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Lowry Arnold.
(Solicitor Criminal Court of Atlanta
and Formar Director of Atlanta
Baaaball Association.!
I HAVE been naked to give an opin
ion as to whether or not organ
ized baseball la a trust AJthough
I aju unable to give a positive an
swer to this question T ill say that
It certainly is a trust In effect and
in fact. Whether it la a trust tech
nically and legally could only be de
termined by Concrete.
The legal definition of a truat in
*'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. But this much ia certain, nil
organized baseball clubs In this coun
try are under an agreeemnt with the
National Commission which is head
ed by one man, Garry Herrmann.
This fact would tend to make It a
trust.
Although the moguls night be able
to stand an investigation of this sort
they certainly w'ould not welcome
one. If such a course were taken
•’ongress would at least limit the
reserve clause and put a atop to the
blacklisting of players who did n«>t
wish to sign a contract with any one
particular club.
• • •
I BB1JEVE that the proposed Gov-
* eminent investigation was ab*»-
Jutely reaponsible for President Na
vi n of the Detroit club hurrying mat
ters 1n the Cobb case and bringing it
so readily to a satisfactory close.
• • •
TN my opinion the one remedy for
* all this trouble about players
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 whatever club
be desired, providing, of course, that
he had some plausible reason su^h
as being with a tallend club or
among unpleasant surroundings, etc.
It is true that the best 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 :lio
game, but I also believe that things
could be arranged more satisfactori
ly to all parties if they would gel
together and fix up matters
It does not seem fair that a man
like Ty Cobb, who 1s 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 sal
ary had he been free, should be
blacklisted by organized baseball for
refusing to sign with Detroit.
• m •
O RGANIZED baseball oould not
exist without the reserve clause,
but 1 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 oft ho would
be with a winning club. Surely he
. annot be satisfied with his present
surroundings, pitching few hit games
and invariably 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 h»
Is suspended, which amounts to the
same thing ns blacklist. Accordtr s
to an agreement between all clubs
he cannot be hired by any of them,
so he Is. in fact, an outcast unless he
signs with his original team.
Perhaps the best remedy after 'ill
would he for Congress to Invest Iga'e
and decide once and for all whether
or not organized baseball Is a trust.
. • a
T HERE Is just one thing more I
should like to add here, though it
has no bearing whatever on the ques
tion 1 have been discussing.
I wish to say that In my opinion the
Southern League Is the best organ
ixed and controlled of any league in
the world. This Is due to the grand
work done by President W. M Kava-
naugh. 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.
Two of Bill Smith’s Hurling
Staff Are Reported Not to
Be Training Very Faithfully
OLDFIELD RESENTS BEING
LINKED WITH SLAVE CASE
LOS. ANGELES. April 2(1 - -George
H. Bixby, the Long Beach millionaire
banker figuring in the white slave
probe, will tell his story to the grand
Jury to-day. Dick Hollingsworth ami
Wiillam L&c&ue. prominent automo
bile men. have been arrested on a
charge made l>y a fifteen-year-old
girl. Barney 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. MD.. April 29.—Abe
Attell, former featherweight cham
pion, defeated George Cheney, of Bal
timore, in a fifteen-round bout 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
were 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.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
W HEN ateimhas won a bunch
of games and then hits a slump
there are alwaye a heap of
fans who start roaatlng the player*,
collectively and individually. Hight
now Billy Smith’s pitching staff 1s be
ing put over the jump*.
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 plaater a good heavy fine on the
guilty one*.
• • •
Tl/fILT Reed, the former Marist boy,
Is sure peppering the old horae-
blde out in the Central Association
and tho St. Louis team Is almost sure
to haul him back into the big league
ranks if he keep# up the pace. The
followlnj extract is from a Daven
port paper:
"Milt Reed was the scintillating
star of the afternoon. In four times
up he rapped out throe hits to the
outskirts. He demonstrated his speed
on the paths by pilfering four base*.
In the seventh after he had singled
he stole 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 believe* that
he has unearthed the laziest man
In the world—and he’s a baseball
operator, too. Said scribe prints the
following under a Boston date line:
"First and 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 Warmunde,
top-notoher of the Western Union’*
operators at the ball games, be ac
corded a position well up in the list.
He duly qualified at one of last week’*
games, when, in order to save unbut
toning his own ooat. he telegraphed
over to New York to ascertain the
time."
• • •
A TINY monkey drove two of Prank
Chance’s Pennant Aspiring Yan
kees to cover the other night in a
Gay Gotham Hotel, where the P A.
Y.’s roost w’hen in the big village.
Hay Keating and Jack Lellvelt were
the young men.
An Italian opera company regis
tered at the hotel last Friday night,
and one of the singer*, who carried
the pet monkey, was assigned to the
room occupied by Lellvelt and Keat
ing by mistake.
Some of the other players stopping
at the same hotel dropped around
to see I*elivelt and Keating. Neither
wai In eight, but the visitors started
a poker game in their room. Ten
minutes after the game had got un
der way there was an uproar of
screeches and yell?.
A corps of clerks, bellboys and
brave guests rushed in to help the
poker-playing element of the team.
Keating and Lellvelt were located in
a closet, w'hlle the monkey was spied
perched on the uansom.
Oh, what a Joshing these two young
persons are In for all around the cir
cuit!
» • * •
G'T'O grab the white heavyweight
* championship of the world and
tote it Lack to that dear State of
Oklahoma Ms the eight-horse power
task that Carl Morris has mapped out
for himself.”
The above was printed in a Chi
cago paper.
Well Oarl could sure tote U 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 Mr.
Farland and Jack Keating, alias Bob
Williams, here in Atlanta and In
Chattanooga.
• • •
H ARRY Vardon and Edward Ray,
who will be .sent to this country
by Lord Northcliffe, of England, to
compete in the open golf champion
ships at Brookline, Maas., 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 Grouville. in the Isle of Jersey
Ray began his workaday life there as
a fisherman and Vardon as a gard
ener. Ray is the younger, being
thirty-four years old, and Vardon is
forty-two Both met last November
in n $2,000 match at Sunnlngdale, in
England, and Vardon won.
In their methods these golfers are
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
based on logical deductions 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 has
a fondness for a brassie, but Ray
uses for brassle shot* either a driver
or a cleek.”
FODDER FOR FANS
MATT 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
*
CORDELE, GA.. April 29.—Cordole
walked away with the Columbus Y.
M. C. A leant this afternoon by the
score of 15 to 1. Luttrell, for Co
lumbus. was batted freely, and nu
merous errors were made by the vis
aing team. Gillespie, for Cordele,
pitched a splendid game.
Kid Elberfeld has released Outfield
er "Red” Massey to the Galveston club
of the Texas League.
irf
because all game* begin at 8 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.
• t •
When Pittsburg and Chicago mams
meet. Artie Hofman and Tommy Leach
sprain themselves trying to outdo each
other -In order to show up the men
who traded them.
Comiskey i* planning to entertain
40,000 fans on Frank Chance Day.
• * •
It would be qu*1nt indeed if it proved
that tho Naps are to be pennant con
tenders—after uncounted years of rot
tenness
• • •
Empires have the hardest job tn the
world—but none of them ever quit.
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"It's a hum pitoher," say* Davenport,
"who can’t show smoke In Pittsburg.”
* * •
Tho Rods are trying out Martin Berg-
hammer. formerly a Birmingham rookie
He Neeme over small for big league do
ings
If Berghammer sticks. Rafael Almeida
will bo released. But he will not get
out of the big leagues. Both the Bos
ton Nationals and St. Louis Americans
want him.
* • •
Price Gaskill is still pitching poorly
in the International League He has
never quite recovered from the awful
grind that Joe McGinnlty put him
through
• • «
$25,000 has beer; subscribed to finance
the St. Louis club.
• • •
Angermeier and Atz are said to be
slated for release by Charley Frank.
• • •
And now comes Chattanooga with the
claim that their club is the ‘‘be6i tail-
ender in the league”—which claim is
admitted.
• • •
Kign Cross springs a new play, as
follows: "Navtn out. $12,600 to Cobb.
unassisted ”
Beams to us that Senator Hoke Smith
ought to have an assist on that play.
* • *
Ray Keating and A1 Schultz, the lat
ter late of Savannah, are about the
best hurlers the Yankees have now.
• * *
It's marvelous the way Long Tom
Hughes, of the Senators. hangs on.
This old lad ought to be on the down
slant by now. but he doesn’t seem to
be.
• * •
Mike Ralenti paid $100 out of his own
pocket toward his transportation from
Alaska when he joined the Browns.
* * *
Frank Chance says he would give
$10,0u0 to-day for Tinker. But .Joe isn't
on the market.
• * *
Leon Ames hns settled down a lot
this year. It is believed that tie will
become a fairly dependable pitoher bv
the time he is 9S,
Donnie Hush swears that ever, time
he gets on bases this year he is auina
t» keep running till lie scores or they
put him out. He wants to measure
speed with Cobb and Milan
...
Keatus Higghins recently paid 1400 for
hts release from the Scranton club
rather than sign for $176 a month
• * *
Time was when oppoeing clubs wel
comed Detroit's pitchers, feared their
batters Now conditions are reversed
The batters are weak, the pitchers
•troll g.
PHIL BROCK AND SAYLOR
FIGHT 10-ROUND DRAW
CINCINNATI. April 29— Phil
Brock, of Cleveland, and Young Say
lor, of Indianapolis, fought ten rounds
here last night No decision was
given. At tne close both boys were
fighting fast, with no apparent ad
vantage either way.
CHRISTY MATHDSOTS
BIG LIAGUI GOSSIP
N EW YORK, April 29.—So far In the race this year, the dubs have got away more In a
bunch than they <11(1 last season. There has been no early starter as Cincinnati was
last year, only to crumble anti fall back when the going became hardest After a
poor beginning in the first few games, tne 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 Giants will get the heavy competition, as usual. Philadelphia is the only Eastern team
we have faced which appears to he very mVh stronger than it was last year, and this is simply becean.se the
club is more on Its balance than it was in the race of 1912. The team was handicapped by injuries and Horace
Fogel, and Dooin could not get results out of the playing strnegth of his uien. But this season “Charley” has
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, before they have finished
tile race.
* * *
r T'U my mind, the Philadelphia
pitching staff is as strong as
any In tiie league, not barring those
of tiie Pirates and the Giants. Sea
ton lias started out as If he intended
to blow himself to a good year, and
Alexander and Chalmers have already
proved their worth. The Quakers
also have more real strength in the
field at this writing, with Magee and
Lobert both in the game, two men
who have suffered from injuries and
umpires in the last couple of years.
Lotart is a good ball player—don’t
make any mistake about that—and
he will bolster up the infield and
make it work together, Lotart puts
a lot of pepper and dash into the
game, ami it Is his fearless playing
which makes him the victim of so
many accidents. He does not avoid
anything that comes his way.
The ease of Pittsburg is the case
of Wagner. The club is making great
efforts to keep the real condition of
tiie big Dutchman a secret, but it Is
no news around the circuit that
grave fears have been expressed by
men on tiie Pirates as to whether
Wagner will ever play regularly
again. Without Wagner, the Pirate
infield looks very bad. It is as easy
to build an infield around Wagner as
it is to put up a fortress witli Gibral
tar as a nucleus. Tear down Gibral
tar and where In your fortress? Elim
inate Wagner, and what lias become
of your infield?
* • #
C LARKE has a great pitching
staff, and his outfield is strong
er and faster than last year, with the
addition of Hofman 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 pennant. Without him.
I fail to sts* them; although, of
course, I may Is* wrong. Seldom have
I lieen able to cash a bet on a hall
game. Infrequently do I lose a po
litical wager, although r know noth
ing of politics and its ins and outs.
* * *
E VERS seems to lx* going pretty
well with his Cubs, better than
most of us expected he would. His
pitching staff is moving smoothly and
his infield appears to be very evenly
balanced. Bridwell has returned to
form and solved tiie question of
shortstop for Evers. Saler Is a
growing first baseman, improving
witli tin* passing of each season.
Zimmerman is a hitter that would
add to any club, and ts a reliable
fielder. If Evers can maintain his
pitchers in some kind of shape and
bold the club together so that it ts
working all the time. I expect he will
l>e up in the fight for the pennant,
in this keeping the team together.
Bresnahan is hound to lx* a big aide,
because lie is a close friend of Evers
and because, like many another tall
player, he wants to out in on Un
worn series coin this fall. 1 under
stand that Roger is adviser extraordi
nary to "Johnny,” and that tin* pitch
ing department has lx*en practically
passeii over to him. Offhand, no
body comes 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
INKER lias made
a poor start
“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 tall players. They
are bound to i-omc through and make
a fight, jierliaps. for the pennant, hut
they are sure to lie 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
I think I’ll have a tatter line on con
ditions there and can say something
about It.
Yell Defiance
at Blood Disorders
A Remedy That Has Shown
Most Remarkable Purifying
Effect.
I N concluding. 1 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 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, 191.1, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
PREP LEAGUE NOTES
Athletes at G. M. A. are snowing a
great amount of interest in preparing
for the prep meet May 9. Sn(‘decker
and Babb arc practicing with the ham
mer, while Griffin, Maret and Brown
are showing to good advantage with
the shot.
• * *
SifTord, of G M. A., should prove a
star in thf> 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, and is doing over 5 feet daily
in the high jump
* * *
Jim Parks, 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. Parks
thinks his toughest competitor will be
Charlie Allen, of Marlst. Darks is train
ing every day for this event.
* * *
The annual nrep meet scheduled to
take place at Tech Flats may be held
on the Marist College held. 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 ne played at Col
lege Park. The first meeting between
the two nines was an easy victory for
the Marist boys, and they expect to*
repeat again to-day.
* * *
The TeFh 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
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 haa one
victory over Tech High, who In turn
defeated Marist. This makes the high
school -boys favorites in the pennant
race.
• * *
Although Tech High won the game
against Marist last week, some of the
men cam*- 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 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 bard 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 good for
a berth on the all-prep. He pitohed 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.
I
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 properties just
as necessary to health as the food
w’e 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, roast 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 j>art 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,
anti that weariness oi muscle and
nerve that is generally experienced
as spring fever. Get a bottle of S.
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and energetic, but you will be the
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Atlanta, (la., who maintain a very
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all who have any blood disorder of
a stubborn nature may write freely
for advice and a special book of in
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