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Whitey Alperman Has Had Plenty of Experience
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Crackers’ New Manager May Prove Good Leader
By Percy IT. Whiting.
IF experience Is worth a hang In
developing a player into a
manager, Charles A. Alper
man will he a success. The man
who took over the leadership of the
Crackers yesterday Is playing his
tenth year In baseball this season.
Possibly, to celebrate the acces
sion of this new baseball monarch
to the local diamond throne, It
might be worth while giving a
sketch of his career.
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iIWHITEY" AI.PERMAN was
born on November 10, 1880, •
at Etna, Pa. Judged by his name,
his birthplace and the color of his
hair, it would be reasonably safe to
assume that he Is of German par
entage.
This young ‘‘Penrfsylvanla
Dutchmen" grew up in this little
"Dutch” town and as his most par
ticular aptitude was for baseball
he went Into that. But there was
no rush about It, but rather a prop
er German deliberation. And
Whitey was 23 years old before he
played real hall with a real profes
sional team
Whitey’s first baseball engage
ment was with the Davenport team
In 1903. Here Is his complete base
ball record:
Bat. Field,
ab. r. h. Av. Av.
1903. . 434 67 110 .267 891
1904. . . 470 85 129 274 .883
1906. . 478 66 125 .262 .934
1906 . 441 38 111 .252 .937
1907. . . 558 44 130 .233 963
1908. . . 218 17 42 .197 .935
1909. . . 420 35 104 .248 .931
1910. . . 534 70 138 .258 .935
1911. . . 388 46 95 245 .943
3,986 438 990 .252 .929
The first three years of Alperman's
career he played with Davenport,
tn the Three I league. Then he
was a third baseman. His work
looked so good that Brooklyn
grabbed him and he was with the
Superbas for four years. The first
year he played shortstop and sec
ond base. The rest of the time at
second. Tn 1909 it appeared that
Alperman was getting a shade an
cient for the awful pace of the big
leagues and the Brooklyn club
turned him over to Rochester,
where he played for two years, at
third base and at second.
Alperman's grand fielding aver
age for his career up to this year
is: Put outs, 2,097; assists, 2,822;
errors, 374; percentage, .923. In
1903 and 1905 Alperman led the
third basemen of the Three I
league. Whitey proved something
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of a repeater at fielding. In 1904
and 1905 he had 258 assists each
year, while in four different years
(1905, 1907, 1908 and 1911) he al
lowed only 33 errors.
In all. up to this season, Whitey
has played in 1,069 games of ball.
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TX7 ILL Whitey Alperman make a
successful manager? That Is
the question that everybody from
club directors to bat boys is now
asking himself and everybody else.
If somebody would tell us what
qualities are necessary to success
ful management we could easily
answer the question.
What are the qualities of base
ball leadership, anyhow?
One would naturally think the
way to find out would be to study
the successful managers. But that
doesn’t get you anywhere.
Take the two managers whose
teams battled last year for the
world's championship—Mack and
McGraw. Could two managers pos
sibly be more radically different?
They are absolutely opposites. Or
contrast "Husk" Chance with Hugh
Jennings and you get the same ef
fect. Or, coming nearer home, look
at the pennant - winning managers
now in the Southern: Frank, Bern
hard, Molesworth and Bill Smith.
Could any four men be more dif
ferent and yet be the same color
and speak the same language.
Contrast Bill Smith and Charley
Frank, for example. They are
about as much alike as a rhinoceros
and a catfish.
This being true, how in the
world is It possible to tell whether
a man has qualities of leadership
FODDER FOR FANS
Everybody thought Hugh Jennings had
a narrow escape in that automobile acci
dent last winter, but Hugh says that was
nothing compared with the time at Cor
nell when he Jumped head first into an
empty swimming tank.
• * •
Trousdale and Beebe, of the Buffalo
club had a rough and tumble tight on the
bench Ihe other day. Beebe criticised a
play and was whipped for his remarks.
J his feeling is a tine ease of '‘esprit de
corpse, the Bisons being dead ones at
present.
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Washington fans are going to present
Clyde Milan with a gold crown at the end
of the season though what the dickens
he'll do with it nobodv knows
• • •
Ray Chapman, the new Nap. will never
last he comes too highly touted.
• • •
It will he a joke if Fred latke is made
manager of the Detroit team when Jen
nings goes. Fred can't even put on any
thing better that a joke performance with
Providence.
. . .
| Charley Ebbets Is out scouting again
He will doubtless get Into the Southern
soon for his annual trip.
• • •
Oklahoma City Is bidding for a franchise
in the Texas league for use next season
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The Cubs offered the Phillies $17,000
for Hlxey and It was refused. Sort of a'
brother-in-law deal at best
• • •
Jack Manning, former Southern leaguer,
now manager of the York team, has got
himself "In Dutch" with the fans by let
ting out players they like and there is talk
of boycotting the team.
it • •
The Kewanee team put on a great
brother act the other day. It has two
brothers named Drohan. One pitched an
11 Inning. 0-0 game. In the eleventh the
other Drohan was sent is as a plneh hit--
ter, delivered a homer anil won the game.
Talk about winning streaks, tn 1875 Bos
ton had a team that didn't lose a game on
home grounds all season and onlv twelve
on the road.
• • •
Howard I’amnltz, the famous Pittsburg
pitcher, was once a member of the Mem
phis Chickasaws. a famous amateur or
ganization of pre-league days
A drop kick b\ Jimmy Sheckard helped
Dode Paskert into a home run the other
day The ball was not hard hit, but James
toed it a trifle and it went in the bleach
ers
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Frank Navin is planning to spend $50,000
or SOO,OOO on players to bolster up his
team for next season.
empire Brick Owens wears steel shoos
THE ATT. ANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24. 1912.
unless you give him a chance to
display what he has? The direc
tors of the local baseball associa
tion have figured the thing out just
this way and have decided to give
Alperman a trial. He Is the logical
man for the job among the possible
candidates of the Cracker team as
It stands today. And it is surely
better to try out any prospects on
the team before chasing around all
over civilization looking for an
other manager.
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T F Alperman is to maJte a go of
the new job he wilt have to
handle the Atlanta club with a firm
hand—and, If need be, with a big
stick. The drinking of the club
must be stopped ts It becomes nec
essary to fire a tew men to achieve
this purpose.
A drinking team has small
chance in any league. In the
Southern, with Its rather severe
climatic conditions, a drinking team
burns out in a few weeks.
It is up to Alperman to fire any
drunkards on the team and to re
place them with men of better hab
its. Until this is done there will
never be any baseball played.
» The directors of the local club
have handled a delicate situation
as well as it could , oosslbly be
handled. They have demonotrcted
that they mean business and that
they will back any manager up to
the limit. With the authority they
have given Alperman he can go
ahead and clean up the Atlanta
team. If he does it the Crackers
may yet make a fairly good show
ing In the pennant race. The ma
terial is there. All it needs is prop
er handling.
while on the job. He has coma.
» • •
M hen Dahlen was chased from a recent
game he tried the trick of sending Pat
Ragon to the club house thinking the um
pire would mistake Pat for Bill. He did
not.
• • •
XViltse and Ames are about ready for
the skids. They are more hindrance than
help to the Giants.
• • •
The Pirates are about ready to admit
that if the (Bants ar? stopped this year
somebody else will have to do it
• • •
Mathewson Is out with a printed denial
that he was coaching at third on the his
toric occasion when Merkle forgot to touch
second. Ho says that considering he
pitched the game it is Improbable that he
also coached it.
New York writers say that the present
St. Lotus Browns club Is the worst in the
world.
• • •
George McConnell Is the best pinch hit
ter of the Yankee team, He won a game
for the Yanks once this season with a hit
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K . Tl ? c ™ Tnf T. Btln llveß and thrives that
Aashvllle will drop out of Southern league
ball at the end of this season.
• • •
Crank Navln says he is willing to take
a million sand letters on the next training
■ trip, provided they show even fairly de
cent form If he can get two who make
good he will be satisfied.
• • •
< lark Griffith says that between the
quick thinkers and the quick steppers he
chooses the steppers. "You can't think
your way around the paths of scoring ter
ritory," wisely argues the Old Fox.
• • •
Warbles Bill Phelon:
We have seen some awful objects.
When a nightmare rode our dreams—
We have seen some daylight horrors
That would cause delirious screams
When a fellow gets the tremens
He'll behold some dreadful sights
Rut that Red and Giant ball game
Was the climax as to frights!
♦ • •
When the umpire declared Beals Hecker
out at second In a recent Giant-Red fame
he was so peeved that he refused to move
off the bag The teams changed sides, but
still he clung. A Red batter came up
Still he lingered.. Finally Dovle walked up
and sal.l "Breeze, old pal. I play here.
Then Becker moved.
• • •
Wise sayings of baseball: "The jinks
always lands hardest on the losing teams "
GOODMAN TO BOX HENRY.
t Hit AGO, July 24 Dannv Goodman,
of Chicago, ami 'Prince" Henry, of Al
lentown. Pa have been matched to box
six rounds at a suburban club August 1
BRADY TO HURL
INFIMTTLt
MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 24.
Acting Manager Alperman announced
today that Brody will pitch for the
Atlanta club in the last game of this
serli s with Montgomery this afternoon.
Donahue will catch and otherwise the
line-up will be unchanged.
The Atlanta players slept little last
night, because of the terrific hot weath
er. Today It is warm and clear. The
Crackers leave here at 9 o’clock to
night for Birmingham, where it is quite
probable Kid Howard will join the
club. Alperman contemplates putting
Howard on third and shifting McElveen
to the outfield.
Dowry and Gribbens will be the
Montgomery battery for today’s battle.
PICTURES SHOW FIGHT
WAS WORST ON RECORD
DENVER, July 24.—Stung is the word
used by many who viewed the Johnson-
Flynn fight pictures which we being the
worst ever reproduced in moving pictures.
They are even worse than the Jeffries-
Johnson films.
The fight, according to the pictures, was
the biggest bunk yet served to the public.
At no time in the so-called fight did John
son extend himself. He simply played
with the Puebio man, and, as far as hold
ing is concerned, that was part of his
method of stalling to try to help out the
pictures.
The pictures do not show many inci
dents that really happened in the fight,
and seem to have been doctored up a bit
to make it appear as though Flynn did
have a chance: but even after being
trimmed there is nothing to show that
could give Flynn the best of the bout.
The negro held Flynn off with a left while
he nodded to friends seated at the ring
side. and some of the farcical cartoons
made before tin fight would give out the
same idea of the Las Vegas fiasco as do
the bunk pictures.
McGINNITY STILL IRON
MAN; WINS TWO GAMES
ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 24.—"1r0n
Man" McGlnnity, in the box for the
Newark International league team, of
which he is part owner and manager,
pitched and won both games of a
double-header with Rochester yester
day and pulled the three-time cham
pions out of first place, a position they
had held since May 20. After nosing
Rochester out by a run in the first
game. 4 to 8, Newark won the second
game with seven tallies, while McGin
nlty did not permit a local player to
make the circuit.
TAYLOR PITCHES NO-HIT
GAME FOR SPARTANBURG
CHARLOTTE. N. C„ July 24.—Pitch
er Taylor, of the Spartanburg club of
the Carolina association, pitched the
first no-hit nine-inning game of the
season against the Winston-Salem
team. Taylor belongs to the Pittsburg
club, being farmed this season to the
Carolina league team.
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Peachtree St. COMP AN Y Atlanta, Georgia J
Dr. John E. White Picks an All-Star Ball Team
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Minister’s Aggregation Would Be Hard to Beat
By Rev. John E. White.
(Pastor of Second Baptist Church.)
HAVING played ball'a great
deal myself and having fol
lowed closely the stars of
the national game, I think I am
qualified to pick an all-star team
that would make a great showing
against any nine men.
In picking my team I have placed
them In the order I should want
them to bat were I managing the
team. My reason for putting
Speaker in left field is: He can
play that .position in great style. I
consider him one of the greatest
outfielders, in the field or at bat,
in either of the major leagues. I
should put Tris at the head of the
batting order because he is sure to
reach first.
Cobb in center field and Jackson
in left field would make the garden
complete. Should Speaker reach
first, he is sure to be advanced by
Tyrus Raymond, who, in my opin
ion, can take advantage of an error
quicker than any man playing
baseball.
With Jackson, the Naps’ star
slugger, batting next, it is very
likely some runs would be scored
in the first inning.
In my mind, there would be no
question of first base, as Hal
Chase is in a class by himself when
it comes to holding down the ini
tial sack. I should also make Chase
captain of the team, as he has the
confidence of all the players.
Has Great Infield.
Collins, second base; Baker, third
base, and Wagner, shortstop, with
Peerless Hal on the first cushion,
would make one of the fastest field
ing infields ever seen on any dia
mond. They would all be able
to hit above the .300 mark.
For catchers I should pick Archer
and Kling. I consider Archer the
best throwing catcher the game
ever produced, while Kling Is fa
mous for coaching the pitchers and
holding them down in the pinches.
My choice for pitchers would be
Johnson and Marquard. I consider
Johnson the best right-hander be
cause he can hold the batters help
less and almost make them knock
the ball where he wants it. I did
not pick Marquard because of his
recent record. I picked him be
cause a man who has the ability to
stick In the big show and go
through with the knocking he did
and then make good must have real
ability.
Connie Mack, the smartest man
ager In the game, would be put in
charge of the team, as he knows
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: Rev. John E. White’s j
: All-Star Ball Team •
• Speaker Left Field •
• Cobb Center Field •
• Jacksonßight Field *
• Chase First Base •
• Collins Second Base •
• Baker Third Base •
• WaqnerShortstop •
• Archer, KlingCatchers •
• Johnson, Marquard .. .Pitchers •
• Mack Manager ®
• •
better than any one how to make
his men play good ball.
It might be well to mention that
Dr. White was some ball player
himself during his younger days.
While he did not star in the big
shows, he was considered the only
"curve ball” pitcher in the moun
tains of North Carolina.
The peculiar interest attached to
these mountain ball games was the
gun play that generally followed
the contest. The doctor can nearly
attribute his success as a pas
tor to his ball playing. It was at
Edenton, his home town. The Eden
ton team was playing its deadly
rival, the Hurtford team. The
game was almost finished and
neither side had been able to score
any runs.
Dr. White, who was then in
charge of a small church, was, with
YANKEE OLYMPIC MEN
WINNERS AT RHEIMS
RHEIMS, FRANCE. July 24.—Sever
al members of the American Olympic
team took part in the games here in
competition with the best French ath
letes and carried off the honors. Lee
Goehring. Mohawk A. C., won the
standing high jump, clearing the bar
at 5 feet 3 inches. David S. Caldwell,
Massachusetts Agricultural college,
won the 800 meters run in 1 minute
57 1-5 seconds.
James Thorpe, Carlisle Indian school,
captured the 110 meters hurdles race
in 15 4-5 seconds. The 200 meters flat
went to Alvah T. Meyer. Irish-Ameri
can A. C., in 22 2-5 seconds, while E.
R. Erickson. Mott Haven A. C., took
the running high jump with 6 1-2 feet.
OTTO JORDAN WILITjOIN
LOOKOUTSNEXT MONDAY
Otto Jordan has completely recovered
from an attack of typhoid and today is
planning to join the Chattanooga Look
outs next Monday. The former Atlanta
manager believes he will hit his stride at
once, and looks for his team to start
climbing.
bls wife, a spectator in the grand
stand. When one of the Hartford
players met with an accident a
small mob of citizens and players
rushed to the grandstand and
pleaded with the new preacher that
he come to the rescue of his hom«
town. With great reluctance and
the solemn oath never to play ball
in public again he chucked off his
Prince Albert and walked to the
bat.
Won Game With Triple.
There were two men on bases
when he came to bat, and the
crowd was wild. The preacher
player was there with the goods
and sent the ball to the fence in
right field for a three-bagger, driv
ing in the only two runs of the
game. The next Sunday the preach
er’s church was filled to overflow
ing.
Dr. White was at Wake Forest
college in 1888-89 and captained
the ball team the latter year. He
was secretary of missions in North
Carolina for five years, coming from
that office to the Second Baptist
church in Atlanta, where he has
been located for twelve years.
(Send your selections for your All-
Star team to the Sporting Editor Ths
Georgian.)
JOHNSON TO PLAY BALL.
CHICAGO, July 24.—Jack Johnson
heavyweight champion of the world, is
about to become a baseball player.
Johnson last night made application
for the first base position of the
American Giants, "Rube Foster's ne
gro semi-professional team,” and will
be given a chance for the place.
AL. ORTH WILL UMPIRE
IN NATIONAL LEAGUE
NEW YORK, July 24—The National
League, through President Lynch, has
purchased the release of Umpire A!
Orth from the Virginia League. Orths
work as an umpire In the Virginia
League has been highly praised by
major league scouts. The new umpire
probably will report to President
Lynch this week.
GEORGE MANnTngTiRST
IN SWIMMING CONTEST
George Manping proved to be the fast
est swimmer in the 25-yard dash held at
Piedmont Park under the supervision of
Ben H. Schlomberg. captain of the United
States volunteer life-saving corps Man
ning swam the 25 yards in 30 seconds
Fred White came second in 32 seconds
and Fred Dopey finished a second later
than White.
REESE OUT FOR SEASON.
HUNTSVILLE. ALA., July 24. Pitcher
Charles Reese, who was a member of the
pitching staff of the Huntsville team in
the Southeastern league, has recovered
from an illness that seized him about six
weeks ago, but he will not be able to
pitch any more this season.