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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS They Are Starting Baseball Leagues on Paper, but Some Paper Isn’t'Worth Much ly SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT • • • • Copyright, 1913 International New* Service. • • • • • • • • By Tad I National League Averages Are An nounced— Cravath Runs Sec ond With .341. AB. . 60 . . 155 ..508 rr\\\y. official National League bat- I ting averages, releaned to-day. 1 show Jake Daubert. the Dodgers Unrt saoker. and Jormar Southern Vague p-.aver, leads the list in lilttlnR. . . smashed the ball at a .350 clip for the season. Tingling and McDonald both top Dau bert, but neither played in many games. | Cravath is the real runner-up. with an average of .345. following are the averages of the batters who hit .200 or more for the season: Player and Team. Tingling. Brooklyn., jMcDonald, Cin Bos. Daubert, Brooklyn . Miller, Philadelphia. Cravath. Philadelphia.52» Hvatt, Pittsburg 81 v/alsh, Philadelphia .. oO Collins, Bo6ton » Brown. Boston 34 Yiox, Pittsburg 492 Tinker, Cincinnati ...382 l Bf-'M-r Cin.-Phiia... .414 Hartley, New York ... 19 Timmerman, Chicago .44t Hess, Boston 83 Meyers. New' York ...378 Schmidt, Boston 78 Magee, Phila 470 Crandall, N. Y.-St. L. 49 Wheat, Brooklyn 535 Lobert, Philadelphia .573 Wagner, Pittsburg ....413 Cooper, New York .... 30 Fletcher, New York . 538 Marsans, Cincinnati ..435 Titus. Boston 269 I Zinn. Boston 138 Smith, Brooklyn 540 Oakes. St Louis 539 Snodgrass, New York .457 Saier, Chicago 519 | Adams, Pittsburg ...114 Hauser, St. Louis .... 45 Shafer. New Y’ork ....508 Leach, Chicago 456 Bums. New York ....605 Herzog. New York ..290 McLean, St. L.-N. Y...227 Hoblltzeli. Cincinnati .502 Evers. Chicago 446 Huggins. St. Louis...382 Egan. Cincinnati 195 Connolly, Boston ....427 Groh, N. Y.-Cin 399 Doyle, New York 482 Butler, Pittsburg 214 Gibson. Pittsburg ....118 Schulte, Chicago 497 Bates, Cincinnati ....407 Carey, Pittsburg 620 Konetchy, St. Louis..604 75 MoOormick, New Yodt 80 9 Myers. Boston f24 74 Hendrix. Pittsburg ..99 13 Kllng, Cincinnati ....209 Miller. Pittsburg 580 > T^ U TTUSL CAOjB> ( a> n kkfi. tengel, Brooklyn Miller, Brooklyn . . Kelly, Pittsburg Murray, New York . 428 ...320 . . 82 ...520 Cutshaw. Brooklyn ..592 Magee. St. Louis 531 Fischer. Brooklyn ....165 Wilson. Pittsburg ...580 Mitchell, Chi.-Pitts.. .478 Moran, Brooklyn 515 Archer. Chicago 368 Byrne, Pitts -Phila... .506 « larke, Cincinnati ...330 T'evore, N. Y. Cln.-Ph.277 Knabe. Philadelphia...571 -Ludertis*. Philadelphia.588 Usher, Brooklyn 474 Faskert, Philjuielphia.454 ..Almeirln, Cincinnati.. .130 Merkle, New York ....563 Harmon, St. Louis .. 92 Mowrey, st. Louis ..450 Lriner. St. Louis 81 Blackburn,* Cincinnati 27 Bescher, Cincinnati ..511 Erwin, Brooklyn ... 31 Sweeney, Boston 502 Dooin, Philadelphia .129 James, Boston 47 Mingo, St. Louis 307 Clymer, Chi.-Boston ..142 •Suggs, ‘‘inclnnati .... 67 Mann, Poston 407 ( *°od. Chicago 91 Griffith, Boston 127 Kord. Boston 235 Evans, St l.ouis 245 Phelan. Chicago 261 •Maranville, Boston ...571 •Bimon. Pittsburg ..255 Eirkj^atriok. Brooklyn 89 Kinder, Philadelphia .360 5iy«e. Phil.-Cin.. 326 M haling, Boston ....211 Hummel, Brooklyn ...198 •Ssste, B r.°. okl >^ ... «7 405 88 42 246 246 Bridweil, Chicago Rudolph, Boston . Needham, Chicago Klrke, Boston .... Hander. Boston . t , !p D Chicago 203 f; olnn - Phil.-Pitts.;....259 !» " Pittsburg.. 155 • agner. Brooklyn ... 26 ./ Boston 2lo Human. Pittsburg ... 83 Bmitn, Boston .......285 & ha n. Chicago ..162 p, Chicago ...156 r ’ li' s - Brooklyn . . 18 l New York .. <15 ^nitted, St. Louis ...404 f ar :i uar J; New York. 105 Beriho’ Philadelphia..518 Herghammer. Cin 188 n-. ,® r >. St. Louis ...406 cJth an 2’ Cincinnati . 79 rw ’ r ' ht - b.ouiB 183 Chalmers. Phila 33 Grant. C!n.-.M. y n 4 st. Lduir..;:; as Cincinnati ... 48 Tvi •„ Isew York .. 24 Boston 102 fe. Cincinnati 64 aw- t \ ' Louis .... 59 M'TarUjj. Pittsburg .. 74 Booe. Pittsburg so 1 86 a 65 6 5 25 20 54 11 16 22 18 41 68 23 13 25 20 3 35 11 5 31 31 23 37 14 1 19 11 35 20 17 0 32 22 139 158 142 44 164 127 137 98 134 87 73 150 154 124 119 34 147 24 117 21 132 8 129 33 12 78 36 17 103 23 32 59 61 65 141 63 .272 .272 .272 .268 .267 .267 .267 .267 .266 .266 .266 .266 .265 .264 .264 .262 .262 .262 .262 .262 .261 .261 .260 .259 .259 .258 .258 .256 .255 .254 .254 .254 .253 .253 .252 .251 .249 .249 .247 .247 .247 .244 .242 .242 .242 .241 .240 .239 .238 .236 .236 .236 .232 .232 .231 229 229 228 228 .224 NOT LET LOOSE Jake Daubert and Wheat Are Also Fixtures With Brooklyn Team for 1914, Milwaukee Closes i’wo Corking Bouts ' AC<,», Dec. 1. Milwaukee s pro- .v! aVf * at laHt dosed two matches should prove highly attractive to spectators and promoters. The '° m ® 8 ®- week from to-night, when .McFarland ana Jack Britton o\er the ten-round route. The , is set for December 29. when ( labby will endeavor to polish , K /i Cl ip and make his claim to Purei? I<W ‘^weight championship undis- WELTERS MATCHED. i 'M KEE, Dec 1. Kid Graves •ce Barrett, local aspirants to the weignt crown, have been matched ten-round bout before the South Ehlotic Club, of this city. Thurs- '*bt. The pair met in Brooklyn r ago and ever since each has victory ove>- his riya ! . In • j mi-final. Jack Redmond and Hail • lightweights, will clash Bv Sam Crane. B ROOKLYN, Dec. I.—President Ebbets, of the Brooklyn club, and the McKeover Brothers all deny that Nap Rucker will be ex changed for Marqttard and Herzog, of the Giants, and Ebbets also took oc casion to say that Manager Wilbert Robinson will have to keep hands off when it comes to a case of the dis posal of Daubert. Rucker or Wheat. Club owners do not look with pleas ure on a manager or anyone else but themselves bothering with their club’s assets, and players are in that class. But. nevertheless, while that is right in a way, still it is those man agers like McGraw and Mack who are given free rein and absolute author ity to release and engage their play ers who have been the most success ful and have made the most money for their employers. Interfered With Tinker. It was because of President Herr mann’s interference with Joe Tinker in running the team that caused the manager to take a sensational fling at Herrmann last seaso and it was be cause Tinker insisted on full power for next year, which was not granted, that Joe was not signed as manager for next year. It was because President Herrmann did not want to take the burden of Tinker’s release cause on his own shoulders that the officials of the club were induced to sign the statement giving the reasons of Tinker's being thrown down. That the Reds will be a second division club next season seems to be a foregone conclusion. After being in baseball for a year or more club owners get the foolish idea that they know how to run their teams as well as, if not better than, the managers they hire for the job. Then comes the friction’ between the magnate and manager, and the jig is up ms far as the winning power of the team goes. McGraw a Real Manager. John T. Brush, when he engaged McGraw as manager of the Giants was wise enough to give- the latter full power over his players, and he never withdrew his manager’s abso lute control. This was one reason why McGraw has been so remarkably suc cessful. What McGraw said was law. and there was no going behind his or ders. There was no‘appeal, not even to Mr. Brush. President Hempstead has followed in the footsteps of his lamented fa ther-in-law. and the result was that the Giants were again winners of the National League pennant, and more monev v\.is turned into the coffers of the club than ever before. Athletic Club Five Opens Basket Bail Season Saturday The basket ball season will be inau gurated by the Atlanta Athletic Club five next Saturday night, when they clash against the Bessemer Athletic Club, from Bessemer, Ala. * The local team has been practicing for the past ten days and should be In great shape for a tough game by Satur day. They are looking for a harder game than the> had with the Bessemer squad last year, as reports state that the visitors are much stronger this sea son. Following is the probable line-up of the Atlanta team: Dubard, center (captain!: Forbes, Smith, Abbott. Wight, forwards; Carter. Weaver. Locke, guards. The line-up or the Bessemer team will he: Houston, center: B S. Clay (cap tain), Donaldson. Bailey, forwards; 1. Clay. Edmondson. Filmore, guards. Johnny Dundee Gets New Orleans Match With Joe Rivers NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Dec. 1.—Joe Rivers, the Mexican lightweight, who defeated Leach Cross last week, has been matched to box Johnny Dundee in a ten-round bout here on Christmas Day. T. D. Tortorieh, promoter, closed the match yesterday. This bout should prove a corker for local fans. Dundee has been coming to the front rapidly lately and is bound to give the Mexican a tough scrap. Will ’Shop’ for Players Together LOOKOUT FOR Food for Sport Fans ■y QIORU ft. PKAIft. Riders. Work Out in Six-Day Cycle Race NEW YORK. Dec. 1.—The entire con tingent of sixteen teams entered for the six-day bicycle race in Madison Square Garden, which starts at midnight Sun day. December 7. began final training to-day on the roads in this vicinity and at the Vailsburg. N. J.. motordrome. The German team. Packe Busch and Applehaus, and the French team, Perchicot and Breton, were out for practice. I’erchlcot is also entered for the feature event in the preliminary races next Saturday night against Frank Kramer, .Jackie Clarke and Francisco Verri for the world’s short distance championship. This year, for the first time in the history of the six-day race foreign teams overshadow the American en tries. There are only six American teams in the contest There are five distinct foreign teams and five combi nations. four of which are composed of one American and one Australian each, and one in which an Englishman will ride with an American. Among the prominent entrants be sides those already mentioned arc) Clarke and Hehlr and Walker and Pye. | of Australia; the Australia - American ; combinations of Ooullet and Fogler. i Grenada and Moran. Root and Mc Namara. and John Bedell and Corry. ! Fred Hill and Kvan and Walthour and j Collins. America, arid Verri and Brocco, ( Italy. PLAYERS SOLD. DECATUR, ILL.. Dec. 1. Pitcher “Rube" Hildebrand ami Third Baseman I Toner, of the Great Fads club of the j Union Association, were purchased by j the Decatur Three-1 League club. This , is ihe firsr step taken for th»- reorgan- , m Hs-* ****■ for ' . '14 car-., i By (). B. Keeler. B ILL SMITH expects to have some active support in his gum-shoe endeavors in New York about December 8 and 9, when the National League annual meeting comes off. C. T. Nunnally, a direc tor. is going on to New York on business Monday and he told Billy Saturday he would try to wait over for him and chaperon him through the toils and pitfalls of the season. Rill grinned and took unto himself a hunch that with the Hon. Nunnally of well-known generosity in baseball matters back of him he could loosen up a few notches when it came to picking up a couple of infieiders, which is what Bill will be trying to do in New York. As to the prospects. Bill has no more to submit just now than that the Pittsburg bunch ha» a long string of youngsters and B Drtyfuss is a trading kind of a bloke. * * * T HE Cracker management is book ing exhibition games for the practice season. These games already are arranged: Louisville. American Association, March 16. 17 and 18. Cleveland Americans March 19, 20 and 23. New York Americans, March 26. Rochester, Eastern League, April 7, 8. 9, 10 and 11. The Boston Braves—so-called be cause* It was sheer bravery that kept them in the National League fori many seasons—-also want a three- game s'ries here, and invite the Crackers to visit Macon and play them there. Dates will be arranged as soon as possible. • * * py the way, the Braves’ communi- ^ cation, written by George Hial- lings. manager, is a very cordial epistle, and includes an urgent invi tation to Bill Fmith and the At lanta Club’s directors to spend some time at Mr. Stallings’ big planta tion, “The Meadow," near Haddock. Ga. After requesting the exhibition games, Mr. Stallings writes: "If we have anything that will do you any good, we will be glad to help you all we can." That, refers to players, of course. For the invitation— ‘‘The birds are plentiful, only too tame*, they need someone to scare them up a little. Tell Messrs. Ryan and Nunnally if you can lure them this far away from the big city we would be pleased to have them with us and will try to fix up some real city food during their stay." Messrs. Ryan and Nunnally, hav ing tried the said hospitality last year, agreed that no special induce ments would be needed to lure them down to “The Meadows” if they could possibly arrange the visit. ♦ * * DILL expects to leave Atlanta * ' about December 6 for New York. He may possibly go a bit earlier and stop over at Washington. TY COBB did his best stick * work against the Boston. Philadelphia and Cleveland pitch ers in leading the American League batsmen for the fifth con secutive season. The Red Sox pitchers were the easiest of the lot. In the last campaign he faced the Boston twirlers seven ty-nine times and banged out thirty-five safeties for an aver age of .4 43. He made seven lilts off Collins in fifteen times up; eleven off Leonard in twenty- two tries; eight off Bedient in nineteen chances: three off O’Brien in the four times he faced Buck: two off Anderson in four attempts, and three off Moseley in ten chances. Cobb faced .Joe Wood three times, but didn’t get a safety, nor did he get a hit off Foster in the three chances he had against the Kid. Wy koff. of the Athletics, was real meat for Tvru*-. who found him for five safe hits in seven tries. T HE appointment of Wilbert Robinson to succeed Bill Dah- lon as manager of the Superbas has met with great approval among the umpires of the Na tional League. "Lord" Byron declares that the owner of the Brooklyn team could not have picked a better man than Robinson to handle his team. There is a reason for "His Umps" madness. Bill Dahlen haunted the umpires night and day. while, on the other hand. Robinson, mild and good-natured, rarely if ever gets into a con troversy with the czars of the diamond. WT ILBBRT ROBINSON’S first * *' move as manager of tin* Brooklyn team is the suggestion that involves the transfer of Charlie Herzog to the Brooklyn club. The Giants’ infielder would be used a* shortstop if the deal is completed. Since the release of Bob Fisher to Toronto, the Brooklyn ib is left with two candidates for short flefd — Mowe, a New York State League re cruit. and O’Hara, of the Fort Wayne team of the Central League. DIRECTORS RE-ELECTED. COLUMBUS. Dec. L—-At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Co lumbus Baseball Association, the old board of directors was re-elected. At a subsequent meeting held by ttao direc tors. George S Hamburger, a manufac turer, was elected president of the as. sor>at ion. The general impressions p • - vails thu .Inn Fox will again be elected manage; ol the learn. Local Manager to Leave on Scout ing Trip Saturday—Will At tend National Meeting. B ILLY SMITH, manager of the Crackers, is not satisfied with the players he has on hand for next season. This much was settled yesterday when the local manager stated that he will leave Saturday morning on a scouting trip. He will also attend the National League meeting at New York December 9. Smith plans to stop off in Wash ington en route to New York to have a conference with Clarke Griffith. Smith would like to get another in- fielder or two for next season, if pos sible, as from the present outlook of things the Cracker manager will be able to use a good man. At present Smith has Eible for first, McConnell for second, Jennings for short and Manuah for third. Eible and Jennings are unknown quantities and Smith would like to have some one on hand in case either happened to fail to deliver the goods. McConnell should have little trou ble in holding down the middle cush ion during the entire season. He was a star in the American League until he injured his legs, and should be heard from next season In this cir cuit. He is a fast man and a corking player to lettd off. Manush is well known around these parts He proved a valuable player as substitute for the locals and is a good veteran to have on a team, espe cially when some of the players in the infield are youngsters. Basket Ball League To Close Season The National Guard Basket Ball League will play its final games this week. Three games remain to be played, two Wednesday night and one Friday night. The battle Friday night will be in all probability for the championship of the league. Company G and the Governor's Horse Guards regulars will meet. Nei ther of tuese teams have lost a game ye? The Horse Gaisrds have played and won six games, while the Company G t team has only played four, two of their ganu s being postponed. The Horse Guards have experienced little difficulty in winning their games. SOME JOB. Tht: fjenls who own thn haxebaJl club aYc always in his way And cross him on the slightest provocation: The creatures in the blearhrrs string /hr hammer every day And fill his soul with sorrow and vexation. He gels il from, the owners and hr, gets it from the mob And stands enough abuse to drive him batty. I thank the Lord / do not hold the wretched person's job Who tries to run a team in Cin- einnatty.. Leading a team In Cincinnati is a great little Job except that the leader is suposed to remain seven blocks In the rear. The report that the Kenosha club has signed Jimmy Clabby and Packey Mc Farland will be news to Jimmy Clabby and Packey McFarland. Not detracting one lota from Mr. Mc Farland's record, but reports from Windsor indicate that Brewer fought like one. Recent events lead one to suspect that Garry Herrmann is the Fred Mer kle of the baseball magnates. JOE SHOULD BE WORRIED. Joe Tinker up and answered thus: “/ do not caro a Tinker's cuss.* 1 least. The Hot Stove League has a few hundred more jobs to wish on him. Mr. O'Brien, of Harvard, is aecuaed of having pulled a boner in tbe Yale game, but an investigation reveals the fact that It. was the rules committee that committed the Merkle Automobile drivers next year wtll race for prizes amounting to $105,000. some of which will not go to the undertakers. MISSED A city huntsman kitted a stag. A stag of noble sue. And straightway hurried howo to brag About his prize. "How queer! How wondrous queer! 19 they cried. And yet it was not queer For hr had fried to shoot his guide. And killed the deer. COOMBS LEAVES HOSPITAL. PHILADELPHIA. Dec I Jerk Coombs, the Philadelphia American League c)nt>'s pirciM*!*, who has beer a patient In a hospital since before the world’s series last October, left the In stitution to-day Coombs contracted ty phoid of the spin*- during last spring s training season. He expects to he in condition to Join the Athletics next year I Opium WhUb«r iod Drug Habfta S«»:#4 Horcft ir «t Sio'tftrtuai Book ©■ i»ibJ«V I JO-**. DB B M. 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