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THE ATLANTA (iEOROIAN AND NEWS.TTESI)A V, APRIL 29. 1912. f #■ By Lowry Arnold. (Solicitor Criminal Coort of Atlanta and Formar Director of Atlanta Baaeball Aaeooiation.) I HAVE besn naked to (rive an opin ion as to whether or not orpin- Ized baseball la a trust Although 3 am unable to fflve a joaltlve an swer to this question I will say that It eertalnly 19 a trust In effect and in fact. Whether it Is a. trust tech nically and legally could only be de termined by Congress. The legal definition of s trust It "A corporation or combination of Individuals under one head and which destroys competition." Whether organized baseball de stroys competition or not T cannot say. But this much 1s certain, all organized baaeball dubs In this coun try are under an agreeemnt with 'he National Commission which is head ed by one man. Garry Herrmann. This fact would tend to make 1t a trust. Although the moguls night be ab’e to stand an Investigation of this sort they certainly would not welcome one If such a course were taken Congress would at least limit the reserve clause and put a stop to the blacklisting of player* who did not wish to sign a contract with any one particular club. • « « T BELIEVE that the proposed Gov- 1 ernment Investigation was absi- lutely responsible for President Ni- vln of the Detroit club hurrying mat ters In the Cobb case and bringing it so readily to a satisfactory close * * * IN my opinion the one remedy for 1 all this trouble about players signing would be to limit the reserve clause to three years ami at the end of this period give every man a chance to sign with whatever clue he desired, providing, of course, that he hfcd aome plausible reason su'h as being with a tallend dub >r among unpleasant surroundings, etc. It is true that the best player* on the poorer teams would flock to New York and the other big citleB Of course 1 believe that organization !* Absolutely essential to the life of the game, but 1 also believe that things could be arranged more satisfactori ly to all parties If they n-oultj gsl together and fix up matter*. 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 elubs for a 120,000 sal ary had he been free, should be blacklisted by organized baseball for refusing to sign with Detroit • • • O RGANIZED baseball ontild not exist without the reserve clans", but I believe that a limit of thvec years should be placed on It. Nap RuckeT, of Brooklyn, is an other notable Instance of this restric tion. Hew much better oft he would be with a winning club. Surely he cannot 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 ha is suspended, which amounts to the same thing as blacklist. According to an agreement between all clubs he cannot hr 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 be for Congress to investlgO'e and decide once and for all whether or not organised baseball is a trust. • * • T HERE Is Just one thing more I should like to add hpre, 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 1b the best organ ized and controlled of any league In the world. This Is due to the grand work done by President W. M. Kav i- 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 tn his dealings with the Atlanta club. The league owes much of Its great success to Judge Kavanaugh. o SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT The Tango Hits Rummy’s Court Copyright, 1913, International Newt Kerrlct yauR/foMOA IM SORB* VD JAy THAT Five OP 1H£ LADy GuaORS rave Wfff ikOWK OPfOft THC AP-rERWO©k> SCSStOA* \ > \ UMOEre.STA.iUO that L£FT -ro IC6ETP AM HkJ6ACr€-ME'*F- H5E A TAmSO 0AMC.E TVWS ; APTEltMOOV , ill \rtHATV WC'ff OAC s TBgV LEAVE COUP-V willMur SAW pgrftkll AS' flM ,VT>- & nnmimmnm.iiirw llllll'li cour-T-s" ADTOORMfc.O - I'LL Fre-fO yovM 6 \rJOv\£-Ti ftNH CA At<£ A M ES-AMOlE OF TWEN OR biyvAME ISN'T RUMH All JEA wooes .sure \ THEM RE HERE oh rt? ?l PE- - ^ey-roLT r*E 3 Pie iHANP. By Tad JSj*. tVMSTER'b 5 JAuCrO TEA | j TOimT i< ! Ill n >y,\ ? Two of Bill Smith’s Hurling Staff Are Reported Not to Be Training Very Faithfully OLDFIELD RESENTS BEING LINKED WITH SLAVE CASE 1,08, ANGELES, April 29. —George H Blxby. the Long Beach millionaire t.anker figuring tn the white sluve probe, will tell his story to the grand Jurv to-day. Dick Hollingsworth and William Larasse. 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. ATTELL DEFEATS CHENEY IN 15-ROUND BATTLE BALTIMORE. MI) , 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 wore 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 ateimhss won a bunch of game* and then hits a slump there are always a heap of fans who start roasting the players, collectively and Individually. Right now Billy Smith's pitching staff I* 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. ir (his is true the local manager had better get on the Job and plaster a good heavy fine on the guilty ones • • • ]\/fILT Reed, the former Mai 1st boy, ivl la sure peppering the old horse- hide out in the Central Association and the Rt. Louis team Is almost sure to haul him hack Into the big league ranks If he keeps tip the pace. 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 Sliced on the paths by pilfering four basea. 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 hn* unearthed the lanlest man in the world—and h«*’s a bane ball operator, too. Snid scribe prints the following under a Boston date line “Firm snd last, various individuals have been exploited as worthy of places in any 11 Ht of the "Laziest Men on Earth." I would humbly sug- gteit that my genial friend nnd fre quent co-laborer, George Warmunde, top-notcher of the Western Union's opera tom at the ball games, be ac corded h petition up in the list. He duly qualified at one of last week's game**, when. In order to save unbut toning his own coat, he telegraphed over to New York to ascertain the time." • • • A TINY monkey drove iwo of Frank **■ Chance’* Pennant Aspiring Yan kee* to cover the other night in a Gay Gotham Hotel, where the P. A Y.’a roost when in the big village Ray Keating and Jack Lellvelt w»»re 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, whs assigned to the room occupied by LelivHt 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 sight, hut the visitors started a poker game in their room. Ten minute* after the game had got un der way therp was an uproar of screeches and yell*?. A corps of clerks, bellboys and brave guests rushed In to hplp the poker-playing element of the team Keating nnd 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 cuit! • • • «T() grab the white heavyweight * championship of the world nnd tote it hack to that dear State of Oklahoma is the eight-horse power task that Carl Morris hns mapped out for himself." The above wa- printed in a Chi cago pat er. Well Carl could sure tote it back to that dear Oklahoma if Gunboat Smith. Jess Willard and Luther Mc Carty could be induced to fake and lay down for him as did Jack Mc Farland and Jack Keating, alias Bob Williams, here In Atlanta and in Chattanooga. • • • H ARRY yardon and Edward Ray. who will be ; ent to this country by Lord Northcliffe, of England, to compete In the open golf champion- ships at Brookline, Mass.. Septem ber 21 next, is well known to both Stewart Malden and Scotty McKen zie, local professionals, says McKen zie: "The two big golfers of Groat 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 a 12.00ft match at Sunnlngdale, in England, and Vardon won. In their methods these golfers ar In sharp contrast. Vardon Is the perfection of golfing technique, and there is a scientific reason for every thing he does. Mis 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 W 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 brasjue. but Ray uses for brassle shots either a driver or a cleek." m CHRISTY MTHEWWS BIG LIAGUl GOSSIP PREP LEAGUE NOTES N' KW YORK. April 2b.—So far In the race this year, the elubs have got away more in a bunch than they <11(1 last, season. There hns been no early starter as Cincinnati was last year, only to crumble and fall back when the going became hardest. After a poor beginning in the first few games, ttie 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 tlie only Eastern team we have faced which appears to be very much stronger than it was last year, and tills is simply beeeause the club is more on its balance than it was in the raee of 1912. The team was handicapped by injuries and Horace Fogel, nnd 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. I believe that they will surprise a lot of |>eiiple, both in-anil out of the big leagues, before they have finished the race. * *• * r T'f) my mind, the Philadelphia pitching staff is as strong as any in the league, not barring those of the Pirates and the Giants. Sea ton has started out as if he intended to blow himself to a good year, atid Alexander and Chalmers have already proved their worth. The Quakers also have more real strength in the field at this writing, with Magee and Iaibert both in the game, two men who have suffered from injuries and umpires In the last couple of years. Lobert Is n good hall player—don’t make any mistake nlxmt that—and he will bolster up the iufleld and make it work together. Lobert puts a* lot of pointer gad dash into the game, nnd it is his fearless playing which makes him the victim of so many accidents. He does not avoid anything that comes Ills way. The ease 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 t>een expressed by men on 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 and where is your fortress? Elim inate Wagner, and what has become of your intleld? whole lot with a mediocre set lie managed in St. Louis. • * * r T'INKER has made a poor start A with Cincinnati, but, 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 lie 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, t>erhaps, for the pennant, but they are sure to Is’ up there. Tinker has too ranch 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 better line on con ditions there nnd can say something about it. Yell Defimce at Blood Disorders A Remedy That Has Shown Most Remarkable Purifying; Effect. N concluding, I want, to get back to the so-called baseball trust for a minute. As 1 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, 1913, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Athletes at G. M. A. are showing a great amount of interest in preparing for the prep meet May 9. Snedeeker and Babb arc 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 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 he Charlie Allen, of Marist. Parks is 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 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 tire 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; BUI 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 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 good for a berth on the all-prep. He pitched a great game against Marist, and will be used in the next game against Boys High. 4 * * * 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. c LAKKE has a great pitching FODDER FOR FANS Kid Elberfeld has released Outfield er "Rad" Massey to the Galveston club of tba Texaa League. Pittsburg fans are nil i tickled to daath because nlT games begin at 8 P M. The late game* 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 Herman and Tommy Izeach sprain themselves trying to outdo each other In order to show up the men who traded them. Comiskey Is planning to entertain 40,4)00 fan# on Frank Chance Day. 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 GORDELE, GA . April 29.—Oordole walked away with the Columbus Y* M. C. A. team this afternoon by th# ore of 15 to 1. Luttrell, for Co- nbus. was batted freely, and nu- rous errors were made by the vis ing team. Gillespie, for Cordele. itened a splendid game. It would be quaint indeed if it proved that the Naps ara to be pennant con tenders—after uncounted years of rot tenness • • • Umpires have ths hardest job in the world—but none of them ever quit * » 9 'It’s a bum pitcher,” says Davenport, "who can t shea' smoke In Pittsburg ” • * • The Reds are trying out Martin Berg- hammer, formerly a Birmingham rookie. He seems over small for big league do Ings • • • If Rerghammer 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 Prloe Oaskill is still pitching poorly In the International League He has never quite recovered from the awful gTlnd that Joe McGinnity put him through • • ♦ 826,000 has been subscribed to finance the St. Lout* club • • * Angermeler and Ate ara said to be slated Tor release by Charley Frank • • * And now pomes Chattanooga with the claim that fhelr club is the "best tall- endcr In the league'*—which claim Is admitted. follows. "Navin out. $12,500 to Cobb, unassisted " • • * Seems to u» that Senator Hoke Smith ought to have an assist on that plav * * - Ray Keating and A1 Schultz, the lat ter late of Savannah, are about ihd 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 naid $100 out of his own pocket toward his transportation from Alaska when he Joined the Browns * » 4 Frank Chance says he would give $10 000 to-day for Tinker But Joe isn't on the market. ♦ * * Leon Ames has bet tied down a lot this year It is believed that he will become a fairly dependable pitcher bv the time he is 98 • * • 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 measure speed with Cobb and Milan. his release 'from the Scran ton club rather than sign for 1175 a month • • * Time was when opposing clubs wel comed Detroit's pitchers, feared t'.eir hatters Now conditions are reversed The batters are weak. the pitchers strong er nmi faster than Inst .vent-, with the addition of llofmnn in playing form. He Is a fast man. covers much ground and is a vicious hitter. AVItli Wag ner. the Pirates would have a great chains* at tlic jiennant. Without him, I fail to see them; although, of course. I may lie wrong. Seldom have 1 lieen able to casti a liet on a hall game. Infrequently do I lose n po litical wager, although I know noth ing of politics and Its ins and outs. • • * E VERS seems to lie going pretty well with his Cubs, better than most of us expected he would. His pitching staff Is moving smoothly and Ills Infield appears to Ik* very evenly balanced. Britlwell bus returned to form and solved t)ie question of shortstop fur Evers. Saler is a growing first baseman, improving wit it tlie 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 time. I expect he will Ik* up in the fight for the pennant, in tills keeping the team together. Rrestiahan Is bound to be a big aide, because he is a close friend of Evers nnd because, like many another Util player, tic 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 hns been practically passed over to him. Offhand, no- bod> dunes to my mind who Is more competent to whip a string of pitch ers into good slui[>e. Roger did a Righ Ore#, springs a as play, as 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 deei?* given. At tne close both 1 fighting fast, with no vantage either way. 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 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, roast beef, the fats and the sugars that make up our daily ration. As n matter of fact, there Is one ingredient in 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- f )ly; why it has such a tremendous nfiuence 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 oi 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, but you will be the picture of new life. 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