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TIIK ATLANTA OEOIKIFAX AND NEWS. MONDAY. APHT L 21. 1012. IXK va sp th Id ha ht th es Wi an ai et t< fi tl F It 8 ii r c c i t Tl Enter SuJbsc SMITH 18 LOP Jeff Had a Peculiar Way of Figuring Profit • ® • • • • • • • • • • 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 0W,C€C! THAT'S toe I e»>D. UNION PftClPlC ' OP£N«*T> AT 15 3 ANV> IT'^ CONfc UP To I 53-^ . 1 HOPC ,T <*oef> down before ’THt I'AAfUteT closer Y'"" II O'clock. | trankein cc. BKoKee/s Htu-o! SAT UiMAT'S the PRK6 OP UNIOT* Paumc now WMM? ' 154 » thanks OH THAT'S Too BAT) 12 Oclock WA'T A SECOND, lAO'T, T want to see tne closing PRicC on uP toDAN. OH.C^ATf it went down to 'Si • 1 You N\ADl WHAT? YOU AIN'T cSoT ^0 UNION VACtPit STOCK T ICNOW IT. TMIVT'S whn t *\f\oe t (OOO . SUPROSt t MAO HM> 1000 VA/CLL it u/ent 'Down a BOlNt AND TO HAM«C. a THOUSfMHD DIDN'T I ? ] \\'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 © G © Q © © © Expert Advises Him to Quit Game ■ P YVt) 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. * ♦ * / 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. • * • 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. * $25 IN GOLD For the Best Reasons Why You Buy Shoes and Hosiery Here Sit doM 11 NOW and wriu im why you buy her* . Toll us in yum own way how long you've <V*; h with us; how many in your family deal with us: how often you buy here, what and win. lo Tho>.- who write th. \ U answers to out question we will give $25 IN GOLD 1st Prize, $10.00 in Gold 2nd Prize, $ 5.00 in Gold 3rd Prize, $ 2.50 in Gold 4th Prize, $2.50 in Gold 5th Prize, $2.50 in Gold 6th Prize, $2.50 in Gold W c have been identified with the retail shoe business in this city for mum years. We have striven from the start to sell you the BEST and MOST for the LEAST. Slowly but surely we hav<* forged to the front Our trade has increased wonderfully. You have returned time and again for the shoes and hosiery we sell. W in That s what im want to know. That's what i\e offer $25.00 for. Is it store, or service, or all of them? Your answers will hell) us make this, your shoe store, a better at which you can deal. A. disinterested committee will decide which are the best reasons submitted. This contest is open to all. Out-of-town folks are urged to write. All letters must reach us b\ May 5th. \ddress them to the Contest Department. stocks. place SHOES riiQflD5HDES*o*'EVERYBODY HOSIERY FRED S. STEWART CO., 25 Whitehall Street CHRISTY HATHLWSON’S BIG LtAGUI GOSSIP « —— 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. * * e 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. * w * 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. • • * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. 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