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7 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY. MAY 23. 1013. T HR Jim Flynn-Jim Savage ten- round bout will be staged at the Auditorium on June 13. The heavyweights were originally sched uled to exchange blows June 9. but the strap has been moved back four days on account of the Buffalo 15111 circus, which will be here the latter date. The Fireman lights Jim Coffey at New York Friday night and will leave for Atlanta soon. The promoters of the Auditorium show have made ar rangements to have both contestants «*n the battle ground ten days be fore the scrap, which should give the^fans ample time to see the two heavyweights in their, training work. . Savage has been b$xlng seybral of 1 the big hopes in New York and is being touted as a real, contender for the heavyweight crown. His bout with Flynn should prove , a great chance for the clever boy. Many of the Eastern boxing followers, who have seen Savage in action lately, are boosting him as another Jim Corbett. # * * T HE winner of the Auditorium show _ will probably meet Gunboat Smith or Luther McCarty. McCarty and Coffroth both have their eyes peeled on the June 9 show and it would not he surprising to see the coast pro moters send for the winner. Two other good ten-round battles will he held in connection with the heavyweight tilt. Mike Saul. well fcnown around these parts as one of the toughest lightweights, will prob ably meet Eddie Hanlon in one of the battles, while Spider Britt and Meyer Pries may swing the padded gloves in the other set-to. * * * T HESE three mills should certainly ■ bring together some dandy mill ing. Fans who have seen Britt and Pries box against each other «know what a sterling scrap they usually put up. Each has a grudge against the other and a bloody contest is usually the result. The last time the two boys met. Britt was awarded a slight shade by the referee, although most of the fans present thought a draw was the cor rect verdict. After the scrap Mike Saul, the referee, said he would have called the mill an even thing had Pries* not indulged in foul tactics. * * * CAUL and Hanlon need no introduc- ^ tion to local fandom. Mike was rated as a contender for the light weight crown until he lost on a foul to Abel when out of shape. Mike says he is out to win back his lost laurels and many of the local fans are with Mike to the last. Hanlon has always claimed that Saul was one boy whom he could lick. Sports and Such By RIGHTCROSS I THE STANDING of the clubs » in the big leagues at this writing I } forms a fine chance for that much- talked-of “rushing attack” in base ball which known as the- "base running game?” It is a theory of students of the great n*tiorytl pastime that a team of fast’ and skillful base steal ers ha:-* a tremendous edge at the go-off in a battle with a team less gifted in this direction. Let us give a look: The Boston Americans, the world’s champions, are popularly known as the'Speed Boys, a name whjch arose from the dazzling rapidity with which they are wont to flit from base to base. This seems* to be an off season for flit ting. The Red Sox arc not only way down in the league race, but they are also way down in the base-stealing records for the sea son. * * * THERE ARE OTHER EXAM PLES that might be pointed out. hut there is no use rubbing it in, and we don't owe Boston any con sideration anyway. The Red Sox are enough to prove the point, which is namely, to wit. i. e.—that a losing club doesn’t pull any “rushing at tack "'■’stuff. Base steal ing is the diversion of winners. It is not so much a cause as an effect. Base stealers are the Ufticers of a baseball army. They are highly spectacular, but useful only when the battle is half won. In the old days of the great game of war no general in his senses ever sent cavalry against an unshaken defense. Napoleon, through a mistaken conception of the situation, did it at Waterloo i and lost. It is the same way with * * base stealing in baseball. When you have the other team on the run you can complete the rout by running wild on the bases, but we have never yet seen a team run wild to any extent when it is five runs behind. It is true, of course, that an in dividual base runner, like Cobb, 4 for instance. will occasionally t steal second at a critical moment and Hius lay the foundation of a winning run. But this is beside the main point—that base stealing as a system of offense in a hall game is nix. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT |SHOOl_0 \AJOreK-V T*tto& - see. ir sets kA-V S-OAT UJ01*.i£ THAD T>WC v*J(+hJ DME MEAN*- «yCW <-OJT vqOR fco <r - BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip ATLANTA A MATS. J MON. s | WED. V sat. 25c All This Week The Deep Purple Miss Billy Long Co. Nights 15c. 25c 35c, 50c Next--ST. ELMO-Seats Now FORSYTH d ^ l e y k, m n' ; T 8.Io 30 ADAM & EVE--GALLAGHER & FIELDS—JOSEPHINE DUN- FEE-JOHN GEIGER -NEVIN 4. ER WOOD - BRADSHAW BROS & DUNEDIN TROUPE lf&fTH VAU JEVILLE HIGHEST QUALITY After winning nine games in a row, Walter Johnson, of the Senators, went against the Naps yesterday and was beaten, the Cleveland club pounding him for thirteen hits. * * • 1’mpire Klem increased his unpopu larity In Brooklyn yesterday by permit ting the game to go for five innings and then calling it on account of rain after the Pirates had scored the lone tally of the game. * * * The Dodgers have protested the game, claiming that the rain fell no harder in the sixth inning, when Klem ordered a cessation of play, than it had during the three innings previous. + * ■* The Red Sqx outhit the White Sox yesterday, but the Chicagoans grabbed off a .2 to 1 victory. * * # The league-leading Athletics had an easy time defeating hte Tigers yester day. the veteran Plank shutting out the Detroit boys and permitting them hut three hits. • • • That old Pirate machine seems to be in fine working order again and it seems quite safe to bet that they will he up among the leaders in another month. * * . * Rain halted the Cardinals-Giants game in the second inning after the Cardinals had secured a one-run lead. • • • The Yankees went down to a 7 to 0 defeat yesterday at the hands of the Browns. Stone, a recruit pitcher, hold ing the New Yorkers to six scattered hits. * * * The National League rJcfe this season promises io he one of the best in many years. The weak “sisters" seem con spicuously absent. In other years, the Dodgers. Cardinals and Braves were the pie counters for the triple alliance. But a new order of events now exists. * * * The alliance, composed of the Giants, Cubs and Pirates, has been dissolved. The trio htat has roosted in and around first place for ten years has been oust ed. and a new state of affairs has come to pass. * * * Whether the Phillies. Dodgers. Car dinals and even the lowly Braves can keep up the clip they have been trav eling is a question. Perhaps they'll falter farther along, but even if they do they have already dealt the mighty trio such a terrific wallop that there will he no runaway race for any one of the trio, as in years gone by. * t * A similar condition exists in the American League. No one team has a cinch. A trifle more than 400 points separates the leading Athletics from the Yankees. Rut the Yankees are due to move along in the percentage column. Chance has had a hard time getting his team started, but as soon as his pitch ers round into shape they will furnish trouble for the leaders. The Browns are not the snap team of other years The Tigers are begin ning to add to their win column. The Red Sox. although far down in the standing to-day, have the power, and when once the machine gets well oiled it will furnish considerable trouble for the leaders. * * * The Athletics have been Traveling at a fine rate, despite the illness of Jack Coombs, the star flinger. The Naps and White Sox seem to have the “punch" this year and the Senators are showing that their speed of last year has be come a. permanent possession. * * * Careful examination of Carl Cashion s injured arm demonstrates that a liga ment is badly torn and the big lad may be out for the entire season. Joe Birmingham has done something with the Naps that no manager ever did before—he has got them figuring on world’s series receipts. Let a club get doing that in earnest and they fight every step of the way. * * * Merito Acosta, the Cuban with the Senators, celebrated his 17th birthday the other day and the Washington play ers got him in the shower hath room and did the honors, as is the custom of the country, laying on one for each year and on#* to grow on. Acosta will take a day off next year when his birthdav arrives and will disappear. • * * Jim Baskette retired from the Amer ican League just in time to cinch his batting lead for the season. He was walloping 1.009 when he was relegated to the minors. Cobb can’t pass that. DEPONTHIEU SHADES KIRK. BINGHAMTON. N. Y . Ma>* 23. Louis DePonthieu. champion of France, shaded Ollie Kirke, of St. Louis, in a ten-round boxing bout. Local Club Is Stronger Than Gulls By Percy H. Whiting. T HE Cracker team has the most deadly attack ever seen in the Southern League. Napoleon's pet troops or a band of war-pathing Comanches look tame beside them. Day after day they drive pitchers to cover. All teams look alike to them. All pitchers are the same. They can slug the ball over the lot; they can beat out hunts if by chance they lay them down; they can wait out a wavering pitcher; they can run bases; they can use the hit-and-run; they shine at the run-and-hit. There isn't an offensive maneuver, barring the bunt, at which they do not shine. * * m tt/HY this team shouldn’t wallop the stuffing out of Mike Finn’s club VV in three out of every four battles, provided the Cracker pitchers made even a half-decent show, we can’t see. Nor can anybody who wit nessed yesterday’s game. Mike Finn lias a pretty well-balanced club. Paulet. Stock. Starr and O'Dell are good men. Of course, alongside of Agler, Alperman. Bislaud and Smith they don’t look so much—but that’s a fair average infield. Clark, Jacobson and Robertson are good outfielders, but in offensive and defensive strength they do not average up to the Crackers. In catching strength the teams are about a stand-off. If the Gulls hope to beat Atlanta out of the pennant they better have pitchers who are about eleven times as strong as the Crackers’ slabmen. K* K I N Thursday’s game the Cracker pitcher had all the advantage. Two veterans were out—Brady and Campbell. Of course it is not Insinuated that Brady classes with Campbell in antiquity, but then he's no fledgling. And Brady plastered it all over Campbell. The King’’ held the dangerous Campbell hitless, didn't give the sav age Robertson one he could push out of the infield, and had the rest of the collection swinging themselves sick at his offerings. In the meantime the Crackers were eating Campbell alive, arid finally ended by piling up nine hits for eleven bases in six innings. With the Crackers ahead. 7 to 2, the game was called on account of darkness, with the rain falling hal’d and everybody ready to call it off and go home. It It It B EFORE the Mobile season is over some cast-off is going to figure. They always do. Mobile has O'Dell and Sentell. former Crackers. Atlanta has Long and Dunn, former Gulls. So something has to happen. In yesterday s game the ex-Gulls now with the Crackers had all the better of the argument. Sentell didn't play, and A1 O'Dell made a couple of errors. Long made three hits out of four times up. while Dunn kicked over a single and threw faultlessly to second. Bill Smith offered a direct challenge to the Gulls by using Joe Dunn. Before the season opened Mike said, in all kindness, but with great firm ness, that Joe Dunn's arm was gone. Probably he really thought it. But Dunn's work this year hasn't proved Mike's prediction. And to-day Smith stuck in Dunn, just to show up Mike. Only one Gull tried to steal, and he was pegged out easily. » * r M IKE FINN is playing himself up as the victim of misguided confi dence. Understand. Mike doesn't mean that he's been the goat of a confidence game—you see it’s like this; After the Gulls began to gather this spring, a fake "signed statement." alleged to have been written by Mike, appeared in various palters around the circuit and was played up strong in Mobile. Then the season opened and Mike's "statement” went over strong. The result was that the Gull fans lost interest. "It’S got so bad now." said Mike, "that they don't come out at all to see us play. Once in a while a few will turn out. sort of to celebrate our having won a pennant. The rest of them have dismissed the season as a closed incident, have credited themselves with a pennant won and have turned to other things. It’s a fine fix, with the season just started and our team losing a game or two a day.” i> a a T HE suspicion prevails that the Gull fans will have only to consult the standing of the clubs to wake themselves up by the time the team returns home The.Gulls have lost the last three games straight, and the last six out of seven. They are going about as poorly now as a team can go. It will not take them long to kick away their lead at this rate. Before returning home the Gulls have to play two more games with the Crackers, three in Chattanooga, four in Nashville and four in Memphis. Any of the Tennessee clubs might furnish trouble for the Gulls, now that they have flickered. And a 4V 2 -game lead can be shot to bits in five games, if they turn out, right. Anyhow, the Crackers will try to do what they can for the noble cause. Crac ker At tad ilc ist! Dead! yEver BOXING News nf the Rina Game BASEBALL SUMMARIES " Sporting Food GEORG! !• PHAIR The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have anything to sell The Sunday Amer ican is "The Market Place of the South.” The Sunday American is the best advertising medium. STOVALL MUST PAY FINE AND APOLOGIZE TO UMPIRE ST. LOUIS, May 23.— George Sto vall. suspended- manager of the St. Louis Americans, was reinstated by President Johnson, of the American League, yesterday on condition that Stovall write a letter of apology to Umpire Charles Ferguson, on whom he spat while playing in a game here May 3. In addition to apologizing to Um pire Ferguson. Stovall must pay a $100 fine. If Stovall complies with the condi tions, he will be allowed to play in the game against Detroit* Saturday. The apology to Umpire Ferguson must be mailed to Johnson's office in Chicago and approved by Johnson before it is forwarded to Ferguson. Stovall said he would comply with conditions of his reinstatement. AMES, GR0H AND DEVORE ARE TRADED FOR FR0MME Philadelphia. May 23.—In an effort to bolster up his team Manager Tinker, of the Cincinnati club, has just completed a deal with Manager McGraw, of the New York Giants, whereby he receives Pitcher Ames, Infielder Groh and Outfielder Devore in exchange for Pitcher Fromme. New York will have another chance to see Jim Flynn in action Friday night The Pueblo fireman will don the gloves with Jim Coffey in a scheduled 10-round bout. “Soldier" Kearns and George Rodel will clash in the semi-windup. • * • This will be Flynn's last battle before he meets Jim Savage at the Auditorium here next month. If Flynn succeeds in defeating Savage he will probably take a trip to the coast in an effort to get on with Gunboat Smith or Jess Wil lard. Luther McCarty is another heavy weight w'ho is to get into action. Luther takes on Arthur Pelky in a 12-round set-to at Calgary, Alberta, Saturday night. McCarty must win if he in tends to get away with some more of the easy money he has been gathering Pelky Is Tommy Burns’ protege. * * * Young Shrugrue. Leach Cross and Tommy Murphy, three Eastern light weights. are after the first tilt with Willie Ritchie, who says he will defend his title on July 4. It looks very much as if Joe Rivers will beat them all to the match. • * * Danny Morgan, manager of Jack Brit ton. has offered to bet $2,500 that Brit ton can outpoint Luther McCarty in a 10-round scrap. Morgan refers to Mc Carty as a “cheese champion." * * * Abe Attell. who helped Bud Ander son train for his bout with Joe Mandot on the coast, is begging Tom McCarey for another chance at Johnny Kilbane. Abe says he is as good as ever and is positive he can beat the featherweight champion in a return match. McCarey has the bout under consideration « * • Coast fans are blaming Tom Jones for Jess Willard's defeat at the hands of Gunboat Smith the other night. They claim that Willard was receiving in struction from several sources In his corner • • • This rather confused the Kansas cow boy, who stopped dead still several times to look toward Jones for some definite advice. * * * Sammy Robideau, of Philadelphia, is the latest luminary Eastern fistic cir cles are discussing. Robideau fought Johnny Lore in New York last week and handed the latter a neat lacing * • * The Jack Britton Eddie Murphy fight at Kenosha, Wis., Tuesday night drew but $900. A dreadful rainstorm kept the attendance down. * * * Nate Lewis and his fighter. Charlie White, arrived In Chicago Wednesday from New Orleans, where White stopped Thomas in two rounds. Lewis at once got in touch with Danny Morgan in an effort to close a Britton-White scrap for the Wisconsin city this month. Mor gan is holding out for a big guarantee. * * • Frank Klaus and Eddie McGoorty have completed training for their six- round affair at Pittsburg Saturday night. The middleweights claim they are in great condition for the fray. • * • Mike Saul stopped at the Georgian Sporting Department yesterday to in form us that he would gladly lake on Eddie Hanlon at the next show to he staged at the Auditorium Mike, how ever, insists that Eddie make 135 pounds. The two boys met before and put up a corking mill until Saul was awarded the scrap on a foul. • • • Mike Gibbons, who will meet Jimmy Perry ai Pittsburg Thursday night, is In the best of shape for the battle, as was shown by bis easy victory over Mike Dotiovan the other night • * * Joe Mandot, the French baker boy. may never box again. Mandot says two of his ribs were broken in the sec ond round of his recent clash with An derson and the injury Is causing him much pain Mandot is heartbroken over the defeat and says be will prob ably enter business and quit the ring for good. American Aaaoclatlon. LouisVille 2. St Paul 1. Minneapolis 2, Toledo 1. Toledo 16, Minneapolis 7. Milwaukee 4. Indianapolis 1. Indianapolis 6. Milwaukee 3 Kansas City 3, Columbus 2. International League. Rochester 3. Jersey City 2. Providence 2, Toronto 1, Other games postponed, rain. Appalachian League, Rome 9, Bristol 4. Knoxville-Cleveland, postponed: rain. Middleshoro-Johnson City, postponed: rain. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Friday. Mobile at Atlanta :it Police DeLeon. Game called at 3:45 o'clock. Memphis at Birmingham New Orleans at Chattanooga. Montgomery at Nashville Standing of the Cluhs. W L. Pc. r W L Pc. Mobile 27 15 .643 , M'phis 18 19 486 Atlanta 21 18 .538 | Chatt 18 19 48k N’ville. 20 18 526 j R’ham 16 19 157 Mon'gy 19 19 .500 » N. Or 12 24 333 Thursday’s Results. Atlanta 7. Mobile 2. Other games postponed. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Friday. No games scheduled. Friday’s Games. Cordele at Thomasville. Valdosta at Waycross. Americus at Brunswick. Standing of the Clubs W. V’donta 11 Cordele 11 Th'ville 10 Pc. .579 .579 .526 W L. Pc. W'cross 10 9 a526 Amelia 8 11 ,421 B'wick 7 12 .368 Standing of the Clubs. W L. Phila. 20 9 C'land 22 12 VV’gton 18 12 Ch’cago 21 14 Pc .690 647 .600 .600 W. L. St. L. 16 21 Boston 14 19 Detroit 12 22 N. York 9 23 Pc. .432 .424 353 .281 Thursday's Results. Philadelphia 7. Detroit 3. Cleveland 5. Washington 0. St. Louis 7. New York 0. Chicago 2. Boston 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Friday’s Games. Pittsburg at Brooklyn. St. Louis ai New York. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. Standlne of the Clubs. W. L . J e. W L Pc Phila 19 7 781 Gh’go 17 16 .515 B’klvn 19 12 .313 P’burg 15 18 .455 N York 15 14 517 Boston 10 17 870 St L. 16 15 .516 C'nati 9 21 .300 Thursday's Results. Pittsburg 1. Brooklyn o. Other games postponed, rain GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE. Friday’s Games. Opelika at LaGrange Talladega at Anniston. Gadsden at Newnan. Standing of the Clubs. Thursday's Results. Cordele 7. Thomasville 5. Americus 7. Brunswick 4. Valdosta 6, Waycross l. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Friday’s Games. Macon at Albany. Charleston at Columbus. Savannah at Jacksonville. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. , W L. Pc Sav'nah 24 6 .800 CTbus 14 15 .483 .1 vilh 15 15 .500 Ch’Ston 13 16 .448 Macon 15 15 .5001 Albany 8 22 267, Thursday’s Results. Savannah 5, Jacksonville 1. Macon 4. Albany 1. ' ’ ha rlest on -Columbus; rain. OTHER RESULTS. Texas League. Dallas 5. San Antoni** 2. Beaumont 13, Fort Worth 6. Houston 13, Austin 1. Galveston 8. Waco 6 Cotton States League. All games postponed; rain. Carolina Association. Winston-Salem 6, Greensboro 2. Asheville II. Durham 6. Raleigh 5, Charlotte 3. Virginia League. Petersburg 4. Portsmouth t. Roanoke 1, Norfolk 1 Richmond 12, Newport News 4. SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN. 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