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1 n fe I W: ii 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 © O © O © O 0 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. * * ■* 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. ** » • » -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. * * ♦ 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 0 © O O © © 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 Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. 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