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8 GEC9GIM! TCW GCW'MD » DffiKTG EPITLP S FARNSWORTH BRADY WILL OEM HIS BRAND ID LOOKOUTS CHATTANOOGA, TENN Aug. 30.—Brady and Priest will be the opposing mound men in the second game of the series between the Crackers and look outs. The fact that Atlanta lost yesterday has not discouraged the Gate City w arriors in the least, and fnr the first time tn weeks they dis played some fighting spirit this morning as they lounge 1 around th< hotel They are confident of win ning today, again tomorrow, and thereby cop the long end of the series Th. Lookouts captured the first game of the struggle ' sterday by a score of 4to 1 The home team's Polish battery. Covaleskle and Gid oo. proved altogether too good for Whitey Alpertnan's misfits. It was tne Lookouts’ first v let try in ten games, too Johnson Pitched Well. Lyman Johnson hurled for the Crackers, and really hurled a very useful game, but errors cropped out in his support at critical times, nnd when the Lookouts mixed some timely hits with them, runs were scored The Craekera were a trifle too daring on the bast lines, and would probably have scored more than one run had they not attempted to stretch hits or go an extra station on an error, good pegs cutting them down Joe Agler offended tw ice in this respect. Harbison once. The interest In the game was In tense. and when it was seem that the rival hurlers were twirling Just about the same brand of baseball, th" fans sat back and waited for something to break. The some thing was the Atlanta support Bailey’s Work Feature. Harry Bailey’s great running catches in left field were easily the feature of the game He made a critical error on a fly by Coyle, but he robbed Mickey of an extra base hit a few innings later, and electri fied the crowd by racing to the flag pole in left center and capturing Gray's long drive that looked good for a homer. Coyle's first base play was ths feature from a Chattanooga stand point. The Crackers counted their only tally in the second inning. McEl veen beat ont a slow roller to third; Reynolds walked. Humpty was forced at third on Callahan’s roller. Wolfe kicked in with a timely binglo and Reynolds scored Barr’s Double Costly. In their half of the same inning, the Lookouts scored the,runs that really won the game With one gone. Giddo drew a ticket Cova leekie was retired by Callahan after a hard run in deep center. Oovle flew to left, but Bailey dropped it and both hands were safe. Barr cut loose with a two-sacker, on which the two runners counted With one gone in the sixth, Giddo walked Covaleslcie forced him at second Harry went to second on a wild pitch and counted when Coyle drove out a single. In the seventh, again after one was gone, a man walked This time it was Balenti. Moran went out, but Jordan kicked in with a single that sent the chief home ward. HANDSOME BOY BREAKS TRACK RECORD AT MACON MACON. GA , Aug 30 The trotting record for a Georgia track was broken I here by Handsome Boy. owned by G. II 1 F> cos, of Athens, when he made the mile i in !:UH in the third heat The previous record was held by Leceo Wilks, owned by Dan O'Connell, of Macon, and was made at the state fair here last year. A crowd of 1,000 people attended the opening of the three days’ rare meet yesterday afternoon and saw two good events The 2 20 trot whs won by Handsome Boy, in throe straight beats, his time 2:l2b< Veteran, owned by Morgan Thompson, was second; Clemont, J. T. Morton, Gray owner, third, and Frank lin, S. Wise. Atlanta, owner, fourth In the free-for-all race for a puree of 1150, Joe Wilks, owned by Darnpier, of Valdosta, was the winner tn two straight heats Nellie Gentry, ban O'Connell, Macon, owner, was second, and I>ady White. C. H Escos, Athens, owner, was third The time was 2:15%. JIMMY BRITT PLAYS JOKE ON BROADWAY NEW YORK. Aug 30. Will • a scis sors grinder was busily engaiad tn sharpening cutlery opposite tin Metro, pole hotel, Jimmy Britt, the .x-prize fighter, sauntered up to a group of men In the lobby, cast a casual glance across the street and said: "Holy smdke, but that’s a dandy make-up.” "What do you mean?” some one in quired. "Why,” Jimmy replied in a confiden tial way, "that’s 'Billy Burns, the de tective. I used to know him In San Francisco. No make-up can fool me.” Instantly the group took 'if. . and in a few minutes the whole bunch was across the street. They told, others, and so did Jimmy. Pretty soon the scis sors grinder was playing to a gallery of about fifty people, while Britt looked on from across the street. Meanwhile Detective Burns was strolling down the boardwalk at Atlan tic City. Billy Smith, Crackers’ New Manager, Snapped on the Job THE POPULAR BILLY” SERVING UP SOME - OF HIS BENDERS to J&r his batters vL&f S' ' 3 Wl - \ DURING PRACTICE * GAME. VX 'fea. >2?' 3.7 t i 7*X HB - J /JKBSUgw w' ? { i i 1 / / / ' iTV LL ' ' i i-v,'' —■■ .-* aa Ww '1 LOOKING OVER A CONTRACT f ;■ [baseball Diamond Mews and Gossip ‘ The Delehantys were the greatest of baseball families Eour out of five broth era were sent to the big leagues. 'I ho fifth placed b&Bftbflll The l.'Hli. I Wfl James Delehanty, Sr., a Cleveland me chanic The hoys were Ikl, 'l’om. Erank, Joe and Willie. The gjofilesi was Ed His most famous feat was that nf knock ing four home runs out of five times at bat. • • • Almeida has been directed to report to the Red t«am at the close of the Southern league season and will play his first game in New York He and Mursans are ex pected to draw out (he entire Cuban colony in the metropolis • • • Doubt has arisen about the Cianta* round-the-world trip. Several of the Giant players have decided they do not want to go and some question has arisen over McGraw’s ability to finance It • • • The Browns will send three men to Montgomery in return for first pick on the Montgomery team next year The men Dobbs is to get are said to be Eirst Baseman Joe Kutina, Pitcher Charles Roy Brown and Outfielder Pietro Comp ton. • • • Pitcher Schultz, of the Savannah team, who has been bought by the Giants, will report in New York just as soon as the Sally league post-season games are over. Minneapolis recently won six games In three days from Indianapolis. There’s one other team in the world in Atlan ta’s class • • • It is said that Claude Derrick did not take kindly to being traded to Baltimore. But. shucks, that didn’t get him anything. ♦ • • Oh. yes. here’s a new solution of the managerial problems at St Bouts and Brooklyn Bresnahan is to be traded to Brooklyn for Nap Rucker and Zack Wheat. And Miller Huggins Is to mam age the Cardinals Maybe • • • They’re going to run a special train from Youngstown for the world's series Jimmy McAleer's friends In the Mahon ing valley are Just bound to see his Red Sox perform. Jud Paley has been called to hts home In Montgomery by the death of his only child, a little son born this summer. • • • Here Is the w iv the clubs finished in the first half of the Sally league season. < ’LI *bs Won I *OBI P.C Jacksonville 3»i 17 K 79 Albany 31 25 *534 Savannah 31 28 .525 Macon 26 29 473 Columbus 25 30 .455 Columbia IS 3S .324 • • • The reason Bernie McCay let up in his ra» « for the Salix league pennant was that the owners <f the Albany club were selling ..ff all his star players and then kicking because he wasn’t winning the pennant • • • Asht-vlllc is Mugging hard for an all- North ' arMina league, and wants Gre. ns boro and Charlotte in it Count out Mobil. It would take a miracle now f.. r the Gulls to cop Thev are more likely to pop Also award last place to ttlanta The Crackers could not pass a given point, much less ci>attut;, oya • * • President Wililan Grax-.n of the IxiuisvlUe club. rt. ntly ;urr.d down an offer of Ivi.ttOU for his outfit THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1912. Players Bill Smith Has “Sent Up” Al Orth, pitcher, star with Philadelphia and New York American team many years, Dolan, infielder, several years with Louisville in old 12- elnb league. Ollie Pickering, sold to Louisville, afterward with Cleve land Spiders. Dtm McGann, first sacker, sold to Boston, afterward first baseman ot Now York National World's ('hampions. George Nill. second baseman, sold to ('leveland, where he stuck several years. Al Newton, noted southpaw, sold to Louisville, and later with New York Americans. Gilroy, pitcher, sold to Washington. "Dummy Taylor, sold to New York Nationals, for which club he pitched many years. Bernard, outfielder, sold to Boston Americans. Paul tsentell. shortstop, sold to Athletics by Macon. Kussell Eord. New York .American’s star pitcher. Roy ( astleton. pitcher. New York Americans, Cincinnati Nationals. l-.d Sweeney, catcher. New York American’s star receiver. Rnbe Zeller, pitcher, sold to New York Americans, now dead. "Dode Paskert, outfielder, sold to Cincinnati, now with Philadeljthia Nationals. Bob Spade, pitcher, sold to Cincinnati, and a star for one season. Jimmy Archer, star catcher of Chicago Cnhs. Sid Smith, sold to Athletics, afterward with Cleveland, now with Columbus. Williams, catcher, now with Boston Americans. ‘‘Rube" Benton, pitcher, Cincinnati. “Hub” Northern, outfielder. Brooklyn. Bob Higgins, catcher, Brooklyn. Roy Moran, sold to Brooklyn for fall delivery. FIVE MATCHES SHOT AMD | WON AT SEAGIRT RANGE RIFLE RANGE SEAGIRT, N Aug. 30.—Five matches were deckled yesterday at the Seagirt shooting tour nament. Sergeant Perry S. Schofield, of Massachusetts, won the Nevada tro phy match; the field ami staff of tlie Third infantry, New Jersey National Guard, won the cavalry team match; the Manhattan Rifle and Revolver club, of New York, won the revolver team match. A P. Lane,-of New York, won the all-comet- squadded military mate’h. J. fl. Snook, of Ohio, won the all-comers squadded rapid-fire match ‘ Shooting conditions wa re excellent Simplify home, apartment, room seek ing by saving time, temper and trumping by consulting The Georgian Rent Bulk tin. I 'ZIMMERMAN HITS BALL ON LINE FOR 425 FEET CHICAGO. Aug 30.—Heinie Zim merman. third baseman for the Cubs and leading batsman in the National league, hit what is said to be the long est home run over made on the local grounds tn the game with St. Louis here. It was Zimmerman's fourteenth home drive this season and was made when one man was on base in the first inning. The ball struck the lower left-hand homer of the score board in left field, near the club house, and experts on long drive s estimated that the ball t.ave’ed 42a feet before striking the I board. Last Spark of Cracker Hope Now Extinguished •{•••F 4-u-s" •>••?• -i-a-F +•+ Smith’s Men Did It, But Nobody Blames Bill- By Percy 11. Whiting. IF ever a faint hope existed that the Crackers might take a fall out of Chattanooga, pass the Lookouts and escape the ignominy of finishing last, that hope is dead —dead as a petrified pterodactyl. It was assassinated yesterday aft ernoon when the Lookouts downed the Crackers handily in the first game of the series in Chattanooga, 4 to 1. And thus is there another added bit of solace to the feelings of Bill a Bi ■ v Ww v- -igy X < ZL" ZOr I IMMr Zx Jv ¥€%/»“« will? / 7 W zlv// r ''’ 7' ; WATCHING A PITCHER WARM UP. NEWS FROM RINGSIDE] I - Jack Dillon, who was scheduled to box Cyclone Johnny Thompson in Memphis Labor day, has wired the club he will not be able to fight on that date owing to an injury. However, many fans believe it is simply a case of cold feet, as Dillon re cently ran out of a match with K. O. Brown. V • « Joe Sherman is training hard for his eight-round encounter with Harry Tren dall at the Southern Athletic club in Memphis Labor day. This will be a reaJ • tryout for Sherman and he will be given several good matches provided he defeats Trendall. Buffalo will have several good bouts on Labor day. Jumbo Wells meets “One Round'' Davis. K. O. Brennan tights Jack Barrett and Jimmy Duffy will be stacked ; up against Bobby Wallace In what should . be one of the best shows staged in that 1 city this year. « V • I Patsy Kline has improved so rapidly that many believe he will succeed Johnny ; Kllbane- as featherweight champion. The latest victim to fall before the little He- 1 brew was Kid Lenny, who lasted four , rounds of a scheduled ten-round bout staged at Newark a few nights ago. • • • Terry Mitchell and Joe Gans are booked for a ten-round tight at the Surf Avenue I Opera house at Coney Island tonight. • • • Willie Purcell and Young Attell are both . training hard for their ten-round engage ment in Cincinnati 1 :ib : v Thus. wo I boxers recently stirred up much trouble , In boxing circles in the Ohio city by ing to box at several different clubs on tl.c ■ same date. > Smith, sorely wounded by the pros pect of finishing worse this season than ever before in his managerial history. For in the seventeen years he has been a manager he has never before finished worse than sixth. And only three times before has he finished in the second division. • • * a COUNTERPART of Bill Smith’s managerial career has proba bly never before been known in baseball. Certainly its equal is not to be found in minor league history. In the first place. Bill started in -1 Articles have been signed by’ Cyclone Johnny Thompson and Eddie McGoorty for a ten-round tight to be staged in Cin cinnati September 16. Thompson was originally matched with Jack Dillon for a Labor day bout at Memphis, but Dillon was injured while training and will not be able to appear. • * « Johnny Kling, the boxer who was kick ing up such a howl because he could not get any one to fight him, has at last secured a match. He is booked to meet Harry Trendall in St. Louis September 14. • • • Patsy Brannigan and Frankie Burns have been practically matched for a ten round bout to be staged in Cincinnati on September 5. ♦ ♦ » fjeo Kelly, who defeated Dan Cullen in Memphis recently, is wanted by many clubs for a Labor day engagement. Kelly I is paid a weekly s»|ary by his manager for boxing and the “manager runs all the risk of galmbling on the gate receipts. RITCHIE INJURES ARM: HOGAN FIGHT IS OFF SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—The tight scheduled between "One-Round'' Hogan and Willie Ritchie, lightweights for Septembe 9, has been called off on account of an injury to Ritchie's arm received in training. tread ana answer the Want Ads in The Georgian. A u > ..1 rule for every individ- >1 w’ .. read; Make it your rule and I you will be more prosperous and more i ‘ on tented. 1 as a manager at the tender aga ( (speaking from a baseball slant) of 25. Stranger still, he secured his first job as manager when he had been playing baseball but two years. Imagine starting "Dug” Harbi son or “Kid” Howard off next spring as a manager. Yet they have had tw o years experience and they are nearly the age of Bill Smith when he started. Perhaps more marvelous still, this Ohio kid bumped right into a hot race in the Virginia league and as manager of Lynchburg he finished second. The next year, his fourth in baseball and his sec ond as manager, he won a pen nant. Some managers have been In baseball twenty years without having the good fortune that cama to Bill Smith his second year out. In all. Bill Smith has won five pennants in seventeen years. • * • ITERE is Bill Smith’s complete 1A record as a manager, giving the year, the team, the league and the positions that Bill’s team fin ished : 1895 — Lynchburg. Virginia, sec ond. 1896 Lynchburg. Virginia, first. 1897 Norfolk. Atlantic, third. 1898— Ottumwa, Western associ ation, fourth. 1899 Knoxville, independent. 1900— Albany, New York State, third. 1901— Davenport, Three Eje, third. 1902 —Davenport, Three Eye, fourth. 1903 — Greenville. Cotton Statea, third. 1904 Macon, South Atlantic, first. 1905 Macon, South Atlantic, first. 1906 -Atlanta, Southern, third. 1907 Atlanta, Southern, first. 1908 — Atlanta, Southern, sixth. 1909 Atlanta, Southern, first 1910— Buffalo. Eastern, fifth. 1911 — Chattanooga, Southern, fifth. • • • A NOTHEJR record that Bill holds is all his own and is one that nobodj’ will contest with him. Wil liam has, beyond all question, con sumed more tobacco during the playing season than any Itvlng manager. Bill hasn't any fixed amount per day or per game. But he comes to every game provided with two lib eral-sized plugs. If his team is a winner all the way. he will just nib ble the edges of one of them. If it is a close contest he will eat most of both of them. It would be a fair estimate to say that Smith ruins one plug of to bacco a game and one more during the course of the day’s business. Now, in the last seventeen years Smith has witnessed or played in something like 3,000 games, count ing spring exhibitions, post-season affairs and the like. On a basis of two plugs of tobacco a day, this means that he has worried aw’ay close to 6,000 plugs during the playing seasons. Placed end to end, these plugs would measure 500 yards—over a quarter of a mile. Stacked on top of each other, they wmuld rise to a height of 166 feet. They cost an aggregate of 3300. Their weight was approximately 750 pounds. As a tobacco fiend, Smith stands unequaled. It is his prize dissipa tion. And he goes to it strong. • * * • ANOTHER chanter in Bill Smith’s career is drawing to an end. It hasn't been a particularly pleas ing chapter. On October 1 he will turn over a new page, take hold of the team that brought him his greatest glory and set out on a voy age of two years duration—with the destination Pennantville—but with reefs, ledges, hurricanes, pi rates and half a million sorts of trouble between him and his tenta tive terminus. 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 455 187 .411 ‘ SPEAKER 482 194 ,403-i JACKSON 461 170 ,369 t COLLINS 432 146 .338! LAJOIE 328 105 .320; Tris Speaker fell off a fraction over*: two points yesterday when he failed to' connect more than once in four at-l tempts. Collins was up four times and' didn’t secure a blooming hit. He losti three points thereby, Cobb, Jackson and! Lajoie didn't play, as Detroit and Cleve-1 land did not participate in battle. BROOKLYN CLUB TAKES ‘ IN NEW STOCKHOLDERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.. Aug 30.—1 t was announced today that former Aiderman S. \V. McKeever and E. J. McKeever, Brook lyn contractors, had purchased stock In the Brooklyn baseball club. President Ebbetts reeded capital to complete the» new Ebbetts field and the McKeevertl joined with him in his venture. The amount of their investment was not disclosed, but at an election of offi cers E. J. McKeever was made, vice pres -1 idem. Charles H. Ebbetts, Sr., retains I control and continues as president, with. | Henry Modicus treasurer and C. H Eb betts, Jr., secretary.