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The mate ria) 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 Billi kens yesterday at Poneey park. S 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 tin' fact was displayed that some of the Crackers are not tuick thinkers Let s take them in order: FlßST—Becker caught Elberfeld off fit st base in the third inning. Agler. however, was dreaming, and uhcn Becker tossed to nail the Kid. the ball went skfddooing past Ag ler. No excuse at all on the young first baseman's part. The official scorer probably charged Becker with a wild heave, it wasn't, how ever Agler Was simply thinking of something else than the game. SECOND —In the fourth inning, with Wares on second. McAllister drove a grounder through the box Be. ker made absolutely no play f»i it, and neither Harbison nor Alper man made any # attempt to back him up. Both probably thought there was no need of it. tin the other band. Becker didn't think he should go after it. All of which turned an easy out into a single and a run THIRD —Harbison walked in the fourth inning Reynolds tiled out. McElveen then boosted a high lly 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 ho realized his mistake, and was easily doubled up And to make matters all the worse, it was Manager Alpeiman w ho was coach ing on the first base line at the limo. It is hard to tell who was to blame, but it sun was bonehead work. FOURTH In the fifth inning' Hailey 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 bags and possibly home. FIFTH —Elwert singled as an opener in the sixth. Stingle drop ped a sacrifice on the first ball pitched Elwert hadn't < aught the sign, and stood .’till on first Me 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 ajiy one been cov ering the bag • • • r> ECKER pitched a better gain, 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 wa.s bursting across tin dish with smoke oozing from the stitches. His Curve, too. looked like big league stuff, it having a nasty drop to ft that made it every bit as onery to belt as a spitter. i c tH><> ■> t i ■.. • Yi. tj . .i. 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 scries. ♦ ♦ • Empire 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 at times, hut no "regular ump" would have stood for the rough jabber El berfeld pulled. « « « By the way, this force play was a bear AI perman started for a hot. grasser off Elberfeld's bat. and while running at top speed toward center field, speared the ball with his gloved hand and. without turning, made an underhand chuck to Har bison. Whitey never made a bet ter play. ♦ ♦ « It looked for a second as though the Billikens were going to cause some trouble in the ninth. With El berfeld on second and two out. Becker 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 leaves 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' butler dropped one. It went down the third base line Alperman spimted over to cover first, as was correct. McElveen made an espe cially fast play of it, and had plen ty of time to get his man at sec ond. but liarbison never made an attempt to cover and the play had to be made at first. • « • Why Callahan isn't hitting better is one of the unsolved wonders of the Twentieth century He sure , stood up to the plate well yesterday and banged forth three safe swats in four attempts, two of w hit It were good for a palt of cushions. STAR OF SALLY LEAGUE BOUGHT BY BRESNAHAN George Whitted. who has hit above the 300 mark all season and w ho has played a sensational game at third base, has been sold to the St. Louis National league club. The price paid for the player Is said to be $3,000. The condi tion of the sale was that Whitted should remain with the local team until after the pi. sent South Atlantic league sea son. then h< must report to Manager Bresnahan immediately. HOWARD'S ARM IS BAD: HE WILL BE RELEASED D. A Howard, the Cornell star who has had three trials with the Crackers, will he unconditionally released as soon as the waiver period expires, Howard looked a wonder until this spring, when his arm went bad He ha- 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 THE 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 DpPPV If Wllitincr the tournament last year was rTAHP- it h' ihi i ctr ' played at Apawamis, a course that rpHE l.ntted States Golf asso- probab|v suite<] Hjlton , s bef _ £ ciatlon amateur champion- ter (ban wheaton wi „ For an . ship is the next big event other thing the fact tbat Hj]ton in the golfing world. It is set for was Brltish chanlpion was an aw . decision September 2to 7 over the ful goat-getter for the American course of the Chicago Golf club at go | ferSi last year Tbis year be " heftton > HI. does not hold the title—didn’t even It looks as though this should be comp near winn lng It, in fact, and the greatest of al! amateur tourna- the halo round his head has been ments ever played in America, if wiped away. He will have to go Hat old H. Hilton, of Englany, the some if he cops this year, present amateur champion of the This, really ought to be “Chick" United States, keep his promise and Evans’ year. This grand golfer, so comes to the 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 year, after winning 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 winners of golf and he is likely to have an the American amateur champion- awful lot of trouble. For one thing. .ship since the vent was founded: P ate - Winner. Home. Played At. 1894 W. g. Lawrence Newport Newport 18?*L. R. Stoddart St. Andrews St. Andrews 189o<' B. MacDonald Chicago Newport 1 Whigham Chicago Shinneeock..Hills IS9 <H. J. Whigham Chicago Wheaton 1898 Findlay S. Douglas New York Morristown ’ s 99Herbert Harriman New York Onwentsla 1900 W alter T. Teavis Garden City .Garden City 1901 Walter J. Travis Garden City Atlantic City 1902 Louis James Chicago Glenview 1903 Walter J. Travis Garden City Nassau Country Club Chicago BaltusrolChicago Wheaton 1904 H. C. Egan 1905 H. C. Egan 1906E. M. Byers PittsburgEnglewood 1907 J. D. Travers Montclair Cleveland 1908 J. D. Travers Montclair Garden City 1909 Robert Gardner Chicago Wheaton 1910 W. B. Fownes. Jr, Oakmont Brookline 1911 H. H. Hilton England Rye, N. Y. "Two tournaments, one at match play and the other at medal play, were played that year. FODDER FOR FANS~] Manager Hayden, of the Louisville team, has benched himself and given his job in the outfield to Mollv Meloan • • • Louisville had a pitcher named Val landingham. He is said to be as long and slim as his name. • • • Walter Johnson has fallen into the rut of pitching shutouts It’s beastly dull. ♦ • ♦ When the government gets through in vestigating the question, “Why are the holes in Swiss cheese?’’ we have one for them, as follows. “Why are the Crackers?” • » • Ch<le 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 been getting around prettj well, has just wrenched his bum prop again and is back on crutches. • • • Pitcher Willie Mitchell, the Mississippi southpaw, may be farmed at Toledo by Cleveland ♦ ♦ « .ligg< Donahues wife, who was the. im mediate cause of Jiggs’ insanitx. has re pented of her cruelty and has gone to the as'lum to he near her divorced husband Her repentance has probablj come too late to be of benefit to Jiggs. whose, mind is now virtually a blank • ■ • The Chinese team playing in the United States now has drawn the color line It will not play negro clubs. This sounds ail right here, but would probably listen like a joke on the coast • • • Chief Meyers never lakes a drink of anything while a game is in progt ess He is afraid that even water would slow him down and he couldn't stand much slowing ♦ » » Al Orth got by pretty well Ids first week in the big league Then he pulled a blun der by failing to call an infield fly and now thev’re all after him • • • the entire season slip by and the pennant doesn’t 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 w ill be because of a lack of substitutes Shanks, Moeller. Gandil and Foster have all gone stale, hut Griffith has nobody to put in their places ♦ * • Cashion. Groom and Johnson all tanned Cobb In the Washington series. * • « Says a headline “Jimmy McAleer is line of the Successful Men of Baseball " A year ago this time there wasn't enough fun m Joe Miller's book to ttoke at poor, old Jim • • • Ban Johnson has been appealed to to bar Schaefer and Allrock 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 batting trio In M agner, Leach and 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-five of the hits were for home runs. • • • Those Phillies are so unlucky that it isn’t really safe to associate wit’ll them. They have something catching in their camp now—diphtheria Funny thing, too. that disease seldom attacks any but chil dren. Harpers Weekly has a grand little baseball expert In a recent article he had Xtlanta and Columbia. S. 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. • ♦ • Dale 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. As 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. First Base man Webber, of the "Hoptown" team, has been given the place • • • Arthur Butler's real name is Boutol liers. » • • Metz, the San Antonio manager, is leading the Texas league in batting • ♦ * The Highlanders don't care who thev 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 He was recommended to Wolverton and Harry decided to try hint • • ♦ Ted McGrew, formerly of the Jackson ville and Columbia teams, is scouting for the Cubs. • • • The Wilmington. Del . club, of the Tri- State league, has had plenty and wants to quit. • « • The Virginia league umpires are wak ing un and the oilier day at Portsmouth a spectator was ordered nut of the nark 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 NTO Southern golfers are expected •I'l 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 Golf 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 1 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 so trapped as to require real golf 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. • • • tt H. HILTON’S experience in get ” ting in trim for the recent ama teur championship of Great Britain is illuminating. He was busy in the spring and early summer and gave himself but ten, days to get in 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 stale before the tournament began. It has long been known by .golfers that It is impossible to get good re sults by hurrying Into condition. It takes a good month of play to bring a golfer around, even if he is a top-notch player. Speaking of Hilton again—it is reported that he is trying to get together a British team to play in the Olympic cup contest held each year in America. If he brings over Michael Scott, H. E. Taylor and Robert Harris, he will take the cup back with him. barring miracles. * ♦ ♦ /"'ADDIES have been killed by fly ing golf balls and players 'have had narrow escapes. But nowadays birds in the air and fish in the streams are in danger. From Nash ville comes the yarn that T. G. Tabb in a recent golf match killed a sparrow. About ten times strong er than that is the story from Springfield. Mass., that J. S. Hunt, postmaster of Worcester, while • playing at the Oxford Country club in a team match with the Chico pee Falls team, drove a ball into the brook aj the seventh hole. This wasn't any novelty. But the ball killed a ten-inch brook trout— which was going 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. SANTA EE. N. M . Aug. 7.—Declar ing that he would call out the militia if necessary to stop finish fights. Gov ernor McDonald has announced that he was opposed to fights going over ten rounds. He intimaed that if the leg islature passed a bill at its next meet ing in January permitting unlimited bouts lie will veto the bill. When Wolgast Fights for Less Than SIO,OOO He Gets Injured By So] Plex. AO 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. Remuneration $ 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. Remuneration4,ooo.oo A fracture of the same arm in the same place, sustained in a ten-round fight with Tommy McFarland at Fon du Lac. Remuneration 1,250.00 Two black eyes and a cut lip, which necessitated two stitches, sustained In Ills recent four-round fight with Willie Ritchie at San Francisco. Remuneration 2,500.00 And to think, remarked Ad, after ho had looked over these figures, "that I got $21,000 for knocking out Joe Rivers in thirteen rounds, made $17,000 betting on myself and left the ting 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 from right tn 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 when I got in the ring with Rivers and that Joe, 'Little Joe,'as Tom MeCarcy calls him. scaled every ounce of 133?" Ad asked. A\e confessed we did not. "Well, it is true," lie went on. "and though 1 was too good for Rivers, 1 had ;ny own sweet troubles trimming him. 1 could not stand as fast a pace as of old and he kept me chasing him. which tired me some. In one round Joe tnade 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. 1 could not stand the grind so soon after my operation, if 1 did road work in the 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 got a tougher .licking. "1 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 cenjber or January. But ten rounds. I'm ready for McFarland or any body else over that route any time. 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