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Th* Ciackers open a three-game series with the Barons here this afternoon The Atlanta team pulled In here from Mobile, where they dropped the final game of the series with the Gulls to the tune of 10 to S The home team intends to In crease its lead at the exjiense of the Gate City boys ? hut the lowly tailenders may cause ’em more trouble than they expect. The Crackers have finished the first week of the ixiad trip They have two more weeks on foreign pastures before returning home. As soon as they finish t'.efr visit in this burg they travel to Montgom ery for a three-game series. Chat tanooga and Nashville will be the stopping places of the Crackers next neck. 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 tight their hardest to get into sev enth place. Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date These averages includt till games piaved by the Ciuckers to date: Players. g. ab r. h, av, Harbison, ss. S 5 ISB 22 53 282 A'perman. 2b.110 415 47 11 4 275 Bailey. If .110 353 70 1114 272 Agler. lb. . . 45 148 28 39 .284 Be< ker. p . .12 27 2 7 259 Graham, c. 51 15ti 17 4<i .256 Callahan, cf. 6S 265 26 64. .241 McE ! v*en lb 114 41 1 46 98 225 Reynolds. > in 4 >; .iss Johnson, p. 4 6 a 1 ,167 B ady. p. . 19 5S 2 9 .155 Sitton, p. .23 55 in \ .145 Wolfe, utility 6 16 11 1 lfi3 Lyons if 18 52 3 3 .I'sß Waldorf, p. 6 17 a (i uno JOE JEANNETTE FIGHTS JEFF MADDEN TONIGHT XEW YORK Aug J e J< 11 nette. the colored heavyweight who h:>s been signed up to meet Champion Jack Johnson in a ten-roun 1 bout .it Madi son' Square Garden on September 25, will be in action her- tonight when h" will box Jeff Madden, of Boston at th< Garden. This a ill lie ,1.- innette’s ti’st appearance here tip- year, and then is considerab 1 ! int. :.«t in p., ’ mt. - It will give a line on the aspirant s cot dition Luther McCarthy, th. S). ring field (Mo.) white . Pelker. of Chicopee Mas- in ( ten round bout. <>n Wednesday ntgm .0 s- x ... ~. ink. lyeacii Cross the B-m-ry ,<-ntlst will meet Tommy O’K-er a I’h . el phia lightweight. DAVIS & FREEMAN CUP NEXT PRIZE AT EAST LAKE The Davis A Freeman golf '• phy ■ nil! be the next one ,n be i-«nt>- n t..t o. >he golfers of th* Atlanta Athh-ii -1 ii> T!,ig cup Is a three-yea: ass ; has I>een contested for evet sinn I • Eh» lygke course UHstuiened < '■'■ npio., has wor the cup twice and V. p. Tichenc r once Th- qualifying round of this tou’r.i --r-ent w<’ 1 he play ■».; Saurda v A»tv - T< »>rr - and seron • ,tnd« f 11. r. *r h pa - ' nm s: ue 1 x - :I 1•- \ m;u s t th- -n.-t - hi a. ;-t 31 al.'i ■he flgala t>v Septetnbei 1 Dame Fortune Favors Murphy, But Gives Ward Cold Shoulder By. \V. J. Mcßeth. S< >-<' ALI .El> "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 th' national pasilme are those who reasoti after the fashion of the unemotional Connie Mack. "There Is no such thing as luck." says Connie, "or If there is, it cer tainly equalises 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 players make their luck good Just as a dis couiaged array always makes Its luck bad.” Connie Mack is a pretty wise general and In all probability knows exactly what he Is talking about Anyhow, he can get away with it so fat as we are concerned. There may be no such fortune as good link 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. Unfortunately, there Is always the exception that proves the rule. We will consider for a moment one of the "tough luck” disciples of diamond dives, 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 ta 11 -enders for less than one year Ward sold nis 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 Hubhltes it is doubt ful if anything could have driven him to cover. He would have bung on until he built up a better club and that would have meant the guatest 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 appt enticeship also as manager. Yet. he retired voluntarily at the height of his i prime to study law He became a very fine lawyer and built up a wonderful practice in New York, where lawyers are said 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 Charles W Murphy, of lite Cubs, in direct opposition to Ward .Murph) is a millionaire to day He owns several tlieuteis In Chicago as well as rich real estate prop*- ly. Ml this has been ac cumulated within the past seven • witho.it the outlay of a peu li) Murphy was just luck) enough i 1 • get the tip that the Chicago club was t.r sale He got the back- FORMER CRACKER PLAYER IS SECURED BY BROOKLYN BROOKLYN N Y. Aug Is The I Biocklyn team is stocking tt| again on |S.:ithern leaguers and ex-Southern | a .goers it has grabbed Enos Kirk- I Patrick, former Cracker, and Pitcher ’K- i' fortm ' of B: mineham. Sonit rs ' . from Nas - ~• | \• ■•. 1 . .a. and Sting'.'-. of Montgomery • Kirkpatrick will report on August THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. A [’GUST 19. 1912. Ing from Charles P. Taft and bought for $105,000 a club that at that time was worth fully half a million. Murphy tumbled right into a pennant his 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 mildly as possible—a disappoint ment. Football Season Closing in Fast; Dixie Teams Will Be Out for Practice Soon VANDV AND OEOROIA TEAMS WILL BE LOUD NOISE By Percy 11. Whiting. JUST 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 1912 .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 first week in September. This year the open ing day of that week will find 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. • * ♦ Tlie greatest interest of the sea son in the South will center around the Vanderbilt and Georgia teams. <>f all the elevens In the South, those two have the brightest pros pects and the most ambitious schedules. The Vanderbilt team has bit oft a tremendous schedule. After an easy opener on September 28 and another (inch on October 12. the Commodores take on Rose Poly technic 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 Cunninghams University of Georgia eleven, the team wjiich, next to Vanderbilt, ought to, rank the strongest in the South. The next game |s with Mississippi always a Tartar and always set to beaj Vanderbilt. Then come a cou ple of Lulu games—University of Virginia at Nashville and Harvard 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 has a lot more latitude than the Commodores in reeruting play ' era. <>f course the Harvard gome Is counted a sun- defeat for the Com modores Inn then you never can tell The Commodores handed Annapolis and Vale a surprise apiece and they don't issue an)' guarantee that Harvard will not be Heated likewise Thon come on the Vaud) sched ule Central of Kentucky, likely to be not wry troublesome. Auburn, always i contender, and Sewanee, the anti climax game of the sea son With Ray Morrison. "Rig Un" Freeland and "Frog" Metzger gone, Dan M.Gugtn will have an awful time building up a strong team, hut be has a good i aptain iru Lewie Hr dago and a bunch of good nut , leria! The 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. C 088419 173 .413 SPEAKER 440 174 .395 JACKSON 423 159 .376 COLLINS 397 136 .343 LAJOIE 286 90 .315 Ty 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 h« is hitting .343. No games were played in the Amer ican league yesterday as the Western clubs were all in the East. Z" EORGIA, of course, has no such schedule as Vanderbilt, but 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 'basebalD Diamond News and Gossip The Pelicans will carry over some good material for next season—Hendryx. c ancy. Haigh, Cullop. Swindell and Mills < lancy in particular looks good He Is bitting 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 mania for the poor showing of his team He says that the speed hug put by Cy Morgan out of major league ball arid has rendered Bender almost useless. Bill Viebahn is pitching pretty fair ball for Jersey City • ♦ • Ban Johnson may sign Umpire Groe schow He has but one arm The other was "bit off” by a band saw • • • The Phillies have bought a pitcher named Horne, hut he’s park shv He has been sighted in New York. Pittsburg and Philadelphia, hm has never vet shown up at the ball park • ♦ * They're still talking of the Davis-Sto vall trade. To outsiders it isn't apparent that either man has developed a team that is fighting very hard for a pennant. v * « 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 stated by the Pirates and has gone to work again Mobile has finally latched up the salarx difference between Catcher Omar Vance and the Roanoke club and Vance has re ported • • « The South Central and the Texas- Oklahoma league are talking of consoli dating tor their backers are anyway c And this with the Sherman anti-trust law still in operation: • • • Tt Cobb hasn't scored from first re cently on a single Rut he keeps right on trying and will land after a bit • • • Tlie reason T) Cobb didn't plat In a recent New i ork-Detroit game was that he was late in reporting and was not in uniform when the battle began Harr) Wolverton caught bis suspension b) Han Johnson for a run-in with Um pire Egan i base took over the team w hen he was relieves! • • • Eddie Holinltorst lias dislocated his shoulder again and is not with the Toledo team at presen'. • • • in a recent game at Hurlburt. Ind . be tween the Hurlburt mid Boone Grove teams Ray McGinley. a ten-vear-old lad. was struck on the forehead and killed bv a ball hit by Ins father. Robert McGinlev • • • IM* Criss, of pinch-hit fame, has been dronped bv the Louisville club and taken on by Houston, Texas • • • Roger Bresnahan is sore as bruise It ' seems that he arranged a trade b\ which j Huggins and Ellis were t > go tn the Reds I f<»i Mil hell and McDonald \nd then Mrs Britton refused to stand for it. Going! Going!! Gone!!! All Our White Hopes Now White Jokes By W. W. Naughton. 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 the ditty would adapt itself to the white 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 York 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. * • . r t ERE in Atlanta it Is about the “ same old tale —Tech ' hasn't much material or much hope, but with Coach 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 method 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 Yellow-jackets. 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. ♦ ♦ • QOACH Stroud, of the Mercer team, will be back in Macon early fn 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 ft. Then comes an easy game, with Howard. Then tlie 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 Florida), a doubtful contest with Tennes see. a hard game with Clemson and the usual antl-climax with Univer sity of Florida. Stroud 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 in the South—barring only Vanderbilt Mercer has long been in the dol drums. athletically speaking but gradually it is working its way out. and this xear it ought to make the loudest noise of its career. fought the big novice at every stage of a ten-round bout they said Mc j 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 who 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 whA has not had two years experience in the professional ring," remarked J Philadelphia John prior to his San Francisco go with Al Kaufman. “Palzer is not ripe yet," said Champion 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 would 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 mainly 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 ago Joe Choynski. 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 tlie stalwart Oklahoman. Since then he has been a mark for every man tie 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 Arthu: 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 and alumni of the institution, as the big tackle was one of the most Jiopular 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 largo 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 local supporters of athletics feel that the light man has been secured for the place. UMPIRE OWENS NEARLY LOSES HIS EYESIGHT ('Hit'AG'). Aug 18 - Nation# League Umpire Clarence Owen- nearly lost an eye Saturday night in a shooting gal llery. While knocking over the little | birds the liflc becalm i logged and on, cartridge burs’ in (he breech of ih> igun. bowing tlie powdei back into Owens' eye. ?BILL GILBERT HERD OF ROME MOTOR RACES Rome. ga„ Aug. 19.— bhi gu. bert, of Atlanta, riding an Excelsior twin, lowered the track motorcycle record here by two seconds. Also Gilbert marie 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 by 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 leagut clubs, but placed in Atlanta under op tional agreement, will not be, recallec tomorrow when the final gathering ir 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 Huck Becker, King Brady. Harry Bailey and Rudolph Wal dorf. Becker is the only one who was not left under th* terms of the original contract Griffith wired that if the At lanta cluli would come through with a little more, money it could have Becker I 'l'he young left-hander has looked so (good this year that President Callaway lat 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 was not recalled was a big surprise. That chap has hatted well for the Crackers this year. If the Cubs leave Agler In Atlanta Hill Smith’s problem 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, th,, baseball player, and his H '•base, are not over as It was announced they were s „me Weeks ago, when a motion for alimony an,| cotimel r.-< s made by Mrs-. Chase «,-.s withdrawn, foi today Justice Du gto signed an ordei allowing the at torneys or plaintiff t „ n ,„ a ( . lllll|)|lllrit in tin, ease in the -minti t lerk> office unde, a date of a w ~,.g The reason given bi th. attorneys for not filing the complaint al the prop,., time mu that <’ha , alshed to HVt.I.I lhe publicity which would attach ik “ r1 u,,tiercwt1