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Crackers* Batting
Averages, Including
Saturday's Game
These averages include all games
played to date:
PLAYER— g. ab. r. h. P.C
Becker, p. 7 IS 1 6 .333
Harbison, ss 13 141 17 41 .291
Alperman. 2b97 36S 54 98 .266
Graham, c 42 12S 14 34 .266
Bailey, if 97 341 61 90 .264
Agler, 1b34 107 16 27 .252
Callahan. 1f35 21S 23 52 .239
McElveen. 3b 103 371 44 85 .229
Sitton, p. 20 48 8 7 .146
Brady, p 16 4 9 2 7 .143
‘Lyons, rs 5 14 1 2 .143
Reynolds, c. 4 9 11 .111
Waldorf, p 5 14 0 0 .000
Duggleby, p 1 2 0 0 .000
Howard, utility .... 1 2 0 0 .000
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today
Montomery in Atlanta. Ponce DeLeon
.nark. Game called at 4 o'clock.
Birmingham in Chattanooga.
Mobile in Jilemphis.
New < irleans in Nashville.
Standing ot the Club*.
W. 1.. I* C XV. 1,. P f!
B'lian: . 64 38 .628 C’nooa. . 46 49 .484
Mobile . .37 46 .553 N’ville. .44 53 .454
N. Or. . 48 45 .522 Mont. . .44 56 .140
M’mphis 47 48 .495 Atlanta. 40 55 .421
Yesterday’s Results.
New Orleans 8. Memphis 1
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Today.
Albany in Macon.
Columbia in Jacksonville
Savanah in Columbus.
Stand'ng or tne Club*
XX . t.. P ■' I W. 1. pc
Sav'nah. 21 11 .656 Macon .17 17 .500
J villc. . .20 13 .606 I Albanv. .13 21 .382
C’bus. 19 14 .576 I Col a. .10 24 .294
Yesterday s Results.
No rimes scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today
Washington in Chicago.
Philadelphia in St. Louis
New York in Detroit.
Boston on Cleveland
Standing ot the Clubs
w 1 !•.' W. L. PC
Boston . 59 32 .683 Detroit . 50 52 .490
Wash. . 63 38 .624 G land . t.". 55 .150
Pl’ila. 58 41 .586 N. York 32 64 333
Chicago .50 48 .510 S. Louis 31 68 .313
Yesterday's Results.
Ruston 8. Cleveland 6.
Washington 3. Chicago 2.
Philadelphia 8. St. Louis 3.
Detroit 4. New York 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Cincinnati in Boston.
St. Louis in Brooklyn.
Pittsburg in New York.
Chicago in Philadelphia.
Standing c» the Clubs.
XV. 1.. P ■' W 1. PC
N. York 71 24 .748 C'nati. . 45 53 .45?
Chicago 61 31 .642 S. Louis 43 56 .434
P'hurg .55 38 .591 Br'klyn. .35 63 .357
Phila. . .46 45 .505 Boston . 26 69 .274
Yesterday’s Results.
No antes scheduled.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Games Today.
Milwaukee in Indianapolis.
Kansas City in Toledo.
Minneapolis in Louisville.
St. Paul in Columbus.
Standing of the Clubs
w. l p.c w r. pc
M'apolis 72 39 .649 S. Paul .51 65 .440
C’bus. . .71 42 .629 XI w kee. 48 63 .132
Toledo . .69 44 .61 1 I. Ville. .43 68 .189
K. City 55 56 .495 l apolis. 42 75 .359
Yesterday's Results.
Indianapolis 6, Milwaukee 3.
Columbus 13. St. Paul 4 (first ante.)
Columbus 4, St. Paul 3 (second game.)
Minneapolis 6, Louisville 4 (first game.)
Louisville 2. Minneapolis 0 (second
game.)
Kansas City 10. Toledo 5 (first game.)
Toledo 7. Kansas City 1 (second game.,l
Annual Mountain
Excursion
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Saturday, August 17
$6.00 Asheville, N. C.
$6.00 Lake Toxaway, N. C,
$6.00 Hendersonville, N. C.
$6.00 Hot Springs, N. C.
$6.00 Tate Springs, N. C.
$6.50 Bristol, Tenn.
Final limit September 1.
Three trains to Asheville.
Morning Noon Night.
8:00 a. m. ! 11:15 a. m. 9:00 p. m.
MAKE RESERVATION NOW.
BASEBALL
THE SPA Y
Montgomery v. Atlanta
Ponce de Leon Park 4:00
CORSYTH I Todfi y’ 2: «
8 Mlanta’s Busiest Theater ) Tonight 8:30
Marshall P. Wilder Nexi Week
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Wolgast Confesses He Needs to
Build Up Before Mixing Again
By \\ . W. Naughton.
A LL things considered, ('hampion
" olgast may consider him
self a lucky fellow. He showed
conclusively in his four rounds with
William Ritchie in San Francisco that
his stamina had been Impaired by his
appendicitis operation, if he had
listened to the advice of some of his
best friends he would have postponed
ns affair with Rivers, of Los Angeles.
I ne fact that he refused to hearken to
counsel given him suggests that Wol-
Kast had Rivers sized up pretty well.
The champion had seen Rivers in most
of his fights, and had watched the Mex
ican training many a time and oft.
He felt probably that even if he was
not as good as formerly he could ac
count for Rivers, and the result proved
that his diagnosis was correct. But at
that he tan quite a risk.
" olgast is free to confess now that
he needs more building up and he may
thank his stars that he Is not in the
position of the man who -locked the
stable door after the steed had be- n
stolen. He has gone to his farm neat*
Cadillac so lead the simple life for a
few months, and just what the future
holds for him in the fighting line is
problematical. There is room for doubt
as to whether he will ever be as sturdy
as he was before he became a subject
for the surgeon's knife.
If he decides to hold aloof from the
activities of the ring for the balance of
his days, the lightweight championship
question will be in a bad tangle. There
is not a thinking man who could say
offhand which pugilist is best entitled
to step into Wolgast's shoes.
Os a certainty Rivers has no claim
on the lightweight crown.. The only
thing that justified the Wolgast-Rivers
match was the suspicion that Wolgast
had retrograded—through no fault of
his own—and the fight, if it did noth
ing else, proved that the suspicion was
well founded. But even though Woi
gast was far from being the Wolgast
who trounced Battling Nelson, he was
INTERNATIONAL league.
Games Today.
Baltimore in Toronto.
Providence in Buffalo.
Newark in Montreal.
Standing of the Club*
XV. L. 1 •_.)■■ XV I. P C
Rocli 61 43 .587 Newark 51 52 .495
Toronto .57 45 .559 Buffalo. 47 53 .470
R more. .54 -J4 .551 M’treal. .44 61 419
J. City .54 »3 .505 P’dence. 42 59 416
Yesterday's Results.
Rochester 2. Jersey City 0.
Montreal 8. Newark 6.
(inly games scheduled. •
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J HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 5. 1912.
a match for Rivers: but this should
stand as testimony that Rivers does
not belong in the best lightweight com
pany.
This is not a one-man view of the
matter by any means. The newspaper
experts who reported that the Fourth of
July fight in Los Angeles differed in
many essentials, but there was one
point on which there was striking una
nimity of opinion. The majority of the
scribes said that for many rounds be
fore the finish Wolgast was outpunch
ing Rivets and wearing him down.
Away from Los Angeles there is dif
ference of opinion as to w ho really di
rects the fistic fortunes of the Mexi
can. but whoever it is. Rivets is well
advised. Willie Ritchie, probably San
Francisco's premier lightweight - at
present, has claimed many times dur
ing the past few months that he is as
well entitled to a bout with'Wolgast as
the next man. When doubt arose in
regard to Wolgast's readiness to con
tinue boxing. Ritchie went to Los An
geles with an exceedingly fair proposal.
( He asked for a match w ith Rivers with
the understanding that the winner was
to have the privilege of boxing the
champion when the latter decided he
had recuperated sufficiently to re-enter
the ring.
The Ritchie proposition was tutned
down and Joe Mandot. of New Orleans,
was signed up to be Rivers’ next oppo
nent at Los Angeles on Labor day. It
is a safer match for Rivers, probably,
but so far as lightweight development
is concerned it will not mean a great
deal, as Ritchie, a short time ago, de
feated Mandot signally in the latter's
home tow n.
The fact that Rivers has given him
! the cold shoulder will not mean so
much of a bar to progress in Ritchie's
. ease, as Rivers is by no means the pivot
on which the lightweight question
, hangs. It will be easy enough for the
San Francisco sapling to make his way
in th£ lightweight world if he has the
necessary fighting qualifications' and
1 can do the weight.
CAROLINA ASSOCIATION.
Games Today.
Charlotte in Greensboro.
Winston-Salem in Greenville.
Anderson in Spartanburg.
Standing o’ the Club*.
W. L. PC XV L PC
A'ders'n 51 32 .614 Sp'b'rg 38 45 .458
("rlotte 48 34 .585 G’sboro 37 45 .451
W.-S'm 47 40 .541 G'nville 30 5a .353
Yesterday s Results.
No games scheduled.
TRAIN KILLS TWO MEN.
CEDARTOWN, GA.. Aug. 5. —T«o
unknown men. poorly dressed, were
killed by a west bound Seaboard Air
Line passenger train three miles east
of here. They were lying on the track
on a curve in a cut.
The Big Race
Here is how the “Big Five” in the ‘
American league are hitting right up to
date:
PLAYER— AB. H. Ave.
COBB 385 164 .426
SPEAKER 400 159 .398
JACKSON 376 139 .370
COLLINS 356 117 .329
LAJOIE 240 75 .313
Cobb slammed the pill yesterday for
two safe swats in three trips to the
plate. Jackson did even better, grab
bing four clouts in five attempts.
Speaker, like Ty. got two hits in three
times up. Collins only secured one hit
in five at-bats. Lajoie failed to count
once in five times.
DEMAREE WAS SOLD FOR
RECORD PRICE—SIO,OOO
MOBILE. Aug. 3.—Al Demaree was
sold to the New York Giants for SIO,OOO
and not SI,OOO and $2,500. as was vari
ously reported at the time the deal
was made.
This is the largest price ever paid
for a player In the Southern league,
and is enough money to make it cer
tain that the Gulls will show a big
profit on the season
The odd thing about Demaree is that
two Southern league teams passed him
up. The Atlanta club owned him but
wouldn't offer him enough to make it
worth while to report. He went to
Chattanooga and the Lookouts traded
him for Chappelle.
McCarthy and stewart
MIX IN GOTHAM TONIGHT
NEW YORK. Aug. s.—Luther Mc-
Carthy, of Springfield, Mo., one of the
foremost of the American while hopes,
will make his first New York appear
ance tonight when he will meet Jim
Stewart, of Brooklyn, in a ten-round
bout at Madison Square Garden.
This contest is attracting more at
tention than any other since the XVells-
Palzer affair, and the Missourian is
picked to win. McCarthy declares that
he is in just as good condition now as
when He put away Carl Morris, of Sa
pulpa. Okla., and he is anxious to es
tablish a New Yotk reputation.
COTTON STATES. LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Meridian in Jackson.
Vicksburg in Yazoo City.
Columbus in Greenwood
Standing of the Club*.
XV. L. P.C W. L. PC
t' mbus 23 14 .622 G'nwood 20 17 .541
M'idian 22 15 .595 J'cks'n 20 17 .541
V'ksb’g 21 16 .568 s'. City 532 .139
Yesterday's Results.
Columbus 6. Vicksburg 0.
Only one game scheduled.
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Richmond in Norfolk.
Portsmouth in Newport News.
Roanoke in Petersburg.
Standing of the Club*.
W. L. P C I W. L. P.t'.
P'sb'rg 60 37 .619 P’sm'th 42 43 .494
Norfolk 49 45 .521 R'hm nd 45 53 .459
R’anoke 43 43 .5001 N. N'ws 37 55 402
Yesterday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Johnny Dundee was married a few
months ago. Before he put on the
shackles Johnny fought whenever he felt
like it; that was about once a month.
Now’ slant the difference. Dundee is
matched to fight Patsy Kline in New York
next Wednesday, and two days Later will
travel to ('leveland and meet Matt Brock
in a 12-round encounter.
* ♦ ♦
Owen Moran, accompanied by his wife,
sailed for England on the Cunard liner
Caronia. Moran had planned to box in
New York, but as he did not get a suit
able offer from any of the Gotham pro
moters he decided to hike for the other
side.
• • •
< »ne Round Hogan was successful in his
‘ come btu k* ac on the coast the other
night As soon as Hogan finds he is in
as good a condition as he was last fall
he will leave for the East to meet some of
the best 133-pounders Gotham boasts'of
♦ * •
Dave Holly whose death reported in
Philadelphia the other day. was the only
boxer to ever weigh in lower than Sam
Langford and defeat the Tar Baby This
happened in Cambridge in 1904 Holly get
ting the decision after a tough fight. Hol
ly was a colored boxer ami the first pug
to use the somewhat illegal blow known
as the ‘loop the loop” punch.
• V ■
Charles Ledoux. the latest French box
ing sensation, has been offered a bout
with Jimmy Walsh by the Pilgrim Ath
letic club in Boston. The club has also
cable .lean Posey offer for an encounter
with Matty Baldwin
* • ♦
.lack Johnson, who .is a fast friend of
Jimmy Barry's, may be se£n in the Chi
cagoan's corner tomorrow night when he
fights Dan Flynn in Boston.
♦ ♦ ♦
Wolgast and Tom Jones must have got
their wires mixed tip. Reports from Wot-
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Beggars must not be choosers
ast at Milwaukee say he has accepted
Billy Gibson’s offer to box Packev Mc-
Farland in New York, while reports from
Tom Jones in Los Angeles say he has re
ceived a wire from Ad denying the rumor
of a scrap.
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Willie Ritchie is going to pay some kid io
meet him in the ring even if only for a
second Every time Ritchie’s name is
mentioned by a promoter Willies rivals
talk about (he weather and then fade
away.
• ♦ ♦
Toni Burns*is still claimng the heavy
weight title and says he is ready to de
fend It. As for Burns really taking the
crown ant one who ever saw a boxing
glove will not take him seriously for a
moment. He has no claim on it any way
an«l as for coming back he has about as
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have of winning the worlds series this
fall.
• • ♦
Jack Johnson is quoted as saying Sam
McVey. Sam Langford and Joe Jeannette
are the only first-class heavyweight box
ers In the game today.
* * «
Eddie MeGoorty s next scrap will be a
twelve-round whirl with Buck Crouse in
(’lev.land August 12 Mc.Goorty will then
go to Philadelphia where he meets Jack
McCamey in a six-round engagement on
August or 16.
Pete Krust and "Peanut" Schindel have
been matched for a ten-round go at
Quincy. 11l , August 12. They will weigh
in at 155 pounds ringside.
,• • »
Dan McKetrick. who is managing Joe
Jeannette, says Johnny Coulon is not the
.real holder of the bantamweight title
Dan says the real holder is Charles Le
doux. the French bantamweight.
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