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MiKE FINN'S Gulls will make their jiemi- final appearam e in Atlanta this afternoon, providence and the weather man so willing. and will attempt to acquire one more game. The final struggle between the two teams is set for tomorrow afternoon. That game by the way. will he called early. And speaking of that it is about time all games were started ear lier. Yesterday the contest was called at the end of the seventh be cause of darkness Os course, it was an exceptional day and the lowering clouds hurried night along. Rut the days are materially shorter now than they were a month ago. and so short that a 3:30 start would he the proper prescription. Continuing a little further along this tack, it might be suggested that everybody is ready to take back any kind things said about Umpire Stockdale's ability to hutiy up a ball game. He let yesterday s contest lag until it was a crime. Both teams lojtfed disgracefully, and Stockdale did virtually nothing to hurix them along • ft ♦ • cpHE Mobile team figured in a * modest little railroad wreck yes terday meriting. When they wore about 30 miles from Atlanta, the engine hauling their train took a hop off the track and messed things up a lot. They were a little too far from \ttnnta for walking, and they didn’t happen to have their automobiles with them. It looked as though there would be no ball game .lust at the very nick of titm < wandering freight train hove in sight It hooked onto the stranded passenger engine, haul'd it 'back on the track, and the Gulls were abb to reach Atlanta under then own power, a- it yvete. if the Gulls hadn't been able to rea n Atlanta yesterday, it would have saved Atlanta a ball game -- for the time, at least For the Gulls hung defrat all over the lo cals. the score being ti to 2. The Crackers played a useful fielding game, but couldn't hit Cavet. while the Finnites mashed the pulp out of the best offerings of Johnson. Stick work won the game. It was one of the all too numerous occa sions this year when the <'racket team had a chance to win with air tight pitching—and didn't get it. • • ♦ SOMETHING happened yesterday that deserved swift action by empire Stockdale That was a short but loud out burst of profanity by Cavet Stock dale had just awarded somebody a base on balls, and Pug' didn't like it. So he cursed loud enough to be heard in the press box which is some loud. Cavet should have been yanked and fined for this, but he wasn't even reprimanded. Audible profanity isn't allowed on Southern league fields. Possibly Stockdale doesn't know this. if not. he will shortly learn ft ft ft A ND w hile w e are critic ising. it might not be amiss to s.iv some thing about the matter >f changing pitchers. Yesterday John son was allowed to stay In the box for Atlanta until the game was hopelessly lost. With • 'avet going good, and the score as one-sided as a loan shark contract, the Crackers couldn't have won in a thousand years of trying. And at this stage of the game Johnson was yanked out and Sitton substituted. Tin South Carolinan pitched a useful game, but he couldn't win it by himself—even if he did make one heroic try. There is a lot more trick to this changing of pitchers than the av erage fan dreams of. But one thing is a elncli. It doesn't do any good to change them after a game Is lost. This can be demonstrated mathematically. So what's the use? * • ♦ ’ HAT’S the use of anything this *’ xittr ' Inevitable answer: "Nothing!" The only bright spot in all the gloom is to look forward to next year. Anent this talk of Bill Smith for manager of the Crackers next sea son we have only to say that if wo made a practice of betting (which wo don’t) we'd pawn the family jewels tlf there were any family Jewels t to het a little at 2 to 1 that William Andrew Smith will never manage th<; local baseb ill team so long as the frani hlse is owned by the Georgia Railway and Power Company No chant e. Absolutely none. To take Bill Smith back the G. R. and P Co. would have to back down, admit that they wire F FODDER FOR FANS Bolt Riggs, ex-Cracker. who sprung a fiat wheel at Houston was paid off for the season and sent home. Bob was just as tickled as though he had worked it out ft ft ft The Highlanders, who ure after every thing .that isn’t nailed down, are said to be dickering for luck Kns. star of the Texas league ♦ « • Pitcher Robinson, of the Glanta, may try out m the outfield next season. An in jured shoulder has lessened his pitching usefulness. Th IM Baseman Medkiff. <»f San An tonio, will soon join the Highland chib. He was bought a couple of weeks ago. « « « Ralph Savidge has been canned bx the Reading club and is out of a job. He looked like a world l»eatpr when he “went up His last game in the Southern, be fore leaving for a big league try-out. was played in Atlanta • • • The Phillies are said to be trying to make a trade with Toronto for Bill Bind ley ft ft ft They are reminding t’Minie Mack now that he once owned Jimmy Lavender but “couldn't see him." Colonel McGillicud dy s eye wasn't working ver\ well that dax or the day he canned loe Jackson, either I p in Buffalo ibex have an amateur league which numbers one team none of whose members are over 12 years. and another made up exclusively of players 50 years old or older « * * A player presented himself at the De troit club house the other dax , alleged that he was a pitcher and wanted a job. Bill Donovan looked him oxer and then announced that. “He has a wind-up like a steam windlass ami a shoot like a sky rocket.” ♦ • • Pressed further Donovan admitted that he "Looks a little like Mullin, has a sloxx' ball like Works, stands like Jean Dubuc ; and perspires like loe Lake Whereupon said Hughie. ''l'll send that I box right to Providence There are three ! players on that club xvho didn’t come from Detroit and the fans are suspicious that we are holding something back on them » • a \-ha! Another manager for Brooklyn! i This time it’s Arthur Irwin, scout for the j 11 ighla nders Walter Johnson has allowed 163 bits QUALIFY TOMORROW FOR PERRY ADAIR'S TROPHY The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic chib will play for the handsome trophy offered by Perry Adair next This trophy Is one of the handsomest offered each year and is a three year affair, a player having to win it three times for it to become bis personal property The qualifying round will he played to morrow. the players qualifying from scratch Th. first and second rounds of match play must be played by August 10. the semi-finals by August 17 and the finals by August IS. FLOYD KROH RELEASED. LOUISVILLE KY . Aug. '• Floyd Kroh, ptti hi r of the local American as sociation team, lias been given his un conditional release by Owner Grayson. Failure to keep in condition is given as the reason for the southpaw's re lease Kroh camt to Louisville from tiie Chicago Nationals, and last y..ir was suspended on tin sum. grounds that caused his release yesterday. illE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9. 1912. w rong, that their way of doing busi ness is wrong, trfat they don't know their own minds two years in succession. <if course, nominally the manager for next year will be named by the directors of the At lanta Baseball association. But it is quite certain that the directors w ill not name anybody not consid ered desirable by the high officials of tlii Georgia Railway and Power Company. And the G. R. and P. Co. has Rill Smith listed among their "undesirables.” Os course, it would be quite pos sible for Bill Smith to finance the thing among his friends, buy the franchise and thus secure the man agement. That has been talked this xear ami might easily happen. In that ease the "Dandy Little Mana ger" (title invented V>y Otto Jor dan I might return triumphantly to Atlanta. But not otherwise. No chance at all. i and 54 bases on balls in 31 games this season. fail fashion learned to pitch just in time to patch up a wavering pitching staff at Washington. "If we win a pen nant.' says Griffith, "it will be in a large I » measure due to Cashion's great work?" ' » . . ”< >1(1 Sam" <’rawf<»rd claims tn be only i 32 years old He has been playing it years at the same old stand. * * m I hex say that the Giants give their worst support to big Jeff Tesreau and the only time he has a chance Is when he, pitches a shut-out Set they are counting on him strong in the world's series. • • • » I’he Columbus team of the American as » sodation has decided not to sell a play er this year, though it has had many offers It will take a chance of losing ; one by draft and will hang onto the rest for use next year. • • • > Eddie Gram has one awful batting weakness, hut if doesn't trouble him much, lie just wilt hit at a hall that it ' dropping down right on top of the plate. 1 ■ '>f course lie misses them all. But then no pitcher can throw that ball on purposer and if he could no catcher could handle i it. So they don't feed it to Eddie verv i . often. ' ' ft ft ft t I As a trainer of emotional actors J. Me- (Ira xx has no equal llp has his men soli I highlx developed noxv that when a ball I comes splitting through the plate with a J tu ck of steam behind it his players jump I back and assume that “Great-heavens- i i! nearly killed-nje” expression that oft en fools the umpire into calling a perfect'’ I strike a "ball." | < i <‘ld Dan Brouthers is the dax watch-! * man of the Polo grounds Yes. he played ! i baseball once . . . M the Polo grounds the general rule. I ' “(’lose decisions favor the winner" hash been changed to “Clpse decisions favor , ' the xx inner if the Giants are winning " ! » * ♦ j i Larry Doyle, of the Giants, has driven I < * in more runs than any other man in the | • 1 National league *« • • Martx O'Toole and “Ham” Hyatt, of the Pittsburg team, are both good golf- | ers. The fact that Barney Dreyfus presi- I * dent of the club, is an ardent golf bug. 1 makes the Pirates the greatest golfing or- ' ganization in the big leagues though the H Athletics are not far behind _ j McLaughlin to play WILLIAMS FOR TITLE ■ NEW YORK. Aug 9. In his semi- , final, M. E. McLoughlin proved himself i master of his fellow i ' ilib, ni in, T. C. i ' Bundy, in the New York state tennis 1 tournament lu re this year, and won his '. place in the final and championship , round. He will play R. N Williams. I who recently won the national Clay 1 court and Pennsylvania state titles, and 1 . who defeated \V. M. Hall, rated tenth on , the national list. , WANT TO KILL OPTION. BiiSTON, Aug —Claiming that he I could get a largyi sum than ss.mm, at .which price the New York Americans . ha\e an opt on fol the purchase of Rax |H Keating, pitcher foi the Lawrence. ■ N'-w England league club. Joseph I’ Sullivan or tht Lawten< e 'jclub, lias b’oug it a hill in equity in tin j ■>u hert seeking to pre ven t a ratifii ation of the sale. "Let No Guilty Man Escape," Piped His Honor M WRTER IS HITTING .740 IN I CITY LEAGUE A THENS, GA., Aug 9.—What AA local baseball fans believe to he a record in amateur base ball has been hung up by Bob Mc- Whorter, the sensational football and baseball star of the University of Georgia, who has been playing with the Y. M. C. A. team of the City league. Tn the games played to date, Mc- Whorter has batted for an average of .740, and in this repertoire is in cluded four circuit smashes, three triples and five two-baggers. At the fielding and base running game, Boh has also shown to great ad vantage. having covered the center garden 1n 'faultless fashion and has stolen twelve bases in the last eight games. By these figures don't judge the City league to be a boob organiza tion. for, on the contrary, it is one of the fastest little leagues In the country, its teams being made up of ex-college stars, among whom are Morton Hodgson, Julien and Will Erwin. Wed Brown, Johnny NorJhcutt. Erank Anderson. Kid Brannen and other well known ath letes of the University of Georgia. McWhorter, it is said, has re ceived overtures from two >r three big league clubs, hut there is no chance for the vbfg boy" to break into professional ranks before he completes his course at the uni versity, which will be two years hence, 1 The Big Race Here’s how the "Big Five" of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER— G. A B. P. C. COBB 398 167 .420 SPEAKER 415 166 .400 JACKSON 389 146 .375 COLLINS 368 121 .329 LAJOIE .251 78 .311 For the first time in many days. Ty Cobb failed to get a hit yesterday. He was at bat three times. As a result he dropped back three points. And while T. Raymond was slumping. Tris Speak er leaped into the .400 class by secur ing two safe swats in four attempts. The Boston slugger is only 20 points behind the "Georgia Peach” now. Jack son secured two hits in three trips to the plate yesterday, while Lajoie got one in the same number of times up. The Athletics didn't play yesterday and therefore Collins “stood still.” SAYS JOHNSON AGREES TO BOX LANGFORD AND McVEY CHICAGO, Aug 9. —Aiderman Al Tearney today said that Jack Johnson had agreed to tight Sam Ijtngford and Sam McVey in Australia under cer tain conditions, as yet not complied with bj Promoter W. H. Mclntosh. “Johnson told representatives of Mc- Intosh that their offer of $40,000 for fights with Langford and McVey would be acceptable to lilm provided he were given $5,000 for training expenses and three round-trip tickets to Australia, anil provided that SIO,OOO were depos ited with me," Tearney said. "He chose me as stakeholder beeapse I had guided him in business investments. I have no connection with promoting the fights. After Johnson had issued his ulti matum Mclntosh's representatives came to me for references. That is the last 1 heard of the proposition." Johnson i efused to affirm the report that he would re-enter the ring. GOODMAN AND HENRY GO SIX ROUNDS TO A DRAW \l'R<)R.\, \uk 9 Panny i man and Prince Henry fought six fast rounds to a draw here last night Good man tarried the tight to Henry in ever\ round. Big League Players Form Protective Union Ty Cobb Row With Spectator Starts Movement By W. J. Mcßeth. NEW YORK. Aug. 9. —Profes- sional baseball players of the major leagues have organized a mutual protective association. Dave Fhiltz, former star outfield er of the New York American league club and now a lawyer, is president of the new organization. It Is the first time, since the Broth erhood days, that the playing fra ternity has been united in common principle, and, while as yet mem bership is confined to athletes of the National and American leagues, it is purposed ultimately to take into the fold every active member of the many minor leagues working under the present system of organ ized baseball. The Mutual Protective Associa tion of Baseball Players was per fected last Sunday at the office of Mr. Eultz. The preliminary meet ing had been held two weeks ear lier. At that time the American league players pledged themselves to the new cause. It but remained for the National league players last Sunday to fall into line to assure the success of the venture. Every National league club was represented either in person or by one or more of its players or proxy. There had been a. full rep resentation of American league per formers two weeks earlier. By mu tual consent of the players of both major leagues, Mr. Fultz was elect ed president. As such he was em powered to draw up articles of constitution which will be ratified within the next couple of weeks and. when approved, made public. No Idea of Unionism. According to Mr. Fultz, president of the new organization, there is no idea of unionism behind the project. Interviewed last night, Mr. Fultz appeared somewhat reti cent in discussing the plans of the players. He finally consented to outline very briefly the purposes of i the newly formed asociation. "The ball players are not antago nistic toward the present form of baseball government." said Presi dent Fultz. "There Is no menace intended toward the National Com mission. But it is felt that great good w ill come of the players hav ing proper representation in the court that governs them. Players have no voice in National Commis sion matters, nor have they hope of being represented in the supreme court of baseball. While the integ rity of the National Commission is above reproach, it is felt generally among the playing fraternity that the ordinary laymen do not meet with the consideration of the great star. The small fry is timorous about asserting its rights; it feels appre hensive of the power of the mag- & Uh I Aged to a rare mellowness I I a might)' good inde and lasting I I DRUMMOND I NATURAL LEAF CHEWING TOBACCO Copyright, 1912, National News Ass’n. nates. who can easily sidetrack of fenders to the minor leagues. “The primary aim of the new as sociation is to enforce the validity of contract upon both contracting parties—the magnates as well as the players. There are other minor points at issue, but none of them at all serious. Frankly, the new movement, far from being a menace to the peace of organized baseball, should, by bringing promoters and , players very much closer together, result tn very great good to all concerned in the national pastime." An Echo of "Strike.” The new protective association is an echo of the "strike" in Phila delphia of the entire Detroit Amer ican league club. Hughie Jen nings’ veterans went out in sympa thy with Ty Cobb, suspended in definitely for attacking a spectator at the Hilltop for alleged abuse. At the time the Detroit Insurgents endeavored to promote a protective fraternity, but without success. Ever since the players have been working on the quiet. Dave Fultz should prove a good president, as he is a capable law- DORAN BEATS LESTER IN SIX ROUNDS ON FOUL MELBOURNE. AUSTRALIA, Aug. 9. Pat Doran, the Australian heavyweight, was awarded the decision in the sixth round of his fight with .Jack Lester, of ( leelum, Washington, the ex-heavyweight champion of Australia, on a foul last I? j \ Lester was disqualified after he had been repeatedly warned not to use the kidney punch. GEORGIA AND ALABAMA WILL CLASH ON OCT. 26 < OH MBl S, GA,, Aug. 9.—Announce ment was made yesterday afternoon that the annual football game between the I nfversity of Alabama and the Univer sity of Georgia would be played in Co lumbus October 26. Interested parties have been at work for the past several weeks arranging for the game, but the university authorities did not come to terms until yesterday afternoon. “/f It's at Hartman's, It’s Correct" Electrifying “Remnant” Sale 111 $5.00, $4.00 and <QJ O zl C $3.50 Men’s Oxfords Nr The size range is broken, but if you can find your size you'll get the best Shoe bargain of the year. Tans, Gun Metal. Vici and Patent Leathersall the best styles of the season— C? O /I C - while they last, choice N - Z-* » O All Straw Hats l 2 Price August reductions are in effect throughout the store. | Underwear, Neckwear, Hosiery, HI Shoes, All at Radical Reductions Manhattan Shirts Now Reduced Six Peachtree Street (Opp. Peters Bldq). "If It’s Correct, It's at Hartman’s" By Tad yer. as well as an experienced base ball man. If he fills the mission outlined in his interview it yvill be his duty to see that great and small receive common justice at the hands of baseball law. Until the new organization is ready to make known its plans and purposes in full some apprehension may be felt among the powers. But if the scheme is as simple as intimated there appears no reason for worry over the future of the national sport. BAN JOHNSONNOT AGAINST PLAYERS’ PROTECTIVE UNION CHICAGO. Aug. 9.—President B. B. Johnson of the American league is not opposed to a baseball players' protective association, which was outlined at a recent meeting in New York ofhnajor league players. Johnson said today that a union mod eled on the lines of the labor unions probably would not be tolerated, but he saw no reason why players shoulfl not have an organization to proceed along legitimate lines as "boosters" for the game. NEW ORLEANS SECURES CRACK BRISTOL HURLER BRISTOL, VA.. Aug. 9. The Bristol • club of the Appalachian league has sold ! Pitcher N. A. Cullop, star twirler of the > local circuit for the past two seasons, to [ New Orleans; Pitcher J. W. Walker to . Cleveland. Ohio, and Outfielder V Y. > Sloan to Kansas City. Cullop xvas sold for $2,000 and Sloan for SI,OOO. President Barnard, of Cleveland, was here and closed the deal for Walker, who reports September 5. Cullop reports , to New Orleans this week and Sloan to | Kansas City September 5. SOUTHPAW FOR WHITE SOX. PORTLAND. OREG . Aug. 9 -The • fourth big major league pitching sale of the 1912 Northwestern league season , took place when Ed Watkins, owner of , the Tacoma Tigers, sold Ben JHiint. his . big southpaw, to the Chicago White > Sox for fall delivery. Hunt brought close to $3,000.