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1 BAIL TRUST
By Lowry Arnold,
(Solicitor Criminal Court of Atlanta
and Form«r Director of Atlanta
Baasbal) A •aociation.)
1 HAVE boon ask#*d to glv** an opln- I
loo an to wb**rh#»r or riot orgMi*
lerd baseball la a trust Although j
1 am unable to glv* a an
awar to thla question 1 will aay that
it certainly 1s a truai in #*fTrrt and
n fart Whether It !■ a trust tech
nically and legally could only b# la-
t^rmlnad by Congr*«*
Tbr l^gal definition of a truat I*
A * orporaUon or combination of
individual* under on#* haa/1 and
which destroy* competition.”
Whether organized baaebal! 1e-
xiroya competition or not I '-annot
nay. But thla much la certain, all
• BJstd baaalftl] • Ittba If, 'his < ^un-
try are under an aareeemnt with *he
National Com mi ail on which la head
ed by one man Garry Herrmann.
Thla fact would tend to make K a
truat.
Although the mogula night be able
to stand an Investigation of thla sort
they certainly would not welcome
one if such a counre wen* taken
('ongreas would at least limit th«
reserve clause and put a atop U> the
blacklisting of players who did not
wish to algn a contract with any one
particular club.
• • •
T BELIEVE that the proposed f*ov
1 emment investigation was ab»»*
utely responsible for IVesldent Na-
vln of the Detroit club hurrying mat
ters 1n the Cobb cas*- and bringing It
so readily to a satisfactory close.
• • •
I N my opinion the one remedy for
1 all this trouble about piaye r «
signing would be to limit the reserve
< lau»“ to three years and at the end
of this period give every' man a.
hance to sign with whatever club
he desired, providing, of course, that
he had some plausible reason mrh
as being with a tail end club or
among unpleasant surroundings, etc
It Is true that the best players on
the poorer teams would flock to New
Vork and the other big #*kl#a Of
- ours* I believe that organisation *s
absolutely esw ntial to the life of he
game, but I also believe that things
ouid be arranged more satisfactori
ly to all parties if they would get
ogether and fls 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 se -
ary had he been free, should be
blacklisted by organ!sed baseball for
refusing to sign with Detroit.
O RG A NIZET» * baseball could not
exist without the reserve clans
but T WUevc that a limit of thre r
years should be placed on K.
Nap Rucker, of Br»»oklyn, is an
other notable Instance of thla restrl -
tfon. H».w much letter off h* would
be with a wtnnlng club. Surely he
cannot be sntlsfled with his present
surroundings, pitching few hit game*
and invarlablv losing through the lack
of ability of his team mates.
The dub owners have a one year
reserve clause now. but if a player
•efuses to report the next year h*>
n suspended, which amounts to the
name thing as blacklist. Accordli g
to an agreement between all clubs
he cannot be htred by any of them,
so be is. In fact, an outcast unless he
atgn* with his original team.
Perhaps the best remedy after ill
would be for Congress to Investigate
and decide once and for all whether
or not organised baseball is a trust.
• • •
T HERE is Just one thing more 1
should like to arid here, though ?t
has no bearing whatever on tin? ques
tion I have been discussing.
I wish to say that In my opinion the
Southern League Is the best organ-
zed and controlled of any league lr.
the world. This Is due to the gra::d
work done by President \V. M. Khva-
naught, who has be«*n at the head of
the organization almost from the
hlart He has run the league with
absolute fairness and has played mo
politics. He has be«*n impartial :n
his dealings with the Atlanta club.
The league owe* much of its gre<t
success to Judge Kavanaugh.
OLDFIELD RESENTS BEING
LINKED WITH SLAVE CASE
1,08, ANGELES, April 29. tieorgr
H. Btxby. th<* I,ong Bench miillonalrr
banker figuring In thr white nluve
probe, will tell hie atory to the grand
jury to-day. IMek Hollingsworth and
tVlillwm Uriue, pnimlnent automo
bile men. have been arrested on a
charge made by a fifteen-year-old
Kiri 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. MU, April 29 Abe
At tell, 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 Ch# n* y
proved to be one of the toughest
featherweights seen around these
parts in some time.
The first few rounds of thv* 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 ateimhas won a bunch
of games 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 stafT is be
ing put over the Jump*.
Nevertheless, vo-urs truly received
some ‘reliable info last night
tliat two of the Cracker*’ hurling
staff are Imbibing liquids stronger
than coffee. If this 1* true the local
manager had better get on the Job
and plaster a good heavy fine on the
guilty ones.
• • 0
VTILT Reed, the former Marist boy,
*** 1n mire peppering the old horse-
tide out In the Central Association
and the Ht. 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 he rap|»ed out three hits to the
outskirts. He demonstrated ills speed
on the paths by pilfering four bases
In the seventh after he had singled
bs stole both second and third. Iii
the field lie was a demon, too, hand
ling six chan css perfectly, and one
of them was a miraculous one-hand
ed stab of a vicious liner.’*
• • •
A HT. Imuls scribe believes that
** hw has unearthed the laziest man
In the world—and he'g a baseball
operator, too. Said scribe prints the
foliowdng under a Boston date lino:
“First end last, various Individuals
have been exploited as worthy of
places in any list of the '"Laziest
Men on Earth.” 1 would humbly sug
gest that my genial friend and fre
quent co-laborer, George Warmunde,
top-notoher of the W««tem Union’s
operators at the ball game*, b* ac
corded a position well up In the list.
He duly qualified at one of last week’H
gam**, when, In order to save unbut
toning hlfl own coat, he telegraphed
over to New York to ascertain th«>
time.”
• • •
A TINY monkey drove two of Frank
** Chance's IVnnunt Aspiring Yan
ke«*s to cover the other night in >
Uav Gotham Hotel, where the P A.
Y.'s roost when 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 singers, who carried
the pet monkey, was assigned to the
room o upled by Lellvelt and Keat
ing by mistake.
Some </f the other players stopping
at the same hotel dropper! around
to see Ijelivelt and Keating. Neither
was In sight, but the visitors started
a poker game in their room. Ten
minute* aft^r the game had got un
der way there was an uproar of
screeches and yell.*.
A corps of clerks, bellboy and
brave gufflts rushed In to help the
poker-playing element of the team
Keating and I^elivelt 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 • •
<<npo grab the white heavyweight
* championship of the world and
tote It back to that dear Htate of
Oklahoma Is the eight-hors*- power
task that < ’arl Morris has mapped out
for himself.”
The above w t - printed in a Chi
cago paper
Well t'arl could sure tote it Lack
to that dear Ok'ahoma if Gunboat
Smith, Jess WilDrd and Luther Mc
Carty could be induced to fake and
lay down for him as did Jack Mc
Farland and Jack K*ating. alias Bob!
Williams, here 11* Atlanta and in
Chattanooga.
• • •
H ARRY Vardon and Edward Ray.
who will be M*nt to this country
by Lord Northcliffe, of England, to
compete in the open golf champion
ships at Brookline, Maas., Septem
her 21 next, Is well known to both
Stewart *Maiden and Scotty McKen
zie, local professionals, say McKen
zie:
"The two big golfers of Great
Brlta’n are towntne n, both Vardon
and .‘ddward Ray 1 vlng b»en born
at Grouville, In the Isle of Jersey
Ray began his workaday life there as
a fisher-man and Vardon as a gard
ener Ray is the young* r, being
thirty-four years old and Vardon is
forty-two Both met last November
in a $2,000 match at Hunnlngdale, in
England, and Vardon won.
In their method* these golfers are
In sharp contrast. Vardon is the
perfection of golfing technique, aud
there is a scientific rea on for every
thing he does. His driving swing is
perfect, and each feature of it is
baaed on logical deductions from
knowledge* of the resultants of forc es.
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 shots cither a driver
or a cleek.”
CHRISTY MATHOT'S
BIG LEAGUt GOSSIP
TEW YORK, April 2ft.—So far in the rare this year, the elubs have pot away more in a
U band than they <li<l last season. There hM beet ea y ^tarter as Cbtcfauwtl was
’ last year, only to crumble and fall track when the poing became 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 i>oint of view, it is necessary for the Giants to get a pood 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 appears to be very much stronger than it was last year, and this is simply beceause the
club is more on its balance than it was in the race of 1312. The team was handicapped by injuries and Horace
Fogei, and Oooin could not get results out of the playing stmepth of his men. But this season “fharley” 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, lioth in and out of the big
leagues, before they have finished
the race.
* * *
'T'O my mind, the Philadelphia
* pitching staff is as strong as
any in the league, not barring those
rf ttic Pirates and the Giants. Sea
ton has started out as if he intended
to blow himself to a good year, and
Alexander anfl Chalmers have already
proved their worth. The Quakers
also have more real strength In the
whole lot with a mediocre
managed in St. Louis.
set he
T’
I.VKEK has made a poor start
with Cincinnati, but, if I was
“Joe,’’ I would consider this a gijod
omen, because “Hank” O’Day got
away like a sprinter last year, and
then the club fell down badly, while
the newspaiiers 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
field at this writing, with Magee and j are tj °»nd to come through and make
D>ls*rt both in the gain.-, two men a ftKht ’ Perhaps, for the pennant, hut
who have suffered from injuries and G'ey are sure to be up there. Tinker
T N concluding, I want to get liack
* to the so-calleri handball trust for
a minute. A* 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, 1913, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
preparing
Sneaeeker
Athletes st G. M
great amount of interest in pre
for the prep meet May
and Babb arc practicing with the ham-
:r^r. w Gr bin Maret and Brown
are >: .\ r.g to good advantage with
the shot
• • *
Sifford. of G M A . should prove a
star in the prep meet this year. This
boy :> a wonder in the hurdles and short
dashes Smith has equaled the best
re orda 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
Teel. 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 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
A are showing a confidence. They certainly have as good
ring - - -
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 t«o 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 gam* # -
agalnst Marist last week, some of th«*'
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
sickness. Bill worked a bit too hard in
the high school track meei April 18. and
has not been well since.
+ * *
.lean 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 wid be
used in the next game against Euvs
High.
* * *
Athletics are receiving a lot of sup
port at Boys High this year The base-
nail and track teams are the best the
school has had in years, and more en
thusiasm is being shown by the stu-1
dents than ever before V
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
l>hia, in the fourth round of a sched
uled twelve-round battle here last
night. O Keefe was badly battered at
Hie 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
rORDELE. GA , April 29. PordeSe
walked away with tb^ Columbus Y.
M. C. A team this afternoon by ’n
score of ls» to 1. Luttrell. ft*: Go-
Jumbu*. waa batted freely, and nu
merous error* were made b\ th< v >.
iting team. Gillespie, for Cord« !*,
plunc^a aplendid game.
Kid Klberfeld has released Outfield
er "R**d” Massey to the Galveston club
of the Texas League.
* • •
Pittsburg fans are tickled to death
because all games begin at S I* M. The
late gain ah must go It in only a ques
tion of how long it will tuke the bane
ball magnates to wake up to them
selves.
When Pittsburg and Phlcago leant*
meet, Artie Hof man and Tommy Lea* h
sprain themselves trying to outdo each
other In order to *h*»w up the men
who traded them
("oinlskey is planning to entertain
40,®b0 fans on Frank Chance Hay.
• • *
It would be quaint indeed If it proved
that the Naps are to be pennant con-
terulers after uncounted years of rot
tenness.
• • •
Umpire#* 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-
hainmer, formerly a Birmingham rookie
Ho seems over small for big leugue do
ing*
If Berg h Am me r sticks. Rafael Almeida
will be released But he will not get
out of the big league*. Both the Ron
ton Nationals ami St. I^ouis Americans
want Mm.
• • •
Price Gaskill is still pitching poorly
In the International League. He has
never quite recovered from the awful
grind that Joe McGlnnity put him
through.
$20,000 has been subscribed to
the Ht. I^ouls club.
finance
Angermeler and At* are said to be
slated for release by Charley Frank.
* nd now * omen Chattanooga w ith the
i iatm that their club is the best tail
ender mi the league’ which claim is
admitted.
• • •
Rjgh wos* springs a new play, aa
follows ' Navin out, $12,600 to Cobb
unassisted.”
• • »
Beams to us that Be r it or Hoke Smith
ought to have an aHsis: on that play.
• • •
Ra.v Keating and Al Schultz, the lat
ter late of Savannah, .ire about the
best hurlers the Yankee. 1 - have now.
• • *
It's marvelous the wa l*otig Tom
Hughes, of the Senators. hangs on
This old lad ought to b* on the down
slant by now, but he doesn't seem t-
be
naid 1
pock«st toward his transportation from
Alaska when he. joint**! the Browns.
* * •
Frank Chance says be would givf
$10,000 to-day for Tinker B it Joe isn't
on the market
t t •
I^eon Ames has settled d-w n a lot
this year It is twlleved th. t he will
become a fairly dependable i Itoher by
the time he is 98
•
Donnie Bush swears that every time
he geis on bases this year he is going
to keep running till he score* or the\
put him out. He wants to neasure
speed with Cobb and Milan
• • *
*•>■<u* HiRKhlns rc i entl. paid M00 for
tila rrleasn fr..m the Si-ranto: .hit
rather than sign for *175 a ram jh
...
Time was when opposing rluh wel
comed Detroit's pitchers, feared their
hatters. Now conditions art, re
The batters are weak the
strong.
umpires in the last couple of years.
Lotart is a (food ball player—don’t
make any mistake atsmt that—and
he will bolster up the Infield and
make It work together. Ixtbert puts
a Jot of jtepper and dash Into the
Kamo, and it 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 1’ittsburg is the cane
of Wagner. The club is making great
efforts to keep the real condition of
the big 1 nitcliman 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 is 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 Inst year, with the
addition of Hofrnan in playing form,
lie is a fast man, covers much ground
and is a vicious hitter. With Wag*
tier, the Pirates would have a great
chance at the pennant. Without him.
I fall to sts* them; although, of
course, I may he wrong. Seldom have
I lieen able to cash a bet on a ball
game. Infrequently do 1 lose a po
litical wager, although I know noth
ing of politics and its Ins and outs.
* * *
T^VERS seems to lie going pretty
‘ well with his ('nhs, better than
most of us expected he would. His
pitching staff is moving smoothly and
his Infield appears to be very evenly
balanced. Rrldwell lias returned to
form and solved the question of
shortstop for Evers. Saier is
growing first baseman, improving
with the passing of each season.
Zimmerman is a hitter that would
add to anj club, and Is a reliable
fielder. If Evers can maintain ltis
pit' ll,ts in some kind of shape and
hold tlie dub together so that It is
working all the time, J expect he will
It* up in the tight for the pennant,
in tins keeping the team together,
Rresnalmn is bound to Is* a big aide,
he, nust* he is a close friend of Evers
and because, like many another ball
player, he wants to cut in on the
world series coin this fall. I under
stand that Roger Is adviser extraordt
nary to “Johnny," and that the pitch
ing department lias been practically
passed over to him. Offhand, no
body comes to my mind who is more
oinjM'teld to whip a string of pitch
ers into good shiqie. Roger did u
has too much of a kick in him to
stand for anything else.
The American League has not
straighteneil itself out. in my mind,
at all so far, but by next Thursday
I think I’ll have n better line on con
ditions there and can say something
about It.
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FIGHT 10-ROUND DRAW
CINCINNATI, \ prll .9—1*1,
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hrrr last night. N,, ,i< .-lalon vj,
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