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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TrESDA V. APRIL 2!), 1012. Oil BALL TRUST By Lowry Arnold. (Solicitor Criminal Court of Atlanta and Former Director of Atlanta Basabali Aaaociation.) 1 HAVE been aftked to give an opin ion hb to whether or not organ ized baseball is a truat. Although 3 am unable to give a. i>o«ltive an swer to this question 1 will say that it certainly is a trust 1n effect and 1n fact. Whether It 1s a truat tech nically and legally could only be de termined by ('onKress. The legal definition of a trust is: "A corporation or combi nation of Individuals under one head and which destroys competition.” Whether organized baseball de stroys competition or not 1 cannot say. Rut this much is certain, nil organized baseball clubs in this coun try arc under an agreeemnt with 'be National Commission which is head ed by one man. Garry Herrmann. This fact would tend to make it a trust. Although the moguls nigh* be ab ! e •to stand an investigation of this sort they certainly would not welcome one. If such a course were taken Gongresf* would at least limit the reserve clause and put a stop to the blacklisting of players who did not wish .to sign a cont r*rt with any one particular club. • • • I BELIEVE that the proposed Gov- * ernment investigation was abso lutely responsible for President Ns- vln of the Detroit club hurrying mat ters In the Cobb case and bringing it so readily to a satisfactory close. • * * TN my opinion the one remedy for 1 all this trouble about players signing would be to limit the reserve clause to thro* years and at the end of this period give every man a chance to sign with whatever club he desired, providing, of course, that he had some plausible reason su'h as being with a tailend club »r among unpleasant surroundings, etc. It Is true that the beat players on the poorer teams would flock to New York and the other big cities. Of course I believe that organization 's absolutely essential to the life of ‘lie game, but I also believe that things could be arranged more satisfactori ly to all parties if they would get together and fix up matters It does not seem fair that a man like Ty Cobb, who is without a doubt at the head of his profession, and who could easily have signed with the New' York Giants or a num ber of other clubs for a $20,000 »a'- ary had he been free, should be blacklisted by organized baseball for refusing to sign with Detroit, O RGANIZED* baseball could not exist without the reserve clause, but I believe that a limit of three years should be placed on It. Nap Rucker, of Brooklyn, is an other notable Instance of this restric tion. How much better off he would be with a winning club. Surely he • annot be satisfied with his present surroundings, pitching few hit games and Snvariubly losing through the lack of ability of his team mates. The club owners have a one year reserve clause now. but If a player refuses to report the next year ln% Is suspended, which amounts to the same thing as blacklist. Accord!! g :o an agreement between all clubs he cannot be hired by any of them, so he is. in fact, an outcast unless he aigns with hia original team. Perhaps the best remedy after all would be for Congress to Investiga e and decide once and for all whether or not organized baseball Is a trust. • • • THERE is just one thing more t 1 should like to add here, though It has no bearing whatever on the ques tion I have been discussing. I wish to say that *in my opinion the Southern League is the best organ ized and controlled of any league in the world. This is due to the grand work done by President W. M. Hava na ugh. who has been at the head of the organization almost from the start. He has run the league with absolute fairness and has played no politics. He has been impartial in his dealings with the Atlanta club. The league owes much of its great success to Judge Kavanaugh. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT The Tango Hits Rummy’s Court By Tad Two of Bill Smith*s Hurling Staff Are Reported Not to Be Training Very Faithfully By W. 8. Farnsworth. W HEN a ttim hu won a bunch of gamo* „,i,j then hits n slump there are always a heap of fana who start roasting the player*, collectively and Individually. Right now Rllly Smith'* pitching staff I* be ing put over the Jumps. Nevertheless, your* truly received some reliable Info last night that two of the Crackers' hurling staff are Imbibing liquids stronger than coffee If this Is true the local manager had better get on the Job and plaster a good heavy' fine on the guilty ones. M”" OLDFIELD RESENTS BEING LINKED WITH SLAVE CASE 1,08. ANGE1.E8, April 29 George H Bixby. the Ia>ng Beach millionaire hanker figuring In the white slave probe, will tell Id* story to the grand jury to-day. I>lck Hollingsworth and William Lucasse. prominent automo bile men, have been arrested on a charge made by a fifteen-year-old girl. Harney Oldfield, the racing driv er, appeared voluntarily before the grand jury and asked why his name had been connected with the Inves tigation He denied all knowledge of the girl witnesses. ATTELL DEFEATS CHENEY IN 15-ROUND BATTLE BALTIMORE. Ml).. April 29 -Abe Attell former featherweight cham pion. defeated George Cheney, of Bal timore. in a fifteen -round b<»ut here last night. Abe needed all his clever ness to beat the local boy. as Cheney proved to be one of the toughest featherweights seen around these parts in some time The first few rounds of the contest vrsrt rather tame, but Attell started to force matters in the fifth and start ed piling up a lead. The boys weigh ed in at 124 pounds. T Reed, the former Marist boy, Hure peppering the old horse- hide out In the Central Association and the Ht. Louis team la almost sure to haul him back into the big league ranks if he keeps up the pane. The following extract is from a Daven port paper: “Milt Reed was the scintillating star of the afternoon. In four times up he rapped out three hits to the outskirts. He demonstrated his speed on the i>»ths by pilfering four bases. In the seventh after he had singled he itole 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 ” * • • A ST. Louis scribe believes that ** he has unearthed the laziest man in the world—and he’s a baseball operator too. Rnld scribe prints the •following under a Boston date line: “First end last, various individuals have been exploited as worthy of places in any Hat of the “Laziest Men on Earth.” I would humbly sug gest that my genial friend and fre quent co-laborer, George Wm-munde, top-noteher of the Western Union’s operators at the ball games, bo ac corded a position well up In the list. He duly qualified at on* 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 monkey drove two of Frank Chance's Pennant Aspiring Yan kees to cover the other night in a Gay Gotham Hotel, where the P. A. Y.’s roost when In the big village. Roy Keating and Jack Lelivelt were the young men An Italian opera company regis tered at the hotel last Friday night, and one of the singers, who carried the pet monkey, was assigned to the room occupied by Lelivelt and Keat ing by mistake. Some of the other players stopping at the same hotel dropped around to see Lelivelt and Keating. Neither was In .sight, but the visitors started a poker game in their room. 'Pen minutes after the game had got un der way there was an uproar of screeches and yells. A corps of clerk«>, bellboys and brave giKsts rushed In to help the poker-playing element of the team. Keating and Lelivelt were located in o closet, while the monkey was spied perched on the tiansom. Oh. what a joshing these two young persons are In for all around the eir cult! • • • gTQ grab the white heavyweight *- championship of the w'orid and tote it tack to that dear State of Oklahoma Is the plght-horse power task that <'arl Morris has mapped out for himself.” The above wa- printed in a Chi cago paper. Well Carl could ‘.sure tote it back to that dear Oklahoma If Gunboat Smith, Jess Willard nnd Luther Mc Carty could be Induced to fake and lay down for him as did Jack Mc Farland and Jack Keating, alius Bob Williams, here D* Atlanta and in Chattanooga. • • * H ARRY Vardon and Edward Ray. who will be . ent to tills country by Lord Northcliffe, of England, to compete in the open gulf champion ships at Brookline, Mass.. Septem ber 21 next. Is well known to both Stewart Maiden and Scotty McKen zie. local professionals, says McKen zie “The two big golfers of Great Britain are townsmen, both Vardon and Edward Ray having been born at Grouvllle, In the Isle of Jersey Ray began his workaday life there as ft fisherman and Vardon as a gard ener. Ray is the younger, being thirty-four years old, and Vardon i* forty-two Both met lasf November in a $2,000 match at Surinlngdale, in Englund. and Vardon won. In their methods these golfers *i In sharp contrast. Vardon is the perfection of golfing technique, and there is a scientific reason for every thing he does. His driving swing is perfect, and each feature of It is baaed on logical deduction.* from a knowledge of the resultants of forces, Ray, on the other hand, has a swing that Is essentially a lunge at the ball, something on the order of that of Hilton, who seems to be ‘pressing’’ on the teeing ground. Vardon lias a fondness for a brassie. hut Ray usee for brassle shots either a driver or a cleek." KW YORK, April 20.—So far in the race this year, the clubs have got away more in a bunch than they did last season. There has been no early starter as Cincinnati was last year, only to crumble and fall back when the going l>eeame hardest. After a poor beginning in the first few games, the Giants have struck their stride now and are walk ing along at a good pace. From my point of view, it is necessary for the Giants to get a good lead before the Western clubs come East on the first: swing around the circuit, because it is from the West ern fellows that the (Hants will get the heavy competition, as usual. Philadelphia is the only Eastern team we have faced which apj*»ars to be very much stronger than it was last year, and this is simply beeeause the club Is more on Its balance than it was in the race of 1H12. The team was handicapped by injuries and Horace Fogel, and Dooin could not get results out of the playing strnegth of liis men. But this season “Charley” lias obtained a new owner, who acts like a regular fellow’, and the Phillies struck me as being a strong club.. I believe that they will surprise a lot of people, both in and out of the big leagues, f>efore they have finished the race. T O 1 MAiT BROCK KNOCKS OUT O’KEEFE IN FOUR ROUNDS AKRON. OHIO. April 29—Matt Brock, the Cleveland lightweight, stopped Eddie O’Keefe, of Philadel 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 large crowd witnessed the fray. CORDELE TRIUMPHS OVER COLUMBUS Y. M. C. A. TEAM EORDF.LE, GA., April 29.—Cordele - *eri away with the Cohimbus Y. . (\ A. u-nm this afternoon by the ;ore of 15 to 1. Luttrell, for Co- iv thus, wrh hatted freely, and n.i- ero^H errors were made by the vis- 'ngjieann. Gillespie, for Cordeit. Hebe# a eplendid game. Kid Elberfeld hai* released Outfield er “Red” Masecy to the Galveston club of the Texaz League. • * • Pittsburg fans are tickled to daalh because all games herein at X P M The late games must go. It is only a ques tion of how long it will take the base ball magnates to wake up to them selves When Pittsburg and Chicago teams meet. Artie Hofman and Tommy l^each iprain themselves trying to outdo each other—In order to show up the men who trailed them * * * Comlskey Is planning to entertain 40.(100 fans on Frank Chance Day. • • • Tt would be quaint Indeed if it proved that the Napa are to be pennam con tenders—after uncounted year* of rot tenness • • » empires have the hardest job in the world—but none of them ever quit. • • • “Its a bum pltoher,” aaye Davenport, “who can't show smoke in Pittsburg.'’ • * • The Reds are trying out Martin Rerg- hatmner, formerly a Birmingham rookie He seems over small for big league do ings • » # If Barghammer sticks. Rafael Almeida will be release*!. But he will not gel out of the big leagues. Both the Bos ton Nationals and St. Louis Americans want him • • • Price Gaakill is still pitching poorly In the International league He has never quite recovered from the awful grind that Joe McQinnlty put him through • • • $25,000 has been subscribed to finanoe the St Louis club Angermeier and At* are said to slated for release by Charley Frank. be Ar.d now comes Chattanooga with the claim that their club Is the “best tell- ender in the league’ which claim is admitted. * # • oss srrlrr. s n,w play, as follows "Xavln out. $12,509 to t’obb, unassisted." s s * Seems to us that Senator Hoke Smith ought to have an assist on that plav * * . Hay Keating and At Schulte, the lat ter late of Savannah, are about the best hurters the. Yankees have now. * s • It s marvelous the way 1.0Tig Tom Hughes, of the Senators, hangs on. This old lad ought to be on the down alant by now. but he doesn't seem to be Mike Balentt paid $100 out of his own pocket toward his transportation from Alaska when he joined the Browns Krank Chance sa> s he $10,000 to-day for Tinker on the market. would give But Joe isn’t I .eon Ames has settled down a lot this year. It Is believed that he will become a fairly dependable pitcher ra the time he is SR. Donnie Bush swears that every time he gets on bases this year he Is going to keep running till he scores or they put him out He wants to meosura speed with Cobb and Milan $ eat us lllgghins recently paid $400 for s ralease from the Scranton club month hie ralease from the rather than sign for $175 Time was when opposing clubs wel comed Detroit's pitchers, feared their hatters Now conditions are reversed The batters are weak, the pitchers strong my mind, the Philadelphia pitching staff Is as strong as any lu the league, not barring those of the Pirates and the Giants. Sea ton has startt'd out as If he Intended to blow himself lo a good year, and Alexander and Chalmers have already proved tlietr worth. The Quakers also have more real strength In the Held at this writing, with Magee nnd Lobert Ixitli in the game, two men who have suffered from Injuries and umpires In the last couple of years. Eotiert Is a good ball player—don’t make any mistake about that—anti he will bolster up the infield and make if work together. Eobert, puts a lot of pepjier and dash into the game, nnd tt is his fearless playing which makes him the victim of so many accidents. He does not avoid anything that comes his way. The case of Pittsburg is the ease of Wagner. The club is making great efforts to keep the real condition of the big Dutchman a secret, but It is no news around the circuit that grave fears have tieen expressed by men on the Pirates as to whether Wagner will ever play regularly again. Without Wagner, the Pirate Infield looks very hath It ts as easy to build an Infield around Wagner as ti ts to put up a fortress with Gibral tar as a nucleus. Tear down Gibral tar am! where ts your fortress? Elim inate Wagner, and what has become of your infield? • 4 • C PARKE has a great pitching staff, and his outfield is strong er and faster than last year, with the addition of Hofman lu playing form, lie Is a fast man. covers much ground and Is a violous hitter. With Wag ner, the Pirates would have a great chants' al the pennant. Without him, I fall lo see them; although, of course. 1 may tie wrong. Seldom have I bet'u able to easli a bet on a hall game. Infrequently do I lose n po litical wager, although l know noth ing of polities and its ins and outs. • * * E VERS seems to he going pretty well with his Cubs, betler than most of us expected he would. His pitching staff ts moving smoothly and his infield apja'itrs to be very evenly balanced. Bridwell lias returned to form and solved the question of shortstop for Evers. Saier Is a growing first baseman, improving witli the passing of each season. Zimmerman is a hitter that would add to any club, and is a reliable fielder. If Evers can maintain his pitchers in some kind of shape and hold the club together so that It is working all the lime, I expect he will he up hi the fight for tile pennant. In this keeping the team together, Rresnahan is bound to be a big aide, because he is a close friend of Evers and because, like many another ball player, lie wants to cut in on the world series coin this fall. I under stand that Roger ts adviser extraordi nary to “Johnny,” and that the pitch ing department has been practically passed over to him. offhand, no body comet* to my mind who is more competent to whip a string of pitch ers Into good shape. Roger did a whole lot with a mediocre set he managed In St. Louis. T INKEI with R has made a pour start 1th Cincinnati, hut, If 1 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" lias not aroused the anticipations of his rooters by any great showing so far, and, if he comes through strong, they will have a great chance to fall Into line later. The Reds are a strong club, with good ViaII players. They are bound to come through and make a fight, perhaps, for the pennant, hut they are sure to he up there. Tinker has too much of a kick in him to stand for anything else. The American League has not straightened Itself out, in my mind, at all so far. but by next Thursday T think I’il have a better line on con ditions there and can say something about it. Yell Defence at Blood Disorders A Remedy That Has Shown a Most Remarkable Purifying Effect. At Last You Can Get Rid of Blood Troubles- -S. S S. The word medicine is one of the most abased in our language. There are certain medicinal properties just as necessary to health as the food we eat. Take, for example, 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, mast beef, the fats and the sugars that make up our daily ration. As a matter of fact, there is one ingredient in S. S. S. which serves the active purpose of stimulating each cellular part of the body to the healthy 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 eczema, rash, pimples, and all skin afflictions. And in regenerating the tissues S. S. S. has a rapid and positive antidotal effect upon all those irritat ing influences that cause rhematism, sore throat, weak eyes, falling hair, loss of weight, thin -pale cheeks, and that weariness ot muscle and nerve that is generally exj>erienced 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, but you will be the picture of new life. 8. 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 freelv for advice and a special book of in struction. S. S. S. is sold every where by drug stores, department and general stores. TN eoncltiding, I want to get back 1 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, altemd. because It has meant a lot to the players, owners and the public. The only improve ment would be to have the players represented on the ultimate body which is at present the National Commission. (Copyright, 1913. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) PREP LEAGUE NOTES Athletes at (I. M. A. are showing a great amount of interest in preparing for the prep meet May 9. Snedecker and Babb are practicing with the ham mer. while Griffin. Maret and Brown are 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 and short dashes. Smith has equaled the best records made at G. M. A. for the broad .lump, an<i is doing over 5 feet daily in the high jump. * * * Jim Parks, the crack sprinter on *he Tech High track team, is going after the record for the 100-yard dash in the annual, prep meet this year. Parks thinks his toughest competitor will be Charlie Allen, of Marist. Parks 1s train ing every day for this event. * * * The annual 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 better place of the two. as it is much larger than the Tech campus. * * * This afternoon Marist and 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 tor the Marist boys, and they expect to repeat again to-day. * * * The Tech High players seem confident of winning the loeal Prep League pen nant this year. Their victory over Marist has given them a great deal of confidence. They certainly have as good a 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 boys favorites in the pennant race. * * * ■Xlthough Tech High won the Ma ‘ « game against Marist last week, some or 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. + * * Bill Redell, 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. .lean Weston, of Tech High, is the speediest pitcher in the local Pren League this season, and looke good for a berth on the all-prep. He pitched a great game against Marist. and will be used in the next game against Bovs 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.. PHIL BROCK AND SAYLOR FIGHT 10-ROUND DRAW CINCINNATI. April 29.-Ph,l Brock, of Cleveland, and Young: Sav ior. of Indianapolis, fouglit ten rounds here last night No decision was giver. At tne close both buys w eii i fighting fast, with no apparent ad vantage either «»>. New York Dental Offices 28V, and 32y, PEACHTREE STREET. Over the Bonita Theater and Zalcas ’ Bakery. Gold Crowns . . 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