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■ 'll > -"'l 1 TURTLES HAVE UTILITY STAR II 0, MERRITT By Jack Law. (Former member, of Memphis team.) I N a league where player limits and salary limits cut down the num ber of'men available for filling in Ihe chinks in case J5f injury versa tile players help. There never was any doubt but that the versatility of Sid Smith and his ability to fill in as an inflelder won a pennant for Atlanta. Nor will the students of baseball < ny that much of the strength of the present Memphis team is due to ^ the versatility of four of its players —George Merritt, Rudy Baerwald, Joe Ward and Bill Abstein. * * * \T ERRTTT is the champion jaok-of- h1! trades. A pitcher by profes sion. he has this year played on the slab, at second Imse, and in two outfield positions—and the season is -only half way started. Moreover he »bas batted In the lead-off. In the clean-up position and has been stuck in as pinch hitter. George is really one of the most versatile ball players In the game. His career has been a strange one and he has played every position on the dia mond but catcher and has played them well. Merritt was a member of the champion Pittsburg Club in 1901 as a pitcher, and in the following sea son he was disposed of to the Wor cester Club of the Eastern League. He pitched for them that year, but at that time he was considered a better hitter than he was a pitcher. The following season George prac tically gave up pitching, confining him self to utility roles, playing most of his games in the outfield. The next year he took part in 92 games, di- . viding his time between first base and the outfield and having the tidy batting average of .301. The fol lowing season he played 113 games and played every infield position but third base. The next summer he moved Into the outfield again, chasing flies in 90 games. The two following seasons he was back on the initial sack, play ing that position in almost all the contests played. * * • T N 1909 Merritt played the outfield. 1 first base, third base and returned to the box regularly for the first time in six years. That season Russ Ford was sent over to Jersey City for a little seasoning by the New York Americans and Phil Sitton was also with the club and it is more than likely that Merritt’s return to * the box was caused by his mastering the damp delivery, which he could scarcely help doing with two such masterly exponents of the spltter as Ford and Sltlon to instruct him. He pitched 28 full games that year, win ring 14 and losing the same number, which coincidentally was the same average made by Russell Ford, as he got an even break in 26 games, which was a splendid showing when one i on?iders that the team back of them was a hopeless tailender. The next season Merritt was se cured by Buffalo from Jersey City in midseason and had his most suc cessful year on the mound that he had ever enjoyed in that league, win ning 15 out of 24 games pitched. He pitched fair ball the next season, not quite breaking even in games won. Early last summer the Memphis club pi* secured him from Buffalo and he had good success in the South, winning 8 out of 12 games that he pitched. George showed that he hadn’t forgot ten how to hit by rolling up an aver age of .274. SUNDAY’S GAMES. First Game. Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e Long. If ... 5 2 2 Oft ft Bailey, rf. . 5 1 1 ft ft ft Alperman. 2b.. 5 ft 3 5 3ft Welohonce. cf.. 6 ft 3 5 ft ft Smith, 3b. ... 4 ft ft ft 2 ft Bisland. ss. . . 3 ft 1 6 1 1 Agler. lb. ... 5 1 211 1 1 Dunn. c. . . . 5 1 1 2 2 , ft Price, p. . . . 5 o 3 1 5 ft Chappelle, p. . ft ft ft 0 ft ft Totals . . .46 5 16 *30 14 2 ‘None out in eleventh when win ning run scored. New Orleans, ab. r. h. do. a. e. Atz. 2b 4 1 2 4 3 0 Manush. 3b. . . 5 1 1 1 2 2 James, rf.. ..4ft 1 5 ft ft Hendryx. cf.. . 4 ft ft ft ft Spencer, If. . . 5 ft 1 2 ft- 0 Snedeeor, lb. . 4 ft ft 1ft ft 0 Williams, ss.. .32 1 K 0 1 . Angemeier, c. . 4 ft ft 5 3 ft •Clancy ... ft 1 ft ft 0 ft McIntyre, p. . . 4 1 2 ft 3^ ft Totals ... .37 6 8 33 11 3 •Ran for Angemeier in eleventh. Score by innings: Atlanta 120 ftftft 000 02—5 New Orleans 000 030 000 03—6 Summary: Home run—Williams. Two-base hits—Price. Manush, Alper man. Long. Bailey. McIntyre. Sacri- : fice hits—Bailey. Smith, Atz. Stolen base—Agler. Double plays—Williams to Atz to Snedeeor; Bisland to Al perman to Smith. Struck out—By McIntyre, 5: by Price. 2. Bases on balls—Off McIntyre, 1; off Price, 7. Second Game. Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Long. If 3 0 1 1 0 0 Bailey, rf. . . 3 0 2 2 0 0 Alperman. 2b. .301 lift Welchonce, cf. .3 0 0 1 0 0 Smith, 1 3b. ... 2 0 0 1 1 0 Bisland. ss. . . 3 1 0 1 3 0 Agler. lb 3 0 1 9 0 0 Graham, c. . . 3 0 0 5 0 0 Brady, p. . . ■ 3 0 0 0 6 0 Totals . . .26 1 5 21 11 0 N. Orleans, ab. r. H. po. a. e. Aiz, 2 b 2 0 1 0 3 0 Manush, 3b. . . 3 ft 0 1 3 0 lames, rf. . . . 3 0 ft 1 0 ft Hendrvx. cf. . . 3 1 2 1 ft 0 Spencer, If. . . 2 0 l ft ft ft Snedeeor. lb. . 3 ft ft 11 0 ft Williams, ss. .3ft 1 1 1 0 \ ngemeier, c. . 2 ft •* 6 1 ft •Evans .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 Brenlon. p. . . 2 ft ft <> 4 ft ••Clancy ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . . .21 1 5 21 12 u •Hatted for Angemeier in seventh. **Batted for Brenlon in seventh. (Game called to allow teams to catch train.) Score by innings: Atlanta 000 000 1—1 New Orleans 010 000 0—1 Summary: Two-base hits—Hen- drvx. Williams. Agler. Sacrifice hit— * Spencer. Double play—Brady to Bis land to Agler. Struck out- By Rren- ton, 5; by Brady, 3. F.ases on balls off Brenlon, 1; off Brady, 2* THE ATLANTA UEOKITIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY. MAY 19. 191?,. K DOPE ON THE GIANTS LAST WEEK *. c§b C&J o?<3 By A1 Demaree , 4- I - ft 1— — , —j i 1 — EVERS IDOL WHEN is An hm NOT AN ERROR* Answer WHEN IT IS SCORED A HIT 8V CHIC.A&0 BAs t ball «,rjtew Jfcxrxx 1 IVt LOST ThC ) BLOC PRINT AMD }CANT IT Off. ? ! £ >7 nri v'\. the giants received PRESENT- of collars from the TROT ROOTERS / ES, IT LL BE PASTE® Than EVER IN A FEW DAYS •• , do you think YOU CAN GET IT RUNNING AGAIN •fHAC':? 1 (GAME FRON WATCHED THE CENTER. FIELD HON DAS N THEY'RE looking it UP in THE: STAR? NO* THAT THE DOPE. HAS BEEN UPSET SO OFTEN - -HfcDM “•hatty'* used his nEw "SWTTER" on The cubs Monday ft. ALLOW HE TO PRESENT rool WITH THIS PLUCj OP TOBACCO, / the spirit or present giving wA3 IN THE AID “EVERS DAY" “ hein ie” Zimmerman Took. SOFIE AV<FUL SWINGS TUESDAY Crackers Back Home; Play Turtles Q 0 © O O O O Ad Men Benefit Wednesday By Percy H. Whiting W ILLIAM ANDREW SMITH, ac- companied by a somewhat battered ball club, will re appear at Ponce DeLeon park this af ternoon at 4 o’clock and will at tempt to pick up the thread of victo ry where it was dropped when the club departed for its first invasion of the sultry South. Paul Musser, sent,home from Mem phis to rest up for the occasion, will be worked In the first game. The Susquehanna University man has had a varied career this reason, but Bill Smith thinks he is now due to settle down and pitch winning ball The Memphis club will furnish the opposition this afternoon. The Tur tles. thanks more to good management than anything else, are right in the race this season and should afford some excellent sport. Tuesday will be ladies’ day and Wednesday Ad Men’s day. The Wed nesday game is for the Baltimore boosting fund and the local ad men’s club can be counted on fo make things hum. * * * W ATCH the Cracker team for the next couplt of weeks. It is a crucial stage of the season with the locals. With batting power enough' to drive the best pitchers in the league to cover, the locals lost a lot of games on the recent road trip. Bad pitching did it. If the addition of Dent and the re juvenation of Weaver take the strain oft the other hurlers and the pitching staff settles down to some sort of a stride the Crackers are going to win the pennant. That’s official. If the pitchers don’t come around during the coming home stay the whole thing is in the air again—and likely to stay there for a while. * * * B ILL BERNHARD, the Memphis manager, who sends his cohorts against the Crackers to-day. has been pursued throughout his managerial career by bugs of all sorts. One of his prizes was Rube Neeley, from Hornbeak. Tenn. Bill picked him up out of the Northeast Arkansas League. He proved to have lots stuff but no courage. The other members of the team were quick to get wise to him am they joshed him without mercy. One day when Bill was batting to the in field and the pitchers and substitutes were on the bench Neeley arose hur riedly, with tears streaming down his face and dashed over to Bernhard, in terrupting the practice to wail, “Mr. Bernhard, make Blackwood and them fellers quit calling me names." That night Bernhard parted with Neeley, who returned forthwith to Mornbeak, where he doubtless became a successful farm hand. ♦ * * DERNHARD has parted with his prize curiosities, but h^- still re tains “Rube” Kissinger, who is some erratic in a refined way. Kissinger once figured in a “Rube Day” in the Eastern League, when h- was ’widely billed to hurl against “Rube” Waddell. There was a hi: crowd and when Kissinger started to the box Waddell ran out and seize: 7 him by the arm in front of the grand stand, facing him about. "Ladies and gentlemen.” he cried, “you will see a queer sight to-day. I am going to work against my son Reuben Kissinger WaddeH.” After a hard nine innings. Kissinger w on 4 /to 2 and the fans started to disperse when Rube Waddell bellowed .that he wished to be heard. Silence greeted him. “My son Reuben K. w orked so hard against his old father to-day that 1 am going to disinherit him and will transfer my affections entirely to Rube Oldring. my oldest boy." * * ■* N O doubt Charley Frank is sti 1 nearly laughing himself to death over the trick by which he separate! the Crackers from "Rebel” Williams, the Washington shortstop. Frank made a loud yell for the man and got him on a decision by the National Commission. in Saturday’s game It was observed that Williams made three rank errors and virtually kicked away the con test. Bisland. who succeeded Williams < n the Cracker club, promises to be one of the most valuable infielders Atlanta has had for years. AGLER LOIS 1 VICTORIES ON KOI IDT By .Joe Agler. I THINK we're going to wlrl som* ball games. With the Cracker club back home, and with every man well—but blamed tired—I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t FLY. From what I hear, this Dent, who joins uh Monday, is a rattling good pitcher. And really that’s about all we need. If we had one regular win ner to help out our present staff. 1 don’t think they could keep us out of the pennant. Being home helps a lot. Unless you ever traveled with a ball club, you can't possibly imagine what a job it is. The rides on sleepers are fierce, amt the constant changes of fare and of water play’ the wild with a man. Back on the old lot again, yen can look for an improvement. And at that, we haven’t done so worse. Of cours-e the road trip was disastrous, in a way. But any old time a cracker club can come home from a Southern trip tied for second place and only six and a half games behind the loaders, it lacks a lot of being hopeless. If the other clubs in the league will do their duty We’ll have Mike Finn’s Gulls hollering for help before long. We lost the first game yesterday, after eleven innings of fierce battling. We made enough hits to win a mess of ball games, but they weren't timely. In tho second game there was a hurl- ers’ melee, with the honors about even between Brady and Brennan. The game was called to let us catch a train. Willard Has Many Peculiarities + •+ +•* + • + .j., + 4.,+ less Made Famous By Secret Work BASEBALL SUMMARIES SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Monday. Memphis at Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon. Game called at 4 o clock. Mobile at Birmingham New Orleans at Nashville. Montgomery at Chattanooga. W. L. Mobile 26 12 Atlanta 18 17 Mont. 18 17 M’phis 17 17 Standing of the Clubs Pc. .484 .514 .514 .500 ou..JaY'6 Montgomery 5, Nashville 5 Chattanooga 4. Memphis 1. New’ Orleans 6, Atlanta Atlanta 1. New Orleans 1. Birmingham 4, Mobile 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Monday. Boston at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. N’ville 17 18 Chatt. 16 18 B'.ham 14 18 N. Or. 12 21 Pc. .486 .470 .438 .364 W. L. Phila.. 19 7 W'gton 17 9 C’land 19 11 Ch go 20 12 Pc. .731 I .654 j .633 I .625 I W. L. St. L. 14 19 Boston. 12 18 Detroit 10 21 N. York 7 21 Pc. .424 .400 .323 .250 Sunday’s Results. Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 2. Chicago 5, New York 3. Washington 2. Detroit 1. St Louis 9, ‘Boston 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Monday. Cincinnati at Boston. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at New’ York Chicago at Philadelphia. Standin W. L. Phila. 16 7 B klyn 18 9 . N. York 14 12 . St L. 11 14 . of the Clubs. W. L. Ch’go 15 15 Boston. 10 14 P’burg 12 17 C’r.ati 8 19 Pc. .500 .417 .414 .296 No games Sunday White City Park Now Open SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Monday. Savannah at Albany. Jacksonville at Charleston. Columbus at Macon. Standin W. L. Pc. Sav'n’h 20 6 .769 J’ville 15 11. .577 CTbus 13 13 .500 of the Clubs. \Y. L. Macon 12 14 Ch’ston 10 16 Albany 8 18 Pc. .462 .385 .308 No games Sunday. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Monday. Thomasville at Americus. Cordele at Waycross. Valdosta at Brunswick. BURNS VS. GOLDMAN. ST JOSEPH. MO., May 19.—Bobby Bui ns. of Dallas, Tex., a bantamweight, was matched here to-day to meet < harles Goldman in a ten-round bout af 11 ,>avt °ft-. () hi°, May 28. The bovs will weigh in at 116 pounds. OTHER RESULTS SUNDAY. American Association. Kansas City 5. Indianapolis 3 Louisville 4, Minneapolis 3 (12 nings). Columbus 4. St. Paul fk. Columbus 3. St. Paul ft. Milwaukee 3, Toledo 1. Milwaukee 7, Toledo 2. International League. Jersey City 7. Montreal 3. Rochester 6. Newark 9. Only two games scheduled. Federal League. Cleveland 6. Pittsburg 4. Covington 9, Chicago 8. Cotton States League. Clarksdale 6. Jackson 1. Others not scheduled. Texas League. Fort Worth 7, Galveston 2. Beaumont 5, Waco 2. Austin 3. San Antonio 2. Houston 2, Dallas 0. By W. W. Naugliton S AN FRANCISCO, May 19.—Jess Willard has become , know n to fame. When the sport critics begin to harp upon a * ring man’s peculiarities it is a sure sign that the ring man has made his mark. He has reached a stage which par allels that of the renowned -citizen whose life story is published ac(\m- panied with‘photographs of the sub ject at the ages of two, seven, twen ty-five, forty-three and fifty-eight. A New York scribe says that "con siderable mystery” surrounds the training methods of the Kansas giant. It' is pointed out that Wil lard figured in several bouts in New York, yet no one ever heard of him doing any training within a hundred miles of the city named. It is claimed that Jess used to bob up suddenly on the night of a bout, score a victory, collect his emolu ments and disappear as though the earth had swallowed him. According to this Willard possesses some traits of Scotty, the Death Val ley spendthrift. Maybe it was Jess’ wont to load. his training parapher nalia on a pack mule and condition himself out on his native Kansas plains A friendly tree limb would no doubt make a fair substitute for a punch ing bag ceiling and It would be easy enough to convert , a "lariat” into a skipping rope. But, however Jess prepared himself, it is his secret. It ma3 r interest New York to learn that Jess has changed. An air of secrecy surrounds his training no longer. In the matter of working 'hours he adheres to the scale set by the Brotherhood of White Hopes, and he may be s6en fully extender! ever\ afternoon at the Seal Rock gymna sium. And the more that come to see him go through his exercises the better he likes It. * * * J IM Buckley, manager of Gunboat Smith, is looking ahead. He is permitting his thoughts to wander from the Gunboat Smith-Jess Willard contest at the Eighth Street arena to-morrow. He fs talking about the evasive methods of one Luther McCarty and is expressing the fear that McCarty will dodge a match w’ith Gunboat when the latter has trounced Willard It may be. of course, that Buckley is more concerned about the tussle with Willard than he would have us believe. It is an old trick., with man agers to talk lightly of a coming en gagement w'hen they are giving a lot of seriods consideration to It. There is good reason for believing that McCarty will agree to box the winner of to-morrow’s bout. If he refuses he will look foolish. The truth about Luther is that, while he is called white heavyweight champion of the world, he has an exceedingly slim, hold on the title. For that matter, .there isn’t a single world's champion in any class right now that has the respect of the pub lic. They—the champions—are most ly* jokes. • • * TO set back to Luther: At times * when he has been introduced as world’s champion he has been booed by the crowd. Did anyone ever hear of a fight gathering hooting John L. Sullivan or Jim Corbett? To get back to Luther again: When anyone asks him wherefore he is the champipn, he points to his insignia of office. It is in the shape of a belt given to him by Tom McCarey of Los Angeles. Now, belts are jokes, too. Any one can give a belt, and anyone can wear one. And very many have given them and very many have worn them. The pawn shops are filled with bespangled girdles that some time or another encircled the waists of alleged world’s champions. FODDER FOR FANS Ty Cobb complains of sore eyes as an excuse for his puny batting average of 440 for thirteen games. Ty, who has consulted an oculist, has promised Pres ident Navln to bat a little stronger when his eyesight improves. * * * All attendance records for Cleveland were broken yesterday when more than 25,000 fans .jammed their way into Somers Field for the final clash between the Athletics and. the Naps. * * * The Tigers apparently have picked up a pitching wonder in Carl Zamloch, from Missoula. Mont., who outpitched Walter Johnson* of ihc Sana tors, yesterday, and who lost only because his team mates gave him poor support. • « * There seemed to be nothing wrong with T.v Cobb’s legs yesterday He beat out a bunt, raced to third on an infield error and then stole home. * * * The White Sox garnered their fourth straight victory over the Y&nekes yes terday and moved up to within a few points of second place in the American League. 7 • • * The White Sox-Yankees game was featured bv an argument in which members of both teams, both umpires and fifteen thousand soectators took part. "Silk” O’Loughlln chased Pitoh*r Fisher from the game in the third in ning because he protested a decision. Then "Silk” ordered Manager Chance to put in another pitcher. * * * "I have no pitcher ready," replied Chance, “and if you won’t let Fisher continue. I II take ten minutes to warm up another.” • • • The crowd was with Chance and hooted the umpire. In the meantime, Chance sent Clark, a recruit, to warm up. O’Loughlln, threatening to forfeit the game, told Chance to put a pitcher in. Chance declared he would when ten minutes were up. The crowd hoot ed and jeered the umpire and cheered for Chance. • * * After Clark had been warming up for about ten minutes, O’Loughlln mo tioned Clark to the box and the new pitcher k proved a puzzle to the White Sox, but Fisher’s wildness already had lost the game. * * * The Red Sox got three doubles, a home run and four singles yesterday* yet could annex but one run, while the Browns secured nine runs off a double; a triple and eight singles. At the Ball Park 95% of the People Want a Cold Drink ding W. L. Pc. T’ville 10 5 .667 V’dosta 9 6 .600 C’dele 9 6 .600 W. L. W’cross 8 7 B’wick 5 10 Am’cus 4 14 Pc. .533 .333 .267 No games Sunday. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Monday. Talladega at Opelika. Gadsden at LaGrange. Anniston at Newnan. Standing of the Clubs. Are You Planning THAT TRIP? W. L Pc. Gadsden .9 3 .750 T’dega 7 5 .583 Newnan 6 6 .500 W. L P C. Ann’ton 6 6 .500 Opelika 5 7 .417 l^atJ’nge 3 9 .250 No games Sunday. fcoLLEGE GAMES MONDAY. Gordon vs. Florida at Barnesville. R M. A. vs. G. M. C. at Milledgeville. The Grand Trunk has published a set of most comprehensive, illustrated guide-books on the Canadian Highlands of Ontario, Musk- oka Lake district, Algonquin P^k, French River, Georgian Bay, Tima- gami, Lake of Bays, Lake Huron, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, New England, New York and the sea-shore. 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