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back to Atlanta to manage tin
Crackers IB declared today that
with Atlanta he Ims had better
luck than with others he has man
aged. and that also he liked Atlan
ta and Atlanta people.
Billy had made up his mind to
leave I'hattanooga whethi i he went
back to Atlanta or not Presi
dent Andrews begged him to stay,
but he frankly told him lie wanted
to make a change He was con
sidering a scout's position with a
major league team when the Atlan
ta ofler came
It is most probable that Otto
Jordan will be seen in an .Atlanta
uniform next year. Smith says, "If
Chattanooga w ill sell him and if
Jordan wants to go hack. I will
buy him."
The Big Race
Here's how the "Big Five” of the
American league are hitting the ball,
the averages including yesterday's
games:
PLAYER. AB. H. P.C
COBB 423 174 .411
SPEAKER . 444 177 .399
JACKSON 423 159 .376
COLLINS 397 136 .343
LAJOIE 286 90 .315
Ty Cobb fell off two points yesterday.
He secured only one hit in four times
up yesterday. To make matters
worse for the “Georgia Peach,” Tris
Speaker came across with three safe
swats in four trips to the plate. Tris
thereby gained four points. Today only
twelve ooints separate the "champion"
and the Boston demon The Detroit-
Boston game was the only one played
in the American league yesterday:
therefore. Jackson. Collins and Lajoie
"stood still.'
Robert B. Blackburn has
been a resident of this conn
ty for over twenty-five
years, is thoroughly identi
fied with our people, and
will ably care for the varied
interests of this, the largest
and richest county in the
state.
SEMI ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the six month* mdins .turn' 3b. 1912. of the condition of
THE EMPLOYERS INDEMNITY COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Organized und< ■ tin iw> of , *t:tieof p nnsylvania. made to the governor
of the stat' of Gemgia. -n pursuance of the laws of said stale.
Principal offict West End Trust Building, Broad and South Penn
Square. Philadelphia. I’.i
1. CAPITAL STOCK.
Wholt unount of capital stock SIOO,OOO
Amount paid up in rsh 100.000 $100,000.00
11. ASSETS.
Total of the aompany. actual cash market va1ue5791,279.01
111. LIABILITIES.
Total liabilities $791,279.01
IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRSTSIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912.
Total incoim actually n .ring' . ti *t six mom hs in cash . $325,301.46
V. EXPENDITURES DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912.
Total expenditures during the tiist six months of tm year in . ish. $367,509.66
Greatest amount insured in am om risk for one person 1u.n00.00
Greatest amount insured in ant n« risk so om m idem 20.000.00
Total amount of insurance outstan ring Contracts unlimit'd ex-
cept as noted Immediately abovi
A copy of the act of ineo p ration, luix certified, is of tile in the offici
of the insurance commissioner.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA —County of Philadelphia
Personally appeared before the undersigned, I’ N I.eßoy. who being
duly sworn, deposes and says that lo is tin assistant treason of the
Employers Indemnity Company of Philadelphia ami that the foregoing
statement is correct and true. I* X LeßftY. Asst. Treas
Sworn to and subscribed befori im this 9th dm of \ugust 191;
WRIGHT KUGLER. Notary Publii
(Commission expires January 13. 191.3.1
Name of State Agent V. GOULD BARRET!
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CRACKERS
B IBM INGH AM, ALA.. Aug. 20.
Tim (’rackets will try to get
revenge today for the terrible
trouncing handed them by the Bar
ons yesterday, when they were
downed on the local pasture to the
tune of II to 3. But, from a local
viewpoint, the crew of Alperman
are in for another lacing, as on
yesterday's performance, they don't
figure in the same class with the
league leaders.
The pitchers seemingly were hav
ing an off day yesterday. Waldorf
was wild ind Alperman replaced
him in the fourth with Sitton aft
er poor support and a timely swat
had scored three Barons. The Bar
ons took a decided liking to Ved
der’s slants and scored eight more
tallies Reynolds allowed bases to
be purloined at will, while two
parsed balls helped things along.
Harbison, Agler, Alperman and
ll< ynolds did poorly on the defense.
The Barons played sensationally
until the ninth, when Foxen per
mitted two clean hits and the aid
society bobbled twice, giving way
to two scores.
Jimmy Johnston made a splen
did running catch In center field,
while Marean and Kllam fielded
deftly. Bill Foxen hit the pill to
deep left center field with three
men on buses in the seventh, but
was called out for failing to touch
first. Thus he did not get a hit for
driving In the three runs via the
Merkle route.
I JEANNETTE. SAVAGE,
AND WILLARD WIN
BOUTS IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK Aug. 20. Erlends of
Joe Jeannette, who will meet Champion
lack Johnson September 27. were jubi
lant today over the showing made by
( Jeannette last night in his bout with
Jeff Madden, of Boston. Madden, who
lias been c tiled "New England's Best
1 White Hope." was knocked out in the
second round.
This bout, as well as two others with
heavyweights, took place at Madison
i Square Garden
In the others. Jim Savage, of Orange.
N I stopped Tom Kennedy, former
, amatem heavyweight, in seven rounds,
and Jesse Willard of Oklahoma, beat
Luther McCarthy, tile highly touted
Springfield. Mo. white tmpC, on points
BRUNSWICK ISSUES DEFI.
■I BRUNSWICK. GA. Aug. 20. -The
; management of the local baseball team
has decided to keep Brunswick's team
! in the field until Labor day. and an
noun, • s a challenge to any semi-pro
fe-sion il team in the south of Georgia.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912.
Football Code for 1912 Is a Changed Document
Will Bring Back the Old Game of Ten Years Ago
By Percy 11. Wliiting.
F FOOTBALL rules are like the
fashions. They are never, hy
any chance, the same this
year as they were last. But, like
the fashions, they run in cycles.
Thifi year’s fashions may be a re
vival of those of 50 years ago (not
knowing, we hesitate to say). But.
anyhow, the football titles for the
coming season are dead ringers for
those of 1902. The game has run
vigorously in a circle, and brought
up at the point it started from ten
years ago. Os course, in the mean
time it has gathered on a few ex
tra furbelows and ruffles, like the
forward pass, for instance. But,
basically, it is the good, old foot
ball—not of our daddies, perhaps,
but, at any rate, of our elder broth
ers.
• • •
tT’S sort of too bad that the rules
* committee can't get the rules
out of the dough state. The code
hasn't been better than half-baked
for the last 25 years. Each year
they add a little more flour or stir
it a bit or put in another cake of
yeast. But they never get any
where.
The best proof we have of the
virility of the game is that it has
* w ithstood the yearly attacks of the
rules committee.
* ♦ •
'■pHE Princeton team kicked a hole
* in the 1912 code. After study
ing it for a summer, they worked
out a scheme to meet it. Their idea
was to let the other side do all the*
work Their entire scheme was de
fensive. But they instructed their
players to be on a lookout for the
ball and if they happened to see it
running loose to clamp onto it and
CLUB POSTS $5,000 FOR
HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLE
NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—Assurance
that the proposed bout between Jack
Johnson and Joe Jeannette would be
staged in this city advanced a step to
day when the McMahon brothers, pro
prietors of the St. Nicholas Athletic
slub, posted with Bill Hicks, sporting
editor of The New York Journal, a cer
tified check for $5,000 as a forfeit bind
ing them to stage the bout at the St.
Nicholas Athletic club on September
25.
It was said here that Johnson was
expected to post a $5,000 forfeit in Chi
cago. There is great doubt that the
state athletic commission, which regu
lates boxing in New York state. "11l al
low the negroes to meet here.
ALABAMA PLAYS TECH
HERE ON OCTOBER 12
TCSCALOOSA. ALA, Aug 20. —
Graduate Manager Friedman announces
the following football schedule for Ala
bama :
September 28. Marion on campus
October 5. Owenton on campus,
October 12. Georgia Tech. Atlanta.
October IS. Mississippi A A- M
Aberdeen.
October 26. Georgia. Columbus.
November 2. Tulane, New Orleans.
November 9, Mississippi, campus.
Novemb 18, Sewanee. Birmingham
Thanksgiving. Tennessee, Birming
ham.
GROVER HAYES SAILS ON
THURSDAY FOR AUSTRALIA
MILWAI'KEE. Aug 20—Grover
Hayes. Chicago lightweight, and his
manager. Willard Stuart, have accepted
terms to go to Australia for a series
of bouts in the lightweight tournament
tor Hugh Mclntosh They will sail on
Thursday
BOSTON NATIONALS BUY
TWO SPOKANE PLAYERS
SPOKANE, WASH . Aug 20 First
Baseman Ralph (Happy) Myers and
Catcher Rex Devogt, of the Spokane
Northwest, rn league team, were sold
yesterday to Ute Boston Nationals.
Myers has batted .309 tills season and
has stolen 77 bases in the 100 games he
has played Hevogt s batting average
so fat this year is .37",
run like blazes. Especially, they
trained* an agile young lad named
Sammy White to pick up a ball on
the run and to get just as close as
possible to his opopnents' goal.
This Princeton system of playing
the game proved eminently suc
cessful, and what between good
luck and good guidance the Nassau
Tiger romped off with the cham
pionship. x
"Yes.” said the coaches; "it wins
games, but it isn't football."
• ♦ •
rpHE experts said that the defect
* in the 1912 rules was that It
strengthened the defense to the
point where nobody could score.
This defect wasn’t notably appar
ent in the South, where good
scores were run up In about the
average number of games and
where the best teams generally
won. But it was in the East.
Now. whether the fault was with
the rules or with the coaches, we
don't pretend to say. Somehow* we
sort of half suspected the coaches.
Os course, it is entirely possible for
the rules committee so to strength
en the defense as to make scoring
impossible. They could provide that
the side in possession of the ball
could sit on it and as long as the
defensive side sat on it the offen
sive players could not come within
ten feet of them, and, further, that
the side that sat on the ball long
est won the game. That would be
the ideal defensive game. But it
wouldn't be exciting.
The rules weren't quite that bad
last year, though, and coaches w*ho
were willing to risk everything on
a few brainstorm plays managed to
win a fair share of games.
Here's How Crackers
Are Hitting the Ball
Right Up to Date
These averages include yesterday's
slaughter:
PLAYER — g. ab. r. h. Ave,
Harbison, ss 56 192 23 55 .286
Alperman. 2blll 419 57 114 .272
Bailey. Iflll 387 70 104 .269
Becker, p 12 27 2 7 .259
Agler. >b. 46 152 26 39 .257
Graham, c 51 156 17 40 -.256
Callahan, cf 69 268 26 65 .242
McElveen, 3b. ...115 41S 47 94 .225
Sitton, p. 24 57 11 10 .175
Reynolds, c 11 36 4 6 .167
Johnson, p 4 6 0 1 .167
Wolfe, utility .. . 6 16 0 1 .163
Brady, p 19 .’>B 2 9 .155
Lyons, rs 19 56 3 3 .054
Waldorf, p 7 18 0 <0 .000
THREE MORE OLYMPIC
ATHLETES RETURN HOME
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. -More than a
score of the Olympic athletes who are
to be honored hy a big demonstration
here on Thursday for their work in
winning premier track and field honors
for America at the recent games in
Stockholm arrived on the St. Paul.
They included Harry S. Babcock, who
won the pole vault: George L. Horine,
of San Francisco, the record high
jumper, and Frank J. Uople, of Chi
cago. All tlte athletes said they in
tended remaining for the parade and
banquet.
Robert B. Blackburn has
been a resident of this coun
ty for over twenty-five
years, is thoroughly identi
fied with our people, and
will ably care for the varied
interests of this, the largest
and richest county in the
state'.
NAPS BUY RACINE PITCHER.
CLEVELAND. < >HI< >, Aug. 20 -
Pitcher Brenner, of th< Racine team
of the W isconsin - Illinois league, has
been purchased by the Cleveland team
i,»f the American league, to report at the
end of his present leagm '- si asun, Srp-
THE most important change of
the year will be the fact that
four downs, instead of three, will
be allowed to make ten yards.
This seems a simple sort of a
change. But it makes all the dif
ference in the world. It means that
any team with the weight and
strength can make the distance
right through the line. Beyond any
question, there will be a reversion
to the old line-plunging, grinding
game of ten years back—a game
intensely inferior to the more open
game we have had in more recent
years.
Os course, in many ways the
game has been modified since 1902
and has been somewhat opened up.
It should be a better game this fall
than it was then. But It will lack
a whole lot of being the ideal game.
• • •
■pHE change in the football code
A has again wiped the small col
lege off the football map. In recent
years a small college, with a light,
fast team, was as likely to be heard
from as a large one. Now the col
lege which can recruit the most
beef and brawn —and that always
means the big college—will have
the advantage.
If this change persist. Tech will
always be a second rater, Georgia
will always be dangerous and Van
derbilt will always hold the S. I.
A. A. supremacy.
» • •
'T'HERE'S one grand thing about
football —no amount of regu
lating and no code, no matter how*
bad, can materially hurt it, and
nothing has ever happened yet to
keep it from being the greatest of
American college games.
LITTLE EASILY BEATS
TOUCHARD AT TENNIS
NEWPORT, R. I„ Aug. 20.—Three
score matches in the opening round of
the national lawn tennis championship
singles were run off with no unex
pected results. Pacific coast players
players showed up strongly. McLough
lin dropped only' a single game against
Lieutenant F. B. McNair. U. S. N.
There were several other players from
army' ami navy, but they were unable to
cope with the civilians.
Three German players are entered in
the tournament and two of them were
eliminated, R. A. Auspitzer, of Berlin,
being the only one left. He will play
his match today.
The feature match of yesterday was
between the two doubles champions. R.
D. Little and G. F. Touchard, who had
been drawn against other in the
first round. Little had no difficulty in
winning.
DODGERS SELL SUMMERS
TO CHICAGO NATIONALS
NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug. 20.—Ru
dolph Summers, the star so»ithpaw of
the Nashville team and the leading
hurler of the Southern league, has been
recalled by the Brooklyn team, to whom
he belonged.
The Dodgers promptly sold him to
the Chicago Cubs, and he reports to
Chance's men at the end of the present
Southern league season.
NEW ORLEANS RECALLS ’
BUNTING FROM LOOKOUTS
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 20.—Third
Baseman Dave Bunting, loaned several
weeks ago to the Chattanooga team, was
recalled today by Manager Frank, of
the local Southern league team. Third
Baseman Brewster, of the recently
abandoned Vicksburg team. Cotton
States league, according to the an
nouncement, also made today, has been
purchased by' the local team.
CHICAGO TEAM RECALLS
BARROWS FROM SKEETS
CHICAGO. Aug 20.—Roland Bar
rows. an who was farmed”
to Jersey City by the Chicago Ameri
cans last spring, has been recalled. He
will report in Cleveland August 30.
Barrows has been hitting .345. He may
replace Manager Callahan In left field.
ISSTRAIGHTWILL
STAND FDR AGE.
SAFS OVERALL
By Orval Overall.
WHILE the baseball fans of
the counrty will readily
admit that the recent
pitching feat of Rube Marquard, of
the New York Giants, was a won
derful performance, I am inclined
to believe that the real merit of his
feat is not so thoroughly under
stood. In my opinion. Marquard
has performed not only in record
breaking style, but has set a record
that will stand for many, many
years to come. It is doubtful if his
record will be duplicated in a gen
ertation by any major league pitch
er, where the rules are strictly en
forced and where the task of win
ning a game is made just as diffi
cult as science and class can ac
complish.
May Never Be Beaten.
There is a possibility that the
feat may be equaled in some minor
league, which I seriously doubt, but
for any man to win nineteen
straight games in a major league
championship season, where the
pitcher is opposed by the cream of
the baseball world and where class
meets class and the ablest generals
of the diamond are plotting for
your downfall, is an achievement
that must go down in history as a
record to be .shot at by the fu
ture greats of the big brush heav
ing department. Instances may be
cited where in the early days of
baseball pitchers have won
more consecutive games than did
Marquard, but the fact must not be
overlooked that baseball then and
baseball now are so widely differ
ent in style of play, rules of play
and pitching, and in the science of
the game, that comparisons of rec
ords made then and now would be
ridiculous.
Naturally, some will say that
Marquard was lucky to hang up
such a greatirecord. Granted. Base
ball luck is a part of the game and
it is one of the biggest factors in
the success of the championship
teams. But luck must be strongly
backed up with class before it can
become an eftective feature in any
performance upon the diamond.
When class enters into a competi
tion. the element of luck is bound
to crop out at some stages and
probably turn the tide of battle one
way or the other. Pitching suc
cess depends almost as much upon
the “luck of the game” as upon the
ability of the pitcher, for no pitcher
can win a game unaided.
Had Good Support.
Marquard was surrounded by
players of the highest class and he
was pitching to batters of the same
ranking. He got high-class support
to make his pitching effective, and
in two or three of his winning
games he was favored by the luck
of the game that permitted him to
win. although hit harder than his
opponent on the mound. Yet there
was nothing of the sensational fa
voritism of fortune in his perform
ance that would rob him of the
highest praise for achieving what
no other major league pitcher has
been able to do since baseball be
came the organized, scientific sport
that rt is today.
JUDGE GIVES PLAYER TEN
HOURS TO LEAVE TOWN
LOUISVILLE. KY.. Aug 2Q. —"Tub-
by" Spencer, the former big league
catcher who started the season with
Louisville, but who was released be
cause he could not ride on the water
wagon, was presented In police court
for drunkenness. It was not his first
appearance.
"You can't behave In Louisville,” said
Judge Boldrick. "so I am going to give
you ten hours to leave town ”
ABE ATTELL GETS
CHANGE TO WIN
TITLE BACK
By Ed. W. Smith.
SEPTEMBER is to be the dandy
little fighting month, from the
looks of things this middle of
August.
And there’s one battle in sight
that hasn't been mentioned at all
in this part of the country that is
apt to go through if the persua
siveness of Jim Coffroth can bring
it about, and Jim is some per
suader.
The proposition calls for a second
meeting between Johnny Kilbane.
featherweight champion, and Abe
Attell, former champion of the 122
pounders.
Coffroth is trying to schedule the
affair for his chief attraction of the
month, the date being September
9, which is Admission day and one
of the fighting days on the coast.
Kilbane Is Balky.
Kilbane is the one who is mak
ing the objections to the match.
He is trying to have it put off un
til October or even later than that.
Coffroth, knowing the value of the
day he has in mind, is forcing mat
ters, and it has got down to the
stage now where a matter of mere
ly SI,OOO for expense money that
Kilbane demands alone stands in
the way of the affair being con
summated.
Coffroth isn’t a man to be balked
by a trifle like that, and the men
are reasonably assured of seeing
the affair go through as he has
planned it. It will be interesting to
note what they will make the
weight if the financial end of the
thing is adjusted. Only recently
there have been stories about how
Attell took on so much weight that
he now scales 135 pounds.
Question in Last Match.
VX hether this is weight that is
susceptible of removal or not is
entirely another matter. Evident
ly it is. for Attell knows that Kil
bane wouldn't meet him excepting
at the real featherweight limit as
recognized in this country.
There was so much question
about the last meeting between
these stars that the fans ought to
welcome a return meeting between
them. There wasn't any question
about which had won after they
had gone the twenty rounds, but it
was stated afterward that Abey
had paid more attention to the
poker table than he had to his
road and gymnasium work during
his preparation for the contest,
hence the question still as to which
is the better man.
They've run cut of good light
weights out on the coast. Willie
Ritchie, the young man who cre
ated such a favorable impression
all over the country by his great
work against Freddie Welsh and
later ag.Jnsi the champion himself
in a four-round battle, is utterly
unable io find a man fit to go
against him out there.
Coffroth would have liked to
stage him for 9, but
there wasn’t a single man avail
able for the match, a man who
could draw well and be reasonably
certain of giving the coast star an
interesting battle. In addition, It
appears that Willie has some
mighty high falutin ideas of his
own worth and wants such a stiff
price for his services that the
promoter is hesitating even to dis
cuss the thing seriously with him.
THREE PEUGOTS ENTERED.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Three Peugot
racing cars have been entered for the
Elgin races. The machines have been
shipped from France and will be tn
• 'hicag.i on Saturday or Sunday. Boll
lot. Goux and Zuecalleri, members of
the Peugot team durlmr ihe recent
Grand Prix, will pilot the machines
here.