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Jeff Had a Peculiar Way of Figuring Profit
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By “Bud” Fisher
D\
em II. Whiting.
M ’A LUSTER Dunn. Graham ami
Reynold*? Which two? That’s
the question that faces Hill
Smith. Here it is April 21 and the
* nicker team muat be rut to the
limit Ma? 1. Tliat leaves Smitli
only a bit over :« week f*»r the moat
licklieli problem h«* will have t«* • t-
t:. this season..
A month ag.« in fact every day
since ho bought Joe Dunn—Smith
had his mind made up to keep Dunn
and AfoAlliPter.
To-day hr muy be wavering.
Note thut Smith ban used only
Dunn and Graham in the champion
ship games this seaeon.
'Phis might mean either that he has
picked thus* two.
< »r then it might moan that he is
determined to keep Mi All later, ^viiut-
ever happens, and that he is trying
to make up his mind between Mc
Allister and Dunn for the second
i atcher.
We rather indite to that se< ond
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\\'Hi;.\ .Joint Ganzel. manager <>l
*' tlu- Ituela-Hte team ua- in At
lanta h« .said, “If anybody can han
dle Graham he will be a marvel.”
And John ought to know, for he
ttied—and failed dismall>.
A month ago Smith wu- no rooter
for Graham. Il< admitted Pat’s abil
ity but much preferred to lot some
body else develop it.
Since then Pat Graham has whirl
’d in and caught great baseball. He
Las lidded e. ell and lie has hit well.
It is a • iieai that Pat has convinced
Smith that he can catch better ball
than an> man on Ins staff.
oi therefore, has Pat
convinced Hill that Pat will continue
I is good wort; all the weapon?
\\ hoevei i orm i ho ansu • r of
that question out of Hill Smith can
with ee.tiiln1> name the Cracker
latching staff for the year.
GEG , YOU'RS LUCkY
(Again thpy you
AIN'T CASK. JOHNSON
OR. YOU'D COST
You title Right
THERE
Loem^ur to,
Taps for Wolgast, Says Naughton
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Expert Advises Him to Quit Game
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1 mak
ents liave combined to
e linal selection of the
pitching -1;iIT difficult. One is the
injury to Georg* liauseweln. The
other is the fact t hat Buck Becker i
turned up this spring u bit under!
weight ami not in top-notch condi
tion.
If Smith could have found out just |
what Bauaeweln had and if he knew
whether Becker were coming around
all right the selecting of the staff
would be easy.
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/ y c,ii " it’ Bill Smith needed an
’-Gather player or two the local ha.se-
ball association wouldn’t mind buy
ing ’em.
Just before the. season opened
Smith hjd a chant .* to get i good
looking < atcher at a reasonable pra
am] In* laugla 1 it tty offer. That
seems to mean that in- was even then
quite satisfied that his catching staff
was of pennuui caliber.
Judged by the opening showing -■
the Cracker hurl* i s It will be a long
time before Smith will need to buy
any pitchers.
In considerably less than a w< - k
it will probably 1**4 possible t > tell
exactly how the Crackers will appear
the day after the final cut is made.
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A XV team the; lmd to iac< t
* *■ Crackers in »*ver> gam*.* «»r a ■ 1-
son would need about ten pitchers.
Cor the Crackers use up two op
posing pitchers in almost overt game
they go in.
Hero is the list of the two-pitcher*
games that the Cracker batters huvi
forced on opposing clubs:
Aprii 10—More and Troy. Chatta
nooga.
April 11—Coveleskb* and Chappello,
• 'lattunooga.
April 12-~Tn.\ and Stark. Clntta-
noofu.
April 14—Thompson and Sloan, 1
Birmingham.
April 15—Koxcn and Thompson,
I tirminghain.
April 19—Williams and Hendec.
If the Cracker* go on like this, j
knocking out on- or more pitchers
a day. Vhey will become the terrors!
of the league. And judged by pres-
l cut butting averages this might ea>-
l 11 y huppen.
STRONG MAKES RECORD DRIVE.
N. April 2! VVJuit
ih believed to be a world's record driw
woa recorded bv Berjwrt Strong, of the
In wood Club. In tho open event of the
thirteenth annual United North and
South Amateur Golf chuinplonship at
Piuehurst, N. C. With the wind bark .-f
1-itn. Strong made the first green on the
No. 2 course, a distance of 108 yards
lb \V. \\. Naughton.
S AX FRAXCJSeo. April 21.—Taps
ft»r Wildcat Wolgast. That in,
as a champion- As a good,
useful selling plater, he might con
tinue for a while in the fighting game,
if lie wished. If lie is wise, though,
and is well endowed with the world’s
goods as lie Kays, he will retire. Bet
ter that than to drift gradually into
the Sargasso Sea of pugilism, as Bat
tling Nelson has done.
Wolgast was thoroughly vanquished
b.\ Harlem Tommy Murphy at ('of-
frotli's Eighth Street Arena Saturday.
It took Murphy the full twenty rounds
to gain the decision, but when the
lust blow was struck and the last
gong had clanged there was never a
doubt as to which way Referee Jim
Griffin would rale.
Even for Seventeen Rounds.
It was- nip and tuck, touch and go,
for seventeen rounds. During ull that
time, tin* lightweights fought with tho
s l*irit of a couple of game roosters.
Murphy, maybe, was the more per
sistent of the two. He scored the
greater number of punches, but when
Wolga u landed, there was more zip
and sting to his delivery. This ap
plies particularly to the tirade of
body blow'*.
Dee uppercut, delivered in the eigh
teenth, changed the aspect of the
whole affair. Needless to sh>, Mur
phy sped it. but whether it was a left
or .1 right, the writer for on** would
not undertake to say.
At the time the lads were leaning
breast to breast and Murphy’s fast-
flylng gloves were as nebulous in
appearance as tho puddles of an elec
tric fan in action. The constant tilt
ing of Wolgast's head testified to the
accuracy of Murphy’s aim, but. at that
Wolgast was not idle. II** hammered
diligently at the Harlem boxer’s ribs,
but with the diminished force that
laid been noticeable for several
rounds.
They parted suddenly from a spasm
of exceedingly rapid lighting and
V\ olgast’s lower face was a gli^en-
ing smear of red. One of the Mur
phy punches hud smashed the lower
lip into contact with the teeth and a
small artery was severed.
Wolgast Tried Gamely.
Wolgast was in sore straits, but
he btttled on with spartan fortitude,
the while the Murphyitep on the
packed benches bellowed gleefully
over the change in the look of things
Wolgast, who for several rounds
had tried weakly and buiiglingly, by
the way, redoubled his efforts to stein
the tide with one fell punch. But he
was dog tiled and wild of aim, and
it was no trick for Murphy to snap
back from the Michigander's wild as
SHiilts and a quick return to the at
tack. in tin* laet round of all Wol
gast fought frantically. He swung
and tumbled into clinches and while
at close quarters ho put his remain
ing strength into body blows which
had lost their power to listurb.
SMITH PICKS MUSSER
TO FACE V0LS TO-DAY
By Joe Aglcr.
N 'AHHVlia.K. TENN . April at.-
The Crackers are ready for
the third game of their series
with the Yols this afternoon. Paul
Musscr has been selected by Bill
Smith to twirl, with Graham behind
the bat. Manager Schwartz will re
ly on Fleharty to fool the Crackers,
with Eddie Noyes at the receiving
end.
The CYa.ekers were up at s:30 this
morning, confident of taking tlrt* two
remaining games from the Yols. Most
of the boys spent yesterday seeing
Nashville in a big touring cur. while
others were content to stay around
the hotel and play pinochle.
Nashville scribes here admit that
Billy Smith has a good ball club. They
are loud in their praise of the At
lanta players, especially of the infield
and outfield. Wally Smith will sure
ly
ion
to the big leagues is the opin-
1 the scribes around here. His
homer Saturday oyer the right field
fence was om* of the longest hits ever
seen here. Gy Dahlgreen, a pitcher,
has joined the Yols, and Manager
Schwartz is after two more pitchers
from the majors.
ST. LOUIS STORY SAYS
MURPHY IS TO SELL CUBS
ST IjOtTlfiS, Ml*., April 21. Charles
XV'ebb .Murphy, owner of the Chicago
Cubs, will dispose of his holdings this
year and retire permanently from the
national game, according to the St
Louis Times.
In an article published yesterday, Sid
Keener states that he has inside in
formation to this effect, and says that,
while Murphy will indignantly deny the
st. ry. he has reasons for believing that
if Johnny ICvers fails to build up the
•\rc famous Cub machine. Charles
Wobb will get out while the getting Is
g> >od.
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B OSTON, MASS., April 21,— Baseball is passing througn a period oi' transi
tion. Everything does. The changes are not in the game itself, but in the
organization.
A few years ago the big difficulties in baseball were always between
rival bodies, such as theNational and American Leagues in tile old war days,
but since then it has been discovered there is room for two leagues, and now
Welters Coming Into Their Own
‘AttellCan BeatKilbane-Rivers
the buttle appears to be between the players and’the
organization. The case of Cobb has demonstrated
this fact. The unusual number of holdouts last win
ter confirmed it. Baseball has become a highly or
ganized and developed institution, and the old dispute
of labor and capital is coming into evidence in it.
I am not going to undertake to adjust the differ
ences between Cob and the Detroit club. The real
facts of the caRe and the merits of the contention are
not accurately known by nnr, but the incident has a
big bearing on baseball. It is not a question of salary,
because at present there is a variance of only a few
hundred dollars between Cobb and Mr. Naviu. I he
outcome will establish a baseball precedent.
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N OW I do not want my readers to think 1 am taking
this game too seriously. But a statement made to
the class in history while l was in college many years
ago returns- to my mind.
‘Every second or third generation," said this ac
celerator of knowledge, sliding his spectacles back
on his forehead, "there comes some sort of a change
in all governments. A rush of tiniest strikes into the
bones of the people, and they demand an alteration.
So much has been read of strife, they want a few
thirills for themselves, and are eager to know what
war is like. The next revolution in this country will
be between labor and capital."
This, in a more superficial way. applies to base
ball. In the old days of the baseball wars, the play
ers were merely the pawns with which the owner
played. The star was offered much money to leap
from league to league and back again, and many
players spent their spare hours leaping. A inu.i could.
go to bed at nigl^t owning a pennant-winning ball club
and awake In the morning with nothing left but hope
and a prayer, especially if he slept late. Those jump
ing ball players used to like to travel on sleepers.
Jimmy Sheckard was the prize bullfrog of them
all. He could leap faster and oftener than any of the
rest. The magnates were chary about paying off their
men !u full, because pay day always made a nice
springboard. No player was going to jump a club
with a bundle of money owed to him. And out of this
war between the leagues the stars received many
thrills and sincerely believed competition to be the
life of trade.
N'
[OW. however, baseball is an open-and-shut organ
ization. If a player does not want to appear with
a certain club, he must stay out of the game. This
situation has existed for several years, but Ty Cobb
has proved to be the disturbing factor in it. Last
summer, in New York, when he stepped into the
grandstand and punched a spectator, he delivered a
blow which was to rock baseball. It was the direct
result of this that the Detroit players went on the
first baseball strike of history, and it was during the
walkout the present players' association was formed.
Now Cobb lias again brought the matter to a head.
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C OBB lias demanded fifteen thousand dollars to play
baseball for Detroit this season, and there is lit
tle doubt that this would be a good investment for
the owners ol that club, because Cobb would bring
much mure than liic salary to the gate in the course
of the race. It would establish u precedent, however,
and lead other stars to rebel.
Organized baseball cannot afford this, and much
tore is behind the Cobb case than appears on the
surface. There is little doubt that the league has
taken an active interest in the outcome. The Ameri
can cannot afford to lose Cobb, yet he is not big
enough to force organized baseball to yield to his
demands and set aside long-established principles.
Fans cannot blame Cobb for his attitude in the mat
ter. He realized the life of a ball player is short
at best, and he must get it while the getting is easy.
He appreciates the amount he is worth to his club,
and is sticking to his stand like an old maid to an un
married man.
If he wins, it will strengthen the position of the
players. If he loses, the organization will have
triumphed. It is an interesting case.
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A ND. In the meantime, the clubs in both leagues are
trying to play their schedules, although the first
week of the season was not much \p encourage them
in the effprt. The standing of the clubs now looks
like a scene when viewed through the wrong end of
a pair of opera glasses. Everything is upside down.
The Athletics are the only boys in either league
who have touched their form. and. having been caught
in a flood in the Middle West during the training sc,:
son. this showing can be understood. They are used
to the going The Boston Red Sox have not shaped
up like world's champions, and the Giants have failed
to impress their admirers.
To go out of t^e family for a minute, the race in
the American League looks as if it would be a keen
one, judging by the first few games. The Red Sox
are just as strong this season as they were last year.
The pitching staff is magnificent and the outfield un
approachable, but still the fact remains that luck
hugged the Red Sox last summer with the tenacity
displayed by an actor's wife when she gets her hand
some husband back from a road tour of six months
without any ripples on the domestic sea. Jake Stahl
went through a wonderful season. Hardly one of his
regulars was out of a game, and his pitchers rounded
into excellent form from the first and clung to it.
Joe Wood had a phenomenal year, and made a record
that will he a big one to shoot at this season. I think
he won thirty-six battles and lost four last season,
which will keep him traveling tiiis time: Gardner
was shifted from third base, and became a star rfter
having been a very mediocre second-sacker. Luck
broke for Jake last year.
In spite of Connie Mack's often repeated state
ment that in a schedule of one hundred and fifty-
four games, luck breaks about even, the showing made
by his team last summer did not bear this out. He
had scarecly his regular line-up in the game all sea
son. One star after another was injured, and those
who were not. hurt failed to keep in condition. Con
nie did not voice his favorite theory so loudly at the
finish. The Athletics made a bad showing against
Boston last season, losing a large majority of their
games to the Red Sjpx. Already Mack’s club has a
Hying start on the Boston team with two victories.
Washington was strong against the Boston club, but
weak when playing the Athletics. Things, at this
writing point toward, Connie Mack’s men making the
other boys rffsh.
All is quiet along the National so far. Evers has
not blown up as a manager yet, and the Pittsburg
team has not, displayed a stride which looks like that
shown by a 1H14 racing automobile in its demonstra
tion trip. As 1 have said so often, the chances of the
Pirates depend largely upon how Hans Wagner is go
ing to stand the wear and tear of another race. Clarke
has substitutes, but there never was but. one Wagner.
To all pitchers he looks like an exclamation point in
the batting order. This is not true of any man who
takes his place. The psychology in it is a big factor.
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WOW for a‘few words about the Giants, which is the
thing I have been working up to all along, but I
did not want to feature them too prominently, being in
the family myself. It seemed more appropriate to
give them a place in this story similar to their pres
ent standing in the league, it is funny how despon
dent a few games dropped in April will make the
fans worry, and .\IcGraw is a great fan. While he is
not despondent, lie was talkative after Brooklyn beat
the club the other day. When McGraw has some
thing to say, lie usually lets it go, and bis meaning
would be assimilated by a bunch of deaf mutes, oven
if he did not use the Dummy Taylor language. After
losing the game with Brooklyn in the ninth last week,
said MeGraw :
Because you fellows have won two pennants in
a row. now you are getting overconfident. You mav
think there is plenty of rime ahead to catch up. That
is what the Athletics thought last summer until they
found out it was September, and they had an awful
big piece of. catching up on their hands. A game
won in April amounts to exactly as much as one
taken in September. Bear that in mind. Look at
what the Athletics are doing this year. They are
bearing it in mind. They are taking in all the hay
they can when the sun is shining, and even risking it
on cloudy days. Now the next time 1 find any of von
boys being careless about your manners on the* bases
and being caught by a thrown ball with a flat foot
it will make a difference in your pay envelopes."
The acoustics of the clubhouse are fine
TT was back in 1906 that the Giants had won two
pminants and one world’s championship, and the
boys sort of felt they knew just about all there was
to know about playing the game of baseball. All thev
had to do was to put on their shirts with "World's
t hampions marked on them and keep their hands in
“ P«H another pennant to the masthead. But
that \\ orld s Champions” label looks terriblv foolish
along about September when the standing of the clubs
does not confirm the boast. McGraw will keep on tlio
Giants harder than ever this season, because he
realizes it is the very year when they arc the most
likely to kick away a championship. He will not give
them any leeway.
By Ed W. Smith.
C HICAGO, April 21.—In recent
years the welters have not been
very popular in any section of
the country, because there were few
of them worthy of a leading classifi
cation. Recently, however, they have
been coming into their own, and with
several corking good fighters spring
ing up in different parts of the middle
VV'est, we are apt to see some pretty
good contests among the 145-pound
ers. In the old days of Billy Mellody,
Buddy Ryan. Jack O’Keefe and Jimmy
Gardner, to say nothing of others al
most equally good, the class was dis
tinctly popular, but the lightweights
ousted them from their position.
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George Gardner, once lightweight
champion and a fighter of Gie old
school, and a good one, too, back in
the dear old days, has attained the
services of Johnny O’Keefe of Denver,
a middleweight scrapper of soma
class, and is about town hurling out.
challenges right and left. Johnny looks
only that, but Rivers offers to bet
$2,500 that Attell can defeat every
man of his weight in the world, in
cluding Kilbane.
Rivers should know whereof he
speaks, for lie was sparring with At
tell daily. Recently the two went
through three-minute rounds together.
The bout was certainly a hummer
Neither spared the other, for thev
punched with all the power they could
put behind their blows. The set-to
was an acid test for the feather
weight. who had to box in his old-
time form to save himself from the
aggressive Mexican.
While RiVers was being rubbed
down by his trainer after the bout, lie
said:
“You can’t tell me that Attell can’t
come back. I saw him fight on the
Coast when he was champion, and I
feel no hesitancy in saying that he is
every bit as good now as he was then.
1 think he can lick all the feather
weights. Poor physical condition cost
him the loss of his title. Kilbane 's
a good man, but he was fortunate
when he fought Attell. Abe held him
too cheap and did not train as ho
should have for that bout.
“If Attell will buckle down to hard
like the real thing and says he • work, go to bed early of nights, out
wouldn’t be afraid to make 154 pounds i out rich food and do all the other
at o o’clock in the afternoon or ns 1 things that a fighter should do to
pounds at the ringside. He would
like to hook up with Jimmy Clabby,
Bob Moha or some of the other mid
dies. Johnny says he already has
t/rimmed Tim O’NeU the Irondale
’mixer, out on the Coast, which is
some recommendation.
* * *
Rivers Boosts Attell.
There is at least one prominent pu
gilistic person who is firmly con
vinced that Abe Attell, ex-feather
weight champion, lacks none of the
qualities and ability he possessed be
fore he was relieved of his title by
Johnny Kilbane. Joe Rivers, the Mex
ican lightweight, vows Attell to-day
is just as good as he was when lie „
was king of the 122-pound boys. Not Seals.
reach the height of physical condition.
I think he could regain the champion
ship. I feel so certain of it that I’d
bet $2,500 on it, provided, of course,
that Attell trains as he should. Abe
can ‘come back.’ because he, hasn't
‘gone back.’ With proper training, he
will be as good as he ever was.”
EWING AFTER NEW PLAYERS.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.—J. Cal
Ewing, owner of the San Francisco
team, announced yesterday he had
wired to Connie Mack, Philadelphia,
and Navin. Detroit, big league, mana
gers, for players to strengthen the
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