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12 ®CMAN srcw * EXPI6O Well, Jeff’s Lot May Be O. K. at Low Tide :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher _ YD/, tou'R? thvi.vikyGuxs. (we lc G6T a *ot o ß „ , r 'Ht lot 'b AB'iONU L'T I**r . I / —■ X t /Zj ~ » T LOOK i /OF coutfSt fOU'LC HAVE n> PA'* ' ( JUST THiqk.MuT't i. T ° f ’ SOU/ Q HERE'S A That raai esta, c rr> \ per D Fin* Poliaks, x. 1 n PnD , OTx . I R ' DC uP on trains. z- < J , x H S ays' hat r> P c C °' 1 TH ANK TOO ~ VeS it-s A ~~X \ PROPSR-Tt OWNERS / I HWRR.N UP I'M ,O | ' I'ftA i , X OH ’ r —-Y L— J( see, P J , .'s«■ T ZP PZY c *' N TH *' t DOw/N ANO (A 1 Z“J;r ''C*L ' Ol' tM X* <KjliSL22x iLs^- = Jjt ii:&? - - xPh HEL L ' • /' S> t' J® jXlx aw L~r - I ■ jTP ' ’ a‘Ua-i -■ * ' ' -.it 7 " QTjy ~ . HIIHIMIIIIIiBIIMyjjrSE-n Wfc.l l|| | — ' ~ '=■ ~ _ • —— 11 —l —— ! CeATRICHT »&<*?■ OT St/KN Co. Vanderbilt Suffers by Loss Os Three Star Gridiron Men NASHVHA.E, TENN., Aug 17. Although the baseball sea son is not yet over. Interest here is already turning to football •nd there is much speculation as to whether the Commodoree will be as strong this season as they were In 1912. when they won the undis puted championship of the South. Coach McGugln faces a severe handicap this year because of the fact three of the greatest gridiron warriors In the history of the South have departed, having played their four years 1n the S. I. A, A. They are Ray Morrison, 1912 captain and all-American choice of Ted Coy; Frog Metzger, all-Sonth ern guard, and Ewing Freeland, who is conceded tn be one of the greatest linemen this team ever produced. Morrison recently married at Mc- Kenzie and is teaching and coach ing the football team of Branham and Hughes school, Springhill, Tenn.; Metzger will coach either in Imuislana or Ohio, having had of fers from universities in both states, and Freeland will also fol low the occupation of coaching thf fall. Morrison May Not Return. It will he impossible to ade quately fill the shoes of these men in one season, notwithstanding the fact that there are several good men coming to Vanderbilt from neighboring prep schools. It Is also a possibility that Kent Morrison, right end of the team last season, and Charles Brown, one of last •eason's linemen, will not return Should these not come, McGugln will be forced to practically remodel hi* machine Hardage, Collins and Sikes, the y.three backfield men of last year, are certain to return The three most promising candidates for Morri son’s position at quarter are Zach Curlin, whose drop kicking was the sensation of Southern football last year and who scored on Michigan fodder for fans Scout Bill Armour, of the Cardinals, after looking over sixty teams, has se lected five players All are from the South. • • • Th* Cards* new men from the South are Whit ted from Jacksonville. Rax <’ol 31ns from Greenwood, Galh»wav ot Vicks burg. Perri tt of Greenwood. and Redding of Columbus, Miss • • • BUI Armour likes Georgia so well as a training camp that he has adv.sed Bresnahan to pick out a place in iteor gia for spring training • » * The Reign of the sooki» s has begun with the New v ork Americans Tl . regular players don't cut any more 1 g lire with Wolverton’s team than they do! in early spring Harry’s working t ward 1913 with a long way to go • • • Al Bridwell seems absolutely re. .ycre.i from the injury that kept him nt t of the game so long, and .s play ing . per-rfveted ball for the Braves Bill Pahlen’s failure wth th. Brook lyn team may be traced t a t • Interest in the ponies McGraw syit fered from that disease once himself, I recovered. • • * Clark Griffith’s greaf club is mad.- ; largely of cast-offs. Tacoma .no- Walter Johnson. Tom Hughes 1t..,, has been on the block mm. than on.. Gandll has worn the tinwar. fm th.. White Sox fired him Ku Morgan v tried by Baltimore and sent back >. t> , Virginia league. Eddie Foster w.i by the Yanks and sent back to the I ern George Mcßride took t’i< < .in i gree as far back as 11'01. and ha for it twice since I'an Moeller v.-i-■ canned at least once, and th, d. coaching team, Schaefer and Altroi has had the iron ball pinned on several times. ... The most popular music with 11 . Giants now is that famous ha lad. Club Ever Flew So High It Pidn l Hat. to Light." Sava Sid Mercer. "Murray Is as tem peramental as an automobile lou in never tel! whether lie is going to travel a mile a minute or stand still A fan In Pittsburg named Robert A h, H"e w « m h; PirJie Gian! r--—• that day. via this route; Hord Boensch, quar ter of the scrubs last year, and Robins, sub-quarter for two sea sons. Purlin seems the logical man, being fast and a good punter in addition to a drop kicker. He Is also a sure tackler and very effect ive in advancing the ball. He has yet to miss a field goal in a regula tion game. Among the promising men who win come to Vanderbilt from prep schools are McWilliams, backfield, from Branham & Hughes; Cleve land Shipp, lineman, Mooney school; Herman Daves. Morgan school, lineman; Jere Porter, line man, Castle Heights, and Josh Cody, lineman, Bethel college. Mc- Williams Is considered one of the fastest and most promising back field men in the South and will be given every opportunity to make good He may be used In the back field, or, if K. Morrison does not return, may be used at end. Shipp a Good Lineman. Cleveland Shipp, a 200-pounder, who has played four years on the Moones school team, Harriman, Tenn., is a wonderful young line man and Is expected to be one of the mainstays of the line at Van derbilt this year. He 1s no kin to the famous "Skijiney” Shipp, of Senaneft, although coming from the same prep school. Morton Adams, star halfback of the Commodores 1n 1909, will re turn next year, studying law, and will play football again. He Is a heavy man aaid especially good at line plunging This Is making him a favorite in the eyes of Dan Mc- Gugln, since It seems that the old plunging game will be the main thing this year. Adams is also an aggressing defensive man. Os the old linemen. Buddy Mor gan. Joe Covington. Tom Brown, of the regulars, will be hack, and there are several good subs of last year who showed promise of de veloping Into stars this season. Lou i'astro lias signed "Horseshoe" .'ess Reynolds to pitch for his Ports mouth team. Jess was formerly an um pire • * « The Cubs gained six games in their recent Eastern trip * « * PiTiR Body and Manager Callahan had a verbal run-in the other day, and "Cal" sent ring home and told him to go to bed I' ng ot course quit the team on the N|>«»t. hut rejoined it again the fol lowing day, about game time. Ina recent double header at Savannah, >.tii) Mayer. « \ Cracker, made a single, a double and a homer in ihe first game land started a triple pla\ in the second. I he Sally league record for long games >is san] to bi> held b\ the Columbia and |< harhston clubs, which, on April 1190.,. went nineteen innings to a score |less tie i there s a shortstop named Daubert playing m the i>l.io State league who ;is a cousin ,of Jake Daubert, of the Superbas TI e < »hio man will get a trial in fast company somewhere next spring » • • Siam savs la's not afraid of the Ath- 1 an.i t'at ills team is going ah<ad w'tl- preparations fu the world series | -U that tl ere s nothing like a stiff upper L la's. Daubert -axs with loud emphasis '■tine be IS not fishing ’"r Bin Dahlen's .Z ■' - i.'l ? ' ites that las not se, n I 1 '• I.blio's exeepi easoallv on the ' »• ■ ■ the seamon starti d Jake win : in.'g" lb,. Saperbas next • • • Ti" ' ".'x ti-.- reason lu.l Daley didn't (last II ' ' g -l ax xx s ti.-it io,, pgla i *er. .. I ■ ;■!;! ,p t; ... , la . ~f | s - batt >iif J The reason Vicksburg gave f..r drop- ’ piT-g c , <’„t h . n state'- b'Hgim a • that th» \ i n t IP ;j v p lv . which is r< is- n enough, s rely •' I Paoli f.irm ar. will - ><>n b. -. i! , Ul ,. stuff to J-‘hn D When Maxwi .l : • '< \» • o\ t u » two h■" Iragi/O ■ r t ■ • greatest twirbrs . du t vr t I Mil W THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17. 1912. Smith Has His Work Cut Out in Rebuilding a Cracker Team for 1915 NEEDS A SLATHER OF MEN; GRIFFITH MAY HELP By Percy 11. Whiting. WHEN Bill Smith takes over the Atlanta ball club he’ll be a happy man. But he'll have his work cut out for him. Never in his history, unless possi bly when he grabbed the reins and the discords and the* discourage ments at Buffalo, has he faced a problem like the one he must solve if he is to put the fair city of At lanta, Georgia, back on the base ball map in letters large enough to be read by the. naked eye. After a team has been a tall ende.r for two years It is Fn bad. And that goes for Atlanta. The line-up Is just peppered with cork ing good players, but they are all to pieces and look like Class D per formers. * • • I I OW many men on the present * * squad will Bill Smith be able to count on for next season? It begins to look as though it would be very few. •>f all the new men recently tried out it appears that only 'Dug'' Harbison and Catcher Reynolds are going to be worth a hang. And Harbison is so blamed good that some big league team will probably grab him by draft —bad Cess to 'em. Whether Harbison goes or stays, there will be as many gaps on the team as there are in a boarding house comb. • • • | ET'S figure the team from Bill J Smith’s viewpoint, for we all know Bill, know the kind of ball players he likes and the kind he will not have. It’s an even money bet that Smith will pick up about one more catcher for a try-out. Bill Is a glutton for good catchers Good backstopping staffs helped to win him two pennants In Atlanta and he doesn't object to them at all. It's a cinch bet right now that if Bill Smith could get Sid Smith for $2,500 he would snap him up In a minute. And it would be a good Investment at that. But Sid will hardly be on the market next year. Bill will be well suited with Pat Graham and Reynolds. But it is a fine bet that he will get another man. • * • YY ' 0,11 f°r some real pitchers on the Atlanta team next sea son. Bill is soft on good catchers, but he s positively mushy on good DICK GILBERT UNEARTHS A MONSTER WHITE HOPE NKW YORK, Aug*. 17.—Denver has a white hope" who is more massive, magnified nt and stupendous than our Woolworth building or Pennsylvania station. The Colorado conqueror is yclept Os< ar Wit hers and ate his first meal in Middh-sboro, Ky. Oscar ia obi enough to vote next No vember. towers 6 feet 10 inches in his gaiters and displac-s I'6o pounds of lead shot. He has a reach of 86 1-2 inches and is severely handicapped in c\t i\ boarding house in which he lives. Pick Hilbert, a Denver middleweight, who ha?* been lighting in the South, is Handling (Ist ar. and Dick says that his man has Jim Corbett and Jack O’Brien and Adeline Genre all beat for being List and < le\» r and quick and light on his feet. Os course, he has the stock is.L’-inch balk line wallop in eithei han.; . nd can a’.<o ".issimi'.ale punish ment" and play a phonograph. < »s< ar is so big that even his pic ture can’t b • reduced small enough to cet in th< paper. Gilbert threatens to bring him to New York next month. JONES MEETS CANNON FOR MISSOURI TITLE K LNSAS CI i'Y. MO., Aug 17 H V. lones. • ■ K.i'i-i <'lty, defeated Heath Mo<u<-. 1< ti- s Citv. lu the semi-finals ■1 the Miss’Uiri Valiev championship tenni- ti>ui'uam<ni. .1 ui.-s will m.-et J.i'k Cant' m. "f Kam- <s <Tty. in the lu <!.iul>l. Join s .iiv! John T Bailey, ■■f \i -'t ■ >l.l . ■ it. ,1 !To.Ma-- i f- .ml H \\ Data 1. of K.utsi-- < 'ity ■ c. i - v. .11 mot . I."i:. aiul i '.m- i- 1. .u ;lte fill.ib. pitchers Look at those he had In Atlanta —Russell Ford, Roy Castle ton, Bob Spade, Rube Zeller and the rest. It is questionable if Bill and Vedder Sitton would hook up with smooth results. And still they might. Sitton is sure to be held over for a trial. Brady will be kept, of course, and should be a better pitcher next year than he has been this year. Bill Smith is just the sort of a man to keep Brady in line and make him pitch ball. The methods of Atlanta’s next manager are peculiar, but no body will deny that they are highly successful. Johnson will doubtless go back to Hopkinsville or some other place pretty soon unless he shows some thing. This chap is a clever look ing pitcher, but he doesn’t get re sults. At that, they may decide to hold him over for a trial next year. Waldorf will be held if the Cubs don't recall him. This big German is just the sort of pitching mate rial that Smith likes to work with. Give Bill a man with plenty of size and a sweeping curve and he will make a pitcher out of him. Bill doesn’t mind a little wildness. If he takes over Waldorf next spring he will make a pitcher of him. Becker needn't be counted, for he is going back to Washington. Os course. Smith will round up some new pitchers. He Is a good one at digging them out of the brush. He yanked Russ Ford, Bob Spade, Tom Hughes and a lot of other good ones out of the brush and he always has his eyes peeled. • ♦ • I F Bill Smith can get Otto Jordan back, as seems certain, he will get an infield, all right. He will put Aiperman at third or short. What he will do with third and first remains to be seen. If Harbi son escapes the draft he, of course, will have a place. But he is pretty likely to be grabbed. "Humpty" McElveen is a prob lem. Last year he batted .276. This year he hovers around the .230 mark. He is a fair fielder, but not fast. There was talk of sending him to the outfield. There might be a possibility of playing him at first base. He will hardly do at third. About what will happen is; Smith will try out McElveen at various positions next spring. If "Humpty” begins hitting he will - . 1 he 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 415 173 .417 SPEAKER 439 173 .394 JACKSON 419 159 .379 COLLINS 395 134 .339 LAJOIE 282 88 .312 Cobb gained two points yesterday by securing two hits in three times up. And, all the better for the "Georgia Peach," both Speaker and Jackson fell off two notches. Both were up twice and tailed to connect. Collins kept up his timely clouting by banging forth two hits in four trips to the plate. La joie did likewise. WELSH MAKES PUNCHING BAG OUT OF PHIL KNIGHT WINNIPEG. MAX.. Aug. 17. I'r.-.l- Yic Welsh showed championship class in hi- twelve-round battle here with . Pili! Knight ami won handily. He lift .1 i hen i e willed ami had no trouble to knock liis rival off his feet. Knight got in only one solid blow. EDDIE O'KEEFE IS SIGNED TO MINGLE WITH KILBANE CLEVEI \XI'. OHIO, Aug, 17. Johnnx Kilb.ine. featherweight enam- I'ion, and Eddie O'Keefe aare signed todm for a ten-rouF'l go at Madison S'lmire Gi'ii/n. .Xe« York, on S< ptem- Int 19 <• Ke< fe sto make 122 pounds. And a place for him. If he doesn’t, he will find a place also—but not on the Atlanta team. • * • J T appears that Smith will have to develop an entirely new out field next spring. Bailey will be recalled. Callahan has been un able to hit this year. Unless he gets going next year he win be let out early in the season. Lyons hasn't shown even a faint flash of Class A hitting ability and will doubtless go unless he can spring something impressive in the way of base hits next spring. • • * T UST as a rough guess, Bill Smith J will have one more catcher, five to eight new pitchers, three to five recruit infielders and four to seven new outfielders report next spring. He will need to try out that number if he is going to plug the holes in the present Cracker club. » » • will Smith get his play ers? Take this as a tip: He "11! get a batch of them from the Washington club. Clark Griffith, manager of the Senators, is one of Bill Smith’s closest friends in base ball. Even before Smith was secured as manager, Clark Griffith decided he wanted to train next spring in Atlanta. The deal hasn't been closed yet, but it probably will be. If it is, Griffith will surely' leave one man here for "ground rent,” and probably more. Os course, the new waiver rules make it peculiarly difficult to waive a man out of the big leagues and to get them to the Southern, but Washington will doubtless have some men who will be good enough for Atlanta and yet poor enough to be waived this far. Smith will certainly draft a lot of men. He has always had a lot of good information about desir able talent and he can always be counted on to pick up a few good performers from the bush. QNE thing about Smith—he will never again fall into the error of getting a team of old-timers. He tangled up with one his first year in Chattanooga and that satisfied him. He will always have a few old heads for the purpose of steady ing and teaching the youngsters. But he will never run one of these Old Soldiers homes, such as Hemp hill conducted here this season. BIG PARADE IN HONOR OF OLYMPIC ATHLETES NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—One of the features of the parade in honor of the American Olympic team here on Au ; gust 24 will be a guard of honor made up of former champions and heroes of , the cinder path and field. > Harry E. Buermeyer. founder of the New York Athletic club, will marshal the veterans' brigade, and among those wlio will be seen in the front rank I are Harry Fredericks, one of the eat -1 liest American invaders of England’s , athletic fields; "Cinders'* Murray, who showed Hie foreigners how to walk in i the earlv eighties: \V. E. Purdy. Mur ray's rival in heel and toe walk: Tom- i my Burke ami other members of the , Boston Athletic association team that i won the first Olympic honors for Amer ica at Athens in 1596, and Martin Sher idan, winner at three Olympic meets. SCHWARTZ BEATS TIERNEY AND MORGAN STOPS WALSH NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug, 17. "Young Schwartz" easily outpointed 1 Billy Tierney, of Louisville, before tile Fourth Avenue club in an eight-round bout. Eddie Walsh. of Chicago, was knocked <mt b\ Jack Morgan, of Nash ville, in the second round. 'JACK DENNING KNOCKED out by jack McCarron Pilll.Al'Kl.Pill A. Aug 17.—Jack I McCarron, of Hlentown. Pa., knocked i out Jack Henning, a New York welter weight. in th< second round at the Olympic Ythietic club last night. Series Between Major League Runners-Up Sure Listens Good By Monty. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Frank Chance is brave and bold. The other day the Peerless Lead er told us that his Chicago Cubs would beat out the Giants for the National league pennant, beyond the shadow of a doubt, and also that he was equally certain the Washington Senators would over haul the Boston Red Sox for the American league banner, likewise that the Cubs would lick the Sena tors. We are glad he made the re mark. not that we share his cer tainty in the matter, but because it gave us an idea. A second world’s series between the runners-up in the two leagues —that is the idea. In event that the present order in the two leagues remains un changed at the end of the season and the Giants and Red Sox come to grips for the banner of suprem acy, wouldn’t it make a good little sideshow if the Chance selections —Senators and Cubs—could meet in a series of like nature? And wouldn't it be a good stunt to es tablish the runner-up series for every year, under conduct of the National Commission? And there are those who would carry the idea even farther and have the clubs all along the line meet, clear down to the tail-enders, who would be scrapping for the cellar champion ship of the world. Even' a cellar championship might draw big crowds, because of the fact that the contenders never before would have met. Tigers and Cubs Last Year. But the main slice of this inspi ration is that concerning the run ners-up series. In the past some good battles would have been pro vided by such an event. Last year it would have brought together the Detroit Tigers and the Cubs, and the year before, when the Cubs won the National title, it would have been the Giants versus the Tigers. In 1909 it would have been Cubs again for the National and the Athletics from the American. Pittsburg and the Tigers winning the flags that year. Any one of these scraps would have been in teresting. NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Al Wambsgans, the New Orleans light weight who won the national A. A. 1’ title at Boston last May, will leave the Crescent City for New York shortly, where he plans to make his debut as a professional. The amateur champion was offered a match with Ray Temple by a New Orleans club, but declined the bout as he wants to start at the bottom by meeting some of the third raters and building up. • • • Johnny Dundee's heart will pine no more. The little fighter has been match ed with Champion Johnny Kilbane for a ten-round fight in New York Septem ber 4 Kilbane will receive $3,500 for his services. If Joe Mandot is defeated by Joe Rivers on the coast Labor day it will not be because he did not have proper trainers. Hobo Dougherty. Ad Wolgast’s famous sparring partner. Abdul the Turk and Harry Thomas, the classy little Eng scrapper, have been added to the South ern champ's training camp. ♦ ♦ • Tom Jones. Ad Wolgast’s manager, has picked Mandot to defeat Rivers. • • Johnny Coulon. bantamweight, has gone to his farm In High Wis., for a six weeks vacation. The little scrapper will live in the open, hunting and fishing for several weeks before he returns to the East to defend his title. On his re turn he will go to Kenosha. Wis . and meet Frankie Burns. He will then jump over to New York and meet Charley Le doux. the French champion • • • Philadelphia Jack O’Brien was arrested in Philadelphia a few days ago on tw<» warrants charging him with assault and battery and larceny Billy Payne, sev eral years ago a lightweight boxer, is the complainant • • « ■ lohnr.v Kilbane will be seen working the roads near Cleveland next Monday The little champion has accepted an ad mlrer’s dare that he could not stand the work and hired out Johnny will re ceive $2 sot his day's labor. There are several possible objec tions that might be raised to such a suggestion, chief among them the fact that the runners-up series might detract from interest in the world's series proper. But this we do not believe would be the case. Because of its affording opportuni ty for additional comparisons, which always are the delight of the fans, the new series should en hance interest in the old and/es tablished one for the big crown. Everybody who could go to the world’s series otherwise would go anyway, in spite of the runners-up series. One more apparent objection to the founding of such a series as a regular thing might he that in some years a city possessing one pen nant winner might have the run ners-up in the rival league, and accordingly the games might con flict. This objection could be wiped out merely by arranging the schedules of the two series in the same way as the annual league schedules are framed. YVhile one team is playing in the city, let the other be playing away from it. Keep them alternating in that par ticular town and there would be no conflict. Commission Could Run Series. Another possible objection is that the National Commission could not handle two series and attend both properly. It could. Prominent men of baseball could be employed di rectly by the commission to su pervise the series, and they could work directly under its authority. There are plenty of.competent ones, and the thing could go through just as well as under the present regime of only one series. From the standpoints of both fans and the powers that be. the project should be a good one. The moguls would harvest more money, and the fans would be provided with something of additional inter est to them. Since the fans are in disputably the ones who keep the game alive by spending their dol lars during the season, their side of it is entitled to consideration by the commission. if the commis sion could he shown that the fans want such a series, they ought to arrange one, and probably would. w Manager Tortorich, of the Orleans A. f c.. New Orleans, is looking fpr some good lightweight to box Harry Thomas at the weekly show' Monday night. The club had planned to give that late to Jack White with Thomas as his opponent, but the defeat of the Chiqago boxer by Frankie Russell has caused the manage ment to decide this would not be a drawing card. Johnny Kilbane has expressed his wil lingness to box Abe Attell a return bout Labor day. provided the promoters make him a satisfactory offer. The champion will start training Monday "to be ready ( for any emergency.” as he terms it. JOHNSON AND NILES WIN IN FINAL ROUND SorTHAMPTON, I. I. Aug. 17.—N. W. Niles. of Boston, and N. W. John son. of Philadelphia, nun their plays in the final round of the Meadow club cup singles here yesterday. Johnson de feated R I. Williams. Niles beat E. P. Latned. young' r biotin i of tin national i champion. In the semi-finals of the doubles. W. \ J. t'lothiei and G. P Gardner beat G. Biddle and R. N. Williams. M E. Mc- Loughlin gnd T. C. Bundy in the third round beat Niles and Dabney, former Hart ird stars, and in the seini-final they beat Johnson and C. F. Watson, Jr. WALTER JOHNSON WINS FOURTEENTH STRAIGHT WASHINGTON. Aug 17. —Walter < Johnson held Chicago to one scratch hit y < st<*rd;iy and Washington won cas- 4to o This made fourteen straight * I Ains for Johnson. equaling the Ameri >an !• ague record held by Chesbro while pitching fur New York.