Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, August 19, 1912, HOME, Image 10

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fgkboi skmwd 9 nwon EDITLD Zy S FARNSWORTH Gee, Jeff Is Lucky: He Hasn’t Any Money in the Bank :: :: :: •• By ‘‘Bud” Fisher A feeoHoo! I A 800-H 00» ViIMG-YiN THC WORLV Strict DO YOU CARE? THGY SHOULD OPE-4 ( VME AIN'T GOV BuT O ARG YOU Cti-VIA,/ ATTORNEY V4HIYNIAN IS \ V/MAT’b THAT lK> _ . _ V f Z ‘ J OPENING At t TH( SA-P GOT TO DO VAULT" - HOW k — _. • y VCbOMT VAULTS TO / \ V4ITH VOV f COULD \NC ex ptKUN ( , J s>ON\€ j I V ‘J J 1— -77 > WUCWEGOT p < _ 2W\ <- Loo'/ aJhs yXz L1 Q/ Bit ~~ t —"MI gill I I _ S / ; ZMt-s. * 1.1 CRACKERS OPEN 3-GBE SERIES IN BIRMINGHAM Birmingham. Aug is.— The Crackers open a three-game series with the Barons here this afternoon. The Atlanta team pulled in here from Mobile, where they dropped the Anal same of the series with the Gulls to the tune of 10 to 8. The home team intends to in crease Its lead at the expense of the Gate City boys, but the lowly tallenders may cause ’em more trouble than they expect. The Crackers have finished the first week of the road trip. They have two more weeks on foreign pastures before returning home As soon as they finish their visit in this burg they travel to Montgom ery for a three-game series. Chat tanooga and Nashville will be the stopping placps of the Crackers next week. On Labor day Alperman will take his team home when a double- > header is scheduled with the Mem phis Turtles. Nashville and Chat tanooga follow in succession at Poncey park, winding up the season in Atlanta. The Crackers close the season away from home, playing the last three days of the schedule in Mem - phis. While there doesn't seem to be any chance of them finishing better than last, the Crackers will fight their hardest to get inn, sev enth place. Here’s How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date These averages include all games played by the Crackers to date Players. g. ab. r, h. av. Harbison, e»- . 55 188 22 53 282 Alperman. 2b.110 415 47 114 275 Bailey. If . .110 353 70 104 .272 Agler. th. ... 45 148 26 39 .264 Becker, p . . 12 27 2 7 259 Graham, c .. 51 156 17 40 .256 Callahan, cf 68 265 26 64 241 • McElveen. 3h 114 414 46 93 .225 Reynolds, c. . 10 32 4 6 .188 Johnson, p. 4 6 o 1 167 Bredv, p . . 19 58 2 9 .155 Sitton, p . . 23 55 10 8 145 Wolfe, utility 6 16 0 1 163 L/yons. rs . . IS 52 3 3 .038 Waldorf, p 6 17 o o .000 JOE JEANNETTE FIGHTS JEFF MADDEN TONIGHT NEW YORK, Aug 19 Joe Jean nette. th» colored hea\ vweight ivho has been signed up to meet Champion .Tack Johnson in a ten-round bout at Madi son Square Garden on September 25 will be in action here tonight when h> will box Jeff Madden, of Boston, at th' Garden This will be Jeannettes Him appearance here th!« year, and then 1s considerable Interest In th. b • it. as it will give a line on the asplrint < con dition Luther McCarthy, the Spring field (Mo.) white hope, will me. t ti-n , Pelker. of Chicopee, Mass . j r round bout tin Wednesday night at St X . 1 rink, Iseach Cross, the Boweri demist will meet Tommy O’Keef. a Phi I phia lightweight. DAVIS & FREEMAN CUP NEXT PRIZE AT EAST LAKE The Davis it Freeman golf tn.pl.' i will be the next one to be ontested for ; by the golfers of the Atlanta Atl ’«-t i< club This cup is a three-y<-ar afi'ai and has been contested f"i evei «lm <■ the East Lake course was opened F. G Byrd, former Southern and . mt. Champion, has won the cup twl<. ami W R Tlchenor on< < The qualifying round of this ton na ment will be played Saturda trnri -24 Th* first and oonnil rout s ■ ' match plav must be played hi A . S<>. the Semi-flla bi Xugost 31 an' line Auah> by (September L * Dame Fortune Favors Murphy, But Gives Ward Cold Shoulder Bv. W. J. Mcßeth. , • * SO-CALLED "luck'’ of the game Is doubtless responsible for the superstitions of the gen eral run of players. Few, indeed, of all the great army connected with the national pastime are those who reason after the fashion of the unemotional Connie Mack. "There is no such thing as luck.” says Connie, "or If there Is, it cer tainly equalizes during a cam paign. No one team is favored by ■ luck, I mean. You will win Just as many games through ‘breaks' as you lose and no more during a long schedule. The championship team sometimes looks luckier than its rivals That Is because its playets make their luck good just as a dis couraged at raj alway makes its luck bad.” Connie Mack Is n pretty wise general and in all probability knows exactly what he is talking about Anyhow, he can get away with it so far as we are concerned. There may be no such fortune as good luck from the playing and managerial ends of the nation’s summer sport Yet, how about luck in baseball promotion? The fingers of the two hands wouldn't be enough to tell the lucky magnates of the National and American leagues I’nfortunately, there Is always the exception that proves the rule We will consider for a moment one of the "tough luck” disciples of diamond dives, i John Montgomery Ward Mr. Ward has but recently sev ered his connection with the Bos ton National league club. He was president of the luckless National league tatl-e.nders for less than one year. Ward sold bis holdings to Jim Gaffney, majority stockholder, whom Ward had first Interested in the Hub proposition last December He Is through with baseball for good If Ward had had absolute control of the Hubbites it is doubt ful 1f anything could have driven him to cover. He would have hung on until he built up a better club and that would have meant the greatest Imaginable financial suc cess. Not another man in the United States merits more from baseball than John M Ward, retired from the Boston club. Here is a man who has been a great credit to the game One of the most formidable pitchers and Infielders of the old days, he served his apprenticeship also as manager. Yet. he retired voluntarily at the height of his prime to study law He became a very fine lawyer and built up a wonderful practice in New York, where lawyers are to find the toughest sledding in the whole country John M. Ward has worked hard at his practice. He deserved a rest and some of the good things of baseball. That he is again on the outside. looking In. simply proves beyond question that there is luck and all kinds of it in base ball promotion. Takes CharleX W Murphy, of the Cubs. In direct opposition to Watd. Murphy is a millionaire to day He owns several theate's in Chicago as well as rich real estate property. AU this has been ac cummaied within the past seven years without the outlay of a pen ny Murphy was just luekv enough to get the tip that the Chicago club was for sale 11. got the baek- FORMER CRACKER PLAYER IS SECURED BY BROOKLYN BROOKLYN, N Y Aug 19 The ' Brook \n o Mocking up again or. South* rr ■ in, vx Southern h awu* It < - gKvhh. Enon Klrk putrirk, former Grack.t. .<n<! Pit. h< t Kent, forinei j tis •:. minghan) Sotm » s .Hid Jmile' ! "in Na-hxE • and Ain i -on and Sling - "t M««nti4 ,|| <i y Kirk Patrick wi.. icport un Augubi .9 fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 19. 1912. Ing from Charles P. Taft and bought for $105,000 a club that at that time whs north fully half a million Murphy tumbled right into a pennant ills first year. Frank Chance has made history with the club Sellee built up. Yet. Murphy was the lucky fellow to fall into such a capable manager for such a capable club. Murphy doesn’t be gin to have the business intelli gence or baseball acumen of John M. Ward. Luck made Murphy a howling success: John M. Ward -to put it as inildi.i as possible -a disappoint ment. Football Season Closing in Fast; Dixie Teams Will Be Out for Practice Soon VANDUNB (iEOHfiIA TEAMS WILL BE LOUD NOISE By Percy 11. Whiting. J'I'ST two weeks from today va rious broad-shouldered young gentlemen will assemble at cer tain of our institutions of learning, battered garments of blood, and mud-stained moleskin will be dealt out and the football practice for the 1 »42 .season will begin. Os course September 2, the same being Labor Day, is not the formal reporting day for football players. But in the South, football activity usually gets its start the fust week In September. This year the open ing day of that week will tind the University of Georgia football play ers doing light work and the Tech. Vanderbilt, Auburn, Mercer Clem son and Alabama candidates as sembling or making plans for the first formal gathering of the can didates. • ♦ ♦ The greatest interest of the sea son in the South will center around the Vanderbilt and Georgia teams. <if all the 'elevens In the South, these two have the brightest pros pects and the most ambitious schedules. The Vanderbilt team has bit off a tremendous schedule. After an easy opener on September 28 and another cinch on October 12, the Commodores take on Hose i’oly ti chntc for the third game. October 19. Now. Rose is some college, and has always had a team that gave Vanderbilt trouble. The following Saturday the Commodores buck Alex Cunningham's University of Georgia eleven, the team which, next to Vanderbilt, ought to rank the strongest in the South. The next game is with Mississippi always a Tartar and always set to beat Vanderbilt. Then come a cou ple of Lulu games I'nivetsitj of Virginia at Nashville and Hatnard at Cambridge. The Virginia game offers a big problem Vanderbilt has long been rated the strongest team in the Southern Intercollegi ate Athletic association. But Vir ginia is not in this organization and lias a lot more latitude than * i lie Commodores in recruting play ers. <if course, the Harvard gam. is counted a sure defeat for the Com modores- but then you never .an tell. The Cmnmodort < handed Annapolis ami Yale a surprise apiece and they don't issue any guarantee that Harvard will not be treated likewise. Then come on the Vandy sched ule Central of Kentucky likely to be not very troublesome; Auburn, always a contender, and Sewanee, the anti climax game of tlu sea son. With Ray Morrison. Big Un" l‘i eeland and "Frog" Metzger gone. I'm McGugin w ill have an awful time building up a strong team, but 1" has .1 good captain in Lewie Hare ; ano ,i bunch ul good uu lu ml. f 1 I'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 419 173 .413 SPEAKER 440 174 .395 JACKSON ... 423 159 .376 COLLINS 397 136 .343 LAJOIE 286 90 .315 T-/ Cobb fell off over seven points last week. Saturday was a bad day for his average, as he failed to connect once in four attempts. Speaker is now with in eighteen points of the "Georgia Peach.” The most remarkable hitting during the past two weeks has been done by Collins. Just about fifteen days ago his clouting average was a little over .300. Today he is hitting .343. No games were played in the Amer ican league yesterday as the Western clubs were all in the East. EORGIA, of course, has no such 1 schedule as Vanderbilt, hut it has considerable schedule for all that, and the fact that the Athens team plays Tech and Vanderbilt in Atlanta will make its doings of ex ceptional interest. Coach Cunning- BASEBALL] Diamond News and Gossip I he Pelicans w ill carry over some good material for next season Hendryx Clancy, Ilaigh, Cullop. Swindell and Mills’ ' laney in particular looks good. lie is hitting .429 for the last 19 games. The gambling in New Orleans has be come open and flagrant, but the baseball association has promised to go after it strong and to wipe it out. For all the season they have tolerated a "Gamblers' Row." where anybody could get odds on anything. • • • Connie Mack blames the automobile manta tor the poor showing of his team. He says that the speed bug put by Cy Morgan out of major league ball and has rendered Bender almost useless. Bill \ iebahn is pitching pretty fair ball for Jersey City. • * 41 Ban Johnson may sign empire Groe sehow. He has but one arm. The other was "hit off" by a band saw. • • • Ihe Phillies have bought a pitcher named Horne, but he’s park shv. He has been sighted in New York. Pittsburg and Philadelphia, but has never yet shown up at the ball park. • ♦ • Phey’re still talking of the Davis-Sto vall trade. To outsiders it isn't apparent that cither man has developed a team that is fighting very hard for a pennant. * 4'- * George Paskert was quite seriously in jured when hit in the face by a batted Ball the other day. He was left at home when the Phillies started west. ♦ * • Pitcher Leonard Cole has been rein stat e<l by the Pirates and has gone to work ♦ • ♦ Mobile has finally patched up the salarv difference between Catcher Omar Vance and the Koanoke club and Vance has re ported. • • ♦ The South Central and the Texas- Oklahoma league are talking of consoli dating tor their backers are anyway). \nd this with the Sherman anti-trust law still in operation* ♦ • • T\ Cobb hasn't scored from first re > ent!\ on a single Hut he keeps right on trying and will land after a bit. t’be reason Ty Cobh didn't play In a rec. nt New York-Detroit game was that hr was late in reporting and was not in uniform when the battle began • • • liair.\ Wolverton caught his suspension b\ Ban Johnson for a run-in with Em pire Egan. Chase took over the team I when hr was relieve*! * « 4> Eddie Hohnhorst has dislocate*! his shoulder again and is not with the Toledo team at present In .i rec< m game at Hurlhurt. Ind . be‘- ’lf Hurlburt ami Boone Grove teams Rax M< Ginlex a ten-vear-old lad " -ni .ix <.n the forehead ami killed bx a ball lut bx his father, Robert McGinl* x • • • I o,i. < riss ui pinch -bit fame, has been .Ir.’Pp.d by the l.ouisville club ami taken | on by Houston. Texas Rocr’ Bresnahan ’s sore is bruise It iliat lie arranged a trade by wh . lt I 'lnagms .i.i Ellis w . re to go to th,. Red | foi Mil. hell ami Mel'..paid \nd then ill Util lull iv stand fur it. Going! Going!! Gone!!! All Our White Hopes Now White Jokes By’W. W. Naughton. Z~\NE by one they wander I I from us,” is the refrain of an old song that treats of the desertion of the old homestead by successive members of the fam ily. With a few simple changes th4 ditty would adapt itself to the w hite hope situation. First, Carl Morris, and now Lu ther McCarthy, whom Billy McCar ney, with flashing eyes and swell ing breast, declared would one day grow so famous that his name would become a household word. The New Yoyk critics let Luther down easy. When Jim Stewart out- ham has a lot of fine men this year, with one real STAR—Boh McWhor ter. • » * t t ERE in Atlanta it is about the “ same old tale—-Tech hasn't much material or much hope, but with Coadh Heisman in charge there is sure to be a well-trained team which will make a creditable showing. That’s all Atlanta has any right to hope for. Technical schools don't turn out great teams. They never have—and they never will until some methqd is discov ered by which football candidates can do laboratory and shop work in their sleep. The Tech team will play much its usual schedule, with Sewanee, Au burn and Clemson as the feature games, and with the big climax, the Georgia contest, coming as usual in mid-season instead of at the end. where it should be. The new rules aren't going to make things any easier for Tech this year. Last year they rather favored the Yellowjackets. They made It possible for a team of light, fast men who knew football to cope with most anything. The rules committee, by performing a back flip and allowing four downs instead of three, have automatically brought the big husky back into his old, proud position in football. This year quick thinking and quick run ning will give place to weight and brue strength. This will hurt Tech, for they don't seem to send big men to the Georgia School of Technol ogy these days. • « • Stroud, of the Mercer team, will be back in Macon early in September. He has been summering in Exter, Cal., but will leave there in a couple of weeks. The candidates will assemble about mid-September, and will buckle right down to work, for they have a game September 28. Mercer has a pretty hard and a peculiarly badly balanced schedule. After opening with a prep school game—a thing that no self-respect ing college team is expected to do these days the Baptists take on the tough Auburn team on Octo ber 5. Then comes an easy game, with Howard. Then the Tech team invades Macon for a game with Stroud's men. This is set for Oc tober 19 Then comes an easy game with Columbia college (of Floridai. a doubtful contest with Tennes see, a hard game with Clemson and the usual anti-climax with Univer sity of Florida, St mud will return most of last year’s men and expects for once to have a team at Mercer that will rank right with the best 1n the South bailing only Vanderbilt. Mercer has long been in the dol drums. athletically speaking, but gradually it Is working its way out, am! this \<ar it o. ght to loudest noUe • fought the big novice at every stage of a ten-round bout they said Mc- Carthy held out promise of im provement. Avaunt and avast with such in sincere twaddle! The white hope who has failed under trial, but who is "going to do better, when he has a fight or two under his belt,” is in a class with a jaded champion who is "going, to the mountains to recuperate.” He is a mighty un safe proposition. It goes to show that after all fighting Is a trade. The fighter whp is born, and not made, is a scarce specimen of humanity. In the light of what is happen ing, the sayings of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Jack Johnson seem epigrammatic. "I can lick any man who has not had two years experience in I the professional ring.” remarked Philadelphia John prior to his San Francisco go with Al Kaufman. "Palzer is not ripe yet,” said • 'hampion Johnson, when asked at Las Vegas whether he regarded Palzer in the light of a possible op ponent. There Was that in the tone which suggested that Johnson con sidered Palzer an easy mark, but felt that the big lowan tvould have to be coddled along a bit- further to stimulate public interest and in crease the prospects of a large at tendance. The trouble with white hopes is that they are exploited main*y on their dimensions, and before they have accomplished anything to speak of. Size and strength and the power to smite are merely funda mental qualities for a cub heavy weight. They are next to useless until he has acquired a ring edu cation. which, during almost any’ generation of pugilists, is a hard thing to acquire. The woods are full of men who, while they lack real championship requirements, are plenty good enough to shatter the dreams of the hopes. A dozen years afto Joe t'hoynski. Kid McCoy and a few others were the watch dogs and trial horses of the heavyweight di vision. Today’ we have Jim Flynn and Jim Stewart. They are hard fellows to get by. A beating by one of them has a double effect inasmuch as it sets a novice back and at the same time discourages him. This is made ap parent in the ease of Carl Morris. Before he tackled Jim Flynn there was no such word as fail in the bright lexicon of the stalwart Oklahoman. Since then he has been a mark for every man he boxed. ARTHUR MADDOX TO HELP COACH GEORGIA ELEVEN ATHENS. GA., Aug. 19 —Although it has not been officially announced, the news has leaked out here that Arthui Maddox, for four years a member of the University of Georgia football team, has been engaged as assistant coach for the coming year. This news will be heard with much pleasure by the students ami alumni of the institution, as the big tackle was o.ne of the most popular men that evet played at Georgia, and during his course at the institution was most ac tive in all phases of college life. Due to the large number of men that turn out for football and the amount of work needed to whip the new material into line, an assistant coach is an abso lute necessity, and in Maddox leal supporters of athletics feel that the light man has been seemed for the place. UMPIRE OWENS NEARLY LOSES HIS EYESIGHT CHICAGO. Aug 19.- National Lcagut Umpire Clarence Owens nenr'y lost an eye Saturday night in a shooting gal leu Whlb knot king ox < i tin littfi birds th< rifle he, am. . Ingsed ami om lattiidg, burst in Hie I h ~f tlu g, un - BILL GILBERT HERO OF ROME MOTORR/ICES ROME, GA., Aug. 19.—8i1l Gil bert, of Atlanta, riding an Excelsior twin, lowered the track motorcycle record here by two seconds. Also Gilbert made a clean sweep of the events in which he started. He captured two three mile match races and made a grand showing in another three-mile event. He was clocked in one of the miles in 35 seconds. The for mer record was 37 flat. Gilbert was easily the hero of the biggest motorcycle meet ever held here. His daring spurts around the turns and in the stretches were sensational, and at the end of each event he was cheered to the echo. The summaries: Three-Mile Match Race —H. M. Gilbert, Atlanta, Excelsior twin, first; John Veal, Rome, Ga., Mer kel twin, second: Ollie Roberts, At lanta, Excelsior twin, third. Three-Mile Match Race—V. Moss, Thor 5, first; Howard Lewis, Excelsior twin, second; Jack Bry ant, Merkel twin, third. Two-Mile Race—O. Roberts. At lanta, Excelsior twin, first; How ard Lewis, Rome, Excelsior twin, second; Jack Bryant, Rome, Mer kel twin, third. Three-Mile Race —H. M. Gilbert, Atlanta. Flanders 4, and V. Moss, Rome. Thor 5(15 seconds handicap for Flanders 4), Thor won bv 25 feet. Three-Mile Final Race—H. M. Gilbert, Atlanta, Excelsior twin, first; Ollie Roberts, Atlanta, Ex celsior twin, second; John Veal, Rome, Merkel twin, third. Brady, Becker, Bailey And Waldorf Are Left With Atlanta Team Four players belonging to big league clubs, but placed in Atlanta under op tional agreement, will not be recalled tomorrow when the final gathering in of farmed players is pulled off by the ring masters of the big show. The four players now owned by At lanta because of the refusal of big league teams to exercise their option to repurchase are Buck Recker. King Brady, Harry Bailey and Rudolph Wal dorf. t Becker is the only one who was’ not left under the terms of the original contract. Griffith wired that if the At lanta club would come through with a little more money it could have Becker. The yo.ung left-hander has looked so good this year that President Qaliaway at once wired an acceptance of the offer. Brady. Bailey and Waldorf were left in Atlanta on the strength of the re fusal of the major league clubs to waive. The fact that Bailey wks not recalled was a big surprise. That chap has batted well for the Crackers this year. It Hie i 'tibs leave Agler in Atlanta i ,l; ' ®m ili s ptob|em of building a team for next year Is vastly simplified, HAL CHASE'S DIVORCE SUIT AGAIN REOPENED NEW YORK, Aug 19.—The troubles of Hal Chase, the baseball player, and his wife, Nellie H Chase, a e not over, as it iias annoum i d they were some Meeks ago. When a motion for alimony and eotfn-el fees made by Mrs. Chase was withdrawn, f Justice Du- gro signed an order allowing the at torneys of plaintiff to file a complaint in the ease in the < ounti . lerk's office under a date of a week ago The reason given by the attorneys tot not tiling the complaint at the proper time u HS that chase wished to ai.in! the publietti which iioubl attach * ,1 " 'II tin < >mp ini «as Hied '}"! ' In th- ' ittei was taken Uttdn consideration JU till.