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THE ATLANTA HHOROIAN ANP NEWS.
FOR CRACKERS
By Perry H. Whiting.
T HE Crackers are going to have
aome new battery men within
the next few days. Deals are
considered, pending, hanging Are or
otherwise In the air for Catcher Roth
of Louisville, and Pitcher Robertson,
of Savannah, while Pitcher Conzel-
man, of the Pittsburg club, was pur- 1
rhased yesterday.
A real shake-up In the battery de
partment Is threatened. The fact that
a new catcher Is sought seems to
sound the doom of Catcher Joe Dunn.
Catcher Chapman Is making good ail
right and Dunn’s work hAs fallen a
bit short of perfection at times,
though at that he has proved to be
a satisfactory second catcher. >
» The Robertson deal has not pro
gressed very far, but the local club
Is decidedly interested. Robertson
has been In Savannah for several
years. Owing to his comparatively
small size he has been overlooked by
big league scouts, despite his excel
lent showing.
Under ordinary circumstances Sa
vannah would not be keen to sell in
midseason a pitcher of the ability Of
• Robertson. It happens, however, that
the Savannah club has got the Sally
League pennant and gone with it so
absolutely that It Is a fright. In con
sequence the Savannah club would
not in the least mind letting a couple
of men go. That might slow down
. their club a little and make it more
interesting.
Jim Fox tipped the local club off
to Robertson.
"I think,” Jim told Director Gus
Ryan, “that this man can win two-
thirds of his games for you. He’s
a pitcher like Russ Ford was In his
best days, with all of Ford’s speed
and a spltter that Is about as good.
I don’t believe he will ever go to the
big leagues. He Isn’t big enough.
But he's big enough to win in the
Southern League—or I don’t know
the league.”
• * •
THE fact that booze and baseball
*■ don’t mix for beans is being ex
emplified again Tight here in Atlanta.
We had some high old booze boxers
when the season started. They’re
about gone now. The rest are go
ing.
It might be libelous to go into par
ticulars about the various men—but
it would be Illuminating
Incidentally don’t put two and two
together and infer that Joe Dunn will
leave, if he does, for any such rea
son. Joe’s habits are perfection and
if he is ever dropped it will be be
cause advancing age and weight
have begun to slow him down.
• • •
'THIS Southern League is an es-
*■ pecially bad one for the boozers.
Owing to the extreme heat and the
strenuous schedule a boozer burns
. right out. He doesn’t have to culti
vate any thirst down here. It comes
easy. Of course the more he drinks
the more he wants. And the hotter it
gets the worse his condition.
* * •
I T has long been an opinion of mine
that a lot of the players who
‘ couldn’t stand the heat” down in the
Southern League were men who
couldn’t stand the combination of
“heat and booze.” They have come
to the Southern, played ball, fought
booze, burned out and returned home.
Of course the real truth didn’t suit
them. So they told about the “fever”
In the South.
A lot of the “fever” comes out of
bottles.
• • •
THE boozers are passing from base-
i ball. The managers will not fool
with them. They ruin themselves
and they rain a club.
One or two joy riders put the
Crackers on the biink last year.
Players who would ordinarily have
drank little or not at all were led M
saloons by older and thirstier players.
And you know what happened.
Bill Smith hasn't a bit of patience
with drunkards. Bill doesn’t mind
licking up a bit of beer now and then
after a game but he is always strong,
er than the drink and was never
known to go to excess with it.
Being able to master the stuff him
self Smith has no earthly patience
•with the boozers. He is out to win
a pennant. Anything that stands in
the way must go. He knows that a
hard drinker on the club means ruin
to his pennant chances.
• • •
T HE temperance societies ought to
get up a list of the marvelous
players whose baseball careers have
been wrecked by booze. It would be
highly Illuminating. It would help
the cause, too. . .
College baseball has helped the
cause of temperance a good bit. Boys
who might have taken too much have
been kept away by the desire to
"make the team." In fact, college
athletics of all sorts have done more
to keep young college men away from
drink than all the tracts ever printed.
BENYON WINS ENGLISH
BANTAMWEIGHT CROWN
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Julie 3.—Bill Benyon
•was substtuted for Eddie Morgan, the
champion of Wales, at the last mo-
ment last night and won the English
bantamweight championship from
Digger Stanley in twenty rounds at
|.the National Sporting Club. Benyon
won on the referee's decision. The
bout was for *2,500 and the Lord
Lonsdale belt.
EDDIE CLABBY IN GREAT
FINISH AGAINST DENNY
NEW ORLEANS. June 3.—Eddie
v Clabby, of Hammond, brother of
Jimmy, after being almost knocked
out in the fourth round, came back
and made a sensational fighting fin
ish, punching Young Denny all over
the ring. Clabby was outweighed,
but Denny showed a remarkable box
ing ability.
UMPIRE MAY QUIT LEAGUE.
LINCOLN, NEBR,, June 3 —Umpire
Fitzsimmons, of the Western League. Is
to leave the circuit unless he comes to
terms with President O'Neill before he
Is relieved by Umpire Colliflower. A
disagreement over expenses led to the
withdrawal of Fitzsimmons.
Think It Over.
Jeff
Was Rigi
ht at That \ By “Bud
” Fisher
Polly and Her Pals
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Youth Takes Things So Lightly
1 DROPPED *fej
Q«anF€t 1
yzxaotl <t Bju.,
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CROSS TO LEAVE FOR COAST.
NEW YORK. June 3.--Leach Cross,
the local lightweight, will leave Sunday
for the Pacific coast. and at once go Into
training for his bout at Los Angeles
July 4 with Bud Anderson
DIES FROM BASEBALL INJURY.
* KEARNEY'. N. Y' . June 3 —William
Wiggins, aged 22. hit on the head by a
pitched ball Friday, died yesterday of a
fractured skull.
N ashville, tenn, June 3.—The
old" jinx which had apparently
fallen out with the Vols, all of
a sudden bustled into camp, kicked
over the big keg of horseshoes, tram
pled all over the four-leaf clover bed
and announced its arrival by laying out
Eddie Noyes and Judson Harmon
Daley from the line-up.
It came at a most unwelcome time
to boot, just when the Schwartzmen
were in a death grapple with the
league leaders and it completely up
set the boy manager. Noyeg took the
count with a case of lumbago or
something like that, while Jud Is
much too busy nursing a charley
horse to think about left field. Jud's
demise gave Mr. Nicholson the chance
he has been yelping for, but after the
former Colonel had allowed an easy
out to go for a triple and fanned
weakly a trio of attempts. Schwartz
yanked him in disgust and shifted
Dell Young over to left and gave
"Norfolk" Summers the job on the
dump.
Summers did produce a wallop that
beat the Gulls out of the first affair,
but as an Alpine guide Johnny will
never get any medals. Schwartz fig
ured that Nicholson was attacked by
stage fright and tried him again in
right field, where he was fortunate
in not having any difficult chances.
The few times Nick managed to reach
first he looked like a million dollars,
running like a greyhound and work
ing the hookslide to perfection. With
proper coaching in fielding and using
a less heavy stick this boy should
come with a rush for he has all the
earmarks of a brilliant base runner,
although he has worlds of stuff to
learn about the game's fine points.
"Brick" Gibson's playing is little
short of wonderful and the bugs are
mystified that Jennings ever let this
boy get away from him. He has a
deadly whip and, while he is no slug
ger, his hits come when they drive in
runs, which is lots better sometimes
than being up in the .300 class. Noyes
is back on the bench, but the scrappy
little catcher has lost lots of weight
and is still too weak to stand the pace
this hot weather.
Daley's absence from the line-up
weakens the Vols' play, both offen
sively and defensively, for even If
the left gardener was not playing up
to his 1912 form, he was miles better
than Nicholson and was pulling down
everything in his territory.
Schwartz is badly worried oyer the
dub's crippled condition, for the slab-
men have never gotten to going right,
Fleharty and McManus being of lit
tle or no use to the team and one
of the pair is almost certain to get the
ax, now that Dye and Chick Smith
are on hand.
NEBRASKANS TO ENTER MEET.
LINCOLN. NEBR., June 3.—A team of
at least four University of Nebraska
athletes will be entered in the athletic
meet to be held In Chicago In July.
Sporting Food
-By QEOflQR B. PHAIR
SPEED.
I remember, / remember
When people rode the bike
They humped their backs and plugged
away
Like demons down the pike.
We kids with open mouths stood by
And watched them whizzing past,
And longed to see that blessed day
When we could whiz as fast.
To-day we watch a flock of cars
That spin around a track.
One moment hence we saw them pass,
And now we see them back.
The scorcher was a thing of fear
A few short years ago,
But if he blocked the traffic now,
Oh!
Report* of the alleged conflict be
tween Mesars. Dillon and Klaue remind
us that the game of pugilism Is minus
one middleweight champion.
One learns from books that there is
honor among thieves, and yet we hear
that fight promoters in the West have
startea a civil war.
We note that Jack Britton whipped
Jimmy Duffy, fought a draw and lost
on a foul. All of which shows the
versatility of the press.
Reading various criticisms on the
management of one Matty McCue, pu
gilist, one is led to believe that various
persons In our fair city crave a meal
ticket.
Obtaining money under false pretenses
is becoming common in these United
States Still we do not refer to the fact
that the Brooklyn team has been in
sured for $410,000.
The reported clash over the estate of
Luther McCarty reminds us that all vul
tures are not equipped with wings.
One ia farced to admit that the gent
who nicked Memorial Day for the auto
mobile soiree had his own little sense of
humor.
Joe Birmingham has ordered his ath
letes to treat the umpires with respect,
thus making baseball a hardship.
Being as bssebali players burst into
print with their masterpiece*, Mr. Klem
might add to hi* tamings by writing a
dissertation on “Wild Managers I Have
Met.” Or Mr. Forguaon might Indite a
brochure entitled “Shower*.
MMOTSI
BfG LtAGUI GOSSIP I
C INCINNATI, June b.—When in Boston last week I ran into Jimuiy McAleer, the jithsl-
dent of the Boston Red Sox. "The Cleveland club is going immense,” (Teclared Mc
Aleer. “It is the surprise of our show. The team looked like a very bad one when
it wis getting beaten by a lot of bush league bunches before the season opened, hut the
pitchers have worked out in fine style, and tie men are playing hall behind them. I expect
to see the Naps drop on their impending Eastern trip, because they have always been a
better team on their home grounds than on the road, but Birmingham has evidently done a
lot for the club, and has put fight into them.”
“So I read,” I suggested. “There was some misunderstanding behind the grandstand between the Naps and
Red Sox, was there not?”
But McAleer would go no further than to indulge in a smile. He refused to say.
“It’s a cinch we are going to do our
hcXV,’ saju y ■
should lie^some gr^at batV
there
i '
“RIP” MAJOR TURNS “PRO;”
WILL PLAY WITH JACKSON
JACKSON, MISS., June 3—“Rip”
Major, captain of the football and
baseball teams of Auburn, ha? placed
his signature to a contract with the
Jackson ball team of the Cotton
State*, and will make his debut in
professional company with the local
team this week.
Major will be used in the outfield
and will join the Jackson team at
Columbus on Thursday. He was one
of the star football men at Auburn
during the past few years and was
one of the leading lights on the ball
team at the Alabama Polytechnic in
stitute.
w .... ^ mfhe
is bnfV’
* *• dll- k-. I
best to beat the team when it comes
said T4 McM e ? r y**|‘i»it<lp
itnek*’
YWbnfjj: hat>pftnfd to yWif clufc?’,'
^Scems fo. have the snrat‘...aUmf M> i{ h ^
.c.zc cr -A x. ' IftaggeMcafllhg uhlfetHeS, hut those con-
INDISTINCT PRINT
NS
as
answered “That tel
strange part about it, t©$. ^Nerer
saw a team look to be jn better sh|p<i
\bshk M&n 0bf;
Spj^jigs^ .Ji'Oubk Waiters Johnson, the ‘pitching wonder
i i* aii tha °f the Senators, faced the Athletics yes-
makft. a .AJL anri re^-sftis* third defeat of the
r vjenraj>r.with ttie antics of basebaH de
clare it almost an impossible task for
Sox'-to "cut dowh the* twelve-
game .lead of. the Philadelphia players
aftVi ■still havfc Vaougn. •'pdwpr left.* taJ^hit
tap£ hh>ad VT-the^ parade.* * t .■*
" v- "' -j |
The slugging powers of the Athletic*
enabled them to win the double-header
from the Senators.
• •
lithe American and *he
YhS'Xational, who w
*diny “in *h© season, h
dagCejly and some there
Tounting them
* ♦. * * * ‘ $
The Red Sox took a double-header
from the Yankees yesterday, winning
the second game in rather easy fashion,
but they had to. fight right through the
ninth “inning to grab off the first i, to 2
e«p«si8lfv ■ '^m-'JVrmaer'
"ff'fftVfHe s3fnP Ofttf
t.told him.
"The way I figure it” remarked
McAleer, who is a pretty sharp ob-
server of evcrrly aed ta i’Mk-iy
Mil, “is this :
from the Souttt"«Ms, spriligNJjy. w .
,p*nk condition that .TjifJ iVuW uht
stand the trying weSth^iJ “ '
encountered at the l^giif In*; JJ\,
season. Whereas ttid lioyrf Whtr hffd
not put in very good spring work were
still rough, and rounded .into form
better under the had conditions thkfa
those who had been baking under a
h*t sun like the Giants and My dub.”
. .“Maybe that's,.Jt/VI observed, .“it
sounds to me like as‘good ah aliof fts
aqy other.” . '* r. '
“But it has worked out that way.
The Athletics are au example. They
had to miss a .lot of practice on .ac
count of the floods and JnmpeM tiome.
They burned oprtlie league during the.
fijst few weeks. Mark's, grealest
Aakness is his i^tQsfiUig StWt, T It
that bunch of twirlers that belong
to me once gets going, we might catch
them yet. That Is my biggest
Chance.”
And there ybp are ' . ^1 moat before tbe game started
(Copyright, 1913, by the MoClul’e Ne*tk- •* .- * •' • * • • ,
paper Syndicate.) • • - r e ' ~-.w. -v,-
K.EN0SHA PROMOTERS SE£K
WHITE-BRlTTON' SCffAP
CHICAGO, June 3.—If Jack Britton
will do 133 pounds at fl o'clock he can
have Charlie White as hla opponent on
June 13 at Kenosha. Britton is in town
and efforts to get him to consent to such
a weight are now under way.
iven
her
vr
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3—Red Wat
soft, whfS some time hopes to wear WH-.
lie Ritchie’s crown of champion, will be
given his flwrt real chance to show that
he possesses ^ftaihpionship ability when
he will meet Ad Wolsrast on June $0 be»
fore the Humboldt Athletic Club, of*
which Jkn CJrlffln is promoter This waa
formally ’agreed upon by Watson. Wolf;
gast gave Griffin his word before leav
ing for Los Angeles,
i Wa
with
H vy at son Is Aft aggressive boxar,
wofr
The W’estern teams of the Amertpon
Leagyze.to-day b®«ap their first tuvasiop
or* the , wfmfe the Eastern chib*
in the old.Jeagu* are grappling tfith*th*
*Ve*tern teaAr»« i’ft the same sedtloa "
the continent.
The Pirates yesterday transformer
faen hii» And three baaes on bar."
■en runs, lyhlch were enough'
hiis And three bases on
runs, whic
prave*^ .
iflf «n nkrp*<3 Magee
f
a* r a murderer of liaseballa,
the Bktte in the *irst inning
lies-Dodgers game yesterday, noticed
that two men were on bases and prompt
ly batted out a home run, thereby ending
the day’s pa*time.In the Phillies’ favor
fcltiftpaugh, the Yankee shprtshop,
who came rrrtrti the Naps a
Pt
two runs 'affl3 accepted four chances in
yesterday’s game.
*
1 ‘TJo^dnlght” Baker showed his liking
for Walter Johnson's cannon ball shoots
by pasting one over the fence yesterday.
W0LGAST AGREES TO MEET
WAtSGN IN COAST BOUT
Illinois Boxing Bill
Almost Sure to Pass
CHICAGO, June 3.—Whether this
Siate is to have legalised boxing such
as to conducted in New York or not
wftlf likely be knovVn before the* cio«e
o? the wqek. Senator Carroll, “fa
ther” of the bilj calling Tor ten rounds,
no-decision boxing, is still pushing
thfi measure and declares it will come
up for final vote Thursday. Carroll
firmly hualieve* it will pass. He says
the members of both houses have
carefully gdne Into the bill and its
purpose, and, that the majority feel it
should pass.
The recent death of Luther McCar
ty ip the ring, Carroll intimates,
hasn't left .a bad effect. He declared
that most pf the . legislators realize
thafrithe fatality was one of those, ac
cidents that might happen to any
branch of v *port and that it won't be
taken up .in any other light. He
points r.Lu, uhe . fact. that four persons
\ye»*ciUU«id *Ub«tr or fusing ba***
batt ifHBitr in »1%j»s- th*n, -a week, and
«ryu nb -tCKstfop the gfrr»e has heeo
JssagiT.
IN TITLE BAHLE
rj-ic
__ Savage
•'FatatUl.ls Y*v U r ta all- lirem-H*, t>H ^ strong hunch
.port., but', unfortunate* In. boxing b * '
as an opponent a great
iAViUig RUettft***!
niTTy Nolan, will arrive
Hilttfft ai^d ^M^Nicholp
tpcfai(or tSv*.’^commission bill, wuici
cfLy$ fox. twb cdmralafefpns. .one ap
pointed by, the .Mayor,..another by th<
gast as an op
jhatUawBhwi+ki. re— 1 * ™ '
his manager, J . ........
here from 'fMrtland Thi^^SfreTTfoW: f
Joe Levy, manager of Joe Rlyers, tfoL
lit*thiy Jhorrtlng fiody 140$ AfigfeleS, a^d
some thueLthi* afternoon ihe^Wrties
chnoerneff will si^ down.wlwidte^ yOV§r or,.
Graney gnC .tail** $lv«l eewcrythJnrf l nat. ' ~ n ‘
eoftcerfts tne’champfbTiship mstrh ^
uled for July
sport
biows aa*e atruck and- oadkat the
fty 1s misad ‘that .the gamuts brntal.
IsSfWJttfa.l*,''aptoinoblIe raictnK and a.ir-
shiivsptirt bjrutad ? More persons ate
klllcid ftnd Claimed for life in football
In'onw yenr than in the ring In five
Tfha dropping dead ofrMoGarty
in Calgary was an tmfdrtunaba ia-
stanop, Uugt jt )aa4 to. happen^ iust as
the laming of the steamer General
Sfjoeuiri, fne I r oft up U Areiand the sink
ing, of Y the Titanic., Bfecahpe of these
dj^44 nrs vlt if '■ that. thwaters
m uajJ cldse . a m 1 s hip $ .mus t $ ease » ai I -
.ing,’ v sald./^gt , J*p)j, Jmo' , this 1* . the
'view of many of ttie ’Representatives
[Y*flE|l
' fi’ETWEE'N-!
IS Tit AT) E
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CHICADOrJune 3 Ure^TIlcnr
k*y. t>f:the Whit, avX.-T>U21ui ; 'htanfieeb
whlfch
2PIDER AS CAPTAIN,
-3'--Sew YGKKi June . 3^—Rolll* Zel-
J»r,- the < iMSekier'secured from the
White Sox-, by the Yp.t>ke»» in .trade,
willwovdy field cai>ta,in of the
jY'ew Yorkevs. according to an an-
ncuincemeru made by Manager
(jjaan.ee to-day.
iOM M’CAREY, at present the
greatem promoter of boxing
matches in the country, ia dick
ering for a bout between Jim Flynn
and Gunboat Smith. “Uncle Tom”
believes that the winner of this mil!
would be the white heavyweight
champion of the world.
And it is Juat possible that Mo-
Carey will come on here from Lob
Angeles to witness Flynn In action
against Jim Savage at the Audito
rium-Armory on June 13. If Flynn
wins that scrap McCarey will en
deavor to sign the "Fireman” for a
go with Smith.
■ But Flynn will have to travel, a
mighty fast gait to beat
the world and he Intends to prove it
against Flynn, i.v*
Both Flynn and Savage will arrive
in Atlanta the latter part of this week
to finish out the long training period.
Reports from their camp* in New
York am to the effect that both are
already In tiptop condition.
And the other boxers who are go
ing to show their wares on "Friday
the Thirteenth” are hard at work
Mike Saul has started in on a stren
uous campaign. His opponent, Terry
Keieon. is training in Chattanooga
and says he will surely beat "Knock-
enooffsky."
TETTER
Tttt*»rjne care* 1
" * ErtlU
McQuiddr.
t hM
letter Read wtut Mrs. V. C.
Springs. Tenn. says:
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Hands, and J finally get helpless. A leading
■byselan knew ef no sure. I decided to give
Tetterlne * trial. To my utter surprise and
satisfaction H worked a speedy ours.
Use Tetterine
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piles, ground Uch and all skin maladies.
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8h P T 1 a - • ,
wdek agei
nth the- reputation of being a weak -
sticker refuses to live up to 'it a:
manages to pdnch from one to-.tlr
safeties each game.
n • 1
r*e
Honus Wagner made two hit*, scored
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