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Frank’s Salary Plan Would
Rob Cracker Team of Bailey,
Alperman and Other Players
By Percy H. Whiting.
IF Charley F'rank's justly exe
crated "eliding scale" salary
limit is put in force It will cost
the Crackers from four to six of
their best players. Hither It would
bar off such men as Alperman and
Bailey, and making the signing of
McAllister, Smith. Kirke. Weaver
and Donnelly an impossibility, or
else it would make necessary the
most barefaced salary limit dodg
ing that the Southern league has
ever seen.
Do you wonder Bill Smith lias
passed up the American and Na
tional league meeting and that h<
will beat it to Birmingham early
to attend the Southern league h .-
trion and to fight against Charley
Frank’s pet scheme ?
Frank’s sliding scale system looks
as harmless as a jellyfish. It pro
vides that you are entitled to pay u
salary corresponding to the num
ber of players you have —$3,600 for
eighteen ptayers, $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 $250 a month
for anj 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
compered with it
• • •
»rOT being familiar with the pa.v-
IN roll of the Cracker team, we
aren't prepared to say which mem
bers of the club received over $250
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 ss6o and both undoubtedly got
ft. 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 1n
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, Arlie Weaver, or Don
nelly to sign for $250.
Either the Frank scheme must
be beater, 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 were being secured
at $260 a month would be so raw
as to offend even the often tested
gullibility of President Kavanaugh.
•• • N
T F it were at all possible to enforce
this $250-to-a-player limit, which
of course it isn’t, it 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 eased
over, in this way managers could
pr< p. W themselves for the shock
and could be gradually getting rid
of their high-priced players
It's childish, however, to take any
ordinaly salary limit too seriously.
Os cour-e if a limit of $259 on each
player were put in . fleet this year
,ei, hardship But in
the long run salary limits don't
keep managers from paying what
they want, any more than laws
against stealing keep people from
stealing
• • •
N’OT cnanging tne subject,
abruptly or .anything, 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 l out an in
terview recently in which he de
clared the man to be. a wonder, and
Hill Smith, who had Balenti last
summer, reechoes the belief.
"They can talk all they want to
about Dec Walsh,” says Bill Smith,
and what he'll do in the big
I• agues, but this Mike Balenti will
play little round rings around him.
Walsh is a brilliant man. but he
i lais 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 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 tickler. I be
lieve iie will stick."
Hl <1 «
I'HE 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 has it that Jakey
Atz is to be canned and that he will
come back to the Southland.
The report from 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
with 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 lie was spiked and it slowed
him down tremendously for the
time. While he was working with
a limp the relentless bleacheritos
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.
• • •
THE publication of the averages
1 of the Cotton States league has
given the flans of the Southern
league a chance to note the marks
of a lot of Southern leaguers who
have "passed down."
Old Carlos Smith—wfto was near
ly an Atlantan a couple of time*,
but never quite made it—hit .348
and virtually led the league Mar
tini and Sparks, both former Crack
er pitchers, hit .290 and .256. re
spectively. Gene Demont. former
second baseman and by-way-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. Doc. 9. Alberta,
2:03 3-4. by Searchlight, 2:03 1-4, is the
smallest horse that ever beat 2:05. He
stands twelve bunds high, and tips the
scales at 63$ pounds. Trainer George
Haag puts him in n crate, as If he
ver. a sheep or a goat, and ships him
from town to town nt a saving of sev
eal dollars a trip R J. McKeuxi. . the
I'anadiun millionaire horseman, for
tn-rlj owned Alberta, but g ive the ,<n|.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1912.
HERRMANN KEEN
TO MAKE WHO
ONMURPHY
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—A set of ’
nice, five-ounce boxing
gloves may come in quite
handy before the National league
baseball magnates conclude their
annual meeting tomorrow evening,
unless Garry 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 leaded 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 magnates arrived
here before noon today and many
informal conferences were held, at
which trades and sales were dig
cussed. Many deals will be put
through before the conclusion of
the meeting.
M’s Wailing Foolish; Ritchie Must Fight Him
-I-e-I- -I-e4* •{•••J*
Naughton Says “Robbery” Cry Will Disgust Fans
By TV. W. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL., Dee. 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 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 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 are liable to excite disgust In
fair-minded sportsmen who, at
present, are willing to support Wol
gust'- claim for a return match.
* • «
\ WIDELY KNOWN ring follower
** who saw the Ritchie-Wolgast
bout, ami who docs not think that
A <■; ;.i-i s off. nding against the
rules <.f f.ii play was sufficient
|i>-i tv turn foi a transfer of the
The Judge Is Stilly 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 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 won 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, Marlst 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 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 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.. Dec. 9. —Bob
Spade, former Macon. Atlanta, Cincin
nati and St. Louis pitcher, lias 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 what 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 his engagement with Wol
gast. If he will 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 befpre taking
money from the public on the
strength of an unwarranted deci
sion.”
When Willie reads the foregoing
he will begin to feel that the way
of the champion, 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
wlelder.
So far as the desirability of an
oth< r Wolgast-Ritehie bout is con
cerned, I am quite in accord with
the writer of the communication,
ami I do not think the day of reck
oning -houlil be too long delayed.
ME RIOERS
HURLED DURING
HOTSPURT
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 ntlx-up, and
his place was taken by Brocio, 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 Broclco, 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 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, 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.
THE 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 with
Johnson. The negro tighter 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 tnen selected by Mclntosh.
When this was cabled to Austra
lia, Mclntosh put on his consider
ing cap.
“It's a funny thing." he said,
“that Johnson, who claims to have
n whole lot of read} money, wants
io put up automobiles as security.
It looks fishy.”
Copyright, 1911. National Nawa Aas*n.
Rucker Third Best National I
League Pitcher, According to I
Heydler’sNewWay of Ranking!
HERE are two sets of National league pitching records of hurl- 1
ers who participated in fifteen or more games during the I
season of 1912. Secretary John Heydler’s new system of I
ranking the boxmen follows the list arranged according to tin I
percentage of games won and lost.
Mr. Heydler’s system will in time be adopted as the official I
ranking, as it is so*far ahead of the old way of figuring, li gives I
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 miv
system. And every baseball fan in the country knows that third
place is much nearer right than twenty-eighth for tin Alpharet
ta boy.
PITCHERS—ARRANGED ACCORDING fb~P'ERCENTAGE WON AND LOST,
No. Games 'No. Complete P.C o[
Pitched In. Games. Tie. S.O. Won. Lost. Victories.
1. Hendrix, Pittsburg 39 25 0 4 24 9
2. Cheney, Chicago 42 28 0 4 26 10 12:
3. Tesreau, New York .... 36 20 1 3 17 7 708
4. Marquard, New York ..43 22 0 1 26 J1
5. Ames, .New York 33 9 0 2 11 5 OS’
6. Richie. Chicago 39 15 0 4 16 8 .667
7. Lelfleld, Plttsburg-Chi... 19 5 0 2 8 4 561
8. Mathewson, New York .. 43 27 1 0 23 12 #s’
9. Crandall, New York .... 37 7 0 1 13 7 650 :
10. Camnitz, Pittsburg .... 41 22 0 2 23 12 Mi
11. C. Smith, Chicago 20 11 0 7 4 636
12. Robinson, Pittsburg .... 33 11 0 0 12 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
16. Adams, Pittsburg 28 11 0 2 11 s
17. Seaton, Philadelphia .... 44 16 0 2 16
18. Lavender, Chicago 42 15 1 3 16
19. Brennan. Philadelphia ..27 13 0 1 It
20. Suggs, Cincinnati 42 25 1 5 19
21. Alexander, Philadelphia 46 26 0 3 19
22. Harmon, St. Louis 43 15 0 3 18 18
23. Rixey, Philadelphia .... 23 10 O’ 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 20
27. O’Toole, Pittsburg 37 1.7 1 5 15
28. Rucker, Brooklyn 45 23 0 6 IS 21 f:
29. Fromme, Cincinnati .... 53 23 1 3 16 19
30. M. Brown. Chicago 15 5 0 2 5 6 ■<«
31. Humphries, Cincinnati .. 80 9 0 2 9
32. Perdue, Boston 37 20 0 1 13 16
33. Knetzer. Brooklyn 33 4 0 17
34. Cole, Chieago-P’b'g L 0 2 0 0
35. Hess, Boston S 3 21 0 1 1.2 ' 7
36. Steele, St. Louis 40 7 0 0 9
37. Moore, Philadelphia .... 31 10 0 1 9 14
38. Tyler, Boston .. 42 IS 1 0 12 22 --5: a
39. Yingling, Brooklyn 25 12 0 0 6 11
•Games started and finished by pitcher.
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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 to 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-ARRANGED ACCORDING TO AVERAGE 0
EARNED RUNS SCORED OFF PITCHERS.
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. i i ca S x s-
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uS -= x s - - = . sms.
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. & I j ii =
■p .= x | 5 = f r??
So. 4x,5 X X n t. f
1- Tesreau .... 243 T 605 177 10 106 119 6 90
2- Mathewson . 310 1263 311 2 34 134 3 107
3- Rucker 398 1201 272 3 72 151 6 1"1 "> oj6
4- Robinson ... 175 675 146 10 30 79 2 54 44
5- Ames 179 744 194 4 35 83 9 82
6- Rixey 162 650 147 2 54 59 8 ■>'
7- Marquard ... 295 1230 286 3 SO 175 8 112 »' "-j
8-1 Hendrix 289 1182 256 9 105 176 7 110 J- „„
9-25 Sallee 294 1203 289 6 72 108 5 122 s „ :l
10- M. Brown... 89 366 92 1 20 34 0 35
11- O'Toole 275 1170 237 2 159 150 2 110 -
12- Fromme .... 296 1233 285 11 88 130 4 126 "A
13- Alexander . 310 1290 289 6 107 195 5 133
14- Camnltz ....277 1142 256 13 82 121 1 104 * q
15- Eelfield 95 408 97 5 31 31 0 30 Vi;
16- Cheney 303 1267 262 7 111 140 18 122
17- Adams 170 704 169 3 35 63 0 73
19-6 Suggs 303 1256 320 11 56 104 5 132 JJ
19- Richie 238 973 222 6 74 69 3 102
20- Lavender ... 252 1507 240 10 89 109 3 116 J’
21- Benton 302 1302 316 18 118 162 12 143 104
22- Wlltse 134 557 140 1 8 58 2 63
23- Humphries .159 669 162 8 36 58 1 77
24- Seaton 255 1080 246 9 106 118 9 126
25- Geyer 181 783 191 4 84 61 0 110
26- \Wx>re 182 777 186 7 77 79 1 101
27- Stack 142 605 139 9 55 45 2 80
28- Hrennan .... 174 743 185 3 49 78 3 88
29- Yingling ... 163 711 186 I 56 51 1 90
30- Crandall .... 162 688 |Bl 2 35 60 0 85
31- Ragan 208 884 211 4 65 101 2 101
32- Allen 109 195 119 1 57 58 5 70
33- I'urlis 12.0 570 137 10 54 42 2
34- Hess 254 10'01 2'« ” on 80 4 142
Toe
the figures below show a slight anpro'.-
ment on old methods, in so far as Ire
give some index of the good w " r '' t '
pitchers on losing teams. Rucker, rates
twenty-eighth in the won and lost j :,t ®
stands third when runs earned r h
pitching are considered, while s-allee ■■
rated ninth the new way and twenty
fifth the old. Rixey, O’TooF. From®
and others show higher rating undet w
new figures. Hendrix, who leads the *
in games won and lost, is eight!, as j
of the 110 runs scored against him we
earned off his pitching.
The standing below is computed on tot
lowest number of runs per gam<
total number of runs chargeable
pitcher on the whole season an- ‘
vlded by the number of innings !! ' "j
then multiplied by nine to arrive a
pitcher’s average effectiveness
inning same. The column show itu- - 1 - 1
number of batsmen facing each
is new. as former record gave “r '
total number of men at bat Ihe 1
record is as follows: _