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Wild Bill Donovan Popular
With Fandom Country Over
SOUTHERN friends of Wild
Bill Donovan, former Detroit
z star, received with delight the
news that the once great hurler 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 years
he visited the land of cotton in the
spring, and each year he made more
friends. This season he spent much
of the summei looking over ball
players of this section for the 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 services
from The Detroit Nows:
“Good-bye, Kill. This town will
be darker when it loses the glow
of your effulgent smile. You've been
here so many years. Rill, that we
looked on you and your grin as one
of our institutions Wo 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
ing back to the days when a tip
would be feverishly passed out {hat
■Donovan is to pitch' and we'd rush
out to the park j*el! 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. Rill, when you
first came to the city, i lean, smil
ing giant from Brooklyn. What
speed you had. Bill I How you
mowed them down! And. Rill, what
rotten support you got! We re
t member how you lost game after
game, though you held the opposi
tion to one, two and three hits. Rut
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 ill- best. It was
enough to announce that vou and
the Rube were going to battle—the
park would be tilled. And we re
member how after passing the lean
years you stepped forward to get
your first reward in 1907 when toil
set a world mark ax a winning
pitcher.
“What a yen that was! Hey,
Rill'.’ Rememli' r that 17-lnning
fight in Philadelphia that year the
game that broke the spirit of the
Ath’etics and sent tiie Tigers on
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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 a one run lead, boys,'
you kept saying: 'just one run. and
they'll never beat us.’
“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 30.000 wild-eyed fans
roaring for your lite blood. And
(here you stood smiling and serene.
Poor Claud Rossman! 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 on you. Bill,’
was the gist of them all,
“And we who were on the inside
remember. Bill, the tragedy of that
night. You were there with your
smile, telling the boys 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
Tuthlll and two' rubbers working
over you. Bill. They were kneading
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 ii would affect their playing.
Staggered Ira Thomas.
"And well do we remember that
game. Bill. We 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 fajnous old Tiger
s< oring 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 hoys were
making merry you sat alone, a man
sickened by pain, but still happy.
"And now ybu're going to leave
us. Rill. Your aim may not be as
strong as 11 was, but your eye is as
clear, your wonderful old noodle is
working as well, and your heart is
ns stout as . ver.
“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 lurk.”
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, AUGUST 26. 1<)12.
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BE TRADER FOR
BRESNAHAN
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 36. — From an
authentic source, it has been
learned that negotiations be
tween Brooklyn and St. Louis for
a trade which is to involve Roger
Presnahan, manager of the Cardi
nals. and Nap Rucker and Zach
Wheat, of Brooklyn, are under way.
Mrs. Helen Robinson Britton,
owner of the Cardinals, would not
deny the story today. She said in
answer to an inquiry:
“I have nothing at all to say."
A report says that Bresnahan is
to take Dahlen's place as manager
of the Dodgers and that Huggins
is to become boss of the local club.
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Atlanta in Nashville.
Birmingham in New Orleans.
Mobile in Montgomery.
Chattanooga in Memphis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.O. I W. L. P.C.
B'hatn. .73 47 .609 M'mphis 65 61 .474
Mobile .68 51 .572 C'nooga. 53 60 .469
N. Or. . 63 53 .543 Nash. . 52 64 .448
Mont. . 58 60 .492 Atlanta .44 70 .386
Yesterday’s Results.
New Orleans 5. Birmingham 0.
Mobile 4. Nashville 3 (first game.)
Mobile 4. Nashville 1 (second game.)
Montgomery 9. Atlanta 4
Memphis 8. Chattanooga 2 (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 I. P.C | W L P.C
Sav'nah. 30 19 .612 I Macon . 23 27 .460
("bus. . 30 20 .600 i Col'a. 19 31 .380
.1 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.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L P C I W. I. P C
Boston . 82 36 .695 Detrfoit .56 65 .163
Wash. . .74 45 .622 C'land . .52 66 .411
Phila. . 71 46 .607 N. ork 41 75 353
Chicago. 59 58 .504 S. Louts 37 81 .313
Yesterday's Results.
No games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Boston in Pittsburg.
New York in Cincinnati.
Brooklyn in Chicago.
Philadelphia in St. Louis.
W L P.C | W. L P.C
N. York. 81 33 .711 C'nati. . 54 63 .462
Chicago .75 40 .652 S. Louis 52 64 .448
P'burg. .67 18 .583 Br'klyn. .42 74 .362
Phila. . .55 58 .487 I Boston . 34 80 .298
Yesterday's Results.
Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia 2.
St. Louis 11. Brooklyn 4.
| Boston 7. Chicago 6.
Strangle Is Held on Pennants
By Clarke, McGraw and Chance
By W. J. Mcßeth.
T-r THATEVER their personal
X/V/ prejudices. hates and
shortcomings in general, it
can not be denied that John J. Mc-
Graw. Frank Chance and Fed
Clarke are the Three Sturdy Musk
eteers of the National league. Ned
Hanlon may have been a beat in
his day. He surely . proved it in
his pennant trust activities in Bal
timore and Brooklyn. Rut 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 three who
for the 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 Hags
and one world’s pennant. Pitts
burg won three 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 Ills
• 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 butted into
the lipielight 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, lie 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 ami 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 Chance and
his Bear 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
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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 the fine
pennant raised at Coogan’s bluff a
few brief days ago. That, ladies
and gentlemen, is a brief synopsis
of tiie lives and accomplishments
of the Three Little Musketeers of
the National league.
SALLY LEAGUE CLOSES
SEASON IN ONE WEEK
Tiie South Atlantic league second
season will come to a close one week
from today. The winner of the second
■season will have to play the winner of
the first season, which was Jackson
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SOLDIERS MAY BATTLE
WITH PRISON BALL NINE
Arrangements art- being perfected
for a game of baseball on the United
States penitentiary grounds next Sat
urday between a picked team from the
members of the teams that play every
Saturday at he grounds and a team
from the Seventeenth infantry at Fort
McPherson.
This should be a grand game of base
ball. and the interest at the fort and at
the prison is at fever heat.
The soldiers believe, of course, that
they are going to have an easy victory,
but Atlanta fans who have had the
pleasure of witnessing a game or two at
the prison say that the claims of the
soldiers are unfounded.
BIG MOTORDROME PLANNED
OUTSIDE OF CHATTANOOGA
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Aug. 26.
Plans have been practically completed
for the election here of a motordrome
with a quartor-mile track, to cost ap
proximately SIO,OOO and to seat 15.000
people. The promoters of the new
project have secured an option upon a
site of land between Chattanooga and
Rossville, Ga., upon which they plan
to erect the motordrome, which will,
when completed, be the only one in the
South.
|JOHNSON IS THE REGULAR
KID
CHICAGO, Aug. 26. —Jack Johnson
retires one day and the next he is back
in the ring. On Saturday he let it be
known that he was so disgusted with
the fight game that he would never
enter a ring again in a real fight. To
day he called up the local papers to
tell them that he has heard nothing di
rect from Paris regarding a recent of
fer of $30.000 to fight Jeannette, but if
he hears he will communicate and ac
cept. under favorable conditions.
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