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All-Star Team Proves Weakness of the League I
In But Few Positions Are Men Up to Standard
By Percy H. Whiting.
NOTHING is better calculated
to show what a dub year
thia good season of 1912 has
been In Southern league baseball
than the weakness of the all-star
team, picked according to the aver
ages
This is the team automatically
.sleeted from the latest crop of
figures
Position. Player. Club. BA. FA.
Catcher, McAllister. Mont. .272 .965
Catcher, Seabough. Nash. .262 .978
•st base. McGilvrav, B'htn. .319 .981
.’il base, Wares. Mont. . 285 983
3d base. Almeida. B’hnt. 320 .898
Short, Elberfeld. Mont. . 275 .934
outfield. Johnson, Mont.. .354 1.000
outfield, Welchonee, Nash. .308 .975
Outfield. Stengle. Mont . 303 .962
♦ • •
OF course, that Is not necessarily
the real all-star team of the
league But the best players, ac
cording to the averages, are there.
McAllister, of Montgomery, gets
the position of leading catcher be
cause of his good batting and de
spite the fact that In fielding he
stands seventh among the regulars.
Seabough Is second among the
catchers in batting and third in
fielding, so he Is entitled to the
other position Pilger, a really
good fielding catcher. Is out on the
strength (or rather weakness) of a
.173 batting average The once
highly touted Elliott Is down to
.255 In batting and stands third
from last In fielding. Haight, of
Neu Orleans, has pretty decent
marks, with a batting average of
.255 and a fielding of .978, which
puts him second In fielding
• • •
I POKING over the Infield, It is a
e pretty easy matter to pick
those entitled to positions. MeGil
vray's good batting average gives
him first place among the first
basemen And that despite the
fact that he is next to the worst
fielding first baseman in the league.
Here's How Crackers
Are Hitting the Ball
Right Up to Date
These averages include all games
pl*>ed to date
Players. g ab. r. h. nv.
Harbison, as. . fil 211 24 59 .280
Bailey. If 115 402 72 109 .271
Agler, lb 51 170 SI 40 271
Alperman. 2b 116 436 56 11s 269
Callahan, cf. 74 255 29 72 .253
Graham, c 54 167 17 4 1 .241
Becker, p 13 30 2 7 238
McElveen. 3b. 120 435 47 221
Sitton, p 25 58 11 bi .172
Bradv p. 2" 62 2 1" 161
Reynolds. < 13 43 4 6 150
Johnson, p 6 11 a 1 ill
Wolfe. Utility 7 19 2 2 .105
Lvons. rs. 2 4 72 3 7 09 7
Waldorf, p . 8 21 0 1 .047
TOMMY MURPHY FIGHTS
IN GOTHAM THIS WEEK
NEW YORK Xug. • Ki*i \\ liltau.s
of Baltimore, who is after th. scalp - t
Johnny <'onion. th< bantamweight
champion, will show his war** this
evening when he meets Kid K<ii\. ot
New Orleans, In a ten ’•• in . . .ntest ; <t
Madison Square <»ard» n W illi <i - has
jtosted 11.000 forfeit tt met t < < . : n
At the St Nicholas Athletic Hub ..n
Wednvsdax night. Tonimx Murphs th*
lightweight, will make ati 't! • ' bow to a
home* croud after his successful l»<n. s
in the West His first flight will hr
with Young Brown, an East S i* i »<l
uct
At the \tlas Athletic I hill. K.»< k-
Gunboat Smith, a (’alitornia light
weigh’ ds scheduled to box t*-n round
with George Godfrey tomorrow nign?
WELSH MAY MEET TEMPLE
MII.W AI KI I \ k - Tern
HL probabG wih m»< t •» . \ •un<
fe d* *•»■ ' u i Um j.,\| lU |
Yoji can’t figure anybody, else in.
however, for Sykes, who Is lending
the regulars in fielding, is batting
only .235, and Aglet, who is second
in fielding, is batting nowhere.
Wares Is out by himself among
the second basemen. He leads the
second sackers In both batting and
fielding Alperman is a good sec
ond, with a batting mark around
the two-seventies and a fielding
record of .959.
Almeida gets his position the
same as McGllvray does because
of good batting and despite poor
fielding His slugging mark is .32(1.
but he is fielding next to last
among the regulars. Spencer, of
New Orleans, has much mure con
sistent marks .275 In batting and
.9611 in fielding.
Among the shortstops it is a toss
up. Hhrblson is leading the short
fielders In hatting, with a hefty
mark but he Is next to the worst
fielding shortstop in the league
Balenti, who is batting just behind
Harbison, is fielding Just one posi
tion better. Elberfeld is no star
at either batting or fielding, but
gets the position for kick of a bet
ter man.
• • •
J N the outfield the stars aren’t
peculiarly plentiful. Johnson.
' of Montgomery, is batting .354 and
fielding "a thousand." But he has
been In only 39 games Welchonce
Is proving himself a real star with
a weak team and is entitled to a
position Stengle kicks in, despite
the fact that lie stands fifteenth
among the regular fielders of the
league. The only man who presses
him even close for a position is
Jimmy Johnston, of Birmingham.
The rest of the outfielders are a
total loss, as far as the averages
show
« • •
W ‘lisregarding (he pitchers,
for lack of real statistics (a
mere record of "games won” proves
nothing), isn’t that a pretty sorry
team to stand out as the best of-
[news from ringside]
' Joseph Askey. 62 years old, and a good
friend of lack Dempsey, the deceased
fighter, has Just returned to his home In
Baltimore from Portland. Oregon, where
he went to plant flowers ork hit* former
friend's grave.
• • ♦
• Harry Thomas, the English feather
weight. who defeated Frankie Conley in
Los Angeles last week, will not be seen in
I action again until Inibor Day. when he is
« scheduled to fight J<»e Thomas in New
j Orleans.
Hugh Mclntosh, the \ustralian fight
, promoter, has agreed to post SIO,OOO with
; Al Tearney, to get Jack Johnson to go
to the Antipodes and fight Sam McVey
I and Sam Langford Mclntosh offered
i ' Lil Arthur $50,000 for the two battles
I The promoter wanted to post the forfeit
money with a Chicago bank, but John
son insisted Tearm \ be made stake
• holder
• • •
• loe Mandot ami Joe Rivers have got
down to tin actual grind of hard training
, and should be in the best of condition for
. ■ ■ r Da d
I is n ade ma ny . dm It el s by hia faat
jwotkiHits ami will b.avc quite a following
• when he enters the ring
• * «
> I some shake up in b.-xmg circles al Cin
! ■ mna'i The tt >'.l !. all started because
f tw. lighters, rutcell ami \ttell, signed
:.<: tiules ... fight at several different clubs
s "■ the same dat« The boxing commis
! M<-n has taken up the ease ami w ill prob
i < ably settle the matter In a few days
• * • •
‘ \ll Philadelphia is sing ng the praises
s '--f Bill McCarren. of \llent. wn. I’m The
t h..x.i who is km»wn a> "lack o Brien >
<H»‘» find. leaped s.ahb-nlv into popu
laritv b\ his quick kt ockoip of lark
I•. nning .. tew n gi ->. 11,. th,
■ formet .jmateui middlew t igh' . campion
to the.tmland m less than tw rounds
• • •
’ timi\ Hurns who Is t aining at <’al
i guru with his brother IMdk consider ’
I ng uoing t< kustraha i.» ■ Sam Lang
f .id -heM Labor I Hugh Mclntosh
a- . fi.«r» >'• form, r heavyweight «’ham
i -nag ararv.o • f lio.oiki mt a !>• r '
■ J ' • • >’. • ami > i anku Rm ..ell ar. t '
f 1 -ndtto.n f a He" ’.n t and figiv
at iht Orleans A C , Nvw orlvun?, i.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1912.
fertng of the entire Southern
league?
Don't McAllister and Seabough
stand up as a fine pair of catchers
alongside of such giants of the past
as Jim Archer, Ed Sweeney, "Nig"
t’larke, Sid Smith and a few more?
Oh, elegant! McAllister is a fair
man, nothing more. Seabough was
canned by the second worst team
In the league in mid-season and is
not due to last very long in Class A
company.
McGilvray is a pretty sorry "Star
of the First Basemen." HJ doesn’t
measure up to the standards of
other days—Jake Dauhert. Jim Fox
In his prime, or any one of a dozen
that might he mentioned. His bat
ting is excellent and above the
average But his fielding is a
crime.
Wares, of Montgomery, 'is a tol
erably good second baseman, ac
cording to the averages.
Almeida is a useful third base
man because of his grand sticking
But he's a sorry fielder; even if he
has done good work on the Atlanta
diamond. Elberfeld at short is
playing good ball, though neither
his batting nor bls fielding record is
remarkable.
♦ ♦ •
ITis in Hie outfield that the pies- .
* ent league shows weakest.
Johnson is* a fair man, according
to the present averages, but he
would have to play longer to make
it certain that he could keep up
sxuh work. Welchonce is a gen- ,
uinely good outfielder, but no star.
Stengle Is just an average man.
c’ompaie these chaps with the
great outfielders of the Southern
league’s past— Speaker, Jackson
and thv boys who have made good
in the big leagues, not to mention
men like "Daddy” Dungan. Moles
worth, Winters. Wiseman and the
chaps who grew old in Southern
league harness.
Oh, yes, it's a fine league this
yea r.
But nobod> will be sorry if next
year’s effort is just a shade better.
night \lthough Russell has been fight
ing little more than a year he Is picked
by many followers to defeat (’aster.
• • •
Willie Ritchie will have t,> train little
for tits 20-roun.l bout with "One Round"
Hogan on the coast Admission Day. as
lie Is in good condition from rhe man.
matches he trained for that fell through
BERLIN OLYMPIC STADIUM
TO BE BIGGEST IN WORLD
(’HI( ’A( JO.* Aug 26. Within a short '
time active work will be begun for the '
erection of the stadium at Berlin. Ger
many, where the n» xt Dlympic games
will be held in 1916 According to a .
<’hicago authority, who has been on the
grounds and who witnessed the recent
meet at Stockholm, this new stadium
\tlll surpass the latter one in every re
spect.
rhe flt
will be built in the center of a race
track. An idea of the size of the place
may be gathered from the fact tha*.
ope of the s(e« plet ha**- ionises is T.oati
met» rs in length.
'file Germans ar. planning for a great
stadium, in which theie shall be a
220-metr straightaway, and which will
accommodate more spectators than ever
graced a «iuadrt nnial classic
t
RIVERS SLIGHT CHOICE
IN FIGHT WITH MANDOT
' .\NGELES. \ug .’ > Fight fans!
hi* daily flocking i.» the tra ning camps I
• f IRivers ami Joe Mandot who will
battle on the afternoon of Labor Da\
j Krom »}•.»• interest displaved the bout
Iti ig! • b* .< worlds < bamp’onship r\en'
iins’*H« f a meeting that at best ■ h»i
nly u chame fight \.| \\..|gast
R th Mandot ami Rivers are working I
I L«rd a” i both *t« doing h lot of boxing |
•th, heft' pg Ia t • • '’» to x with R\ej - I
' '• A Uijp atmmnt being I
w age! til
CRACKERS CLASH
m VOL TEAM
TODAY
N’ASH VILLE, TENN.. Aug. 28.
No game is carded between
the Crackers and Vols in the
schedule for today, but as these
teams have a couple of postponed
arguments to settle one of ’em will
he held today’ and a double-header
put on the bill tomorrow.
The Crackers arrived here from
Montgomery’ after losing the last
game of the series with the Billi
kens to the tune of 9 to 4. Pitcher
Johnson blew up in the fifth inning,
allowing six rounds to count before
he came back to earth.
After the series here the Atlanta
team moves to Chattanooga. They
wind up the week with the Look
outs and then return to Atlanta to
open up their last home stay' in two
games on Labor day with Memphis.
Nashville and Chattanooga follow
in turn at Ponce DeLeon park.
The Crackers will close the sea
son away from home, the finishing
series being carded for Memphis.
MATCH PLAY STARTS FOR
DAVIS & FREEMAN TROPHY
Match play in the three flights for the
Davis A* Freenpan golf trophy will begin
this afternoon at East Lake.
The pairings in the three flights are as
follows:
First Flight.
G W. Adair vs. P. Adair.
D Jemison vs. E. T Winston.
E. G. Ottley vs. C. Knowles.
H. Block vs. S. P. King
A Davidson vs. C. M. Sciples.
D. Brown vs. F Adair.
D. B. Osborne vs. H. J. Hopkins.
J. D. Eby vs \V. R. Tichenor.
Second Flight.
T B. Pay vs. R. P. Jones. Jr.
T. P Hinman vs. J C. McMichael.
J S. Baine. Jr., vs. C. E. Corwin.
J l> Osborne* vB. G A Nicholson.
<’ Angier vs. J. B Martin.
W. C. Holleyman vs. R. J Morris.
I'. R. Jones vs. H. G. Butler
I. K. Glenn vs. F. C. Fleming.
Third Flight.
H M. Ashe vs. T. L. Cooper.
S M Tupper. Jr., vs. W. M. Markham.
P \ Wright vs. H. U Dix
\\ F. Upshaw vs. W. A. Alfriend.
R D Gresham vs. W. C. Springer.
A W. Hodnett vs. H. Hentz.
S Hard vs ’ M Beasley
W A Jackson vs. A. M. French.
SPEED TRIALS ARE HELD
ON ELGIN RACE COURSE
ELGIN. ILL.. Aug. 26.—First official
speed trials over the Elgin road race
course were held today. The course,
work on which has been practically
completed, was closed ro the public
while the big cars were sent around it
to test its curves and angles. The
eight-niile stretch was guarded by spe
cial patrolmen and flagmen.
The roads have been put In excellent
condition for the four races that will
be run Friday and Saturday, and it is
expected that some new speed records
w ill be made.
Among the drivers in camp here are
Teddy Tetzlaff Ralph Mulford. Hughfe
Hughes. Ralph DePtilma Len Zengel,
Charlie Merz and Hairy Endicott.
The Big Race
Here is the nevwest dope on how the
"Big Five" batters of the American
league ar hitting:
PLAYER— AB. H. PC.
COBB 444 183 .412
SPEAKER 461 187 .406
JACKSON 446 167 .374
COLLINS 419 141 .336
LAJOIE 309 97 .314
As there were no games scheduled m
the American league yesterday, none of
the betters were able to increase their
clouting averages Tris Speaker is only
six points behind Ty Cobb, end
Georgia Peach has get to keep going te
keep the Boston slugger from, nosinc
him out for Tris has been coming like a
whirlwind during the past four weeks.
Motorcyclists Want to Use the City Race Track
4-e+ -i-e-i- v»-i-
Park Board Refuses to Give Them Privilege
By W. S. Farnsworth:
THE Atlanta Motorcycle club,
aa organization of 150 local
men, has a great big kick
to make. And it is a just one, too.
For some reason or other they are
being deprived of their rights. The
following letter to the writer ex
plains itself:
Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 25, 1912.
W. S Farnsworth, Sporting Editor
The Georgian.
Dear Sir: The Atlanta Motorcycle
club, numbering about 150 young men
of the city, wishes to be heard from on
the Piedmont park question.
Recently we wanted to hold a mo
torcycle race meet and being unable
to get the use of the Piedmont park
half mile track we had to go to Rome,
Ga., our little neighbor of 20,000 popu
lation, to get a track to ride on. The
grounds at Piedmont park were closed
by the city fathers to all fairs, ex
positions and pay amusements and
promised to the people free as a play
ground.
The ball teams of the City league
are allowed to use the baseball dia
monds. the concessionaire at the lake
is allowed to hold swimming matches
and the like to attract crowds, and yet
rhe motorists of the city are denied
the use of the splendid driving track.
The club has taken the matter up
with Manager Carey, of the park
board, and after considering rhe mat
ter he is favorable to allowing the
track to be used, but the park board
purposely took this out of his hands
by passing a special order prohibit
ing bicycles, motorcycles and automo
biles from using the track.
The reason given is that people are
crossing the track to g<» to the lake
They should be reminded that there is
F FODDER FOR~FANS ]
7" ' ... . .....
The fund to buy John Gansel an auto
mobile has reached the sum of S7OO If
they would put that In some safe savings
bank and let the interest pile up they
would have enough in 5G years to buy an
E.-M -F . with a few dollars left over for
accessories.
• • •
Mathewson has spent 11 years trying to
find Wagners batting weakness and
threatens to give out entirely before he
arrives at the answer.
• • •
The ('leveland owners are tired of fool
ing w’ith the Toledo team. Roger Bresna
han is wearied of petticoat rule at St.
Louis and wants to buy a minor league
club. This situation may result in a
• • •
There are five men in baseball who were
graduated from mines into the game.
They are .fake Daubert. Hughex Jennings.
Mordecai Brown. Larry Dnyle and Joe
McGinnity.
• • •
Fred <’larke is up against it When he
uses Mike Donlin Mike can hit. but
can t do anything else When he puts
Mensor in Mike's place the kid can do
everything but hit.
"Players caught in the draft." says L.
C. Davis, "are usually the first to blow.’’
• • •
The Giants easily lose their goats to
pitchers and then have an awful time get
ting them back. Richie is the latest ex
ample A couple of others, well known
ih the South, were (’oveleskie and Bob
Spade
• • •
In an effort to save the Northern Indi
ana league the season will probably be
materially shortened.
• • •
A home run hit over the fence at Fort
Wayne the other day nicked a telegraph
pole and bounded back into the field. A
boob umpire declared it a two-bagger,
which was rank robbery
* * •
Before Bert Grover. the Maysville
pitcher, departed for (’hatanooga the own
ers of the baseball association provided
him with a suit of clothes not that he
didn't have one already, but they wanted
to show their appreciation
• • •
"The older a player gets." says Fred
■ Clarke, "the less he is known "
Naturally.
"Walter Johnson is the greatest pitcher
of all time. ' says Hal Chase. "I haven't
seen all of 'em. but I don't have to, to
know that
• • •
The second defense of the Red Sox
is said to be the best of an) leam In either
league lake Stahl can lose two or three
men and still hare nil air tight leam
’ The si>s signal that has been ereat
.■ia so much disturbance of late in base
,l wireless circles . >m> s from Wheel
ng With the season •»" weeks tro.n
e end they show signs of tint being aide
to last through
a beautiful graded driveway which
leads around the track, one at each
end of the track In fact. Nobody
would expect to see automobiles us
ing the sidewalk; why then deny the
motorists the use of the race track
simply because people want to walk
across it?
in all our neighboring cities. Macon,
Griffin, Augusta, Dublin. Columbus.
Rome, Gainesville, Athens. Chatta
nooga. Columbia, Montgomery and
Birmingham, the motorists are al
lowed to use the race tracks and pe
destrians are warned by signs not to
walk across the tracks. This is noth
ing but fair. Also in these cities when
any fair, convention or other gather
ing is scheduled the motorcycle clubs
respond liberally and willingly’ by giv
ing exhibitions of racing, it can not
be denied that racing is interesting
to nine people out of every ten.
The Atlanta Motorcycle club was or
ganized by the older participants of
the sport at the beginning of the year
because the promised enormous in
crease in the number of motorcycles
sold and used was sure to bring new
and Inexperienced people into the
sport, and these new members needed
the experience of the older ones to
curb their "speeding" tendencies.
The aim of the club is to instill into
every man a wholesome regard for the
rights of his fellow citizens; to curb
the use of the muffler-cutout, the
••open muffler fiend.’ as he is known,
and to bring the motorcycle before the
public in a favorable light and im
press upon all people the utility, com
fort and dependability of this modern
vehicle.
1 oward these ends the Atlanta Mo
torcycle club is bending unceasing ef
fort. and the police records of our citv
will show that Atlanta has feWer mo
torcycle arrests than any other city
The national commission has decided
that the team which buys a player from
another team must pay the salary- of the
player during the time he is on the wav
to join the club
Nine brothers form the team which rep
resents Madison Mills, Va. Their names
. are Willie, Oscar. Harry, Roy. James
Leonard. Carrol. Vivian and Hugh Gillum'.
The passing of Derrick to Baltimore '
may mean the making of the young Geor- 1
gian. He has not had enough baseball
with the Athletics to keep in good prac
tice. His batting has been off for two :
years, but with regular work should .
mount again.
The White Sox have organized a local
, in the .National Players' Baseball union.
Doc White was chosen to represent the
local at the meeting which will be held 1
at the time of the world's series.
• • •
There have been many Giant-killers,
but none like Lew Richie Last vear he
won six out of seven for the. Cubs from
. the Giants. This year he has also won
, six out of seven. Some killing, that.
Would that there were more like him
empire Garnett Bush, who worked in
Texas last year, and who was tried out
, in the National this year, has been sent
to rhe South Michigan to learn the um
piring art.
Tacoma purchased Pitcher Ben Hunt
from Sacramento. At the end of the sea
son the White Sox gave $3,000 for him.
officials of the Sacramento club are
pretty well lamed up as a result of kick
ing themselves.
♦ ♦ *
The first no-hit game pitched in the
American association was hurled by
Ducky Swann. That was in 1906. There ,
have been an even dozen recorded in that
league since then
A hot game will be plaved in Mobile
Sunday. September I. when the Barons
' hike over to Gullville to play off a post
poned affair Even If it Is In Mobile we'd
like a cut on the gate receipts.
Germany Schaefer refuses to down
Ban Johnson put a damper on his , ornedi
work on the diamond. but the other morn
ing he and Chick Gandil acquired a hurdv
Kuril' and a monkey and made a tour of
Washington, playing to big monev
• • •
WISHART BREAKS ALL
RECORDS AT COLUMBUS
C< >l.l MBt S. \ug 2* Sw.i img
all records from 75 miles on up to 200
miles before him as hr. went. Spencer
15'ishart drove a HO-borsep-.w or Mercer t..
victory here in a 20(l.mlle imp before to.
000 people He natablished < new world
record for 200 mile. on a .|,ri tra< k, fixing
i It xt hours 28 minutes t 1-5 se, ends
His prize »».< SI,OOO and a silver tropin
her size in the United States. When
we are working hard to make the mo
torcycle inoffensive to the general
public we feel that this unwarranted
discrimination on the part of the park
board is grossly unfair and should be
rescinded.
Dan Carey is manager of the park
department and is in active charge of
the parks. When he has made an in
vestigation of this matter, and guided
by. his experience and judgment in
park management, he finds there is
no objection to this procedure and
even indorses it as having distinct
benefits, it certainly seems entirely
unreasonable that the park board
should impose this unjust discrimina
tion on a certain class of the city’s •*
population.
ATLANTA MOTORCYCLE CLUB,.
T. C. BUTLER, JR.
• • «
'j' HERE is a track at Piedmont
1 park and it was constructed
for racing. Yet because some few
lazy pedestrians do not possess the
snap and ginger to walk on the
sidewalk that was built for them
they have verily pulled some wire
whereby their journey is shortened
for them at the expense of the mo
torcyclists.
The Motorcycle club has asked
the park board to give their reason
for closing the track to motorists,
but they have never given a satis
factory answer.
Is it because none of them ride
motorcycles? Perhaps if some of
them did the track would be open
to the sport for which it was built.
At any rate, it is about time that
this matter was looked into and
wrong made right.
Giants Look to Have
An Easy Week Ahead:
In Cincinnati Today
CINCINNATI, Aug. !?6.—Facing two
more games before returning to the
Polo grounds, the New York Giants are
jubilant ovet the success of their West
ern trip, which had been viewed with
qualms by all. from Manager McGraw
down. The Giants awoke today with a
six and a half-game lead over the Chi
cago Cubs, and their predictions include
victory both this afternoon and tomor
row over the Cincinnati Reds.
After the hard campaign in Pitts
burg. when the Giants took four out of
five games, the New York playess were
buoyed up by success, and apparently
did not feel the st t ain under which they
were kept at full speed.
With an easy lead, the Giants will
have, a comparatively easy time of it
this week. After the two-game se
ries here, they return to the Polo
grounds Thursday for a series with
Brooklyn.
Three double-headers will be plaved
th a row by the Giants and the Phil
lies.
McLoughlin picked to
BEAT JOHNSON TODAY
NEWPORT. R. I . Aug. 26.—The last
big lawn tennis battle of the year will
be fought out on the Casino courts to
day. between Maurice E. McLoughlin, of
San Francisco, and Wallace F. John
son. the survivors of the all-comers’
tournament which started last Mon
day.
This is McLoughlin's fourth effort to
carry the title to California and his
second .vear in succession as a finalist.
Among prominent club members Mc-
Loughlin was a 3 to 2 favorite.
PLAYERS MIX ON TRAIN:
ONE SENT TO HOSPITAL
'•GI U.MBUS .MIS~ Aug 26.—1 n -
quarti which occurred between Payn*
■ ' pit< lit r op the Columbus basebal
team, and Parker shortstop on
boutlie! n railway tialn. Parker whs ci;
in the tight aim anil painfully, thougf
not dangei no-ii wounded. Upon an
'il of the ti.un p, thls.itv Packet «.•
taken to . h,.sp|tnl while his injun
Til. I. H.-e several >iitfe>
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