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14 GEOWAK MB IgOWIHf * M Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit Copyright, 1912, National News Ass'n. By Tad whZU ( ' m ahoRJIe ■ f 3 A I '/ HOOLO s.Nfrce- 44 V a draw ’ r3<w wtimNE > WSAVE / .-j-7 *«!«._- -> —~ —Mf=ir~' I > 7 -A«k' ®l I " ) -^---XTI I [ J ■' /V\/1K /T N ‘%A»- iSI JJdk j® ~- : s^r- ClKift W IjV ' Iran ft nt ffi|K 11jBs&MP™g,wA ” I - —WtI yaay kU ftftX I ■/7// ■I \ \ ' g Al per man Has His Warriors All Peppered Up 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. | yS 8H ™ affliaß I I Vacation Pleasures Enhanced Ml I by a box of B’-*’?! I JOHN RUSKIN CIGARS M I I They are the great big, mild sc. cigars everybody is talking about. Don’t go 1 I away without a box of them. u C h.°’ ce Havana tobacco used, carefully blended by expert cigar-makers, assures nma I you of a 10c. smoke. You’ll say so after you have tried one. Each box contains a IMg | S profit-sharing voucher. S ÜBrll I I I. LEWIS CIGAR MPG. CO., Newark, N.J. Tie bars ißdxpuHkut Cifar Haor j la th* WmW /■*’ A Ih S*® ■A* \ EL - ADAM C s H / rn ! D, « ,r, butors mZbSw 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. STRAW HATS 1/ Z 2 PRICE 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 > ♦ Six Peachtree Street lOffi. Peters Bldg. 'lf H's Correct, Il’s al Hartman's