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j BEWARE! CRACKERS HAVE RIKiAINEI) THEIR NERVE
By Percy 11. Whiting.
THE new Cracker club Is going
to win some ball games be
tween now and the fifteenth of
September. It won one Out of two
from the Pelicans yesterday, which
is vastly better than the usual
doubleheader performance of the
Crackers (they usualy lose ’em
both). It ought to do some business
today. And it is pretty certain to
do some execution in the five-game
aeries with the Barons, which be
gins Thursday.
Why?
Well, simply because the team
has got its nerve back.
Under Hemphill, the Crackers
were a lot of blighted characters.
They were in the habit of losing.
Nothing helped them. Everything
made them worse. Their spirit was
smashed.
Charley Alperman, *ln the few
brief days he has had the team, has
peppered tnem up to an amazing
degree. And the fact that the base
ball association is backing him up
and buying players right and left
has convinced the Crackers that
everybody means business and that
they had better play ball or begin
hunting jobs.
If Swindell hadn’t been so phe
nomenally good in the second game,
the Crackers might have made a
clean sweep of it. In the first game
Weaver was pie to them, and they
had things their own way from
the jump. Brady pitched tolerably
good ball in the first game, and
Sitton didn't make a bad showing
in the second.
rHE Crackers trotted out one of
their new acquisitions from the
bushes yesterday-—Hamilton Rey
nolds. late of Albany, Ga. Just off
hand. Mr. Reynolds looked pretty
good. He is a large, raw-boned,
ham-handed chap, and lie stands
right up behind the bat like a real
catcher. His pegging to second was
phenomenal, and he gave evidence
of batting ability. If Reynolds is
as good in the rest of the games as
he was yesterday, he was a "good
buy.” If the other new men stack
up as high as Harbison and Rey
nolds. the Crackers will soon have
a ball club.
r N the first game "Humpty" Mc
-1 Elveen made a bad bull. He kick
ed himself out of the game. With
a pitcher playing the outfield, the
team was badly enough crippled as
it was. Then when he got himself
relieved from duty it became neces
sary to stick a catcher. Graham, in
the infield.
It's a pretty good rule of base
ball not to get put out of a game
where your presence Is badly
needed.
At that. Graham played nice hall
at third. The Pelicans evidently
thought he would be a joke on
bunts, so they began laying them
down in bis direction. Brady, who
is a grand fielder, saw what was
coming and protected Graham by
fielding them himself
A bit later Graham got his re
venge. His next time at bat he
bunted one down the third base line,
and while "Grandpa" Rohe was
fielding it he cantered safely to
first, for a clean hit. After that
they didn’t bunt hi* way any more.
rp HE playing of seven-inning
* games in doublencaders. Inau
gurated by Manager Alperman.
made a hit with Atlanta fans. Kull
length doublebeaders are a pest.
Two seven-inning games give the
bargain fans a swell afternoon of
baseball, without filling them so full
of the national game that they
don't want to see another contest
in three weeks
Shortened games in doublehead
are pleasanter to the fans eas
on the players, anil more re-
at< to assoi |<
They are. equally fair f ,, r
both teams—for anything that one
could do in the added two innings
of each game the other has an
equal chance of doing. And seven
innings is just as good a test of
baseball as nine.
• • «
MONG the spectators at yester
day’s ball games was E. S. Ber
nard. vice president of the Cleve
land club. Colonel Bernard Is out
scouting for the Naps. He has just
finished up the Appalachian league,
which he found surprisingly full of
talent, and will now take a look
at the Southern—which isn’t so
amazingly crowded with it.
In talking of managers, which
came up because the Cleveland club
has a new one this season and the
Crackers have had two, ‘’Barney’’
advanced a new theory.
"In the first place, there aren’t
but a half dozen or so real man-
I fodder for fans".
Lou Criger, scouting for th#> St. Louis
Browns, likes Stengle and Johnson, of the
Billiken club, and may make offers for
them.
• • •
Well, anyway, the Detroit team leads
in something if only in using and firing
more pitchers than any club in the league.
Eight Tiger twirlers have been let out
since the season began -Summers, Burns,
Covington, Remneas, Travers, Bailey. I’er
noll and Lafitte.
...
Outfielder Billy Hunter, sold by the
Flint team to Cleveland, but still playing
with the Flints, went 79 games without an
error before he dropped one. Also he
leads the Southern Michigan league in
batting
...
Russell Ford and Ed Walsh, both spit
bailers, have allowed more bits than any
other pitchers In the American league.
Already 211 safeties have been made off
Ford's delivery, 203 off Walsh’s. Walsh
Is a winner, however; Ford a loser.
Walter Johnson is the king pin strike
out artist of the big show this year. He
has claimed 175 victims.
♦ ♦ ♦
Zeb Milan has already stolen 50 bases
this year and is on his way toward Ty
Cobb’s mark of 88, set last year.
• • ♦
Jake Daubert is suffering with a
sprained ankle that Isn't Improving his
game much.
• • •
Last year some sharp catcher invented a
wa> to stop Ty Cobb on bases. His
scheme was, with Cobb on first, to make
a bluff throw to second and then hold the
bail and try to tag Ty as he slid into
home But Ira Thomas has a better
scheme. “Just have the Dixie Demon on
first.” says Ira. “and you have him at
your mercy if the bases are full.”
» • ♦
St. Louis papers charged recently that
Bresnahan was a martinet. But Koger de
nied it. He says he is Irish.
» ♦ ♦
The Paoli. Ohio, team has been mater
ially strengthened of late. It has secured
for regular service a pitcher named Cy
Young
Umpire Bill Dineen Is out with the
theory that Ty Cobb isn't human.
, • •
"Ducky" Holmes, manager of the Grand
Rapids team, is boasting that he devel
opend both Rube Marquard and Dixie
Walker.
TOMMY BURNS PUTS IN A
CLAIM ON HEAVY TITLE
CALGARY. ALBERTA, duly 31.
Tommy Burns, whose defeat at the
hands of .Jack Johnson gave the heavj -
weight championship to the colored
race, today sot up his claim to the
championship following Johnson's an
nouncement that he had retired.
Burns says Johnson asserts that his
toughest battle was with Burns and
therefore the championship belongs to
him. Burns says he is ready to re
enter the ring and defend his title.
BRUNSWICK TEAM HAS
BIG GAMES THIS WEEK
BKI’NSWICK. July 31 Brunswick’s
baselmll team tackles three of the »tr««na
<‘Rt semi-professional teams in the state
during the next two weeks, and the re
sults of these games u ill have much to.
do with which team is entitled to the
championship honors of south Georgia
Tomorrow. Friday and Saturday Way
cross conns here for a series, and on tin
same days next week the locals u ill have
the strong Americus train as competitors
Cordele follows Americus for a series of
three games The local tram has been
considerably strengthened for these
games, which are expt vied to he the
best i»lu x t«n the local diamond this
year
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31. 1912.
agers in the world," he said. “The
rest just guess along and get by as
best they can.
"And another thing, it takes three
years to make a manager. A man
ager starts off viewing things from
the players' viewpoint. He has to
learn that there is also the club
owners' viewpoint and the fans’
viewpoint. He usually wastes the
first two years trying to be a ‘good
fellow,’ and after that he wakes
up. If he does well, he becomes a
real manager in about three years.”
» » •
TLANTA has had a lot of good
first basemen. but never before
a man who fielded the position like
Joe Agler. Joe covers more ground
than a regiment, and as for back
ing up his team mates—well, we
shall not be surprised to see him
backing up the center fielder some
day.
t In Christy Mathewson's last five games
! he has allowed but two bases on balls.
In three games he didn’t allow any. The
old boy is too wise to get himself in a
hole.
• • •
; Ed Walsh hasn't entirely recovered con
sciousness from the fine Manager Calla
han slapped on him for refusing to pass
, Zinn when ordered. He can still hurl a
little baseball, though.
* • ♦
Eddie Mensor, the outfielder of the
■ Pirate team, is a prize fighter in the off
; season. His biggest affair was a 20-round
i draw with Bobby Johnson at Reno.
♦ * »
1 Perry Lipe says that Sam Mayer, the
young left hander tried out by the Crack
er club last year, is the best young play
er he ever saw in a minor league. Os
' course the fact that the selling season
has come around may influence his opin
ion a trifle.
i • • •
The Norfolk players. Pitcher Joe Fin
neran and Third Baseman Johnny Dodge,
have been sold to the Phillies.
s ♦ * ♦
They’re always reminding Clark Grif
fith of his had trades One man says now
’ that If Clark Griffith should happen to
win the pennant he'd probably trade it off
for a red bandana.
• « «
‘ Jack O’Connor, once of Little Rock, says
that the United States league will be re
vived next spring
Not if miracles are barred.
> Polly Perrltt, oi the Fort Worth team,
. has won seven games In a row. and says
> he will not lose another this season. Os
- course the best way to make that stick is
i to retire.
t• * *
The Jersey City team has been losing
SB,OOO a month since the season started.
t ...
Mike Finn denies that Al Demaree has
been sold to the Giants. Several teams
are bidding for him.
• ♦ *
Pitcher Upham, who trained here with
the Yankees this spring and who could
have been had by the Crackers for the
asking, lias just been sold to Rochester
for $2,000.
♦ • •
Even if Nap Rucker is the greatest
southpaw of the National league, possihly
barring Marquard, he has won and lost
the same number of games as Kent, the
ex-Brooklyn hurler.
WOLGAST GETS $22,500
TO BATTLE McFARLAND
MILWAUKEE. WIS.. July 31.—Light
weight Champion Ad Wolgast here to
day asserted that he would fight Packey
McFarland in New York September 22
or 27. and that he would receive 322,500
for his end of the mill. For this trif
ling sum Ad says he has agreed to
waive his lights to the moving pic
tures or any other compensation.
Packey will have to worry along with
37.000.
The match is to be staged at the
Garden Athletic club. Ad asserts. He
said tinal details hud been completed
by long-distance teleph me with Match
maker Billy Gibson. Packey is to be
allowed to make 135 pounds the hour®
before the battle
GIANTS’ BATS PROVE TOO
MUCH FOR JIM LAVENDER
NEW YORK. July 31 Jltnm. Isiven
der was knocked out of the box by the
Giants yesterdn. tn the second Inning
the Cuh« losing the third gam. of the
series to Hie .McGraw elan to the tune of
Itt to t Mathewson, who was on the
mound for lite home team, always held
the visitors >af».
MATH ISSUES
FEWER PASSES
THAN OTHERS
By Damon Runyon.
KING CONTROL,” alias
II Christy Mathewson, whose
blond bulk looms up so re
assuringly in that vista of possibilities
between now and the world’s series, is
unostentatiously compiling a new rec
ord for himself this season. It isn’t
such a record as will arouse the same
hurrah as a strlke-out figure or a con
secutive victory mark, perhaps, but it is
just as important in many ways as a
lot of things that get more publicity. It
is one of the many little details that
make the distinguished author and
checker expert somewhat different from
the other birds.
In an era of wildness among pro
pellers of high and low degree the Old
Marster retains his serene self-pos
session. He is the Walkless Wonder.
Always noted for a peculiar and inti
mate knowledge of just where the ball
is going when it leaves his high-sal
aried right hand, the architect of the
fade-away Is surpassing himself this
season. In 25 games up to July 26,
when he pitched his last game, Math
ewson had given but 19 bases on balls.
None of the other great right-handers
in either league approaches this record
for control.
Walter Johnson, of Washington, has
yielded 56 walks in 29 games, and
Smoky" Joe Wood, of Boston, has
given 51 In 26 games. Ed Walsh, the
Iron Irishman, has passed 53 in 38
games—a pretty nifty record in itself,
considering the number of times the
Meridian Scatter Gun has been out.
t harley Hall, the Castillian curver on
Stahl s staff, has issued 55 yards of
free transportation in 22 games.
Rest Are Wild in Comparison.
Chief Bender, the Athletic aborigine,
has passed 24 In 16 games, and John
Coombs has walked 65 in 24. Fellows
like Jimmy Lavender, Cheney* Howard
Camnitz, Grover Cleveland Alexander,
Bob Harmon, Tom ..Seaton, Russell
Ford, Joe Benz, Buck O’Brien and
George Mullin are veritable wild men
compared to the serene Matty.
The spitball brought a great deal of
wildness in its wake, and where left
handers used to be ranked collectively
as knights of imcontrol, it is found that
they are no wilder than their right
hand brethren w ho use the slippery elm.
Rube Marquard, for instance, has
walked 51 in 26 games, while Hendrix,
of Pittsburg, a right-handed spitter,
has passed 72 in 23 conflicts. Still,
Alexander, the Dooin star, has passed
as many as Hendrix, and he does not
fool with the damp fling to any extent,
but Alexander has worked in 28 games.
Os course, these figures include games
in which pitchers appeared for only a
few innings at a time, but they give a
pretty fair general line on the proposi
tion of control.
Coombs in 24 games passed more men
than the side-wheeler, Eddie Plank, in
22. Against Jack s 65 walks, the Get
tysburg Gatling let but 47 batters go
free. Vean Gregg, the Cleveland Koh
i-noor left-hander, walked no more in
21 games than Buck O'Brien, the Bos
ton Blazer right-hander, did in the
same number of times out.
Rucker Has Splendid Control.
Napoleon Rucker, tne Brooklyn Ex
press. has passed only 38 men tn 30
games, but Napoleon is the Mathewson
of the left-handed brigade In point of
control.’ George Wiltse is another left
hander who has his hooks under com
mand, having passed but 20 in 17
games Young Robinson, of Pittsburg,
is credited with figuring in 18 games,
and has passed but 11. Benton is one
■>f the wildest left-handers, having
walked 71 in 28 games.
The wildest heaver i.n captivity is th
Pilates' expensive Marty O’Toole, who
lias passed 99 batsmen in 21 games,
while Kaier, the Cleveland White Hop,,
another right-hander, has walked 83 in
26 games.
In 1911 Mathewson walked 38 in 45
games, hit but a single batsman anu
made but two wild pitches. He has
allowed 172 hits so far this season, a
somew hat gre >ter number than mo.-t
of his right-handed rivals, but the
times when he gets in trouble from in
ability to control the hall are might)
few and far between. Johnson has al
lowed onlv 147 hits In his 29 games,
w hili Joe Wood has held his rival- to
16<>,
Looks Like We M//7/ Have a New Lightweight Champion Soon
AD WOLGAST, SLIPPING, WANTS TIDV FINAL PILE
By Ed. W. Smith.
AD WOLGAST is asking for
$55,000 for making three
fights. And at first blush peo
ple are inclined to say. “Gee, what
a wolf for the coin he must be.”
In a sense that’s true. With Wol
gast it is a case of getting it while
the getting is good. But from the
, other side of the picture It isn’t
such a fiercely exorbitant demand.
; Wolgast always has been one of the
( greatest drawing cards the ring
ever had in the lightweight divi
sion, When promoters stage him
, with anybody who. on paper, looks
like something of a match for the
, Cadillac man they can reasonably
look for a record breaking gate.
Knows He Is a Card.
Wolgast knows better than any-
I body his worth in the box office.
L Experience has taught him that
promoters usually can take chances
with him and offer him big money.
I Hence his demands run high. Why
not?
Jim Coffroth said he laughed out
right when Wolgast sprung his
[ terms on him. There's a reason for
that, for the fighting game right
, now is in bad shape in San Fran-
. cisco, and it would take a battle
betiveen Jack Johnson and Sam
' Langford to draw out anything of a
house.
. People out there seem to have
I tired of the game, or times are
too hard, or there is some reason
, for the slump. In the palmy days
I that Coffroth once knew he could
( well afford to clinch Wolgast on
, the latter’s own terms. But un-
I derstanding conditions the way he
does, it’s no wonder that Coffroth
, laughed.
Drew $40,000 With Rivers.
Just glance over some of the
FAMOUS GAMBLER DEAD.
CHICAGO. July 31.—Frank Callon, who
figured in early Mississippi river history
and who made a fortune at faro and then
lost it on the races, was buried here. He
, was a cabin boy on the steamboat Penn
sylvania. which blew up at Island Num
ber Ten above Memphis in 1864. resui 'ng
in the death of 200 persons, among tin m
the brother of “Mark Twain,” Henry
Clemens.
MAHER RIDES WINNER.
GOODWOOD. ENGLAND, July 31.
Dany Maher, the American jockey, pi
loted the winner of the stewards cup
at the races here yesterday. Nelke’s
Goldenrod won handily. Joel's Poor
Boy was second and Uncle Pat third.
Twenty-one horses ran.
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houses Wolgast has drawn and you
won’t be surprised at his demands.
Didn't he and Rivers draw $40,000
into McCarey’s arena July 4? And
isn’t it reasonable to suppose that
Wolgast and Ritchie or Wolgast
and Rivers right back would equal
that gate? Ad asks $15,000 for the
first battle. $20,000 for the second,
and a like sum for a clash- with
Packey.
A fighter always is worth a cer
tain percentage of what he can
draw. Wolgast knows he can draw
the coin, and that’s why he de
mands it.
Are His Feet Slipping?
And there’s another point that I
think is on Wolgast s mind. I have
an idea that he knows he is about
all in, that he can not battle much
any more because of the effects of
his operation for appendicitis last
November, and this being his last
stand, he intends to make it as re
munerative as possible.
Little Adolph is well blessed with
the world’s goods. If he were whip
ped tomorrow it wouldn’t be for
him to worry. But nobody on this
earth seems to have so much that
they couldn’t use a little more of
the kale. That’s Wolgast's fix. He's
comfortable, but if he could nego
tiate that additional $55,000 he
would be much more so.
Pictures Show Him Up.
It looks to me. after seeing the
Wolgast-Rivers fight pictures out
in Denver a few days ago, that Ad
had better hurry. It didn’t look to |
me as if he battled in his old rug
ged, murderous style. And if he's
all in at this time there isn’t much
hope for him ever to come back.
He's a young man still, but even
the kids don't come back after
HEMPHILL LEAVES TODAY
FOR COLUMBUS POSITION||
Charley Hemphill leaves at 5:10 o'clock
this afternoon for his new berth in Co
lumbus. Hemp is confident that he will
oat as well in the American association
as he did here in the Southern.
GAINESVILLE IS WINNER.
ILLE, GA., July 31.—Gaines
ville defeated Buford 7 to 6 at Buford
Features of the game, for Gainesville
home runs by Perryman and Bradley with
m^ n >. bases; for Buford, sensational
catch by Brogdon. Batteries: Gaines
ville, Perryman and McNeal; for Buford
•Allen and Allen. Umpire, Powers.
going through what Wolgast did.
That's why I'm looking for a new
lightweight champion within a rea
sonably short time. And as many
others feel as I do about it. no
wonder there is a mad scramble of
the lightweights to get a shot at
the Michigan farmer.
"If It’s at Hartman’s, It’s Correct”
August Clearance
Reductions
The Semi-Annual Clear
ance prices go into effect
at this store tomorrow
(Thursday), ft will pay
you to lay in a supply of
these articles for future
wear at such prices as
these.
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SHOES
$3.50 Oxfords, now. $2.95
$4.00 Oxfords, now. .$3.15
$5.00 Oxfords, now. .$3.85
$6.00 Oxfords, now. .$4.35
This includes the
blacks, tans, patent leath
er, white buckskin and
canvas.
UNDERWEAR
SI.OO garments, at ...75c
75c garments, at 50c
50<- “Peter Hill,” at. 40c
50c Balbriggan 35c
This includes Nain
sooks. Knee Drawers.
One-Fourth Sleeves, Bal
briggan. Long Drawers.
Short and Long Sleeves,
etc.
SHIRTS
$1.50 “Savoy” ... $1.15
$1.50 “Hartman” ..$1.15
SI.OO Shirts 70c
NECKWEAR
50c Neckwear 35c
HOSIERY
50c Fancy Silk 35c
None but fancy pat
terns sold at fhis price.
liemember, these prices
go into effect tomorrow
morning. 1
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