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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. 0 0 4 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. * * • 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. • • • 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, . . . 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. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT :: The Tango Hits Rummy’s Court Copyright, 1913, International X*w* Jkrviif • • • • By Tad •/OOK ituCOf. IM .sorift-/ ro jAv nt/AT F IVET Of- th£ t>oy jutbOS.J BAVJE MOT SKotw». UP fOR. TVC AEfEP-MOO’ ICSS/OfJ J i uuoensTiAsjo THAT 7>->ev LF.F TO ICCITP A»- EVlCrA&'S'MG'W' F-OIC A TlktJffO omjce nyifi h.FTTJW-M OO CORDELE TRIUMPHS OVER 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.” * • \ 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 « * • 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 ! • • • 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. • • • 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. * * * 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 * * • 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 * * • 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." * * ■!> 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 • • • 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. * * * Festus Higghins recently paid M#0 tor bis release from the Scranton club rather than sign for $17R a month * • • • 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. * + 4 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? * « • 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. • * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * # 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. * * * 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. * 4 * 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. * * * 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. * « * 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. 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