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Millionaire Theatrical Man
Picks Strong All-Star Team
JAKE WELLS. millionaire the
atrical promoter, who con
trols all the big vaudeville
houses in the South, an ix-diamonil
star himself, manager ami former
. president of the Virginia league,
has picked a rattling good all-star
baseball team, as shown in the ac
companying box
. Although Mr. Wells is really an
“old-timer" he has selected a
bum h of youngsters In picking
Gandil. Doyle. 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, Cobb, Jackson and
Speaker, could not be improved,
while Archei and Meyers are the
two greatest catchers playing to
day.
And what a pitching staff Mar
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
nn getting away from th. fact that
he is a great leader.
The fans are supposed to only
pick two pitchers. but Mr. Wells,
who spent yesterday here looking
after affairs at his Forsyth theater,
•ent in his team about ten minutes
before he boarded his train, and
probably did not know that he was
to hold his pitching staff ddwn to
two men.
Mr Wells staited playing ball
with New Orleans. He then went
to Detroit. A couple of seasons
later he w as w ith Troy in the East
earn league, and then back to the
Southern league. Finally he lo
cated in Richmond. He put that
REVISED AGREEMENT IS
RATIFIED BY LEAGUES
CINCINNATI. OHIO. .Inly 23. The re-,
vised national agreement for the govern
ment of professional baseball chibs be
rune a law today It was ratified offi
cially by the National league, the \meri
can league and the National Association
of Baseball clubs and promulgated by the
national baseball commission.
The principal change w‘as the creation
of a class A A league and the revision of
the drafting prices in vogue in the vari
Ous classes ot leagues
TO PLAY POST SEASON SERIES.
CHATTANi >< >GA. TENN.. .liiA 23.
President Jacob Smith of the Appa
lachian league has accepted the chal
lenge of President Langston of the lo
cal city league for a post-season scries
between the winners In the two or
ganization- The games will projiablj
be staged in Chattanooga.
COLUMBUS ON ROAD TRIP.
COLUMBUS. GA. July 23. The Co
lumbus baseball team is off mi a two
weeks trip on the road, during which
time they will play Macon. Columbia
Jacksonville and Albany The team j s
leading the leagm by t sib argir
having won eleven out of the las- tint
teen games played.
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: Here's Jake Wells’ ;
• All-Star Ball Team:
• •
• Cobb Right field •
• Jackson Center field •
• Speaker Left field •
• Gandil First base •
• Doyle Second base •
• Zimmerman Third base •
• Collins Shortstop •
• Catchers Meyers, Archer •
• Pitche's. Marquard, Walsh, •
• Johnson, Rucker •
• McGraw Manager •
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team in the Virginia league, man
aged it. caught and played first
base.
After be 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 years he never accepted a
cent for salary . . Finally lie became
interested in the theatrical game
and was forced to resign his posi
tion as league leader.
He has been very successful in
the theatrical field, and today is a
millionaire many times over.
Sofne of the players that Mr.
\\ ells developed while be was In
the Virginia league were Kid El
bei feld, Jack t’hesbro. Socks Sey
bold, Gus Dundon. Spike Shannon
an«l Sam LeeVer. He also recom
mended Hilly Smith to Atlanta as
iii.inagi i\ and this year sent Lou
<’astro to Portsmouth.
(Send your selections for yOur
All-Star team to the Sporting Edi
tor The Georgian.)
WAIVERS ARE ASKED ON
BILL SMITH AS A PLAYER
| HATTANi >(>G..\, TENN., July 23. -
Hilly Smith, Chattanooga manager,
cun not "come back.'' This is the decis
ion reached by owners of the Lookout
franchise, who proposed to give Smith
his seat back on the bench by asking
Southern league clubs to waive on his
services Notice that waivers had been
ask.d on Smith was received here Sat
urday. though it is not probable that
any of the clubs would take the Look
out leader for the price offered, S4OO.
Waivers were asked on Smith when
managing the Atlanta club several
years ago. and t hurley Frank prompt
ly put in i claim for the Cracker pilot.
Flank, however, did not take Smith,
merely showing how easy it was to
tear off a shrewd trick.
Effort was made to have the secre
tary of th,. Atlanta club notify his em
ployers Saturday to claim Smith for no
othei pm pose than to hear a howl
from the Lookout fans.
RIVERS AND MANDOT TO
FIGHT ON LABOR DAY
LOS ANGELES. July 23. Joe Riv
eis ami .Im Mandot will clash before
tin Pacific Athletic club at Vernon
"n thi afternoon of Labor day, Sep-
I' Uib, r 2 They have been matched to
tight twenty round- and to weigh in at
133 p unds ringside. Charles F Eyton.
tin uli's official referee, will be the
third man in the ring.
FIGHTS FOR KENOSHA AGAIN.
‘ Ai,ii, .Lily 22.- Promising four
high-via.-- battle- to interest the Chl-
G'lgo fn 1. n Keating, of Kenosha,
has declare.l positively that the game
'■ ■ r. ' nai In th. Wisconsin
city within six weeks Keating has
tentatively signed Packer McFarland
at\d E.tdi. Murphy, Eddie McGoortv
and Billy Papke or Bob Moha, Johnny
' iiiilon and Frankie Burns and Charles
White and Jo.- Mandot.
SPROULL ELECTED PRESIDENT.
ANNISTON. \ LA.. July 23. The An
nlston Country club has Just elected the
following officers: President. J. c.
Sproull: vice president. W P Acker;
secretary. 1. <' Watson, treasurer. L.
T. Smith. The following were named
a governing boa id O M Reynolds. W
H, M‘ Klcroy. .v J Goodwin, S. L.
Galbrt ith and W. W. Whiteside.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. JULY 23, 1912.
Directors of Atlanta Club Surely Deserve a Winning Combination
CRACKERS FINALLY CLIMB OUT OF DARK CELLAR
By Percy H. Whiting.
WELL, anyhow, the Crackers
are out of last place. It
may be a respite for 24
houis 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 themselves .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,
lie's getting well paid for it. It's a
manager's job to shoulder the
blame and worry If a team is go
ing badl 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 case of the directors of
the baseball association is lamenta
able.
In the old days the president of
the baseball association was in the
thing as a matter of business. He
The Big Race
Here Is how the "Big Five” in the
American league are hitting right up to
date:
aT B. H. p7 C~
COBB 77 7 777 7'. 334 140 419
SPEAKER 351 138 393
JACKSON 341 I 126 370
COLLINS 315 : 105 .333
LAJQIE I 216 I 72 i. 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. Jajole is still out of the
game.
THREE RATTLING SCRAPS
HELD IN GAY GOTHAM
NEW YORK. July 23. Fight sharps
today declared that the card put on at
the Garden Athletic club last night was
one of the fastest and fiercest ever seen
tn the greater city. The initial con
test between Tommy Buck, of Phila
delphia. and Frankie Fleming, of Can
ada. was the best of the three matches.
After three rounds of terrific fighting.
Huck began to weaken, but managed
to keep iiis 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 Brown
shaded Willie Beecher and won the
popular verdict.
JACK DILLON HANDS OUI
SLEEP PILL TO GORMAN
MEMPHIS. TENN.. Julx 23. Jack
Dillon is a runner-up in the pugilist
ladder tudaj as the result of 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
down for the full count.
Steve McGinley, of Peoria, got the
decision over Billy Emerich. of San
Erancisco. in an eight-round prelimi
nary
STAR BATTERY FOR SOX
CHICAGO. Juh 23. Pitcher (»p<»rg<
Johnson, a Winnebago Indian and Catch
er John Gosgett. of the St Joseph. West
ern league team, have been signed b\
President Charles C<>miske>. <»f th* White
Sn\ Johnson D feet tall, and has
pit< hed with success in several teams In
that league Gossett is no* playing Ids
and year of professional hall Th*
i»la>»rs will Join the Chicago team at the
< lose of the Western league season.
Judge Rummy Is a Hero With the Nurses
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, one of Mr. Cal
laway's fellow directors, has had a
hankering to get in baseball for
some time. Rut not because he
needs the money, for he's 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
Crackers 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
Christy’ Mathewson has averaged 25
victories a year with the Giants In the
twelve years he has worked. His low run
was none in 1 ”00 and his high run 37 in
11’08 He must keep going at the present
rate for seven more years to equal Cy
Young's gamt-winning mark.
• • •
lack Doyle, International league um
pire. says of Tommy McMillan: "He is
playing better ball than any shortstop in
the league. Is hitting well and can run
bases It the Yankees get him you can
quote me as saying they will not be
stung."
• ■ •
The Phillies tried doctoring the hall the
last time lavender pitched against them,
t’hance put up an awful shout. Empire
Bigler grabbed the ball for evidence and
it will be used in the prosecution of the
Phillies for unsportsmanlike conduct.
‘W ith that reallx classy collection why
arc the Crackers last?” asks The New
Orleans Item
Please address answers tn the puzzle
editor.
• • •
The fund for Gansel's automobile has
passed the Brush mark and is headed fnr
the Ford's price- with a long ways to,go.
Compared with Hirsch, who was sold to
the Reds and quit, rather than face big
league hatters, Frank Davis is a hern
Knoxville sold him to Cincinnati and after
he had been there a few days he passed
on the news that ‘Rucker has nothing
and Suggs and Humphreys are pokes.”
If gall wins games Davis is a* coming
Marquard
...
Harry Wolverton was so keen about
getting Tommy McMillan that he left the
Yanks In charge of Hal Chase and piked
up to Rochester to see the Atlanta lad
play
• • •
Hans Wagner recently celebrated his
fiftieth anniversary in National league
baseball
• • •
A Marsans. of Cuba, is getting to be
the curly wolf of the Red team and
threatens to force himself into a position
that corresponds to that which his com
patriot Raphael Almeida occupies with
Hirn’-ngham.
• •
Al Bridwell is recovering and will soon
join the Braves
♦ • •
Th* Barons will probably In* B ** Almeida.
Johnston. Boyd and Smith at the end of
the season. Tlfey will go higher.
• • •
Martina has had his fair share of
chances Tw«» Southern league clubs
have tried him and he has failed Now
the Red Sox have bought him from the
Texas leagm
• • •
Demaree. Royd. Wagner and Aitchluon
are the “lug four” in the Southern league
this year
Laudermilk. of Mobile. has won but tw<
games out of seven starts with a prettj
FODDER FOR FANS
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
for the lamentable showing of the
Crackers. 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.
• • •
r?VERY time the Crackers win
■ L/ a ball game all the real fans
settle back comfortably and chuc
kle: “Well, here vve 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 race. 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 ill wish
they were back!
» • a
All the Boston Braves nave in the way
of real players are Sweeney and Hub
Perdue,
• • •
The South Bend club has signed Frank
Donahue, a brother of Jiggs.
• • •
Helnie Zimmerman is the only batter in
recent baseball history who swats at
everything pitched him and gets away
with it. Nothing Is too bad for Heinie to
try at. At last reports he had landed
safely' on 120 of 'em.
Well, even if Marquard did lose three
in a row—he's still leading the National
league pitchers.
* • ♦
The race in the twelve-club Central
league continues as tight as ticks—and
the attendance is still light as gas.
• • •
Now that Krause has left the Ameri
can association. Packard, of Columbus, is
the best pitcher there. He has won thir
teen and lost three,
• • •
Billy Sullivan has been with the White
Sox nearly eleven years.
• • ■
Derrill Pratt anti Red Smith are run
ning neck and neck this y ear as they did
last in the race for batting honors. The
last averages showed Smith .277, Pratt
.273.
* • • •
Wise sayings of baseball, "An umpire
is a good umpire when he pleases the
home crowd."
• • •
Matty, in his recent book, remarks cas
ually. "I have never seen Ty Cobb play,
but they tell me he is quite a ball player?'
Ah yes. fair to middling Better perhaps
than the average run of minor league
outfielders at least.
• • *
Some baseball manager has said that he
wants to e-e one game played as it ought
to be played.
"How's that?" another manager asked.
Well. I'd have an infield made up
of sporting editors, a bleacher enthusiast
to pitch and an outfield composed of
grandstand fans. Then I'd like to um
pire."
* • «
Fine sportsmanlike act sure when a
batch of Montgomery fans tried to hop on
Fitzsimmons, it takes high courage for
a hundred men to fall on one man and
beat hint.
• • •
" hen Fitzsimmons umpiring became
wretched Montgomery fans wired Kav
anaugh asking for his release The
league lias come to a pretty pass when
all the league presiden’ knows about how
his umpires are doing is from hearsay
And he gets $3,500 a year!
Copyright, 1312, 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 has
always been, heretofore, a law
unto itself—a law full of unaccount
able eccentricity and vagary ttiat
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, first in peace
and last in the American league
race I ”
Washington, hitherto the excep
tion that proved the'rule, is now
proving it in fact. The Capital
IL'ity 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
the collection of oddities is that
sterling center fielder, 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
the outer defense this year makes
yill scres dre Not Cancerous
While all Old Sores are not cancerous in their nature, every
healing ulcer shows a degenerated condition of the blood. Virulent i^P 11 '
rities in the circulation produce angry, discharging ulcers, while m l<fr
and more inert germs are usually manifested in the form of indolent ? i”"
or dry, scabby places. Efforts to heal an old sore with external app :i a ’
lions always result in failure because such treatment does not re;vu L’ e
(sss)
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 SH</FT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
Ty Cobb look like a truck horse ~n
the bags in comparison. Never in
his palmiest days did Cobb ev, r
display the base running 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.
Milan Is Encouraged.
For the past several seas"ns
Milan has been good—fat
the average value of outfielder. ID
« did not shine as this year simply
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 the
stooped shoulders of Griffith, has
made Walter Johnson take on a
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 'Washingtoa
likewise lucky to get Griff
JOHNSON TO FIGHT McVEY
AND LANGFORD ON "ISLE'
NEW Y’ORK, July 23.—Jack Joh.’i
son, the dusky heavyweight champion,
has closed an engagement with a ep
tesentative of Hugh Mclntosh, the Au--
tralia fight promoter, to battle in Aus
tralia with two of his rivals. Sam
Langford and Sam McVey, it beuiui
known today.
For the Langford fight Johnson -
guaranteed $30,000, while his bout v..:
McVey will net him $20,000. R"tn
fights are for twenty rounds. Tim
dates have not yet been fixed.
SWEDEN SCORES MOST
POINTS AT OLYMPIAD
STOCKHOLM. July 23.—The olym: ;
games concluded with the finish of r ’•'
yacht races. With the points gained
the yachting events. Sweden leads r •-
nations in the number of points in
events. Sweden’s total being 13 ti '
four points ahead of the I'nite«l States,
in spite of the fact that there was n *
American representative in the ;d i ?
competitions. Great Britain stands .
with a total of 76 points.
The I’nited States leads in firsts, wi
25. to Sweden’s 23.
TEMPLE AND AHEARN IN
DRAW AT NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS. July 23.—Ra v
Temple, of Milwaukee, and Ymi:>?
Ahearn, of Albany, fought a ten-: >’i> '
draw at the Orleans Athletic Gul' ’-t
night. Both boys were inclined I” '
the first five rounds, until cauti 'nc
by the referee. After that they ’ '‘f o
hard. Each scored a knockdow n in t IP
tenth.
HARRY FORBES KNOCKED
OUT BY OSCAR WILLIAMS
PADUCAH. KY.. July 23
Williams knocked out Harry S”
the second round of their fight
last night with body blows
clinches. Today Forbes is claln’” E 1
foul and is after another battle
blood, and the ulcer will continue to eat deep< r
the surrounding flesh as long as a polluted cio
tion discharges its impurities into it. S.S.S. - ■'
old sores of every nature by purifying the j
It goes to the fountain-head of the trouble- •
drives out the germ-producing poisons and n
'impurities which prevent the place from hi
Then a stream of rich, nourishing blood, "
S. S. S. creates, causes a perfect and natural >-
ting together of all flesh fibres, making a th
and permanent cure. The sore does not
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