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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 * i 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, R 1 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. I Vacation Pleasures Enhanced I by a bo* of fr-5g I JOHN RUSKIN CIGARS H They are the great big, mild sc. cigars g I everybody is talking about. Don’t go 1 away without a box of them. I J The j C h.°i <e Havana tobacco used, carefully I blended by expert cigar-makers, assures I you of a 10c. smoke. You’ll say so after MSgg I I OI L. have .tried one. Each box contains a KfeS I ■ profit-sharing voucher. 111. LEWIS CIGAR MEG. CO., Newark, N. J. , - gN I I Ur »“‘ h><i«»«adeat Citar Factory in tke World A fjO Irl ■P* 1 e *nau C c H i I. Distributors KflEB HfQt L - ADAMS & CO. j Atlants. If \ fin ’YRS • 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.