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Frank's sliding scale system looks as harmless as a Jellyfish. It pro vides that you are entitled to pay a salary corresponding to the num ber of players you have—s3,6oo 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 $250 a month for any player. Imagine some of the topliners in the Southern league playing for $250 a month--that is. imagine it II YOU CAN. We can’t. Imagine, please, the .veil 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 tn a boiler factory would be placid compared with it. *rOT being familiar with the pay 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 $250 and both undoubtedly got tt. It la 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 beet) a high-priced man, and the same is true of Aglet . 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 beaten or else two alternatives are presented—to get rid of these star men and to replace them with better ones, or to evade tin- salary limit. And to evade the limit in such fashion that it would appear that these men were being secured at $250 a month would be so raw as to offend even the often tested gullibility of President Kavanaugh. » * • r 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 tlr.it 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 prepuW themselves for the shock ami could be gradually getting rid of their high-priced playera. It’s childish, however, t > take any ordinary .salary limit too seriously. Os course If a limit of $250 on each player wen* pm in effect this year it would aoi k a 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. • * • NOT cnanglng me 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 out an in terview recently in which he de clared the man to be a wonder, and Bill Smith, who had Balenti last siinnner. ieechoes the belief. "They can talk all they want to about Dee Walsh,” says Hill 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 has 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 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 be will stick." ♦ <t ♦ 'UIIE Provtdtme club is sending 1 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. Tlte 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 he was spiked and it slowed him down tremendously for the time. While he was working with a limp the relentless ble.ax'herites jumped him and they made hie life a curse. His goat departed and it did not raturn 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 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." Old Carlos Smith —who was near ly an Atlantan a couple of times, but never quite made it—hit .343 and virtually led the league. Mar tini and Sparks, both former Crack er pitchers, hit .29(1 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 shortstops in fielding. CANADIAN RACE HORSE RIDES ABOUT IN CRATE WINNIPEG, Dec. 9. -Alberta, 2:03 3-4. by Searchlight, 2:08 1-4, is the smallest horse that ever beat 2:05. IB stands twelve hands high, and tips the scales at 688 pounds. Trainer George Haag pule him In a crate, as if he wer. a shc- p or a gout, and ships him from town to town at a aaving of sev eral dollars a trip. R .1 MiKenz.b the Canadian millionairr lior.*< num. for inerlj owned Albert.), but gave tin ani mal to a relative in Winnipeg. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1912. HERRMANN KEEN TDMAKEWAR DN MURPH! NEW YORK. Dec. 9.—A set of nice. live-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, wore 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 Murphj 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 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 AV. AV. Naughton. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.. De 6. 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 bis 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 an liable to excite disgust in fair-minded sportsmen who, at present. ar<- willing to support Wol gast’s claim for a return match. A 'A 11)111.Y KNOWN ring follower ** who ,-nw the Ritchie-Wolgast boui. ami who does not think that Wolga“t's off.aiding against the rules of fail play was sufficient jti lili.sfloti foi a transfer ol the 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 wdth 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 tn 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, rvhere 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 coining 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 llgure 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, has been ap pointed manager of the Battle <'reek 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 lias done Says the writer: ‘The square sports of Ban Francisco and of Cal ifornia will demand that Ritchie fight 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 before 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 wieldei So far as the desirability of an other Wolgast-Ritchie bout Is con cerned. I am quite In accord with the writer of the communication, ajnl I do mil think the day of reck oning should be too long d» lay cd. SIMM RIDERS HURLED DURING HOT SPURT NEW YORK, Dec. 9. —A nasty spill of four riders resulted in injury to Marcel Bethel, of tiie 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 place was taken by Broclo, 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. Berthe] 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. Tiie 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 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 Brotheis. Bedell and Mitten. Wal thour and Cameron, Drobach apd Collins, Lawrence and Magin, Lof tus and Carmon. Brocico and Ber thel, Walker and Wells. 'pHE 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 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 $5,000 travel ing expenses. Johnson also offered his two motor cars as security that he would repair to Australia ajnl fight the men selected by Mclntosh. When this was cabled to Austra lia, Mclntosh put on his consider ing cap. "It's a funny thing." he said, "that Johnson, who claims to have a whole lot of ready money, wants to mu up automobiles as security. It looks fishy.” Cornlght, 111$. National Nawa Aaa’n. Rucker Third Best National League Pitcher, According to Heydler’sNewWay of Ranking 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 the list arranged according to the percentage of games won and lost. Mr. Heydler’s system will in time be adopted as the offittal ranking, as it is so far ahead of the old way of figuring. Il 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 Air. Heydler's m-w system. And every baseball fan in the country knows that third place is much nearer right than twenty-eighth for the Alpharet ta boy. PITCHERS—ARRANGED ACCORDING"to"PERCENTAGE WON AND LOST No. Games *No. Complete I’.C. of Pitched In. Games. Tie. S.O. Won. Lost. Victories. 1. Hendrix, Pittsburg 39 25 0 4 21 9 727 2. Cheney, Chicago 42 28 0 4 28 10 .72: 3. Tesreau, New York .... 36 20 1 3 17 770 S 4. Marquard, New York ..43 22 0 1 26 11 7u: 5. Ames, New York 33 9 0 2 LI ,6SB 6. Richie, Chicago 39 15 0 4 Hi S .i>i7 7. Leifield, Plttsburg-Chi... 19 5 0 z 8 4 .<67 8. Mathewson, New York .. 43 271 0 23 1 2 .657 9. Crandall, New York .... 37 7 0 1 13 7 .656 10. Camnitz, Pittsburg .... 41 22 0 2 2L 12 to> 11. C. Smith, Chicago 20 11 0 7 4 .IM 12. Robinson. Pittsburg .... 33 11 0 0 12 7 '>22 13. Reulbach, Chicago 39 8 0 0 10 6 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 .... 44 16 0 2 16 12 571 18. lavender, Chicago 42 t 5 1 3 16 13 552 19. Brennan. Philadelphia ..27 is 0 1 11 9 20. Suggs, Cincinnati 42 25 1 5 19 16 21. Alexander. Philadelphia 46 26 0 3 19 17 y2B 22. Harmon, St. Louis 43 1 5 0 3 18 1 8 500 23. Rixey, Philadelphia .... 23 10 0 3 10 10 500 24. Kent, Brooklyn 20 2 0 1 5 5 'O6 25. Sallee, St. Louis 48 20 0 3 16 26. Benton, Cincinnati .... 50 22 0 2 18 20 27. O’Toole, Pittsburg 37 17 I 5 15 28. Rucker, Brooklyn 45 23 0 6 18 29. Fromme, Cincinnati .... 43 23 1 3 16 19 30. M. Brown. Chicago 15 5 0 2 5 6 31. Humphries, Cincinnati ..30 9 0 2 9 32. Perdue, Boston 37 20 0 1 13 16 33. Knetzer, Brooklyn 33 4 0 1.7 34. Cole, Chicago-P’b'g 20 2 0 0 3 4 35. Hess. Boston 33 21 0 1 12 36. Steele, St. Louis 40 7 0 0 9 37. Moore, Philadelphia .... 31 10 0 1 9 14 ;L’; 38. Tyler. Boston •. 42 18 1 0 12 22 39. Yingling, Brooklyn 25 12 0 0 6 11 •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 W’hich 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—ARRA EARNED RUNS SC 5 . «= ’S E (i. r i C 2 - X s - "- - s t « T C .C a. £ • S ~ X C ~ 3 . a- _ - x ~s L. X x S z ' - - •-3 - x ff- 72. t so. %AE e x c n x a 1- Tesreau .... 243 1005 177 To 106 119 6 90 53 2- Mathewson . 310 1263 311 2 34 134 3 107 3- Rucker 298 1201 272 3 72 151 6 101 73 - 4- Robinson ... 175 675 146 10 30 79 2 54 44 5- Ames 179 744 194 4 35 83 9 82 49 6- Rlxey 162 650 147 2 54 59 8 57 47 7- Marquard ... 295 1230 286 3 80 175 8 112 84 8-1 Hendrix 289 1182 256 ' 9 105 176 7. 110 83 ■ < 9-25 Sallee '294 1203 289 6 72 108 5 122 85 10- M. Brown... 89 366 92 1 20 34 0 35 26 2.7 11- O'Toole 275 1170 237 2 159 150 2 110 83 2 ' t 2-29 Fromrne .... 296 1233 285 11 88 120 4 126 90 2.- 13- Alexander . 310 1290 289 6 107 195 5 133 97 2.8 14- CamnitZ ...277 1142 256 13 82 121 k 104 87 2.8 15- Leifleld 95 408 97 5 31 31 0 30 30 2.8* 16- Cheney 303 1267 262 7 111 140 18 122 96 2.8a 17- Adams 170 704 169 3 35 63 0 73 55 2.91 19-6 Suggs 303 1256 320 11 56 104 5 132 99 2.94 19- Richie 238 978 222 6 74 69 3 102 .8 2.9a 20- lavender ... 252 1507 240 10 89 109 3 116 So 3.03 21- Benton 302 1302 316 18 118 162 12 143 104 3.0._ 22- Wlltse 134 557 140 I 8 58 2 63 47 310 23- Humphries .159 669 162 8 36 58 1 77 57 3.22 24- Seaton 255 1080 246 9 106 118 9 126 93 3.. S 25- Geyer 181 783 191 4 84 61 0 110 66 . 26- Moore 182 777 186 7 77 79 1 101 b< e- 1 ’ 27- Stack 142 605 139 9 55 45 2 80 55 •• ; | 28- Brennan .... 174 743 185 3 49 78 3 88 «? 3 29- Yingling .... 183 711 186 1 56 51 1 90 65 ..□• 30- Crandall .... 162 688 181 2 35 60 0 8u So .1. >' 31- Ragan 208 884 211 « «5 101 2 101 32- Allen 109 495 119 I 57 58 5 70 33- Curtis 130 570 127 10 54 42 2 74 .... 34- Hees 254 1090 2'o ’« 90 80 4 142 1"6 Byfad the figures below show a slight rnent on old methods. In so far as in>' give some index of the good work h pitchers on losing teams. Rucker, rate twenty-eighth in the won and !<>.<’ stands third when runs earned "ff pitching are considered, while Sallee i rated ninth the new way and twenty fifth the old. Rixey, O’Toole, Fromm and others show higher rating unde: tn new figures. Hendrix, who leads the its in games won and lost, Is eighth, a- * of the 110 runs scored against him " er earned off his pitching. The standing below is computed on h lowest number of runs per game li total number of runs chargeable pitcher on the whole season are <■> vlded by the number of innings pH 1 ’ 1 ” 1 then multiplied by nine to arrive i" pitcher’s average effectiveness p>-r i..u inning game. The column showing number of batsmen facing each p" r > is new, as former record gave ■ J S total number of men at bat ! I!t ' record is as follows: 4GED ACCORDING TO AVERAGE Os IRED OFF PITCHERS.