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J3E fr " r^' III ( III! IMIX" I' - I ■ ; 12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, APRIL 17,1913. 1 r ' : , 0 IN BATTLE FOR FREE TICKETS T ub: Georgian’* Baseball Content Is over. Pans from all over the city sent »n stories yesterday the final day of trie content. The con tent editor was a busy party all d; and stated that over a thousand fan are after a free Reason ticivet to tin Crackers’ home games this ; ^non, Alt diy- yesterday stories kept streaming Into the Georgian's office. The final story arrived at tin 4 offh * at 11:45 a. m. rT 'hey will all receive the same attentlc.i, Frank Callaway, Charles Nunnal- ly and Gus Ryan, the Directors of the Atlanta Baseball Association have b'*en selected as judges. They will read every story carefully be fore deciding th r winners. Th«- judges will start work to-day and the fans will know who are the lucky ones soon. Due to the givut number of stories sent In, it will be several days before the winners ar< announced. Ten Season Tickets. There are ten free season ticket - offered by the Georgian. Th* ■ are to be given to nine dltTerent people The one who wrote the best story will get two tickets. The fans will be notified as soon hh tin winner - are decided on and the tickets will be distributed accordingly. The Georgian’.? Contest has proven n great success in every way From tin lu st da> of the ! uul it yesterday. April 16, the fans have been sending in stories. Most of the stories were written on one side of the paper and are around 000 words in length. Fans Are Enthused. Several of the contestants, who ar rived at the Georgian’s pfllce during the contest, were enthused over the treat to be handed them. All re.i Use that Bill Smith’s team hits an exc ellent chain* • to win the penmmt and they want to be on hand to root. The Georgian’s Contest has been the greatest treat offered the baseball fans in years and they <■» r- tainly rushed at the chance to win one of the Free Season Ticke ts. Lawyers, bankers, bookkeepers, carpenter . clerk>, and errand boys have entered th:> contest. Several of the youngsters were early caller; at the Georgian's office yesterday. They wanted to be sure their slot h - would get in. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT • • • • His Honor is Still at Atlantic^ City Copyright. 1913, by Star Company. By Tad Paul Musser Gets a Trial To-day © 0> © O © O 0 Yesterday's Game Was a Fright ILLINOIS SENATOR BUYS SEATS; CAN’T GET THEM CHK\u;<), ILL., April i7 rail ire of State Senator Edmund Beall, member of the Senate* Vice Coiumi.« m ion and Sergeant-at-Arins T. B. Bcouten of the Senate to obtain pos session* > f box s- ..Is for Wlii i tliev had paid at the* West Side Baseball Park recently may result In the In troduction of legislation :tt Spring- field this week, intended to cover such cases. The seats which were sold Uv- two were found to be occupied, and inves tigation is said to have revealed the fact that the occupants also had paid their money for them. An ap peal was made to the management, without effect, and then Senator Beall declared that he would introduce :« bill In the Legislature, which would provide a fine of from $100 to $1,000 against any amusement enterprise promoter or any owner of a sired car or other public conveyance, who sells a seat in his park or car and then fulls to see that the buyer gets what he has paid for. The Senator also said he would ask the Vice Gommission to undei take an investigation to ascertain why Sunday baseball is allowed In Illinois. If you have anything to soil 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. Fr.i-ik Klaus, the middleweight who gath ered considerable fume and money fighting in Paris in the last seven months, returned home yesterday. He announced his eagerness tn meet Gunboat Smith and Luther McGarty, topnotchers in the heavy division. TOMMY RYAN AND M'COY IN VAUDEVILLE SKETCH ■TRA.CUSE. N. Y.. April 17 Tom- my Hyan. of Syracuse, and Kid M Coy, of New York, two t th e . ,r est fighters the world has ev< r known, may soon be seen upon the stage in i vaudeville sketch. Thee two former title holders were bitter enemies and tehy spoke and shook hands to-day 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 Amer ican is “The Market Place of the South.” The Sunday American is the best advertising medium MOHA TO BOX DILLON. MILWAUKEE, W IS., \pril 17 Bob Moba, Milwaukee, ami J ■ k Dil lon, Indianapolis, signed artL h yes terday for a ten-round boxing con test before the South S . A h, tit Club. April 28. They will weigh in at 160 pounds. MRS. JOSHUA CRANE DEAD. WESTWOOD, MASS.. April 57 Mrs. Joshua Crane, wift of the for mer champion racquet phiy, •. *pon>- man and Harvard foot bail coach, died at her home here to-day. TRUSSES Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosier etc. Expert fitters, both lady and mi tiendants. private fitting room* Jacobs’ Main Stor. By Percy H. 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 as possible the Crack er 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 nix months any- uny maybe for ten years. And this would be helpful. For to day the Crackers wind up their first home stay with a closing game with File Barons. To-night they leave for Nashville for a 4-game scries with Bill Schwartz’s hopefuls. When this over they come back to Atlanta to play until May 1. • * * A S 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 ;t low gratTe melodrama. Several of the innings were so bad It was unbelievable. In tne 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. * * • T"y U’TYTLESS it was about due. The 1 7 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 rilggrace. Bill Smith will use Paul .Musser to pitch, and if the blonde lad goes at anything like the i" • d he showed against Chatta nooga when he beat them last Satur day. allowing only two hits, the locals will win another. One thing is a cinch. The locals 'xill not face the Barons this time with any notion that they are going to cat pie. in the Houthero any other team League. * * • THE 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 game and Mayer caught well. Evidently Mayer is to be one of the league Kars. He made three hits out of five times up yesterday and handled his position spectacularly. The Barons have a find in this ('hap. The following letter has been re ceived by The Georgian, expressing the thanks of the Atlanta Baseball Association for the co-operation* of the paper in securing the opening day attendance trophy: Atlanta, On.. April 16, 1913. Editor of The Georgian, Atlanta, Georgia. Dear Sir: In behalf of the At lanta Baeeball Association. I 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 in 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. Game* To-day. Birmingham ai Atlanta. Ponce DeLeon Park. Flame called ui 3:15 o'clock. Memphis at Mobile. New Orleans at Montgomery. Chattanooga at Nashville. T F It were necessm * diet on the quest ry to return a ver- tlon of whether the k< r pitchers, put the fielders in the air. or the fielders put the pitch 'd*.- in the air we should be hard put to it for the answer. Considering that I Weaver allowed two hits and hit a | batter before an error was perpe trated it may be that the burden of j blame rests on his sloping though massive shoulders. And then again. | "f tin 4 next three plays after the ones j 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 j but to refrain from a verdict and t sit back and enjoy the slaughter , in all Its gory details. how, pa iticu the fa< IT was Atlanta’s turn to lose any- * n..u hut what made the thing look arly bad for the Crackers was t that Prough was due to pitch. He was a terror- last year against the locals and a fair pitcher around the entire circuit, though h!« .a test otYoctlvenesH was against At lanta. Prough didn't have to do anything but loaf after the first inning, but he did that so effectively that th« Crackers made only 7 hits and 3 runs. Has It ever been mentioned that the Barons scored 11? Well, let it forth with. become a part of the records. It is a fact worthy of note. Any team that can score 11 off the Atlanta team of 1913 deserve." a lot of credit. Standing of the Clubs. Atlanta N’ville Mobile Mont. L. P C. i .83.1 3 .600 1 .571 3 .500 M'phlB N. Or. B’ham fiiatt W. L. P.C. 1 500 .429 .400 .167 Yesterday'* Results. Birmingham 11. Atlanta 3. Mobile a, Metaphie 1. Nashville 8, i hatanooga 2. Montgomery New ( rleann 2 New Orleans 5, Montgomery 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Cleveland at Chicago. St. Louis at Detroit. Boston at Philadelphia. Washington at New York Standing of the Clubs. Pbila. Wash’n. Ch go. C’land W. L. P C. 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 4 2 667 3 2 600 St. L. 3 N. York 1 Boston l D’trolt l PC. .500 .331 .250 .200 Yesterday* Results. Cleveland 2. Detroit 1. Chicago 1, St. Louis 2. Philadelphia-Washington, rain New York-Boston, rain NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games To-day. New York at Boston Cincinnati at Pittsburg. Chicago at St. Louts. X HE best 1 fair is: • 8 Marietta St. e can say about the af« Throw this game out of your dope book It will have to go down In the record bocks. But don’t • r it throw your form chart off plumb. T o Crackers look just as good as jt' v ever did—now that it is over. | though they looked pretty hopelessly bad while It was going on. * * • X 111 ' has. ball betting fraternity is l * a ciuer institution. Yesterday a hot of bets were recorded at 2 to 1 I that the Barons would lose. such a thing as a legitimate me bet on one championship game never came off. There ch thing. ns will go crazy and offer s—and lose their good money Id be better far if no bet were de on a ball game. But if ist be bets there should rure- . d\ few of the 2 to 1 variety, cjffcainlv none when a team is* Birmingham is playing Standing of the Clubs Boston B’lyn St. L. Chi'go L. P.C, 1 0 1.000 2 1 667 2 1 .667 2 2 500 W P’burg. 2 Phil®.... 1 C’nati 4 N. York. 0 L P C. 2 .500 1 .500 2 .133 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 P.C K. City 6 0 1.000 M’w'kee 3 1 .750 M'ap’lis 1 2 .600 St. P. 3 2 .600 W. 1m P.C I’apolis. 2 C’l bus. 1 L’ville 1 Toledo 0 .500 250 167 000 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 ohampionship billiard tournament, will meet Willie Hoppe, piofessional champion, in two exhibition games in tins city to-day and Friday. Hoppe will play 18.1 and Mayc>* 18.2. emysTY mthewsoxs BIG LL 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 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 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 lilt 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 tn 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 come to recognize it now, and take a twirler 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 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 caried off the field and was out of the game for a long 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 ofT signs to the batters. If the hitter is given notice that the pUcher may be expected to throwr 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. 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 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 the head. He was out of the game for several weeks, while it was 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 ball, and I did not feel I was to blame. At another time 1 “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 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 are a few pitchers who gossip of their lack Pilgrims Much Improved Team Q O © © 0 © © Display Class Under Stallings 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. * * • O F 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. • • • 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 the 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 Puruue, who did the pitching for the Boston club against the Giants in the 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 began 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 yorv 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 his spitter working well enough to use tn 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 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 ypar, 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, 1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) By Sam 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 Cor a few sweet dreamy weeks, and a manager’s salary in his mind’s eye that would make the annual stipends 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 hjs 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-eved 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 known as a “sword swollower,” inas much as he could balance more round 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 he 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 *ost ground as a manager. His team, after a few weeks of annoyance to opponent®, tumbled to the place in the race bes* 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 and downs of baseball to become chesty ov r "one successive victory” by hie team. No other men could have been an; more successful than he has in de veloping winners from second d 1 v• - sioners. He has patched up the Pi - 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. 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 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 the 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. 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 Tn 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. * * * Flill Parks, the Tech High shortr.top, 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 hall. Parks sprained his ankle in practice last w*eek. * * • There will he no runs of more than a mile in any of the amateur meetp this year. The authorities have decided that anything over a mile is liable to prove disastrous to the young athletes. • * * The Bov Scout athletic meet, which will he held at Piedmont Park Saturday, will be a monster affair. There will he 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 day. The afTair 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: Won. Lost. P. C. Boys High 1 0 1.000 Tech High 3 1 .750 Marist I 1 .500 G. M. A 1 2 331 Peacock 0 2 000 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 G. I. A. A. contests, and has won all of them. * * * Hickman, who is signed to join the Washington Club as soon as his school Is out Tn June, has not been playing with the team this year, as he is in eligible under the G. I. A. A. rules. wing ] in the G. I. A. A.: Won. Lost. Riverside 2 0 Stone Mountain 2 0 Gordon 0 l G. M. C 0 3 P, C. 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. 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