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Crackers Must Win Every Game From Now On to Get Out of Last Place
VOLUNTEERS ARE HERE FOR THREE DAY STAY
By Percy 11. Whiting.
_ ADIES and gentlemen, we have
j with uh today the blighted
remains of a once great ball
team, to wit: the justly celebrated
Volunteers of Nashville. Despite,
the fact that owing to accidents,
injuries and certain financial and
legal cataclysms experienced by the
club, it does not occupy a proud f>o
sition in the first division, it is at
least the second best team of the
northern divish n of the Southein
league, and is likewise the leader
of something, said something being
the second division. •
• • •
\IfEIRD as it may seem at first
'* glance this contest today Is
a crucial one! It i . indeed. Re
ginning with today, unless Atlanta
wins every game yet to he played
and unless Chattanooga loses every
one, the ('rackets are doomed to
finish last. There’s nothing else to
•it. Today begins the final and ulti
mate show-down
What the outlook is we leave to
the imagination and the arithmetic
of the reader
• • •
•pHE truth is. there aren’t likely
1 to be any more changes In the
league race. Os course Montgom
ery and Chattanooga may either of
them noso out Nashville from its
proud position in the lead of the
second division. But the rest of it
seems to be settled beyond all ques
tion.
Mobile made a grand fight and
all honor goes to Mike Finn. Prom
now on the Gulls will be busy stay
ing ahead of the Pelicans—but they
will do it because they are a bet
ter ball club, which is an excellent
reason, as anybody will admit.
• • •
AFTER fourteen innings of wild
and savage playing, in which
extra base lifts were as plentiful as
pickles at a free lunch, the Crack
ers and the Turtles divided a dou
ble-header equally between them
at Ponce DeLeon Wednesday after
noon. The Atlantans took the first
game. 7 to 5; the Memphians cop
ped the second. 7 to 6
The crowd at the start was a«
slim as a living skeleton, due chief
ly' to the sac t that the double-head
er was not well advertised, and as
Umpires Hart and Pfenninger 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 aw ful
liberties with the best Parsons had
to offer in the first two innings of
the first game. Most of the dam
age was done by three-baggers. In
the first inning, with the bases full,
Pitcher 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 reef in himself w hile
Becker, believing he had the con
test where he wanted it. eased up
There was a trifle too much easing
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 Tut ties had
designs on a victory in the seventh
and they went at it strong, but
Becker summoned all he had and
sawed the visitors off short.
• • •
IF one were Inclined to be < arping
ly critical it might be pointed
out that Baerwald lost this first
game for Memphis. McElveen s al
leged three-bagger should have
been merely a fly-out to the Bear
Cat. But he lost the ball in the
sun—-a foolish thing for an expe
rienced right fielder to do. even if
that garden in Atlanta is the worst
In the league—-and that misplay
let three runners get across, enough
to turn the tide from Memphis to
Atlanta. This poor play, coupled
with 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
and in a satisfactory manner. When
Hart and Pfenninger turned up at
11:15—they had stipjroseii there was
to be but one game, like most ev
erybody else in Atlanta—there was
big cheering from the crowd and
the players.
• « *
npHE second garni hid as many
* slant- and twists to its as a roll
er coaster. Memphis got away
with two runs fight off the reel,
due to Absteln's horseshoe homer.
This ball was a clean single, but it
took a wretched hop just before it
got to Bailey and sailed over his
dome. Crandall, who had walked,
went home ahead of Abstein.
The < raeki rs did a little scoring
on their own account in the third.
There wasn’t anything fancy about
it. The Atlantans just whaled into
Doe Newton's delivery, as is their
wont, and chased the runners
across.
The Turtles cut down this lead by
one run in the sixth, when Halil-
rFODDER FOR"FANS
Frank Dessau couldn't make a go of
it with Kansas City and has been sent
to the Lincoln club On that team he
will be associated with former Southern
leaguers, including Paul Cobb. Berg
hammer and Miles Stratton. This seems
to indicate that the tears shed by At
Inntans over Dessau’s departure were
largely wasted.
w • •
Ty Cobh is batting more than 150
points better than his brother Paul.
And Ty faces pitchers fully twice as
good 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. fie does It by pitching shut-out
ball Otherwise, nothing doing. The
man who goes to the Giants this fall
worked that stunt Libor day . and. thanks
to the fact that his team mates piled up
tb.e unprecedented number of I run be
hind him, he copped.
Pittsburg figures that if Babe Adams
had not 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 Ray Schalk. for whom the
White Sox gave SIO,OOO. is the second
catcher who cost that much The other
i was Mike Kelly i niter plat ers who cost
i that much or more were O'Toole Mar
I quard, Russell and Clarkson.
• • •
Schalk was born at Harvel, lit . of Ger
man parents He is 7. feet 10 inches tall
and weighs 170 pounds He started last
season with Hie Taylorville, ill team
Milwaukee paid SI,OOO for him
• • •
The Phillies sat their bad showing was
the result of trailing at Hot Springs.
At I, But then, the Red Sox trained
there, too Also, be it noted Hutt the
Red«. who got the best training weather
of all at I’ohiml ns. <fa . are finishing no
where It isn't where ton train ihnt
wins you pennants, but \\||AT too train
and lli’W you train em
• • •
Barm i Drey fuss lias promised to so,
the Pennsylvania railroad because it did
not get his team from Clm Innati to
Pittsburg in time for the Labor day
Kames Barney bad sold 30.000 tickets
for the games
Robby Quinn, the business manager of
'he Columbus . lub, wants to form an
Ohio league, with dubs at Cincinnati
Cleveland. Columbus. Toledo and four
lesser burgs If he Is interested to
know how continuous bush league bail
draws he is advise*! to consult Colonel
Heinen an. lao president of the New Ur
lean (Cotton S'ates league) club
• » •
Johnny McGraw in an interview tn
Boston. say* that al! that beat the
Giants out «f the world's serie.* last year
was • igl: hick He expects to beat the
Fb • S x this >ear with strong pitching
and fast base-running. If ho cares at aP
’" ' 'hat opinion uit h loud - talking
n'one> lucre is small doubt but that he
will be accommodated.
• • ■
• Managing < baseball team r. Cincin
| t .'tti is ;i I ard ».»b For testimonials, ftp
ply to Charley Comiskey, Bid McPhee,
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. IfM2.
nan triplid, sending Bales home
ahead of him.
Then came the turgid seventh.
Details are unnecessary, but, any
how. Bernhard’s men batted home
four tallies.
With the 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. Bradi first
up, strolled. Agler hit a fielder's
i hoice 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 filed
out. Again Atlanta hearts beat
hopefully when McElveen singled,
sending Harbison to third. When
lite pinch came 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 thing
started out pretty much of a farce,
it really developed into an 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 tvas
most marvelously good. And what
little the hits lacked in number they
surely made up In length.
Buck Ewing. Ned Hanlon. John Ganzel.
Chirk Griffith and Hank O’Day. Next .’
Joe McC.innlty. the rusty Iron Man.
has handed Rochester nine defeats this
season. The old boy seems to have
something on ’em.
New York papers say Tommy McMil
lan times his throws as yvell as Bill
Dahlen ever did- and Bill was a regular
chronometer at that.
* t *
It is given as experl, big league opin
ion that on a dark day the only way
to sec Joe Wood's speed is to attach
. a lantern to it.
• • •
Tim lied Sox played the lowlv Yanks
in New York on Labor day and 25.000
. fans turned out. despite a drizzling rain
to .-.<»♦» the Red Sox. That shows what
, curiosity will do.
Lour nut of ihe ten leading base steal
ers in the National league are Giants.
< >r.c out of tlie ten best in the American
is «i Red Sox. This may spell something
1 in the coining 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, in world’s series or anything else?
But then, that was last spring
• • ♦
Topsy Hartsei will not manage Cleve
land next year He has decided to sign
again with Toledo. Wise decision.
• * •
Here is all The Birmingham News
claims for Smokeville and its ball chib:
"Birmingham Is absolutely leading the
Southern association.
'Birmingham led in the opening dav
attendance
' Birmingham led in the Fourth of July
at:endance
Birmingham led in the tabor dav at
tendance
Birmingham is leading the league in
tot;.! attendance for the season.
"Birmingham has the record fur series
1 I at t. udance
"Birmingham Is leading In the race
I for the pennant.
Birmingham has the best baseball
l plain iu ti e league
Birmingham has a clean-cut baseball
team .omiaised of gentlemanly nlavers
; who play the game for all it.is worth
"Birmingham has 'he most enthusiastic
and fairest-minded rooters around the
f circuit."
i —— ——
VIRGINIA RACE IS CLOSE.
PETERSBURG. VA . Sept. s.—Rich-
I mond's defeat. S to 2. by Petersburg
yesterday afternoon, ended Richmond’s
chances for the Virginia league p. n
i nant and Roanoke, now leading, will
’ begin here today a series of four
- games. which will decide the race. It
; has been the olosest race ever in the
r 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 Tues lay.
inri is a half game ahead of Peters
, burg.
“Kid” McCoy Is Poet
•?•►{• - ’•4’ ?
Writes Verse in Jail
! NEW YORK. Sept. s.—The fol-!
J lowing poena was composed by Kid)
McCoy jn Brixton jail while he was J
I waiting for extradition proceed- !
J Ings: <
! Kindness seeds are sown by deeds, !
Cultured by love’s affection. S
Nature's arm protects from harm !
All those who need protection.
Love's bright charm allays all alarms
And strengthens the will of the!
mind, ?
So when in doubt turn things about (
And view them from behind. !
Let reason's bright light
Guide desire and appetite.
/ Should happiness be your goal. !
S Don't scatter to the wind
S The thoughts of the mind, <
> They that come from your soul. <
! The poem was not made public!
’ until McCoy was safely outside the!
! jurisdiction of the British author-!
? ities.
Fboxing - "
Late News and Views
Joseph B. Angello. better known as
Joe Coster, signed articles for.life Sunday
when he married Katherine Tuttle. The
pugilist and his wife have booked passage
for Jacksonville, and will spend their
honeymoon traveling in the South.
* * «
“One Round" Hogan and Frankie
Burns have been matched to tight twenty
rounds at San Francisco September 9.
Hogan and Willie Ritchie were 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, wall remain in the West for a
few weeks, as the Southern champ plans
to do a fi\w 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 sised both hands
to advantage.
• • *
Jem Driscoll lias booked passage for
the United States and should arrive here
before many moons. The little fighter
will seek matches with Ad XVolgast and
Johnny Kilbane, after which he will like
ly go to Australia to fight before Hugh
Mclntosh s club.
• • •
Kay Bronson has signed articles of
agreement to box a twelve-round bout
with Hilliard Lang, at Winnipeg. Septem
ber 9. Bronson fought Clarence Ferns
at 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 Vegas 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 fight be
tween Joe Jeannette and Jack Johnson.
Jack doesn't know where he will stage
the tight, but he lias already secured
Jeannette's consent fcr the scrap.
- • •
Although Joe Mandot defeated Mexican
Joe Rivers at Los Angeles Labor day. he
fought at a great disadvantage. The lit
tle tighter had to breathe through his
mouth during the fight, as he was af
fected by the Western climate.
• • •
Freddie Welsh says he will return to
England shortly Surely no one will
mourn the loss.
• • *
\lthoi:gh Joe Sherman ofearb uutpoint
ed Harry Trendal! at Memphis Labor day,
die best he could get whs a draw. Sher
man Is looked on oy many of his South
ern followars as a < tuning champion in
; he light weight division.
GRIFFIN TO REFEREE
BURNS-HOGAN BOUT
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. s—Jim
Gtiffin has been selected tn referee the
Burns-Hogan bout at Coffroth's arena
Monday afternoon. The referee was
named at a conference between Cof
froth and Managers Gorman and
Boag
Jack CTirlev left for Portland yes
terday without coining to terms with
Ross oth for a Flynn - Knufn n bout.
There is a question of finances between
them and the bout is in the air.
\re you bus' this evening? Even' if
vou are. take a few moments off and read
i lie great list of bargains in ever? line on
rhe Warn vi Pages of hjs paper. You
will be repaid many times.
Hebrew Hos on Trail of Kilbane for Another Title Battle
ATTELL CLEANS $35,0N IN ONE POKER SITTING
By Ed. W. Smith.
CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Abe At
tell did beat the San Fran
cisco pokei 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 he Is just as good a man as
ever he was.
The only way he can do that is to
drag Johnny Kilbane into a ring
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 bis wife and
a young coast lightweight named
Herb Brock, whom Abe swears is
destined to become a real cham
pion within a very short time.
While 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 the 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. s.—Although
friends 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 narowed 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 trie semi
final match will be left.
interest centered largely in Charles
Evans. Jr., Jerome Travers —the two
favorites —Norman E. Hunter, the
English player who has so fa: escaped
elimination, and Warren K. Wood. The
four men played lu excellent form yes
terday and it was predicted they would
put up an exceptional struggle today
Pairings for today:
Mason Phelps vs. Jerome Travers,
Paul Hunter vs. H. Kerr.
Charles Evans. Jr., vs H. Schmidt.
IV. K. -Wood vs. N. E. Hunter.
AL DEMAREE ON WAY TO
JOIN GIANTS IN PHILA.
MOBILE, ALA.. Sept. 5. —A! Dema
ree. crack pitcher of the local club
ami sold to the New York Giants for
.U 'HO and several play ■ r-. is on l.is way
today t > report to the Glams in Phila
delphia. where they are now pinyin;;.
Manager McGraw wanted Demaree to
report earlier, but Manager Finn re
fused to let him go until the Southern
league race was settled, and with al!
chance to catch Birmingham lost and
second place practically cinched, M- -
Craw's request was granted yesterday.
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 I had coin and per
fectly good paper to a total of $35,-
000. 1 negotiated this paper the
following day and sent the entire
amount to Nejj' 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 great big T. Just
naturally got enough of It. that’s
all. No, sir. 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
The Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on
how the “Big Five” batters of the
American league are hitting:
PLAYER— ~A.~B. H. Ayer.
COBB .. 478 | 197 | .412,
SPEAKERi 496 196 ( .395
JACKSON j 475 175 | .368
COLLINS | 444 , 149 .333
LAJOIE 342 111 j ,325
Ty Cobb gained a point and a half
yesterday by 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 Ca
jole didn't get a chance to do anything
as the Naps were idle.
THOMPSON RECALLED FROM
BROCKTON BY NEW YORK
A PHENS, GA.. Sept. s.—Red 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 by 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., for 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 Jost was a score of 1 to 0, the only
hits he gave up being two bunched
doubles which let In the one run.
Thompson has just ben recalled by
VV olverton to the Yankee eamp and
he is declared to be fit to pitch in any
of the major leagues. He was v'Olun
tarily this week raised In salary from
$250 to $275 a month and a cash offer
of $3,000 was iefused for him from
one of the International teams.
HERbISHEIM Go AI?
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that I find with him is that he !«
not capable of holding it and de
fending it in real championship
style. Just look at the men he is
fighting and who are holding him
even. Why, even little Tommy
Dixon knocked him down and
blacked his eye.
“Just the other day Jim Coffroth
wired him an offer of SB,OOO for his
end to battle me in San Francisco
on Thanksgiving day. The reply
came back that Kilbane already
had hooked up with Tom McCarey
for that date.
McCarey Cuts Price.
“Afterward I got a wire from
McCarey offering me mighty stingy
terms to fight Kilbane Thanksgiv
ing day. I declined at once. Me-
Carey evidently thought that 1 was
so wild to get a return match w ith
Kilbane that I would fight him for
next to nothing. But I haven’t gone
completely crazy just yet.
“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 all over the
country 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
These averages Include all games played
to date by the Crackers.
Players— G. AB. R. H. AV.
Price, p 3 7 0 3 .429
Harbison, ss 74 259 32 75 .250
Bailey, Ifl2B 445 85 127 .285
Alperman, 2b123 463 61 129 .279
Agler, lb 64 215 36 58 270
Callahan, cf 87 328 32 86 .212!
Graham, c 62 192 20 47 .215
McElveen, 3b133 481 52 115 2 <
Reynolds, c 24 76 12 15 .T 8
Becker, p 16 38 2 7 .184
Brady, p 23 71 3 12 .168
Sitton, p 28 64 11 10 .156
Wolfe, utility 19 52 5 8 153
Johnson, p 8 18 0 1 .056
Waldorf, p 10 25 0 1 040
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