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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
FAN CLAIMS HE MADE
WALSH GREAT HURLER

CHICAGO. July 15-There was a
time when Ed Walsh was not great
pitcher. In 1904 his speed was ter
rife, but his control was so bad that
he had literally no idea where the ball
was going. He could seldom get catch
ers TO help him practice and had to fall
back on an enthusiastic fan
This fan. after handling his erratc
shoots gave ED some advice He
doesn't know if Walsh took it, but his
work indicates that he did something.
After the season of 1905" said the
bug ~ walked TO the station with
Walsh asked him what he intended
10 do in the winter He said he was
going TO do nothing
Then told him ne was about the
worse pitcher | had ever seen and De
scribed to him how Christy Matthew
son. before ne gained control had rent
ed barn painting a target at one end
and pitched into the target all winter
until he emerged in the spring with the
best control in the league
4 don't know If Walsh took the hint
but he certainly had the control when
he helped pitch the White Sox 10 the
,pennant next year"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
Hemphill VIII Use Waldorf on
Mound Today Against Finnites
By Tad

tielded more brilliantly and showed
more baseball sense-at everything
except the scoring of runs. With
the Crackers it was the old. sad
story. Nine runners died on bases.
1t was ctnch to get Crackers on.
but impossible to put tine runs
across.
The Crackers looked like winners
up to the last of the seventh. Then
the Gulls fell on Sitton and scored
two runs-not many. it IS true. but
quite enough to win the game.
The Atlanta players had hard
time with Jack O'Toole, the UNI
pire who presented them with
game in the New Orleans series
Jack sent Donahue to the tall grass
for jawing, and made the rest ot
the Crackers walk turkey"
throughout the remainder Of the
spasm
From the viewpoint of the A.
lantans, the best feature Of the
game was the work of Douglas
HARRISON This clever little young
ster pulled some really phenome-
nal fielding stuff and smacked out
brace of hits as we'll 1t looks
now as though, if this lad keeps his
present clip, he will get call from
the big leagues this fall and viii be
tried out in faster company next
spring.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
0'DAY LEARNED INSIDE
BASEBALL BY UMPlRING

Hank O'Day who is getting good
work out of the Cincinnati Reds,
pitched for the champion Giants in
1889 and 1890 His catcher was the
famous William Buckingham Ewing,
and it was some battery, too O'Day
wasn't particularly careful as to his
habits in those days and was proud of
the fact that he could drink more beer
than any other pitcher in the league.
When Hanks arm went back on him
he was forced to ask for an umpire 5
berth, and in order TO make good he
cut OF the amber fluid At first the
players treated him with disrespect,
but he soon made them understand
that he was not to be trifled with
Sticking to his temperance pledge,
O'Day umpired for nearly twenty
years a record of which he is Justly
proud. He learned the meaning of in
side baseball and the weak points of
every PLAYER in the game. With this
knowledge. therefore. O'Day has been
able to tell the Cincinnati Reds many
things they never knew before
II thought | knew all about catch
ing" said long Larry Mclean the
other day at the Polo grounds. But
after a heart o-heart talk with MI.
O'DaY | found that | didn't know A
thing I'm catching better ball now
than ever before. and Mr. O'Day is
wholly responsible for it,"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
BELMONT GIVES OPTION
ON $125,000 STALLION

NEW YORK. July IS August Belmont
today admitted that he has given Mr..
Halronn head of a French syndicate. an
option on his stallion. Rock Sand, for
breeding purposes. in the interest OF
French and American turfmen The price
TO be paid was $50 900
Mr. Belmont will permit Rock Sand to
remain in France for four years He has
at his breeding farm there 80 mares and
the stations t,thelbert and Rockfiint.
one reason given for Mr. Belmont per-
hitting Rock Sand to go to France is
because any progencN of the horse would
he eligible to all French races. whereas
those sired by him in America or England
you'd be eligible to only very few
French races
Rock Sand is now twelve wears old
and his progeny We're stake winners in
France, England and America one of
his daughters recently won the French
Oaks and his son. Tracery. ran third in
the Derby and later defeated Sweeper III
IN the ST James Palace stakes at Ascot.
\ two-Year- old by Rock Sand bred bv
Clarence Mackay and sold as a yearlins
IN England last year, won the valuable
July stakes last week As a three year
old Rock Sand won for his owner. Sir
James Miller. the three English classics
the 1000 guiness. the Derby and ST.
Leger-and after the death of his owner
had put the horse on the market Mr.
Belmont paid S125. 900 for him and located
MIN in Kentucky for breeding purposes
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
Well IT'S All Off Now--Cracker Team Is Absolutely LAST
DEFEAT IN MOBILE SETTLED IT====HOPE is GONE

way. with temperature high, pulse
wabbly and the death rattle right
in among its teeth At this awful
stage in the proceedings the Crack
ers took games out of 2 from the
league leaders and the fans breath
ed again. But once more Hope
suffered q relapse. For the tour
flushing Pelicans arrived next and
the only game the Crackers could
win from them was by forfeit
A FTER an exhibition like this on
home ground what can be
hoped for the Crackers on the road
Not much. of course. except that
the local team has run by contra
ries this season, and it may go out
and win about umpsteen straight
on the road Washington did SO
It isn't impossible However. we're
not going to pawn the family jewels
to bet on it,
If anybody wants to know where
the fault lies they needn't ask here.
II seems as though the baseball
association itself can prove an alibi.
1t has bought players great gobs of
EN-. But whether Hemphill can't
make 'em play or whether nobody
could and it's the players fault
we're blessed if we know.
What makes it a hard matter to
diagnose is that the Crackers never
lose any two games for the same
reason. If they kick off one today
with errors. they will lose tomor-
rows with a batting slump, Wed
nesday's because the pitcher goes
wrong, Thursdays with dull base
ball and maybe they'll win Friday
by playing baseball the Giants
couldn't beat.
If you study back box scores
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
Bv Percy H. Whiting.

J., 7 Asst Hope dies hard But then
it dies sometimes, Atlanta
fans are abnormally hopeful
But even their buoyant spirits have
been somewhat depressed by recent
baseball happenings What can a
man say about it? And what can
be done2
Verify. it is a puzzler
That Atlanta has a baseball club
can be demonstrated to the entire
satisfaction Of any reasonable hui
man being. 1t can be demonstrated
mathematically. The figures show
it-proVe it.
Yet today the Cracker team
stands last and has Just hit the
road for trip that is likely to be
unlucky. Hope is failing fast.
THE home stay that ended Satur-
day was an inland -out per-
Torrance for keeps The Crackers
won games and lost s. They won
out of from their hated Chat
tanooga rivals That looked good
Then came the Cheese team from
Mobile. But the Crackers couldn't
do anything with them and won
only l out of 8. Next arrived the
even cheesier Montgomery club,
the cast-off outfit Of the league,
made up of odds and ends dicard-
ed from other clubs.
The Crackers were painfully anx-
ious TO down the BilHkens because
of the Dobbs McElveen incident.
unquestionably the Cracker team is
the stronger of the two. Yet all the
Crackers could get from the Bill
lies was a measly and depressing
l out of a.
BY this time Hope was in bad
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15

reasonably good condition The
rains have kept the turf alive and
vigorous, but have washed away a
lot Of top soil and left the ground
somewhat quilted
A very large local entry has all
ready been made and it is probable
that 60 or 20 local players will be
ready to face the starter, along
with the pick OF the Southern
players on Thursday
II seems probable that the At
lanta tournament lie destined each
year to furnish fully as good a line
on golhng ability in the South as
the Southern championship itself.
The local course Is so we'll recog-
nized as the greatest in the South
that it naturally attracts the really
top notch players The East Lake
outfit is the stiffest golf course in
the South and one Of the stiffest
in all America II bristles with
bunkers. is punctuated with haz
ards Of amazing size and attraction
and offers trouble Of high degree
TO any golfer who can't play
good. long ball, straight down the
course
Naturally the Atlanta course is
not one which furnishes a big at
traction to buffers But it does
attract good golfers and every
tournament ever held on the local
course has proved fine test OF real
golf
The comir~ tournament should
prove one of the big golfing events
of the South this year and a field
of unusual excellence viii tee off
Thursday The man who wins the
first cup will be entitled to rank
next to the Southern champion
among Southern golfers.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
MAY RACE THIS SUMMER
ON LONG BRANCH TRACK

NEW YORK. July Ia Elkwood park.
Long Branch may provide racing two
days a week for the rest OF the sum
rner
At the track this report is on the tip
Of the tongue, but nobody in authority
will CONFIRM 1t
That the top has gone out. however.
seemed certain. inasmuch as several
prominent bool<makers came all the
way from Canada to look over the
ground.
The constitutional amendment pass
ed in New jersey in 1892 closing all
tracks expires this fall and many resi-
dents of Long Branch say they intend
10 make a strong effort TO restore rae
ing, The passing of Monmouth park
they declare was blow from which
the famous resort has never recovered
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15

you'll think you are on the trail
of the elusive First Causes of de-
feat when you note that it takes an
average of four or five hitsfto score
Cracker run. Not since the his
torical days when Iris Speaker and
Beals Becker were both playing on
the Little Rock team has there been
an organization in the South which
made as many hits and as few runs
as the Crackers.
Going further into the complaint.
though. you find that the poor
scoring work seems to result part
ly from poor base running and
partly from an entire absence of
pinch hitting.
The Crackers i'll luck in devel-
oping runs has ben uncanny They
always seem to play it the wrong
way. If a man singles and the next
man sacrifices the next pair are al
ways easy outs. If the scheme of
things is shifted and the hit and
run play flashed with a man on
first. the batter always lines out
and the runner who was on first is
doubled off. Then. if a reversion to
old fashioned baseball is tried and
everybody takes wallop at the
ball the first man viii single, the
next man will hit sshort single,
sending the first runner to second,
and the third man will scratch one
to the inheld, filing the bases. Then
the next three men in a row will
strike out! Goodness only knows
why But they always do.
Lack of timeliness in the often
sive displays. lack of consistency
in the defensive work--those are
the things that are keeping the
Crackers down at the bottom.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
WELLS AND KENNEDY TO
MEET IN GOTHAM FRIDAY

NEW YORK. July 15.-Featured "a
this weeks boxing card is a ten sound
bout between Bombardier Wells. the
heavyweight champion of England and
Tom Kennedy, former amateur heavy
weight champion of America at Madi-
son Square Garden, on FRIDAY night
This will be Wells second appearance
in this country and his friends predict
a better showing than he made on MS
first appearance
Among the other contests on This
weeks program are the following.
Buck Grouse. of Pittsburg. VS. Young
Kurtz, a Newark. n. j., mddieweight
at the Madison Athletic club JACK
Britton, Chicago lightweight Vs.
Tommy Ginty. of Scranton Pa. AZ the
St Nicholas Athletic club "Wednesday
night.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
oBILE. ALA, July 15.-with
MI Buck" Becker injured.

n OBILB. ALA, July 15.-With
MI Buck" Becker injured,
with the team last and with
the players as gloomy as life-term
ers, the Crackers enter today on
the second game with Mike Firms
Gulls.
The jump into last place Jared
the Crackers to the marrow Of
their bones. They have been fight
ing against 1t and staving 1t off
for months past. Now they're
there-abso1utely last And 1t was
a grumpy crowd Of ball players
who moped around the hotel last
night and this morning, waiting for
a chance to get at the Gulls again.
Manager Hemphill will probably
decide to send Waldorf against the
Gulls. 1t is his turn and the
Cracker mogul figures that it does
not make much difference. For the
Gulls, it is Demaree's turn, and as
Mike Finn usually sticks religious
ly to the regular order. he will I'M
doubtedly work.
Yesterdays game, that dropped
the Crackers to the very bottom,
was typical Cracker game of the
vintage of 1912. The Atlanta play
ers excelled in everything but
scoring runs. They made more hits
and less errors than the Gulls,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
Advance Guard of Golfers on
Hand for East Lake Tourney

TIME golf course of the Atlanta
Athletic club at East Lake
is undergoing its final mani
curing A big force is working two
shifts putting on the last finishing
touches For on Thursday morn
ing the qualifying round of the
second annual invitation tourna
ment Of the Atlanta Athletic club
will be started And throughout
the week the course will be alive
with local and visiting golfers
Already the advance guard of
players has arrived. w, p Stew
art. Of New Orleans, Southern
champion. was in Atlanta last
week He viii not be here for the
championship but he brought
word that a good delegation was
coming Birmingham is counted
on strong The Country club there
sends more PLAYERS to tournaments
than any other in the South and is
sure to send nea rlv a score to the
local tournament A W. Gaines,
a former Southern champion. has
sent word that he will be unable
to be present at the tournament,
but that Chattanooga will have
delegation Nashville will I'M
doubtedly send several players,
while Macon is counted on for
strong team
The course should be In good
shape for the tournament The
regular tees have been returfed
and are being rested up" for the
affair by the use Of the second
string" tees It Is likely that the
new tee on fourteen will be put in
order for the tournament. provided
II does not rain steadily from now
until Thursday morning The
greens and the fair green are IN
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
RUDE MARQUAR0 LOSES
2 GAMES TO CARDINALS

ST LOUIS July 15-Rube Mar
guard lost two games yesterday to the
lowiy St Louis Cardinals About a
week ago Jimmy Lavender beat the
Giants southpaw his first game. after
a string of nineteen victories. and veri- =
~ the RUDE hasn't yet recovered from
the shock
St. Louis won the first game yester-
day to , when Vanguard who re
lieved Wiltse in the eighth. was hit for
three singles and gave a base on balls
Marquard went in to pitch the second
game, but was relieved by Crandall in
the seventh inning when the loca IS
were leading to > single and a
wild throw by Myers in the next in
ming gave st. Louis another run.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
BLANKS OUT SOON
FOR MILWAUKEE RACES

MILWAUKEE. July 15.-Entry
blanks for the Vanderbilt cup and grand
prize races to be run in Milwaukee
in September will be ready for distri-
button within a few days
The A. A. A. has not vet granted
official sanction for the race but will
put an o. K on the program and the
dates as soon as the arrangements for
policing the course have been com
pleted.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
TY COBB NOW SIX POINTS
TO THE GOOD ON SPEAKER

Ty cobb is now leading the Ameri-
can league hatters He has passed
Iris Speaker OF the Boston Red Sox.
TODAY Cobb is found cloutiug the pei
Iet al 402 clip. while the Hubs star
oufielder's average is 1896 Joe Jack
son. of the Maps is third with 1872
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
ENGLISH TEAM COMING HERE

FOLkSTONE ENGLAND, July To-
The English team defeated their
French rivals in the International ten
mis- championship match here today
The English team will meet next in
America and the winner of that match
viii challenge Australia for the Davis
cup,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
Is CLUBBED
By WA YNEN
Point Comfort Merchant IS
Attacked and Robbed at
Night in Street.

NN
Alfred Washburn. proprietor Of a
general store at 97f West Pike street,
Point Comfort has his head bandageds
and one arm In a sling as a result d
being held up, ctdbbed and robbed.
of a silver watch late Saturday night
by two unknown men.
Mr.. washburn was walking along
West Pike street near the. site Of the
old Lownres WOODEN mills Just outside
the city limits when the men attacked
him. One slipped up behind him and
struck him a stunning blow on the
back Of the head. In trying to de-
tend himself, he was beaten several
times over the head and on the arm.
After he had been knocked down, the
highwaynen searched his pockets, but
the only thing OF value they found was
the watch. which they took, They
then fed. Mr.. washburn managed to
lind his way home, where a physician
dressed his injuries.
Descriptions Of the highwaymen, as
far as Mr. washburn could remember,
have been given to the city police de-
partment and oficers are now look
ing for them.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
PENSION BILL
For Several Persons in the
State Signed by the
President.

WASHINGTON, May 1S-Bills
have been signed by the president
and have become laws granting pen
sions to Hilleary "A. Mcvicker, Falr-
mont; David C. Morgan, Buckhan-
non; BENJAMIN F. Morrow, Gamer
on; James Barr, Wheeling; John R.
Tolbert, Triadelphia; Henry A.
Fernald and Daniel Powell, clarks-
burg: William wyatt. centralla;
william B. Taylor. Newburg; Ben
jamin F. Spencer. wheeling; David
Cain, Walker; John Boiler, Ranaw-
ha Station; Charles E ohaddock,
William ], Davis. Alex w. Barnes,
william Plate and David Il. Leach,
Parkersburg.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
AUTOMOBILE MEN
Are to Meet Cleveland Cham
Der of Commerce Visitors
at Station Tomorrow.

Calvin P. Howell. president of the
Harrison County Good Roads Associa-
ton, requests all local automobile
owners to assemble with cars in
front of the court house promptly at
1880 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to go
to the railroad station to meet and
escort the Cleveland. o, Chamber o.
Commerce visitors through the prln-
clpal parts Of the city and then to tho
Waldo hotel, where the Cleveland
trade extension boomers will take
street cars for the various industries
accompanied by local citizens. Mr..
Howell desires all to have pennants
on their cars.
Under local board of trade ar
rangements the trolley trips will be
from 1880 to $3.50 o'clock, starting
and ending at the Waldo. Special
cars will be used.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
POSITION
May Be Lost Soon BY Com.
mander Poundstone of
Buckhannon.

WASHINGTON. D. O., May 18-
Homer C. Poundstone, whose home
is at Buckhannon, was retired from
the navy in 1905 with the rank of
commander. His retirement was
voluntary and was because he sur
fered from rheumatism, interfering
with his duties as a naval officer.
Sometime later he was appointed
light house inspector at Baltimore
under the Department of Commerce
and Labor. The act authorizing the
appointment of retired naval officers
in this capacity will expire June s,
and unless some further action is
taken Commander Poundstone will
lose his position. Judge A. G. Day
ton, Of West Virginia, who was a
member of the House committee GA
naval affairs when this bill was
passed, has written Senator Chiffon
stating that there was an under
standing when Mr.. Poundstone was
appointed that this position was to
be permanent. Senator Chiffon and
Senator Raynor. OF Maryland, have
taken up the matter and have called
upon the ~secretoTy of commerce and
labor to see what can be fone to-
ward retaining the retired West
Virginia officer in his place.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
BURNING
Tobacco Sets Policeman Afre
and Ruins Coat of His
Uniform.

Joseph Washington, city policeman,
had a narrow escape from serious in
jury and perhaps cremation Monday
morning as he was on his way from
his home to police headquarters to
report for duty. AS It was he suffered
slight burns on his side, ruined the
coat Of his uniform and burned two
large holes in his rubber rain coat,
M. Washington was smoking a pipe
and placed itAn a pocket CT his coat
while the tobacco was still burning.
Then he buttoned up hiE rain coat,
The burning tobacco fell from the
pipe and ignited his clothing; Feel
ing a sharp pain in his side, he
thought he was suddenly attacked
with cramps, or appendicitis or some
thing and he started on a run-up the
street,
After going about a square, smoke
from the burning clothing attracted
the polioeman's attention. Pulling OF
his coats, he slammed them against
a telephone pole and extinguished the
fire. He said If he had been near a
telephone at the time, he would have
been tempted to call out the conbina-
ton hose and chemical wagon to his
rescue.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
REID on STAND
AS the First Of Steel Combine
Defendants to Appear
at Hearing.

NEW YORK, May 1s.-Daniel 6:
Reid a director in the United States
Steel Corporation and a member Of
its finance committee, was heard as
a witness today insthe hearing Of the
governments suit to dissolve that
corporation, He was the first Of the
defendants to appear, He was asked
concerning the organization Of the
Federal Steel Company, the American
Tin Plate Company the. American
Hoop Company and the American
Sheet steel Company, which the gov
eminent contends were within them
selves Illegal combinations.
$3.50
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-13
FIGHTING BLOOD
UPlIAFT BEGINS
NAL !.
Matters as But Recently
Passed on by the Federal
.Departnent.

WASHINGTON D. O., May 1s--
Mail service has been established
between Erwin and Rowlesburg. The
mali e to be carried six times a
week in each direction. S. g. Dea-
ktns, Of Erwin, is the contractor.
A new route has also been estab,
iished p~et9een Muriet and Dora.
Mortsncre Gangtord. of Muriei, is
the contractor and will carry the
mail three times a week in each d.
rection.
The mail route from Jumping
Braneh to Camp Creek has been
changed 50 as to omit Camp Greek
and end at Dluns. beginning May 20.
At the same time the mail service
Will be Increased to six times a week
in each direction.
By an order Of the p~ostofice de.
partment the Kanawha Valley Trac.
ton Company, carrying mail from
Charleston to Station B, is directed
to omit one trip on Sundays,
The following fourth class post.
masters have been appointed in
West Virginia: Thomas 3. Ages al
Giatto, Mercer county, in place of E
J. Lester, removed; James v. Pau.
ley at Reizer, Putnam county, in
ins place Of "A. e. Hartley, resigned;
George Il. Hornickle at Highcoai,
Boone county, In place Of s. %
Burns; resigned; James "a. Preston
at Quaker, Wayne county, in place
Of G. 3. Preston, resigned; and VIII
liam Il. DoaE at Wilbur Tyler
county, In place Of ]. 3. Robinson,
deceased.