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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913.
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By Tad
By Lowry Arnold.
(Solicitor Criminal Court of Atlanta
and Former Director of Atlanta
Baseball Association.)
I HAVE been asked to give an opin
ion as to whether or not organ
ized baseball 1a a trust. Although
1 am unable to give a positive an
swer to this question I will say that
it certainly a trust in effect and
in fact. Whether It la a trust tech
nically and legally could only be de
termined by Congress.
The legal definition of a trust Is:
A corporation or combination of
Individuals under one head and
which destroys com petition."
Whether organised baaebait de
stroys competition or not I cannot
say. But this much Is certain, nil
organized baseball clubs In this coun
try are under am agreeemnt with *he
National Commission which is head-
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 would not welcome
one. If such a course were taken
c’ongress would at least limit the
reserve clause and put a stop to the
blacklisting of players who did not
wish to sign a contract with any one
particular club.
• • *
| BELIEVE that the proposed Gov
* ernment investigation was absv*
lutely responsible for President N%-
vin 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
1 all this trouble about players
signing would be to limit the reserve
clause to three year* 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 eu’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 Lf
absolutely essential to the life of the
game, but 1 also believe that things
« ould 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 sal
ary had ho been free, should b*
blacklisted by organized baseball for
refusing to sign with Detroit.
O RGANIZED baseball oould not
exist without the reserve clanso.
hut T believe that « limit of three
years should be placed on It.
Nap RuekeT, of Brooklyn, Is an
other notable Instance of this restric
tion. How much better off ho would
be wMth a winning club. Surely he
cannot he satisfied with his present
surroundings, pitching few hit games
and invariably losing through the lack
of ability of his team mates.
The ciub owners have a one year
reserve c lause now. but If a player
refuses to report the next year Iks
1s suspended, which amounts to the
same thing as blacklist. Accordii £
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 all
would be for Congress to Investors'#
end decide once and for all whether
or not organized baseball Is a trust.
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T HERE Is just one thing more I
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. Kava-
naugh, who h**s 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 ti
his dealings with the Atlanta club.
The. league owes much of its gr#3
success to Judge Kavanaugh.
OLDFIELD RESENTS BEING
LINKED WITH SLAVE CASE
I.OS, ANGELES. April 29—George
H. Blxby, the Long Beach millionaire
hanker figuring In the white slave
probe, will tell his story to the grand
iurv to-day. Dick Hollingsworth and
William Lacasse. prominent automo
bile men. have been arrested on a
charge made by 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.
ATTEtl DEFEATS CHENEY
IN 15-ROUND BATTLE
BALTIMORE, MU., April 29.—Aba
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.
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Two of Bill Smith’s Hurling
Staff Are Reported Not to
Be Training Very Faithfully
By W. S. Farnsworth.
W HEN ateimhss won a bunch
of games ond then hits a slump
there are always a heap of
fans who start roasting the players,
collectively and Individually. Right
new Billy Smith's pitching staff Is be
ing put over the Jumps.
Nevertheless, yours 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 one*
• • •
TV/riLT Reed, the former Marlst boy.
Is sure peppering the old horse-
hide out In the Central Association
and the Kt. Louis team Is almost sure
to haul him back into the big league
ranks If he keeps up the pace. The
following extract Is from a Daven
port paper:
"Milt Reed was the scintillating
star of the afternoon. In four times
up ho rapped out three hits to the
outskirts. He demonstrated his speed
on the paths by pilfering four bases
In the seventh after he had singled
ho 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 ecrlbe believes that
he has unearthed the laxiest man
In the world—and he’s a baseball
operator, too. Bald scribe prints the
following under a Boston date line:
"First and last, various Individuals
have been exploited as worthy of
places In any list • of the “Laziest
Men on Earth.” I would humbly sug
gest that my genial friend and fre
quent co-laborer, George Vfarmunde,
top-notoher of the Western Union’s
operators at the ball games, be ae
corded a position well up In the list.
Ho 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 TINT monkey drove two of Frank
** Chance# Pennant Aspiring Yan
keen to cover the other night In a
Gay Gotham Hotel, where the P A
Y.’b roost when in the big village.
Ray Keating and Jack Lellvelt were
the young men.
An Italian opera company regia
tered at the hotel last Friday night
and one of the singers, 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 Lellvelt and Keating. Neither
was In eight, but the visitors started
a poker game in their room. Ten
minutes after the gamp had got un
der way there was an uproar of
screeches and yell".
A corps of clerk*, bellboys and
brave guests rushed In to help the
poker-playing element of the team
Keating and Lellvelt were located in
a closet, while the monkey was spied
perched on the transom.
Oh. what a joshing these two young
persons are In for all around the cir
cult!
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«<TO grab the white heavyweight
A championship of the world and
tote it Lack to ’hat dear State of
Oklahoma Is the eight-horse power
task that Carl Morris has mapped out
for himself.”
The above wa« printed in a Chi
cago paper.
Well Carl could sure tote it hack
to that dear Ok'ahomn if Gunboat
Smith, Jiss Willard and Luther Mc
Carty could be Induced to fake and
lay down for him as did Jack Mc
Farland and Jack Keating, alias Rob
William*, here in Atlanta and in
Chattanooga.
• * *
H ARRY Vardon and Edward Ray.
who will be i-.cn t to this country
by Lord Northcltffe, of England, to
compete In the open golf champion
ships at Brookline. Moss., Septem
ber 21 rext. 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 Grotivllle, 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 i*
forty-two Both met last November
in a $2,000 match at Sunningdale, in
England, and Vardon won.
In their methods these golfers are
In sharp contrast. Vardon is the
perfection of golfing technique, aad
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 brass!e, but Ray
uses for brassie shots 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.
C0RDELE TRIUMPHS OVER
COLUMBUS Y. M.C. A. TEAM
GORDELE, GA.. April 29.— Cordole
walked away with the Columbus Y.
M. C. A. team this afternoon by the
*core of 15 to 1. Luttrell, for Co
lumbus, was batted freely, and nu
merous errors were made by the vis
iting team. Gillespie, for Cordele,
pitLL/gd a spleudid game.
Kid Elberfeld has released Outfield
er “Red” Massey to the Galveston club
of the Texas League.
• * •
Pittsburg fans are tickled to death
because all games begin at 3 P. M The
late games must go. It la 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
sprain themselves trying to outdo each
other—in order to show up the men
who traded them.
• • •
Comiakey Is planning to entertain
40,000 fans on Frank Chance Day.
• • •
It would be quaint Indeed if it proved
that the Naps Are to be pennant con
tenders—after uncounted years of rot
tenness.
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Umpires have the hardest job In the
world—but none of them ever quit.
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•'It s a bum pitcher,” says Davenport,
"who can’t show smoke In Pittsburg ”
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The Reds are trying out Martin Berg-
hammer, formerly a Birmingham rookie
He seems over small for big league do
ings
• * •
Tf Berghammer sticks. Rafael Almeida
will be released. But he will not get
out of the big leagues. Both the Bos
ton Nationals and St. Louis Americans
want him.
Price Gasklll is still pitching poorly
In the International League. He has
never quite recovered from the awful
grind that Joe MeUinnity put him
through.
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$25,000 has been subscribed to finance
the St. Louis club.
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Angermeler and Ata are said to be
slated for release by Charley Frank.
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And now comes Chattanooga with the
claim that their club Is the “best tail-
ender In the league”—which claim Is
admitted.
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K gL Cross springs « new play, as
follows ‘'Navtn out. $12,500 to Cobb,
unassisted ”
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Heems to us that Senator Hoke Smith
ought to have an assist on that play.
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Rav Keatinr and A1 Schultz, the lat
ter late of Savannah, are about i
best hurlers the Yankees have now
he
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.
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Mike Balenti paid $100 out of his own
pocket toward his transportation from
Alaska when he Joined the Browns
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Frank Chance says he would give
$10,000 to-day for Tinker. But Joe Isn’t
on the market.
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Leon Ames has settled down a lot
this >ear. It is believed that he will
become a fairl> dependable pitcher bv
the lime he is 9$
• • •
Donnie Bush swears that every time
he gets on bases this year he is going
to keep running till he scores or the\
put him out. He wants to measure
speed with Cobb and Milan
• * *
FeBtuR Hirehins recently paid S490 for
his release from the Scranton club
rather than sign for *175 a month
* * *
Time was when opposing dubs wel
comed Detroit's pitchers, feared their
hatters. Now conditions are reversed
The batters are weak, the Ditchers
strong.
EW YORK, April 29. So far In the race this year, the clubs have got away more in a
bunch than they (11(1 last season. There has lieen no early starter ns Cincinnati was
last year, only to crumble and fall hack when the going became hardest. After a
poor beginning In the first few games, the Giants have struck (heir 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, us usual. Philadelphia is the only Eastern team
we have faced which appears to be very much stronger than it was last .tear, and this is simply beceause 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 men. 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. 1
believe that they will surprise a lot
of jieople, both in and out of the big
leagues, before they have finished
the ruce.
• * *
'T'O my mind, the Philadelphia
-l- pitching' staff Is as strong as
any In the league, not barring those
of the Pirates nnd the Giants. Sea
ton has started out as if he intended
to blow himself to a good year, and
Alexander and Chalmers have already
proved their worth. The (Junkers
also have more real strength In the
field at this.writing, with Magee and
Robert both in the game, two men
who have suffered from Injuries and
umpires In the last couple of years.
Eoliert is a good hall player—don’t
make any mistake about that—and
he .will bolster up the Infield and
make It work together. Eohert, puts
a lot of pepper and dash Into the
game, and It Is his fearless playing
which makes him the victim of so
many accidents. He does not avoid
anything that comes Ills way.
The case of Pittsburg is the case
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 been expressed by
men on the Pirates as to whether
Wagner will ever play regularly
again. Without Wagner, the Pirate
Infield looks very bad. it ts ns 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 and where Is your fortress? Elim
inate Wagner, and what has become
of your infield?
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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 see them; although, of
course, 1 may lie wrong. Seldom have
I been able to cash a bet on a ball
game. Infrequently do I lose a po
litical wager, although I know noth
ing of politics and its ius and outs.
• * *
E VERS seems to l>e going pretty
well with his Cubs, lietter than
most of us expected he would. His
pitching staff is moving smoothly and
his infield appears to be very evenly
balanced. Brldwell lias returned to
form and solved the question of
shortstop for Evers. Snier is a
growing first baseman, improving
with 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 shajie and
hold the club together so that It is
working all the time, I expect he will
be up in the fight for the pennant.
In this keeping the team together.
Bresnahan is bound to lie a big aide,
because be is a close friend of Evers
and liecause, like many another ball
player, he 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 (tomes to my mind who is more
competent to whip a string of pitch
ers Into good shajie. Roger did a
whole lot with a mediocre set
managed in St. Louis.
he
T
INKER has made a poor start
with Cincinnati, but, if I was
"Joe,” T 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 he comes through strong, they
will have a great chance to fall into,
line later. The Reds are a strong
club, with good ball players. They
are bound to come through and make
a tight, perhaps, for the pennant, but
they are sure to be up there. Tinker
has too much of a kick in him to
stand for anything else.
The American I/eague has not
straightened itself out. In my mind,
at all so far, but by next Thursday
I think I’ll have a better line on con
ditions there and can say something
about it.
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PHIL BROCK AND SAYLOR
FIGHT 10-ROUND DRAW
CINCINNATI. April 29.—Phil
Brock, of Cleveland, and Young Sav
ior, of Indianapolis, fought ten rounds
here last night. No decision was
given. At tne clore both h «er«
fighting fast, with no apparent ad
vantage either wav.
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N concluding, I want to get back
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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
nnd the public. The only Improve-’
inent 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 G. 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
Jump, and is doing over 6 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 Marist. »Parks is train
ing every day for this event.
The annual
meet scheduled to
take place at 'Feeh Flats may be held
on the Marist College field. The latter
place w’ould be by far the better place
of the two. as It is much larger than
the Tech campus.
* * *
This afternoon Marist and O 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 for
the Marist boys, 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
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
Bill Bedell, the star track man and
baseball player of Tech High, is out of
school for a few days on account of
Bickness. 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 Prej.
League this season, and Iooke good for
a berth on the all-prep. He pitched a
great game against Marist, an.I will E
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. (
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