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I D> THE ATLANTA OKOROTAN AND NEWS, D: ik<. EPT SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT His Honor Meets a Right Guy Copyright. 1913, International New* Bertie*. By Percy H. Whiting. W HEN Whltey Alperm«n went over after a terrific ^rounder hit by Spencer in the sixth and caught the ball with the side of his head there was a gasp from the crowd. It was a terrific blow—enough to floor an ox. It didn’t floor Whltey, ■julte, but It put him out of the game. And through the rest of a gloomy afternoon the fans had a chance to think what a difference It would make to the Crackers If anything happened to Alperman. The odd thing about Alperman Is that he’s playing better ball now than he ever played til his life. It will be recalled that spite work put him out of the big leagues He and Charley Ebbets had words and the Brooklyn mogul said he would spend *10,000 to keep "Whltey’ oul of the big leagues. So lie sent him to Rochester. But when John (lau rel gave him up there was no question of spite work. Jawn thought he was "all through.” Last year Alperman played sensa tional ball. This year, with a better club, he is going even stronger. Said King Brady, the other day. "I've known Alperman off and on through his whole career He Is play ing better ball now than he ever did In his life—vastly better than when he was with Brooklyn. And he was a grand inflelder then " • • • ALPERMAN lias been a (treat man - » fnr Atlanta. His batting lias been timely and Ills fielding phenomenal. Any man who could plug the gap that Otto Jordan left has some size to him. And Alperman lias more than done II if anything happened to old Whltey the Cracker learn would he messed up proper * * • ] T way a freaky game the Crackers * lost yesterday. Up t<» the seventh the Pelicans had made live hits and four runs. The Crackers had made eight hits and two runs. Then every body “blew" at once on the Cracker side and the visitors romped, 8 to 2. It was another wretched game for the Crackers. Good old Joe Dunn had a hideous time of it, Agler pulled a miseue that cost two runs, a couple of popy fell wife for lack of a little determination in getting under them, Tommy Long slumbered at the switch and failed to score from third on a slow double play a< first and second and the Crackers wasted enough hits to win three ordinary games. w.o HOMO* 1 3' J - ST A fAd HCP-B TRiLD TO cl££up a CAW WiC OP VOUkJCv- \ vMe&t PUUC./N'O- , SHOULD / ,t qjoftiw >8 ' SUP V MURID V devt 1- CEVERAL odd propositions oped. Seventy-seven per cent <>i the Pelicans’ hits came after the fifth inning. Seventy-five per cent of the Crackers’ hits were made by the first two men on the hatting order. One hundred per cent were made by Long. Welchonce and Smith. Seventy-peven per cent of Atlanta’s put-outs were made by the lust three men in the batting order. Everything went by spots. And it was a spotty, sloppy, chilly game. * * • T HE Pels bad all the luck. Spen cer’s home run over the signs was an easy loft. The same hit to center or left would undoubtedly have been an out to a fielder. A little pebble wave the bell that hit Alperman a bad bound, knocked outv a steady in flelder and cost another run. The Crackers batted terrifically but never at the right time. For instance, note this coincidence: Three times in suc cession Long hit a single and Wel chonce followed him with a single. Twice none was out. Once one was out. Not once In three times could either Alperman or Bailey, two of the league’s greatest pinch-hitters, deliver a safe swat. • * * DAT WRIGHT most bitterly exc- 1 crated of President’s KavarmughV staff of umpires, served his first sen tence behind the bat Tuesday. Once oT twice Pat was palpably off. In a close game it. would have been exasperating. With everything shot to biases anyhow it did not matter. “But." as one of the ball players icmarUcd, anent the fact that the vet eran Is generally wrong. "It’s lucky Pat’e name Is Wright." KtWANEE TO STAY. KEYYANEE ILL., May 28. Presi dent Hugh Hill emphatically denied that the Kowanee Central Association team will gi\e up Hp franchise. Tuesday’s Game. N. Orleans, ab. r. h. pc Hendryx, cX . f» 2 1 6 Atz. 2 b . . 4 2 2 2 Oiancy. ss . . . 6 n 2 3 Breen, rf . 4 1 1 2 Spencer. !f •'•12 2 Williams, 3b . . 4 n o o Snedecor. lb . . 4 1 l 8 Adams, c . . . 3 b <• 4 Swindell, p . 4 1 2 0 Totals .... 36 8 11 27 Atlanta. Lojng. rf Welchonce. ef Alperman,2b . Bailey, rf . . Smith. 3b . Bislanm ss . *.5ior, lb . . Dunn, c . . . C'.iappelle. p -b . Totals .. . 32 2 8 27 10 1 xBattcd for Chapelle In ninth. | * J^AAfJ j I OWN m sieP ho N*0 <*- \ '&f\ M&UICW \ f!X &IV/6 ME LJPE \ IpAT vSHO(AJ> \*jOR &-X 5TUf^ ISM K7 (QO *M>CE- 2 > LUFF vou. £ No 1 - 1 BE tiupi# l_O0KlU<3- Bur vov tr A fnit-tT &l(V- i camT Jtamo uitj TWO it l TIP. 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Mobile 30 17 .638 Chatta 22 21 N'ville 22 20 .524 Mont. 21 22 M'phis 22 20 .524 B’ham 18 22 Atlanta 22 31 .512 N. ♦ T. 14 28 Results Tuesday. New Orleans 8 Atlanta 2. Memphis -1, Nashville 3. Montgomery 10. Birmingham 2. Chattanooga 7. Mobile 6. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. New York at Boston Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburg St. Louie at Chicago. Gtandlne of the Club* \V L. IV Phila. 22 7 .750 H'klyn 10 11 .676 Ch’c’go 10 17 .628 St. L. 18 17 .514 \V L N York 16 16 P’burg 16 10 Boston 12 13 C'nnatl 10 24 Standing of the Clubs. W. I a. Pc W L V'dosta 14 8 ,i.36 W’or ; s 111" Cordelc 13 10 .565 B'wick 10 13 Th’ville 12 11 .522 Am’cus 8 14 Results Tuesday. Thomasville 3, Waycross 2. Brunswick i*. Cordele 5. Valdosta 0, Americus 0. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Nevvnan at Gadsden. Opelika at Anniston. LaGrange at Talladega. Standing of the Clubs. W 1. Pc (Jails’n 13' 7 .660 TMega 11 8 .570 Newn’n 11 0 .5f0 \V. L. Pc. Opelika o 10 .474 An’.st on o o t7-t LaGr’gc 6 14 .263 Score by innings New Orleans.. Atlanta 000 202 oio mo 301 000- Summarv: Two-base hit Breen. Home runs—Smith. Spencer. Double plnyy—-Atz to Snedecor. Chappelle to Agler. Hendryx to Adams. Struck out—By Chappelle, *>: by Swindell, 3. Bases on balls—Off Uhappclle. 1; off Swindell, 5 Sacrifice hits—Bisiand, Adams. Stolen bases—Welchonce, Agler, Hendryx, Clancy, Long. Passed balls—Dunn 2. Wild pitch—Swin dell. Time—2:05. Umpires—Wright and Pfenninger. FREE, NEXT SUNDAY. The American Sunday Monthly Magnidne, contain ing- the first chapters of Jack London’s new story, is OTVEN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. Results Tuesday. Chicago 2. St. Louis 1 Boston 1-5 New York 0-2 Other games postponed AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Detroit at St. Louis. Phitnuu iit Cleveland. Washington at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. Standing of the Clubs. W L Ur I \V L. Phila. 24 10 1*16 Boston 1*5 19 i “land 24 12 .607! St L IS 24 Ch’go 21 16 5fs j Det’-oit 15 24 W’gton P* 16 .543 1 N. York 9 24 Results Tuesday. Philadelphia 8-7. W ashington 0-1 St Louis 3. Detroit 2 Other games postponed SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Savannah at Charleston. Albany at Columbus Macon at Jacksonville. . Standing of the Clubs Results Tuesday. Anniston !•. Opelika 0. Gadsden 5 New nan 2 Talladega 2. LaGrange 1. OTHER RESULTS. Texas * League. Dalian 8. Port Worth 2 Houston 8, San Antonio t. Waco 11. Austin 3. Beaumont 4. Galveston 4. Carolina AssociaUon. All games postponed. > M. CHRISTY MATHEWSCWS BIG LtAGUf GOSSIP FODDER FOR FANS N i:\v YORK, May Us. A few days ago I discussed the different teams in the National League race in general. To-day I will return to the same subject, sizing up the Giants and I’irates. Roth teams were off all over in the early part of the race. The New York players displayed some of the worst lielding seen on any diamond since tile late world’s series. Nothing was sure to the Giants. The pitchers were also out of sorts, Tosreau failing to get moving and Marquard being out of condition from sickness. The Giants hopped into their fielding stride last week with a single bound, and the infield is moving like a string of firecrackers now. Instead of turning outs into base hits, as we were doing, the infielders are now cut ting down base lilts and converting them into outs, as several of the Pittsburg players will tell you if you gel a chance to consult them. That helps. Following this encouraging sign, lsdli Tesreau and Manpmrd stepped out and pitched good baseball last flue Virginia L< fames post poped League. W 1 /. p <' Sav’ah 27 7 .794 CTbus 18 ’6 .629 J’ville 18 16 .529 W L. Macon 15 17 Ch’sten 13 2*. Mbanv 9 23 Results Tuesday. Savannah 1. Charleston 0 Jacksonville Macon 2 Albany 6. c «iuinbus 4 EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Garres Wednesday. Brunswick at Cordele. , Waycross at Thomasville. | Americus at Valdosta. All gar Appalachian League. Cleveland 17. Bristol 7. Johnson City-Middleaboro, rain Home It. Knoxville 9. International League. Newark 9. Baltimore 2 Providence ‘ Jersey City <» Toronto-Montreal, rain. Rochester-Buffalo. wet grounds. American Association. St. Paul 6. Kansas City 4. Louisville 9, Indianapolis 1. Milwaukee 8. Minneapolis 7. Columbus-Toledo, rain. DANS SHADES SMITH. DKS MOINKS, IOW A. May 28. George Duns, of Monmoth. 111. and Andy Smith, of Oklahoma City, fought eight rounds before the Iowa Bankers’ Convention at the Auditorium last night. Dans having a shade the best of Smith. GRANEV NAMED REFEREE. SAN FRANCISCO, May 28.—Eddie Graney. the veteran referee, is the choice as the third man in the ring on Jul\ 4. when Joe Rivers and Willie Ritchie battle for the lightweight fcampionship title. BURNS STOPS HOPPE. OAKLAND. CAL. May 2S.-- Frankie Burns the Oakland ight- vcight, knocked out Willie Hopne. Ad Voig t; t’s protege, in the ninth round eir scheduled tell-round bout last nignt. week. Rube showing a very fine game against the Pirates when he got tan gled up in a pitching battle with (Y.mnitz. the one that went fourteen innings. Mis fast ball had the hop on it for the first time this season, and when he is getting the jump on his fast one he is one of the best southpaws in the business aitVwhore. Tesreau also stepped forth in the lat ter part of this same g*me and dis played his old speed and tin* break on his spitter which made him really the leading pitcher of the National League last season. With these two men going at their best, the Giants are sure to get pitch ing. The only man on the staff not up to the top of his stride now is A1 Demaree. the recruit who lias shown such grand form so far this season. Ho sirained his side recently, and will not he ready to work regularly again for about a week. Rut Tesreau can go to the l*>x every other day if necessary, but it won’t be necessary with Marquard and myself in shape to take our regular turns. * * * 'T'ili' Giants have not hit up to any- * thing like ihe pace they showed last season so far. but they should (•al harder. Shafer, who lias replaced Snodgrass in center field, is one of the most natural bitters I have ever seen, and it is impossible to get him to go after a Lad ball. He has a wonderful eye and is a splendid judge of balls and strikes, ills twitting average does not show bis true strength. t>eoause he reaches first Iwise so often on passes. He is also lightning fast on tlie bases once he arrives, and will worry any pitcher badly. Burns is capable of batting better than lie is doing at present. He is still a little strange in the big league berth. Imt he is a good ball player. Fletcher is batting hard, and Mer- kle and Murray have picked up with in the last week. Meyers so far has uot acquired his lust season's punch. Tlie club will get batting, and then we should climb through the leagui like tlie gossip of a kiss through a boarding house. * , * P lTTSRl RG afrittered away Iwili games until it came to New York, when it took one of those sud den braces and battled us to a practi cal standstill. After leaving the Folo Grounds, the Pirates went over do Brooklyn and choked down the fond hopes of the Dodgers, when I 'allien had been led to expect something soft after the fine manner in which the Boston club cleaned up four straight on Clarke’s crew. The Pirates have ihe pitching and the hitting, and will be in Ihe contention for tlie cham pionship. down .to the depths to which other Brooklyn teams Imve descended in years past, bill it will lie lighting to remain out of the second division be fore the last word is in. T-dii: st. prise, B R( , started to fade, and 1 expect to see the team drop. Of course the club will not go Louis club is a big sur- especic.lly to the Giants, but it is going ahead of its normal speed now. it has not the staunch ness to last. The team has two ex cellent pitchers. Harmon and Sallee, and Konetchy is a great ball playgr. So is Huggins. The rest of the team is nothing out of. the ordinary, and a club must be out of tlie ordinary to win a pennant. Huggins’ peppery personality has done a lot for the team. Sallee will lio a lot more if he sticks in sluice all season. (Copyright, ISIS, hy the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) CARDINALS WILL HOLD ON TO JIMMY SHECKARD ST. natin Louis. May 28.—A yarn ema- from Cincinnati to the effect that Jimmy Sheckard would be re leased by the Cardinal ciub because his salary was too bulky was spiked yesterday by Manager Huggins. “1 have no intention of releasing Sheck ard,” declared the Cardinal com mander, "and I want to state that emphatically. Sheckard is a great ball player, and he was paid accord ingly by the Chicago club. We took j _ over his contract, but we’re not kick-j next Sunday s American, ing. Whether he will play regularly ip a question. Our club really hasn’t shaped itself as yet.” WILLIAMS BREAKS YALE'S LONG WINNING STREAK NEW HAVEN. CONN.. May 28. Wil liams broke Yale's record of seventeen con-ect-Mve victories by shutting out the Blue on Yale field yesterday. 2 to 0. The game was placed on a wa*er-soaked diamond, with the dria/Jing rain falling at intervals. Each team fickle! bik- oantly Overall, of the Cubs, and Sallee, of ihe Cardinals, engaged in a pitchers’ battle yesterday, which resulted in fa vor of the former. ♦ * * The Athletics took a double-header in easy fashion from the Senators yester day, winning the first 8 to 0 and the second 7 to 1. Eddie Plank, the veteran southpaw, pitched in the first and al lowed the Senators only two ’nits. * # * Peekinpaugh. the former Nap utility inflelder. secured in trade by the Yan kees, will be given a regular position at shortstop. "Peck” is regarded as a fast and brilliant fielder, but somewhat shy with the war club. • mm Johnny Evers, manager of the Cubs, onenly accuses Pitcher Camnitz. of the Pirates, with deliberately hitt'ng (', eney and Archer with pitched balls and at tempting to hit Zimmerman. Evers intends taking his complaint to Presi dent Lynch. * * * Harry Lumley, once manager and star player with tim Dodgers, has been re leased by the Troy. N. Y.. team. An in jury to his throwing wrist perhaps will neecssitate his retirement from baseball. m m * The lowly Braves administered a dou ble defat to the Giants, pushing The New Yorkers down to fifth place, 259 points behind the leading Phillies. • * • The Braves’ second victory of the day was a ( lean-cut. deserved affair, but the first game was won on a fluke. In the ninth Sweeney hit to the outfield, and Connelly, rounding third, started for the plate. Burns would have thrown him out by nearly ten feet, but the ball, in stead of bounding into Catcher Meyers' hand, struck Sweeney's discarded bat and bounded away, while Connelly scored the only run of the game. * 4 * Manager Stovall’s triple in the seventh which scored a. run. followed by Aus tin's single, scoring Stovall. were enough to gain a victory yesterday for the Browns over the Tigers. * * * C. Webb Murphy, owner of The Cubs, who recently forbade his players To con verse with reporters, has another griev ance against llTe newspapers. A short time back Murphy set out or. the trail of “Rube" Scheur, a promising pitcher of the Superior. Wis.. team, in the Northern League. The newspapers printed the fact and the Superior club owners at once boosted the price of Scheur so high that Murphy balked. Murphy now states the newspapers "queered my deal.’’ ■* * * Pick Rudolph, the recruit from tr.e To ronto team, in the International League, who pitched for the Braves Monday, holding the Giants at his mercy, acted as a relief pitcher again yesterday and once again the New Yorkers were una ble to score on him. BASEBALL TO-DAY New Orleans vs. Atlanta Ponce DeLeon Park o’Cloek ATLANTA Al: This Week £% MATS. 4 MON. ■ 1 WED. v* SAT. IVfiss Billy Long Co. ST. 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