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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT :: The Tango Hits Rummy’s Court opyrighf, 19i3< InirruMUmial Sews Service. • • • • 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. • • • 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. youR fmuoiL i /* aonrw to JAy that f ive of THE LAoy jjaOORi RAvfl* mOT SHOWL UPfon TH€ APrEftWOOC JGTSSIOM J I UIJOEriiS'nArJO that rue-/ left~ TO ICEEV AW PuOrAOre m e*n- POU A TAW so damce mis 1 AP-TeiZ-WOOM f V " n~ vihat MO IN OA® £ vnTMur 4-w iss<om COURTS A0TOOf2M£O - |'U- O rHOio. yOilk G vajOS'6M r-AAKfi: AW SS-ApApCE OF TV+£' v o P say m Am 6. | sfrT" RUMkAoJES. __ . - ■ -, . 1\|VIS7ER5 WOORe -SUR£ \ -mefTOl-t ' THEM HERE ME 3 P*"’ J ™ * t+AF-ft-y - EJt: k 5HAM 5 . y . -—P V- -a. 11 Ml 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! * • « «<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. • • * Umpires have the hardest job In the world—but none of them ever quit. • • • •'It s a bum pitcher,” says Davenport, "who can’t show smoke In Pittsburg ” « * • 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. • * • $25,000 has been subscribed to finance the St. Louis club. wee Angermeler and Ata are said to be slated for release by Charley Frank. • e e And now comes Chattanooga with the claim that their club Is the “best tail- ender In the league”—which claim Is admitted. e e e K gL Cross springs « new play, as follows ‘'Navtn out. $12,500 to Cobb, unassisted ” e ' e e Heems to us that Senator Hoke Smith ought to have an assist on that play. e e e 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. • * • Mike Balenti paid $100 out of his own pocket toward his transportation from Alaska when he Joined the Browns * * «• Frank Chance says he would give $10,000 to-day for Tinker. But Joe Isn’t on the market. * *• ♦ Leon Ames has settled down a lot this >ear. It is believed that he will become a fairl> dependable pitcher bv the lime he is 9$ • • • 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? • « * 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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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 cl 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 vou will not only feel bright and energetic, but you will be the picture or new life S. S. S. is pre pared only in the laboratory of The 1 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 stores, department and general stores. 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. New York Dental Offices 28Va and 32% PEACHTREE STREET. Over the Bonita Theater and Zakas ’ Bakery. Gold Crowns . . . $3.00 Bridge Work . . . $4.00 All Other Work at Reasonable Prices. N 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 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. ( 5 c The Pure and Wholesome Drink Try It! You 9 l! Like It! If the name is on the crown it’s genuine. 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