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12 rscHcMK so®?’ (Oeh® exhet" EDITED fy S FARNSWOHTH What's the Use of Being a Detective if Everybody Knows It? :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher 7 FME GOT A LI IKA. I’LL \ XGO "T (AH. JCF*. X " ~ P"” .~~~ Go CATCH “G ip the BLOOD" ) I T HfcS£ FALSE VJHISKG R-S N T'LL WALK RifcHT PAST MtSA. ChELUO NWiT ! FLU Dtstuise AA\SELF AS A / (On lA\ OWN VxIOULON’T j HE Ll* never. KnoxH *AE 'N ' ’ t>E Ap, Dumb and bUND, BE Gt°R. f \ KNOW aaE: } WOR.UD • ) the IDEA AMb T*4£A< 60 vnUH I —— ■ OF All THE The THUtaS AND GET an / Y ) Phoned jCFNER.'V ? xb' fjBEC-gj CAR POLL /' | I J \ f iT uJ a***.'- / A* \ K ' A ,i i- ' T»k l cheap =1 _i»» V&4gT Si ”Ji ‘J OIWNER. GOUG is a«. <C\ Ju tei .Aioir _*ags~W/ff out of— IS v ■ obi - MSoh >MRi ifiu ‘ M wMI igg ?; < M of*®\ JI Kfl’X iff 1 l BU gt/k \ Ww Wy L *. W \v -> m , lii/iiS .J®M __ W; 11 _‘ J rfxsr W"irr-i ■.'/ ~— -;~) 1 —______ , ■ —— . " -f9Jg isr > JEANNETTE ID GW JOHNSON J MEHOV TIME By W. S. Farnsworth. JACK JOHNSON is fL' ,ln ’ i; ,o meet Joe Jeannette in a ten round bout In New York on or about September 25. The champion will, undoubtedly, win on points. Rut, believe me. he is Koinß to have a toiiKh voyage and he hasn't any more chance of stopping the New York negro than I have of being the next president of the good old United States And. also, it is my opinion that, after the ten rounds are finished, Johnson will never agree to meet Jeannette over a longer route There never was a harder nut than this same Jeannette, and he is game from the top of his head to the bottom of bls No IJ's. It has often been said that when two negroes meet In the ring they pull to each other Well, there won't be any pulling in this fight Jeannette hates Johnson, and will fight as he never fought before to win Johnson is a "rough neck." Jean nette is Just the opposite There newer was a more manly fellow and a cleaner liver. Jack spends his spare moments in dives, dance halts and cases Jeannette, when not tn th« ring, remains at home with hie family. Jeannette has no use for a negro of the Johnson type . It will be a case of a good nigg«r •gainst an undesirable one, and all New York will be pulling for Jean nette to win. Joe is one of the most popular fighters In the East, and this despite his color He Is re •pseted by men of wealth In fact, one of the directors of the Penn sylvania lines is his biggest boost er This railroad men invests all of Jeannette's earnings for him. The result Is that today Joe has enough of the fitthy stuff to retire and live comfortably the rest of his days. Johnson can beat Jeannette on points In a ten-round bout, but over a route our money would go on Jeannette P VBRYBODY'S doing it' Rob Fitzsimmons is the latest to an- • nounce that he is going to cotne back Ruby Robert of the Speckled Spots climbed into the ring at the Flynn-Smith fight in New York last night was introduced, and then sprung the following: "Gentlemen, I want to come back. 1 am going to start training tomor row and will be read> to fight in about one month " After the entertainment was over newspaper men got to Fitz and found that he is reallv serious in his intention to get back into the ring "I am still the undefeated middle weight and light heavyweight champion of the world." Fitz told , the scribes. "I particular!} desire to get a match with Tom Sharker " Sharkey, who was --I nding near by. overheard the nmark and came back with this “I will take you on. Fitz. Get a club to stage the bout .nd I will make you anr kind of a side bet you want.” Perhaps after a good nights sleep both hare come to their senses. KILBANE AND DUNDEE TO BATTLE ON SEPT. 4 CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug. In Arti cles have just been signed fieri tot a match between Johnny Kilburn feath erweight champion, and Johnn.r Din dee, of N> w York, for ten rounds at 12.’ pound- before the St. Nicholas Mhle c > ub of New York on the night of Sep ■ tember t Kilbane will get $3,500. Smith to Lead Crackers and Board of Directors to Stick Street Railway Company to 'Hang On to Local Franchise By Percy 11. Whiling. BILL SMITH is coming back to Atlanta! The man who was unceremoniously fired as At lanta manager after he 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 at Buffalo and at Chattanooga. And thus is the dope overturned. This move is taken to mean not only: 1 That Bill Smith is coming back as manager, but 2. That the Georgia Railway and Power Company will not sell Its franchise this year, even though It has had tentative offers, and 3. That the present board of di rectors, consisting of Messrs. Frank <'alia way. Charles Nunnally and Gus Ryan, will retain their posi tions for n not her year. it seems entirely certfsin that the local street rallxvav company Is go ing to hang on to the franchise. They don't haVe to They turned down an offer last year of $40,900, mostly In cash, for 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 right. Rut it Is a certainty that they would not saddle any possible pur chaser of the franchise with a man ager provided they had any notion of selling Ry the same token It is deduced that the present board of directors will consent to hold office again. They are too good sportsmen and too good business men to nail onto any succeeding hoard of directors a manager who might be entirely un satisfactory So the naming of Bill Smith at this early stage of the game can be taken as a strong Indication that Messrs Callaway. Nunnally and Ryan have been asked to serve again and that they have accepted the offer. • • • XXTH.I.IAM ANDREW SMITH. ’’ known wherever baseball Is played as RIH Smith, was born in Chillicothe Ohio, some 41 years ago, or thereabouts. Rill never did take kindly to telling his age, so 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 box and got his first start there. Smith received a 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 Fort Wayne. Springfield. Hamilton. Owensboro. Knoxville. Lynchburg. Norfolk Macon. Atlanta. Buffalo and Chattanooga I,' \RI.Y in Rill Smiths career it ■* l< i ante apparent that he was cu' 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 unv.it yingly successful as Bill Smith. Smith's work as manager first i.irne to the attention of Atlantans when tie took the management of the Macon team of the Sirnth At lantic league That was the year the Salix was organized, in 1904. to wit Bill was almost an un known to Macon fans, but he was tluii' as a manage lb- brought •lie Macon team home a pennant I winner over the Savannah club bv I Just enough margin to make it tn- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND SEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15, 1912. , . z CHARACTER SKETCH OF BILL SMITH | Bill Smith. Atlanta’s manager for 1913. is Jhe Champion Hard Loser of the World. He cares for but two things— pennants and chewing tobacco; and if he had to give tip either it would he 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 ami Russell Eord. 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 Tom Eisher’s salary out of his own pocket one year when the salary limit was bearing down pretty hard. Bill is the most genial individual in thy world when he is winning, but as morose as a bilious • rhinoceros when he is losing. He is an extremely nervous man, ami 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 suggestions about running his team. Otto .lordan was his mainstay in Atlanta. Smith has worn five pennants in sixteen years, has finished second once, third five times and only three times in the second division. teresttng. He had a great old team, too, Hoffman at first. Blake at sec ond. Perry Lipe at third, Paul Sen tell at shortstop. Stinson, Smith himself and a various assortment of short-termers In the outfield. Matthews, Bayne, Polchow, Segars. pitchers, and Harnish and Quinn as , catchers. The following year Smith was back at Macon again as manager and again the Peaches were pen nant xvtnners. This time they fall - 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 lie filled in the chincks masterfully, getting Jim Fox for first base. Piepho for sei ond, Houston tn the outfield. Ixxucks. Spade. Fox and Helm for slab duty and Evers behind the bat 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 Salix league that year. • • • C l ' Impressive was Bill Smiths work as manager of the Ma con club that Captain \V. R Joy ner. president then of the local baseball association, discouraged xvith the work of Otto Jordan as a mogul, let Otto out at his own re quest and closed a deal xvith Smith to manage the Cracker club • • • c MITH broke right into the league with a rush. He «ook over a tn mendously disorganized team otto Jordan had been hampered by internal riots in the t'racker "dis-organization." and Smith had to do some right-and-left canning He let Rickert. Burnum. Rugs Ray mond, Bob Stafford, Bert Noblett and Brennan go, either before the season started or shortly after, and Leix Moren was advanced to the big show. That left him only George Winters. Rube Zeller. Dick Crozier. Whitey Morse and Otto Jordan around xvhom to build a team. But he certainly built one Fox. who was brought up from Macon i to play first base, proved a tre- I mendous hit. Jordan, deposed at his own request as manager, be came the premier second baseman f the league. Whitex Morse played I good ball at short, and when Larry Hoffman prox i d 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. Rut somehow a fairly good outfield was always on the Job. Archer and Sid Smith formed the tegular catching staff—and a bet ter one was perhaps never steen 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, xvith 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 Nexx Orleans Otto Jordan was struck with a hunch that the New Orleans teiyn 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 xvas haled to police head quarters in a patrol wagon and there was an axvful muss, of course, Fhe Big Race Here’s how the "Big Five" of the ■ American league are hitting the ball, , the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER— A. B. H. P C. COBB ...... 408 170 .417 SPEAKER 433 173 .399 I 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- I suit 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. I Jackson managed to get three clouts in i eight trips to the plate and "stood still" as a result at .385. Collins gained three points. He banged out three hits in six chances. Lajoie leaped forward five notches by getting four hits in eight trys. it eventually developed that the whole thing xvas nursed along by Charley Frank for press agency purposes and finally it quieted dow n. But the incident and the way Bill Smith handled it showed to the public xvith rare clearness that Bill Smith would fight for his players and tor his team. • • • 'T* HEN came Atlanta's pennant winning season—the first for 21 years. Txvice 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 xvere ravenous for a pennant xvinner. And Bill Smith gave It to them. When Rill 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 stj/ond season he won their pennant. it was a marvelous team that Smith built up—a club that could spot the present Southern league pennant xvinners 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. Despite the excellence of the team, there was a tough race. The Memphis team, managed by Charley Babb, put up an awfui tight and took a lead toward the latter part of the season that 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 xxas to decide it. More than 11.000 persons xvere crowded inside the park to see the performance. What happened is history. Ans Atlanta xvon the pennant ■ • • TJILL SMITH S third year in At lanta saxx an awful slump So many of Smith's star 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 xvith 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 basebail 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 xvay 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 xvas let out and Jordan was named manager. • ♦ « 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 hX 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 lookedjike the best hall club ever gathered together in the Southern league. ♦ * • 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 xx ho won five pen nants in sixteen years will 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 sc apping, 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 Ihat Bill Smith will try to take him to Atlanta. President Andrews will probably de cide the matter of a manager for next year pretty shortly. Now that Rill Smith has definitely passed up the job the matter Is considerably simplified. HADDOW IS REINSTATED. CHARLOTTE. N. C, Aug. 15.—-John J Haddoxv. the Charlotte third base man. who was fined SIOO and indefi nitely suspended Tuesday, xvas reinstat ed at a called meeting of the directors of the local club. Haddoxx was charged with throwing a game. GRIIGKERSCAN’T LOSE TODf.T; HO GAME FOR THEM NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15.—The Crackers are resting up today in preparation for the series they open w ith 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 NASHVILLE. 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 the 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. X] N s "' f ’ lnber 9 " Harvar 'l at Cambridge Nashvnie ber 16—Central of Kentucky at November 23—Auburn at Birmingham. Nor ember 28—Sewanee at Nashville. KID McCOY RELEASED. BUT ON A $15,000 BAIL* LONDON. Aug. 15. -Norman Selby the former American pugilist, who is )rttei known by his ring name of Kid who JX charged with impliea llwel rnhh”, ° Stend ' Bel Slu m, JBO.OOO jewel robbetr. was again arraigned in Bow street police court today In con nection with extradition proceedings I pon request of counsel,- the case was put over for a week and bail in the sum of $15,000 was furnished for the American by Louis Levy. TOM SHARKEY A JOKE. ACCORDING TO BURNS CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug 15 _ Tommy Burns, ex-ehampion heavv welgnt boxer, today, discussing A dis patch from New York relative to Torn Sharkeys ambition to meet Burns safij is was " a Joke.” ford' 1 " < ' llris,nla ' m, c' '""et 'sam ll “DOC” JOHNSTON LEAVES PELS TO JOIN CLEVELAND .NEW ORLEANS. Aug | ... Johnston, first baseman with the local team Os the Southern leagu. i e f t ]ast "'ph’ a’ J '’’. '‘ a n' Pit<hf j r ( ullop <’atchoi \i»«, and infielder Mills wl o ~ge’h"?’'’,7 Infield.., Butle, are then, n hX h ‘”’ K - f ' ,r hate