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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, APRT L 21. 1913.
Jeff Had a Peculiar Way of Figuring Profit
By “Bud” Fibher
B\ IV'ivv II. Whiting.
M ’ALLISTJSR, J>unti f Graham and
Reynolds? Which two? That’s
' the question that faces Hill
Smith. Here it is April -1 and the
* ‘raeker team must be cut to the
;jniit Ma> I. That leaves Smith
enlj r a bit over a week for the most
ticklish problem he "ill have to *et-
ilc this season.
A month ago— in fact every day
since, he bought. Joe Dunn- Smith
i,ad his mind made up to keep Dunn
,md McAllister.
To-day he may be wavering.
Note that Smith has used onb
Dunn and Graham in the champion*
ship games this season.
This might mean either that lie has
picked those two.
Or then it might mean that he is
iJetermined to keep McAllister, what
ever happens, and that, ho is trying
to make up his mind between Mc
Allister and Dunn l'or the second
catcher.
We rather incline io that second
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U 7HKN John Ganzel. manager of
the Rochester team was in At
lanta lie .said, "If anybody can ban
dit Graham he will be a marvel.
And John ought to know, lor he
tried-—and failed dismally.
A niohth ago Smith was no rooter
for Graham. He admitted Pat’s abil
ity but much preferred to let some
body else develop it.
Since then Pat Graham has whirl
'd in and caught great baseball. He
Las fielded well and he haw hit wel’.
It is a cinch that Pat has convinced
Smith that lie can catch better ball
than any man on lus staff.
The question is, therefore, has Pat
< onvinced Bill that Pat will continue
Lis good work nil the season?
Whoever can worm the answer of
tyhat question out of Bill Smith can j
with certainty name the Cracker
catching staff for the year.
• * *
TWO accidents have combined to
1 make the final selection of the
pitching staff difficult. One is the
Injury to Georg*- T3aus»*weln. The
other is the fact that Burk Becker
turned up this spring a bit under
weight and nut in top-notch condi
tion.
If Smith could have found out Just,
what Bauseweln had and if he knew'
whether Becker were coming around
all right the selecting of the staff
would be easy.
* * *
/ At ooune* if Bill Smith needed an
-'other player or two the local boat
ball association wouldn’t mind buy
ing ’em.
Just before the season opened
Smith had a chain e to get a good
looking catcher at a reasonable price
—and he laughed at the offer. That
seems to mean that he was even then
quite satisfied that his catching staff
was of pennant caliber.
Judged by the opening showing of
the Cracker hurlers it will be a long
time before Smith will need to buy
any pitchers
In considerably less than a week
it will probably be possible to tell
exactly how the Crackers will appear
the day after the final cut is made,
Gte, you're lucrn
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Taps for Wolgast, Says Naughton
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Expert Advises Him to Quit Game
l»y W. \V. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO, April 21.—Taps
for Wildcat Wolgast. ^That is,
as a champion. Ah a good,
useful selling plater, lie might, 'con
tinue for a while in the fighting game,
if lie wished. If he is wise, though,
and is well endowed with the world’s
goods as he says, he will retire. Bet
ter that than to drift gradually into
the Sargasso Sea of puglliem, as Bat
tling Nelson has done.
Wolgast was thoroughly vanquished
by Harlem Tommy Murphy at Cof-
froth’s Eighth Street Arena Saturday.
It took Murphy the full twenty rounds
to gain the decision, but when the
last blow was struck and the last
gong had clanged there was never a
doubt as to which way Referee Jim
Griffin would rule.
Even for Seventeen Rounds.
It. was* nip and tuck, touch and go,
for seventeen rounds. During all that
time, the lightweights fought with the
spirit of a couple of game roosters.
Murphy, maybe, was the more per
sistent of the two. He scored the
greater number of punches, hut when
Wolgast landed, there was more /dp
and sting to his delivery. This ap
plies particularly to the tirade of
body blown.
Line uppercut, delivered in the eigii-
tvnth, changed the aspect of the
whole affair. Needless to say, Mur
phy sped it, but whether it was a left
or a right, the writer for one would
not undertake to say.
At the time the lads were leaning
breast to breast and Murphy’s fast-
ilylng gloves were as nebulous in
appearance as the paddles 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. He hammered
diligently at the Harlem boxer's ribs,
but with the diminished force that
had been noticeable for several
round*.
They parted suddenly from a spasm
of exceedingly rapid lighting and
Wolgast’s lower face was a glisten
ing smear of red. One of the Mur
phy punches had smashed the lower
lip into contact with the teeth and a
small artery was severed.
Wolgast Tried Gamely.
Wolgast was in sore struits, but
he batled on with spartan fortitude,
the while the Murphyitee on the
packed benches bellowed gleefully
over the change in the look of things
Wolgast, who for several rounds
had tried weakly and bungiingly, by
the way, redoubled his efforts to stem
the tide with one fell punch. But. he
was dog tired and wild of aim, and
it was no trick for Murphy to snap
back from the Michigander's wild as
saults and a quick return to the at
tack. In the 1 rpt round of all Wol
gast fought frantically. He swung
and tumbled into clinches and while
at close quarters he put his remain
ing strength into body blows which
had lost their power to listurb.
ANY ioam that had to fare L •>
n Crackers in “very game of a -» a-
son would need about ten pitchers.
SMITH PICKS MUSSER
posing pitchers in almost every game
K they go in.
Here is the list of the two-pitcher
games that the Cracker butters have
TO FACE VOLS TO-DAY
forced on opposing clubs:
Atyril 10—More and Troy, Chatia
uooga.
April 1J—Coveleskie and ChappelTe,
' 'hattanouga.
April 12 -Tim and Stark, t’hitta-
ftooga
April 14—Thompson and Sloan,
Birmingham.
April 15—Foxen arid Thompson.
Birmingham.
VDril 19—William and Hendee.
Ir the Crackers go on like this, j
knocking out on- or more pitchers
v day, they will become the terrors
of the league. And judged by pres
ent batting average- this might eas
ily 1. ppen.
STRONG MAKES RECORD DRIVE.
PINFHURST, N. C., April 21. What
believed to be a world’s record drive
was recorded by Herbert Strong, of the
Inwood Club, in the open event of the
thirteenth annual United North and
South Amateur Golf championship at
Pinehurst. N O. With the wind back of
him, Strong mane the first green on the
No. 2 course. a distance of 408 yards.
By Joe Agler.
N ashville, tenn.. April ji.—•
The Crackers ure ready for
the third game of their series
with the Vols this afternoon. Paul
Musser has been selected 1 *> BUI
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 Crackers were up at 8:30 this
morning, confident of taking the two
remaining games from the Vols. Most
of the boys spent yesterday seeing
Nashville in a big touring car, 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 go to the big leagues is the opin
ion of the scribes around here. His
homer Saturday over the right field
fence was one of the longest hits ever
seen here. Cy Dahlgreen, a pitcher,
has joined the Vols, and Manager
Schwartz is after two more pitchers
from the majors.
ST. LOUIS STORY SAYS
MURPHY IS TO SELL CUBS
ST. LOUIS, MO., April 21. Charles
Webb 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 stales that he has inside in
formation to this effect, and says that,
while Murphy will indignantly deny th*»
story, he bus reasons for believing that
if Johnny Evers falls to build up the
once famous Cub machine, Charles
Webb will get out while the getting is
good.
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CHRISTY MATHEWS
BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP
Welters Coming Into Their Own
‘Attell Can Beat Kiibane’-Rivers
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 the old war days,
but since then it has been discovered there is room for two leagues, and now
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the battle 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 coining 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 case and the merits of the contention are
not accurately known by me, 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. Navin. The
outcome will establish a baseball precedent.
# *f *
N OW I do not want my readers to think I am taking
this game too seriously. But a statement made to
the class in history while I 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 Borne sort of a change
in all governments. A rush of unrest strikes into the
hones of the people, and they demand an alteration.
So much lias 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 ma t could
go to bed at night 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 in 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' :
fOW, however, baseball is an open-anil shut organ
ization. if a player does not want to appear witli
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 stopped 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.
* * v
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 |
tlie owners of that club, because Cobb would bring
much more than his salary to the gate in the course
of the race. It would establish a 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 ills
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 , it will make a difference in your pay envelopes."
at best, and he must get it while the getting is easy.
He appreciates the amount he is wortli to his club,
and is sticking to his stand like an old maid to an un
married man.
If he wins, it will stre/igthen the position of the
players. If he loses, the organization will have
triumphed. It is an interesting case.
. $ a
A ND, in the meantime, the ciubs in both leagues are
trying to play their schedules, although the first
w eek of the season was not much to encourage them
in the effort. 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
iu a flood in the Middle West during the training sea
son tills 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 the family for a minute, the face in
the American League looks as if it would he a keen
one, judging by the first few games. The Rod 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 oil 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 be 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 this time. Gardner
was shifted from third base, and became u star after
having been a very mediocre second-saoker. 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. Ho
had searecly 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 ills 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 Sox. 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 rush.
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 1914 racing automobile in its demonstra
tion trip. As I 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 lie 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.
* * *
COW 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 seepied 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 McGraw is a great fan. While he is
not despondent, he was talkative after Brooklyn beat
the club the other day. When McGraw has some
thing to say. he usually lets it go. and his meaning
would be assimilated by a bunch of deaf mutes, even
if he did not use the Dummy Taylor language. After
losing the game with Brooklyn in the ninth last week,
said McGraw:
“Because you fellows have won two pennants in
a row, now you are getting overconfident. You may
think rhere is plenty of time ahead to catch up. That
is wliut the Athletics thought, lasit 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 ail the hay
they can when the sun is shining, and even risking it
on cloudy days. Now the next time 1 find any of you
boys being careless about your manners on the bases
and being caught by a thrown ball with a flat foot,
N ,:
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
West, 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 the 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 some
class, and is about town hurling out
challenges right and left. Johnny“looks
like the real thing and says he
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
trimmed Tim O’Nei* the Irondale
mixer, out on the Coast, which is
some recommendation. ■
* * *
Rivers Boosts Attell.
There is at least dne prominent pu
gilistic person who i s» firmly con
vinced that Abe Attell, ex-feather
weight champion, lacks none of the
qualities and ability he possessed b'e-
fore he was relieved of his title by
Johnny Kilbane. Joe Rivers, the Mex
ican Jightweight, vows Attell to-day
is just as good as he was when he
was king of the 122-pound boys. Not Seals.
The acoustics of the clubhouse are fine.
TT was back in 1906 that the Giants had won two
* pennants 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 they
had to do was to put on their shirts with "World’s
Champions” marked on them and keep their hands in
shape to pull another pennant to the masthead. But
that “World’s Champions” label looks terribly foolish
along about September when the standing of the clubs
does -not confirm the boast. McGraw will keep on the
Giants harder than ever this season, because he
realizes it is the very year when they are the most
likely to kick away a championship. He will not give
them any leeway.
* * *
N OW 1 ant going to heat up my old soup bone and
see what is left in it.
(Copyright, 1913, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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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 ha
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 they
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, ne
said:
"You can’t tell me that Attell can't
come back. 1 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.
I think ho can lick all the fea'her-
weights. Poor physical condition cost
him the loss of his title. Kilbane is
a good man, but he was fortuna f «i
when Vie 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
work, go to bed early of nights, cut
wouldn’t be afraid to make 154‘pounds i out rich food and do all the othet
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon or 15S 1 things that a fighter should do to
reach the height of physical condition,
I think he could regain the champion
ship. 1 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, ne
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