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Fans’ Last Chance to See 1912
Crackers; Brace With Lookouts
By Percy H. Whiting.
rpHE finish comes todaj A
I double-header is slated far
this afternoon at Ponce De-
Leon —and then they break the
slate. When the last man Is out
in the last inning of today's last
game the season Is over tn Atlanta.
All those who are sorry will sig
nify it in the usual manner.
Today's double-header will be for
blood, as usual. The Crackers are
determined to wind up the season
here with a good showing—or
know why not
When the game is over the
Crackers will hike for Memphis,
while the Volunteers will beat it
for Nashville in Memphis on Sat
urday the Crackers play their last
game and disband,
• • •
ep H E easy way in w hich Jackson
* sonville trimmed Columbus in
the post-season games was un
doubtedly right ano proper and the
best team won. But doesn’t a sea
son like the one just passed in the
Sally league show the undesir
ability of the "split-season"
scheme?
Jacksonville won the pennant in
the first half It was always right
around the top In the second half.
But somehow It Just couldn't man
age to win. Os course, a post-sea
son series meant money for every
body And there was one. When
it came to the show-down Jackson
ville won handily.
Now, nobody would charge that
Jacksonville held back and let the
Columbus team win enough games
in the second half to make a post
season series necessary. Yet, such
a thing could happen and Is likely
to. at any old time.
From the financial standpoint a
split season may be a success. Rut
FODDER FOR~FANS |
Karl Horten, who has pitched amazing
nail for Jacksonville this summer, likes
the town and will make it his permanent
home It Is »ather expected that some
club will draft him
Ihe players on the pennant winning
Houston leant of the Texas league were
given ehecks for SIOO each after the sea
son ended, as a present front the ,'lub
i owners and fans
Joe Wood has relied on speed, control
and support for his recent victories He
doesn’t use his curve unless lie has to.
• • •
tv ell. the' all lost money in the Vir
ginia league except ma' be. Richmond
and possibly Petersburg ami Norfolk
The Old. complaint too large a circuit
poor umpiring, bad weather and to,, high
• salaries
The I.os Angeles Examiner conducted a
voting contest for the most valuable pla'
er of the Coast league and Johnn' Kme
got the prize He pla.'s Centerfield tor
V ernon
• • •
Eddie Hallman, recalled by St Louis
fron. .Memphis, has been offered t<» the
San Francisco club and may be sent
there
• • •
Metz, nf San Antonio, was the* leading
batter of the Texas league this season,
with an average of 323 Foster, of Hous
ton was the leatHng pitcher Brown
Rogers, of the Sail Xntonio club, was fifth
among the hurlers of the circuit
Os the All-Star American Hague team
that gathered last \»-ar n Cleveland to
play for the Addie loss benefit all hut
two are still playing big league baseball
These are the two catchers Baddy Liv
ingston and Gabby Street
• • •
Austin and Fort Worth were the only
Texas league clubs which lost money this
year None of them got rich
• • •
A team made up of society girls sum
mering at Lenox. Mass has'< ballet.g» .I a
team of societv men at Pittshehi. Mass
for a game and the challenge has been
• a< < epted The men wili plav with no
<»ultwlder s. jp an effort to even things up
• • •
’I io Xt kat s.is l»en.ocrat has laum he*]
t;,» « and ;<iacv of William M Kavanaugh
for president of the National league But.
t! ‘-n d the\ name * im who will r .n Lit
th Hoi k
• • •
Mohj> panel*- sa\ that the attendance
has been - bad at New «»rhans this y par
ti at Charley Frank has had all the
paaaes taken up
' ' N< M ■T-
there will always be some doubts
about the honesty of the race when
one team wins in one half and
one wins in another. And quite
probably these split seasons are
inimical to the best Interests of
baseball.
• • •
THE long wrangle that arose
1 over the question of whether
o: not Walter Johnson should have
been credited with a game won at
the time his winning streak was
attracting much attention suggests,
that the matter of deciding when a
pitcher should be credited with a
game and when he should not
ought to be set down in the rule
book. It Is ridiculous that each
league has a rule of its own to de
slde this.
A suggestion has been made by a
former manager as follows;
Credit the pitcher who is re
hexed with a lost game whether
game is won or lost
Credit the one who relieves him
with a worn game If won or a lost
game if same Is lost.
This matter may be gone into
from many angles, hut I offer the
above as fairest to all concerned,
and think it would have a tenden
cy 'o make each pitcher extend
hlms< f if he knew the matter
restet. wholly with him.
A lot of rules ought to be In the
regular code that ate not there
The whole matter of scoring needs
to be stiaightened out. At present
the scoring rules ate a crime. This
association of baseball writers
ought to take the matter up and
suggest changes.
If nothing is done by the na
tional bodies in regard to a change
in the method of ci editing pitchers
with games won and lost the
Southern league ought to consider
the matter at Its next meeting and
should decide on some more rea
sonable and equitable method than
the one now in use in Dixie.
against Berger Helnie made Bunting non
to the infield with a snap pitch but
stnckdale mad* him throw it over At
that It s a silly rule The batter ought
to be ready for whatever comes.
Wise sayings of baseball. The man
ager of a losing ball club is a mark for
the new spapers ''
,„£■ ' papers are panning Kid
Elberfeld fur outbreaks ■ f temper and pt. -
fault' on the Held The.' II have a tine
time with him o'er m Chattanooga as
manager
Ihe \\ lute Sox have dropped Mattv
M< Int vre and Mutt Ens The former goes
t<» the San Francisco club, the latter to
St loseph
• • «
< »wner Rick Woodward has promised the
players of the Birmingham team some
kind of ;l blow mt w hen the season ends
1 he bum h wil be slipped a piece of mon
ev all around
• •
\ decision which called Billy Zimmer
man ia Cracker last yeari safe in a game
1 at Newark started a boy sued riot in
1 which the umpire was hammered a bit
before the police could interfere
• » •
Pave Fultz says there are men in the
' major leagues playing for S9OO a year and
that the new players* union is going to
help them •>f course. S9OO is too little
But then there are plavers getting 000
Hou can you equalize It**
•> • •
It is likely that sonic big league club
‘ I will slip n a draft tor Harry • Welchonce
,I He is leading th. Southern league hat
I ters and is a nlftv placer
. . .
George Stovall is another baseball p.av.
er who has recently taken up golf and
gone rrazv about it
NAT THORNTON LOSES AT
TENNIS IN CLEVELAND. 0.
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CLEA ELAND. OHIO. S. pt |1
Aline Ini'd-f,night matches '.st.-nkiv
I marked the progress of the Ohio stale
i tennis tourmiment at th. K.i-' End
elub Among the encounters that at
trited gre. t. st inter,-t were tho.se in
jwhi. li Nat Thornton of Atlanta lost to
: I *’ R"'"ll. of <'lev. i..nd, ' fi. 3-6 f> 2.
js T Nash Cleveland lost to T AA .
| Steph, ns. of Plttsbiiig. 6-3, 6-2
In th. V .... H - -mgles Mis- Rudn
|Stepiifn- !■' . I -tit ... n w.,- defeated
b' Miss Lots M„J<. ~f Toronto, 6-4.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN 4ND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11 191°
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Coach Donahue Writes Special Story for The Georgian on His Outlook
AUBURN SHOULD HAVE STRONG ELEVEN THIS YEAR
By Mike J. Donahue.
Coach Auburn Football Team.
m I'BURN, ALA.. Sept. 11.—
Though these sultry Septem
ber days make football seem
to be an affair of the dint and dis
tant future, an examination of the
calendar will show that the pig
skin chasing time is upon us and
that it. is high time to consider our
football prospects.
Auburn will lose by graduation
Bonner, guard: Allen, guard;
Burns, center; Cogdell, end; Davis,
full back, and Manning, half back.
These men, to a large extent, fur
nished the weight and power of
the teams of the past two years.
Others who are doubtful, but who
may return are Lamb, tackle;
Meadows, tackle, and Moore, half
Because of injuries and sickness
Inst year, an unusually large num
ber of players made their letters,
ami of these the following are sure
to return: Pitts, center; Thigpin.
guard. Louisell, tackle and full
back; Newell, quarter back: Hart,
half back; Ressljae. full back; Ma
jor, half buck; W ingo, quarter
back; AiniAl, end; Kearley, end,
and Robinson, end.
The losses are very severe, but
Forty-Five and Fifteen-Round Bouts With Decisions Will Help Game
NEW ORLEANS ABOUT TO HAVE BIG BOXING BOOM
By Left Hook.
N" EW ORLEANS is coming into
its own as a boxing center.
They are going to reopen
fighting down there this fall and
w inter w ith a big rush.
There will be fifteen-round con
tests in the city proper and forty
five rounds can he staged across
the river.
And they will be able to give de
cisions in the fifteen-1 ound battles,
too which will he a big help. New
Orleans is one of the strongest
. betting cities in the world. They
are wild to bet on everything, any
thing. down there, from a fly alight
ing in a circle to a world's cham
pionship fight. And without deci
sions it is not much of a comfprt
to put yom money down You
don't get such good action for it.
Boxing on the Boom.
Despite the great dissatisfaction
JACKSONVILLE IS WINNER
OF SALLY LEAGUE TITLE
t’oLl'.Mßl’S. GA. Sept. 11 Jack
sonville’s team l.s the undisputed cham
pion of the South Atlantic league, sea
son 1913. having won Its fourth game
of the post-season series from Colum
bus yesterday afternoon. b\ a decisive
victor.', 5 to 1. The visitors led all the
wav. and there was little doubt at any
time that the outcome would be as it
was
Th. visitors scored one run in the
‘irst inning and four in the second,
will'll sewed up" the game so tightly
that th. locals didn’t have a "look-in. ’’
In th.- ninth inning the locals hit three
times which netted one run, but that
"as the best they could do
Abercrombi. did the pitching for the I
visitors and. while he gave up seven I
h’ - thej wen scattered except in the
ninth Weldell, for the locals, did ex
cellent mound work, giving uponli four!
hits, but poor support contributed to
the size of the score of the visitors.
RITTER CATCHES EVERY
INNING FOR UTICA NINE
I'Tlt’A. N A Sept 11 The mem
bets of the I’ll, a baseball team. < h im
pious of the N, w York State league
were banqueted bv local fans and each
player rt eeived sioo in gold.
la>u Ritter t is announced, estab
lished a world’s record by catching
ever' inning placed I v the team in 139
games and th. thiee innings of I’tii a
- postponed game »f the s, he.lu’i.
Th. gam. was stopped b' rain
those returning have all had some
experience in college football, so
that they are not entirely green.
Has Men From Class Teams,
As Auburn never gets any prep
school stars, the college has to
look to its own class teams for ma
terial. and as it has not been disap
pointed in the past hope in the fu
ture will show good results.
A few of the most promising
players developed in the class
Barnes this spring are Bedy and
Harris, full backs; Esslinger, cen
ter; Hollingsworth and Culpepper,
guards; Faucett and Hallmark,
ends; Ellett. tackle; Robb and El
liot, half backs. With these add
ed to w hat will return of last year’s
varsity, it is hoped that Auburn will
be represented by the usual team
on the gridiron.
Mike Likes New Rules.
There is no question in my mind
but that the new rules will make
for a more attractive game. It
will be much easier for the better
team to score than was possible
under last year's rules. The offense
has been strengthened twenty-five
per cent, and the defense near the
goal has been weakened to a like
extent. The new rules will not
favor the weaker teams of the
with w hich the newspaper decisions
have beenjreceived there, boxing
always has flourished in New Or
leans. especially in the last few
years, or since the "old days" when
Jim Corbett whipped John L. Sul
livan there and McAuliffe beat My
er and Fitzsimmons showed his
worth by downing Jack Dempsey
and Dan Creedon. all the finest of
titular matches.
Now that they can get a referee's
verdict they will be entirely happy,
the only thing lacking, apparently,
being the right .sort of a referee.
Writes Fred Bukowitz. secretary
and treasurer of the New Orleans
club:
"We have been giving decisions
in a peculiar; manner. There are
four papers in New Orleans, and
each writer that the paper had at
the ringside gave a decision after a
bout was over. These were read off
by the announcer, and the majority
ruled. The referee only cut in on
The Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dopb
jn how the "Big Five " batters of the
American league are hitting:
PLAYER. A.B. H. Ax.
COBB .. 492 204 .415
SPEAKER 509 202 .397
JACKSON 495 182 .368
COLLINS 456 154 .338
LAJOIE 362 119 .329
Ty Cobb gained three points yester
day when he secured three hits in four
times at bat. Speaker hit .500 for the
day. grabbing two safe swats in four
attempts. Jackson secured two clouts
lin five trips to the plate. Collins failed
:to connect in two attempts. Lajoie I
was very much on the job with the big I
stick. He secured four hits in five j
| times up.
BRISTOL MAKES IT TWO
STRAIGHT OVER ROANOKE
BRISTOL A \ -TE.N.N, Sept. Il
I I'll,' Bristol Bo.xsteis yesttuda' took tile
se. ..nil straig-ht gam, from the Roanoke
Tig.-is In the post series championship
,gam*'s between the p.nnant winneis in!
the Appalachian and A'irginla leagues I
respectively.
linen was on th. mound fop the vis- i
itors and yielded seven hit- which the.
Boosters mule count for three scores .
AA li-on worked for Bristol and was hl’ 1
freely, giving up ten hits but h, was I
eff. , tivo in pin. hes and held the visi
tor- down to two tallies
country very much, because the
stronger teams will be able to keep
possession of the ball nearly all
the time. The ball will not change
hands as frequently, and the oppor
tunities to score because of your
opopnents’ mishaps will not be as
many.
Pray Is Assistant Coach.
The assistant at Auburn this
year will be I. R Pray, of Bev
erly, Mass., who has coached high
school teams successfully in the
neighborhood of Boston. He comes
well recommended, and will no
doubt prove Auburn a valuable
man.
Here Is the Schedule.
Auburn's schedule is as follows:
September 28—Montgomery A. C.
in Auburn.
October s—Mercer in Columbus.
October 12—Open.
October 19—Clemson in Auburn.
October 26—Mississippi A. and
M. in Birmingham.
November 2—Tech in Atlanta.
November 9—L. S. U. in Mobile.
November 16—University of Flor
ida in Auburn.
•November 23—-Vanderbilt in Bir
mingham
Thanksgiving—Georgia in Ath
ens.
the decision in case the papers were
two and two.
"This never was a satisfactory
way of deciding bouts, and w hat we
want now is a capable referee. You
see. it is rather difficult for a man
to work there, because of the heavy
betting that is done. This naturally
prejudices and inflames a crowd,
and the referee comes in for a lot
of censure and abuse, no matter
how he decides.
To Have a Big Arena.
"We are enlarging our arena and
will have a seating capacity of
3.500 when we have finished the al
terations. Mr. Tortorich retains a
controlling interest in the club.
"If we are successful In getting
on any championship fights we can
take them across the river, where
it is possible to box forty-five
rounds without interference. That’s
a pretty sweet plan for the fight
ers who want to go that far, and
I’m sure we will do well."
GOLF TOURNEY FOR CLUB
TITLE BEGINS SATURDAY
The golf tournament for the cham
pionship of the Atlanta Athletic club
will begin on Saturday, when the qual
ifying round will he played over the
East Like course
The players will qualify from scratch,
and match play In the first flight will
also be from scratch. In the other
flights the elub handicap will apply
The first and second rounds of match,
plat must be played by September 20,
the semi-finals by September 21 and
the finals by September 22
H. G. Scott is the present club cham
pion and he will he on hand to de
fend his title in this tournament.
Herweim Ogar
Joe Wood Ties Johnson’s Record
And Now Hot After 20 Straight
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Joe Wood,
the Boston American league
pitcher. equaled Walter
Johnson's record in the Ban John
son circuit yesterday when he de
feated the White Sax, 5 to 4. Fif
teen straight wins is the mark now
held jointly by the Washington and
Boston hurlers.
But Wood announced this morn
ing that he is not through yet, by
any means. He has his nose point
ed toward nineteen successive vic
tories, the world's record, which
was established this year Rube
Marquard, of the Giants.
But Chicago fans want to see
Wood heave against their own
great pitcher. Big Ed Walsh. This
morning Manager Jimmy Callahan,
of the White Sox, challenged Man
ager Jake Stahl, of the Red Sox.
to a pitchers' duel between Wood
and Walsh. Stahl can hardly ac
cept the defi, as it is hard to fig
ure "how it can he done” this se
ries on account of Sir Joseph work
ing yesterday, and the two Sox
teams don't meet again after to
morrow. Still it is just possible
that Wood may feel well enough
to go in again 24 hours hence.
Wood started on his winning
streak July 8. Here is what he
has accomplished since that day;
July B—Beat8 —Beat St. Louis. 5-1.
July 12 —Beat Detroit. 1-0 (thirteen In
nings).
July 17 —Beat Chicago. 7-3.
July 23—Beat Cleveland. 6-3.
July 28 —Beat Chicago. 5-4.
August 2 —Beat St. Louis. 9-0.
August 6—Beat Cleveland. 5-4 (eleven
innings).
August 10—Beat Detroit, 4-1.
August 14—Beat St. Louis. 8-0.
August 16—Relieved O'Brien in eighth
after game was lost and pitched two In
nings.
August 17 —Relieved Collins after win
ning rally in seventh, but Ban Johnson
has given credit for win to Collins.
August 20—Beat Detroit. 6-2.
August 24—Beat Cleveland, 8-3.
August 28—Beat Chicago, 3-0.
September 2—Beat New York. 1-0.
September 6—Beat Washington. 1-0.
September 10 —Beat Chicago, 5-4.
Wood's next game will probably
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Jake Abel. Chattanooga lightweight,
who split with his manager after his tight
with Joe Mandot, some time back, is
now under the management of Jimmy De-
Forest. who predicts great things for the
little scrapper, Abel's latest fight was
against Young Smith, of England, who
lasted nine rounds against the South
erner.
• • •
It now looks as though there will be
no bout between Packer McFarland and
Ad Wolgast in New York this month un
less the promoters agree to give the
champion a guarantee of $20,000. Adolph
sprung a yarn about injuring an arm in
the hope that Billy Gil.son would come
aroun 1 with another $5,000. but there was
nothing doing. Gibson saxs if Ad refuses
to box for the original sum named. $15.-
000. some goo*l lightweight will be substi
tuted for him.
♦ ♦ w
'lom Jones, the champion’s manager, is
on his way to Cadillac, to hold a con
ference with his protege in regard to
meeting McFarland.
♦ * ♦
Wedge. ~f Omaha, Nebr..
"’lll return to the prize ring if barred from
the Presbyterian ministr.' The parson
is in Omaha this week awaiting the
meeting of the Kearney presbytery at
Gothenburg Wedge las been offered
matches with ('laron.-e Earns. Ray Bron
son and Clarence English. However, be
will rot re-enter the ring unless barred
from the ministry. The fighting par
son has written a book, entitled "The
THERE is what wood?
2 HAS done SINCE het
? BEGAN RECORD HUNT I
+ ah. r. bh. th. bb. so. wp hb.4
July 8.31 17 9 2 8 o 04
4* July 12.35 0 5 8 1 10 0 14
4. July 17.33 3 6 7 2 8 1 0 4
4 July 23.35 3 9 9 2 71 1 4
4 July 28.34 4 6 6 4 7 0 14
Aug 2.29 0 3 4 3 5 0 0 4
4 Aug. 6.40 4 10 12 0 5 0 14
4 Aug. 10.32 17 10 2 10 0 1 4
4 Aug. 14.26 0 4 4 3 9 0 1 4
4 Aug. 16.7 0 1 2 11 0 04
4 Aug 17. 8 1 2 3 0 0 0 04
4 Aug. 20.32 26613004
4 Aug 24.36 4 77 2 8 0 0 4
4 Aug. 28.32 0550800 4
4 Spt. 2.31 08938004
4 Spt. 6.30 06.8 39004
4 Spt. 10.30 3 10 1.2 3 6 0 0 4
4 _ _
4 Total.sol 26 102 121 32 112 2 64
be against the lowly St. Louis
Browns. He has always been able
to beat Stovall’s aggregation, and
the Boston players are confident
that he will capture his sixteenth
win there. Along about the 19th of
the month the Hub team will be
in Cleveland, and the Naps have
been every bit as easy as the
Browns for Wood. So the seven
teenth win will be forthcoming
there. At least, that is the pre
diction of Joseph's teammates. On
September 20 Boston opens a three
game series in Detroit. The Tigers
are looked upon to furnish the
eighteenth win for Wood. The
nineteenth victory is figured to be
won over the lowly Yankees in
Boston on about September 25.
The Red Sox meet Washington
in the capital city the last two days
of the month and October 1. Here
Is where the Boston diamond stars
figure that Wood will have to be at
his best to win the world's title,
the twentieth game.
Fighting Parson of the Barbary Coast
The volume will be published in a fe
days.
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Jim Savage, the big "hope." who L
been going so strong in Gotham recent 1
is ill. and will not be able to appear f
some time. Danny Morgan, his managi
denies the rumor that Jim is under tl
ban of the .New York boxing commissio
Johnny Kling, the Chicago lightweigr
who has found it so hard to get bout
although his record is good, can t»
Johnny Connors, also hailing from tl
Windy City, if he chooses. Connors. "I
claims he whipped Kling in Kenosha son
time back, says he is willing to bi
Johnny again.
REDS SIGN AMATEUR PITCHER
CINCINNATI. Sept. 11.—" Ch
Smith, a left-handed pitcher who h
been playing with amateur teams
this city, was signed by the Cincinna
National league club today.
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