Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 05, 1912, EXTRA, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Text6 [GKSfiffl IXXtBn L EDITED Jy W S FARNSWORTH LA ___ _____ ——— ■——■■ ii ~,„ | Jeff Puts One Over on Mutt Occasionally at That ;: :; ;: ;; By “Bud” Fisher ■ ——“ -—.—■ - - , - . . r~ io you ' VouDIOJ ) - , ■'"')'- l VAjtuu, whay DO I lost ! ( huh* \ . see H- A slack bag yov th,nk, I ««V <- , ™ * IX wwh « n , Tt — ■ \ ' T - ™J i *: I T .-C™* J r v + I , - wt tH» !2 w ’ V . i — -i- g. T &1 ? r 5 c. Fv no / Fwi w> -■ Sjffi . W w vE taSr f - ? 2 1 ■s Hi O fer ' Ji _>■-■ fl . fW-jf » will V J- dw 3_lJ ''V w -_ ~ wg n\A -xfr • 9 - vM| _ I|M_ =' IBw I1 I Hl .’*-*"• .it XiSiT, Vj^rti^— - - - - -~, --.—.. - . ,_ ‘ 11 "" ’ 1 111 ■ ■* ■■,-■■ I Crackers Must Win Every Game From Now On to Get Out of Last Place VOLUNTEERS ARE HERE FOR THREE-DAV STAY By Percy H. Whiting. 1 ADIES and gentlemen we have with us today the blighted remains of a once great ball . team, to wit: the justly celebrat'd Volunteer* of Nashville Despite the flit that owing to accidents. Injuries and certain financial and legal cataclysms experienced by the club, it does not occupy a proud po sition m the first division, it Is at least the second best team of the northern division of the Southern league, and is likewise the loader of something, said Something being the second division. • • • \I7EIRD as it mat seem at first ** glance, this contest today is a etucial one' It Is. indeed Be ginning with today, unless Atlanta wins every game set to be played and unless Chattanooga lose? every one. the Crackers are' doomed to finish last There's nothing else to it. Todas begins the final and ulti mate' show-down. W hat the outlook is w. leave to the imagination and the arithmetic of the reader. • ♦ • I'HE truth is. there aren't likely to he any more changes in the league rat e. Os course Montgom ery anil Chattanooga mas either of them nose out Nashville from Its proud position in the lead of the second division But the rest of it' seems to be settled beyond nil ques tion. Mobile made a grand fight and all honm goes to Mike Einn. From now on the Hulls will bo busy stay ing ahead of the Pelicans- but they will do it because they ate a bet tei ball dub. which is an excellent reason, as anybody will admit • ♦ ♦ APTER fourteen innings of wild * and savage playing, in which extra base hits were as plentiful as pickles at a free lunch the Crack ers, and the Turtles divided a dou ble-headei equally between them al Ponce DeLeon Wednesday after noon The Atlantans took the fiist game, 7 to 5: tin Memphians cop ped the second. 7 to fi The crowd at the start was as slim as a living skeleton, due chief ly to the fa< t that the double-head er was not well advertised, and as empires Hart and T’fenninger did not show up for the beginning of the first game and as Pitcher .Mer ritt was sent In to umpire the players made sort of a kidding bee out of it The Crackers took awful liberties with the best Pa'-sons had to offer in the first two innings of the first game Most of the dam ag< was done by three-baggers In the first Inning, with the bases sud. Pit her Price, who was subbing In right field, hit a screamer to cen ter that sent three runs home In the next inning with the bases similarly loaded McElveen put a three-bagger to his credit and three more runs .sifted over The general complexion of things changed after these two innings Parsons took a lees in himself while Becker. believing lie bad the con test where he wanted it eased up There was a trifle too much rasing for complete Cracker comfort. In the third Bernhard's men .sent one runner across. And in the sixth they piled up four tallies. It was evident from the preparations and demonstrations that the Tur, les nad designs on a victory in the seventh and they went at it strong, but Becker summoned ail be had and -awed the visitors off short. • • • IF one weie inclined to be taiping- Ij critical it might be pointed out that Baerwald lost this first game for Men phis McElv'•■■n s al leged three-baggei should have been merely a fly-out ♦" the Bear •'a. Rut he lost the ball In the sun—a foolish thing for an expe ritmed iignt fi< dir to (io. even if that garden in Atlanta is the word in the league—and that misplay let three runners get across, enough to turn the tide from Memphis to Atlanta. This poor play, coupled witli Baerwald's loafing on a hit Tuesday, made his work look mighty bad here? It might be worth mentioning that Merritt's umpiring was excel lent. The players kidded him strong but he ran the game with firmness a.id in a satisfactory manner. When Halt and Pfenninger turned up at 3:ls—they had supposed there was to be but one game, like most ev erybody else in Atlanta -there was big cheering from the crowd and the players. • • • <-pHFi second game had as many * slants and twists to its as a roll er coaster Memphis got away with two runs right off the reel, due to Abstains horseshoe homer This ball was a clean single, but It took n wretched hop just before it got to Hailey ami sailed over his dome Crandall, wh > had walked, wen: home ahead of Abstein. I he ’ rtekers did a little scoring on their own account in the third There wasn't anything fancy about it. The Atlantans Just whaled into Doe Newtons delivery, as is their wont and chased the runners across. The Turtles cut down Illis lead by one run in the sixth, when Halil- I fodder for"fans ] !■ rank Dessau couldn't make a go of •it with Kansas t’ity and has been sent II" the Lincoln club. On that team he ’Will be associated with former Southern leaguers including Paul Cobb, Berg barumer ami Miles Stratton. This seems to indicate that the tears sited by At lantans over Dessau's departure were largely wasted. • • • I' Cobh hatting more than 150 points better than his brother Paul. And T> face' pitchers fully twice as goud. Which seems to prove that bat ting doesn't always run in families • • « Divinity Student Perryman, of the Richmond team, the Original Man of Sorrow, has found out how to win a game He does it by pitching shut-out ball. Otherwise nothing doing I’he man who goes to the Giants this fall t 1 'hat stunt Labor day. and, thanks to the fact that his tram mates piled up the unprecedented Lumber <»f I run be hind him. he copped. « « • Pittsburg figures that if Babe Adams bad nut been Injured the Pirates would be up around the top today. As it is. they have accepted third place as the best possible, and changed the subject. Catcher Kai rfclialk. for whom the VV 111te Sox gave SIO,OOO. is the second ' atelier who cos', tnai much The other was Mike Kelli Other players who cost that much ot more were O Toole, Mai quard, Russell and Clarkson • • • Sehalk was born at Harvel. 11l of Her man parents He is S feet ’.O inches tail mid weighs 170 pounds He started la«t season with the Tavlorville 111 team Milwaukee paid SI,OOO for him • • • Tie Phillies sai their bad showing was the result of training at Hot Springs, Vrk But then, the Red Sox trained there, too. Also, be It noted that t |,g Reds, who got the best Gaining weather of all at Columbus, tin . are finishing no where It isn’t where iou train that wins you Pentiums, bit WHAT vou tram and HOW you train 'em ... Batnei lire', fuss has promised to sue the Peiinsi Iv ania railroad because it did not get tits team from Cincinnati to Pittsburg in time for the Labor dm games Harney had sold '0."00 tickets for the games Bobby cjuinn. the business manager of the Columbus club, wants to form an ohlo league, with clubs at Cincinnati, Cleveland. Columbus Toledo and four lesser burgs If he is interested to know low continuous bush league ball draws lie is advised to consult Colonel Helben.au late president of the New fir lean (Cotton States league! club • l< >;nny McGraw in at interview In Rm-ion. says that all that beat the Giants out of the worlds series last rear was tough luck IJe expects to bea- the Re.; S"X this voar with strong pitching and fast base-running It he cares a' ap |’o back that "pinion with loud-talking n "ne.t t!e>e s small doubt but that he will be accommodated j Vlat egmg a baseball lean Iti t'ltirm |r; ’. is a hail i"b For -eat imonialf ap pt.' to Charley Contiske.'. Bid McPhee. THE ATLANTAGEOWJAN AND NEWS. THUKSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1912. nan tripled, sending Bales home ahead of him Than came the turgid seventh. Details ate unnecessary, but. any how. Bernhard’s men batted home tour tallies. With Hie Crackers three runs to the bad and with only a half in ning to go, Manager Bernhard slipped in Parsons for another try at the Crackers. And they pro ceeded to get to him. Brady, first up. strolled. Agler hit a fielder's choice, but Bailey did something for his country with a homer that scored two men. That brought the Crackers to within one run of a tie. It looked gloomy for Memphis when Harbison singled, but the dope switched when Reynolds Hied out. Again Atlanta hearts beat hopefully when McElveen singled, sending Harbison to third. When the pinch carfie it was a battle of curves vs. the punch between Par sons and Callahan, and the Mem phis man got the verdict when he forced Callahan to pop to Bales, ending a tight game. Considering that the whole tiling started out pretty much of a farce, it really developed into Un excellent afternoon's sport, and while it might be justly observed that the pitching wasn't the best in the world, it could be Offered, on the other hand, that the batting was most marvelously good. And what little tiie hits lacked in number they surely made up in length. Buck Ewing. Ned Hanlon. John Ganzel, Clark Griffith and Hank O'Day Next\ Joe McGinnity. the rusty Iron Man, lias banded Rochester nine defeats this season The old boy seems to have Something on 'em. New York papers say Tommv McMil lan times his throws as well as Bill Dahlen ever did- and Rill was a regular chronometer at that. i • » « It is given as expert, lug league opin ion that on a dark day the only wav to see Joe Wood's speed Is to attach i a lantern to it. The Red Sox placed the lowly Yanks in New York on Labor day and 175.000 , fans turned out, despite a drizzling rain to see the Red Sox. That shows what i curiosity will do. I Four out of tlie ten leading base steal ers in the National league are Giants. l>ne out of the ten best In the American is a Red Sox This may spell something tn the coming world's series But something that read very like this didn't spell a thing in the last world's series By the way. didn't the American league publicly announce it wasn't going to have anything more to do with the National league, m world's series or anything else" But then, that was last spring • • • Topsy Hartsei will not manage Cleve land next year He lias decided to sign again with Toledo. Wise decision. • • • Here is all The Birmingham News claims for Smokeville and its ball club: "Birmingham is absolutely leading the Southern association "Birmingham led in the opening dav attendance Birmingham led in the Fourth of Julv attendance "Birmingham led in the laibor dav at tendance Btrtnii’gl am is leading the league in total attendance for the season. "Birmingham has the record for series all endanee "Birmingham Is leading in the race for 'he pern am "Birmingham has the best baseball plant in the league Birmingham has a ( lean-cut baseball teau composed of gentletnanh placers who plai the game for all it is worth "Birmingham has the most enthusiastic and tairest-minded rooters around the ■ circuit " VIRGINIA RACE IS CLOSE. PETERSBERG. VA . Sept. 5. — Rich mond s defeat R to 2, by Petersburg yesterday afternoon, ended Richmond s chances for the Virginia league pen nant and Roanoke, now leading w il' begin here today a series of four games, which will decide the race. It has been the closest race ev et In the : Virginia league. the three leading teams having a chance at the flag un til three days before the season s close. Roanoke went into the lead Tuesday and l« a half game ahead of Peters burg “Kid” McCoy Is Poet W r ‘* es V er se in Jail J NEW YORK, Sept. 5. —The fol-$ i lowing poem was composed by Kid $ j MC-Coy in Bi ixton jail while he was 5 <J Availing for extradition proceed-A Ings: < (Kindness seeds are sown by deeds, S Cultured by love’s affection. Nature's arm protects from harm j All those who need protection. Love's bright charm allays all alarms < And strengthens the will of thej mind, ? So when in doubt turn things about; 5 And view them from behind. ? Let reason's bright light t Guide desire, and appetite. ? Should happiness be your goal. < S Don't statler to the wind > The thoughts of the mind, S > They that come from your soul. < < The poem was not made public) ? until McCoy was safely outside the) ? jurisdiction of the B’itlsh author-) > ities. < [boxing Late News and Views ’oseph B. Angello. better known as Joe foster, signed articles for life Sunday when he married Katherine Tuttle The pugilist and his wife have booked passage for lacks* nville. and will spend their honeymoon traveling in the South V « 4 "One Round” Hogan and Frankie Burns have been matt tied to fight twenty rounds at San Francisco September 9. Hogan and M illie Ritchie wore matched to box in Frisco Labor day, but Ritchie hurt an arm while training and was un able to appear. • • • Joe Mandot and Harry Coleman, his manager, will remain in the West for a i few weeks, as the Southern champ plans to do a few weeks in vaudeville. • • • Billy Bennett, lightweight champion of Ireland made his debut in this country last Saturday, when he outboxed Jimmy Lore in seven rounds of a ten-round bout at New York. The Irish champ showed some fast footwork and used both hands to advantage • • • Jem Driscoll has booked passage for the I ntted States and should arrive here before many moons The little fighter will seek matches with Ad Wolgast and Johnny Kilbane, after which b** will like ly g” to Australia to fight before Hugh Mclntosh’s club. • • < Ray Bronson has signed articles of agreement to box a twelve-round bout with Hilliard Lang, at Winnipeg. Septem ber 9. Bronson fought Clarence Ferns hi Indianapolis Labor day. and came near being knocked out in the first round. However, he came back strong and man aged to get an even break with the "Wildcat." • • « The fact that the Johnson-Flynn match at Las N egas July 4 proved a financial failure evidently doesn t cause Promoter Jack Curley to give up hope in the pro motion of other contests Curley is mak ing a strong effort to stage a tight be tween Joe Jeannette and Ja<,k Johnson. Jack doesn’t know where he will stage the tight, but he has already secured Jeannette's consent for the scrap - • • Although Joe Mandot defeated Mexican Joe Rivers at Loh Angeles Labor day, he fought at a great disadvantage The lit tle fighter had to breathe through his mouth during the fight, as he was af fected by the Western climate • • • Freddie Welsh says he wiil return to England sborth Surely no one will mourn the loss • • • Although Joe Sherpiar clearh outpoint ed Harry Trendall at Memphis Labor da', the best he could get was a draw Sher man is looked on by man> of his South ern followers as a coming champion in the lightweight division GRIFFIN TO REFEREE BURNS-HOGAN BOUT SAN FRANCISCO. Sept t.—-Jim G'iflln has been rejected to referee the Burns-Hogan bout at Coffroth's arem Monday afternoon The referee was named at a conference between t'of froth and Managers Gorman and Boag Jack Curley left for Portland yes terday without coming to terms v th CofTtoth sot a Flynn-Kaufman bout. There is a question of finances betwe-.i them and the bout is in the air Vre you busy this evening' Hven if you are, take a few moments off and reao the great list of barga ns m ever' tine cn the Jtan: Ad rages of this paper. You * ill be repaid many times Hebrew Hot on Trail of Kilbane for Another Title Battle ATTELL CLEANS $35,01)0 IN ONE POKER SITTING By Ed. W. Smith. Chicago, sept. s.—Abe .\t tell did beat the San Fran cisco poke, games for $35,- 000. and better than that, he kept every penny of it. He has the money banked now in New York. Best of all, though, he has quit gambling altogether now’ that, he has a nice little start toward a big bankroll. The height of Attell’s ambition right now is to show the public that be is just as good a man as ever he was. The only way he can do that is to drag Johnny Kilbane into a ting again and beat the daylights out of him. He thinks this may be an almost Impossible task in the light of what has happened recently. Has a New Champion. Attell passed through the city, being- in town about five hours. He was accompanied by his wife and a young coast lightweight named Herb Brock. whom Abe swears is destined to become a teal chanj pion within a very short time M hile in Hearst's American of fice Abe told us that the advance stories of his big winnings at the poker plays were true, although some of tne details were not cor rect. "It took only one sitting for me Kilbane and Dundee Both Claim Victory In Ten-Round Bout NEW YORK. Sept. 5. —Although ft lends of Johnny Dundee, the clever little New York featherweight, today claimed a draw for their idol in his ten-round bout with Featherweight Champion Johnny Kilbane at the St. Nicholas Athletic club last night, the title holder supporters were just as sure that a decision would have gone to Kilbane had decisions been allowed by law in this state. Kilbane did not train after his ar rival in New York, saying that he felt fit to tackle Dundee. But the little New Yorker proved a surprise. He showed unexpected strength and speed. There were times when Kilbane laughed with the crowd, when his own blows missed their mark. ONLY EIGHT REMAIN IN RACE FOR GOLF TITLE CHICAGO. Sept. 5. —With the strug gle in the national amateur golf cham pionships narowetl down to four pairs of contestants, play in the third match round was started today . Today's play was expected to develop the real strength of the champions, and when the afternoon's play was over only the four men who will show in the semi final match wilt be left. Interest (-entered la-gely in Charles Evans. Jr.. Jerome Travers—the two favorites —Norman E. Hunter. the English piayet who has so fa: escaped elimination, and Warren K Wood. The four m. n played in excellent form yes terday and it was predicted they would pul up an '-X( t'ptional struggle today. Pairings for today : Mason Phelps vs. Jerome Travers. Paul Hunter vs. H. Kerr. I'ha-les Evans. Jr.. vs H Schmlut. W K. Wood vs. N. E. Hunter AL DEMAREE ON WAY TO JOIN GIANTS IN PHILA. ■MOBILE. ALA.. Sept. s.—Al Dema ree. k pitch'> of th. local club ant s"■(' to the New York Giants sot $7,000 and several player-, is on his way today to report to the Giants in Phila delphia. where they are now playing. Manager McGraw wanted Derttaree to repor; earlier but Manager Finn re fused to let him go until the Southern league race -va« settled, and with all 1 banco to catch Birmingham lost and second place practically cinched M. Grave's request was granted yesterdav. to gather in the entire $35,000,” Abe said. "We had a mighty rich senator in the game and a couple of other men that own millions, and my luck never deserted me at all during the entire sitting of 22 hours. Decides to Quit Poker. "When the whole thing was over I discovered 1 had coin and per fectly good paper to a total of $35,- 000. I negotiated this paper the following day and sent the entire amount to New York to be banked there to my credit. "After getting rested up and thinking over the whole thing. I decided then and there to quit gambling for all time. This bank roll gives me a dandy start and I decided that at my time of life it was about the proper caper to get something laid away. "No. they won't tempt me into the poker games again, because I'm through, with a gieat big ’l'. Just naturally got enough or It. that's all. No. str. not even the so-called friendly game. Going After Kilbane. "I want that title back. It doesn't belong to Kilbane. for one or two very good reasons. To begin with, he just scratched out on a mighty bad decision, and the other fault Il : 1 Ihe Big Race I ■ | Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on • i how the “Big Five” batters of the I American league are hitting: PLAYER— A. B. H. Aver. COBB ... 478 197 .412" SPEAKER 496 196 .395 JACKSON 475 175 .368 COLLINS 444 149 .333 LA JOIE 342 in 325 Ty Cobb gained a point and a half yesterday bv securing three hits in five times up. And Tris Speaker lost a pair of points by grabbing only one safe swat in five trips to the plate. Eddie Collins “stood still.” He was up thrice and connected once. Jackson and La joie didn’t get a chance to do anything as the Naps were idle. THOMPSON RECALLED FROM BROCKTON BY NEW YORK ATHENS. GA Sept. s.—Rod and Black fans and the Georgia boys, par ticularly of recent years, will be glad to ‘ learn of the magnificent success which has attended the work of Carl Thomp son, star pitcher for Georgia's baseball team for three years, who made the record of strike-outs in a regular col lege game last year, and who was im mediately afterward signed up for the New York Americans bv Scout Arthur Irwin. He showed up fairly well in his two or three games pitched for the High landers and was then sent to Brock ton. Mass., tor the season's seasoning. On the Brockton team in the past two months he pitched ten games, won eight, tied one and lost one. The game he lost was a score of 1 to 0. the only hits he gave up being two bunched doubles which let in tile one run. Thompson bus just ben recalled by Wolverton to the Y’ankee camp and he is declared to bF fit to pitch in any of the major leagues. He was volun tarily this week rais 'd in salary from $250 to $275 a month and a cash offer of $3,000 was refused for him from one of the International teams. TerSsheimCigar /lllwayis 'J* Good jrrjpke l o tiq that I find with him is that he 1» not capable of holding it and de fending it in real championshin style. Just look at the men he i« fighting and who are holding him even. Why. even little Tommy Dixon knocked him down anil blacked his eye. "Just the other day Jim CofTtoth wired him an offer of SB,OOO for his end to battle me in San Francisco on Thanksgiving day. The replv came back that Kilbane already had hooked up with Tom McCarey for that date. McCarey Cuts Price "Afterward I got a wir ■ from McCarey offering me mighty stingy terms to fight Kilbane Thanksgiv ing day. I declined at once. .Vic- Garey evidently thought that 1 was so wild to get a return match with Kilbane that I would fight him ''<>r next to nothing. But I haven't gone completely- crazy just vet. "Coffroth then wired Kilbane that he would give him the New Year's day date with me. but never got a reply to this. From this I can see that Kilbane doesn't want to fight me at all. The papers al! over the count.'y are scolding him for his poor showings, and I hope that some day he may become ashamed of himself." Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date I hese averages include all games played to date by the Crackers. Players— G. AB. R. H. AV. Price, p 3 7 o .1 i.> Harbison, ss 74 259 32 75 I Bailey. Ifl2B 445 85 127 ,rt.. Alperman. 2b123 463 61 129 27' Agler. lb 64 215 36 58 .270 Callahan, cf 87 328 32 86 .2'F Graham, c 62 192 20 47 21.'. McKlveen, Sbl33 igj 52 115 ; u Reynolds, c. 24 76 12 15 .n t Becker, p )6 38 2 7 .IS I Brady, p 23 71 3 12 .16« Sitton, p,28 64 II 10 .156 Wolfe, utility 19 52 5 8 j:.. Johnson, p s jg 0 j nr,i; Waldorf, p 10 25 0 1 .010 Men and Women I CURE YOU TO STAY CURED, of all chronic, nervous private. blood and \ skin diseases. 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