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The Billlkens open today The sugge-stion that the entire team be put under bond to keep the peace has been dismissed as un necessary, but Cracker players are likely to hunt in couples until the blood-thirsty Dobbs and his two fisted cohorts have departed It will, of course, be recalled that the last time the Billlkens were here a mess of them jumped on •'Humpty” McElveen and man aged to pound him a good bit be fore assistance arrived There ha> been much talk of revenge, but It is probable that the incident has been declared closed by all con cerned. • • • F'ROM now until the end of the. season .Manager Alperman will work in just one direction—he will ♦ try to build up something for next year. Every new player will get a real tryout. The old ones will be given a chance to show If they real ly have something or not. The Crackers will carry over a few fairly good players into 1913 Let s look them over Os the catchers, Graham has proved himself a pretty good per former and has Improved steadily. His one weakness is in handling tough plays at the plate when a runner is coming in. He w ill do very well for next year, however. "Ham” Reyonlds, the new man picked up from Albany, has caught useful ball. He doesn’t know all about baseball yet, but If he learns handily he might make a pretty useful man The pitching staff continues to be a puzzle. With a winning team. Vedder Sitton would have won an awful lot of games tills year. He will surely he retained and tried out again. ' King" Brady Is an other puzzle. He has looked tre mendously good a times and then again he hasn't. With real support, instead of the 1912 Cracker varie ty, “the King" might be a good winner. “Buck" Bi cker will do to keep and should prove a wonder. This chap is really the most prom ising looking performer in the lot Rudolph Waldorf will surely bo brought back for a trial again next spring. This chap has everything on earth but control, and he will doubtless get plenty of drilling in that necessary art between now and the opening of the next South inn league season. Waldorf still belongs to the Cubs, but will prob ably be bought. Bill Duggleby, the remaining member of the staff, was really bought to help out here at the tag end of 'he season. How ever, if he shows >* lot of stuff he may be brought back next year At that It tam’t probable, for Bill has been.-up in this league once and had no great link. ♦ • • <t>HE infield furnishes a problem If the Crackers cun get Joe AgleT back for use next year thev ought to do it sure. It is presumed that Joe still belongs to the Cubs, but it is likely that he is a shade light tn weight and in hitting üb'l ity to play in the big league- 11. is a corker, though, in this league. Alperman, It Is presumed, is a fix ture at second, and his Aork this year has been so wonderfully good that nothing betetr inn be hoped for. It is to be hoped that he keeps himself right there at s.cond. Kid ha- proved such a coik- I ing good man at short that the Crackers will be lucky if some duh doesn’t buy or draft hint. Several scouts have looked him over very carefully and he may go higher. Atlanta will be lucky if he remains. He is as good a young player as the club is likely to pick up. Third base is a puzzle. If Kid Howard’s arm is right, no better performer is asked. It doesn’t seem to be quite right yet. But it may be by next spring Certainly the Kid will be ordered to report next March for another workout. If his arm is right, he will go to the big leagues next year. McElveen seems to be a shade slow for third base, and it is likely that lie will find himself in the outfield next year. He is usually a good batter and lively on the bases, so he should make a good man there. In the outfield there will be some men needed for next year. There is some doubt about Bailey's case. If he had kept hitting at the .300 dip he was going a while back, the New fork Americans would have recalled him sure. For he is fast on the bases, a steady flelder and knows tlte game But lately, doubt less because of the depressing In fluence of being on a tail-end team, his batting has slumped. As it stands now, there is grave doubt w hether or not he will be recalled. 1 If he is not, Atlanta fans will be pleased. He has been a good worker this .year and would help out next year. Puzzle No. 2 in the outfield is Callahan. Last year Dive looked like one of the best outfielders In the business. This year his fielding work has continued good, but his batting has slumped far down. If he can ever hit his batting stride, he will be useful. He is worth another trial next spring. The chances are that this was an off year for Dave. If be takes to bat ting next year, he will prove a valuable outfielder. If be doesn’t, he will not stick. Mike Lyons, the third Cracker outfielder at present, hasn't been here long enough to make accu rate judgment of his wortli pos sible, Mike hasn't hit 'em much vet. if he takes to meeting them on the nose, he will do all right. He seems to be pretty keen in the other departments of the game. Well, there you are. That's the — 4 — FODDER FOR FANS — - - ” —— ■ ■■■ - !■ ' Ruck Becker had been in organized I baseball Just -me year on lasi Friday. His I first day in tlu game he helped the Wash ' mgton team beat the White Sox ami held 1 them to three hits One year later bis teammates helped him to lose to the Barons * » « I'd Sweeney t.% t aming up in his batting. Usually Ed is ‘'all stove up" at this time ; of the season, but this year he is In mod erately g<»'»d trim • • • We hear so much about players jump ing the Smith because they don’t like the climate tliat I<eo Angennier’s case is pos itlvelx stimulating He unit the Montreal dub because he didn't like the Canadian climate. * * » The <’ubs’ share of their recent tmir d;i\ series in New York was merrl\ $lB.- 000. ♦ • * Frank Chance will be operated on at the end of the present season The doc tors believe that thex can relieve his ex < esstxi nervousness with an operation anti Chance bus consented that an attempt be made In that direction • ♦ * When Ceorge Leldy. of the San Anto nio club, fell sick tlu* other day Frank . i... k the job temporarily. The sub manager did so well that when Leldy re covered he found he didn't have a job. « • « t»rth (’ollins. the Human Flea, has now lost out as manager of the Meridian team. Outfielder Cox. recently of Yazoo City, succeeded him * • ♦ Lejeune is batting 101 in the Central league It is possible that those figures will tempt some big leaguers to draft him. But at that it isn't probable. THE ATE ANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, iniz. list. Can Alperman use these men as a foundation on which to build a real hall club? That’s the big question now. We’ll admit that it Is a decidedly depressing job. • * ♦ q TORIES have been published in vi local papers lately that the di rectors of the local baseball asso ciation have served faithfully this year and "deserve another chance.” That’s fine. It’s like the warden of a peniten tiary who found that one of the trusties was about to depart. "No. 37,681 has been a good, reliable prisoner,” he said, "and I'm going to ask the judge to give him ten years more.” It's the same with the directors. The fans haven't a kick in the world. But the directors want the job Just the way a millionaire wants the bubonic plague. "Directing" a tail-end ball club is one of the most depressing jobs in the world. And the present board has had about all of It they are calculated to stand. It's a ten to one shot that If, at the end of the season. President Arkwright of the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany should slip up to some board meeting and announce, "Gentlemen, I have come to give you your jobs for next season,” the three directors would quarrel among themselves as to which should first Jump out of the fourth story window to escape the honor. Sure, they “deserve" it all right, and every fan hopes that Messrs. Calloway, Nunnally and Ryan will stick to the ship. But anybody who considers them in the light of "de serving candidates” doesn't know them. What they say they deserve is their release. If they do finally agree to serve again next year, they ought to get Carnegie hero medals' for bravery. They all lose time and money every day they serve as directors and officials, and they do it only for the good of baseball and of Atlanta. And while the medals are being passed around. President Arkwright of the Georgia Railway and Power Company deserves one. He has stood by the baseball association just as though it was a money mak er. and lie lias piled coin into it by the thousands, with no apparent chance of getting It out. They've heard him think* and It's a noisy process • • • .Jimmy McAleer's luck was a long time in turning But finally it turned. Now. as main mogul of the Red Sox, he is in a fair wax to make a keg of money. • • • A game was forfeited m the Cotton States league the other day because there weren't enougl official balls to play the content. It happened at Vicksburg • ♦ • New York reports say that Hub Perdue has again quit the Boston Pilgrims. This time he didn't tear up his uniform * • • Bush and Loudon are the only Tiger in fielders who will be used next year. New men will fill the other two positions. Navin is working toward a new club- and he needs it. • • • Hereafter Detroit will celebrate August 30 as “Ty Cobb Day." On that day, in l‘os. Cobb broke into the American league ♦ • ♦ T he tut i that T\ Cobb made seven hits on Julx 17 set (he dopvsters to digging and it was learned that the world's record sot hits made in one dax belongs to Hd Delehanty, then of the Phillies, who ripped off eight singles and a triple out of nine times at bat. Brown Keene broke into the Indianap olis team when he was In a hitting slump. It was days before he even made a single Now he is coming along better • • • Sid Smith is said to be under the watch ful eye of several scouts ami some team ma.' give him a chance in the big leagues again. Sid lias had nothing but chances, The Judge Shows the Girls Some Tough Joints “WL HOPE" PILOTS MIKE FOOLISH MOVES By Ed. W. Smith. Is it any wonder that the public has to laugh every once in a while about all this "white hope” business? Think of some of the foolish moves that the pilots of these men make and the reason for the public's giggles Is plain. The latest Is from Billy McCaraey, guid ing hand of Luther McCarthy, the young giant from the Far West Billy not only has entered a claim for the discarded title of John Arthur Johnson, but has an nounced that he is entering Into negotia tions to take his star to Australia for a series there of five contests McCarthy a representative of fighting America! No wonder it Is to laugh, and laugh heartily. Too Much Work Right Here. McCamey Is a clever young man with an endless line of chatter that sometimes is impressive. But he is up against a difficult proposition in making the sport followers of this country think that he has any right to bundle his half-baked fighter off to a foreign country at this time and set hint up as an American champion. We’ve got nothing against either Mc- Carthy or McCamey in a personal sense It would be gratifying to see McCarthy make steady progress toward the goal of his ambition--presumably the top of the white heafp But he will find such a plenty to do In this country whipping all of the aspirants to the title vacated by J A. J., that all thoughts of a foreign trip ought to be banished from his mind Instanter. Many Men to Get By. If McCarthy can get by In matches with Jess Willard, Jim Stewart. Al Kauf man. Al Palzer, Jim Barry and a few of the other almost near champions and then could contrive to dump Bombardier Wells into the mire, then we might be glad to see him take an Australian trip. Just now such a thing Is ridiculous. FOUR TOURNEYS REMAIN ON EAST LAKE COURSE The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club will contest for the trophy offered by Perry Adair, beginning Saturday, when the qualifying round will be played. This is the second year that this trophy has been contested for. The players will qualify from scratch. The first and second rounds of match play must be played by August 16, the semi-finals by August 17 and the finals by August 18. In the first flight the finals will be 36 holes, 18 holes in the others. But three more tournaments remain to be played after the Perry Adair tro phy is completed. They are the tourna ment for the Davis & Freeman cup, which, like the Perry Adair trophy, is to be won three times: the club cham pionship and the vice president's cup. The qualifying round of the Davis & Freeman trophy will be played August 24, the first and second rounds of match play August 30. the semi-finals August 31 and the finals September 1. The qualifying round in the club championship will be played August 14, the first and second rounds of match play by August 20. the semi-finals by September 21 and the finals by Sep tember 22. The qualifying round in the vice president's tournament will be played October 5, the first and second rounds of match play by October 11. the semi finals by October 12 and the finals by August 13. but never seemed to care about making good. Five big league managers Griffith. Cal lahan, Chance. Dahlen and Wolverton— are graduates of the Cub machine. Thev must teach 'em baseball there. ♦ « * "The season Is not over," savs Connie Muck Same here Hut It might as well be I’lurk Griffith says that if die Senators win the pennant he will work Walter Johnson evert other day against the Giants. Marquard vs. Johnson Some battle, sure! • ♦ • They fined a batch of Charley Ebhets’ men nearly S4OO for playing Sundat ball near Brooklyn Ami that made a Chris tian out of Charles. No more Suniiav baseball for him. He only took in S4OO at the gate, anyway. Four thousand dollars has been offered for Shortstop Scott, of Youngstown. Jimmy McAleer Is “Missing Link” to Boston Team 4" •*j- •!•••? •{•••J* v Hub’s New President Lets Manager Run Outfit By W. J. Mcßeth. lET me Introduce James R. McAleer, president of the Boston Americans. Here is one of the most remarkable men of baseball history. He is remark able because he appreciates the honorable dignity of his position as few magnates do. He keeps his hands entirely free from the play ing end of the Red Sox and there by sets an example that would profit about nine-tenths of the club presidents of the major leagues. There Is naturally great tempta tion for club owners to trifle. They say quite rightly. "It's my money, and I’m going to have my say.” More than three-quarters of the major league baseball leaders are hand-cuffed and manacled before they assume a leadership. Club presidents and big stockholders are the real managers. Those credited with the title are simply' decoys. The one man in the big show per fectly qualified to offer advice to his manager is Jimmy McAleer, president of the pace-making Bos ton Speed Boys. M’Aleer Was Great Manager. Yet he has never so much as batted an eyelash in the direction of Jake Stahl. McAleer went to Boston as head of the American league club an experienced mana ger. Previous, to his long mana gerial connections with the Browns and tjie Senators he had shone for many years as one of the most re markable outfielders of any time. McAleer knows baseball from every angle backward. But in knowing that a presi dent's position is a truly executive one he holds the whip hand over his distanced rivals. No one in the American league is better qual ified to interfere in the manage ment of a club, yet McAleer always keeps in the background and lets Stahl really manage and reap whatever glory lies In success. The Boston Red Sox are the great baseball surprise of 1912. No body' dreamed that when the cam paign opened that the Hub had the ghost of a show with the W'orld's champion Athletics, nor did they under old conditions. John I. Tay lor, the retired president, always had "butted in” on his managers. He figured to do so again this sea son, for he still owns half of the stock. McAleer wished Jake Stahl as a first baseman. He had to of fer the management to wean J. Garland from the banking busi ness in Chicago. Then on the side Jake demanded a chance to buy in a nice block of stock for himself. Looked Like Too Many Cooks. The complications that that sort of a combination held in store were foreseen universally. Every' sharp predicted a civil war in Boston cjr cles that would rip a pennant pos sobility right up the back. Noone could see how the broth could pos sibly come out wholesome with half a dozen brawling cooks. Why didn't the expected storms break? James R. McAleer is the answer. He’s the buffer that stands between Jake Stahl and interference, and Jake, a practically inexperienced man at the business, has made good with a rush. Jake is a great player and a wise head. But it is a 50 to 1 bet that he wouldn’t have delivered the goods under former Boston conditions, lucky as the Hub was in drawing a real pitch ing staff for the first time since 1904. With McAleer’s case so strik ingly before them, doesn’t it seem a wonder that the rest of the American league magnates do not get onto themselves? They simply must meddle or let Ban Johnson meddle for them. Perhaps McAleer would have felt differently himself had not presidential interference Copyright, 1912. National News Ass’n. By Tad made his long experience in St. Louis one of gall and wormwood. Experience is the great teacher and all club presidents have not the brains or ability to get into the kindergarten of that old school from which McAleer was gradu ated. Probably a few examples might set the fussy magnates thinking if they could only spare time from the managements of their clubs to listen. Just once in his life John McGraw let John T. Brush man age the Gients. Mr. Brush got such a burn therefrom that he has scarcely recovered. Brush insisted upon McGraw pitching "Rube” Marquard in a big game in 1908 shortly after the champion SII,OOO beauty reported. New York not only lost the game and the pen nant. but two years’ service of the best southpaw in the country, not to mention the thousands upon thousands of dollars gate money that hung upon that blunder. Mack Has Free Rein. Connie Mack owns a quarter of the Athletics and he Is the one big noise in the management. Connie has been successful because he has no general staff of advisers. The same holds good for Frank Chance and Fred Clarke. President Frank Navin did not like the way Hugh Jennings was running a three-time champion team. He insisted upon passing out advice; now the won derful Tiger machine has disin tegrated into a joke combination. They had the crepe out for Clark Griffith till he really got a chance in Washington. You see what he has already done with a team that Relief for Rupture Without Operation No Hospital or Doctors’ Bills; No Loss of Time from Work Sent on 60 Days’ Trial . No longer any need to drag through life in the clutches of rupture. No earthly excuse for letting vourself keep on getting worse. No big ex-pense to stand in your way. And you won’t have to take a single cent’s W'orth of risk. Think of that! you who have spent dol lar after dollar without finding a thing that has done any good. 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He knows when to keep his mouth shut. cross family in ring AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—-In what has been flamboyantly announced as ”th» best card ever offered by the St. Nich olas Athletic club.” the Cross family, Leach and Phil, will form an important part Wednesday night. Leach has been matched to fight Young Jack O'Brien in the main event. Phil will start the pugilistic ball in action with Johnny Loree. Sandwiched between the Cross brothers' bouts will be the Johnny Dundee-Patsv Kline match—a bout of ten rounds that has all the earmarks of a featherweight championship battle. PALZER DENIES STORY. NEW YORK, Aug. s.—Al Palzer has issued a denial of the storv that he and Tom O’Rourke have settled their differ ences and that O’Rourke again is acting as his manager. 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