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".1 J im oug MfrT j Frank's Salary Plan Would Rob Cracker Team of Bailey, Alperman and Other Players By Pei-cv 11. Whiling. IK Charley Krank' Justly exe crated "sliding rule" salary tirnn is put in force 1: x. ill cost the (.’tailor 1“ ■ n lour io six of their best ph ■ Lith**r it would bar off sit' i nen a Alperman and Bailey. and making the signing of McAllister. So, t‘>. Kirke, Weaver and Donnelly >ll impossibility, or else it would t.take necessary the most barefaced salary limit .lodg ing that th South'i t> league has ever s en. Do you wonder Bill Smith has passed up the American and Na tional league meeting and that lie will beat it to Birmingham early to attend the Southern league ses ' Bion and to tight, against Charley- Frank's pet scheme? Frank's sliding scale system looks •s harmless as a Jellyfish. It pro vides that you are entitled to pay a salary corresponding to the num ber of players you have —$3,600 for eighteen players, $3,400 for seven teen. and so on down to $2,400 for twelve. The joker, concealed up the sleeve of this harmless little salary limit, is a provision that no team may pay over s2*6o a month for any player. Imagine some of the topliners in the Southern league playing for $250 a month—that is. imagine it IF YOU CAN. We can't. Imagine, please, 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 cut to $250 a month. A rush day In a boiler factory would be placid compared with it. ktOT being familiar with the pay- IN roll of the Cracker team, we aren’t prepared to say which mem bers of the club received ove: $260 a month last season, but it's mor ally certain that a good many of them did. Alperman and Bailey were both men entitled to more than $250 and both undoubtedly got it. It is a cinch that Alperman is a high-priced man. In fact, Char 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 deal with him there. Bailey, considering where he came from, must have been a high-priced man. and the same is true of Agler. And look at the men Smith is rounding up for next year Fat chance of getting Wallace Smith. Jay Kirke. Ariie Weaver, or Don nelly to sign for $250. Either the Frank scheme must hr beaten or else two alternatives are presented—to get rid of these star men and to replace them with better ones, or to evade the salary limit. And to evade the limit in such fashion that it would appear that these men wele being secured at $250 a month would be so raw as to offend even the often tested gullibility of President Kavanaugh. « • • | F it were at all possible to enforce 4 this $250-to-a-player limit, which of course It isn't, ft might be a good thing to put it in force GRAD UALLY. It could be provided that there would be no limit for next season on the salary paid any play - er. For 1914 the limit could be S3OO, for 1915 it might be $275 and by 1915 the $250 limit could be eaaed over, in this way managers could W ami could be gradually getting rid of their high-priced play • r» It's childish, however, to take any ordinary salary limit too seriously. 1 If course If a limit of $250 on each player were put in effect this j*nr I it would work a hardship But In I the long run salary limits don t keep managers front paying what they unnt. any mot' than laws against stealing keep people from I -paling. >’f inaugi'ie tne subject, abruptly or anything, but pa pers of big league towns and lit tle an carrying a lot about Mike Balenti and his chance of making good in th* big leagues. Theo Breitenstein gave out an in terview recently in which lie •de clared the man to be a wonder, anil Bill Smith, who had Balenti last summer, reechoes the belief. "They can talk all they want to about Dee Walsh.” says Bill Smith, “and what he'll do in the big leagues, but this Mike. Balenti will play little round rings around him. Walsh is a brilliant man. but he has a lot of faults. Balenti has ev erything except base stealing abil ity, and he may be able to get tlrat. We worked with him last spring and taught him how to slide. But somehow he couldn't keep the slide after he once learned it. Sometimes he could make it and sometimes he would miss. But barring this weakness, he is a wonder a good hitter and a good fielder. I be lieve he will stick." * ♦ * *pHE Providence club is sending a lot of players Southward. This Detroit farm shipped Charley Schmidt to Mobile, James Gillespie and Charley Street to Chattanooga, and the rumor lias it that Jakey Atz is to be canned and that he will come back to the Southland The report front Providence is that this Gillespie may make Chat tanooga a very valuable man. He played with the Rocky Mount team, of the Eastern Carolina league, in 1909 and finished out the season witii the Grays. The next spring he looked like a million dollars in gold and was put on third regular ly. Shortly after the season start ed he was spiked and it sloyved him down tremendously for the time. While he was working with a limp the relentless bleacherites jumped him and 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 poor performer. Providence experts believe that Gil lespie. with a good start and a change of environment, may make a corking good man. • ♦ » • r pllE publication of the averages of the Cotton States league has given the fans of the Southern league a chance to note the marks of a lot of Southern leaguers who have "passed down.” 1 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 ami .256. re spectively. Gene Demont, •former secund baseman and by-vvay-of being-manager of the locals, bat ted only .231. but led the league 1 shortstops in fielding. CANADIAN RACE HORSE RIDES ABOUT IN CRATE WINNIPEG, Dec. 9. Alberta. 2:03 3-4, by Searchlight. 2:03 1-4, is the smallest horst that ever beat 2:05. He stands twelve hands high, and tips the scales nt 68S pounds. Trainer George Haag puts him in n crate, as if he were a sheet) or a goat, and ships him from town to town at a saving of sev eral dollars n trit R. .1 MeKencie. the < nnadian millionaire hors*inan. for tm rly ow ned Alb'Tta, but gave the ani mal to a relative In Winnipeg. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1912. HERRIMNN KEEN 10 MIKE ONMURPHY NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—A set of nice, five-ounce boxing gloves may come in quite hand) before the National league baseball magnates conclude their annual meeting tomorrow evening, unless Garry Herrmann, owner of the Cincinnati club, and <‘hades 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 $40,000 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 magmites 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 •)•••> •J*«4* -I-•4- Naughton Says “Robbery” Cry Will Disgust Fans By W. W. Naughton. SAN FRANCISCO, CAI... Dec. 9. —ls Ad Wolgast is wise he will regard recent events in as phil osophical a spirit as possible. There will surely come a time and that before very long, possibly—when there will be a puolie demand for another Rite hie- Wolgast,. match. Not that Ritchie received any more than his due when Griftin proclaim ed him world's champion, but be cause there is plenty of loom for doubt as to how the Thanksgiving day affair would have terminated if Wolgast had not fouled his oppo nent. According to dispatches from Los Angeles, Wolgast and his manager are making the welkin ring with complaints that they were robbed. They are simply showing them selves to be bad losers. They were not robbed, and they know it. If they keep up this kind of thing they arc liable to excite disgust in t'.itr-tninded sportsmen who, at present, ar*' willing to support Wol gust's claim for a return match. * • • A WIDELY KNOWN ring foliowet * who saw the Ritchie-Wolgast bout, and w Ito <loes uot think that d o ta-t's offending against the rill* s ..f play was sufficient in.-liti* ation tot a transfer of the 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 Fahren 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 school will have from six to twenty starters it is probable that the field will number more than 50. Gilbert Cheves wont this race last year with George Manning in the runner-up position. The schools which will be represented are: Georgia Military academy, Boys High school. Marist college, Donald Fra ser school, Peacock school and Tech High school. W. S. Farnsworth will be referee, J. W. Heisman will be starter, 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 deal will be pulled off at the American league meeting in Chicago this week which will 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 cq,ance 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 meeting. 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 somewhere near the money that the National league clubs get there. , 808 SPADE LANDS JOB AS BATTLE CREEK MOGUL DETROIT, MICH.. Doc A— Bob 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. coin inunlciition to the writer that Ritchie is not entitled to pose as a theatrical attraction on the strength of what he has done. Says the writer: "The square sports of San Francisco and of Cal ifornia will dentand that Ritchie tight according to hi- declaration prior to his engugt ment with Wol gast. It he A ill not agree to met t Wolgast in the course of a few months, let him take on Frankie But ns. 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 reads the foregoing lie will begin to feel that the way of the ehampiofi, like the way of the transgressor, is hard. At the same time 1 would wish to remark that it is hardly fair to expect a rising young lightweight to lick the whole world and Wolgast twice over before reaching out for some of the easy money that bestrews the pathway of a topnotch glove wielder. So far as the desirability of an other Wolgast-Ritchie bout is con cerned. I am quite hi accord with the writer of the communication, and I do not think the day of reck oning should Im- too long dt laved. SIM RIDERS HURLED DURING ROT SPORT NEW YORK. Dec. 9.—A nasty spill of four riders resulted in injury to Marcel Bethel, of the Franco-Italian team, in the six day bike race at Madison Square Garden today. Berthel sustained a sprained knee in the mix-up, and his piace was taken by Broeio, his teammate. The accident occurred when Gordon Walker, of the New Zealand team, who had been set ting the pace, fell during a spurt. Berthel, Fogler and Lloyd Thomas were just behind Walker and were all thrown. Berthel was able to resume rid ing shortly before 1 o'clock, and when he joined the race he started at once on a spurt, setting the pace for the rest. The score at the thirteenth hour was 297 miles, six laps for each man. This was four miles ahead of Collins and Drobach’s record made two years ago. The first accident occurred when the wheel of Maurice Brocico, a member of the Franco-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 covered ?11 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, Perichot and Egg. Suter Brothers, Bedell and Mitten. Wal thour and Cameron. Drobach and Collins, Lawrence and Magin, Lof tus and Carmon. Brocico and Ber thel, Walker and Wells. 'J' HE Australian mail just to hand brings some inside facts regard ing the exclusion of Jack Johnson from the land of the kangaroo. It will be remembered that before the “champion" became involved in trouble through the girl. Lucile Cameron, Hugh Mclntosh sent an agent to this country to deal witii Johnson, 'fhe 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 he told Mclntosh's agent he was willing to waive the forfeit first demanded from Mclntosh, and would depart for Australia immediately if Mc- Intosh would provide $5,000 travel • ing expenses. Johnson also offered his two motor cars as security that he would repair to Australia and fight the men selected by Mclntosh. When this was cabled to Austra lia, Mclntosh put on his consider ing cap. "It's a funny thing.” ho said, that Johnson, who claims to have a whole lot of ready money, wants to put up automobiles as security. It looks fishy " Rucker Third Best National League Pitcher, According to Heydler ’sNew Way of Rankly Here are two sets of National league pitching records of hj ers who participated in fifteen or more games during || season of 1912. Secretary John Heydler’s new system ranking the boxmen follows the list arranged according to t| percentage of games won and lost. Mr. Heydler’s system will in time be adopted as the offic: ranking, as it is so far ahead of the old way of figuring. It giv a pitcher his just deserts whether he is with a pennant ivinn or a tail-ender. For instance, Rucker ranks twenty-eighth I the old method, while he is third according to Mr. Heydler’sne system. And every baseball fan in the country knows that thii place is much nearer right than tiventy-eighth for the Alph&n ta boy. . PITCHERS—ARRANGED ACCOR□ I NG - t6~PE RCENTAGE WON AND LOS No. Games *No. Complete P.C.ot Pitched In. Games. Tie. S.O. Won. Lost. Victorii 1. Hendrix, Pittsburg 39 25 0 4 24 S .13 2. Cheney, Chicago 42 28 0 4 36 10 ® 3. Tesreau, New York .... 36 20 1 3 17 770 S 4. Marquard, New York ..43 22 0 1 26 5. Ames, New York 33 9 0 2 11 5 48 6. Richie, Chicago 39 15 0 4 16 S ® 7. Leifleld, Pittsburg-Chi... 19 5 0 2 8 8. Mathewson, New York .. 43 27 1 0 23 9. Crandall, New Y'ork .... 37 7 0 1 13 7 <8 10. Camnitz, Pittsburg .... 41 22 0 2 22 12 Sli 11. C. Smith, Chicago 20 11 0 7 12. Robinson, Pittsburg .... 33 11 0 0 12 13. Reulbach, Chicago 39 8 0 0 10 6 .& 14. Wiltse, New York 28 5 0 0 9 6 .SJ 15. Stack. Brooklyn 28 4 0 0 7 16. Adams, Pittsburg 28 It 0 2 11 8 j" 17. Seatom Philadelphia .... 14 16 0 2 16 18. Lavenfer, Chicago 42 15 1 3 16 19. Brennan. Philadelphia ..27 13 0 1 11 ’ » 20. Suggs, Cincinnati 42 25 1 * 5 19 16 A 21. Alexander. Philadelphia 46 26 0 3 19 22. Harmon, St. Louis 43 15 0 3 IS 18 ■* 23. Rixey, Philadelphia .... 23 10 0 3 10 10 24. Kent. Brooklyn 20 2 0 1 5 25. Sallee. St.- Louis 48 20 0 3 16 26. Benton, Cincinnati .... 50 22 0 2 18 27. O'Toole, Pittsburg 37 17 1 5 15 B 28. Rucker, Brooklyn 45 23 0 6 18 21 29. Fromsne, Cincinnati .... 43 23 1 3 16 19 ]3 30. M. Brown, Chicago 15 5 o 2 5 31. Humphries, Cincinnati .. 30 9 0 2 32. Perdue, Boston 37 20 If 1 13 1* " 33. Knetzer, Brooklyn 33 4 0 1. 34. Cole, Chicago-P’b’g “0 2 0 0 3 35. Hess, Boston 33 21 0 1 12 1 ■ i 36. Steele, St. Louis 40 7 0 0 37. Moore, Philadelphia .... 31 10 0 1 38. Tyler, Boston ♦l2 18 1 0 12 39. Yingling, Brooklyn 25 12 0 0 6 U •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. In 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 the result of fielding errors, stolen bases and passed balls were exempted, and no runs were charged to a pitcher after chances had been offered the fielders retire the side. For sake of comparison, the pitchers be low are numbered according to new rat ing. the second figure being the 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—ARRA EARNED RUNS SC A • = :£ ~ ' f 58 • c sj ? • *>. ti e * $ z nr »• t-i liH « c - “ - *« Sj =5- « tt i 3 5 hr = ~ =*u S ~ ~ ~ :- : /I S£ Zx= = I x 7. £ •=- , 1- Tesreau .... 243 1005 177 10 106 119 fi ®? -» 2- Mathewson . 310 1263 311 2 34 134 3 10. i;; 3- Rucker 208 1201 272 3 72 151 6 101 1 4- Robinson ... 175 675 146 10 30 79 2 "1 • 5- Ames 179 744 194 4 35 83 9 8- - 6- Rixey 162 650 147 2 54 59 8 ■" 7- Marquard ... 295 1230 286 3 80 175 8 1- . 8-1 Hendrix 289 1182 256 9 105 176 7 HO .7 9-25 Sallee 294 1203 289 6 72 108 5 1-2 - 10- M. Brown... 89 366 92 1 20 34 0 11- O'Toole 275 1170 237 2 159 150 2 110 12- Fromme .... 296 1233 285 11 88 120 4 1-'' 13- Alexander . 310 1290 289 6 107 195 5 ; 14- Camnltz ...277 1142 256 13 82 121 1 >.”•* 15- Lelfield 95 408 97 5 31 31 0 „ 16- Cheney 303 1267 262 7 111 140 18 12; 17- Adams 170 704 169 3 35 63 0 19-6 Suggs 303 1256 320 11 56 104 5 32 _ Q 19- Richie 238 973 222 6 74 69 3 0- 20- Lavender ... 252 1507 240 10 89 109 21- Benton 302 1302 316 18 118 162 12 143 22- wiltse 134 557 140 I 8 58 2 23- Humphries ..159 669 162 8 36 58 1 24- Seaton 255 1080 246 9 106 118 9 1-6 25- Geyer 181 783 191 4 84 61 0 110 26- Moore 182 777 186 7 77 79 27- Stack 142 605 139 9 55 45 28- Brennan .... 174 748 185 3 49 78 29- Yingling .... 163 711 186 1 56 51 1 J'.’ 30- Crandall .... 162 688 181 2 35 60 0 31- Ragan 208 884 211 4 65 101 32- Allen 109 495 119 I .7 58 33- Curtis 1.10 570 127 10 .1 12 34- Hess "54 1090 270 15 90 80 4 14- the figures below show a slight imp ment on old methods, in so far aF give some index of the good ’ ri pitchers on losing teams. RuckaJ twenty-eighth in the won and i' ,5 _ stands third when runs earned < pitching are considered, - rated ninth the new way and fifth the old. Rixey, O'Toole. and others show higher rating i- J 1 new figures. Hendrix, who leads* t* l in games won and lost, is eighth of the 110 runs scored against earned off his pitching. , , The standing below is computed l lowest number of runs per total number of runs pitcher on the whole season *t vided by the number of inning- 11 then multiplied by nine to arri’“ ■’ pitcher's average effectiveness - inning game. The column sl>""‘ rf number of batsmen facing 'W 1 is new, as former record gau total number of men at bat. record is as follows IGED ACCORDING TO AVERAO (RED OFF PITCHERS.