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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.