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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
OLD GUARD
Bv 0. B. Keeler.
A COUPLE of days ago the papers
carried a bit of baseball news
to the effect that Edward
Reulbach had been traded by the
Cubs for Eddie Stack, of Brooklyn.
Of Itself, that wasn't a very ex
citing bit of Information. Neither
Mr. Stack nor Mr. Reulbach haa been
exceeding apy, speed limits this year
—even in Philadelphia.
Rut aside from that—
Say did you notice a queer little
nip of regret when you read that
small item?
• • •
tT Just marked the passing of one
* more of the few remaining origi
nal Cubs; the wonderful clan gath
ered by Frank Selee and molded by
Frank Chance into what many will
always believe to have been the great
est baseball machine of all time. And
those who sing the praises of the Ath
letics and the rest have at last to
admit that Connie Mack and the
others have yet to w in 116 games in
a season.
• • •
B UT that's by the way. |
You remember the Original
(^ubs, don’t you? Let’s see—can wr |
recall the line-up of the smashing
years of 1906-7-8?
Well, back of the wood was Johnnv
Kling, aided and abetted by Pat Mo
ran—what little aiding and abettin •
Johnnv needed in thone halcyon days
The slab staff? We’ll match that. (
now. against any in history. Brown.
Reulbach. Overall and Pfelater for the
regulars, with Chick Frazer and Carl
Lundgren in reserve. Frazer was a
celebrated chicken fancier, you re
member. and Carl could pitch better
with the thermometer at 32 than most
pitchers could on July 4.
The Infield—Chance and Evers and
Tinker and Steinfeldt; and the rip
and swing of the old Tinker-to-Evers-
to-Chance that made the pace for all
their day.
The Outfield—Schulte and Slagle
and Sheckard; the celebrated S. S S
combination, with the Rabbit to top
the batting list and Artie Hofman to
fill in on occasion.
* * *
ITT ELU well—we'll take stock of the
** remains.
Schulte and Evers, and Orvle Over
all, who Is plUKgirik along on the
.ome-bark trail after a couple of
years’ defection.
Reulbach made the fourth of the
Old Guard, until the other day. Big
Ed hadn't done much the IhsI few
years. But don't forget that three
times Big Ed topped the whole list
of slabmen In the National League,
and that w hen Brow n and Mathew-
son were In their prime.
Four fighting Grizzlies,
Sturdy us can hr—
llig Fid teas traded.
Then there were three.
Who’ll be the next of the Old Uuard
to pass on?
• * •
\\J ITH brief reference to the lat-
Vv tHl chapter in that sad
serial. "Losing ’Em by One
Run." it appears from a somewhat
scramble^ telegraphic account that
Bill Smith and Gilbert Price came to
gether In a bean-on collision -after
yesterday’s game in Nashville.
Price appears to have been the one
to bounce back. In fact, the report
has it that Smith ordered him out
of his uniform Indefinitely.
The row was about the curve ball
Price dealt to Callahan in the tenth
inning, on which Dave Callahan dou
bled for the winning run.
At this distance, far be it from us
to make wise criticisms of either
Price or his manager.
Except this much.
If Price crossed up the manager on
explicit instructions, he deserves all
he got.
On the other hand, if Smith took
out on his pitcher the soreness Inci
dent to losing a hard-fought battle—
Price having been sent in cold and
doing his best—it looks as if the
uanager was overly severe.
Bringing Up Father
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RED SOX RECALL FOUR;
BUY CATCHER M’NALLY
BOSTON. Aim. V The Boston Red
Sox to-day exercised their right of
jption on three players in the Ameri
can Association. Infielder Krug, of
the Indianapolis team, and Infielder
Scott and Pitcher Brantt, of St. Paul,
recently sold with the-right of repur
chase. w-ere recalled.
Michael J. McNally, shortstop for
the Utica team. New York State
league, also was bought by the Red
Sox.
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AND BOWELS?
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Doubt in Splendid Condition.
If you would be cheerful, health
ful. full of life and vigor, don't
fool with calomel or any violent
cathartic.
HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUT
TONS are made from the pre
scriptions of one of the many
great physicians of Hot Springs,
Arkansas.
If you have been to this famous
health resort you know all about
them, for they are prescribed there
generally by physicians for all
liver, stomach and bowel trouble
If you are having trouble with
your bowels or liver and aren't
feeling as full of energy and am
bitlon as you should, get a 25-
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They are simply splendid, every
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Copyright, 1913, International New* Service.
Just a Little Glimpse Below the Surface
Kniseley on Southern Hurlers
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Explains Peculiarity of Hitters
I -vETE KNISELEY, outfielder for
Birmingham, undertakes to ex
plain the good showing some
of the pitchers make In this circuit,
only to fall down when they get into
the big show; also why Southern
leaguers hit well In the majors. Says
Pete:
"The Southern League Is the hard
est place in the country to bat up in
the .300 list. No wonder a player hits
higher in the major league than in the
Southern.
"In the majors, the pitchers do not
exert themselves until real danger
faces them When the game is pro
gressing without heavy hitting, the
pitchers serve the ball over and give
you a chance to swat it. hoping that
it will go into one of the fielders’
hands. But not here.
From the beginning of the game
until the finish, the Southern League
pitchers work at top speed. As the
result, the batter has a poorer op
portunity to make a high mark. Hut
I attribute the many ascensions In the
Southern to this fact. Unless a man
is of wonderful physique, he Is un
able to twirl nine innings, putting his
greatest effort on every toss. There
are a few who are able to stand the
pace. Elmer Brown is a twirler of
this class, while Bill Prough is an
other.
"But the average pitcher Is able to
stand the gait for six or seven in
nings. Then when he weakens the
hatters feast on the offerings and fre
quently drive him from the mound.
But. of court e. there are clever pitch
ers in the Southern. Hardgrove and
Koxen do not pitch hard until there Is
danger and are very successful.
"I believe that a 300 batsman in
the Southern can duplicate the feat
in the majors."
* • •
T/’NISELEY speaks truly both In
respect to the pitching; and bat
ting. It has long been noted as a pe
culiar fact that recruits from the
Southern League and the Pacific
Coast League seldom have hatted less
in the majors than in the minors.
Under ordinary circumstances. It
would be fair to discount the average
■recruit’s minor league batting by 10
to 20 points when he gets to the real
‘class, but Daqbert and Wheat both
have hatted better in fast company
than they did in the bushes; Charles
Stengel has become one of the heav
iest clouters in the National and Red
Smith is holding his own.
All of them are from the Southern,
and probably Kniseley has the right
answer. The explanation of the ability
j of Coast leaguers to hit in the ma-
: jors up to their Coast standards has
I been that the heavy winds in some
, cities and the dampness in others on
i the Coast keep the batting down to a
minimum, and a man who can hit In
1 ihat country can hit anywhere.
• • •
'THE tendency of young pitchers
* from the South to throw their
| whole strength into every hall deliv-
i ered jias also been noted by many
observers. Brooklyn has an illustra
tion of that very mistake in Frank
Allen, who persists in working with
all his might in every inning, with the
result that when he is in a tight place
he has comparatively little reserve
strength with which to extricate him
self.
An even more pronounced case of
the same sort was furnished by Bill
Burns, who Is a native of Texas, but
got his start on the Coast. Bill was
one of the most powerful men that
ever broke into baseball, but he did
not know how to conserve his en
ergy. He was at different periods
with Washington, Detroit and Cin
cinnati, and with all his. record was
the same. H e had the habit of blow
ing up at the end of the seventh or
eighth inning, and, if the game ever
went more than nine innings, it was
a dead sure bet that Bill had nothing
but his glove and spikes left for the
tenth.
Nap Rucker used to fall for the
same foolish policy in his callow
days, but Nap has become old and
wise and uses no more exertion now
than is necessary, although he ad
mits it took years for the light to
break on him.
J0RD1 CROWD
NESTED
Votes Pour in Fast as Popularity
Race Nears End—Five More
Days Left.
O
M’GRAW HINTS THAT GOLF
COST MATHEWSON BEATING
PITTSBURG, PA., Auk 8—One of
Giants was asked just before the New
York team left Pittsburg for Cin
cinnati why McC.raw did not take
Mathewson out of the box in the fifth
inning Wednesday, when seven runs
were hatted off his delivery.
"1 think Mac wanted to impress
something on Christy." sa4d the Giant.
"McGraw has been arguing all along
against his pitchers playing golf. He
does not object to the sport for in
fielders or outfielders, but he claims
it does the pitchers no good, and he
has tried to make. Matty cut it out.
McGraw claims that handling a golf
stick tires the muscles in a pitchers
hands and wrists."
JACK JOHNSON BARRED
FROM BOXING IN PARIS
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 8.—Jack Johnson will
not be permitted to box in this coun
try. The “American Boxing Federa
tion’’ has requested the French Fed
eration ot prohibit Johnson, the
American negro pugilist, from fight
ing in France and that body has de
cided to grant the request.
NLY five more chances for cou
pons, fans. Do your clipping
early. The contest ends Wed
nesday noon, August 13. When it
ends the last coupon in the Hearst’s
Sunday American and Atlanta Geor-
| gian’s baseball contest will appear in
this paper.
Dick Manchester still maintains his
lead, although admirers of Otto Jor
dan and "Goat" Holliday are fighting
like mad to obliterate the margin and
throw their favorite into the . lead.
The race is drawing to a close, but
it has lost none of its speed and ex
citement. Great bundles of coupons
are coming in to the Baseball Popu
larity Editor daily in the dash for
votes, and the leaders will probably
have their last week’s totals doubled
when the final count is attained.
All Americus is clipping for Man
chester. He holds first place and his
followers are breaking their necks to
keep him there. Will they succeed?
Time only will tell.
There’s a coupon in to-day’s pa
per. Find it on the sporting page and
send it in. There'will he another in
to-morrow’s paper. Help your fav
orite player, be he from Thomasvilie,
Americus, Valdosta or Waycross, win
The Hearst Sunday American and
Atlanta Georgian’s loving cup and the
honor of being the most popular play
er in the Empire State League.
FIGHT MANAGER IMPROVING.
CHICAGO, ILL., Aug. 8.—Larney
Lichtenstein, local manager of fight
ers, who on Monday underwent an
operation at the Alexfan Brothers’
Hospital, where he had two ribs
taken out, is recovering so rapidly
that he intends making the trip to
Winnipeg on August 14 to be with
j Steve Ketchel for his fight there. Doc
j Briggs performed the operation, and
I it was very successful
JOCKEY CLAIMS HE WAS
OFFERED $1,000 TO‘PULL’
SARATOGA, N. Y., Auf?. 8.—Jockey
Wilson threw ,a commotion into
sporting circles here to-day by de
claring that he had been approached
with an offer of a bribe to throw a
race recently at the Belmont track
meeting.
The stewards refused to comment
upon it, as the matter will be sifted
by the officials. The story involves
another jockey, a friend of Wilson,
who acted as an intermediary, and a
well-known Bowery politician.
Wilson’s specific statement was to
the effect that a man named Reed,,
who has been warned off the track a
number of times, approached him at
the Belmont track and offered him
$1,000 to pull Working Lad in‘a race
on June 24. The stewards, it is said,
have exonerated Wilson. No action
has as yet been taken against the
Bowery politician, but it is known
that if he can not clear himself he
will be asked to absent himself in fu
ture from all meetings given under
the association’s auspices.
BEST PISSES
COLE QUITS COLUMBUS
TEAM; MAY JOIN FEDERALS
COLUMBUS. OHIO. Aug, 8.—Be-
cause Manager Hinchman fined and
chased him off the field here, after
Umpire Cahill had lifted him from
the game. "King" Cole to-day assert
ed that he was done with pitching for
the Columbus team. He says he’s go
ing to a nunnamed Federal League
club.
LANGFORD AND JEANNETTE
TO CLASH IN LONG BOUTl
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8.—Promoter
McCarey last night received messages
from Sam Langford and .Joe Jeannette
accepting his terms for a twenty-round
bout. In all probability the date set for
the heavyweight event will be Octo
ber 7.
“I would like to see the question of
supremacy between Langford and Jean
nette settled," explained the promoter.
“That’s my reason for making the
j match. In a scheduled twenty-round
go in my ring with Eyton refereejng. j
the two blacks will have to extend j
themselves I will never stage a mixed
match between a biack and a white box- i
er. So long as the colored men battle
among themselves I will put no handi
cap ir. their way."
All doubt as to Wolgast’s willingness
to box on the September date was re
moved yesterday when the former light
weight champion telegraphed as fol
lows;
“Will positively meet the winner of
the Dundee White fight of August 12.
Hope it will be Dundee, as I want to
show the public the difference between
a real fighter and a jumping Jack.”
jinnies
T "Y THEN Elliott Dent walked Jack
\\ Spratt in the first inning of
Thursday’s game in Nashville,
the Atlanta pitcher interrupted slight
ly the progress of a very fine bit of
record-making in this league.
It was his third base on balls in
fifty-three innings.
Before the game started Thurs
day, Dent’s record, beginning July 18,
was two bases on balls in forty-foyr
innings. This included a “long run”
of thirty-three innings, or practically
tly*ee full games, without a walk be
ing issued.
The big right-hander is going at
top speed just now, and his control is
well-nigh perfect. He doesn’t get
himself in the hole very often, either,
and it is a rare thing for the batsman
to be able to take a tight grip on
terra firrna and wait confidently for
the next one to come over.
YANKEE OWNER PUTS IN
CLAIM FOR CUBAN STARS
TOMMY DIXON FALLS FROM
RING IN SEVENTH ROUND
JOPLIN, MO.. Aug. 8.—An injury
received by Tommy Dixon, of Kansas
City, during a fight here last night
with Freddie Cole, of Indianapolis,
caused the contest, scheduled for fif
teen rounds, to terminate in the sev
enth round. Dixon fell through the
ropes to the floor, injuring his arm.
JACK BARRY FIRST OF
MACKMEN TO BE HURT
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8.—The
first serious accident of the season to
Connie Mack’s famous 4nfleld has re
sulted in Shortstop Jack Barry being
put on the hospital list with a bad
shoulder, caused by his bumping Into
Catcher O’Neil at the plate n Wed
nesday’s game. Barry probably will"
be unable to play for a week.
RED SOX RECALL PLAYERS.
BOSTON, Aug. 8.—The Boston Red
Sox to-day exercised their right ot
option on three players in the Ameri
can Association. Inflelder Krug, of
the Indianapolis team, and Infielder
Scott and Pitcher Brant, of St. Paul,
recently sold with the right of re
purchase, were recalled.
NEW BICYCLE RECORD.
PARIS, Aug. 8.—Marcel Berthe 1
brok the world’s one-hour bicycle
record unpaced by covering 26.35
miles.
The American unpaced bicycle rec
ord for one hour is 25 miles 600 yards
made by W. W. Hamilton at Denver.
Colo., July 9, 1898.
NEW YORK. Aug. 8.—President
Frank Farrell, of the New York Amer
ican League club, will appeal to the
National Commission to set aside the
sale of three Cuban players of the
Long Branch team, of the New York
and New Jersey League to the Bos
ton Nationals. The players are Pitch
er Laqua, Shortstop Arragou and
Outfielder Pad ran, iccording to Far
rell. Owner H«.-nr?ques. of the Long
Branch team, recsii'ly offer*-d i • sell
him these players. Farrell agreed to
take them, and the price was fixed.
According to the verbal agreement,
the three players were to report to
Manager Chance yesterday Instead
of the players reporting, Hcnriques
sold tnem to President Gaffney, of
the Braves. Farell says he hai sev
eral witnesses to th'' deal.
C L E VE LA N d"""BUYS CATC HER
BOWMAN; PAYS $2,500
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., Aug. 8.—
The Grand Rapids club, of the Cen
tral League, announces the saY of
Pitcher “Abe” Bowman to the Cleve
land American League club. The
price is given oW at $2,500. Bow
man will report to the Naps at the
close of the Central season
Food for Sport Fan:
my GEORGS S. OHA
HOW SWEET.
Ilotr sweet to be a manager and run
a baseball team—
At least when you are winning
games it is a blissful dream.
But when the team is losing, is his
job a thing of foyf
Oi yoi, Oi yoi, ()i yoi, Oi yoi, Oi yoi,
Oi yoi, Oi yoi!
Whether Ed Reulbach or Eddie Stack
is the better athlete is yet to be de
termined, but It Is a well-known fact
that the Cubs never again will own
Reulbach’s equal as a badger fighter.
We are in receipt of a song written by
that far-famed pugilist, Packey McFar
land. The song is entitled, “I’d Like to
Know." So would a whole lot of pro
moters, pugilists, managers and other
insects.
Not that we are an expert on song-
ology. but after reading Mr. McFar
land's ballad we are convinced that he
is a lightweight.
If Joe Jackson were to do all his bat
ting at Shibe Park he would be chased
to the minors or (worse yet) to St.
Louis.
It Is said that the said Joe Jackson
has hit over .400 at the White Sox Park
this season. Joe never would be mis
taken for a White Sock—not even by
a blind man.
There is charity even in baseball. For
instance, Tom Lynch has handed a pro
tested game to Joe Tinker.
Horace Fogel avers that he waqts to
put a baseball team In New York. Th s
leads one to suspect- that Horace has
not heard of the adventures of Frank
Chance.
Washington fans having presented
Walter Johnson with a Idving cup filled
with money, it is said that Columbus
fans will hand King Cole a shaving
mug filled with lather.
It is said that fighters con’t come
back, but every day we note other
wise. For instance, there is Jack Hei-
men, the heavyweight. As he was leav
ing the place some philanthropist said:
“YYait’a minute. Jack! We’re going to
buy another.” He came back.
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