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Aug is.— Emmett Key Perryman Is not going to let the lure of suc cess a« a twirler m big league base ball interfere with his clerical am bitions. Perryman is the young ster who was imported into Vir ginia baseball circles from Georgia last season bj the Danville club. This year he Is playing with Rich mond. but if all goes well he will join McGraw's Giants at the close of the Virginia season, early In September He was recently sold to that ag gregation for SI,OOO He Is a big. rangy chap with worlds of speed, and when given propet support nearly always wins his game “Yea. I am going with McGraw,'' he said, "but that won't keep me from finishing tny course at Emory college. Oxford. Ga. 1 have already had two years there, and unless the unexpected happens I'll return to college in October and capture a Ph.B, next spring Then if McGraw thinks I am stiU .worth something to him, I'll be ready to accommo date him. However. I propose to teach a couple of years or so dur ing the rvinter seasons, and then DI probably go over to Vanderbilt, al Nashville, to prepare myself for the Methodist ministry What will happen after that I can't say just now. I always did want to be a preacher, and I believe I’d make •omething of a go at the calling " Perryman fs a son of the late James L, Perryman, of Rockmart. Ga , member of the North Georgia conference for many years. Since entering college he has developed marked talents as an orator and debater and also as a student Baseball baa always been hts fa vorite sport, and when not twirling for an Emory class team he put in most of his spare time playing semi-professional ball in the Crack er state, until he came to Virginia. Several of his brothers are also passionately fond of the gams D H. Perryman, his eldest brother, who is principal of the high school at Marshallville, Ga., is now pitch ing for the Gainesville team dur ing the summer season When his team is in Richmond. Perryman spends most of his nights digging into his books Just now he is doing some French parallel reading. He rooms with Doc Ay ers, also a member of the Rich mond twirling stAff who came out of the Virginia mountains near Hillsville two years ago to take a medical course here NEWS FROM RINGSIDEI Battling Keffe has canceled hII bouts that are scheduled tor the next few months. Not that he has any engage ments. but he’s < anceled them there's a good reason. Keffe was boxing with his pet bulldog when he smashed the doggie plumb on the left eye Tw se. ends later the Battler missed a pat of his right rand So of course ant fight until his hand mends • • • Charley White will have a chance t.. avenge his brother Jack when the ct • ago lightweight meets Joe, Rivers Ar rangements have been practicalh • otn pleted for a ten-round scrap between Charley and the Mexican to be staged at Kenosha some time ru-xt month * * * Articles were signed Friday for a six found contest between Tommy luxon, of Kansas City, and Tommy O'Toole at Philadelphia September 20. * • • ftan McKetrick has received large of fers to take Joe Jeannette to Australia for a series of tights in the fall Dan has not accepted the offer yet and will probably talk it over with Joe before cabling an answer • • • Johnny Dundee put an end to Patsy Klings long winning streak by defeating jlim in New York recently. Kline was LOOKOUT FANS CLAIM UMPIRES ARE NOT ON JOB C, HATTANOOGA. TENN., Aug. 13.- Local fans are blaming the umpires of Pater Kava naugh's staff to a large extent with the listlessness and apathy which have been exhibited by both the home and visiting clubs upon many occasions at Andrews field. The -mistakes of the arbiters in decisions which have been many and numerous are not the greatest evils of which they have been guil ty In practically destroying the piquancy and snap of the contests The laxness of the umpires In stim ulating and accelerating the ac tion of the players and consequent I) the speed of the games has been far more exasperating to local pa trons During the last series with the Pelicans this laxness was extreme ly apparent, and both teams loafed to and fnmi their positions In a. manner which gave the frays the appearance of mere exhibition con tests. One noticeable and unnec essary delax came when the receiv ers were either al bat or on base when the last out occurred. I'nder these conditions an actual delay of four minutes occurred during the lime that the receiver was donning his shin guards and other parts of his txt noply. Os course, some delay In such a case is necessary, but the slowness employed by the Pelican receivers. Angetmeier and Haigh, especially was most exasperating to the stands. Another privilege allowed by the umpires and one that lends the frays the appearance of mere per functory affairs was the sojourn of home players upon the visiting bench and vice versa. Os course, the stands do not think that the players are mortal enemies, but the sight of them mingling on the field of battle and laughing and joking during the progress of the frays lends the battles an air of levity and Indifference which greatly sub dues their piquancy and sharpness. If the umpires would force the players to trot to and from their txtsitions, remain upon their own benches and assume any way se riousness and determination to win the buttles would draw far more patronage. McFarland and wolgast MAY FIGHT IN NEW YORK t'HICAGO. Aug. 13. -Unless Tom' .Innes in and spoils plans. Pack- I ey McFarland and Ad Wolgast will meet In New York before the Garden Athletic club tn a ten-round clash on October 3 iooke.l on by many as a coming champion until hia defeat b\ IHindee • • « Montana Dan Sullivan is flnallv to get t . hance at some middleweight He Is match.-,I with Vic Hansen for a 20- toun.l contest to be staged at Taft Cal August 1, she winner of this tight will be matched with Sailor Petroskey la- k Britton is keen for a match with Leach Cross The New Yorker sat" t ross Britton claims that Wim’n t'o ge ' s lhr< !l lgh Pommeling him " ' ' ross was offered a go with Brit ton he said he would think it over \<- '" r <b”g to Jack's manager this means he won t box Britton. ♦ • • Irn-k Denning and Jack M. Carren have Phrn i 1 ?*>' nlt t' 1,1 a -‘“.N-rmmd bout at I mia.lelphta August 1 1, McCurren Is Itemg managed by Philadelphia lack o Brien and is considered a comer • • • .Irss,’ \\ iiiand, (hr cow box white hone im matched with Glen Coakley tor a ten round bout at Fort Wayne Rddio M<-Gouri a will he seen >n the ' ring f the first time si?<-» his tub i rngagen . 1.1 August 20. when he meets Tommy Gavggan at Cleveland * HfE AT LA ?<TA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13. 1912. Giants Flickering; Cubs Are Now Only Seven and One-Half Games to the Bad CHANCE'S TEAM HAS GAINED .161 IN TWO MONTHS Bv Percy H. Whiting. r T'' H E National league race is | getting somewhat thrilling The Giants lost again yes terday The Cubs and the Pirates again won. And this morning the Giants' lead over the Cubs has been cut to 65 points—or a mere 7 1-2 ga mes This is a long lead. But con sider: 1. That two weeks ago the Giants had a lead of .101 over the Cubs. 2. That one month ago their lead was .170 over the Cubs 3. That two months ago their lead was .262 over the Cubs. 4 And that the New York team has the following games yet to play: At Chicago—August 15, 16. 17. At St. Louis—August 13, 19, 20, At Pittsburg—August 22. 23, 24. At Cincinnati—August 26, 27. Brooklyn at New York —August 29. 30. 31 At Boston —September 2, 2. 3. At Philadelphia September 4,5, 6,7. Brooklyn at New York—Septem ber 9. St. Louis at New York —Septem- ber 10, 11, 12, 13. Chicago at New York —September 14. 16, 17. Cincinnati at New York—Sep tember 18. 19, 20. Pittsburg at New York—Septem ber 21. 23, 24. Boston at New York—September 26. 27. 28. Philadelphia at New York —Sep- tember 30, October 1, 2. At Brooklyn—October 3. 4. 5. I.ook over the list. Then consid er that the Giants have but three real pitchers, anyway. One Is the now erratic Marquard, another the faltering Mathewson and the third Teareau. a good pitcher who al ways gets poor support. VViltse is all in. Ames is yellow. Watch out for a big race in the National. The Giants must have nearly 50 games to play, includ ing postponed affairs. They will surely have to go some. W • * r T S a queer thing about Ty Cobb. * He just will get on the first page oftener than any other living ball player. Witness the stabbing inci dent in Detroit. It is entirely evi dent that Cobb plans to keep before the public strong enough, so that, when he makes his demand for $15,000 a year, he will get it. And he’ll be worth it. too, and a better .investment at the price than any $250 a month man ever signed. ’ Speaking of Cobb, it's an odd fact but the Chicagq pitchers have departed with his batting goat. He has hit only .310 this season against Walsh Lange A- Co. Os course. .31(1 is fair hitting-—but not for Cobb. The Red Sox. as might be expected, tank right ngxt to their white hosed brethren in troubling the mightiest batter of the Ameri can league. At that he has hit 364 against them. Another thing that might be expected is that Cobb has done his healthiest swat ting against the pitchers of the decrepit St. Louis Browns. Th< > are peaches for him. to the tune of a 479 batting average. Here Is Ty Cobb's batting record against the various Clubs this sea son. not absolutely up to date. but nearly enough to give an idea of what the Peerless Georgian is doing against the opposition this year: Opposing Team— A.B H. Ave. Boston 44 16 364 Chicago 42 13 .3111 Cleveland 66 25 .379 New York 41 17 .415 Philadelphia 17 7 412 St. Louis 73 35 479 Washington 15 6 .400 • • • rxALE GEAR the elongated out *-■'fielder who was w ell known in the Southern league foe several .' ■ is and who has Cm e been man tgmg with various but usua lj tol rably good success in various tni- 1 nor leagues, tells a pretty good one. I EDITLD Jy W. S FARNSWORTH Last year Gear copped the pen nant In the Texas league for Aus tin. This year he was giabbed by the Topeka club as manager. He had a fine ground keeper at /.us tin, a man named James Danbury. ■ When Gear pulled out for Tope ka he shanghaied Danbury, and a couple of days later "Dan” was pol ishing the countenance of the Tope ka diamond, to the great satisfac tion of Gear. When Tom Iglehart. the presi dent of the Austin club, missed Danbury, he suspected what had happened. So he sat down and wrote one of the most remarkable letters of baseball history. It read as follows: "Dear Sir—No doubt you are ig norant of the fact that you have violated a contractural agreement with the Austin club by leaving us | FODDER FOR FANS~| The last time Walter Johnson went in to pitch for Washington Kid Gleason yelped from the third base coaching line, “Watch us knock out of the box this promising young pitcher"—which they didn't. * ♦ ♦ The American association continues to kid itself that it is nearly a big league. Columbus has Just given up $5,000 (some of it in real money, no doubt! for Out fielder .Middleton and Pitcher Ellis, of the Wichita team. • • • Por more reasons than one we suggest Atlanta as the place for Charley Carr's winter school for ball players. Harry Billiard, once well known in the South, has lost out as a member of the Columbus pitching staff * . * Ralph Capron has hooked on at St. Paul and has gotten away to a fast start. That's his custom, but he doesn't hold his speed. • • • Little Rock is tired of figuring in the capacity of "wolf” for the Southern league Every time attendance slumps in the Southern league the club owners be gin to shout “Wolf, wolf! We're going to sell the franchise to Little Rock." They worked it tn Montgomery. Mobile and Nashville and every time somebody came through with enough money to save the club. • 4 « Charles -Comiskey spends a world of money each tear for recruits. What he spent last fall wasn't wasted, for he se cured Rath, Weaver and Benz. * ♦ ♦ Cleveland doesn’t care where it goes for ball players Rob Gilkea has just landed Pitcher Haves. He comes from the Ed monton dub. of the Western Canada league. * * « The Chattanooga team will play ex hibition games in Pensacola August 14 and 15. ’Phe Pensacola club has repeatedly tried to get Atlanta to play there, but the CracKer club has had about ah the base ball it could stand right in the Southern circuit this year. * • * You can’t tell a ball player by the wav he starts. Pour joke players at the start were Marquard. Merkle. McGraw and Jen nings • • • In a recent game at Norfolk a horse belonging to a mounted policeman broke loose from his moorings, which was a 'ittie negro boy. and careened around the Infield, kicking up his heels and charging at the players 'Phe hit-and-run game be came very popular on the instant and when It ended the players had all de parted. leaving the nag a clear field * * * If the Giants lose many more games this month McGraw will recall Charter Faust. ... If Ganzel ever gets the pennant cinched in the International association he will at once turn Tommy McMillan over to the | Yankees Bus he w’ill never let the wee Atlantan go until it is. * « « ■lack Kerr. ex-Cracker. is hitting 'em a mile with Wilmington. The other day he , The Big Race Here's how the “Big Five” of the! American league are hitting the ball,! the averages including yesterday's 1 games: PLAYER. A.B H. PC. COBB .... 402 168 .418 ! SPEAKER 427 171 .400 | JACKSON 405 156 ,385 COLLINS 382 127 .332 LA JOIE 266 81 .305 Lajote and Jackson were the only I members of the "Big Five” who played j yesterday. Each made one hit. Jack- | son out of four times at bat, Lajoie out of three times at bat. The Judge Met a Namesake, Too in this manner. I would have you understand that you were under a contract, duly promulgated, to keep grounds for Austin. You may cer tiorari if you will, but the baseball powers will sanction your suspen sion. Austin has not waived claims upon you. 1 beg to inform you that you are hereby suspended, finis electum.” About three days after Iglehart mailed this letter he received one from Danbury, postmarked Topeka. All it said was: "Dear Mr. Iglehart—if that is the way you feel about it. I will come back on the next train." » And back he came. When questioned about it. he ad mitted he was “sure scared.” "What got me back, though.” he said, "was that ’finis electum' part. I don't know what that means yet.” made four swats in a row At that the last records showed him a trifle under .300. for the season. * ♦ • The loyalty of the White Sox fans, long a marvel, is flickering. The Sox got sucli a good start this year that it wouldn't be human to watch them slip without yelp ing some. * • * Jimmy MctAleer may buv the Youngs town team for a farm. If he does, this will be the last year there of Bill Phil lips. the old Pelican twlrler, as manager. Sam Martina, brother of Joe who tried out as a pitcher with Atlanta, has been bought by the Beaumont club of the Tex as league from Eugene Demont's Yazoo City wreck. • • • Connie Mack's much advertised shake up consisted of making Jack Barrv the first hitter, sending Rube Oldring to left, benching Maggert and shoving Lord down to seventh place In the batting order The team has been going pretty strong ever since. “Correct Dress for Men.” Essig Bros. Co.===August Clearance Sale 33s Per Cent Discount for Cash, Our entire stock of Men’s and Young Men’s fine Suits must be soldand sold quickly—nothing will be reserved. Two and three-piece Suits in Cassi meres. Cheviots, Worsteds. Homespun, Crash. Suniar Cloth, .Mohair. Blue Serges. Black and Blue Untinis+ied Worsteds. $15.00 Suits now SIO.OO pi rtr CCDr.r CIUTr $18.50 Suits now $12.35 BLIiE SE ™ E SLITS $20.00 Suits now $13.35 $22.50 Suits now $15.00 $25.00 Suits now $16.65 A new lot ’ ust received, and at $27.50 Suits now $18.35 pn I ?‘ q . Uoted above y-$12.35 they cs •* ’ ™ w,b not remain ill stock lone- Val- $30.00 Suits now $20.00 mtm-ma™] r i ■ \ * guaianteea. Pood assortment $35.00 Suits now $23.35 of sizes. We take inventory on August 15. and want to close out our entire stock of suinnieh goods before that date. This is your opportunity to buv dependa ble merchandise and save money. AH Straw ESSIG BROS. CO. No Goods “Correct Dress for Men” Charged 31 sl*oo 26 Whitehall Street Reduced Prices 4 Copyright, 1912. National News Ass'n. By Tad JDRUAN SWS SLIDING INTO FIHST IS BAD CHATTANOOGA. TENN,, Aug. 13—Is sliding into first base on close ones a good play? Most fans, and especially minor league ones, say yes. They argue that it gives the runner the ad vantage of at least a second and also shows the slider to be pos sessed of the proper pep and fight ing spirit. Ttvo men, each repre sentative in his capacity in the Southern league, however, con demn the play as a poor one. These two men are Otto Jordan, admit tedly one of the best all-round players who 4ver donned a South ern league uniform, and Frank Rudderham, since Carpenter’s de parture, the dean of the umpiring staff. "A base runner does not gain time in sliding into first,” says Jor dan; “he loses by it. In running the body is carried well forward and the leg advanced as much as possible to take the bag. When the runner slides, however, he must slow' up and bring both feet to gether before he can throw him self forward for the slide. In doing this he loses a whole step. No man can slide directly from his stride. He must stop and bring his feet together. "The belief that sliding helps a base runner arises from the fact that it is universally employed as an aid in sliding into the other bags. It is an undisputed fact that a slide into second or third is ab solutely' indispensable. But bear this fact in mind, the runner hits the dirt not to help him beat the ball to the bag. but to evade the tag. A man can steal second or third yvhen the ball beats him a full second, but at first he must actually beat the ball.” CRACKERS PLAY PELICANSTDDAY ANO THEN REST NEW ORLEANS. LA., Aug. 13. Today’s game is the Crack ers’ last In New Orleans this year. Tomorrow and Thursday the Crackers take good, long-drawn loaf. They will probably decide to spend their time.ln New Orleans, for there is more excitement here and no more heat than in Mobile. They will probably move over to Mobile on Friday, when they open a three-game series. Yesterday's game, the third in a row the Crackers have lost to New Orleans on this trip, was a fright. Errors were numerous, but Bill Wagner pitched better ball and de served the decision. “Doc" Johnston spiked Agler in the fourth inning and time was taken out while Joe’s wounds were dressed. The Cracker was only slightly hurt and returned to hts duties after a few minutes. Three umpires, President Kavanaugh and a few spectators were present. Frank Rudderham, who worked Sunday, let Stockdale and Hart la bor while he for once was privi leged to criticise the indicator men from the stand. ♦ It was a wild hitting game. Every one of the locals hit safely except Haigh and every Pelican counted a run except Hendrix. Johnston starred with the stick, while Spen cer Showed a liking for Brady’s brand that he had not manifested in a long time. Catcher Graham led the visitors in batting.