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All-Star Team Proves Weakness of the League
+•+ +»4> t H-«-r +••?
In But Few Positions Are Men Up to Standard
By Percy H. Whiting.
NOTHING is better 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’hm. .319 .981
2d base, Wares. Mont. . . .285 988
3d base. Almeida. B’hm. . 320 .898
Short, Elberfeld, Mont. . 275 .984
Outfield. Johnson. Mont.. .354 1.000
Outfield, Welchonce, 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 tn
fielding, so he 1s entitled to the
other position. Bilger, 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 bating and stands third
from last In fielding Haight, of
New Orleans, has pretty decent
marks, with a batting average of
.255 and a fielding of .978. which
puts him second tn fielding.
• • •
I OOKING over the Infield, It 1s a
•*-' pretty easy matter to pick
those entitled to positions. McGll
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
played tn date
Player*. g. ab. r, h. av.
Harbison, as . 61 211 24 59 .280
Baiiev, If. . .116 403 73 109 271
Agler, lb. . .61 170 31 46 .271
Alperman. 3b 116 438 58 118 .269
Callahan, of 74 285 29 72 253
Graham, c. ... 54 167 17 41 241
Becker, p 13 30 2 7 233
McElveen. 3b. .120 435 47 96 .221
Sitton, p. . .25 58 11 10 .172
Brady, p. .".. 20 62 2 10 .161
Reynolds, c. .13 4 3 4 6 .150
Johnson, p. .- 6 11 o i .ill
Wolfe, utility .7 19 2 2 105
Lyons. rs. ..■ 24 72 3 7 .09 7
Waldorf, p. . . 8 21 0 1 .047
TOMMY MURPHY FIGHTS
IN GOTHAM THIS WEEK
NEW YORK. Aug. 26 -Kid Williams
of BaJtitnore, who is after the scalp "f
Johnnv Coulon. the bantamweight
champion, will show his wur.s this
evening when he meets Kid Kt !1> of
New Orleans, in a ten-round contei-i at
Madison Square Garden. William* has
posted SI,OOO forfeit to nn-et Coulon
At the St. Nicholas Athletic Hub m
Wednesday 'night. Tommy Murphy the
lightweight, will make another huv. to a
home crowd after his successful bouts
In the West. His first fight will b<
with Young Brown, an East Side prod
uct.
At the Atlas Athletic club. Rockauav
Gunboat Smith, a California light
weight. Is scheduled to box ten round
with George Godfrey tomorrow night
WELSH MAY MEET TEMPLE.
MILWAUKEE. Aug 26 Hay Tern
pie and Freddie Welsh, of England,
probably will meet In .< tu < lve-round
no-dt-tislon contest at Winnipeg, Man
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
tlie 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 McGilvray does—because
of good batting and despite poor
fielding. His slugging mark is .320.
but he is fielding next to last
among the regulars. Spencer, of
New Orleans, has much more con
sistent marks .275 in batting and
.960 in fielding
Among the shortstops It is a toss
up. Harbison Is leading the short
fielders In batting, with a hefty
mark, but he is next to the worst
fielding shortstop In the league
Ralenti, who Is batting just behind
Harbison, Is fielding just one posi
tion better. Elberfeld is no star
nt either batting or fielding, but
gets the position for lack of a bet
ter man.
• • •
1 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 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 rest of the outfielders are a
total loss, as fur as the averages
show
• • •
M ”'V. disregarding Hie 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 Jack Dempsey. the deceased
tighter, has Just returned to bls 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 Conley in
lais Angeles last week, will not be seen In
action again until l-abor I>ay, when he 1s
scheduled to tight Joe Thomas In New
Orleans
• • •
Hugh Mclntosh, the Australian fight
promotor, has agreed to post SIO,OOO with
Al Tearney, to get Jack Johnson to go
to the Antipodes and tight Sam McVe,
and Sam Langford. Mclntosh offered
"Lil" Arthur $50,000 for the two battles
The promoter wanted to post the forfeit
money with a Chicago hank, but John
son insisted Tearney be made stake
holder.
• • •
Joe Mandot and Joe Rivers have got
down to the actual grind of hard naming
I and should be in the best of condition for
their 20-round contest Labor Day. Man
dot has made many admirers bv his last
workouts and will have quite a'following
when he enters the ring
s • •
It looks as though tlieie will soon be
some shake-up in boxing circles at Cin
cinnati. The trouble all started because
two lighters. J’tireell and Attefl. signed
articles to fight at several different clubs
on the same date The boxing commis
sion has taken up the case and w ill prob
ably settle the mutter in a few days
• • •
All Philadelphia Is singing the praises
of Rill McCarren. of klh ntown, I’a The
boxer, who is known as Jack (> Brien's
SuU.OOO And. leaped suddenly* inter popu
larity by his quick knockout of Jack
Denning a few nights ago He sent the
former amateur middleweight champion
to dreamland in less than two rounds
• • •
Tommy Hurns who is training at i'al
gary with his brother E.'.di, is considei
Ing going to Australia to tight Sam 1-atig
ford Here Labor Day High M Intosh
l as offer* d the former h«-ivy weight cham
pion a guarantee of $lO, quo sot a bout
there on that dale
• • •
joe Coster and Frankie Hu-sell .n»* in
go,si <•' .oiti'Hi lot theli ten round tight
at the urleana A C, .New Orleans, to-
rnr. ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND XEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1912
sering of the entire Southern
league 7
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’’
Clarke, 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 tn 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 hls 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
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
hls batting nor his fielding record is
remarkable. •
• • •
T 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. AVelchonce 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 if) Southern
league harness
Oh, yes, it's a fine league this
yea r.
Hut nobody will be sorry if next
year's effort is just a shade better.
night. Although Russell has been fight
ing little more than a year he is picked
by many followers to defeat Coster.
• • •
M'tllie 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
mutches he trained for that fell through
BERLIN OLYMPIC STADIUM
TO BE BIGGEST IN WORLD
CHICAGO. Aug 26.—Within a short
time active work will be begun for the
erection of the stadium at Berlin. Ger
many. where Olympic games
will 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
will 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. An idea of tile size of the place
may be gathered from the fact that
one of the steeplechase courses is 7,000
meters in length.
The Germans are planning for a great
stadium, in which there shall be a
320-metr straightaway, and which will
accommodate more spectators than ever
graced a quadrennial classic
RIVERS SLIGHT CHOICE
IN FIGHT WITH MANDOT
LOS ANUEIiES. Aug Eight fana
Hie ilail.x risking to the training camps
< i f .lor Rivers and Joe Mandot, who will
battle <»n the afternoun of Labor T»a>
Er<»m rhe inter* *»t displaced the bout
might be a world*# championship ex ent
instead of a meeting that at best can
m*an only a t ham • t<> fight Ad \\'Mgast
Both 'tandot and Rix er# are xxorking
t’ard and both mi** doing m lot of boxing
Tl» betting stand# 1° t-» x utth River*
A large amount is bring
x\ a g cred
CRACKERS CLASH
WITH VOL TEAM
TOMI
Nashville, tenn., Au<. 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
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 9 to 4. Pitcher
Johnson blew up ip the fifth itjning,
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.
M’LOUGHLIN WINS
TENNIS TITLE BY
BEATING JOHNSON
NEWPORT, R. I*, Aug. 36.—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 A- Freeman golf trophy will begin
this afternoon at East I.ake,
The pairings in the three flights are as
follows:
First Flight.
G. W. Adair vs. V 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 W. R. Tichenor.
Second Flight.
T B Fay vs. R. P Jones. Jr.
T P. Hinman vs. J C. McMichael.
J. S. Raine, Jr . vs. C. E. Corwin.
J D. Osborne vs G. A. Nicholson.
C Angler vs. J. B. Martin.
\V C. Holleyman vs. R. J. Morris.
E. R. Jones vs. H. G. Butler.
.1. F. Glenn vs. F C Fleming
Third Flight.
H. M. Ashe vs. T. L. Cooper.
S M Tupper. Jr., vs W. M Markham.
P A. Wright vs. H. L Dix.
W F. t’pshaw vs. W. A. Alfriend
R. D Gresham vs W. C. Springer
A W Ilodnett vs. H. Hentz.
S Hard vs. J. M. Beasley.
W. A. Jackson vs. A. M. French.
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rhe 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
i JACKSON 446 167 .374
| COLLINS 419 141 .336
jLAJOIE 309 97 .314
As there were no games scheduled in
the American league yesterday, none of
the batters were able to increase their
clouting averages Tris Speaker is only
six points behind Ty Cobb, and the
Georgia Peach has got to keep to
keep the Boston slugger from nosing
him out for Tr<» has »een coming like a
whirlwind during the pa»t four weeks.
| Motorcyclists Want to Use the City Race Track
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 26, 1912.
W S Farnsworth, Sporting Editor
The Georgian.
Dear Sir: The Atlanta Motorcycle
chib, 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' 1 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
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
I purposely took this out of his hands
by passing a special order prohiblt
■ Ll g b| cycles, 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
i
FOR FANS
I 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 5'A years to buy ah
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
r • • •
The Cleveland owners are tired of fool
ing wuth the Toledo team. Roger Bresna-
> han is wearied of petticoat rule at St.
i 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 r>aubert. Hughey Jennings,
Mordecai Brown. Larry Doyle and Joe
McGinnlty.
• • •
Fred Clarke 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
In the South, were Coveleskie 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 lnt» the field A
boob umpire declared it a two-bagger,
which was rank robbery
...
Before Bert Grover, the Maysville
pitcher, departed for Chatanoega 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 Cha*e, "J haven't '
seen all of ’em. but I don't have to, to j
know that
• • •
The secon<l defense of the Ke«i S<<\
is said to be tiie best of any team in either
league Jake Stahl can l<«ae two or
men and still have an air light team
• • •
The S <i S signal that has been treat*
Ing »o much disturbance of late in base
ball mrd.o circles comes from Wheel
ng " ■ Macon two w Mica ft om
ihe end the) . w igns of not b< ng able
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 raoing; 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 hls 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.
Toward these ends the Atlanta Mo
torcycle club is bending unceasing ef
fort, and the police records of our oitv
will show that Atlanta has fetter mo
torcycle arrests than any other city
,u T ? e ., national commission has decided
which buys a player from
another team must pay the salary of the
player during the time he is on the way
to Join the club.
• • •
Nine brothers form the team which rep
«ree «mu la<J Jt On MU|S ’ Ve Their names
are \\ illie, Oscar. Harry, Roy, James,
Leonard. Carrol, Vivian and Hugh Gillum.
• * •
The passing of Derrick to Baltimore
mean '?* maklng nf the J O&K Geor
with’th^ e AH?iI,n nOt . ha i <i enou Kb baseball
ha? A L h ' e . lcs 1° keo P ln ? ood prac
v«; *1 s , ba ’ t . t, J lg has been for two
yea r®t but . wfth re ßflar work should
mount again.
• * •
s . ox have organized a local
noo th w?. at,ona ' Pla y ei- s' Baseball union.
L?', Was 9. hosen ,0 represent the
L. .1 .<’ he Tooting which will be held
at the time of the world's series.
• • •
been many Giant-killers,
but none like Lew Richie. vear he
? Ut £L? eVen for the Cubs from
.i? This Year he has also won
a ? ven Some killing, that,
would that there were more like him.
y? rnpi , re Garn ett Bush, who worked In
sst.5 st .. yea . r ' and who was tried out
♦ Rational this year, has been sent
paring .^rt Uth Michigan to learn th « urn-
• • •
Tacoma purchased Pitcher Ben Hunt
Sacramento. At. the end of the sea
<thie box 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 bv
Ducky Swann That was in 1906. There
have been an even dozen recorded in that
league since then
A hot game will be played in Mobile
Sunday. September 1. when the Barons
hike over to Gullville to plav off a post
poned affair Even if it is in Mobile we’d
■ ■ cut on 11 e gate re< etpts
Gfrmanx Schaefer refuses tn down,
nan Johnson put a damper on his comedy
, ° n J* l *' diamond. but the other morn
ing ht- and <’i k Gandll acquired a hurdv
£. ,rd > and a monkey and made a tour of
Washington, playing to big monev.
• • •
WISHART BREAKS ALL
RECORDS AT COLUMBUS
COLI MBrS. <>Hl7TTug 26 Sweeping
all records from ,5 tidies on up to "rto
miles before him as he wept, Spem er
Wislmrl drove a BU-h<>i>npoa et Merct-i io
victor.) line m a 200-mlle ra< . bef...e in
DOO people Ih esinbhshe.l .< , world
record fol 3fti> miles on a dirt i . fixing I
it ai 1 hours 2* minim t i . - I
Hi’ prize was SI,OOO un.l a ailvei trophj
hej size in the United States. When
we are W’orking hard to make the mo
torcycle Inoffensive to the general
public w'e 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 hia 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.
• • ♦
''pHERE is a track at Piedmont
park and it was constructed
rac *pßr. 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 KO me 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
‘ INC INNATI. Aug. 26.—Facing two
i more games before returning to the
Polo grounds, the New York Giants are
jubilant over 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-jame 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 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 ’I hursday for a series with
Brooklyn.
Three double-headers will be played*
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 has been practical I v
completed, was closed to the public
while the big ears were sent around it
to test Its curves and angles. The
eight-mile stretch was guarded by spe
cial patrolmen and flagmen.
The ro ids, have been pul -m- 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
I’OLUMBUS. MIS~ Aug 26. In a
quairel which occurred between Paxne,
a pitcher on the <’olumbus baseball
team, and Parker, shortstop, on u
Southern railway train, Park. r was ent
in the right arm and painfully, though
not ilangerouslj wounded I’non nrrl
' d of th< Hail Im . in parkei v ~s
taken to a hospital where hi.’ InJuii-.
w« ie dr. .”od. Titer, are sev.oal dm, .
lent v. rsiona a to th. cuu.e of tin
light.