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WELL. anyhow, there'* one big series left to look forward to —the Chattanooga-At- lanta games which begin next Mon day. and which mark the conclu sion of the season on Atlanta soil. Everything is leading up to that tilt now. Bill Smith feels In duty bound to win that series If he can. Manager Alperman and his play ers will put a majority of victories over if it lies within their power Verily, there will be some play ing And don’t you doubt It, there’ll be some crowd out to wel cortie Smith back to Atlanta—for the la«t time until 1915 at least as the leader of a hostile clan. The final clash with Memphis takes place today, a double-header being carded The first game will get under wav at 2:30 o'clock Ami If today's games stack up with the other contests of the series they will be hummers. Thursday the Nashville team opens here for a three-day series. That shouldn't he such a bad af fair either The Crackers are surely playing Improved ball since they have been back. There has been a vast dis play o< pepper, compared with pre vious efforts, and all the men are working with a will. • « • TVE much of the credit for the Crackers' sprightly work to Joe Agler. This lad is a natural gin ger jar He is full of gab and jokes, and he keeps things noisy, even when there Is every excuse for gloom. Likewise he is a real fielder. Yes terday he made a run Into right field, slipped in between Wolfe and Graham, who threatened to mess things up reached up over his head and grabbed a ball that was gxdng Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date These averages include veserday’e •laughter: Pl«ysr— g. ab. r. h. p. e. Price, p . . . 1 2 0 1 500 Harbison, m. . . 73 258 29 71 .281 Bailey, If. . 126 439 81 123 280 Alperman, 2b 128 463 61 129 279 Callahan cf 85 822 31 84 261 Agler, lb. 62 208 34 54 260 Graham, c . . 61 19u 18 47 247 McElveen 3b. 131 474 52 113 238 Becker, p. . . . 15 !5 2 7.200 Reynolds, c 23 72 12 14 194 Wolfe, utility. . 17 46 5 8 174 Brady, p. . . . 22 69 2 11 159 Sitton, p. . • 28 64 11 10 156 Johnson, p. . . . 8 IS o l 056 Waldorf, p 10 25 0 1 040 ■ 1 The Big Race Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the “Big Five” batterg ©t the American league a'e hitting: "Flayer— a?bF ~h“ a v *7. COBB 473 194 .410_ SPEAKER 491“ 195 .397' JACKSON ..• 475 175 .368 COLLINS 444 148 .333 LAJOIE 342 _11 1 .325 Cobb and Colling were the only mem bers of the "Big Five" who played yes terday. Cobb lost a point by securing onely two hits in six times at bat. Col lins gained a notch by slamming out one hit in two attempts. BASEBALL THURSDAY ATLANTA »S. MEMPHIS Ponce DeLeon Park IS Game called 3:50. the same direction he was. w’hfch la the hardest known catch In base ball. • • . I N the presence of 527 souls and several newspaper men—by all odds the smallest crow'd of the sea son In Atlanta—the Memphis team took partial revenge yesterday for the LaboY day drubbing by defeat ing the Crackers 8 to 6 But at that they had to work for It. The game started out like a Tur tle triumph. Vedder Sitton, who essayed to pitch for Atlanta and who is usually the Crackers’ most dependable man. didn’t have a thing but a profuse perspiration, and the visitors batted around, and one dver, in the opening inning This netted them five runs. Lyman Johnson, late of Hopkins ville, was sent to the rescue and hurled manfully The Hoptown re cruit was found for three runs but considering subsequent events it isn’t at all certain that he would not have won his game if he had gone to work in the first inning Instead of the second. For in the fourth and the eighth innings the Crackers took some awful punches at the celebrated agriculturist. Rube Kissinger, and piled up four runs. In the last of the ninth the Crackers did their extra best to score some runs, and managed to till the bases. Agler the first man up. was safe when Bales let a grounder get away from him. Bailey singled and Agler went to third. Bailey stole second. Then Harbi son. a justly famous pinch hitter, fanned, and Graham, generally a useful swatter, hit a drooping liner to Abstein This brought McEl veen up and. recalling "Humpty’s” husky hitting of the previous day. Kissinger prudently passed him. NEWS FROM RINGSIDE No more boxing bouts will be staged in Birmingham, according to advices from that city. Dick Gilbert, of Denver, and Bob Brown, a Pittsburg pug. were scheduled to fight ten rounds in the Ala bama city labor day. but the bout was declared off when the sheriff interfered The action of the sheriff was brought about by a committee from the Pastors' union calling on him and asking that he not allow the fight to be staged Joe Mandot's win over Joe Rivers was a great surprise Verv little betting was done on the fight, as no Mandot money was in sight However, there is one who is a little richer by placing his monev on the Southern champion This one was none other than Mandot's father, who ret »400 his son would defeat the Mexi can. • • • Mandot’s next step will be to challenge Ad VVolgnst for the lightweight cliatn ptonshfp However, the little fighter says he will take a good rest before appearing in the ring again • • • Happy Tim McGrath, who managed Ed die Catnpl, the San Francisco bantam weight. in his bout with Young Chico, in Los Angeles, last Monday, is quite a "find” for the newspaper men on the coast. McGrath always lias a tale to tell and he never tells the same one Tim i says, although It was not general'n I known. Jeffries and Sharkey fought the i twenty-fifth round of theit Coney island fight over after Tom got out of tlte hos pital 111 the twenty-fifth round. Jef fries glove came off. but the former champion did hot stop righting but hit Sharkey several times with bls bare fist. As no otic wanted this to appear in tlte moving picture*, both fighters agreed to tight the last round over • • • Governor Deneets of Illinois, would not al'oty promoters to stage a ten-round ex hibition between Jack Foreman and Jack Parish, at Cairo, Labor day The pro- | I moters had arranged to stage the tight on . n ferry boat, but had. to call it off when . Sheriff Frazier notified them of tie gov ’ error’s action • « • . Eddie Graney manager of the Tuxedo I club Sa . Fran< Isdo. has wired Ad Wol gast an offer of Ala.ooo. win. lose or draw o fight a twenty-round bout witlt Willie Ritchie a) his club. Thanksgiving da> if the champion does not accept Granev s <>ffe-. an effort will be marie to match I Mandot with Ritchie . . . I*4 101-', the veteran yuslralian. who I I l as handled some of the best fighters tn the business. >s a' Sheridan Park hos pital. in Chicago, in bail shape as the re 'suit of a street car accident which hap- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1912. Reynolds had a swell chance to achieve headlines, but Kissinger tightened up like a drum and the big catcher hoisted one to Halll nan and let it go at that. It was a good, snappy finish all right, and the fans yelled as they haven't yelled in many' a week. It would be a total loss of white paper to narrate in detail how the multitudinous runs were scored. • • • QNE of the features of the game was Johnson's great head work in changing his shoes. In the first of the ninth, after a base on balls and a scratch hit had made it look as though the Turtles were up to their old tricks again, Johnson stopped the game, walked to the Cracker bench, borrowed a pair of shoes from Manager Alperman and donned them After that he was invincible. He Inveigled Doc Sea bough into hitting into a double, and the inning was over. • • • -pHE Memphis team did some no table hitting. Kerr showed his versatility by getting two singles, walking once, allowing himself to be hit by a pitched ball once and hitting one fielder’s choice. Schweitzer captured one base on balls, singled twice and hit one double. Baerwald also batted well, but got in Dutch by loafing pal pably on Callahan's hit in the eighth, which went as a three-bag ger, thanks to his languid work. • « » a LERTNESS pulled Rube Kis •4' singer out of one bad hole. With two down in the fifth Bales and Hallinan made errors, allow ing Johnson and Agler life. Hat bison was next at bat. With two strikes on him he turned to rub his hands in the dirt. While he was thus engaged. Kissinger slip ped over the third strike and re tired the side pened several weeks ago. Foley, who is without funds, has appealed to his friends for aid • • • Abe Atteli. former boss of the feather weights. is seeking a return match with Champion Johnny Kilbane. Atteli has picked up Herb Brock, a coast light weight, and swears his find'' is destined to become a champion in a very short time ♦ ♦ ♦ Joe Hirst made Backey McFarland ex tend himself to the very limit several times during their six-round fight at Phil adelphia recently, according to The Phil adelphia Ledger The writer savs the whirlwind had better cultivate several streaks of muscle across his stomach be fore he meets Champion Ad Wolgast. in New York TY COBB SELLS NAME FOR TRADE MARK ON SHOES NEW YORK. Sept. 4. According to the official report of United States Commis sioner of Patents Moore, just issued, the autograph signature and name "Ty Cobb." of Tyrtts R. Cobb, the baseball star, of Royston, Ga . has been made the trademark of a rich manufacturing cor poration of Brockton. Mass., and certifl cate of registratien on the signature has been Issued as serial No 64199, In class 39. of clothing, for use on their brand of sporting shoes. The corporation claims they acquired from Ty Cobb the right to use this sig nature as a trademark and have «o used it since October 18. last year. The amount paid Cobb in consideration i tor its use is not stated LOCAL CHECKER EXPERTS IN KNOXVILLE TOURNEY Lieutenant T J. Driscoll, of the At lanta fire department, accompanied bv Sprague Hall W S Newman and G R. Bishop will represent Atlanta in the Southern checker tournament which will be held at Knoxville on September 11 and 12 These players are amors the best of the local cracks and Atlantans beliece that they will be able to bring back ’he ,'aurels from the meet 14 MEN REPORT FOR FIRST WORK DOT ST TECH Fourteen candidates for the 1912 football team reported at Tech fiats yesterday and were given their first workout of the season. Leuhrmann and Thomason are the only varsity men who have reported so far. but many more are expected to blow in be fore the end of the week. For their first work, Coaeh Heisman simply carried the players through a physical culture drill which took up most of the time. He also allowed them to do some passing, punting and falling on the ball in order to get their muscles hardened as soon as possible. Os all the men who were out for prac tice not one came Up to the standard weight. Coach Heisman will have the boys otit for practice every afternoon at 4 o’clock. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Memphis in Atlanta Ponte DeLeon. Game called at 3:30 o'clock. Nashville in Chattanooga Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. \V. L. P C. B'ham. SO 49 .621 N'ville. .59 67 .468 Mobile . 74 55 .574 Mont. . .60 6'' .466 N. Or. 68 60 .531 C'nooga. 57 67 .460 M’mphis 63 65 .492 Atlanta 48 77 .364 Yesterday's Results. Memphis 8. Vtlanta 6. Mobile 3, Montgomery 2. Nashville 3. Chattanooga 1. Birmingham 6. .New Orleans 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Philadelphia in New York. Washington in Boston. Standing of the Clubs. W. 1.. P.<'. it . L. PC. Boston 89 37 .706 Detriflt. .58 71 .450 Wash. . 78 51 .605 ("land .55 72 .433 Phila 75 51 .595 N. York 45 80 .360 Chicago. 63 62 .504 S. Louis 44 83 .346 Yesterday's Results. Washington 4. Philadelphia 2. Chicago 5, Detroit 2 (first garne t Chicago 6. Detroit 6 (second game.) New York-Boston, rain. Cleveland-St. Louis, off day NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. New York in Philadelphia. St. Louis in Cincinnati Standing of the Clubs IV. L. PC W L. PC N York. 84 37 .695 C'nati. . 62 65 .488 Chicago. 80 44 .645 S. Louis 54 71 .132 P burg. .72 53 .576 Br'klyn. 45 78 .366 Phila .61 61 .500 Boston 38 87 .304 Yesterday’s Results Chicago 5. Pittsburg 2 (first game.' Pitsburg I, Chicago 0 (second game.) Boston o. N4w York 1. Philadelphia 5. Brooklyn 4. Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.U W. L. P C. M'apolis 96 52 .651 M’w'kee 69 77 .473 C'bus 91 57 .615 St. Paul 66 84 .440 Toledo .88 60 .595 L'vllle. .55 90 .379 K City 72 73 .497 l apolis .53 97 353 Kansas City 8. Minneapolis 3 Columbus 10. Toledo 4 Louisville 2, Indianapolis 1. Milwaukee 5, St Paul 3. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. I W. L PC. Toronto. 82 54 .603 ' M'ntreal 63 72 .467 Hoch . .78 56 .582 i Buffalo . 60 70 .462 N'wark 68 66 .507 .1. City .62 74 .456 B’more. .66 66 .500 I P'dence 57 78 .422 Yesterday > Results Providence 5. Newark 3 (first game ) Newark 2. Providence I isecond game.) Hochester 6. Toronto 2 (first (fame.) Rochester 9. Toronto 2 (second game.) Jersey City 7, Baltimore 4. Montreal 4. Buffalo 3. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE Standing of the Clubs. W. L P C | W. L. PC. Br io! 58 37 611 ClTand. 45 47 489 K'xv'le 53 46 .535 | A’eville 44 56 .440 J City 47 45 .511 > M'town 38 54 .413 Yesterday’s Results. Bristol 4. Johnson City 1. Knoxville 4, Morristown 2 Cleveland 16, Asheville 5. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W L PT’. W, L P.C. Psburg 77 49 611 N”folk.. 61 64 .488 R'noke 65 53 551 P’m'th. 55 60 .478 R'mond 64 64 500 N. N'we 46 78 .371 Yesterday’s Results. Richmond 3, Petersburg S Portsmouth 5. Norfolk 4 Roanoke 1, Newport News 0 (six in nings: raim. Muggsy McGraw Planning Team for Years Ahead Giants* Manager Operates a Training School By Rube Marquard. I HAVE often marvelled over the fact that even in the hbat' of a pennant race, such as the one in W’hich our club is now engaged, Manager John J. McGraw, of the Giants, finds time to give the fu ture a good deal of consideration and to maintain a training school for the production of baseball stars fov the years to come. You would think that a man fighting for a chf mpionship would forget the future —and most man agers would; but not McGraw, it is further evidence of the base ball genius of the Giant chief that he can keep in front with one bunch of ball players and at the same time build underneath them, as you might say, a second team to eventually take the place of the first string. The average manager bases his success on picking up men who are naturally good ball players, and who only requite a little devel opment. McGraw needs only the roughtest material of youth and speed to form his teams. He is as pet ia 11 y a »manufactu r< i maker of players. Frbm one end of the season to the other he has a training school operating in tlie midst of his tegular ball club, and he manages tT> find time to p'oduce one or 'two stats a ycijr. t>ven while the fight for the pennant is raging. In what you might call his bench primary class. McGraw now has FODDER FOR FANS ’ “A ball player is a fool tn pay any it tention' to what is said to him on the field."—-Bill Sweeney • ft ft Head in a Buffalo paper. "Napoleon I.ajoie is Among the Real Second Base Kings." Perchance, also it might be ad mitted that "Tv Cobb is One of Our Best Little Batsmen" and "Walter Johnson is one of the Cleverest of Washingtons Pitchers." • ft ft Dolly Stark. ex-Southern leaguer, per petrated a run-in with Umpire Jack Dunn at Buffalo and is noA adorning the bench. • * ft Claude Derrick isn’t playing with Bal timore at present He is suffering with a savage charleyhoss. • ♦ ♦ Minor league stars have corne high th s year, but they had to have them. 'There have been no record sales, but the White Sox gave SIO,OOO for Catcher Hay Sciialk, of Milwaukee, and have agreed to pay the same amount for Liebold and Chappells of the same club. Detroit paid Kansas City $12,000 for Corridon and Cleveland gave up SIO,OOO for Chapman .(stage money, maybe.) w • • Arthur Fronime allowed 38 hits in eight consecutive games recently, an average of less than five to the game. • * • In conceding, as he did on September 1, that the Red Sox had gone away with the American league pennant Connie Mack finished abouf two millionth in the American league guessing contest. Ail the rest of us had piped it off a week be fore. * * * Here is a list of 'the ten biggest big league disappointments of the year: Teams: Cardinals. Browns. Naps. Ath letics. Phillies Players Marty O’Toole. Joe Willis. George Chalmers, Del Gainer. Chief Bender. • • • The PelicaD fans don’t believe in giving up their money. And when Knaupp col lected $24 for a home run Sunday it was the first time money had been tossed to a player in New Orleans for four tears • • • Perryman, who goes to the Giants this fall, has lost eight games for Richmond. In seven of them not a run was scored for • • • him by his teammafes Birmingham has scored the most runs of any team in the league t 499). but the Mobile team has allowed its opponents the least (243) The Crackers rank tlurd in the number of runs scored, but they have allowed more than any other team in the league • • • A new umpire was working in the American association Rube Waddell hit a clean home run, but the umpire called It a foul ball. Joe Cantillon, the Minne apolis manager, rushed up. to the umpire, prepared to blow his head off—but didrft. This is what the umpire said that made him desist. ft ft ft ‘’Keep away from me, Keep away from half a dozen young pitchers, and that number will probably be in creased before the close of the sea son. as several others are ex pected to ieport. In addition to this primary class. McGraw has another more advanced grade of students, composed of infielders and outfielders who will one day be stars of the game. Sits on Bench and Learns. A most st:iking example of the McGraw system is furnished by young George Burns, an outfielder. Any other manager in the league would probably have hurried a boy of Burns' natural ability into the regular line, with a prospect of im mediately developing any weakness that he might have. :ather than his strength. Burns can hit well, and is very fasl. He is also a crack fielder. All he lacks is experience, and he is getting that under the McGraw method .of sitting on the bench and watching. Burns reported to .the team last fall, and played in a few games. He w.Cnt to Marlin with tlie re cruits. and the fact that l.e was one of the few retained showed that McGaw though' highly of him. Then his ' education commenced. He plays in exhibition games, once in a while he is sent up as a pinch hitter, but generally he sits on the benvlt during the championship game, watching and listening. He sees and-hears about the mistakes of others. He hears McGraw’s ob servations. and the observations me. If you get me excited 1 can’t do a thing." ft ft ft When Hamilton pitched a no-hit game against Detroit the other day he was the second American league left hander who had ever done it. Jesse Tannehill was the other. • • • Jim Fox’s great showing in winning the second half of the Sally league season, coupled with his previous great record with Columbus, should make the former Cracker first sacker a strong favorite for a job as manager in the Southern league. Jim doesn't look like a manager, but, then, neither docs Connie Mack. « * * Well. Jimmy Johnson has broken the Southern league record for stolen bases. He passed Joe Rickert's mark on Mon day. By the way, didn’t we predict that a couple of months ago? • • • Birdie Cree, whose wrist was broken by a pitched ball, has rejoined the Highland-, ers. • * . One thing the Giants have on the Red Sox is base stealing ability. Still, that didn't get them much against the Ath letics. ft ft ft Doc White is to manage the Sacra mento team of the Coast league next sea son. JACKSONVILLE AND COLUMBUS MEET IN FIRST GAME TODAY The post-season series of seven games to decide the pennant winner in the South Atlantic league will begin at Jack sonville today. The teams will play seven games, if necessary. The first three games will be plated at Jacksonville, the second three at Columbus, and in the event that a sev enth Is necessary the city showing the largest attendance will get the deciding game Morrow or Weidell will work for Co-, lumbus. while Abercrombie will pitch for Jacksonville, in the first game of the series. KILBANE FIGHTS DUNDEE TONIGHT: DEFI FROM ABE NEW YORK. Sept. 4.-When Feath erweight Champion Kilbane meets Johnny Dundee tonight in a ten-round bout at the St Nicholas Athletic club, he probably will receive a challenge to box Abe Attell, from whom Kilbane won his title on the roast Attell told his friends today that he would be at the ringside and would challenge Kii bane. of the older players. He is learning the weaknesses of the oooosing pitchers. Some day he may take his place in tiie regular line, and when he does he will be ptactically a fin ished outfielder. McGraw does not believe in putting an inexperi enced man into critical games, whether he is a pitcher or an out fielder. or anything else, and the wisdom of his course has been proven time and again. Arthur Shafer, the crack Cali fornian, can hardTy b? classed as a recruit student. He could take his place in the regular line right now. He has gained his experience as the others must gain It, and he is out of the regular line only be cause of the fact that equally bril tian' players who have the added value of longer set vice stand in his way. Arthur Fletcher had to take his turn on the bench until last year, when the trade for Herzog opened the way for tegular service, and Fletcher has been a great player from the moment he Fred Merlyle sat back for several years, and s> did Heizog when he first joined the Giants before going to Boston. Meyers Worked Way Up. Chief Meyers played second fiddl® for a time when he joined the Giants, but finally worked his way' to the position of fi st catcher of the club. Now. Arthur Wilson, a verv fine receiver, is the second man, while behind him is Grover < 'leveland Hartley, who will some day be a great star. McGraw docs not try t,o hurry the development of a man. He goes along slowly and carefully with him, studying not only his ability, hut ills temperament, and the day .that McGraw says a man is ready you can Avager he is. That Is usual ly true. too. when McGraw says a man is done. His mistakes in judg ment on ball players liav? .been mighty few and far between. Hov many youngsters discarded by him after trials have become stars? Beneath his brusque mannerisms and way of speaking McGraw has an infinite patience. Errors of judgment may irritate him. but er rors of hands or feet are never no ticed. A “boot" means nothing to him. A “bone" arouses his ire. He will take hold of a youngster who is so raw that the average manager would probably release him after a glance: work him along very pa tiently, until one day he presents a new star. I believe that McGraw can see a bail player quicker than any man in the business. 1 doubt if it takes him more than a day or so to cor rectly estimate a fellow, and many a time he has demonstrated his judgment by turning loose some youngster whose work most people thought stamped him as a coming sensation, and clinging to anothe raw recruit, who has shown the casual observer nothing. McGraw "Saw” Tesreau. Last soring. 1 remember, there was a great deal of talk about this and that recruit pitcher In tiie training eamp. McGraw overheard some of the correspondents dis cussing the different men, and finally he remarked quietly: "Well, you fellows can have all that kind—l'll take this big boy Tesreau for mine.” And Tesreau has fulfilled Mc- Graw's judgment. McGraw likes players of his own making. He makes fewer deals f>' men from other teams than any of the manager'. He prefers a player who has been through his own per sonal school. He would pay an' amount for an experienced play if he felt that the vetefan could help him win a pennant, but as a general proposition you would hav a ha'ri time handing him an old timer from some other team. H* likes his own productions.