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Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Wolgast and Rivers Ready for
Fight July 4 at Vernon Arena
By Tad

est in and outer that ever re-
shined a shoe, laid the great stan
ley Ketchell low in the same ring
after twelve rounds of CORY milling
Abe Attell, the almost invincibla
one, who had gone up and down
the line for years without finding
any one who could worry him. was
forced to strike his colors to Kill
bane in this arena.
They're Playing lunches.
To the superstitious this losing
of so many titles is a hunch and
lots of them are backing said
hunch with real money figuring
that the Vernon arena is the sure
enough graveyard of champions
Joe will have the best of the
weight in the coming contest but
this will be a small matter-about
two or three pounds, Ad will weigh
1870 and Joe probably will be al the
lightweight limit-1S3 pounds.
Today winds up the work of both
contestants, They will simply keep
on edge from now on. Thev are
both satisfied with their condition
and in each camp there is nothing
but the utmost confidence dis
played.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Crackers Open Several Kegs of Baseball the Next Few Days
MORNING AND AFTERNOON GAMES PLAYED JULY

dtscredit to the catcher, 80 per cent
to the pitcher and 10 per cent each
to the shortstop and second base
man.
ANOTHER important detail of the
catcher's work is to prevent
passed balls. 1t is likely that, even
with the most careful scoring, the
catcher is charged with a lot of
passed balls that ought to go
against the hurler as wild pitches.
At that though, real passed balls
are all too frequent
Another thing about passed balls
Is tnat they seem almost always to
come at critical times. How many
thousand times a year do the sto-
ries of games contain the fatal line:
The runner scored from third on
a passed ball'? In consequence,
the passed ball record is of inter
est What the Southern league
catchers have done in the way of
allowing passed balls is here set
forth:
New Orleans-Haigh 4. Nagelson
2, Knaupp 2 Lemon 2; total 10.
Mobile-Va, 5. Dunn 5; to-
tai g.
Birmingham-Yantz I, Dilger 4;
total H.
Montgomery-Gribbens ), Nc
Allister 3; total 8.
Memphis Tonneman 6, Sea-
bough 2. Brennan l. total 9.
Nashville Elliott 4. Glenn 3.
Seabough / +; total s.
notwithstanding >, Graham /
total 3.
Chattanooga-Noyes s. Hannah 4.
McDonough 3; total t3.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Nashville.
New Orleans.

The star catcher Of the league at
holding down the opposing base
runners is Bill Dilger Of Birming
ham, who has allowed an average
of less than a stolen base a game.
Doc" Seabough Is the boob catch
er of the league in this respect He
allowed an average of four and a
third to the game while he was
with Nashville. The eone- game
record goes to Rough Neck
Elliott, who was the victim of ten
steals in one session
OF course everybody knows that
stolen bases are not always the
fault of the catcher. To prevent
them the pitcher must make the
base runner hug first and the sec
ond baseman and shortstop must
be able to tag out runners when
the ball Is thrown them in time.
In reality the scoring OF bases
stolen In a game ought to give
something like 90 per cent of the
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
By Percy H. Whiting.
fans get away todi

(NRACKER fans get away today
for a regular jsmboree of
baseball. Two battles are
scheduled for today and will take
place if the weather permits. which
(as We write) isn't any too bloom
ing certain Tomorrow there Will
be one game But upon the glo-
rious Fourth there will be both
morning and afternoon games. In
the big leagues the fans are usual
ly offered several morning games
each year But in Atlanta there is
never but one. and that on the
Fourth. 1t usually draws a pref
ty good crowd
The baseball offering will be Sin
giles" on Friday and Saturday. but
next week the Crackers will set out
on the difficult task of playing nine
games In six days. This Is a husky
Job, and should give the bargain
hunters their fill of double head
ers
Now that Becker has reported
and that Coon,bs is in the hole,
where he can be dug out and pitch
ed II needed. Marager Hemphill can
face these games with entire equa-
nimity The team is going strong
With plenty of pitchers it is in
shape to weather the storm as well
as any of its opponents
THE ability to steal bases is one
Of the strongest offensive Of
ferings of ball club. A man on
first base isn't worth a hang unless
there are couple more singles
coming. or a long two bagger. or
unless he can steal a base If he
can steal his way down to second
he is in a position to score on a
single or an error One man on
second is worth a whole team on
first
All of which being true, the catch
ers who can hold the base runners
on first are the men who do the
most for their ball clubs Col H.
r Mcdaniel has recently figured
out the number of stolen bases al
lowed by the various catchers of
the league and the net result is a
document worth the study of the
dope delivers Of the league Here
are the figures
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
FODDER FOR FANS

southpaw Naples. a former Southern
leaguer for the training season. is do
ing nice work N the Texas league II Is
unlikely that he VIII ever come back.
however
Jay Car cashion. Of the Senators. has
2 growth on his eve that is Grabbing his
batting and interfering with his sleep
He IS going To have il cut OF soon the
growth, not the eve and win be blind
for few dsvs. after which he ought to
come around az right
Ducky swanns bad ankle is sun Civ
ing MIN trouble hut CharleT Frank hopes
70 have htm back W good running order
this week
The Maps have an Indian player in J
Tarben, from ST Marys college IN Yer
mont He is the FIRST real American on
other Iniuns in the big leagues are
Bender In the American and Movers and
Wheat in the Na.iog.al.
The orop. of PLAYERS available for biz
league service next wear Is mot especially
large in the Southern this year The
poor The only PLAYERS If big promise
seem 10 he tied up with optional agree
ments
Out 81 The IS players sent Up hv the
Southern league last Year eight have
made good They are Hess Frke Daley.
Pratt. Northern, smith. Jackson. rhelsn
end Allen
This has been 2 marvellous wear for 'he
college teams They have sent more
ever Before Pat oDey. 81 Vermont unf
versitv. and Frank kesny ~ Bates col
lege have Just been grabbed be the Fhn-
The Cardinals ere sa.d 10 BE- after
Johnny Mace catcher ~ The Richmond
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Afternoon Tennis Matches
Held Up By Heavy Shower

Hochendale defeated Geo Clarke.
s-1 81.
W V. Bartlett defeated @. A
Howell. 60, s-s
l.. d Scott defeated Captain Nc
Cade by default
F. v Garter, Jr defeated Ken
nedy by default
Robert Cowsn defeated c. Car
ter. "a. GA.
H s Chamberlain defeated T. NJ
Wilton by default
A e Garfield defeated Capers.
rs, 7-5.
V l. Smith defeated H. Higgins
by default
G Littebrook defeated ]. B.
Crenshaw. 6-4, 6-1.
First Round.
c. Davis defeated J. Whiteside
by default
II ". S. Hayes defeated w.
Gary by default.
c. M Chsiest defeated w. D.
Deacon 81. so
r. W Smith defeated Robert
Smith by default
Charles Rogers defeated Roth,
s-I so
{. y Smith defeated j. k. Orr,
Jr. 60, s-2
z. W. Ransteok defeated cowan
Rogers by default
r NJ Grant defeated G. Little
brook. 60, "a
Second Round.
II ", s Hayes defeated c. Da-
Wis 6-1, SO.
G. NJ Chaiest defeated f. ".
Smith. So. 6-4
r. Y Smith defeated Il. W.
Ransteck, e-1, So.
Before more than half a dozen
matches had been PLAYED in the aft
ernoon, heavy shower of rain fell
and interrupted the play. The
matches decided were:
Preliminary Round-Brooks de
feated Gaines by default
First Round Horhendale de-
feated + Adair. Jr.. by default
Brooks defeated Wilson. 6-8. 6-1.
Thornton defeated c. Ramspeck.
by default
Enthusiasm was high and sew
eral other matches We're ready TO be
begun Just. as the rain came and
stopped tho play
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
By Charles F. Eyton.
Famous American Referee.)


T OS ANGELES. July 2.-The
day after tomorrow will
probably be made memorable
as the date on which the greatest
lightweight fstic battle of modern
times took place Not for years
has there been a ring engagement
which promised such a test of
brains and brawn as the coming
Wolgast- Rivers clash for the light
weight title.
Wolgast one of the grandest
champions of his day, is pitted
against the most dangerous t3S-
pound challenger that the game
has produced in years These two
boys represent mentally and physi-
cally the highest standard in mod
ern boxing.
Speed, cleverness and brains are
TO be matched in a scheduled twen-
ty-round contest, and the memory
OF this Queensberry event probably
will live as long as the game exists.
They're All Keen About II.
AS the eventful hour draws
closer every one hangs with avid
ity on every word either boy says
all the world and his wife seem to
be interested Let one man whis-
per to another that Wolgast says
this, or Rivers did that, and all
eyes and ears are alert in minute.
Vernon arena has been none too
lucky for champions, Aand several
have had an "ex' tackled on to
their names out there. frankie
Conley won the bantam champion
ship there from Monte Attel after
~ rounds of fighting
Billy Papke. probably the great
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE

Tommy Devlin, the gritty little scrap
per who has fought in this city several
times. has signed up to box eight rounds
with Yankee Schwartz In Nashville on
the Fourth.
Schwartz has been going good of late
and meeting some of the best boys in the
South. However, the followers of Devlin
believe he will add another notch to his
list Of wins when the two come together.
Frank Mulkern. who Is mana ging Ray
Temple, has accepted terms for his pro
tege to fight in Memphis Thursday He
will be matched with Willie Ritchie, Joe
Mandot or Pal Brown
Jimmy Coffroth has wired Ad Wolgast
an offer of $4,000 win lose or draw for a
20-round contest with X O. Brown in
San Francisco. either September or g
Luther Mccarthy. who challenged the
winner of the Wells Palzer fight. will
meet Al Palzer. the winner, at the Gar
den A. c in New York. July 1e
A. J Drexel Biddle. better known as
Tony Biddle, has picked Jack Johnson TO
win from Jim Flynn However unlike
most experts, Bidde thinks it will be
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02

hard tight Tony is one Of the best anna :
teur boxers in the United States. having
boxed Johnson, Bob Fitzsimmons and
many other of the best pugs. Biddle is a
Philadelphia millionaire, an ardent sports
man, and besides teaches a Bible class.
Tom Jones, manager of Ad Wolgast, has
already paid out $1400 as a result of an
auto smash up. and is not through pay
ing all the injured vet.
The winner Of the Johnson Flynn fight
will probably be matched to meet the win
ner of the Palzer- Mccarthy bout
Biddle says he considers Philadelphia
Jack O Bren the greatest boxer the world
has ever known.
Johnny Coulon will stake his title
against Joe Wagner at the st Nicholas
4 C. in New York tonight. The little
scra ppers are scheduled to go ten rounds.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02

VI nth the courts Of the At
wv lAnta Athletic club decld-
edly soggv as result Of
Gll the rain yesterday, the annual
tournament of the Southern Lawn
Tennis association was given it's
real start today
Only one match was finished
yesterday, but several we're start
ed. These unfinished matches and
several others we're played this
morning, and, provided the good
weather continues. a slather Of
them win be run off this after
noon The drawings In the doubles
were also held al noon today and
Referee Frank REYNOLDS is likely
TO card some doubles events any
old time now
The play this morning was par
ticulsrly good While the tourna-
ment is not honored with the pres
ence Of any big Eastern stars. as
has been the case every year in the
past there is the best and most
evenly balanced field Of strictly
Southern PLAYERS that ever entered
tennis event in the South and
there will he some grand play be
fore the winner is decided
The annual meeting of the tennis
association WIN he held tonight al
the town club No business Of es-
pecial Importance is set for dc
cision II is likely that the old
staff Of officers will he re elected
The results Of the matches play
ed a East Lake this morning fol-
low
Twenty three matches were de
cided Ten Of these matches we're
defaulted, owing to the fact that
number of the out -of-town players
expected Gid not arrive Only a
few of the matches played this
morning we're IN any way close.
and not single match required
three sets
The results Of the play this
morning we're
Preliminary Round.
Spratins defeated Goyer, is.
11-a
7 BaFhv defeated F, s Mans
held by default
F Adeir Jr4 defeated f. Par
rtsh by default
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22
Head of the House at 81, Has
Two Mothers to
Comfort Him.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, April 22.-With Vim
cent Astor, boy Of 81, succeeding as
head Of the house of Astor, and two
princess dowagers, Mrs. Ava Willing
Astor and the bride-widow who was
hnatched from the sea, to guide him,
The Astor dynasty has entered the
strangest era of its reign.
Confined to the bed where she re.
views, in tears, the horrors of the
ltanic disaster, and her parting with
her husband on the Icy seas. the young
widow of John Jacob Astor learned
Today that her predecessor. Mrs. Alva
willing Astor. is returning to America
70 comfort her son In his bereaye
ment Since Madeline Force married
John Jacob Astor, she has not met
his former wife. 1t may come to q
point where Vincent Astor may be
forced to choose between his mother
and the charming girl who became his
ktep-mother.
Dr.. Reul e. Kimball. Mrs, Astor's
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22
FRENCH PAPER FLAYS
THE DESPISED ISMAY

aside those who proceeded him and
taking to the boats. Several men, it
has been reported, We're shot trying
to enter these boats. These were but
immigrants, poor, unknown, without
honor No one thought it would be
equally justifiable to send ball at
Ismay, phlegmatically seated in life
boat.
'Ismay is man of strong resolu-
tions. He resolved to live and he
lived. He is therefore a hereafter
fashion John j Astor was hero
of a different brand Despite his
millions he humhly sacrificed himself.
Much will be pardoned Tsmay because
he so loved himself
"He is a modern hero who embarked
in his boat, thrusting aside the anti
quated chivalry that dictated that
others should be saved. What lament
able sentiment these American bar
barians have to lay hands upon this
idol-to disiodged this God from his
boat!'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22
ASTOR DYNASTY ENTERS
STRANGE ERA OF REIGN

physician, said today that he had lit
robust young woman and the phys
ician thinks she will recover rapidly.
Piecemeal descriptions Of the sink
Ing of the Titanic and her parting
with her husband have been given the
Astor family by the bride-widow. She
was in one of the last boats to leave
the liner and she declared emphatic
ally that her husband made no at
tempt to accompany her. The place
he might have taken was filled by a
man who fought his way through the
crowd and leaped into the boat as it
was lowered away, she said.
This man appropriated all the blan-
kets he could find and covered in the
bottom of the boat while Mrs. Astor
and several other women manned the
oars. These women dragged into the
boat six men swimming about in the
wreckage, one of them dead. Rosalie
Bidois, Mrs. Astor's maid, was active
in saving one of these mes
Astor, after seeing that his wife was
warmly clad, and placing her in the
lifeboat, went back to his work of
aiding other passengers, said his
widow
Mrs. Astor and her companions We're
In the small boat for seven hours.
and by the time they reached the Car
pathia II was half full of icy water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22
FRENCH KILLED
BY M0R0CCANS
Uprising at Fer Is Thought to Have
Been a Bloody Ono With
Many People
Massacred.
800 REBELS WERE SLAIN
Jewish Quarter Burned and Pliaged,
Fifty Inhabitants Being
Murdered Out
right.

United Press Leased Wire Service
PARIS, April 22.-The total alb
sence of dispatches from Fez, where
the Moroccan troops have mutinied
against increased French intervention
led to the belief today that the upris
ing has assumed serious proportions
and that the French troops may be in
danger OF losing control of the situa-
ton.
The last dispatches, which were
meagre, reported 500 rebels killed in
a desperate street conflict, and the i'm
prisonment of 1000 more All of the
Europeans were concentrated in the
sultan's palace, where the French
troops, aided by reinforcements from
the barracks at West Hekinez, were
on guard.
The absence of news led to the be
lief that the rebels may have stormed
the palace.
The Patrie declares that the gov
ernment has stopped all press des
1 patches and the government declares
/ that all but one of the five govern
ment operators at Fez have been kill
1 ed and that the survivors cannot
handle the dispatches.
A special to the Temps says tha
during the uprising in Fez. the Jew
ish quarter was pillaged and three
4 fourths of it burned. Fifty inhabitants
4 were killed outright, the despatch
says, and twenty four wounded.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22
Vice President Franklin of White Star Line
Tries to Explain Why He Kept
Public in the Dark.
SENATE INVESTIGATION OF CATASTROPHE
Company Knew the Worst Six Hours Before it
Was Given Out to the Anxiously
Awaiting World.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Over six
hours before the news was made pub
lifeboats, filled with passengers of the
Titanic, had been picked up by the
Carpathia. This was admitted today
by Vice President p A. s. Franklin
of the International Mercantile Ma
rine company. the first witness before
the senate investigating committee.
AT noon last Monday it was known,
Franklin said, but it was not made
public, because 1t was not authen-
TIC"
Not until $40 last Monday, Frank
lin said, was sufficiently authentic
! tanic's loss.
Franklin declared the message at
noon was a relayed wireless from
Cape Race saying the Carpathia had
picked up the Titanic's boats, jammed
4 with passengers. This information,
he believed, was mere rumor.-.
Franklin did not give 1t out because
he said he could not believe the tt
4 tanic had sunk" and therefore waited
"authentic information
At 6.20 the authentic message
came with the news OF the Titanic
( disaster. Then, and not until then
4 was the public informed.
'At 6.27 Monday evening, l knew
the Titanic had sunk at 2:2o that
morning." Franklin declared
Reporter Brought First News.
About twenty minutes to two Non
day morning was aroused by the
| telephone ringing and reporter told
NE that they had just heard that the
1 Titanic had sent out a call for as
sistance. They said 1t came from the
Yirginian, through Montreal
THE press association repeated
what the reporter had told me. | ask
ed if they couldn't hold the news un
4 til it had been confirmed. They said
no-that it had gone out,
Il got our Mr. Ridgeway and sent
a marconigram to the captain of the
Olympic as follows
!" Cant you get into communication
with Titanic?'
Il then told all our people to repor'
to the office. ] then received the re
FORT that the Titanic had been strucl
by an iceberg and was sinking by the
head 1t was a press dispatch.
I'VE worked out the position of the
Titanic on the chart as 1880 mile!
from Halifax added Franklin.
1--WE had no communication in tha
time from any ship or any authentic
direct information whatever
Did any of these ships report thei
exact location?'
They did not. Here is anothe
message l sent.
Make every effort to reach th'
Titanic and give her position ant
time This was addressed to Captain
IIaddock of the Olympic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 22.-Tornado-
swept districts of Illinois and Indiana
reported today the list OF dead Is in.
creasing each hour as telephone and
telegraph communication is being re-
stored. Forty-one persons are known
to have lost their lives in cities out
side Of Bush, Ill. and when that town
gets in touch with the outside world
about noon Monday, it is expected 1t
alone will add between 20 and 80 to
the death roll. About 300 were injur-
ed.
More than hundred persons we're
injured at Bush which Is lie miles
southeast OF St Louis. A number OF
the persons injured, physicians say.
will die.
The storm In st. Louis was confined
70 showers and few gusts of wind
which blew trees until they almost
touched the ground.
As result OF the southern Illinois
storm six persons are dead at Muir.
physboro and others dying, seven are
dead at Willis; eight are dead in the
district between Bush and West
frankfort, and telephone message
from Benton says trainmen report
there are between 20 and 80 persons
dead at Bush. OF the six dead al
Murphysboro. three were killed in the
vicinity two miles north of that town
while three others were residents Of
Bush, died after arriving at st. An
drews hospital at Murphysboro or
special Iron Mountain trains which
carried Al injured Bush residents.
Sheriff c. T. Edwards of Murphys
horo, describing the storm declared
the wind reached the velocity of {
tornado. ut swept down in one spot
sweeping away everything before it
then ascended into the sky, thel
swept down again. up again, snuffin,
out few lives here. few there, in
juring hundreds and causing prop
erty damage that is estimated at I
half million dollars" the sheriff said
Nine Killed.
MOROCCO, Ind, April 22.--Nin
persons killed, one probably fatall
injured and 20 hurt is the life toll to
day OF tornado which swept acros
this section of Indiana late yesterday
The property loss is placed at NOR
than half million dollars Details 0
the tornado's sweep were still lackin,
today on account Of an interrupte
wire communication.
The tornado came suddenly out Q
the southwest, striking the home Q
Charles Rice, near here, and killin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-22
Gil Bias Calls Him a Hero of
a Very Peculiar
Type.

| United Press Leased Wire service.1
PARIS, April PIN leading
editorial entitled Among the Men,
the newspaper Gil Bias today flays j,
Bruce Ismay for his conduct in the
Titanic disaster.
"Ismay is a conqueror," said the
editorial Perhaps no one will think
of offering a statue to him, but he
should be placed on a pedestal high
enough SO all humanity might stand
aghast and contemplate his conduct.
"He was master of the Titanic ant
he pushed her captain to send the
vessel across the sea at full speed
At the moment of the disaster hi
showed he was master by flingins