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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|. I n.»| to .< r< I itiv < in \\ innipi g 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. « ... - . . . . ■ • • .i : —i,.« ■ i nrnVfr 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. —*■ ■ ■ . i ■ - . ii ■ - .. ... ■ ... . .. '-j : 2 , x =: J . i i ca S x s- ' s> s “ t. ~ rxc - uS -= x s - - = . sms. « ~ 4 _ - o - _ x : < . & 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: _