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, THE ATT-A XT \ f.FOR<TI \X AM) XEW8, TIN y O jy i±=7'iT- \ Bv '(‘ivy H. Whiting. W HEN Whltey Alperman went over after a terrific grounder hit by Spencer in the sixth and caught the ball with the side of his head there was a gasp front the crowd It was a terrific blow—enough to floor an ox. It didn't floor Whltey. quite, but It put (lim out of the game. And through the rest of a gloomy afternoon the fans had a chance to think w hat 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 In Ills life. It wilt be recalled that spite work put him out of the big leagues. He and Charley Kbbets had words and the Brooklyn mogul said he would spend $10,000 to keep "Whltey out of the lilg league*. So he sent him to Rochester. But when John Han sel gave him up there was no question of spite work. Jawn thought he was "all through." Lsist year Alperman played sensa tional ball This year, with a better club, he Is going even stronger. Said King Brudy. the other day, ‘■I’ve known Alperman off and on through hi* w hole career He Is play ing better ball now than he ever did In hie life -vastly better than when he was with Brooklyn. And he was a grand infielder then." • * • ALHHIKMAN has been a great man for Atlanta. His hatting has been timely and hi* fielding phenomenal. Anv man who could plug the gap that Otto Jordan left has some size to him. And Alperman has more than done it. If anything happened to old Whltey the Cracker team would be raeased up proper • 4> • r T wa» a freaky game the Crackers loat yesterday. ITp to the seventh the Pelicans had made five 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 II It was another wretched game for the Crackers. Hood old Joe Dunn had a hideous time of It, Agler pulled a mlscue that cost two runs, a couple of pops fell Rife 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 at first and second and the Crackers wasted enough hits to win three ordinary games. * • * S EVERAL add propositions devel oped. Seventy-seven per rent of the Pelicans’ hits t ame after the fifth inning. Seventy-five per cent of the Crackers’ hits were made by the first two men on the batting order. One hundred per rent were made by Long. Welchonce and Smith. Seventy--even per cent of Atlanta's put-outs were made by the last three men In the hatting order. Everything went by spots. And it was a spotty, sloppy', chilly game. • * • T HE Pels had 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 i fielder. A little uebble gave the hall that hit Alperman a bad bound, knocked out 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 Hailey, two of the league's greatest pinch-hitters, deliver a safe swat. * • a D AT WRIGHT, most bitterly ex< * crated of President’s Knvanaugh- staff of umpires, served his first sen tence behind the hat Tuesday. Once or twice Pat was palpably off In a close game it would hav.‘ been exasperating. With everything shot to blaze.s anyhow it did not matter. "But,” as one of the hall players remarked, anent the fact that the vet eran is generally wrong. “It's lucky Pat's name is Wright.” KEWANEE TO STAY. KEWANEE. ILL.. May 28— Presi dent Hugh Hill emphatically denied that the Kewanee Central Association team will give up its franchise. Tuesday’s Game. ab. r. h. po. 1 6 N. Orleans. Hendrvx, of . Atz. 2h . . . Clancy, ss . . Breen. rf . . Spencer. If Williams, 3b Snedecor, lb Adams, o . . Swindell, p . Totals .... 36 8 11 12 1 Atlanta. Long rf Welchonce rf Alperman,2b Bailey, rf . . Smith, 3b Bisland. ss Agler. tb . . Dunn. ( Ohappelle. p . Rohe. 2b . xPrice . . . Totals . • • SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT His Honor Meets a Right Guy Copyright. 1913, International New* Service. By Tad St*. mo”o“a " 3U*T ( spe* ur 4 rw hov-jO-v 1 V 5TXJP• D , 4 CAR vOOMCr n rH(3je , sh0 <JI-D j Vt J I! 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New Orleans :it Atlanta, Ponce De Leon. Game called at 3:45 o’clock. Montgomery at Birmingham. Mobile at Chattanooga. Memphis at Nashville. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Mobile 30 17 N’ville 22 20 M’phis 22 20 Atlanta 22 21 W 1,. Chat 1 a 22 21 Mont. 21 22 B’ham 18 22 N. Or. 14 28 Results Tuesday. New Orleans 8. Atlanta 2. Memphis 4, Nashville 3. Montgomery 10, Birmingham 2. Chattanooga 7. Mobile 5. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburg St. Louis at Chicago. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc Phila. 22 7 .750 B’klyn lft 14 .576 Ch’c’go 1ft 17 .528 St L. 18 17 .514 W. L N York 16 16 P’burg 16 lft Boston 12 18 C’nnatl 10 24 Standing of the Clubs. W. L Pc. W L. Pc V’dosta 14 8 .636 W'cr'ss 11 12 .478 Cordele 13 10 .565, B’wick lft 13 135 Th'ville 1*2 11 .522' Am’cus 8 14 .364 Results Tuesday. Thomasville 3, Waycross 2. Brunswick ft. Cordele 5. Valdosta 0, Americus 0. GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE. % Games Wednesday. New nan at Gadsden. Opelika at Anniston LaGrange at Talladega. r. CHRISTY MATHEWSCtrS BIG LEAGUI GOSSIP N' Standing L. r w. Gads'n 13 T’degu 11 s Newn’n 11 ft of the Clubs. \V L Opelika ft 10 An’ston ft lft L&Gr’ge 5 14 EW YORK, May 'J>. A few days ago i discussed the difi'ereut teams in the National l.eacue race in ih'neral. To-day I will return to the same subject, sizing up the (Hants and Pirates. Both teams were oft’ all over In the early part of the race. The New York players displayed seme of the worst fielding seen on any diamond since the late world's series. Noth Ilia was sure to the (Hants. The pitchers were also out of sorts. 7’esreau t'ailina to act nn.viua and Marquard Ixfina out of condition from sickness. The Giants hopped Into their fielding stride last week with a slnale bound, and the infield is moving like tring of firecrackers now. Instead of turning outs into base hits, as we were doing, the infielders are now cut ting down base hits and converting them into outs, as several of the Pittsburg players will tell you if you get a chance to consult them. That helps. Following this encouraging sign, both Tosreau and Marquard stepped out and pitched good baseball last week. Itube showing a very fine Hi in xBalted for ('hapelle in ninth. 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 t 'hit ago at Cleveland. Washington at f’hiladtdphia. Boston at New York Standing of the Clubs. W. L Pc W. Score by inn ini New Orleans.. Atlanta ftftft 202 301 ftl ft Iftft 000- Phila 24 1ft 706 C'land 24 12 .667 Ch’gn 21 16 568 W’gton y* 16 543 L Boston 15 1ft St. L. 18 24 Detroit 15 24 N. York ft 24 Summ'arj Two-base hit Breen. Home runs—Smith. Spencer. Pouble play.- Atz to Snedecor. Chappells m Agier, Hendryx h* Adams Struck out By L*hapT»elb‘. 5: h\ Swimlell. Hoses 011 balls—Off Chappclle. 1 off Swindell, 5, Sacrifice liits Bislat Adams. Stolen liases- VVelchon< \*let. Hendryx. Gl tn■ y. Long. Passed ha IU—Dunn 2. Wild pitch Swin-i (!•:!. T'rne—2:05 i*mpir« - -Wright i and Pfenninger. FREE. NEXT SUNDAY The American Sunday Monthly Mag-azine, contain ing the first chapters of Jack London's new story, is > n'T'FN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. Results Tuesday. Philadelphia 8-7. Washington 0-1. Si 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 W. L Pc Savah 27 7 7«* CThus 18 ’6 529 .J’ville 18 16 .529 W L. Macon 15 17 Ch’ston 13 21 \lhanv 9 23 Retnits Tuesday. Savannah 1. Charleston 0. Jacksonville 4. Macon 2 Albany 6. Columbus 4 EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Carres Wednesday. Brunswick a’ Cordrle W’a'cross at Thomasville. Aintricus at Valdosta. Results Tuesday. Anniston ft. t >pelika ft. Gadsden 5. Newnan 2. Talladega 2. LaGrange 1. OTHER RESULTS. Texas League. Dallas 8, Fort Worth 2. Houston 8. San Antonio 1. Waco 11. Austin 3. Beaumont 4. Galveston 4. Carolina Association. All games postponed. Virginia League. All games postponed. , Appalachian League. Cleveland 17. Bristol 7. Johnson Clty-Middleaboro, rain Home 11. Knoxville ft. International League. Newark ft. Baltimore 2 Providence 4. Jersey City 0. Toronto-Montreal, ruin. Rochester-Buffalo, wet grounds. American Association. St Paid 5. Kansas City 4 Louisville ft. Indianapolis 1. Milwaukee 8 Minneapolis 7. Columbus-Toledo, rain. DANS SHADES SMITH. dks MOINES, IOWA, M.t> ft. Georg- Dans, of Monmoth. Ill anti Ami\ Smith, of Oklahoma City, fought eight rounds before the Iowa Bankers' Convention it tin Auditorium last night. Dans having a shade the best of Smith. GRANEY NAMED REFEREE. SAN FRANCISCO. Max 28 -Kddn Graney. the veteran referee, is the choice as the third man in the ring on July 4. when Joe Rixers and Willie Ritchie battle for the lightweight championship title. BURNS STOPS HOPPE. OAKLAND. CAL. >la« 28.— Frankie Burn- the Oakland light eight. kn-H’k* d oir Willie Hoppe. \d Wolgai-; s protege, in the ninth round of their scheduled ten-round bout iast night. game! •against the Pirates when he got tan gled tip in a pitching battle with Ca mult z. the one that went fourteen innings. His fast ball had the hop on It for the first time this season, and when he is getting the jump on bis fast one be is one of the best southpaws in the business anywhere. Tesreau also stepped forth in the lat ter part of this same game and dis played his old speed and the break on his spitter which made hiui really the leading pitcher of the National league last season. With these two men going at their 1 H*st, the Giants are sure to get pitch ing. The only man on the stall* not up to the top of his stride now is A1 Demaree, the recruit who has shown such grand form so far this season. He strained his side recently, and will not Ik* ready to work regularly again for about a week. But Tesreau can go to the box every other day if necessary, but it won’t Ik* necessary with Marquafd and myself in shape to take our regular turns. * * * r TNlK Giants have not hit up t«» any * tiling like the pace they showed last season so far, hut they should but harder. Shafer, who has replaced Snodgrass in center field, is one of the most natural hitters I have ever seen, and it is impossible to get him to go after a bad ball. He has a wonderful •\0 and is a splendid judge of balls and strikes. His batting average din's not show his true strength, localise he reaches first base so often on passes. He is also lightning fast on the bases once lie arrives, and will worry any pitcher badly. Burns is capable of batting l**ttor than he is doing at present. He is still a little strange in the big league tierth. but he is a good ball player. Fletcher is batting hard, and Mer kle ami Murray have picked up with in the last. week. Meyers so far has not acquired his last season's punch. The club will get batting, and then we should climb through the league like the gossip of a kiss through a boarding house. * * * ■piTTSKFRG afrittored away ball *- jiarnas until it came to New York, when it took one of (hose sud den braces and battled us to a practi cal standstill. After leaving the Polo Grounds, the Pirates went over to Rrooklyn and choked down the fond liojies of the Dodgers, when Dahlen 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 the pitching and the hitting, and will l>e in the contention for the cham pionship. * * • D^OOKLYX has started to fade, and I expect to see the team drop, of course the club will not go down to the depths to which other Brooklyn teams have descended in years past, but it will he lighting to remain out of the second division be fore the last word is in. T hi: St. Louis club is a big sur prise. especially to the (Hants, 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 player. So is Huggins. Tlie rest of the team is nothing out of the ordinary, and a club must be out of the ordinary to win a pennant. Huggins’ peppery personality has done a lot for the team. Sallee will do a lot more if he sticks in shaiie all season. (Copyright, 1913. hy the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) CARDINALS WILL HOLD ON TO JIMMY SHECKARD ST. Louis, May 28.— A yarn ema nating from Cincinnati to the effect that Jimmy Sheckard would be re leased by the Cardinal club because fits salary was too bulky was spiked yesterday by Manager Huggins. “1 have no intention of releasing Sheek- ard.” declared the Cardinal com mander. ‘and 1 want to state that emphatically. Shec&ard is a great ball player, and be was paid accord ingly by the Chicago club. We took over his contract, but we re not kick ing. Whether he will pi ay regularly i>' a question. Our club really hasn't shaped itself as yet." Yvhiite City Park bow Open j WILLIAMS BREAKS YALE’S LONG WINNING STREAK NEW HAVEN. CONN.. May 28.—Wil liams broke Yale's record of seventeen eon/euo*J\e victories by shutting out the Blue on Yale field yesterday. 2 to 0. The game was pi a; ed on a wa’ec*-soaked diamond, with the drizzling rain falling at inter. als. Each team fieldel bii»- bantly FODDER FOR FANS Overall, of the Cubs, and Sallee, of the 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 ai lowed the Senators only two nits. * * * Peckinpaugh, the former Nap utility Infielder, 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. • • • Johnny Evers, manager of the Cubs, openly accuses Pitcher Camnitz, of the Piratefe, with deliberately hitting Cheney 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 the 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. * * * The lowly Braves administered a dou ble defat to the Giants, pushing the New Yorkers down to fifth place, 25ft points behind the leading Phillies. • 4> • The Braves’ second victorv of the day was a clean-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 hat and bounded away, while Connelly scored the only run of the game. * • Manager Stovall’s triple in the seventh which scored a run followed by Aus tin’s single, scoring Stovall w'ere 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 the newspapers. A short time back Murphy set out on the trail of “Rube" Scheur, a promising pitcher of the Superior. Mis., team, in the Northern League. The newspapers primed 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.” * * * Dick Rudolph, the recruit from the To ronto team, in the International League who pitched for the Braves Monday, holding the Giants at his merev. 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 oxfiL ATLANTA Alt This Week A MATS. Miss Billy Long Co. J MON. .1 WED. « SAT. ST, ELMO 25c By Request *ightsJ5c. 25c, 35c, 50c. . B Jack Loudon’s new story, “The Scarlet PlagTie,” begins in the American Monthly Magazine given free with every copy of next Sunday's American. FREE. NEXT SUNDAY. 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