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Crackers Not Quick Thinkers;
Fail to Make Best of Openings
By W. S. Farnsworth.
WHITBT ALPERMAN has
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 Billi
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 Becker caught Elberfeld
oft first base In the third Inning.
Agler, however. wa,s dreaming, and
when Becker tossed to nail the Kid,
the ball went sklddooing pest 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.
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 died out.
McElveen then boosted a high fix
tn 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
a.ll the way around to third be
fore be realized his mistake, and
was easily doubled up. And to
make matters all the worse, it was
Manager Alperman who was coach
ing on tho first base line at the 1
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, w hen he
could have easily made three bags
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 caught the
sign, and stood still 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
rj ECKER pitched a better gam.
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 ,tl dish W j t h
smoke oozing from the stitch, s. 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, b<-
fore he can expect to make good in
fast company. That Is to mix 'em
up more. He would pitch an en
tire 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. Mlque
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 tor the mistake. The best
of ’em render bad decisions at
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
gra»ser off Elberfeld's bat, and
while running at top speed toward
center field, speared the ball with his
gloved hand and, without turning,
made anjinderhand chuck to Har
bison. Whitey never made a bet
ter play.
• • •
It looked for a second as though
the Billlkens 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 w’as
playing a deep right-center al 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
Altchison. Sure enough, the Bills'
hurler dropped one It went down
the third base line. Alperman
sprinted over to cover first, as was
correct McElveen made an espe
cially fast play of it, ami had plen
ty of time to get his man at sec
ond, but Harbison never made an
attempt to cover ami 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 which were
good for a pair of cushions.
STAR OF SALLY LEAGUE
BOUGHT BY BRESNAHAN
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.. Aug.
George Whitted. who lias hit above the
300 mark all season and who 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 present South Atlantic league sea
son. then he 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,
w ill be unconditionally released as soon
as the waiver period expires.
Howard looked a wonder until this
spring, when his arm went bail. He
has never been able to get It right, and
unless he does will never play real base
ball again.
DONOVAN TO SUCCEED
JENNINGS, IS REPORT
t'HICAGO. 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 year.
It is said that Jennings will go to Bos
ton to succeed John Kling
These deals have been talked for
months, but it appeals now that they
are to go through a s scheduled
THE A I’LANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912.
Interest Centers Now in Coming Golf Championship of America
BRITAIN TO SEND GOOD TEAM, HEADED 111 HILTON
By Percy 11. Whiting.
rpHE United States Golf asso-
| elation amateur champion
ship la the next big event
in the golfing world. It is set for
decision September 2 to 7 over the
course of the Chicago Golf club at
Wheaton, 111.
It looks as though this should be
the greatest of all amateur tourna
ments ever played in America. If
Harold 11. Hilton, of England, the
present amateur champion of the
United States, keep his promise and
comes to the event, bringing with
him two or three of the strongest
of English golfers, nothing can
beat it in interest.
Last year, after winning the Brit
ish championship, Hilton came to
America and copped the champion
ship after a hard struggle. This
year he isn't playing quite as strong
golf and he is likely to have an
awful lot of trouble. For one thing.
„ W,n 7 er - Played At.
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sa-I! ' ■ \\ “Isham Chicago : Shinnecock Hills
. ?.• ’" iDKham Chicago Wheaton
L n u ay Douglas New York Morristown
lerbert Hainman New York Onwentsia
aa?)) a ,,* er T'Z eavis Garden City Garden City
; y alter J. Travis Garden City , Atlantic Citv
' E? uis ' h ,"™ es Chicago Glenview
!„ '! 1 Z ' rravis Garden City Nassau Country Club
” J L' gan Chicago Wheaton
’* ' • V, gari Chicago Baltusrol
' ’Z F ,' Hvers Pittsburg Englewood
' '!' ’’ * rnVP '' s Montclair Cleveland
• J D. I ravers Montclair Garden City
Robert Gardner Chicago Wheaton
1" ?• B. J'ownes, Jr Oakmont Brookline
' 1 ■■ H. H. Hilton England Rye, N. Y.
I wo tournaments, one at match play and the other at medal plav
were played that year.
FODDER FOR FANS~|
Manager Hayden, of the Louisville
team, has benched himself and given his
job in the outfield to Molly Mcloan.
Louisville had a idtcher 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 ene tor
them, as follows
"Why are the Crackers?"
* » •
Clyde Shropshire will probably be
named president of the again-reorganized
Nashville club.
• • •
Erank Manush. the ’Toledo player whose
leg was broken earlx this season, but
who has been getting around pretty 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.
* « ♦
The Chinese team 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 i
anything while a game is in progress. He
is afraid that evqn water would slow him
down ami he couldn’t stand much slowing
• » *
Al Orth got by pretty well bis first week
in the big league. Then he pulled a blun
der by failing to call an intield fly and
now they’re all after him.
• * •
Lest the entire season slip bx and the
pennant never get up the Giants have
set August 11 as the day for raising the
National league rag won last year
• c •
If the Senators blow up now it will be
because of a lack of substitutes. Shanks,
Moeller. Gandtl and Koster have all gone
stale, but Griffith has nobody to put in
their places.
• • •
Cashion. Groom and Johnson all fanned
Cobb in the Washington series.
• • •
Says a headline "Jimmy McAleer is
One of the Successful Men of Baseball."
A year ago this time there wasn’t enough
fun in Joe Miller's book to poke at poor,
old Jim
Il »y Castleton, former Cracker, is tied
with Parkin. of Oakland, for the pitching
»i th< Coast league He has won
twelve games and lost four.
• • •
Ban Johnson has been appealed to to
bar Schaefer and Altroek front the coach
ing lines, on the ground that the bur-
the tournament last year was
played at Apawamis, a course that
probably suited Hilton’s game bet
ter than Wheaton will. For an
other thing, the fact that Hilton
was British champion was an aw
ful goat-getter for the American
golfers last year. This year he
does not holfi the title—didn't even
come near winning it, in fact, and
the halo round his head has been
wiped away. He will have to go
some if he cops this year.
This really ought to be "Chick”
Evans' year. This grand golfer, so
well known locally, is playing
strong golf. He won the Western
Golf association championship in
style and Is playing a truly great
game. He is getting a little age
now and with it should come stead
iness. The man who beats him will
go some.
Here is a list of the winners of
the American amateur champion
ship since the vent was founded:
lesque coaching stuff is beneath the dig
nity of the game. Ban hasn't acted yet.
• • •
Pittsburg surely had a great batting
trio in Wagner, beach 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 with them.
They have something catching in their
camp now—diphtheria. Funnv thing, too,
that disease seldom attacks anv but chil
dren.
♦ ♦ ♦
Harper s Weekly lias a grand little
baseball expert, in a recent article he
had Atlanta anti 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 .314.
• • •
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
l>eka 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 they
try out One of the latest is Dalles |
Bradshaw, eighteen years of age. about
as big as a minute, who has never had
anv experience except In amateur games.
He was recommended to Wolverton and
■ Harry decided to try him.
Ted McGrew, formerly of the Jackson
ville and Columbia teams, is scouting for
I 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 up and the other day at Portsmouth
a spectator was ordered out of the park
for abusing a plaver.
• • •
: Jeff Tesreau starts a lot of games for I
i 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.
M'O Southern golfers are expected
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:
Pear 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 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
so trapped as to require real golf
in the playlrfg 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.
• • •
IT 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 a.' 1
gave himself but ten days to get in
condition for the event. As often
happens with experienced players,
he reached the top of bis 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.
* • ♦
Z"' ADDIES have been killed by lly
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 at 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 FE. N. M., Aug. 7.—Declar
ing that he would call out the militia
it necessary to stop finish fights. Gov
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 meet
ing in January permitting unlimited
bouts he would veto it.
When Wolgast Fights for Less
Than $ 10,000 He Gets Injured i
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 I '
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 t/
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 db
a ten-round fight with Tommy McFarland at Fon du jH
Lac. Remuneration 1,250.00 ■
Two black eyes and a cut lip, which necessitated two , j
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 I 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. 1 >
♦ ♦ ♦ ’I
Wolgast is not a bit backward in admitting that he was far from right
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 art unquestioned knockout.
"Do you know that I only weighed 125 pounds when 1 got in the ring
with Rivers and that Joe, ‘Little Joe,' as Tom MeCarey calls him, scaled
every ounce of 133?” Ad asked. M;e confessed we did not. “Well, it is , ’
true,” he went on. "and though I was too good for Rivers, I had my own
sweet troubled trimming him. I could not stand as fast a pace as of old
and he 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.
”1 only trained hard three days for Rivers. I could not stand the grind J
so soon after my operation. If I did road work in the morning I was ft
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 I
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. O’BRIEN TO BOX CROSS.
AURORA ILL. Aug. 7.—Two Na- NEW YORK. Aug. 7.—Young Jack
league dubs, Brooklyn 8.,
Louis, have had scouts here lamping would win over Leach Cross, the Bow-
Pitcher John Pieh. of the Aurora club ery dentist, when they meet tonight at
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