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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
CLARK WILL
PITCH TO-DAY
R EVIVED somewhat by the cheer
ing influence of yesterday's vic
tory over the Volunteers, the
Crackers will tackle the enemy in a
dauble-header this afternoon, the first
game to start at 2:15 o'clock.
Manager Smith announced this morn
ing that Thcmpson and Clarke would
pitch tha twin bill, with Chapman and
Dunn doing the catching. Manager
Bchwanz was not certain of his battery.
Mutt Claims Absolutely All the Credit for the Idea
By ‘Bud’ Usher
SWARTZ’S BROTHER HURT;
MAY CALL HARRY AWAY
Harry Swartz, the popular motor
rider who has been thrilling local
fans at Jack Prince’s naurer, may
have to leave for I>enver within the
next 24 hours. His brother, Kddic,
Swartz, was badly*injured in a motor
cycle race there last Saturday after
noon, and is not expected to live.
Harry is ready to leave the minute
he receives a wire. All the local rid
ers and fans are pulling hard for Ed
die to pull through He Is the most
popular rider in the Middle West, and
had expected to come here to ride in
the fall.
$2,000 RAISED BY FANS
IN AMERICUS FOR TEAM
AMERK’US. Aug. 1.—Two thousand
dollars subscribed by enthusiastic
Americus fans in mass meeting in
sures the maintenance of the Ameri-
cus baseball team throughout the sea
son. "When the situation was thor
oughly explained baseball enthusiasts
went into their pockets and the
amount required was forthcoming,
several citizens subscribing $100 each.
The amount raised in mass meeting
cancels all outstanding indebtedness
and insures the expense account
throughout August. Americus fans
never fail to respond to such calls.
PELS GET TWO PLAYERS
IN THREE-CORNERED DEAL
NEW ORLEANS, LA., Auk 1.—
Pitcher Stevenson and ^ Outfielder
McKillen, purchased from the South
Michigan league, were released to
the Pelicans to-day. The players
come as part of a three-cornered
trade for Pitcher Hrenton, who is
slated to join Toledo via the Naps
after working in Friday’s game
against Memphis. Stevenson and
McKillen join the Pels at Memphis.
MRS. SCHMITZ WINS FIRST
ROUND OF NET TOURNEY
WOODMERE, N. Y„ Aur. 1.—
Fresh from winning the Westchester
County tennis championship. Mrs.
Frederick C. Schmitz defeated Miss
Margaret Grove in the opening round
of the Woodmere County Club tour
nament for women here yesterday by
the score of 6-4, 6-1.
Play in the second round will be
continued to-day.
COBB’S BROTHER SIGNS
WITH OGDEN BALL CLUB
LINCOLN, NEBR., Aiir. 1.—Raul
Cobh, brother of Tyrus Cobb, of the
Detroit Americans, recently given an
unconditional release by the Uiflcoln
Western League club, has signed with
tfhe Ogden. Utah, team of the Union
Association. Cobb is an outfielder.
He will Join the Ogden team at once.
THURSDAY'S GAME.
Nashville. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Daley. If.. .4 1 1 4 0 1
Callahan, cf.. .4 0 0 1 0 0
Hofman, lb. . . 3 1 0 6 0 o
Spratt. 3b. ..4 0 2 3 3 0
Gibson, o. . . 4 0 1 3 3 0
Young, rf.-p. .4 0 2 2 1 0
Perry. 2b. . . 3 0 1 4 1 0
Lindsay, as. . . 3 0 1 1 3 1
Beck, p. . 3 o n o 3 2
Baumgardner,rf 0 0 0 0 0 0
.32 2
24 14
cf..
1 'll
Totals . .
Atlanta.
Long, If. .
Agler, lb.. .
Welchonce,
Smith, 2b..
Fisland, ss.
Holland. 3b.
Holtz, rf. .
Chapman, c.
Dent, p. . .
Totals ... .32 10 13
■> Score by Innings:
Nashville 100 001 000 - 2
Atlanta .011 000 06* 10
Summary: Two-base hits—Long.
Welchonce. Double play—Spratt to
Gibson to Reck to Perry. Innings
pitched—By Beck. 7 1-3, with 13 hits
and 10 runs. Struck out—Bv Beck.
1. Bases on hall—Off Beck. 5. Sac
rifice hits Agler, Dent. Holland. Wild
pitch—Beck. Hit by pitched ball Bv
Beck. Smith Time—-:00. Umpires
—Stock and Kerin.
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BASEBALL
TO-DAY
Nashville vs. Atlanta
I0UBLE HEADER-FIRST GAME 2:15
‘once DeLeon Park 0 2 cl 1 0 * h
Crackers Loosed a Flood of Runs
4-dH* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+
Holland and Holtz Looked Good
By O. B. Keeler.
A LL the tallies that had backed up in the Crackers’ systems
while they were losing one-run margins on the late excur
sion burst forth in wild and exatic profusion in the first
home engagement, the Volunteers the sufferers, 10 to 2.
•Specifically, the explosion took place in a single inning.
Books could be written about that inning. Poets might make odes
and epics on it. Oscar Strauss might set it to music. Sousa’s hand
might play it —hut it is doubtful if even the “March King’s’’ in
terpretation would equal that of the Crackers.
Returning to (lie date of the outburst, we find it to he located
in the eighth round, domestic portion. Also, it was shortly before
six bells, while the shades of night were falling at about the same
rate of speed set forth in the well-known biographical sketch en
titled, “Excelsior,” or “A New Breakfast Food.”
The contest had worked itself around to a 2-to-2 tie, which
sounds like the midnight choo-choo if you say it fast. Dent and
Beck, long pitchers with short monickers, were having what is
commonly known as a slab duel, with both sides wasting a good
many hits on comparatively few rmis.
A detailed recital of the eighth inning would be piling it on.
Gently summarizing results, the following appears:
Every Cracker in the game scored a run except Harry Hol
land, who was sent up to sacrifice before Bill Smith had any idea
to what extremity Beck and the Vols were planning to blow.
Six hits were compiled by the Crackers, Welchonce opening
the trouble with a Texas League single and closing the scoring
with a ringing double down the right field foul line, unloading the
towpath of three mates.
Beck contributed two bases on balls, a hit batsman and a two-
base throw to the general merriment in the first one-third of the
inning. After Welchonce got his second hit, Manager Schwartz
got the derrick in working order and removed Mr. Beck from the
field of battle.
But Mr. Schwartz did not calculate spoiling another regular
pitcher, or even Fleharty, who had been in the bullpen most of the
afternoon. He sent in a Mr. Young, who habitually plays right
field. And Mr. Young smiled at the wild applause—and retired the
side. Smith fouling to Gibson and Bisland flying to Daley.
« • •
II) ARRING a desperate attempt on the part of J. Pluvius to smear
tile doings, the other part of the game was reasonably con
ventional, interest centering in the performance of Harry Holland,
the former Tech star, who played third base, and Holtz, the new
outfielder. The Volunteers had had their first turn at hat, and one
Cracker was salted in the same round, when the bottom fell out of
a black cloud, which had been sneaking up behind the stands. For
five minutes it rained in the pro.erbial sheets. Then the downponV
slackened, the sun came out, and after twenty minutes’ delay,
Umps Stoekdale came out, walking on his heels, and the combat
was renewed.
• • •
H ARRY HOLLAND looked like a regular hall player. He stood
well at the plate, crowding it close, and while he did not get a
hit. he looked over the pitching coolly and did not hit at any bad
ones. He did not miss a single swing, either, and he laid his sacri
fice down in classy style. In the field, he handled his single chance
accurately and with speed, making a perfect throw to first from a
rather difficult position.
One bit of fielding won't go to Holland’s credit in the rec
ords, but he showed well in it, just the same. In the first inning,
with two gone, Hofman got on by Bisland's wild peg. “Circus
Solly" kept right on legging it, and Agler whipped the ball to
third. Holland putting it on the sliding big leaguer in clever style.
But Kerin ruled that Artie should have stopped at second under
ground rules, the ball having got mixed up with the boxes. So the
effort went for nothing.
IJ OLTZ made a becoming how to the noble twelve hundred at the
L 1 game. He got two hits and a base on balls out of four ap
pearances. One of the wallops scored a run, and both were made
with somebody on. In the field, the big fellow made a couple of
nice running catches, the last one, a Texas Leaguer from Gibson’s
bat, that looked good for a hit. He did not show any amazing
speed on the towpath, Imt used judgment in one particular in
stance. when he took advantage of a wild pitch that Gibson stopped
to sneak down to second. He did not look at ail like the typical
bush leaguer.
• • •
CANE of the most complicated double plays ever presented on any
' * stage came off in the sixth inning, and it deserves a chapter
all to itself.
A base on balls and a two-base throw by Beck had put Bis
land on third, with one down. Holland hit sharply to .lack Spratt
at third, and Bisland was trapped. While he was being chased to
death. Holland worked around past second, and after Spratt had
put the ball on the dodging Bisland, a snap throw nipped Harry.
The two-ply killing read this way;
Spratt to Gibson to Spratt to Beck to Spratt to Perry.
Figure it out for yourself.
Sports and Such
FREDDIE WELSH AN-
nounces that when he can get
through with hie twenty-round en
counter with Johnny Dundee In the
barbari • West, he will return to the
refinement of the ten-round coun
try. where he hopes to get about
$10,000 for a lady-like performance
with Champion Ritchie in New
York.
• • •
AT THE BALL PARK.
‘I hate tn have to omit you,
Hut / guess you'll have to slide,"
The Magnate told the Gambler
As he drew him to one side.
And when the Gambler snorted
And looked at him askanee;
"You get these boobs excited
Hy giving them a chance."
m • *
A LOT OF OTHERWISE NOR-
mal people want to try to swim
from the Battery to Sandy Hook,
although the boats run every hour.
* • •
“BREAKING IN IS NO CINCH,”
remarks Larry Chappelle the $18,000
beauty—probably referring to his
purchase money.
♦ • •
“THE BOXERS OF TO-DAY
are strictly business men,” ob
serves Jim Corbett. “They don’t
tight. They stall—and the suckers
fall for It.’’ And at the same time
we notice that there is a “brisk de
mand” for tickets for the Flynn-
Smith riot.
• • •
HANK O’DAY’S recent attack of
serious illness show’s that a man
can never be certain w’hen he has
completely recovered from manag
ing the Cincinnati team.
• * •
A CRITIC SAYS, with pardon
able regret, that there was a time
when Gunboat Smith could box a
little, which time must have been
our night off.
• * •
WE ARE CONSTRAINED to slip
it to Mr. Chance. He disposed of
a star ball player with nothing to
show for his end of the deal but
a 50 per cent improvement in his
dub.
• • •
SPEAKING OF LIFE’S TRAG-
edies, consider the case of the De
troit magnate who ip paying Ty
Cobb at the rate of $2,000 a month
for staying in the hospital because
he doesn’t, dare release him.
• • *
TOUGH.
Ring a song of magnate!
.4 rase (if wine amt rye!
Four ami twenty ball games
Fnd in rain or tie.
When the spying is over
Double bills begin.
* Isn't that a lovely s<‘hemc
To gather scads of tinf
• • •
IT IS A BUM GENERATION.
Out in St. Louis the fans are be
ginning to kick for nine innings
of baseball or their money back,
, merely because they have paid for
nine innings.
• • •
A WALLOPED UMPIRE IN THE
Federal League is demanding dam
ages on the ground that his career
as an umpire is cut ehort. We are
now waiting for some paroled con
vict to sue the Board of Pardons.
• • •
JUDGING FROM THE RE-
turns of the At tell-Beecher con
flict at Far Rockaway the referee
is the only man In the ring in dan
ger of stopping a real wallop in tho
local tournaments.
Vedder Sitton Hurls
No-Hit, No-Run Game
TROT, N. Y„ Aug. 1.—P. Vedder
Sitton, former Atlanta pitcher, now
with the Troy cl^b, of the New York
State League, shut Wilkesbarre out
without a run or hit yesterday after
noon. Not one of the visiting play
ers reached second base, and only
three reached first, each on a base on
balls.
Sitton received brilliant support.
Sitton is one of those ball players
whom the finger of fate seems to
touch at widely separated intervals,
and with something like a caress.
He is remembered around the
Southern League as the chap who
helped to win two pennants in a sin
gle year, and came within a game of
making it three.
In 1908, Sitton’s work on the slab
was responsible for the pennant in
the Sally League. Then he went to
Nashville, and pitched the final game
of the season, on which the pennant
depended, beating Breitenstein of
New Orleans, 1 to 0. Then the
youngster went to Cleveland, making
its best attempt to win an American
League pennant. But Cleveland lost
out in the last pair of games.
Since then Sitton has been drifting
about the country, pitching grand
ball In flashes and streaks.
MEETING T0-NIgT|TT6
FORM ANGLERS’ CLUB
^Sporting Food
QIOROt ft. PH AIR-
VANDERBERRY MAKES NEW
4-MILE MOTOR RECORD
PITTSBURG. Aug. 1.—The thou-
sands who saw’ the final heat In the
four-mile Per.nsy Ivanla Sweepstckes
at the East End Motordrome last
night witnessed the greatest speed
contest ever run in Pittsburg. It was
not a’ »ne because a new world's rec
ord for four miles was made that the
race was unusual, tut the spectacular
minim In whicn rhe r»cer> per
formed. Twenty times around the
tdg \\<*eden saucer Russell Smiley,
Bill'' Vanderberry and Jack Harding
raced at the average speed of SI miles
an hour, with then elbows touching
freequ* ntly.
“Speedy Van” was a few inches
ahead at the finish. The riders were
30 close the crowd *ld not know that
Haiding was second until the result
was announced. The lime for the f;iur
milis, 2 minutes 58 seconds. Is \vt*
seconds under the former world s rec
ord,
The first meeting of the prospective
Atlanta Anglers’ Club is to be held j
at 8 o’clock to-night at the Yancey
Hardware Company, 134 Peachtree
street. Dr. Allan Fogle and C. P.
Watson have made the arrangements
for the meeting and request all who
are interested in the promotion of
angling in this vicinity to attend.
Mr. Fogle says that either Pied
mont or Lakewood w’ould would make
an Ideal place for fly-casting tour
naments, which are among the pret
tiest sporting events to be seen any-
w'her to-day. The ultimate object
of the club would be affiliation with
the national organization. Mr. Wat
son, of the Yancey Hardware Com
pany, is answering all inquiries con
cerning the prospective club.
CARDINAL OWNER WILL
TRADE ALL HIS PLAYERS
ST LOUIS, Aug. 1.—President
Schuyler P. Britton, of the Cardinals,
is on the warpath and in an endeavor
to strengthen that club to-day de
clared he would trade every member
of the club except Manager Miller
Huggins It means the Bid Koney,
Harry Sallee. Bob Harmon, Chariev
O’Leary and recruits, w’ill be swapped
if there is a chance to strengthen the
club.
Whether any trade will be made
is not known, but President Britton
announced that negotiations have
been opened with the Giants. Reus
and other clubs. The tumble In to
eighth place for the first time in
years is too much for President Brit
ton and Manager Huggins*.
MAY INCREASE FEDERAL
LEAGUE TO SIXTEEN CLUBS
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 1.—Directors
of the B'ederal League go into an
important session here to-day. Two
propositions, one to make the B'ederal
Baseball League an eight-club affair,
and another to make it a twelve or
sixteen-club * league, a sort of tan
dem league, with an Eastern and
Western division, will be discussed.
Baseball men in New York. Balti
more. Philadelphia, Buffalo. Brooklyn.
Detroit. Milwaukee and Cincinnati,
who have petitioned for admission,
are anxious to get action, it is* said
Many other cities seek admission, and
magnate* have announced they will
deposit the $10,000 necessary to in
sure their finishing the season.
DETROITTUYS PITCHERS
NORTH AND REYNOLDS
DETROIT. MICH.. Aug. 1.—Presi-
dent Navin, of Detroit. announces
the purchase of Pitcher North, of
Jackson, of the Southern Michigan
League, and Pitcher Reynolds, of
Topeka.
North is expected to report next
month, but Reynolds may complete
the playing season with Topeka.
FOILED.
A bandit placed a gatling gun against i
a stranger's brow. •
The stranger mey'cly smiled at him
and said: “Pooh, Pooh, for thou! |
Pooh, Pooh for thou, and likewise |
Fudge and also Pish and Tush!
f do not fear the gatling gun that
stares me in the mush,
For J have been in baseball parks
where peanut merchants ply.
And I have sat there unafraid and
looked them in the eye,
And though they poked me in the
slats and gave me bitter pain,
And though they walked upon mi
corns, they tortured me in vain.
What chance have you, an amateur
to make me tremble now?
Again I say Pooh, Pooh, and Tush
and likewise Fudge for thou!”
The bandit slowly went his way, atid
sore at heart teas hr.
“What chance is there,” he sadly said
"for bush league guys like met”
Quoth the London Daily Express:
“The monotony of defeat becomes de
pressing." This sounds as if it were
written by a baseball scribe In St. Louis.
Frank Navin is one of the few mag
nates w’ho have the interests of the pub
lic at heart. Realizing that the good
citizens of Detroit wanted some regu
lar baseball, he staged a game between
Buffalo and Providence.
It is said that Bill Carrigan will be
given a free hand In Boston. In other
words, he may do as he pleases, as long
as he pleases J. McAleer.
A baseball manager these days Is al
most as sure of his job as a President of
Mexico.
Ever and anon a scout unearths what
he calls a slugging outfielder, but he
fails to Inform us whether said out
fielder slugs the ball, the umpire or his
fellow athletes.
OUR BLUE LAWS.
Mother, may I go out to switnf
Yes, my darling daughter.
Put wear a skirt and an overcoat
When you go in the water.
It is hoped that none of the Giant
pitchers will attempt to bean the Great
Zim. If !Vir. Zim were hit on the head
with sufficient force, it would sprain his
ankle.
‘Boxers Seek Work,” quoth a head
line. but it fails to tell us whom they
seek to work.
As a wise old gent once remarked, a
man is known by the guys he hangs out
with. After consorting with Tom Jones
for a few years, Ad Wolgast bets $25,000
a thro*’ as if he really meant it.
Just to show that he is a versatile
manager, Joe Tinker occasionally loses
two games a aay instead of one.
Even if Horace Fogel’s new league
does not pan out, he can make a good
living by hiring out as a model in a
phonograph factory.
Sittling in his Morris chair In New
York, Jim Corbett hands us a vivid de
scription of the Williams-Ledoux con
flict in Los Angeles, thereby aemon-
strating that he is the greatest long dis
tance eyewitness In captivity.
HUMAN NATURE.
Were / a baseball magnate
And owned a team or two,
I'd hunt the golden kale. I fear.
And walk upon the public's car
The same as magnates do.
No, Rudolph: there is no truth in the
report that Roger Bresnshan and John
Evers will double up in a vaudeville
stunt next winter.
White and Whitney to Mix Here
4**4*
Castro Starts “Regular” Club
By Loft Hook.
C IPRIANO ’CASTRO, an exiled personage, was a rank bush
leaguer compared to his nephew, Count Lou Castro, when it
came to promoting. Cipriano tried to promote matters down
in Venezuela, but he couldn’t get away with it. Not so with Count
Lou.
Count Lou got it into his bonnet that boxing could he made
to pay in this hustling burg. The Count believes in high-class af
fairs, high-class clubhouse, high-class mixers and a high-class lo
cation.
Result:
Charley White wall meet Frank Whitney in a ten-round bout
here on the evening of August 13.
On the same program will be two other high-class battles. In
one, Mike Saul will endeavor to show Eddie Hanlon where he gets
off. In the other. Kid Young will try to avenge a recent beating
by turning the tables on Charley Lee.
The bouts will be staged at the Ponce DeLeon skating rink.
The ring will be adorned with plush ropes and highly-polished
brass posts.
The Count will referee himself, and will be decorated in a
Tuxedo.
# • *
A LL of which proves our assertion that the Count is going to
show his uncle up. Cipriano never got away with anything
as big as this.
And on Labor Day the Count plans to send the winner of the
White-Whitney scrap right back at Jack Britton. Within two or
three months he believes he will have a championship battle here.
* * #
A S for the main bout, let us whisper that it is by far the classiest
ever offered Atlanta fans. White is a near champion. He
made a tremendous hit here when he stopped Jake Abel in less
than two rounds.
Whitney is the most popular boxer who ever displayed wares
here. He is tough and rugged, and will give the Chicagoan a merry
time of it for ten rounds.
Both boys will he here within a few days. They want to be
come acclimated, and realize that they must have at least ten days
within the portals of the city to get right.
* * *
T HE skating rink is a mammoth place. Castro, therefore, will
put on all of his shows at popular prices.
And it is an ideal spot for bouts, especially during the hot
months. The building is situated on a knoll, and a breeze always
blows through it. It is a semi-opeu affair of a ^lace. In the win
ter the Count will board up the sides and put in a steam-heating
outfit.
Milt Saul, of the street railway company, has promised tho
Count perfect car service to and from the club. As soon as the
last bout is over, a string of cars will be lined up in front of the
club ready to take the fans home.
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the boxing map.
He is going to put Atlanta on
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