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12 CEoaaw gas » tokw EDITLD W. S FARNSWORTH Silk Hat Harry' s Divorce Suit You Never Can Tell Around the Nt etropole copyright, 1912. National News Ass'n. By Tad * LSO6H r*A LAIE COURT T N-O- •' AA < ' T <7 \ ■ _'l T ; ISUPPOIE rwe Jt-fCF- / MbH-HELLO HM'pJy to meet ft OMME ™ ON<> X OU i _ ——?-" c —r- ; \ y \ AV L- ( SLZWT AT AeP-J < Bor -_ > ’ 2 AMEIWE*/ ) /TO~IT7\ x-y I ” r T " \ TO SHOOT - \ 1 \ wllßlir - JTW MH# _______ J 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. • Stoddart Newport Newport .L ? Cr- St. Andrews st. Andrews ' '5 2 Chicago Newport 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 of the Wisconsin-Illinois league. the St. Nicholas rink. < I I Vacation Pleasures Enhanced I I by a box of ■ I JOHN RUSKIN CIGARS H ' j They are the great big, mild sc. cigars everybody is talking about. Don’t go ■ I away without a box of them. I The choice Havana tobacco used, carefully 9 blended by expert cigar-makers, assures OS® 1 you of a 10c. smoke. You’ll say so after ifßa • | ■ you have tried one. Each box contains a I profit-sharing voucher. I 1. LEWIS CIGAR MFG. CO., Newark, N. J. M if i CO. !’ D ' Atlanta?’ |®|| 1 kwranmsw •i