, of Chattanooga, defeated
.1 it k Kin. of Atlanta, tn the first bout.
Invitation Tournament Starts Tomorrow Over Finest Golf Course
SOUTH’S BEST PLAYERS HERE FOR LOCAL EVENT
By Percy H. Whiting.
TOMORROW morning, at such
time as the tournament com
mittee shall appoint, the first
pair of golfers will tee the first
balls in the second annual tourna
ment of the Atlanta Athletic club.
Five minutes later another-pair will
get away. Five minutes later an-
Brady appears
to lie the, most
reliable Ditcher
Hemphill has
' riaht. now. Away
rjMßyu' * a to a slow start.
he has been de
e, livering of late.
was SPC ’ irP( i
A\ h’ om th p Boston
National league
lw|a}l team. Last year
he was the best
twirler in the
W New York State
league, and the
* » Boston misfits
A. bought him.
HODRAY! CAN'T
BE BEAT TODAY
NEW ORLEANS. July 17.—1 t is an
off day for the Crackers today, who
pulled in here this morning from Mo
bile. Tomorrow would be another day
of rest, too, but for the fact that the
Atlanta team and the locals have an
extra game to plaj' off.
The Atlanta players seem to be down
cast over the three straight they
dropped to the Gulls, and it looks as
though Manager Hemphill has got an
awful Job on his hands to pull them
out of the rut.
Yesterday’s game over in Mobile was
lost by a score of 6 to 4. After having
a three-run lead, young Coombs, who
was on the mound, blew up in the
fourth inning and before the session
was finished five Gulls had dented the
dish with runs.
The orfly features of the game from
a Cracker standpoint were two home
runs in succession by Whitey Alper
tnan.
PLAYS TENNIS WITHOUT
SHOES: LOSES HIS MATCH
BOSTON. July 17. —An innovation in
championship tennis was shown in the
twenty-second annual Longwood
Cricket club tournament in singles
when Hugh Tailant, of New York, in
nis match with G. F. Touchard. played
without shoes. His feet were encased
in heavy socks, but he apparently
gained no advantage from the change,
as Touchard won all three sets.
Wright and Behr provided the star
.plays in the first round of the Eastern
doubles championship which opened
yesterday.
WOLGAST SAYS HE WILL
NOT FIGHT FOR 6 MONTHS
LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Ad Wol
gast will not fight Joe Rivers on Labor
day The champion plans to go tr>
Oregon for a long rest and will not
put on the gloves before the first of
next year.
"I was not right in the last fight."
said Ad, "and T have realized it more
every day since the bout. The offer
of $50,000 from Stockton might have
tempted me to try Rivers again in Sep
tember but that offer fell through As
it is now I w ill not fight before New
Year's."
GIANTS WILL GIVE GROH
AND DEVORE FOR TYLER
1 HICAGO. July 17—<ohn McGraw,
of the Giants, Is making an effort to
strengthen his pitching staff McGraw
has offered Infielder Grob and Outfield
et Devore for Southpaw Tyler, of Bo
ton
Kling received a telegram from Mc-
Graw making the offer The deal may
go through.
PITCHER McGEHEE SOLD
TO JENNINGS’ TIGERS
JACKSON. MISS. July 17—Patrick
McGehee, pitchei sot the Vicksburg
i Miss i team of the Cotton States
league, has been sold to the Detroit
American league team for $750. ac
cording: to announcement made here
today He is to report at the end of
the scri-on Mi G; hee has led the Vicks
burg pitching staff this year.
other. And all the morning, as
regularly as a minute gun booms,
players will get away from the first
tee on the tong grind that is even
tually to determine the ownership
of a huge mass of assorted silver
ware and incidentally to settle the
question of golfing .supremacy
among the corking good players
.who will gather for a trial of skill
oyer the South's one-championship
course.
Ail the preparatory work Is over
now but the shduting. The course
has been carefully prepared, the
prizes have been bought, the plans
made and by every train golfers
are gathering for the final test of
skill.
It is a good deal of a treat for
the average top-notch Southern
players to get a chance at the At
lanta course. For it is essentially
a championship course, while the
average Southern course is a "duf
fer's course* -
There ig no denying that the or
dinary course is laid out to satisfy
the golfing aspirations of the dub
players. They are always so vast
ly in majority that the greens
committee panders to them and
smooths out the t'“rubles. The usual
course Is laid oui, not as a test of
golf but as a round which can be
played with the maximum of dtfb
bersome enjoyment and the mini
mum of score.
In Atlanta they have had the
courage of their convictions and
have laid out a course that Is a
course. They haven't considered
what would probably amuse the
poorer players of the club, but have
made a course that most nearly
approaches perfection. A large
part of the credit for the especial
excellence of the local course be
longs to George W. Adair, who was
president of the club during the
first three'or four years of the
course's history. The work Is now
being carried out along the same
broad lines by President W. H.
Glenn, himself an excellent golfer
and a believer in real golf courses.
• • •
MJ Southern course has had the
1N benefit of as much expert ad
vice as the one at East Lake. It
was laid out originally by Tom
Bendlow-. of Chicago, who has
planned more courses than any man
in America —probably more than
any man in the world. The first
professional of the club was Alex
Smith, then open champion of
America, of the East, of the East
ern Professionals association, of the
Metropolitan Golf association, and
goodness knows what all. The
early trapping was done under his
guiding eye. Since then the ideas
of H. H. Barker, imported from
England by the Garden City course
because of his w onderful knowledge
of golf course planning; Freddie
McLeod, ex-open champion; the
late Willie Anderson, ex-open,
and J. J. McDermott, present open
champion, have all been secured
on the subject, as well as those of
Walter J. Travis, former Amer
ican and British amateur cham
pion; H. Chandler Egan, ex-ama
teur champion of American, and a
slather of other players of note.
The result has been that the local
course has been trapped and bunk
ered according to the ideas of
America's greatest golfing experts.
And it’s some golf course.
Over this great course for the
next three days the South’s best
golfers will battle, and it should
prove "some contest.”
« ♦ ♦
'T'HEY have been playing some
interesting professional tourna
ments of late. The victory of Tom
McNamara, the Boston “home
bred” player in the open of the
Metropolitan Golf association, was
not surprising. Tom has ben play-
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ing right around the top In all the
big open tournaments for the last
couple of years and was about due.
He played a steadily improving
game. His scores were 75. 74, 73.
71. and he took title by a four
stroke margin over Gilbert Nich
ols. Alex Smith, former local pro
fessional, -was in the money, but
‘not impressively. Frank Peebles,
the Stockbridge, Mass., profession
al, set a new mark o£ 69 for the
Apa warn! s course in the tourna
ment.
A few days after the Metropoli
tan open the Wykagyl course gave
a one-day open event, and in this
affair Alex Smith came back to life.
With scores of 71 and 70 he led
the second man. again Gil Nichols,
by five strokes. This score was
a new 36-hole record for the New
Rochelle course.
• • •
rxNE national golf tournament win
be played in the South next
season —the annual golfing celebra
tion of the American Golf Asso
ciation of Advertising Interests.
This affair has been scheduled for
the Hot Springs, Va.. course. This
organization numbers some corking
players and it always gives an Im
pressively big tournament.
It will not be many years before
the South, -with Its rabidly Improv
ing courses, will be making a bid
for some of the real national
championships. It -will probably
be 50 years before it will ever be
able to get the amateur event, but
It might grab the open almost any
old time.
• * •
vpFTE Memphis golf course used to
A boast of an 82-year-old golfer,
but the Bluff City and all the rest
will have to take a back seat, for
Plymouth, Mass., has a golfer 101
years old. His name Is Tilden
Pierce.
Unlike the average old-timer in
golf. Mr. Pierce did not take up the
game until he was 100 years old.
After taking It up. however, he be
came enthusiastic at once and now
plays twice a week,
• • •
matter at what game an ath-
L ’ lete starts golf usually gathers
him in. Bill Lamed, for years
America’s greatest tennis player,
has practically forsaken the court
game for the links. He has played
but little tennis this year, though
much golf, and is becoming a star
at the Scotch pastime.
Another famous athlete known
locally for his golfing prowess f?
Ted Coy, the greatest football
player America ever knew. He fig
ured both in the Montgomery invi
tation tournament and the South
ern championship at Chattanooga
this year, and it will be surprising
if he does not turn up for the local
event. •
JIMMY LAVENDER BEATS
MUGGSY’S TEAM AGAIN
CHICAGO. July 17.—Jimmy Laven
der is being called the “Giant Killer” to
day as a result of his victory yester
day over the New York team. The
Cubs won the game by a score of 3 to 1.
it being the Georgia boy’s second win.
over the Gothamites during the East
erners’ second Western Invasion.
The game was a pitchers’ battle be
tween Lavender and Jeff Tesreau, and
the Cub proved the better man.
LEFTY MORAN BEATEN:
RECEIVES RAD SUPPORT
BOSTON, July 17.—Lefty Moran, th*
Detroit Tigers’ pitcher, who was se
cured from Washington and Lee. where
he pitched corking good college ball,
lost a hard game to the Red Sox yes
terday. He hurled an excellent game,
but his support was very ragged.
Moran is sure to give a good ac
count of himself in fast company At
least that is the opinion of Hub ex
perts.