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Becker and Waldorf Will Hurl
Today's Double Bill With Vols
■JX T A SHVTLLK, TENN.. Aug 28.
f\l The Crackers are confident
' of'at least securing another
even break today when they hook
up with the Volunteers in the sec
ond double-header of the series
Becker and Waldorf are si a tod to
do the hurling for the Atlanta tail
enders. while Bill Schwartz will
probably assign Fleharty and West
to the mound Job.
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 hurlers in the first setlo, 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 < 'rackets. 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' bingle. 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
he demands he will receive almost as
much for his season's work as is paid for
an entire Southern league team
• • •
Ccmnle Mack Is kicking because he
can't win his "fourth” game ”1 get 'em
all right with Bender, Coombs and Plank.”
Bays Connie, "but I can't seem to develop
one more man who can win "
• * *
Speaking of that, wonder how many
more years Connie will be able to depend
on Bender and Plank'.’ It Is certainly up
<o that McGillicuddy person to develop a
Icouple of young pitchers and to do It t>e
<ore next season begins.
• « •
Owner Grayson, of Louisville, is having
• 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 hud
frequent run-ins with Walsh and Bodie
and one historic affray with Benz
• • •
Cy Forsythe, turned down by the At
lanta club this spring, is baiting 318 for
Pallas At that he isn’t worth carrying
for his arms work quicker than his brain
• * •
Hugh Jennings has sent Tex Covington
and Outfielder Del Drake from Provi
dence to Kansas City sort of a swapping
es farm hands, as it were
• • •
"Chick'' Gandil learned to swing the
etick as a member of the police force at
Shreveport. La
• • •
Chicago papers say that John T. Brush
Is president of the National league,
through his spokesman. Lynch.
• « •
A triple steal was pulled by Peoria play
ers in a recent game with the Decatur
club
• * •
John McGraw is now worrying less
■ bout the Cubs than he Is about the beat
• ♦ •
Not a pinch hit'er has delivered for the
Pirates since July 26. though scores <d
them have been sent in
• * «
—ie St Louis Browns will not tram
again in St laitiis This che.se-paring
stunt didn't even save money The
Browns will train In Texas next spring
• • t
Manager George Stovall keeps his dope
on batters in a book which he tanks out
before each game Brown pitchers newt
suffer for lack of information though
they do their fair share of suffering, all
right.
• « •
Dutch Revelle. former t'raiker n w
with Newport News, allowed only 3; ha'
ters to fate him in a recent game with
Norfolk.
...
Lou Castro has stirred up the usual
whirlwind In the Virginia league The
owner of the club which he is managing
accuses him of laying down and there's a
beautiful row In progress
* • •
South Bend, Akroii and Canton are
among the teams lliaran keen to will,
draw from the twelve-club Central leagut
. . •
Tony Muilane, who umpired tn th< |
Southern league once and pitched to", in ,
prehistoric days, we believe, is still al.ve I
and doing well as a detective in Cincin- I
Bailey's 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 that Lindsay had 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 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 hail all the better of
the argument. Bair was lieved
by Fleharty in the ninth inning.
After the second Inning Brady
was practically invincible and his
team mates gave him faultless sup
port
Alporman 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.
nati He pitched for the police team the
other day against a team of actors and
won handily.
• • •
Cy Young Is planning to enter upon the
manufacture of h salve designed to keep
pitching urn is limber lie invented it
himself Anti look how long he lasted
• • *
Gur Schmeltz. the onl\ manager who
wore a beard through his baseball career
Is in business in Springfield. Ohio, ami
doing well
Punch Knolls Dayton teain trounced
the < Incinnati Reds in an exhibition game
the other da\. sto I Two former Crack
ers. Aristo Del h< ven ami Jack Rowan
performed for the Dayton team Knoli
himself used to play for Nashville, hack
in the days of Newt Fisher
• • •
John Ganzel seems to have a chance to
hook on somewhere as a big league man
ager He failed at Cincinnati, hut so does
everybody else He has surelv made good
with Rochester.
• • •
In thirteen years Mathewson has
pitched 77 games against the Pirate team
He has won 42, lost 32 anti tied three
• • •
Arthur Irwin, the Yankee scout ami
vice president, has a son who is showing
baseball talent amt will got a trial with
fast company in due time
• • •
Jim Vaughn has been sent to the Kan
sas City team tn return for Pitcher Gallia
James didn't last long with the Senators
FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS
IN EAST SEPTEMBER 21ST
NEW YORK, Aug 28 Three games
will mark the opening of the 1912 East
ern football season on September 21,
when the Carlisle Indians will meet
Albright, and two other leaser games
are s. heduled. The season comes to a
close on November 30, when West
Point .and \nnapolis play lhefr annual
gam< at Philadelphia.
Tit. first of the big games will be
played on Nov. tuber 2, when Harvard
and Princeton battle Vale meets
Brown on the following Saturday, ami
on November 16 Prim . ton an<| Yale
lash Harvard faces Yale <>n Novem
ber 23, ami Pennsylvania ami Cornell
nave their regular Thanksgiving day
tussle four days later.
I ale is the first of the "Big Four” to
open Its st ason on W ednt sday, Sep
tember 25, but Cornell also piays on
that date. Tia last Satuday in Sep
tember finds all of the Eastern elevens
on the gridiron < inly a few mid
week games are scheduled this fall, and
thos. that its <m tht program are
chiefly between th. small, i < dirges.
Pennsylvania j ays Michigan on
Franklin field .>n November 9. Cornell
plays the Wo \. tines a wet k later at
I Ann Arbor, Mie It.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDXESD.AY. AUGUST 28. 1912
Atlanta-Chattanooga Series Will Be Packed Full of Red Hot Stuff
LOOKOUT FANS CALLING FOR BILL SMITH’S SCALP
By Percy H. Whiting.
AS I was walking down the
street
An old acquaintance I did
meet.
Sez he: "Old man. why doh't you
boost
Our ball teams like you always
• youst ?”
I looked him squarely in the eye
And unto him I sez, sez 1:
"Tite reason why I am no booster
They don’t play ball the way they
youster.”
L. C. D.
• « «
HTHEN the Atlanta team opens in
Chattanooga on Thursday
afternoon look out for ructions. To
all the complications which make
tile Crackers and the Lookouts hate
each othe. like Charley Murphy
hates McGraw has been added a
new one.
The Chattanooga papers are call
ing sot Smith's scalp—and calling
loud.
They 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 of the
Chattanooga baseball team, or else
to make them put up the good ar
ticle of bail 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 and
hopeful of all the species of the
human race, but there is a limit
even to their optimism. They can
stand for tite team to lose when
they are plating good ball and
losing to another team through
.lust a little better playing, but
when there is plain evidence that
they are not half trying, whether
from one cause or another, then It
is time to take, some radical steps
to abate the team's slump.
Various suggestions have been
made along this line, but the most
persistent one. and the one where
in a large majority of local pa
trons agree Is that, inasmuch as
Manager Smith lias announced
that his future allegiance wifi be
with Atlanta, he is almost, if not
■ Ittite. ineligible to lead the Chat
tanooga team for the remainder of
the season. This is especially true
because of the fact that, though
Kid Elberfeld Is Given
Chance to Disorganize
Another Baseball Team
CHATTANOOGA, TENN . Aug. 28.
With the announcement today that Kid
Elberfeld has been secured as man
ager of the Lookouts for 1913. local fans
are very much up in the air. They
realize that Elberfeld was once a great
player, but has never shown the ear
marks of being a manager.
He disorganized the New York
American league team, tunneled Clark
Griffith out of his job and made a bad
mess out of everything he did. Still,
President Andrews believes that Elber.
feld has quieted down anil that he will
give local fandom a winning organiza
tion.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT
TO SUBSIDIZE ATHLETES
BERLIN. Aug 28 The German gov
eminent will, in all probability, subsi
dize tile German Olympic team sot the
next games, lit be held In thi- city in
1916. to the amount of $2.1.000 annually
Chait inan I'obbielski. of the German
Olynipie committee, will submit the
project tq the kaiset. It is stated, on
the best of authority, that liis majestx
is in strong symtHithy with such a move,
mil that lie will bring ill his influente
to the aid of tile atliletii 1 ause
Karl Diem, president of the German
Amateur Atliletii union, will visit the;
United States to make a study of the,
American training system. He is of the
opinion that lie w ill lie able to pick up I
so many valuable |»ointers a.it (let-:
many is bound to figure very promi- !
nently in the next games This country .
feels that tn possession of the meet it
has a goldi n opportunity to wrest the I
championship from tile I'nited States if 1
propci attention is paid to tiexclopnunt |
of athletics tlie next four years.
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 borne 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
i o 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 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
boa 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
by many that Smith’s resignation
would not only subserve the best
interests of the team 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 xmtil the end of
the season If they had left it to
hint. He isn't fool enough to take
r 1
T he 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 tw'ce 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 funs
expet t .1 fast battle tonight at the St.
Nicholas .\tliletic club when Ttuniny
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 lie will drop Brown with a
1 knockout before the sixth round.
PATSY KLINE KNOCKS OUT
LENNY IN FOUR ROUNDS
NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 38 Patsy
Kline, th< < ever Newark featherweight.
1 knot ked out Harry L. nny . of Baltimore,
iin 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.
• • •
\A r 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 hacj 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 yob 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
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
man who lacked control over him
self ever had control over his men.
Still, the appointment of Elber
feld makes for excitemenfand trou
ble and assorted varieties of hot
stuff.
The Chattanooga-Atlanta games
next season, with the determined
Bill Smith managing Atlanta and
lite 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:
Player— g. ab. r. h. p.c.
Harbison, ss 63 219 26 62 .283
Bailey. If 117 108 75 112 .2’74
Alperman. 2bllß 444 60 121 .273
Agler, lb. 53 177 32 4S 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 11 Hi .167
Brady, p 21 65 2 10 .154
Reynolds, c 15 47 4 7 .449
Johnson, p 6 11 0 t .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 I'nited States to be
play rd at \\ heaton, ill., September 2,
were made public today.
there are S 3 entries, ami the pairs will
be sent off five minutes apart, starting at
9 o'clock.
TEDDY TETZLAFF BREAKS
RECORD ON ELGIN TRACK
ELGIN, ILL. Aug 28 All rating ajid
practice records for the 8t»-mile Elgin
road race course.were smashed in prac
tice when Teddy Tetzlaff sent bis Fiat
around the track in 6 minutes 56.23 sec
onds. official time, an average of 74.2
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
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
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 hasrno 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
be convinced that Joe Rivers can
whip liis boy. He thinks that Man
dot is the greatest lightweight in
the world and can whip any of liis
rivals from Wolgast down, to the
pork-and-beans class. Here is his
statement:
‘ Joe Mandot is tile greatest light
weight in Hie world today and can
whip all his rivals, from Wolgast to
the raw reeruili*. in a most deci
sive manner in a twenty-round
scrap. Tliat 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 1 will bet that I
am right.
"I regard Rivers as the only real
rival that Mandot has now, with
Wolgast temporarily on the shelf.
Fact is. we would much prefer to
right Wolgast thin to tak. on Riv
ers. because we figure the Mexican
is a tougher opponent to beat. Man-
P with.all i
east of here and he should move
Rivers out of the way long before
the scheduled Nmit of the Labor
day fracas.
Never Knocked Out.
"Rivers is such a classy, brffiUnt
scrapper that I do not blamo Los
Angales fans for being so dazzled
by him that they can see no other
fighter tn 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 pat for one knockdown tn his
entire career. He has whipped an
the lightweights of any conse
quence except Rivers and Wolgast
and is ready to finish them.
"He is the most versatile fighter
I ever saw. He can hi* from any
position, can adapt his tactics to
those of his opponent with ease,
a hether 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 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 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. 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 lie
insisted. His best fighting weight
now is about 130 pounds, and the
most 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 GULLSCLASH
TODAY IN SERIES FOR LEAD
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
day, four games will be played at Rick
wood park, the home of the Barons,
and on Sunday a game is slated at Mo
bile.
now" I 'Th re n ßames s e P arat e the teams
"L rh , e . Barons have been sapping
of late, Molesworth’s pitchers having
i° n the "‘her hand th!
with forging ‘o the front
with rapid strides of late.
JACK BRITTON STOPS
MURPHY IN 11 ROUNDS
BOSTON. MASS.. ~Auk ’8 i ~.i
Biitton of t’hl.ago, easily “,|. f-a Ll
Eddie Murphy. ~f Ruston, before the
ilgrim Athletic association, the ref
"■'•' stopping the fight in the eleventh
rL.T’h Hrsl b e" Britton ear-
1 e I the fight to Murphy, who was un
on V on , g " al o effectively, and rallied
only once, tn the seventh.
In the tenth round Murphv went down
under a rain of blows to the face hut
"us saved by the be i|. The eleventh
Mnrnt K " n " h ’" “ fPW Seconds W hen
Mutphy was again down, and on the
which d h fa ! ,h . e '• '"‘■ee closed the bout,
which hatl but one mo-e round to go.
\it><h’ P \ lß m , AND LYN draw
janu hankie
Ntaring light at ( hu Shamrock chib Ti c
,n
\\ ifii.' tboiit 300 fans attzn.led
\l, L " i,s glv, ' n ‘be decision over
I Mickey t.rahum :n the preliminary.