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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1012. 11 iy rl' D J±=^lx Now Jeff Knows More About Baseball Than Frank Chance Himself By “Bud” Fisher ) By Percy II. Whiting. T HE day tha Southern League : opened Bob Rauch, Pro* I dent of the Birmingham ( Hub, axpr.iuM-'l j a wish that every Southern I.i-.Lgur director who had voted to open the Southern season April 10, be dress ed in a bathing suit and chained on top of the Cracker stand. And (hat was a brutal wish for It was cold and raining there. Bob Baugh and President Prank Callaway of the local club lerl and constituted the entire support of a ! itlng campaign to have the Southern League opening day marie April 17 ’I'hey were voted down solid. They • had no chance. What was the result? The first week of the season was r a« wretched as could be Imagined Bad weather cut off not less than 4,000 paid admissions In Atlanta on opening day—perhaps more. All > abound the league bad weather slash ed off 26,000 paid attendance on open- mg day alone. The bad weather of the other days of the first week cost f 25,000 more at the lowest estimate. The, money loss was nearly $20,000. There wasn't any reason in the world for opening early except that a few misguided moguls thought they would make money by It. Their poor guess cost the league something like 50,000 paid admissions. * * • THE return of Nig Clarke to the Southern League—Mobile has grabbed him—recalls to the minds of Atlanta Ians that of the four famous catchers sent up to big leagues by Atlanta the two who looked best "proved up” worst. The four men Atlanta sent up were Nig Clarke, Sid Smith, Ed Sweeney I and Jimmy Archer. Clarke and Smith looked like won ders yet both failed swiftly in the big lea„ ies and came into their own only when they dropped back to Class AA. Ed Sweeney and Jimmy Archer Improved and developed Into players whose ability was out of all propor tion to whak they showed in the Southern League. Sweeney looked like only a fair prospect when he was sent up. The fact that he went to the big leagues only as a cover-up is well known. Steadily he improved. Now he is one of the very best in civilized base ball. Jimmy Archer wan a nice fielding catcher in the Southern League but he couldn’t hit. Also he looked mighty “pindllng.” Folks said he might he a good catcher some day, 1f he "filled out.” He must have done it br he’s the best catcher in base ball to-day and last year he hit .283. ♦ Here are the marks set by the t four famous catchers during their Atlanta days: “Nig” Clarke. AB. R. H. P.C. T O. A. E. P C. 142 14 36 .263 105 26 3 .076 441 60 117 .263 716 169 26 .972 Jim Archer. AB. R. H. PC. P.O. A. E. P C. 283 18 72 .264 386 133 18 .962 06 321 14 72 .224 349 100 12 .971 Ed Sweeney. AB. R. H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P C. 195 12 44 .225 344 79 7 .960 Sid Smith. \B. R. H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P.C. 30 66 137 .336 191 52 8 .967 '02 39 118 .297 342 100 10 .977 <21 40 118 .280 164 58 9 .967 0 32 133 .271 363 138 11 .960 T . is believed that, if Finn can 1 handle Clarke he will do well in tile Southern. When Nig was with Atlanta he was under Ab Powell’s wing and “Uncle Abner” came nearer to gettiag a lot i f work out of him than any man ever did. Ab loved him like a son and treat ed him like one, though Nig wouldn’t take him seriously. In fact he has never taken anybody but himself se riously and that is what has ruined his career. Naturally Nig had more stuff than any catcher who ever showed his head in the Southern League. He has a fine snap throw, like Archer’s; a good head; is a game gink, and when l.e wants to he can bat Last year Nig played part of the season with Indianapolis, hitting .286, fielding .968 and cutting down 115 runners who tried to steal. It might be added that Sid Smith's disposition is what kept him out of the big leagues—that and a mild frame-up at Cleveland. Sid couldn't take baseball seriously. He isn’t the kind that takes anything seri ously. If he were he would to-day rank with Archer and Sweeney —perhaps above them. He started with more real stuff than either of I them. « • • P OOR old Nap Rucker, the luck less Alpharettan! He has prob ably lost more well-pitched games than any other man in the world— not even barring Walter Johnson or Ed Walsh, both of whom have had heir share of the misery of trying to will along a wretched team. ■look at the two games Rucker lost o the Phillies. In neither game did is team score a run for him. In %ch game he allowed the hard-hit- Dg Phillies one run. In many ways the Dodgers are the rat team in the world. They can't they can’t field much—especially outfielders—and they are glued the paths, There isn't a chance on earth that ookiyn will have a real ball club ring the active career of Rucker, lere is less chance that they will 1 Nap as long as he has anything t. All the Georgian has to look i -ward to 1b to take what pay he squeeze out of Charley Ebbetts— ich Isn’t must—and plug along. LIVER ALL RIGHTS and Bowels Regular .. take Calomel Salts, Oils or cathartics when you can go • real drug store in town and box of sure, safe, blissful SPRINGS LIVER BUT- VTONS for only 25 cents. They ■evtr fall. r One to-night means satisfaction In the morning. They are the | Voduct of the greatest medical I Bids at the world's great Sani- | JFium and are now offered io you f js a perfect remedy for constipa- «n, torpid liver, sick headache, \$ed tongue and dizziness. —> Sample from Hot Springs fcal Co., Hot Springs, Ark. r C Wfr ONOCfcSTANO Tv t»b OAT* Ball. talk. n V'vbwrttE that CHASE bWblCk OLtTO:-i an Drop” AND C Ret *AAt>e A MIY on AN “lN TjROp" t tuONOgR WHA.Y “ooTDROP AMO “ )n UeoP’’ MEANS. t'u. Co KVJTT j ^A't,MuTr,WHAT'5 r Setween an j “OUT DROP” AND AN “(N DROP’’ ( weu. tVL J.HOV/ TOO. Lt*41> ME THHGLER By Joe Agler. N ashville, tenn., April 22.— If we can manage to get any thing like an even break of luck, we’ll take a battle from Bill Schwartz’s well known Vols this aft ernoon. I’ll make that a prediction, and you can aign my name to it. We’ll have blood In our eye and “Old Reliable” Brady on the slab this afternoon—and that’s a combination hard to beat. If we cop this afternoon we make It an even break against the hottest combination of Volunteers and Horse shoes that we ever tackled. To-night we pull out for a bumpy ride home, and to-morrow afternoon we open against Chattanooga. We are going to get back into our stride during those two home series and hit the road again at top speed. Far be It from us to put up any holler. But if the Craekers weren’t outlucked yesterday and generally bumfuzzled by the old Jinx, then I don’t want my pay—and, heaven knows, I need it. The same goes for the game of Saturday. Bill Schwart. lias enough horse shoes pinned on him to start a horse shoeing parlor. We lost yesterday, 3-2, in a game in which Nashville had all the luck in the world—which didn’t leave us any. Of course, it wasn’t all luck. Old Paul Musser was wild as a buck and the six bases on balls he allowed helped a whole lot in beating him. “Blondie” gave up only three hits, and if he had the plate a little better located he’d have kept them shut out. It should have been an easy game for us to win, even as it was. If we could have come through with a Lit or two in the pinches it would have been easy. Bill Schwartz shot George Beck at us, and the lad seemed to have something on us when we need ed a hit the worst. There weren’t a lot of features, from Atlanta’s standpoint. Pat Graham furnished the only real thrills. The “Ketchin’ Kid” was there with three hits, one a three- bagger, and if he had only come up in more pinches there is no telling what would have happened. The one time he did come up when he had a chance to do something big for the community. Beck had one. more va cancy on bases and he filled it by walking Pat. Jud Daley, the “Comedy Cuss,’’ pulled the great fielding plajr of the day, combing an awful wallop from Welchonce’s bat out of the breezes as neatly as anybody ever did. BASEBALL ROOTING LEGAL, RULES FRISCO ATTORNEY SAN FRANCISCO., CALIF., April 22.—Baseball rooting may not be classed as illegal among “loud and unnecessary noises.” .Such in effect 1s tfhe ruliig announced yesterday of the City Attorney on the protest of a local hospital against the pro posed location of a new Coast Lea gue ball park in the vicinity of the institution. An ordinance designed to protect hospitals was cited, but the City Attorney held that it referred only to street noises incident to traffic. DERRICK TO BE OUT OF GAME TWO MORE WEEKS NEW YORK. April 22.—Chance stated to-dny that Claude Derrick, his injured short stop, would he out of the,game fully two weeks longer. This means that Chance must com plete the greater part of his first month against the three hardest ciuhs in the league with a crippled infield. The wound was a bad one and is healing slowly. Derrick attempted to use his hand yesterday and in a few minutes the gore gushed out in a stream. DETROIT RELEASES SHANLEY. DETROIT, MICH.. April 22.—Bi- fielder Harry Shanley, of the Detroit Americans, was yesterday released to the Memphis club of the Southern League under an optional agree ment. Sporting Food By GEORGE E. PHAIR- Some men go from bad to worse. Is To -\ <Vo*u you see t DROP fAN hay He«.t IM YHe ROOM. THAT** an "ini W.OP" NOW — J I HlllilllllllljIHSlii WHAT’S THE USE? It is a chronic baseball fan; I bring him gladsome news. Methinks the tidings I have brought Will cause him to enthuse. Quoth I: “Thou hast been left some kale— A million bones or more!” He bnly turns his glims on me And answers: “what’s the score?” “Thine uncle,” I go on to quote, “Hath left, thee all his cush,” But not the semblance of a smile Is seen upon his mush. Quoth I: “Thy boob! Thou Joe! Thou nut! Thou makest my heart full sore.” He turn.** a vacant lamp on me And answers. “What’s the score?” At last I conjure up a way To tempt the wild-eyed gink. Quoth I In accents light and gay: “Let’s go and get a drink!” He hands me out a vacant stare And answers: “What’s the score?” And then I hook m.v trusty right And put him to the floor. The report that Connie Mack haa of fered $25,000 for Tyrua Cobb la Interest ing until one has tried to Imagine said Connie Mack In the act of prying him self loose from $25,000. There are various methods of gaining money under false pretenses, one of which Is to Insure a wrestler for $10,000. We are informed by various experts that John McGraw’s strength lies in his substitutes. This is the first time we have heard an umpire called a substi tute. When a man with a few thousand dol lars Invested In a grandstand can drive the greatest player out of baseball it Is a grand little pastime, Is it not? SPEAKING OF THE COBB CASE. Oh, say, does the Star-Spangled Ban ner yet wave O’er the game of the free and the sport of the slave? If we could have believed the press agent, Mr. Wolgast was almost a physi cal wreck. Likewise, Mr. Wolgast was a strong favorite In the speculating. Bum team work Managing a team in the Federal League is a perfectly good job if there is nothing else in sight. PREP LEAGUE NOTES For instance, there Is Tommy Burns, who has become a fight promoter. SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN. A baseball player made a hit; They laid him off for thirty days. They did not like his hit a bit, For he had hit them for a raise We note by the public prints that they are off at Havre de Grace. They usually are when they fall for that game. After listening to a band perpetrating noise at a ball game, one is led to won der why they call It popular music. Christy Mathewson fears that some day he will kill a batsman by hitting him on the dome. He never expects to pitch against Fred Merkle. TWICE TOLD TALES. Games may come and games may go, Stars may rise and stars may fall, •Still, one little phrase I know Lingers on in spite of all. In the storms of early May. When the sun is hot in June. Still we hear it day by day As the ticker sings its tune. When the singles come In flocks, And the swats are loud and long. “Walsh now pitching for the Sox” Is the burden of the song. WISCONSIN FIGHT BILL HAS MANY GOOD POINTS MADISON, WIS, April 22.—Wis consin will legalize tan-round no-de- cleion boxing shows and create a State non-salaried commission to su pervise them if a hill favorablj' re ported by the Assembly committee on judiciary becomes a law. The rec ommendation of the committee was unanimous. The commission will have a secre tary at a salary of $1,600 who is to devote his entire time to his work. Licenses issued to boxing clubs are to cost from $25 to $300, depending on the size of the cities in which they are located. Each club Is to pay the State 5 per cent of Its gross receipts. License for a referee Is to cost $10. WILLIAMS ELIGIBLE LONDON. April 22.—The commit tee of the English Lawn Tennis As sociation decided unanimously yes terday that there was no ground whatever for questioning the eligibil ity of R. Norris Williams to partici pate in the challenge matches for the Davis cup as a member of the team representing the United States. The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have anything to aoll The Sunday Amer ican is “The Market Place of the South.” The Sunday American ia tha beat advertising medium. Boys High will play Marist Friday if arrangements ran be made. A few weeks ago these two teams played a ten-inning tie which has not been play ed oft yet. • « • Neither of the high schools have an Important game within the next two weeks. Tech High will play some prac tice games with Georgia Tech this week, and Boys High will also meet the Jack ets In a practice contest. ♦ • • The tennis tournament of the students at Boys High has been shortened form a week to three days This tournament will commence Thursday and end Sat urday It will be held on the courts at East Lake. • * * Peacock is planning some field day exercises this year. They will take place at Piedmont Park the middle of next month, and prizes will be given to the highest individual winners and the winning class team. • • • Joe Bean Is working hard with his Marist team this week. He is giving the boys plenty of fielding practice as well as base running. * • • Joe says there will be no repetition of the ragged work shown by his men in the games with Boys High and Tech High. * * * Vannison, of Boys High, is being groomed for a job as pitcher. He Is a left-hander, and has lots of speed. * * • The high schools of Royaton and El- . berton, (5a., have two of the strongest ! nines In the Srate. These two teams played a two-game series last week which resulted In a game apiece. * • • Davidson College has a star athlete in Klutta In a meet last week Kluttz ran the quarter-mile in 51 seconds, ! which beat the school record for that ; event. The meet was between Davidson and the Charlotte (N. C.) V. 1L C. A . ami resulted In an easy victory for the collegians, 77 to 81. • * • Georgia Tech has a pole-vaulter who is liable to take first in that event at the S. I A. A. meet at New Orleans next month. Polly Smith is the boy, and he is doing 11 feet and better dally in practice • • * The Boys High baseball team should have little trouble this afternoon in de feating G. M. A. Last Thursday the high school boys made ten runs against two for the Cadets. Marist and Peacock will hook up to-morrow afternoon on the Marist diamond This looks like an easy win for Marist. * ♦ M No important games are scheduled in the Prep League until the first week In May. Then Boys High and Marist will fight it out. Later on Tech High and Boys High will clash. There will be a warm fight for the pennant this year, that muoh ia assured. re* The Boy Scouts field meet at Pied mont Park last Saturday afternoon was a successful one, and the officials were so well pleased with It that they have ed to make the event an annual affair. * * • Emory and Mercer will hold a track meet on May 10 at Central Park in Macon. This will be the first time since If you are in need of fresh air and exercise buy a from Elkin and get into the great life outdoors. It will do you a world of good. We have Kodaks from $1 to $100 We develop your films FREE. ELKIN DRUG CO. At “Five Points”—Open All Night Have YOU joined the Camera Club? j T’LL DROP YO0R.S I OUT THe WINDOW. I THM-’s TMftX’i AN *OOT DROP" •Y”b VER.Y SinvPlE 1°’J srnfe co lodges Work on Contest Stories QOOOOOO To Announce Winners Tomorrow T HE three judges of The Georgian’s great baseball contest—Menrs. FYank Callaway, Charles Nunnaily and A. G. Ryan—have been working a couple of days on the big task and announce that they will be through by to-night. The winners will be announced in the first edition of to-morrow’s Georgian. The seawn tickets will be available for distribution at once and fans who won can get their ticket books in time to attend the game at Ponce Wednesday afternoon. * * • • nr HE contest was amazingly successful. It was wonderful the num- * ber of fans who were able to write a corking description of the game. This made the work of the Judges tremendously difficult. It was possible to throw out half 'Without much trouble. To < ut it again to a quarter of the original number was not so bad But that last cut left hundreds which were excellent. The semi-final cut made was to fifteen These stories were more than creditable. They were high-class de scriptions of an imaginary game, articles some of which would have done credit to Charles Dryden, Damon Runyon and some of the nota bles of the baseball-writing game. • * * * At contestants are put on notice that the winners will be announced in the first edition of Wednesday’s Georgian. Grab one when they begin to roll from the press and you will learn the fate of your story. • ** * QNE thing—don’t be disappointed if you lost It was a large and classy field. Many of the competitors were semi-professionals. They knew the game all six ways. Of course employees of any papers wer* barred. But graduates of the newspaper game Flipped in. And so did a lot of chaps who have never done any real writing but who arc crack- erjacks nevertheless. * * • • txrATCH to-morrow’s paper for full results of the contest. If you en- vv tered a story be sure to read the first edition for it will contain the names of the winners. If your name Is among the lucky one? come to the sporting editor’s desk, second floor, Georgian office, and get your ticket book. T HE Crackers will be home to- • morrow morning. The Chatta nooga team will likewise roll in to-morrow morning. That afternoon the Crackers and the Elberklds will tangle in the first festivity of a three- game joy-affair. The chief thought in the dome of every festive representative of the Lookout City is to get revenge. It will be recalled that when the Crackers opened the season in Chat tanooga they won three In a row. This irritated Elberfeld and the El berklds and the bunch come back prepared to make trouble. The Lookouts have been continually strengthened for the last two weeks und should begin to show a big im provement. With the Lookouts disposed of Bill Schwartz will bring his justly cele brated Volunteers here for three. And that third game at Ponce with the Vols will end the home doings of the Crackers for a good, long while. On April 30 the locals open in Bir mingham and it will be May 19 be fore they show their heads in Atlanta again. N EW ORLEANS, LA.. April :2.— Pugilism Is to-day boosting another contender for the lightweight championship In the per son of (’harlie White, the Chicago whirlwind. White took on Joe Thom as here last night and sprang the greatest surprise here since Learn Cross stopped Msndot by turning the same trick on Joe Tnomas. White stopped Thomas in the eighth round arter making the local boy take the count on eight differ ent occasions in the second period. Thomas fought back gamely after g »- ing down in the second round, hut could not get to the Chicago boy. White started the third session with rights and lefts to the jaw, and) again Thomas went to the canvas. Thom as regained his feet, but hardly of fered any resistance The following rounds were practically the same as the first two, with White holding the upper hand. White started out of his corner at the sound of the gong in the eighth. He rushed Thomas all over the ring, until he cornered him and force 1 Thomas’ seconds to toss in the sponge. RIVERSIDE WINS TWELFTH GAME, DEFEATING DAHL0NEGA GAINESVILLE, CIA., April 22.— Riverside won her twelfth straight game by defeating Dahlonega in a close and exciting 10-inning contest yesterday, 3 to 2. The features of the game were the pitching of Haynes and Jones and the hitting >f Crow. Burr and Kent. Dah- lonega scored two runs in the fifth on two errors, a hunt and a single. Riv erside tied the score in the eighth on n hit to right by Mitchell, who took third on Crow’s hit. Both scored on Burr’s sharp single to center. Riv erside won in the tenth on a hit, a pass and a safe bunt. MAT STARS AFTER OPPONENTS, NEW YORK. April 22.-Managers of the two giant wrestlers, Constant Lemarin. the French-German, and George Lurirh, the Russian, were busy yesterday trying to secure matches for their men who have been scheduled to appear on April 30 against different opponents at the At lantic Garden Athletic Club. 1911 that Emory has taken part in inter collegiate athletics, and the team is de termined to show up well on the cinder path. A holiday will he declared at Emory on the day of the meet, and a large number of students will attend * * * Holtzendorff. of Boys High, is still waiting for some Prep Leaguer to ac cept his challenge for a wrestling match, best two falls In three. He is willing to meet any man in the Prep League, regardless of weight. JESS WILLARD AND SMITH MATCHED FOR LONG BOUT 1 1 - L -~- - FC > R SAI L E IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 1 Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, Creosote, Road Binder, Metal Preservative Paints, Roofing Paint, Roofing Felt and Shingle Stain. Atlanta Gas Light Co. 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