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The Crackers are confident of at least securing another even break today wb-'ti they hook up with the Volunteers in the sec ond double-header of the series Becker and Waldorf are slated to do the hurling for the Atlanta tail enders. while Bill Schwarts will probably assign Fleharty and West to the mound job. The Crackers lost the first game of ye.'Serday'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 hurlers in the first setto. and the honors easily went to the Vol unteer. whose work in the pinches prevented several scores, when, with men in position to come home, the Crackers were unable to touch • him up for a bingle. Lindsay, the fleet little shortstop, was the man who threw the har poon into the Crackers. While Case was holding them In check on the defensive, he was slamming In the runs on the offensive. It was his double, with the bases drunk, that drove in the three runs in the fourth stanza, and he tallied the winning run in the ninth chap ter on James' bingla Thus he was responsible for all four of the Vol unteer counts FODDER FOR FANS - 1— , , —— , If Ty Cobb Kets the $15,000 a year that lie demands he will receive almost as much for his season f work as is paid for ■m entire Southern leaguexteam. • • • Connie Mack is kicking because he can’t win his 'fourth” game ”1 gel 'em All right with Bender, Coombs and Blank." Bays Connie, “but I can’t seem to develop one more man who can win." • • * Speaking of that, wonder how many more yearn Connie will be able to depend on Bender and Plank? It Is certainly up to that McGillicuddy person to develop a “couple of young pitchers and to do it Be fore next season begins • • • Owner Grayson, of Louisville. is having a busy August denying reports that he is going to sell his franchise » • • Jimmy Callahan isn’t having an espe cially peaceful time of it. He has had frequent run-ins with Walsh mid Bodie and one historic affray with Benz • • • Cy Forsythe, turned down by the At lanta club this spring. Is i>attlng .318 for Dallas At that he isn't worth carrying for hfs arms work quicker than Ills 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” Gandli learned to swing the stick as a member of the police force at Shreveport. La • • • Chicago papers say that lolin T Brush Is president of the National league, through his spokesman. L> neb • » • A triple steal was pulled by I'eoria plac ers in a recent game with the Decatur club. • • • John McGraw is now worrying less about the Cubs than he is about the heat • • V Not a pinch hitter has delivered for the Pirates since July 26. though scores of them have been sent In • • • «t. la>ulf Browns xs ill not train again in St Louis This cheese paring stunt didn't even save money The - Browns will train in Texas next spring • • * Manager George Stovall keeps his dope on batters in a book which lie yanks out before each game Brown pitchers never suffer for lack of Information though they do their fair share of suffering all right • * • Dutch Revelle. former Cracker n..w with Newport News, allowed only 32 bat ters to face him in a recent game with Norfolk • * • Lou Castro has stirred up the usual whirlwind in the Virginia league Th. owner of the club which he is managing accuses him of laying down and there's a beautiful row in progress, • • • South Bend, Akrorg and Canton are f inong the teams tha* are keen to with draw from the twelve-club Central league • • • Tony Mullane. who umpired in the bout'ern league once, ami pitched too, in urehistorie days we believe, is still alive . and d 'ing well as a detective in Cincin- Bailey’g all-round work was the feature of the game from an At lanta standpoint. He contributed 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 had made. Bailey made two doubles and scored twp of the three runs by the Crackers. Harbison contributing the final punch with a single that sent Bailey home. Harbison scored the other run himself. Brady and Bair in Second. Brady and Bair were the hurlers in the .second stanza and the At lanta hurler had all the better of the argument. Bair was i dieved by Fleharty in the ninth inning. After the second Inning Brady was practically invincible and his team mates gave him faultless sup port. Alperman and McElveen were the heavy hitters for Atlanta, while James and Lattimore were the wil low pounders for the Volunteers. But It was 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. " nail He pitched for the police team the other day against a team of actors ami won handily. • • • Cy Young Is planning to enter upon tin manufacture of a salve designed to keel pitching arms limber He invented i himself And look how long he lasted • • ♦ Gus Schmaltz, the only manager win wore a beard through his baseball career Is In business in Springfield. Ohio am doing well • • • Punch Knoll's Dayton team trztunce. the Cincinnati Beds in an exhibition gum, the other day, sto I Two former Crack era. \risto DeHaven and Jack Rowan performed for the Dayton team Knol himself used to play for Nashville, bad in the days of Newt Fisher. • • • John Ganzet seems to have a chance 1< hook on somewhere as a big league man ager He. failed at Cincinnati, but so doe everybody else He has surely made goo. with Rochester • • • In thirteen years Mathewson hn pitched 77 games against the Pirate team He. has won 42, lost 32 and tied three • • • Arthur Irwin, the Yankee scout am vice president, has a son who is showtn baseball talent and will get a trial will tast company in due time • * • Jim Vaughn has been sent to the Kan sas City team in return for Pitcher Gallia James didn't last long with the Senators FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS IN EAST SEPTEMBER 21 S' NEW YORK, Aug 28—Three game w ill mark the opening of the 1912 East ern football season on September 21 when the Carlisle Indians will mee Albright, ami two other lesser game are scheduled. The season comes to close on Novembe’r 30, when Wes Point <nd Annajailis play their annua ' game at Philadelphia The first of the big games will b played on November 2. when Harvar and Princeton battle. Yale meet Brown on the following Saturday, an on November ifi Princeton and Yal lash. Harvard faces Yale on Novein her 23, and Pennsylvania and Corne tiav< their, regular Thanksgiving da tussle four days later. Yale Is the first of the Big Four' t open its season, on Wednesday. Sep tembi r 25, but Cornell also play s o that date The last Saturday in Sep tember finds all of the Eastern eleven on the gridiron. Only a few mill ■ week games ire scheduleel this fall, an tjos< that ire on the program ar chiefly between the smaller colleges. , Pennsylvania plays Mi< Ingan o , Franklin field on November 9 e'orne . plays the Wolverines a week later a Ann Arbor. Mich. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2R, 1912. Alania-Chattanooga Series Will Be Packed Full of Red Hot Stuff LOOKOUT FANS CALLING FOR BILL SMITH’S SCALP By Percy 11. Whiting. AS I was walking down the street An old acquaintance 1 did meet. Se-z tie: "Old man, why don’t you boost Our ball teams like you always youst ?” I looked him squarely in the eye And unto him I sez, sez 1: “The reason why I am no booster They don't play ball Jhe w-ay they youster.” L. C. D. • • • MITHEN the Atlanta team opens in ’’ Chattanooga on Thursday afternoon look out for ructions. To all the complications which make the Crackers and the Lookouts hate each othe like Charley Murphy’ hates McGraw has been addeei a new one. The Chattanooga papers are call ing for Smith s scalp- and calling loud. They say that since he has ac cepted a place with Atlanta, he is unlit 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 of the Chattanooga baseball team, or else to make them put up the good ar ticle of ball of which they are ca pable. The. performances of the past few days have brought this matter to a critical stage Base ball fans are the most patient anei hopeful of all the species of the human race, but there is a limit even to their optimism. They can stand for the team to lose when they are playing good ball anei losing to another team through just a little better playing, but when there is plain evidence that they are not half trying, whether e from one cause or another, then It *1 1* time to take some radical steps to abate the team's slump. Various suggestions have been ,p made along this line, but the most p persistent one. and the one where- . it m a large majority of local pa trons agree fs that, inasmuch as Manager Smith lias announced that his future allegiance will be r with Atlanta, he fs almost, if not l( j 'mite, ineligible to lead the Chat tanooga team for the remainder of the season. This is especially true because of the fact that, though le —— - ■ —■ .... » Kid Elberfeld Is Given Chance to Disorganize Another Baseball Team J* CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. Aug. 28. With the announcement today that Kid Elberfeld has been secured as man ager of the Lookouts for 1913. local fans tn are very much up in the air. They realize that Elberfeld was once a great 1 player, but has never shown the ear a marks of being a manager. s He disorganized the New York American league team, tunneled Clark Griffith out of his job and made a bad T mess out of everything he did. Still. ' President Andrews believes that Elber feld has quieted down and that he will PS , , . t give local fanoom a winning organiza , tlon. et - GERMAN GOVERNMENT 8 ” TO SUBSIDIZE ATHLETES a! BERLIN, Aug. 28. —The German gov -9 ernment will, in all probability, subsi ,.j dize the German Olympic team for the |s next games, to be held in this city in 19111. to the amount of $25,000 annually Chairman Pobbielskf, of the German e Olympic committee, will submit the project to the kaiser. It is stated, on >ll the best of authority that his majesty tv is in strong sympathy w ith such a move, and that he will bring rfl his influence to the aid of the athletic cause. ,o Karl Piem. president of the German P- Amateur Athletic union, will visit the >n I'nited States to make a study of the p. American training system. He is of the ns opinion that lie will be able to pick up d- so many valuable pointers that Get id many is bound to figure very promi re nently in the next games. This country feels that in posst sslon of the meet it •n has a golden opportunity to wrest the ’ll championship from tin I'nited States if at proper attention is paid to development of athletics the next four tears. 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 on the road will be played between two teams, one of which Smith manages now, the other of which he is already signed up to man age next season. In view of these facts it is sug gested that the best thing that coulel be done now is for Billy Smith to hand in his resignation to be effective at once. This would, they say, clarify the situ ation entirely. Smith would then be a free agent until he takes up the reins at Atlanta, and in the meantime could be on the 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 the property of the local owners they all will expect a try-out next season under the 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 that Smith is more interested in next year’s work than in the showing of the team which he is now managing. So that, all in all. It Is believed bv many that Smith’s resignation would not only subserve the best interests of the tegm and patrons, but of himself as well. • ♦ • I T 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. • • ♦ Q TILL, Bill Smih is pursuing the right course He is not to blame 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 would not have been known until the end of the season If they had left it to him. He isn’t fool enough to take 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 COLLINS .... 425 144 .339 LA JOIE . 320 102 .319 Ty Cobb boosted his average 79-lOOths 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 three hits. — TOMMY MURPHY MEETS YOUNG BROWN TONIGHT NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—Fight fans expect a fast battle tonight at the St. Nicholas Athletic club .when Tommy Murphy, the local lightweight, meets Young Brown, of the East Side, in a ten-round contest. Murphy is said to be boxing better than ever before and predicts he will drop Brown with a knockout before the sixth round. PATSY KLINE KNOCKS OUT LENNY IN FOUR ROUNDS NEWARK. N. J„ Aug. 28 Patsy Kline, the dev< r Newark featherweight, knocked out Harry Lenny, of Baltimore, in the fourth round at the Eleventh Ward Athletic 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. T ELL, 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 once 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 w’hole situation and studying it out In order to decide just how far it fs 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 himjielf. And it's true as gospel that no man who lacked 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 all games played to date: Player— g. ab. r. h. p.c. Harbison, ss 63 219 26 62 .283 Bailey. If 117 4(18 75 112 .274 Alperman, 2b 118 444 60 121 .273 Agler. lb. 53 177 32 48 .271 Callahan, cf 76 293 29 74 .253 Graham, c 55 171 17 42 .246 Becker, p 13 30 2 7 .233 McElveen, 3b 122 441 47 98 .222 Sitton, p 26 60 u io .167 Brady, p. 21 65 *2 10 .154 Reynolds, c 15 47 4 7 .149 Johnson, p 6 It o 1 ,m Wolfe, utility .... 8 19 3 2 .105 , Lyons, rs 25 78 3 7 .090 Waldorf, p, 8 21 0 1 .047 SMALL ENTRY LIST FOR AMATEUR GOLF TITLE NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—The entry list and pairings for the amateur golf cham pionship of the United States to be played at Wheaton. 111., September 2, were made public today There are 83 entries, and the pairs will be sent off five minutes apart, starting at 9 o'clock. TEDDY TETZLAFF BREAKS RECORD ONELGIN TRACK ELGIN. ILL, Aug 28. All raving and practice records for the SG-mile Elgin road race course were smashed in prac tice when Teddy Tetzlaff sent his Fiat around the track in 6 minutes 55.23 sec onds. official time, an average of 74.2 1 miles an hour. The previous record for the course was 7 minutes 13 seconds. Joe Mandot Is Frugal and Has $35,000 ‘Salted Away’ in Bank -i——SSHiM,. By Jay Davidson.’ IOS ANGELES. Aug. 28.—Joe Mandot probably has more ‘ready cash than any fighter now in training, hie 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 fihters who make big money, Man dot is not inclined to Invest his earnings, preferring to put it a way in a bank vault for emergency cal! 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 bit more scarred up phpsically than now, he w-ill be a lot fatter in a financial way. He will get the big gest sum for that scrap that he ever pulled dow-n tor one session with his padded mitts. The youngster has not decided yet what he wants to do when he gets ready to toss aside the gloves and forget about old man Queensberry. If he 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 will 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 Angeles 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 wager 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, Manager Harry Coleman can not z be convinced that Joe Rivers can 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 the greatest light weight in the world today and can whip 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 has proved to me that he is the best there is in his division, and I will bet that I am right "1 regard Rivers as the only real rival that Mandot has now, with Wolgast Jemporarily on the shelf Fact is, we would much prefer to fight Wolgast than to take on Riv ers. because we figure the Mexican is a tougher opponent to beat. Man dot has mopped up with all rivals east of here anti he should move Rivers out of the way long before the scheduled Hmit of the Tadww day fracas. Never Knocked Out. "Rivers is such a ciassy, brffflznt scrapper that I do not blame I<o» Angeles fans for being so daszl«d 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 hia entire career. He has whipped ail 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 tactic# to those of his opponent with ease, w hether boxing a clever opponent or mauling w-lth a slugger. If Riv ers wants to box to a decision. Mandot wilt box with him, though not overlooking any chance to put over the sporific 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 Rivera. "We do not underestimate Riv ers at all. We know he fs a high class fighter and one who is dan geroua at all times until put away. • Mandot 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 effects 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 fighting weight now is about 130 pounds, and the most he ever weighed was 132 popnds, which was too much for him and left him soft and slow. If Rivers comes In at *l3O 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 BLASH TODAY IN SERIES FOR LEAL Birmingham and Mobile tia, up to day in the first game of a series of five that will probably decide the pennant in the Southern league. Starting to day, four games will be plaved at Rick wood park, the home of the Barons, and on Sunday a game is slated at Mo bile. Only three games separate the teams now. rhe Barons have been slipping of late, Molesworth’s pitchers having weakened. On the other hand, the Gulls have been forging to the front with rapid strides of late. J&CK BRITTON STOPS MURPHY IN 11 ROUNDS BOSTON. MASS., Aug. 28.—Jack 1 . r .,? 0n ; of Chicago, easily defeated Mui l»hy. of Boston, before the 1 ilgrlm Athletic association, the ref eree stopping the fight in the eleventh round. Front the first bell Britton car ried the fight to Murphy, who was un able to guard effectively, anti rallied only once, in the seventh. In the tenth round Murphy went down under a rain of blows to the face but was saved by the bell. The eleventh round had gone but a few seconds when Murphy was again down, anei on the. second fall the referee closed the bout, " hich hail but one more round to go. . SPIRA AND’LYN DRAW. Al RORA. ILL.. Aug. 28—Battling Spira ami Frankie Lyn battle.l six fast rounds to a draw last night The bout was sub stituted for the Willie Schaeffer-Addie Nearing tight at the Shamrock club The bout was fought in an open arena ’n . ir '" Vf About 3<lo fans attended, w tine >oucj was given the decision over I Mickey Graham in lhe preliminary.