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Now Jefl Knows More About Baseball Than Frank Chance Himself By “Bud” F her rhit* By Percy IT. Whiting. ItiHE day the Southern League | opened Bob Baugh, President of the Birmingham Ciub. expressed sh that every Southern League S rector who had voted to open the lUihern season April 10, be dress- in a bathing suit and chained on „f the Cracker stand. And that brutal wish for it was cnld and ining there. ..I, Baugh and President Prank iway of the local club led and -tituted the entire support of a L m- campaign to have the Southern ,gue opening day made April IT v were voted down solid. They d no chance. What was the result? The first week of the season was wretched as could be imagined, d weather cut off not less than ,qo paid admissions in Atlanta on ening day—perhaps more. All i,and the league bad weather slash- off 25,000 paid attendance on open- ,g dav alone. The bad weather of ", other days of the first week cost ,000 more at the lowest estimate jhe money loss was nearly $20,000 There wasn’t any reason in the )rld for opening early except that few misguided moguls thought ev wouid make money by it. Their I,,r guess cost the league something a 50.000 paid admissions. I HE return of Nig Clarke to the Southern League—Mobile has abbed him—recalls to the minds of lanta (ans that of the four famous tellers sent up to big leagues by lanta the two who looked best roved up" worst. The four men Atlanta sent up were g t'larke, Sid Smith, Ed Sweeney d Jimmy Archer. larke and Smith looked like won ts yet both failed swiftly in the c leagues and came into their own ily when they dropped back to ss AA. Ed Sweeney and Jimmy Archer iprnved and developed into player.? lose ability was out of all propor- m to what they showed in the uthern League. Sweeney looked like only a fair ospect when he was sent up. The rt that he went to the big leagues :ly as a cover-up is well known, eadlly he improved. Now he is e of the very best in civilized base- ill. Jimmy Archer war a nice fielding tcher in the Southern League but couldn’t hit. Also he looked ghty "pindling.” Folks said he ght be a good catcher some day, Ihe "filled out.” He must have done for he’s the best catcher in base- lil to-day and last year he hit .283. Here are the marks set by the ur famous catchers during their lanta days: "Nig” Clarke. R. H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P C. 14 36 .253 105 25 3 ,i)T6 60 117 .263 716 160 25 .072 Jim Archer. R. H. l’.C. P.O. A. E. P C. 18 72 .254 385 133 IS .902 14 72 .224 349 100 12 .971 Ed Sweeney. R. H. P C. P.O. A. E. P.C. 12 44 .225 344 79 7 .900 Sid Smith. R. H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P.C. 56 137 .336 191 52 8 967 297 342 100 10 .977 280 164 58 9 .967 271 363 138 11 .960 AB. 142 441 AB. 283 321 AB. 195 D je- ; believed that, if Finn can handle Clarke he will do well in Southern. When Nig was with lanta he was under Ah Powell 7 '* ng and “Uncle Abner” came nearer getting a lot rf work out of him an any man ever did. Ah loved him like a son and treat- him like one, though Nig wouldn't l*e him seriously. In fact he has (ver taken anybody hut himself se- Kisly and that is what has ruined career. Naturally Nig had more Itff than any catcher who ever lowed his head in the Southern |ague. He has a fine snap throw. Archer’s; a good head; is a game ik, and when l.e wants to he can Last year Nig played part of season with Indianapolis, hitting 16. fielding .963 and cutting down runners who fried to steal. It might be added that Sid Smith’s ^position is what kept him out of big leagues—that and a mild ^fcme-up at Cleveland. Sid couldn't B'" baseball seriously. He isn’t kind that lakes anything seri- ply. If he were he would to • ■ v pk with Archer and Sweeney | perhaps above them. He ' more real stuff than either of pm. * * * OOR old Nap Rucker, the luck less Alpharettan! He has prob- h' lost more well-pitched games n any other man in the world— even barring Walter Johnson or Walsh, both of whom have had > r share of the misery of trying to along a wretched team. Lof-k at the two games Rucker lost the Phillies. In neither game did team score a run for him. In rh game he allowed the hard-hit- >£ Phillies one run. In many ways the Dodgers are the ,rH t team In the world. They can’t thev can’t field much—especially outfielders—and they are glued the paths. here isn’t a chance on earth that •oklyn will have a real ball club "ing the active career of Rucker, 'ere ; s less chance that they will Map an long as he has anything f All the Georgian has to look "'‘•ard to is to take what pay he n -Queeze out of Charley Ebbetts— d« h isn’t must—and plug along. I CANfT understand ■’Hl*, BASE BAU. TALk. IT SAT*, MtrR£ THAT CHASE ’STRUCK OUTON AN “OUT £>r.oP” AND A HIT ON AN “in DROP' t UiONDCR what “out drop’ “ IN DROP” MEANS. r 'U- GO ASK NVJTT THAT’S AN ] *OUT DR-OP’ \J rep 2y S7~w £TO I VER ALL RIGHT md Bowels Regular Bon’t take Calomel Salts. Oils or | ,ar sh cathartics when you can go ■° a ny real drug store in town and ffit a box of sure, safe, blissful *OT SPRINGS LIVER BUT INS for only 25 cents. They lever fail. ( mo to-night means satisfaction T the morning. They are the product of the greatest medical hinds at the world’s great Sani- ai *ium and are now offered 10 you 1 perfect remedy for constipa- iion. torpid liver, sick headache, oated tongue and dizziness. Tree Sample from Hot Springs hemical Co., Hot Springs, Ark. By Joe Agler. N ashville, tenn;, April. 22.—* If w*e can manage to get any thing like n even break of luck, we’ll tak" a battle from Bill Schwartz’s well known Vols this aft ernoon. I’ll m ike that a prediction, and you can sign my name to it. Well 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 oflt for a bumpy ride home, and t< -morrow afternoon we open against Chattanooga. We iire going to y t 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 Crackers weren’t outlucked yesterday and generally bumfuzzled by Un old Jinx, then 1 don’t want my pay-—and, heaven knows, I need it. The same goe. for the game of Saturday. Bill Schwartz has enough horse shoes pinned'on him to start a horse shoeing parlor. We lost yesterday, 3-2, in a game in which Nashvili'- had all the* luck in the world—which didn’t leave us any. Of course, it wasn’t all luck. Old Paul Mi: • r was wild as a buck an l the lx b s < n balls he allowed helped a v. mhe lot in beating him. “Blondic” ; up oply 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 hit or two in the pinches it would have been easy. Bill Schwartz shot George Reck at us. and the lad seemed to have something on us when we need ed a hit the w< • There weren't a !m of features, from Atlanta’s stand point. Bat Graham furnished .the only real thrills. The “Kctehin’ Kid” was there with three hits, one a three- bagger, and if he had only come up ip more pinches the; i- tip telling what would have happened. The one time he did come un when he had a chance to do s >mething big for the community. Beck had one more va cancy on bases and he filled it by walking Pat. .lud Daley, the Comedy Cuss,” pulled the great fielding play of the day, combing 111 awful wallop from Welchonce’s bat out of the breezes as neatly as anybody ever did. BASEBALL ROOTING LEGAL, RULES FRISCO ATTORNEY SAN FRAN'i'iSi'ii., CALIF., April 22.—Baseball roofing may not be classed us illegal among "loud and unnecessary m; - Such in effect is the rulll ■ y< sterday ot the City Attorney on the protest „f a loi a1 hospital against the pro posed location of i nc it 1 'oast Lea gue ball park in the vicinity of the institution. An ordinance designed to protect hospitals was cited, but the Citv Attorney held that it referred only to street no s nt to traffic. DERRICK TO BE OUT OF GAME TWO MORE WEEKS NEW YORK, April 2 2.—Chance stated to-day that Claude Derrick, his injured short 'top. would he out of the game fully two weeks longer. This means that Chance must com plete the greatfi' pa-t of his first month against the thi < -• hardest clubs in the leagut wi i < I Inftt Id. The wound - had one and Is healing slowly. Derrick attempted to use his hand y< swrday and in a few minute - th.- g<- gushed out in a stream. DETROrr RELEA -ES SHANLEY. DETROIT, MICH.. April 22.—In- fielder Harry Shanley, of the Detroit Americans, was yesterday released to the Memphis club <-f the Southern League under an optional agree ment. WHAT’S THE USE? It is a chronic baseball fan; 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 only turns his glims on me And answers: “What’s the score?” “Thine uncle,’’ I go on to quotes “Hath left thee all his cu»h. But not the semblance of a smile Is seen upon his mush. Quoth I: "Thy boob! Thou Joe! Thou nut! Thou niakest my heart full sore.” He turns 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 my trusts* right And put him to the floor. The report that Connie Mack hea of fered $25,000 for Tyrua Cobb is Interest ing until one hat tried to Imagine said Connie Mack In *he 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 pMtlme, 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? he pi 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. Some men go from bad to worse. For instance, there is Tommy Burns, who has become a fight promoter. SOMETHING EL6E 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 expectB to pitch against Fred Merkle. TWICE TOLD TALES. C.amoH 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 8ox r Is the burden of the song. WISCONSIN FIGHT BILL HAS MANY GOOD POINTS MADISON. WIS. April 22.—Wis consin will legalize ten-round fio-de- rision boxing shown and ornate a State non-salarled commlnnion to ku- pervise them if a hill favorably re ported by the Asaembly committee on judiciary becomes a law The rec ommendation of the committee waa unanimous. The commission will have a secre tary at a salary of $1,500 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. Bach 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 yos- terday that there was no ground whatever for questioning the eligibil ity <if K Norris Williams to partici pate'! n the challenge matches for the Davis cup as a member of the team representing the Lnited States. The Sunday American gees every where all over the 8outh. If you have anything to sell The Sunday Amer ican is "The Market Place of the South." The Sunday American ia tha best advertising medium. Judges Work on Contest Stories Q O © O O © © To Announce Winners Tomorrow T HE thrta judges of The Georgian's great baseball contest—Meesrs. Frank Callaway, Charles Nunnally 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 season tickets will he available for distribution at once and fans who won can get their ticket books in time to attend the game at Bonce 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 cut it again to t quarter of the original number was not so bad. But that last cut left hundred? which were excellent. The semi-final cut made was to fifteen. These stories were more than creditable. They were high-class de scription? of an imaginary game, articles some of which would have done credit to Charles Dryden, Damon Runyon and some of the nota ble? of the baseball-writing game. • • + * ALL 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 it 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 employee? of any papers were barred. But graduates of the newspaper game Hipped in. And so did a. lot of chaps who have never done any real writing but who are crack- erjacks nevertheless. * * • • IlfATCH 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 ones come to the sporting editor's desk, second floor, Georgian office, and get your ticket book. Bon High will play Marist Friday if arrangements can be made. A few weeks ago these two teams played a ten-inning tie which has not been play ful off yet. # • • Neither of the high schools have an Important game within the next two weeka. 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 ami end Sat urday. It will he held on the courts at East I-Ake. • • • Peacock is planning some field day exercises this year. They will take place at Piedmont Park the middle of next month, and prizes will he given to the highest individual winners and the winning class team. • • • Joe Bean la working hard with his Marist. team this week He is giving the boys plenty of fielding practice as well an base running • • • Toe 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 Royston and El- berton, Or., have two of the strongest nines in the Htate. These two teams played a two-game aeries last week which resulted in a game apiece * * • Davidson College has a star athlete In Kluttii 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.) Y. M C. A., and resulted in an easy victory for the collegians, 77 to 3! * • » Georgia Tech hae u pole-vaulter who Is liable to take flret in that event at the $. I A. A. meet at New Orleans next month Polly Smith Is the hoy, and he is doing 11 feet and bettor dally in practice « • * The Boys High h.uie.hall team should have little trouble this afternoon In de feating O M. A Last Thursday the high school hoys made ten rune agairiRt two for the Cadets. Marist and Peacock will hook up to-morrow afternoon on the Marist diamond. This looks like an uajsy win for Mariat. • • * No important games are scheduler! In 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 be 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. 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 Elberkids 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 trackers opened the season in Chat tanooga they won three in a row. This irritated Elberfeld and the El berkids and the bunch come back prepared to make trouble. The Lookouts have been continually strengthened for the last two weeks and 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 local? open in Bir mingham and it will be May 19 be fore they show their heads in Atlanta again. N EW ORLEANS. LA.. April 22.— Pugilism is to-day boosting another contender for the lightweight championship in the per son of Charlie White, the Chicago whirlwind. White took on Joe Thom as here last night and sprang th^ greatest surprise here since Lean Cross stopped Mandot by turning the mime trick on Joe Thomas. White stopped Thomas In tile eighth round after making the local boy take the count on eight differ ent occasions in the second period. Thomas fought back gamely after go ing down In the second round, but 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 us 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 forced Thomas’ seconds to toss in the sponge. JESS WILLARD AND SMITH MATCHED FOR LONG BOUT SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—"Gun boat" Smith and Jess Willard, heavy weights, have been matched tor a 20-round bout to be held here May 17, according to announcement last night. GOLF IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS. CHICAGO, April 22.—The Cook County School Athletic Board of Con trol, at a. meeting last night, yave official recognition to solf. The sport in the future will be under the same Jurisdiction as baseball, footba'l, basket ball and other contests. A schodule is in course of preparation, the games to be of eighteen holes. Ifb be a warm fight for Ihe pennant this year, that much is ftSBured. « • • The Bf>y Bcoutn fUlrt mart at Pied mont Park lart Saturday afterr.oon wan a Buccenaful one ard the officials were to troll pleased with |t that they have <»d to make the event an annual affa Ir. * « * 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”—topen All Night Have YOU joined the Camera Club'.' RIVERSIDE WINS TWELFTH GAME, DEFEATING DAHL0NEGA GAINESVILLE, GA.. April 22.— Riverside won her i ■ straight game by defeating Di.alon i in i close and exciting Jo-inni;;,; contff-6 yesterday, 3 to 2. The features of tie- g • were t \ pitching of Haj ne« 1 I hitting if « t >w, lonega scored two i on two errors, a hunt and . 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