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POME EQUIPS VOLUME XIX. No. 208. The Story of How the 1914 Pennant Chances of the Cleveland Team Were Wrecked in the Saving of SI,OOO New York.—This is a story of how th© 1914 pennant chances of the Cleveland American League team were practically wrecked by cupidity that resulted in sav ing about SI,OOO. It is a story, too, of how Charles W. Somers, the Cleveland magnate stands to suffer a loss of SIOO,OOO this season in stead of mak'ng a profit of from $100.1)00 to $300,000, all because he wanted to dole out a small reward to a pitcher whose brilliant work during the 1913 season kept the Naps in the fight all the way and enabled the club to clear something like $150,000. "Cv” Falkenberg was the hurler who kept the Naps in the 1913 pennant fight. He won the first ten games pitched and finished the season with an average near the top. Such work, in Falkenberg's mind, and In that of every fair-minded fan, was deserving of a sizeable boost In pay. Did Falkenberg get it? Nay. Nay. Somers instead of giving Falkenberg a l oost of about $1,500 a year, offered him an increase that amounted to about $1.;»3 a day. according to Falkenberg. and which statement Somers does not deny. Falkenberg, disgusted, jumped to the Feds. They made him an offer far in excess of that of Somers. They recog nized worth and were willing to pay the full price. Falkenberg’s heart had been in his work in Cleveland. He would have preferred to remain there, and un doubtedly wou’d have remained on the Naps’ roster If Somers had offered about «1 f'OO more. But Somers didn’t. He overlooked the fact that the Federa League was a haven for the underpaid stars. ■With Falkenberg on the firing line for Cleveland this year and pitching in any where near his 1913 form, the Naps now would be in a pennant fight instead of hopelessly in the rut. The deplorable weakness of its pitching staff has kept the Clevelanders in the cellar practically from the outset of the season. Outside of Crf»gg they haven’t a dependants pitcher and the demoralized condition of the pitching staff has disheartened the entire team. It has taken the fight Brooklyn Feds Team Have Made a Hit With the Fans; Souvenirs and Covered Stands for Two Bits The Federal League folks who are aiming to please the fans might make a master stroke if they introduced free score cards at their parks. The idea of paying for scorecards at the bail carries appeals to most fans in the na turTof a holdup. Why should the fans he compelled to pay for score cards. Why aren’t they given away free the as are theatre programs? If the Feds ever get together a real ball team in Brooklyn the Ward fam ilv’s team will outdraw the Dodgers 3 .to Vmatter what the attraction the Dodgers are staging. The w ards have made a hit with the Brook yn f ins They gave away some souve ntofc to both sexes of the fans that attended the Fourth of July there. They have reduced the prices and instead of forcing the bleacher ite to sit in the uncovered seats origi nally designed for them the Wards have invited the 25 cent fan to sit In the crowded stands where he can en joy a game without being broiled. A fan has just issued forth with the suggestion that sliding into the bases be eliminated from baseball. He points out that many of the game s greatest stars have been forced out of the line tip for days and weeks because of in juries received by the spikes of the opposing base runners. The suggestion, although fjood \ in one sense, cannot be adopted. To elim inate Sliding from baseball would elim nate one of the best features of the game would reduce base stealing to a minimum because a player who was barred from sliding the final eight or n feet of his pilfering Journey, wouldn't take the chance of making the base. Some years ago it was suggested that the sharp steel spikees used by Middleweight Championship of World Which Has Been Bantered Around for Nearly A Years, To Be Decided Soon (By Ringside.) , "*« worTif"which ß^" assays on ° c tobe r 15th. 1910- w ■" ujversal ,'ossesslon of one who ™ of 158- ly recognised as ine c^ntcnde rs is rounders. The ne« the number ol r i n ?ftr the title r'an now be count* ellgihles for the Mord-eai Brown’s f,ch?n* hand ' And basebaU lore t.H. thaf the" old Cub has three finger . ‘rv BcX 2 Pre tenders°^bat £ nwner would be to hold a round-robin of houts the ultimate victor to be proclaim ed ftie world o'er as the middleweight chlUrriol Middleweight Problem. Anvwav. the mddleweight problem, whlchhas disturbed the fighting ele ment for over three years, is nearer to solution * than It ha. been In all that 1,1 There are any number of fair "mid dies ’ hut the trio who should be fight ing It out for final honors are M'ke Oih hntie Tlmmv riahby and Oecjrge Chip. If r,?bbone win only enter the controversy we ore likely to have an undisputed champion In the 158-pound division he for* the current year roue by. If Gib- I wh could only be Induced to tamp#* w'th the men who## displacement Is 15K pounds, he would have no difficulty In showing to the world In convincing fashion that h# Is the only and legiti mate successor to the title vacated by the lamented fltanlev Ketch#!. Nothing Startling. Olhhons has don# nothing of late to stnrile the piig'llstlc ren'm. but his ree- substantfallv bea r s out tils class, r*Wr and Clabhv demonstrated Just a for’n'ehf ngn that their pretensions tc ♦ >’« t'M* must be given due and serious consideration. Tn far awnv Australia Clabby took It upon himself to eliminate - THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. —— ■" THE AUGUSTA HERALD and spirit out of them. They have coma to feel that no matter how brilliantly they field, no matter how terrific their hitting, the inoundman cannot hold the opposition in check. If Falkenberg had been with the Naps, he would have been good for at least ten victories that have resulted in de feates for the Naps. Manager Birming ham, with Falkenberg on his staff, would not have called on Ids kid twin ers so often. He wouldn't have to ex periment so rnucli. The result would have been that at least ten of the games that have been lost would have been won by Falkenberg. Furthermore, if the Naps had won those ten games instead of losing them. It would have enthused instead of dis heartened them. They would have pi y ed better i aseball and fought harder, and no doubt, would have won at least si xof the other games that they have thrown away by indifferent work. Think of what a difference this would have made to the Naps! July sih is re garded as the half-way mark in tne "aseball season. This year it found the Naps with a stand'ng of 25 games won and 46 lost, for a percentage of .352. if Falkenberg had be,en with them and those 16 games had been won instead ot being thrown away by miserable pitching and inconsistent, featureless playing, the standing of the Naps on July sth would have been 41 games won and 31 lost, for a percentage of .569. Tills would have put them Just a Jump behind the league leading Athletics—and with a fine chance for world's series honors. When a club is down in the race the turnstiles feel the effect. The attend ance at most of the games in Cleveland this vear has been the smallest m tne history of Mg ingue baseball In the Ohio city It is reported that on many the paid attendance had fal'en below the 1 wo mark, and that one day It reached only 210. As a road attraction they are n °Whut e a’different story m'ght have been written had Somers offered Falkenberg a boost of $1,500, or even SI,OOO over his 1913 salary—ia boost that he seemed to have earned. ball players be replaced with little leather blocks on the so'es of the shoes on much the same style that golfers and football players use. But experiment with these showed that they were almost without value as thy did not dig into the ground deep enough to aid the base runner. In fact they burrowed only the slightest frac tion of an inch because of their rath er blunt points and the base runner found that instead of being aided his speed was retarded. Every time an Organized Baseball Player jumps to the Feds or begins flirting with the Feds, the O. B. mag nates at once shriek about his “trai torous actions.” They assert that this player oweea certain loyalty to the fans and to his owners and that he s committing a horrible crime by quit ting th©m, or even thinking about it. The O. B. magnates always lay par ticular stress upon the disloyalty shown to the fans by the player who jumps—which is a bit of grandstand play that fans can see through with outthe aid of their spectacles. When the magnate sees a chance to trade or sell one of his stars, he doesn’t consult the fans as to whether they want the deal put through. He just swaps. He figures that the deal will serve his own interests. And that’s the way the Jumping player feels. If a player can get about twice as much money for his services from one man as he is getting frym another, why shouldn't he change Jobs? This “loyalty to the fans" Is a lot of hunk. He's their hero one day—if he performs well. And the very next day, if ho fails to hit in a pinch, or hobbles at a crucial moment, he is hissed and hoot ed. No one knows this better than the ball player, and that’s why the player doesn't take the fans into considera tion when he is tempted by a larger offer from the Federal League. the most dangerous man of his weight In the wbrld. He beat up Eddie M<-- Goorty so handily for a few rounds that McGoorty deliberately fouled him In the eighth. The defeat puts McGoOrty out of the running for the title he once Im posed upon himself, and of which he made Australians believe he was the rightful owner. At about the time Clabby was show ing up McGoofrty. George Chip knocked all the championship aspirations out of Billy Murray In fifteen rounds. Mur ray was being looked upon as a “sec ond Stanley Ketchel" when he collided with Chip. He proved such for a few rounds, and then the bubble burst. Mur ray twice previously had beaten A 1 Mc- Coy, who scored a fluke knockout over Chip. Still Another. Booking over the f eld again, there Is still another middleweight whose work In the past entitles him to considera tion. Jack Dillon Is the man In mind. His defeat on Jndependenc Day of Sailor Ptroskey, who gave Clabby a great fight for twenty rounds, stamps Dillon as a fighter of merit. Dillon is capable of giving Gibbons Chip or Clabby all the ’ could handle In a fight over the rout*;. Dillon has fought Chip about seven times, and came out unscathed In hl« tussles with McGorS’ty, Moha and Klaus. Clabby and Gibbons have fought throe times, the verdict going to Clnhbv once and the other two houts being no-<b* cision affairs. The best way to deter mine the champion would be to stack Clabby against Gibbon*. and the winner of this bout against Chip If the “law of the r'ng’’ were adhered to Ain McCoy, the Broklyn fourth-rater would be the champion of mldd'eweigh i s at this writing. The “law of the ring’* Is simply this: hat. when a champion dies the title reverts to the previous udder. Thus, when Ketchel was mitv- Jered. the erown shifted hack to the orow of Billy Papke Papke lost to T ank Klaus on a foul In fifteen rounds over In Paris, making Klaus the champ ion. K'tios. in turn, was knocked out wire tv Georg# Chip, who, In his or der. succumbed to Al MeCov In a punch. Elimination Bouts. But as long as there was a question AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 26.1914. Interesting Factors That Are Proving Important in the Gallant Battle of Boston to Climb Out ot the Cellar Genial Jim Gaffney, the Smiling Owner and President of the Braves, is Not One of the Ordinary Run of Baseball Club Heads —He is a Type of His Own—His Players the Joy and Pride of His Life —Stallings is Great Manager. I New York—While the fans ..round the Nat.oual League circuit are talk ing about the gallant battle of the Boston Braves to get out of the cel lar it is interesting to consider some of the factors trial are j roving .myortant in tlie Big Upli.t. The stereotyped thing to say is that the manager is the chief element in any success the club may attain. This would he handing the palm to George Stallings. While there .« no intention to avoid this, for Stallings is undoubtedly one of the greatest leaders in the game, and will prove it onbe more before this season is out unless we miss our guess. He is by no means the sole cause of the Big Upli.t- The players on the team of course have something to do about it, but that is not what we mean. “Genial J'm.” James E. Gaiiney, tali, genial Jim Gaffney—now we’ve said it. The smiling owner and president of the Braves is not one of the ordinary run of baseball club heads. He is a typo of his own. Mr. Gaffney, who is one of the powers that he in Tammany Hall, one of the big leaders o New York Democracy, and who also has about as big a contracting business as any man hereabouts, build ng sub ways and such, is not in baseball simi ly for the money he can gee out of it. He is a fan. a thirty-third de gree one, and he would rather lose money on his club and have it play good baseball and get up in Hie race than make a mint of coin with a poor team. Those young fellows out there on the field with a “B” on their chests are the joy and pride of Jim Gaffney, and the Big Chief, George Stallings, is worshipped by him as an older brother wjll admire a capable young er brother. Anything that Stallings does is good enough Tor Mr. Gas ney. Oh, yes, he “tampers” with the team, just as other club presidents tamper with their manager's teams, but lie goes about it in a different way. The extent of his tamper.ngs is about this: Inside Gossip. He keeps In touch with all the in side gossip of the game that he can, to get tips of various kinds of dif ferent players that are likely to be available for him, and he shoots the information along to Stallings: w th the comment, “you may go as far as you like, George,” meaning no i rice is too high for him to pay. If Stal lings, who is the baseball supreme court ot the club, does not like the player in question, nothing further is done, but if he thinks he wants the man, he passes along the word to Mr. Gaffney to go get ’im. Such methods were used when Johnny Evers was signed up last win ter. and recently the same tiling was done in the cases of Jos Devore, from the Phillies, and Ted Gathers, from the Cardinals, as well as a number of others lined up by trade and pur chase. During the summer Mr. Gaffney is living in his country home out on Long Island. No evening paper is published within miles of his habit that contains the scores of the ball games. But Mr. Gaffney could not wait until the morning for his news. He wants to know how his boys fared and he must know quickly. He would die if he had to wait until morning. So what does he do? He picks up his telephone, asks Tor “long distance” and calls the sporting edi Just Now the Militant Suffragettes Are Comparatively Quiet —Merely the Lull Before the Storm London. —At the moment the militant suffragettes are comparatively quiet, but It is the lull before the storm. The fu rious women have gon# too far to draw back. There can be no question of com promise or a reversion to more peaceful agitation. It is war ail the time; real, well-organized, brainy war again the governing forces and against law and or der. The women have unwittingly rush ed to extremes which permit of no re treat. That 1s regarded by them as nn impossible solution and tantamount to an admission of defeat. They are still strong in numbers and financially. They have the sinews of war that count dol lars. and plenty of them. Inherited Fortune. Only this week It was revealed In the course of a trial that one of the prison ers a girl of 25 years, had Inherited # fortune of half a million dollars a year or two ago. Half that has found ts way into the militants’ war chest and Its donors Is one of the most rabid leaders of the cause. Though but a girl she fears nothing. Incendiarism Is her hob bv. She defies police and magistrates and at her last trial she fought 1n the dork In an effort to attack the magis trate and injured three waitresses Tn a few da vs 1 suppose she will he released under the “cat and mouse act” because the prison authorities will fear that she will die of hunger. Can’t Be Overestimated. The seriousness of the position cannot be overestimated. It will be a long drawn-out business If the government hopes to cow these women bv a process „f exhaustion. They may shorten the lives of a few by allowing them to un dermine their health by hung#r-#Mklng. But all the time recruits are Joining the women’s army and the conditions of the about Papke being the legltlma'e champ ion when Ketchel passed away, none of his successors was looked upon as champion. The manager of each of these men, however, admitted that his charge was the real champion; but who ever took a rnanaKV’s word without some saline sprinklings? The championship is still in abeyance, and the only way to clear the situation would be to bold a series of ollnnlnatlorv houts. The one fighting his wav through the rness should then he thh recognized champion The International Box ng Federation would do well to Insret a hand in the ass dr. and sterHze the mud dle In on** of the two divisions that need sterilization, the welterweight class be ing the other. tor of one of the big New York morn ing papers. "fielio, Mr. Gaffney," answers the storting editor, "your fellows cleaned up today; the score was 2 to 0 tor whatever iB might happen to be.J" Wanted Part culars. “Who pitched.’" asked Mr. Gaffney, and receives the iniormation. How d d we do it? Get the runs in the early innings," he queries, "or make ’em near the finish?” The hits on each side, the sluggers of tlie day, errors and other facts about the game are asked by the BBraves' pres.dent. "What did the Giants do?” is al ways the next question. He doesn’t ask about the Pirates, Dodgers. Phil lies or Reds, who are right in tlie same general section of the standing with the Braves. Whether ids club should pass by a few o, those outfits and land around fifth position or so does not seem to be on his mind at all. “What did tlie Giants do?” that's all that worries him aside from the playing of ills own team He is still aiming at the top, amt way down deep we believe he feels that Stal lings will lift them up tlisre, though at first sight it seems impossible, it would be nearly a miracle, hut it is not impossible, even though more than half of the season has passed. The big question being as to how long a handicap they are able to al low tlie other clubs. But it is a fifty to one bet they won't be last when the season ends and much better than a three ot two wager that they will he in the first, division. Gaffney is not going to let Stal lings go unrewarded n a material way i. lie lands tlie club well up in the race after such a poor start. Thd Braves had a mark of away below .800 in percentage of games won before they started their recent spurt, which has carried them well beyond* .400. They bid fair to do the same sbrt of a climbing act that ti.sy staged last year. What was Stallings’ reward then? Gaffney made him a member of the board of directors of the club and gave him some stock in it. When Stallings took hold of the club a year ago, the outfit was branded as a hope- Issh ta.lender, one that could not rise out of the cellar within less fhan three years, counting all the building possible. But they did. going up to the head of the second division. And i Stallings does not get at least somewhat higher than that tlris year, even with the discouraging beg nning, when bis outfit was shot to bits by injuries, we need a new pair of eyes. The Braves now have a really first class outfield as tlie result of tlie trades with the Phillies and Cardi nals that brought Gather and Devore to the club. Jockeying these two with Connolly, Mann and Dugey, Stall ngs has been keeping a eanable outer works crew in the game every day, using soma of them against right handed pitching and some against southpaws. The infield has been de livering the goods In fine stlye. Evers at second and Maranville at short, form one of the greatest double play machines in the game. Big Schmidt at first and Deal at third also are playing the game right up to the handle, and Gowdy is a much improv ed catcher, with Whaling to help him out. With Rudolph and Jamea n the leading roles. Stallings now has his pitching staff going better than at. any otlwr time this year. Keep your eye on tlie Braves. militant forces Is now one of cruel and cunning fanaticism. Other organizations are working for women's franchise in more peaceful channels but the struggle is intensified by the actions of the militants. Lady Selborne, Winifred Lady Arran, Mrs. Gil bert Bamuel and Lady Betty Balfour re cently entertained the women delegates of the International Suffrage Alliance In London and their peaceful and dignified propoganda Is regarded here as much more likely to bring the desired result, If only the militant# would refrain from their devastating tactic#. Walt for Year. Even so the day of woman’s franchise here 1# not yet. They will have to wait for years before success wfll re ward their efforts. Though as I have said, the militants are rather quiet at the moment, a little guerilla warfare goes steadily on. One of their latest exploits Is to ruin the great organ in the Iloyal Albert Hall, London’s largest concert hall, by pour ing huge quantities of water into all the vital parts of the Instrument. But what was more tragic still was the fnet that the work of the malignant# was not discovered until after a concert at which Madam Clara Butt was the chief singer. The organist, Mr. Herbert L. Cooke, was severely taken to task by the critics for his “wretched and intol erably inefficient*’ playing of an obligato for Mine. Butt, but the poor fellow has since been absolved by the discovery of the damage. Program of Music For the First Baptist Church Below In the program of muile that will he rendered at the Find BaptUt thtirch today: MORNING. Ormin prelude Mnxxenet Anthem "Jubilate Deo" Corbin Offertory-- “Rock of Ak«B." EVENING. Or fan prelude Bhumann Anthem "I Will Day Me Down In Peace” Ondxhy Offertory- "I Will Magnify Thee".. Marxli Duet Alto and bus*. ANDREWS BROS. CO. 870 BROAD STREET Double Purple Stamps Given Before Noon The Biggest Bargains of the Year to be Had Here Tomorrow We take stock at the end of the month, Friday, so all odds and ends must go. Be on hand this week, pickings will be good. Jl Wonderful Dress Sale Sizes 14-16 Years. 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