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Becker and Waldorf are slated to do the hurling for the Atlanta tail enders. while Bill Schwartz will probably assign Fleharty and West to the mound J’»b The Crackers lost the first game of yesterday’s brace to the tune of 4 to 3. They captured the closing performance, 6 to 3 Case Beats Sitton. Case and Sitton were the oppos ing hu ers in the first setlo, and the honors easily went to the Vol unteer. wl»ose work In the pinches prevented several scores, when, w ith men in position tn come home, th< Crackers were unable to touch him up for a blngle Lindsay, the fleet little shortstop, whs the man who threw the har poon into th.- Cracker- While Case was holding them in check on the defensive, he was -lamming In the runs on the offensive. It was his double, with the bases drurrk. that drove in the three runs in the fourth stanza, and he tallied the winning run in the ninth chap ter on James' bitigle. Thus he was responsible for all four of the Vol unteer counts FODDER FOR FANS If Ty Cobb gets the $15,000 a year that lie demands he will receive almost as much for his season s work as is paid for an entire Southern league team • • • Connl? Mark is kicking because he rant win his "fourth" game I get rm ail right with Bernier, Coombs and Blank." says Connie, "hut I can t seem to develop one more man who can win " • * * Speaking of that, wonder how manj Tnore years Connie will be able to depend on Bernier and Plank It is certalnh up to that McGillicuddy person to develop a couple of young pitchers and tn do it be fore next season begins • • • Owner Grayson, of Louisville, is having f bus' August denying reports that he is going to sell his franchise « * « Jimmy Callahan isn’t having an espe . daily peaceful tune of it. He has had frequent run-ins with Walsh and Bodie and one historic affray with Benz • • • Cy Forsythe, turned down by the At lanta club this spring. - batting 318 for I’allas \t that he isn't worth earrsing for his arms u»rk quick* r than Ins brain • • • Hugh Jennings has sent Tex Covington and Outfielder Pel Drake from Provi dence to Kansas City sort of a swapping of farm hands, as it were • • • "Chick" Gandll learned to swing the stick as a member of th* police force at Shreveport L.< • • • Chicago papers say that John T Brush Is president of the National league. I through his spokesman Lvnch • • • A triple steal was pulled by Peoria plat ers in a revet.’ game wit the De. atiir club • • • Jbhn McGraw is i.,.w worrying less about the Cubs than hi sah i tie i.eai • e • Not a pinch hitter has delivered f.-r the Pirates sinc< them have been sent i ♦ » • MF Louis Brown- will t • iru.n again in St Louis This * • e*-.« anng I stunt didn't even saw m»»n«w rh< ‘ Brow ns will train m T* xas n« \t spring • • ♦ Manager George Stovall keeps t - dope on batters in a book which he ml before each game Brown {'■•• 1 nevc suffer for lack *•! information tl .jgb they do their fair share of- ift-■ i > «h right • • • Dutch Kevelle. former t’raikcr ’ w with Newport News, allowed only 32 bat ters to face him in a recent game will Norfolk • ♦ • Lou Castro has stirred up the i-ual whirlwind in the Virginia 1. ague The owner of the club which he is managing accuses him of laying down and then's a beautiful row in progress • • • South Bend, Akron and Canton an among the teams that are keen to with draw from the twelve-club Central leagm Tony Mullane, who umpired in lie Southern league once, and pitched too. in prehistoric days, we believe, is still alive and doing well as a detective in Cincin- Bafley's all-round work was tho feature of the game, from an At lanta standpoint. He contiibuted the fielding feature of the game, when he raced to the left-field fence and speared a vicious line drive from Elliott’s bat with one hand, and, turning quickly, doubled Lindsay at second This after the double tha’ Lindsay hid made, Bailey made two doubles and scored two of the three runs by the Crackers, Harbison contributing the final punch with a single that sent Bntley home Harbison scored the other run himself, Brady and Bair in Second. Brady and Bair were Hie hurlers in the second stanza and the At lanta hurler had all the bi tter of the argument. Bair was ieved Io Fleharty in’the ninth inning. \fter tlie second inning Brady was practically invincible and his team mates gave him faultloss sup port Alpermun and McElveen were the heavy hitters for Atlanta. while James and Lattimore were the wil low pounders for the Volunteers. But It wus Harbison’s timely wal lop that sent home the winning runs in the ninth chapter, the At lanta shortstop being responsible for half of Atlanta's runs In this game, making him directly respon sible for six runs during the after noon. nati He pitched for Hie police team tlie other day against 11 team ot actors and won handily • • • Ci Young Is planning to enter upon the manufacture of a salve design,..l to keep pitching arms limber He Invented it liimself And look how long lie lasted Uns Sehineltz. tin- onli manager win. wore a beard through tils 1... ~|>all career is 111 business in Springfield, Ohio, an.i doing well Punch Knolls Dayton team trounced the < nninnati Beds in an exhibition game the other «hi>. <> to I Tw«» former Crack •is. \rist<> DeHaven ami Jack Rowan. p<‘t f<-»-niol for the Dayton team Knoll himself used t.» p| ;i \ f or Nashville, ba* k m the days of Newt Fisher • • • John <«anzel seems to have a chance Io hook on somewhere ns a big league man- • <gei He tailed nt Clm innati, bin so does •v» ! \lio4l\ else He has sureh made good witli Rochester • • • Hib'teen 'ears Mathewson has Pitched games against the Pirate team lie Ims Won 42. lost 32 and tied three ♦ • * Arthur Irwin, the Yankee scout and ' ic<* president, lias a son who is showing •ast ball talent and will get a trial with fast company in due time. • • a ■ Htu Vaughn has been sent to the Kan sas < iti tctiui in return sot Pitcher Gallin lames didn t hist long with the Senators FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS IN EAST SEPTEMBER 21ST NEW Y< IRK \t.g 28 Threi games will mark ti e opening of the 1912 East ern football season on September 21. when the < ’arils. Indians will meet Albright, and two other lesser games >t. s, heduled. I'lie season comes to a •“lose on November 30. when Went i play their annual I g.’ tn. a t Phi ladel|>H ia The first of the big games will be pl;i\..l on November ", when Harvard tnd Princeton battle. Vale meets Brown on th. following Saturday, and on November lit Princeton and Yale I lash Harvard faces Yal< on Novetn i’’..r 23, and Pennsylvania and Cornell t .tvi their regular Thanksgiving day ! tussle four days Intel. lab Is tl. hist of th< 'Big l-'our ’ to op< n Its st ason, on \V< ln< sdaj, St p ' tetnlur 2.’.. but Corn,-it .I-. p> ; n son ho ■ • ast S. ■ : , . in Sep- tember finds all of the Eastern elevens on the gridiron, only a few mid wvk gam. s ar. -■ heduled t his fall, and «’• that ot tb< rogra m are . hit fly h> tween th< sma ei illeges Pennsv vanri i Mi. 'tig,in on Franklin li. <1 .u> Nown >. i it. Corneil play- th. Wo v.i.m.s .< w. . k l.iti r ~t Ann Arbor. Mich THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2R. 1912. At/anfa-Chaffanooga Series Will Be Packed Full of Red Hot Stuff LOOKOUT FANS CALLING FOR BILL SMITH’S SCALP — jg By Percy H. Whiting. AS I was walking down the street An old acquaintance 1 did meet. Sez he: "Old man. why don’t you boost Our ball teams like you always youst 1 looked him squarely in the eye And unto him I sez. sez I: ''The reason why I am no booster They don't play ball the way they youst er.” L. C. D. • • • VIfHEN the Atlanta team opens in Chattanooga on Thursday afternoon look out for ructions. To all the < ompli.ations w hich make the Ctackt rs and the Lookouts hate each otho like Charley Murphy hates McGraw has been added a n< w one. The Chattanooga pajiers are call ing lot Smith's scalp—and calling loud. The\ say that since he has ac cepted a place with Atlanta, he is unfit to hold the reins In Chatta nooga. For instance, here's this from The Chattanooga News: Something must be done to either stop the losing streak ot tlie Chattanooga baseball team, or else to make them ,mt up the good at thle of ball of which they are ca llable. The performances of the past tew days have brought this matter to a critical stage. Base ball tans are tlie most patient and liopettll ot all tlie species of tile human race, but there is a limit even to their optimism. They can stand for the team to lose when they are pla.i Ing good ball and losing to another t,.am through lust a little better playing, but when there is plain evidence that they are not half Irving, whether from one cause or another, then It is lime Io take some radical steps to abate tlie team's slump Various suggestions have been made along this line, but tlie most persistent one. and tin- one vv here in a large ma.joritv of local pa irons agree is that, inasmuch as Manager Smith lias announce,! that Ids future allegiance will lie will, Atlanta, lie is almost, if not 'lllite, ineligible Io lead Hie Chat tanooga team for the remainder of th- season This is especiallv true because of the fact that, though Kid Elberfeld Is Given Chance to Disorganize Another Baseball Team CHATTANOOGA. TENN. Aug. 28.- With the announcement todav tli.it Kid Elberfeld has been secured as man ager of the Lookouts for 1913. local fans ire very much up in the air. They realize that Elberfeld was once a great plaver, but has nevet shown the ear marks of being a manager. He disorganized the New York American le.igu, team, tunneled Clark Griffith ofit of his job and made a bad • mess out of everything he did Still, President Andrew s believes that Elber feld has quieted down and that he will give local fandom a winning organiza t lon. GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO SUBSIDIZE ATHLETES i BERLIN. Aug 2s The G 'iniali gov ernment will, in all probabilitv. subsi- I illze the Ge’ iiian <Hv tuple t-am sot the i next games, to be held in this citv in 191 G. Io the amount of $25,000 alinuallv | Clmittimn Pobbielski. of the German i Olympic committee, will submit the! project to t!i> kaiser. 1; is stated, on 1 the best of authority that his majestv I is in strong sv mpatliy p ith such a move, ■ ind that lie will tiring ill his influence I to tin aid of the athletic cause ’ Kai Ofem, president of the German! Amateur \thletic union will visit the i I nitial Stat, - to make a study of tlie '. American training system. He is of the; s opinion that lie will be abl to p■ k up! ■ so many valuable iminters "a Ger- I 1 many is bound to figure very promi • nently in th< nt xt games This country feels tliai in po-session of the meet it i lias a golden opportune, to vvre-t the I i hampionslti], from tin i nit, . S.ale- if l p .psi atli iiH.vn is i .'id to dev elopnietit of athletic- the mM font v-ats both teams are out of the race for high honors this season, the Crackers and Lookouts always play harder against each other than against any other team and the first series when the team re turns home Is against Atlanta. This puts Smith in an embar rassing situation to say the least. In other words, the first home games after a long losing streak oti tiie road will be played between tvo teams, one of which Smith manages now, the other of which lie is already signed up to man age next season. In view of these facts it is sug gested that the best thing that could he done now is for Billy Smith to hand in his resignation to lie effective at once. This would, they say. clarify the situ ation entirely. Smith would then »<■ a free agent until he takes up the reins at Atlanta, and in the meantime could be on tbe lookout for available material for the Cracker team. As it stands the players on the Chattanooga team have, as they believe, little to gain by playing hard. They real ize that they will not be under " Smith next season and as they are tlie property of tbe local owners they all will expect a try-out next season under Hie new manager, whoever he may be. They also realize that it is an uphill fight to even get and remain in the first division If they can’t get as high as fourth place, they prob ably do not care where they fin ish On the other hand, fans will say I hat Smith is more interested in next year's work than in the showing of the team w hich he is now managing So that, all in all. It is believed by many that Smith's resignation would not only subserve the best interests of the team and patrons, but of himself as well. • ♦ * I ’l’ doesn’t take much of this sort 1 of stuff to get the fans stirred up. If the Chattanooga papers keep after it a bit they will get the fans yelling. And if once they start hooting Bill Smith on the Chatta- . nooga field anything is likely to happen, for Bill doesn't enjoy be ing hooted. ♦ ♦ ♦ C TILL, Bill Smih is pursuing the right course. He is not to Ida me for the fact that the situa tion is delicate. He was entirely within his rights In closing tenta tively for the Atlanta management next year. The fact vvouhl not have been known until the end of the season if they had left it to him He isn't fool enough to take r ~l The Big Race Here is the newest dope on how the “Big Five" batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYER— AB. H. P.C. COBB 451 186 .412 SPEAKER 472 191 .405 JACKSON 454 168 .370 COLLINS42S 144 .339 LAJOIE . 320 102 .319 Ty Cobb boosted his average 79-100ths of one point yesterday by se curing two hits in four times at bat. Speaker lost that much by getting only two safe swats in seven trips to the plate. As a result, the Georgia Peach is now a fraction under seven points ahead of the Buston slugger. Jackson fell off three notches yes terday by failing to connect safely in three times at bat. Collins hit .500 for the day. He was up twice and garnered one hit. Lajoie faced the pitcher seven times and smashed out thiee hits. TOMMY MURPHY MEETS YOUNG BROWN TONIGHT | NEW YORK Aug 2s Fight fans expect .i fast battle tonight at the St. i Nicholas Athletic club when Tommy : Murphv the local lightweight, meets I Young Brown of the East Side, in a I ten-round cont, st Murphv is said to .be boxing better than ever before .and prevlfcts he will drop Brown with a I knockout before the sixth round. PATSY KLINE KNOCKS OUT LENNY IN FOUR ROUNDS NEWARK, N J . Aug 28 -Patsy Kline, thi clevt N • vark sea herweight knocked out H..rtv Lennv . of Baltimore, in the fourt h round at the Elev ent h Waul Athletiv club last night. over the Atlanta team just In time to finish last with it. He is going to finish worse, anyhow, than he ever did before In his life. It has just turned out that through hard luck they have Bill in an unpleasant position. But Bill will see it through, for that’s his way. • ♦ ♦ ELI., Kid Elberfeld gets the ’’ managerial job in Chattanooga. And that means that Otto Jordan isn't especially needed in Lookout ville, and that he will come to At lanta, provided, of course. President O. B. Andrews, of Chattanooga, doesn't demand some absolutely outrageous price for him. If we had had the choosing be tween Jordan and Elberfeld, it's a cinch that Jordan would have got the place. Somehow there doesn't seem a chance for Elberfeld to make a success as a manager. Have you ever noticed that the rowdies of baseball seldom succeed as managers? You might point at onee to McGraw. True, he is a rowdy. But McGraw Is a studious rowdy. He is a rough neck largely for publicity and intimidation pur poses. When he appears to be boil ing mad. the chances are he is laughing in his sleeve over the whole situation and studying it out In order to decide Just how far it Is safe and desirable to go with any piece of rowdyism he is pulling off. But Kid Elberfeld isn't that kind of a trouble-maker. He's perfectly , sincere about it. When he appears to be mad. he IS mad. He loses all control over himself. And it s true as gospel that no m in who lacdved control over him self ever had control over his men. Still, the appointment of Elber feld makes for excitement and trou ble and assorted varieties of hot stuff. The Chattanooga-Atlanta games next season, with the determined Bill Smith managing Atlanta and the peppery Elberfeld leading Chat tanooga, should be exciting indeed. Here’s How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up* to Date These averages include ail games ! played to date: 1 Player— g. ab. r. h. p.c. 1 Harbison, ss H 3 219 2ti t>2 .283 * Bailey, if. 117 mx 75 112 .274 * Alperman, 2b ...Ils 444 kb 121 .273 * Agler. lb. 53 177 32 48 .271 Callahan, cf 76 293 29 74 .253 ■ Graham, c 55 171 17 42 .246 Be ker, p. 13 30 2 7 .233 ' McElveen, 3b 122 441 47 98 .222 1 Sitton, p 26 611 11 111 .167 1 Brady, p 21 65 2 10 .154 Reynolds, c 15 47 4 7 .149 Johnson, p 6 11 0 1 .111 1 Wolfe, utility .... 8 19 3 2 .105 Lyons, rs 25 78 3 7 .090 I Waldorf, p, s 21 0 1 .047 1 SMALL ENTRY LIST FOR AMATEUR GOLF TITLE NEW YORK. Aug. 28 Tlie entry list and pairings for the amateur golf cham pionship of tbe t'nited States to be pl.iypii at \\ 11l . September 2, were made public toda\. I here are 83 entries, and the pairs will be sent off five minutes apart, starting at 9 o’clock. i TEDDY TETZLAFF BREAKS RECORD ON ELGIN TRACK Klj'ilN, ILL. Aug 28. All racing and ‘ practice records for thf Elgin road race course were smashed in prac tice when Teddy Tetzlaff sent his Fiat around the track in h minutes 55.23 sec onds. official time, an average of 74.2 i ’ miles an hour The previous record for the tours* was 7 minutes 13 seconds Joe Mandot Is Frugal and Has $35,000 ‘Salted Away’ in Bank By Jay Davidson. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28—Joe Mandot probably has more ready cash than any fighter now in training, his bank roll rep resenting a total of 35,000 hand some, lovely Iron men, all subject to draft whenever Joey gets ready to go out and paint the town red— which he says he never has done and never will do. Unlike most slitters who make big money. Man dot is not inclined to invest his earnings, preferring to put it away In a bank vault for emergency call and where it will increase at the rate of about four per cent a year. Mandot has had 41 fights and .has averaged more than SI,OOO for each, as proved by his possession of $35,000, the remnants of his to tal earnings. Probably his average earnings will exceed SI,OOO. But the most money he ever received for a single scrap was .$2,500. When he keeps his engagement with Joe Rivers, although he may be a bit more scarred up phpsically than now. he will be a lot fatter.in a financial way. He will get the big gest sum for that scrap that he ever pulled down for one session with his padded mitts. The youngster has not decided yet w hat he wants to do when he gets ready to toss aside the gloves and forget about old man Queensberry. If hi had made up his mind in this regard he probably would not have such a big bank roll lying idle. Some day, he says, when he quits the ring, he wants to have suffi cient capital to establish himself in business and then he will have the ready cash at his command to do business with. He has no bad hab its. does not dissipate, and says he w ill get married some day and set tle down. Memphis Sports Coming. Joe is a popular boy in New Or leans, his home town, and in Mem phis. where he has done most of his fighting. As indicating his pop ularity, the fact that 50 of his Mem phis friends are coming to Los Angelos in a special car to see the Labor day scrap might serve as proof. Manager Harry Coleman > says that they have secured a SSO round trip fare and already have sold 35 of the required 50 tickets. . When this Memphis crowd gets in town the betting on the fight is going to liven considerably, as ev ery man Jack of them will have a ( bet down on his lightweight idol. , Not less than SIO,OOO will be wagei'- I ed on Mandot by them, and when , such a huge sum is dumped onto the market to back any scrapper , the odds are bound to wabble a , bit. New Orleans, too, is going to send a few dollars this way to be placed on the Frenchman to win. , Thinks Him Best Ever. I Manager Harry Coleman can not i be convinced that Joe Rivers can I whip his boy. He thinks that Man ; dot is the greatest lightweight in the world and can whip any of his rivals from Wolgast down to the pork-and-beans class. Here is his ■ statement: ■ "Joe Mandot is (he greatest light weight in the world today and can w hip all his rivals, from Wolgast to > the raw recruits, in a most deci sive manner in a twenty-round scrap. That explains why I think he surely will whip Rivers on La bor day. Mandot lias proved to me that he Is the best there is in his division, and I will bet that I am right. , "I regard Rivetl’ as the only real i rival that Mandot has now, with . Wolgast temporatily on the shelf. Fact is. we would much prefer to ’ tight Wo gast than to take on Riv ' j ers. because we figure the Mexican I is a tougher opponent to beat. Man . dot has mopped up with all rivals east of here am! he -hoiild move I Rivers out of the wav l..ne 1., fore " ■■■ the scheduled Mmlt of the Labor day fracas. Never Knocked Out. ' Rivers is such a classy, brtTMant scrapper that I do not blame Los Angeles fans for being so dazzled by him that they can see no other fighter in the ring with him. But they should not overlook my boy Mandot has had 41 fights and'never was knocked out, and only kissed the mat for one knockdown in h.is entire career. He has whipped all the lightweights of any conse quence except Rivers and Wolgast and now is ready to finish them. “He is the most versatile fighter I ever saw. He can hit from any position, can adapt his tactics to those of his opponent with ease, whether boxing a cleVer opponent or mauling with a slugger. If Riv ers wants to box to a decision, Mandot will box with him, though not overlooking any chance to put over the sporifle touch. If he wants to make it a slugging battle. Man dot will accommodate him. If Riv ers wants to go at a 75-mile-an hour gait, Mandot will carry him along at 80. Highly Regards Rivers, “We do not underestimate Riv ers at all. We know he is a high class fighter and one who is dan gerous at all times until put away. Alandot will be perfectly trained and in tiptop condition when he enters the ring, and we shall refuse to be convinced that Rivers is the better man until it is proved to us. Mandot is acclimated already, having recovered from the elects of the change in climate which affected him the first week we were here. All other conditions are ideal and we shall have no ex cuses if we lose. 'Mandot will not weigh more than 130 pounds when he enters the ring. He is a natural 128- pounder and we would have made that weight for the Mexican had he insisted. His best righting weight now is about 130 pounds, and the m'ost he ever weighed was 132 pounds, which was too much for him and left him soft and slow. If Rivers comes in at 130 pounds, as I understand he will do, they will be at even weights, and since they are so evenly matched other wise. I predict one of the greatest scraps Los Angeles fans ever saw.” BARONS AND GULLS CLASH TODAY IN SERIES FOR LEAL Birmingham and Mobile tie up to day in the first game of a series of five that will probably decide the pennant in the Southern league. Starting to ♦laj . four games will be played at Rick wood park, the home of the Barons, and on Sunday a game is slated at Mo. bile. Offiy three games separate the teams now. The Barons have been slipping of late. Molesworth's pitchers having weakened. On the other hand, the t.iills have been forging to the front with rapid strides of late. JACK BRITTON STOPS MURPHY IN 11 ROUNDS BOSTON. MASS. Aug. 28. Jack l.ntton ot I 'in, ago. easily defeated ! Eddie Murphy. Os Boston, before the I I ilgrlm Athletic association the ref ’■ree stopping the fight in the eleventh round From the first bell Britton car ried the tight to Murphv. who was un able to guard effectively, and rallied only once, in the seventh In the tenth round Murphv went down under a rain of blows t 0 the face but was saved by the bell. 'l’he eleventh round had gone hut a f-w seconds when Muiidiy was again down, and on tin se 1 S l o ’l d v , fa J l ‘ h< referee closed the I>out, which ont more round to go. \i . AND LVN DR Aw. V ,’-•• •*,>■ 1 ■ A ug. 28 Battling Snira .no Frankie l.yn i, attic,i s|. : fast roi'n'is 'haw last night 'l'he bout was sub- T S<ffiaefi"r-Add ’> ; . aring: fight at tp.. Shamrock chib MC'HI was fought in an open arena in o ‘ ".on fans attended, i « n : pn decision over