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".".aFWF r===Se== • . 7---.: ' I / '*' S? ?~- x ?" ' ~T~I ~~~ tZZZZF "-*'— zzzz:.—- i ■■ -,• •• ■■ ■ ••'■ ,;„ . ?> ' ■•*■■-' .. ~■■ '- '" -~ ' '■■— &®b 1 "wOSE* ygi ll| 111 II ill luikOi I II Illi U Illi ill ilillMi I I I 'ii ! 1 ’ MEOVu f I gIIHM H li|[i|| Crackers, Under Alperman, Are Changed Team +•+ +••!• +•+ +•+ Developing Some Real Pep and Spirit at Last By Percy 11. Whiting. THE Crackers are a different team! The new, Alperman managcd bnll 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. Rut 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 I 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. ♦ * • EFORE the end of the week the Crackers will be considerably strengthened fo' 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 bo the won der of tile league. He was a veiy 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 w as 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 appealer right With How don Ilin ;■ nd M l'.' - veen in the ‘ittii. |, . t . <■ ~ kvr team High.' I k a’:. ; "Whin ■■ An. a, s going to manaci tie ('rack,- leii- , tub as long she is mating, : Th, direc tors gave ot'e ma na . • f: eo i• in ami In <1 lift .. p .„ p the cause But t .ai , n t s kened then of the seston Tm-y h:iv< turned thi .mb i,v, t ■ \lperman just a- absolutely -th, y i ..med it over to Hemphill It'- up to him. And as so Alperman. • s a tol erably dete mined ehap himself and < an handle the play ers It is strongly suspected that the first thing Alperman will do with the dub will bt to reform or fie any hard drinkers Aly-iman Is a ' Dutchman" and doesn't s , anv harm in beer. But he's down on the Old "red eye." and lie is likely to deal harshly wit 1 : th. lush< :- on the i lub. He h.i n't a ;. -v particular threats b it it is not. ,! that the consumption of ;ye jui. .. has fallen off very sharply Another good p unt about \ipei man is that is aide to candle his players without ft lotion n. doesn't believe in bawling 'em oat.' ||. doesn't Ol.je. I to a HOW of spirits by liis men, howet.-r, and Hnt likely to fine anybody fur a little good-natured kidding on the bench. • • • . A LPERMAN is making no an -1 nouneements about the players lie is after, but it is strongly sus pected that lie needs pitchers. When a club Is batting hard and yet is losing games steadily the pitchers are usually at fault, of course, in this case the Crackers aren't altogether to blame. ' For thev 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 a 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 work of the staff has been so erratic of late lhat it is hard to tell which is en titled to the coin and which to the ca n. • ♦ • the company that adver tises witli the aid of big bull signs stuck up in bail parks put the “bull" in tile Ponce DeLeon hall park they played it safe. They agreed to pay SSO to any ball play er who would hit the bull on the fly with a fairly hit bail in a game. But they made sure nobody would 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 ton round scrap with Luther McCarthy in New York August 5. Stewart knows a win over the big "White Hope" would redeem Hie defeat banded him by Bom bardier Wells some time back. * ♦ * 1< < > Brown, who was injured in an au tomobile* wreck recently, has fully recov ered and will start training shortly for a series of bouts on the Pacific coast His manager has arranged for him to meet some of the best lightweights in the busi ness in California next fall. Sandx Ferguson. 'White Hope.” was arrested at Boston the other day for maintaining a liquor nuisance. Frankie Burns ami Jack White are scheduled to go ten rounds at Oakland August 7. Tomms Murphy will receive $4,000. win. lose or draw for his bout with Abe At tell on the coast the first of next month George K «). Brown, the middleweight Greek, who has been taking a vacation, :s on the warpath again The Chicago i pug is .mxlouF for a return match with Fhidi* MoGoorty and says he will also i.rivc .lack 1 >illun another try. II irr.\ Trao'V, th*' Philadelphia feath vrweight. will tackle Young Shugroe in | McFarland and wolgast LIKELY TO MIX IN GOTHAM i'IIK'AGii, July 30. -Champion W ■!- .»•; Backey McFarland may meet a ' i■ ;i fui'.ir.' if some promoter is ' >x . ng to give tv. t tic holder Jl.'.J'O.l | so- .s end of the tight. In a confer ee, e y<-terday with Emil Tillery. Back ey's manager, Wolgast agreed to meet i.o south side tighter, even going t»o far as to concede « eight. Ad says he will ailow Backey to weigh !in at 13'' pounds at 3 o'clock, or at I least s< yen hours before the battle STOCKHOLM OLYMPIAD IS A FINANCIAL FAILURE ST<'<’KHblAl. July As expected, il,. <'lympi- games proved a failure from ;.1 to.uncial point -I view Stockholm’s i . x P»-ru m e was similar io that of London ' <lhi r u the coronation, the Swedish for u'i press printing stories of prohibitive i prl< . s asked for accommodations at the ■ ■ - i ■ apartment houses here with t < Jesuit th.it th. c >wd sla \ed ftwa\ Thm d. ;.it< the efforts of the manage tner - d th. gati e> to counteract thi i- 1 , sp. i i. p.Tts b> . xtensive advt r \s a matter of fact there was Menu .>i r. .m at reasonable prices TH H A TLANT A GEORGIAN AND NEW 8. ID ESH AY, JULY 30. 1912. «iWj 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 and 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 thtee 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. * * * THE signing of Hampton Rey- nolds, of the Albany club, gives a line on Alperman’s plans for strengthening his club. "We've tried the big leagues and they don't offer us any encouragement,” said AlpertnAn 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 that Harbison Is playing encouraged the Crackers to take a shot at other kid performers. Newark tonight. Shugroe will have the advantage in weight, but Tracey says he will offset this by his cleverness. • * • Kid McCoy is still being hehl by the London authorities pending the capture of the thieves who stole a bunch of jewelry from the Palace hotel in that city. Mc- Coy was stopping at the hotel at the time of tiie theft and he was at once suspected of the crime. • • • Frank Moran has agreed to stop two men in the same ring at Paint Beach in side of ten rounds or forfeit his share of the purse. • • • Patsy Haley and Joe Kastner are sched uled to box at the Jamaica A. C. in Brooklyn tonight. • • • George Kltson. 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 trvlng to sign Jim Flynn and Tommy Burns for a muss to be staged in 'Frisco Labor Day. • • • One week from tomorrow Young Jack O'Brien, the Philadelphia lightweight, .mil Leach Cross, the lighting dentist, will clash at the Garden A C. in New York. This promises to be the best ten round engagement ever staged in Gotham. CUBS OFFER $17,000 FOR PHILA. RECRUIT HURLER PHILAI‘EIJ'HIA. July 30. ITesident Horace F. Fogel, of the Philadelphia Na tional league baseball club, has refused a genuine offer «»f $17,000 for Pitcher Epp Kixey, the University of Virginia giant, whom he recently signed. The offer was made b\ President Charles Murphy, of the Chicago Cubs. Murphy, tn making the offer, declared that Kixe\ is the best pitcher he has seen in years and is far better than Marquard. The offer ua? made as a result of Rixey’s wonderful performance against the Cubs Rixex Joined the Phillies five weeks ago. when he was signed by Fogel. At the University of Virginia he had estab lished a remarkable record on the mound He Is the tallest pitcher in the big leagues, measuring 6 feet 4 4 inches in height JOE SHERMAN WINS OVER YOUNG SAYLOR IN 8 RDS. MEMPHIS. TENN July 30. Young Saylor, of Indianapolis, lost the decision to Joe Sherman, of Baltimore, in their eight-round bout here last night. Sherman fought under the name of “Young Joe Grim " Saylor was al most a 3 to 1 f n ortti in the betting and the result was a big surprise. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Artie Phelan, former Baron now with the Reds, 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 bail recently that sporting'writ ers have recalled soms 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'! head. • • • Everybody laughed at the thought of Otto Fless 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 r>eMontrevllle'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. • • * William 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. ■ * « Bobby Wallace, after seventeen years in the major leagues, is about due to quit. Stovall is talking of getting rid of him. Wallace says he will never play except in the major leagues and he probablv 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 Tdm. 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 car. • • • • 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 Jack Knights into the International league. Providence gets him. * • • Philadelphians are panning the Ameri can league umpires In particular they are kicking because they allow the play ers to use profane and indecent language that can be heard in the stands. • • • Cincinnati has offered Mltchpll. Egan and Grant for Bill Sweeney, of the Braves • • • Somebody asked John T Brush once If it never occurred to him that things might be done differently in handling the Giant team. "Only once." replied Brush. "That was 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.” • • • <’y Morgan, pitcher and vaudeville art ist. has signed as an actor with a moving picture lihn company. • • * Rube Benton has been slowly slumping with the Reds and will be lucky if he doesn't get "sent back” after a bit. • • • The St. I ouis 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 w-lth them. • • • The (’leveland team has made such vig orous raids on its farm, the Toledo club, that it has practically ruined Topsy Han 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 LOS ANGELES. July 30. .Mexican Joe Rivers tn a week will begin light train ing for his scheduled 20-round battle on l abor Pay with Joe Mandot. of New Or leans Mandot and his manager are on the way here today. Promoter McCarey states that Willie Ritchie can meet the winner of the Rivers Mandot bout providing the San Francisco boj makes 133 pounds rlnere-*- Matty Is Greatest of All Pitchers—Chief Meyers “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 dn 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 note I'm go ing to try apd 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 w’ould 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 all 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. In 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 looke 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 Hie Mainstay. The best thing that Mathewson has—which may be a surprise to the casual baseball reader—ls his curve ball. The way Matty works is to spring his curve—a big curve which starts to curve all of a sud den—oh a batter as soon as ffur club Is in any kind of a hole. He lets the batter know that he "has something.” And, having fooled the batter ogee, 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. nnce the sort of ball 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 tb dig dbwn in the dirt or go up In «n aeroplane after it I think Mat ty could put up a silver dollar on a bam 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. 1 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 ah exhibition series in California a few years ago—All Na tionals versus All Americans —and Walter and I were the battery for the Nationals. The way that boy could throw! Why, after handling him I'd almost ho 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 h’s f ist 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. 1 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 ho 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 wl’.ieh, all of a sudden, the ball snaps out, What S.S.S. Stands For The familiar letters, S. S. S., stand for Siwft’s Sure Specific, a name honestly and fairly earned by a great blood remedy. It is worthy of its title because it really CURES every ailment resulting from impure blood. I he majority of physical afflictions are caused by bad blood, because a wcax, polluted circulation deprives the system of its necessary strength and dis ease-resisting powers. S. S. S. cures every disorder which comes from e weak or diseased blood, it tonesup and regulates every portion of the system, and creates an abun dant supply of nourishing properties which fill the circulation and bring health to the body. S. S b is made entirely of healing, cleansing roots, herbs and barks, which are also possessed of great tonic properties. It does not contain a particle of min eral or other harmful drug, and is therefore the pu rest and safest' blood medicine for young or °. 1 ' S. S. S. cures Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores an ul cers, Skin Diseases, Scrofula, Malaria and all ier troubles of a deranged circulation. Write for free book on the blood an any medical advice. No charge for either. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. I Hessheim 1 flllwavs | er l Ll^r lP Porto Picvq. and before the batter knows it :t'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 Mae 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; were 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 would bawl Marquard out which didn't help him any. of course. But now he's got confidence in himself, and he’s got all the fellows nulling for him, and we'd rattier 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 vs the best the game ever knew. PRESIDENT LYNCH GIVES OUT HIS REVISED DATES NEW YORK, July 30. President l.vn-T < f the National league announced -late* fixed for playing off postponed gatv s a? follows: At Piitsburg August 14 (2) with IT’ adelphia, game of July 11: August with Philadelphia, game of .July 10: V1 gust 23 (2) with New York, gidne "i : 18; August 26 (2) with Boston, gar - ■> July 21. At Cincinnati August 15 <2» " Brooklyn, game <»f July 8. At Chicago September (2» whli < cinnati < previously bulletined as game for September 25). At St. Louis August 17 (2> with B ton, game of July 10.