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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. MAY 1!)1H STIFF'-SITH SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT September Morn Looked Like Eve to Rummy Cojiyrifht. 1913, International News Service. By Tad “W Bv Pore}' H. Whiting. rE'LL go flying when our pitchers get right." So s^id Bill Smith before Monday’* game. “Nobody need think we’re soared. J never saw a team playing better bah and losing in my life than the (’racr.ers did on their trip And they never lost their nerve if the pit (hers come through we’ll win in a walk. And you needn't worry. They’re coming." One of the pitchers came through Monday and it was plain failing for the Crackers. • • • 'THE Crackers have the best infield and outfield combination that the Southern League ever saw. That’s positively official. There’s nothing else in the world to it. . Bailey. Welehonce and Long form the best outfield ever seen in the Southern league. Agler, Alperman, Bisland and Posith constitute an infield the like of which was never seen before in Dixie. The catching staff will do as it stands to-day. and if it doesn’t con tinue standing right Bill Smith kick it overboard and load up with some men who can deliver. That’s official too and right from Bill Smith. The pitchers are Smith's only trouble. "At that they look pretty good.” says Billy. “This Gilbert Price is a positive marvel. I never in all my days saw a hurler with more stuff He seems to weaken sometimes at the end of a game. I don’t know whether he gets overconfident or weakens physically If he gets to lasting all the way they couldn’t beat him in fifty years. “Bill Chappclle ‘•hewed us a good game his last out and will win for us I think. Brady’s work is perfect ly satisfactory. If this Dent goes all right I’ll take my chances." • * • AS for Paul Musser. he showed that he was there with everything in the catalogue yesterday. He allow ed five hits, one a scratch home run. If Tommy Long hadn’t misjudged this hall badly only one run would have been made off Musser. His control was vastly better than usual and he looked a great pitcher. As for the Crackers—they played the ball they have been playing al most all the season. They got to Pitcher Kissinger of the Turtle team only twice but it was enough. * In the third Graham slipped one by Ki>singer. Musser bunded* s^fe—r a peach of a performance for a pitch er—and Bailey cleaned up with a single. In the fourth Bisland put across a clean home run that won the game. After that time the locals made but one hit. But they did not need even that one. • • * THK new man. Bisland. looked like A a legacy from your rich uncle. Be sides hitting the homer that won the game he fielded neatly and he looks so much like a big league ball player you couldn’t detect him from the real thing in the broad daylight Wally Smith kept right on looking like the wonder of the league. And Whitey Alperman surely had a big day In the eighth he actually flew after Ward’s liner and in the ninth he nipped what might have been a rally by grabbing down Ahsteiiw’s aw ful poke. • • • T'HL game was played in one hour and forty-six minutes, which is amazingly fast considering how other contests of the year have lagged. Um pires Bill Hart and Dan Pfenninger seemed to have developed some pep per in their old age and kept things hustling. That the good work will be continued is the earnest hope of the fans. Draggy baseball games don’t please anybody. Cobb Not Greatest Ball Player © o © © o o © “Keeler Superior to Ty”~Sullivan DIABETES NO LONGER FEARED Peculiar Action of a Remarkable Remedy in Controlling Liver Action. By Tod Sullivan T HE return of Cobb to th® Detroit club and its continued clump since he began to wear the team’* uniform has served one object lesson to the American public, and that is that no one player, no matter how great or skillful, can win games alone. It takes nine men to win ball in any fast league. it has been the ease in the past, and It will be ever thus in the future. A pitcher of Walsh or Johnson’s caliber may figure con spicuously in the winning of a game, but at that they must have fielding and run-getting powers in their teams to make them winners. But U*i one thing be impressed on the public mind—players may come and'go, hut the game will go on for- eVer Had Cobb not returned toHhe Detroit team, the continued losings of the cjub would have been laid to his absence, but it was a groat vic tory' and eye-opener both for the De troit people in all parts of America that he did return, to show the super- flclal and unsophisticated how little one man figures in the game, and especially an outfielder. To look at Cobb, or Cobbism, from a dispassionate and impartial stand point, let us see what Cobb’s status Is In the game. 1 grant he has the right to ask for any salary he thinks his services are worth; he realizes that he is a drawing card at home and abroad. He knows the owners of the club look at him from a com mercial standpoint, and he views them in the same light. He knows also that there Is a time limit to his playing days, and In- wants to make the most of it The home press and the unsophisticated press throughout the United States have been burning incense to his greatness and telling him that he is the one hall player in the history of the game, which he never was But ns Detroit made him a drawing card, in their slopology, he had a right to make them pay for It. Which he has. Infielder More Important. Let us see where he figures as a ball player, compared with the play ers of the past and present. He is playing in the outer works of the name as a fielder, averaging about two fly balls to a game, with plenty of time to think what he will do af ter catching a fly ball or the ground er that is bounding toward him. No outfielder can be compared with an infielder or a catcher, as their posi tions are entirely different in the na ture of the work they have to per form An infielder’s brain is In per petual action from the time the pitcher delivers the ball, and he has only a fraction of a second to think. so quick does the machinery of the Infield work. Cobb is the beet run getter in the profession to-da.v Run getting is the combination of hitting and base run ning Base running has ever beem the spectacular part of a ball players work, with all other things nearly equal To say Cobb was the great est ball player In the history of the game would be like telling a man who saw the Mississippi River that the Il linois River was the longest and larg est in the United States, or to tell a person who saw the summit of Pike’s Peak that the range of the Allegheny was higher. I suppose it will be the same in the next generation of ball players. They will be a« skeptical of the baseball prowess of Cobb, Wagner and Lajoie, as the present ones are of the great ness of Mike Kelly, Ewing and Wil liamson As a fielder and thrower Cobb could not stand comparison with Fogarty, Curt Welsh. Bill Lange, and a few* others nf the past and he is not to-day the superior as a fielder and thrower of Graney of Cleveland and Moeller of Washington. Thinks Kteler Was Better. There is a little modest man who left the ball field two years ago, namely. William Keeler, Who did not wear sleigh bells around a hotel to let people know' he was around, but he was the superior of Cobb, as ver satile a batter. But to say that Cobb w as the equal of the three great ball players of the pari, namely, Ewing, Williamson, and Mike Kelly, would be ridiculous. Williamson was a third baseman and a shortstop. He was one of the greatest base runners in the history of the game. Besides being one of the greatest inflelders that ever lived, he was also a catcher and a pitcher. Buck Ewing was undoubtedly the greatest throwing, hitting and base running catcher of them all But to compere Cobb, the outfielder, to the immortal Kelly, who was the craftiest base runner of all times, be sides being one of the best batters and catchers that ever lived, would be like comparing a 2:40 horse to a 2:10 one. To use a hyperbole, it could be said that Mike Kelly behind the bat and on the bases in the, crucial con test of a game sweat more baseball cells into the rim of his cap than some players of to-day have in their skulls. If Ty Cobb Is guilty of the alleged prima-donna breaks in wanting ex tra hotels and extra rooms from other players and practicing when he wants to—no one is to blame but the De troit management themselves. They have petted and coddled him as much as an Indulgent mother does to a child she has spoiled. FORMWALT AND EDGEWOOD CLASH IN DECIDING GAME Formwalt and Edgewood schools will meet in their deciding game of the public school championship series at the Marist College grounds Wed nesday afternoon Formwalt won the first game of the series and RdEgewood the second. The interest in this series is at fever heat. s ; 5 - S. Quickly I ii<« Vim and Energy Into 1 ou. 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S. and bear in mind that this celebrated remedy has such a specific stimulating action on •Le local cells of the liver as to pre- serve their mutual welfare and give a proper relative assistance, each cell to the other. Dropsical tendencies are thus over come. biliousness soon becomes a memory and jaundice, malaria, afflic tions of the spleen ano glandular swellings will be entirely eliminated . ou will find K S 8. on sale at all 1 stores and for competent med- i'PkI a< L v * e ’ ccn »ult by mail the :arw»raf < f (he Swift Specific Com pany, Swift Building. Atlanta. Ga MONDAY'S GAME. Memphis. Love. cf. . . Baerwald. rf Schweitzer. If. Ward. 3b. . . Abstein. lb. . Butler, ss . Shanley, 2b. . Sea bough, c. . Kissinger, p . ab. 1 4 9 4 4 4 2 3 3 Totals . . . . 80 Atlanta. Long. If. . Bailey, rf. . Alperman. 2b. Welehonce, cf. Smith. 3b. . Bisland. ss Agier, lb. Graham, c. . Musser. p. . Totals . ab. 4 4 4 3 3 3 . 2 . 3 . 3 .28 h. pa. a. 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 2 3 h. 1 1 0 o 1 1 0 1 1 po. 1 0 6 2 0 1 8 9 1 « 17 13 ocore by innings Memphis 000 010 100—2 Atlanta 002 100 0Ox—3 Summary: Two-base hit—Butler. Home runs—Bisland. Butler, Struck out—B> Kissinger. 5. by Musser. 7 Bases on balls—Off Kissinger, 1; off Musser. 3 Stolen ba.ses—Baerwald. 2. Long. Butler, Seabough. Wild pitch- Kit-singer Htt by pitched hall —By Musses Shanley. Time 1 40. Umpires—Hart and Pfe«rriqger. CUBS ASK WAIVERS ON RICHIE AND REULBACH PHILADELPHIA, May 20 -Man- ager Evers, of the Chicago National league Club, has asked wai\ers on Pitchers Big Ed Reulbach and Lew Richie The "Giant Killer,’’ owing to his ability to beat the Giants any time he started Reulbach has also been going back of late CHRISTY MATHEWS BIG LL LEAGUI GOSSIP N EW YORK, May 20.—I have decided to give much space in this article to the fast- going Phillies and Dodgers. The Phillies merit considerable analysis. When the Giants played them recently, I never saw a Philadelphia team playing better, and, as there has always been plenty of feeling between the two clubs, they were very glad to clean up on New York as they did. The team is benefiting from much better conditions this season than have existed in Philadelphia for many years, and these are mainly re sponsible for the marked improvement, as it will be noted that practically the same men thT, ®£ pearin f in th 6 batting order that landed the team in the second division last summer. William Locks, without' woto' 1 7" hi f ,F?ub, is a practical baseball man. and lie is giving Dooin a chance to manage the team thfbe.'t That Va n ?n h lach W |ndividuar f ,r,VU,,tie *- Th " re8,Ut “ that “ * getting good baseball out of his men, Again the Quakers have advanced so far Into the season without any of the regulars suffering serious injuries and being out of the gafhe, almost a record for the club. It is not likely the team will go through the race with this rosy record, and an Injured regular or two will slow the club up a good deal because Dooin is not well fortified with substitutes. • • • 'T'HE real strength of the team lies in the excellent pitching staff which is the unexcelled feature of the league at this writing. When either Alexander, Chalmers or Sea ton has been working, it has been practically impossible for an oppos ing club to do any hitting. It is this great pitching which has permitted the Phillies to make the good show ing that they have, because they are not a crowd of hard batters them selves. They win their games by small scores, depending on the pitch ers and smooth fielding to prevent the other side from rolling up many runs. Now, when this pitching staff begins to wilt under »the strain of the race and the heat of the summer, as it is liable to do, the Quakers are going to find a very much harder road to travel. They would have a good chance for the pennant with more sturdy batters. As it Is now, they are depending on their twirlers and have not better than an outside Opportunity for the championship. • • • 'T'HE Philadelphia club has been the surprise of the race. In Its ante-season performances, it made a very poor showing, being easv for both the Athletics and Washington teams of the American League. From those scores, the Quakers looked like the same old bunch, dead on their feet, as they have always been, but with the opening of the race on their own circuit, they jumped away in good style and are playing fast ball, it is their speed and pitching that have held them up so far. • * • (Cl! THERE will Brooklyn stop?” * * is the question which is stirring the baseball following por tion of the populace now. One of these days the Brooklyn team is going to wake up and dis cover that it is rated as a great ball club, tremble at the idea and start to lose. The Brooklyn boys should finish in the first division. They have talent at present to warrant such a prediction, but they should not crowd the winner of the pennant in September. That is merely my opinion. Perhaps it is based on the years of mediocre baseball played in Brooklyn and Philadelphia will find it harder traveling when they start away from home and invade the West. Not that they will encounter particularly tough competition in the West, but the handicap of playing away from home diamonds and home crowds is going to be a big one. It will be observed that most of the suc cesses of both these teams have been made at home under the watchful eye of home crowds. The Brooklyn club has set its admirers crazy, and men who have not been able to raise SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Tuesday. Memphis ai Atlanta at Ponce Del^eon. Game called at 4 o’clock. Mobile at Birmingham New Orleans at Nashville. Montgomery at Ghattanooga Standing of the Clubs. W. L Mobile. 27 12 Atlanta 19 17 Mont.... 19 17 N’ville 18 18 Pc. .692 528 528 500 W L. M’phts. 17 18 Chatt 16 19 Bham 14 19 N. Or . . 12 22 Pc. 486 .457 .424 353 OTHER RESULTS MONDAY. International League. BaJtlmore. 8; Toronto. 6 Rochester. 18; Newark 3 Providence. 4. Buffalo. 1 Mont real-Jersey City rain American Association. Milwaukee. 15; Toledo. S lndlanapplis, 6, Kansas City 3 Mlr.neapoll6-Loul8ville: rain St Paul-Columbus: rair Cotton States League. Per.salooa, 1; Meridian. 0 Selma, 5: Columbus. 1 Jackson, 5; Clarksdale, 0 Appalachian League. Bristol, 7; Cleveland. 3 Mtddtoaboro 9. Rome. 6 Knoxville. 7; Johnson City. 0 Virginia League. Portsmouth, 7. Roanoke. 3 Newport News. 18; Richmond. 4. Carolina Lsagua. Durham 4, Greensboro, 3 Raleigh, 3 Asheville, 2 Charlotte. 1 Winston Salem. 1. Texas League. Beaumont. 6. Dallas. 4 San Antonio, 6; Fort Worth. 4 Waco. 4, Houston. 1 Austin. 7. Galveston, 5 Coliege Games Harvard. 3, Pennsylvania, 1, Monday s Results. Atlanta. 3; Memphis, 2 Montgomery*. 8; Chattanooga, 6 Nashville. 2; New Orleans. 0 Mobile. 3: Birmingham. 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Tuesday. Boston at Chicago New York at St. Louis. Waohington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit Standing of the Clubs. W L. Pc. I W L. Po Phila 19 8 704 Boston 13 18 419 Cl’land 20 11 645 St. L 14 20 412 W gton 17 10 630 I Detroit 11 21 344 Ch r gy> 20 13 606 ! N York 8 21 276 Monday s Results. Boston, 10. Chicago, 1. Detroit. 9. Philadelphia. 3 Cleveland 4- Washington. 1. New York. 8: St. Louis. 6 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Tuesday. Chicago at Boston. Pittsburg at Brooklyn St. Louis at New York Cincinnati at Philadelphia. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Tuesday. Savannah at Albanv. Jacksonville at Charleston. Columbus at Macon. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. f W L. S’v’nah 21 6 778 ’ Macon 13 14 J ville. 15 12 .558 Ch’ston 11 16 CTbus 13 14 481 J Albany 8 19 Monday’s Results. Charleston. 2; Jacksonville. 1. Macon. 5; Columbus, 2 Savannah, 12: Albany. 2 EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Tuesday. Thomaevllle at Americus. Cordele at Wayoross Valdosta at Brunswick. Pc. .481 .407 .296 up their voices to root for the home club for years are tearing their throats out regardless now. This all helps a ball club, especially on that floats into a winning streak sudden ly, as Brooklyn has. Still the Dodg ers may tear through the league as Washington did last year and not let up. • * • 'T'HE Boston club is the one which is paralyzing the ante-season critics. Nobody could see any 'good in that team before the race opened, with the possible exception of Stal lings, the manager, and James Gaff ney, the owner, and yet it is playing ball and becoming the talk of the town in place of the declining Red Sox. Stallings is responsible for it, because he is a manager who builds up a club. Within a year or two the Boston team is going to be one to take into the pennant reckoning I believe. The manager is digging up new material which suits his pur poses and developing it. One thing he is looking for and which no other Boston team has possessed for a good many years is speed. His sys tem very closely resembles that fol lowed by McGraw. So far I have not seen St. Louis in action, but I do not believe its show ing to date is its normal stride. It does not strike me that Huggins can maintain anything like a first divi sion pace. His club will not stand it. Easy to Pick Ail-Star Prep Team 0 O 0 © © O © Armistead Would Be Good Captain \Y Standing of the Clubs. W ^ VViosta.10 6 T’ville 10 6 C’dele 9 7 Pc. .625 .625 563 W L. Wcross 9 7 B swick 5 11 Amcua 5 11 Pc. .563 .312 .312 Phila. B’klyn N Y. Cbfo Standing of the Clubs. W L Pc W. ^ Pc. 17 7 .708 St. L. . 14 15 .483 19 9 679 Boston 10 15 400 15 18 556 P’burg 12 18 400 15 16 484 C’nati.. 9 19 321 Monday’s Results. Cincinnati. 9; Boston. 8 Brooklyn. 3; St Louis 1 Philadelphia, 10. Chicago. 4 New York. 3. Pittsburg 2 COLLEGE GAMESL TUESDAY. Gordon v& Florida, fn Barnesville R M A v® G M C., in Milledgevili*. Monday’s Results. Waycross, 5; Cordele. 0. Americus. 4, Thomasville. 2 Valdosta. 9; Brunswick. 7. GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Tuesday. Talladega at Opelika Anniston at Xewnan. Gadsden at T-aGrange Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. , W. L. P. C. Gsden Tdega N’nan. 10 .769 .583 i 538 An’ston Opelika LaG’ge 10 .462 .417 231 THEN the Giants were going badly two or three weeks ago j and everybody was kicking the ball. McGraw called "Larry" Doyle, the good natured. to him after a game and took up with him the matter of ! an error he had made which figured largely in the defeat of the Giants. •Well," replied "Larry." "you’ve got to hand it to rqe, boss. I make j all my errors when they count." This answer disarmed McGraw. •You’re a great little, pinch error , maker,” admitted McGraw. * * ♦ T T must not be thought that I am -*■ slighting the American League, but there has been little change during the week in that organization. The Athletics are still piling along with a comfortable lead, and Boston Is crashing down through the stand ing, giving little indication of having even a look-in for the flag. The Wash ington club is the worst sufferer. Griffith has had some hard luck that has slowed up his team and hurt his chances for the pennant very largely. Foster, who within a year developed Into one of the best third basemen 19 the league. Is laid up with typhoid fever and will be out of the game for pretty nearly two months any. way. This destroys the smooth work ing of the infield, because Laporte is slow. Johnson, the pitcher. Is the won der of the season. He established his record of fifty-six scoreless In nings last week. To my mind, he is not only the greatest in the game to-day. hut the greatest in the game has ever produced. He did not make 1 this record against easy teams, but | against clubs composed of the hard est hitters In the country. Griffith did not pick any “spots" for him. My hat Is off to him. By Jim Glover T O select an all-star baseball team from the prep schools of Atlanta this year is not as difficult as it has been in past seawns. This year there is a star for almost every po sition who is so much better than his nearest competitor that there is lit tle chance for any disagreement. Here are the names of the players, the positions that they arc given and the schools which they represent ed the past season. Name Position School Armistead catcher (Capt.) Boys High Fox pitcher-. Boys High Weston pitcher . . Tech High Callahan pitcher Marist Lowery first base Marist Bedell second base Tech Hicjh Allen third base . Marist Spurlock .. shortstop.. Boys High Laird left field . Tech High Rennolds ... center field .. Tech High Wells right field Peacock J. Parks utility Tech High Sam Armistead. of Boys High, is without a doubt the best backstop in the league this year. He steadies a pitcher, leads the league in batting and seldom allows a man to steal a base. He is made captain of the nine as* he knows the game thoroughly. Fox Leading Pitcher. The pitching staff is the only prob lem on the team. Fox has shown up the best this year, but one man is not enough to do the twirling for a team, so another had to be selected; and right here is where the rub comes in. Weston and Ua!lahan are so nearly equal in ability that it is nec essary to name both. Callahan h* a pitcher of the sensational style, a pitcher who often fans the first nine or ten men who face him and then when his support weakens blows up and loses the game. Weston has pitched in only two games this year but his showing in both contests was fine. Besides his pitching he is the best batting and fielding twirler of them all. Jim Lowery gets the job at first base without any trouble. He is a steady player and about the only man on the Marist team who has not "spilled the beans" in some game. Bill Bedell is the right man for second bas*e. He is fast and has swiped more bases this year than any man in the league. He is also a good batter. Charlie Allen, of Marist, has not played quite up to his usual standard at third base this year, but, neverthe less, his playing and hitting has been good enough to warrant him a place on the all-£»tar team. Weston and Parks, of Tech High, are also crack third slackers, but Weston is also a pitcher and Parks has been given the utility job. Spurlock Crack Shortstop. Spurlock is in a class by himself when it comes to playing shortstop. He has a good head and can hit and field well. He is just what a short stop should be. Harry Rennolds is the best outfielder in the bunch and is given a place at center. His field ing average for the season is 996 and he is always there with the stick. Johnny Laird is another good out fielder and is especially good on dif ficult balls. The other outfield posi tion is given to Wells, of Peacock, al though he is a shortstop. He is too good a man to be kept off the team and could play the outfield as well as any of them. Jim Parks, of Tech High, gets thp position of utility man. which is just as important a place as any other one on a team. Parks is a good pitcher, crack infielder and a slugger, one of the best in the league, and he would be a great asset to this team ‘WILD BILL’ CLARK SIGNS TO TWIRL FOR CORDELE COLUMBIA. S. C., May 20.^-.T I.angdon ("Wild Bill”) Clark, who managed the Columbia club of the South Atlantic League last season, has signed a contract to pitch for the Cordele. Ga.. club of the Empire State League, according to a telegram re ceived here this morning. Monday’* Result*. • Newnan, 5: Anniston. 2 Gadsden. 10: LaGrange. 4 Talladega-Opelika; rain. PLAYER 18 REINSTATED. CINCINNATI, May 20.—The Na tional Baseball Commission yesterday reinstated Player Y. W. Avers, of the Washington American League club, to good standing without the impo sition of a fine Ayers stated that he had not joined his team owing to his desire to attend college White City Park Now Open THF. UNIVERSAL CAR Now—your own railroad system! The “light and right” Ford gives it to you at small cost! And back of the car stands a financial respon sibility—-and service-—that any railroad might envy. Don’t sidetrack that “urge.” Get your Ford to-day. More than a quarter of million Fords now in service—convincing evidence of their won derful merit. Runabout, $525; Touring Car, Town Car. $S00— f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. Get interesting "Ford Times" from Dept. F. 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