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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. MAY T. 1010. Jeff Has Taken tl he j Japanese Situation Into His Own Hands :: :: By “Bud Fisher N ashville, tenn., May 5.—Bin Schwartz'p move in replacing Jesse James, in right field, with Delmar Dewaine Young, the Cleve land grocery clerk, and the Subse quent sale of Jesse to the Pelicans, will likely be the last time the boy leader will linker with the lineup of the club, outside of a choice between iwirlers Lefty Williams and Charles “Jonah” Case. James’ work on the rightfleld preci pice in Sulphur Dell was a great im provement over the showing made by Young, for he is a fast fielder and has a whip of steel. But the ex-Texas Leaguer wasn’t doing any great amount of damage and since he was owned by Brooklyn. Schwartz de cided to allow Frank to claim him at the waiver prince. Dell Young has all along been frank to confess that the steep hill iti right has» been an unsoTvable rid dle to him, owing to his weight but he insists that on the road he can field with the best of them. It be gins to look as if his alibi will have to be accepted for Young on the road is continually making all sorts of* hair-raising catches, while at home he looks like a school boy. Schwartz will probably shift Davey Callahan to the cliff when the club returns and use Dell in center. There is no denying that the Cleve land boy can clout the ball and just now some hard hitting would come in mighty handy with the fiingers stumbling along as they are. In field ing there ifc»n’t a club in the circuit that has the call over the lucky Vols, for In Lindsay, Goalby and Bill Schwartz they have the fastest double play trio that ever choked off a bat ting rally in the Southern. League Standing Due a Shake JJpjUUflIE ENTERS @ O © © Q O 0 10T11 crjcnfi! MobileMaySlumpaBit Very Soon l0,n umu,< By Percy !1. Whiting. T HE Southern League clubs are getting ready for the first show down. Up to yesterday the Eastern clubs were playing only In the East, the Western clubs in the West. What these games proved was merely that: 1. Atlanta and Nashville were stronger in the East than Chattanoo ga and Birmingham. 2. Mobile and .Montgomery are k stronger in the West than Memphis and New Orleans. Up to yesterday no Eastern club had played a Western club. So, as far as the records go, every club in the Eastern division might be stronger than any in the Western. And Mobile, with all its lead, might be able to finish no better than fifth. Our private opinion is that the East ern clubs may puncture the Gulls' bubble. The games of the next couple of weeks will give us some real line on what Is to be expected. * * * J UST how much Leonard Dobard has had to do with the knocks on the Atlanta club published in papers in the Southern section, we don t know. But knowing him, we have an idea. Here is a fair sample of what is appearing; Refusing to join the Beaumont Texas League club, to which lie was released under an optional agreement. Leo Do bard. local .shortstop, whom the Crack- <ts secured from Cralk Griffith, of the Washington club, returned to New Or leans Tuesday. Dobard was out in a Montgomery uniform during the practice, and it is probable he will become a member of Mawn" Dobbs’ Billikens, if a trade can be arranged with the Crackers^ Dobbs is eager to get Dobard. and it ia believed Billy Smith wlH turn him over to Montgomery. The local boy if said to have re ceived a raw deal from Billy Smith. It seems that Dobard was brought to ,tlanta and practically forced to sign a contract catling for the same salary that he drew last year from the Day- ton Central League club. in working this ancient trick Smith was violating the rules of baseball, i for a player taken from a smaller league is entitled to a boost in salary. , Following a quarrel, however, Smith shipped Dobard to Beaumont. * * * L ET’S have a look at Dobard’s rec ord: He was secured from the Central League by draft. When reporting time came Dobard v>*as one of the last men to report. He claimed to be in good condition but he didn't show it. v No man on the team acquired the enmity of ALL the fans any sooner. When it «ame time to sign Dobard wouldn't sign. He took his said story to Bill Smith. “Don't sign, and see if I give a cues." Bill Smith told him. “You make me tired. You haven't shown me ANYTHING. You’re lucky to be jf- fered a contract. Sign it or GET OUT.” Dobard sulked around a day or two and then signed. After he was a member of the team he showed even less than before. If ever there was a rum-dum playing ball in Atlanta Dobard was the man. He fielded miserably, threw wretch edly. got crossed on signals, was a joke on bases and didn’t show any thing. Finally, in disgust. Bill Smith sold him to Beaumont. Instead of going he sticks around and tells the news papers what an awful deal Bill Smith handed him. In our opinion Bill paid Dobard a signal honor in thinking he was good enough for the Beaumont club and handed an awful knock to the Texas League at the same time. If Dobard %had been offered $85 a month to play in Atlanta it would have been shameful carelessness on the part of Bill Smith in wasting £he Crackers’ money. * * * 13RANCH RICKEY, coach of the ^ University of Michigan team has a new' one. He is handcuffing his players in bunting practice. Of course he doesn’t use the regular po lice bracelets. But he ties ropes to their wrists and then fastens them to their belts. The idea is to keep them from hit ting at the high ones. Rickey tried to talk his men out of bunting at the lofty hurls but it did no good. Then be tied their arms dowfn. With the handcuffs on. if a man tries to bunt at a high one it nearly breaks his wrists. This plan might work with Bill Smith’s men. They surely lack a lot of being polished hunters right at present. JOE KUTINA MAY BEAT TARLETON OUT OF JOB NEW ORLEANS. May 5. Bob Tar- leton’s job with the Billikens is every thing but safe, according to reliable information. Johnny Dobbs is said to be awaiting Joe Kutina, a bold-out to report and as soon as he does, which is expected to occur in a few r days, Bob Tarleton. local first sacker, is to be given bis unconditional re lease. Tarleton joined the Billikens this spring when Dobbs needed ball play ers. and has been going fairly well. Kutina. however, in Dobbs’ position, is a better man than Tarleton and be cause of this Bob wMll have to go else where. Tarleton has been slated for his re lease for several w'eeks. Refusal of Hornhorst to report forced Dobbs to keep Bob. but all hope for his job is now given up, due to Kutina notify ing the Billiken leader he will report **oon. | 60S 3ALVARSAN ) 1 4 ieo Salvarsan j The two celebrated Germ’an preparations that have cured per manently more cases of syphillis or blood poison in the last two years than has been cured in tlie history of >5 the world up to the jP V l\Jj\ mne pf this wonderful discovery. Come and kViSt let me demonstrate to you how I cure this dreadful disease In three to five treatments I cure the following diseases or jnake no charge: Hvdrooele, Varicocele, Kidney, Blad der and Prostatic Trouble. Lost Man hood. StricVure. Acute and Chronic Gonorrhea. aI1 nervous and diseases of men and women. rr rpr consultation and examination. Hours: 8 » in. to 7 p. in ; Sunday, DR. J. D. HUGHES s$i/ 2 North Broad St., Atlanta. Ga. Opposite Third National Bank. BOSTON WOULD SEE GOTCH TACKLE ZBYSZKO AGAIN CHICAGO, May 6.—George V Tuohy. Boston wrestling promoter, is in Chicago seeking to bring Frank Gotch, wrestling champion, and Stan islaus Zbyszko, the Pole, together in another bout, to be staged at Boston some time in July. Tuohy found the Pole’s manager willing to sign up and expects to go to .Marshalltown, la., to-day to meet Gotch. RUSSELL AND ANDERSON IN RING BOUT TO-NIGHT ' MEMPHIS, TENN., May si.—Frank ie Russell, the New Orleans light weight, and Jimmy Anderson, local boy will clash here to-night in a 10 round battle. Anderson recently de feated Young Dyson here and is looked upon as a comer in the light weight ranks. The weight. 133 pounds at 3 o’clock, will bp an easy matter for both boys. CHICHESTER S PILLS ***-<2^ THE DIAMOND BRAND. a • a ' • ‘ "tut nun; Motion. V f TuL« no of h**r liny «oar v Dr-ngfUf. A irKp.TrR** '!Uni» PfLI.N. f,. r ** yean, known as Best, bafest,AI ways Reffebte SOLO BY DRUGGISTS LVERYWHFP5 A ppropriate words of regret have long since been prepared. For years the historians of baseball have been ready to sound the death knell over the baseball ca reer of the great Frenchman, Napo- ton Lajoie. For years scribes and fans have watched witli keen, practiced eyes for the first signs of that slipping which marks the beginning of the end of the career of all great men of the dia mond. In their eagerness to be the first to sound the warning some have occa sionally mentioned that “Larry doesn’t go as far to get ’em as he used to." Some enthusiastic scribes have written volumes when he fanned, tak ing the opportunity to note that at last they had seen a flaw in his mar velous batting eye. A “Veteran” 10 Years Ago. Ten years ago he earned the title of “veteran.” They called him the wonderful Larry, the greatest bats man who ever lived. A short time later they began to call him the “old veteran.’ They marked the passing of each season with the notation that Larry was getting close to his finish. They began to utter regrets that baseball must soon lose one of Its brightest lights. They made much of the fact that most diamond stars lose their luster after passing the tenth year and almost invariably are forced to retire before or in the neighborhood of their fifteenth year. Each injury w T hich forced his tem porary withdrawal from the game caused a quiver of fear to trickle' through the nation lest the injury should result in his permanent re tirement. With the rise to fame of the noble little Trojan Johnny Evers; the sen sational young Eddie Collins, and the dashing Capt. Larry Doyle, of the Giants, admirers of those gentlemen, in their enthusiasm over favorites, have been wont to refer to Larry as ‘ the great Frenchman who was," Looks Better Than Ever. Now what a change there has been Those sentiments, expressions, and opinions have been buried with the past. Piled high as a sarcastic mon ument above them now stands a ser-^ ies of performances since the open ing of the campaign of 1913 which makes the name and glory of Napo leon Lajoie sparkle and glisten as it lias not in many years. Not that his work has ever seri ously retrograded, hut rather that lie is consistently demonstrating that as a hall player he is as great as if not greater than he ever was before, and that to-day, just as ten years ago. he is sole possessor of the title of “The greatest second baseman of the past or present.” Eighteen years ago Larry flashed over the baseball horizon to be term ed the marvel of the sport. Sensa tional plays by him both in the field and,at the hat were chronicled with regularity. From the moment of his ba’Hism N 'in the National League he was one of its most prominent ac tors. His feats of recent dates are so thoroughly engraved on the minds of the fan army that it is scarcely nec essary to recall them at this time. Only a few r days ago a sensational stop by him enabled Fred Blanding to shut out Detroit. Only the day before that was his fielding one of the brightest features of another vic tory over Detroit And they said he was "going back.” BASEBALL IN 1925 (Copyright, 1913, International News Service.) i By William F. Kirk. T HE baseball park was crowded on a lo 'ely summer day With rooters young and full of life, and rooters old aud gray. This was no plain steel' structure like the stadiums of old; The bleachers were of silver and the stands were solid gold. The neanut venders moved about w’ith grandeur and disdain Bedecked as Spanish pages in the days of Philip’s reign. The bat hoy’s silver spangles shone resplendent in the sun. Groundkeeper Murphy’s raiment was the best that could be spun. The press box in the grandstand, with Its busy telephones. Was built of purest marble, studded thick w ith precious stones The people sat enraptured, no one caring to go home. Feasting their eyes on splendor like the pomp of ancient Rome. The umpire, in a diadem of rubies and of pearls, Removed it for a moment from his richly perfumed curis. And this is what he had to say Upon that lovely summer day: "Uobb has gone to Europe In his aeroplane; Wagner’s down on Wall Street Cornering all the grain. Matty’s loaning money To Rockefeller’s firm. McGraw has launched his navy To make the English squirm. / Larry Doyle went with him And both remarked ta me They might be back this winter As soon as Ireland’s free, Don’t blame the athletes, people! They’re all too rich to play. Get back your tenspots at the gate — There’ll be no game to-day!” LIPPE JD TIE Food for Sport Fans JAKE STAHL TO BE BENCH , MANAGER NEXT SEASON BOSTON, May 5.—Jake Stahl, man ager of the Boston Red Sox. will be a bench manager after this season and will surrender the guardianship of the initial sack as soon as he can find a suitable succesF’or, according to a report in circulation yesterday in tiie Red Sox camp. NeitJi«*r Engle nor Janverin fit in with Stahl’s idea of a first baseman, and it. is said he is willing to turn over three or four plVyers for a star first baseman if ore is‘on the market. MATTY. He is old and decrepit and lame: You ran fell by the droop in his frame. You can tell by his sigh And the woe in his eye As he wins a thirteen-inning game. He is weary and feeble and weak. And his elbpws and vertebrae squeak: You can tell he's a joke By the volumes of smoke As the ball whizzes by like a streak. Ih is broken and haggard and sore. And hr cannot produce any more: You can tell he's a cinch When he works in a pinch And prevents them from tying the score. He is aged and crusty and grim : IF has lost all his pepper and rim. Staid McGraw with a sigh : "I would give my right eye For a few more old cripples like him." It must tas admitted that Mr. Elber feld's athletes play a consistent game. In fact, they are the most consistent losers in the Southern League. It behooves Tvrus Cobb to pay strict attention to his knitting this year. Ping Bodie has developed so much speed 1hat he can stretch a home run w’allop into a two-bagger. Reports from The Far West indicate that Messrs. Kllbane and Dundee have split fifty-fifty on the featherweight title. Joe Tinker, who was presented with a suitcase by his admiring friends, may need it when Garry Hermann sends him on his way. THEM UNIFORMS. An umpire faced an athlete grim Ami spoke, these burning words to him: “Strike, if yon will, you horrid brute, But do not soil my ice cream suit!" Speaking of uniforms for umpires, the most appropriate would be one of black and white stripes, running crosswise. In view of the fact that he had the approbation so to speak, of James J. Corbett. Johnny Kilbane did exceedingly well to get an even break. Speaking of omens, this is Christy Mathewsoh’s thirteenth year in the Na tional league When lie pitches, it is considered an unlucky sign for the other team Norman Elberfeld is beginning to real ize that a manager can not win a pen nant unless he is aided and abetted by a baseball team. Waller Johnson arises to remark that lie will not play next year for less than $10,000 This constitutes the worlds record for long distance holdouts, As for hunger strikes, Mrs. Pank- hurst has nothing on the male citizen who lingers until the finish of a Southern League game. HERO WORSHIP. Hr may have been a wotnler yes terday : He may have hammered many a healthy clout. But when his batting eye goes wrong they say: "Aw. take him out!" He may have been a Walsh in days gone by And heaved the ball with many a curve and crook, But when his stuff goes wrong they up and cry: "A iv, get the hook!" The. baseball rooters know no yes terday. To them the past is always dark and dim. And when a hero falls they laugh and say: “The bush for him!" “RUBE” WADDELL SAYS HE IS THROUGH WITH GAME MINNEAPOLIS. May 5. George Edward (“Rube”) Waddell ia through with baseball forever, so he declares to-day. He had been turned over to the Northern League club here by the Minneapolis American Association club, after a. long illness. He pitched one good game for the hush leaguero, hut Saturday turned in his uniform and declared that he was through. “I’ve been in the business for fif teen years,” said the once great twirl- er, “and I guess I’ll quit. I may pitch a game occasionally for an independ ent team, hut that will be all. I'll make my living some other way.” NAVY FIVE ELECTS CAPTAIN. ANNAPOLIS. MD. May 5.—Clar ence J. McReavey, of the State of Washington, was yesterday named as captain of the Naval Academy basket ball team. He is the center of the five. EDDIE FOSTER STILL ILL. WASHINGTON, May 6.—No change has been noted in the condition of Eddie Foster, the Nationals third baseman, who is ill at Georgetown Hospital with typhoid fever. OB EONS imp Bv Ed. W. ISmitli. C HICAGO. May 6.— Unmindful of the numerous warnings h.> American fighters and ftgM managers who have tried the Austra lian boxing game and found it sadl\ wanting in many respects. Al Lippe is going to give it a whirl with a cou ple of Yankee stars. And in the face of all that has gone before, Llppe must he set down as one of the gatn- est and most courageous of all to make a trip of that character and length in search of the fleeting and floating dollar or Bank of England note, as the case may be. Llppe is going to take Jeff Smith, a corking good middleweight, and Frank Loughrey, a speedy lightweight, to the “land clown under.” as the Eng lish call Australia. They are booked to sail from San Francisco June 3. * * * Y\7 E take il that Lippe has his ** round trips and a snug sum of expense money stowed away in his fashionable jeans, else he would '• • the muttiest of mutts to undertake the journey. Every returning pilgrim from Austi.tlia smiles a knowing smile and advises against anybody else making the journey. Joe Wool- man, Sam Langford’ manager, was compelled to sue for $12,000 that he had coining to him over there and the defendants got so many continuances and delays that Joe apparently is about to pass un the whole thing and quit cold—incidentally without his money. That is merely a sample »f the treatment that has been accorded American fighters and their managers over there. * # • I 1PPE would like to show his two stars around Chicago before Iv leaves for California to board the steamer. He says that Smith an make 152 pounds in a pinch, hut that he will meet any of them right up to 158, and would prefer a match with Eddie McGoorty because he regar Is the Oshkosh man as the real cham pion of the county. Loughrey is cred ited witli victories over Bat Nelson, Young Erne, Dave Deshlei and mow of the good hoys of the East. II*- is a bit oversized for an American light weight, his lowest poundage being 138. But he will fit in beautifully in Australis, where lightweights ai M just as apt to he thrown into the pi* with middies and feathers with welt ers. etc. Note the case of Rudy* Un- holz, the Denver lightweight, who fought in every class above his own during his trip to the Antipodes. T^MCTWJin COLUMN* JORDAN SIGNS TO PLAY UTILITY FOR CRACKERS MOBILE, ALA, May 6 A Otto Jordan, the oldest player in the Southern League in point of continu ous service, and in his day the great est second baseman the Southern League ever saw. has been signed to play utility roles with the Atlanta club. He will probably join th* team to day. Jordan played for years under Billy Smith as field captain, and the At lanta manager believes that Otto wilj he worth ins pay as his personal rep resentative on the coac hing line-: JOE THOMAS AND WHITE REMATCHED FOR MAY 19 CHICAGO. May 5. Charlie White, local scrapper, who recently knocked out Joe Thomas, of New Orleans, in that city in eight rounds and who meets him again at New Orleans on May 19, to-dav started training at Nate Lewis’ gym to fit himself for another knoc kout victory. White hopes to get on with Fred die Welsh, Johnny Dundee. I each Cross or some of the other top-notch- ers. F ORTY-FOUR yeai’8 ago the first professional ball club in th* world was organized, tl was the famous Cincinnati Reds ihe pioneer paid baseball club, in whose existence 1h# great national game, as it exists to-day, had its inception. In Ibtill tliis club played through the entire season, from March l,i till November If), and never lost a game. It finished the season with a standing of 1,000. Its pay-roll for the year, including every cent that went to the players in salaries, was $0,500. were ten players on the club, Ther of which one was a pitcher, Asa Brainard, and another was a substi tute. The average salary per player was less than u thousand dollars, or, to be exact. $950. The highest paid man was George Wright, who got $1,- 400, 'the shortstop. Captain Harry Wright, pulled down $1,200 for his share. The pitcher, who went through the season with a clean rec ord, got $1,100. And last year Hans Wagner pulled down a cool $10,000 for galloping around somewhere between second and third, punishing the pill and run ning bases. Some difference, what! Tyrus Cobb got $9,000 Iasi season, and is said to be drawing $12,500 this season. * * * LlVRKIXG back, tin* payroll of that “ little old club in the’60s that went clear through without sustaining a defeat looks picayunish, doesn’t it? And those fellows played ball in a different way than it is played to day. They didn't have gloves, masks, shoes, protectors and the thousand and one things that the modern diamond star has to guard himself with. The games were riots. When there was no blood shed the fans demanded their money hack. Here’s the salary list of the first professional hall club, taken red-hot from the ledger of the treasurer: Harry Wright, Captain $1,200 George Wright, shortstop 1.400 Asa Brainard, pitcher 1,1001 Fred Waterman, third base .... 1,000 Charles Sweasy, second base .. 800 Charles Gould, first base 800 Douglas Allison, catcher 800 Andrew Leonard, left field 800 Calvin McVey, right field 800 Richard Hurlev, substitute . . . 800 / * * ANT’E upon a time there was a black and-tan maul swinger nam ed Steve who took up the light and remunerative work of editing a boot- black stand and was doing fairly well at It until a fight promoter got a slant at his biceps and lured him away. Steve was generously designed as to beam and water-line length, but all of his bigness was on the outside. His soul never roared above shoe- shining. If violently shaken his heart rattled around inside him like a navy bean in a wash boiler, but his manager did not take the precaution of shaking him before he tied him to ;i pair »t gloves and pushed him into the ring against a lad whose middle name was Mingle Up to this moment the manager be lieved that tie had a meal ticket in Steve and up to this minute Steve knew’ that he had a meal ticket in his manager. But the first time the unsrnok d meat cater in the opposite corner came out and poked Steve generally about the mush, he hastily climb* d through the ropes. “W’lat’s the matter?” yelled the manager, rushing toward him and motioning him back. “Ain’t you gonna fight any more?” *A e«," replied Steve, deliberately, slipping on the new hath robe his manager had bought him, “but not ary more to-night" BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip “Pennants aren’t won in April, ’ aays Barney Dreyfuss. True, quite true But the games won in April help an awful lot. * * * It seems now, according to New Or leans papers, that the reason the Peli cans are making such a wretched show ing is (hat they nre being robbed by the umpires * * * Of a 11 i lie purile. feeble excuses for losing a ball game there is nothing equals this one: ‘ The umpire done it.” * # * Umpires are human, poor devile. They do their best. It may look bad But remember they are trained men. and right on top of the plays. * * * In i ivllized cities they have stopped panning the umpires. It does not hurt the umpires or help the decision • • • Joe Tinker goes so far as to admit that the Cubs have a chance for the pennant which may be considered s warm tip, considering Joe's feelings on the subject. McGraw says the reason the Reds have mode such h wretched start 1a that the learn didn’t really train in the South “They only practiced once a day.” says McGraw. “and they didn't work very hard then." * * • 'Fhe Baltimore team has canned the celebrated "Lefty” Russell—who tried to pitch for Atlanta once. Thus passes the chcstlest bloomer of them all. John Gar.zel says the newspapers are breaking up his club—which is the ail best alibi in the world, surpassing in ridiculousness the celebrated one entit led, “The umpires done it.” KING AND HENDERSON BOX HARD TWENTY-ROUND DRAW ROCK ISLAND, ILL.. May 5.— Johnny King, of Chicago, and Karl Henderson, of this city, boxed twenty rounds to a. draw here yesterday. Both men stood punishment well, and it was a tough tight all through. STRAIGHT WHISKEY Made to Seoul* 0,000 New Oustoniteg 1 tor 2 <epcae of ablAsr ft 1 CROSS AND TRENDALL SIGN ST LOUIS, MO., May 5. Leach ! 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