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Crackers Not Quick Thinkers;
Fail to Make Best of Openings
By W. S. Farnsworth.
WHITBY ALPERMAN han
got to oil the think-tanks of
his diamond performers if
he expects to develop the Crackers
beyond the cellar berth. The mate
rial Is verily “there” when one
starts considering prospects for
next season—and we must all look
to the 1913 campaign now, for all
hopes of crawling out of the sec
ond division this season have long
vanished.
The Crackers defeated the Rilll
kons yesterday at Poncey park. 6
to 3. and the victors, on the face
of matters, looked immense. But,
picking their work to pieces, as the
dramatic critic does the drama, on
five separate and distinct instances
yesterday the fact was displayed
that some of the Crackers are not
quick thinkers Let’s take them In
order:
FIRST Recker caught Elberfeld
off first base in the third inning
Agler, however, was dreaming, and
when Becker tossed to nail the Kid.
the ball went skiddooing past Ag
ler. No excuse at all on the young
first baseman's part. The official
scorer probably clSrged Becker
with a wild heave. It wasn't, how -
ever. Agler was simply thinking
of something else than the game.
SEl’tlND —In the fourth inning,
with Wares on second, McAllister
drove a grounder through the box
Becker made absolutely no play for
it. and neither Harbison nor Alper
man made any attempt to back him
up. Both probably thought there
was no need of it. On the other
hand. Becker didn't think he should
go after it All of which turned an
easy out into a single and a run
THlßD—Harbison walked in the
fourth inning. Reynolds filed out.
McElveen then boosted a high fiy
to right. Johnson didn't have to
move five feet to catch it Yet. for
some reason or other Harbison be
gan tearing around the bases as
though it was a safe swat He got
all the way around to third be
fore he realized his mistake, and
was easily doubled up. And to
make matters all the worse, it was
Manager Alperman who was coach
ing on the first base line at the
time It is hard to tell who was to
blame, but it sure was bonehead
work
FOURTH—in the fifth Inning
Bailey slammed a long drive to
right that scored two men But In
stead of going on about his way,
Bailey pulled up at second, when he
could have easily made three hags
and possibly home
FlFTH—Elwert singled as an
opener in the sixth. Stingle drop-,
ped a sacrifice on the first ball
pitched Elwert hadn't taught the
sign, and stood •-till on first Mc-
Elveen picked up the bunt and had
plenty of time to get Elwert at the
midway and possibly complete a
double play But he didn't grasp
the situation, and threw out the
batter. Even then Agler would
have had a chance to get Elwert at
the midway had any one been cov
ering the bag
• • •
n ECKER pitched a better game
than the box score shows. He
had a heap of stuff on the ball
And. believe me. this boy sure has
got a lot of steam. His fast ball
was bursting across the dish with
smoke oozing from the stitches. His
curve, too. looked like big league
stuff, it having a nasty drop to It
that made it every bit as onery to
belt as a spitter.
There is one thing that Mr Beck
er will have to learn, however, be
fore he can expect to make good in
fast company. That is to mix 'em
up more. He would pitch an en
tile inning yesterday using nothing
but his curve. And the next spasm
would find him uncorking nothing
but his "smoker.”
* * «
Nothing doing for the Crackers
today, it being an off day. Mique
Finn will bring his Gulls over to
morrow’ for a three-game series.
• ♦ ♦
Umpire Stockdale didn't make a
very favorable impression He de
clared Hallman out on a force play
at second in the ninth that was
very’ much “on the Fritz." And
then, to make matters worse, he
took an awful panning from Kid
Elberfeld for the mistake. The best
of 'em render bad decisions nt
times, but no "regular limp” would
have stood for the rough jabber El
berfeld pulled
• • •
By the way, this force play was .a
bear, Alperman started for a hot
grasser off Elberfeld's bat. and
while running at top speed toward
center field, speared the ball w ith his
gloved hand and. without turning,
made an underhand chin k to Har
bison. Whitey never made a bet
ter play.
• • •
It looked for a second as though
the Bllllkens were going to cause
some trouble in the ninth. With El
berfeld on second and two out.
Becket handed Johnson transporta
tion. Elwert met a curve ball on
the nose for what looked like a sure
homer to center. Callahan was
playing a deep right-center at the
time, verily expecting Becker was
going to throw a fast ball. Bailey,
however, made a wonderful sprint
and nailed the drive at his shoe
tops. It turned him half-way
around, but he clutched It tightly.
• • ♦
Harbison doesn't do enough cov
ering of second. He loaves It all
to Alperman. This cost the Crack
ers a little ground in the third in
ning. McElveen and Agler were
playing well in for a sacrifice by
Aitchison. Sure enough, the Bills
hurler dropped one. It went down
the third base line. Alperman
sprinted over to cover first, as tfas
correct. McElveen made an espe
cially fast play of it. and had plen
ty of time to get his man at sec
ond. but Harbison never made an
attempt to cover and the play had
to be made (It first.
• • •
Why Callahan isn't hitting better
is one of the unsolved wonders of
the Twentieth century. He sure
stood up to the plate w ell yesterday
and banged forth three safe swats
in four attempts, two of which were
good for a pair of cushions.
STAR OF SALLY LEAGUE
BOUGHT BY BRESNAHAN
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. \ug. 7.
George Whitted. who has hit above the
.300 mark all season and who has played
a sensational game at third base, lias
been sold to the St. Louis National
league club. The price paid for the
player Is said to he $3,000. The condi
tion of the sale was that \\ hltted should
remain with the local team until after
the present South Atlantic league sea
son. then he must report to Manager
Bresnahan immediately.
HOWARD’S ARM IS BAD:
HE WILL BE RELEASED
I). A. Howard, the Cornell star who
has had three trials with the Crackers,
will be unconditionally released as soon
as the waiver period expires.
Howard looked a wonder until this
spring, when Iris arm went bad. He
lias never been able to get It right, and
unless he does will never play real base
ball again.
DONOVAN TO SUCCEED
JENNINGS. IS REPORT
CHICAGO. Aug. 7.—The report is out ;
here today that Bill Donovan is to suc
ceed Hugh Jennings as the manager of
the Detroit club at the end of this y ear, j
It is said that Jennings will go to Bos- j
ton to s'icceed John Kling
Th> so deals ♦,ve be. n alked for'
months, but it appears now that they |
are to go through as scheduled.
111 E ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1912.
Interest Centers Now in Coming Golf Championship of America
BRITAIN TO SEND GOOD TEAM, HEADED BY HILTON
Bv Perry 11. Whitin <>• I the tournament last year was
1,',. ~~’ ,’.,, ~ played at Apawamis, a course that
111 1 ‘ 11 (H *° ■’ s ° probably suited Hilton’s game bet-
eiaWon amateur champion- ter than wheaton w|n For an .
ship is the next big event other thing, the fact that Hilton
in .Im golfing world. It is set for was British champion was an aw-
deeision September 2to 7 over the f ul goat-getter for the American
course of the Chicago Golf club at golfers last year. This year he
\\ beaton, 111. does not hold the title—didn’t even
It looks as though this should be come near winning it, in fact, and
the greatest of all amateur tourna- the halo round his head has been
ments ever played in America. If wiped away. He will have to go
Haloid H. Hilton, of England, the some if this year,
{•resent amateur champion of the This really ought to be "Chick"
l nited States, keep his promise and Evans’ year. This grand golfer, so
comes to th., event, bringing with well known locally, is playing
him two or three of the strongest strong golf. He won the Western
of English golfers, nothing can Golf association championship in
beat it In interest. style and is playing a truly great
Last > ear. after w inning the Brit- game. He is getting a little age
ish championship, Hilton came to now and with it should come stead-
America and copped the champion- iness. The man who beats him will
ship after a hard struggle. This go some.
year he isn’t playing quite as strong Here is a list of the w inners of
golf and he is likely Io have tin the American amateur champion-
awful lot of trouble. For one thing, ship since the vent was founded:
Date- Winner. Home. Played At.
' ■ ' >• Il Stoddart Newport Newport
.F 91 " ■ fence St. Andrews St. Andrews
I m*' l ■••••• 1 ’ B. MacDonald Chicago Newport
’yt!•' Whigham Chicago Shlnnecoek Hills
J!.- ■ I - " higham Chicago . Wheaton
' Findlay S. Douglas*New York Morristown
i°*hi Herbert, Harriman New York Onwentsia
, ,o *'Walter T, Teavis Garden City ...Garden City
l;1 "' Walter J. Travis Garden City Atlantic City
Louis James Chicago Glenview
l '"‘" Walter J I'ravisGarden City Nassau Country Club
!>• <’■ Egan Chicago Wheaton
H. C. Egan Chicago Baltusrol
'•"*'2 E- Byers Pittsburg Englewood
1!,0 <’• Travers Montclair Cleveland
'•* ns ' Travers Montclair Garden Citv
Robert Gardner Chicago Wheaton.
B’ 1 " W B. Fowneb, Jr, Oakmont Brookline
19,1 »• -H. H. Hilton England Rye, N. Y.
•I wo tournaments one at match play and the other at medal play,
were played that year
FODDER I’OR FANS~~
Manager Hayden, of the Louisville
team, has bem-iietl himself and given his
job in the outfield to Molly Meloan.
• • •
Louisville had a pitcher named Val
landingham lie is said to lie as long and
slim as his name
• • •
Walter Johnson lias fallen into the rut
of pitching shutouts. It's beast!} dull.
• * *
When the government gets through in
vestigating the question. “Why are the
holes in Swiss cheese7’’ we have one for
them, as follows.
“Why are the Crackers?"
< » •
Clyde Shropshire will probably be
named president of the again -reorganized
Nashville club
• • •
Frank Manush. the Toledo player whose
leg was broken early this season, but
who has bevn getting around pretty well,
has just wrenched his bum prop again
and is back on crutches
r • •
Pitcher Willie Mitchell, the Mississippi
sputhpaw, may be farmed at Toledo by
Cleveland
• ♦ *
The Chinese learn playing in the I'nited
States now has drawn the color line. It
will not play negro clubs This sounds
all right here, but would probably listen
like a joke on the coast
• « •
Chief Meyers never takes a drink of
anything while a game is in progress He
is afraid that even water would slow him
down and he couldn't stand much slowing
♦ * •
Al Orth got by pretty well his first week
in the big league. Xhen he pulled a blun
der by failing to call an infield tty and
now they're all after him
• ♦ •
Lest the entire season slip by and the
pennant never get up the Giants have
set August 11 as the day for raising the
National league rag won last year.
• • •
If the Senators blow up now it will be
because of a lack of substitutes. Shanks,
Moeller, Gandil and Foster have all gone
stale, but has nobody to put in
their places.
• • «
Cashion. Groom and Johnson all fanned
Cobb in the Washington series.
• • •
Sa\s a headline Jimmy McAleer is
One of the Successful Men of Baseball."
A war ago this time there wasn't enough
fun in Joe Miller s book to poke at poor
old Jim.
• * •
Roj ■ c sth t< »n, former Crackei s l leg
with Parkin, of Oakland. for the pitching
■ ' ■ Coast lea cue ile has wob
twelve games and lost four
•» • •
Ban Johnson has been appealed to to
bar Schaefer ami Altrock from the coach
ing lines, on the ground that the bur-
lesque coaching stuff is beneath the dig
nity of the game Ban hasn't acted yet.
• « •
Pittsburg surely had a great baiting
trio in Wagner, Ixeaeh ami Clarke. With
the Pirates these men made 5,905 hits
out of 19.043 times at bat. The 5.905 hits
were for a total of 8.300 bases. One hun
dred and fifty-live of the hits were for
home runs.
• • •
Those Phillies are so unlucky that it
isn't really safe to associate with them.
Thej have something catching in their
camp now—diphtheria Funny thing, too,
that disease seldom attacks any but chil
dren.
* ♦ •
Harper’s Weekly has a grand little
baseball expert. In a recent article he
had Atlanta ami Columbia. S. C.. playing
together in 1904 in the Southern league
with Ty Cobb playing for Atlanta.
• * «
Stewart, of Winston-Salem, is the bat
ting leader of the Greensboro team. He
is slugging .344.
• • •
Phil Hinton, who has been playing with
the Columbia, S. C., team, has caught on
with Newark, Ohio.
• # »
Pale Gear, former Southern league
player, now managing the Topeka team,
has framed up a deal by which the To
peka club will serve as a Detroit farm.
\s a result of this arrangement Third
Baseman McDonald, late of Nashville,
and Shortstop Nagle will go to Topeka.
* * ♦
Tommy Atkins will hardly hook on as
the Hopkinsville manager. hirst Base
man Webber, of the “Hoptown" team,
has been given the place.
• • •
Arthur Butlers real name is Boutol
liers.
• • *
Metz, the San Antonio manager. •is
leading the Texas league in batting
♦ « * ,
The Highlanders don't care who they
try out One of the latest is Dalles
Bradshaw, eighteen years of age. about
as big as a minute, who has never had
any experience except In amateur games
I Be was recommended to Wolverton and
I Harry decided to try him.
led McGrew, formerly of the Jackson
ville and Columbia teams, is scouting for
the Cubs
• * •
The Wilmington. Del . chib, of the Trl-
State league, has had plenty and wants
to quit.
• « •
The Virginia league umpires are wak
ing up and the other day at Portsmouth
a spectator was ordered out of the park
for abusing a player
Jeff Tesreau starts a lot of games, for
somebody else to finish. It is the cus
tom to take Jeff out along in the seventh
to let somebody strike out for him
...
Rube Benton still leads the Cincinnati
pitchers, anyhow.
I
M'O Southern golfers are expected
- 1 -’ to make any showing in the
coming amateur championship of
the United States. .No golfers from
the South have ever done anything
in the national event and there
seems to be none in the jurisdic
tion of the Southern Golf associa
tion this year who is likely to.
This point, and the reason for it,
was rather well brought out in a
recent letter from W. P. Stewart,
Southern golf champion. Said he:
Dear Sir: I recently received an
article you wrote in one of the
Atlanta papers and I am obliged
to you for the kind words therein.
On the chance that you may be
interested in my views of the
"Chance Champion” proposition. I
will say that there is more In this
than probably appears to you.
Real good golf players like Nel
son Whitney and Ellis Knowles do
not get a fair chance to demon
strate their superiority on such
courses as we have been playing
the tournaments on.
We have a bully time at the an
nual meetings of the Southern
Gulf association, but we will never
be able to call it a test of golf un
til we play 36-hold matches and
play on a course that is properly
guarded by hazards.
By the same token I do not
think we will ever learn the game
in the South until our courses are
thus improved.
Yours very truly,
W. P. STEWART.
The East Lake course in Atlanta
is today the only one in the South
i, so trapped as to require real golf
i in the playing of it. It hasn’t been
built and trapped long enough yet
to have developed any champion
ship golfers. But after another
generation of golfers has learned to
play on it Atlanta may be able to
* furnish some players who can hold
their own on any course of Amer
ica.
• • •
rr H. HILTON'S experience in get
** ting in trim for the recent ama
teur championship of Great Britain
® is illuminating. He was busy in
s the spring and early summer and
9 gave himself but ten days to get in
r condition for the event. As often
happens with experienced players,
( he reached the top of his game in
a couple of days, and then went
f stale before the tournament began.
It has long been known by golfers
that it is impossible to get good re
e suits by hurrying into condition. It
e | takes a good month of play to
K bring a golfer around, even if he is
a top-notch player.
Speaking of Hilton again—it is
P reported that he is trying to get
together a British team to play in
h the Olympic cup contest held each
a year in America. If he brings over
Michael Scott, H. E. Taylor and
e Robert Harris, he will take the cup
i. back with him, barring miracles.
fi A'' ADDIES have been killed by fly
’• ing golf balls and players have
l- had narrow escapes. But nowadays
g birds in the air and fish in the
- i streams are in danger. From Nash
'■ ville comes the yarn that T. G.
Tabb in a r. cent golf match killed
a sparrow. About ten times strong
er than that is the story from
8 Springfield. Mass., that J. S. Hunt,
postmaster of Worcester, while
y playing at the Oxford Country club
* ■ Ina team match with the Chico
d I pee Falls team, drove a ball into
r the brook at the seventh hole. This
wasn't any novelty. But the ball
killed a ten-inch brook trout—
* which was g>>ing some.
It will soon get so that circus
parades will not be allowed near
‘ golf courses for fear the elephants
may be damaged.
‘ O. K. FOR SHORT BOUTS.
k I SANTA FE. N. M.. Aug. 7.—Declar
' ing that he would call out the militia
' if necessary to stop finish fights. Gov
r ernor McDonald has announced that he
was opposed to fights going over ten
rounds. He intimated that if the leg
islature passed a bill at its next nteet
:i ing 1n January permitting unlimited
bouts he would veto it.
When Wolgast Fights for Less
Than $ 10,000 He Gets Injured
By Sol Plex.
AD WOLGAST, the busy lightweight champion, in answering the pro
moters who allege he is a “waif for the coin,” advances one funny
reason in defense of his stand for big guarantees. It is this: That
every time he fights for less than SIO,OOO he gets hurt. Can you beat that?
A fighter wanting big money to keep from leaving the ring without an
• injury? Wolgast is sincere in his conversation along this line, too. being
a superstitious little champion. He sat down in the office of Hearst's Chi
cago Examiner and produced figures to bear out his contention. Here
are some of the injuries he has suffered when fighting "cheap," as he
calls it:
.Loss of one tooth, sustained in one of his first fights in a
small Michigan arena. Remunerations 2.50
A broken nose, sustained in a similar battle. Remunera
tion 20.00
A broken arm, sustained in a ten-round fight with Jack
Redmond at*Milwaukee. Remuneration 4,000.00
A fracture of the same arm in the same place, sustained in
a ten-round fight with Tommy McFarland at Con du
Lac. Remunerationl,2oo.oo
Two black eyes and a cut lip, which necessitated two
stitches, sustained In his recent four-round fight with
Willie Ritchie at San Francisco. Remuneration 2,500.00
“And to think,” remarked Ad, after he had looked over these figures.
“that 1 got $21,000 for knocking out Joe Rivers in thirteen rounds, made
$17,000 betting on myself and left the ring without a mark. Doesn't that
prove my claim?"
We were forced to admit that his argument seemed sound.
* * *
Wolgast is not a bit backward in admitting that he was far front t ight
in his fight with Rivers at Los Angeles July 4. though steadfastly insist
ing that it was a clean, winning struggle for him and that he would have
won inside of fifteen rounds on an unquestioned knockout.
"Do you know that I only weighed 125 pounds w hen 1 got in the ring
w ith Rivers and that Joe, 'Little Joe,’as Tom McCarey calls him. scaled
every ounce of 133?" Ad asked. w;e confessed we did not. "Weil, it is
true,” he went on, "and though I was too good for Rivers, I had my own
sweet troubles trimming him. I could not stand as fast a pace as of old
and lie kept me chasing him. which tired me some. In one round Joe made
eleven complete circles of the ring with me after him. I finally got to him
with body punches, but it was hard work.
"I only trained hard three days for Rivers. I could not stand the grind
so soon after my operation. If I did road work in morning I was
too fatigued to box in the afternoon. On the Sunday before the fight I
boxed fifteen rounds and every muscle was sore the next day. I also
sprained one thumb badly. I was too soft, that is all, and simply could not
get hardened up. And at that Rivers was lucky he did not get a
tougher licking.
“I am convinced now that the effects of the operation will not wear
off sufficiently to permit me to take a chance in a long fight until De
cember or January. But ten rounds, I'm ready for McFarland or any
body else over that route any time. The sooner the better. And I'll be
as good or better than ever next year.”
SCOUTS ARE AFTER PIEH.
AURORA. ILL.. Aug. “.—Two Na
tional league clubs, Brooklyn and St.
Louis, have had scouts here lamping
Pitcher John Pieh, of the Aurora club
of the Wisconsin-Illinois league.
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O'BRIEN TO BOX CROSS.
NEW YORK. Aug 7.—Young Jacl
O'Brien, the Philadelphia lightweight
was supremely confident today that h<
would win over Leach Cross, the Bow
ery dentist, when they*meet tonight a
the St. Nicholas rink