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Rath Does Not Get Due Credit;
Lack of Weight His Handicap
Bv R. W. Lardner.
New YORK. Aug. 28.—Morris
Rath, Jimmy Callahan's
second baseman, appears to
be doomed to go through his base
ball career without recognition as
a star, sod this despite Ihe fact
that he i» one of the steadiest ball
players in the American league.
Rath Is referred to by his mates
aa tha brains of the White Sox in
field. This title was given him by
Matty Mclntyre in a spirit of kid
ding, and yet It Is anything but un
deserved Morris Is probably no
smarter than either of the Sox
third basemen. Lord and Zelder,
and he is usually so quiet that his
headwork goes unnoticed He sel
dom Is guilty of a foolish play, and
hls "noodle" is so well thought of
by the manager that he Is often
antruated with the Job of signing
for waste pitches, and throws with
runners or,
Reaches First Often.
In the International league last
•eaaan Rath Mt well over .300 In
fact, Ms figure was closer to .400.
His extra base clouts were few and
fiar bAtwwen and his record of
elrdan Jjases wae nothing to boast
«f. AtMtrwent he is a few points
beiow 800, but he has the happy
habit of reacnlng first base oftener
than any one eiae on the team He
tc a hard man to pitch to, a man
who seldom swings at bad balls.
is ahy of bodily (Strength
and ability to steal his way around
the paths Otherwise, he is a
mighty good b«U! player and a man
who oam be depended on to hold up
his end. offensively and defen
«! vWy
Ilk, certain other big leaguers
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Mike Farragber. whn is managing J
Callahan, a lightweight boxer, him ap
plied to the mayor of Youngstown, for a
permit to let hie fighter carry a revolver
while doing road Work. Callahan was at- 1
tacked by three vicious dogs while out
running several days ago and narrowly
eecapec serious injury
• • •
Paddy Lavin and K O Brennan are
scheduled to mingle In a ten-round tight
at Buffalo next Monday night Both boys
are training hard, as the winner of the
contest has been promised several bouts
in Bison City
Lee Kelly, rhe St Ixmlis boxer, will tight
•ome good lightweight in Memphis Mon
day night He. will likely meet Han Cul
len
Johnny Kilbane featherweight champ,
has joined the suffragette ranks. The lit
tle battler has volunteered to lead a party
of suffragettes into the ore docks on
Whisky Island to help convert the labor
ers there
• • •
Battling Nelson, forme; lightweight, has
started training for bis fifteen-round con
test with Steve Ketchell at St Joseph.
Mo., Day Nelson and Ketchell
will meet at catchweights
• • •
Joe Dalton, the bantamweight, who
outpointed Harry Wade a short tin e ag ■
and later knocked out Kid Russell. has
been matched with Chick Hayes for a
OLYMPIC MEN WILL BE
GUESTS OF NEW YORK;
FUN BEGINS TONIGHT
NEW YORK. Aug 23. The < ■ ebra
tion In honor of the victorious Ameri
can Olympic athletes will begin here
tonight and last throughout tomorrow
A ■pedal performance of "The Ftosc
Maid" will be given at the Globe th'
ater for the athletes, and practically
every man who wore the United States
shield at Stockholm will be present
A parade and dinner will he given to
morrow. The parade will start at 10
a. m
invitations were went to I resident
Taft. Governor Dlx and Mayor Gaynor
to attend the dinner tomorrow eteiiing
A corp* of bluejacket* from th' Brook
lyn navy yard will march with Ute ath
letes in the procaaeivn.
whom we have seen, Morris can go
from the plate to first base much
more speedily than from first to
second, or second to third. It is
difficult to account for that fact,
but it accounts for his slim
total of thefts. He probably can
beat Zelder to first by several steps,
but he isn’t in Rollie’s class In
sprints between other bases
Ten Pounds Would Help.
He would be delighted If Isa
pounds or more would consent to
add themselves to his present
weight. He figures that this would
give him more clouting strength
and make him almost 50 per cent
more valuable
The other day In Washington,
when the Sox figured that Walter
Johnson was going to pitch, they
were guying Morris about his com
plaining of a sore ankle. He really
was lame, but the others professed
to believe that he wanted to lay off
a day and thus avoid the unpleas
ant Job of facing the holy terror.
"There's no chance for me to lay
off," retorted Rath, "because there
Isn't any one else who can play my
position. I could have pneumonia
and still would be obliged to work.
Resides, I’ll bet that I'll hit John
son Just as well as any of the rest
of you.”
Gets Only Hit Off Johnson.
Morris went them one better.
Johnson allowed one bit and Rath
got It So he had the laugh on his
helpless pals.
Rath has no weakness as a sec
ond baseman. His throwing is next
to perfect, he covers plenty of
ground and tags runners as well as
the next one. Rut Just those two
bases and inability to steal, pre
vent his being hailed as a star or
even rated at his real value.
ten-round scrap at Indianapolis lj»bor
Day.
• • •
Tom Jones. Ad Wolgiuit's manager, will
leave for Chicago September I Jones
said he and the champion would return
to I'Os Angeles after Ad’s tight with Mc-
Farland in time to meet the winner of
the Mandot - Rivers bout.
Odds on the Mandot-Rivers contest have
been dropping lately anti from present In
dications the Mexican will only be a
choice of 10 to 8 or 10 to 9 when the two
lightweights enter the ring Labor Day
• • ♦
Tony Caponl, middleweight, has been
matched with Kid Clark for a ten-round
engagement to be staged at Columbus
Labor Day Caponl fought here several
times last winter and made a good im
pression with Atlanta fans
• • •
WilMe Ritchie has accepted the terms
offered by ITomoter Jlmmx Coffroth for a
20-round battle with Tommy Murphy at
San Francisco Da> The weight
will be 133 pounds at 3 o’clock, about five
hours before the tight, which should al
low the pugs to enter the ring strong.
• • •
Luther McCarthy held Jesse Willard,
the big cowboy hope, to a ten-round draw
at the Garden A C.. in New York. Mon
day night.
• * •
Tom Kennedy can no, longer be consid
sidered a “white hope ’’ The big tighter
was all but knocke<l out b\ Jim Savage
in New York a few days ago
'CUBS GAIN HALF GAME
IN THURSDAY’S BATTLES
The Cubs gained six points, or a lialf
I game, on the Giants as a result of yes
terday s contests in the National league
It started off like a big day for the
Chicago team, for the rlrates trimmed
the Giants in the opening game of a dou
bt, loader, while the Cubs whirled into
Hi' Boston Braves in such style that a
vlctoi was certain from th< jump
In the second Giant-Pirate game. how .
ever McGraw's men. with Marquard
pitching, reversed the earlier decision and
took the contest from the Pirates
At tlie end of jesurdux s (ousting the
Cut's were unit points behind tin,
Giants
HOGAN FIGHTS RITCHIE
SAN I KANCIHC. I, Vug 23 I'ronioier
James t\ Ci'ffrmli announced vesierdax
itiMt he had Signed One Hound' tick
Hogan as Willie Hits hm a opponent fol a
"n loiiiio fight in San hrancisio A<l<nl--bm
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1912.
Jordan Doesn't Want the Chattanooga Management—He Says So Himself
SMITH WAS WISE NOT TO REPORT HERE SEPT. I
By Percy H. Whiting.
ryMIE Crackers are now plugging
I along through their semi
final road trip of the season.
This afternoon they open in Mont
gomery to play a postponed game
with the Tribe of Dobb. Then they
have regular contests there Sat
urday and Sunday. After these
games are out of the way they open
in Nashville for a queer little two
game series wUh the Vols. The
trip ends with three games in Chat
tanooga.
The next home game comes the
first Monday in September, the
same being Labor day. This starts
a series of ten games, which will
be played In ten days, w»ith a dou
ble-header on Labor day and with
one Sunday with no game.
On September 1.3 the Crackers of
1912 set out on their last road
Jaunt. It Is to Memphis, and there
the Crackers will play a three
game series and break up. A few’
of the local players will return
to Atlanta' to wintier. Most of
them will beat it to their own
homes.
• • •
F» ROM New Orleans they are
quoting Otto Jordan as ex
pressing small desire for the Chat
tanooga management next year—
and giving his reasons. This is
what Otto says: w
"Once is enough. Never again
for me," he answered when ques
tioned.
"What's the matter, don't you
like managing?" queried a friend.
"It's not that at all,” answered
the Chattanooga field captain. "I
think I can do all O. K. with prop
er support, but I’ll never succeed
Billy Smith again. He’s a good
pal *of mine, but 1 wouldn't take
his job."
"Well, it would be all right if he
went somewhere else and left the
Chattanooga job open," insisted the
friend.
“That’s what they said at Atlan
ta,’’ answered Jordan. "It was all
right with Bill, but not with the
people. They wanted him and my
taking that job cost me a good
many friends, very good friends.
And I certainly don't want that to
happen again. if 1 get another
chance at managing it will be to go
to another team. 1 don’t want ever
to be promoted from the ranks
and succeed a manager In the same
town as I did Smith at Atlanta.”
Wise old Otto. He knows his
business.
• • •
q Peaking of that, so does Bin
Smith They wanted Bill to
come over to Atlanta and take hold
September 2. Doubtless it could
have been arranged, but it wasn't.
Bill was too wise.
Os course Bill might have come
to Atlanta, gingered up the shat
tered remains of the Calamity of
1912 and managed to win some
games before the season ended. Btit
the chances were all against him.
The Hemphill-Alperman wreck is
too far gone. It has the losing habit.
An opium eater in the last stages
is no more wedded to the drug than
are the locals to the idea of toss
ing off one game a day regularly
and t\yo on double-header days
if Smith had come over in Sep
tember he would have been given
a rousing welcome but if the team
had lost 13 out of 15 games his
popularity would have begun with- •
ering.
As it is Smith will wait until
1913 Then he will open up, not
with what is left of the Hemp
hill misfits, but with a team of his
ow n picking Hill has finished in
the second division twice aud seems
sot to do it again with Chatta
nooga He doesn't intend to in
herit tin stigma of finishing la«t
from I'iiirl’ x Hemphill Not Hill
Hr know.' Ills business, too.
papers are quot
ing O. B. Andrews, president
of the Chattanooga club, in sting
ing interviews, denouncing Bill
Smith for saying that he was go
ing to buy Otto Jordan for use in
Atlanta next year. Andrews claims
that he wouldn't sell Jordan under
any circumstances.
Os course this is a typical An
drews interview. As a matter of
fact, Atlanta papers started the
Idea that Jordan would come back,
and all Bill Smith ever said for
publication on the subject was that
if Jordan was for sale he would
buy him.
It can probably be taken for
granted that Bill knows the base
ball rules and customs fully as well
as Mr. Andrews.
It Is also a corking guess that
Otto Jordan will be back tn AUanta
next season. He wants to come
back so bad it hurts him, and what
Otto wants he usually gets—bar
ring pennants.
• • •
C PEAKING of pennants—the Bir
mlngham team continues to
maintain a comfortably secure hold
on the Southern league lead and
should cop.
It has been an odd thing about
| FODDER FOR FANS
The Mansfield team of the Ohio State
league has on its line-up Pitcher Black,
Catcher Blue and Fielder Redman. And
yet it is not a colored nine.
• • •
if there is a post-series game between
the American league pennant winners and
a picked team, which is likely, Clark
Griffith will lead the picked team
The Ixrutsvllle team Is next to last, but
Manager Jack Hayden has been signed
for 1913. They are going to give him
another chance.
Owing to the illness of Umpire Bigr
halter, Bob Spade was summoned 'on
short notice to take up a job a* umpire
In the American association. Evidently
he did not last long at that managerial
job he had.
The Indianapolis team has an amateur
owner and a bush league manager. But
It might get going, even with that com
bination Billy Smith was known as the
“Bush League Manager" when he took
over the Atlanta team. After he won two
pennants they forgot that title.
Somebody sent out from Atlanta the in
formation that Bill Smith won pennants
for Atlanta In 1908 and 1910. Os course
he didn't win pennants either of those
years The rags he grabbed were in 1907
and 1909.
• • •
Jim Delehanty has secured a place with
the Minneapolis club.
* « •
McMillan was the leading base stealer
and the third best run-getter of the In
ternational league when he quit to go to
the Highlanders. His last day in the In
ternational he hammered out two doubles
and a triple.
• • •
Eddie Murphy, the Baltimore outfielder,
was the first man in the International
league to score 100 runs. He turned the
trick In 113 games.
• • ♦
"Kid" Wells, with Jersey City, has bat
ted .357 this year, which is considerably
above his Southern league clip.
• •
George Crable. ex-Cracker pitcher, has
been fined $25 and indefinitely suspended
b\ the owner of the San Antonio chib.
T'he old complaint!
• ♦ •
Ten Million, who looked like ready
money in the big league this spring, has
I dropped another peg this time from
| Sioux City. lowa, to Tacoma. Wash
• • •
Challenge. The champion team of the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary league would
like to play a series with the Cracker
club
• • •
In a recent game at bavin Kock. Conn ,
between the New Haven and Bridgeport
teams a giant umpire attacked a ball
player named Bobby Stow and then
mixed up with .lack Sprat and a half
< I oxen ball players in h general riot No
body will be surprised to learn that the
name of the said 'giant umpire” is Mul
laney The suspicion exists that his first
name is Dominick
• • •
Fred Schupp. the southpaw for whom
McGraw gave Decatur 15.00 U, is the high
est priced player who ever broke into a
big league squad with leas than a rears
professional experience Last yeai Schupp
a mere semi pro
President Taft is mu h an ardent base
ball bug that he has directed Major T L
Rhoads i Hilary nidi in ax
amination of Daredevil Dan Moeller a
this 1912 baseball season in the
South. The race in old Dixie Major
this year has been extremely close.
Any time any one of five teams
made a rush it could have threat
ened first place. And yet, barring
Mobile, no teaiji has made a real
rush this season. The Barons took
an early lead and have held it right
along by a small margin. They
have never had things all to them
selves. Any team In the league that
spurted could have passed the
Barons, But no team spurted.
This race has been one of the
odd affairs when the teams ran
bunched all the way. with only a
little distance separating them but
with few changes in relative posi
tion.
Even the Justly lamented Crack
ers have been where they could get
not only out of last place, but out
of the second division if they could
only have won a half dozen games
in a row. But they have plugged
right along, winning just enough to
keep w’ithin hailing distance but
not enough to pass any other
teams.
Yea, verily, it has been a blighted
season.
shoulder and to operate on it if there is
a chance to get it in shape.
• • *
American association rumors have it
that Harry Davis and “Topsv” Hartsei
will swap jobs. Davis going to Toledo and
Hartsei to Cleveland
» * ♦
Mike Bryette. formerly of the Sally
league, has landed first call on a pay en
velope from the Madison team of the
M isconsln-lllinois league.
• • •
Ducky Holmes has quit as manager of
the Nebraska team of the Mink league
and is trying to buy into the game at
Omaha.
• ♦ •
When Bill Schwartz sold Grover Brandt
to Beaumont he made a bust. Grover
wouldn't work in Nashville, but he set
Texas afire and has been sold to the Red
Sox.
♦ • •
They said that Beals, Becker had actual
ly learned to play baseball this vear, but
his fielding doesn't show it. He couldn't
field for beans when he was with Little
Rock and apparently hasn't improved
much
• ♦ •
The Indianapolis moguls claimed that
they had a detective traveling with the
Indianapolis team in order to get infor
mation as to which players were breaking
the training rules <which is polite base
ball talk for "tanking up every night”).
Now the Indianapolis players charge that
one of their own members. Shortstop
Gagnier, was furnishing the information
that cost them several hundred Iron Men
in fines and Gagnier couldn’t win any
popularity contests right now
• • •
Clark Griffith is kicking on the Ameri
can league umpires—which is really an
amazing thing. "Griff" is ordinarily a
great umpire booster.
• • •
Considering all the fuss and trouble Hub
Perdue has had with the Boston Braves
this year it is somewhat surprising to
learn that the Original Hubbard Squash
has signed a three-year contract.
* * •
Mathewson has confessed that the ball
he pitched to Jimmy Archer which James
whaled into for the hit that won the game
and the series between the Cubs and the
Giants was intended for a pitch-out
• • «
American association papers are kick
ing because they say that Cleveland has
considered Toledo merely as a farm and
has manipulated its players to the detri
ment of the Toledo club. The Cleveland
club owners hold that they have spent a
lot more on the Toledo club than they will
got out of it. Everybody Is sick of the
arrangement. Hence look out for a change
in farms this fall.
WILSON OF KNOXVILLE
PITCHES NO-HIT GAME
1 ,
KNOXVILLE. TENN Auk 23. Finis
, Wilson, southpaw of the local Appalach
ian league tram, pitched a no-hit no-run
game against Johnson <’Hy yesterday aft
ernoon. an«l after u rest of fifteen min
utes. shut the same team out again hj
the score of 5 to 0. In the first game,
which whs won, 2 to 0. Shortstop Morley,
a college recruit, hit two home runs in
, sun rssioti Inknown to Wilson and Mor
, les scouts watched their work
DOVES BUY GERVAIS
SPOKANE WASH. \ug 2.** Pitt her
“Left* Gervais, of the Vancouver Hub
(Northwestern league* has been sold to
» the Boston Nationals
Fascination of Golf Stronger
Than That in Any Other Sport
By H. N. H. Woodcock.
IT is only comparatively recently
that golf has been boomed, as it
were, yet it is now played in
every country of the civilized world.
New links are being started every
day. ‘'Scratch” players no longer
have the entre of exclusive circles
in society without the qualifications
to back up their prowess at the
game, owing to the vast numbers
that have achieved success at this
most fascinating and attractive
sport.
The golfer only wants the slight
est possible excuse to neglect busi
ness and home ties to fly oft to his
favorite course and forget every
thing except how he is to get his
handicap reduced or improve his
previous low score of the links, but
the unfortunate individual who is
not a golfer and has not played
the game-—perhaps only seen it
once—can not see the attraction In
it whatever; thinks it is an old
man's game, and would probably
heartily agree with the Oxford tu
tor who said it was a game of "put
ting little balls into little holes with
instruments ill adapted for the pur
pose.”
Golf Leads Them All.
Ask any man who has achieved
moderate proficiency at many
games and has then taken up golf,
which he enjoys playing the most
of them all, and the answer is al
ways the same—golf. What is the
charm of the game? It is the
never-ending variety for all classes
of players, from bad to amateur
champion.
Providence is kind to beginners
and often a man will play a bet
ter game after 30 days experience
than he can after a year’s, which" is
fortunate, as many a fine golfer
would have given up in disgust had
he known of the bad times he had
before him when he was off his
game’ and nothing would go right
for him.
Fourteen Years All Too Short.
In Scotland, they tell you it takes
fourteen years to make a golfer,
depressing news no one believes,
each one thinking he or she is the
exeat exception until after playing
about ten years, when serious
doubts arise as to whether the time
allowed was nearly long enough.
But no matter how badly a man
may play, somewhere during the
round of eighteen holes he will
make at least one shot that is a
sufficient compensation for all his
other misdeeds and which will fill
him with enthusiasm and hope.
A well played shot at any game
always gives the player a feeling
of satisfaction and comfort, but a
perfectly executed shot at golf—
say a drive which keeps rather low
to begin with yet high enough to
carry the bunker ahead, then gain
ing impetus and height is seen
silhouted against the sky for a mo
ment and Is afterwards found in the
center of the course 300 yards from
where it was driven—gives the
player a most pleasurable sensa
tion.
Prouder Than a Star.
In fact, it is doubtful If a more
or less prosaic golfer who has
brought off such a shot to his en
tire satisfaction would exchange
feelings with an operatic artist re
ceiving the plaudits of a capacity
house. .
Golf is the most sociable of games.
A very garrulous player is a nui
sance, but in between shots much
can be said—to be distinguished
from what is said immediately after
an injudicious stroke and delight
ful friendships can be made and
renewed during the day's play
Memory a Pleasure.
A round that has vanquished a
better player, or lowered the ret ord
for the course, ran bt rem- mix ie«j
stroke by stroke for years after
ward. Therefore over a quiet smoke
many exchanges of experiences take
place in the club house after the
day's games are over.
This is the time of the year to
which golfers of all grades look
forward with great longing, though
perhaps the beginner gets the most
fun of them all. Now is the time
of the golfing holiday—golf every
day and all day. Perhaps the be
ginner has only played week-ends
up to now. Having the dally golf
he will Improve so rapidly that on
his return to his own course he
can reckon his averages by s's in
stead of 6’s,
And Now He Plays It.
His tee shots have become more
or less mechanical, instead of each
one being a separate adventure to
which the end was pure guesswork,
giving a practical illustration of
Faith, Hope and Charity; Faith,
during the swing of the club; Hope’
during the flight of the ball; Char
ity, as to how long his opponent
would help him search for hls mis
placed effort.
TWO CITIES GO AFTER
FIGHT THAT NEW YORK
REFUSED TO TOLERATE
NW YORK, Aug. 23.—Following the
to f «?k!w of tk he .’ tate boxln F commission
to allow the ten-round boxing contest
between Jack Johnson and Joe Jean
nette to take place in this city on Sep
tember ..5, Jesse and Edward McMahon
proprietors of the St. Nicholas Athletic
club, announced today that they would
probably try to stage the bout in Phila
delphia or Baltimore.
Johnson again announced his retire
ment from the ring as soon as the de
cision of the boxing commission was
flashed to him by telegraph, but the
McMahons believe that they can per
suade him to change his mind.
The promoters announced that thev
would make a trip to Chicago shortlv to
see Johnson. Jeannette has said he
would box Johnson anywhere, although
he preferred New York.
MAYBE MACK MADE DEAL
BUT HE SAYS HE DIDN'T
t^nld/lpiflf
said to have completed a deal with the
Baltimore International league club ves
terday by which he gets Outfielders James
Malsh and Eddie Murphy, and gave ui»
four players—Outfielder Lord. Infielder
Derrick and Pitchers Shawkey and Dan
forth and $5,000. Walsh and Murphy
have been batting over .330 all season.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 23.—Manager
Mack, of the Philadelphia American
league club, denied the report from Balti
more that he had completed a deal with
the Baltimore International league club
"It is true," he said, "that Manager
Dunn and myself have discussed a deal,
but we have yet to reach anv agree
ment.
Manager Mack denied the rumor that
the trade would be the forerunner of a
shake-up in the Athletics' club.
SWEDES WIuTfIGHT HARD
TO WIN JMEXT OLYMPIAD
* NEW YORK, Aug. 23 —The latest re
turning party of Olympic athletes
brought from Stockholm the news that
Ernie Hjertberg, the American trainer
who had charge of Sweden's Olympic
team, has been re-engaged to train the
Swedes for a period of four years This
is regarded as indicating that the Swedes
have begun to look seriously for Olvmpfc
honors, and that they are planning to
turn out a formidable team for the games
in Berlin in 1916. ’■ Bames
That the desire for American trainers
is sweeping all over Europe as evidenced
by the offer made by France to Laws..,.
Robertson. the Irish-American duffs
trainer, to take charge of the French ath
letes and prepare them for the next
Olympic meet Robertson declined the
offer, as he Is well satisfied with his
present berth
CRAZED EX-PLAYER~
INJURES HIS GUARDS
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug 23—Jack
C ooper a Painesville, Ohio, ball placer
formerly with the Chicago White Sox ad
judged insane at Painesville late Wed
nesady. escaped from the officers and
fought desperately before being recau
hired ami landed in the state hospital
here yesterday. Police and civilians
chased him In an automobile sete'il
miles
Deputy Sheriff F. E Graves was badlv
hurt during the fight tn overpoaer
I