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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. MAY in. Win.
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IITILITT STIR
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PITCHER AL DEMAREE SHOWS WHAT THE GIANTS DID LAST WEEK
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
the chinks In case of 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 infielder
won a pennant for Atlanta.
Nor will the students of baseball
deny 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.
* * *
V/f ERR1TT is the champion jaek-of-
1V1 all trades. A pitcher by profes
sion, he has this year played on the
.slab, at second base, and in two
t outfield positions—and the season is
only half way started. Moreover he
has 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 Sitton to instruct him. He
pitched 28 full games that year, win
ning 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
considers 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
secured him from Buffalo and he had
good success in the South, winning
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.
Atlanta.
SUNDAY’S GAMES.
First G.ime.
ab.
Long if, .
. . 5
Bailey, rf.
. . 5
Alperman.
2b.. 5
Welchonce,
cf.. 6
.Smith, 3b. .
. . 4
Bisland. ss.
. . 5
Agler, lb. .
. . 5
Dunn, c. .
. . 5
Price, p. . .
Chappelle, p.
Totals
po.
ft
ft
0
6
11
1 #
ft
.46 5 16 *30 14
McIntyre.
balls—^-Off McIntyre, 1; off Price. 7.
Second Game.
ab.
3
3
3
Atlanta.
Long. If • • •
Bailey, rf. .
Alperman, 2b.
Welchonce. cf.. 3
Smith. 3b. ... 2
Bisland. ss. . • 3
Agler, lb 3
Graham, c. . . 3
Brady, p. . • • 3
po.
1
2
1
1
1
1
9
Totals
N. Orleans.
Atz. 2b. • •
Manush. 3b. .
lames, rf. . •
Hendryx, cf. .
Spencer. If.
Snedecor, lb.
Williams, ss.
Angemeier. c.
•Evans
Brenton. p
••Clancy
Totals
.26
ab. r.
. 2 0
. 3
. 3
. 3
. 3
. 3
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i. po.
1 0
ft 1
0 1
2 1
1 ft
ft 11
.24 1
21 12
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the Cubs Monday
THE SPIRIT OP PRESENT GIVING’
was in the air “Evers day"
” hein iE’’ Zimmerman took.
SOME AWFUL SWINGS TUESPAY
Crackers Back Home; Play Turtles
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•None out in eleventh when win
ning run scored.
New Orleans, ab. r. H. po. a. e.
Atz. 2b 4 1 2 1 3 0
Manush. 3b. . . 5 1 1 1 2 2
James, rf.. . . 4 ft 1 5 ft ft
Hendryx, cf.. . 4 0 ft 5 0 ft
Spencer. If. . . 5 0 1 2 ft ft
Snedecor. lb. . 4 ft ft 10 ft 0
Williams, ss.. . 3 2 1 1 0 1
Angemeier, c. 4 ft 0 5 3 ft
•Clancy ...01 ft ft ft ft
McIntyre, p. . . 4 1 2 ft 3 ft
Totals ... .37 6 8 33 11 3
•Ran for Angemeier in eleventh.
Score by innings:
4 t l anta 120 Oftft Oftft 02—o
New Orleans 000 030 ftftO 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 Snedecor; Bisland to Al
perman to Smith. Struck out By
■w * - by Price. 9 Rt, «‘ a,a on
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 season. 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 Wei-
nesday game is for the Baltimore
boosting fund and the local ad men’s
club can be counted on to make things
hum.
* « •
W ATCH the Cracker team for the
next couple 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
off 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 be* n
pursued throughout his managerial
•areer 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 <f
stuff but no courage.
The other members of the team
were quick to get wise to him an i
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 th*-*
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
O prize curiosities, but h« --till n -
tains "Rube" Kissinger, who is some
erratic in a refined way.
Kissinger once figured in a "Rube
Day” in the Eastern League, when lie
was widely^ billed to hurl against
"Rube" Waddell. There was a big
crowd and when Kissinger started
to the box Waddell ran out and seize 1
him by the arm in front of the grand
stand, facing him about.
"Ladies and gentlemen." he cried,
"you will see a quqer sight to-day.
I am going to work against my son
Reuben Kissinger Waddell.”
After a hard nine innings, Kissinger
won 4 to 2 and the fans started to
disperse when Rube Waddell bellowed
that he wished to be heard. Silen e
greeted him.
"My son Reuben K. worked 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 separated
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
Com mission.
In Saturday’s game it was observ'd
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.
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.
Standlna of the Club*
W. L.
Mobile 26 12
Atlanta 18 17
Mont 18 17
M'phis 17 17
Pc.
.684
.514
.514
. 500
W. • L.
N’ville 17 18
Chatt. 16 18
B’ham 14 18
N. Or. 12 21
Pc.
186
.470
.438
.864
Bases on
iunday's
ry 5. Nas
Montgomery Nashville 8.
Chattanooga 4. Memphis 1.
New Orleans 6. Atlanta 5.
Atlanta t. 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.
Standin
W. L.
Phila.. 19 7
W’gton 17 9
C’land 19 H
Oh'go 2ft 12
L.
.731
.654
.633
625
of the Clubs.
-. I W.
St. L. 14 19
Boston. 12 18
Detroit 10 21
N. YoVk 7 21
Pc.
.424
.400
.323
.250
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Monday.
Savannah at Albany.
Jacksonville at Charleston.
Columbus at Macon.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc
Sav’n'h 20 6 .769
J'ville 15 11 .577
C’l’bus 13 13 .500
W. L.
Macon 12 14
Ch’ston 1ft 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.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L Pc.
T'ville 10 5 .667
V’dosta 9 6 .600
C'dele 9 6 .600
W. L.
W’ cross 8 7
R'wick 5 10
Pc.
.533
.333
Am'cus 4 14 .267
No games Sunday.
GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE.
Games Monday.
Talladega at Opelika
Gadsden at LaGrange.
Anniston at Newnan.
Standing of the Clubs
j uiaiD • *■ ' ■
•Batted for Angemeier in seventh.
••Batted for Brenton in seventh.
(Game called to allow team^ to
catch train.)
Score by innings:
Atlanta J—1
New Orleans . -010 000 0 -1
* Summary: Two-base hits Hen
dryx. Williams. Agler. Sacrifice hit
Spencer. Double pla> Brady to Bis
land to Agler Struck out—By Bren
ton. 5; by Brady. 3. Bases on balls
Off Brenton, 1; off Brad>,
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.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L.
Phila. 16 7
B'klyn 18 9
N. York 14 12
St. L. 14 14
f
.696
667
.538
.500
W L.
Ch'go 15 15
Boston 1ft 14
P’burg 12 17
C'nati 8 19
Pc.
.500
.417
.414
• W L Pc.
Gadsden 9 3 .750
T’dega 7 5 .583
Newnan 6 6 .500
No games Sunday.
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SI HOME LSI
By Joe Agler.
1 THINK we’re going to win some
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 us 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 ]ot. Unless you
ever traveled with a ball club, you
can’t possibly imagine what a job it
is. The rides on sleepers are fierce,
and the constant changes of fare and
of water play the wild with a man.
Back on the old lot again, you can
look for an improvement.
And at that, we haven’t done so
worse. Of course the road trip was
disastrous, in a way.
But any old time a Cracker club
an come home from a Southern trip
ied for second place and only six an i
a half games behind the leaders, 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 the second game ther was a hurl-
< rs’ melee, w ith the nors about
even between Brady ;• Brennan.
The game was called to let us .patch a
train.
Willard Has Many Peculiarities FODDER FOR FANS
*r • *r *r • t* *r •4* r#r
less Made Famous By Secret Work
BURNS VS. GOLDMAN.
ST JOSEPH. MO., May 19. - Bobby
Burns, of Dallas, Tex , a bantamweight,
was matched here to-day to meet
Charles Goldman in a ten-round bout
at Dayton. Ohio. May 2R. The boys
will weigh in at 116 pounds.
OTHER RESULTS SUNDAY.
American Association.
Kansas City 5. Indianapolis 3
Louisville 4. Minneapolis 3 (12
nings).
Columbus 4. Bt. Paul ft.
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 Leaque.
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 ft
By \Y. \Y. Naughton
S AN FRANCISCO, May 19.- Jess
Willard has become known 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 accom
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.
\ friendly tree limb wouldino doubt
make a fair substitute for a punch
ing bag celling and it would be easy
enough to convert a "lariat" into a
skipping rope. But, however Jess
prepared himself, it is his secret.
It may interest New York to learn
that Jess has changed. An air of I
secrecy surrounds his training noj
longer. In the matter of working;
hours he adheres to the scale set by
the Brotherhood of White Hopes, and
he mav be seen fully extended every
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 Rm-kley. manager of Gunboat
Smith, is looking ahead. He is
permitting his thoughts to wander
from the Gunboat Smith-Jess Willard
contest at the Kighth Street arena
to-morrow. He is talking about
the evasive methods of one l.uther
McCarty and is expressing the fear
that McCarty will dodge a match with
Gunboat when the ltfiter 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 when they are giving a
lot of serious consideration In it.
There is good reason for believing
that McCarty will agree to box the
winner nf 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.
• • *
r T ,< » get back to Luther At times
* when he ha* 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
champion, 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.
Ty Cobb complains of sore eyes as an
excuse for his puny batting average of
440 for thirteen Raines 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 Anal 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
Johjison, of the Senators, yesterday,
and who lost only because his team
mates gave him poor support,
» • •
There seemed to he nothing wrong
with T.v Cobb's lpgs 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 Yanekes yes
terday and moved up to within a. few'
points of second place in the American
League.
• • *
The White Sox-Yankees game was
featured by an argument in which
( members of both' teams, both umpires
I and fifteen thousand spectators took
part "Silk" O Loughlln chased Pitcher
Fisher from the game in the third itf-
ning because he protested a deeieioQ.
Then "Silk' ordered Manager Chancas
to put in another pitcher
0 • *
"I have no pitcher reads’.*' repllad
Chance, "and if you won't let Fisher
continue. I’ll take ten minutes to warm
up another.'
• • •
The crowd was with Chanee aUd
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 bad been warming up
for about ten minutes, O’Loughlln mo
tioned Clark 10 the box and the new
pitcher proved a puzzle to the White
Sox, but Fisher's wildness already had
lost the game.
* * *
’Ehe Red Sox got three doubles, a
home run ana four singles yesterday,
yet could annex but'one rtin. while the
Rrowns secured nine runs off a double,
a triple and eight singles.
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Gordon vs. Florida at Barnesville.
R. M. A. vs. G. M. C. at Milledgeville.
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