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In Its place is a club that Is fighting baseball battles for the iove of the fighting Yesterday they fought the Peli ’can team to an S-to-7 victory Ad mittedly, It was "town ball" It had more rough edges than a por ;cupine. It was the old blff-bang stuff, with small science and much sport. But chiefly of Inte-est 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 walvering 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 • • ♦ gEFORE the end of’the week 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 he 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 h« forgot how to field. It was on the testimony of "Buck" Recker, the Washington pitcher, that Alperman decided to recall Howard. Recker hud 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 pr<-tt> fail ♦ • ♦ forg.t op. thing “Whitex" Alperman is going to manage the Cracker ball club as long as he is manager The direc tors gave one manager- free rein and he didn't do much for the cause. But that hasn't sickened them of th.- s> stein. Tltey have turned the errib ove- to Alperman just as absolutely as 111. v turned It over ii. Ueiii|.i>ill. It s up to him. And as for Altwrinan, lie’s a tol . -ab!\- determined elmp himself rind .a I liandle’t he I>l;i yers, H Is strongly suspect, d that the tii'Ht thing Alp.'tnmn will do with the club will be to reform or tire any hard drinkers. Alperman is >< "Dutchman" and doesn't s. any harm in beer. Bui he's down on the old "red eye," and he is likely to deal harshly with the lushers on the club. He hasn't mad. any particular threats , but it is nm ,f that the eon*umption of w juice has fallen off very sharply Another good point about Alper mall is ihat lie is able to handle his I‘layers w ithout friction IL- dot sn't helievi in "bawling 'em out H •trxstrt objf. t lo a Show of good •DlritH by his men, howevei, and k l»n t likely to tips anybody for a little good-natured kidding on the bench. • • • ALPERMAN is making no an nouncements about the players he fS'after, but it is strongly sus pected that he needs pitchers. When a club Is batting hard and yet is losing games steadily the 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 a peck of games this season when the Crackers have made from two to six runs before tjie 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 that it is hard to tell which is en titled to the coin and which to the can. • « • \I7HEN the company that 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 SSO to any ball play er who would hit the bull on the li.\d|Kitli a fairly hit hall in a game. Hfft 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 hard for his ten-round scrap with Luther McCarthy 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. (» Brown, who was injured in an au tomobile wr«‘ck recently, lias fully recov ered an<l will start training shortly for a aeries 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. Sandy Ferguson, “White Hope,’’ whs arrested at Boston the other da\ for maintaining a liquor nuisance. Frankie Burns and Jack White are scheduled to go ten rounds at Oakland August 7 Tommy Murphy will receive $4,000, win. lose or draw for his 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 McGoorty and says he will also give Jack Dillon another try. * * • Harry Tracey, the Pltiladelphia feath erweight. will tackle Young Shugroe in McFarland and wolgast LIKELY TO MIX IN GOTHAM CHICAGO, July 30 Champion Wol igast and Packey McFarland max’ meet in the near future if some promoter is willing to give tile title holder $15,000 for his etui of the tight. In a confer ence yesterday with Emil Thiery. Pack, e.v's manager, Wolgast agreed to meet | th, smith side fighter, .-xen going «> far a.« to concede weight. Ad says he will alloxx Pavkey to weigh In at 135 pounds at :: o'clock, or .It least seven hours bef.ee the battle STOCKHOLM OLYMPIAD IS A FINANCIAL FAILURE STOCKHOLM. July 30 As expeeled, the Olympic games proved a failure from a financial point of view Stockholm's experienn- was similar to that of London during the coronation, the Swedish for eign press printing stories of prohibitive prices asked for accommodations at the h c,|.. , it ai apartment Imuses hete xxilh tlic result that the crowd stayed away. 'l'lit- <l. pit. the efforts of the manage tiienl of th. gain.'., to eoumeiaet the tt.'xx -.[.a |>et reports by extensive advet tlslng As a mat let of fact, there was plenty <>i toom at tcaaonable prices THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30. 1912. with a thirteen-inch gtin. 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 ov r er six feet tall and must weigh along to ward' 200 pounds. He taJtes 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 dor,en 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 • • * 'T'HE 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 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 that Harbison is playing encouraged the Crackers to take a shot at other kid performers. Newark tonight Hhugroe will have the advantage in weight, but Tracey says he will offset this by his cleverness. Kid McCoy- is *stili being held by the lamdon authorities pending the capture of the thieves who stole a bunch of jewelry from the i’alace hotel In that city. Mc- Cov was stopping at the hotel at the time of the 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 ton rounds or forfeit his share of the purse. I’atsx- Haley and Joe Kastner are sched uled to 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 bls club recently Promoter Coffroth. of San Francisco, Is still trying to sign Jim Flynn and Tommy Burns for a muss to ba staged in 'Frisco I.a bor Day. • • • one week from tomorrow Young .lack O'Brien, the Philadelphia lightweight, and Leach Cross, the fighting dentist, will clash at the Garden A C in New York This promises to be the best ten rmmd engagement ever staged in Gotham. CUBS OFFER $17,000 FOR PHILA. RECRUIT HURLER PHILADELPHiA. July 30. President Horace F. Fogel, of the Philadelphia Na tional league baseball club, has refused a genuine offer of $17,000 tot Pitcher Epp Rixey. the I'niversity of Virginia giant, whom he i.•.cully signed The offer was made by President Chalies Murphy, of the Chicago t'tibs Mut’pbx, in making the offer, declared that llixey is the best pitcher he has seen in rears and is far belter than Marquurd The otter was made as a result of Rixey's wondeftul performance against the Cubs Rixex joined the Phillies five weeks ago. xx hen he was signed by Fogel At the I'niversity of Virginia he had estab lished a remarkable record on the mound. He is the tallest pitcher in the big leagues, measuring t’> feet 4'» inches in height JOE SHERMAN WINS OVER YOUNG SAYLOR IN 8 RDS. MEMPHIS. TENN July 30. Young Sax lot . of Indianapolis, lost the decision to Joe Sherman, of Baltimore, in 'heir eight-round bout here last night, Sherman fought under the name of Young Joe Grim" Saylor xxhs al ums" a :: to 1 favorite In the betting anti the i-stilt was a big surprise. baseball] Diamond News and Gossip J 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 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 plav 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 DeMontrevllle's club and is about reedy to sign an outfielder with a cork leg. Will Bradley, an recently com mitted suicide at Clinton Junction Wis„ 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, league, club. And still they go. The Bucks Coupty 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 probably means • » • Buck Taylor, of the Carolina associa tion, who has been kicked about the league from team to team this season, pitched a no-hlt 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, wdll 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 dav. • » • 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 io use profane and indecent language that 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 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.” • * • * Cy Morgan, pitcher and vaudeville art ist. has signed as an actor with a moving picture film company. • • • Rube Benton has been slowly slumping with the Reds and will he 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 They have figured in two. But that isn't what's the matter with them. * ♦ ♦ The Cleveland team has made such vig orous raids bn 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 anil fob he lifted from Crover Gilmore, former Buf falo player. • • • The Baltimore News avers that the Bir mingham club is in the (’otton States. It would be helpful at that if it were. RIVERS STARTS WORK FOR MANDOT BATTLE LOS ANGEEES. July 30 Mexican Joe Hivers in a week will begin light train ing for itis sche<lule<! L’O-round battle on Labor Oa> with Joe Mandot, of New Or leans Mandot and his manager are on the way here todav Promoter McUarev states that Willie lUtchlr »an meet the winner of the !th ers M.indot bout providing tiie San Francisco boy makes 133 i>oundd ringside. Matty Is Greatest of All Pitchers—-Chief Meyers +•4- +»4* 4-«4- 4-«+ 4-»+ “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 doxvntown 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 xvith 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 yon 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 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 soon 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 eases, 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, fust one. And, once the sort of ball is de cided upon between Matty and my self. I know it’s goitUt to be right xvhere it's marked for. I won't have to dig down in the dirt or go up in an aeroplane after it. I 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 u lot of talk about Matty’s "fadeaxvay" ball I'll tell a little Inside "stuff" about that. The "fadeaway” is. In plain words, an indrop curve It Is a Ixttlf that comes up to the plate straight, and, just as tht batter swinge, reverses Itself (writh 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 coining 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 -r-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 hiht 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 noxv, 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 1 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 w.e call ft. He. has a long swing, from which, all of a sudden, the ball snaps out, What S.S.S. Stands For The familiar letters, S. S. S., stand for Siwft’3 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. The majority of physical afflictions are caused by bad blood, because a weak, polluted circulation deprives the system of its necessary strength and dis ease-resisting powers. S. S. S. cures every disorder which comes from 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. S. 1* s ma de entirely of healing, cleansing roots, herbs I and barks, which are also possessed of great tonic I 1 properties. It does not contain a particle of niin- era ' or other harmful drug, and is therefore the pu ijtj jjj/fl■!rest and safest blood medicine for young or old. S. S. S. cures Rheumatism, Catarrh, Sores and 11- cers, 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. " Hernsheim Alllwqys [X— 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 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; 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 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 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 (2i w'ith Philadelphia, game of July 10: Au gust 23 (2) with New York, game of .Inly 18; August 26 (2) with Boston, game "f July 24. At Cincinnati—August 15 (2> with Brooklyn, game of July 8. At Chicago—September 27 (2) with 4’in■ cinnati (previously bulletined as one game for September 25). At St. Louis—August 17 (2) with Bos ton, game of July 10.