Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, August 14, 1913, Image 6

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THE ATLANTA CP'ORGTAN AND NEWS puts HE IS 0BGMLM SPORTS’ COVffiTC By Davenport. C hicago, ill.., au*. 14 — ah doubts as to who is manager cf the Cuba have been dispelled during the past few days, for Jawn Evers is not only the Keystone King but he rules with an iron hand, and those who dare to resent his ruling power have been relegated to the minors or dieposd of In some other manner. It Is less than a week since the •manager of the Cuba learned through the columns of a certain morning newspaper that he was about to bt dethroned. In other words, according to the word of one who claimed to have the inside Info, Jawn was about to be Maderoised. Your humble servant hurried to th*» throne of the Keystone King in an effort to learn Just hom badly King Jawn felt over the sad news “If all of the sport scribes* in Chi cago were as certain of their Jobs as I am of mine/' said Jawn, “they would be purchasing benzine buggies on the installment plan. Some scribes can’t get real news, so they manufac ture It. “The main trouble with the ball club has been that there were too many players on the club who thought they knew more about running the affairs of the club than does the owner or manager.” Rather pointed words, thes»> but they flowed a a freely from J awn’s mouth as milk and honey In that land where one never knows hunger. The cross-examiner shot a few pointed questions at the King. “To whom do you refer?” wan the first one, and Jawn replied: "Well, there are a number of pitcher* on my staff who know so much about pitching that they refuse to take any orders,” was the rather evasive reply. “Name them,” was the next hot one fired at Jawn. “I’d rather not Just now, hut it will all come out In the wash,” spake the oracle. Stop, look, listen and cogitate. Reulbach Let Out. Bd Reulbach has been traded to Brooklyn, Overall has been forwarded to Frisco by parcel post, and Lurid L«w Richie will grace Kansas City with his auguwt and comical presence NufT sed. Who are the pitchers who were treading on Jawn's artistic bunions? Reulbach, Overall and Richie, and they are no longer Cubs. That’s the answer. John Evers is ruler of the Cub*, and he has been given to understand that bis Job Is as secure as the Constitution of the United States. Evers Shows Hand. He Intends to manage the affairs of the club without either outside or inside influences or assistance, and when he finds a person in the little family who can’t see things his way, it’s a 10 to 1 bet that person is going to enjoy some scenery en route to somewhere. True, neither Overall, Reulbach nor Richie has shown anything a*lde from an enthusiastic desire to connect with the pay roll this season, and that alone is reason for a change of cllm » for the trio, but the fact that they toiled under Chance when Evers was hut a common layman and with them is ample evidence that they are in cluded among the pitchers “who know too much about pitching to take or ders “ The developments in the Cub camp during the past week mean much for tho future of the Cubs. They mean that President Murphy ts determined to inject new blood into Ms ball club. He ha* about decided that the old Cub machine that won three pennants Is becoming worn and that the club that won a pennant two years ago can not he depended upon to repeat five years hence. In other words, when the Cubs board the rattler for the sunny climes of Florida next March there will be a number of familiar physlogs missing. No Shift on Infield. It ia the Arm belief of yours truly that the Cub Infleld will be Intact next season, with Baler at first. Evers on the throne and Zlm at third. We are making no prognostications as to wh.» will jerk the pill out of the du*t in and around short. Fred Williams will be among those who will cavort In the outer pastures, and further than that affiant sayeth not. It will be a new club In the way of pitchers, and there may be a new face behind the bat. which means that another face, familiar to all the'base ball fans, will be missing No' names mentioned, but he couldn’t get along with Mrs. Britton. Evers will have a club that will answer to him and not try to dictate the managerial policies Overall, Reulbach and Richie have outlived their usefulness with the Cubs. They may show a flash of class with the clubs to whom they have been sent, but they will never wear Cub uniforms again. This wholesale canning business leaves Evers with six twtrlers to fin ish the season, Cheney, Humphries. Lavender. Pierce. Smith and Stack. And the season will end in a few short weeks tnen—watch for some new developments and wme young tw triers. PROUGH AND MAYER ARE SOLD TO CHICAGO SOX BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. Aug 14.— The star Birmingham battery. Prough and Mayer, has been secured by the Chicago American League club. Ex ercising an optional agreement. Wal ter Mayer, the young Baron catcher, was regained ofr $1,600, When Chicago placed Mayer with the Baron club, a blanket option was exacted for the choice of a player for $1,500 Prough’s wonderful pitching attracted the attention of the White Sox. and he was t hosen. Leading the league with a record of twenty victories and five defeats, Prough will gain his third trial In the majors Previously Pittsburg ami Cincinnati have tried out the elongat ed pitcher and have returned him to the minors. Mutt’s No Piker; He Shoots the Bankroll By “Bud” Fisher Murr uvresi' 0CRAYCH5D. ACT OP PfiOViDENCg' To show you yog Shouldn't GanvbcG. Dow eer *4,^ ^ Says That %y.o j rrl,N ‘K OF THt YSARS \ t <ACCO<J<YT of your. P<-AY(n<o THe. RACe L <N TH£ PftVT. Th<mk oF 1 Your, own Babies crowing up to K-Yow THElR FATHER. 1 * 'SANMJCER. r PAUSE ■ X Plead with you MOT TO BET* AH | X SEE BY THE THOUGHTFUL EXPRESSION ON YOUft. PAN THAT MY WORDS ARE getting, to rouR. heart. my WORDS HAVE HAD EFFECT. YOU ARE THINKING OF my WORDS; ARE YOU x was thinking OF a wiNNeR. For .Today forty HUNKS OF COIN) ON *AKY THINCr v TO VUIN L GOT YUH, But take Youil NOSE OUT OF ANY EAR. ce- 1 T0N.0C4.0Lys Papeil ANO UJHAT MR. MUTT T)0ES &0R. faint HEAR.T Al6YetL fills vj a Spade FLULH KRAZY KAT Ignatz Is An Honest Youth (Well, what - Worries haye. f-k You Today j : WR/vzy' (\ WOULD ' 'Isnatzv ESK OF Vou /MUST ONE. \ /MUST ONE Always call a ' ‘SPADE,A SPADE IF one Would Be- Truthful one would call a SPADF-, A RD ) owfe. Would Be.' untruthful should Call irCT SH0VEL.-S^J Hev l&wng Crackers Facing Supreme Test +•+ Mobile Has Lead of 5 1-2 Games By (). B. Keeler. H AVING duly touched off the red Are, ignited the Roman candles and called out the Are depart ment, we will now get out the old ohewed-at-one-eml section of pentyl and put down a few of the thing* popularly supposed not to mislead, which, by the way. Is one of the most staggering fallacies the twentieth century staggers under. It is plainly to be seen, and may he set down In signs like the following: !!!!. that the Tracker* trimmed Bir mingham a severely straight series, copped the final road trip in the ratio of seven to four and are in something of a position to contest against Mo bile and Montgomery for the posses sion of the title of Southern cham- peens. • • * TMIE exact situation is this: 4 Atlanta has 26 games left to play—all at home. Mobile has a lead of five and one- half full games over the Crackers Montgomery hns an edge of three full games But— Mobile has only two more games scheduled at hom«. And Montgomery Is not much bet ter off. having three. • • • 1V/T AKING the matter as personal as ^ * possible, the Crackers will get a regular crack at each of their prin cipal rivals in the long home wind-up. The Blllikens will be here August 21. 22 and 23, and the Gulls. September 2. $ t t and I* about tin- time tho last spurt for the wire Is on, provided things become that acute. The Gulls and the Billies do not play each other any more, the latter probably being rather more than con tent with that arrangement. Judging by the recent trouble In Gullvllle. • » • CO thfV’s the lay-out. ^ Chattanooga is here to-day, opening with a double-header. Th*? Lookouts also will play Friday and Saturday, and then the Barons will *neak In Monday and try for a little of the revenge stuff. The following Thursday—the 21st—the Montgomery series starts. Then comes Memphis for four games, then New Orleans and Mobile, four each, and then the Lookouts return to wind up the sea son with a single contest—Septem ber 8 * • • T NTKRLISTING, is it noC 1 No? Well, It’ll look a lot different, with a regular shoe-horn crowd wadded Into the old Cow Pasture, and a sun burned bunch of men in white uni forms trotting out on tho grass, ami some sawed-oft second-story artist pulling off his ild and bellowing: ■The bat -t-tree-ees fr t’days game: Muggum’ry, Brown an’ Crib bing*. ’Tlanta, Dunton Cmpmunk!” That's something else again. • • • WOUGH! .4 fn.ru imung Pitcher named Prough tint i»tn a hit nf a rough With some Walloping (lug*, And tn hi* *urpri*r. lie found nut he didn't knnw hough! * • f W HICH bit of gloating In a strict ly minor key leads up to the fact that, as G. Cleveland once eruditely remarked, it is not a theory but a condition that confronts us. The condition, roughly set forth, is to win two-thirds nf twenty-six games—or better. Two-thirds ought just about to pass Montgomery and overtake Mo bile, who will have to travel on the high speed to break even on the long road trip that confronts each. But two-thirds of 26 games Is be tween seventeen and eighteen. And that is a good many games to win, when It is mixed up with at least four double-headers. Also, It may rain. • • • \17HICH brings on the subject of W clouds. And Just now, on the heels of five straight victories on the road, the everlasting rout of the Barons, the busting of Mr. Prough’s proud record, and the beginning of a long stay at home well, just now. we are Inclined to think the said cloud Is turning outward a bit of the well-known silver lining. Th© Georgia-Alabama season will close Saturday, and while hardly any of the clubs in the circuit have made money this year from the attendance, it Is expected that several will realize on the sale of players The abnormal speed of the Class D Southeastern last year militated against the sport in Anniston, Gadsden and Talladega this year, but It is believed that the fans are getting satisfied with real Class D ball and that the league will be kept intact. • • • Gadsden has had the best club from the start, and they probably have the best manager in the league, considered from the standpoint of both his playing and managerial ability. Randall brought several men from New Orleans who had been playing all winter and they were in good form when the season opened Although Gadsden has never been off the top, however, the attendance at that place wus the poorest in the league, and ft was the only city to get games transferred. e e * A fine spirit of bon homme prevailed among both the funs and players at the banquet held in Anniston lust Saturday night, when an inspiring address was made to .the men by Hon. E. P. Wil lett. a well-known attorney and former president of the Anniston club In the Southeastern. At this meetng. Proctor, Anniston's star centerfielder, also proved himself a fine orator. He's a graduate of a Texas college and promises to go up. • • • If the league i-= kept together, there will be a unanimous apeal made for the re-election of President W. J. Boy kin, of Gadsden, who has shown hlm- s«‘lf to be a live wire, a man of back bone and uniform fairness. He has pleased all the clubs see White, the on e-arm ed phenom, who for a while played with the Anniston club, holding the unique record of being the first one-armed man to perform it; professional company, has made good as an umpire Joe Burke, an old-timer with the Indicator, also gave better sat isfaction this year than ever before. m • • Boyd, whom Birmingham released to Talladega, will probably go back to the Southern when this league ibises. His arm is getting in slutne again and he has had pretty easy sailing Klee, New- nan's catcher, is one of those rare backstops who hit the ball and perform well at the same time with the mitt. In the last series at Anniston he got ten hits out of thirteen times at bat. t * • The Anniston club this >ear encoun tered a hoodoo in the .600 limit. Every time the Chickens would get to the half perfect mark something would happen, and down the ladder they would go aguin. They almost reached there last Saturday, but In the game Monday they hit the toboggan. • • • The two Georgia towns. Newnan and 1-AGrange. led in attendance this year. G(>elika did well considering the sise of the place, but Gadsden, Anniston and Talladega had been used to faster hall, and when salaries were reduced this year the fans got the idea that the sport would not be interesting. This proved erroneous, however. Fighting Carpenter Shows Remarkable Gameness in Great Battle FRANK WHITNEY EASY FOR CHARLEY WHITE By Fuzzy Wood raff. I >I by far the most thrilling, excit ing and scientifically waged ring battle ever seen in Atlanta. Frank Whitney, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, At lanta favorite, was for the first tune in his Southern ring career com pelled to leave the roped arena a beaten man. For ten rounds he ''as scientifically hammered by Cho**ley White, the marvelous Chicago light weight. And though Whitney left the ring beaten, he did not leave there with any smirch on his record. It is doubt ful if he ever fought more brilliant ly. It Is certain that no man ever showed more gameness than did the Iowa carpenter. Then/ were cheers for the victor, but there were more cheers for the vanquished. It was simply a case of Whitney meeting a better man, but, though, at no stage of the game did he appear to have a shade, time and again when the crowd was on its feet expecting to see him feel his first knockout in stead saw' him rally brilliantly, give blow for blow, never wincing under White’s terrible punching. Wilitney was always a great big figure. But credit must be given White. The little Chicagoan seems even- inch a champion. He had a deep and abiding respect for Frank, though, and boxed carefully. Not until the sev enth round did he begin to take any thing like a chance, and then he was quick to crawl back behind his breast works whenever Whitney seemed dangerous. • • • a S a result, Atlanta boxing fans saw boxing in the rejil sense of the word. Both men fought marvelous defensive battles. The sparring was fast and perfectly executed. Botn used excellent ring generalship. It was White's superior strength and his youth that told the sto.*> Whitney’s entire attack wa3 from his right side. The few times he used his left It seemed to possess lit tle power, but at that he did quite as much leading as his opponent. In the fourth round his right landed and White was turned completeyl aiound by the force of the olovv. In this round Whitney had the shade, but all the others were either even or White's. iirHEN tl enth the gong rang for the sev- round, the battle was ap parently all even. Then White took the lead. Both men had been cau tious In reference to infighting, but in this session White got busy at this part of the game and beat Whit ney at the feature of lighting in which he is morft skilled. In the eighth Whitney was very, very tired. His face was completely smeared, but his magnificent condi tion told the tale. In the ninth it was the same story', and In the last part of the tenth it seemed Inevitable that Whitney w r ould be floored before the gong He weathered it bravely and was on his feet fighting to the end. but there was not a dissenting voice w hen Referee Castro raised the Chicago boy’s glove. • • * tN the semi-windup Kid Young was A decisively beaten by Charley Lee. Young seemed to have none of his old dash and virility and in the fourth round after Lee had dropped him and Young arose to continue his .tactics of crawling under cover Castro an nounced Lee the winner. At times Young showed a flash, but it was never more - than a flash. It seems that the promising newsboy boxer has about run bis course. e • • JN the third round of their scheduled six-round go Terry Nelson drop ped Mike Saul with a terrific clip on the jaw. Saul came up on the count of nine, and after clinching desper ately backed into his corner and cov ered. He was apparently badly hurt, not only from Nelson’s blow, but also from the blow he received when his head struck the canvas with a bump that could be heard for feet. Saul was apparently unable to fight back, and the referee declared Nelson the winner to save the Atlanta milk man from further punishment. Up to the knockdown Saul had a big lead over the little Greek and was appar ently boxing in his best style. • • • T N the opening engagement “Mary" Payne knocked out Battling O’Leary In the second round of their four-round go. Both boys were nov ices, but both were willing. A fair house saw an excellent fight card. Tesreau and Matty After Auto +•+ ►!«••{• -j-e-i- "Big Six” Making Good Record J OHN M’GRAW has called on Jeff Tesreau oftener to start battles this year than ar v other member of the Giants’ pitching staff. Up to August 1, the “Little Napoleon” had given the pitching assignment to the big splt-baller 26 time*. Jeff only went the route on eight occasions, but on many of 4 the times he was der- ricked he w r as lifted to allow a pinch hitter to be inserte.1 into the pro ceedings and not because he was not performing to the satisfaction of his commander. Were Hugh Chalmers to offer a car to the National League pitcher ^ho twirled the greatest number of com plete games Instead of the player who Is most vahiable to his team, Christy Mathew’son undoubtedly would be riding around In a new auto next fall "Big Six” has opened on the firing line in 22 skirmishes for the Giants this >Var and has lasted through 17 engagements, which gives him a fln- iahing average of .773. Matty quit twice because he had to. twice because his team had an enor mous lead and once because McGraw wished to shove Harry McCormick Kn as a pinch hitter. The club that has compelled Conzelman and Price Will Work +•+ *•* •r.+ Fans Will See Calvo In Right Field Mathewson to retire under fire is St. Louis, the team that handed him his first beating twelve years ago. w’her he first became famous. The Cardi nals ought to he proud of themselves for their showing against “Pig Six' this year. They have received five of the thirteen passes Matty has issued this season, Ed Konetchy and Miller Huggins each obtaining two ar i Ste/e Evans one. The eight other National Leaguers w r ho have been honored with complimentaries bv Mathewson this season are Vlox and Mensor, of Pittsburg; Bares and Groh. of Cincinnati; Zimmerman, of Chi cago. and Titus. Rarld^n And Marttr.- villa, of Boston. The figures below' show the number of games started and completed M the Giant*' pitchers this season: Complete Games Games Started Pitched P.C Grandall 1 1 1000 Mathewson 22 17 .771 Marquard 20 13 .650 Demaree 16 7 .43 7 Ames 5 2 .400 Fromme 6 2 .332 Tesreau .. 25 8 .320 Wiltse 2 0 000 By Joe Agler. H OME again! And glad to be here, you may be sure. Especially as w’e won’t have to hook any more rattlers and ride any more un til the season of 1913 Is history. The boys talked it over, coming this way from Birmingham last night, anc they decided the Crackers had one grand little chance to knock the ever- lasting lining out of about six other clubs in the next three weeks, and bring home another flag to Cracker- vllle. That’s what we will try our best to do. The Birmingham series has given us all a lot of confluence. We pounded the ball back of good work by our own pitchers, and put up a great fielding game. That combination will win regularly' against anything ir» this league, if only we can keep i» working. • • • PONZELMAN and Price will work ^ in the double-header with Chat tanooga this afternoon, and Dunn probably will have to catch in both, as Chapman has a had ankle. Chris Holtz has been released out right, and Jacinto t’alvo, the Cuban outfielder Clark Griffith sent us. wii be in right field. We hear he is a bear with the wood and fast on the bases, and that Is what we will need from now on. Holtz is a crack fielder, but weak at the plate. • * * R ETURNING to the last battle in Slagville. which is h very pleas ant topic with us. it will be noted that Carl Thompson, Baron cast-off. pitched rings around his famous rival. Clinton Prough. stopping his winning 6treak at ter. games, where he is tied with Coveleskie. Prough showed the stuff in holdirg down the runs as w’ell as he did, for the Crackers were surely hitting the old pill. Once McBride, by a great running catch, robbed Harry Holland of what looked like a nure homer, with the bases full at the time. Harrv kept up his hitting streak, and is now in the charmed circle of the ,S0(V wal lopers. And please don’t forget Wallv Smith. Hi* drive to the center field fence probably was the longest hit of the season in Birmingham, and Just about settled things for Mr. Prough and his help. The help also cracked under punishment w’hile w r e kept up our good work In the field. • • • I17CLL, the Barons are out of the ** race, It seems, and It was our bunch that put them out when the rest the league seemed powerless to head thm. Now we will have a chance at the others. ’ We’ll do our best. REDS BUY CATCHER. ROANOKE. VA, Aug. 14.—Mark Stewart, the big catcher of the Nor folk club, In the Virginia State League. ha.« been sold to the Cincin nati Red Sox for $2,000. Stewart Is a young catcher, and was playing col lege ball at Washington and I^ee Uni versity a year ago. His batting aver age has been .300. He will finish the season with the Norfolk club and re port to Manager Tinker at the con clusion of the season. Totals .97 50 .5i: CINCINNATI ASKS FOR WAIVERS ON 4 PLAYERS PITTSBURG, Aug 14.—Before the Cincinnati Nationals left Pittsburg it was reported from their camp that waivers had been asked on Suggs, Sheckard, Egan and Bates, veterans of the team. All the clubs In the league have w'aived on Bates and Egan, and President Herrmann and Manager Tin ker are trying to make deals for them with American League teams. They ex pect to pull off a trade for Egan with either the Whtie Sox or the Highland ers. both being in need of inflelders of Egan's class. It is likely that several other changes will be made On the present eastern trip all the clubs have also waived on Suggs, for whom Manager Tinker has been trying to pull a deal. Trades are under way for Sheckard. WORLD’S SERIES GAMES WILL START OCTOBER CHICAGO, Aug. 14 —The world's sc ries game* are to start on Monday. Oc tober 6. This was the information Pres ident Ban Johnson, of the American League, gave out. The play will con tinue on each succeeding day thereafter until one club has won four out of seven games. Should two Eastern teams be fortu nate enough to take down the glory in the National and American leagues— and It looks certain—then Sunday will be an off-day, for the "blue" laws cf the East forbid the parading of our na tional pastime on the Sabbath. Low round trip fares p North and West Commencing June 1st and daily thereafter round trip tickets over the Louisville & Nashville Railroad will be sold at greatly reduced fares to all the principal mountaun and sea shore resorts and to many of the larger cities in the North and West. These tickets will be good returning until October 31st, and bear liberal stop-over privi leges. Round trip fares from Atlanta are EAD E'SAgoCt/ PILLS IS 1ST ■ fl Th^'oIT^amr Popular Remedy DF - for Gout, Rheumatism. ^ Sciatica. Lumbago, pains in the head, face and limbs. At druggists. E. POtQERA A CO.. Inc., Atrents for T. 8.. ttO Beekoian St-, N. V* DON’T SCRATCH < If you only knew how quickly and easily Tetterlnr cure* warms. a?cn wht»re everythin! cIm fails. y»u wouldn't auffer snd arrateb. Tetterine Cures Eczema Read what Mr*. Thomas Thompson. Clarksa- rille. Oa.. aaya 1 aufftrsS fifteen year* with tormenting eczema. Nad the beat doctors, but nothing did me any gsod until I got Tattarlne. it cured mo. I am to thankful. Ringworm, ground itch. Itching piles and other skin trouble* yield aa readily Get it today— TtUeritas. 50c at drufplst*. or by mall. SHUPTRINK CO.. SAVANNAH. GA. Cincinnati $19.50 Charlevoix - 38.08 Chautauqua Lake Pts. 34.30 Chicago — 30.00 Colorado Springs 47.40 Denver — 47.40 Detroit 29.00 I French Lick Springs 21.70 Indianapolis 22.80 Louisville 18.00 Mackinac Island 39.50 Mammoth Cave $17.40 Marquette 45.70 Milwaukee 31.75 Minneapolis 43.20 Niagara Falls 35.85 Petoskey 3808 Put In Bay... 28.00 Salt Lake City 8 0* 40 St. Louis 25.60 Toronto 38.20 Yellowstone Park 67.60 These are bat s few of tbe peints. There are s *reat maay others sad we will be pleased to giro fall iafomatioa apon application. Proportionately low faros froai other poiats ia Georgia. Let Us Arrange Your Vacation Trip CITY TICKET OFFICE 4 Peachtree SL PHONES Atlanta 171 Bell - 10M ATLANTA