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12 GIOMIAN ■ ' COW® » KMETTS’ LDITLD Zz S FARNSWORTH ' z_ z_j <- What's the Use of Being a Detective if Everybody Knows It? :; ;• ;: By “Bud” Fisher - “ ~ \ T / >— V ”] r~ Z"' m ' " "T 1 " —rr—■ — - -- —■— rvt Go'r IBtA. I'LL | OH.FINC! VJHtN T. GCT I AH, fON’bX JtFF. \ GO catch yIP TN 6 TI.L DIVGVIS6 AS A / (ON 6X> OWN MOYHfcR VIOVLON'T i iHE LL KNOVJ 'M l ' ’ I>E AF, DUMfi ANO EiLIND. BEGfcAR <*4o9xl NAG / V 1 *"*E INOR.LO ) Th£ t A , ANO THtN 60 'Mi \NITH I < —7 y OF all THE \ THp THUfcS ANO GET an J i /x\ Y ) PHONF'f SCGMGR.N « '■" EARHJLL I || J J ill U ( cheap ■■■ L < J ” v “/ owner.gowk- fe SaL ?<gsL fl lLw<\ -. w«! s•: ’t Mb ■ : *JI ■® It iSr z ’= w /lit • yilW ?r T7 < ‘lk / <TZ-' J-—.• ~ ...-_Mi ' jisL * — ... , . ! ... certsfuGMr WETTE TO GIVE JOHNSON J HIB TIME F>v \V. S. Fa ii is wort li. JU K JOHNSON is KOing Io nieit Joe Jeannette in n ten round bout in Xi e York on or abo’.i. Si l iti mb. : The > hampion uill, undoubtedl . win on points. Rut. b< lievi me. tie I- going to have a tough voyage and tie hasn’t any more chance of stopping tin- New York negro than I have of being the next president of tin good old United States. And. also, it is tny opinion that, after lite ton rounds ire finished, Johnson will never agree to meet Jeannette over a longer route There never was a harder nut than this same Jeannette, and lie is game from the top of Ids head to the bottom of Ids No. I2’s. It has often been said that when two negroes meet in the ring they pull to each other. Well, there won’t be anj pulling in this tight Jeannette hates Johnson, and will fight as he nev.-r lou'.'bt before to w in Johnson is aim. ,a n■< k.” Jean nette is just th opp. it. There never was a mot. manly fellow and a cleaner liver. Jwk -pends his spaie moments i dives, dauei halls and cases. Jiannette. when not in the ring, n mains at home with in- f imii.i Jeanneite has m> use foi a n gro of the Johnson type. It will be i ease ' f a good niggei against an undesirable one. and all New Ymk wii. in pulling for Jean nette to win. Jin- i in of the most popiulat fighters in tile Hast and this despite Ins color He is re spected by men o! w. iltli ,_ln fact, om of the directors of the Penn sylvania line.- is his bigge-t boost er Thi railroad man invests all of Jeannette s earnings i him. The result is that todai Jm- Inn enoiigii of tie filthy stufl I ■ i'tile and live eomfortabl) tin- re- of bis days. Johnson can heat Jeannette on points in a ten-round bout, but over a tonic .i n mom.' v .mid go on Jeannette. V \ ERYlit di\ s ■ , i - it' Bob l-’u -simnioi' i> . >at• •-1 i" an noun< i that lie Is going to come back Ruby Robert of the Speckled Spots climbed into thi ring at the Flynn-Smith tight in New York last night was introduced ami • then sprung the following: ’’Gentlemen. I want to conn back. lam going w st.nt training tomor row and will bi icadr to tight in about <>ne month ' After the emeu, nment was oxer newspaper men “got to’’ Fitz and found that In is leallx serious in his intention to g.-t back into the ring. ”1 am still the undefeated middle weight and light hear -, w eight champion of the worm.' Fitz told the scribes. “I particular!' desire to get a match with Tom Shark?' ’’ Sharkey, who was - anding near by, overheard tin .-m.irk awl came back with this “J will take you on, p’nz Gi t a club to stage the bout and I will make you any kind of a side bet you want.” Perhaps after i good night's sleep both have < ome tn their sen es KILBANE AND DUNDEE TO BATTLE ON SEPT. 4 t'LEVEKAND. OHIO, Aug I.'. Arti cles have just been signed h» r. tor . match between Johnny Kilbam feath erweight champion, and Johnti' Hun dee. of New York, for ten lounil- it 1“. pound- befori the St- Nicholas Athletii club of New York on the night of Sep timber 4 Kilbane will get $3,500. r Smith to Lead Crackers and Board of Directors to Stick a-eT -I-e-i- -{•••J' +*4* 4-«4- Street Railway Company to Hang On to Local Franchise By Privy 11. Whitintr. HILL SMITH is coining back to Atlanta! The man who was unceremoniously fired as At lanta manager after h' had won two pennants in three years is coming back triumphantly. And this despite the fact that since he left Atlanta he has failed, both al Buffalo and at Chattanooga. And thus is the dope overturned. This move Is taken to mean not only: I That Rill Smith is coming back as manager, but 2. That the Georgia Railway and Power Company will not sell Its franchise this year, even tho’gh it has had tentative offers, and 3. That the present board of di rectors, consisting of Messrs. Frank Callaway, Charles Nunnally and Gus Ryan, will retain their posi tions for another year. It seems entirely certain that the local street railway company is go ing to hang on to the franchise. They don't have to. They turned down an offer last year of $40,000. mostly In cash, foi It because they doubted the policy of selling it to those who made the offer. They have chances this year, too, provid ed they- would make the price light. But it is a certain!) that they would not sadtib any possible pur chaser of till' franchise with a man ager provided they bad any notion of selling By the same token it is deduced that the present boa d of directors will cons tit to hold office again They a: - 100 good sportsmen and too good busim ■ -s men to nail onto any succeeding board of directors a managei who might be entirely un satisfactory S < the naming of rill Smith at this early stage of | li. game can be taken as a strong Indication that Messrs. Callaway. Nunnally and Ryan httye been asked to serve again and that they have accepted the offer. • • • \V’| •‘' M . \ N DREW SMITH. • ’ * known yvliersvet baseball is placed '■ Bill Smith, was born In Chillicothe Ohio, some 41 years ago. or t he’e abmits. Bill never did take kindly Io telling his age. s . some doubt exists But. any way. 40 Is near enough for all prac tical purposes Early records of Smith's life are missing. He moved to Springfield when a boy and got his first start t here. Smith received n first-class school education, but did not go to college. Before the age when the average man Is boning up on Vir gil. higher algebra and preliminary German or French, preparatory to brushing by into college. Bill Smith was playing baseball. Bill’s first real engagement was with Elkhart His other were with Foi . Wayne. Springfield, Hamilton. Owensboro. Knoxville, Lynchburg. Norfolk. Macon. Atlanta Buffalo and Chattanooga • • • P ARLY in Bill Smith’s career it became apparent that he was <ut out for a mogul. His aggres siveness. his quick brain, his un willingness to lose, and his knowl edge of ball players made him the logical man to lead a team. It is doubtful if there have been a half dozen men in the game who have taken the management so early in their career and who have been as unvaryingly successful as Bill Smith. Smith’s work as managei first i ante to the attention of Atlantans when he took the management of ; the Macon team of the South At lantle league. That was the yea’ the Sally was organized, in 1904, to wit Rill was almost an un known to Macon fans, but he was theta as a managei He brought i,. the Macon team bom- a pennant >- winner eivei the Savannah club b\ 1 Just enough margin to make it in- THE^ATLANTA GEORGIAN A.ND NEWS. THI RSDAY. AUGUST 15, 1912. | CHARACTER SKETCH OF BILL SMITH | Rill Smith. .Atlanta's manager for 1913, is the Champion Hartl Loser of the World. He cares for but two things—pennants and chewing tobacco; and if he had to give up either it would be the tobacco. lie thinks Atlanta is the greatest city in the world and that the four years he spent here were the best of his life. Smith is about 40 years old, a bachelor; height 5 feet 7 1-2 inches, weight 150 pounds. He is intensely popular with most of his players; but there are exceptions. Bert Maxwell and Russel) Ford, two great pitchers, are said never to have spoken to him except on business. Bill is constantly giving presents to his players, a shirt apiece for winning some crucial game; or a new hat all the way around for winning a good series. He offered to divide SSOO among his players for winning the first pennant and it is reported that he paid part of T'om Fisher's salary out of his own pocket one year wnen the salary limit was bearing down pretty hard. Bill is the most genial individual in the world w'hen he is winning, but as morose as a bilious rhinoceros when he is losing. He is an extremely nervous man, and has worn out four benches in Atlanta sliding up and down them during the progress of games. At such times he chews enormous amounts of tobacco. He resents interference from his superiors, but is always delighted to get suggestions from his players. He has always had some man on whom he has depended for advice and suggest ions about running his team. Otto -lordan was his mainstay in Atlanta. Smith has won five pennants in sixteen years, has finished second once, third five times and only three times in the second division. _ teresting He had a great old team, too, Hoffman at first, Blake at sec ond, Perry Lipe at third. Pau! Sen tell at shortstop, Stinson, Smith himself and a various assortment of short-termers in the outfield. Matthews, Bayne. Polcitow. Sugars, pitchers, and Harnish and Quinn as catchers. The following year Smith was back al Macon again as manager and again the Peaches were pen nant winners. This time they fair ly romped home with the rag, with Savannah again the runner-up. Bill carried over only a few members of his old team —Harnish. Sentell. Lipe and Stinson —but he filled in the chinck- masterfully. getting Jim Fox for first base. Piepho for second. Houston in the Outfield. Loucks. Spade, Fox and Helm for slab duty and Evers behind the hat. It will be noted that Smith himself. Sentell. Stinson. Fox. Loucks. Spade and Evers at subsequent times played on the Cracker team. It is also worth noting that two distinguished Georgians. Ty Cobb and Nap Rucker, were playing In the Sally league that year. • • • C° Impressive was Bill Smith’s v work as manager of the Ma con club that Captain W R Joy ner, president then of the local baseball association, discouraged with the work of Otto Jo 1 dan as a mogul, let Otto out at his own re quest and closed a deal with Smith to manage the Cracker club Q MITH broke right into the league with a rush. He took over a tremendously disorganized team Otto Jordan had been hampered by internal riots in the Cracker "dls-organizatlon.” and Smith had to do some right-and-left canning. He-let Rickert. Burnutn, Hugs Ray mond. Bob Stafford, Bert Noblett and Brennan go. either before the season started or shortly after, and Lew Moren was advanced to the big show. That left him only George Winters. Rube Zeller. Dick Crozier. Whitey Morse and Otto Jordan around whom to build a team. But he certainly built one. Fox. who was brought up from Macon to play first base, proved a tre mendous hit. Jordan, deposed at his own request as manager, be came the premier second baseman of the league Whitey Morse played good ball at short, and when Larry Hoffman proved too light for the task of playing third, the versatile Sid Smith was stuck in and plugged the gap. In the outfield. Crozier. Winters and Smith himself starred. After a bit Bill dropped out and various players were tried—Stin son. "Bonehead" Bob Wallace and others. But somehow a fairly good outfield was always on the job. Archer and Sid Smith formed the regular catching staff —and a bet ter one w as perhaps never seen on a minor league team. The pitchers were Tom Hughes, Rube Zeller. Dick Harley, Loucks. Doc Childs, Baxter Sparks and Elmer Duggan. There was a grand three-cor nered race for the pennant that year, with Birmingham, Memphis and New Orleans the contenders. Finally the Barons pulled away and a duel developed between Mem phis and Atlanta for second place. The Crackers were finally' content ed with third place, but the strug gle was one that kept the Crack ers on their feet. In this season happened an inci dent that is characteristic of Bill Smith. While the Cracker team . was playing In New Orleans Otto Jordan was struck with a hunch that the New Orleans team had run some "rubber balls" in on them. Bill at once accepted this suspicion as a proven fact and there was all but a riot. Before it was over Otto Jordan was haled to police head quarters in a patrol wagon and there was an awful muss. Os course. The Big Race Here’s how the “Big Five” of the American league are hitting the ball, i the averages ’ncluding yesterday’s games: PLAYER— A B. H. P. C. COBB 408 170 .417 SPEAKER 433 173 .399 .JACKSON 413 159 .385 COLLINS .388 130 .335 LAJOIE 274 85 .310 Ty Cobb failed to get a safe hit in three times up yesterday, and as a re sult fell off three points in his batting average. Speaker dropped off one notch and fell just below the .400 mark by se curing only two hits in six attempts. Jackson managed to get three clouts in eight trips to the plate and "stood still" as a result at .385. Collins gamed three points. He banged out three hits in six chances. Lajoie leaped forward five notches by getting four hits >n eight try*. It eventually developed that the whole thing was nursed along by' Charley Frank for press agency purposes and finally it quieted down. But the incident and the way Bill Smith handled it showed to the public with rare clearness that Bill Smith-w ould fight for his players and for his team. • • • "pHEN came Atlanta’s pennant winning season—the first for 21 years. Twice before in baseball history the Cracker club had copped. The first time was in 1885 and the second in 1886. In 1886 the local club won after a grand race with Savannah. In the deciding game Hank O’Day pitched for Sa vannah and. despite his grand ef forts, Atlanta won. Naturally the Cracker fans were ravenous for a pennant winner. And Bill Smith gave it to them. When Bill broke into the league the other managers were inclined to refer to him as a "fresh bush leaguer." But his first season he threw an awful scare into them. And the second season he won their pennant. It was a marvelous team that Smith built up—a club that could spot the present Southern league pennant w'inners a couple of runs and then beat them seven out of ten games. Ed Sweeney and Sid Smith did the catching—and both later went to the big leagues. Ford, Zeller, Castleton and Spade were the pitching mainstays, with Hoot- Mon McKenzie the sensation of the latter part of the season, after Zeller began to fade away. Fox. Jordan. Castro and Dyer formed the infield, and Paskert, Winters and Becker the outfield. Seven men on this team later went to the big leagues. i Despite the excellence of the team, there was a tough race. The Memphis team, managed by j Charley Babb, put up an awful fight and took a lead toward the . latter part of the season that 1 looked too big to be overcome. But - by the grandest sort of work on the home diamond the Crackers closed steadily' in. Finally came the game , that was to decide it. More than : 11.000 persons were crowded Inside ! the park to see the performance. 1 What happened is history And Atlanta won the pennant DILL SMITHS third year In At- 1 lanta saw an awful slump. So 1 many of Smith’s sfar players were , sold to big league teams and so ’ poor was the work of the men who took their places that the Crackers had to be contented with sixth place. And that fall the Nashville and New Orleans team fought it out for the pennant. In 1909 Bill Smith came back again. Despite his inability to find a real first baseman, despite the weakness of Walker at third, de spite the slowness of Newton at short. Bill made a runaway of It. His success was due chiefly to the grand work on the slab of Johns, Fisher. Atkins and Bartley and the almost unequalled defensive work of the team. The club numbered only one hitter—Sid Smith. But Sid could usually be counted on to drive in a run or two and the Cracker pitchers would do the rest. Then a strange, and to the fans an inexplicable and an unforgiv able thing, happened. Bill Smith, the man who had won two pen nants in three years, was fired. To the baseball association this was the logical thing to do. Smith did not run the club according to their notions. He did not like to be hampered by the modern finan cial methods of a street car com pany. He figured that a street car company should be run one way and a baseball club another. And he believed further that so long as he was winning pennants nothing else mattered. And because he and the baseball association couldn’t agree he was let out and Jordan was named manager. • « « g INCE the divorce of Smith and the Atlanta Baseball associa tion nothing has gone very well for either of them. Smith got the job as manager of the Buffalo team through the good offices of Clark Griffith, but he couldn’t make a go of it. The following year he went to Chattanooga and he served as manager there last year and this year. On neither occasion has he had any success, despite the fact that he started last season with what looked like the best ball club ever gathered together in the Southern league. ♦ * * A ND now Smith is coming back to Atlanta. The papers haven't been signed yet, but they will be at the close of the season. And the man who won five pen nants in sixteen years w ill be back at the old stand. It is needless to-say that the fans are tickled to death. They could hardly be otherwise. It is equally certain that Smith is pleased to re turn to the scenes of his greatest triumphs. It means further that Atlanta will have a scrapping, winning team next year. For that’s the kind Smith has always turned out for Atlanta. KID ELBERFELD AND OTTO JORDAN RACE FOR LOOKOUT CHIEF CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Aug. 15. Will Otto Jordan go back to Atlanta with Bill Smith or will he stay here as manager of the local club? One or the other of those things is pretty certain to happen. Jordan and Kid Elberfeld are run ning neck and neck now in the race for the local management. It is virtu ally certain that if Elberfeld wins he will let Jordan out. He wouldn’t care to have a perpetual candidate for his job on the team. And if Jordan goes it is equally certain that Bill Smith will try to take him to Atlanta. President Andrews will probably de cide the matter of a manager for' negt year pretty shortly. Now that Bill Smith has definitely passed up the job the matter Is considerably simplified. HADDOW IS REINSTATED. CHARLOTTE. N. C„ Aug 15.—John J. Haddow. the Charlotte third base man, who was fined SIOO and indefi nitely suspended Tuesday, was reinstat ed at a called meeting of the directors of the local club. Haddow was charged with throwing a game. CRACKERS CAN'T LDSE TODAY; ND ■ GAME FOR THEM NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15.—The Crackers are resting up today in preparation for the series they open with the Gulls in Mobile tomorrow afternoon. The five straight defeats at the hands of the Pelicans has about broken the spir it of the Atlanta team, and there seems to be no chance whatsoever of them ever pulling out of last place. The Crackers have learned that Billy Smith is to manage the club next season, and those who know the present leader of the Look outs are confident that he will again prove a successful chief in the Gate City. After leaving Mobile, the Crack ers go to Birmingham and thence to Montgomery. Nashville and Chattanooga follow, and then back home. At Ponce DeLeon they are to mingle with Memphis. Nashville and Chattanooga, the Lookout se ries being the last of 1912 games on the home pasture. Third Baseman Schultz, just se cured from the Meridian team of • the Cotton States league, joined the Crackers here yesterday. He will probably be given his first try-out tomorrow against the Gulls. He is a likely looking chap. The Crackers lost the fifth and final game of the series to the Pels ' yesterday by a score of 4 to 0. Swindell outpitched Becker. VANDERBILT ANNOUNCES 1912 GRIDIRON SCHEDULE N.4SHVILLE. TENN., Aug. 15. —Fol lowing is the complete schedule for 1912. consisting of ten games, as an nounced by Charles C. Trabue. chair man of the games commitee of tht Vanderbilt football team: September 28—Bethel college at Nash ville. October s—Maryville at Nashville October 19—University of Georgia at Atlanta. October 26—University of Mississippi at Nashville. November 2—University of Virginia at .Nashville. November 9—Harvard at Cambridge, November 16—Central of Kentucky at Nashville. ’ November 23—Auburn at Birmingham. November 28—Sewanee at Nashvilh . KID McCOY RELEASED. BUT ON A $15,000 BAIL LONDON. Aug. 15.—Norman Selbv, the former American pugilist, who is better known by his ring name of Kid McCoy, who is charged with implica tion in an Ostend, Belgium, SBO,OOO iewel robbery, was again arraigned in Row street police court today in con nection with extradition proceedings. Upon request of counsel, the case was put over for a week and bail In the sum of $15,000 was furnished fur the American by Louis Levy. TOM SHARKEY A JOKE, ACCORDING TO BURNS CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug. 15. Tommy Burns, ex-champlon heavy weight boxer, today, disci sslng a dis patch from New York n-lntlvi- to Tiyn Sharkey's ambition to tm-et Burns, said is was ’’ a joke.” He says: “I may go to Australia about Christmas to meet Sam Lane ford.” “DOC”JOHNSTON LEAVES PELS TO JOIN CLEVELAND NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15.—“ Doc” Johnston, first baseman with the local team of the Southern league, left last night to Join the Cleveland (earn Pitcher I'ulbqi. <'atelier Angermeier ami Infielder Mills, who, together with Infielder Butler, ar. the four players >e < i-ivi il in i-xchangi- for Johnston, have reported here.