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Smith Will Be Both Manager and Acting President of Atlanta Ball Club
WHOLE WORKS TO BE TURNED OVER TO NEW MOGUL
Ry Percy H. Whiting.
THE Atlanta Baseball associa
tion certainly timed the deal
with Billy Smith to a r p al
nicety. If the announcement that
Bill was coming back had been
postponed until the end of the sea
son, the fans of Atlanta would at
present be committing suicide by
ones and twos, or else renouncing
baseball.
The team of today Is the most
hopeless thing that ever stepped on
a baseball diamond. The only
blight spot in all the gloom Is the
knowledge that Bill Smith, a real
manager, as he has proved right
here, in Atlanta, will be hack on
the Job next spring, for a two-year
try at getting the Crackers out of
the depths.
The present Crackers are out for
a world's record. They seem to be
trying to see how many games they
can lose Just as quickly as possi
ble. The St. Louis Browns and
the Boston Nationals never had
anything on this bunch of t'rack
er-. Their playing, especially on
the road, is a horror.
But cheer up. Rill Smith is com
ing. And that means a first divi
sion team to a certainty, and it isn't
a bad bet that Bill will give At
lanta a pennant before his two
year contract expires.
• • •
thing about It they are
going to let Bill run the team his
own sweet way. They will turn It
over to him, tell him to spend the
money, and then they'll go off about
their business, leaving Bill witli a
fine line of credit and the promise
of unlimited backing.
<>ne of the reasons why Bill
Smith was selected, according to
Vice President Charles Nunnally,
was that lie could take all the re
sponsibility and all the routine off
the shoulders of President Frank
BOTH UMPIRES INJURED
IN GAME AT PITTSBURG
PITTSBI’RG Aug 21. In the dou
ble-header here yesterday between
Pittsburg and Brooklyn, empires Bren
nan and Owens were both injured In the
first psr.t of the first game, and two
players were called upon to act the
rest of the first game, and all of the
second. As far as i« known, this is the
first time both umpires hat been butt
in a major league game The two
teams split the double-header.
Empire Brennan, during the first
inning of the first game, slipped neai
second base, injuring his knee cap. em
pire "wen-, who was behind the bat
was hit by a foul tip off Jack Miller's
bat in the second inning of the same
game, his breastbone being broken.
It was then det Ided bt the managers
of both teams to use players as um
pires catcher Phelps, of Brooklyn, and
Hyatt/ utility man of the Pittsburgs.
were called upon to act. and umpired
the rest of the afternoon
I mplre Owens was unconscious w hen
taken to the hospital. Physicians, it is
said, will have to use an X-ray to as
certain the extent of his injuries, em
pire Brennan is not so seriously hurt.
WOLGAST TO MEET WINNER
OF RIVERS-MANDOT FIGHT
LOS ANGELES. Aug 21 Tom
Jones, inanag.-r for Ad Wolgast. stated
today ne would leave for chit ago on
September 1. Jones verified the report
that Wolgast and -McFarland w* re
matched for ten rounds at th< Garden
Athletic club in New York on Septem
ber 27. Jones said he ami Wolgast
would return to Los Angel, s after the
McFarland fight mid be remix to lake
on the winner of the Rivet s Mandot
fight for a Thanksgiving mat. h
BRANNEN QUITS GEORGIA:
WILL GO INTO BUSINESS:
ATHENS. Aug 21 Kid Brannen the
University of Georgia baseball star of
the past season and recently electeel e
director of athletics at Georg
college has resigned his position ms
wilt go into business with his fathei
Artful K Maddox, ags -rant football
g’oach at the I'nlvemlty of Georgia, has
< hosen to succeed Brannen, and
■es a, . . pt. a p.sttlon Maddox left
“or Milledgeville this morning
Callaway It has been a tolerably
strenuous season for Major Calla
way. Neither Hemphill nor Alper
man knew the first thing about the
Southern league or about manag
ing when they took over their jobs.
As a result, a world of the routine
woik fell on President Callaway’s
shoulders.
Nobody outside of baseball head
quarters begins to suspect the
amount of routine work that must
be done, the immense amount of de
tail drudgery that is involved In the
job of buying and selling players,
drafting, trading, waiving, and in
the little ordinary every-day af
fairs of a ball club.
lust consider, though: There is
the Atlanta club, with Its own es
tablished way of doing things. This
In turn is owned by the Georgia
Railway and Power Company, witli
strict rules for the handling of
financial matters. Then the Atlan
ta club i.« a part of the Southern
league. This organization is gov
erned by a complicated code which
has been the outgrowth of eleven or
twelve years of rule making —and.
worse, it Is governed by precedents
and customs that have never been
reduced to writing at all. The
Southern league, In turn; is a mem
ber ot the National Association of
Basebull Clulis. with Ils s< t of rules
ami its well estatillshed procedure
. for handling all cases. Then If the
local club has any dealings with a
big league, that's another story
again. For the big leagues have
stiil another form of government
and a different equipment of rules
and procedure. And above them all
hovers Hie National Baseball Com
inission. the supreme court of base
ball, hedged around b.v more rules
than the supreme court of the
I nlted States—and without any
constitution to work by.
sou have our word for it- any
body who takes over the jqb of
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- AB. H. P.C.
COBB 427 175 .410
SPEAKER 447 179 4 00
JACKSON 429 161 .375
COLLINS 405 137 .338
LAJOIE 292 91 .312
Tris Speaker sure is closing in fast on
Ty Cobb for top batting honors. There
is only ten points separating them to
day, Cobb fell off a fraction over a
point yesterday, by securing only one
hit in four times up. Speaker, on the
other hand, gained almost two full
points. He garnered two safe swats m
three trips to the plate. Joe Jackson
lost a point. He pounded forth two
hits in six attempts. After hitting like
a demon for three weeks. Eddie Col,
Ims took a slump. In the double
header the Athletics lost to the White
, Sox, Collins only managed to connect
once in eight times up. Five notches
did he drop back therefore. Lajoie was
a bit off on his feed, too. as he only
connected safely once in six chances.
CHARLEY EBBETS TURNS
DOWN OFFER FOR CLUB
\l-:\\ YoltK Aug 21 Two Cincinnati
baseball fans who < ame to Now York tins
w,ek with proposals for the purchuso of
h 1 •■ntrolling interest In the Brooklyn Na
tl'.nal league club will apparently have to
return disappointed t siatetnent Issued
b> Charles H Ebbetts. Jr , presuient of
Io club, declares the 1 'txlgers are not for
sale Ebbetts is just now bust building
s 4X00.0011 baseball park, ami officials of
| the club sav Hint he lias n,. intention of
getting out of baseball.
THOMAS TO MEET THOMAS.
1.1 >S ANGELES tug 21 Jiminv
John-on managt : of Eeatherweight
Hit it Thomas, who w<>n over Frankh
Conley nt \frnon on Saturday ■ - 10
• opted a mat< li for hi- th.ugt- f,,.
iioi tie i in Nt wlti h ,ie- Harry Thum -
as will meet Jl.l Thomas.
JTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANDREWS. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1912.
president of a baseball association,
especially with a green manager
w inking under him, earns his pay.
« • *
A LL this detail work of the South
x ern association is nuts for Bill
Smith. He has been in the league
for six years. He helped make some
of Hie rules and he helped establish
some of the precedents.
This fall the whole works will be
turned over to Bill Smith. Presi
dent Callaway will reserve the right
to sign cheeks. The rest of the du
ties and the honors of the job go to
Bill Smith
The board of directors proved
this year that they would not In
terfere with their managers. They
gave Cbti.rloy Hemphill all the rope
in the world—and he went out and
hanged himself, inanagerially
speaking. Not until he had proved
that he was utterly unfit for the
place did they take a hand. Then
till they did was to “pan’’ him.
Since Alperman has had the job he
has had full sway It was up to
him to make or break the team.
Next yeai BUI Smith's authority
and power will be even greater.
President Callaway will turn over
to him not only all the duties of
Xie manager’s job, but most of those
of the president as well. Major
Callaway will act in a sort of finan
cial advisory capacity.
In effect. Bill Smith will be both
president and manager of the club.
The board of directors w ill merely
< >. K. what he does and pat him on
Hie back when he wins games.
• ♦ ♦
'T'HIS new arrangement will suit
* BUI Smith. He’s a .400 hitter in
Hie Hard Work league All lie asks
is to be let alone. He’ll do the
rest and do it right. He doesn’t
ask anybody to shoulder the blame
in case he fails. He wants to do
all the work and is willing to di
vide the credit.
But wateli him make things hum!
BUNDY SICK: TENNIS
MATCH PUT OFF A DAY
NI.'W l’< 'HT. H I . Aug 21 Os the 159
aspirants for the national lawn tennis
championship in singles who were on the
entry list Monday but 35 remained in the
running when play closed yesterday Al
though two matches was run off yester
day there were no unexpected results,
and the survivors are considered the pick
of American tennis players.
The national championship in doubles
was to hate been decided yesterday, but
Thomas c Bundy, of Los Angeles, one
of the challengers, developed a slight ill
ness and the title holders. Raymond IT
Utile and Gustav l‘ Touchard. of New
York, generously requested a dav's de
lay
Instead of the doubles event the com
mittee Immediately staged a lively con
test in singles between former Champion
William .1 Clothier, of Philadelphia, and
Edward T Larned, of Summit. N J.
Clothier won in straight sets
The last call for delinquent entries was
made at noon, and among those against
whom a default was recorded was former
Champion Beals C W right, of Boston
officials of the | nlted States Lawn
Tennis association today cabled the Brit
ish association that \mertca would not
be represented in the trial matches for
the ttavfs international cup. now held in
New Zealand
BAN JOHNSON ISSUES
HIS RELEASE BULLETIN
CHICAGO. Aug 21 Failure to report
Io the Montgomery club of the Southern
league resulted in suspension for C. R
Brown, a pitcher whom the St Louis club
recenth sold, according to the officii*
bulletin of the American league, made
publi< ’i»da\ Among the releases an
noun* ed w ere
Io Chicago. b\ Austin. Texas. Taylor
and Me I.arcs
To St Louis, by Montgomery. Gus Wil
liams by Bristol, outfielder Sloan. b\
Maysville K' . Pitcher Wei lan
To Detroit. In Vicksburg. Patrick Mc
< Ja het
•To Cleveland. b\ Anderson. S (’ Er
nest A Wolfe
To Washington, bv Chattanooga. <>ut
fieldei M..ran
To Boston. b> Beaumont. Texas, Pitch
ers Martina and Brant
INFIELDER HALLINAN
BOUGHT BY MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS. TI'NX \ U g 21 Xn
n«'un< ement was mad*- r*da\ b\ President
F rank R Coleman of tl • Memphis - i u b
••f the Southern league that hr has
• imi Infield* t Hallinar from the St
L'mi* \m«*t • ans Hallman will report at
Ness •’titans tomorrow
CRACKERS PLOT
GET-AWAY GAME
IN BpiLLE
Birmingham, at.a.. Aug 21.
—The Crackers will offer
themselves for slaughter again
this afternoon at Rickwood park.
Having been beaten to a pulp in
two games, they have lost all hope,
and the Barons look like a 1 to 10
shot in the final game of the series.
The score of yesterday’s farce
was the same as the day before. 11
to 3. The Crackers were outclassed
from start to finish, and looked
more like a Class Z outfit than a
Class A team.
Young Johnson was hit to all
corners of the stadium, two home
tuns, a triple and three doubles,
added to six singles, being aggre
gated off his delivery.
Entirely outclassed, the Crackers
were easy. Prough allowed a rim
in the first Inning, and then after
the Barons had counted eight times
in the first three sessions he mere
ly toyed with the visitors as a cat
plays with a captured rat.
The only feature was the ease
with which the Barons slammed out
the pellet to all corners of the lot.
Every Baron save Marcan and Mc-
Bride landed safely once’ or oft
ener.
Here's How Crackers
Are Hitting the Ball .
Right Up to Date
These averages include all games
played to date:
Players. G. A.B. R. H. Av.
Harbison, ss. . . 57 19fi 23 sfi .287
Alperman. 2b.. .112 423 57 114 .270
Bailey, Ism 387 70 104 .269
Agler. lb 47 156 27 41 .263
Becker, p 12 27 2 7 259
Graham, c. . . . 52 160 17 40 .250
Callahan, cf. . . 70 272 26 67 .246
McElveen. 3b. . .11 6 423 47 94 .222
Sitton, p 35 53 11 10 .172
Reynolds, c. ... 11 36 4 6 .167
Brady, pl 9 58 2 9 .155
Johnson, p. . . . 5 9 0 1 .111
Wolfe, utility . . 7 19 2 2 .105
Lyons,, rf2o 60 3 5 .033
Waldorf, p. . . . 7 IS 0 0 .000
"boxing
Late News and Views
The McMahon brothers, promoters of
the St Nicholas Athletic club in New
ork are going ahead and making prep
arations for the staging of a ten-round
fight between Joe Jeannette and Jack
Johnson next month However, the wise
ones around Gotham do not believe the
commission will allow Johnson to appear
in that city. The state athletic commis
sion will meet some time this week and
unless the ban is lifted "L I ' Arthur will
not be allowed to box in New York
• » •
Frankie Russell, the New Orleans fav
orite, is training hard for his ten-round
contest with Joe Coster. In New Orleans
Monday night If Russell defeats Coster
he should have little trouble getting
matches with some of the best 128-pound
ers in (he East
• • •
.limniy Johnson, who Is managing Har
ry Thomas, has left the coast with his
fighter and will go to New Orleans, where
Thomas will be matched with some of
the local talent
• • •
■lack Harrison, the English heavy
weight, and Eddie Morgan, the ban
tamweight champion of Wales, are in
New N ork seeking matches with some of
the leading pugs Morgan will probablv
he matched with Johnnv Conlon within
the next few days and Harrison ma> be
lined against the winner of the Eddie
MeGoorti Bob Moha bout, scheduled for
I,«bor day
Freddie Welsh showed Ids old time
cleverness when he defeated lack Knight
at Winnipeg. Canada, a few nights ago.
The English champion won H |] wav
but his blows lacked the steam to put
hfs >|j.oneni awai
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•ooig, Stevens, ot Milwaukee, fought
t'larenee Forbes of Chicago a ten.round
draw at l>ubui|ue. lowa, a few days ago
South Is Barren of Big League Timber as 1912 Season Closes
SMALLEST CROP IS SHIPPED TO MAJORS THIS YEAR
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
WHILE Messrs. C. Frank, B.
Smith and C. Molesworth
are engaged in their three
cornered joint debate as to the rel
ative strength of the Southern club
that probably will win the title in
1912 and the teams that were
awarded pennants in 1910. 1907 and
a few other years ages and ages
ago. the fact stands out in favor of
the contention of Messrs. Frank
and Smith that not one single star
is being sent to the major leagues
from Dixie this season.
In fact, of the eight or ten dozen
ball players who have worn South
ern league uniforms this season,
there is hardly’ one that looks good
to become even a lesser luminary’
in the major league firmament.
There Is hardly one that has looked
better than his fellows of this
league.
The most potent proof of this
FODDER FOR FANS
There is much rejoicing in New York.
The Yanks will probably not finish last.
• • •
Cobb says that Walter Johnson has
more speed than Joe Wood "When Wal
ter Is right," says Cobb, ‘‘you can’t see
'em."
"And when you can't see 'em you can't
hit ’em."
• ♦ •
Chance has purchased Fred Toney from
Louisville on the off chance that Freddie
can help him in the pennant dash.
* • •
When Tommy McMillan left the Roch
ester team to join the Yanks he was bat
ting an even .300 and was leading the
league with 44 stolen bases.
• • •
Jack Grim, the Storm King of the Vir
ginia league, has given up at Newport
News and has passed from the game. He
was a quaint character, with an uncanny
attraction for trouble.
• • •
Paul Davis succeeded Grim at Newport
News.
• • •
Ross Helm, former Southern leaguer, is
now known in the Texas league as Rufe
Holmes He changed his name for luck,
after winning a recent game, and the
change stuck
* * *
Artie Hofman has reported to the Pi
rates. but he's a dissatisfied young gen
tleman He wants salary while he was
sick and Dreyfus doesn't want to give It
to him Barney claims that Murphy
should pay the amount. Doubtless the
wrangle will go to the commission.
• ♦ •
The world's championship blight hasn't
fallen on J. F. Baker Starring in "the
series" put Rohe, Altrock. Isbell. Adams
and Delehanty on the blink, but J. Frank
lin continues to maul the old pill around
the .350 mark.
* • •
Brooklyn has passed up Hot Springs.
Ark . as a training camp. President Eb
bets has not selected his camp for next
spring, but it will not be "the Springs."
• • •
Extra New Orleans papers of Satur
day quote Smith as denying that he is
coming to Atlanta Beats all how long
the principals of such a deal are In get
ting onto the real facts. Maybe he ad
mits it now
• • •
Bill Smith says that the 1910 Pelicans
were better than the 1910 Barons. Sure.
And a picked team from, both of them
couldn't have held up their end with the
1907 Crackers
• • «
Chattanooga fans are said to favor Sam
Crawford for manager next year above
Jordan That's satisfactory to Atlanta
fans and probably will not ruin Otto's
disposition. Jordan Is needed in Atlanta
to round out the firm of Smith. Jordan
& Co.
Oh yes. another man who says the
Southern league this year is slower than I
It has been in three years is Carleton
Molesworth. manager of the Birmingham
team, that is winning the pennant In the
Southern league
• • • •
Detroit will draft Albert Basham, the
catcher, from the Clarkesville team of
the Kittv league
• • •
Brown Keene has been ill and has not
been playing regularly with the Indian
apolis team
The best $2,000 worth of ball player in ■
the Southern league this year was Ilafaei I
Almeida This man was offered broad- I
cast this spring. Rick Woodward was
the only man who bud the gameness to I
grab him He has done more than anv I
other man toward winning the pennant '
for the Barons
• • •
Tom Eoxen a pitcher who has been in
th* Southeastern, may be signed bx 1...11
'’astro to finish out the season at Peerts
mouth
• • ♦
Birmingham is trying to spring that old
bunk about a post.season serie* with th»
American association pennant winners
fact is that whereas in other sea
sons every man who witnessed
eight ball games during the year
picked all-Southern teams, this
year’s all-Southern selections have
been as rare as the honest man, the
dinosaurus and the dido.
If the Southern catchers were
gone through with a fine tooth
comb, nothing would be harvested
that looks like a real ball player.
The Barons probably’ will win the
pennant, and they’ will do it with
two catchers that could never have
stuck through the season with a
tail-end club in years gone by.
And they are a pretty fair crite
rian of the backstopping strength
of the league.
Demaree No Youngster.
The pitchers show nothing more
remarkable. Demaree may stay up,
but Demaree is far from being a
youngster. He came South with
Jimmy Ry’an in 1908, and he lias
been pitching indifferent ball ever
since until this year, when he
A little ten to one is hereby offered that
the series doesn’t come off.
• * »
Kalamazoo has signed a new pitcher.
His name is Remark, Felix J. Remark.
One thing the new ball players’ league
will demand will be a minimum wage of
$2,000 a year for all players.
* * •
Next to Joe Wood. Hugh Bedient de
serves the most credit for the showing of
the Ke<l Sox. Hugh was just fresh from
the bushes this spring, but he has man
aged to win almost twice as many games
as he has lost.
• • •
The White Sox has not recalled from
Lincoln Shortstop Berghammer. who was
tried out by the Barons this spring.
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really seems to have developed
something, but few of his most ar
dent admirers look for him to per
form any wonders in the large
arena.
Young Clarence Smith, the pop
purveyor that Molesworth devel
oped this year, may come around in
, time. In fact, in view of his ten
der years—he is but eighteen—he
stands better chances of making
name and fame than the Mobile de
mon. When you are through with
these two, the curtain can descend.
Doc Johnston will never remain
long in Cleveland. He is fine Class
“A" timber, but his classification
will not go higher. Paulet may also
“come,” but he will never be a Dau
bert.
Almeida has had his fling In the
big league. He will probably be
recalled, but he’ll never stay up.
He’ll go back to bed in a Class “A"
berth. He can’t get a ground ball
to his left. His disposition is indif
ferent, and these two things will
overcome his natural ability as a
hitter.
Wares May Make Good,
Wares, of Montgomery, may fill
in pretty well in the Browns’ in
field, but that isn’t whooping ’em
up to any considerable degree, and
of the outfielders Jimmy Johnston
seems certain of staying for a while,
with the possibility that Stengel can
grab a berth with Stovall.
But where are the Jacksons, the
Speakers, the Oldrings, the I>au
berts. the Fords, and Archers, and
Sweeneys that were once produced
so prolificly? They are gone from
these diggings. Maybe with proper
cultivation another year will pro
vince once more one of these banner