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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. i 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. 1 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.