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7 TIIK ATLANTA (.JKORWAN AND NEWS. AIONDAL MAY 5. 191?.. STAID PHI Jeff Has Taken the Japanese Situation Into His Own Hands By “Bud” Fisher N ASHVILLE, TENN , May 5.—Bill Schwarts’? move in replacing Jesse James, in right field, with Delmar Dewalne Young, the Cleve land grocery clerk, and the subse quent sale of Jesse to the Pelicans, will likely be the last time the hoy lender will tinker with the lineup of the club, outside of a choice between twirlers 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 %t right has* bee?i an unsolvable rid dle to him, owing to his weight but f 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 nj?.V**g ali sorts of [lair-raising'*' catches, while at home -ittf looks like a school hoy. Schwartz will probably shift Davey Callahan to the cliff when the club returns and use Ddi in center. There is no denying that the Cleve land boy tan clout the ball and just now some hard hitting would come in might \ handy with the dingers stumbling along as they are. In field- ing there isn’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-Up [JJJIf Q O © © © O © IflTU crflCfliy MobileMaySlumpaBit Very Soon By Percy H. Whiting. T HE Southern League clubs are getting ready for ; first show down. l T p 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 ^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, w ith 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 paper? in toe 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 he was released under an optional agreement. Leo Do bard. local shortstop, whom the Crack ers secured from (Talk 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 ".lawn" Dobbs’ Billikens, if a trade can he arranged with the Crackers. Dobbs is eager to get Dobard. and i1 is believed Billy Smith will turn him over to Montgomery. The local boy is said to have re ceived a raw deal from Billy Smith. It seems that Dobard was brought to Atlanta and practically forced to sign a contract calling 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, 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 was one of the last men to report. He claimed to be in good condition but he didn’t show it. No man on the team acquired the Vnmity 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 T give a cuss.” Bill Smith told him. “You make me tired. You haven’t shown me ANYTHING. You’re lucky to be of 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 606 SALVARSAN 914 Neo Salvarsan The two celebrated German preparations that have cured per manently more cases I of syphlllis or blood poison in the last two years than has been cured in the history of the world up to the time of this wonderful discovery. Come and let me demonstrate to you how I cure this dreadful disease in ^ - treatments. I cure the following diseases or make no charge: Hydrocele. Varicocele, Kidney. Biad- dei and Prostatic J rouble. Lest Man hood, Stricture. Acute and Chronic Gonorrhea. a1, nervous and efrrutti* diseases of men and women. F»-pe consultation and examination Hours: 8 a ni - to 7 ». m : Sunday! DR. J. D. HUGHES »gi/, North Broad St.. Atlanta. Ga. Opposite Third National Bank three to five 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 .‘ignals. 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 <lub 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. * * * DRAXCH 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 he tied their arms down. With the handcuffs on. if a man tries to bunt at a high one i* 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 w’ith the Billikens is every thing but safe, according to reliable information. Johnny Dobbs is said to be awaiting Joe Kutina, a hold-out to report and as soon as he does, which is expected to occur in a few days, Bob Tarleton, local first saoker, is to be given his unconditional re lease. Tarleton joined the Billikens this spring when Dobbs needed bail 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 will have to go else where. Tarleton has been slated for his re lease for several weeks. 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 eoon. boston would see gotch TACKLE ZBYSZKO AGAIN CHICAGO, May 5. —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 5.—Frank- le 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 coiner in the light weight rank."' The weight, 133 pounds at 3 o’clock, will be an easy matter for both boys. CHICHESTER S PILLS THE DIAMOND ItBAMi. A »««!•- r n ft IMAAiomi brand PILI,H,«&S6 y«»rs known as Best,Safest. Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHFP5 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 with 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 light-’. 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 which 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 nobio little Trojan Johnny Evers; the sen sational young Eddie Collins, and the clashing 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 has not in many years. Not that his work has ever seri ously retrograded, but rather that he is consistently demonstrating that as a hall player he is as great as if not greater than lie 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 pa>; 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 bat were chronicled with regularity. From the moment of his baptism in the National League lie 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 a*, this time. Only a few 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.” 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 sen son and will surrender the guardianship of the initial sack iis> soon as he can find a suitable successor, according to a report in circulation yesterday in the Red Sox camp- Neither Engle nor Janverin fii in with Stahl’s idea of a first baseman, and it Is said he ip willing to turn, over three or four players for a star first baseman if one is on the market. (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 and gra 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 with grandeur and disdain Bedecked as Spanish pages in the days of Philip’s reign. The bat boy’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 with 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 curls. And this is w hat he had to say Upon that lovely summer day: “Cobb 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; MoGraw has launched his navy To make the English squirm. Larry Doyle went with him And both remarked to me They might be back this winter As soon as Ireland’s free. Don't blame the athletes, people! , They’re all tco rich to play. Get back your tenspots at the gate— There’ll be no game to-day!” Food for Sport Fans MATTY. IIv iff old mid decrepit and lame; You ran tell bp tlu' dump in kin frame. You ran tell bp his sigh And the woe in his epe Ax he wins a thirteen-inning game. !h is wcarp and feeble and weak. And his elbows and vertebrae squeak: You can tell he's a joke lip the volumes of smoke .4* the ball whizzes bp like a streak. He is broken and haggard and sure, And he cannot produce anp more: You can tell he's a cinch When he works in a pinch And pr( rents them from tying the score. He is aped and crusty and prim: Hr has lost all his pepper and vim. Sail/ McGraw with a sigh : *7 would give mp right epe For a few man old cripples like him.*' \ It must be 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 Tyrus Cobh to pay strict attention tp bis knitting this year. Ping Bodie has developed so much speed that he can stretch a home run wallop into a two-bagger. Reports from the Far West indicate that Messrs. Kilbane 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 And spoke these burning words to him: “Strike, if you will, you horrid brute. But do not soil mg ice cream suit !'* / Speaking of uniforms for umpires, the most appropriate would be on# 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 Matbewson's thirteenth year in the Na tional League When he 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 -s aided and abetted by a baseball team. Waiter Johnson arises t<> remark that he wfll not play next year for less than $10,000. This constitutes the world's 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. lie map have been a wonder yes terday : He map have hammered many a healthy clout. Hut when his batting eye goes wrong they say:' "Aw. take him out!'* Ih may hare been a Walsh in days gone by And Inn red the ball with many a curve and crook. Bui when his stuff goes wrong they up and cry : "Aw. get the hook!** The baseball rooters know no yes terday. To I hem the past is always dark and dim. And when a hero falls they laugh and sap: "Thi bush for him!'* "RUBE” WADDELL SAYS HE IS THROUGH WITH GAME MINNEAPOLIS. May 5. -Georfte Edward (“Rube”) Waddell is 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 bush leaguers, but Saturday turned in his uniform and declared that be was through. "I’ve been in the business for fif teen years,” said the once great twiri er, “and I guess I’ll quit. I may pitch a game occasionally for an independ ent team, but that will be all. J’II make my living some other way.” JULIAN M. RAY. He is now In charge of the men's Shoe department of the Fred C. Stew art Co., 25 Whitehall Street. Mr. Ray, who is one of the best known shoe salesmen in Atlanta, hav ing been actively engaged In this line for many years, ha t acquired a wide circle of friends and patrons whom he will be glad to welcome at his new location. LIPPI TO THE NAVY FIVE ELECTS CAPTAIN. ANNAPOLIS. MD, May 5.— Clar ence .1 McRea.vey, of the State of Washington, was yesterday named as i captain of the Naval Academy basket ball *« am. He is the center of the I five. ON LONG IP Bv Ed. W. Smith. C HICAGO. May 6.—Unmindful of the numerous warnings by American fighters and fight managers who have tried the Austra lian boxing game and found it sadly wanting in many respects. Al Lippe is going to give it a whirl with a cou ple of Yankee stars. And in the fare of all that has gone before. Lippe must be set down as one of the gam* est and most courageous of all to make a trip of that character and length in search of the fleeting and Moating dqllar or Bank of England note, as the case may be. Lippe is going to take Jeff Smith, a corking good middleweight. and Frank Loughrey. a speedy lightweight, to the “land down under." as the Ping lish call Australia. They are booked to sail from San Francisco June 3. * * * \17 10 take it that Lippe has his round trips and a snug sum of expense money stowed away in ills fashionable Jeans, else he would b * the muttiest of mutts to undertake the journey. Every returning pilgrim from Australia smiles a knowing smile and advises against anybo iy else making the journey. Joe Woo l- man, Sam Langford’'- manager, was compelled to sue for $12,000 that lie had coming to him over there and the defendants got so many continuances and delays that Joe apparently la about to pass u-» the whole thing and quit cold—incidentally without his money. That is merely a sample -7 the treatment that has been accorde 1 American fighters and their managers over there. ♦ * * | IPPE would like to show his two stars around Chicago before he leaves for California to board the steamer. He says that Smith can make 152 pounds in a pinch, but that he will meet any of them right up to 158. and would prefer a match with Eddie McGoorty because he regards the Oshkosh man as the real cham pion of the county. Loughrey is cred ited with victories over Bat Nelson, Young Erne, Dave Deshler and most of tlie good boys of the East. He i.v a bit oversized for an American light weight, his lowest poundage being 138. But he will fit in beautifully in Australia, where lightweights ar» just as apt to be thrown into the pi’ with middies and feathers with welt ers, etc. Note tlie case of Rudy i'n- holz. the Denver lightweight, who fought in every class above his own during his trip to the Antipodes. JORDAN SIGNS TO PLAY UTILITY FOR CRACKERS MOBILE, ALA, May 5.—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 the team to day. Jordan played for years under Billy Smith as field captain, and the At lanta manager believes that Otto will be worth his pay as his personal rep resentative on the coaching lines. 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 eify in eight rounds and who meets him again at New* Orleans on May 19, to-day started training at Nate Lewis’ gym to fit himself for another knockout victory. White hopes to get on with Fred die Welsh. Johnny Dundee. Leach Cross or some of the other top-notch- ers. MUTWJirr COLUMN- F ORTY-FOUR years agro tlie first professional ball club in the world was organized. It was the famous Cincinnati Reds, the pioneer paid baseball club, in whose existence the great national game, as it exists to-day, had its inception. In 1 MOO this club played through the entire season, from March 15 till November In, 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 $9,500. There were ten players on the club. of which one was a pitcher. Asa Brainard, and another was a substi tute. The average salary per player was less than a thousand dollars, or. to be exact. $950. The highest paid man was George Wright, who got $1,- 400, llje shortstop. Captain Harry Wright, pulled down $1,200 for hD share. The pitcher, who went through the t-eason with a clean rec ord, got $1,100. And last year Han.s 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 last season, and is said to be drawing $12,500 this season. * * * r_I\RKING back, the payroll of that * * little old club In the ’60s that went clear through without sustaining a defeat looks plcayunlsh, 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 back. Here's the salary list of the first professional ball club, taken red-hot from the ledger of the treasurer: Harry Wright. Captain $1,200 George Wright, shortstop 1,400 Asa Brainard, pitcher 1.100 Fred Waterman, third base .... 1,000 BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip 800 800 800 800 800 800 Charles Sweasy. second base Charles Gould, first base .... Douglas Allison, catcher Andrew Leonard, left field ... Calvin McrVey, right field ... Richard Hurley, substitute . • * * | rjXCE upon a tim*- 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 soared 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 a pair gloves and pushed him into the ring against a lad whose middle name vvas Mingle lip to this moment the manager be lieved that he iiad a meal ticket in Steve and up to this minute Steve knew that lie had a meal ticket in his manager. But the first time the unsmoked meat eater in the opposite corner came out and poked Steve generally about the mush, he hastily climbed through the ropes. “What's the matter?” yelled the manager, rushing toward him and motioning him back. “Ain’t you gonna fight any more?” "Yes,’’ replied Steve, deliberately, slipping on the new’ bath robe his manager had bought him, “but not any more to-night.” tobacco habit 3 t.T7 I prove your health, prolong your llfr > rn<»re Mointch trouble, no foul reath. no heart weak- lie** Regain manly vigor, calm nervaa. clear eyes and superior mental strength Whether you eh*w or smoke pipe, cigarettes, • igarv g«' ray Interesting Tobacco Kook Wort it* eight In g« Malted free. E. J. WOODS, 534 Sixth Avo..74BM . Now York. N. Y. DO YOU ITCH? If *n, use Tettcrlne. I» cures ccaenia, ground 1 itch, ringworm, Itching Pile*, infant sore head | and all other skin troubles. Head what C. B. Kaus. Indianapolis, ways: Enclosed find $1. Send me that value / In Tetterlne. One box of Tetterlne hat l done more for eczema In my family than - $50 worth of other remedlea I have tried. Use Tetterine / It relieve* akin trouble that ha* baffled the ( heat medical skill It will cure you Get it { to-day Tetterine. ( 50c at druggists, or by mall. ( SHUPTRINE CO SAVANNAH. GA. ‘'Pennants aren't won in April,’’ says Barney Drey fuss True, quite true. But the games won in April help an awful »ot. * * * It seems now. according to New Or leans papers, that the reason the Peli cans are making such a wretched show ing is that they are being robbed by the umpires. * * * Of all tiie purile. feeble excuses for lofting a ball game there is nothing equals this one; "The umpire done it.’’ * * • Umpires are human, poor devils. They do their best. It may look bad. But remember they are trained men. and right on top of the plays. • * « In civilized cities they have stopped panning tlie umpires. It does not hurt the umpires or help the decision. • a • Joe Tinker goes so far as to admit that the Cubs have a chance for the pen nan i -which may be considered a warm tip. considering .Toe's feelings on the subject. • • • McGraw says the reason the Reds have made such a wretched start is that the team didn’t really train in the South. “They only practiced once a day." says McGraw, "and they didn't work very hard then." * m * The Baltimore team lias canned the celebrated "Lefty’’ Russell who tried to pitch for Atlanta once Thus passes the chestiest bloomer of them all. * * * John Ganzel says the newspapers are breaking up his club which is the sil liest 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 Earl Henderson, of this city, boxed twenty rounds to a draw here yesterday. 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