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Frank’s Salary Plan Would
Rob Cracker Team of Bailey,
Alperman and Other Players
By Percy 11. Whiting.
IF Charley Frank's justly exe
crated "sliding scale” salary
Unlit,ls put in force it will cost
the Crackers from four to six of
their best players. Either it would
bar off such men as Alperman and
Bailey, and making the signing of
McAllister. Smith. Klrke. \\ • ivei
and Donnelly an Impossibility, or
else it would make necessary the
most barefaced salary limit dodg
ing that tile Southern league lias
ever seen.
Do you wonder Bill Smith has
passed up the American and Na
tional league meeting that he
L will beat it to Birmingham early
to attend the Southern league ses
sion and to light against Charley
Frank’s pet scheme”
Frank's sliding scale system looks
as hnrinlesH as a jellyfish. It pro
vides that you are entitled to pay a
•jj salary corresponding to the num
ber of players you have $3.60n for
eighteen players, $3,400 for seven
teen. dnd so on down to $2.t00 for
twelve. The joker, concealed up
the sleeve of this harmless little
salary limit. Is a provision that no
team may pay over $250 a mouth
i, for any player.
Imagine some of the topliners in
the Southern league playing for
$2lO a month that is. imagine it IF
YOU CAN. We can't. Can you
conceive the yell that otto Jor
dan or virtually any of the ex-big
leaguers who are in good trim
would let out if their salaries were
eut to s2sti a month. \ tush day
in a boiler factory would he placid
compared with it
• • •
Nr« >T being familiar with the pay
roll of the Cracker team, we
aren't prepared to say which mem
bers of the chib received over $250
a month last season, but it's mor
ally pertain that a good many of
them did. Alperman and Bailey
were both men entitled to more'
ft. than $250 and both undoubtedly got
it. It is a cinch that Alperman i*
a high-priced man. In fact, 4'har-
I ley Hemphill virtually admitted it
and was so worried over the mat
ter of getting “Whitey ” signed that
he went to see him at his home in
Etna, Pa., and closed the de d with
him there. Hailey, considering
where he came from, must hav<
been a high-priced man. and tin
same is true of Aglet.
And look al the men Smith is
I rounding up for next year. Fat .
chance of getting Wallace Smith.
Jay Khke. Arlie Weaver, or Don
nelly to sign for $250.
Either the Frank scheme must
be beaten or else two alternatives
are presented to get rid ~f these
starmeii and to replace them with
T better onfs. or to evade tin salary
limit. And to etude the limit in
such fashion that it would appear
that these men wei , being secured
j, at $250 a month would be so ,aw
as to offend even the often tested
gullibility of President Kavanaugh.
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I TF it were at all possibh to niloit
" * thia $250-to-a-player limit, xvhivl
g of coutse it isn't, it might be a good
thing to put it in foi.e GRAD
SA. x TALLY. it could lie p ovlded th it
there would be no limn for n,-xt
season on the salary paid any play -
1 er. For 1914 tile limit . ould lie »3ihi.
for I*ls it might !„■ $275 all.: by
1X1.5 the $250 limit < ould b> eased
over. In tills way niauugr j ould
prepare themselves forth, shock
■ ami could be gradually getting rni
of their high-priced players.
It's childish. lioyvever, to take ,my
4 •rdinary s tlury limit too seriously
y, if a limit o| $27,0 on each
ttcie n < ffeci
w oi l.
the long run salary limits don't
keep managers from paying yvhat
they want, any more than laws
against stealing keep people from
stealing.
• * »
NTGT changing the subject,
’ abruptly or any thing, but pa
pers-of big league towns and lit
tle are carrying a lot about Mike
Balenti and his chance of making
good in the big leagues
Theo Breitenstein gave out an in
terview recently in which lie de
clared the man to be a wonder, and
Bill Smith, who had Balenti last
summer, reechoes the belief.
"They can talk all they want to
algmt Dee Walsh.” says Bill Smith,
“i«nd yy hat he'll do in the big
leagues, but tills Mike Balenti will
play little round rings around him.
Walsh is a brilliant man. but lie
lias a lot of faults. Balenti has ev
erything except base stealing abil
ity, and he may be able to get that.
We worked with him last spring
and taught him how to slide. But
somehow he couldn't keep the slide
after lie once lea, ned it. Sometimes
lie could make it and sometimes lie
would misk. But barring this
weakness, he Is a wonder- -a good
hitter and a good fielder. I be
lieve he will stick.”
• • •
'p HF, Providence club is sending
a lot of players Southward.
This Detroit farm shipped Charley
Schmidt to Mobile, James Gillespie
and t'harley Street to Chattanooga,
and tlie rumor has it that Jakey
Atz is to be canned and that he will
come back to the Southland.
The i eport from Providence is
that this Gillespie may make Chat
tanooga a very valuable man. He
played yvith the Rocky Mount team,
of tlie Eastern Carolina league, in
1909 ami finished out tlie season
with tlie Grays. Tlie next spring
lie looked like a million dollars in
gold and yvas put on third regular
ly. Shortly after the season start
ed he was spiked and it slowed
him down tremendously for tlie
time. While he‘was working with
a limp the relentless bleaeherites
jumped him anil they made his life
a curse. His goat departed and it
did not return even last spring. His
batting eye departed with the goat
and he became a j>oor performer.
Providence experts believe that Gil
lespie, with a good star and a
change of environment, may make
a cm king good man.
« * •
r pilE publication of the averages
of tlie Cotton States league has
given the fans of the Southern
league a chance to note tin l marks
of a lot of Southern leaguers who
have "passed down."
Old Carlos Smith —who was near
ly an Atlantan a couple of times,
but never quite made it—- hit .348
and virtually led the league. Mar
tini and Sparks, both former Crack
er pitchers, hit .290 and .254. re
spectively. Gene Demont, former
second baseman and by-way-of
b' ing-manager of the locals, bat
ted only .231. but led the league
shoitstops in fielding.
CANADIAN RACE HORSE
RIDES ABOUT IN CRATE
WINNIPEG, Dec. 9.—Alberta.
2.03 :: I. by Searchlight, 2:03 1-4, is the
small, st horse that ever heat 2:05. He
stands t'i'elv. hands high, and tips the
seales at i,w pounds. Ti aim r Georg,
II ag pu;.-' him in a erate, as if lie
"' *■ a > ... p or goat, and -hips him
from town to town at a riving of sev
tsa Hip II .1 M< Kenxle. tin
< unadlan mllllonaiie horseman, for-
I merly owned Alberta, hut gave the ani-
| lll ,1 t" a I elatiy ein yy innip, g.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1912.
HERRMANN KEEN
TD MME WAR
ON MURPHY
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. —A set of
nice, five-ounce boxing
gloves may come in quite
bandy before the National league
baseball magnates conclude their
annual meeting tomorrow evening,
unless (larry Herrmann, owner of
the Cincinnati club, and Charles
Webb Murphy, president of the
Chicago Cubs, come to some amica
ble understanding about the Joe
Tinker deal.
Peace loving magnates of the old
league, who hoped for a harmonious
meeting, were fearful today that
their hopes would not be realized,
following Herrmann's remarks to
day at his quarters at the Waldorf
that Murphy had so far given him
a raw deal in the Tinker matter,
and unless Murphy shifted tactics
at once and kept his promise to
grant Tinker to Cincinnati, so
Herrmann could make him man
ager for 1913, "something will hap
pen."
Fogel Scandal Again!
The “something” is taken to
mean that Herrmann will insist
that Murphy be put on the grill by
the league leaders for his connec
tion with the Fogel scandal, which
resulted in the banishment of the
latter as president of the Phillies.
The deposed leader of the St.
Louis Cardinals, Roger Bresnahan,
is making a claim for $4b,000 for
money due him on his unfulfilled
contract. The belief among base
ball men is that the directors will
legalize Bresnahan’s claim, but the
league can not force Mrs. Britton to
pay.
Most of the magnates arrived
here before noon today and many
informal conferences were held, at
which trades and sales were dis
cussed. Many deals will be put
through before the conclusion of
the meeting.
Ad’s Wailing Foolish; Ritchie Must Fight Him
•?•••«•
Naughton Says “Robbery” Cry Will Disgust Fans
By W. TV. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.. Dee. 9.
—ls Ad Wolgast is yvise he will
regard recent events in as phil
osophical a spirit as possible. There
yvill surely come a time—and that
before very long, possibly—when
there yvill be a public demand for
another Ritchie-Wolgast match.
Not that Ritchie received any more
than his due when Griffin proclaim
ed him world's champion, but be
cause there is plenty of room for
doubt as to hoyv the Thanksgiving
day affair would have terminated if
Wolgast had not fouled Ills oppo
nent.
According to dispatches from LoS
Angeles. Wolgast and his manager
are making 1 lie, welkin ring wftli
c omplaints that they were robbed,
i’hey are simply showing them
selves to be bad losers. They were
no; robbed, and they know it. If
they keep up this kind of tiling
th, y ar, liable to excite disgust in
fair-minded sportsmen who, at
pres'-nt. tire willing to support Wol
gast's claim for a return match.
A \\ IDEI.Y KNOWN ring follower
who .-aw the Ritchie-Wolgast
bout, aim yvho does not think that
Wolga t' off. tiding against the
i lib s of fair play yvas sufilcient
justification foi a transfer ol tlie
The Judge Is Still Worried About That Ticket
50 Prep League Lads
Compete Today in Run
Over Peachtree Course
With weather conditions ideal, with a
better balanced field than usual and with
interest in the affair at 97 degrees Faren
heit, the runners of the Atlanta Prep
league will get away this afternoon in
their annual road run. The start will be
made at 3:30 from the Brookwood bridge
and the course will extend a mile and a
half out the road and return.
As every schol will have from six to
twenty starters it is probable that the
Held will number more than 50.
Gilbert Cheves won this race last year
with George Manning in the runner-up
position.
The schols which will be represented
are: Georgia Military academy. Boys
High school. Marist college, Donald Fras
er school, Peacock school and Tech High
school.
W. S. Farnsworth will be referee, J. W.
Heisman will be started, and Dick Jemi
son, Julian Murphy and Percy H. 'Whit
ing will act as umpires.
JENNINGS FOR YANKS:
DONOVAN FOR TIGERS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—A sensational
deni will be pulled off at the American
league meeting in Chicago this week
which wil send Hughey Jennings to the
New York club and bring Bill Donovan
back from Providence to manage the
Tigers. Owner Navin, of the Detroit
club, so the story goes, has consented to
let Jennings take charge of the New York
club, where he would prove a great draw
ing card and incidentally stand a chance
of Improving conditions. Just how much
foundation there Is for this story is hard
ot say, though those who pretend to know
whereof they speak insist that the an
nouncement of the deal will be made dur
ing the coming meetings.
That such a move would meet with
favor of all the other clubs in the league
goes without saying. Jennings at the
head of the Highlanders would make a
wonderful difference in the team, and
with the chances of playing on the Polo
grounds every club in the league would
be benefited, for it would be the first time
since the American league has been rep
resented in New York that visiting clubs
could figure on getting somew'here near
the money that the National league clubs
get there.
bob spade lands job
AS BATTLE CREEK MOGUL
DETROIT, MICH., Dee. 9.—80 b
Spade, former Macon. Atlanta, Cincin
nati and St. Louis pitcher, has been ap
pointed manager of the Battle Creek
club, of the Southern Michigan asso
ciation.
lightweight title, says in a com
munication to the writer that
Ritchie is not entitled to pose as a
theatrical attraction on the strength
of yvhat he has done.
Says the writer: "The square
sports of San Francisco and of Cal
ifornia will demand that Ritchie
tight according to his declaration
prior to liis engagement with Wol
gast. if lie yvill not agree to meet
Wolgast in the course of a few
months, let him take on Frankie
Burns. Jack Britton and Joe Riv
ers. and demonstrate he is of
championship caliber before taking
money from the public on the
strength of an unwarranted deci
sion."
When Willie rtyid.s the foregoing
he yvill begin to feel that the way
of tlie champion, like the way of
the transgressor, Is hard. At tlie
same time 1 would wish to remark
that it is hardly fair to expect a
rising young lightweight to lick
tlie whole world and Wolgast twice
over before reaching out for some
of tlie 4-asy money that bestrews
the pathway of a topnotch glove
wielder.
So far as the desirability of an
other Wolgast-Ritcliie bout is con
i', rned, I am quite in accord with
tlie writei of the communication,
and I Io not think tlie day of re, k
< ni,.;; should be too long delayed.
BOBBY TODOR
SETTING PACE
FOR RIDERS
. *
Bobby WALTHOUR, of At
lanta, one of the oldest riders
in the six-day race, furnish
ed the best excitement that has
been sprung in the contest thus far.
Walthour made a sensational
sprint in an effort to steal a lap.
He was trailing in sixth place when
he suddenly put on steam and
dashed out ahead of the leaders.
Bobby had gained about 35 yards
on the leader, when Frank Kramer,
the veteran of the American team,
started in pursuit. Kramer was
soon relieved by his partner, Jimmy
Moran.
Every camp had its two men on
the track and reliefs were made at
every other lap.
George Cameron relieved Wal
thour at 7 o’clock. The gap soon
began to close and danger of an
immediate break in the even score
was past.
The first accident occurred when
the wheel of Maurice Brocio, a
member of the France-Italian team,
skidded and the rider was thrown
to the track. He was uninjured.
At 8 o’clock the riders were three
miles and two laps ahead of the
record of 185 miles and five laps
made by Hehir and Goullet in 1910.
At 9 o’clock, the ninth hour, the
fifteen teams were still tied, hav
ing covored 211 miles and 6 laps.
This was exactly four miles ahead
of the old record of 207 miles and 6
laps, made by McFarland and
Clarke in 1910.
At 10 o’clock none of the teams
had been able to gain a lap and all
were tied at 235 miles and 8 laps.
This was six miles and four laps
better than the former record made
in 1910 by Wiley and Lawrence.
The teams in the race are:
Kramer and Moran, Clarke and
Hill, Grinda and Pye, Rutt and
Fogler, Root and Hehir, Ryan and
Thomas, Perlchot and Egg, Suter
Brothers, Bedell and Mitten, Wal
thour and Cameron, Drobach and
Collins, Lawrence and M.agin, Lof
tus and Carmon, Brocio and Ber
thel, Walker and Well.
THE Australian mail just to hand
brings some inside facts regard
ing the exclusion of Jack Johnson
from tlie land of the kangaroo. It
will be remembered that before tlie
"champion” became involved in
trouble through the girl, Lucile
Cameron, Hugh Mclntosh sent an
agent to this country to deal witli
Johnson. The negro fighter wanted
Mclntosh to place $15,000 in the
hands of a Chicago business man.
and Mclntosh refused to do this,
preferring to let the money remain
in a Chicago bank. Moreover, Mc-
Intosh cabled that Johnson would
have to place an equal amount in
the bank referred to as a guaran
tee that he would fulfill his part of
the contract.
Johnson must have felt that the
clouds were gathering, for lie told
Mclntosh’s agent lie was willing to
waive tlie forfeit first demanded
from Mclntosh, and would dejrart
for Australia immediately if Mc-
Intosh would provide $5.000 travel
ing expenses. Johnson also offered
his two motor ears as security that
he would repair to Australia and
fight the men selected by Mclntosh.
Wiien this was cabled to Austra
lia, Mclntosh put on ills consider
ing cap.
"It s a funny thing.” lie said,
"that Johnson, who claims to have
a whole lot of ready money, wants
to put up automobiles as security.
It looks fishy.”
Copyright. 1912. National News Assn.
Rucker Third Best National
League Pitcher, According to
Heydler’sNewWay ofßanking
HERE are two sets of National league pitching records of hurl
ers who participated in fifteen or more games during the
season of 1912. Secretary John Heydler’s new system of
ranking the boxmen follows those arranged according to the per
centage of games won and lost.
-Mr. Heydler’s system will in time be adopted as the official
ranking, as it is so ahead of the old way of figuring. It gives
a pitcher his just deserts whether he is with a pennant winner
or a tail-ender. For instance. Rucker ranks twenty-eighth by
the old method, while he is third according to Mr. Heydler’s new
system. And every baseball fan in the country knows that third
place is much nearer right than twentv-eighth for the local bo\.
PITCHERS—ARRANGED ACCORDING TO PERCENTAGE WON AND LOST,
No. Games 'No. Complete P C. of
Pitched In. Games. Tie. S.O. Won. Lost. Victories.
1. Hendrix. Pittsburg 39 2 5 0 4 2 4 9 .727
2. Cheney, Chicago 42 28 0 4 26 10 .722
3. Tesreau. New York .... 36 20 1 3 17 7 .708
4. Marquard, New York ..43 2 2 0 1 26 11 .703
5. Ames, New York 33 9 ft 2 11 5 .688
6. Richie, Chicago 39 15 0 4 16 S .667
7. Leifield, Pittsburg-Chl... 19 5 0 2 8 4 .667
8. Mathewson, New York ..4 3 271 0 23 12 . 657
9. Crandall, New York .... 37 7 0 1 13 7 .650
10. Camnftz, Pittsburg .... 41 22 0 2 22 12 .647
11. C. Smith, Chicago 20 t 1 I) 7 4 .636
12. Robinson, Pittsburg .... 33 11 0 0 1.2 7 .632
13. Reulbach, Chicago 39 8 0 0 10 6 .625
14. Wiltse, New York 28 5 0 0 9 6 .600
15. Stack, Brooklyn 28 4 0 0 7 5 .583
16. Adams, Pittsburg 28 11 0 2 11 8 -579
17. Seaton. Philadelphia .... 11 16 0 2 16 12 .571
18. Lavender, Chicago 42 15 1 3 16 13 .552
19. Brennan. Philadelphia .. 27 1 3 0 1 11 9 . 550
20. Suggs, Cincinnati 42 25 1 5 19 16 .543
21. Alexander, Philadelphia 46 26 0 3 19 17 .528
22. Harmon, St. Louis 43 15 ft 3 18 18 .500
23. Rixey, Philadelphia .... 23 10 0 3 10 10 500
24. Kent. Brooklyn 20 2 0 I 5 5 .500
25. Sallee, St. Louis 48 20 0 3 16 17 .485
26. Benton, Cincinnati .... 50 22 0 2 18 20 .474
27. O'Toole, Pittsburg 37 17 1 5 15 17 .469
28. Rucker. Brooklyn 45 23 0 ti 18 21 .463
29. Fromme, Cincinnati .... 43 23 1 3 16 19 .457
30. M. Brown, Chicago 15 5 0 2 5 6 .455
31. Humphries, Cincinnati ..30 9 0 2 9 11 .4»0
32. Perdue, Boston .' 37 20 0 1 13 16 .448
33. Knetzer, Brooklyn 38 4 0 17 9 .437
34. Cole, Chicago-P’b’g 20 2 0 0 3 4 .429
35. Hess, Boston 33 21 0 1 12 17 .414
36. Steele, St. Louis 40 7 0 0 9 13 .409
37. Moore, Philadelphia .... 31 10 0 1 9 14 391
38. Tyler, Boston 42 18 1 0 12 22 -"S2
39. Yingling, Brooklyn 25 12 0 0 6 11 .°o>>
•Games started and finished by pitcher.
In response to the demand for a rating
of pitchers other than that based on
games won and lost, the secretary of
the National league during the past sea
son had incorporated In all official
scores an additional record showing the
actual number of runs for which each
pitcher was responsible—that is, runs
earned off the pitching solely, tn com
puting such record, the pitcher was
charged with runs that resulted from
base hits, sacrifice hits, bases on balls,
hit batsmen, wild pitches and balks.
Runs scored as direct result of fielding
errors, stolen bases and passed balls
were exempted, and no runs were charged
to pitcher after chances had been offered
the fielders to retire the side.
For sake of comparison, the pitchers be
low are numbered according to new rat
ing, the second figure being standing in
the won and lost table. While it seems
impossible to devise a set of records
that will show the relative value of
pitchers on winning and losing clubs, yet
SAME PITCHERS AS ABOVE-ARRANGED ACCORDING TO AVERAGE OF
EARNED RUNS SCORED OFF PITCHERS.
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1- Tesreau .... 243 1005 177 Tn 106 119 ? 90 53 1
2- Mathewson . 310 1263 311 2 34 134 3 107
3- Rueker 298 12U1 272 3 72 151 6 101
4- Robinson ... 175 675 146 10 30 79 2 54
5- Ames 179 744 194 4 35 83 9 82 49 -’
6- Rixey 162 650 147 2 54 59 8 57 4. -2_
7- Marquard ... 295 1230 286 3 80 175 8 112 $4 -•"
8- Hendrix ... 289 1183 256 . 9 105 176 7 110 83 -
9- Sallee 294 1203 289 « 72 108 5 122 8.; -•
10- M. Brown... 89 366 92 1 20 34 0 35 26 - C
11- O’Toole 275 1170 237 2 159 150 2 110, 83 -
12- Fromme .... 296 1233 285 11 88 120 4 126 90
13- Alexander . 310 1290 289 6 107 195 5 133 9. -. ■
14- Camnita ....277 1142 356 13 82 , 1.21 1 104
15- Leifield 95 408 97 5 si • 31 0 30 SO
16- Cheney 303 1267 262 7 111 140 18 122 lo -
17- Adams 170 704 169 3 35 63 0 73
19-6 Suggs 303 1256 320 11 56 104 5 132 99 - '
19- Richie 238 973 1'22 6 74 69 3 102 ■» -
20- Lavender ... 252 1507 240 10 89 109 3 116 85
21- Benton 302 1302 311, 18 US 162 12 143 104
22- Wiltse 134 557 140 1 8 58 2 63 4, •’
23- Humphries ..159 669 162 8 36 58 1 71 o, „ 7,“
24- Seaton 255 1080 246 9 106 118 9 126 ?3 ;>
35-40 Geyer 181 783 191 4 84 61 0 110 66
26- Moore 182 777 186 7 77 79 1 101 6,
27- Stack 142 605 139 9 55 45 2 80 53 ;■ .
28- Brennan .... 174 743 185 3 49 78 3 88 69 ,
29- Yingling .... 163 711 186 1 56 51 1 90 65
30- Crandall .... 162 688 181 2 35 60 0 85
31- Ragan 208 884 ?11 4 65 101 2 101 81 ,
32- Allen 109 495 119 ? 57 58 5 70 44 n .
33- Curiis 130 570 127 10 54 42 2 74 •>..
34- Hess . . 254 1090 270 15 90 SO 4 142 10b 4 ‘
By Tad
the figures below show a slight improve
ment on old methods, in so far as the?
give some index of the good work by
pitchers on losing teams. Rucker, rated
twenty-eighth in won and lost table,
stands third when runs earned off his
pitching are considered, while Sallee is
rated ninth the new way and twenty -
fifth the old. Rixey, O’Toole, Fromme
and others show higher rating under the
new figures. Hendrix, who leads the list
in games won and lost, is eighth, as
of the 110 runs scored against him were
earned off his pitching.
The standing below is computed on tnt
lowest number of runs per game. I he
total number of runs chargeable to the
pitcher on the whole season are <L
vided by the number of innings pitched,
then multiplied by nine to arrive at ear >
pitcher’s average effectiveness per nine
inning game-. 'lJie column showing actua,
number of batsmen facing each pitcher
is new. as former record gave only ’J 1 -
total number of men at bat. The new
record is as follows: