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'"to!® ltototo SH ai ffl MlMw ■■ B llmh ! Ftefe Crackers, Under Alperman, Are Changed Team v»-I- •!••+ +•+ •!•••? ❖••J’ Developing Some Real Pep and Spirit at Last By Percy H. Whiting. THE Crackers are a different team! The new, Alperman managed ball club may not be any better than that which played under Hemphill. But it looked better, anyway—and played better yesterday. The old, morose “pep”-less gang of the earlier part of the season is gone. In its place is a team with a lot of life and considerable ap parent fondness for the work The long faces, the grouches, the som berness of the old gang have de parted. In its place is a club that Is fighting baseball battles for the love of the fighting. Yesterday they fought the Peli can team to an 8-to-7 victory. Ad mittedly, it was "town ball." It had more rough edges than a por cupine. It was the old biff-bang stuff, with small science and much sport. But chiefly of interest is the fact that the Crackers won. No matter how many runs the Peli cans made, and they made a plen ty, the Crackers always made just one more. They tied it and untied it time and again. But always the Crackers were there with just enough of the old punch to score the winning run. And when the tight pinch came in the first of the ninth the waivering line of defense stiffened and held. And the Peli can attack was thrown back and battered down. Also, it looks as though the Crackers had plenty more of the same stuff packed away for use to day and tomorrow and all the rest of the season. • • • jg EFORE the end of the w eek the Crackers will be considerably strengthened for the final rush to the wire. The Atlanta Baseball as sociation has gone into the thing deep now. Before the purchases contemplated now are finished it will run to $20,000 for the season. The coming of Kid Howard will be a grand help. If the "Kid" has his wing back he will be the won der of the league. He was a very marvel last fall. This spring his arm was pitifully weak and that not only made him look a boob in throwing, but it got his goat so badly that he forgot how to field. It was on the testimony of "Buck" Becker, the Washington pitcher, that Alperman decided to recall Howard. Becker had seen Howard play recently and said that his arm appeared all right. With Howard on third and McEl veen In the outfield, the Cracker team ought to look pretty fair. * • « rNi'N’T forget one thing - "Whitey" Alperman is going to manage the Cracker ball club as long*ns he is manager The direc tors gave one manager free rein ami lr didn't do much for the cause. Put that hasn't Sickened them of tin system. The. have turned the club ov< : to Alperman just a.- absolutely as they turned it over to Hemphill. It's up to him. And as for Alperman. lie's a tol erably determine < hap himself and <•: n handle tin players. It is strongly suspected that the first thing Alperman will do with the club will be to reform or fi < any hard drinkers .Upernmn is a "Dutchman" and doesn't see any harm in beer. But he's down on the old "red eye." and he is like>\ to deal harshly with the Lushers on the club. He hasn't made any particular threats, but It is noted that the conuumptfon of tye juice has fallen off very sharply. Another good point about Alper man Is that he Is able to handle his pluyers without friction He do< su't bellev, In "bawling ’em out." H> doesn t object to a tfliow of good . spirit- bj his men, however, and l*n t likely to fine anybody for a little good-natured kidding on the bench. * ♦ ♦ A LPERMAN is making no an nouncements about the players he is after, but it is strongly sus pected that he needs pitchers. When a club is batting hard and yet is losing games steadily thd pitchers are usually at fault. Os course. In this case the Crackers aren’t altogether to blame. For they' have the unhappy faculty’ of making more hits for less runs than any team that has played here in a long time. This has been partly due to slowness and bad judgment, on bases, partly to hard luck. However, there have been t; peck of games this season when the Crackers have made from two to six runs before the other team even got started—and then lost. And that has been because of weakness in the pitching staff. Just which pitchers are to be let out is hard to say. The wo: k of the staff has been so erratic of late that it is hard to tell which is en titled to the coin and which to the can. « « • \yiIEN the company llmt adver tises with the aid of big bull signs stuck up in ball parks put the "bull” in the Ponce DeLeon ball park they played it safe. They' agreed to pay sai> to any hall play er who would hit the bull on tile fly with a fairly hit ball in a game. But they made sure nobody wonid hit it by putting it so far from home plate that it couldn’t be hit NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Jim Stewart is training bard for his ten-round scrap with Luther ?4<‘C’arthy in New York August 5. Stewart knows a win over the big ■‘White Hope” would redeem the defeat handed him by Bom bardier Wells some time back * » # K. O. Brown, who was injured in an au tomobile wreck recently, has fully recov ered and will start training shortly for a series of b aits on«the Ihicilie coast. His manager has arranged for him io meet some of the best lightweights in the busi ness in California next fall Sandy b’erguson, ‘White Hope.’' was arrested at Boston the other day for maintaining a liquor nuisance. * Mi * Frankie Burns and Jack Wlnte are scheduled to go ten rounds at Oakland August 7. Tommy Murphy will receive $4,000. win. lose or draw for 111 s bout with Abe Attell on the coast the first of next month. George K. O. Brown, the middleweight Greek, who has been taking a vacation, is on the warpath again The Chicago pug is anxious for a return match with Eddie MeGoorty and ‘.,ys he will als. give Jack Dillon another try Harry Tracey, th. Philadelphia feath erweight. will tackle Young Sliugroe in ■McFarland and wolgast LIKELY TO MIX IN GOTHAM CHICAGO, July 3u. —Clm mpion \Vol |gast and Backey Mel'.u ..nd may meet I in the near future if some protnut. r is | willing to give the title ladder sl’. ■">!) | tor his end of the light. In a eont'er | enee yesterday with. Emil Tillery. I’ai i.. |ey ’.- manag. r. Woigast agreed to meet j th. south side lighter, even going so far las io concede \y. .ig.it Ad says he will ullou I’ackey to weigh in at 135 pounds at 3 o'clock, or at j i.-ast seven hours befoit tit battle 'STOCKHOLM OLYMPIAD IS A FINANCIAL FAILURE ST« H'KIIoUI, July 30 A expected, the oly inpie games p> >ved a failure from a financial point of vew. Stockholm's experience was ahnlllir to tl.at of London during the i or.mat ion. the Swedish for- I elgn ■ press printing stories ..f prohibitive prices asked for accommodations at the hotels and apartment houses her. , with tl.< result that th. crowd stayed away This despite the efforts of the manage ment of llu games to e.iuuteia.H ihe newepapei reports by extern i\<• adver tising As a matter of fact, there was plenty of room at reasonable prices TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1912. with a thirteen-inch gun. But that was before Rudolph Waldorf broke into baseball. Now, if the said Rudolph ever gets one fair wallop at that ball and starts it for the bull, the ani mal will shortly be minus a rib. Never before has there been such a walloper on the Atlanta club. The big guy stands way over six feet tall dnd must weigh along to ward 200 pounds. He takes one of those wind-mill wallops at the pill. And when he hits it the ball flattens out—but it goes a mile. Yesterday in batting practice Waldorf batted everything that came his way. A couple of wallops he bounced off the back fence for sure home runs. A half dozen more were long enough for three bag gers. A dozen were good for two baggers. And he didn’t hit any singles. Mark this prediction—that big bully is going to knock three home runs in the first game he finds a pitcher to his liking. • ♦ • rHE signing of Hampton Rey nolds, of the Albany club, gives a line on Alpertnan’s plans for strengthening his club. “We’ve tried the big' leagues and they' don't offer us any encouragement," said Alperman this morning, "so we have decided to pick up some prom ising youngsters and see if we can’t patch ’up a team with them." Doubtless the excellent ball Hint Harbison is playing encouraged the Crackers to take a shot at other kid performers. Newark tonight. Shugroe will have the advantage in weight, Inn Tracey says lie will offset this by his cleverness. * * + Kid McCoy is still being held by the London authorities pending the capture of the thieves who stole a bunch of jewelry from the Palace hotel in that city. Mc- Cov was stopping at the hotel at the time of tic theft and he was at once suspected of the crime. Frank Moran has agreed to stop two men in the same ring at Palm Beach in side of ten rounds or forfeit his share of the purse. . . . Patsv Haley and Joo Kastner are sched uled io box at the Jamaica A. C. in Brooklyn tonight. George Kitson, who is managing a box ing club at Nashville, knocked Eddie Walsh out in the fourth round at his club recently. Promoter Coffroth. of San Francisco, is still tiyie.g to sign Jim I’lynn and Tuning Hurns for a muss to be staged in 1- risen Labor Day. • * • One week from tomorrow Young Jack o'P.'un the Philadelphia lightweight, an,, ■ ml: Cross, thi fighting dentist, will lash at the i.ardoi \ C in New York. This promises to be the best ten round el! lagmient ever staged in Gotham. CUBS OFFER $17,000 FOR PHILA. RECRUIT HURLER PHILADELPHIA. July 30. President Horace !•' m’.. of th? Philadelphia Na- tional league bas, ball club, has refused a genuine offer of H 7.000 for Pitcher Epp liixey. the I’niversit.- of Virginia, giant, whom lie recently sign si The offer was made by President Charles Murphy, of the Chicago Cubs Murphy, in making !.<■ < (Ter. declared that Rixey is the best pitcher he has seen m years mid is far better than Marquard. The • tfer was made as a result of Itixey's wonderful perfoimanee against the Cubs. lllxey I'iini d the I’hiilli s live weeks ago, when be was signed by Fogel, At the i niversity of V.rginii he had estab lished a remarksble record on the mound H, is tlie tallest pitcher in the big leagui s. measuring feet 4K inches in I height JOE SHERMAN WINS OVER YOUNG SAYLOR IN 8 RDS. MEMPHIS. TENN July 30. Young Say lor, of Indianapolis, lost the decision to Joe Sherman, of Baltimore, in their eight-round bout here last j nient Sh< i u.ii! fought under the name lot Young Jo, Grim." Saylor was al , I most a 3 to I favorite In the betting und tlie result was u big surprise. r- BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Artie Phelan, former Baron now with the Keels, has an injured hand and is tak ing a three weeks' vacation. Eddie Grant Is back on the old third base job while Phelan is out. • ♦ ♦ The Giants have made more errors than any team in the National league. The N. L. teams have not been able to take much advantage of the Giants’ errors. But what of the Red Sox? • * • The playing of the Cincinnati team has been so bad recently that sporting writ ers have recalled some of the past awful ness of the Reds. It is even alleged that one Red player, Mike Grady, made four errors on one ball. They were: 1. Fum bled it. 2. Threw it wild into the bleach ers. 3. Fumbled it when it was thrown back. 4. Threw over the catcher’s head. » * ♦ Everybody laughed at the thought of Otto Hess and Hub Perdue in the big leagues this year—the former because he was too old and the latter because he was a dub. Yet these two have proved to be two of the most useful workers in the major leagues, though they have been kept down by the fact that they are working for the Braves. • • • The Western league has 31 regular play ers batting .300 or over. Borton, of St. Joseph, leads with .397. ♦ * * A. J. Heinemann, president of the Ya-> zoo City club, has just sent a deaf mute to I leMontreville’s club and is about ready to sign an outfielder with a cork leg. Will Bradley, an umpire, recently com mitted suicide at Clinton Junction Wls., by hanging himself. Enough said. • • ♦ \\ illiani M. Kavanaugh married the oth er day. But not the president of the Southern league. Instead it was a man of the same name who plays third base on the Trenton, Tri-state league, club. * ♦ ♦ And still they go. The Bucks County league has just blown up. * w •» Bobby Wallace, after seventeen years in the major leagues, is about due to (juit. Stovall is talking of getting rid of him. Wallace says he will never play except in rhe major leagues and he probably means it. ■ « • Buck Taylor, of the Carolina associa tion. who has been kicked about the league from team to team this season, pitched a no-hit game the other day for Spartanburg. Roy Radabaugh, who op posed him, gave up fourteen hits. * » » Jesse Burkett, part owner and manager of the Worcester team,' will quit baseball after this year. And it's about time. Kit ty Bransfield is said to be slated to suc ceed him. ♦ ♦ • Tex Covington knocked two players un conscious in a recent game with pitched balls. One was forced to go to the hos pital. • * « President Carson, of the Central league, is making a tour of his circuit. Instead of going by train he rides in a touring can Bill Phillips’ team is fifth in a 12-club circuit, but Bill isn’t satisfied and is sign ing a player or two a day. • ♦ ♦ Lavender and Larry Cheney are the only winning pitchers of the Cub team. They will be the nucleus around which Chance will try to build a staff next year. * * * Well, Gabby Street has followed .Tack Knights into the International league. Providence gets him. Philadelphians are panning the Ameri can L-auuc umpires. In particular they are kicking because they allow the play ers td use profane and indecent language ihat can be heard in the stands. Cincinnati has offered Mitchell. Egan and Grant for Bill Sweeney, of the Braves. ♦ ♦ ♦ Somebody asked John T. Brush once if it never occurred to him that tilings might he done differently in handling the Giant team. “Only once.” replied Brush. “That v. as all. I had an idea one day and I told it to McGraw. ‘lt won't be done.’ said McGraw. I’ve never had another idea." « * * Cy Morgan, pitcher and vaudeville art ist. has signed as an actor with a moving picture Him company. ♦ • • Rube Benton has been slowly slumping with tl" Reds and will be lucky if he doesn’t get “sent back’’ .after a bit. ♦ • • The St Louis Cardinals are the only big leaguers who have been in train wrecks this year Thev have figured in two. But that isn’t what's the matter with them. • • • The Cleveland team has made such vig orous raids on its farm, the Toledo club, that it has practically ruined Topsy Hart sel's team. * • « Pickpockets don’t consider baseball players legitimate marks. Some mushy dip has Just returned a watch and fob he lifted from Grover Gilmore, former Buf falo player * « • The Baltimore News avers that the Bir mingham club is in the Cotton States. It would be helpful at that if it were. RIVERS STARTS WORK FOR MANDOT BATTLE I.OS ANGELES, July 30. Mexican Joe Rlvt rs In a week will begin light train ln« for ids sche<luhsl 20-round battle on Lebor I'av with Joe Mandot, of New Or leans Mandot and hia manager are on the way here today. Promoter McCurey states that Willie Ritchie can meet the winner of the Rivers-Mandot bout providing the San Franciaeo buy makes 183 pounds ringside Matty Is Greatest of All Pitchers—-Chief Meyers •J-**!’ •.-•4 1 •!•••!• <•••{• +••s■ u His Fine Control Makes Catching a Delight” By John (“Chief”) Meyers. WHO is the biggest man in the game of baseball, from the popular viewpoint? The pitcher. Whom do the fans talk about when they’re reading their papers on the way home from business at night, or on their way downtown in the morning? The pitcher—the man who “had them swinging like gates;” the man who “stood them on their heads;” the man who fooled them so that, as the saying goes, "they couldn’t hit the ground with their bats.” Working behind the plate, as I have, for a few years, I have been able to study a few of these pitch ers and to become pretty familiar with the pitching game as a gen eral proposition. And now I’m go ing to try and tell a little bit about some of the pitchers I have worked with, and how they work. I don't want to get too eloquent; but I would like to say that if you take all the pitchers in the world, and all the “stuff” they’ve got, and roll up all their careers into one and then look the product over, you’ll find one man —and one name —sticking out. I don't think I need to mention it. I can hear a chorus of fans .'ill over the country—friendly or hostile — speaking it: Christy Mathewson. There's no comparison between Matty and any pitcher that ever tossed a ball, or. in my opinion, that ever will toss a ball. He's the old master, the perfect artist. I think that every person who ever saw him start will agree with me that when he takes the box It must be realized that the finished prod uct, the best ever, is at work. Tn the club I’ve often said to the boys: "Why, I could catch Matty sitting in a rocking chair." That might sound to an outsider like loose talk. But it’s true. I could. I'd do it on a bet. Here’s the rea son: He has perfect-control. When I'm working with Matty I know that there’s to be no hag gling over batters. I mean, no sig naling by me. then negative shak ing of the head by him, then an other sign from me, and perhaps another "nix" from him. He knows just what he’s doing all the time. He knows the weaknesses of oppos ing batters better than his catcher does. He's the boss of the battery, and yet a chummy boss, a pal, all through the game. Curve Ball His Mainstay. The best thing that Mathewson has—which may be a surprise to the casual baseball reader—is his curve ball. The way Matty works is to spring his curve—-a big curve which starts to carve all of a sud den —on a batter as soot) as our club is" In any kind of a hole. He lets the batter know that he "has something." And, having fooled the batter once, he generally fools him again. In some cases, where, for in stance, a very clever fellow will ex pect Matty to switch to another ball, he’ll send the same one over again. ’Or, with a fellow not so clever, and who's looking for a re peater, he'll switch to a straight, fast one. And, once the sort of hall is de cided upon between Matty and my self. I know it's going to be right where it’s marked for. I won't have to dig down In the dirt or go up in an aeroplane after it. 1 think Mat ty could put up a silver dollar on a barn door and bing it every time from the regulation distance. There has been a lot of talk about Matty's "fadeaway" ball. I’ll tell a little Inside "stuff” about that. The "fadeaway" is, In plain words, an indrop curve. It is a ball that comes up to the plate straight, and, Just as the batter swings, slowly reverses itself (with the “reverse English” of a pool or billiard ball) and falls down and away from the batter. Summing up a comment of Mat ty, the Old Master, I would say that he is the greatest of all because of these reasons: His curves, his fade away. his common sense in not working too hard when he doesn’t have to, and, above all, his superb control. I am coming next to a speed pitcher—-Rube Marquard. But be fore we get to him I want to say a word about another man who has thrown, in my belief, the fastest balls that ever crossed a plate. I don’t except Rusie or any of the other old-timers who were sup posed to serve very smoky balls. I refer to Walter Johnson, now with the Washington club of the Ameri can league. It may be news to some fans that I used to catch him. We had an exhibition series in California a few years ago—All Na tionals versus All Americans —and Walter and I were the battery for the Nationals. Tlie way that boy could throw! Why, after handling him I’d almost be willing to do the circus stunt of catching the cannon ball shot out of the big gun with nothing on but my old mitt. I think Johnson is the speediest pitcher that ever tossed one up to the plate. The palm of my mitt hand used to be red and sore from taking his fast ones. Marquard Improving Steadily. But we are talking of Marquard now, whom I know better and more recently. There is a young/fellow who has made a world’s record for consecutive victories, and who is getting better all the time. I think I can tell something about the Rube which even the baseball experts do not know—the principal reason why he can fool so many batters and win so many games. He has speed, of course; that’s one of his big assets. And he has mighty good curves. And recently he has splendid control. But to my mind, the Rube’s one big winning play is his “wind-up,” or "motion,” as we call it. He has a long swing, from which, all of a sudden, the ball snaps out, What S.S.S. 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S. cures Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores and Ul cere, Skin Diseases, Scrofula, Malaria and all other troubles of a deranged circulation. Write for free book on the blood and any medical advice. No charge for either. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. 1 t.iiMMini -|i i - - - ■ . ■ ® Hessheim VJer%uiqe/ Ricjui, and before the batter knows it it's in my mitt. Many spectators, no doubt, think that a “wind-up” is an affectation, a pose by the pitcher. But it’s not. It’s intended prima rily and mainly to fool the batter, to get him looking at the pitcher's "motion,” and then shoot one over before he realizes it. John McGraw, our manager, knows this very well. When a "scout” comes in reporting that he has discovered a new pitcher that looks good, one of the first things Mac asks him is: "How*is his mo tion?” Marquard has the best and most deceiving motion before delivering the ball of anybody in the big leagues, I think. Marquard also has a lot of con fidence now. It used to be that he couldn’t even pitch to batters at practice in the morning. They used to kick and holler and say: "Here’s that Rube again; we're going to get beaned.” Josh Devore, who doesn’t like a left-handed pitcher, would throw away his bat and try to duck. And the boys w'ould bawl Marquard out —which didn’t help him any, of course. But now he’s got confidence >n himself, and he’s got all the fellows pulling for him, and we’d rather have him than any one else serv ing them up to us in practice. Os course, he’s got the curves and everything else that go to make up a splendid pitcher. He should last for years and be one of the best the game ever knew. PRESIDENT LYNCH GIVES OUT HIS REVISED DATES NEW YORK, July 30.—President Lynch of the National league announced dates fixed for playing off postponed games as follows: At Pittsburg—August 14 (2) with Phil adelphia, game of July 11; August 15 (2l with Philadelphia, game of July 10; Au gust 23 (2) with New York, game of July 18; August 26 (2) with Boston, game of July 24. At Cincinnati—August 15 (2) with Brooklyn, game of July 8. At Chicago—September 27 (2) with Cin cinnati (previously bulletined as one game for September 25). At St. Louis —August 17 (2) with Bos ton, game of July 10.