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JEANNETTE ID
GIVE JOHNSON
1 if ROY TIME
By W. S. Farnswort h.
JACK JOHNSON Is going to
meet Joe Jeannette in a ten
round bout In New York on or
about September 25. The champion
will, undoubtedly, win on points.
But, believe me, he Is going to have
n tough voyage and he hasn't any
more chance of stopping the Non
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 ire 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 his No 12'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
bls spare moments In dives, dance
halls and cases Jeannette, when
not tn th« ring, remains at home
with his family Jeannette has no
use for a negro of the Johnson
tyr>»
It will be a case of a good nigger
agwtnsi 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
thia despite hla color He Is re
spected by men of wealth In fact,
one of the directors of the Penn
eybvania lines is his biggest boost
er This railroad man Invests all of
Jeannette's earnings for him The
result is that today Joe has enough
of the filthy 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 yxovld go on
Jeannette
• • •
P V’BRYBODY'S doing it! Bob
Fitzsimmons is the latest to an
nounce that he is going to come
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 folloyving:
"Gentlemen. I want to come ba< k.
1 am going to start tracing tomor
row and will be ready t. ,figlit in
about one month "
After the entertainment was over
newspaper men got to" Fitz and
found that he is really serious in
his intention to get back into the
ring
"I am still the undef. at-d mid ! ••
weight and light heavyweight
champion of the word: Fitz told
the scribes. "1 partfeularlv desire
to get a match with Tom Sharkey
Sharkey, who was -• ~1 ; ng r . .
by. overheard the remark and am
back with this
“I will take you on, Fitz Get a
club to stage the bout and 1 w i .
make you any kind of a side bet
you want."
Perhaps after a good nights
sleep both have come to their
senses
KILBANE AND DUNDEE
TO BATTLE ON SEPT. 4
CLEVELAND. OHIi». Aug 15 Arti
cles have just been signed here for a
match between Johnny Kilbane, feath- .
erueight champion, ami Johnny Dun !
dee. of New York, for ten rounds at li’2
pound- before th. St Nit inlas ith
club of New York on the night of Sep
tember 4. Kilbane will get $.1,500.
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Smith to Lead Crackers and Board ,of Directors to Stick
Street Railway Company to Hang On to Local Franchise
By Percy 11. Whiting.
811.1. SMITH is eoming 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
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, 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.
But 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
By the same token It is deduced
that the present hoard of directors
will consent to hold office again
They nre too good sportsmen and
ton good business men to nail onto ”
any succeeding board of directors a
manager who might be entirely un
satisfactory So the naming of
Bill Smith at this early stage ot
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.
• • •
\VIIII\M ANDREW SMITH,
known wherever baseball Is
played as Bill Smith, was born in
Chillicothe Ohio, some 41 years
ago. or thereabouts Bill never
did take kindly to telling his age.
so some doubt exists Rut. 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 .
there.
Smith received a first-class
school education. Iwit did not go to
. ollcge Before the age when the
averag, man Is boning up on Vir
gil. higher algebra and preliminary
German or French, preparatory to
brushing by into college, Rill Smith
yvas playing baseball.
Bill's first real engagement was
with Elkha't His other were with
Fort Wayne. Springfield. Hamilton,
ewensboro. Knoxville. Lynchburg.
Norfolk. Macon. Atlanta. Buffalo
and Chattanooga
• • «
P'ARI.Y in Bill Smith's career it
bjriame apparent that he was
■ut o-it for a mogul. Hi- aggres
siveness. hi- quick brain, his un
willingness to lose, and his knoyvl
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
t ieir career and who have been as
unv.vyingA successful as BUI
Smith
Smiths work .<« manager first
(ante to the attention of Atlantans
warn he took the matiagem nt of
tin Macon •rm of the South At
lantic league That was the year
th< Si '■ >.i- organised in l#o4
to wit. Bill was almost an un
known ’ ' Macon fan- but ht w i
l >cr. ,<s n manag. H. brought
tb> Macon team home a pennant
Winr e Savannah club b<
Just enough maigin to make it in-
TH EAT LANTA GEORGIAN AND KEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912
[cuABAQIFR sketch of bill smith
Bill Smith. Atlanta’s manager for 1913. is the-Champion Hard Loser of the World.
He cares for but two things— pennants and ehewing tobacco; anti if he had to give up
either it would be the tobacco.
He 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 Max,well
ami Russell 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
s■>oo among his players for winning the first pennant and it is reported that he paid part of
Tom Fisher’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 the world when he is winning, hut 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
ami 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 .Jordan 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.
terestlng 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 winners. This tiqse they fat -
ly romped home with the rag. with
Savannah again the runner-up. Bill
carried over only a feu members
of his old team— Harnish. Sentell.
Lipe and Stinson—but he tilled in
the chincks 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 bat.
It will be noted that Smith himself.
Sentell. Stinson. Fox. Loucks.
Spade and Evers at subsequent
times pltßed on the Cracker team
It is also worth noting that two
distinguished Georgians. Tv Cobb
and Nap Rucker, were playing in
the Sally league that year.
• • •
C" Impressive was Bill Smiths
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 Jordan as »i
mogul, let Otto out at his own re
quest and closed a deal with Smith
to manage the Cracker dub
• • •
, g MITH broke right into the league
with a rush. He took over a
tremendously disorganized team
otto Jordan had been hampebed
by internal riots in the Cracker
' dis organization." and Smith had
to do some right-and-left canning
He let Rickert. Burnum. Bugs Ray
mond, Bob Stafford, Bert Noblett
and Brennan go, either betpre 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 • »tto
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, deponed at
his own request as manager, be
came the premier second baseman
f the leagm Whitey Morse played
go >d bal u short, and when l-arr>
Hoffman proved too light for the
task of p .1; ing ■lurd, 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 was perhaps never steen on
a minor league teanW The pitchers
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
th- re was an awful muss. Os course.
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The Big Race
Here’s how the “Big Five” of the
American league are hitting the ball. ;
the averages including yesterday's I
games:
PLAYER— AB. H. P. C. I
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- f
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.
Jackson managed to get three clouts >n
eight trips to the plate and "stood still"
as a result at .385. Collins gamed
three points. He banged out three hits I
m six chances. Lajoie leaped forward
five notches by getting four hits in |
eight trys.
it eventually developed that the
whole thing was nursed along by
Charley Frank for press agency
purposes and finally it quieted down.
But ote incident and the way Bill
Smith handled it showed to the
public with rare clearness that Bill
Smith would fight for his players
and for his team.
'T' HEN 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 winners 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 awful
fight and took a lead toward the
latter part of the season that
looked too big to be overcome. Bur '
by the grandest sort of work on the
home diamond the Crackers closed
steadily in. Finally came the game
that was to decide it. Mote than
11.<>00 persons were crowded Inside
the park to see the performance.
What happened Is history. And
Atlanta won the pennant.
. . .
DILI. SMITHS third year in At
anta saw an awful slump So
I manv 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 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
1 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 1 to
be hampe'ed by the rflbdern 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.
• • •
C INCE the divorce of Smith and
the Atlanta Basebail 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 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 that 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 fob I
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 ala > ailed meeting of the directors
of the local club Haddow was charged
with throwing a game.
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' GfflE FOO THEM'
Tk tEW ORLEANS. Aug. 15.—The
INI Crackere 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 (912 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 sot
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 al Nash
ville.
October s—Maryvilles—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
Mass.
November 16—Central of Kentucky at
Nashville.
November 23—Auburn at Birmingham.
November 28—Sewanee at Nashville.
KID McCOY RELEASED.
BUT ON A $15,000 BAIL
LONDON, Aug. 15. Norman Selby,
the former American pugilist, who is
better known by his ring name of Kid
McCoy, is charged with implies- /
tlon in an Ostend. Belgium. SBO,OOO
Jewel robbery, was again arraigned-In
Bow street police court today In con
nection with extradition proceedings
Upon request of counsel, tile < use
was put over for a week and ball In the
sum of $15,000 was furnished for the
American by Louis Lexy
TOM SHARKEY A JOKE.
ACCORDING TO BURNS '
CALGARY \LBERTA, tug 15. _
Tommy Burns, ex champion heavy
weight boxei, todax . dr - UWsitig .1 dis
patch from New York relative to Tom
Sharkey's ambition to meet Hurns, said
is xx as " a Joke.”
He says; -| mny go |(1 u*t Ha
about Christmas to meet Sam Lang- *
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 team
Pitcher Cullop Catcher tngermeier ‘
and Inflelder Mil vho. togetht ’
Infioldet Butler art' the font j.layers re
ceived in exchange for Johnston have
reported here.