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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. (The Real TobaccoS taste that satisfies.® the taste we hanker || after. The natural leaf taste of fine ripe V BURLEY BOi Aak your (J ? a 1 p r for IRUMMONffI NATURAL LEAF i EWING TOBACCO ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* • 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 • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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, ;• ■ '>•.■•• • ■ / ■:•'/ • */ a f 'VTz * ’-■* *r»T * 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. a « * ’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 By Tad \