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THE ATLANTA HFORfil VN AND NEWS. [ By Percy H. Whiting. W HEN Whttey Alperman went over after a terrific grounder hit by Spencer In the sixth and caught the ball with the side of hl« head thero wan a gasp from the crowd. It was a terrific blow—enough to floor an ox. It didn't floor Whltey, quite, 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 Alpcrtnan. The odd thing about Alperman Is that he’s playing better hall now than he ever played in his life It will be recalled that spite work put him out of the big leagues. Ho and Charley Ebbets had words arid the Brooklyn mogul said he would spend $10,000 to keep "Whltey out of the big leagues. So he sent him to Rochester But when John Gau ze! gate him up there was no question of spite work. Jawn thought he was "all through.” East year Alperman played sensa tional ball. This year, with a better club, he Is going even stronger. Said King Brsdv, the other day, ■Tve known Alperman off and on through his whole career He Is play - 1ng better ball now than he ever did In his life—vastly better than when he was with Brooklyn And he was a grand lnflelder then." • • • A I.PERMAN has been n great man > l for Atlanta. His batting has been timely and his fielding phenomenal. Any 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 Whttey the Cracker team would be messed up proper » • • TT wap a freakv game the Urackers * lost vesterday Up to the j*>venth the Pelicans had made five hits and four runs. The Crackers had made eight hits and two run*. Then every body •blew” at once on the Cracker side and ^ie visitors romped. 8 to 2. It was another wretched game for the Trackers. Good old Joe Dunn had a hideous time of it, Agler pulled a miseue that cost two runs, a couple of popp fell safe 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 t first and second and the Crackers wasted enough hits to win three ordinary games. • • • S EVERAL odd propositions devel oped. Seventy-seven per tent of the Pelicans’ hits came after the llfth Inning. Seventy-five pep cent of the Crackers’ hits were made by the first two men on the batting order. One hundred per rent were made by Long, Welchonee and Smith. Seventy-wven per cent of Atlanta’s put-outs were made by the last three men in the batting 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 4asv loft. The same hit to center or left would undoubtedly have been an out to a fielder. A little pebble gave the ball 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 InKance, note this coincidence: Three times in suc cession Ixong hit a single and Wei - 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 • • • P AT WRIGHT, most bitterly eve- * crated of President’s Kavanaugh'.* 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 have been exasperating. With everything shot to blazes 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 dent Hugh Hill emphatically that the Kewaneo Central Assr team will give up Its franchisi T uesday* s Game. N. Orleans. ab. r. h. po Hendrvx, cf 5 2 1 6 Atz. 2b . . . 4 •* 2 2 Clancy, .** . . 5 ft 2 3 Breen, rf 4 1 1 j Ppeneer. if .3 1 ? Williams. 3b 4 n ft ft Bnedecor, lb 4 l 1 8 Adams, c . . 3 n ft 4 Swindell, p . 4 l ft Totals ... 36 8 11 27 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. Long, rf . . . .4 0 3 1 Welchonee, cf . 5 0 3 1 Alperman, 2 b 3 0 ft ft Bailey, rf . 2 0 ft ft Smith. 3b 4 2 2 3 Bisland. ss . 3 ft ft 1 Agler. lb . . . 2 ft ft 13 Bunn, c . . . 4 ft ft •; ’happelle. p . . 3 ft ft 1 Rohe. 2h . 1 ft ft ft xpftce . . . . 1 ft ft ft Totals 32 *> 8 27 xBatted Tor ChapeUe In nil Score by innings New Orleans .000 202 Atlanta .. .. . .01ft Iftft Summary: Two- base hit- SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT His Honor Meets a Right Guy • • • • Copyright, 1913, IiUernatiorul News Service. ;; By Tad i / -JCP MOM O*- 1 1 UiT / TStf***'* T*.R> TO Q Oh, It's Great to Be Married! • • • • Copyright, 1913, International News Service • • • • By George McManus a. e. 0 0 Home runs—Smith. Spencer. Double plays—Atz to Snedecor, Chappelle to Agler. Hendry* to Adams. Struck out—By Chappelle, 5; by Swindell. 3. Rases on balls—Off Chappelle, 1; off Swindell, 5. Sacrifice hits—Bisland. Adams. Stolen bases—Welchonee. Agler, Hendrvx. Clancy, Long. Passed’ balls—Dunn 2. Wild pitch—Swin dell. Time—2:05. Umpires—Wright and Pfenninger. FREE, NEXT SUNDAY. The American Sunday Monthly Magazine, contain ing the first chapters of Jack London’s new story, is GIVEN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. $ SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Game* Wednesday. New Orleans at Atlanta, Pon<*e Leon. (lame called at 8:45 o'clock. Montgomery at Birmingham. Mobile at Ghattanooga. Memphis at Nashville. Standing of the Clula*. W. L. Pc. W. L. Mobile 80 17 .038 Chatta 22 21 N’ville 22 20 .524 Mont. 21 22 M'phis 22 20 .524 H’ham 18 22 Atlanta 22 21 .512 N, Or. 14 28 Results Tuesday. New Orleans 8. Atlanta 2. Memphis 4. Nashville 3 Monigomery 10, Birmingham 2. Chattanooga 7, Mobile 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. New York at Poston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburg. St lx>uts at Chicago. De- Pc. .512 . IHK 450 .388 Standing of the W. L. Pc Phila. 22 7 .750 B'klyn 19 14 .570 Ch’c’gu 19 17 .528 St L. 18 17 .514 Clube. W L. N. Y ork 16 16 P’burg 16 19 Poston 12 18 C’nnati 10 24 Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. » W. L. re. V'dosta 14 8 .636 W’cr'ss 11 12 .478 Corded 13 10 .565 R’wick 10 13 435 Th’ville 12 11 .522 * Am’ous 8 14 .364 Results Tuesday. Thomasvllle 3, Waycross 2. Brunswick 9. Cordele 5. Valdosta 0, Americus 0. GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Nownan at Gadsden. Opelika at Anniston. LuGrange at Talladega. Standing of the Clubs, W. L. Pc. Oads'n 13 7 .650 T'dega 11 8 .579 Newn'n 11 9 .550 L Opelika 9 10* 474 An'ston 9 10 474 1 saGr’ge 5 14 .263 Tc .500 .45 400 294 7 Results Tuesday. Chicago 2, St. Louie 1. Roston 1-5. New York 0-2. Other games postponed. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Detroit at St. Louis. Chicago at Cleveland. Washington at Philadelphia Hosion at New York. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Phila 24 10 Cland 24 12 Oh’go 21 16 W'gton 19 16 Pc 706 667 568 543 W L. Boston 15 19 St L 18 24 Detroit 16 24 X York 9 24 Tc | .441 429 385 273 Results Tuesday. Philadelphia 8-7. Washington 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. W I*. Pc Sav'ah 27 7 7** CTbus 18 1 6 .629 Jville 18 16 529 W L Macon 15 17 Ch'ston 13 21 Albany 9 23 Pc. .169 .382 .281 Resuits Tuesday. Savannah 1. Charleston 0 Jacksonville 4, Macon 2 Albany 6, Columbus 4 EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Garres Wednesday. Brunswick at Cordele. Waycross at Thomasvllle. Americus at Valdosta, Results Tuesday. Anniston 9, Opelika 0 Gadsden 5. Newnan 2 Talladega 2. I^aGrange 1. OTHER RESULTS. Texas League. Dallas 8, Fort Worth 2 Houston 8. San Antonio L 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 City-Middlesboro. rain Rome 11. Knoxville 9 International League. Newark 9. Baltimore 2 Providence 4. Jersey City 0. Toronto-Montreal, rain Rochester-Buffalo. wet grounds American Association. Si Paul 5, Kansas City 4 lioulsvllle 9. Indianapolis 1 Milwaukee 8. Minneapolis T. Coliimbus-Toledo. rain DANS SHADES SMITH. DKS MOINES. IOWA, May 38 George Dans, of Monmoth. Ill., 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. GRANEY NAMED REFEREE. SAN FRANCISCO. May 28.—Eddie Graney. the veteran referee, is the choice as the third man in the ring on July 4. when Joe Rivers and Willie Ritchie battle for the lightweight championship title. BURNS STOPS HOPPE. OAKLAND. CAL.. May 28.— F'rankie Burns, the Oakland light weight. knocked out Willie Hoppe. Ad Wolgapt's protege, in the ninth round of their scheduled ten-round bout la^t night. CHRISTY MATMWSON'S . BIG LEAGUI GOSSIP N EW YORK, May —s. A few days ago I discussed the different teams irt the National l.eattue vaee In geneVal. To-day I will return to the same subject, sizing up the Giants and Pirates. Both teams were off all over In the early part of the race. The New York players displayed some of the worst fielding seen on any diamond since the late world's series. Nothing was sure to the Giants. The pitchers were also out of sorts, Tesreaii failing to get moving and Marquard tiffing out of condition from sickness. The Giants hopped Into their lielding stride last week with a single hound, and the infield is moving like a string of firecrackers now. Instead of turning outs into base hits, as we were doing, the inflelders 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 tliis encouraging sign, both Tesreau and Marquard stepped out and pitched good baseball last week. Rube showing a very fine game against the Pirates when he got tan gled lip in a pitching battle with Cainnttz. the one that went fourteen innings. His fast ball had the hop on It for the first time this seasou, and when he Is getting the jump on his fast one he is one of the best southpaws in the business anywhere. Tesreau also stepped forth in the lat ter part of this same game aud dis played his old speed and the break on his spltter which made him really the leading pitcher of the National League last season. With these two men going at their best, the Ginnts are sure to get pitch ing. The only man on the staff not up to the top of his stride now is A1 1 lomaree, the recruit who has shown such graud form so far this seasou. He strained his side recently, and will not be ready to work regularly again for about a week. Rut Tesreau can go to the box every other day if necessary, but it won’t be necessary with Marquard and myself in shape to take our regular turns. • • • "I'HE Giants have not hit up to any- thing ltke the pace they showed last season so far, but they should bat harder. Shafer, who has replaced Snodgrass in center Held, 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 eye and is a splendid judge of balls and strikes. His batting average does not show his true strength, because he reaches first base so often on passes. He is also lightning fast on the bases once he arrives, and will worry anv pitcher badly. Burns is capable of batting better than he ts doing at present. He is still a little strange in the big league berth, but he is a good ball player. Fletcher is batting hard, aud Mer- kie aud 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. » » • P ITTSRFRG afrtttered away ball games until it came tio New York, when it took one of those sud den braces and battled us to a praotl- eal standstill. After leaving the Polo Grounds, the Pirates went over to Brooklyn and choked down the fond hopes 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 be in the contention for the cham pionship. B drop. ROOKT.YN has started to fade. Of course the club will not go down to the depths to which other Brooklyn teams have descended In years past, but it will be fighting to remain out of the second division be fore the last word is in. « * • T HE St. Louis club is a big sur prise, especially 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 player. So is Huggins. The rest of the team is nothing out of the ordinary, and a club must he 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 shape all season. (Copyright, 1913, by 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 thai Jimmy Sheckard would be re leased by the Cardinal club 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 over his contract, but we’re not kick ing. Whether he will play regularly is> a question. Our club really hasn’t shaped itself as yet.” White City Park Now Open WILLIAMS BREAKS YALE’S LONG WINNING STREAK NFW HAVEN. CONN, May 28. -Wil liams broke Yale's record of seventeen consecutive victories by shutting out the Blue on Yale field yesterday. 2 to 0. The game was played on a wa^er-soaked diamond, with the drixzling rain falling at imer;als. Each team fielded bi Li lian tly. Jack London’s new story, “The Scarlet Plague, ” begins in the American Monthly Magazine given free with every copy of next Sunday’s American. Opium. Whi.k-7 «nd Dtp* H.HM *"««•< Fw£ m nR r B.M°woo?AsvriiS.VwS Sanitarium. Atlanta, Georg** / 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 look 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 hits. * * * 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 Pirates, with deliberalely 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 f flayer with the Dodgers, has been re eased by the Troy. N. Y., team. An in jury to his throwing wrist perhaps will necessitate his retirement from baseball. • * * 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 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 bat 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. 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- FREE, NEXT SUNDAY. The American Sunday Monthly Magazine, contain ing the first chapters of Jack London’s new story, is GIVEN FREE with every mr.v of the next Sunday American. Make State and Coun- ty tax returns now. Office j comer Pryor and Hunter j Streets. T. M. Armis- ; tead, Tax Receiver. 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, Wts., team, in the Aorthem 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.” * * • Dick Rudolph, the recruit from the To ronto team, in the International League, who pitched for the Braves Mondav. 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. 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