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READY TO CUT PLATE READ READ ESTATE AND WANT ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS SECTION BastbaVl ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1913. .PUTS T Billy Smith’s Men Take Count When ex-Atlantan Knocks in Deciding Tally. VOLUNTEERS WIN, 9 TO 8 Price, Weaver and Becker Are Given Fine Lacing by the Nashville Sluggers. N ashville, tenn., April 19.— It was Dave Callahan, rejected by the Crackers, who was the fly in the ointment in the most topsy turvy, see-saw game ever uncorked in Sulphur Dell, in which Atlanta was beaten by the Volunteers by a score of 9 to 8. Pitchers were slaughtered by both sides and outfielders ran until their tongues hung out. Davey was the boy who redeemed himself with a smash in the eighth that sent Jud Daley clattering across the pan, af ter Cal had put a terrible fielding exhibition. Harry Welehonco crowded right out into the limelight, jamming three safe smacks into the box score. One of them was good for the circuit, which he rounded by brilliant base running while Callahap was trying to capture his grounder which had oozed past his legs. In addition the drive scored Agler, who had leaped on the first ball served him for a long triple. Smith Makes a Homer. Wally Smith lifted one served him by "Miner” Hendee over the extreme corner of the right field fence in fair territory, he being the first right handed batter in the history of the game in Nashville to perform the trick. There were dozens of other features, more particularly the feat of the Vols in the first inning, when they scored three runs without the semblance of a hit. After Daley had lifted a tall fly to Bailey, Price lost all con trol of the plate and issued trans portation to Goalby, Callahan, Perry and Schwartz. Then Price swatted Jesse James in the short ribs. The southpaw then began to holler for help and Bill Smith accommodated . him by injecting Weaver into the fray. Lindsey pulled one Into Alper- man's territory, who tossed James out, but Jesse’s block of Keating’s throw to Aglet, although vigorously protested, was allowed to stand and Perry scored. Weavtr Good in Fourth. Weaver choked off a great rally by the Vols in the fourth after Noyes had registered his first triple to < -n the inning and crossed the plate on Hendee’s single. Some very loose fielding by Wally Smith and Dunn gave Daley and Goalby life on the sacks, and with the bases reeling and not a hand down, Orlie whipped over three strikes on Callahan and made Perry hit into a double play. The Crdckers had in the previous inning driven Kid Williams from the rubber on Long’s walk. Smith's double (which would hav e netted him four bags easily, but for a recently erected sign in left) and Hearing's drive to deep center which Callahan failed to handle. Eddie Noyes’ second three-base smash scored his manager ahead of him in the fifth. The wicked batting of the Vols got too much for Weaver in the sixth and he gave way to Becker, who faced a situation of Daley,perched on third and Goalby on first. Bailey’s muff of Jud’s tall fly was the immediate cause of Orlie’s downfall. A hit and a squeeze scored a pair of tallies In this frame and put the Vols out in front once more. Callahan Did the Trick. The fighting Crackers came back with a rush against the big coal miner. Wally Smith’s circuit smash sent Long in ahead of the third baseman and tied the count, only to be untied by Davey Callahan when he was be ing loudly panned for his wretched fielding and batting. The box score BASEBALL SUMMARY Results of Every Game of Im portance Played Yesterday. SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Atlanta Mobile Montgomery .. Nashville . . .. Birmingham .. Memphis New Orleans . Chattanooga . . Pet. .778 .700 .667 .625 .375 .333 .300 £22 GAMES TO-DAY. New Orleans at Mobile. Memphis at Montgomery. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. At Nashville: R. Atlanta 8 Nashville 9 At Chattanooga: R. Birmingham 4 Chattanooga 1 At Montgomery: R. Memphis 0 Montgomery 10 At Mobile: R. New Orleans 3 Mobile 15 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Washington Philadelphia Cleveland Chicago SL Louis . . . Detroit Boston New York .. Pet. 1.000 .800 .625 .556 .444 .375 .286 .167 LIKE BEST KID Paul Musser, One of Billy Smith’s Most Promising Pitching Finds Lad From Center County, Pa., Believed by Smith to Be Star Pick-Up of Season LOOKED WONDER LAST YEAR Broke Into American League Against Ed Walsh and Beat Him—Used to Be Teacher. Fritz Carlson Wins B.A.A.Marathon Race Boston Boy Covers 26-Mile Grind in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes. Sockalexis Is Second. BOSTON, April 19.—Frit* Carlson, carrying the colors of Cooke’s Gym nasium, won the B. A. A. 26-mile marathon race this afternoon. His time was 2 hours 25 minutes 14 4-5 seconds. This is 3 minutes ^slower than the record run made by Michael J. Ryan a year ago. Andy Sockalexis, frhe Indian run ner of Old Town, Maine, and wear ing the Aegis of the North Dorches ter A. A., was second. His time was 2 hours 27 minutes 12 2-5 seconds. Harry J. Smith, of the Bronx Church House, N. Y., who put up a splendid run for two-thirds of the course, was third. His time was 2:28:23 4-5. TO New Yorker Earns Decision by Desperate Fighting in the Last Three Rounds. EX-CHAMPION WEAK AT END No Knockdown, Although at the Very End Ad Was Nearly Sent to the Floor. y' GAMES TO-DAY. Cleveland at Chicago. St. Louis at Detroit. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. At New York: R. H. Washington 3 New York 0 At Philadelphia: Boston Philadelphia At Detroit: St. Louis Detroit At Chicago: Cleveland Chicago NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta. Agler. lb. . . Alperman, 2b. Welchonce, cf. Bailey, If. • • Long, rf. . . Smith, 3b. . . Keating, ss. . Dunn, c.. . . Price, p. . • Weaver, p. . . Becker, p. . . Totals. • • • Nashville. Daley, If. • • Goalby, 2b. . Callahan, cf. Perry, 3b. Schwartz, lb. James, rf.. . Lindsay, ss. . Noyes, c. . . Williams, p. . Hendee, p. • ab. r. 3 1 5 0 5 1 5 0 1 2 4 2 3 1 3 0 0 0 Totals . . Score by Atlanta .. Nashville Summary . 1 .32 ab. . 4 . 3 . 4 . 4 . 3 2 ! 4 . 4 . 0 . 3 .31 STANDING FOR THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. Philadelphia 3 1 .750 Pittsburg 4 2 .667 New York 4 2 .667 Chicago 4 3 .571 St. Louis 3 3 .500 Brooklyn 2 3 .400 Boston 1 4 .200 Cincinnati 1 4 .200 GAMES TO-DAY. Chicago at Cincinnati. Pittsburg at St. Louis. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. At Boston: R. H. E. New York (morning game) 7 9 0 Boston 2 9 2 New York (aftern’n game) 10 9 2 Boston 3 7 4 At Brooklyn: R. H. E. Philadelphia 1 6 4 Brooklyn 0 5 1 At St. Louis: R. H. E. Chicago 6 7 1 St. Louis 1 5 2 At Pittsburg: R. H. E. Cincinnati 5 9 1 Pittsburg ,. . • 6 10 2 SOUTH ATLANTIC. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. Jacksonville 2 1 .667 Charleston *2 1 .667 Macon 2 1 .667 Columbus 1 2 .333 Albany ] \ -333 Savannah 1 2 .333 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. At Columbus: R* H. E. Macon 7 10 3 Columbus £ 8 4 At Jacksonville: R. H. n. Savannah * 8 1 Jacksonville 1 8 o At Charleston R. H. E. Albany \ J J Charleston 6 10 2 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. Kansas City 7 2 .778 Milwaukee 5 2 .714 St. Paul 5 3 .625 Minneapolis 5 3 .625 Indianapolis 4 3 .571 Louisville 3 6 .333 Columbus 2 5 .286 Toledo 0 7 .000 ‘v nninBS: 201 300 020—S ;■ .v .. ..301 112 01*—9 Two-base hit—Smith. Three-base hits—Noyes, 2. Home run Smith. Double plays—Keating ■<' Alperman to Agler. 2: Keating to A per man to Smith to Dunn, Sehnarz to Lindsay. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS At Milwaukee: R. H. Columbus r 11 Milwaukee 2 4 At Minneapolis: R. H. Toledo 1 8 Minneapolis 6 9 At SL Paul: R- H. Louisville 6 10 St. Paul 2 8 At Kansas City: R. H. Indianapolis | 14 Kansas City 3 8 COTTON STATES Pensacola, 5; Clarksdale, 1. Selma, 5: Meridian, 3. Jackson. 18: Columbus. 5. TEXAS Dallas, 7; Waco. 1. Austin. 5- Fort Worth. 0. Galveston. 4; San Antonio, 1. Beaumont. 7; Houston, 6. Billy Smith, the Cracker lead er, says that this young hurler is the most likely-looking kid he ever saw. “He is the star pick up of the season,” says the man ager. Musser has displayed a lot of “stuff,” and is likely to be one of the Southern League’s leading twirlers this season. Bv Percy H. Whiting. T HE first of July, 1906, found the baseball team of Mlllhelm, Pa., utterly on the blink. This fact caused no particular na tional consternation. But down in Mlllhelm. where the hearts and souls of some 800 good Pennsylvania Dutch—the whole population of the burg—were wrapped up and arounc its wabbly ball club it was sad busi ness. The biink resulted from the lack of a pitcher. There wasn’t one in Milheim. There wasn't one in Cen ter County, Pa. There w-asn t one available anywhere In that mountain ous section of good old Pennsylva nia. And the Baldwin Locomotive Works Team v.-aa due for a game and it was the BIG game in ^Mill- helm's season. ' Heavy were the hearts of Mill- heim’s fandom. A pitcher MUST be secured. The manager nas wild with anx- iety. •‘Who in thunder can we get that will hold those big brutes?” “I’ll tell you,” spoke up Hans Schmidt, the Millheim second base man "there’s a little, yaller-headed. pie-faced, high school kid pitching around the lots that has a lot ot stuff. “Get him," said the manager, "get him. Tell him to come dut this aft ernoon and show us.” So that same afternoon there ap peared on the glorified cow lot that passed for a ball park at Millheim a skinny lad. tow-headed, pleasant faced, bread of shoulder and slender of shank. “Is this / cricket the pitcher you were talking about?” said the man ager to Hans Schmidt. “You have spoken." was the an swer. ’ Don’t look at him. look at his curves.” Whereupon the lad was sent on tho slab while the team was at batting practice and for a half hour he stood the Millhelmers cn their heads and had them breaking their backs over his sweeping curves. Finally the manager was satisfied. “You’ll do,” he said, "report with the team for work. We’ll pitch you against the Baldwins. What’s your name?" “Paul Musser,” said the kid. * • * F INALLY came the big day and the big game. When the Baldwin Locomotive players saw a slender ^.6-year-old kid walk on the slab they laughed themselves sick. “Send out a full grown man. We don’t want to kill any children," they shouted. The Millhelmers only grinned. They were largely of ’.he same notion. Then the game was on. The first Locomotive guy struck out. The next strTtck out. The third struck out. In tho second inning the visitors were gagging for breath. In the third they were groggy. After that they played l n a daze. In the whole after noon they garnered just two hits off the high school kid. They did not make a single run And that’s how Paul Musser broke into baseball. ♦ * * T HE man who now appears the most sensational young pitcher in the Southern League was bom ln the quite village of Mlllhelm, Center County, Pa., January 21, 1890. His father was in th: marble and gran ite business and a man of high stand ing in the community. The kid was educated in the schools of the town and played for a couple of years on the Millheim learn. In the fall of 1906 Musser went to Susquehanna University, lo cated at Sellnsgrove, Pa., and in the spring of 1907 he turned out with the rest of the candidates for the varsity team. He was only a seven- teen-year-old kid then and not over large for his age. But he was not long in demonstrating that he had the stuff and for three years Musser was the mainstay of the pitching staff—and considerable of a main stay at that. During Musser’s three years with Susquehanna University he worked against some of the great college teams of the country. His most not able victories were over Bucknell, LaFayette and Penn State. During all of Musser’s cateer at college the team was weak, especial* Continued on P»ge 2. This young man lias gotten off to a rtyig start, having won both games he lias twirled. He looks and a is a whole lot like Jeff Teareau. of the Giants, By W. W. Naugliton. S AN FRANCISCO, April 19.-- Tommy Murphy won. from Act Wolgast after 20 rounds of des perate fighting and won so decisively that there w.as not a dissenting mur mur in Coffroth’s Eighth Street Are na when Referee Griffin grabbed Murphy’s blood-soaked right glove and held It aloft. For fully 17 rounds there was noth ing to choose between the pair of human gamecocks. Murphy, it may be ?ald, fought the more persistent ly of the two, and, for that matter, scored the greatest number of punches. But when Wolgast lande<! he landed with greater force than his adversary, and this applies particu larly to ^he body blows that were exchanged. • Wolgast Fought Carefully. From the very opening round Wol gast acted like a fellow who felt th^t he liad a long and tortuous jour ney before him and that he recog- j iiiaed that it was necessary 1q hus band every ounce of energy he pos sessed. He fought carefully and un til hio strength began to wane lie fought well. Murphy, for that matter, gave no exhibition of foolhardy boxing. H« was scarcely as vehement as usual. LEAPING FOR HOT LINER Vanderbilt Triumphs Over Tennessee, 5-2 NASHVILLE, TENN., April 19.*— Tennessee could only secure three hits off Sikes, and Vanderbilt won, 5 to 2. The Commodores cinched the game in the eighth, when Collins hit a two- bagger, scoring P. Turner. Hutcheson was in great form for Tennessee. He fanned nine of the Commodores, but bunched hits, cou pled with passed balls and a wild pitch, discounted his good work in the box. Dawson was the star for Tennes see, He scored one run and stole two bases. Collins left immediately after the game for Boston to Join the Braves, with whom he has recently signed a contract. Box score: Vanderbilt, ab. Morgan, lb. Lyle, 2b. . . P. Turner, 3b. S. Turner, If. Collins, cf. . Morrison, rf. Davidson, ss. Brown, c. . Sikes, p. . J Totals . . Tennessee. Ashe, 2b. . . Smith, rf. . . . 4 Thomason, If. . 4 Deberry, c. . . 4 Gilbreath, cf. . 2 po. 15 1 Dawson, ss. Cameron, 3b. Lindsey, lb.. Hutcheson, p. Cates, cf. . . ab. r. h. po. a. 4 0 0 1 3 .4 0 0 1 0 .4 0 0 2 0 .4 1 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 4 110 1 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 18 0 3 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 Totals . . .32 2 3 24 ^ Score by innings: Vanderbilt 100 002 02* -5 Tennessee 010 000 100—2 Summary: Two-base hits—David son and Collins. Home run Deber ry Struck out—By Sikes. 4; by Hutcheson, 0. Bases on balls (iff Sikes, 1: off Hutcheson. 1. Stolen bases—Moran, Turner. Davidson and Dawson. 2. Passed bails—Deberry. 2. Wild pitch Hutcheson. Time—1:20. Empire—Bob Brown. Price, Weaver and Becker Did Not Have Usual Stuff—Joe Praises Dave Callahan. By Joe Agler. (Crackers’ First Baseman,) N ashville, tenn., April i9.~- W*elf, they beat us to-day, 9 to 8. However, we made them fight for the victory, and it proved to be a former Cracker who finally won the game for Schwartz’s men. The defeat can be blamed to the poor work of our pitchers. They all seemed to have an off day. Price, who started the game, was wild and simply couldn’t get started. Weaver did not have his usual stuff, while Becker was unable to stop the hun gry Vols. But don’t think we are quit ting. The Crackers will be out there lighting just as hard as ever Mon day. and, believe me, we will cop. Dave Callahan was the big star for Nashville. We feared him all through the battle, as he was trying his best'to defeat his old team mates. True, Dave made a couple of fumbles, but he more than made up for it in the eighth inning when he singled, scoring Daly in what proved to be the winning run. Wallie Smith and Welchonce were the brightest lights for us. Wallie’s clout In the eighth session, giving tl\e Crackers two runs and tying the score, was certainly some wallop. Long, the first man up in this inning, was passed, and Smith followed with his circuit smash. These were the main features of*one of the fiercest contested games ever staged here. I look for Smith to send Paul M us - ser or Brady in to pitch Monday. Both are twirling great ball now. Therefore, look for a Cracker victory Monday, as we are anxious to hold onto our lead. Alabama Defeats Mercer; Score, 3-0 MACON, GA.. April 19.— Alabama bunched hits in the eighth inning, winning the second game of the series from Mercer by a score of 4 to 0. Roddenberry pitched a grand game except in tlie eighth. Wells’ catch ing for Alabama, was of big league caliber. The score Alabama. ab. SCOOPING UP A WICKED “GRASS WELT” CLEMSON AND WOFFORD TIE; RAIN HALTS GAME CLEMSON, S. April 19.—Clem- son. and Wofford tied the score 4 to 4, with the game called on account of rain in the last half of the fifth in ning. with Clemson at the bat. The Tigers had a man on third, a man on second and no outs. Both teams were playing an excellent game, with hon ors about even. Clemson 2(rt) 2x 4 :♦ :: Wofford y....00<* 22— 1 4 Batteri h. Clemson- Ezell and Brown; Wofford. Frey and Bethea. Joplin, es. . . . McDowell, lb. . Peebles, cf. . . A. V’graffe, rf.. Nathan, If. . . Moody, 2b. Longshore, 3b.. 4 H. V’graffe, p... 3 po. 3 12 2 VIRGINIA LEAGUE, Score: R.H.E. NEWPORT NEWS..000 000 000—0 5 0 ROANOKE 020 003 00*—5 8 1 Kull and McReedmond; Brown and Stewart. Umpire, Norcum. Score: R.H.E. NORFOLK 204 110 001—9 16 0 PORTSMOUTH 000 000 001—1 5 3 Scnenn and Powell; Johnson and Rob ertson and Neven and Para and Hudeon. Umpire, Kennedy. Score: R.H.E. PETERSBURG 100 010 100—3 5 0 RICHMOND 000 000 000-0 6 2 Vance and Laughter; Burleson and Mace. Umpire, Colgate. Total . Mercer. Cochran, cf. Wells, lb. . . . 4 R’berrj-, p.&2b. 4 Rice, c. & rf. . 3 Irwin, rf. & c.. 4 Grace, ss. . . . 2 McKnight, 2b.. 3 Farmer, 3b. . .3 Manley. If. &cf. 2 W'land. If. . .. 2 . .29 ab. r. h. po. Total . * Score by innings. Alabama Mercer .000 000 080—3 .000 000 000—0 The summary: Two-base hit—Rice. First base on errors—Roddenberry. McKnight. • Struck out—By Vande- graffe. 1; by Roddenberry, 8. Bares on balls—Off H. Vandegraffe, 3; off Roddenberry. 6. Hits—Off Vande graffe, 4; off Roddenberry, 6. Stolen bases—Nathan, McDowell, A. Vande graffe. Farmer, Manley. Time—Two hours. Umpire—Walker. OLD CY YOUNG TO COACH UNIVERSITY BALL TEAM WESTERN LEAGUE Omaha 3, Sioux City 2. Wichita 9, Lincoln 5. Topeka 3* Denver 7. St. Joseph 9, Des Moines 1. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Jersey City 6, Buffalo 0. Newark 6, Toronto 4. Providence 6, Montreal 4. Baltimore 7-6, Rochester 6-5 (sec ond game called in sixth inning to catch train). COLLEGE GAMES At Macon R. H. E. Alabama . 3 6 2 Mercer 0 4 1 At Jacksonville. R. H. E. Savannah <..4 8 2 Jacksonville 1 8 6 At Charleston: R. H. E. Albany 1 4 4 Charleston 6 10 2 At Columbus: R. H. E Macon 7 10 3 Columbus 2 8 4 but he made every point tell. It was a case of two men who had met be fore and who knew just what to watch for. There was no knockdown at any stage of the bout. At the close ol’ the sevenbeentK round Murphy’s lightning hooka and uppercuts balanced Wolgaet’s body smashes. Wolgast was the weaker of the pair, and ln the eighteenth, during a desperate spell of Infighting. Mur phy split Wolgust’s lip with an up percut. Murphy Made Great Finieh. The gore flowed freely and Ad, be came weaker still. He tried hard to offset the lead Murphy gained, and failed. For one-half of the twentieth round Murphy held himself together and allowed Wolgast to fight him self out. Then Harlem Tommy be gan a blizzard ly finish and was lit. erally tearing Wolgaet’s head off when the gong signaled the end of the bout. Kennedy Winner of St. Louis Marathon ST. LOUIS, April 19.—William J. Kennedy, of the Illinois Athletic Club, of Chicago, won the Marathon r'ac'e to-day from a Held of 84 starters. Hie time for the 26-mile-and-383-y»rd course was 3:02:11. Sidney Hatch, also of the Illinois Athletic Club, finished Second, his time being 3:13:35, and Charles Lo- bert. of St Louis, unattached, was third, time 3:20:49. LAGRANGE WINS PRACTICE GAME AGAINST SHAWIKWJT ATHENS. OHIO, April 19 — Cy Young, the ‘'Grand Old Man’’ of baseball, has been engaged to coach the ball team of the Ohio University here. Young retired from acfcwe playing a year ago, after over 20 years of service with major league teams. Most of that period was spent with Boston, of the American League, and the battery of Young and friger was long known as the best in the land. Young was a shining example of the player who took care of himself. Young, now over 45 . cars old. spends most of his time on ids farm at Paoli, Ohio. At Hartford; Bowdoin, 10; Trinity, 8. At Princaton: Pennsylvania, 12; Princeton, 9, At Providence: Brown, 14; Colgate, 2. At New Haven: Yale, 5; Vermont, 0. At Annapolis: St. Johns. 5; Naval Academy, 0. At West Point: Army. 9: Harvard, 7. At Lafayette: Purdue. 9: De Pauw. 1. LAGRANGE, GA., April 19.—4 practice game here to-day LaGrs defeated Shawmut, Ala., by a seal 12 to 1. This was the first of practice games to be played he the opening season, and developed fact that President W. A. Holme! the local club, has selected some { men for his team this year. Another practice game will played with West Point High Sc next Thursday. The season will open in the Q gia-Alabama League on May 5, i the LaGrange team plays Nen The first league game on the locaj mond will be played with Tail* on May K.