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Mil TRUST
HORST OF ALL,
SAYS DAVIDSON
DRAFTING rules seemed per
fectly satisfactory until they
began to get into operation,
and then the little technicalities be
gan to show up. In the main these
rules are satisfactory to class AA
übs. but there is one flaw in them
that lends an advantage to the ma
jors that is hardly fair to the mi
nors concerned. The drafting sea
son extends over a period of five
and disappointments can be
tinned into happiness by what is
known as “supplementary” drafts,
nr drafts that are filed after the
first deal. Like poker, you can dis
card and call for more to help your
hand. This would j>e all right if ft
worked equally. But several class
A A drafts were disallowed this year
because major league clubs were
permitted to cancel some drafts
made and take a new pick. Ver
non and Los Angeles put in drafts
for players from St. Joe. but all
were disallowed because the majors
had filed 'supplementary" drafts,
or taken two picks.
* « •
A MENDMENT to the drafting
* ‘ rules should be made so that the
firs’ deal should be the limit. As
the rules now work, the majors
may scramble for the first pickings,
and then if they fail they can
cancel their original drafts
back after the class of the rem
nants. By the time they get through
picking the minor league bone,
there is nothing left for the class
AA clubs. Supplementary drafts
should be canned because they de
feat the real reform asked by the
minors, In that drafting should be
allowed only for the purpose, of
strengthening, not for brokerage
purposes.
♦ ♦ ♦
TINDER the present rules, class
v A clubs are classed as minors
when it coms to drafting, as the
rafts of the majors count against
the class A A clubs. For instance—
If a major league club takes a class
A player, a class AA club can not
draft a player from the same club.
In other words, a class A club can
lose only one player and there are
the majors and the class AA clubs
in pick from the class A clubs. If
the majors beat the class AA clubs
to a class A player, the class A club
is exempt from drafts from a class
AA dub. In other words, the class
AA clubs have really no more draft
ing privilege than they had before
the new agreement was signed, ex
oept in the matter of drafting
prfrp.i
♦ • *
V-.RAFTTNG is a farce, anyway.
It should not be permitted at
all. Instead of an agreement that
permits a raid by leagues of a
higher classification upon an infe
rior league, the right of private con
tract only should be recognized.
Let every club make its own con
tracts and buy and sell and trade
at will, as long as no violation of
private contracts occurs. This will
be the stand that the minors will
take when the present national
agreement comes up for renewal.
Tinder the present rules the right of
private contract is prohibited, and
time limits are prescribed in which
minor league clubs may deal with
one another, all in the interest of
the majors.
• • «
p LAYERS have certain inalien
able rights, guaranteed by the
constitution of the United States,
and the right of private contract is
"tie of these guaranteed rights,
heir clubs also should have equal
tights. Let the minors develop their
phenoms and sell them, but cut out
the drafting business as a matter
nf setf-defense for the player and
tie developing club. Many a mi
r.'n leaguer is drafted who gets no
(Hance to show his class or to
draw major league salary. Yet his
•ib is weakened in his loss and
some other minor league club is the
t>. ner without right and without
'l ue received being given.
• * »
n NGPOLIES and trusts are
sometimes permitted to flourish
t°r laws that are just about the
•’me as the rules that prevail in
matter of drafting and protec
on under the national agreement
etween the majors and minor
g'm baseball clubs. Private
■ “monte of this nature would not
lerated if they applied to any
ine of business. Depriving
mdividual of an asset without
' recompense and without his
' nt. both of which are legal
aider the national agreement
•n force, is strictly prohibited
. constitution of the United
■ bttt unfortunately it has not
"tempted to apply it to ba.se
and the baseball trust
• » •
B of the organized type
•i trust of greater and meaner
'ban the United Steel trust or
"'her business organization
„ ‘'* been disturbing politics for
sc °re of years. The baseball
’S' not nniy destroys the right of
, ■ ' ontract. bpt makes slaves
. humans and creates and en-
' tracts without th" consent
rp ai contractual party. Sign
'.lot league club and you
'•nimon serf bpcnusc of
■ton of the reserve clause
•’•tbits you from loniuei
’ • and he. ause a "law "
Punishes the other party
■ • 'ntra.'t wlth vou
"b lei I of thr ha so ha I
I' 1 11 ny tht ight of prl-
J 1 ’ i< t. an.l i has I.eon m
operation for gavernl
No Channel Swim for Pitonof
Girl; to Try Again Next Year
London, oct. 11—women
waiting for an opportunity
to swim the English channel
this year have grown stout and ro
tund in the dolce far niente of anx
ious expectation.
In the particular instance of Miss
Rose Pitonof. of Boston, who spent
six weeks at Dover gazing upon the
irate sea. this compulsory indo
lence brought an increased weight
of 26 pounds.
But Rose did not grieve. She
thinks that a little extra fat will
aid her in duplicating the magnifi
cent performances of "Bill" Burgess
and Captain Webb.
Rose figured upon losing part of
her avoirdupois between Dover and
Calais and continued to enjoy the
tender roast chickens that were
provided by Papa Pitonof every
evening in anticipation of a possi
ble attempt.
Nor did it affect this ypung Amer
ican girls good humor to see her
self gaining in width rather than
height, and when she finally found
the scales tipping at 144 pounds and
looked up from her four feet eleven
inches into the face of a grinning
reporter, she* merely laughed and
asked for more chicken.
Experts in gastronomy all along
the Dover Promenade were agreed
that the mountains of sandwiches
and cases of bottled refreshments
furnished every day or so by Pito
nof, pere, for the delectation of the
cross-channel swimming party,
would have been a total loss if it
had not been for the devotion of
fishermen and seamen.
But the tragedy of the thing lay
in other quarters.
Alas, Food Costs Money.
Week after week passed in end
less waiting, a waste of time and
money, but not of matter. Papa
Pitonof. who had abandoned the
fortunes of his grocery store to the
cares of Madame Pitonof in a Bos
ton faubourg merely to pilot his
daughter into aquatic fame—pool
Papa Pitonof became gloomier
every day. His face grew melan-
PIPE DREAMS
- By GEORGE E. PHAIR ■■■ '
Knockout Brown modestly admits
that he is the greatest middleweight
extant, but they do say that he is preju
diced.
♦ ♦ ♦
Just to show his versatility, John
Evers passed up the umpire in a recent
game and started a fight with Joe
Tinker. Reports from the ringside con
firm the impression that he is not
built for a white hope.
« * A
This is a disastrous year for base
ball. Dr. F. R. Carson, president of the
Central league, threatens to quit and
leave the game flat on its back.
* » •
Job sat alone and emitted clouds of
gloom.
“What football team is he coach
ing?” they asked, wondering.
GENIUS.
O laugh no more at the mental stunts
That are taught In the highbrow
schools,
Nor think the student is but a dunce
Or the college the home of fools;
I met a talented rooter once
Who deciphered the football rules.
* • •
No, Oswald, there is no truth to
the report that Mr. Murphy will
give Mr. Chance a pension.
• ♦ *
Would it not be exhilirating to see
Mordecai Brown hurling against
the Cubs? Or would it not?
• * ♦
Theodore Roosevelt is a great lit
tle manager, but Roger Bresnahan
and Hugh Duffy can hand him some
valuable information on the futility
of trying to get team work out of a
suffrage movement.
* ♦ *
Another way to get a line on the
world’s series is to read all the ex
pert dope pertaining thereunto and
then forget it.
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37-J9 Peachtree Street j(jOMP AN Y [ At/anta, Georgia
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1912
choly as the skies, as he pointed his
new binocqlars from the French
window of his furnished room upon
the dancing waves of the channel.
He could see the coast of France,
beckoning sadly through a veil of
gray, but the longer he looked and
the more he sighed, the wilder
danced the treacherous currents of
the Scylla and Charybdis.
And Eli Pitonof gave up at last.
Even Rose, smiling through a tear
but losing none of her buoyant
spirit, threw up the sponge and
bade au revoir to the good things
and bad things of Dover. She vow
ed to return next spring when she
will be just eighteen years old; and
Rose will keep her word, provided
father and mother agree upon the.
expediency of leaving the weather
proof delicacies of the Dorchester
(Boston) grocery store for the un
certainties and perplexing problems
of channel swimming, to say noth
ings of the enforced chicken diet.
However, Miss Pitonof, plucky
little lady that she is. was not the
only disappointed woman swim
mer.
Hard on Lily, Too.
Miss Lily Smith, the champion of
Britain, was quite disenchanted and
absolutely angry at the unconcilia
tory attitude of the elements. She,
too. was ready to swim, waiting pa
tiently and gaining in weight, but
the day never came. She returned
to London just in time to witness
Pitonof’s record swim of sixteen
miles in the glacial waters of the
Thames, Indeed. Rose swam the
longest distance ever swum by
woman and stayed in the water four
hours and thirty-four minutes,
while the men in the accompanying
launches lay buried in blankets and
overcoats.
When the girl emerged from the
water under the darkness of London
bridge, she was as tit as a fish and
ready to jump in again.
"1 am going back to America
now." she said, “but 1 will return in
the spring and carry this eagle here
on my swimming suit from good old
England to sunny France."
WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE
IS DOPE.
They stood at his bedside and hope
lessly sighed:
"He soon will be under the clov
er.”
“Oh. not by a jugfull!” he gal
lantly cried:
"At least till the series is over.”
* * •
Being a fan in St. Louis during a city
series is not without its compensations
One can always get a good seat.
* * *
WHITE SOX LINE-UP.
(October 8, 1912.)
Walsh, p,
;;
PARTED.
(An Unpopular Song.)
It was a balmy autumn day, the sun
was in the west.
The foundry whistles all had blew, the
birds had went to rest.
He whispered in ihe maiden’s ear as
gentle as an ox:
"Tomorrow I will take you. deal', to root
for them there Sox."
The maiden turned away
And to him she did say:
<’HURL’S.
"You have broke my heart, you low
b ro w.
My feelings you have hurt.
Al! is over now between us.
You can get another skirt.
For the lovelight in your blinkers
Is nothing but a shine;
1 loved you once, but not no more
< tremulo)
The Sox don't go for mine ”
ALABAMA TR PLAY
YELLOWJACKETS
TOMORROW
The first real game of the college
football season in Atlanta is set for
decision tomorrow afternoon when*
Tech and the University of Alabama
meet.
The game will start at 3 o'clock.
These two teams seem peculiarly well
matched and the game between them
should be a corker.
Alabama is coming to Atlanta with
a much stronger team this year than
that which held Tech 0-0 last ’all.
The new grandstand that runs paral
lel to the field and directly opposite to
the present one. is practically finished
and will be ready for use Saturday.
This new stand will seat 1.500 persons.
The entrance will be from that side of
the field. The view there is really bet
ter than from any other stat.
Alabama will be in the game minus
the sei vices of her captain and quarter
hack. Moody, while Tackle Elmer, of
the Tech eleven, will also be out.
The probable line-up of the two teams
is as follows:
Alabama. Tech.
H. Vandegraaf. 'e./ Hutton, le.
Hamilton, It. . .Leuhrman (Capt.i, It.
Gandy. Ig, ..Montague or Welchel. ig.
Ridley. c L O eb, <•.
Hicks, rgMeans, rg.
Gibbons, rtColley, rt.
Jones, reGoree, re
Joplin, q. McDonald, q
McDowell, IhbCook. Iho.
A. \andegraaf. rbbFielder, rhb. !
Long, fb. . .Thomason, fb |
TECH HI LOSES PLUCKY
GAME TO G. M. A. ELEVEN
Though heavilx outweighed. Hie Tech
nological High school football team put
up a pliickx game agaiYist the strong
Georgia Military academy eleven yester
day. Although the score does not indi
cate it. both elevens were about evenly
matched, and each made first down an
equal number of times
Georgia Military academy scored in the
first quarter after a stubbornly contested
march to their opponents’ goal. \ fluke
forward pass in the second quarter,
which bounded from the hands of Simp
son. the Tech High school quarterback,
who tried io intercept if, into the arms
of an awaiting opponent, resulted in Geor
gia Military academy’ ssecond and lasi
score. Georgia Military academy missed
both tries at goal.
The third quarter 'saw honors about,
even, with the play confined to the mid
dle of the field. Tech High school took
the aggressive in the last quarter, car
rying the ball almost the length of the
field t<» within six inches of Georgia Mil i
itar\ academy’s goal, where it rested I
when the whistle blew.
Ti ere were no particular stars on the
Georgia Military academy eleven. Each
man played a good, consistent game.
Meeyrs. Barton and Colcord showed to
advantage for T< <:li High school.
CARDINAL PLAYERS COP
ANOTHER FROM BROWNS
ST. LOUIS. Get. 11.—Singles by
Mowi-ey ami Evans and Stovall's error
in the eighth inning gave (he St. Louis
National I ague iTub the second game
of tlie inlet-league series for the <-itv
• i impionship with the local American
league team here yesterday, 3 to 2.
The (mericans got a run in the sec
ond inning on a hit and two errors.
In the fifth the Nationals took the lead,
scoring two runs on three passes, a
single and another pass. Austin's dou-|
hie. a wild pitch and a single in the |
same inning tied it for the Americans. |
ATHLETICS COP AGAIN:
STUFFY McINNES STARS
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 11 The Phila
delphia American league baseball team
made it three out of four in ihe local
interleagu* series by winfiing from the
National league team yesterday. 4 to 3,
Mclnnes. the Americans' first baseman.
scored two runs and got a double and
single off tii, ilelivery of Moore, who
started pitching for the Phillies. Beaton
relieved Moore in the seventh inning,
and Bri>r. n, who started for the Athletics,
was succeeded by Bender in the fourth
inning
BREWER BESTS ROWAN.
SALT LAKE. UTAH. Oct. 11. Har
ry Brewer got the decision over Martin
Rowan at the end of the fifteenth round
here last night The fight was the
fastest even seen in this city
PACKEY M'FARLAND FIGHTS
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA. Oct. IL—
Packey McFarland and Tommy Kll
bane clash in the ring here tonight.
Local tans look for the Chicago hoc to
The Boston Rooter Speaks
By MORTON BIRGE - ■ '
OH. maybe they'll fight in the Balkan States and maybe,
again, they won’t.
And just this minute there’s nobody here cares much if
they do or don’t,
But there IS a scrap that is on today that is regular heart
throb stuff.
The same is the thrilling Pennant game in the shadow of
Coogan’s Bluff.
Oh. the wide, wide earth is a big. fat place, with a whole lot of
people, too.
But only one spot and a blamed few men mean anything to you.
And that one place is the Polo Grounds, where the Giants and
» Red Sox play.
And these two teams are the only folks that interest you today.
Os these two teams —well, there's one we know—Oh. go it, you
Red Sox boys.
And here is a Gloom for Muggsy’s men; for the Red Sox only
•Joys.
With our fingers crossed and our breath held hard we wait for
the news to break.
And everything else sits down ‘way back till we hear from the
Boys and ‘■.Jake.”
L - _
ED KETCHELL WINS.
LANSING. MICH., Oct. 11.—Eddie
Ketchell stopped Fred Langham in th" •
third round of the eight-round final
here last night ,
The "Laying in Stores
of Fashion and Good Form
fills week-end begins the Season. There’ll be theaters,
dinners and many social affairs to get your attention.
I’he things that must Lave your attention a bit in
advance are those verv necessary to vour social com
fort.
'l’he same thoughtfulness is of great value tn the
man of business who plans for the “Ever-Well-
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Shirts -Stiff bosom, plaited or plain, soft shirts, plaited or plain.
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(Tocheted and knitted silk scarfs SI.OO to $3.50
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CYCLONE JOHNNY WINS.
FOND DU LAC. WIS., Oct. 11— Cy
clone Johnny Thompson made a chop
ping block of Aft Godfrey, of Minne
apolis. here last night.
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• •
: Attendance 34,624; :
: Receipts $63,142 :
• ■ •
• BOSTON, Oct. 11—The na- •
• tional commission figures for at- •
• tendance and receipts at yester- •
• day’s game show: •
• Total attendance, 34,624. •
• Total receipts, $63,142. •
• National commission's share, •
• $6,314.20. •
• Players’ share, $34,096.66. •
• Flach club's share, $11,365.56. •
• With one tie game already, and •
• with a fail- chance that eight •
• games will be played in the series, •
• the receipts ought to run above •
• anything ever known before. Here •
• is a comparison of the receipts and •
• attendance last year and this •
• year. •
• 1912. 1911. •
• Attendance 100,502 101,783 •
• Receipts. .$196,638.00 $195.714.j0 •
• Players . . . 106.183.94 105,793.83 •
• •Clubs .... 70,789.96 60.529.22 •
• Commission . 19.661.10 19,395.45 •
• Each winner 2,895.92 3,022.68 •
• Each loser . 1,930.60 2,015.12 •
• •
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STEVE KETCHELL WINS.
AI’RORA. ILL., Oct. 11—Steve
Ketchoil decisively defeated Jeff O'Con
nell in their six-round bout last night.
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