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/\lperman Has His Warriors All Peppered Up
BEWARE! CRACKERS HAVE REGAINED THEIR NERVE
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By Percy H. W hiting.
rpHI-: new (Tarket Hub is going
I 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 petformunce of the
Crackers (they usualy lose 'em
both i. It ought to do some business
today. And it is pretty certain to
do some execution in the five-game
series with the Barons, which be
gins Thursday.
Why '.'
Well, simply because tile team
has got its nerve back.
Under Hemphill, the Crackers
were a lot of blighted characters
They wire in the habit of losing.
Nothing helped them. Everything
made them worse. Their spirit was
smashed.
Charley Alpertnan. in the tew
brief days he has had Hie team, lias
peppered them up to an amazing
degree. .-And the fact that the base
ball association is backing him up
and buying playeis 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, ami they
had things their own way from
the jump. Brady pitched tolerably
good ball tn the first game, and
Sitton didn't make a bad showing
in the second.
Is HE Crackers Hotted 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 ‘ hap, and lie stands
right up behind the bat like a real
catcher. His pegging to second was
phenomenal, and be 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 < lub
I N the first game Humpty" Mc
-1 Elvecn made i 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 i ia;chci. Grah.un, in
the infield
ll'- a pretty g‘"*s» - tj.c 'I base
ball not to get put outof a game
where your presence is badly
needed.
At that. Gia cam piayi’d nice ball
at third Tin Pelicans evidently
thought h( would ~c r joke on
bunts so they began laying them
down in his diction Brady, who
Is a grand tb idi i saw w hat was
coming and pi<*l*.iod Graham by
fielding : Im hire < If
A bit later Graham got his ri
vengi . Hi- mxt time at bat he
buntea one down the third base line,
and whilt "Grandpa" Rohe was
fielding it 1‘ canter*-.! safely to
firs', for a .' m hit After that
they didn't i-un: bi- way any more.
'p HF t tying "f -i ven-inning
* games In duubu-neader inau
gurated by Managm AJperman.
made a hit win Atlanta fan* Full
length doubleheadei are a pest.
Two si ten-inning games givi tin
bargain fan- swep afternoon of
bAseball. with mt filling them so full
of tin national gam* that the.'
don a..>■! > ■ itnothei «<«ntes>
in ib- e weeks
Shortenen gam* s in *,'*>llbleti*a*l
ler .
mune-ai to ba . ~,o e U l
«•••" They ,t ■
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.
• • •
A MONG lite 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 tire Naps. He has just
flnislted 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
<'lackers have had two, "Barney"
advanced a new theory.
"in the first plate, there aren't
but a half dozen or so real man-
f FODDER FOR FANS~~i
Lou <’i iger, scorning for the St. Louis
Browns, likes Stengle and Johnson, <_»f the
R’lliken club, and max make offers for
i hem.
* • ♦
Well, anyuay. the Detroit team leads
m something if only in using and tiring
more pitchers than any dub in the league.
I.ight Tiger txvirlers haxe been let out
since the season began Summers. Burns.
Covington. Remneas, Travers, Bailee, Per
noil and Lafitte.
• * •
Outfielder Billx Hunter, sold by the.
Mint 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 Ml Walsh, both spit
bailers, haxe allowed more hits than any
other pitchers in the American league.
Mready 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 p.n 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 83. set last year
• • •
•lake Daubert is suffering with a
sprained ankle that isn't improving his
game much.
• * •
Last year some sharp catcher invented a
xxay to stop Ty Cobb on bases. His
scheme was. with Cobb on first, to make
a bluff throw to second and then hold the
ball and try to tag Ty as he slid into
home. But Ira 'Thomas has a better
scheme lust have the Dixie Demon on
first.” says Ira. ‘’and yon have him at
your mercy if the bases are full
♦ ♦ •
St Louis papers charged recently that
Bresnahan was a martinet But Roger de
nied it. He says he Is Irish
The Paoli. Ohio, team has been mater-
I ially strengthened of late It has secured
i for regular service a pitcher named Cy
I Young
Umpire Bill Dineen is out with the
theory that Ty Cobb isn't human
* * *
"Pucky" Holmes, manager of the Grand
Rapids team, is boasting that ho devel
opend both I'ltlte Marottard and Dixie i
Walker *
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TOMMY BURNS PUTS IN A
CLAIM ON HEAVY TITLE
CALGARY. ALBERTA. July 3L
Tommy Burns, whose defeat at the
hands of Jack Johnson gave the heavy
weight championship to the colored
race, today set up his claim to the
championship following Johnson s an
nouncement that he bad retired.
I Bui ns says Johnson asserts that his
toughest battle was with Burns and
therefore th< 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
Bill X SWICK. Julj 31 Brunswick**
baseball team tackles three of the strong
, * semi-professional teams in the state
I during the next two weeks, and the re>
I suits of thes. games will have much to
'do with which team is entitled to the
I championship honors of south Georgia.
. Tomorrow . Friday and Saturdax Wax -
1 « ross • omts here for h series, and on the 1
j -.ini' 1 daxs mx> week the locals will have
'he strong Xmerieus team as competitors J
' ordrle follows \merious for a series of j
' g.t’: . - Th< local team has been
p-mslderabl.x .u rengt honed for these
games whi, b nr< expected to he the
• i ia.’ed on the local diamond this j
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
t ears to make a manager. A man
ager starts off viewing things from
the players' viewpoint. He has to
, leatn 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 lias 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.
In Christy Mathewson's last five games
be 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 tine 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 tighter in the off
season. His biggest affair was a 20-round
draw with Bobby Johnson at Reno.
* * »
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.
• • •
The Norfolk players. Pitcher Joe Ein
neran and Third Baseman Johnny Dodge,
have been sold to the Phillies.
« * •
They're always reminding Clark Grif
fith of his bad trades One man says now
that if Clark Griffith should happen to
win tile pennant he'd probably trade it off
for a red bandana.
* * *
lack O'Connor, once of Little Hock, says
that the Cnited States league will be re
vived next spring
Not if miracles are barred
Polly Territt, of the Fort Worth team,
has won seven games in a row. and says
lie will not lose another this season Os
course the best way to make that stick is
to retire.
The Jersey City team lias been losing
SB,OOO a month since the season started.
• • •
Mike Finn denies tliat Al Demaree has
been sold to the Giants Several teams
are bidding for him
• • «
Pitcher I’pham. who trained here with
tlte Yankees this spring and who could
have been had by the Crackers for the
asking, has just been sold to Rochester
for $2,000.
Even if Nap Rucker is the greatest
southpaw of the National league, possibly
barring Marquard, he has won and lost
I 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 $22,500
for his end of the mill. For this trif
ling sum A<l says he has agreed to
waive his rights to the moving pic
tures or any other compensation.
Packey will have to worry along with
$7,000.
The match is to be staged at the
Garden Athletic club. Ad asserts. He
said final details had been completed
by long-distance telephone with Match
maker Billy Gibson. Packey Is to be
allowed to make 135 pounds five hours
before the battle.
GIANTS’ BATS PROVE TOO
MUCH FOR JIM LAVENDER
XI-’\\ YORK. July 31 .linnny hiven
! der was knocked out of the box by th*
Gian’s yestordax in the second inning,
th* <’ubs losing the third game of the
i MoriPK to the McGraw clan to the tune of
IV t Mathewson. who war «»n the
mound for the home team, alwavs held
th» visitors sa ft
MATH ISSUES
FEWER PASSES
THAN OTHERS
By Damon Runyon.
KING CONTROL, - ’ alias
I ) 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 strike-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 nad given but 19 bases on bails.
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.
Charley Hall, the Castlllian curver on
Stahl’s staff, has issued 55 yards k>f
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
i 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 uncontrol, it is found that
: they are no wilder than their right
hand brethren who use the slippery elm.
Rube Marquard. for instance, has
i walked 51 in 26 games, while Hendrix,
of Pittsbuig. a right-handed spitter,
has passed 72 in 23 conflicts. Still,
i Alexander, the Dooin star, has passed
as many as Hendrix, and he does not
; fool witn 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 proposl
' tion of control.
Coombs in 24 games passed more men
than the side-wheeier, 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, the Brooklyn Ex
press. has passed only 38 men in 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
of the wildest left-handers. having
walked 71 in 28 games.
The wildest heaver In captivity is lite
Pirates' expensive Marty O'Toole, who
has passed 99 batsmen In 21 games,
while Kaier, the Cleveland White Hope,
another right-hander, has walked 83 in
26 games.
In 1911 Mathewson walked 38 In 45
games, hit but a single batsman ano
made but two wild pitches. He has
allowed 172 hits so far this season, a
somewhat greater number than most
of his right-handed rivals, but tire
times when he gets In trouble from In
ability to control the ball ate mighty
few and fa between Johnson has al
lowed only 147 hits In his 29 games.,
while Joe Wood has held ills rivals m
160 1
Looks Like We Will Have a New Lightweight Champion Soon
AD WOLGAST, SLIPPING, WANTS TIDY 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
body his worth in the box office.
Experience has taught him that
promoters usually can take chances
with him and offer him big money.
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
Inews from ringsidel
—i
Johnny Kling, who meets Lee Kelly in
St. Louis this week, has agreed to box
Tommy Cary some time about the last
of August before the club offering the
best inducements.
* « «
Those on the inside of the movement
to prohibit boxing in the state of Califor
nia seem confident they will win their
point. Many noted boxers recently ex
pressed their belief that there would be
no more boxing there after January 1.
• ♦ «
Harry Coleman. Joe Mandot's manager,
is negotiating with Jack Dillon to train
his protege for his fight with Joe Rivers
on the coast Labor Day.
• * •
Although Mandot cut his little finger
with a cigar clipper in Memphis yester
day it is not likely the match will he de
clared off unless blood poison results.
• ♦ *
"Special Delivery" Hirsh and Joe Phil
lips will make up the semi-wind-up to
the Danny Goodman-" Prince” Henry
match, to be staged at a club near Chi
cago tomorrow night.
« • •
Charlie White says he Is still waiting to
hear from Champion Johnny’ Kilbane
about the SI,OOO side bet he posted as a
guarantee for a ten-round match with
the featherweight boss.
• * *
K*. O. Brown, the popular little light
weight, has fully recovered from the
shake-up he received in an automobile
accident in New A'ork recently. The lit
tle Dutchman says. “Never again wdll I
take a 'yoy' ride." Brown's manager has
offers for his boy to meet Willie Ritchie.
Joe Mandot and Joe Rivers on the coast
• • ■
Jesse Willard, the big cowboy-pugilist,
/
FEW CHANGES IN PENN'S
1912 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
PHILADELPHIA. July 31. —No
marked changes have been made in the
University of Pennsylvania for football
schedule, as announced by Manage)
Perot and pretty much the same elev
ens as have been met in the past will
play here next ft 11.
The schedule:
September 28 —Gettysburg, at Frank
lin field.
October 2—Franklin and Marshall, at
Franklin field.
<|etobei s—Dickinson,5 —Dickinson, at Franklin
field.
October 9 I'rsintis, at Franklin
field.
October 12—Swarthmore, at Franklin
field.
October 19—Brown, at Providence,
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October 26—Lafayette, at Franklin
field.
November 2—State college, at Frank
lin field
Novembe 9 —Michigan, at Franklin
field.
November 16 Indian- at Frank.,n
field.
Novembei 28 -Cornell, at Franklin
field.
KELLEY BEATS KRAUSE
PHILADELPHIA. July .30 Fremne .
I Kelley defeated Johnny Krause in a six- I
round bout here last mghi.
between Jack Johnson and Sam
Langford to draw out anything of a
house.
People out there seem to hate
tired of the game, or times are
too hard, or there is some reason
for the slump. In the palmy days
that Coffroth once knew he could
well afford to clinch Wolgast on
the latter's own terms. But un
derstanding conditions the way he
does, it's no wonder that Coffroth
laughed.
Drew $40,000 With Rivers.
Just glance over some of the
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 noint that I
think is on Wolgast.s mind. I have
an idea that lie knows he is about
—— ■ i
is now a full-fledged "White Hope." He
won all the way from Arthur I’elky. an
old trial horse, in New York recently.
• • •
Jack White has signed articles to box
Frankie Russell and Joe Thomas in New
Orleans some time in the near future.
♦ • •
If Jack Johnson is in earnest about his
retirement from the ring, as was an
nounced yesterday, it is very likely a
negro pug will still be boss of the heavy
weights, as Joe Jeannette should be able
to take care of any of the so-called
"Hopes." Jeannette will probable claim
the title.
• • »
Packey McFarland has signed a con
tract to box Young McCartney in i’hila
delphia. August 30. Packey defeated Mc-
Cartney some time back, but the pro
moters were so impressed with McCart
ney's showing that they have matched
the two again.
• ♦ ♦
Tom McCarey plans to stage his next
fight in Los Angeles at night instead of
the afternoon in an effort to avoid the
immense heat which affects the fans and
boxers when the bouts are staged In the
afternoon. .It' Jack Wiiite and Harry
Thomas agree to a match they will fur
nish the first night card.
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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 VVolgast's fix. He's
comfortable, but if he could nego
tiate that additional J 55.000 he
would be much more so.
Pictures Show Him Up.
It looks to me. after seeing the
AA'olgast-Rivers fight picture- 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
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 1 do about it. no
wonder there is a mad scramble of
the lightweights to get a shot at
ihe Michigan farmer
HEMPHILL LEAVES TODAY
FOR COLUMBUS POSITION
Charley Hemphill leave? at 5:10 o’clock
this afternoon for his new berth in <’<•-
lumbus. Hemp is confident that he will
bat as well in the American association
as he did here in the Southern.
MAY RELEASE McCOY.
BRUSSELS. July 31.-—lt is believed
here that “Kid” McCoy, who was arrest
ed last week in London on a provisional
extradition war-ant on the allegation that
he had been imp l tea ted in a jewelry rob
bery in Belgium, soon will be given his
liberty. It is now declared in some quar
ters he was the victim of a conspiracy
on tlie part of the real robbers, who in
duced him to go to Ostend on the prelex'
of arranging a boxing match, but in real
ity to throw off suspicion from themselves
in connection with the theft.
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. resulting
in the death of 200 persons, among then;
the brother of “Mark Twain," Henry
Clemens.