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Wild Bill Donovan Popular
With Fandom Country Over
SOUTHERN friends of Wild
Bill Donovan, former Detroit
star, received with delight the
news that the once great hurley has
found not only a comfortable but
an excellent berth as manager of
Providence in the International
league, now that his years of use
fulness as a major leaguer have
passed.
Though Donovan was never on a
Southern payroll, he is a familiar
figure to Dixie fandom. For yetis
he visited the land of cotton in the
spring, and each year he made more
friends. This season he spent much
of the summer looking over ball
players of this section for tlje Ti
gers. His spectacular career has
been watched with the keenest per
sonal interest, and the heart of
every fan beats in response to the
following tribute to his s< rvices
from The Detroit News;
"Good-bye, Bill. This town will
be darker when it loses the glow
of your effulgent smile. You've been
here so many years. Bill, that we
looked on you and your grin as one
of our institutions. We who know
you as a man with an arm of steel
and a heart of oak just kind of
hate to see you go. We get think
sing back to the days when a tip
would be feverishly passed out tint
‘Donovan is to pitch' and we'd rush
out to the park jvell mell. You
were the idol of the fans in those
days. Bill, and it is a remarkable
tribute to you that with your pass
ing as a pitcher you still retain
that love of the baseball public.
"We remember. Bill, when you
first came to the city, a lean, smil
ing giant from Brooklyn. What
speed you had. Bill! How you
mowed them down! And. Bill, what
rotten support you got! We re
member how you lost game after
game, though you held the opposi
tion to one, two anil three hits. But
you never quit. Bill: you gave them
the best that was in you.
Great Battle With Waddell,
"We remember. Bill, those sensa
tional pitching duels with Rube
Waddell, then at his best. It wis
enough to announce that you and
the Rube were going to battle the
park would be tilled. Anil we re
member how after passing the lean
years you stepped forward to get
your first reward in 1907—when yon
set a world mark as a winning
pitcher
"What a year that was! Hey,
Bill? Remember that 17-inning
fight in Philadelphia that year the
game that broke the spirit of the
Athletics and sent the Tigers on
the flood tide of victory? We do.
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We recall now how you stood in the
breach that day in the gloom of
early evening with your smile as
wide as ever, encouraging the boys
to keep at it.
" 'Give me .1 one run lead, boys,’
you kept saying: 'just one run. and
they'll never beat ns.'
"We remember the excitement,
too, when you landed on Monte
Cross' jaw when Silk O’Loughlin
had his back turned. It was funny,
Bill, to see Monte sprawling on the
ground with»3o.ooo wild-eyed fans
roaring for your life blood. And
there you stood smiling and serene.
Poor Claud Ros-man! Silk thought
'it-was he who hit Cross, and he
fired him from the game.
, The Man of the Hour.
"And. Bill, we remember that day
in Chicago, the last day of the
league season, when the three
teams—Cleveland, Chicago and De
troit —practically tied for first place,
you were the man of the hour for
us. Remember how the telegrams,
letters and telephone messages
poured into the hotel for you that
night?
" 'Detroit depends op you. Bill,’
was the gist of them. all.
"And we who were on rhe inside
remember. Bill, the tragedy of that
night. You were there with your
smile, telling the hoys that you
never felt better—and they believed
you. They did not know. Bill, how
you writhed in agony from rheuma
tism all that night, with Trainer
Tuthill and two rubbers working
over you. Bill. They were kneajling
your pain-wracked body into shape
for a battle that meant the Ameri
can league pennant. And by morn
ing they had you in pretty good
shape. You slept a few hours and
then told the Tigers that you could
win in a walk. You were working
on your nerve alone. Bill, but you
didn't want the boys to know, for
fear it would affect their playing.
Staggered Ira Thomas.
"And well do we remember that
game. Bill. VYe remember how. once
you got warmed up. big Ira Thomas
staggered every time the ball shot
into his big mitt, so terrific was
your speed. We can see you now
with your ever-present grin, hold
ing the fighting clan of Comiskey
at bay. while the famous old Tiger
scoring machine drove 'Big Ed'
Walsh from the box and declared
themselves champions of the
league.
"And we remember that night,
while the rest of the boys were
making merry you sat alone, a man
sickened by pain, but still happy.
"And non you're going to leave
us. Bill. /. Your arm may not be as
strong as it wa-. but your eye is as
clear, your wonderful old noodle is
working as well, and your heart is
as stout as ever.
"You can bet. Bill, we'll remem
ber you. not only for your deeds on
the diamond, but as a man. gentle,
kindly, thoughtful of others and full
>f the humor that goes to make up
a true Irishman.
"Good-bye, Bill—-and good luck."
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1912.
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Atlanta in Nashville.
Birmingham in New Orleans. 1
Mobile in Montgomery.
Chattanooga in Memphis.
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Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C. I
B’ham. .73 47 .609 M’mphls 55 61 .474
Mobile . 68 51 .572 j C’nooga. 53 60 .169
N. <>r. .63 53 .543 Nash. . 52 64 .448
Mont. . 58 60 .492 I Atlanta .44 70 .386
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Yesterday s Results.
Neu Orleans 5. Birmingham 0
Mobile 4. Nashville 3 (first game.)
Mobile 4. Nashville- 1 (second game.)
Montgomery 9. Atlanta 4.
Memphis 8. Chattanooga 2 i first game.)
Memphis 8, Chattanooga 0 (second
game.)
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Jacksonville in Albany.
Columbia in Savannah.
Columbus in Macon.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L PC | W UPC
Sav’nah. 30 19 .612 1 Macon. . 23 27 .460
C’bus. .30 20 .600 j Col’a. . 19 31 .380
J’ville. . 29 21 .586 ) Albany . 19 32 .373
Yesterday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Chicago in Boston
St. Louis in Washington.
Detroit in Philadelphia.
Cleveland in New York.
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Standing of the Clubs.
W. L P C I W. L P.C
Boston . 82 36 .695 Detrfoit .56 65 .463
Wash. . .74 45 .622 C’land . .52 66 .141
Phila . 71 46 607 N. oris . 41 75 .353
Chicago. 59 58 .504 S. Louis 37 81 .313
Yesterday’s Results.
No games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Boston in Pittsburg.
New York in Cincinnati.
Brookly n in Chicago.
Philadelphia in St. Louis.
w. I. r.<" w. l p.c |
N. York. 81 33 .711 <’ nati. .54 63 .462
Chicago .15 40 .652 S. Louis 52 64 .448
P’burg 67 48 .583 Br'klyn. .42 74 .362
Phila. ..55 58 .487 Boston .34 80 .298
Yesterday's Results.
< incinnati 3, Philadelphia 2.
St. Louis 11. Brooklyn 4.
Boston 7. Chicago 6.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Games Today.
Louisville in St. Paul.
Columbus in Milwaukee.
Toledo in Kansas City.
Indianapolis in Minneapolis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. I W. L. P.C.
M'apolis. 90 47 .657 | M’w'kee. 64 70 .477
C’bus. .. 86 51 .628 S. Paul 61 79 .136
Toledo . 80 55 .593 L’villt . 51 83 .38!
K. City .64 70 .477 | L’apolis. .49 90 .352
Yesterday's Results. *
Milwaukee 5. Columbus 3 ‘first game.)
Columbus 6. Milwaukee 4 (second game)
Toledo 5. Kansas City 0 (first game.)
Kansas Pit' 4. (second game.)
Minneapolis 6. Indianapolis 3 (first
game.)
Minneapolis 4, Indianapolis 1 (second
game.)
St. Paul 4. Louisville 1 (second game.)
St. Paul 8, Louisville 4 (second game.)
Strangle Is Held on Pennants
By Clarke, McGraw and Chance
By W. -I. Mcßeth.
1 T THATEVER their personal
VV prejudices, hates and
shortcomings in general, it
can not be denied that John .1. Mc-
Graw. Frank Chance and Fred
t.’lai ke are the Three Sturdy Musk
eteers of the National league. Neil
. Hanlon may have been a bear in
his day. He surely proved it in
bis pennant trust activities in Bal
timore and Brooklyn. But Ned has
passed to the great beyond as an
approved leader of modern base
ball machinery and in his vener
able decline must doff his cap to
the little brotherhood of threT who
for tile past twelve years have had
the National league pennant policy
all to ourselves.
Fred Clarke is the veteran'of the
trio and holds the record of pen
nant achievement. Since 1901 his
club has never finished below the
first division and in that time the
Buccaneers have annexed our flnfts
and one world’s pennant. Pitts
burg won threV gonfalons in a row,
beginning in 1901.
Then New York broke in for two
successes in 1904 and 1905, respec
tively. McGraw, a. new-comer in
the National league, had begun to
make his presence felt. But his
old team crumpled up after their
second straight victory in 1905.
Chance Entered in 1906.
Then came Mr. Chance, the
Peerless Leader, and present thorn
in the side of Manager John J. Mc-
Graw. of Gotham. He hutted into
the limelight in 1906 with a record
of 116 victories for the season, and
| though he took a very humiliating
trimming at the hands of his
neighbors, the White Sox. that fall
in the world's series tilt, he.never
theless engineered such an array of
talent together that the gathering
of three pennants and two world's
championships the following sea
sons was simply a matter of form.
The Peerless Leader fell down on
the Job in 1909, losing to Pittsburg,
which in turn cheated the Detroit
Tigers out of their third straight
bid for a world’s championship, the
Cubs having turned the trick in
1907 and 1908. McGraw, who has
always been there or thereabouts,
was quite peeved by this time. He
had been knocking about for a team
of young blood. It made a gallant
bid in 1910, but was not quite sea
soned enough, and when the Pi
rates fell by the wayside in the
stretch run old "Husk" Chance and
his Beat Cats were found showing
the way to the field on a comfor
table -margin, a grim satisfaction
that had some of its edge taken off
when the Athletics walloped the
wadding out of these same Cubs in
the annual world’s series unpleas
antness.
McGraw was ready last yea;,
though. His youngsters had just
the proper seasoning and when the
Cub pitchers went to pieces and
old Hans Wagnei broke an ankle,
little .Johnny's Giants nosed out
Chicago and Pittsburg for tin- fine
pennant raised at Coogan's bluff a
few brief days ago. That, ladies
and gentlemen, is a brief synopsis
of the lives ami accomplishments
of the Three Little Musketeers of
the National league.
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Richmond in Newport News.
Norfolk in* Petersburg.
Portsmouth in Roanoke.
Standing of the Clubs.
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Isb rg <2 45 .615 It'lun'.l 59 59 .560
R anoke 5o 51 .522 I l*'sm'tb IS .">7 4‘."
Norfolk 56 57 ..-<O4 I N N'ws <5 69 995
Yesterday’s Results.
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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Baltimore in Toronto
Providence in Buffalo.
Newark in Montreal. ’
Jersey City in Rochester.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L PC. I \v. L. P.C.
Roch. . .73 17 .609 I J Citv . 58 66 .168
Toronto .74 50 .597 Buffalo . 56 64 ,I6<,
B’rnore. 63 57 .525 i M treal. 56 70 al4
N’wark. 60 63 .488 I P’dencv. 50 73 .407
Yesterday’s Results.
No games played
CAROLINA ASSOCIATION.
Games Today.
Charlotte in Spartanburg.
Winston-Salm in Anderson.
Greenville in Greensboro.
Standing of the Clubs.
\V. L. P C I \V L. P
A ders’n 61 41 .598 1 Sp h’rg 51 50 .505
(’’rlotte 5S 44 .560 '
W.-S'm 57 45 .559 j G’nville 33 70 .320
Yesterday’s Results.
No games scheduled
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OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY.
Texas League.
Houston 9. San Antonio 4.
Galveston 1. Beaumont 0.
Dallas 6. Port Worth 0 (first game).
1 tall is i. Eor| orth 0 < second game)
Austin 1. Waco 0 (first game).
Waco 4. Austin 0 (second game). I
APPALACHIAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Knoxville m Asheville.
Johnson City in Morristown.
Bristol in Cleveland.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L P u W. L. P C
Bristol 51 34 .600 f C’vTd 41 42 494
K’xville 48 41 .539 i A'eville 39 50 .438
J. City 43 41 .512 I M’town 35 49 .417
Yesterday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
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