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6 GIOIMAH WOW OHM® * OffluKrS 4 What's the Use of Being a Detective if Everybody Knows It? :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher F T’MG fe©T GO CATCH "GIF THE btooD'*'Vy VSGL p j THtSt V4HIY,ICGRS I'LL V4ALK Rj(, H T PAW Ml*A. | F L LO, MWTTT, tul Disguise aa\self as a j ,On own myoThuß vjouldN'T hull nemep. Knovj <n ' DE Ap, DvMfj>ANO bLINO BtGfcOß. 1 , KHOVxf N\C: J 'NOR.L.D J THE I. De . '■ s- __ ■— —— OF / ' LL the ' 's., THE THUfaS AMD C-CT AN /' \ . ' ' ) ’ r— ’ ‘ z | Y L_J > I “ ‘ cheap I ?• -- w r " 111 W*4 8 ' ' W eed T w ' WS&P M I ‘ ys>Jg i’y' *3 Tee Co > JEANNETTE 10 Kiss. JOHNSON J M TINE By W. S. Farnsworth. J’A<’K JOHNSON is going to meet Jot* Jeannette in a ten ronnd bout in New York on or about September 25. Tl\e * batuplon will, undoubtedly, win on points. But. believe me. he is going to have a tough Voyage and lie hasn't any more chance of slopping the New York negro titan I have of being the next president of the good old United Staff: And. also, it is my opinion that, aftei the ten rounds n* finished, Johnson will ni’i" agree to meet Jeannette over a longer route. There never was a harder nut than this same Jeannette, and lie Is game from tile 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 w in Johnson Ls a "rough neck." Jean nette is just the opposite. There never «as a more manly fellow and a cleaner liver Jack spends . his spare moments in dives, dance halls and cases. Jeannette, when not In the ring, remains at home with his Jeannette has no use for a negro of .the Johns.*n type. It will be a case of a good nigger » against an undesirable one, ami all New York will be pulling for Jean nette to win. Joi* is on* of tin* most popular fighters in the Hist. and this despite his color. lie is re spected by men of wealth. In fact, one of the directors of the Penn sylvania lines is his biggest boosl- ' er. This railroad man invt sts all of Jeannette’s earnings lor him. The result is that today Joi has enough of the filthy stuff to retire and live comfortably the rest of his d ivs. Johnson can beat .P ianette on points in a ten-round bout, but over a route our money would go on Jeannette. * » c r VERYHobYS doing it’ li *b *■* I nounce th it he is going to come back Kuby Robert of the Speckled Spots climbed into the nog at the Flynn-Smith fight in New York last night, was introduced, and then spinng the following "Gentlemen, 1 want |** come back. I am going to s’ nt training tomor row and will bi- t.ady to tight in about one month" After tile . u< itain*i ent was oy < i newspaper nwn got to Fitz ami found that lie i.s leal’v s , ou*. in his intention to g*-t Pick into the ring "I am still tin line* f* at<*d m olio weight and light Ip avy w eight Champion of tin world.' litz told the scribes I I Ctieularly desire to get a t Sharkey, wh a- oi.ling near by, ova ,-heard th* u , k ml .-*u back w ith th "I w ill t ik* y>u• m. Fit z th t a club to stage the bout ami 1 i ll make you any kind of a I b t you want." Perhaps after a good m ( • sleep both hay come to ticir senses. • KIEBANE AND DUNDEE TO BATTLE ON SEPT. 4 C'LEVFLANH OHK >. Aug I Ar*, cleg have just been signed her* f i match between Johnny Krlban* t. *tli erweight * hampion, ami Johnny 1 1 in dee, of New York, for Pm rounds it 122 pound- befor** th* St N*< *df* Athlete club of New York on th* night *f Sep tember 4 Kilbane will g* I sj, Smith to Lead Crackers and Board of Directors to Stick ■••4 -I-e-i- •:•••!• 4-»4- -’••■r ’4**+ v*-;* -i-e-k 4-e-f- Street Railway Company to Hang Onto Local Franchise By Percy 11. Whiting. HIM, SMITH is corning back to Atlanta! The man who was unceremoniously fired as At lanta manager after he had won two pennants in three years Is coining back triumphantly. And this despite the fact that since he left \tlanta 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. Prank Callaway, Charles Nunnally and (■us 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 in offer last year of $40,000, tnosth 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 anv possible pur chaser of the franchise with a man ager provided they bad any notion of selling. R\ the same token it Is deduced that the present board (if directors will consent to hold office again. They are too good sportsmen and too good business men tn nail onto any succeeding board of directors a manager who might be entirely un satisfactory S the naming of Rill 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. • • • 11,’’II 1.1 AM \NDREW SMITH, *’ 'known whet ever baseball Is played ns Bill Smith, was born in Chillicothe Ohio, some 41 years ago. or theu abouts. Bill never did take kindly to telling his age, so some doubt exists Rut, any way. io 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, but did not go to college. Befote the age when the av> rage man is boning up »n Vir gil, higher algebra and preliminary German or I'reneh. preparatory to brushing by into college. Bill Smith was playing baseball. Bill's first real engagement was with Elkhart. His other were with I'o t W ayne. Springfield. Hamilton, < fwensboro Knoxville. Macon. At lanta. Buffalo and Chattanooga. J£.\RLV in Bill Smith's career It became apparent that he was ( itt out bn a mogul. His aggres siveness. his quick brain, his un willingness to lose, and his knowl edge of hall play ers made him the logi. t! man.to had a team. It is doubtful if there have been a half dozen men in the game who have taken th- management so early tn their (arm and who have been as unv.iyingl' successful as Bill Smith Smith's work as manager first ■ i n ■ to the attention of 'A tian tans I w n h< took th« management of the M ;i (on t> tm of the South At lantii leagu< That was the year the Sally wa- organized. In 1904. to wit Bill was almost an un known to Macon fans, hut be was ’ ■lens i manag> He brought ! tic M.i'ot- team hoim a pennant wan ■ ov> r the Savannah < tub by just enough ma: gin to make it in- rrfE .ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1912. | CHARACTER SKETCH OF BILL SMITH i » Bill Smith. Atlanta's manager for 1913, is the Champion Liard Loser of the World. He cares foi’ but two things - pennants and chewing tobacco; and if he had to give tip either it would lie the tobacco. He thinks Atlanta is the greatest city in the world and that the four years he spent here Yvere the best of his life. Smith is about 4<) 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 Russell h’ord. two great pitchers, are said nbver 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 Yvinning 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 Fisher’s salary out of his own pocket one year when the salary limit was bearing doivn pretty hard. Bill is the most genial individual in the world when 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. Hi* has always had some man on whom he has depended for advice and suggestions about running his team. Otto .lordan Yvas 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. Per y I.lpc at third. Paul Sen tell at shortstop, Stinson, Smith himself and a various assortment of short-termers in the outfield, Matthews, Bayne, Polchow, Hegars, pitchers, and Harnish and Quinn as catchers. The following year Smith was back at Macon again as manager and again the Peaehep 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 chincks masterfully, getting Jim F’ox for first base, Piepe for second, Houston in the outfield, Loucks. Spade. Fox and Helm fdr slab dut\ and Evets 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. Tv Cobh and Nap Rucker, were playing in the Sally league that year. • • * QO Impressive was BiP Smith's K 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 a mogul, let Otto out at his own re quest and closed a <l> al with Smith to manage the Cracker club. • ♦ • C MITH broke right into rhe I, ague with a rush. Ho ’ook over a tremendously disorganized team. Otto Jordan had been’ hampered by internal riots in the Cracker | "dis-organization." and Smith had to do some right-and-left canning. He let Rickert, Burnuin. Bugs Ray mond. Bob Stafford, Bert Noblett and Brennan go. either before the season started or shortly after, and Lew Mmcn 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 frbm Maeon to play first base, proved a tre mendous hit. Jordan, deposed at his own rbquesf as manager, be came the premier second baseman cf the leagu- Whitey Morse played go 'd ball at short, and* when Larry Hoffman proved too light for the task of playing third, the versatile LDITLP Sid Smith was stl/ck In and plugged the gap. In the outfield. Crozier. Winters ami Smith himself starred. After a bit Bill dropped out and various players were tried -Stin son. "Bonehead” Rob Wallace and others. Rut 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 seen on a minor league team. The pitchers were Tom Hughes, Rube Zeller. Die k 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 yvere 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 wa< playing in New Drleans 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 aw ful muss. Os course, i she Big Race Here's how the "Big F've” of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER— A. B. H. P. C. I COBB 408 170 .417 SPEAKER 433 173 .399 JACKSON 413 159 .385 COLLINS 338 130 .335 jLAJOIE 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'' ns 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 trv- it eventually developed that the whole thing was nursed along by’ Charley Frank for press agency purposesand finally it quietd dowfi. Rut the incident and the way Bill Smith handled it showed to the public with rare clearness that Rill Smith would fight for his players and for his team. * * « THEN came Atlanta's pannant wlnning 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 tvon after a grand race with Savannah. In the deciding game Hank O’Day pitched for Sa vannah and, despite his grand ef forts. Atla'nta won. Naturally the Cracker fans were ravenous for a pennant winner. And Rill 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 d couple of runs and 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 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 was to decide it. More than 11,000 persons were crowded inside the park to see the performance. What happened is history. And Atlanta won the pennant. ■ • • TJILL SMITH'S third year in At ■* lanta saw 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 with sixth place. And that fall the Nashville and New Orleans team fought it out for the pennant. Tn 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 unequa <ed 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 pitfhers 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 accprding 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 tie 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 gatheied 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 js 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 snapping, 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 CHATTANQOGA, 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 far 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 w ill try to take'him to Atlanta. President Andrews will probably de cide the matter of a manager for next year pfetty shortly. Now that Rill Smith has definitely passed up the Job the matter is considerably simplified. HADDOW IS REINSTATED. CHARLOTTE. N. Aug 15.—John J. Haddow, the charlotte third base man who was fined lino and indefi nitely suspended Tuesday, was reinstat ed nt n called meeting of the directors of the local club Haddow was charged w ith throw ing a game. CfIMKERSGMIT LOSE TODAY; NO GAME FOB IHEH N'EYV 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 he 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 yvho knoyv the present leader, of the Look outs are confident that he will again prove a successful thief in tiis Ggte City. After leaving Mobile, the Crack ers go to Birmingham and thence to Montgomery. Nashville and Chattanooga follow, and then back . home. At Ponce JYeLeoij they are to mingle with Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga, the Lookout se ries being the last of 19t2 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 socre of 4 to 0. Swindell dutpitched. 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 eonimitee of the Vanderbilt football team: September 2 -- Bethel college at Nash ville. October s—Maryville at Nashville October 19—University *.f Georgia at Atlanta. October 26--Cniversity of Mississippi at Nashville. November 2—l'niversitv of Virgin's at Nashville. 9—Harvard at Cambridge November 16—Central of Eentuckvat Nashville. November 23—Auburn at Birmingham. November 28 Sewanee at Nashvillu. KID McCOY RELEASED. BUT ON A $15,000 BAIL L‘' s ' " , ’ s ’’ *' U R* I'■ Norman Selby-, the former American pugilist, who is better known by his ring name of Kid ">■ " ll " Is charged with implica tion in an Ostend. Belgium, SBO nnO Jewel robbery, was again arraigned in Bow street police court today in con nection with extraditiori proceedings. Upon request of counsel, the case , was P ut over for a iveek and bail in the sum of $15,(100 was furnished for the American by Louis Levy. TOM SHARKEY A JOKE, ACCORDING TO BURNS CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug 15. Tommy Burns, ex-ehampion heavy weight boxer, today, discussing a dis patch from New York relative to Tom Sharkey’s ambition to me**t Burns, .-aid is was " a joke." He ?a> : I maj* go to Australia anout Uhristmas to moot Sarn* Lang ford.” “DOC" JOHNSTON LEAVES PELS TO JOIN CLEVELAND NEW ‘'Hl. EANS. Aug 15.—T>oc' Johnston, first baseman with the loca team *>f the Southern league, left las night tn join the Cleveland team Pitcher I'ullop Catcher Angernmie’ and Infielder Mills who together with ! Infield* r Butl* i. a,.' th,* f „ l: , r ,| lvPrs e C • eived in ■ :*:.'lamp for Jehu * n hav* reported here.