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HEMPHILL DECLARES HE MADE NO MISTAKES IN THE PLAYERS HE TRADED OR SOLD
“I have no kick to make over losing my job as manager of the Crackers. But Ido want to say to the fans of Atlanta that I made no mistake in any of the trades or sales I put across. I
will stake my reputation that every player I let go will never make good. And all the young players I secured will prove good men in time. I have been knocked for signing Waldorf and
Brady. Take it from me, both are top-notchers. And let me say that I will prove yet to Atlanta fans that I have the ability to manage a baseball team.”- CHARLEY HEMPHILL.
NASHVILLE ON
MARKET AGAIN
NASHVILLE, TENN., July 24.—A
puinrity of the directors of the Nash
v , baseball club having agreed to
j, the franchise of the locals has been
oh the market, and Little Rock
bid $25,000. The proposed sale is
tinned by a debt of more than $30,-
fmu nod a chain of bad luck that has
i i-n been equaled in balldorn.
season started out with a deluged
b ;) j park; war next kepts from playing
by an injunction when the Sunday litl
name up,,and numerous wet days
-in< e has so curbed the income of the
c'ub that the majority of directors are
path to carry the burden any further..
Ex-President W. G. Hirsig, a big
holder <>f the s‘oek, is fighting to hold
; , franchise in Nashville, or at least
secure a bigger price than Little Rock
offers. He hopes to win out, but the
direeOTs have authority to act.
MONTGOMERY BUSINESS
MEN RUSH TO RESCUE
MO.XTGO.MERY. ALA., July 24.—At
a big nueting of the Business Men’s
league the directors of the organiza
tion acre instructed to take the neces
sary ration to furnish Richard Tillis
SyMHi per year for three years for the
support of the Montgomery baseball
team.
This action practically assures
Southern league baseball here for the
next three, years, and meets the ap
proval of Tillis, who has received three
flattering offers for the -Montgomery
franchise.
CUBS RELEASE MORONEY.
i'HK'AGO, July 24.—Jim Moroney,
the big southpaw, is off the Cubs' pay
roll today. When he allowed the Dodg.
ers to get him in a hole in the fifth in
ning of yesterday's game, Manager
'hance chased him clear off the club.
Moroney was given his unconditional
release. Chance has been dissatisfied
•vlth th. twirler’s work for some time.
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America Coming Into Its Own;
Athletics Is Only Salvation
By Fred C. Thompson.
THE term “recreation" is a
very flexible one. It is a very
fortunate thing that such is
the case. Were it not flexible and
remarkably resilient, it long ago
would have been broken or lost.
The burden of meanings that it has
had to bear have been too many,
the trends of thought that it has
expressed have been too diverse,
for it to have lived, then, had it
not been of plastic texture and
adaptable to each newly arising de
mand on its meaning and content.
Seventy-five years ago the term
was so broad it specified nothing
definitely. When “recreation” was
mentioned the correlating faculty
would summon up a kaleidoscopic •
array of visions portraying every
thing from a Keeley dure to face
paint.
Resuscitation was recreation. So
was strapping a wooden leg onto a
man. Anything under the sun that
could be lugged in under the ranks
of the “re"—and under the col
umns of the “creation" —fitted. The
word carried with it just about the
whole creation all over again.
But from the purely etymological
meaning a sort of technical mean
ing seemed to fix itself to the word.
We find it. then, meaning a sort
of aimless leaving off of the work
that had grown uninteresting to
spend the time in anything indefi
nite and non-committal enough to
throw the victim into renewed en
thusiasm in the forsaken pursuits.
Discriminated Generally.
v Tlie idea seemed to be just a
general discrimination of every
thing until what energy there was
left would dam itself up until it
demanded release. And this pitiful
little spurt was the product of rec
reation. if you please.
Do you wonder that most men
preferred to die out quietly than to
sputter out in this hectic way? Col
orless, aimless and so. of course,
useless, the more a man was bored
the more he felt he was being re
created. And all this that much
abused word had to bear, and,
what's worse, it fitted conditions.
It's surely a wonder that we may
today drape about that lay figure
(all words are but that) ideas that
are vivid and vigorous. But we
surely can do nothing else, for to
day the term recreation denotes a
positive, intense thing.
Contemporaneous with the
growth of this positive element in
the word “recreation” has been the
growtlt in the interest in athletics.
Athletics started out as the child
of “recreation.” She has surpassed
the mother. In this way: Athletics
first as a very tame and unheroic
expression of recreative desires has
grown into a field and size un
dreamed of. And the field of ath
letics as a recreative Influence does
not stop with its work of revivify
ing weary nerves and raising the
tonicity of flabby muscles. It has
grown until that is but a small
part of its - work. It has worked
wonders with the individual man.
But its great work, or the major
part of it. is in giving us a new
concept of what a full rounded man
may be.
Despise Race Track Habitue.
The race track habitue of yes
terday is a despised creature, and
rightly. The sport of but a very
few years ago was a pasty-faced,
well-kneed vampire. Sport sapped
then. But the tout of good stand
ing a few years ago would now be
a shunned anachronism. He would
be a freak—a creature on which to
satisfy one's most morbid curiosity.
And it is the clear-eyed, clean
limbed product of the athletic field
of today that has placed the one
time sport at such a low figure. If
•THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JULY 24, 1912,
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
• •
J Fred C. Thomson an •
J Athletic Authority •
J Os the First Rank S
• •
"A /T R ' THOMSON is weil Qua’*- *
J jyl fled to handle the subject •
• here presented in such an •
• intelligent manner, for he Is a •
• master of all branches of athletics •
• and has won the highest title in •
• American sport, that of all-around •
• amateur champion, for the past •
• two years. •
• Always in the front rank of ath- •
• letes, Mr. Thomson has never fail- •
• ed to make the most of his oppor- •
• tunities for a close study of the •
• real benefits and aims of athletic •
• competition, and in this article has •
• presented one of the clearest and •
• best written expositions of the real •
• benefit to be derived from our rec- •
• reations. •
• It was while at Occidental col- •
• lege in Los Angeles that this won- •
• derful athlete first attracted more •
• than local attention by his high- •
• class work in the Pacific coast •
• championships and In the collegi- •
• ate games. •
• After finishing his course in Oc- •
• cidental college Mr. Thomson went •
• East and took the course at the •
• Theological school at Princeton. •
• While there he won the Amateur •
• Athletic association title of all- •
• around champion for 1910. and re- •
• peated his tilumph in 1911. •
• On the coast Mr. Thomson is •
• regarded as the highest authority •
• on athletics. •
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we owed athletics nothing else, our
debt would be large. For to eval
uate men fairly is an act of rare
genius. The influence that enables
men to judge their fellows accu
rately and to eliminate some of
them from the ranks of respected
men readily is an influence of in
calculable worth.
But the influence of athletics on
the American people reaches far
deeper than that. If there is one
thing in this world that paralyzes
and sickens, it is, as the tale of a
man's life is nearly told, to be
brought face to face with the vision
of "what he might have been." And
when he places himself as he is
beside the vision of "what he
might have been" the reality looks
stunted and forbidding.
And a people often become crav
en before the accusing specter of
"what they might have been.” Then
they begin to stutter and make false
starts. Power fades into thin
skinned bluff. Justice is warped
into the nearest semblance of equi
table dealing. Courage shrinks into
the lowest of self-doubting cow
ardice. Surely if anything could
save a people from such an ignoble
decadence. It must be a thing of
worth and power. Athletics is
promising, and, better, is doing just
such service for this country.
Athletics the Salvation.
Athletics may be a positive, in
tense thing. Athletics may prove
the salvation of this country in
keeping her from a late final
glimpse of her glorious possibility
and her shrunken reality. Athlet
ics may serve to clear the eyes,
quicken the brains, toughen the
sinews and harden the muscles of
this nation till the last glimpse will
be of a glorious possibility, and '
shoulder to shoulder with it, as
bright and worthy, the glorious
reality.
Oh. such a work is glorious!
But her work is greater even
than that. It is not only to lift and
form us to the ideals we have.
That's noble. But it is to give us
greater and nobler ideas. That's
the work of the divine.
Old Tom Sharkey, a "has been"
and an old bruiser, who now spends
his time using a sud-lath, saw a
couple of youngsters running past
his place.
"That's the thing that is knock
ing the saloon business," said Tom.
“A fellow can't be an athlete and
drink at the same time.
"I am for this school boy athletic
business. going to make this
nation the healthiest on earth."
He's right. And if we're healthy
we'll probably be sane—and if we
are sane we’ll probably think,
straight. And if we think straight
we'll put first things first. And if
we put first things first, we'll de
mand that, above all things, ath
lete or not, a man be a man. And
being a man will mean but one
thing—a sound body, a clear head
and a pure heart.
And if America be a nation of
such men she will come into her
own, which Is the place of the
greatest, the truest and the noblest
people the world has ever known.
SMITH LOSES TWO LOVE
SETS TO WALTER HAYES
LAKE FOREST. ILL., July 24. First
round matches and most of those in the
second round were completed as the
result of yesterday's play in the men's
singles and doubles events of the West
ern tennis tournament at Onwentsia.
Chicago retained her foremost stars
in the tourney, Waldner, Hayes and
Ford all surviving their first round
matches.
Walter Hayes, of Chicago, proved too
much for C. Y. Smith, of Atlanta, beat
ing the Southern champion two love
sets. Hayes played a steady game and,
although Smith at times gave flashes
of brilliance, he clearly was off form.
H. H. Braly, of Los Angeles, contin
ued his winning streak by defeating
Roland Herr, of St. Louis. 6-3, 6-2.
T. C. Bundy, of California, had no
trouble in beating John C. Neely, Jr.,
of Chicago, 6-3, 6-1.
The Big Race
Here is how the “Big Five” in the
American league are hitting right up
to date:
Player. A. B. H. Av.
Cobb 339 142 .419
Speaker 354 133 .390
J’ckson 345 127 .368
Collins 319 108 .339
Lajoie ... 216 72 .333
Cobb “stood still" yesterday. He
made two hits in five times at bat,
leaving his swatting average the same
as Monday, 419, Speaker fell off
three points by failing to connect safely
in three times up, Jackson dropped
off two points by getting only one hit
in four trips to the plate, Collins did
the best hitting of the day, banging out
three safe clouts in four attempts. He
jumped six points. Lajoie is still out
of the game.
O’DAY IS MADE MANAGER
OF INDIANAPOLIS CLUB
INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.—An
nouncement was made today thAt
Charles O'Day, of the Springfield (Ohio)
Central league club, has been appoint
ed manager of the Indianapolis Amer
ican association team, succeeding
Charles O’Leary. The latter Will con
tinue as a player on the team, while
O'Day will manage from the bench and
step in as a pinch hitter when needed.
The Indianapolis Baseball association
has purchased the Springfield Central
league franchise and several of the
players will be transferred to Indian
apolis.
The deal involves the complete and
permanent retirement from baseball of
William H. Watkins, the veteran owner
and promoter.
THE BASEBALLCARD,
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Game, Today.
Atlanta in Montgomery.
Chattanooga in Birmingham.
Nashville in Mobile.
Memphis in New Orleans.
Standing of the ctuna.
W. L. PC. W. L. P C
B’ham. .56 35 .615 C'nooga. 41 45 .477
Mobile . .51 43 .543 N’ville. .39 46 .459
New Or. 42 39 .525 Mont. . .40 50 .444
M'mphis 43 43 .500 Atlanta .36 47 .434
Yesterday 1 ! Results.
Montgomery 12, Atlanta 2
Birmingham 3, Chattanooga 2.
New Orleans 4. Memphis 3.
Mobile 2. Nashville 0.
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Today.
Savannah in Albany.
Columbia in Jacksonville.
Columbus in Macon.
Standing or tne Clubs
W. L P C W. L. P C
Sav. . . .16 6 .727 Macon . .12 11 .522
.J'ville. . .14 9 .609 Albany . 8 16 .348
C'bus. . .13 9 .591 Cola. . . 6 18 .250
Yesterday’s Results.
Savannah 5. Albany 3.
Jacksonville 4. Columbia 3.
Macon 3. Columbus 0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Chicago in New York.
St. Louis in Philadelphia.
Detroit in Washington.
Cleveland in Boston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. I p<! W. L. P.C.
Boston .63 27 .700 Detroit. .44 47 .489
Wash. . .55 34 .618 C’land. . 43 48 .473
Phila . .52 39 .571 N. York. 26 57 .313
Chicago .46 41 .529 S, Louis 25 61 .291
Yesterday's Results.
Detroit 12, Washington 7.
Boston 6. Cleveland 3.
Chicago 6. New York 4.
Philadelphia 5. St. Louis 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Boston in Pittsburg.
New York in Cincinnati.
Brooklyn in Chicago.
Philadelphia in St. Louis.
Standing o’ the Clubs.
W. 1.. P C W. L. P C
N. York 64 21 .753 Phila. . 47 46 505
Chicago .52 33 .612 S. Louis 34 47 .420
I’burg. .49 34 .590 B’klyn .30 54 .357
C’natf . 44 43 .512 Boston . .22 64 .256
Yesterday's Results.
Pittsburg 1. Boston 0.
New York 11. Cincinnati 1.
Philadelphia 10. St. Louis 8.
Brooklyn 6, Chicago 0.
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On Their Toes and Full of Pep
By W. J. Mcßeth.
AMONG the many sensations
commanding special attention
in this young season of re
markable surprises might be men
tioned the Boston Red Sox. In fact,
it would not bo amiss to shout and
rave about the Speed Boys and of
their "Born Manager," Jake Stahl.
For whether he deserved it or
not, J. Garland Stahl is today about
the biggest man in the worship of
Hub fandom since Jimmy Collins
of 1903 and 1904. Jake has made
good: that's all that Boston or any
other city demands. Stahl has
made good where more experienced
managers failed. That in itself is
recommendation enough.
Maybe Jake was lucky. > There
are instances on record, you know,
where clubs have made reputations
for managers. Hughie Jennings
stumbled into big league fame in
1907. When he took charge of the
Tigers that great machine had al
ready been moulded. Hugh simply
had to keep it in harmonious work
ing order to land three consecutive
pennants. Frank Selee mobilized
the wonderful Cub machine from
which Frank Chance reaped the
golden shekels and fame. Yet no
one insinuates that either Jennings
or Chance is not a good manager.
What these men would ever have
amounted to had they been forced
to build up a tail-ender, however,
is problematic.
Same Club as Last Year.
Stahl’s club is just as it was
when Jake took hold of It, with the
exception of Jake. There Is no de
nying the fact that this big fel
low has proved a wonderful asset
to the Speed Boys. Neither Jimmy
Callahan nor Mike Donlin has any
thing on the “Born Manager" as a
“come back.” Jake hasn’t set the
league afire as a hitter, but he sure
has peppered up the whole works
and got every possible ounce of
energy out of the array.
All of which is most re
markable in the light of ex
isting conditions. It is quite
true that the Red Sox form
one of the fastest collections in the
major leagues. But it is also true
that Stahl, as manager, has to
maintain harmony not , only in
the ranks but in the bosoms of
the stockholders as well. Never
was man in more trying position
than Jake. He is one of the mi
nority stockholders. The club pres
ident is Jimmy McAleer, an auto
cratic sort of follow when his inter
ests are at stake. McAleer was onp
of the most dismal managerial fail
ures imaginable with the St. Louis
Browns and Washington Nationals,
but you couldn't convince him of
that fact. Naturally, he believes
he was the abused child of circum
stance. The fact that McAleer is
content to sit hack quietly as an
American league magnate is cer
tainly a tribute to the diplomacy of
Stahl.
-In Jake, Boston has found the
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management. John I. Taylor, who
during the last eight years has
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aggregation, still owns 50 per cent
of the stock. He always has been
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These averages include yesterday's
game with the Billikens:
Players. g. ab. r. h, av.
Becker, p. . . . 4 12 1 5 .417
Harbison, ss. . .31 11)3 11 31 . .301
Alperman, 2b. .85 323 46 91 .282
Bailey, rs. . . .85 303 52 84 .277
Donahue, c. , .54 106 10 26 .345
Callahan, If. . .43 179 21 42 .235
McElveen, 3b. .91 333 40 76 .223
Graham, c. . ..33 99 9 22 .222
Brady, p 12 36 17 .194
Atkins, p. . . .16 43 3 8 .186
Agler, lb 22 71 8 12 .168
Sitton, p. . . .17 43 8 7 .163
Waldorf, p. . . 3 7 0 0 .000
WHITE STARTS TRAINING.
CHICAGO, July 24.—Charlie White has
returned from a four weeks’ vacation at
Muskegon. Mich., and will start training
for several matches he has in view. The
local featherweight has disposed of all his
rivals with the exception Os Champion
Johnny Kilbane and is anxious.to get on
with the latter.
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