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"Hempnil! had an idea that the Southern was a s r: of a boob organization, and that he. coming from the big ci’y and a major or ganization, would have .-'ll the other pit. ts lashed to the mas’.” As a matter >f fact, this is alto gether wrong. Hemphill left New York about a month before the writer came to Atlanta. During the American league meeting last win ter Hemphill received his appoint ment as manager of the Crackers. I saw him the last day of the meet ing and he was packing his belong ings to get South in time to take in the Southern's annual winter session. "I am going to have a tough job of it," he said. "The Southern league is just about as fast as the Eastern league or Amerii an asso ciation. Ami I am taking hold of a tail-end club, too. I don’t expect to make much of a showing the first year, as 1 believe to get re sults 1 will have to build up an en tirely new team. 1 figure that it will take me about three years to get a winner, and I will consider myself lucky if I do it in that time.” Now, this statement verily shows that Hemphill did not underesti mate the strength of the Southern league. But he is a bit "down " now; so let all the knockers get the hammer going. • • * tT was Hemphill himself who ar -1 ranged the deal whereby he goes to the Columbus club. A life long friend, Billy Eriel, is manag ing the Columbus team, and Hemp is sure to deliver his best brand. Friel was utility man on the famous Browns of 1902, which finished sec ond to the Athletics after a royal pennant race. It is very likely that Hemp will act as field captain. Co lumbus is running second to Min neapolis There are only a few points separating the clubs. Co lumbus having edged up close with in the past two weeks Hemphill will probably add just enough strength to Friel's aggrega tion to bring them home a winner. If he does, it sure will vindicate him in every way. Charley knows baseball; he know s a player, and but for the fact that he made a couple of mistakes when off the field he woujd have surely given Atlanta a good club He didn't get the "breaks," and it worried him. Here's imping that Dame Fortune does better by him in his new berth —for a better fellow and a more < mpefent p'.ix. r never wore a ('racker uniform. • • • JOE M'GINNJTY announced a few weeks ago that he Would never decorate the pit with his presence again. Joe stuck to it for about ten days and then went in and won a double-header for his Newark club. The next da\ he went back and won another game. Which, be lieve me, is going some for a "pool, broken-down atiileb," as one Newark paper described McGinni ty the day he did his Patti. His performance of winning tliiee games in two days shows that be is still an "Iron Man." The) say he has got nothing now, not even his famous old roundhouse curve iha I tnnd*-* bo*»b!> out of Na tional Ir.'ifiHc batsmen for year> and sears. So be must have won his three.in-a-row With his head alone And Joe sui t has a hi ap of g0,.-1 common >. ns< :n ■fiat tldnk-fank k eight years ago to see McGinnity work two days running, or even pitch and win both games of a double-header. And he didn't lag about his work, either. He had no bunch of contortions to go through before delivering the ball. It was simply a case of shove it over. Games he twirled for the Giants seldom lasted over an hour and a half, and most of them were fin ished well within that time. ♦ ♦ ♦ JUST before the Cubs started an invasion of the East. Frank ( 'hance received the following let ter: Mr. Frank Chance: Out here in the tall grass there Is a twenty-year-old boy that seems to be material such as you want. This youngster is 6 feet 1 inch in height and of clean habits. He is a left-hand pitcher of exceptional ability. He has speed, perfect control at all times, and all the different curves and drops. He is pitch ing for our local team here and lias, in two respective games, struck out eighteen and twelve men. respectively. I believe he is National league material anil will bring him to Chicago if you desire to look him over. A. B. YOUNG. Chicago Stock Farm, Buffalo Center. lowa. Following the resultant invita tion. Young dragged the knight of the corn fields to Chicago. Leading Ihe reluctant and bashful ruralite by the hand, as he would a lad of three, he brought him to the Cub pit to meet Chance. He had just watched Rucker and Liefield fin ish a pitchers' battle. "I think I’ve got better control than Rucker, and my curves are far better than Liefield’s," said the boy when tile P. L. asked him how he was impressed. Such forwardness! How could this go back to lowa unpunished? So the Cubs thought as they heard the frank remark of the tiller of the . soil. Aha! ho was Invited to partici pate in the next morning’s warm ing-up. He agreed readily; too readily, the Cubs now think. Visions of pounding the busher all over the lot and sending him back to Buffalo Center a sadder but wiser farm hand tilled the in tellect departments of Chicago's hopes. They set him on the slab and i "honey w ent to the plate. "Br-rrr- wh-z-z!" Cheney gazed at Clemons, won dering why he didn’t throw. He heard a grin from behind. Need ham was holding the ball in his mitt and smiling aloud over Lar ry's inability to see the missile go by • 'lemons then struck Cheney out with two more whizzes. The same lie did to Reulbach. to Sheckard, to Heine a.nd the rest, and in the twenty minutes lie was In action not one Cub acquired a real hit. "I guess we'll take that fellow with us." said Chance. And today Robert Clemons, of Buffalo Center. lowa, is a regular Cub. Needless to say, too. the news agent at B. ('.. lowa, lias dou bled his order for Chicago papers. Bull Moose has been superseded by Clemons as a subject for current gossip at B. C's general store. WINNER OF ARNST-BARRY SCULL RACE TO ROW WRAY; Li'NDON .lull .'W. A match in Vmerica for the w orld's sculling • ham • pionship may follow todays race on tin Thame.. . mi se from I’utnev to Mortlake when Richard Arnst. of New Ze iland. the wot Id's champion, will de lend hi- titli agiin-t Ermst kirn. the English ■ liampioti Tin English race w ill be for Ui.Uuo a Side. in r, ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. AIONDAY, JULt 29, 1912. Southern League This Season Is Weakest in History of Organization BARON TEAM IS LIVELY AFFAIR, BUT NO WONDER By Percy H. Whiting. HARLEY HEMPHILL un- I derestlmated the strength of the Southern league.” So many people said when the for mer Highland outfielder was re duced to the ranks. But it was impossible. No man could have underesti mated the strength of the present Southern league. It is the weakest in all history. The Southern association of 1912 lacks many thousands of being the cheapest league in all history. It is not the youngest. It isn't the oldest. It isn’t even the slowest. But it Is the weakest. Oppose the present eight clubs against those which played in the strongest league of all history and the teams of the current league would lose four out of five games. If the Birmingham team wins the pennant this year it will be one of tlie weakest teams that ever per formed it- probably the very weak est since the lamented Newt Fisher copped. It numbers one really remarkable player, Almeida. That lets it out. The only other things the team Is noted for are team play, spirit, ginger and willingness. It is the "wiliingest” team of all history and is playing better ball, considering Its normal ability, than any other team in the South ever did before —- just as tlie Atlanta team this sea son has been playing the worst ball in the world, considering the natural and proved ability of the individual players. • * • I AST year’s league was tolerably a strong. The team that won the pennant wasn't any wonder. But the general class of tlie league was tolerably high. It numbered some really good hitters in Pratt, Red Smith, Butcher. Northern, Kirke and Daley; some good fielders in Schwartz. Jordan, Marcan. Manusb, Elwert. Knaupp and Lindsay, and some fair pitchers In Hess, Max well. Aitehison, Bair. Kent. Prough, Finlayson, Benton. Demaree, Al len. Wagner and Foxen. The 1910 league was another that was fairly weak. The pennant winning team. New Orleans, was largely made up of Hess. Joe Jack son and Manush, with a few "fill ers." Tlie only batters of the league outside Joe Jackson were old-timers—McGilvray, Swacina, Molesworth. Meek and Schwartz. Hess and t'oveleskie were the only notable pitchers. The other leaders were veterans like Frank Sparks, Theodore Breitenstein. Whitey Guese, Tom Fisher and "Piggy” Paige. in 1909. the last year Atlanta won the pennant. Bill Smith had a pret ty strong team here, and one that could trim the present league lead ers with ease. The league, on a whole, though, was not exception ally strong. It numbered some real ly great players, like Jake Daubert. Wheat, Kirkpatrick. Perdue, Hess. Maxwell and Suggs, but that let It out. The Nashville team that won the pennant of 190 S was another joke. Bar; ing Jake Daubert. Hub Perdue and Humpty McElveen, it didn't have a ball player that lasted through the season and the club numbered such jokes as Jack Hardy and such old-timers as Kel lum. Wiseman, East. Bay and Sea bough It was a great league, perhaps th gieatest, though, even if thi strength wasn't concentrated in any one team. Il had Tri.- Speaker. Lord. Beats Beeker, Molesworth • then in his prime), lit nliue. Bat t- Wald • • bear that year). McElveen. Tom Dawney. Jake Daubert. Ow ens. Za> k Wheat. Dolly Stal k. Breitenstein (In the best form of •as ca eei 1. Rox 1 'astlelon, Hull ITrdui Russefl Ford. Prince Gas- A Midsummer's Day Dream • • • What Figures Show • : In Southern League • • • • Here are the leaders of the • • Southern league in various “de- • • partments” of the game: • BEST BASE STEALER. • • Johnston. Birmingham 50 • • HOME RUN CLOUTS. • • Johnston, New Orleans 5 • • Young, Nashvillte . 5 • • TWO-BASE SWATS. • • Abstein, Memphis 22 • • TOTAL BASE HITS. • • Johnston, New Orleans 139 » • MOST SACRIFICE HITS. • • Wares, Montgomery 30 • • \ * ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* kill. Otto Hess. Bert Maxwell and Phil Sitton. Going back still further, we land slap against a grand team—the 1907 pennant winners) of Bill Smith. On this club were Paskert. Rube Zeller. Roy Castleton, Bob Spade, Russ Ford and Ed Sweeney, all of whom "went higher;" and Winters, Jesse Beeker. Jim Fox and Otto Jordan, all of whom were playing the games of their career. Tlie league itself was tolerably strong that year. It numbered a world of men who went higher and stuck—Neal Ball. Kid Wells. Dolly- Stark, Jud Daley, Suggs, Wilhelm, and a mess of others. You could go right on like this back to tlie beginning without find ing a pennant-winning team much weaker than the one that leads ihe Southern league race at present, nr a league in which the total strength was less. * • * nIRJUNGHAM, witli a '-club that cost but $5,500, will probably go down in league history as the cheapest pennant winner (if it is one)-since the days of thstt great economist. Newt Fisher, ' The Cracker club, on the other nand, will break a league record as the most expensive team that ever finished last (if it does finish last, which seems highly probable at this writing). A rough guess at the cost of the MATCHES START TODAY FOR PRESIDENT’S CUP Ma’tch play in the five flights for the golf trophy offered by President W H, Glenn, of the Atlanta Athletic club, will begin today. The following are the pairings in the flights: First Flight. T. B. Pay vs. Dr. F. Holland. .1. S. Raine. Jr., vs. A. A. Doonan. R. P. Jones vs. C. V. Rainwater. G. H. Atkisson vs. H. Block. G. W. Adair vs. H. G. Scott. D. Jemison vs. D. Brown. E. Corwin vs. L, Arnold. W. R. Tichenor vs. R. E. Richards. Second Flight. W. B. Stovall vs. W, H. Rowan. J. S. Osborne vs. R. G. Blanton. D. B Osborne vs. C. A. Thornton. P Adair vs. H. Hopkins. I. D. Darling vs. I. L. Graves. R. A. Palmer vs. W. J. Tilson. C. .1. Holditch vs. C. P. King. C. M. Sclple vs. T. A. Hammond. Third Flight. W. Z. Hazelwood vs. I. 1.. Ingram. W. F. Spalding vs. R P. Jones. Jr. H. K. Neer vs. J. T. McGill. G. W. Walker vs. Perry Adair. Angier vs. J <J. Burton. J. P. Webster vs. E R. James. W C. Hollevman vs, J. C. Thompson. J D. Eby vs. J. M. Beasley. Fourth Flight. J. Moore vs. E. H. Barnett. T L. Cooper vs. E. T. Winston W. W. Cunningham vs. E. G. Ottley. V. V. Tilson vs. B. M. Blount. R. J. Norris vs. T. 1. Lynch. J. J Hastings vs. J. S. Derr. J O. Smith vs W. O Mashburn. .1 E. Mellett vs P. L. Fleming. Fifth Flight. P H Newton vs. A. 1, Johnson. J C McMichael vs. H M. Ashe H Perry vs M. Saul. W. c Warren vs. 1.. M. Crichton W M. Markham vs W M Richards, W. I-’ Upshaw vs. J, D Leitner. W Alfriend vs. A W Hodnett. \\ A. Jaekson vs J. C Harris Crackers this year would place the figures at $11,009 to $15,000. An other pitcher and an outfielder must be purchased—say at a cost of a. couple of thousand more, bringing the total up to $13,000 to $17,000. And the team is last and making ho violent symptoms of getting any better. 4 * * * A T that, the Crackers can, and may. finish in ,the first division. They are only 65 points out of the first division (-or a matter of 5 1-2 , games). The team is still second , among the le|igue clubs In batting, , and‘third in liitting for total bases. 1 If the local club is lucky enough to 1 round up a couple of first-class ( pitchers within the. next couple of weeks, the trick can be turned. The trouble with the Cracker team is tilth it ’s entirely disorgan ized. 'a®d that it hast acquired the habit of losing. And such a habit, once formed, is worse, than hitting the pipe. Maybe “Whitey" Alper man can reform them. Maybe not. It is surely a grown man’s job. ♦ ♦ ♦ T F it Should happen that tflark Griffith’arid his'team of Senators should train in Atlanta next spring, it would be a changed organization from the collection of jokes who were here a couple of years ago, under the leadership of Jimmy Mc- Aleer. Griffith has performed prob ably the most miraculous miracle of all baseball history by sending the Senators into the race for the American league pennant. There is even a chance that they may yet win the bunting. Surely they ought to finish as good as second —and that’s tolerably good • for Washington. It can't be said that the Washing ton club did much for the Crackers the last time they were here. "Biff” Corbin, their donation In lieu of "ground rent,” was a first-class lit tle scrapper, at his weight; but his skull was more or less solid, and his batting ability was almost a minus quantity. Manager Griffith isi well known in Atlanta, for he has trained here before, with tlie Yankees and with the Reds. IF GIANTS WIN THEY ARE ' TO TAKE TOUR OF WORLD NEW YORK. July 29. —Providing, of ' course, that the Giants win the Na ' tional league pennant, arrangements , have been practically completed to make a-trip half-way around the world with the winners of the American league championship In other words, the teams taking part in the world’s series in the fall w ill leave here on October 25 for a trip that will be watched with interest a greater part of next winter. The trip will cover leading cities in the United States, the rival teams playing in Den ver. Los Angeles and San Francisco, be sides other cities, before sailing for Honolulu. After several games there, the play ers will go direct to Japan to give ex hibitions of the national game in Tokio and Yokohama Hongkong. China, will' be the next stopping place, after which Manila will be visited. Then Australia will be the objective point, with games in Sydney and Melbourne Instead of going around the world, touring Europe and coming back across the Atlantic, it Is planned to sail for Panama from the Antipodes. . as games in the Canal Zone are ex pected to be profitable. South America, I after that, will be toured, the teams probably having games arranged for them in Valparaiso. Buenos Ayres and Rio di Janeiro. Prom the last named city, the tk;m|s will sail direct for New York, being s< tie'duled to arrive herein or about February 1 The expenses of the trip are esti mated at $50,000. Thirty players—fif teen for each team—will be taken along, and if there are any profits the money will be divided equally among the men. It is understood that A. G. Spalding, whi financed a world’s tour in IX9B. has agreed to subscribe a certain am >•» t towatd guaranteeing expenses and that other wealthy men interested in the game have promised to Help. '■ ; • Copyright, 1912, National News Ass’n. By Tad One Fan Fails to Pick Cobb On His All-Star Ball Team THE GEORGIAN has over a hundred letters from fans who have picked all-star baseball teams, but only one writer has omitted Ty Cobb in his line-up. He is Otis Green. Here is the aggre gation that he believes would clean up: Speaker Right field Jackson Centerfield Callahan Left field Lobert -Third base Collins Second base Bush . Shortstop Dooin, Wingo . Catchers Johnson Benton Pitchers Mack ' Manager Jack Austin, of Dixie, Ga., sends in a strong-looking outfit, as fol lows: Jackson' Right field Speaker Left field 'Uobb Center field Chase r First base La Joie . Second base Collins Third base Wagner Shortstop Archer. Thomas Catchers Marquard. Johnson ....... Pitchers J. P. Middleton, of the Fulton tiohal bank, has selected a team that sure would make the others hustle a heap. Here it is: •< Daubert First base- Collins Second base Wagner Shortstop Baker Third base Speaker Left field Cobb i. Center field Jackson i Right field Meyers, Archer Catchers Rucker, Johnson Pitchers E. Kurtz, who says he is thirteen years old, is going to be a good manager when he grows up if he picks ’em as well then as h 4 does now. He has a corking team. FODDER FOR FANS t. ; Big league teams are hiring more scouts than- ball players these days. Charley McCafferty, former manager of the Butte team, has accepted the posi tion of Western scout for the Tigers. Jennings Is looking for a lively man to scout through Alaska, the Philippines, Cuba, Japan and the. Sally league. ■ • • Pitcher Jacobs, of Tuskahoma. Okla., struck out 22 men in a recent game with the Antlers. Jack Erosl. who was dropped by the Pelicans to the Yazoo City team, has : been- ’’sold” to Cleveland and will be passed on.ro the Flynt, Mich., club. * * * i Fred Clarke, the Pirate manager who is . some golfer as a side line, has recently driven a golf ball from near the pennant pole clear over the grandstand at Pltts- . burg, and now professionals are coming from near and far to try to duplicate the feat: None has succeeded. • * • Islington, former Blue Grass player. 1 has been turned over to Wheeling for'the i rest of the season, but he will be back before long for another try with the Pi- , rates. ■ ’.U * * t The Athlfetlcs have formally protested to Ban Johnston because Umpire O’Loyghlin would not forbid the Detroit players from running out of the batter’s box the last day Plank pitched against them. The Johnson City team of the Appa lachian team has sold Outfielder Shaw to the Kansas City club. It turns out that Eppa Rixev is one of the Rfxeys of Virginia and that there was a refined riot before he got permission to play baseball They assured him that none of the ’first families” went in for it, but he signed anyhow • • • Ty Cobb will probably demand $45,000 for three years’ work when he signs his next contract. • • • Another team in distress: Johnstown. In the Trl-State. Chester gets the fran chise. * • • When the Jersey City team quit the In ternational league it may take the Albany franchise In the New York State league. Marquard will go on the stage this win ter In a vaudeville skit The simp! Larry Doyle, of the Giants, will prob ably run for mayor of his home town, Breeze, 111. t • • • Nobody has heard anything latelV of the project of putting the Macon ball'club In at Ponce DeLeon for continuous base bull • • • Boston talks of trading Hub Perdue to Look it over: Cobb Right field Speaker fieM * lark e Center field Lajoie Second base base First base Wagner Shortstop Zimmerman Third base Meyers, Archer Catchers Mathewson, Johnson Pitchers From Lawrenceville, Ga., Cecil Pharr sends us this team. Chase First base Goltins Second ba«e Wagner Shortstop Baker Third base Speaker Left field Cobb Center field Jackson Right field Meyers, Bresnahan Catchers Mathewson. Johnson .... Pitchers W. W. Scott, telegrapher at the Atlanta Terminal, varies quite a bit from otfifef fans. -Here's hi* team: Evers Second base Murphy Right field Jackson Left field Tinker Shortstop Daubert First base Cobb 1.,.. Center field Baker Third base Archer. Meyers ...: Catchers Bender, Johnson Pitchers W. C. Sapp, Jr., from Colutnbus, Ga.. contributes this team: Speaker Right field Cobb Center field Magee Left field Wagner Shortstop Baker Third base Lajoie Second base Chase First base Bresnahan. Dooin Catchers Coombs, Walsh Pitchers (Send your selections for you r all-star team to the Sporting Edi tor, The Georgian. Your full name must be signed. The Georgian will not print your selections other wise.) - _l New York for Wiltse and cash. All right trade, too, if the cash is sufficiently Im pressive. • • * Phil Nadeau, Southern leaguer tn pre historic days, is going in for umpiring next year. He is playing this year wlUt the Pendleton team of tne Western Trl- State league. • • • Herre Meek, is only hitting 380 in th« Northwestern league. • * • Speaking of the Cracker club- watch out for next season! * * * They all say it when they get last • * « Jake Stahl is the lone survivor of th* 1903 Boston American world’s champion- • • • Joe tianzel, John's brother, w ho w “ s formerly first baseman of the Grand RW- Ids team, Is running for sheriff In Kort county, Michigan. Joe used tank, but is on the wagon now and run ning on the prohibition ticket. • • • The result of a two-months’ "referen dum vote” by the Giant fans all games a the Polo Ground will start hereafter »■ 3:45 or earlier. A vote here In Atlants would doubtless show- a majority In vor of earlier games. • • • This will probably be. John Klings year in baseball. Running a pool an billiard parlor Is good enough for J now. Anything would be better tn» managing the Braves • • • Catcher Lemon, a Southern leaguer ths spring, has been traded by the Worth team to San Antonio for shortsw Wallace. • • • George Crable, former Cracker. been released by Fort Worth and * Russell will take his place. Crable. dou less, will go back to vaudeville Billy Phyle, of malodorous ,"r’h an ’‘ (sympathetic spelling) wjas mobbe-. other day at Guelph, Canada. He umpiring • • • The Appalachian league has umpire named Wahoo. an Ino.a Bobby Wallace .says that iaseball .s<V| ers can’i write »sny better than '■ l ' ' writers can play—which is some r-’ti Death Valley Scotty has wired, O’Day for terms on the whole Red He wants to use them for sinking s. The Giants have won ten straigh’ !r the Reds. John McGraw generally ben< regulars when he has a game C‘ Stahl sprung something new , , n ,i day by benching his regular inn>.‘! , n . Tris Speaker In a losing game tinned to los».