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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1911.
\HQ IS DOOMED ON
CIRCULAR HORSE TRACKS
CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DUBOSE COMPANY’S TEAM
(Copyright, 1911, by Barney Oldfield.)
oar racing on circular tracka built for horaei la doomed. Not until
han 100 drivers and mechanics were sacrificed to satisfy the pro-
greed for gold did the decent clement In the sport rise and cry
fiasco at the Hawthorne race track In Chicago a week ago sounded
th knell of that class of contests nnd "racing" so Industriously
(or the past few years by promoters who cared nothing for the klll-
ipeed-inad pilots and their helpless mechanics, but to whose ears the
the dollars as they fell Into the strongbox spelled the success or fall-
f etr enterprises.
since 1904 those In control have been talking of refusing sanctions
alar track meets. After each fatal nccldent there would appear a
transitory sentiment, a few tears for "the poor fellow," then as the
agon or ambulance carted him away the races would go merrily on.
s they halted the cars for five minutes at the funeral hour the next
they continued to grant the sanctions and the promoters' dangled
gold to lure the ambition-mad drivers on to fresh danger,
j always been within the power of the goyernlng body of the sport
halt, but the rich sanction fees meant too much toward the maln-
nf the organisation to let sentiment Interfere. Year after year the
. of the law held aloof from official investigations or Interference,
roner of Chicago finally awoke to the realisation that death resulting
inter racing was nothing short of manslaughter, and while Investl-
the circumstances surrounding the death of Marcel Basle, gave ut-
to about the moat caustic criticism and warnings ever handed out by
j official. There will certainly be no more automobile racing In Chi-
itll special tracks or speedways are constructed.
> state senators In Chifcago have already announced that they would
anti-racing bills in the next Illinois legislature.
Hawthorne meet was promoted by a well known booster of circular
wets, a man experienced In playing up the "death-dealing” features
game both In the newspapers and on the billboards. A local motor
atlon was announced as patron of the affair and many of Its promt-
emhers acted as officials of the meet,
track, long noted as one of the most treacherous sand-surfaced
In the country', was granted a license, notwithstanding that the fences
removed 30 feet from the edge of the track as the rules specifically
The fences were flush with the edge of the course. The turns were
rutted and soft
promoter stated that a member of the contest board of the national
lion nnd generally conceded to bo a most capable official, had person-
pected the track and Indorsed the application for the track license.
*- brought out at the coroner’s Inquest.
. 10,000 spectators In the stands on Saturday. June 10. the second
the program was started. The unfortunate Basle crashed thru the
tile bad turn and died an hour later. A few minutes following an-
■ plunged thru the fence a few feet farther along. The assocla-
Iclal who had pronounced the track safe then caused the races to
iped nnd Burman and DePalma were sent In for an exhibition mile
pacify the throng.
crowd greeted with yells of "fake." “robbery,” the announcement
calling off of the remaining programed events. Instead of refusing
w the gates to be opened the following day, the statement was
by the officials that the track would be “repaired” and the “races"
continue Sunday.
other crowd of 10,000 was drawn evidently by the morbid desire to
< more accidents. In the second race a ear crashed thru the fence
“death turn.” and becoming thoroughly tightened, the officials de-
the entire program off. But the Immense amount of money taken
he gales was not refunded.
i majority of the drivers do not know the chances they are taking.
ie other drivers attaining great speed with thelr-cars, and given a
wered racing machine, a youngster with practically no experience
do the same thing. A vital piece of steel gives way and It Is all off.
Id stories of the Immense earnings of racing drivers attract most of
;w drivers to the game. There is no driver who earns one-tenth
lo warrant him taking the chances forced upon him. Once In a while
lllot raptures a big race with a big prise. But there arc hundreds of
nnd only a few big races.
e professional promoter Is the curse of the racing game. But they
Hied the goose which laid their golden egg. Thru a wilful disregard
safety of the driver, mechanic and spectator, they have, In conjune-
Ih the body accepting the sanction fees, brought to an end a sport
If properly conducted, would rank with the greatest In the world. It
> for a house-cleaning. All the disinfecting known to modern Bel
li not now save automobile track racing.
irlng has outlived Its usefulness to the Industry. No longer can it be
ruthfully that racing Improves the breed of the motor car. .Contests
ch speed and endurance proclaimed the victor, played a tremendous
I the progress and development of the near-perfect car of today,
it the task Is all finished. Cars have been produced that are capable of
eater speed than can be utilised either legally or safely. These cars
pable of sustaining that Speed for a much longer period than any
will ever run them. Racing did much to produce and hasten these
Players Galore Have Been
Hired and Fired This Year
Chattanooga Team Has Used
25 Men This Season, At-
' lanta 23-Ah, Ha", 23!
This picture shows one of the fast teams In the cladsy new Commercial league. The players shown are: First
row (left to right), H. P. Andrews, W. P. Henry, manager; J. T. Henry. 8econd row. S. H. Baynas, G. 8. Chask, L.
P. Moore. Third row, C. G. Guthrie, L. R. Weodis, G. B. Jerikins. Fourth row, C. C. Chapman, captain) L. 8.
Tounsley, pitcher; C. L. Bishop. Fifth row, Olan Blair, mascot,
MAKES RUN TO SAVANNAH IN 12.03
This is the Buick that “hit ’ar up” at a 25-mile-an.hour gait from 1
Atlanta to 8avannah.
av Harroun, winner of the 928.000 Indianapolis race, has really retired
the game for good and all. Harroun may exhibit his "wasp" at some
1 larger state fairs and allow the megaphone artists to eulogise him
I the Introduction ceremonies, but there Is no more real racing for tho
Arab.
ran across him a few days ago lo Chicago and suggested that he ought
P right at It and clean them all up again. I pointed out the rare chance
e press agent to grind out "spine-chilling," "nerve-tlngllng," "death-
'*' end o*er crimson tinted adjectives when describing his driving.
\ n more of that hero stuff for mine." he replied. "Along about 1970 I
the lecturer on the aeroplane rubber-neck cars to point out an old guy
i gray beard six feet long and say, 'That’s Uncle Ray Harroun; he’s tho
man In the state.’"
arroun got a pretty good Idea of the danger of the game when he
■shotted the concrete wall around the Indianapolis speedway with a
: car while going 90 miles an hour a year ago. It took them a week to
tfie wall.
R. V. Connerat, manager of the Buick
Motor Company of Atlanta, recently
made a phenomenally good run from
Atlanta to Savannah by the Macon,
Mllledgevlllc, Sandersvllle. I.oulsvllle,
Milieu, Statesboro route. Tho trip last
ed from June 8 to 12, but the actual
running time was 12 hours and 3 min
utes for the 803.1 miles, or virtually
28 miles an hour.
Mr. Connerat drove the model 39
Buick that took part In the Savannah-
to-Charlotte run and which won the
Columbia hill climb. It carried four
passengers on the trip to Savannah.
This route which Mr. Connerat used
for this run Is tipped off by him as the
very best one from Atlanta to Savan
nah.
■ The routo, distances and the time
taken by the model 39 arc here given:
Routs. Miles. Tims.
Atlanta to Macon 97.2 3 hrs. 49 M.
Macon to Mllledgevlllc.31.2 1 hr. 19 M.
Mllicdgevllle to San-
dersvllle 29.2 1 hr. 10 M.
Sandersvlllo to Louis
ville 28.9 1 hr. 23 M.
Louisville to Mlllen.. .33.7 1 hr. 20 M.
Mlllen to Statesboro.. .29.7 1 hr. 06 M.
Statesboro to Savan
nah 88.8 2 hrs, 04 M.
303.1 12
03
BENEFIT GAME
PLAYEDT0DAY
Georgia Railway and Electric
Team Will Play Fifth
Regiment Club.'
All baseball fans will wander tnwaftj
Ponce DeLeon park thla afternoon for
tho benefit same between the Georgia
Railway nnd Electric team and the
Fifth Regiment.
The receipts will go to the C*r Em
ployees association. The line-up:
Fifth Rsgt. Gs. Ry. & E.-Co.
J. White, 3b H. Holland, 3b.
...A. Martin, ss.
,.. .Hchufffer, rf.
Griffin, 2b.
Farris, c.
..8. Holland, lb.
...P. Martin, cf.
Dodgens, If.
. .. .G. Martin, p.
By MAURICE HAAS.
A Nearly 200 players have been tried In
the Southern league this season.
The pitchers of the league have given
the managers a lot of trouble, and new
twlrlers swelled the number largely.
Memphis Is the only team which has
gone thus far with fifteen men, but some
changes will be made on the Turtle team
soon. ,
Montgomery has tried but nineteen men
this year, and the team is going strong-
much better than ever before. The
changes made/by the Bllllkens have been
mostly In the outfield.
New Orleans, Birmingham, and Mobile
have tried 22 players each. Most of New
Orleans' changes have been In the Infleld.
tho a few pitchers have been swapped.
Mobile has had a lot of trouble with Its
pitching staff. Eight hurlers have been
tried and there Is no telling how many
more will get a chance. The Barons
have had the largest assortment of hurl
ers this season, and out o fhte whole
bunch there are but two gt ‘
chenges were made In the
of accidents and Illness.
The Vole, tho they have had 24 ath
letes on their pay roll, have not been ajble
to nut the team In shape. The pitchers
could t\ot get right. Ten elabmen have
of men used on the team this year. The
total number of men who have been tried
out Is 23. Nine of them were hurlers.
There are still five left, but really only
two seem to count.
The Atlanta club is fine In the field, but
the box! The club has not a single right
hander who can be depended upon. Man
ager Jordan should look also for a good
catcher. The catching staff seems to be
the greatest weakness of the team.
Chattanooga leads the league In the
number of men used. It may be mention
ed. tho, that the changes were made V
good advantage. Bltly Kmlth's team la
not the same that opened the season at
Ponce DeLeon. Thero have been many
the Southern league. __ w .
for the league Is 120 for the eight clubs.
Out of this bunch 66 were pitchers and 22
catchere. A great many trades have been
pulled since the beginning of the season.
List of Playtrs and Positions.
Chattanooga......
Nashville
Atlanta
New Orleans
Birmingham.
Mobile
Montgomery
Memphis
NO BALL GAME
FOR CRACKERS
It Rained Plentifully at Bir
mingham on Friday and
Club Just Loafed.
Douglas, lb.
Smith, If
Duke, 2b
\W White, as...
P. Shaw, cf
Ryan, rf
Clarke, c
Brown, p
-and the only
insurance Icar-
■ was to use
rcstonc
riRES
TIANTA branch,
58 Auburn Ave.
TONE TIRE A RUBBER CO, UROH.O.
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B •!•
4 CLEVELAND COUNTRY CLUB
+ WIN8 TOM MORRIS TROPHY +
4 Chicago, Juna 17.—If the official +
+ return, bear out the preliminary +
+ report., the Tom Morrl. trophy +
+ will be held for the forthcoming +
+ twelve month* by the Country f
4 club of Cleveland. In the match +
+ against par played yesterday the +
J Cleveland team waa only 19 down. T
The unofficial return, .howed th. +
+ Exmoor Country club of Chicago +
+ * poor Mcond. 28 down, and th. T
. ‘ - close +
*
+ Portsmouth (Ohio) club
♦ r'
third, 23 down.
H-H
WOMEN HAVE
SAIN WON TENNI8 EVENT
•lphi» June 17.—The woman’*
-haniptonshlp will go to th*
>e*r. for Mina Florenc. Sut-
erday defeated Ml.. Eleanors
In tho final round of
paraent and Trill this afternoon
l H »“ Hotchkiss, of Berkley,
■w vhalleng* round.
the human torch at
lk-w
FOUR AVIATOR8 REACH KIEL. +
Kiel, Germany, June 17.—Four +
of the aviators in the 1,164-ml!e +
national aviation circuit race ar- +
rived here today from Hamburg. +
They were Aviators Bueehner, +
Llndpalnter, Wlencxlera and +
Schaumburg. . T
Wlencxlera made th* distance In +
the shortest length of time, taking +
only 61 minutes to negotiate the +
66 miles. Undpalnter'a Urns waa +
13 mlnutaa Buechner's was 66 +
minute* and Schauenburg’a was +
77 minutes. . .. t
This was tha fourth leg of the +
, Journey, the men having finished +
+ the third from Bqhwsrin to Ham- *
+ burg on Thursday. -r
UtMIIH-H-H-4
•I
rIT'S THE SAME OLD. TALE-
Chattanooga won, Athletics won, Gulls lost and Cy Young
won—Please note Brown Keen, Atlantan, who is hitting some
with Springfield in Ohio Stn'tc league.
=By INNIS BROWN =
fc:
Same old story. Chattanooga won
again. Consistency, which atones for a
multitude of sins, must surely be the
Lookouts' middle name.
Additional—Imagine the expansive
smile that distorts the visage of BUI
Smith.
Incidentally, Coveleskle, the one-time
heaver of Pennsylvania bituminous,
won another. Dr. Thomas opposed the
Hun, and but for an error on a fly
ball by Judson Daley, who, it Is re
ported will Join Brooklyn shortly, ths
bone-setter would have grabbed the
decision.
While the elements were doing things
distasteful to baseball folk In Ootham,
causing the Tigers and Yanks to Idle
away a perfectly good week-day after
noon, Eddie Collins and associate play
ers were trimming the trappings from
the choicest offerings of a trio of White
Sox slabmen In Sleeptown, with the re
sult that the Mackmen are now riding
securely at anchor some twenty-five
point* back of the Detroiters.
The Turtle* saved the Crackers the
humiliation of finding themselves trap,
ped In tha "hoosgow" after Friday’s
game, by flogging the crippled Oulls.
Flnlayson, from Brooklyn, allowed the
Birds but four hits, while the latter
worked under the additional handicap
of playing a pitcher and cntcher In the
meadows In place of regulars.
The goddess of baseball, a personage
of whom no mention is made In the
best authorities on mythology, shook
up a new combination In the National
league after Friday’s matinees. By a
bit of timely hitting and a triplet of
errora, the Cubs beat the Phillies, while
the Cardinals were maliciously pum-
metlng the Giants. The Bearlets went
bock to the lead with a twelve-point
margin.
Rcouts who are looking for real un
varnished exponents of slug would do
well to take a slant at Brown Keen, the
young Atlanta player who Is with
Rprlngfleld In the Ohio State league. A
few days since he broke up a gams
with Hamilton by smacking out a ho
mer with the bases full, and In addi
tion to this stunt, secured a triple and
a single In four trips. Figures on his
work are not at hand, but he la easily
one of the heaviest hitters In this
Class D circuit.
THE MOTORCYCLE
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for stand-up ability In climbing hills,
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Play on Saturday
For Holland Cup
The qualifying round for the Dr. Frank
Holland cup will be played Saturday
afternoon over the A. A. C. course at
East Lake. The affair will be a han
dicap event nnd match play rounds will
follow as usual,
ff-l’’l-I-I-M"I’'l"l"l-I"l“I-l"l"I"l"I-I"l’’i-I’
+ LUCK GOE8 TO YAZOO. +
+
Catcher Jim Lurk, the ex-Gcor- +
gin Military academy baseball +
+ player, has been sent to the Yaxoo +
t elly club, where he will finish out +
the season. 4*
H-K-I-H
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH
EXCURSION, VIA SEA-
BOARD, JUNE 27.
86.00 round trip, good six daya. Spe
cial train* leave Old Depot 7 p. m.
Pullman reaervatlona, 88 Penchtree.
8KATING RACE8 AT WHITE CITY.
Three exciting pursuit races were
held In the White city skntlng rink
Friday night before a large audience.
The first race was won,by Roy Peddls.
the second by Harry Winchester, and
the third by Ben Sheppard.
Birmingham, Ala., Juns 17.—Yester
day's ball gams turned out not to be a
bolt game at all. Instead It was met-
amorpholsed Into a postponed affair and
shoved up In the league's calendar to
August 7, when It will appear as the
abbreviated second section of a double
header,
Yes. It rained. That was the answer.
It rained good and plentiful.
It wasn't actually pouring at gnmo
time, but It might as well have been,
for'the field was reduced to a state of
xcesslve “goolness” that made rea:
play a Joke.
As usual, there was no kick from the
players. The Crackers have been hav
Ing an especially hard time of It. and
after the double header of Thursday
they were glad of any excuse to take a
rest.
MAHER LASTS NEARLY
A ROUND WITH BURKE
New York, Juno 17,—Jim Maher, the
so-called middleweight champion of
Ireland, has made a bad beginning In
the United States, for In his first try
out lant night with Sailor Burke at the
Twentieth-Century Athletic club he was
knocked out In the first round by a
dangerous hook on the Jaw.
BIRMINGHAM PLAYER8 WIN.
Montgomery, Ala., Juns 17c—A clean
sweep of the tennis trophies was made
by the Bartlett and Brook* team, of
Birmingham, Ala., here yeatorday. They
won both the Alabama and the Cotton
State* doubles championship and
Brook* won the singles championship
of the Cotton State*. The only unfin
ished event Is the Alabama singles, In
which Dowdell will play Edgar.
In the challenge match for the Ala
bama tournament, Bartlett and Brook*
defeated Kealhofer and Dowdell, of
Montgomery, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
In the challenge match for the Ala
bama doubles Bartlett and Brook* de
feated Harold nnd Edgar, of Montgom
ery. 6-3. 6-4 and 6-3.
Brooks, of Birmingham, defeated Ed
gar, of Montgomery. In the challenge, a
match for the Cotton ’ States singles,
6-4. 4-6, 6-8, 8-6, 6-4,
GADSDEN GETS MERCER MAN.
Macon, Ga., June 17.—First Base-
man Reach, prominent In all -athletics
at Mercer for several seasons, left this
morning for Oadsden, where he will Join
Lem Bailey’s Southeastern league club
and begin to play regularly. Reach Is
the property of tho local club.
WRECK DIDN'T
WAKE THAT
PAIR
By W. A. PH E LON.
"Ball clubs." says good old Frank Ban
croft, "have been fortunate In escaping
railroad accidents. Only a few Instances
are recalled where aerioua Injury haa bean
Inflicted on any number of ball clivers
when you consider
the number of the boys who are making
the .circuit* from April to October:their
■pod luck aeems to almost Justify the
belief that they have charmed fives. Char-
ue Bennett, of courae, lost hla legs In a
* ni1 jimmy Ryan waa so
on on ® “ccaalon that he
wex out of the game meat of the snsnon.
Taken on the whole, howevir.theboye
have been the luckiest of all tha people
rail* m **® nun, eroue Journey* on th*
"I we* In one smash-up, nearly twenty
that waa a SorkTr. ahdjet
had 111 funny aide. The Iteds—with
Comlakey In command and old Pet*
Browning as the star slugger—were com-
!sftst er °? ,5‘ om ,3i- I * 0 ““’ and. In th*
middle of the night, a freight craehed
Into us. A scene of horror and confusion
followed, doubly augmented when the two
sleepers stood on end and then pitched
down a deep Incline.
"Somehow, Some way, we scrambled out
In pajamas or without them, and took a
census of our members. Rid MrPhre
had a smashed nose. Frank Dwyer hsd a
skinned elbow, and there were a few mi
nor Injuries, but nobody.waa killed or
even crippled. And then, to our utter
horror, we found that Charles-Comlakey
and Pete Browning were mlaslng.
”'Ve remembered that they were In tha
forward and of the second sleeper, which
was on fire. If they had not been killed
by the fall, thay would anon be burned,
and there waa no time to lose. With th*
train crew, we grabbed axea and hand
spikes. We tolled madly, and In a Jiffy
we had cut a road Into the aide of that
biasing car.
"We struggled along the aisle or th*
car, almoat tilted on end, and conse
quently a tough place to travel. The
green curtains bad fallen out. bedding and
splinters war* heaped In the aisle, and
tbe flame* were gaining ground. On
ward we struggled, and at fast wa pulled
aside the last obstructions, dreading what
ight be revealed.
"It was some reveal, too, for there
lay Charles Comleksy and Pete Brown
ing.'standing on their heads In the bertha,
with their feet pointing heavenward In the
upturned car, and both of them sound
>. ■ Hers! Nel-
i awakened
Heved. saved!’ wa
ve to drag them forth
to safety. And Pete Browning, taking a
trouble V
It wiil' aii~over Arfie_ La n
hero. When the train flew on ine tree a, a
woman screamed 'Help, help—I shall be
killed,’ and aren as she squawked. La
tham, parachuting from HI* berth and
landing on his neck right In front of her,
yelped: ‘Lady, he not afraid! W# ara
*11 gentlemen In the dark!'
PIRATES’ PROTEST PA88EO UP.
New York, June 17.—The protest of
the Pittsburg club against the decision
of Umpire Doyle In the game vjrlth Cin
cinnati May 17 has been chucked out
of court by President Lynch.
WAYCROSS WIN8 GAME.
Jtsup, Ga., June 17.—The Waycrosa
baseball team defeated the Jeaup nine
by the score of 9 to 8.
Bntterles: Waycrosa, Gardner and
Smith; Jesup, Lester and McCullough.
NA8HVILLE HAS GOOD TEAM.
Nashville, Ga., June 17.—The Nash
ville baseball team returned Friday
morning from Tlfton, where three
ganfts were played. Nashville won the
first by a score of 10 to 7. and alsoi the
second, score 6 to 3. Tlfton won the
Inst game by the acore cf 7 to 4.
Meet me at the Lyric-
Little Emma Bunting.
stock exchange house that had
bought a cotton exchange memher^lp
and needed a map to open a new held of
speculation to Its clients.
The applicant was In every way desir
able save for the fact that three houses
with which he had been connected had
failed, tho not one for a dishonest reason.
Ua waa rejectsd aa a hoodoo.
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