Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, June 17, 1912, FINAL, Image 10

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'DOPE' UPSET IN
MAJOR LEAGUES'
PENNfINTHUNTS
By Damon Runyon.
BASEBALL has n "ay Os In
variably upsetting all prog
nostications. The only sure
thing about the game Is that 1t will
always be different from what la
expected. After the hairline finish
In th* National league last season
It generally believed that the
ISI2 race 1n the older organisation
would be a thrilling affair, while
the American league campaign was ,
figured as simply an uninteresting
parade, with the Athletics in tha
band wagon showing the way.
Many fans believed that the
Giants were lucky in winning the
pennant in the National and that
the Phillies, the Pirates and the
Cubs would give them a terrlble_
battle this season. They also be
lieved that the Athletic bend would
run Its opponents off their feet
eartl’ In th? game and have the
pennant cinched early In the sea
son.
Hard Fight In Young*r League.
In other words, Ts seemed certain
that the National league would
again afford all the excitement,
while the American league race
would be tame and uninteresting
Condition* are Just reversed.
While moat people are engaged In
figuring out Just how far the
Gl»nW> will win, the Johnsonian
orgarriz.atlon has settled down to a
hand-tn-hand struggle with six
clubs in the melee.
John J. McGraw's club 1s now
believed to have better than a !-
to-1 chance of repeating in the Na
tional league, while 1t was hardly
even money at the close of the
ISI 1 season. Connie Mack's dele
gation was considered a cinch at
any raids to win another pennant
In the .American longue this year,
particularly after tha world’s series,
but now 1n the merry month of
June ft Is>believed that he will have
the fight rtf his life to overhaul the
White and'Tted Sox Ho may do It
probably most fans believe he
will —but a strong element of un
certainty has entered into the mat
ter.
Phillies Big Disappointment.
It is a-remarkable upsetting of the
"dope." The Phillies -supposedly
the Giants' most dangerous foe
after last season—are nowhere.
The McGraw machine Is far out in
front and the only other new sen
sation of the National league—the
Cincinnati Red*—faded early.
Pittsburg and Chicago are coming
very, very slowly; probably too
•lowly to do them any good, while
the other clubs are running to
form.
In the American league there
h*v* been two distinct surprlees—
the White Sox and Washington
The Red flux are living up to the
winter books, as they were always
figured 1n the fight for the Job of
runner-up. at least Cleveland did
not doaßweH as expected, and De
troit has failed to Justify the win
ter psophedes Meanwhile, the
champions of the world are lagging
•long and showing but little of
their 1911 form It may he argued
that they lagged last season, too,
but with such delegations as the
vari-oolored Sox out In front, It
behooves the champs to be up and
doing—for this Is the middle of the
merry month of June
WAIVERS ASKED RY TIGERS
ON MULLIN AND SUMMERS
DETROIT. June 17. —The Detroit Amer
ican league baseball chib. It was learned
today, has asked waivers on George
Mullin and Fiddle Summers, veteran
pitcher* and stars of season past. Sum
mers has been in poor health, and It la
claimed Mullin has been indifferent.
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
_ I
Catcher Lemon, discarded by a brace nf
Southern league clubs, no sooner reached
the Texas league than he busted a hand
and can't earn his pay. He only earned
part of It In the Southern
• • ♦
Tn his last fiO trips to the plate George
Paskert has made 24 hits.
• • ♦
The Tri-Rtate league makes more fran
chise changes than the Southeast Ar
kansas league and is a close second to
the Kitty. The Altoona franchise has
been transferred to Reading You all
know why. It was due to our old friend.
"I. of p.,” which, being Interpreted means
lack of patronage.
• • •
There are several clubs in the South
ern league suffering from that same
"L of p '' complaint
♦ • •
The Columbia, S. C., team has bought
four players from the Cincinnati team
But not the Reels. Nixie. The U. S.
league thing
"Reel" Keating, who fizzled with Al
bany, has been signeel by Jacksonville.
* • •
Every time the Mobile team wins as
many as two games in a row the Gulvllle
scribes swear the team has just struck
its stride.
Wild Rill Downvan Is doing a little
scouting among American association
clubs for the Detroit team.
• • •
The Southern league haw a grand lot of
road teams this year Only two of the
eight chibs have won more games at
home than away frrom home The Crack
ers have played nearly a hundred points
better on foreign soli than at Ponce Dr-
I«eon
• • •
Cy Watson, the man who recently
pitched a no-hit no run one base on-bajls
game for Houston, has only managed to
fwin five out of his ten games this year
Scouts for the Browns are looking into
his case, but he hopes with luck to be
saved from any such misfortune.
• • «
“Luck and Bad I’mpiring Wreck Cubs'
Chance.” says a Chicago headline They
could have reversed to read, "Wreck
Chance’s Cubs ” It ia ever thus—when
you are losing
The United States league may he con
tinued with four clubs this season And
then again it may not ba continued at all
♦ • •
'‘Peaches ' Graham wfll go to Toronto
If waivers are secured.
• • •
O’Day would have claimed Pe4ty for
the Reds If Washington had waived on
him ‘Hank” thinks Felty's arm is all
right, but that ha needs a new team
• • •
Reumlller, ex-Cracker shortstop who
has bam playing phenomenally good ball
for tne phenomenally bad Louisville team,
is out now with a broken thumb
• • •
Herman Schaefer, as his baseball abil
ity slips away, replaces it with new
vaudeville stuff He now does an Imita
tion high wire act along a chalk line (hat
is said to hr- funny enough to make
’ Silvers swallow make-up
The other day Schaefer was sent in to
b;it f.«r John Henry As the giant catcher
walked to the bench Schaefer grabbed
him and holding him by the band, turned
t<> th» stands and announced:
Ladies and Gentlemen. Allow me to
introduce to you Mr Henry, He Is the
gentleman i am to bat tor.”
When Schaefer walked to the plate I’m-
I pire Hilly Evans ask* .I him who he was
hutting for
AL \ oiled Seha. for. ’’Who M IL’
Wl • am I batting f«u Lin batting for
exorcise '
• • •
’’distant shifts of players have hurt
!tho 'rigors this \<a* They have never
• filed down into a »eal team yet
QUITS TEAM BECAUSE HE
COULD NOT ROOM ALONE
M.U’oX. GA . lune 17 Because the
proprietors of a 10. al hotel, who are also
• .‘Wners «»t the Macon hall club, refused
< to give him a room to himself at a less
rate than wa> charged the other players.
Shortstop John Cook has quit the mam
\ll of the players stop at the hotel, and
’wo are assigned i-> a room.
Cook wanted to b> by himself at half
, ihe price • barged tw< players for a room.
-nd when this was «knioi him he de
« lined to play with the team an> longer
Dresden’ Ethrridg’ ass he will be s i.-
ueuded indefinitely.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. TT^TTWr
League Schedule Hands Atlanta Awful Lemon in Short Saturday Games
KAVANAUGH COULD HELP SOME, BUT NEVER WILL
By Percy IL Whiting.
\SK any baseball man what is
the best .baseball town in the
Southern league and he'll tell
you "Atlanta.” Ask anybody in„.
Atlanta what city is getting all the
worst of this year’s schedule and
every year’s schedule. and they’ll
give you the same answer, “At
lanta."
Os all punk arrangements ever
( Inflicted on the public this schedule
that makes Atlanta the victim of
six-inning games on Saturday aft
ernoon is the most outrageous. The
Standard Oil Company never in
flicted anything worse on a com
petitor.
• • •
WHOSE fault is'it? Not the lo
cal association's surely, for
the directors put up an elegant yell
against it. But they had one vote
against seven. The local associa
tion has been protestipg for years
against an arrangement that neces
sitated short Saturday games. And
all ft has achieved was some ex
ercise for the lungs.
The Southern league is responsi
ble primarily and ttie league sched
ule committee secondarily. And.
since the main cheese of the sched
ule committee ie President W. M.
Kavanaugh. It is likely that he is
the ring leader tn unloading such
an imposition on the best baseball
city In tile league
• • •
A TLANTA gets short gajnes on
-*■ Saturday so that the teams
playing here can get away in time
to play Sunday games. It so hap
pens that the big Sunday towns —
Memphis. Mobile and New Orleans
are reached by trains that leave
Atlanta early in the evening, so
early that teams playing with the
Crackers must get an early start
•in order to catch them
The whole rotten arrangement
arose from the obsession of the
Southern league that the money it
makes on Sunday is a little better
than the money made on week
days And the league will delib
erately cripple its .-ix,day-a - week
cities tor the benefit of those which
play Sunday ball
\xr HAT'S to be done abbtlt it'.’
*• it's too I ate to ■ mange the
schedule this year and it would be
impossible to get a majority in At
lanta’s favor, anyhow.
t.tne thing that could be done
would be to waive this silly rule
that Ute game must be called one
hour before train time. Waiting
automobiles could hurry players to
either station in 15 or 20 minutes.
It would cost visiting teams a
shade more and it would be dtiee.i
ly unpleasant for the visiting play
ers to have to dress on the train.
But it seems to us that the added
- xpetise and the added trouble
would lr. more than justified by
the fait that the people of Atlan
ta would pet a little more baseball
for their money.
Thes< early games are hurting
Atlanta's attendance.
tnotb. i tl lng tbit '*,01,1 t„> ,|one
would be tv instruct lilt umpires to
hustle thesi abbreviated games
They could increase the speed of i
any game a good 25 per cent., if
they only would. By playing these
games at very top speed and by
keeping them going until 20 or 30
minutes of train time it ought to be
possible to play a full game every
Saturday afternoon.
The baseball fans do not so much
mind tlie early start. What is
hurting the attendance is the fear
of the fans that they will not see
a full game, even if they go early.
Os course Saturday’s game was
particularly short because the rain
just before game time made a
slight delay In starting necessary.
A game that starts at 2:15 is all
wrong. Three o'clock is not bad.
Very probable 3:30 would be the
ideal game time in Atlanta in mid
summer. But 2:15 is too early.
Doubtless early starting of Sat
urday ball games have cost the
Atlanta Baseball association three
Crackers' Batting
Averages, Including
Saturday's Game
These averages include Saturday’s game.
with Memphis:
Players— I G. IAR I R. I H. I Av.
Dessau, p| 11 I 32 I 4 I 11 1.344
Hemphill, cfl 49 191 I 24 61 1.318
Bailey. If. 53 1190 1 35 I 54 .284
Donahue, c 15 I 43 5! 11 1.256
O'Dell. Ibl 49 170 | 26 j 43 1.253
Alperman, ss i 53 206 29 51 1.247
O'Brien, -s -2b 50 168 19 141 .344
East, 2b . 11 1130 11 I 291.223
Graham, c 17 'ls 4 10 .222
Sitton, p1 10 23 1 ' 5 1.21.
Atkins, pI 10 26 3 1 5 .192
i 'allahan, cf .. . 11 53 I 3 9 .170
Brady, p‘ 3111 I 0 1 ‘ 091
HOW THEY PAIR OFF
for McMichael cup
The following are the pairings in the
three flights of the golf tournament for
the J g McMichael cup:
First Flight.
T B. Fay vs. 1. L. Graves.
C. Knowles vs. C J Holditch.
D. R Henry vs XV. Holleyman
J. J McGill vs. I S. Raine, Jr
C. P King vs H <’. Moore
W illiam Richards vs. T I’ Hinman
R P Jones vs. XV. F, Spalding
Dr F. Holland vs E Corwin
Second Flight.
C. Angier vs. D. Jemison
J P Webster vs II I’ Thorn
G \ Nicholson. lr.. vs G. A. Howcd.
J. D. Osborn vs. XV. R Tichenor.
P Xdair vs. B. M Blount.
R X Palmer vs H .1 Hopkins
<’ \ Thornton vs. I McMichael
,1. Moor/* vs E. R. James.
Third Flight.
W L. Hudson vs T. X. Hammond
J \X Pearce vs. G W Adair.
\ R. Broyles vs W U Uuuninghatn.
\ W Hodnett vs \V. G Warren.
L H Heck vs J D. Eby
G M S' i pie vs \\ F I pshaw
Srott Hudson vs H G Butler
C S Davis vs. R. E Richards
OFFER JOHNSON $30,000
TO BATTLE JEANNETTE
LAS VEtIAS. June 17. John Arthur
Johnson is certainly u lucky man. The
Erem h boxing promoters, through Vic
tor Breyer, have cabled an offer of $30.-
UOO to the champion if he will tight Joe
Jeannette 30 rounds in the fair city of
l’,ri“. Ami that Jtm.iem goes whethei
LU Anita wins, loses or dra.is.
or four thousand iron men in the
last two years.
'T' HERE is small chance of ma
terially bettering conditions
this year. President Kavanaugh
is, of course, too busy with the task
of running Little Rock to give any
attention to the Southern league.
Witness that when Nashville was
about ready to drop out of the
league, which would have been the
severest blow that had fallen since
the league was organized. Presi
dent Kavanaugh couldn't waste the
time to go over and 16ok out for
things himself. He sent his sec
retary. Small thanks are due the
league’s chief executive that the
tangle was straightened out as well
as it was.
Because the league president is
getting his fat salary for giving the
league his moral support only,
which some of us believe isn't
worth the price paid, no remedy i«
is sight right now.
Whether the future will offer any
improvement can’t be determined.
The anti-Atlanta forces of the
Southern league would be In the
majority if the matter of giving
the Gate City a square deal with
the Sunday ball towns came for a
vote at the next schedule meeting.
President Kavanaugh, who will, of
course, be elected president again
next year by a doting and misguid
ed following, will make the sched
ule and if past schedules can be
taken as a criterion he can be
counted on to give Atlanta all the
worst of It.
That ulcer can be cured
Your case is no worse than what
these People had.
Yet see how quickly 8.8.8.
cured them.
“I was down three years with an
ulcer on the leg," writes Mrs. Marie
Cooper of Mobile, Ala. “I used only
three bottles of 8.8.8. and it did me
more good than fifty-six bottles of
another remedy. Thoy who knew my
condition and saw what 8.8 B. did for
me were surprised.”
Mr. R. J. Irving of Center Point,
Texas, writes: “I had a bad sore leg
which I could not get cured. I had the
best physicians: and tried various rem
edies. All failed until I used 8.8.8.
Now tny leg is cured entirely and gives
me no pain.”
Miss Florence King of Atlanta, Ga.,
writes: “I had a very bad foot. I could
not walk for six months. I spent much
money trying to be cured. Since using
8.8.8. the foot has healed up. All in
flammation is gone and I can walk
withoutpain. 8.8.8. is the best blood
Medicine I ever took.”
These are only three cases out
of thousands, which 8.8.8. has
cured quickly and completely after
every other treatment' failed.
Any good druggist will supply
you with 8.8.8. Insist on having
it.
Year money back if H H.Tt.
fails to help you
BOXING
Late News and Views
L. .
Joe Mandot is certainly training hard
for his bout with Willie Ritchie in New
Orleans June 24. Joe boxes daily with
ambitious youngsters who are willing to
don the gloves with the Southern champ.
• • •
Jim Flynn is now down to 195 pounds.
The fireman will probably enter the ring
against Johnson at this weight.
• ♦ ♦
Johnson will probably weigh 215 pounds
w’hen he faces the Pueblo fireman. Al
though he will have some weight on the
white man, Flynn says his speed will
even matters up.
• • •
Governor Donald says the anti-betting
law will be strictly enforced at the John
son-Flynn fight next July. Many fans
anticipated open betting.
• • •
The Gowanus A. C., of New York, will
hold its last fight two months from to
day, when Willie Fitzgerald and Al Mc-
Coy will mix it in a ten-round bout.
• • •
Now that Al Palzer has clinched the
match with Bombardier Wells for June
28 he is working out every day in order
to be in the best of condition when he
enters the ring against the Englishman.
LONG SHOT CAPTURES
$37,200 FRENCH DERRY
PARIS, Jun* 17. The Prix du Jockey
club, the French derby at the Chantilly
course, was won by a rank outsider,
Prince Murat's Friant 11., at 32 to 1. Au
gust Belmont's Amoreux 111., quoted at
S to 1, finished second, and Compte De-
Berteux’s Ckase 11.. at, 17 to 1. was third.
W. K. Vanderbilt’s Sightly finished fourth,
but Didius. also a Vanderbilt entry, ran
unplaced.
The French derby is a three-year event
at one and one-half miles It is wortli
this year $37,200. Seventeen horses
started. Friant won easily by two
lengths.
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1901 First Avenue. 121 P eac htree Street.
Birmingham. Ala. Atlanta, Ga.
MEES IND
DUNES TO PUT
DN SME VARD
By W. J. Mcßeth.
NEW YORK. June 17.—1 n thf»
sordid age of business a man
who wilfully closes his eyes
to an opportunity for doubling his
profits is usually regarded as a fit
candidate for the "white house on
the hill.” They may be bom every
minute —but they are not so dense
as to stumble across a bundle of
yellowbacks without taking th«
trouble to pick It up.
All of which is apropos of the
local baseball situation. Frank Far
rell has the privilege of playing
on the Polo grounds in the future.
President Brush is willing to share
the beautiful Brush staudium with
his rival promoter. The sentiment
springs from no philanthropic In
stinct on the part of John T. He does
not Intend to welcome the competi
tor as a hallowed guest. With him
it is a plain business proposition
and consequently entails profit to
himself.
Brush stadium, the most gor
geous, monumental tribute to or
ganized baseball, was conceived
after the old wooden stands at the
Polo grounds had been burned in
the spring of 1911. Erected of re
inforced concrete and steel, the
edifice proved correspondingly cost
ly. Before the foundations were
laid Brush estimated a $750,000 ex
penditure. It comes from excel
lent authority that the sum even
tually proved far greater. For un
scrupulous under-officials —perhaps
the number should be held to a
singular—taking advantage of Mr.
Brush's poor health, let out con
tracts irrespective of blds at self
profit and consequent disadvantage
to the owner of the Giants.
Yet, calculating the cost of
Brush stadium at no more than
$750,000, we find Brush with a
gigantic financial proposition on
his hands. That sum, at the low
rate of 5 per cent, would earn
$37,500 annually. Before building
his remarkable plant it was nec
essary for the boss of the Giants
to take out a 30 years lease on his
grounds from the Coogan estate.
The rent is said to be $40,000 a
year. Wherefore, before he makes
one cent profit on his investment
Brush must clear $77,500 each sea
son. That sum doesn’t cut a great
figure to a promoter blessed with
such an aggregation as McGraw’s
championship Giants. Yet there
have been years—and they may
come again—when the Polo
grounders found little in the treas
ury after paying salaries, travel
ing expenses, rent and office held
for a dull campaign.
Farrell pays SB,OOO yearly rent
for the Hilltop. He got the prop
erty, when it was practically val
ueless, on a ten years lease It
cost him considerable money to
convert a, huge boulder into a
playing field, so his rent altogeth
er has not been as modest as the
lease figures would imply. Mr.
Farrell's lease has almost expired.
It is up to him to move, tor the
landlord will not listen to sane tig
ures. The property that was made
valuable by the occupation of the
American league team is now a
mighty fine real estate proposition.
Brush has offered to rent his
stadium to Frank J. Farrell. By
such an arrangement both the
Giants and Highlanders would util
ize the historic Polo grounds. Such
a plan would be quite feasible, for
there have been no local major
league conflicts for some years. It
is said that Brush Is willing to
lease bis grounds for half the rent
lie pays, $20,000 a year.