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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. ( • ; «■ 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. — » 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. Wffll • < LOSE TDOAV; KO ' 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.