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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 • • • •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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Lady Attendant. _ J 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