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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 • • • • By “Bud” Fisher Polly and Her Pals V .ft t f .ft i ' I9ia > International New* Service Youth Takes Things So Lightly clal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ,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 0 0 0 “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.** TETTER Tett«rln« cure* tetter. Re*d what Mrs. V. G. 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