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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANP NEWS.
FDR CRACKERS
By Percy H. Whiting.
T HBJ Crackera are going: to have
some new battery men -within
the next few days. Deals are
considered, pending, hanging fire or
otherwise in the air for Catcher Both
of Louleville, and Pitcher Robertson,
of Savannah, while Pitcher Conzel-
man, of the Pittsburg club, was pur
chased 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 spitter 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 right 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 he 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-
4 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 ruin a club.
One or two joy riders put the
Crackers on the blink last year.
Players who would ordinarily have
drunk little or not at all were led to
saloons by older and thirstier players.
And you know what happened.
Bill Smith hasn't a bit of patience
with drunkards. Bill doesn’t minJ
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. Bops
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
,drtnk than, all the tracts ever printed.
BENYON wTnS ENGLISH
BANTAMWEIGHT CROWN
Think It Over! Jeff Was Right at That
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,ONDON. June 3.—Bill Benyon
a substluted for Eddie Morgan, the
mpion of Wales, at the last mo
ot last night and won the English
itamweight championship from
■ger Stanley in twenty rounds at
National Sporting Club. Benyon
a on the referee’s decision. The
it was for $2,500 and the Lord
lsdale belt.
EDDIE CLABBY IN GREAT
FINISH AGAINST DENNY
NEW ORLEANS, June 3.—Eddie
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.
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 . .Tune 3 William
Wiggins, aged 22, hit on the heart by a
pitched ball Friday, died yesterday of a
fractured skull.
GAMP DF VDLS
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. Noyes took the
count wi 1 a case of lumbago or
somethin 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 1n 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 over the
club'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 QEOAQK B. PHAIR
SPEED.
/ remember, 1 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 uhiz 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 pears ago,
But if he blocked the traffic now.
Oh!
Reports of the alleged conflict be
tween Messrs. Dillon and Klaus 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
started 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 no- 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 is forced to admit that ;the gent
who picked 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 baseball players burst into
print with their masterpieces, Mr. Klem
might add to his earnings by writing a
dissertation on “Wild Managers I Have
Met.” Or Mr. Ferguson might Indite a
brochure entitled “Showers.”
“RIP” MAJOR TURNS “PRO;”
WILL PLAY WITH JACKSON
CHRISTY MATHEWS
BIG LEAGUt GOSSIP
1 ■“ 1 ■ ■ i
C INCINNATI, June it. When In Boston lust week 1 ran into Jimmy McAleer, the presi
dent of the Boston Bed Sox. “The Cleveland elub Is going Immense,” declared .Mc
Aleer. “It Is the surprise of our show. The team looked like a very bad one when
It was 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 ball behind them. I expect
tp see the Naps drop on their Impending Eastern trip, liecnuse they have always been a
better team on their home grounds than on the road, hut 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 onr
JACKSON, MISS., June 3—“Rip”
Major, captain of the football and
baseball teams of Auburn, has placed
his signature to a contract with the
Jackson ball team of the Cotton
States, 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.
best to beat the team when it comes
here,” said McAleer, “and there
should be- some great battles.”
“Wbaf’s happened to j-qur. club?”,
I asked him.
“Seems to have the same ailment
as the G'lants—can’t wtn ball games,”
answered Jimmy. “That’s the
strange part about it, too. Never
saw a team look to be in better shape
when I brought it back from Hot
Springs. I thought the boys would
make a runaway race of It. XTl'thS
pitchers wore goipg llke^a 'houpe aflje,
especially 3<«V Wood:” - *
“It was fil'd startle’with' the TJWfitS 1 ,”'
I told him.
“The way I figure It,” remarked
McAleer, who is a pretty sharp ob
server of events and things la base
ball, “Is this: Some;elubs name back
from the South this spring’ In such
pink condition that they could not
stand the trying weather that was
encountered at the beginning of the
season. Whereas the lk>ys who had
not put in very good spring work were
still rough, and rounded Into form
better under the diad conditions than
those who had tieen baking under a
hot sun like the Giants ami my eJub.”
“Maybe that’s it,” I observed. “It
sounds to me like as good an alibi as
any other.”
“Rut It has worked out that way.
The Athletics are an example. They
had to miss a lot of practice on ac
count of the floods and jumped home.
They burned up the league during the
first few weeks. Mack’s greatest
weakness is Ills pitching staff. It
that bunch of twitlers that belong
to me once gets going, we might catch
them yet. That is my biggest
chance.”
And there you are.
(Copyright, 1913. by.the McClure News
paper Syndicate..)
FODDER FOR FANS
KENOSHA PROMOTERS SEEK
WHITE-BRITT0N SCRAP
CHICAGO, June 3.—If Jack Britton
will do 133 pounds at 6 o'clock he can
have Charlie White as his opponent on
June 13 at Kenosha. Britton is in town
and f fTorts to get him to consent to such
a weight are now under way.
In Boston the fans are still hopeful
that the Red Sox will overhaul the
league-leading Athletics, but those con
versant with the antics of baseball de
clare. it almost an impossible task for
the Red Sox to cut down the twelve-
game lead of the Philadelphia players
and still have enough power left to hit
the tape aheard of the parade.
Walter Johnson, the pitching wonder
of the Senators, faced the Athletics yes
terday and Ujst—his third defeat of the
season. JohQ^on already has won eleven
game's—Just- one-half the total number
Won by his team.
The slugging powers of the Athletics
enabled them to win the double-header
from the Senators.
* • *
The Senators In the American and the
Dodgers in the National, who were run
ners-up early in the season, have been
skidding lately and some there are who
are already counting them out of the
races.
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 4 to 3.
* * •
The Western teams of the American
League to-day began their first Invasion
of the Fast, while the Eastern clubs
in the old league are grappling with the
Western teams in the same section of
the continent.
• * •
The Pirates yesterday transformed a
dozen hks and three bases on balls into
seven runs, which were enough to de
feat the Braves.
* * *
A gentleman named Magee, well known
as a murderer of baseballs, stepped to
the plate in the first Inning of the Phil
lies-1 lodgers game yesterday, noticed
that two men were on bases and prompt
ly batted out a home run, thereby ending
the day’s pastime In the Phillies’ favor
almost before the game started.
• * *
Peckinpaugh. the Yankee shortstop,
who came from the Naps a week ago
.th the reputation of being a weak
sticker refuses to live up to It and
manages to punch from one to three
safeties each game.
• ♦ *
Honus Wagner made two hits, scored
two runs and accepted four chances in
yesterday’s game
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“Goodnight” Baker showed his liking
for Walter Johnson's cannon ball shoots
by pasting one over the fence yesterday.
W0LGAST AGREES TO MEET
WATSON IN COAST BOUT
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.—Red Wat
son, who some time hopes to wear Wil
lie Ritchie’s crown of champion, will be
given his first real chance to show that
he possesses championship ability when
he will meet. Ad Wolirast on June 20 be
fore the Humboldt Athletic Club, of
which Jim Griffin is promoter. This was
formally agreed upon by Watson. Wol-
gast gave Griffin his word before leav
ing for I*os Angeles.
Watson is an aggressive boxer, and
with Wolgast as an opponent a great
battle should result. Willie Ritchie and
his manager, Billy Nolan, will arrive
here from Portland this afternoon.
Joe Levy, manager of Joe Rivers, got
In this morning from Ixis Angeles, and
some time this afternoon the parties
concerned will sit down with Promoter
Graney and talk over everything that
concerns the championBhip mstoh sched
uled for July 4.
C0MISKEY DENIES TRADE
BETWEEN SOX AND TIGERS
Illinois Boxing Bill
Almost Sure to Pass
CHICAGO, June 3.—Whether this
State is to have legalized boxing such
as lfl conducted in New York or not
will likely be known before the close
of the week. Senator Carroll, “fa
ther” of the bill calling for ten rounds
no-decision boxing, is still pushing
the measure and declares It will come
up for final vote Thursday. Carroll
firmly believes it will pass. He says
the members of both houses have
carefully gone into the bill and its
purpose and that the majority feel it
should pass.
The recent death of Luther McCar
ty In the ring, Carroll Intimates,
hasn’t left a bad effect. He declared
that most of the legislators realize
that the fatality was one of those ac
cidents that might happen to any
branch of sport and that it won't be
taken up in any other light. He
points to the fact that four persons
were killed either in or during base
ball games in less than a week, and
says no cry to stop the game has been
issued.
“Fatalities occur fn all branches of
sport, but unfortunately in boxing
blows are struck and on that end the
cry is raised that the game is brutal.
Is football, automobile racing and air
ship sport brutal? More persons are
killed and maimed for life In football
In one year than In the ring In five
years. The dropping dead of McCarty
In Calgary was an unfortunate In
stance, but It had to happen, just as
the burning of the steamer General
Slocum, the Iroquois fire and the sink
ing of the Titanic. Because of these
disasters It Is taken that theaters
must close and ships must cease sail
ing,” said Carroll, and this Is the
view of many of the Representatives
here.
Carroll, Hilton and McNlchoIs seem
to favor the commission bill, which
calls for two commissions, one ap
pointed by the Mayor, another by the
Governor.
CHICAGO, June 3.—President Comis-
key, of the. White Sox. to-day branded
as “ridiculous” the report that he ex
pected to trade Hal Chase td the De
troit Tigers for Ty Cobb. While he ad- }
mitted that he would be highly pleased I
to get hold of Navin's hitting wonder,
lie declared the Detroit owner would b<
little short of Insane to think of.part- !
lng with his greatest drawing card. Na- i
vin also brands this story as ridiculous, j
ZEIDER AS CAPTAIN.
NEW YORK, June 3.—Rollie Zei-
der. the infielder secured from the
White Sox by the Yankees In trade,
w ill be made field captain of the
New Yorkers, according to an an
nouncement made by Manager
Chance to-day.
IN TITLE BUTTLE
T OM M’CAREY, at present the
greatest promoter of boxing
matches in the country, is dick
ering for a bout between Jim Flynn
and Gunboat Smith. “Uncle Tom”
believes that the winner of this mill
would be the white heavyweight
champion of the world.
And it Is just possible that Mo-
Carey will come on here from Los
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 Savage.
The latter has a good strong hunch
that he Is the best heavyweight in
the world and he intends to prove it
against Flynn.
Both Flynn and Savage will arrive
In Atlanta the latter part of this week
to finish out the long training period.
Reports from their camps in New
York are to ttoe 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
Nelson. Is training In Chattanooga
and says he will surely beat “Knock-
emoffsky.**
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