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12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. APRIL 17. 191?,. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT His Honor is Still at Atlantic City Copyright, 1913, by Star Company. By Tad IN BATTLE FDR FREE TICKETS Ba frot T HK Georgia '* K - city sent In storic** yestorrho the final day of tne content. The < »n- teat editor was a buiy party all < < and stated that »ver a thousand line are after a free ftuson ticket t » tin Crackers’ home games thi 1 i on. All d iy ycaterdoy stories kept streaming into the Georgian oflfb - The final story arrived at, the oflire at 11 45 a. m. They will all iccc-ivt the Kami attenti- i. Frank Callaway, Charles N’unnal- ly and Luk Ryan, the Directors "f the Atlanta Baseball As.-orlnt ion have b en selected as Judg* + Tin will read every story < art fully lx fore deciding tic winners The Judges will start work to-day and the fans will know who art Un lucky ones sn »n. Due to tin gre number of stoi c sent in. It u ill be several days before the winner? an announced. Ten Season Tickets. There are ten free season ticket offered by the Georgian. Tin • ur to be given to nine different t»« opb The one who wrote the best ?i< i> will get two tickets. Ttie fans will be notified as soon as the wlnic l are decided on and the tickets will be distributer! accordingly The Georgian’. Context has proven a great success in every way. From the first day of the eont* t untl 1 yesterday. April Ui. the fan? have »been Bending in stories. Moat <>l tic stories were written «»n on* side <»f the paper and are around <100 word? in lengtlt. Fang Are Enthused. Several of the contestants, who hi rived at the Georgian’s office during the contest, were enthused over tin treat to be banded them All re.i Uze that Bill Smith’* team. ha. an excellent chain - to win the pennan> and th“/ want to be on hand t" root. The Georgian’s Contest lm been the greatest treat offered tin basel>ali fans in year* and they cer tainly rushed at the chance to win one of the Free Season Ticket*. Lawyers, bankers- bookkeepers carpenter . clerks, and errand boys have entered the contest. Sever.ii of the youngster , were early call. r. at the Georgian'.- office yesterday They wanted to be sure their stori< ■ would t in. Paul Musser Gets a Trial To-day Q O O O 0-0 0 Yesterday’s Game Was a Fright R\ IVrey II. Whiting. O N the time-honored and general ly accepted hypothesis that it's a great Idea to get all the errors and bad plays’ out of one’s system as speedily ah possible the Crack ers ought to have fortified themselves yesterday for a long run of errorless day*. They should now start out playing errorless ball and keep on playing without niiseue fur ?4x months any way—maybe for ten years. And this would be helpful. For to day the Crackers wind up their first home sthy with a closing game with the Barons. To-night they leave for Nashville for a 4-game series with BUI Schwartz's hopefuls. When this b* over they come back to Atlanta to play until May 1. • * * \ S for yesterday’s game—well, there Isn’t the least hard feeling 1 about it. it was so awful it was funny—like, a futurist (painting or ________ a low grade melodrama. CHICAGO. ILL . April I V. Failure | . S !' Vrl al ..? f ,! h ‘' were 80 baJ of Slate Senator Edmund Beall, j member of the Senate Vice Commis- I slon and Sergeant-at-A tins T. B. IScouten of the Senate to obtain pos session of box seats for which they had paid at the West Side Badebull Park recently may result In the In troductlon of legislation at Spring- field 1 this week, intended to cover such cases. The seats which were sold the two \\ere found to he (/coupled, and inves tigation Is said to have revealed the fact that the occupants ahso had paid their money for them. An ap peal was made to the management, without effect, and then Senator Beall declared that lie would introduce a ILLINOIS SENATOR BUYS SEATS; CAN’T GET THEM bill in the Legislature, v\hicl provide n fine of from $10u to s-i, »0( against any amusement ent< i prist. t was unbelievable. In the second, for example, the Crackers made four atrocious bob bles—more than they have made in any previous game of the season. In that inning Bailey made two er rors on one fly ball—more than the Crackers made in three of their five previous games. In the entire contest the Crackers rolled up eight errors, only one more than the team has made in the en tire season up to yesterday. Oh. it*was RICH. * * * | V H'liTLKSS it was about due. The ‘ f Crackers were winning regularly and the* were about ready to get all 1 up about it To-day they will uldjjurn otit. with determination to wipe out the disgrace. Bill Smith will use Paul Musser to pitch, and if the promoter «>r anv own. i oi . t• <‘t blonde lad g. , at anything like the car or otln-r publi, conveyance who i . p,.,.d he showed against C’hatta- sells a seat in bis park or ear and M ,,oga when he beat them last Satur- then tails to see that the buy* r s - t da.\ allowing only two hits, the locals what he has paid for. \\i:l win another The Senator also said he would o n< - thing is a cinch. The locals ask the Vue Commission to under \ V j|| not face the Barons this time take an investigation to ascertain j with any notion that they are going why Sunda> bu*eball is allowed in! ea t pie. lllindis. j v * * ■* “ “ . ,, , T C It were necessary to return a ver- If you have anything to sell adver- I , t th,. ( , m >.stioii of whi ther til,. anyth tise in The Sunday American. La gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. FRANK KLAUS RETURNS; Cracker pitchers, put the fielders in the air or the fielder* put the pitch ers in tin* air we should be hard put to it for the answer. Considering that Weaver allowed two hits and hit a AFTER SMITH AND LUTHER ntZ h" xZTuJZXTot id.; rests on hi? sipping though NEW YORK April 17. Fr uk : massive shoulders. And then again. Klaus, the middleweight who gatb- ! of the next three plays after the ones ered considerable fame and mon-> j mentioned, two were horrid errors fighting in Paris in the last sev» , So there you are. months, returned home y< sterday. II,- j \s we don’t have to hang anybody announced his eagerness to meet for the crime there's nothing to it Gunboat Smith and Luther McCarty, I but to refrain from a verdict and topnotchera in the heaYv division. | iust sit hack and enjoy the slaughter till its gory details TOMMY RYAN AND M’COY IN VAUDEVILLE SKETCH. SYRACUSE. N. V April 17 'I , my Ryan, of Sn acusu an i Kid M Coy, of New York, two of the jrre; eat fighters the world has over knov nt*y ftoon be seen upon the stage it vaudeville sketch. These two torn title holders were bitter enemies a tehy spoke and shook hands to-d for the first time in fifteen years. The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have anything to sell The Sunday Amei - ican is "The Market Place of the South." The Sunday American is the best advertising medium MOHA TO BOX DILLON. MILWAUKEE. W1S. Ap i! IT Bob Moha. Milwaukee md .lark Dil lon, Indianapolis, sign- d ,i : , . \. terday for a ten-round I 'a con test before the South Side \ihleti, Club. April l!8 They will weigh ii at 160 pounds MRS. JOSHUA CRANE DEAD. WESTWOOD. MASS. April i; Mrs. Joshua Crane, wif. of the for mer champion racquet player, sports man and Harvard football -*m< h. di.-d at her home here to-day. was Atlanta’s turn to lose any- ionv, but what made the tiling look ticularly bad for the Crackers was tin- fact that Pro ugh was due to pit eh. He was a terror last year igainst the lo* a Is and a fair pitcher :iround, th* entire circuit, though hi- gr-Mti-st effectiveness was against At - , I Trough didn’t have to do anything but loaf after the first inning, but be did that so effectively that the * Tracker* made only 7 hits and 3 | runs. Ha* It ever been mentioned that the Barons scored 117 Well, let it forth with tp come a part of the records. I- is a fact Worthy of note. Any team that can score 11 off the Atlanta team of 1913 deserve*.* a lot of credit. • * • THK best we can say about the af- * Mir is Throw this game out of y<>ur dope book. It will have to go wn In the record bocks. But don’t I it-t it threw >our form chart off plumb. The Crackers look Just as good as I they c\ > r did now that it is over, I though they looked pretty hopelessly had while it was going on. * * • THK baseball betting fraternity is * a omr institution. Ye?*terday i lot of bets were recorded at 2 to 1 that the Barons would lose. Not such a thing as a legltimat two lo one bet on one championship I baseball game never came off There any other team In League. the Souther* THE Birmingham team looked a 1 shade better yesterday than in any of the previous games Senno, who was regarded as a doubtful citizen, fielded spectacularly and smacked out two three-baggers. The Infield worked nicely. Trough pitched a useful game and Mayer caught well. Evidently Mayer is to be one of the league ?*tars. He made three hits out of five times up yesterday and handled his position spectacularly. The Barons have a find in this chap The following letter has been re ceived by The Georgian, expressing the thanks of the Atlanta Baseball Association for the co-opeiatlor* of the paper in securing the opening day attendance trophy: Atlanta, Ga.. April 16. 1913 Editor of The Georgian. Atlanta, Georgia. Dear Sir: In behalf of the At lanta Baseball Association. 1 de sire to thank you, and through you the men on the sporting staff of the Georgian for your gener ous efforts made in securing the largest attendance on our open ing day In Atlanta of the base ball season. The result secured would have been impossible but for your co-operation and the co operation of other newspapers and organization?* in Atlanta. It Is my observations in Atlanta. It question comes up to test the superiority of Atlanta perform ances in any matter, that the newspapers are always to be found leading the procession. Without such a medium of pub licity, of course, an accomplish ment of this sort would be im possible. We thank you. Very truly. . F. E. CALLAWAY, •President. Baseball Summaries. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Birmingham a; Atlanta. Ponce DeLeon Park came called at 3:15 o’clock. Memphis at Mobile. New Orleans at Montgomery. Chattanooga at Nashville. Standing of the Clubs. Atlanta N'vill* Mobile Mont. W. L. P C. r> i .83? 3 2 .600 4 3 .571 3 3 .500 M’phis N. Or. R’ham ’hatt W. L. P.C. 3 3 5041 3 4 429 2 3 .400 1 5 .167 Yesterday's Results. Birmingham 11. Atlanta 3 Mobile 3. Memphis 1. Nashville 8. i hatanooga 2 Montgomery New » rleans 2. New Orleans 5. Montgomery 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Cleveland at Chicago St. Louis at Detroit Poston at Philadelphia. , Washington at New York Standing of the Clubs Thila Wash’n Ch’go C land W. L. P.C. 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.6*0 4 2 .667 3 2 . t*00 W St L. 3 N. York 1 Boston 1 D’troit 1 l. r.c. 3 500 .333 .250 4 200 Yesterday s Results Cleveland 2. Detroit 1. Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 Philadelphia-Washington, rain New York-Host on. rain NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games To-day. New York at Boston. Cincinnati at Pittsburg Chicago at St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L P C Boston 1 0 1.000 R’lyn 2 1 .667 St. L. # 2 1 .667 Chl’jro 2 2 500 \V. L. PC P’burg. 2 2 .500 J Phi la 1 1 .500 I c nail 4 L 333 N. York. 0 2 000 Yesterday’s Results. Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 0. Boston-Philadelphia, rain Brooklyn New York, rain AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Standing of the Clubs W. L K. City 6 0 1.000 M'w'kee 3 1 760 M'apTis 3 2 600 St. P 3 2 600 W. l’apolis. 2 Cl bus 1 L’ville 1 Toledo 0 L PC 2 .500 3 .250 5 167 4 000 TR USSES Abdominal Supports. Elastic Hosiery, etc. Expert fitters, belli lady and nuvi attendants; private fitting t in- Jacobs’ Main Stor^ 6-8 Marietta St. t mn« go txy ir g fid offer ><1 money w t no bet were tntp. But if n a team Birmingham is playing Yesterday’s Results. Minneapolis 5. St. Paul 2 Milwaukee 2, Toledo 2 (10 innings) MAYER TO PLAY HOPPE. PHILADELPHIA. PA . April 17 — Joseph Mayer, the winner of the re cent national amateur championship billiard tournament, will meet Willie Hoppe, professional champion, in two exhibit! >n games in this city to-day and Friday Hoppe will play 18.1 and Mayer 18.2, ernysTY mathewson's BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP N EW YORK, April 17.—From Washington there comes the story that Walter Johnson has expressed the fear he may some day kill a player by hitting him on the head with one of his fast ones. The great pitcher added that if he should ever hit a batter a blow that turned out fatally he would quit the game. When Johnson said this, he expressed the fear which is felt by many big league pitchers who depend on their speed for their effectiveness. Of course, lots of Iwirlers could hit the batter In the head as often as they pleased and little damage would be done to the head. They rely on curves or the appli cation of their wits to pitching; to get along. They lack a fast one. Speed, however. Is the most valuable possession a pitcher can have, and any man who can shoot them over fast largely depends on this asset, mixing In the other forms of delivery only occa sionally. Many pitchers have been unnerved when they have hit batters In the head and knocked them out. I don't believe there Is a man working in the big league to-day who would htt a batter In the head purposely, aud, frequently, twlrlers will shout; "Look out!” This is when they realize that the ball Is going wild as soon as it leaves their hand and want to warn the hitter. Time and again 1 have seen a pitcher hit some batter In the head in a ball game which has re sulted in the Injured man being carried off the field unconscious, and then the twlrler who did It has blown up, even though he may have been going like a house afire before the accident. It is a dread held by all speed pitchers. Many managers have cotne to recognize it now, and take a twlrler out Just as soon as he hits a man and hurts him badly. ■lohnson claimed that one of the New York Ameri can League team players almost walked Into a fast one head first during the first contest of the season In Washington. The narrow escape of the New York player upset Johnson, and the players say he crabbed" to Connolly, the umpire, about It for the rest of the game. This is an unusual procedure for Johnson. I am told, as he Is one of those pitchers who seldom complain over the umpiring. It was afterward that Johnson made the remark about his fear of hit ting a player some day and the result being fatal. Once last summer the big Washington pitcher "beaned" Martin, a recruit shortstop of the Yankees, and he was carted off the field and was out of the game for a Jong time. It was feared, at first, that the injury might be serious, and it Is said the accident upset Johnson greatly and hurt his pitching for some time. * * * M ANY players are hit In the head when the coach- ers are trying to tip off signs to the batters. If the hitter is given notice that the pitcher may be expected to throw one kind of a ball and he suddenly meets another, the result Is uncertain. It may be too late for an ambulance. A man cannot very well stand up and set himself to hit at a curve ball and pull back In time to duck a fast one—with a hop on it toward him. That is the reason most managers consider It dangerous to attempt to read the signs. 1 had one experience of this sort, myself, several years ago. It was when Kagle Eye Jake Beckley played on the Cincinnati club, and I bad more smoke on my fast one then than there Is now Beckley was a good natural hitter, but he liked to have the signs tipped off to him. The coacher at third base was supplying him with information one day I was pitch ing, and we got on to it. We switched our signs, and the next inning Beckley got hit ( in ^he head. He was out of the game for several weeks, wbtle it was many hours before he regained consciousness. This accident upset me. but not as much as 11 would had I not known they were getting our signs. Beckley knew he was taking a chance of being hurt when ho prepared himself for the pitch before he got a look at the ball, and 1 did not feel I was to blame. At another time I beaned" Bill Lauder, formerly the third baseman of the Giants, during morning practice. He was never the same again, and I regret that as much as anything * • • W HEN batters are hit and hurt by pitched balls, it Is generally their own fault, because, as a rule, they have ample opportunity to get out of the way. Many make the mistake of dodging Into the ball Instead of away from It, and this is usually disastrous, especially if it is a fast one. Most pitchers in the big league have good control now, and. as I have said, the old trick of shooting a' the batter's head is going out of fashion. Pitchers who have reputations for being wild often make the batters more afraid of them than the ones who have the best control, be cause the men are chary about standing up to the plate to them as they are to the good sharp-shooters. There jpe a few pitchers who gossip of their lack r of control and fear of hitting a batter purposely so that they will have a slight edge when a man comes to the plate. If the hitter Is afraid of being hurl, he is not going to be so confident of meeting the ball. But the dread of a fatal accident expressed by Walter Johnson Is genuine with most pitchers, and such an accident would doubtless make a man useless in base ball ever afterward. * • « ^nF all the holdouts of last winter, Ty Cobb Is the sole survivor at this writing. How much longer he will last is a great question. The prophets declare he has not a chance to beat organized baseball, whereas others contend that Mr. Navin may as well shut up his park if he attempts to go through the season without Cobb. Anyway, it is an Interesting case from the angle of both the ball player and the owner. • • • -p HE season got away in bad form this year. So » did the pennant winners of the last race. Fans arose on the morning after the opening to find the Giants and the Boston Americans both at the bot tom of tlm ladder. Still not all the boys on the New York club have conceded the flag yet. We hope for. a look-in. Before passing on, I want to pause to speak of Hub Puiuite, who did the pitching for the Boston club against the Giants in the first game of the season in New Y'ork. Purdue has developed within the last two years into one of the best twirlers In the game, and it is a high compliment to be recognized as a topnotcljer while appearing with the Boston team. That is enough to destroy any ambition. Purdue developed a trick against the Giants in that first game Indicative of his native shrewdness and the even temperament with which he is blessed. Hereto fore Purdue has depended on a lot of speed and a nice curve for his pitching effectiveness. That is all we were looking for when he went to work against us. The first Inning had not become history before one of the boys came back to the bench and said; "That guy’s got a splttcr, and he don't put the ball near his mouth." "He can t spit through liis hands," answered Larry Doyle. "We’ll watch him.” We began to watch him. Sometimes he would put the ball up lo his face as if to wet It for a saliva- coated one. and the batter would prepare for a spit- ter. Lp would come a curve or a fast one. Then a spltter would drop out of nowhere when Purdue had not had the ball near his mouth. “Nice break on that one, wasn't there?” he would inquire. * * * T HE secret has leaked out since. Perdue was very desirous of winning that first game and began to prepare for it away back when the Boston club first started its spring practice. Hub discovered he could obtain very good results with a spitter when he began to try to get acquainted with one in the spring camp. But no mention of his achievement was made in the newspapers, because the Boston club is not watched by an army of correspondents while in spring training as are the Giants. At last, when Purdue had bis spitter working well enough to use In a game, Stallings and he got together on a scheme to conceal It. "Wet your glove." Stallings told him. "and rub the ball In It while holding you hands at your waist." The idea worked as smoothly as a demonstration automobile. Hub would spit Into his glove when he had his back to the batter and then wet the ball front that. He had us all tied up. and certainly pitched a wonderful game. That trick is liable to attain promi nence in the big leagues this season and make the spitball a more formidable instrument. It was the fact that you could generally tell when to expect one that has reduced its effectiveness a little bit so far. Pilgrims Much Improved Team 0 © © Q © © Display Class Under Stallings Bv Sain Crane. N EW YORK, April 17.—The Bos- tons have been known to flash before in early games. One- long to be remembered spring not so long ago. Frank Bowerman, then their manager, had pennant aspirations for a few sweet dreamy weeks, and a manager's salary in his mind’s eye that would make the annual stipen Is of McGraw and Chance look like thirty centimes. Frank became so chesty over *nis accession of managerial acumen that he wouldn’t even look at his old friends here in New York and becanv so exclusive that he took his break fasts in bed for fear of being an noyed by wild-eyed scribes anxious to secure his pedigree and predic tions of the future. Frank a “Sword Swallower.” That was the rumor, anyhow, but I have my own opinion about Frank's retirement from public view in hotel dining rooms. As a successful manager, Frank, who was what is known as a "sword swollower," inas much as he could balance more roup 1 green peas on his knife blade than any other manager or baseball player, was desirous of overcoming that Class L bush league habit of his youth. He sought the seclusion of his room to practice on the "eats" with an uu- to-date fork. It is said, too, that h- even ordered soup for breakfast, and ate it with the two-tined iron fork of his boyhood days in the back wood?. But while Frank may have improved in table manners, he lost ground a.-* a manager. His team, after a few weeks of annoyance to opponents, tumbled to the place in the race best suited to them. They attained thEr lever. And so did Bowerman Stallings Not Overconfident. Now, George Stallings is not A»r.e who eats 'vith his knife, and he know * too much about the ups and down- of baseball to become chesty ov*r "one successive victory" by it is team. N«i other men could have been any more successful than he has in le- veloplng winners from second dlv:- sioners. He has patched up the P.'- grims from a very small nucleus of high class talent to work on, and the smoothness with which his team played against the Giants on the opening day shows that he has been doing some good work on the train ing trip. Not much was said about the Pilgrims while they were hidden away in secluded out of the way Athens. Ga.. but they forced them selves into the sperlight with a rush. B* OSTON is going to give some of the other clubs which usually adorn the second division cluster in the National League a tough battle to keep it in lust place. Stallings will insist on the team working all the year, as he has shown time and again he pos sesses the accomplishments of a manager. When they dig up tricks like that spitball one, it will be a team to hustle. The club also showed considerable baseball In that first game. Still, one summer don't make a swallow. ♦ * * E VERYBODY in the American League admits that the Athletics are out tor the money this year, even the Athletics. They made a grand plunge into the standing of the clubs by trimming Boston very handily once, and with more difficulty, but still trim ming. the Red Sox a second time. Connie Mack has some of his American League contemporaries wor ried. including Jake Stahl. Jake admits the Athletics will bear watching. * * * I T S too early to pick a world's series winner before next w’eek. (.Copyright. 1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate-) Washington and Lee University will hold a meet for prep schools all over the South on the 26th and 27th of this month. This is an annual affair, and abou* 5.000 entries have already been handed in to the athletic board of W. and L. • • • Charlie Allen, of Marist, has been playing an up and down game at third base this season. In the Boys High game he pulled several bum plays, and again in the game Tuesday with Tech High he was off color. * * * When he is playing his game, Charlie Allen is probably the classiest third sacker in the Pr«o Leagu*. He was the unanimous choice for that place on last year's all-prep nine, and it is hoped that he will soon steady down. * * * The Boys High team has been working hard lately. Sam Armistead is making tin* men run all the way round the bases in batting practice, and there is no let up from the time they reach the field until they are ready to leave. * * * The team is determined to win the pennant in the Prep League this year. Thev have won one and lost none, and are leading all others in the standing of the teams. * * • The Tech High baseball team is brim ful of confidence since the victory over Marist Tuesday They are right in the running now for the Prep League pen nant and are going to make a hard fight of it from now on. ‘ * * * Thev have two star pitchers in Weston and Parks, and if the boys can stay steady for the rest of the season there is no reason why the team should not cop the flag. * * * Bill Parks, the Tech High short.-,!op, who has been out of the game for over ,a week, is back in harness again. He was in the line-up against Marist and played good ball. Parks sprained his ankle in practice last week. n * * There will be no runs of more than a mile in any of the amateur meets this vear. The authorities have decided that anvthirg over a mile is liable to prove disastrous to the young athletes. The Boy Scout athletic meet, which will be held at Piedmont Park Saturday, will be a monster affair. Them will be about three hundred entries, includ ing troops from all parts of Atlanta and suburbs, as well as nearby cities. Peacock is making plans for a field dav The affair will take place next month at Piedmont Tark. and will be held bv the different classes of the school. There are a number of prei fair athlete^ at Peacock, and a lar entry list is looked for • * * Here is the standing of teams in t Atlanta Prep League: _ Won. Lost. P. Boys High l o 1 ( Tech High .3 i Marist i i b G. M. A l 2 : Peacock u 2 .< • « • Riverside Military Academy has t beat team in its history this year T team has played eight games this st son including two regular schedu! r A A A contests, and has won of them. * * * Hickman, who is signed to Join t Washington dub as .soon as his sciv is out in June, has not been plavi with the team this year, as he is eligible under the G. I. a A. rules. • * * lowing is the standing of the tea in the G. I. A. A.: D . Won. Lost. P Rivqfslde -j 0 u Stone Mountain ... 2 n i i Gordon o i i Neariy everybody in Atlanta rea the bunday American. YOUR a vertisement in the next issue will s goods. Try iti BLUE GEM $4.75 Best Jellico $4.50 PIEDMONT COAL CO. Both Phones M. 3648 FOR SALE immediate delivery Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, Creosote, Road Binder, Metal Preservative Paints Roofing Paint, Roofing F and Shingle Stain. Atlanta Gas Light Co. Phone4945