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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. I The Real Tobacco I taste that satisfies. |H| the taste we hanker ml after. The natural||| leaf taste of fine ripe BURLEY A ah your dealer for rummondl NATURAL LEAF HEWING TOBACCO | ••••••••••••«••••••••••••• : Here's Jake Wells' : : All-Star Ball l eam; • • • 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 • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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