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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 ex-diamond
star himself, manager and 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
bunch 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 murk.
His outfield, Cobb, Jackson anil
Speaker, could not be improved,
while Archer and Meyers are the
two greatest catchers playing to
day.
And what a pitching staff Mar
quand, 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 the 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,
sent in his team about ten minutes
before he boarded his train, and
probably did not know that lie was
to hold his pitching staff down to
two men.
Mr. Wells started playing ball
with New Orleans. He then went
to Detroit. A couple of seasons
later he was with IToy 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, July 23 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 the creation
of a class AA league and tile revision of
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 accepted the chal
lenge of Pr< sident 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.
COLUMBUS, GA., July 23. Tim Co
lumbus baseball team is off on a two
weeks trip on the road, during which
time they will play Macon, Columbia.
Jacksonville and Albany. The team is
leading the league by a safe margin,
having won eleven out of the last thir
teen games played.
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• •
• Cobb Right field •
• Jackson Center field •
• Speaker Left field •
o 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 tn 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 hp
served in that capacity for a good
many years he never accepted a
cent for salary. Finally he 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.
Some of the players that Mr.
Wells developed while lie was in
the Virginia league were Kid El
berfeld, Jack Chosbro, Socks Sey
bold. Gus Dundon, Spike Shannon
and Sam Leever. He also recom
mended Billy Smith to Atlanta as
manager, and tills year sent Lou
Castro to Portsmouth.
(Send your selections for yOqr
All-Star team to the Sporting Edi
tor The Georgian.)
WAIVERS ARE ASKED ON
BILL SMITH AS A PLAYER
I 'll ATTANOOGA. TENN, July 23.—-
"Billy Smith, Chattanooga manager,
can not "come back." This is the decis
ion reached by owners of the Lookout
fr.-lii hise, who proposed to give Smith
his seat back on tile bench by asking
South, in league clubs to waive on his
services Notice that waivers had been
asked 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.
W alvers w ere asked on Smith w hen
managing the Atlanta club several
years ago, and Charley Frank prompt
ly put in a claim for tile Cracker pilot.
Frank, 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 the Atlanta club notify his em
ployers Saturday to claim Smith for no
other purpose than to hear a howl
from the Lookout fans.
RIVERS AND MANDOT TO
FIGHT ON LABOR DAY
LOS ANGELES, July 23. Joe Riv
ers and Joe Mandot will clash before
tile Pacific Athletic club at Vernon
on the afternoon of Labor day. Sep
tember 2. They have been matched to
fight 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.
' Hlt’AGii, July 22. Promising four
high-class battles to interest the Chi
cago fans, John Keating, of Kenosha,
has declared positively that the game
would lx reopened In the Wisconsin
city within six weeks. Keating has
tentatively signed Packev McFarland
and Eddie Murphv, Eddie McGoorty
and Hilly Papke or Bob Moha. Johnny
Coulon and Frankie Hurns, and Charles
White and Joe Mandot.
SPROULL ELECTED PRESIDENT.
ANNISTON. ALA.. July 23. The An
niston Country club has just elected the
following officers: President, J. C,
sproull; vice president, W. P. Acker,
secretary, 1,. C. Watson; treasurer. L.
T. Smith. The following were named
a governing board: O M. Reynolds. W.
H. MeKleroy, A. J. Goodwin, S. L.
Galbreath and W. W. Whiteside.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, .JULY 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.”
• • *
A TLANTA 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,
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 bad. 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
Fhe Big Race
Here Is how the "Big Five" In the
American league are hitting right up to
date:
LAYER— |A. B.| H. P7~C
COBB 334 ~140 419
SPEAKER i 351 138 1 393
JACKSON 341 126 370
COLLINS ; 315 I 105 L 333
LAJOIE ... L 216 72 .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
In 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,
Buck began to weaken, but managed
to keep 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 Brown
shaded Willie Beecher and won the
popular verdict.
JACK DILLONI HANDS OUT
SLEEP PILL TO GORMAN
MEMPHIS, TENN.. July 23.—Jack
Dillon is a runner-up in the pugilist
ladder today 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
Francisco, in an eight-round prelimi
nary.
STAR BATTERY FOR SOX.
CHICAGO. July 23. Pitcher George
Johnson, a Winnebago Indian, and Catch
er John Gossett, of the St. Joseph, West
ern league team, have been signed by
I’resident Charles Comiskey, of the White
Sox. Johnson is six fee', tall, and has
pitched with success in several teams in
that league. Gossett is now playing his
second year of professional hall. The
players will join the Chicago team at the
close of tlie 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, one of Mr. Cal
laway’s fellow directors, has had a
hankering to get In baseball for
some time. But 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
FODDER FOR FANS
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 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.
• • •
Jack Doyle, International league ura
pire. says of Tommy McMillan: "He is
playing better ball than any shortstop in
the league, is hitting well and can run
bases. If the Yankees get him you can
quote me as saying they will not be
stung.”
• « •
The Phillies tried doctoring the ball the
last time Lavender pitched against them.
Chance put up an awful shout, Umpire
Bigler grabbed the ball for evidence and
it will be used in the prosecution of the
Phillies fur unsportsmanlike conduct.
• • •
"With that really classy collection why
are the Crackers last?” asks The New
Orleans Item.
I'lease 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 w-ays to go.
Compared with Hirsch, who was sold to
the Reds and quit, rather than face big
league batters, Frank Davis is a hero.
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 I’avls is a coming
Marquard.
• • •
Harry Wolverton was so keen about
getting Tommy McMillan that he left tlie
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
tlie 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
Birmingham.
• • •
Al Bridwell is recovering and will soon
join tlie Braves.
• • •
The Barons will probably lose Almeida.
Johnston, Boyd and Smith at the end of
the season. They will go higher.
• • •
Martina has had his fair share of
chances. Two Southern league clubs
have tried him and he has failed. Now
tlie Red Sox have bought him from the
Texas league.
• • •
Demaree, Boyd, Wagner and Aitchison
are tlie "big four" in the Southern league
this year.
■ • •
Laudermilk. of Mobile, has won but two
games out of seven starts—with a prettv
good club, 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
for the lamentable showing of the
Crackers. Heaven knows WHAT
Is the matter with them, hut 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.
• • •
TpVERY 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 race. It wouldn't sur
prin 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
i now—Thoney, Janvarin, Purtell, Knight
i and McHale. Maybe they don't all wish
they were back!
V • •
All the Boston Braves nave in the way
of real players are Sweeney and Hub
1 Perdue.
i The South Bend club has signed Frank
i Donahue, a brother of Jlggs.
Heinie 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
1 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.
i • » •
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.
! Bills’ Sullivan has been with the White
I Sox nearly eleven years.
1 Derrili Pratt and Red Smith are run
; nlng neck and neck this year as they did
last in the race for batting honors. The
last averages showed Smith .277, Pratt
: .273.
Wise sayings of baseball. "An umpire
1 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 plaver."
, Ah yes. fair to middling Better perhaps
I than the average run of minor league
k outfielders at least.
• • •
i Some baseball manager has said that he
wants to see one game played as it ought
to be played.
i "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 him.
• • •
When Fitzsimmons' umpiring became
wretched Montgomery fans wired Kav
anaugh. asking for his release. The
league has come to a pretty pass when
all the league president knows about how
his umpires are doing Is from hearsay.
And he gets $3,500 a year!
Copyright, 1912, National News Ass’n. Ry Tad
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 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, first 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
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
XII SoresTlre Not Cancerous
While all Old Sores are not cancerous in their nature, every slow
healing ulcer shows a degenerated condition of the blood. Virulent ’ nl P u '
rities in the circulation produce angry, discharging ulcers, while nu
and more inert germs are usually manifested in the form of indolent c > rL ’
or dry, scabby places. Efforts to heal an old sore with external apP ll ?
tions always result in failure because such treatment does not reach t- 1
(sss)
back” when S. S. S. has made a cure, because its source has be n
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 running class that
Milan has spilled and this in spits
of the fact that Cobb is slugging
at a far more steady clip than his
little rival.
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 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 Washington
likewise lucky to get Griff.
JOHNSON TO FIGHT McVEY
AND LANGFORD ON “ISLE"
NEW YORK, 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, Sam
Langford and Sam McVey, it becams
known today.
For the Langford fight Johnson is
guaranteed $30,1)00, while his bout with
McVey will net him $20,000. Both
fights are for twenty rounds. Tna
dates have not yet been fixed.
swedeiTscores most
POINTS AT OLYMPIAD
STOCKHOLM, July 23 —The Olympic
games concluded with the finish of the
yacht races. With the points gained in
the yachting events, Sweden leads the
nations In the number of points in a.l
events, Sweden’s total being 133. on!!'
four points ahead of the United States,
in spite of the fact that there was no
American representative in the yachting
competitions. Great Britain stands third,
with a total of 76 ooints.
The United States leads in firsts, wim
25, to Sweden's 23.
TEMPLE AND AHEARN IN
DRAW AT NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, July 23.—Raf
Temple, of Milwaukee, and Young
Ahearn, of Albany, fought a ten-rounfl
draw at the Orleans Athletic club last
night. Both boys were inclined to loax
the first five rounds, until cautmnea
by the referee. After that they fml? n
hard. Each scored a knockdown in tn
tenth.
HARRY FORBES KNOCKED
OUT BY OSCAR WILLIAMS
PADUCAH, KY., July 23.-T>sca f
Williams knocked out Harry Forbes
the second round of their fight •’«
last night with body blows In t
clinches. Today Forbes is claiming
foul and is after another battle.
blood, and the ulcer will continue to eat deeper i -
the surrounding flesh as long as a polluted circ ■
tion discharges its impurities into it. S.S.S.
old sores of every nature by purifying the ■
llt goes to the fountain-head of the trouble
drives out the germ-producing poisons and '
which prevent the place from
Then a stream of rich, nourishing blood, ''A.',
S. S. S. creates, causes a perfect and
ting together of all flesh fibres, making a th ” ~ !e
and permanent cure. The sore does not