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Bill Smith Has the Southern League Guessing
May Spring Old Trick to Evade Salary Limit
By Percy I’. Wliil iiitr.
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Southern league—<’hut lex Fi.nik
and Rill Smith. In an effort to
Jiv<- up to this precept, Bill Smith
has grabbed on< of t barley Fl <nk
pet ideas, and ha. allowed it to be
rumored that mxt he mix
be. for it blind, president of the At
lanta Baseball association. If he
took this office he could appoint a
playing manager, end thus keep
down the salary roll. For, with a
playing manager, only half his * tl
aty counts against him in figuring
tile total salary for the month
Thus, for examt>le. hi could get
one SSOO a month man. slip him in
as phony managet and only hare
$250 appear on the ; a; roll.
Smith may liaxe -prung this
scheme just to get a little talk
stirred up. At tin nine time he
max right now have i high-priced
man hi plans to get for next year,
whose salary h<- Intends to split up
in this manner
• • •
OF course. If Smith put through
such a deal it would be nec
es-ary to acemint for Presi
dent Frank Callaway. who Is th.' big
mogul foi next y. ar m.-t .is ho has
been for this. It would he tin easy
matter, however. to makt him
chairman of the board of directors
or to give him some other phon;
title, leaving aP authority In his
hands
’yHE chief drawback to this
scheme of milking Bill Smith
president is that he could be kept
off >he bench. However, at home
this would be no hard-hip at all,
for Smith eould sit in the next box
and direct the players Just is well
as though he sat among them, on
the road the problem would be
more delicate. At the same time,
it is always possible to keep in eotn
munioui n. in one way o; another,
with the team
And Pili Sm>th max chance it.
S'
thing He will give Atlanta a
team n> xt year made up neither ex
clusively of youngsters nor < xelu
sively of <>ld-timers but 1 ithei of a
wi 11-b.tlani ed mixture of both.
Hid Smith had his till of old-tim
ers in Chattanooga a.st year.
He figured that season that it
didn't matter how old a man was.
so long a.s he was i ball player
He found out. however, that it was
one thing to have boon a ball player
am! unite another t b. a ball play -
er. Atlanta fans .-aw the workings
of that under Hemphill this year.
TICHENOR. BLOCK. AND
OSBORNE STILL IN FIGHT
Mate h play in the three (lights for
the liavis A Freeman gold trophy have
just about reached the s. mi-final
stag. s.
I’wo rounds of matches will hav.
b.. n ' ompletv ; at the conclusion of to
day's play.
He-. ~r. the matches that w. r.
p ayed Tuesday aid Wednesday:
First Flight.
First Round- H. Bio, k deb ated <
P. King, 3up and 2top ,x . 11 p <>.
bene defeated H. J Hopkins. 1 •>
R. Tit henor defeatt .1 I • Eby, 2 I
tip and 1 to play
Second Round -H Block defeat. ': E
G. < tttley. 5 up and I to play
Second Flight.
First Round .1. (' McMichael c
ffated T. P. H nman bv defau’.i H G.
Rittler d. f. ..ted E. It. Jones. I ip
S.-< end Round R. J. Jone-. Ji , d
feated J. M. Mt. hard, .'. up and I to
play. c,. t Ni< itolson. Jr. defeated 1'
E. i'ora In. 1 up. H. G B it', r defeated I
h T. <’ Fleming. 1 up. 19 holes.
P Third Flight.
F F r.-' It n T. I. ■ o >p. 1 ~t. .md
B M Asli.- 3up and to play . P y i
M right def. iti'd H. L Itix, 3up and ■
to I iv. R. 1> Gresham defeated \\ c ’
Spiker by ..fault, x V.. Hodnett de-i
featei'. U Her’z by default. |
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Just because it man had batted .321
in the American league tn 1901
didn't prove to be any sign that he
..mid hat better than .230 tn the
Southern In 1912,
This year Bill Smith is "getting
his gorge - ' of youngsters. He
sxvitched to the other extreme at
the first of this season and tried to
toek up entirely with kids. It
didn't work well, as the averages
demonstrate.
N< xt season Hill will return to
the right principles. He will have a
team made up largely of young
sters. but with enough old-timers
on the job to steady down the kids.
Most of the successful teams of the
Southern league have been built on
that principle.
• • •
A Nt 'TH ER thing that Atlanta fans
can look for mxt year is a
changed attitude toward umpires.
Bill Smith believe.- that a certain
amount of word-beating and intim
idation is necessary to keep the
umpires giving a reasonable num
ber of close decisions his way. He
knows that the arbiters hate to be
tongue-lashed, and he certainly
knows how to apply the tongue,
when the occasion arises.
Bill Is a peppery individual and
isn't above jumping on an umpire
if the circumstances seem to war
rant it. He showed that the day of
the Justly famous "Shuster inei
d< nt " -when an umpire of that
name called a game on account of
darkness, (hough it was still broad
daylight. Bill went after Shuster
like a terrier dog after a rat. and
if players hadn't Interfered would
have hammered him sure.
Bill has been In Atlanta long
enough to know, however, that the
public and the pre-s is opposed to
anything bordering mt rowdy ball.
<>n the road, however hi does not
fe. I himself in the |e Ist restrained,
and be gets all out of the umpires
that ho can.
Strange to relate, however, the
umpires seem to like Bill, and he
gets along nicely with them.
• • •
ANOTHER tiling Rill Smith Is
going to do for the Atlanta club
is to pitch overboard the tank ar
tists. Bill Smith doesn't mind an
o< . asional glas- of beer Rut he
will not stand for a drunkard. If
a playei gets to drinking on Bill
Smith's club—off goes his head.
Bill realizes that a drunkard is al
ways an Inefficient ball player
but more than one drunkard can
alway - put the te tin on the blink by
creating other drunkards.
ANOTHER tiling that will depart
with the coming of Smith will
he indifferent playing. Under the
! NATIONAL. COMMISSION
APPROVES MANY SALES
<’IN(’!NN \TI. Aug 29. The national
i'ls- h tll cummu-ion has announced the
' ■ - ave been
,”i ' by m.ijo’ 'vague clubs from
igue clubs si net August 20,
’Oil uiab : Hgr' vmvnts filed with and
I pioxt tl b\ th* t HinnUsslon.
National League.
.phri Krom Atlanta.
Maye'.
X.w y k I’ om Mobile Dem i
et . Dm' s. I’.mß .
. American League.
!•> ’’hi. <igv Krom Ma» on. Douglass;
• A otiii M I \ and Tay’or. Birmin<-
.hduisvn.
I 1 '’H.s I' om Houston. Rige.-.
B Sloan
w .. . ,i .
, . ry, *M. \llistf’ an ’ Johnson
J I Brist VVaftce
J '* • «ns. X ige!<, n and Clancy
I •>Di - •:t I'»• »Ui'oattono<»ga. Burp .
■A -a !; \ . •Ji . B< •kt Javkson, Dial;
Da ’. , <; >w. : Vit'ksburir. Ab*<»r:.-•
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By I’ olelphi.i -From Memphis
\ ’ I' tltimon . ’Walsh and *Mur
i Bx -ingt n From < Tiattanoog.i.
1 Moran; At’anta, ' Agler.
•Agreements not received and,
• tile.efoi i, -abject to appt oval.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND KEWS. TIIT’DSDAY. AUGUST 29. 1912.
Smith regime a man will have to
play his level best or get out. Bill’s
w hole heart Is in the game, and he
expects those of his players to be
right in the same spot. Bill has
various of uprooting in
difference. He gives presents tn his
players, he pays them all the salary
the law alloyvs (and, It is to be sus
pected, more sometimes); he in
spires them with his own enthu
siasm; he bawls them out and fines
them if they are stubborn. Then,
if they don't come around, he fires
them. Which is as it should be.
Gloom Hangs Heavy in Capital When Browns Defeat Great Hurler
JOHNSON FAILS TO BREAK liIARQUABD’S RECORD
UT ASHINGTON. D. C„ Aug. 29.
' —Old Jack Powell's glass
Wrm was good enough yes
terday to cheat Walter Johnson out
of getting up to or passing Rube
Marquard's winning record of sev
enteen straight victories. Having
won sixteen in a row, all Washing
ton turned out to see Johnson beat
Hie lowly Browns. It looked like i
cinch for him, after the way he has
been handling all the first division
clubs. But it was not to lie.
Today disappointment hangs low
and heavy over the village. Even
the president is not wearing his
usual happy smile. Casey fanned in
the pinch at Mudviile. but gloom in
that burg never compared with the
layer of it that blurs Pennsylvania
avenue today on account of John
son's defeat.
Johnson only allowed four hits,
against seven off Powell, but Wal
ter was wild and his support was
of the bush league brand. The
Browns copped the argument, 3 to 2.
Rut Johnson is game. Although
the season Is getting late, he Is
going to go right out and try again
to break the record.
Greatest Pitcher of All Time.
I'nitssuming and quiet, Walter
Johnson is today the most wonder
ful pitcher baseball has ever pro
duced. Notwithstanding the fact
that he had broken the record
made by Jack Chesbro four years
ago. when he defeated Cleveland
for his fifteenth win. Johnson
walked to the bench after that
game as modestly as though he had
done nothing more than what was
in direct line with his duty. There
xvas not the least action signifying
that he even thought of his great
accomplishment, and instead of
waiting to receive the congratula
tions of the players who started to
crowd around him. he grabbed His
sxxeater off the bench and hurried
to tile club house He had but
done what he considered was his
work, and he could see little need
for the wild, huzzas coming from
the stands.
It is a fact that Johnson, al
though he has been a brilliant per
former since the first day he stood
in a major league pitching box. was
released by two or three minor
league clubs before coming here.
He started his baseball career in
the West and was tried out by
clubs in the Pacifl ■ Coast and
Northxv' stern leagu* -, H> xx.is let
go as being us. les . Probably the
catchers had little use for him with
that tremendous speed, and maybe
they were at fault. But. anyway,
somcltody failed to recognize the
jewel and he was allowed to drift
away.
Trims Tigers in Debut.
About th. middle of the year he
came to Washington, and as soon
as he got here was shoved in
against I'.'trolt, then the hardest
hitting and most fear.d club in the
American league Jennings' Tigers
; JOE WOOD CAPTURES :
: HIS 14TH GAME; HAS 2
’ WON 29 AND LOST 4?I
® Joe Wood, the speed hurler of •
• the Boston Red Sox, is on his way •
• to pass Rube Marquand's record of •
• nineteen victories. Now that Wai- •
• ter Johnson has gone down to de- • \
• feat, Wood is the White Hope of •
• the American league. Yesterday •
• he won his fourteenth straight •
• game. Also it was his twenty- •
• ninth victory, and as he has lost •
e only four games, his winning av- •
• erage today is .879. Right now it •
• looks as though Wood would •
• break Marquard’s record. Also •
® that he will wind up the season •
• with the biggest percentage of vic- •
» tories ever earned by a hurler. •
<»•••••«•••••••••••••••••••
FACTS CONCERNING
JOHNSON’S RECORD
OF 16 WINS IN ROW
' A.B. R. H
I July 3. New York2s 1 5
Retired at end o* sixth, with game
won, 9 to 1, Musser replacing him.
A B. R. H.
2-July 5, New York 43 2 4
Pitched 12 2-3 innings of sixteen-in
ning game, replacing Engel in fourth
with tscore 3 to 2 against Senators.
A.B. R. H.
3 July 9, (’leveland33 3 8
4 -July 13, Chicago 34 2 7
5 July 16, (Chicago 33 2 7
Eight innings; called bv agreement.
A.B. R H.
• July 20. St. Louis 6 0 0
Einished for Hughes, pitching 2 1-3
innings, (lame ended in a fie
A.B. R. H
6 .lulv 22. Detroit3s 3 7
7 July 25. Detroit 34 5 6
8 July 28, Cleveland 32 1 6
!* August 2, Detroit 32 0 7
• August 4. Chicago 2 0 0
Relieved Hughes in ninth, that pitch
er getting credit for game.
A.B. R H.
10 \ugust 15. Chicago 8 0 0
Relieved Cashion in eighth with score
tie<l. Senators won tn tenth.
A.B. R H
II August 7. Chicagol9 0 2*
I Retired at end of sixth with game
won. 9 to 0, Engel finishing it.
A.B R H
• August 10. St. Louis 3 0 1
Relieved Hughes in ninth with SJ.
Louis in lead, pitcher named losing
game.
A.B. R. H
12 Xugust 11. St. Louis 39 2 4
13 August 15, Chicago 6 0 2
Relieved <’ashion in ninth with score
tied, and Senators won in tenth
A.B. R H
15 — August 20. ('leveland34 2 10
16- August 23. Detroit 33 1 6
• Does not figure in the record.
figured an easy time with the awk
ward-looking Western recruit, but
they had reckoned wrong. Such
speed as Johnson sent across the
plate they had never seen. He had
them backing away from the ball
continually—-he was wild enough
then* to" keep the batters scared—
and when the ninth inning was over
Johnson was the victor over the
most tried club in the circuit and
everybody knew that the Senators
had picked up a wonderful pitch
er.
. Even with a losing club, one
which has be“n seventh and eighth
so continuously that no other place
was ever figured for it, Johnson
has been a winning pitcher. So
exceptional has his work been re
garded that whenever the Wash
ington club was on the road the
papers in the citits would print ad
vance accounts something like
this: The Walter Johnsons will be
here next week and." etc.
Jonnson ha.- had but one poor
year since he has been in the ma
jor league, an I that was due more
than anything < Ise to the very poor
work of his club. His record that
year, 1909, was 13 won and 25 lost,
y>t he finished the season with a
percentage of wins almost a hun
dred points better than the stand
ing of the club.
Here is J hnson’s record since
coming to Washington:
Success of Lookouts’ New Managei Doubtful
+•+ +•+ -2-a-l- fre-i -s.au. 9 . : .
Elberfeld Rank Bloomer as Yankees’ Leader
By W. S. Farnsworth.
LOOKOUT fans won't get a
pennant winner next year,
but they will get plenty of
action nevertheless. Anywhere Kid
Elberfeld hangs his hat there is al
ways a heap of life. But how.
where and why the owners of the
Chattanooga franchise ever signed
the Kiri as manager is beyond our
wildest imagination.
Elberfeld, of the rowdy type of
ball player, made a dismal failure
of his only out as manager. That
was with the New York American
league club in 1909. After having a
i pennant )ead in May the team
Year. Won. Lost. Pct.
1908 14 14 .500
1909 13 25 .342
1910 v .. 25 17 .595
1911 23 15 .605
1912 (so far).... 27 8 .771
May Excel All A. L. Records.
It will be seen by the above rec
ord that Johnson stands a pretty
fair chance of excelling anything
that has been done in the Amer
ican league under the present re
gime. Joe Wood is the only man
In the whole circuit who really
leads him in the percentages, but
even at that it is doubtful if his
pitching has been as effective as
that of Johnson. Wood has had a
pennant-xvinning club behind him
all the year and has been in shape
since the beginning of the season.
Johnson has had neither. Ask any
player in the American league
which of the two men he had rath
er face and he xvill answer "Joe
Wood."
Johnson is undoubtedly one of
the most popular players in the
league, especially in Washington.
Any time the score is close around
the last couple of inningk the fans,
from the' president down, call for
the man they consider invincible.
The great pitcher has no more
stanch adherent and no more ar
dent admirer than President Taft.
The executive rarely if ever misses
an opportunity td see him work.
Txvo years ago, when Johnson beat
the Athletics in the opening game
of the season by a score of 1 to
0. President Taft was in a box, and
after the game was finished had
Johnson brought to him and in
troduced. The president warmly
congratulated him and autographed
the ball with which the last inning
xxas played. That ball is one of
Johnson's most prized possessions
today.
Pitches Without Effort.
Johnson is not the Johnson of old.
Instead of the axx'kward Westerner
who began service with the Amer
ican league, there is now the tall,
graceful, perfectly poised figure.
Every action on the diamond is
almost perfection itself, and xvhen -I
he pitches it is with little nr no
apparent effort. So little does he
appear to exert himself that it is
often wondered hoxx he develops his
wonderful speed.
In all his time in the American
league Johnson has never been
known to grumble at an umpire's
decision. No matter hoxx- things
go against him. he never lays the
blame on the poor work of the ar
biter.
In the box Johnson does not
stand back of the rubber to get the
signals and thus waste time, but
he pitches, and as he is walking
back to his position gets the signa!
from the catcher, steps in the box
and immediately pitches again.
When asked once why he did not
take more time and get more rest
while pitching. Johnson looked sur
prised and answered. "That's not
baseball." The games in which
Johnson works are about the short
est. from the point of time, played
dropped in less than five weeks to
the very bottom of the ladder. El
berfeld treated Hal Chase so badly
that the great first baseman jump
ed the team and went back to his
home in California. And when the
Kid was finally disposed of he left
such a wreck of a machine that
Ownet Frank Farrell had to build
up a complete new outfit.
Here is what the Spalding guide
of 1909 has to say about Elberfeld:
“Nothing in the season of 1908
was more remarkable than the ca
reer of the New York Highland
ers. With a good getaway from
the starting line, the hilltop team
set out to make what looked like
a runaway race for the flag, and
before the middle of May they
were so firmly intrenched in first
place that the general opinion
was Griffith had a pennant win
ner after many years of effort
But the belief xvas not to last long,
for before May was ended the
team started a slump which car
ried It down without stopping and
at such speed that in a little over
five weeks, the Highlanders hit the
bottom never to rebound.
"Before this happened the res
ignation of Manager Griffith xvas
announced and the appointment
of Norman Elberfeld was made to
the vacant /position. But dissen
sion continued to grow in the
ranks and finally resulted in the
desertion of the crack first base
man, Hal Chase, who jumped to
the California State league. From
these combinations of tough luck
the team as a whole ryever recov
ered.”
And from the Reach guide of 1909
xve print the following concerning
Elberfeld’s “success" with the New
York team in 190 S:
"• * * The appointment of
Elberfeld as his (Griffith's) suc
cessor led to factional troubles,
which resulted in First Baseman
Chase's desertion. Stahl's release
[news from rintside
BOXING NOTES SPORTS
Jack Johnson retires one dax and the 1
next day he is back in the ring. John
son says he lias not heard of a $.10,000
offer for him to box Joe Jeannette in
Paris. However, the champion said he
would accept such an offer under favor
able conditions.
Emil Thiry, Paekey McFarland’s man
ager, has the auto bug. He recently
purchased the ear that Packex- won w hen
he defeated Owen Moran in New York.
* • »
Harry Singer, one of K O. Brown's
sparring partners, has secured a match in
Springfield. Mo., his foe to be \rt Maglrl.
Jack Epstein is training Singer for thi
match.
* * »
With the Joe Rive -Joe Mandot fight
less than a week off the . .Ids are g to 5
in favor of the Mexican.
• • ■
Cyclone Johnny Thompson and George
K. <i. Brown are scheduled t<. h-x ton
rounds at Peoria September 10. jack Pil
lon was originally carded t.. fight Brown
but ditched the elub when the jxromoters
would n.'t come across with his demands.
Paekey McFarland says be has no in
tention of passing up his six-round fight
with Young Hirst, scheduled for Pliila.i.’i
tibia Friday. Paekey savs Wolgast know
this bout was already carded before hi
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1 he majority of physical afflictions are caused by bl blood, because a weak,
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THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.ATLANTA, GA.
and conseqient shifting. The de
moralizatiot was so complete that
in one month the team- slid from
he top of ".he heap clear to the
tottom. xv.'iere it remained contin-
Ipusly without hope of redemption
lr the balance of the season.”
IN N JOHNS! >N is quoted as
saying that Walter John
son’s winning streak was
bt"ln Monday by St. Eouis. He
is aiged to have slid: "The win
ning’un was made by the St. Louis
teanivhen Johnson was in the b x
and te game will be recorded as a
defea for him. Johnson made a
wild T,ch and a St. Louis batsman
hit hit for a .-ingle that sent home
the deding run."
NN'he. Johnson took up the
pitehin, burden there were two
men on’.he paths. This alone ex
cuses h(i from a defeat. He had
gain and everything to
lose. A| in such a case he can
not be cLged with defeat.
Harry ’.ulliam. former National
league prudent, rendered a verdict
on this q»stion yea s ago and it
sure dope, too. He
claimed tlj the pitcher who was
xlithdrawntrom the game be held
its ponsiblefor all runners who
were on th paths when the relief
hurler was jshed to the rescue.
I’lierefo: eJohnson eould not he
charged fort, run until the two
mon on thebases when he went
into the bo had "ashed. Any.
others that s>red after that would
have been fchtfully charged to
him.
But I do qt believe Johnson
ever gave outueh a .-lat. merit, it
is too good aioost for his league
to have Johns, in lin" for a rec
otd. And B. ,rr>n is one of our
b 1 st little presligents.
signed to meet the lampion and that he
won i pass ft up, ev| at the i ost of 1
the Gotham go.
I.'ldm Reddy, wh is managing Mike
Gibbons, denies hehas signed articles
for Mike to light I,lie MeGoorty in
m New dork Septcjber 25, or m ar.v
other city for that after. Reddy says
he received an offerfrotn Gotham pro
motits. but the off made was about
yi.OOO shy the lowest .ssible mark he has
decided upon forth st. Paul middle
weight to box McGolty.
» « *
Mike Sullivan, sgng himself welter
weight champion oft» world, says he ‘3
keen tor a match wit Jimmv Clabbv to
be staged at some eb near Chicago.
‘“V? be ,s w ’ll ! g to lake on any
’be ttghti i-s right . p, and includin'’
the middleweight elas
Grover Hayes. Cniphus lightweight.
Who fought hi this < • .. \e-al times la-t
year, sailed fir Misti! , M.mdav to box
.n several ■fuc f. ■ a , .ntres Hay«s
has five 30-round 1 . Hmong
those he will tight ■-.■■■ , : i e> Mehagan,
■ lack (. arroll and J«,. ; , . . p
The referee rphbed t o foster of a de
cision in No. f>rhai, a few nights ago
when J>. rar. d l-'r.-i t •• Imssell's hand
after the t\v> had f'H.jht ten rounds, ac
cording to riporis fr<»h that cit\.
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every portion of tue systemnnd creates an abtiu
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