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Atkins Hope of Crackers in
Second Struggle With Barons
Birmingham, at.aJuly 26
< Acting Manager Whitey Al
perman announced today
that he has "primed" Tommy At
kins for this afternoon's perform
ance with the Barons. Thomas
has had a good, long rest and
should be able to give a good ac
count of himself against the league
leaders. Molesworth had not de
cided up to noon which one of his
hurlers he would send to the
mound.
The locals had no trouble annex
ing the opening game of the series
from the Crackers yesterday, when
they cantered home to a 6 to 2
victory. The only feature of the
game was the batting of Agler and
the all-around offensive work of
Johnston.
Foxen was effective in al!
pinches except the first, and it is
probable that had his support been
perfect all the way, the Crackers
would not have scored.
In the first inning. Agler singled
and Bailey walked. They advanced
FODDER FOR FANS
Birmingham players charge that Fle
harty intentionally beam'd Ellam the other
day in Birmingham. Bimiingtiam papers
say that after Fleharty felled his former
teammate he laughed and tossed the ball
around as though he had done something
worth while.
Joseph Allison died In Philadelphia the
other day as a resuit of a baseball injury.
While playing in an amateur game he
ran a splinter in his hand, tetanus set In
and he died.
• • ♦
Birmingham is beginning to be
thoroughly worried by the rush of the
Mobile team. This is the first time the
Barons have been challenged this year
and the Smokeville scribes don't know
how the home club will answer.
Ralph Savidge Is through Charley
Hum., manager now of the Reading team
of the Tri-State league, lias let him go
because he couldn't git into condition
• * ♦
Some batters, when they hit, never
make anything but singles; with others
the normal hn is for three bags. Wilson,
of the Pirates, is one of those natural
three-base hitters He has made 22 for
that distance this year, which is just
double the number of two-baggers he
l.as hit. Larry Hoyle is a two-base hit
ter. He has four times as many doubles
as triples to his credit.
Old-timers say that the world has never
produced faster men on bases than Jimmy
McAleer, Billy Hamilton. Dick Cooley and
Tom Browne, but that in the old days
the players wore satisfied to get over to
first fast and stick there Now all alert
base runners are trying to pinch off extra
bases and thus put their speed to better
advantage
Pitcher Vic Miller, of the Waco club,
ran nine straight recently before they got
him.
• • «
< inly one umpire. Frank Newhouse, who
started the Texas league season, still re
mains with the circuit They've just
canned Van Sycle for his feat of whipping
Joe Gardner
Eddie Collins, in a signed article, has
positively declined to write any obituaries
for the Athletics as yet He still believes
they can overhaul the R<»l Sox
• • •
Umpire Kelly, of the Sally league, has
just been ten bones for playing
f»oker with ball players It was a nickel
imit game at that,
• • •
Two clubs in the Sally league are vio
lating the salary limit the brutes.
♦ ♦ ♦
Heinle Zimmerman's marvelous batting
streak is explained Uharh•> Murphv of
fered 11 Z a diamond stick pin if he
would beat 300. And Heinle is bent on
sticking Uholly, with the chances excel
lent.
• • •
The Cotton States league is on the verge
of quitting It has never been a money
maker and now between rain and floods
it is losing vigorously. It will be lucky
to see the first of August.
• • •
Well, something refreshing at last.
The Michigan State league reports at
tendance good and all clubs prosperous
New York fans are beginning to call to
mind that Cape Cod oysters and switchel
are at their best in • wtober Also they
are beginning to reserve their rooms in
Boston.
* « *
"McGraw took the Ciants to Texas and
put them through the hardest course of
sprouts a club »-vei knew. because lie
» xpe< b‘d a hard tight,” observes a New
York scrihe, ’ and now some folks are
darned mean enough to criticise him for
his precaution.
• • •
Marty Hogan, of Youngstown, has been
on an infield out, and scored when
McElveen singled to left.
The Barons came back strong,
however, and shoved enough runs
across to win. Marcan opened with
a single, hut was forced by Messen
ger, the latter taking second; Al
meida went out at third when Mc-
Bride hit a drive to third which was
too slow to be handled.
Mcßride stole and McGilvray
walked. Johnston’s single scored
Messenger and Mcßride, and Mc-
Gilvray and Johnston scored when
Carroll heat out a hit to second.
In the third. Almeida opened with
a single, hut Mcßride instead of
sacrificing hit into a puny double,
Alperman to Agler. McGilvray
doubled and went to third on
Johnston's short single.
The latter stole second, Carroll
hit to Alperman, and as a result of
Agler holding his foot off the base,
the runner went safe at first and
McGilvray and Johnston counted.
Johnston scored from second
twice on drives that did not go out
of the.diamond, this perhaps be
ing the finest work of the day.
made manager of the Zanesville team.
He succeeds Jack Pender.
• • •
The most popular tonsorial wrinkle in
the big leagues this season Is the "999”
or "onion” hair cut.
• ♦ ♦
The Reds would like to consolidate their
shortstops. Esmond can field, but can’t
lilt; McDonald can hit, but can't field.
The St. Paul club has had a lot of
offers for "Kid” Arthur Butler, but has
refused to sell. It prefers to exchange
him for players.
• • •
Fred Clarke is to retire as manager of
tlie Pirates next year and Billy Murray
is to succeed him. Oh yes. merely a ru
mor. It came from Chicago.
♦ * ♦
St. Paul has sold Pitcher Forest Thom
as to Sioux City Another slump for
"Old Doctor" Thomas.
• • »
Adrian C. Anson has issued a predic
tion that Hie Giants will win the Nation
al league pennant. It sure takes the old
boys to pull the clairvoyance stuff
• • w
' Kitty'' Bransfield has taken on an
awful contract In agreeing to lead the
Montreal team Billy Lush made a frost
of it.
Jiggs Donahue has never been himself
since bis wife sued for divorce, and Is
now suffering from melancholia and is
under medical treatment.
• • •
\V. H Watkins, former owner of the
Indianapolis and Springfield, Ohio, team*,
has sold out his last baseball interests and
will retire from the game. He has been
connected with the sport in one /ay or
another since 1879.
• • •
Papers in Montgomery are charging
empire Fitzsimmons with killing base
ball in Montgomery; though they ought
t<> know’ that it was dead before ever
Fitzsimmons broke Into the league
• • a
Larrx Lajeune has made 16 home runs
this season. We'd like to see his murk
for bone-headed plays.
• • •
Some wisike wrote a story the other
day, claiming that no real ball player
ever came out of Brooklyn. And now
Willie Keeler is sore.
• a a
Harry Wolverton says Ty Cobb Is worth
$ Im).000 to any major league ball club
"Put SIOO,OOO on one side. Ty Cobb on
the other and I’d take Cobb," says Wol
verton. "He's Worth more than several
major league teams I might mention -
but won't."
• « a
"Latest advices on Heinle Zim's mis
hap deepen the mystery, writes Charley
Dryden. 'lt is said he bit into an *egg
sandwich that had a bone in it. Even
the hens are cheating these days."
• • •
They say that al! Jerry Downs does Is
to stand up to the plate and look red
headed It’s a snap
Jack F 'iirnier has been released by the
White Sox to Montreal Callahan kept
him in the game ns a hitter ami when he
quit hitting it was all off
• • •
It seems as though the national com
miss ..n w <s taking on a full grown job
In agreeing, in effect, to collect al. pri
-1 vale debts among ball players McAdams
of tb. Galveston Hub owed ''Slim" Sal
lee S7O and wouldn't pay. The commis
sion ruled that McAdams would Iffive to
' pay or quit baseball It's lucky for the
■ commission that Arlie Ijitham and
"Hug " Raymond are out of the fold
• • •
llub» < (hiring says that Amos Strunk
is the fastest man in baseball today and
bi Lievis that he is faster than Craig of
i Olympic fame.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912.
Playing Leaders Have Not Been Successful Here in Atlanta
LOCAL TEAM PROBABLY NEEDS A BENCH MANAGER
By Percy 11. Whiting.
IT'S quite possible that Atlanta
will have to come to a bench
manager before the team can
win another pennant. The Crack
ers may get there with a player
manager, but there's no denying
that all their luck In the past came
when the director of their destinies
was playing a thinking part only.
Yesterday’s game at Birmingham
presented a strong argument in fa
vor of a bench fnanager. It hap
pened through a luckless chance
that on two occasions, with John
ston and McGilvray on bases, Car
roll grounded to Alperman. Both
times the ball got past the new
Atlanta manager. Both swats were
called hits by the official scorer,
though others called them errors.
Both times both runners scored. As
the final score was 6 to 2, It would
be more than possible for Alper
man’s players to say that his near
errors cpst the game.
Baseball players are like school
boys In a lot of ways. They need
firm handling and it must be by
some one for whom they have en
tire respect. Just so soon as school
boys begin to think they know more
than the teacher a riot is due. Just
as quickly as ball players get a
hunch that they are playing better
ball than their manager a lot of his
authority slips away.
• • •
ATLANTA’S playing managers
have not been successful. Each
has had his weak points. Jordan
could field perfectly, but couldn't
hit. Hemphill could hit, but
couldn't throw. Any time either
of them criticised one of his play
ers he took a chance of having
something handed right back to
him about his own weaknesses.
The only Atlanta manager who
could win a pennant was Billy
Smith, and he won both his from
the bench. The second he found
that he was skidding as an out
fielder he canned himself on the
spoj and took up his work from the
bench. There he was immune from
criticism by his players.
• ♦ •
» BENCH manager has all
A the advantage. Sitting apart
from the game, he can better judge
the players and the play. There
Is nothing to interfere with his
judgment. The players have no
come-back if he criticises them.
And as the bench manager has
ever been our notion of a real man
ager, so Connie Mack is our ideal
of a bench manager. The Connie
of today, n great player once, is
merely a mass of brains now, on
the top end of a tall scaffolding of
bones. He directs his players
from the bench. He makes no
noise He criticises no players. He
gives orders quietly and he scores
the game He is, in truth, the
brains—Air perhaps better still, the
brain center —of his team.
Os course, barring miracles, the
Atlanta club Isn't going to dig up
any Connie Macks. At the same
time it is perfectly possible that it
may come again to a bench man
ager.
And in the meantime we’re all
pulling ourselves sideways for
Whitey Alperman and hoping
against hope that he'll he able to
lead the Crackers out of the Cellar
and keep them out.
• • •
<"pHE Crackers will have a good
A chance to shake themselves
together next week and the week
after, for they will be home for a
series with the southern division
clubs Here are the games of that
home stay:
With New Orleans, July 29. 30. 31.
With Birmingham, August 1,2, 3.
With Montgomery, August 5, 6.
With Mobile. August 8,9, 10.
Os course, there are some post
poned games to be played off with
these clubs, too. So Alperman will
have two solid weeks of basebail at
home in which to whip his team
into trim Then he has to take
them out again Into the south.
rjOES it break in on you that
the baseball season of 1912 is
beginning to draw to an end? Os
course, there is a lot of it to nin
yet, but the closing Isn’t so far oft
as it was in mid April—nst by a
thundering sight.
When the southern division clubs
come up into the northern division
beginning next Monday they will
be playing their last engagements
out of their own section. When
the New Orleans club bids us good
bye on Wednesday night we have
seen the last of it for the season,
and the same is true of the other
clubs from the far south. When
the Crackers go into the southern
division for their next invasion
they wind up their games with the
clubs of that section for the sea
son. For almost exactly a month
the Crackers will battle steadily
with the clubs of the southern di
vision. After that they clean up a
few series with th ■ clubs of the
northern division and then it's all
over but waiting for the world's
BILLIKENS SEND LOWRY
BACK TO ST. LOUIS TEAM
MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 26
Pitcher Lowry, who has been with the
Billikens a week, has been turned back
to the St. Louis Browns. He is regard
ed as a “comer,” but just now is not
sufficiently seasoned for Southern
league trotting.
Manager John Dobbs declared today
that he has equally as strong a club as
any other city in the league, outside of
the hurling department.
"If I can get two more dependable
pitchers,” he said, "I feel certain that
we can finish in the first division, de
spite hard breaks of luck and the
mishaps that have befallen us this
year. I have a line on one good pitcher
whom I expect to annex in a day or
two. Other branches of our team stack
up well with any of the clubs in the
league.”
JACK DILLON DEFEATS
CHIP IN FAST BATTLE
INDIANAPOLIS. IND., July 26
Jack Dillon outpointed George Chip, of
Madison. Pa., in a ten-round bout last
night. It was a fast, clever fight, with
Dillon the aggressor all the way. Chip
never had a chance, but made a good
showing. In the eighth. Dillon floored
Chip with a clean cut right to the jaw.
Chip was in good shape before the
count, however, and was fighting hard
at the bell.
In the ninth and tenth Dillon went
at his man like a whirlwind. He had
Chip going in the tenth but the latter
managed to hold on. and Dillon was not
•able to deliver a knockout.
CLARKE AND GOUCLET
GET NEW BIKE MARKS
*
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. July 26.
Two world's bicycle records were
broken here. "Jackie" Clarke reduced
the one-third mile professional against
time from 33 4-5 t 0.33 seconds, and Al
fred Goullet cut his own one-mile hu
man-paced professional against time
record from 1:46 1-5 to 1:39 3-5. using
seven pacemakers.
HOLD SHOOT NEXT WEEK.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 26
Capital City Gun club will hold its an
nual tournament at the club range at
Pickett Springs on August 14 and 15.
In the neighborhood of 75 shooters will
participate In the contest and there
will be professionals and 'amateurs In
attendance from Alabama and other
Southern states.
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Opposite Third National Bank.
16‘ 3 N. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
championship.
Beginning next Monday, the
Crackers have 4b scheduled games
left out of the 140 which faced
them at the start of the season.
Twenty-one of these games are
scheduled for Ponce DeLeon, nine
teen for the road.
♦ • •
'T' HE usual order of things is
•* changed fit this year's sched
ule. Instead of playing the final
series of the season at home, as
has been the custom for years, it
will be played on the road.
Which reminds me that when the
tentative schedule was announced
one of the directors of the local club
said: "We shall certainly have to
have that rearranged so that we
get the last series at home. Why,
if we are plh’ying for the pennant
those three games will net us a
million dollars.”
The way things look now. it isn’t
likely to make so much difference,
even if the Southern league didn’t
grant his request.
SITE IS SELECTED FOR
AEROPLANE CHAMPIONSHIP
CHICAGO, July 26. —Selection of a
site for the world’s championship aero
plane race was made yesterday by the
Aero Club of Illinois, and a fund of
$15,000 set aside to improve the ground
under the course, provide safely for
aviators and add security to the posi
tions of the spectators.
The site is ten miles southwest from
the heart of the city. The course will
be made 4.14 miles in circumference,
necessitating 30 laps to cover the re
quired distance of 124.28 miles.
The field will provide space for 240,-
000 spectators. The course, 400 feet
wide, will be surfaced to permit aero
planes traveling up to 100 miles an hour
to alight with reasonable safety, it is
announced, and spectators will be kept
an additional 200 feet back from the
course.
MOOSE CLUB TEAM TO
PLAY SOUTHERN SHOPS
The Moose club and the South, rn
Shops teams of the City league, who are
tied for second place in the league
standing, will tie up in a game tomor
row afternoon al Ponce DeLeon park,
and this will settle that position.
The two teams number on their ros
ter some of the best players in local
amateur circles. The battling is sure
to be good.
MASTERS THIRD JUDGE.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 26.—A.
M. Masters, of Jacksonville, 111., has
been selected as the third judge of the
Southern field trials that will be held
at Leetohatchie. near Montgomery, be
ginning December 9. The other two
judges previously announced are
Frank M. Detiraffenreid, of Selma, and
W. A. Blount, Jr., of Pensacola.
CLEARANCE SALE OF SECOND-HAND CARS
ALSO ALL DEMONSTRATORS
Every second-hand and demonstrating car must be sold. A rare chance to pick up some
bargains. Following is a partial list of what we have.
1 1911 Maxwell, 4 Cylinder, 2 passenger runabout.
1 1911 Maxwell, 4 Cylinder, 4 passenger touring car.
1 1910 Maxwell, 4 Cylinder, 5 passenger touring car.
1 1910 Cadillac, 4 Cylinder 4 passenger touring car.
1 1910 Rambler, 4 Cylinder, 5 passenger touring car.
1 1910 Rambler, 4 Cylinder, 7 passenger touring car.
1 1909 Thomas, 4 Cylinder, 7 passenger touring car.
1 1912 Columbia, 4 Cylinder, 7 passenger demonstrator.
We will gladly demonstrate any of these cars upon request. If you are in the market for a
used car, this is your chance.
UNITED MOTOR ATLANTA COMPANY
380-382 Peachtree St. Bell Phone Ivy 1980
Savannah Merchandise Broker
Picks Rattling All-Star Team
HERE is an all-star team picked
by a merchandise broker of
Savannah, Max Guthman, of
the firm of Haas-Guthman Com
pany. Here is what Mr. Guthman
has to say about his team:
"In right field we have Ty Cobb,
‘the Georgia peach,’ who Is consid
ered by everybody the greatest of
living ball players. He possesses
every quality that goes to make up
a first-class ball player.
"In center field is Tris Speaker,
the star of the Red Sox. He is
the nearest to Cobb in the big
leagues today. He Is an excellent
batter, a daring base runner and
a sure fielder.
"Joe Jackson In left field is a
first-class player. Although this is
but his second year in the big
leagues, he shows himself to be
fully qualified for the position.
“Hans Wagner at shortstop is the
backbone of the Pittsburg tedm.
He has practically led the National
league for the past seven years.
Although he shows signs of going
back, he has a few years left yet.
"Frank Baker is a tower of
Strength to the Athletics. He is
the clean-up naan and is a fine
slugger. His drives in last year’s
world series will never be forgot
ten.
"On the keystone sack we have
Nap Lajoie. Last year he came
only a second to Cobb for the bat
ting honor of -the American league.
This year he has been out part of
the season on account of injuries,
but is still up among the leaders.
"Jake Daubert, the star first base
man of the Dodgers, is a wonderful
fielder and covers a world of ter
ritory. He is an excellent batter,
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Packey McFarland will fight ten rounds
with Eddie Murphy, at Kenosha, Labor
day.
Grover Hayes and Freddie Welsh have
been matched to box twelve rounds at
Winnipeg, August 5.
• • •
Charley White and Jack White, each
with a win over Owen Moran to his credit,
are out after the featherweight title.
Both boys are camping on Johnny Kil
1-ane's trail in an effort to secure a cham
pionship match.
Johnny Kilbane is still after Ad Wol
gast for a match. The featherweight
champion says he will meet the Michi
gan "Wildcat” and will post a side bet
on the outcome of the contest.
• • •
, It. is very likely Owen Moran will an
nounce his retirement from the ring be
fore very long.
• • •
Oscar Williams, who defeated Harry
• Savannah Fan Picks:
•This All-Star Team:
•
• Cobb Right Field «
• Jackson .. Left Field •
• Speaker Center Field «
• Wagner Shortstop •
• Baker Third Base »
• Lajoie Second Base *
• Daubert First Base *
• Meyers, Archer Catchers *
• Johnson, Rucker Pitchers *
• Mack Manager *
••••••••••••••••••••••••«»
too.
“ ‘Chief Meyers, the star catcher
of the New York Giants, has come
into prominence during the past
few years. He is a natural hatter
and leads his team with the stick.
His arm is feared by every base
stealer. Archer, of the Cubs, is sec
ond only to Meyers. He is a fair
batter, but is a fine general.
"Walter Johnson, of the Wash
ington team, last year led the
American league in strikeouts. He
has a cool head and knows the
gatne from A to Z.
“Nap Rucker is the king of the
southpaws. If he was with a first
division team he would have a
chance to show himself.
“Connie Mack, as manager, is a
fine general and takes an Interest
in his players. He knows baseball
in and out and is the greatest
leader.”
(bona your »electioi4s of your all
star team to the Sporting Editor, The
Georgian.)
Forbes at Paducah, Ky., a short time
ago, is now looked on as a coming cham
pion in the bantamweight class.
• • •
Out on the coast they are banding to
gether to give Willie Ritchie a era'at at
Ad Wolgast for the lightweight cham
pionship. By "they” are meant the E ‘
moters and fight fans. It is likely, l ””
champion and Ritchie will be mateneo t a
a 20-round contest before many moons.
Joe Thomas and Jack White have been
practically matched for a go at the 1 -
leans A. C. In New Orleans some time «
the near future. If Thomas refuses '
meet the Westerner, Frankie Russell w.i
be given the match.
• * *
Johnny Dundee will leave for the ''”st
shortly. His first stop will be at
Orleans, where he will meet son:.
boy in a ten-round contest. He wn. ' •
hike on to Los Angeles, where he
vision of a championship battle "
Johnny Kilbane on Labor day.