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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 20. IMA.
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HELD JUNE 13
T HF J!m 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 but
the wrap has been moved back four
days on account of the Buffalo Bill
circus, which will be here the latter
date.
The Fireman fights Jim Coffey at
New York Friday night and will leave
for Atlanta soon. The promoters of
•he Auditorium show have made ar
rangements to have both contestants
on the battle ground ten days be
fore the scrap, which should give
the fans ample time td see the two
heavyweights in their training work.
Savage has been boxing several of
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 hoy. Many of
the Eastern boxing followers, who
have seen Savage in action lately, are
boosting him as another Jim OorbetY
* * *
T HE winner of the Auditorium show
■ will probably meet Gunboat Smith
or Luther McCarty. McCarey and
Coffroth both have their eyes peeled
on the June 9 show and it would not
be surprising to see the coast pro
moters send for the winner.
Two other good ten-round battles
will be held in connection with the
heavyweight tilt. Mike Saul, well
known 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-
^ tlon to local fandom. Mike was
rated as a contender for the light
weight crown untl] 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.
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
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Rummy Should Worry
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Copyright, li>13. International News Serrle*.
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By Tad
Sports and Such
THE STANDING of the clubs
in the big leagues at this waiting
forms a fine chance for that much-
talkea-of “rushing attack” in base
ball which is known as the “base
running game.”
It is a theory of students of
the great national pastime that a
team of fast and skillful base steal-
er? hay a tremendous edge at the
go-off in a battle with a team less
jrifred In this direction. Let us
give a look:
'The Boston Americans, the
worifs champions, are popularly
known as the Speed Boys, a name
which arose from the dazzling
rapidity with which they are wont
o flit from base to base. This
>eymH to be an off season for flit
ting. The Red Sox are not only
way down in the league race, but
rlvy are also way down in the
base-stealing records for the sea
son.
* * *
THERE ARE OTHER EXAM
PLES that might be pointed out.
but 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
“rus'hing attack” stuff. Base steal
ing i« the diversion of winners. It
is not so much a cause as an effect..
Base stealers are the lancers 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
arvd 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 k like C’obb,
for instance. will occasionally
steal second at a critical moment
and thus lay the foundation of a
winning run. But this is beside
the main point—that barfe stealing
as a system of offense in a ball
game Is nix.
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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.
* • •
Umpire 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 ram fell no harder in
the sixth inning, when Klem ordered a
cessation of play, than it had during the
three Innings previous.
* * *
The Red Sox outhit the White Sox
yesterday, but the Chicagoans grabbed
off a 2 to 1 victory.
. * * *
The league-leading Athletics had an
easy lime defeating the Tigers yester
day, the veteran Plank shutting out the
Detroit boys and permitting them but
three hits.
* • •
That old Pirate machine seems to be
in fine working order again and it seems
quite safe to bet that they will be 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 race this season
promises to be 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 that 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 11
falter farther along, but even if they do
they have already dealt the mighty trio
such a terrific wallop that there will be
no runaway race for any one of the trio,
as in years gone by.
* * *
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. But 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 furbish
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 vear and the Senators are showing
that their speed of last year has be
come a permanent possession.
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Careful examination of Carl Cashion'a
injured arm demonstrates that a liga
ment is badlv 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 cluh
get doing that in earnest and they
fight even* step of the way.
ED ALPERMAN SECURES
JOB WITH WAYCROSS CLUB
Ed Alperman. the Atlanta cap
tain's younger brother, l?as secured a
berth with Charlie Wahoo's Waycross
Empire State League Club and will
join that team in the next few days.
Ed arrived in Atlanta yesterday
afternoon and will be here with his
brother for a few days before report
ing to his new teammates.
Ed is an outfielder and it is under
stood that the local club will keep a
string on him. which they will yank
at the end of the present season.
DE PONTHIEU SHADES KIRKE.
BINGHAMTON. X. Y„ May 23.—
Louis DePonthieu. champion of
France, shaded Olhe Kirke. of St.
Louis. In a ten-round boxing bout.
Cracker Attack Most Deadly Ever
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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 bunts 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-hlt.
There isn't an offensive maneuver, barring the bunt, at which they do not
shine.
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\17HY this team shouldn’t wallop the stuffing out of Mike Finn s club
YV 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 has a pretty well-balanced club. Paulet. Stock, Starr and
O’Dell are good men. Of course, alongside of Agler, Alperman, Bisland
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.
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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, and 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 hard and everybody ready to call it off and go home.
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B EFORE the Mobile season is over some cast-off Is going to figure. They
always do. Mobile has O’Dell and Senteli, former Crackers. Atlanta
has Long and Dunn, former Gulls. So something has to happen.
In yesterday's game the ex-Gu!ls now with the Crackers had all the
better of the argument. Senteli 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.
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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’e like this:
After the Gulls began to gather this spring, a fake “signed statement,"
alleged to have been written by Mike, appeared in various papers 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."
* m, *
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. ll 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£-game lead can he 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
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
BASEBALL SUMMARIES Sporting Food
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 LO-rountl
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 whf) 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 .lr>e 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 “cheape 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 r ow-
boy. who stopped dead still several times
to look toward Jones for some definite
advice.
* * *
Sammy Robideau, of Philadelphia, is
the latest luminary Kastern fistic cir
cles are discussing Robideau fought
Johnny Lore in New York last week
and handed the latter a neat lacing
* * *
The Jack Britton-Kddie 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-Whit* strap
for the Wisconsin city this mofith. Mor
gan is holding out for a big guaranty
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Friday.
Mobile at Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon.
Game called at 3.45 o’clock.
Memphis at Birmingham
New Orleans at Chattanooga.
Montgomery at Nashville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L.
Mobile 27 15
Atlanta 21 IS
N’ville. 20 18
Mon'gy 19 19
Pc. |
.043 M’phis
.538 Chatt.
.520 B'ham
.500 I N. Or.
W L.
18' 19
18 19
16 19
12 24
Tc.
486
486
.457
.333
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Friday’s Games.
Cordele at Thomasville.
Valdosta at Waycross
Americus at Brunswick.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. Pc.
V’dosta 11 8 .579
Cordele 11 8 .579
Th’ville 10, 9 .526
L.
W.
W” cross 10
Am'cus 8 11
B'wick 7 12
Pc.
626
.421
366
Thursday's Results.
Atlanta 7, Mobile 2.
Other games postponed.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Friday.
No games scheduled.
Standing of the Clubs.
L.
W
Phila 20 9
C’land 22 12
W'gton 18 12
Ch'cago 21 14
Pc
.690
.647
.600
.600
\V 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 at New York
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs
VV a- ’c W. L.
Phila 19 7 .731 rh’go 17 16
B'klyn 19 12 .313 P’burg 16 IS
N York 15 14 .517 Boston 10 17
St. L. 16 15 .516 C'nati 9 21
Pc.
.516
i
.370
300
Thursday's Results.
Pittsburg 1, Brooklyn 0.
Other games postponed, rain.
GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE.
Friday’s Games.
npelika at LnGrange.
Talladega.at Anniston.
Gadsden at Newnan.
Standinq of the Clubs.
L. Pc | W. L. Pc.
ladsd’n 1 1 4 .733 Ajin'ton 7 8 .467
T'doga 8 7 .532 Opelika 7 9 438<
Newnan 8 7 .533) LaGr’ge 5 11 .313
Thursday's Results.
LaGrange 4, Opelika 3
other games postponed; rain
Thursday’s Results.
Cordele 7, Thomasville 5
Americus 7, Brunswick 4.
V aldosta 6. Waycross 1.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Friday's Games.
Macon at Albany.
Charleston at Columbus.
Savannah at Jacksonville.
Standinq of the Clubs.
W L. Pc. , W. L
Sav'nah 24 6 .800 Cl bus 14 15
.1 ville 15 15 .500 ! Ch'ston 13 16
Macon 15 15 .5001 Albany 8 22
Thursday’s Results.
KgVannah 6. Jacksonville 1.
Macon 4. Albany I.
Charleston-ColumbOs; rain.
OTHER RESULTS.
Texas League.
Dallas 5. San Antonio 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 11. Durham 5.
Raleigh 5, Charlotte 3.
Virginia League.
Petersburg 4. Portsmouth 1.
Roanoke 1. Norfolk 1.
Richmond 12, Newport News 4
Pc.
.483
J48
.267
t **Sy GEORGE E. PHAIR——-
SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN.
When Heim Zim starts going same
He makes a lot of fuss.
He puts the whole world on the hum
And does not care a cuss.
And pet hr would not do the same
If Frank L. Chance were in the game.
When Heine Zim is fancy free
He is a wild young gent.
Hr is a witling slave to the
| Artistic temperament.
And yet he would not pull the same
If Frank L. Chance were in the game.
Joe Thomas, the youth whom Charlie
White walloped. Is called the pride of
New Orleans. This demonstrates how
easy It is to be proud.
WHY SHOULD FATHER WORRY?
Father, dear father, come home with
me now,
The clock in the steeple srikrs six.
11 hat matter if Murphy has lines on
his lirow
With the Cubs in a hrluva fix?
Los Angeles and San Francisco are
fighting over the Ritchie-Rivers match,
demonstrating how easy it is to start a
fight.
LINES TO CHARLEY FRANK.
You may change, you may censor
your words if you t will.
' Hut the scent of alfalfa will cling to
them still.
John RusKin
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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
PHI1.ADB1.PH1A. 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 I
in exchange for Pitcher Fromme. !
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