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ITT]'. ATLANTA OFORfJTAN ANT) NEWS. SATURDAY. APRIL If). 1911
By Joe Agler.
y AriHVll.LE, TENS’., April 19.
A I
The Cracker batteries for to
day’s game will be Weaver and
[>unn. Manager Schwartz will use
hefty” Williams, with Ludwig at the
receiving end.
The Crackers won the opening game
f series from the Vo!» In eleven In-
nings, 3 to 2.
King" Brady hurled grand ball,
,nd, aided by the hitting of Bailey
and Graham, who drove In the Crack
ers’ three runs, gave the first game
to Billy Smith s aggregation. The
game was one of the hardest fought
,,f the season and the Crackers had to
go to the limit to win.
Charley Case had the Atlantans at
his mercy in the pinches. With men
on bases we could do nothing with his
curve bail.
The Crackers hope to take three out
of four of the present series, with an
even break of luck.
Dave Bunting has been released to
Aaron, Ohio.
Crackers Lost Bats.
The Crackers had to borrow bats
from the Nashville players, as the
baggageman left our bats at Chatta
nooga.
Billy Smith said that probably the
baggageman did not want us to win,
and that was the only way to keep us
out of the "won” column.
The Crackers are having fine weath
er and Some of us are recuperating
from the cold weather In Atlanta.
Game Was Thriller.
Vou might wait ten years without
seeing a more exciting game than that
one yesterday.
We got away good in the first with
a couple of runs.
The Vols grabbed one back in the
sixth and tied it up with one more in
the ninth.
In the eleventh she popped.
Tommy Long, the CofTeyville kid,
opened by planting the ball in center
for a safe hit. Bailey filed and Wally
Smith tried to break a shin,for John
ny Lindsey. Keating hit a fielders
choice and It was all up to Pat Gra
ham. And Pat was there with a rak
ing smash over Goalby that sent home
the winning run.
Looked Squally in Eleventh.
The Vols threw a nasty scare into
us In the last of the eleventh. With
two out. Perry and Schwartz singled,
but some nice relaying of the ball
headed off Bill Schwartz when he
tried to grab second and ended the
game in our favor.
It was a snappy contest, finished in
two hours and ten minutes, which
isn’t bad for an eleven-inning game.
But I’ll tell you this—I’m too tired
to write more. I put In a day’s work
in a bit over two hours this after
noon—and I didn’t ma te a hit, either.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Times are getting mighty bad in Chi
cago if Cholly Murpny can’t sell the same
reserved seats to the same game at
least twice without hooking up with the
Vice Commission.
* * *
They’re going to cut off ail Ty Cobb s
special privileges when he returns to
the Tigers—except that inestimable
privilege of batting .400 or better every
year, which is kind of ’em.
* * *
George Davis, the Williams College
lad with the Yanks, baa been farmed
with Jersey City.
* * *
The Skeetere have also bought Pitcher
Thompson from the Boston Nationals.
He was with Seattle last year.
* * *
The Braves are to get Josh Devore
from the Giants, says a rumor. And the
old bird is often right, at that.
* * *
There are no Deiehamies mi the b;g
league this year and no Cobbs!
The Highlanders bought Bill MeKech-
: ie from the Boston Nationals, which
seems to indicate that Frank Chance
is hard up for live talent. Bill will be
utility infielder.
* * * •
As the Tigers couldn't finish one. tw<>,
s’xteen. this year—with Cobb or with
out ’i ere is a reason for Ignoring his
demands.
Showing That Honesty Is the Best Policy, Even in the New York Subway
By ‘Bud’ Fisher
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NEW HAVEN GETS KERR.
SHARON. PA.. April 19. Aaron
Kerr, of Sharon, who played with
the Memphis Southern L-ague ‘'h)b
L‘Ut year, left yesterday for New
Haven, where he will p!a'y the out
field this season. Kerr was signed
to play with Memphis this year bn*
declined to report. He was then sold
to New Haven for $400.
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By J. W. Heisxnan.
A uburn, ala., April 19.—The
Tech baseball team has a chance
to reverse th^ verdict with Au
burn here this afternoon and will
try to do it.
A double-header of full nine in
nings each will be played.
For Tech Atteridge will catch the
first game and Witherington the sec
ond. Eubanks will pitch the first
and Fielder the second. For Aub irn,
Davis will try to pitch both g? m£s
and Williams will again do thf re
ceiving.
The entire Auburn outfield v ill be
changed so as to bring in lef -hand
hitters against Tech's right-hand
pitching.
Barr, of Montgomery, urr pil ed a
very satisfactory game yeste day.
Recruits Play Well
It is worth mentioning t'.at Tyler
Montague in right field am. Amason
on first, for Tech, distinguisned them
selves by splendid playing, each get
ting a hit and both keep ng out of
the error column.
The Tech-Auburn gurm yesterday
afternoon was one of tb.^ best ever
seen here. Auburn won U in the last
half of the ninth by a three-base
drive of Catcher Williams, which
scored a runner from first. Co to
this time the score was two all.
Tqrh secured both hers ir\ the third
on two hits, an error and the squeeze
play.
In the fourth Williams scored one
by a home-run drive over the right
field bank.
In the seventh he did exactly the
same thing, scoring Aubren’s second
and tying run. In the ninth he won
it with his three-bagger to left after
two were down.
Tech Fielded Well.
Outside of Williams’ terrific bat
ting the feature of the game was the
! superb fielding of the entire Te. h
team, and it. is freely admitted here
•that the Yellow Jackets played Hie
better ball, and to many it is a rays-
terv how they lost.
Both Pitts and Locke pitched ,iam-
up baU. though Locke walked a lot
u? batters, on which account Tech
had a lot of mfcn left on bases
IU>th liurlers were rapped for five
bits each, while Auburn made three
errors and Tech one.
11 was r hard game for Tech to
lose as they had more stolen bases,
more sacrifices and less passed balls
than Auburn. It was simple a case
of baseball.
Cobb Issues Final
Baseball Statement
Detroit Hold-Out Wants President
Navin to Put Price on
His Services.
U'GL’STA. GA.. April 19.—Here i<
tiie "farewell” statement just itemed
by Ty Cobb, tin hold-.out Detroit
outfielder:
"It seems I ant a burden to the
Detroit Club as a trespasser of its
rules. If that be the case let Presi
dent Navin put a price on me and
I’ll take a chance on being able to
negotiate m.v own release.
"I don’t think I shall ever play with
Detroit again. I would much rather
join some other club. This is pos
itively my last statement in thi.-
matter.”
AGNETTA WINS RICH STAKE.
DF.RBY, ENG.. April 19.—The
Elevaston castle selling plate event
value $ 1,00ft was won here yesterday
by Agnetta. Saints Bay ran second
and Flirty third
Crackers Batting Bit Above Form
© 0> © © © O ©
Can Slump 20 Points—and Cop
ii
By Percy H. Whiting.
T HE CRACKERS have gone
crazy. They’ll calm down af
ter awhile,” say the fans of other
Southern League towns. “They just
happened to run amuck. Memphis
did It last year. They’ll wake up,
don’t worry. They'll be lucky to. fin
ish bumsteenth.”
And lest there be disappointment
in store for Cracker fans be It said
right now that the locals are un
deniably hitting a good .25 point-:
above their regular form. They are
fielding at almost exactly their regu
lar form—or three points under, to be
exact. t
HeUe are the figures:
Bat. Av. Field Av
Crackers of 1912 255 .948
Crackers of 1913 280 /)45
A study of the dope hooks demon
strates that, while individual averages
will fluctuate, the average of a team
will be much the same from year to
year, provided the members of the
team are the same.
Let’s compare, therefore, the bat
ting and fielding of the Crockers of
this year, with the batting and field
ing of these same men (most of them
with other teams) last year, for it
will give us a good line, on what we
may expect next year:
. Batting Fielding
average. average.
1912. 1913 1912 1913
Agler 258 .100 .988 .J81
Alperman 286 .323 .953 .983
Keating 252 .227 .902 .821
Dobard .269 .500 .925 1.000
Smith 257 .267 .954 .965
Bakes 315 .385 .965 .850
Welchonce 325 .300 .981 .9*»3
Long 266 .323 .978 1.00.)
Dunn. 236 .333 .963 .941
McAllister 253 ... .967
Graham 239 .387 .937 1.000
Reynolds. 259 ... .1) 51
Musser 333 ... 1.000
Brady 165 .300 .965 1.000
Weaver 230. .250 .864 .800
Bausevvein .... .800 . .. .909
Price 250 .143 1.000 1.000
Becker 175 ... .909 .500
*lub averages
.280 .948 .945
T HE CRACKERS are likely to
slump a little from their present
exalted batting average. They vie
"busting” the ball a shade too hard
to last. Alperman. Dobard. Dunn,
Graham. Musser and Brady are all
batting above their stride. Tom:nv
Long is showing a lot more with
the bat than he did last year—possi
bly a good bit more than he will b ?
able to show this year.
T HE CRACKERS of this years
team who played here last year
ought to do better work with ‘he
willow in 1913 than in 191The all
joy muff of 1912 is gone. And the
team is a winner instead of an awful
looser.
Wally Smith, Harry Welchon.* J ,
Lew McAllister, and Buck Weaver
are in more congenial surroutrdincs
than last year. So a team average
better than that indicated by last
year’s records cun be counted on.
It is worth noting, too. that me
Crackers can fall off a lot in batting
and still win the nennant. To-da\
they, average of 875. They ha' e
won seven gumes out eight.
But it doesn't take any average like
that to win a pennant.
The Crackers can easily fall off
twenty points in team batting— which,
likely enough they will, and still
win the pennant—which they ire
likely enough to do.
« * •
T HE thing about the Crackers tint
does not shou in the averages L-
their pinch-hitting ability. This yea.-
whenever a run has been needed the»v
has always been somebody there to
drive it over. A hit in a pinch doesn t
do an> more for your averages than
one in the open. But it makes nil
the difference in the world in the
effectiveness of a club.
What with a few steady hitters, a
couple of sluggers and only a * w
weak hitters the Crackers seem t i
have the most useful hitting club
of Atlanta’s baseball career.
Boxing Commission
Praised For Work
Governor* Sulzer and Cox Thank
Gotham Fighter* For Aiding
Flood Sufferert.
NEW YORK. April 19.—At the
week!;, meeting of the State Boxing
Commission yesterday two letters
were read, one from Governor Sul
zer and the second from Governor
Cox. of Ohio, praising the work of
the commission in connection with
the benefiis held for the flood suffer
ers.
Governor Sutler's letter follows;
('buries J. Harvey. Esq.. Secretary
and Treasurer. 41 Park Row, New
York City.
My D^ar Sir:
Many thanks for your very kind
letter. I certainly appreciate the
good work you have done for the
flood sufferers of Ohio and have sent
a copy of your letter to Governor
Cpx.
With best wishes, believe me ever
verv sincerely your friend,
(Signed) WILLIAM SULZER
Appended is the message of Gover
nor Cox. <«f Ohio;
My Dear Friends;
For. : hr stricken people of Ohio
I want to thank you for your
offering. We are touched not more
by these substantial generosities
than by the largenes- of the hearts
of those from whom they flow.
Sincerely your-
(Signed) JAMES M. COX.
The commission then sent William
Gibson. President of the Fairmount
A. a letter extending him a vote
of thanks for his part in the benefits
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Two former lightweight champions
vviil get into action to-day. Ad VYoigast.
who lost his title to Willie Ritchie, will
.met Tommy Murphj in a twenty-
rv.'ind bout at 'Frisco, while Battling
Nelson. Who fell before Ad Wulgast. is
scheduled to box Bay Wood in a twelve-
round set-to at Bedford, Mass.
* * *
The oiwoonte of the Wolgast-.Murphy
match will be awaited by boxing r'ol-
owers all ovet the country. Ad must
heat Murphy if he hopes to get on with
Willie Ritchie.. Should Ad lose, lie will
have the time of his life working his
way into the charmed circle again.
* * *
Rat Nelson has already proven him
self to be the ring marvel of the day.
The "Fighting Dane” continues to bat
tle his way throughout the country
against all coiners. Hat will probably
be there at the finish of the twelfth
rounu with Wood, fighting as hard as
ever.
• • *
Jimmy Clabby, through his manager,
blank Mulkern, has decided to accept
Eddie McGoorty’s weight proposition,
'38 pounds at 6 o’clock, to ftgh* ten
rounds at Denver May 2. Clabby has
been holding out for ringside weight,
but McGoorty refused to make it.
Pi
Moore, who battled Ray Temple
wednesua
to a draw at Milwaukee Wednesday
night, will cancel all bouts until July 4
Brown must undergo an operation on
his right ear. llis ear was damaged
by .le.ry Aluiphy in a recent bout at
St. Joseph, Mo.
m m m
Johnny Coulon writes from his home
in Chicago that he is getting into great
shape for his fight with Tommy Hud
son, the Detroiter, at Windsor. Canada.
April 90. This will be Coulon's first
fight since he met Kid Williams, the
Baltimore sensation, at New York, Oc
tober 18. 1912.
* * a
Johnny says he will beat Hudson
egsilv. take on a few more short bouts
and then go to the coast for a long fight
with either Williams or Campi.
, * * *
it looks as though it would be a safe
be? for some of these wise, ginks to
look inside of Matty McCue’s glove in
the future. From the way he clouts
them lie must have a ton of lead hid
somewhere.
• • •
A Chicago critic writes that Charlie
White is sure lo heat Joe Thomas at
New Orleans Monday It is a safe bet
that this same critic never saw Mr
Thomas in action. Joe can certainly
swing the padded mitts with the best
of them.
* * *
Charlie White is a wonderful ring-
man. and would give any boy weigh
ing from 125 pounds to 130 pounds «
neat trimming However. .Joe Thomas,
weighing 133 at 3 o’clock, appears to
be a trifle too good for the Chicago
whirlwind.
Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion
of England, has received an offer of
*3,5(H) to meet Ray Temple or Kid
Sealer at Calgary, Alberta, in a fifteen-
round affair Max 24 Harr.' Pollock,
manager of Welsh, is considering the
proposition.
New York boxing critics are referring
to Luther McCarty as the "Cheese
Champion.” Not a very good moniker
for a title holder to be earning around.
* * •
Danny Morgan is trying to gei Jack
Britton matched with either Joe Rivers
or Willie Ritchie on the coast Tom
McCarey. however, refuses to make any
match until he receives some definite
facts from the Rltchle-Nolan combina
tion.
Young Jack O’Brien and Phil Cross
will exchange wallops in a ten-round
bout at New York Wednesday night.
The boys are fighting for the welter
weight championship of the East.
* * *
George “Knockout” Brown, the Chi
cago middleweight, is now fighting In
New York George recently handed
Bill Grupn a neat trimming in the
Eastern City, and is now after a scrap
with Mike Gibbons.
Yesterday's Result*.
Albany 4, Charleston 0.
Jacksonville 4, Savannah 3.
Macon 5, Columbus 4
International League.
Newark 1, Toronto 0.
Montreal 2, Providence 1.
Buffalo 2. Jersey City 0.
Baltimore 4, Rochester 2.
Virginia League.
Portsmouth 5, Norfolk 4
Roanoke 11. Newport News 0.
Texas League.
Fort Worth 2. Dallas 1 (thirteen in
ningst
Waco 5. Austin 5 (thirteen inningsi.
Houston 5. Galveston 1.
San Antonio 8. Beaumont 1.
Cotton States Leaaue.
Jackson 6. Columbus 3.
.Selma 6. Meridian 4.
Baseball Summaries.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Atlanta at Nashville
New Orleans at Mobile.
Birmingham at Chattanooga
Me An phis at Montgomery.
W
Atlanta. 7
Mobile. . 6
Mont 5
N’vilUs... •)
Standing of the Clubs
l. r\c«
1 .86-
3 .667
3 .625
3 .571
M’pliis.
N. Or..
B’hnm
Chatt..
\V. L. P C.
Hal Chase May Shine at Second
o O © © O 0 0
Yankee Star Gets Real Try-Out
Bv A. H. C. Mitchell.
N KW YORK, April !H. -Hal
a left-handed baseball player,
will have his first real chance
to demonstrate his ability to play
second base this season.
Baseball men all over the country
are interested in the question wheth
er he can make good in that posi
tion or not. The professional ele
ment of baseball is particularly in
terested In the question.
When it was first announced that
Chase would have try at the bag. |
wise old baseball owls gravely snook
their heads and predicted dire fail
ure. As b first baseman chase had
demonstrated his worth. He,has been
pronounced the best in the business.
Being left-handed helps rather than
hinders a first baseman. H* i.s in
position to make many infield plays
that a right-hander would find al
most impossible. But a left-handed
second baseman—that is something
e^se already
Plays Hal Made.
For instance here are some of the
plays he made in a recent game
against Boston.
The first grounder that went in his
direction was in the very first in
ning. He was hardly set in his pos
ition when Hooper, the first man up
for the Red Sox. drove a hard grass
cutter, which if it had gone through
the diamond would have gone
through about five feet to the right
of second base. Chase came running
in and got his hands down on tfi>*
ball, but it glanced from his fingers
and before tt < ould be recovered.
Hooper was sat* on first. The ba’l
was hit with such, force and Cha.se.
had come from such a distance to
take it that the scorers gave Hooper
credit for a safe hit vvhldh. of course,
saved Chase an error.
Prince Hal had nothing more to
do in the field except to .look pretty
(and he is a pretty good looking fel
low at that) until the last of the
sixth. Then off Lewis, the first man
up. he raced out ftito right field and
took a Texas i* aguer that looked
safe frdm the stand. Gardner was up
next and Larry drove a screeching
grounder that was headed for center
fHld and way ticketed for a single,
cAase sprinted at full speed toward
sc-cond base, catight the ball on the
boend in his gloved (right) hand,
passed It quick'- to his left hand,
whirled around to the right and whip
ped the ball to first with almost one
motion.
The throw was straight and true,
right Into the first baseman’s hands,
and Larry was an easy out. Chase
had executed a hard play In a way
that marie it look easy.
On that play alone the question as
to whether Chase can make good at
second ought to be* settled once and
for all. It was a good play for even
a right-hander to make.
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IN PREP MEET
B UYS HIGH defeated Tech High
in the annual track meet be
tween the two schools yesterday
afternoon at Tech field, 63 to 36.
The captains of both teams proved
the real sensations of the meet.
Bill Bedell, of Tech High, scored
16 1-2 points for his team, almost
one-half of total number of points
gained by the Culverlte*. Bedell won
two firsts*, two seconds and 8 third,
place. He came in an easy winner
lui the 440-yard dash and the ham
mer throw.
Loekridge, the leader of the Tioys
High athletes, was a close second to
Bedell in numb • of points gained.
He won three firsts, which made his
total 15. The running broad jump,
standing broad jump and the 220-
yard low hurdles all went to Lock-
ridge.
No new prep records were made
and few of the old ones were even
equalled. The day was warm, and
well suited for a track meet. Most
of the winners !o the events yester
day will enter in the annual prep
meet (o be held at Tech Flats. May
9th. A large crowd witnessed the
affair.
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Yesterday's Results.
Atlanta 3. Nashville ::
Chattanooga 3. Birmingham 2.
Mobile 7, New Orleans G.
Monigomery y. Memphis K
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Cleveland nt Chicago.
Hi. Louis ai Detroit.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Washington at New York.
Standing of ths Clubs.
W
St. L.... 4
Boston . 2
Detroit. . 2
N York . . 1
W. L. P C.
Wash-. . 2 o 1.000
Phlla 3 1 .750
Oh'go. 3 8 .625
Cl'land... 4 3 .571
7. L. P C.
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286
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Yesterday’s Results.
Washington 7. New York 6.
Boston 8, Philadelphia 5.
Ft. Louis 3. Detroit 2
OleveltOnd 4. Chicago 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
New York at Boston it wo games).
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati a' Pittsburg.
Chicago at St. Louis.
Standing of the Cluba.
Pinla
P’burg.
st. L..
Cb’go..
VV. I.
2 1
. 3 2
. 3 2
, 3 3
PC
.667
.600
.600
.500
B'klyn .
N. York.
Boston...
C'nat i.. .
L. P C.
2 .600
2 .600
2 .233
3 .250
Yesterday’a Results.
New York 13. Boston *.
St. Louie 8, Chicago 2.
Pittsburg 6. Cincinnati 5.
Philadelphia 1. Brooklyn 0.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
\V.
K City .. 7
M’w'kee.. 5
St. Pau1. 5
M apolis. 4
Standing of the Clubs.
I*. P C
1 875
1 .833
2 .714
3 .571
1'apolia.
L'vllle..
C’l’bus..
Toledo..
W L. P C
3 3 500
2 6 .250
. 1 5 .167
0 6 .000
Yesterday's Results.
Milwaukee 3, Columbus 0.
Indianapolis 5. Kansas City 3.
Minneapolis 8, Louisville 3.
St. Paul 9, Toledo 7.
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games To-day.
Albany at Charleston.
Macon at Columbus.
Savannah at Jacksonville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C
.1'villa. • 2 0 1.000
C’l’bus. 1 1 .500
C’leston. 1 1 500
W a.. PC.
Albany.. . i .500
Macon 1 1 500
Sav’nah 0 2 000
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