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Millionaire Theatrical Man
Picks Strong All-Star Team
JAKE WELLS millionaire th--
atrhal promot.-i who con
trols all the big vaudeville
houses in the South, an x-dianmnd
star himself manager and former
president of the Virginia league,
has picked i tattling good all-star
baseball team, as -down in tie ac
companying box
Although Mr. Wells is really an
"old-timer" he has selected a
bunch of youngsters In picking
Gandil. Hoyle Zimmerman and
Collins he has an infield that would
not only prove a stone wall on the
defense but would hit well above
the .300 mark
His outfield, Cobh Jackson and
Speaker, could not be improved,
while Aicher and Meyrs are the
two greatest catchers playing to
day.
And what a pitching staff Mnr
quard. Walsh. Johnson and Rucker
would make.
He picks McGraw to manage the
team. Although the Giants' chief
Is far from being popular, there is
no getting away from tin fact that
he is a great leader.
The fan.- tri- supposed to only
pick two pitchers, but Mr. Wells,
who spent yesterday lu re looking
after affairs at his Forsyth theater,
sent in his team about ton minutes
before he boarded his train, and
probably did not know that he was
to hold his pitching staff down to
two men.
Mr. Wells started Playing ball
with Ness Orleans He then went
to Detroit. A couple of seasons
later lie was with Troy in th.- East
earn league, and then back to the
Southern league. Finally he lo-
in Richmond. He put that
REVISED AGREEMENT IS
RATIFIED BY LEAGUES'
CINCINNATI. OHIO. July 2:! The re
vised national agreement for the govern
ment of professional baseball clubs be
came a law .today It was ratified offi
cially by the National league, the Ameri
can league and the National Association
of Baseball clubs and promulgated by the
national baseball commission.
The principal change was tin- creation
of a class A A league and the revision ot
the drafting prices in vogue in the vari
ous classes of leagues
TO PLAY POST-SEASON SERIES.
CHATTANOOGA TENN , July 23.
President Jacob Smith of the Appa
lachian league has- aci - pled the chal
lenge of President Langston of the lo
cal city league for a post-season series
between the winners in the two or
ganizations. The games will probably
be staged in Chattanooga.
COLUMBUS ON ROAD TRIP.
Ct H.UMBUS. GA . July 23. Th. <
lumbus baseball team is off on a two
weeks trip on the toa-l, during which
time they will play Macon, Columbia,
Jacksonville and Albany Th. team <
leading the league by a sit'. margin,
having won eleven out of the last thir
teen games played.
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• Here's Jake Wells' •
• All-Star Ball Team •
• C°bb Right field •
• Jackson Center field •
• Speaker Left field •
• Gandil First base •
• Doyle Second base •
• Zimmerman Third base •
• Collins Shortstop •
• Catchers Meyers. Archer •
• Pitchers. Marquard, Walsh, •
• Johnson, Rucker •
• McGrawManager •
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team in the Virginia league, man
aged it. caught and played first
base.
After lie gave up the game as a
player he was*elected president of
the Virginia league and while he
served In that* capacity for a good
many yens he never accepted a
cent tor salary. Finally he became
interested in the theatrical game
and was forced to resign his posi
tion as h ague leader.
He has been very successful in
the theatrical field, and today is a
millionaire many times over.
Some of the players that Mr.
Wells developed while he was in
the V irginia league were Kid El
berfeld. Jack Che-bro, Socks Scy
bold. Gtis Dundon, Spike Shannon
ami Sam Leever. He also recom
mended Billy Smith to Atlanta as
manager, and this year sent Lou
• 'astro to Portsmouth,
(Send your selections for your
All-Star team to the Sporting Edi
tor The Georgian.)
i WAIVERS ARE ASKED ON
BILL SMITH AS A PLAYER
<'HATTA.N'OOGA. TENN. July 23.
"Billy Smith. Chattanooga manager,
can not "come hack." This is the decis
ion reached by owners of the Lookout
franchise, who proposed to give Snffth
his seat back on the bench by asking
Southern league clubs to waive on his
services. Notice that waivets had been
asked on Smith was received lu re Sat
urday. though it I/; not probable that
any of the clubs would take (he Look
out leader for the price ottered. S4OO.
Waivers were asKed otf Smith when
managing the Atlanta club sev< ral
y ears ago. ami ('barley Frank prompt
ly put in i claim for the Cracker pilot.
Frank hiiwi y er. did not take Smith,
merely showing how easy p was to
tcai off « shrewd trick.
Effort was made to have the secre
tary of th, Atlanta club notify his em
ployers Saturday to claim Smith foi no
other put pose than to hear a howl
from the Lookout fans,
RIVERS AMD MANDOT TO
FIGHT ON LABOR DAY
IS ANGELES. July 23. Joe Riv
os and Joe Mandot will clash before
the Pacific Athletic club at Vernon
' on the afternoon of Labor day. Sep
temb, r 2. They have been matched to
tight twenty rounds and to weigh in at
133 pounds ringside. Charles F. Eyton
the club's official referee, will be the
third man in the ring
FIGHTS FOR KENOSHA AGAIN.
1 Hl' \Go. July 22. Promising four
high-elas battles to interest the Chi
' ago fan -, I..hn Keating, of Kenosha,
has declared positively that the game
w 1 " i r b. reopi tied in the Wisconsin
city within six weeks Keating has
tentatively signed Paekey McFarland
.'lid Ella.. Murphy, Eddie MeCcorty
and Billy I’apki or Bob Moha, Johnnv
Conlon and Frankie Burns, and Charles
Whi’e . nd .ba- Mandot.
SPROULL ELECTED PRESIDENT.
XNNISToN. \LA.JuIy 23 -The An
niston Country club has just elected the
following officers: President. J. C.
So.ouli: vie. president. W P \cker:
"eta Iy. I. c. Watson tt easurei. L.
T. Smith. The follow ins: were named
I a goy .tiling bo..rd: ii M Reynolds. W
jH. M< Kleroy. A .1 Goodwin, S. L.
I Galbreath and W. W. Whiteside,
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. JL r LY 23, 1912.
Judge Rummy Is a Hero With the Nurses
Directors of Atlanta Club Surely Deserve a Winning Combination
CRACKERS FINALLY CLIMB OUT OF DARK CELLAR
By Percy 11. Whiting.
WELL, anyhow, the Crackers
are out of last place. It
may be a respite for 24
hours only, but it’s a relief. The
cheerful feeling that there is one
team in the league worse than the
Crackers is encouraging indeed. By
nightfall the Crackers may be back
in the uttermost depths, but for
one whole day, at least, Cracker
fans have been able to hold their
heads up in diamond society and
with pardonable pride remark:
"Well, anyhow, we aren’t LAST."
• • ♦
fans are so busy being
sorry for themselyes while the
Cracker team is in a slump that
they haven’t any time for any sym
pathy for anybody else. Now that
the Atlanta club is only seventh, in
stead of the customary eighth, it
might be timely to mention that
the people most deserving of sym
pathy are the three officials of the
Atlanta Baseball association. Os
course, it's fair enough to be sorry
for Charley Hemphill, but. then,
he's getting well paid for it. It's a
manager's job to shoulder the
blame and worry if a team is go
ing had. You might, if you have a
bit of»spare time, be sorry for the
baseball writers. They have to see
every game, and that's an awful
sentence when the team slumps.
But. then, they're paid for it. too,
and, besides, they're hardened.
But the ease of the directors of
the baseball association is lamenta
a ble.
In the old days the president of
the baseball association was in the
thing as a matter of business. Hr
The Big Race
Here is how the "Big Five" in the
American league are hitting right up to
date:
~PLAYER- ~ ;A. B.| H. IP. C.
COBB 7. ... 334 140 . 419
SPEAKER i 351 ! 138 .393
JACKSON 341 126 - 370
COLLINS 315 105 .333
LAJOIE | 216 I 72 1.333
Cobb failed to make a hit In four times
up yesterday. Speaker connected twice In
three trips to the plate. Jackson got in
one safe swat In four attempts. Collins
had a perfect record, three hits in three
times at bat. Jajoie Is still out of thu
game.
THREE RATTLING SCRAPS
HELD IN GAY GOTHAM
NEW YORK. Juls 23. Fight snarps
today declared that the card put»on at
the Garden Athletic club last night was
one of the fastest and fiercest ever seen
In the gt eater city. The initial <‘on
tesj between Tomins Buck, of Phila
delphia. and Frankie Fleming, of Can
ada. was the best of the three matches.
\fter three rounds of terrific fighting.
Buck began to weaken, but managed
to k< cp his feet until just before the
end of the tenth and final round, when
he was knocked down twice and his
seconds threw a sponge into the ring.
In the second bout Pal Moore and
Eddie Smith went the full ten rounds
to a draw. In the final round Blown
shaded Willie Beecher and won the
popular verdict.
JACK DILLON HANDSOUT
SLEEP PILL TO GORMAN
MEMPHIS. TENN.. Juls 23. Jack
Dillon is a runner-up in the pugilist
ladder today as the result o{ his knock -
out of Joe Gorman in the sixth round
of their bout here last night. Gorman
had gone to the mat twice before he
intercepted the swing that put him
dossn for th? l full count.
Steve McGinley, of Peoria, got the
decision over Bills Emerieh. of San
Francisco, in an eight-round prelimi
na is.
STAR BATTERY FOR SOX
i'HIi'AGO. Jul.' 23. I’itehe; George
Johnson, a Winnebago Indian, and Catch
er.ham Gossett, of the Si Joseph. West
ern league team, base been signed by
President Charles t'oniiskes. of the White
Sox Johnson is six feet tall, and has
pitched with success in several teams in
that league. Gessot is now playing his
-c olid S"ar <>f professional ball The
players whi min the ChicHgo team at the
dose of the Western league season.
was a fan and an enthusiast all
right, but he was in baseball to
earn his salary—and all credit to
him that he did earn it, and more.
When Frank Callaway was draft
ed to the job of baseball president
it was an unsought honor. The sal
ary didn’t interest him. He could
make more with less worry out of
his profession—the law. But he
was an enthusiastic fan. was a
friend of President Arkwright,
president of the then Georgia Rail
way and Electric Company, owner
of the baseball franchise, and he
decided to make the sacrifice for
the good of the cause.
Charles Nunnally, otte of Mr. Cal
laway’s fellow directors, has had a
hankering to get in for
some time. But not because he
needs the money, for he# doing
very nicely in the overall business,
thank you. He wanted to get in
baseball because he likes the game
and because he believes that a win
ning baseball team does more for a
town than ten million spent for any
other form of advertising.
As for Gus Ryan, the third di
rector, he spends more annually for
cigarettes than he gets out of his
job. But he's just naturally a fan.
If he felt that he could help At
lanta toward a winning team as di
rector. he'd pay for the privilege
of holding the job.
Now. consider these three Direc
tors of Baseball Destiny and then
ponder on their feelings as the
• 'lackers have slumped down from
the .500 position, which was virtu
ally the high water mark of the
year, to last place.
it is, in effect, costing every one
| FODDER FOR FANS~
i Christy Mathewson has averaged 25
, victories a year with the Giants in the
twelve years he has worked. His low run
was none in 1900 and bls high run 37 in
. 1508. He must keep going at the present
rale tor seven more years, to equal Cy
Young s gamt-winning mark
• • a
Jack Doyle. International league um
pire, says of Tommy McMillan: “He is
playing better ball than any shortstop in
5 the league, is hitting well and can run
i bases. If the Yankees get him you can
i quote me as saying they will not be
. stung.”
' ’rhe Phillies tried doctoring the ball the
• last time Lavender pitched against them.
Chance put up an awful shout. I'mplrp
Rigler grabbed the ball for evidence and
it will be used in the prosecution of the
Phillies for unsportsmanlike conduct.
With that really classy collection why
arc the Crackers last?” asks The New
. < Orleans Item.
Please address answers to the puzzle
editor.
• • •
• The fund for Ganzel’s automobile has
passed the Brush mark and is headed for
the Ford's price - with a long ways to go.
Compared with Hirsch. who was sold to
the Beds and quit. rather than face big
i* league batters. Frank Davis is a hero.
Knoxville sold him to Cincinnati and after
he bad been there a few days he passed
1 on the news that “Rucker has nothing
’ and Suggs and Humphreys are
If gall wins games Davis is a coming
I Marquard
’ I larry Wolverton was so keen about
: getting Tummy McMillan that he left the
Yanks in charge of Hal Chase and piked
up to Rochester to sec the Atlanta lad
pla\
• • •
Ilans Wagner recently celebrated his
• fiftieth anniversary in National league
I baseball.
♦• ♦ *
A. Marsans <>f Cuba, is getting to be
the curly wolf of the Red team and
threatens to force himself into a position
that corresponds t » that which his com-
I patriot Raphael Almeida occupies with
i Hirn-L- gham.
i ! Al Rridwell is recovering and will soon
| join the Bravos
« • *
The Barons will probable lose Ahnei<la.
1 Johnston. B<»\<l and Smith at the end of
the season Thej will go higher.
• • •
Martina has had his fair share of
chances Two Southern league clubs
have tried hint and he has failed. Now
the Red Sox have bought him from the
’Texas league
...
• Demaree. Boyd. Wagner and Aitchison
< are the "big four" in the Southern league
> this sear.
Lauiiermilk. m' Molille. has ss.-n hut tsvo
; games out of seven starts with a prttty
good elub, too.
of them money to hold the jobs.
For they could make from two to
fifty times as much by putting the
same amount of time, worry and
thought in their regular lines of
endeavor.
Goodness knows, all three of them
can be absolved from any blame
the lamentable showing of the
('rackets. Heaven knows WHAT
is the matter with them, but what
ever it is it isn’t the directors’ fault.
They have done all that men could
do. They took the jobs, not know
ing much of what was expected of
them; but they have served effi
ciently. If the Crackers don't re
ward their efforts by playing a lit
tle baseball, they are ungrateful
brutes---that’s all we have to say
for them.
• • •
nVERY time the Crackers win
■*—' a ball game all the real fans
settle back comfortably and chuc
kle: “Well, here we go.”
And then they stop going and
lose three or four.
It's a queer thing about this
year's ball club—it inspires hope,
even if it doesn’t inspire confidence.
Every time they get away for a
game or two it seems certain that
they are Just on the point of get
ting in the face, it wouldn’t sur
prise anybody if the Crackers
should plug right along and get up
into the first division in two weeks.
About the brightest spot on the.
ball club right now is this chap
"Buck” Becker, who overthrew the
Montgomery club in yesterday s
ball game. Becker has come with
a rush from the start and looks
like the best young southpaw in the
league.
The Jersey City team has five former
members of the Red Sox on the roster
now—Thoney, Janvarin. Purtell, Knight
and McHale. Maybe they don't all wish
they were back!
» • •
All the Boston Braves nave in the way
of real players are Sweeney and Hub
Perdue.
The South Bend elub has signed Frank
[tonahue, a brother of Jiggs.
Heinie Zimmerman is the only batter in
recent baseball history who swats at
everything pitched him and gets away
w ith it. Nothing is too bad for Heinie to
try at. At last reports he had landed
safely on 120 of 'em.
■ a •
Well, even if Marquard did lose three
in a row -he’s still leading the National
league pitchers.
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’The race in the twelve-club Central
league continues as tight as ticks —and
the attendance is still light as gas.
*a a a
Now that Krause has left the Ameri
can association. Packard, of Columbus, is
the best pitcher there. He has won thlr-
• teen and lost three.
' i a a •
Billy Sullivan has been with the White
Sox nearly eleven years.
Derrill Pratt and Red Smith are run
ning neck and neck this year as they did
last in the race for batting honors. The
last averages showed Smith .277. Pratt
. 2 < 3.
1 Wise sayings of baseball. "An umpire
1 is a good umpire when he pleases the
home crowd."
a a a
, Matty, in his recent book, remarks cas
ual!' “I have never seen Ty Cobb play,
but they tell me be Is quite a ball player.”
, Ah yes. fair to middling "Better perhaps
■ than the average run of minor league
j outfielders at least
• a a
i Some baseball manager Fas said Chat hr
wants t -?e one game played as it ought
to be played.
t 'll -vs that" ' another manager asked.
“Well, have an infield made up
of sporting editors. < bleacher enthusiast
to pitch and an outfield composed of
i grandstand fans. ’Then I’d like to um
pire. *
* » *
r Fine sportsmanlike act sure when a
; batch of Montgomery fans ti-ied to hop on
Fitzsimmons. It takes high courage for
• a hundred men to fall on one man and
beat him.
• * •
: When Fitzsimmons' umpiring became
‘ wretched Montgomer.' fans wired Kav
anaugh. asking for his release. The
league has come to a prettv pass when
• all the league president knows about hou
his umpires are doing is from hearsay
And he gets $3,0(>0 a .sear!
Copyright, 1912. National News Ass’n.
Griffith Has Upset All Dope
By Giving Senators Top Berth
By W. J. Mcßeth.
ACCORDING to the generally
accepted opinion, baseball ha,”
always been, heretofore, a law
unto itself —a law full of unaccount
able eccentricity and vagary that
follows no set rule. Its creed was
most tersely expressed in a mod
est proverb of Harry C. Pulliam,
that still graces the wall of the
National league headquarters:
"Take nothing for granted in base
ball.”
The only exception to the capri
cious whims was Washington. This
habitual tailender of the American
league was a striking illustration
of one instance that could always
be taken for granted. The great
joke of the national pastime was
coined from its humility: "Wash
ington, first in war, tirst in peace
and last in the American league
race!”
Washington, hitherto the excep
tion that proved the rule, is now
proving it in fact. The Capital
City has evacuated the cyclone pit
for a prominent position in the
forefront of battle. "All things
come to him who waits.” They
certainly came Washington’s way
as a blessing in disguise, in no less
a personage than Clarke Griffith,
generally regarded as a major
league managerial failure. With
the New- York Americans and with
the Cincinnati Nationals the old
Fox had disappointed. His connec
tion with Washington appeared to
the long suffering fans of the Dis
trict of Columbia as the addition of
insult to injury.
Griff Has Fooled Everybody,
But in vindicating his managerial
fame Griffith has fooled everybody,
even the wiseacres of the Capital
City and a couple of major league
magnates in New York and Cin
cinnati. For the first time in his
career Griff has charge of a club
free to direct its destinies. He was
handcuffed in New York and fet
tered in Cincinnati by club own
ers who have always been too ready
for outside advice. Griffith is the
heaviest stockholder of the Sena
tors. He gambled his entire for
tune on the purchase and everyone
is glad that he invested wisely.
If for no other reason than vari
ety Washington's sensational spurt
this year proves decidedly refresh
ing. Still it embraces other inter
esting features. One of the most
remarkable psychological studies
of the age is this combination
whipped into pennant speed by.
Foxy Griff. Most promiscuous in
th' collection of oddities is that
sterling center flelder, Clyde Milan?
Milan has given Ty Cobb a black
eye such as the Georgia peach has
never before suffered in fast com
pany. Griffith's center section of
tile outer defense this year makes
TH! Scres /lre Not Cancerous
While all Old Sores are not cancerous in their nature, every. slow
healing ulcer shows a degenerated condition of the blood. Virulent impu
rities in the circulation produce angry, discharging ulcers, while milder
and more inert germs are usually manifested in the form of indolent sores
or dry, scabby places. Efforts to heal an old sore with external appl’yi
tions always result in failure because such treatment does not reach the
-
(&&S)
back” when S. S. S. has made a cure, because its source has been < '’ ■
troyed. Book on sores and ulcers and medical advice free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
Ty Cobb look like a truck horse on
the bags in comparison. Never in
his palmiest days did Cobb ever
display the base rdnning class that
Milan has spilled and this in spite
of the fact that Cobb is slugging
at a far more steady clip than his
little rival.
H Milan Is Encouraged.
For the past several seasons
Milan has been good—far above
the average value of outfielder He
did not shine as this year simpiv
because he met with nothing like
the same encouragement. Here's
the difference —the difference be
tween a hopeless tailender and real
pennant possibility. That same
difference lifted ten years from ths
stooped shoulders of Griffith; has
made Walter Johnson take on *
new lease on life.
Washington stands out as a liv
ing example of that degree to which
luck figures in the national pastime.
No one will deny Griffith was lucky
to get Washington and Washingto®
likewise lucky to get Griff.
JOHNSON TO FIGHT McVEY
AND LANGFORD ON “ISLE”
NEW YfiRK, July 23.—Jack John
son. the dusky heavyweight champion,
has closed an engagement with a rep
resentative of Hugh Mclntosh, the Aus
tralia fight promoter, to battle in Aus
tralia with two of his rivals, Sain
Langford and Sam McVey, it became
known today.
For the Langford fight Johnson s
guaranteed $30,000, svhile his bout wifi
McVey will net him $20,000. Both
fights are for twenty rounds. Tne
dates have not yet been fixed.
SWEDEN SCORES MOST
POINTS AT OLYMPIAD
STOCKHOLM, July 23.—The Olympic
games concluded with the finish of the
yacht races. With the points gained >n
the yachting events. Sweden leads the
nations in the number of points in a' 1
extents, Sweden's total being 133. only
four points ahead of the United States,
in spite of the fact that there was n"
American representative in the yachting
competitions. Great Britain stands thtni.
with a total of 76 points.
The United States leads In firsts, w. n
25, to Sweden's 23.
TEMPLE AND AHEARN IN
DRAW AT NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS. July 23.-R"
Temple, of Milwaukee, and Young
Ahearn, of Albany, fought a ten-rmni'i
draw at the Orleans Athletic club last
night. Both boys were inclined to loai
the first five rounds, until cautioni
by the referee. After that they f'ltigl’
hard. Each scored a knockdown in 1 °
tenth.
HARRY FORBES KNOCKED
OUT BY OSCAR WILLIAMS
PADUCAH. KY., July 23.
Williams knocked out Harry Forbes n
the second round of their fight
night with body blows in 1
clinches. Today Forbes is claiming 1
foul and is after another battle.
blood, and the ulcer will continue to eat deeper into
the surrounding flesh as long as a polluted circula
tion discharges its impurities into it. S.S.S. hea s
old sores of every nature by purifying the bloom
It goes to the fountain-head of the trouble an'i
I drives out the germ-producing poisons and moron
impurities which prevent the place from healing-
Then a stream of rich, nourishing blood, win l
S. S. S. creates, causes a perfect and natural km '
ting together of all flesh fibres, making a thoroug *
and permanent cure. The sore does not “come
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