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12 hGIOMAH ' TOW On»*DMWj EP TED W, 9 FARNSWORTH Sillc Hat Divorce Suit You Never Can Tell Around the Metropole copyright, m 2. National New. Ass-n. jjy 7 dt? I z k TTc. nr" " \ I <®l \ td sHoo-r \ fe;) , A z WK- ( 5o a m 6 0,1 z Afc «*■&& :£?% 'W $ ■ tuftfe- Wn- ,■« n Jk Jra /n Wa> 7 MBr r BR- KhtIHB Ifßr - JKI , ' J*. : _ L - 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. ' // \ Vacation Pleasures Enhanced by a box of JOHN RUSKIN CIGARS ■ They are the great big, mild sc. cigars everybody is talking about. Don’t go away without a box of them. Ki&l The choice Havana tobacco used, carefully blended by expert cigar-makers, assures you of a 10c. smoke. You’ll say so after you have tried one. Each box contains a Bh ■ profit-sharing voucher. .yVj I. LEWIS CIGAR MFG. CO., Newark, N. J. Tb« Lvx* ladeFOKkat C«u Faawy ia tk» Wuld fßf a ft . MO fr» J- N. HIRSCH. I Digtrlbutorg WJTEftI E. L. ADAMS & CO. f Atlanta. 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