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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1913. IS SEASON By Percy H. Whiting. I T looks as though the Southern League were set to make a killing this year. The attendance thus far has been marvelous. At the opening of the season, thanks to the early start and the consequent bad weather, receipts were not what they should have been—but at that records were broken. Since the weather has come around and waimed up decently there has ^ been nothing to it but ENORMOUS ' crowds. Here In Atlanta all records for early attendance were smashed. Chatta nooga has held up well, despite the wretched work of the team. Nash ville has had corking crowds. Mem phis is off in attendance—and al ways w ill be as long as a cheap team is inflicted on the Bluff City folks. Birmingham has had amazing crowds. /The attendance in Montgomery is PINE. New Orleans has been a shade Off. And Mooile—well, please picture nearly 8.000 people paying their way in at the turnstile there!’ If the race stays close the atten dance records will smash all records to bits • • • D OWN in New Orleans there ts a feeling that the Pelicans’ chief played a pretty shrewd joke on the Crackers by euchring them out of Williams. Maybe so. We’ll let it go at that— if they will. But to Cracker fans it appears that the joke is on Frank. After Williams’ debut here and while it was supposed he still belonged to the Crackers I asked Bill Smith, “What about Wil liams?” Now BUI is slow to criticise a man. But there wasn’t any room for ar gument in this case. “I don’t care a lot for what he’s showed me yet,” was Bill's reply, “He may come around, but—” and he sighed Bill was tickled to death to be so well rid of Williams. As for Bisland—he continues to look like a million dollars ($1,000,000)! This lad wasn’t one of the kind who was hawked around and nabbed by the highest bidder. Smith has had Ivis eye on him for six months. When he found out Williams wouldn't do he wired Barney Dreyfuss, “What will you take for Bisland?” About that time it began to appear that Hans Wagner was coming around all right, so the Pirates made a stiff price on Bisland. The local club 'closed so fast it took their breath away. As for Williams—well, we’ll keep Bisland. * * * B ASEBALL writers the country over are hooting at what they call the “Cincinnatf” base hit. It is one of these fielder’s choices that, by dic tum of Ban Johnson, is to be scored a base hit. For instance, a runner is on first. The batter, on the hit and run, grounds weakly to the third baseman. The third baseman tries to land the runner going to second. The throw is too late. And all hands are safe. But had the third baseman thrown to first it would have been an easy out. Ban Johnson says it’s a hit. The baseball writers say it's a “Cin cinnati” hit. In the Atlanta press box we scor° that in what appears to be the only logical way. If the thing looks Like an infield hit and it appears that the runner would have beaten It we give the batter a hit. On the other hand, if it Ip apparent that the batter would have been out a mile at first, if the throw had been made there, we score it a fielder’s choice. Of course there are some close de risions on this—but so there are on a lot of other hits, when the scorer must decide whether to let them go as hits or errors. It is better to let the scorers upe their judgment than it is to give men hits when they were not entitled to them. It isn’t that we object to giving the batters a few unearned hits—but these hits go against the pitcher Just the same as screaming singles and work an awful hardship on him. The pitch er is thus* made to pay the penalty because the infielder throws to the wrong base. Jeff’s a Strong Believer in ‘Land the First Punch’ By “Bud” Fisher Buffalo Team Buys .•Jackson From Braves Manager Stallings Plans Big Shake- Up in Team; George Is First to Go. BOSTON, MASS., May 6.—Manager George Stallings of the Boston Braves is planning a bij shake-up in his .team, which he hopes will help put Boston on the baseball map. Stallings started the shake-up yes terday when he sold George “Hicko- rv” Jackson, the former Southern League boy, who has held an outfield berth with’ the Braves for some time, to the Buffalo club of the Internation al League. He will Join the team at Providence. "Buster” Brown is also doomed to walk the plank. The big right hand er lias shown nothin- so far this sea son and Stallings has about decided that Brown will not do. ! SOMETHING GOOD FOR TOUR im LIVER The most perfect Constipation remedv the world has ever known comes from Hot Springs, Arkansas. No matter what you have been taking to tone up your liver and drive poisonous waste from the boweis, the sooner you get a box of HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUT TONS. the sooner your liver, bow els and stomach will be in fine con dition. . . They are simply wonderful, splendid; they are gentle, sure, blissful. Take them for sick head ache. indigestion, loss of appetite, etc. All druggists have them at 25 cents a box. Free sample from Hot Springs Chemical Co.. Hot Springs, Ark, NOvj , I'll Co AMO UNO ONE By Joe Agler. M OBILE, ALA.. May «.—Mana ger Smith will select King Brady to stop the high-flying Gulls, with Pat Oranain receiving. Manager Finn will use Bradley Hogg, the undefeated pitcher, with Schmidt catching. Atlanta lost again yesterday, 10 to 6. Bausewein got away bad and gave the first three batters bases on balls. Musser and Price were not effective. The Gulls walloped the ball hard, and it seemed as though they would hit any pitcher that was sent in the box. It was Just one of those days when they would hit anything that was served up to them. The Crackers were the first to score, but were overtaken. The Gulls hit at opportune times, while we got all our hits after two men were out. Bisland continues to hit the bail hard. His two triples would have been home runs on the Atlanta grounds. The fans of Atlanta will see In Bisland one of tha most fin ished shortfielders ever in the South ern League. The Crackers hope to get at least an even break, and will try hard to annex two games to the won column. We all hope Bill Bailey will soon be in shape to don the spangles and be with us, as he is missed very badly. Yesterday's game was the eighth straight win for the Gulls and the second of the series with the Crack ers. Campbell went the route fpr Mobile. He fanned fire men and gave one pass. Robertson, with two homers and as many singles In five times up, led the batting. Jacobson, In five times at bat, got a homer and two singles. For the visitors, Bisland, In foul times up got two triple-sackers. Long found three safeties In five chances. The game was long drawn out, due to the many batterR going up, Atlanta started off well with three runs In the first on as many hits, one a triple, but couldn’t hold the pace. One run was put over In the fourth and two in the sixth, but that was all. TIGERS DEFEATN EWBERRY AND WIN CAROLINA TITLE CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C„ May 6.—Clemson won from Nev\"berry\ 6 to 5, and thereby cinched the State championship with 1,000 per rent. Many of the ten games played in the State were won by large score*. Th* game yesterday was featureless, ex cept for the base running of the Tigers, who purloined 11 aa^ks, and r home run by Cureton for Clem#on. Ezell struck out 13 and Epting 5. GEORGE ROHE TO PLAY AGAINST MOBILE TO-DAY MOBILE. ALA., May 6—George Rohe, the ex-Pelican, will act as util ity man for the Crackers this sea son. Bill Smith secured Rohe from New Orleans yesterday and he will report to the club some time to-day. Rohe will probably be placed In right field against. Mobile this after noon in place of Graham. “WILDCAT” FERNS WINS DECISION OVER PERRY KANSAS CITY, MO.. May 6 — Clarence “Wildcat” Ferns, of this city, was given the decision over Jim my Perry, of Pittsburg, Pa., here last night at the end of a ten-round fight, which was tame and featureless throughout. AUTO FOR MIKE MURPHY. PHILADELPHIA, May 6.—As a to ken of their esteem members of the Detroit Athletic Club have announced their intention cf presenting Mike Murphy, Penn's veteran track coach, with an automobile, which he may use to go from his home to Franklin Field to train the Red and Blue ath letes. MARS TRIMS M’GOVERN. CINCINNATI. May 6.—Knockout Mars, of New York, w on over Benny McGovern, of St. Louis, in ten rounds last night. White City Park Now Open BOXING News of the Ring Game Tom McCarey is after a Wolgast- Dundee match for Ix>s Angeles, June 3. Although Ad recently stated that he was going to quit the twenty-round game, McCarey thinks he can , induce the former champion to go through with the Dundee scrap. * * * Joe Golden, manager of Joe Thomas, writes from New Orleans that he has his protege signed for a return bout with Charlie White, the Chicago whirl wind. Joe says he Is confident Thomas will reverse the verdict next time, and again reach the top of his class. They are to meet on May 19. * * * Johnny McFarland, Packey s cousin, has picked up a new boxer that he thinks will make a star. Ills name is Johnny Doyle, and was sent to McFar land by Billy Gibson, the New York promoter. Doyle is after a match with Matty McCue. * * * Chicago fans are going wild over the McCue-O’Connell match May 15. Al though the scrap is to be staged at Racine, Wis., hundreds of fans are to attend the mix-up from the Windy City. O’Connell and McCue are both well known In Chicago, and have a host of admirers. * * * Jack White, of Chicago, was given the decision over Eddie Dennis last night at Frisco. The boys went four rounds, with White the aggressor In every period. Jack is a brother to Charlie White. • * • Reports from the Pacific 'Coast state that the fans there are very much dis gruntled over the result of the Kilbane- Dundee match, and that if the men meet again little interest will be dis played or aroused. * * * “ 'Twould be a right smart trick if Jim Buckley were to pit Gunboat Smith against Luther McCarty, win, and then f iab the lightweight championship with omm.v Murphy. * * * George "Knockout” Brown, the Greek middleweight from Chicago, is making good in New York. George has already had four bouts in the Eastern city, winning every one of them in decisive fashion. * * • Only the question of weight appears to stand in the way of a ten-round bout between Harlem Tommy Murphy and Joe Rivers in New' York. Rivers wants to weigh in at 133 pounds ring side, while Murphy is insisting on 133 at 6 o'clock. * * * A1 IJppe, who had four American fighters in Paris this winter, has com pleted arrangements to take three box ers to Australia. He has picked A1 Kaufman. California: Jeff Smith, Bay onne, N. J., and Frank I^oughrey. Phila delphia. They plan to .sail from San Francisco June 3, leaving New York May 20. • * * Young Brown, the New York light weight, has wired a challenge to the winner of the Mandot-Anderson con test on the coast May 30. Brown has fought the toughest lightweights in the Eastern city. • • * Kid Young, the local featherweight, is certainly wearing classy togs these days. Young is one of our best news boys, besides being some bear when it comes to swinging the padded mitts. * * * Fans here have not forgotten the Grant-Young draw staged here recently, and are clamoring for a return bout between the boys. * * * Meyer Pries threatens to desert our ranks. Pries is seriously thinking of beating It to Baltimore, where he hopes to get on wdth some of the bantams in the Maryland city. • • • Battling Nelson says he is going to quit the boxing game on May 15. Bat s great work during his career, however, will live long after that. Of all the lightweight champions, the great Dane can easily be classed as one of the greatest. * * * Although beaten and slambed around, Bat still packs the various arenas he boxes al and would even to-day draw a banner house with Willie Ritchie. eiTOSTY MTKWS0¥$ BIG LL LEAGUl GOSSIP BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip A1‘” RUCKER, of Brooklyn, iN probably the most unlucky performer lu the world. He can pitch shutout ball for nine innings and lose more games than any man who ever stepped into the middle of the diamond. He wears the championship ltelt for this. Rucker started against me in Brooklyn last week and did not give the New York club a hit for seven innings. The safe punches against him totaled only two in nine innings, ami .vet lie lost his battle. It was one of the keenest pitching duels in which I have ever engaged, and iliere was nothing to do but work all the way. When the thirteenth inning rolled around, and it was the Giants’ turn (o but, a messenger boy banded Me Graw a telegram. He looked at it for a minute, and saw it was numbered thirteen. He turned to the bench and said: “Well, boys, here’s where we win it.” fast as gossip in an actor's boarding I club plays together well, too, and is a I T was then that the Giants started the rally which tore Rucker apart. He is a great twirler, one of the greatest in the game, and lie as sumes nothing. He does not com plain because he lias had his rare talents buried among the relics of a second division club ever since he in vaded the big league. He is not at all conceited. He takes his defeat phi losophically and does not "beef.” Y'et, like the rest of us. Rucker hates to lose. “They got to me at lsat," he re marked at the end of the thirteenth inning. He did not rind fault with any of his backers. The FRANKIE RUSSELL LACES ANDERSON IN MEMPHIS GO MEMPHIS, TENN., May 6— Frankie Russell, of New Orleans, easily defeated Jimmy Anderson, of Indianapolis, in eight rounds Inst night. Anderson took his beating gamely. Russell made a good show ing. and efforts are being made to match him with some real star of the lightweight division. PHIL CROSS BEATS' ERNE IN SIX-ROUND BATTLE PH1LADF.LPH1A. May 6.—In a fast six-round bout Phil Cross sprung a surprise by decisively bpat- ing Young Erne, of Philadelphia, re cent conqueror of Mike Gibbons. 11“ not only outslugged, but outboxed Erne and made a great hit by his fast atnd aggressive style. house now. One of the teams may drop by file wayside on the Western trip, but I doubt it, because I cannot see any keen opposition in the West. It will probably lie a case this year of Washington and Philadelphia light ing it out, with every series between them Itelug of vital Importance. *'0 0 P ROPHETS are springing up all over the circuit every day who openly declare that Washington is go ing to win the pennant. Griffith lias one pitcher he can fire against his enemies any time he wants to tie sure of a game, and his name is Walter Johnson. He humbled the iieretofore unlieaten I'iank in a thrilling battle the other day. S OME may criticise me when 1 say So fur on the season's.record. Grif- he is one of the greatest pitch-' fttli appears to have the edge on the ers in the game, and then hint at. the Athletics with pitchers, but there is i box score in which my club came out j no doubt about “t'oonle” Mack’s ln- ou top. It is like the story a war ; field being stronger than the YVasli- correspondent told me once. | ington one, while the outfields are “During the Japanese war,” lie i about a standoff. The Athletics are said, "we were attacking a Russian a harder-hitting club, while the position one day and had thrown up Washington team is fusler. To my some hasty fortifications. General j mind, it is the speediest aggregation Nogi insisted in standing in an ex- 1 ever saw in action in the American posed place and viewing the action league, iu spite of the fact they call through his glass. Finally I said to | the Red Sox the “Bpeed Boys. him : i . “‘General, you are In a dangerous position. You had better come down.’ “ ’Yes,’ lie replied, ‘and I would come off those fortifications and quit making sketches, too, if 1 were you.’ ” By praising Rucker for this game, I am hinting that I deserve some. But T honestly say that the better ball dub was behind me. Rucker should got just as much credit for the magnificent game he pitched as I did for my work. Whenever T twirl, I never have any luck. That is the second game this year in which I have been forced to work overtime. * * • ITT HEN the Eastern clubs iu the VV American League lnvad* the West this week, there will be a lot of scars left on the teams that in habit the West. The Yankees will be the only boys that will look soft from present Indi cations. Philadelphia and Washington are two tough clubs this season. Wheu these two teams go West, they will meet only one possible championship contender, and that is Cleveland. Cleveland appears to tie going bet ter so far in this race than the team has In years, but Washington is liable to take the ambition out of the Napa, Even during the many years when the Senators were trailing along in the dust of the Ameriean league, they could always give the Cleveland team a fight, as a weak club frequent ly will some particularly strong one. the Washington team took eighteen out. of twenty-two battles from the Cleveland club lust year. 0 0* B OSTON has been going bad so far this season, and the club lias not played ball at all like a world’s championship team. Stahl's chances of repeating look to me to lie very slim, considering the compe tition in bis league. “Jake,” himself, will probably lie out of the game a good deal from now on, as he is slow ing up. Stahl has been trying to dig up a good first baseman to take his place, but the (jigging has not been very profitable. He made an effort to grab Hal Chase, but Chance was looking when they tried to slip him three or four boys whose names sel dom appear in the headlines. If Stahl could hnve picked up Chase, it might have put him in the race. As it is. it strikes me he is going to have a tough time keeping even near Wash ington and Philadelphia. Both these clubs are traveling as grout machine. I think that the real battle will develop lietween the Sen a tors and Athletics. P the meantime, the New York Americans are not acting as if they intended to crowd anybody light ing for the pennant. So far, Uhanee has had very hard luck with his club, and none realizes better than he that some of the pres ent. members of the team will have to go. He told me himself, only recent ly, that a catcher and a pitcher would tie let out. and that he expected the public would be very much surprised when the names were announced. Chance is like a woman when it comes to perspicacity. You can’t fool women. They let you think you are fooling them some of the time, but just when you believe you are getting away with it they bring you up with u half turn. Borne of the Yankee ball players thought they were fooling Chance. Might as well endeavor to hide some thing from an X-ray by wrapping it in tissue paper. (Copyright, 1913. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) The fans yesterday gave Hal Chase, i Yankee lirst baseman, an unmerciful roasting, calling him "boneh^.d," ''quit ter." "boots,” and like names. To those who have seen Chase in action during I the past week, it has seemed that he is not giving his best efforts to the club, j Sporting writers In New Y T ork are al- 1 most a unit In the clamor to have rhase traded or sold. The Yankees, who left last night for the Western trip, now own the unenvia ble record of not having won a game this season on their home grounds. The Pirates defeated the Naps 6 to 5 in an exhibition game played in Cleve land yesterday. It was the first time a Pittsburg club baa played there in seven years. Manager Fred Clarke got back into the game for the first time since lull. Bonus Wagner cavorted at short for the first time since the 1913 season opened. 0 0 0 The Giants are now in sixth place— the lowest position they have held in the National League race at this time of, the season for many years. * * • Walter Johnson, of the Senators, act ed as relief pitcher again yesterday when the score was tied, and his team then batted out a victory. Johnson now has a siraight string of six victories, and has pitched 42 consecutive innings without being scored upon. 0 0 0 Sherwood Magee, of the Phillies, an nexed two home runs yesterday, while Cravath, his team mate, got one PREP LEAGUE NOTES There will be two good struggles in the Prep championship race this rteason. The first one is between Teoh High. Boys High ami Marlst for first place, and G. M. A. and Peacock will fight fully as hard to keep out of last plane. 0 0 0 If Piedmont Park bathing beach is opened early enough this year, Boys High School will have a water polo team. Many of the school athletes are expert swimmers and a good team can be organized. If arrangements can be made some aquatic mefts will be held virh some of the other schools In the eltr. _ The annual track meet Friday is the chief topic of discussion among local prep school students, and a large at tendance Is expected. The meet should prove the most successful In yearn. 0*0 Boys' High and Marie! will meet Wed nesday for the second time this season on the Marlst diamond. The other game resulted in a ten-inning tie, and since that time both teams have been stead ily improving. The game Wednesday will have a great deal to do In regard to deciding the local prep champion ship. 0 0* The West Point High School team is one of the strongest teams ever organ ized at that school. The team has played a number of games and in most cases has come out victorious. They would like to get a game with Tech or Boys' High • ♦ • It is estimated that at least fifty en tries will be seen ir the track meet Fri day at Matisl field. The latest rumor at Boys’ High has It that the school will he entered in the meet, but many of the athletes have announced that they posi tively would not enter. It seems strange that there are no relsy races on the program ot the prep track meet Friday. A mile relay race with six men on each team la one of the mos f exciting events one would want to see. * * • Gene Turner, official Prep League um pire, has given entire satisfaction this season, and an attempt will be made to engage him for next year Turner is at present a member of the Georgia Tech faculty and is also a former minor league tall player 0 0* It begins to look as though Riverside will finish the baseball seasor. this year with a clean slate. So far this team has won sixteen straight games nnd has played one tie They have met nearly every prep team in the State and beaten them all easily. Riverside could trim most of the colleges this year * * * The reason for the success of the Riv erside nine this year is in the excellent pitching staff and the slugging ability of the players. Williamson. McNeill and Haines are all first-class twirlers. 0 0 0 So much pressure is being brought to bear by the alumni of Emory College in favor ot intercollegiate athletics that it looks as If the faculty and regents will be forced to grant their wishes. 0 0 0 Following is a list of athletes from Tech High School and the events in which they will be entered in Friday: 100-vard dash, Bedell and Parks; 220- j'ard low hurdles. Bedell and Parks; 440- yard dash, Bedell, Covington and Whit taker; 880-yard run, Downing, Coving ton, Shropshire and Hiles; one mile run, Cobb, Hiles, Downing and Covington, shot put. Meyers, Bedell. Weston; ham mer throw. Bedell and Meyers; high Jump, Perry and Chamberlain; broad lump. Jacobus and Bedell; pole vault, Meyers. • * * Jim Prease, of Riverside, is one of the best first basemen In prep circles this year. He is a big. rangy chap and can pull in anything that comes within six feet of the bag. He is also one of thj heaviest hitters on the team. * * • The game Wednesday between Boys’ High and Marist will be a pitchers’ bat tle between Fox and Callahan. These two lads are perhaps the best pair of twirlers in the local league and both are going great now. * * * A tennis tournament will soon start at Peacock There are a number of experts at this game there and the tournament will be a hot one. The games will prob ably be played on the Piedmont Park courts. PELICANS RELEASE GWIN. NEW ORLEANS, May 6.—Pitcher Gwln has been unconditionally re leased by Manager Frank. DON’T BE TORTURED fkzcma ran b« Instantly ruliercd and per- 1 mnnenttjr cured. Head what J. K. 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SAVANNAH. 8HUPTRINE SAVAN The Brooklyn Dodgers grabbed off an other victory yesterday and are now resting in third place. • * * Ty Cobb’s return to the game has put a lot of ginger into the turnstiles. 000 The Red Sox last again yesterday and those who predicted a runaway race for the world’s championship this season are wondering who monkeyed with the Jinx. * * • Hendrickson, the sub-outfielder, whose hit helped the Red Sox to win the final game In the world’s series last fall, was a regular yesterday, and amassed four hits out of five times at the bat. Quakertown fans are happy. The Philadelphia teams head their respective leagues. * * * The Giants, who have just lost four straight games to the Phillies, are hope ful to-day of recruiting their losses. Joe Tinker's tail-end Reds open a four- game series in Gotham. By Sam Crane. PHILADELPHIA. PA., May It the Giants have the idea roaming around in their belfrys that they have the National League pennant cinch* eel without playing for it they want to chase it. They yvere never more fooled tn their young and tender lives. . Other champion clubs before them have fallen by reason of over confi dence, and they are on the high road for a thud that will shake them from their head to their heels. It is possible they are having their annual slump now, but with an? other team excepting the Giants it might be said they are outclassed. Of the victories to their credit, a majority w'ere won from the tail-end. Boston Braves, a team that has been just as easy for every other team that has had the luck to go up against them. Lack Fighting Spirit. The Brooklyn* have more than held their own with the Clmrrvps, and now’ the Phillies have broken even with them. The first month of the championship season is nearly over. Another w-eek and it will be. What have the much-touted Giant* to show’ for It? In the two Philadelphia games played here the boys have not shown the fighting spirit that they have so long been noted for. I will not say they have been in different, but they have played a list less game and that verges closely on indifference with them for they are famous for the good old “pepper." They have lacked that snap, the fire, the ginger that heretofore have been their middle games. They must puli themselves out ot the dopey rut they are in and quick ly too or they will be so far behind that it will develop into a question whether then can or not. If it’s right why change it ? A multiplicity of models is evidence that the maker is still experimenting. There is but one Ford model. And for five years our rapidly grow ing factories haven’t been able to make all we could sell—because it is right. More than a quarter of million Fords now in service—convincing evidence of their won derful merit. 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