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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-31
Smoke --latest Out" Sc Cigar.

M. E. Harrington was business visi-
t )r in Milwaukee yesterday.
bud. NJ. Fitzgerald of Madison, was a
visitor in Watertown yesterday. bud was
a former resident of the city and has
been a subscriber of the Leader for near
" half century,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
NATIONAL COMMISSION
APPROVES MANY SALES

CINCINNATI, Aus 29-The national
baseball commission has announced the
list Of players whose releases have been
purchased by major league clubs from
minor league clubs since August 20,
1911. under agreements filed with and
approved by the commission
National League.
BY Philadelphia-From Atlanta,
Mayer
BY New York-From Mobile. Dema-
rec. Dallas. Bader
American League.
BY Chicago-From Macon, Douglass,
Austin McLarry and Taylor. Birming-
ham. johnson
BY St Louis From Houston. Riggs.
sherman, Napier. Bristol Sloan.
Montgomery, Williams; Mobile Walsh;
Montgomery %MCAllister and Johnson
BY Cleyeland-From Bristol Walker.
New Orleans. Nagelsen ana Clancy
BY Detroit From Chattanooga. Burg
Alhansr Ga. Berkel. Jackson. Deal,
Dallas. Gibson. NiCksburg, McGehee.
jackson. Clauss
BY PhilaGelphia-Fro Memphis
Altman; Baltimore. tWalsh and 'Mur-
ply
BY Washington-From Chattanooga.
Moran. Atlanta 'Agler
agreements not received and.
therefore, subject to approval
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29

signed to meet the champion and that ba
won pass 1t up, even at the cost of losing
the Gotham go.
Eddie Reddy, who is MANAGING Nfilnm
Gibbons, denies he has signed articles
for Mike to fight Eddie McGoortv in
IN New York September 25, or in anY
other city for that matter Reddv says
he received an offer from Gotham nro-
moters, but the offer made was about
$4,000 shy the lowest possible mark he has
d 1.a ,GRt upon S for the ST Paul mlddle-
Mike Sullivan, signing himself welterA
weight champion of the world, saws he in
Keen for match with Jimmy Clabbv, 10
be staged at some club near Chicago.
Mike says he is willing to take on any
of the fighters right up to and incIudinS
the mlddleWelght class.
Grover Hayes, Columbus lightweight.
who fought in this city several times Ia a
year, sailed for Australia Monday to boz
in several Of the foreign countries. HAYES
has i've 2O-rOund bouts scheduled Among
those he will fight are HuEhey Mehagan.
Jack Carroll and Jack Russell.
The referee robbed Joe Coster Of a d.
clslon IN New Orleans a few nights ago
when he raised frankie RusseiIs hand
after the two had fought ten rounds, 40.
cording to reports from that city.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
NEWS FROM RINGSIDEl

Jack Johnson retires one day and the
next day he is back in the ring John
son says he has not heard of a $50, 900
offer for him to box Joe Jeanette in
Paris. However, the champion said he
would accept such an offer under favor
able conditions.
Emil Thirty Packey McFarland's man
ager; has the auto bug. He recently
purchased the car that Packey won when
he defeated owen Moran in New York.
Harry Singer, one of K. 0. Brown s
sparring partners, has secured a match in
Springfield. Mo, his foe to be Art Magirl
Jack Epstein is training Singer for this
match,
With the Joe RIVERSIDE Mandot fight
less than a week off the odds are s to )
in favor of the Mexican,
Cyclone Johnny Thompson and George
X. .. Brown are scheduled to box ten
rounds at Peoria September 10. Jack Dill
lon was originally Carded to fight Brown
but ditched the club when the promoters
would not come across with his demands
Packey Mcfarland says he has no in
tention of passing up his six-round fight
with Young Hirst, scheduled for Philadel-
phia Friday. PaCkey says Wolgast knew
this bout was already carded before he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
TICHEN0R, BLOCK, AND
OSBORNE STILL IN FIGHT

Match play in the three flights for
the Davis & Freeman gold trophy have
just about reached the semi-dnal
stages.
Two rounds Of matches will have
been completed at the conclusion of to-
days play.
Here are the matches that were
played Tuesday and Wednesday:
First Flight.
First Round Block defeated c.
p. King 3 up and ? to play: ID. B. Os-
borne defeated II. J. Hopkins, I up.
w r. Tichenor defeated j. u. Ely, ,
up and 1 TO play.
Second Round-H Block defeated r
G. Ottley, up and 4 TO play
Second Flight.
First Round c. McMichael de-
feated T. r. Human by default; II. G.
Butler defeated z. r. Jones, ] up.
Second Round-R. J. Jones, Jr, de-
feated j. c. McMichael, up and to
play: G. A. Nicholson Jr.. defeated c.
T. Corwin. l up; II. G. Butler defeated
r. c. Fleming. / up, 10 holes.
Third Flight.
First Round-T. L. Cooper defeated
H. NJ. Ashe. up and to play; p, A.
Wright defeated II. L. Dix 3 up and
10 play: f. Il. Gresham defeated w. c.
Spiker by default; A. w. Hodnett de-
feated H Hertz by default.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
Success Of Lookouts' New Manager Doubtful
Elberfeld Rank Bloomer as Yankees Leader
Manager
+e+

dropped in less than five weeks to
the very bottom of the ladder. Ell
berfeld treated Hal Chase so badly
That the great first baseman. jump
ed the team and went back to his
home in California And when the
Kid was finally disposed of he left
such wreck of a machine that
Owner Frank Farrell had to build
up complete new outfit.
Here is what the SpaIding guide
of 1909 has to say about Elberfeld.
Nothing in the season of 1908
was more remarkable than the ca
reer of the New York Highland
ers. With a good getaway from
the starting line, the hilltop team
set out to make what looked like
a runaway race for the flag. and
before the middle Of May they
were so firmly intrenched in first
place that the general opinion
was Griffith had a pennant win
ner after many years of effort.
But the belief was not to last long.
for before May was ended the
team started a slump which car
ried it down without stopping and
at such speed that in a little over
five weeks the Highlanders hit the
bottom never to rebound.
Before this happened the res
ignation of Manager Griffith was
announced and the appointment
of Norman Elberfeld was made to
the vacant position But dissen-
sion continued to grow in the
ranks and finally resulted In the
desertion of the crack first base
man, Hal Chase, who jumped to
the California State league From
these. combinations of tough luck
the team as whole never recov-
cred.
And from the Reach guide of 1909
we print the following concerning
Elberfeld's success" with the New
York team in 1908
- The appointment of
Elberfeld as his (Griffith's) sue
cessor led to factional troubles.
which resulted in First Baseman
Chase's desertion, Stahrs release
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
Trims Tigers in Debut.

About the middle OF the year he
came to Washington. and as soon
as he got here was showed in
against Detroit then the hardest
hitting and most feared club in the
American league Jennings Tigers
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
Bill Smith Has the Southern League Guessing
Way Spring Old Trick to Evade Salary Limit
+s+.

lust because a man had batted .321
in the American league in 1901
didn't prove to be any sign that he
could bat better than 800 In the
Southern in 1912.
This year Bill Smith is getting
his gorge" of Youngsters. He
switched to the other extreme at
the first of this season and tried to
stock up entirely with kids 1t
didn't work well, as the averages
demonstrate.
Next season Bill will return TO
the right principles He will have a
team made up largely Of young
STEERS. but with enough old timers
on the job to steady down the kids
Most of the successful teams of the
Southern league have been built on
that principle
A MOTHER thing that Atlanta fans
can look for next year is
changed attitude toward umpires.
Bill Smith believes that a certain
amount of word beating and intim-
idation is necessary to keep the
umpires giving a reasonable num-
Der of close decisions his way, He
knows that the arbiters hate to be
tongue dashed, and he certainly
knows how to apply the tongue,
when the occasion arises.
Bill is peppery individual and
isn't above jumping on an umpire
If the circumstances seem to war
rant it, He showed that the day OF
the Justly famous Sinister Incl
dent'-when an umpire Of that
name called game on account Of
darkness. though it was still broad
daylight Bin went after Shuster
like a terrier dog after a rat, and
II players hadn't lnterfered would
have hammered him sure
Bill has been in Atlanta long
enough to know. however. that the
public and the press is opposed to
anything bordering on rowdy bali.
on the road, however. he does not
feel himself in the least restrained.
and he gets all out Of the umpires
that he can.
Strange to relate, however. the
umpires seem to like Bill and he
gets along nicely with them,
A MOTHER thing Bill Smith is
going to do for the Atlanta club
is to pitch overheard the tank ar
lists. Bill Smith doesn't mind an
occasional glass of beer But he
will not stand for a drunkard. If
player gets TO drinking on Bill
Smiths club-off goes his head.
Bill realizes that drunkard is al
ways an inefficient ball player
but more than one drunkard can
always put the team on the blink by
creating other drunkards.
4 MOTHER thing that will depart
with the coming Of Smith will
be Indifferent playing. Under the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29

Smith regime a man will have to
play his level best or get out. Bills
whole heart is in the game, and he
expects those of his players to be
right in the same spot, Bill has
various methods OF uprootlng in
difference. He gives presents to his
players. he pays them all the salary
the law allows (and, 1t is to be sus-
pected, more sometimes) he in
spires them with his own enthu-
siasm; he bawls them out and fines
them If they are stubborn. Then,
If they don't come around, he fires
them. Which is as it should be.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
JOE WOOD CAPTURES -:
HIS 14TH GAME; HAS :
WON 20 AND LOST 4:

Joe Wood, the speed hurler Of Q
the Boston Red Sox, is on his way .
to pass RUDE Marquard's record Of .
nineteen victories. Now that Wal .
ter johnson has gone down to de- .
feat, Wood is the White Hope Of .
the American league. Yesterday .
he won his fourteenth straight .
game. Also it was his twenty .
ninth victory, and as he has lost .
only four games, his winning av. Q
erage today is 1873. Right now it .
looks as though Wood would .
break Marquard's record. Also .
that he will wind up the season .
with the biggest percentage Of vic .
tories ever earned by hurIer. .
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29

figured an easy time with the awk-
Ward-looking Western recruit but
they had reckoned wrong. Such
speed as Johnson sent across the
plate they had never seen. He had
them backing away from the ball
COntinually-he was wild enough
then TO keep the batters scared
and when the ninth inning was over
Johnson was the victor over the
most tried club in the circuit and
everybody knew that the Senators
had picked up a wonderful pitch
err
Even with a losing club. one
which has been seventh and eighth
so continuously that no other place
was ever figured for it. johnson
has been a winning pitcher So
exceptional has his work been re-
garded that whenever the Wash
ington club was on the road the
papers in the cities would print ad-
vance accounts something Ike
this; The Walter Johnsons will be
here next week and" etc.
johnson has had but one poor
year since he has been in the ma
jor league and that was due more
than anything else 70 the very poor
work Of his club His record that
year 1909, was 10 Won and % lost,
yet he finished the season with
percentage of wins almost a hun
dred points better than the stand
ing Of the club
Here is JohuSon'S record since
coming TO Washington:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29

dan JOHNSON is quoted as
u saying that Walter john
sons winning streak was
broken Monday by St Louis. He
is alleged to have said: The win
ming run was made by the ST. Louis
team when Johnson was in the box
and the game will be recorded as a
defeat for him. Johnson made a
wild pitch and a st. Louis batsman
hit him for single that sent home
the deciding run"
When Johnson took up the
pitching burden there were two
men on the paths. This alone ex-
cuses him from a defeat. He had
nothing to gain and everything to
lose. And in such a case he can
not be charged with defeat
Harry Pulliam. former National
league president. rendered a verdict
on this question years ago and 1t
sure was good dope, too. He
claimed that the pitcher who was
withdrawn from the game be held
responsible for all runners who
were on the paths when the relief
hurler was rushed to the rescue.
Therefore, Johnson could not be-
charged for a run until the two
men on the bases when he went
into the box had cashed. ANY
Others that scored after that would
have been rightfully charged to
him.
But I do not believe johnson
ever gave out such a statement 1t
was too good boost for his league
to have Johnson in line for a rec
ord. And B. Byron is one of our
best little press agents.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
Gloom Hangs Heavy Capital When Browns Great Huer
JOHNSON FAILS TO BREAK MARQUARD'S RECORD

wv ASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. 90.
Wv old Jack Powelrs glass
arm was good enough yes
terday to cheat Walter Johnson out
Of getting up to or passing Rube
Marquard's winning record of nine
teen straight victories Having
won sixteen in a row, all Washing
ton turned out to see Johnson beat
the loWly Browns, 1t looked like a
cinch for him, after the way he has
been handling all the first division
clubs. But it was not to be
Today disappointment hangs low
and heavy over the village. Even
the president is not wearing his
usual happy smile. Casey famed in
the pinch at Midwife, but gloom in
that burg never compared with the
layer of it that blurs PENNSYLVANIA
avenue today on account of John
sons defeat.
Johnson only allowed four hits
against seven off Powell, but Wal
ter was wild and his support was
OF the bush league brand. The
Browns COPIED the argument to 2.
But Johnson is game. Although
the season is getting late. he IL
going to go right out and try again
to break the record.
Greatest Pitcher Of All Time.
Unassuming and quiet. Walter
Johnson is today the most wonder
full pitcher baseball has ever pro
duced. Notwithstanding the fact
that he had broken the record
made by Jack Chesbro four years
ago, when he defeated Cleveland
for his fifteenth win. Johnson
walked to the bench after that
game as modestly as though he had
done nothing more than what was
in direct line with hts duty. There
was not the least action signifying
that he even thought Of his great
accomplishment, and instead of
waiting to receive the congratula-
tons of the players who started to
crowd around him, he grabbed his
sweater off the bench and hurried
to the club house He had but
done what he considered was his
work. and he could see little need
for the wild huzzas coming from
the stands.
1t is fact that Johnson. al
though he has been a brilliant per-
former since the first day he stood
in major league pitching box. was
released by two or three minor
league clubs before coming here.
He started his baseball career in
the West and was tried out by
clubs In the Pacific Coast and
Northwestern leagues. He was let
so as being useless. Probably the
catchers had little use for him with
that tremendous speed. and maybe
they were at fault But anyway.
somebody failed to recognize the
Jewel and he was allowed to drift
away
Trims Tigers in Debut.
About the middle Of the year he
came to Washington. and as soon
as he got here was showed in
against Detroit, then the hardest
hitting and most feared club in the
American league. Jennings Tigers
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
Bv Percy ii. Whiting.

l/UrEEP EN- guessing is the
* motto of the two most sue
= n successful managers in the
Southern league-Charley Frank
and Bin Smith. In an effort to
live up to this precept Bill Smith
has grabbed one OF Charley Frank
pet ideas and has allowed it to be
rumored that next year he may
be for a blind, president OF the At
lanta Baseball association. If he
took this Office he could appoint a
plaving manager, and thus keep
down the salary roll For, with
playing manager, only half his sal
arv counts against him in figuring
the total salary for the month.
Thus. for example, he could get
one $500 a month man, slip him III
as phony manager, and only have
$3.50 appear on the payroll
Smith may have sprung this
scheme lust to get a little talk
stirred up. At the same time, he
may right now have a high priced
man he plans to get for next year
whose salary he intends to split up
In this manner
n F course If Smith put through
such a deal it would be nee
essaly to account for Presi-
dent Frank galloway. who Is the big
mogul for next year, just as he has
been for this. 1t would be an easy
matter. however, to make him
chairman of the board Of directors
or TO give him some other phony
title, leaving all authority in his
hands.
THE chief drawback to this
scheme Of making Bill Smith
president is that he could be kept
off the bench. However at home
this would be no hardship at all,
for Smith could sit in the next box
ard direct the players Just as we'll
as though ne sat among them. ON
the road the problem would be
more delicate. At the same time,
it is always possible 10 keep in com
= municauon, in one way OF another,
with the team.
And Bill Smith may chance it.
COUNT on Bin Smith for one
thing He viii give Atlanta
team next year made up neither ex-
clusively of Youngsters nor eXclu-
sively Of old timers, but rather Of
well balanced mixture OF both.
Bill Smith had his I'll Of old tim
ers in Chattanooga last year
He figured that season that 1t
didn't matter how old a man was,
so long as he was a bah player.
He found out, however. that it was
one thing to have been ball player
and quite another to be bah play
er. Atlanta fans saw the workings
of that under Hemphnl this year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
BY w. S. Farnsworth.

DN We ,. T aTnSWOrJn.
r OOKOUT fans won't get a
l. pennant winner next year,
but they will get plenty of
action nevertheless Anywhere Kid
Elberfeld hangs his hat there is al
ways heap of life. But how,
where and why the owners of the
Chattanooga franchise ever signed
the Kid as manager is beyond our
widest Imagination.
Elberfeld. of the rowdy type of
ball player, made a dismal failure
of his only out as manager. That
was with the New York American
league club in 1909 After having a
pennant lead in May the team
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
Doubtful
fO%
Leader

and consequent shifting. The de-
moralization was SO complete that
in one month the team slid from
the top of the heap clear to the
bottom, where it remained contin-
uously without hope of redemption
for the balance of the season"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-29
May Excel All A. L. Records

may Excel All A. L. Records.
1t will be seen by the above rec
ord that Johnson stands pretty
fair chance of excelling anything
that has been done in the Amer
lean league under the present re-
gime. Joe Wood is the only man
in the whole circuit who really
leads him in the percentages. but
even at that 1t is doubtful if his
pitching has been as effective as
that of Johnson. Wood has had a
pennant- winning club behind him
all the year and has been in shape
since the beginning of the season.
Johnson has had neither Ask anv
player in the American league
which of the two men he had rath-
err face and he will answer Joe
Wood"
johnson is undoubtedly one Of
the most popular players in the
league, especially in WASHINGTON.
Any time the score is close around
the last couple of innings the fans.
from the president down, call for
the man they consider invincible
The great pitcher has no more
stanch adherent and no more ar
dent admirer than President Taft.
The executive rarely if ever misses
an opportunity to see him work.
Two years ago when Johnson beat
the Athletics in the opening game
or the season by a score Of | to
0, President Taft was in a box. and
after the game was finished had
Johnson brought to him and in
troduCed. The president warmly
congratulated him and Autographed
the ball with which the last inning
was played. That ball is one of
Johnson's most priced possessions
today.
Pitches Without Effort.
johnson is not the Johnson Of old.
Instead of the awkward Westerner
who began service with the Amer
lean league, there is now the tall,
graceful, perfectly poised figure.
Every action on the diamond is
almost perfection itself, and when
he pitches it is with little or no
apparent effort, So little does he
appear to exert himself that it is
often wondered how he develops his
wonderful speed
In all his time int the American
league johnson has never been
known to grumble at an umpire's
decision. No matter how things
go against him. he never LAYS the
blame on the poor work Of the ar
bitter.
In the box Johnson does not
stand back of the rubber to get the
signals and thus waste time. but
he pitches, and as he is walking
back TO his position gets the signal
from the catcher steps in the box
and Immediately pitches again.
When asked once why he did not
take more time and get more rest
while pitching, Johnson looked sur
pr1sed and answered. That's not
baseball The games in which
Johnson works are about the short
est. from the point of time, PLAYED
by any of the clubs
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-29
BIG EASTERN ELEVENS
STUCK TO OLD FOOTBALL

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-With the 1919
football season closed. except for the
Army and Navy battle tomorrow in Phil
adelphia, exponents of the new style of
play today found a big disappointment in
reviewing the styles OF attack used by
the Eastern elevens in their big games.
Despite the chances for long gains and
spectacular plays afforded by the new
open game, the majority Of elevens
stuck to the old system of making gains
through mass punges and the forward
pass, predicted as the most popular In
novation IN football in ten years, was
used only on rare occasions.
Harvard is the G25isputed champion of
the East and her record OF ten victories
and no DEFEATS is better than any OF the
big Western colleges. Princeton is given
second ranking, Carlisle third, Dartmouth
fourth and Yale NTH.
Dopesters are now busy making their
all American selections. ketcham, the
great Yale center and BriCklcy, the
Crimson haltbacS, whose wonderful toe
2nd great END runs scored 94 points
Tor the Harvard squad, together with
Jim" Thorpe, the Indian haltbaCi,, are
sure TO be on all the selections, but there
is a big difference Of opinion as TO which
men win be stars in the other positions
The miGdies and the cadets are in fine
condition for their clash tomorrow Each
team has a star punter and drop kicker,
but both eleVcnS are pretty evenly
matched as to weight,