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'J 11 h Ail.A.NiA ijlliUKU JAJN A.\l> A H. VV H. I l KMDAV. APRIL OT, 191H.
ON BILL TRUST
Bv Lown Arm>l<l.
1 Solicitor Criminal Court of Atlonta
• nd Formtr Director of Atlanta
Baaabail Association.)
I HAVE been aftked to give mii opin
Ion h9 to whether or not organ -
land baseball Is n trust. Mthoug i
I am unable to give a positive an
*»w«r to this question I will say that
it certainly ts « trust in effort and
1n fart. Whether it is a trust torii-
nicmlly and legally could only be de
termined b> Congress.
The. legal definition of .1 trust if.
“A corporation or com hi mutton f
individuals undei one head and
which destroys competition."
Whether organised baseball i**-
strove competition or not I rannoi
any. Hut thi? • - on..in. .U
mgattlned baseball dubs in thi* coun
try are under an ugreeemnl with ♦be
National Commission which is head*
•‘•i io one man (iarrj Herrmann.
This fact would tend to make It .1
trust.
Although the moguls night be ab e
to stand an invefbtigation of thi* sort
they certainly would not welcome
one. If such a course were taken
t 'ongress would at least limit the
reserve « la use and put a stop to the
blacklisting of players who did not
with to sign u contract with any one
particular club.
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I BELIEVE that the proposed Go\
* eminent investigation was ab?.-
lutely responsible for President Ni-
vln of the Detroit club hurrying mu*,
tent In the Cobb cate and bringing if
ho readily to a satisfactory close.
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I N my opinion the «»ric remedy for
* all this trouble about playerj
signing would be to limit the reserve
clause to three years and at the end
of this period give every man a
chance to sign with whatevei 1 1 »
Be desired, providing, of cobrse, th» :
he had some plausible reason mi r h
.is being with a tailend club u
among unpleasant surroundings, e’c.
It 1s true that the best players on
the poorer teams would flock to New
York and the other big cities Of
* ourse 1 believe that organization 's
absolutely essential to the life of ‘he
game, but 1 also believe that tilings
could be arranged more satisfactori
ly to all parties if they would gel
together and fix up matters.
It does not seem fair that n 111.in
like Ty Cobb. who is without n
doubt at the head of his profession,
and who could easily have signed
with the New York (Hants or a num
ber of other clubs for a $30,000 sal
ary had he been free .should h>
blacklisted by organised baseball for
refusing to sign with Detroit.
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O RGANIZF.n l>nm»ball • oulil 'wt
Mlit without tho 1 iwm < la us-
but I believe that a limit of Hire"
>eara should ba placed on it.
Nap Iturher, of Brooklyn, is un-
other notable Instance of th1» reatrie-
tion. How much better off he would
b. with a winning club. Surely lie
cannot be aatistieil with his present
omoundlnf*. pitching few hit games
and invariably losing through the In -
ability of ills teammates.
The club owners hair a one year
reserve clause nos but if a player
efuses to report the next year It
is suspended, which amounts to the
snmi thing as blacklist. Accordti >,
to an agreement between all club#
I|. cannot he hired b> any of then,
so be is. in fact, an outcast unless he
MHOS with his original team.
Perhaps the best remedy after all
would be for fottgress to investiga'.
and decide once and for all ivhethc
o not organised baseball Is a trust,
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THKRK is juai one more thing 1
1 ,vi*l to add here, although It inis
no bearing on the uuestlon asked.
I wish to sav tltat in tny opinion th--
Xtiatita Baseball Club is the best (>;•-
ganixed and controlled of any iti 'he
minor leagues, and 1 attribute till*
success to the fairness and hnpar-
tislitv uf Judge Kavsnnugh Their
is absolutely no politic* In eonne
lion with the Atlanta club as far as
lie Is concerned.
OLDFIELD RESENTS "BEING
LINKED WITH SLAVE CASE
l,OS. AKOEhliS. April 2t*. George
H. Bixby. the laing Beach millionaire
banker figuring In the white slave
probe, will tell his story to the grand
jury to-day. Dick Hollingsworth and
William l.McRssc. prominent automo
bile men. have been arrested on a
charge made by a fifteen-year-old
girl. Barney Oldfield the racing driv
el appealed voluntarily before the
grand Jury Rnd asked wtu his name
hail been connected with tlie Inves
tigation He denied all knowledge of
the girl witnesses.
ATTELL DEFEATS CHENEY
IN 15-ROUND BATTLE
UALTIMORK. MD.. April 29. Aim
Att*U. former featherweight cham
pion, defeated Grgc Cheney, of Bal
timore. in a fifteen-round bout here
last night Abe needed nil low clever-
nesK to beat the local boy. as Cheney
proved to be one of the toughest
featherweight* seen around these
part* in some time
The first few rounds of the contest
»v*»re rather tame, but At tell started
to force mutters in the fifth tind start
ed piling up a lead. The hoy* weigh
ed in at 124 pounds.
MATT BROCK KNOCKS OUT
O'KEEFE IN FOUR ROUNDS
AKRON OHIO. April 2a Matt
Brock, thi Cleveland lightweight,
stopped EM die O’Keefe, of Uhlladel*-
phia, in the fourth round of a sched
uled twelve-round battle here last
night. O'Keefe was Badly battered at
the end, and never had a chance. A
right uppercut to the jaw put the
Philadelphia boy down and out. A
Urge crowd witnessed the fray.
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COLUMBUS Y. M. C. A. TEAM
FORDELK. g'a.. Apt! 28— Con>>
walketl sway with the foUimhu. V
-'1. *\ A. team this afternoon bv : ■
! Mrore of 15 to 1. Luttrefl fo» : c
Two of Bill Smith’s Hurling
Staff Are Reported Not to
Be Training Very Faithfully
By W. S. Farnsworth.
W HKN eteimhae won a bunch
of gomes and then hits a slump
there are always a heap of
fans who start roasting the players,
collectively and individually. Bight
now Hilly Smith'* pitching staff is be
ing put over tho Jumps.
Nevertheless. \ours truly received
some tellable info last night
that two of the (Trackers’ hurling
staff arc irpbibing liquids strongor
than coifet. If this is true tho local
manager had better get on the Job
and plaster h good heavy fine on the
guilty ones
TV/f 1LT Bred, tin* former Maria! hoy,
is sure peppering the old horse-
hide out in the Central Association
and the St. Louis team is almost sure
to haul him hack into the big league
ranks If he keeps up the pace. The
following extract is from a Daven
port paper;
Mill Hoed was the scintillating
star of the afternoon. In four times
up he rapped out three hits to the
outskirts. He demonstrated his speed
on tlie paths by pilfering four buses.
In the seventh after he had singled
he stoic both second and third. In
the field he was a demon, too, hand
ling six chances perfectly, and one
of them was a miraculous one-hand
ed stab of a vicious liner.”
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\ ST. Louis scribe believe* that
he has unearthed the laziest man
in tire world - and lie * a baseball
operator, too. Said scribe prints the
following under . Boston date line:
“First and lot. various individuals
have been exploited a* worthy of
places m nti,' fist of the 1 Lari cat
Men on Earth." 1 would humbly sug
gest that niv gonial friend and fre
quent co-laborer, George Warm unde,
top-not her of the Western Union’s
operators at the ball games, he ac
corded u position well up in the list.
He duly qualified at one of last week’s
games, when, in order to save unbut
toning his own coat, he telegraphed
over to New York to ascertain the
time
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A TINY lnonke;. drove t\\»» of Frank
Chance's Pennant Aspiring Yan
kees to cover the other night in i
(lay Gotham Hotel, where the P A.
Y.'s roost when in the big village.
Hay Keating and Jack Lelivett were
the young men.
An Italian opera company regis
tered at ih» hotel last Friday night,
and one of the singers, who carried
the pel monkey, was assigned to the
toom oc upied by Lellvelt and Keat
ing by mistake.
Some of the other players stopping
at the same hotel dropped around
to see Tjt'liveH and Keating. Neither
was in Fight, but the visitors started
a poker game In their room. Ten
minute* after the game had got un
der way tlier*• was an uproar of
screeches and yell??.
A corps of clerks, bellboys and
brave ffucats rushed in to help the
poker-playing element, of the team.
Keating rnd Lellvelt were located in
a closet, while the monkey was spied
perched on tho transom.
Oh. what a joshing these two young
persons are in for all around the cir
cuit !
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i(To grab the white heavyweight
*■ championship of the world and
tote it hack to that dear Htate of
Oklahoma Is the eight-horse power
task that Carl Morris lias mapped out
for himself/'
The above wa printed in a Chi
cago payer.
Well « url could sure tot*- it back
to that dear Oklahoma if Gunboat
Smith, Jess Willard and Luther Mc
Carty could he induced to fake and
lay down for him as did Jack Mc
Farland end Jack Keating, alias Bob
William*, here fii Atlanta and in
('hattuncoga.
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UARRY Vardon and Edward Bay.
* * who will hr- cut to this country
by Lord Northcliffe, of Kqgland, to
compete in the open golf champion
ships .it Brookline, Mites., Septem
ber 21 next, is well known to both
Stewari .Maiden and Scotty McKen
zie. local professionals, says McKen-
vle:
The two big golfers of Great
Britain are townsmen, both Vardon
and Edward Kay having been born
i;t Clrouville. in the Isle of Jersey
Ray began his workday life there as
u fisherman and Vardon as a gard
ener. Flay is the younger, being
thirty-foui years old, and Vardon Ls
forty-two Both met last November
in u $2,000 mutch at Sunningdale, in
England, and Vardon won.
In their methods these golfers are
in sharp contrast. Vardon in the
perfection «>f golfing technique, apd
there is a scientific reason for every
thing lie doe«. His driving swing is
perfect, and each feature of it is
based on logical deductions from
knowledge uf the resultants of forces.
Hay. on the other Hand, 1ms a swing
that is essentially a lunge at the ball
something on the order of that of
Hilton, who seems to he ' pressing”
on tin* teeing ground. Vardon has
a fondness for a bra sale, hut Hay
uses for brussic shot* either a driver
or a cleek."
FODDER FOR FANS
sburg
because all games begin at " TV M The
late games must go. li is onl> a ques
tion «>f h..n long It will take the- base
ball magnates to wake up to theni-
selVf s.
W hen Pittsburg and Ohicag" teams
meet. Artie 11 of man and Tomm> Leach
sprain themselves trying to outdo each
other -in order to show up the men
who traded them
t'otniskey is planning o» entertain
40.000 fans or. Frank Fhame Pay.
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li would tie quaint Indeed if it proved
that the Naps are to be pennant con
tenders after uncounted \ears of rot
tenness.
Umpires have tho hardest job in the
world buf none of them ever quit
■fit s a burn pitcher, say* Davenport,
■•who . an t show smoke in Pittsburg."
The Bed* are trying out Martin Barg
hummer, formerly u Birmingham rookie
H< seem* over smull for big lea gw do
Inga.
li Barghanuner slicks. Bafaal Almeida
will be released. But he will noi get
out of the big league*. Both the Bos
ton Nationals and St. 1/ouis American*
want him
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I’rlce C.aekill 19 still pitching poorly
in tho International League. He has
never quite recovered from the awful
grind that Joe MeGinnity put him
through
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St Louis is now scared pink for fear
it will have a tail-ender in the Federal
league also.*
follow* ' N'avln out. $12.50h to Cobb,
unassisted."
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Seems to us that Senator Hoke Smith
ought to have an assist on that play.
ter late of Savannah, are about the
best hurl era the Yankees have now
It* marvelou» the way Long Tom
Hughea, of the Senators, hangs on.
Thin old lad ought to be on the down
slant by now. but lie doesn't seem to
be.
pocket toward nts transportation from
Alaska when he joined the Browns.
Frank Chance says lie would give
110,001) to-day for Tinker. But Joe isn't
on the market.
Leon Ames Las settled down a lot
this year. It Ik believed that he will
become a fairly dependable pitcher by
the time he is 99
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Donnie Bush swears that every time
be gees on bases this year Ik> i» going
♦ " keep running till he scores «.r thev
I pul hint out He wants to measure
speed with Cobb and Milan.
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Festus Higghins recently paid M#0 tor
bis release from the Scranton club
rather than sign for $17R a month
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Time was when nppotinx clubs wel
comed Petroit'e pitchers, feared their
hatters. Now conditions are reversed
The hatters are weak, the pitchers
strong
K\V YORK. April 121. So far In ilu> race this year, the clulis have xot away more in a
hunch than they illd last season. There 1ms lieen no early starter ns Cincinnati was
last year, only to crumble and fail back when the tniing became hardest. After a
poor bectnuinc in the lirst few names, the Giants have struck their stride now and are walk
ing along at a «ond pace.
From my point of view. It is necessary for the Giants to Ret a good lead lieforc the
Western clubs is,me Hast on the tirst swine around the circuit, because it is from the West
ern fellows iltal the Giants will net the heavy eompetition, as usual. Philadelphia is the only Eastern team
re have fared which apjiears to lie very much stronger than it was last year, and this is simply lieceause the
tub Is more on 11s balauce than ii was in the race of 1:112. The team was handicapped by injuries and Horace
Kogel, and Instill could not gel results out of the playing stmegth of his men. But this season “Charley” has
lx>ui* club.
Angei
listed f
subscribed to linanc*
At/. ar« .-aid to be
«’hurley Frank
I with the
’bast tail-
obtained a new owner, who acta like
regular fellow, and the Thi Hies
struck tue as being a strong Hub. I
believe that they will surprise a lot
of jwople. both in ami out of the big
leagues, before they have finished
the race.
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npt) my mind, the Philadelphia
a pitching staff is as strong as
any In the league, not barring those
of the Pirates and tin* Giants. Sea
ton has started out as if he intended
to blow himself to a good year, and
Alexander and (Tmlmers have already
proved their worth. The (Junkers
also have more real strength in the
field at this writing, with Magee and
fjobert both in the game, two men
who have suffered from injuries and
umpires in the last couple of years.
Lobert is a good ball player don’t
make any mistake about that and
he will bolster up the infield and
make it work together. LoU*rt puts
a lot of pepper and dash into .the
game, and it is bis fearless playing
which makes him the victim of so
many accidents. He does not avoid
anything that comes his way.
The east* of Pittsburg is tin* ease
of Wagner. The club is making great
efforts to keep the real condition of
the big Dutehtnan a secret, but it is
no news around the circuit that
grave fears have been expressed by
men oil the Pirates as to whether
Wagner will ever play regularly
again. Without Wagner, the Pirate
infield looks very laid. It Is as easy
to build an infield around Wagner as
it Is to put up a fortress with Gibral
tar as a nucleus. Tear down Gibral
tar ami where Is your fortress? Elim
inate Wagner, and what Inis Itecome
of your infield?
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C l.ABKE has a great pitching
staff, ami his outfield is strong
er and faster than last year, with the
addition of Hof man in playing form.
He is a fast man, covers much ground
and Is a vicious hitter. With Wag
ner. the Pirates would have a great
chance at the ]>ennant. Without him.
I fall to see them; although, of
course, l may Is* wrong. Seldom have
1 been able to cash n bet on a ball
game. Infrequently do I lose a po
litical wager, although 1 know noth
ing of politics and its ins and outs.
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E VERS scents to l»e going pretty
well with his Cubs, better than
j most of us e\|*vted he would. His
pitching staff is moving smoothly and
Ids infield apjautrs to la» very evenly
balanced. Bridwell lias returned to
form and solved the question of
shortstop for Evers. Baler is a
growing first Ivaseman. improving
| with the passing of each season.
, Zimmerman is a hitter that would
1 add to any club, and Is a reliable
fielder. If Evers can maintain his
pitchers in some kind of shai>e and
hold the club together so tlmt it is
working all the time. 1 expect be will
N* up in the fight for the (tennant.
In this keeping the team together.
Bresnahan U Ixiund to be a big aide.
Uvnuse be is a close friend of Evers
and because, like tunny another Imll
player, be wants to. cut in on the
world series coin this fall. I under
stand that Roger is adviser extraordi
nary to "Johnny." and that the pitch
ing department has Ihhmi practically
passed over to him. Offhand, no
body comes to my mind who is more
competent to whip a string of pitch
ers Into good sliajM*. Roger did a
whole lot with a mediocre set he
mtfimged in St. Louis.
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T INKER has made ii poor start
with Cincinnati, but, if I was
“Joe." I would consider this a good
omen, because "Hank" O’Day got
away like a sprinter last year, and
then the club fell down badly, while
the newspapers fell on him and
roasted him to a frazzle. "Joe” has
not aroused the anticipations of his
rooters by any great showing so far,
and, if lie comes through strong, they
will have a great chance to fall into
line later. The Beds are a strong
club, with good ball players. They
are bound to come through and make
a fight, perhaps, for the iiennunt. but
they are sure to be up there. Tinker
has too much of a kick in him to
stand for anything else.
The American 1 league lias not
straightened itself out. in my mind,
nl all so far. but l»y next Thursday
I think I'll have a better line on con
ditions there and can say something
about it.
r
Yel! Defiance
a! Blood Disorders
Remedy That Has Shown
Most Remarkable Purifying
Effect.
concluding. I want to get back
to the so-called baseball trust for
a minute. As I said at the beginning
of this article, no one, especially the
players, wants baseball as it is now-
organized, altered, because it lias
meant a lot to the players, owners
and the public. The only improve
ment would l>e to have the players
represented on the ultimate body
which is at present the National
Commission.
(Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Athletes at (i M. A. are showing a
great amount of interest in preparing
for the prep meet May J». Snedecker
and Babb are practicing with the ham
mer. while Griffin. Maret and Brown
arc showing to good advantage with
the shot.
Sifford, of G. M. A., should prove a
star in the prep meet this year. This
boy is a wonder in the hurdles ami short
dashes. Smith has equaled the best
records made at G. M. A. for the broad
Jump, and is doing over 5 feet daily
in the high jump.
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Jim Park?, the crack sprinter on the
Tech High track team, is going after
the record for the 100-yard dash in the
annual prep meet this year. Paries
thinks his toughest competitor will he
Charlie Allen, of Marist. Parks is train
ing every day for this event.
prep meet scheduled to
take place at Tech Flats may be held
on the Marist College field. The latter
place would be by far the best place
of the two. as it is much larger than
the Tech campus.
This afternoon Marist ami G. M. A.
will meet for the second time this sea
son. The game will be played at Col
lege Park. The first meeting between
the two nines was an easy victory La
the Marist hoys, and they expect to
repeat again to-day.
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The Tech High players seem confident
of winning the local Prep league pen
nant this year. Their victory over
Marist has given them a great deal of
r ntldence. They certainly have as good
chance as any of the other teams.
The baseball team of Boys High will
practice steadily for the return game
with Marist May 7. The high school
lads are determined to win this contest,
as it practically means the Prep League
pennant for them Boys High has one
victory over Tech High, who in turn
defeated Marist. This makes the high
school hoys favorites in the pennant
race.
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Although Tech High won the game
against Marist last week, some of the
men came out of the game badly crip
pled. Weston, the pitcher, sprained an
ankle; Bill Parks, shortstop, also sprain
ed an ankle, while Hare and Hancock,
catchers, have smashed fingers.
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Bill Bedell, the star track man and
baseball player of Tech High, is out of
school for a few days on account of
sickness. Bill worked a bit too hard in
the high school track meet April 18, and
has not been well since.
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Jean Weston, of Tech High, is the
speediest pitcher in the local Prep
League this season, and looke £ood for
a berth <m the all-prep. He pitched a
great game against Marist, and will he
used in the next game against Boys
High.
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Athletics are receiving a lot of sup
port at Boys High this year. The base
ball and track teams are the best the
school has had in years, and more en
thusiasm is being shown by the stu
dents than ever before.
At Last You Can Get Rid of
Blood Troubles- -S. S S.
The word medicine is one of the
most abused in our language. There
are certain medicinal properitie* just
as necessary to health as the food
wo ent. Take, for exurhplc. the well-
known tonic medicine S. S. s. This
famous blood purifier contains medic
inal components Just as vital and
essential to healthy blood as the ele
ments of wheat, roast beef, the fats
and the sugars that make up our
dally ration.
As a matter of fact, there is one
ingredient in S. S. S. which serves
the active purpose of st iniulating
each cellular part of the body to the
health' and judicious selection of its
own essential nutriment. That is
why it regenerates the blood sup
ply; why it has such a tremendous
influence in overcoming ecxema, rash,
pimples, and all skin afflictions.
And In regenerating 4he tissues
S s. S. has a rapid and positive
antidotal effect upon all those irritat
ing influences that crush rhematism.
•oro throat, weak eyes, falling hair,
loss of weight, thin i»*ile cheeks,
and that weariness ot. muscle and
nerve that Is generally experienced
as spring fever. Get a bottle of S.
S. S. at any drug store, and in a few
days you will not only feel bright
and energetic, hut you will he the
picture or new' life S. S. S. is pre
pared only in the laboratory of The
Swift Specific Co.. 137 Swift Bldg..
Atlanta. Ga.. who maintain a very
efficient Medical Department, where
all who have any blood disorder of '
a stubborn nature may write freely
for advice and a special book of in
struction. S. S. s. is sold every- '
where by drug store*, department !
and general stores.
PHIL BROCK AND SAYLOR
FIGHT 10-ROUND DRAW
CINCINNATI. April 21.—Po:l
| lire ii. t >f Cleveland, and Young Say-
i »r. of Indianapolis, fought ten round*
j her-- last i ght. No decision w .-
fciven. At close both boys wen
hghtmg
^ atlt agr
apparent
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