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T HK Georgian’* Baseball Contes?
Is over. Fans from all over the
<-ity sent In stories yesterday
the final day of tne corit* • t The con
test editor was >• busy party ill <U*\
and stated that over a thousand tan
are after a free reason ticket to th-
Crackers’ home games this -eaaon.
All day yesterday stories kept
streaming Into the Georgian’s oftii <
The final story arrived at the office
at 11:45 a. m. They will all receive
the same attention
Frank Callaway, Charles Xunnal-
ly and Gua Ryan, the Directors of
the Atlanta HusebaH Assoc iation
have been selected as judges. They ,
will read svery .sfor> carefully be
fore deciding th- winners.
The judges will start work to-da>
and the fans will know who are the
lucky ones Boon. Due to the great
number of stories sent In, it will be
several days before the winners are
announced.
Ten Season Tickets.
There an ten free season ticket |
offered by the Georgian. Th. • ; re I
to be given to nine different people
The one who wrote the best story *
will get two tickets. The fans will
be notified as soon ns the winners
are decided on and the tickets will
be distributed accordingly
The Georgian'.; Contest has proven
a great success in every way From
the first day of the contest until
yesterday, April 16, the fans have
been sending In stories. Most of the
stories were written on oho side of
th« paper and arc around 600 words
in length.
Fans Are Enthused.
Several of the contestants, who ar
rived at the Georgian’s office* during
the contest, were enthused over the
treat to be handed them All r.-;.
lize that Hill Smith’s team has an
excellent chance to win the pennant
and they want to be on band to
root. The Georgian’s Contest has
been the greatest treat offered the
baseball fans in years and they cer
tainly rushed at the chance to win
one of the Free Season Tick* t
Lawyers. bankers, bookkeepers,
carpenters, clerk*, and errand boys
have entered th • contest. Several
of the youngster- were early callers
at the Georgian's office yesterday.
They wanted to be sure their stone
would get in.
ILLINOIS SENATOR BUYS
SEATS; CAN’T GET THEM
i'HK ACH). MX., April 17. lAilltir.
of State Senator Edmund Heall.
member of the Senate Vice Commis
sion and Sergcant-at-Arms T B.
Heouten of the Senate to obtain pos
session of box scats for which they
had paid at the West Side Baseball
Park recently may result In the in
troductIon of legislation at Spring-
field this week, intended to cover
such cases.
The seats which were sold the tw<
were found to be occupied, and inves
tigation is said to have re\< tied tin-
fact that the occupants also had
paid their money for them. An :ip-
peal was made to the management,
without effect, and then Senator Heall
declared that he would intrudin'.-
bill in the Legislature, which would
provide n fine of from $100 to $1,000
against any amusement enterpris-
promoter or any owner of a street
car or other public conveyance, who
sells a seat in his park or car and
then falls to set* that the buyer gets
what he has paid for.
The Senator, also said he would
ask the Vice Commission to under
take an investigation to asc-rtaln
why Sunday baseball is allowed in
Illinois.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar*
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
FRANK KLAUS RETURNS;
AFTER SMITH AND LUTHER
NEW YORK. April 17. Frank
Klaus, the middleweight who u t ,
•red considerable Enin ;md money
fighting in Paris in the isi s.-v.-i;
months, returned home yesterday. H
announced his eagerness to nice!
Gunboat Smith and Luthi 1 .McCart?
tonnotchera In the heavy division.
TOMMY RYAN AND M'COY
IN VAUDEVILLE SKETCH
SYRACUSE X. V., April 17. To n-
my Ryan, of Sy ra«'us.-. ae Kv W,
Coy. of New York, two .if t!;<- g*e:i*
est fighters the world ha »*\. r known,
may soon be seen upon the stag, in •
vaudeville sketch. The.-.- two forme’
title holders were hitter enemies am:
teliy spoke and shook hands to-day
for the first time in fifteen years.
Paul Musser Gets a Trial To-day
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Yesterday’s Game Was a Fright
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, WiS., April 17
Bob Moha, Milwaukee, and Jack Dil
lon. Indianapolis, signed articles yes
terday f ir a. ten-round !• \ ; ,>n
test before- the* South S \: rtn
Club. April ”8. They will weigh in
at 160 pounds.
MRS. JOSHUA CRANE DEAD.
WESTWOOl). MASS April 17.
Mrs. Joshua Crane, wife of the : •
mer < ha mj
man and Harvard fe. tba.l a di .i
at her home hen- to-day.
TRUSSES
Abdominal Supports, Elast.c Hosiery,
etc Expert fitters, b.-tb in •; • •
attendants, private tilting r .->*
Jacobs’ Main Store
6-8 Marietta St.
liy Pc ivy li. Whiting.
O N the time-honored and general
ly accepted hypothesis that it’s
i great idea to get all the errors
and bad plays out of one’s pyatem
«ts speedily as possible the Crack
ers ought to have fortified themselves
yesterday for a’ long run of errorless
days.
They should now start, out playing
errorless, ball and keep on playing
without mlscue for eix nfonths any
way mayhi- for ten years.
And this would be helpful. For to
day the Crackers wind up their first
home stay with a closing game with
the Barons. To-night they leave for
Nashville for a 4-game series with
Bill Schwartz’s hopefuls. When this
i>< over they cojne back to Atlanta
to pluy until May 1
• * *
A F for yesterday's game—well,
* * there isn't the least hard feeling
about it. It was so awful it was
funny -like a futurist {painting or
a low grade melodrama.
Several of the innings were so bad
11 was unbelievable.
In tne second, for example, the
Crackers made four atrocious bob-
bits—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 tenm has made in the en
tire season up to yesterday.
Oh. it was RICH.
* * *
I yiFBTLESS it was about due. The
1 crackers were winning regularly
and they were about ready to get all
swelled up about it. To-day they will
turn out, with determination to wipe
out the disgrace. Bill Smith will use
Haul Musser to pitch, and if the
blonde lad goes at anything like the
peed he showed against Chatta-
n.'Ok-a when he beat them last Satur
day. allowing only two hits, the locals
will win another.
One thing is a cinch. The locals
will not face the Barons this time
with any notion that they are going
to eat.pie.
* * *
T F it were necessary to return a ver-
1 diet on the question of whether the
Cracker pitchers, put the fielders in
the air or the fielders put the pitch
ers in the air we should he hard put
b- it f-w tlie answVr. Considering that
Weaver allowed two hits ami hit a
b.-'Mer before an error was perpe
trated it may be that the burden of
blaim rests on bis sloping though
n- i- ive shoulders. And then again,
of the next three plays after the ones
mentioned, two were horrid errors.
So there you are.
As we don’t have to hang anybody
for the crime there’s nothing to it
but t<> refrain front a verdict and
just --it back and enjoy the slaughter
in all its gory details.
* • *
IT was Atlanta’s turn to lose any-
1 how. hut what made the thing look
paitieularly had for the Crackers was
the fact that Prough was due to
pit- 1 ; He was* a terror last year
v. inM the locals and a fair pitcher
around tin- entire circuit, though his
-test ofYeet i veness was against At
lanta *
Prough didn't Imve to do anything
but loaf after the first inning, blit
be did that so effectively that th»*
Crackers made only 7 hits and 3
i runs.
Has it ever been mentioned that the
V rot si orod 11 ? Well, let It forth
with become a part of the records,
tt Is a ‘ o-t • Orth* Of not*, A ny
- that (tin score 11 off the Atlanta
m of 11*13 deserves* a lot of credit.
* * *
Till' best w» can say about the af-
1 t r i~- Throw this game out of
I your dope book. It will have to go
i down in the record bocks. But don’t
| ’ • t throw your form chart off plumb.
The Crackers look just as good as
i boy ever did—now that it is over,
'h-un’b th.-v looked pretty hopelessly
bad while it was going on.
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THE baseball tatting fraternity Is
I 1 a on. r institution. Yesterday a
>»t of bets were recorded at 2 to 1
that the Barons would lose.
Now. such a thing as a legitimate
j two to one bet on one championship
i bast-ball game never came off. There
is no such thing.
Yet fans will go crazy and offer
- eh odds—and lose their good money I
on them. I
I< would he better far if no bet were!
ever made on a ball game. But if
I i ;■ re must be bets there should smre-
! lv la eighty few of the 2 tv, ? variety.
A’)>. certhinh none when a team
at* Birmingham is playing
any other team in
League.
the Southern
TUB Birmingham team looked a
* 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. Prough pitched a useful gome
and Mayer caught well. Ev’uently
Mayer is to be one of the lee*ue .‘••tars.
He made three hits out of five times
up yesterday and handed 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-operutioi* of
the paper in securing the opening day
attendance trophy:
.yianta, Qa., April 16, 1913.
Editor of The Georgian,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Sir: In behalf of the At
lanta Baseball Association. I de
sire to thank you, and through
.vou 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 organizations* In Atlanta. It
in my observations• in Atlanta. It
(juestion comes up to test the
superiority of Atlanfit 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 LEAQUE.
Games To-day.
Birmingham ai Atlanta. Ponce DeLeon
Park. Game called at 3:15 o'clock
Memphis at Mobile.
New Orleans at Montgomery
Chattanooga at Nashville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C.
Atlanta 5 1 838
N'ville 3 2 .600
Mobile 4 3 .571
Mont « 3 .500
W. L. P J.
M’phis 3 3 500
N. Or. 3 4 .420
TV ham 2 3 .400
’hatt 1 5 .167
Yesterday's Results.
Birmingham 11. Atlanta 3.
Mobile 2. Memphis 1.
Nashville 8. t 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.
Phila.
Wash’n
Ch’gro.
C’land
W. L. P C.
2 0 1.000
1 0 1.000
4 2 T67
3 2 .600
W. L
St. L. 3 3
N. York 1 ~
Boston 1
D'trott 1
PC.
500
.333
3 .250
4 200
Yesterday's Results.
Cleveland 2. Detroit 1
Chicago 3. St Isolds 2
Philadelphia-Washington, rain
New York-Boston, rain
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
New York at Boston.
Cincinnati Ai Pittsburg.
Chicago at St. Louis
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C.
Boston 1 0 1.000
B’lyn 2 l .667
St L. 2 1 .667
Chi 'go 2 2 500
W. L. P C.
P’burg. 2 2 .500
Phila . 1 1 .500
C'nait 4 2 .333
N. York 0 2 000
Yesterday’s Result*.
Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 0.
Boat on -1 ‘hiladelpk la. rain.
Brooklyn-New Tork. rain.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Standing of the Clubs.
\V. L. 1’ C
K. City 6 0 1.000
M’w'kee 3 1
M'ap'lis 3 1 .600
St. P 3 2 60C
W L. P C
1'apolis. 2 2 .500
C’l bus. 1 3 .250
L’ville 1 5 .167
Toledo 0 4 .000
r
Yesterday's Results.
Minneapolis 5 St. Paul 2.
Milwaukee 2. Toledo 2 (10 innings>
MAYZR TO FLAY HOPPE.
PHI 1 .AD. .PHIA. PA.. April 17 —
Joseph M. . th winner of the re
cent nai • .vrmteur championship
billiard lament, will meet Willie
Hopi • *-ioh»l champion, in two
exhibit * (V’s in this city to-day
and 1 1'ppe will play 18.1
and Ac
£.V\
MATflEWSONS
BIG LIAGUt GOSSIP
fEW YORK, April 17.—From Washington there comes (he 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 hatter 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 twlrlers 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 shoo? 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 hit, a batter in the head purposely, and,
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 I have seen a pitcher hit
some batter In the head In h 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 come to recognize It
now. and take a twlrler out just as soon as he hits
a man and hurts him badly.
Johnson claimed that one of the New York Ameri
can League team players almoBt 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 Coiyiolly, the umpire, about it for the
rest of the game. This is an unusual procedure for
Johnson, 1 am told, as he Is one of tljpse pitchers who
seldom complain over the umpiring. It whs 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
"benned" Martin, a recruit shortstop of the Yankees,
and he was carted off the field and was out of the
game for a long time. It was feared, at first, that
the Injury might be Berlous, and It Is said the accident,
upset Johnson greatly and hurt hts pitching for some
time.
* • *
M ANY players are hit in the head when the coach-
ers are trying to tip ofT signs to the batters,
tf the hitter is given notice that the pitcher may be
expected to throt^ one kind of a ball and he suddenly
meets another, the result is uncertain. It may be
too late for am ambulance. A man cannot very well
stand up ami 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.
I had one experience of this sort, myself, several
years ago. It was when Eagle Eye Jake Beckley
played, on the Cincinnati club, and I had 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 ofT 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 the head. He
was out. of the game for several weeks, while It wad
many hours before he regained consciousness.
This accident upset me. but not as much as it
would had I not known they were getting our signs.
Beckley knew he was taking a chance of being hurt
when he prepared himself for the pitch before he
got a look at the bail, and I did not feel l 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 at 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 bept control, be
cause the men are chary about standing up to the
plate to them as they are to the good sharp-shooters.
There are a. few pitchers who gosstp of their lack
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 hurt, 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.
* * •
vF 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, tt is an interesting
case from the angle of both the ball player and the
owner.
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-p HE season got away in bad form this year. So
* did the pennant winners of the last race. Fans
arose on the moVning after the opening to find the
Giants and the Boston Americans both at the bot
tom of the ladder. Still not all the boys on the New
York olub have conceded the flag yet. We hope for a
look-in.
Before passing on, I want to pause to speak of Hub
Purdue, who did the pitching for the Boston club
against tne Giants in flie first game of the season in
New York. 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
topnotcher 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 spitter, and he don’t put the
ball near his mouth.”
"He can't spit through his hands,” answered Larry
Doyle. “We’ll watch him.”
We bogjjn to watch him. Sometimes he would put
the hall up to his face as if to wet it for a saliva-
coated one, and the batter would prepare for a spit
ter. Up would come a curve or a fast one. Then a
spitter 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 baqji 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 his 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 trail from
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.
* * *
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
last 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.
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E VERYBODY’ in the American League admits that
the Athletics are out for 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 week.
(.Copyright, 1S13, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.j
Pilgrims Much Improved Team
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Display Class Under Stallings
By Sam Crane.
N EW Y’ORK, April 17.—The Bos-
tons have been known to flajh
before in early games. Oho
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.ls
of McGravv afid 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 became
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 :s
kqown as a "sword swollower," inas
much as he could balance more rout'.3
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 uo
to-date fork. It is said, too, that 1l>
even ordered soup for breakfast, and
ate it with the two-tined iron fork
of his boyhood days in the backwoods.
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 their
lever. And so did Bowerman.
Stallings Not Overconfident.
Now. George Stallings is not one
who eats with his knife, and he knows
too much about the ups ajid downs
of baseball to become chesty ov-r
“one successive victory” by his
team.
No other men could have been any
more successful than he ha* in de
veloping winners from secooid dlvi-
sioners. He has patched up the Pil
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 thie way’
Athens. Ga.. but they forced them
selves into the sperlight with a rush.
PREP LEAGUE NOTES
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
about 1,000 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 Prco Les-gu«. 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
the men run • all the way round the
bases in batting practice, and there Is
no let up from the time they roach the
field until they are ready to leave.
* * *
The team is determined to win the
pennant in the Prep League this year.
They 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.
* * *
They 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 shortstop,
who has been out of the game for over
a week, is hack in harness again. He
was in the line-up against Alarist and
played good hall Parks sprained his
ankle in practice last week.
* * »
Thore will he no runs of more than
n mile in any of the amateur meets
this year The authorities have decided
that anything over a mile is liable to
prove disastrous to the young athletes.
• * *
The Boy Scout athletic meet, which
will he held at Piedmont Park Saturday,
will he a monster affair. There will
he about three hundred enjTies, includ
ing troops from all parts of Atlanta
and suburbs, as well as nearby cities
♦ * *
Peacock is making plans for a field
day. The affair will take place next
month at Piedmont Park, and will be
held by the different classes of the
school. There are a number of pretty
fair athletes at Peacock, and a large
entry list is looked for.
* * •
Here is the standing of teams in the
Atlanta Prep League:
„ TT1 , Won. Lost. T. C
Boys High 1
Tech High
Marist
(5. M. A. . .
Peacock
1.000
750
.500
. 333
000
Riverside Military Academy has the
best team in its history this year The
team has played eight games this sea-
son. including two regular scheduled
V A. A. contests, and has won all
of them.
* * *
Hickman, who is signed to join the
Washington Club as soon as his school
,.£ ut .J n ' 7une ' ha9 not plavins
w th the team this year, as he Is in
eligible under the G. X. A. A. rules.
* * *
Following is the standing.of the team*
in the G. I. A. A.:
w on. Lost. P. c
Riverside 2 0 l.ooo
htone Mountain 2 0 i non
j x
G - M c 0 S .000
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