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J - _ z Auk ■■ ■ ’®SS ~ -UssssEsq 86 Co*/r>*J'-’6O -—... ggT_' " ' ——_——____ i>j oug. 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. * • W 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. ... .... ———....— ■' —a. ofc f % <v w C C ~ X- C .U. 55. Lr - • r wrt— % g « *5 c so « 0 o £ « oak “cfci o r i _ 7= « * o c r - t. :± 3 ™ G vc x - an, s k » s h airta, 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: