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All-Star Team Proves Weakness of the League
In But Few Positions Are Men Up to Standard
By Percy 11. Whiting.
Nothing i« letter calculated
to show what a dub year
this 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
selected from the latest crop of
figures:
Position. Player. Club. BA. FA.
Catcher, McAllister. Mont 272 .965
Catcher. Seabough. Nash. .262 .978
Ist base, McGilvray, B'htn. .319 .981
2d base, Wares. Mont. . . .285 983
3d base. Almeida, B'hm. . .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 tn fielding be
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. Dilger, 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
New Orleans, has pretty decent
marks, with a batting average of
.255 and a fieldjng of .978, which
puts him second in fielding.
• • •
T OOKING over the Infield, it Is a
pretty easy matter to pick
those entitled to positions. McGil
vray's good batting average gives
him first place among the first
basemen And that 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
played to date
Players. g. ab. r. h. av.
Harbison, ss 61 211 24 59 280
Bailey, If . .1 15 402 72 109 27 1
Agler, lb. .51 170 31 46 .271
Alperman. 2b 116 438 58 Ils 269
Callahan, cf. 74 285 29 72 .253
Graham, c. .’>4 167 17 4 1 .241
Becker, p 13 "a 2 7 233
McElveen. 3b 120 435 47 96 .221
Sitton, p . 25 5s 11 10 172
Brady, p. ... 20 62 2 10 .161
Reynolds, c. . 13 43 4 6 150
Johnson, p 6 it n t 111
Wolfe, utility 7 19 2 2 .105
Lyons, rs, . .24 72 3 7 |>97
Waldorf, p. . . 8 21 0 1 .047
TOMMY MURPHY FIGHTS
IN GOTHAM THIS WEEK
NEW YORK. Bug 26 -Kid Williams
of Baltimore, who is after tie . p ..i
Johnnv t'oulon. the bantamweight
champion, will show his w;.r<- this
evening when he meets Kid K> A ot
New Orleans, in a ten round ■ -m ■
Madison Square Garden Willi ui- lias
posted >I.OOO forfeit to nie.-t •' .u :
At the St Nicholas Athlete I.
Wednesday night. Totnnij Murphi tli.
lightweight, will make another hoc to
home crowd alter his su<-eei;«rful
In the West. His first fight will b<
with Young Brown, an East S de prod
uct
At the Atlas Athletic club. Ro> kaw av
Gunboat Smith, a Californi; light
weight, is scheduled to bo\ ten tounds
with George Godfrey tomorrow night
WELSH MAY MEET TEMPLE
MILWAUKEE Aug 26 Has Tern
pl<- and Freddie Welsh, of England,
probably will meet In :< twelve round
no-d<<i»ion contr. t at W innipeg, Man
«<u Labor day.
You can't figure anybody else in,
however, for Sykes, who is leading
the regulars in fielding, is batting
only .235, and Agler, who is second
in fielding, is batting nowhere.
Wares is out by himself among
tile second basemen. He leads the
second sackers in both hatting 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 McGilvray does—because
of good batting and despite poor
fielding His slugging mark is .329,
but he is fielding next to last
among the regulars. Spencer, of
New Orleans, has much more con
sistent marks—.27s. in batting and
.960 in fielding.
Among the shortstops it is a toss
up. Harbison is leading the short
fielders in batting, with a heft)
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 lack of a bet
ter man.
• • •
| N the outfield the stars aren’t
peculiarly plentiful. Johnson,
of Montgomery, is batting .354 and
fielding "a thousand." Rut he has
been in only 39 games Welchonee
is proving himself a real star with
h weak team and Is entitled to a
position. Stengle kicks in. despite
the fact that he 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 test of the outfielders are a
total loss, ns far ns the averages
show
♦ • ♦
disregarding the pitchers,
for lack of real statistics (a
mere record of 'games won” proves
nothing), isn't that a pretty sorry
team to stand out ns the best of-
|NE\VS FROM RINGSIDE,
Joseph Askey, 62 years old, and a good
friend ot lack I »enipse\, the deceased
tighte»\ has just returned to his home In
Baltimore from Portland. Oregon, where
he went to plant flowers on his former
friend's grave
♦ • •
Harry Thomas, the English feather
weight. who defeated Frankie Conlev in
Los Angeles last week, will not be seen in
action again until Labor Dav, when he Is
scheduled to tight Joe Thomas in New
< Orleans
• « •
Hugh Mclntosh, the Australian tight
promoter, has agreed to post SIO,OOO with
XI Tearney, to get Jack Johnson to go
to the Antipodes and tight Sam McVey
and Sam Langford. Mclntosh offered
"Lil” Arthur .$;»0.000 for the two battles
The promoter wanted to post the forfeit
money with a Chicago bank, but John
son insist ex I Tearney be made stake
holder.
• ♦ •
100 Mandot and Joe Livers have got
'down to th* actual grind of hard training
'.in<l should be in the best of condition for
■ ■ ind ■ OHt< Bt Labor I '.IX Mun
doi has made many admirers b\ his last
i workouts and will have quite a following
1 when he enters the ring
I' looks as though there will soon be
shah* up in boxing virde> at <’in-
■ pinnati The trouble all started because
two Ughters. Purcell and \ttell. signed
articles to flghi at several different clubs
" n th< same dale 'l i e boxing cotninis-
I si**n has talon up the case ami will prob
: ably settle th* matte! In a few dins
• • •
i Al! I 'hda.lelplmi Is singing tlie praises
: I ••* I'lll M.x’.irren, of All.titown I’.i The
1., x. • wh. is known as .lack O'Brien's
s.>!< iiitii fill.l li-nped suddenly Into popu
laitx bx his quick knockout of .lark
I'miniT a few nights ago He sent the
former antateut middleweight champion
to drrainhiml In less than two rounds
...
Tonunx Binns, who i> training at t'ul
garx With lis brother Emin s consider
H)K going to Australia t., tight Sam l.ang
ford there lab > 1... x Hugh Mclntosh
has offered th. tot ii< • • . ix xw . igln chain
pion a guarante. ■, *IO,OOO for a bout
there on that dale
.Joe Coster an.! I mkie Bussell are in
I
mi the Uritanv A C , New Orleans, to-
j riru ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND KEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1912.
sering 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 M
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.” He doesn't
measure up to the standards of
other days—Jake Daubert. Jim Fox
in his prime, or any one of a dozen
that might be 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
tnan 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 his fielding record is
remarkable.
| T is In the outfield that the pres-
1 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
such work. Welchonee is a gen
uinely good outfielder, but no star.
Stengle is just an average man.
Compare these chaps with the
great outfielders of the Southern
league's past—Speaker, Jackson
and the 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
year.
But nobody will be sorry if next
year's effort is just a shade better.
night Although Russell has been light
ing little more than a year he is picked
by man) followers to defeat Coster.
Willie Ritchie will have to train little
for his 20-round bout with "One Round”
Hogan on the coast Admission Day, as
he is in good condition from the many
matches he trained for that fell through
BERLIN OLYMPIC STADIUM
TO BE BIGGEST IN WORLD
CHICAGO, Alls 26. Within a short
time active xxork will be begun for the
erection of the stadium at Berlin. Ger
many. xx here the next Olympic gabies
\x ill be held in 1916. According to a
Chicago authority, who has been on the
grounds and who witnessed the recent
meet at Stockholm, this new stadium
XX ill surpass the latter one in every re
spect .
The field is a big one. and the stands
will be built in the center of a race
track. \n idea of the size of the place
max be gathered from the fact that
one of tile steeplechase course:* is 7,thill
meters in length.
Th. Germans are planning for a great
stadium, in which there shall be a
220-metr straightaway, and which will
accommodate more spectators than ever
graced a quadrennial Classi.
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RIVERS SLIGHT CHOICE
IN FIGHT WITH MANDOT
- .
L* •> ANGELES. Aug 26 Fight fans
are daih flocking to the training camps
of Joe Rivers and Joe Mamlot who will
battle on th*- afternoon of Labor l»a>
From the Intelt si displaced the bout
might be a world's championship event
instead of n meeting that at best can
mean on|\ a . h..n. » to fight \<l \\ *»lgast
Both Mandot and Rivers are wot king
h.»rd amt both ,«!*• doing a l*»t of boxing
H • betting stands 10 to R ulth R \et >
fa'otit*. a larg* amount is being
wagered
CRACKERS CLASH
mmTEAN
TODAY
Nashville, tenn., Aug. 2«.
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
be 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 9to 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 wltfi 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.
M’LOUGHLIN WINS
TENNIS TITLE BY
BEATING JOHNSON
NEWPORT, R. 1., Aug. 26.—Maurice
E. McLoughlin, the Pacific coast crack,
defeated Wallace F. Johnson, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania champion, in
the title round of the National Lawn
Tennis singles here today, 4-6. 2-6, 6-2,
6-4, 6-2.
McLoughlin's great spurt just when
he looked to be beaten beyond a shadow
of a doubt was simply wonderful.
Johnson completely outclassed him in
the first two sets. But the young col
legian tired in the third set. He tried
hard to come back in the fourth, but he
didn’t possess the necessary stamina to
pull him through.
MATCH PLAY STARTS FOR
DAVIS & FREEMAN TROPHY
Match play in the three flights for the
Davis «.<• Freeman golf trophy will begin
(his afternoon at East Lake.
The pairings in the three flights are as
follows:
First Flight.
G. AV. Adair vs. T‘. Adair.
D. Jemison vs. E T Winston.
E. G. Ottiey 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. W. R. Tichenor.
Second Flight.
T B. Fay vs. R. P Jones. Jr.
T P Hinman vs. J. C. McMichael.
J. S. Rainp. Jr., vs. C. E. Corwin
J. D. Osborne vs G. A. Nicholson.
C. Angier vs. J. B. Martin.
•W. C. 1
E. R. Jones vs. H. G. Butler.
J. F. Glenn vs. E. C. Fleming
Third Flight.
H. M. Ashe vs. T. L. Cooper
S. M. Tupper. Jr . vs W ML. Markham
P A. Wright vs. H U. Dix.
W F. I’pshaw vs. W A. Alfriend
R D. Gresham vs. W C. Springer.
\ \\ Hodnett v> H Hentz.
S Hani vs J M Beasley.
\\ \ Jackson vs. A. M French.
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The Big Race
Here is the newest dope on how the
“Big Five" batters of the American
league ar hitting:
PLAYER— AB. H. P.C.
COBB 444 183 .412
SPEAKER 461 187 .406
JACKSON 446 167 .374
COLLINS 419 141 .336
iLAJOIE 309 97 . 314
As there were no games scheduled in
the American league yesterday, none of
the batters were able to mc'ease their
clouting averages Tris Speaker is only
six points behind Ty Cobb, and the
Georgia Peach has got to keep going to
keep the Boston slugger from nosing
him out, for Tru has been coming like a
whirlwind during the past four weeks.
Motorcyclists Want to Use the City Race Track
•*•••? -;•••£• •s**4- •!•••£• -rs*
Park Board Refuses to Give Them Privilege
By W. S. Farnsworth.
THE Atlanta Motorcycle club,
an 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 p&y 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
the 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 the 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 go to the lake
They should be reminded that there is
FODDER FOR FANS
The fund to buy John Ganzel 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 s>» years to buy an
E.-M.-F.. with a few dollars left over for
accessories.
• • •
Mathewson has spent 11 years trying to
find Wagner’s batting weakness and
threatens to give out entirely before he
arrives at the answer.
• • •
The ('’leveland owners are tired nf fool
ing with 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
sale.
• • •
There are five men in baseball who were
graduated from mines into the game
They are Jake Daubert, Hughey Jennings.
Mordecai Brown. Larry Doyle and Joe
McGinnity.
• • •
Fred Clarke is up against it. When he
uses Mike Donlin Mike ran 'hit. but
can’t do anything else. When he puts
Mensor in Mike’s place the kid ran 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
In the South, were Coveleskle and Bob
Spade.
• ♦ •
In an effort to save the Northern Indi
ana league the season will probably be
materially shortened.
• • •
\ home run hit over the feme at Fort
Wayne the other daj nicked a telegraph
pole ami bounded back Into the tivkl A
o<H»b umpire declared it a two-bagger,
which was rank robbery.
• • •
Before Bert Grover, the Maysville
pitcher, departed for Chatanooga 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.
• • a
“The older a player gets.” says Fred
Clarke, “the less he Is known.”
Nat lira ll>
a • a
“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. t" '
know that
a a a
The second detense of th< Red Sox
is said to be the best of any team tn either
league lake Stahl can lose two or three
men ami still have an air tight team
a a a
The S. o s signal hai has been •i« u
ina so much disturbance of late h I
ball win ■ ■ ..
■
ihe end " • si on signa of n< • m ing i
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; w’hy 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 alm 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 Ip a favorable light and im
press upon ail people the utility, com
fort and dependability of this modern
vehicle.
Toward these ends the Atlanta Mo
torcycle club is bending unceasing ef
fort, and the police records of our citv
will show that Atlanta has fetter 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 Millie, Oscar. , Harry, Rov. James
Leonard, Carrol, Vivian and Hugh Gillum'
• * «
The passing of Derrick to Baltimore
may mean the making of the young Geor
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
' n the National Players' Baseball union.
Doc 5\ hite was chosen io represent the
local at the meeting which will be held
at the time of the world’s series.
• « •
There have been many Giant-killers,
but none like Lew Richie year he
w<»n six out of seven for the Cubs from
the Giants. This year he lias also won
i_ of seven - Some killing, that.
Would that there were more like him.
• • •
,I. mpire Garnett Bush, who worked in
Texas last year, and who was tried out
in the National this year, has been sent
to the South Michigan to learn the um
piring art.
• • •
Tacoma purchased Pitcher Ben Hunt
from Sacramento. At the end of the sea
s°n e "’Hite 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 l.y
Ducky Swann. That was In 1906. There
have been an even dozen recorded in that
league since then,
\ hot game will be played in Mobile
Sunday. September I. when the Batons
hike over- to Gullvflle to plus 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.
Ran Johnson put a damper on his comedy
W'»rk on the diamond, but the other morn
ing he and <’hick Gandll acquired a hurdy
ftirdx and a monkey and made a tour of 1
Washington, playing to big money.
• 4> •
WISHART BREAKS ALL
RECORDS AT COLUMBUS
C* ’LI MBl S. Aug 26 Sweeping
all records from 75 miles on ip to 200
miles beh-re him its h« wet ’ .-pH.. » i
W’Miart drove a horsepower M*»r< . • i
victory here m a 200-mile non h» f.»r* to.
000 people Hr i - iblished .. n« w world
reronl fnr 20n mileM <«n a «Drt fr.trl- fixing
it at 3 hours 2S minub-- 4 1 !>.«•< ..n«D
His prize was >I.OOO and a silver trophy.
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
hoard 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.
♦ • •
T’HERE is a track at Piedmont
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 teas 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
1 INCINNATI, Aug. 26.—Facing two
1 more games before returning to the.
Polo grounds, the New York Giants are
jubilant over the success of their West
i ern trip, which had been viewed with
( qualms by all, from Manager McGraw
down, .rhe Giants awoke toda.v with a
' six and a half-game lead over the Chi
cago Cubs, and their predictions’include
victory both this afternoon and toinor- -
row over the Cincinnati Reds.
After the hard campaign in Pitts
' burg, when the Giants took four out of
five games, the New York players were
buoyed up by success, and apparently
did not feel the strain 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 flayed
in a row by the Giants and the Phil
lies -
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 lias been practically
completed, was closed to the public
while Hie big cars were sent around it
to test its curves and angles. The
eight-mile stretch was guarded by spe
cial patrolmen and flagmen.
Tlie 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
will be made.
PLAYERS MIX ON TRAIN:
ONE SENT TO HOSPITAL
<■<•l I'MBI'S, MISS Aug 26 In a
quarrel which occurred between Payne,
a pitcher on the Columbus baseball
I team, and Parker, shortstop, on •
I Southern raliwai train, Park, r was < ill
in the right arm and painfully, though
not dangerously w ounded I 'pon art t
i <1 of tin train in this < ln Parker was
taken to a hospital wh< i, hl- iiijiiu>
wii! dr<->>d. Then a > ,-.<-iei al diffei
•nt i. i ion- a» to tli. . au»e o f tilt
fight.