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1 gsippp^apupspfsiffs THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 22. 1013. I! OPENING Percy H. Whiting. blE day the Southern League | opened Bob Baugh, President of the Birmingham Club, expressed Ijch that every Southern League T,or who had voted to open the I:., rn season April 10, be dress- „ , bathing suit and chained on ■of the Cracker stand. And that I brutal wish for it was cold and Ins there. Ha ugh and President Frank _ ,,f the local club led and ■tinned the entire support of a mpaign to have the Southern uo opening day made April 17 wel -e voted down solid. They [no chance. |> t was the result? i first week of the season was .■retched as could be Imagined, [weather cut off not less than paid admissions in Atlanta on |lng day—perhaps more. All , . til league bad weather slash- m. 25 ( oil paid attendance on open- 1, one. The bad weather of Tot her (lavs of the first week cost If) more at the lowest estimate, i money loss was nearly $20,(100. |n’ n . wasn't any reason in the for opening early except that misguided moguls thought . would make money by It. Their J guess cost the league something 150,000 paid admissions. return of Nig Clarke to the Ifouthern League—Mobile has |bed him—recalls to the minds of hta lans that of the four famous sent up to big leagues by tta the two who looked best led up" worst. |e four men Atlanta sent up were ■ Clarke, Sid Smith, Ed Sweeney ■Jimmy Archer. Trke and Smith looked like won- I yet both failed swiftly in the leagues and came into their'own when they dropped back to i AA. . Sweeney and Jimmy Archer bved and developed into playera le ability was out of all propor- [to what they showed in the kiern League. leeney looked like only a fair Beet when he was sent up. The ■that he went to the big leagues T as a cover-up is well known. Jiily he improved. Now he is If the very best in civilized base- nmy Archer war a nice fielding ter in the Southern League but louldn’t hit. Also he looked Ity "pindling." Folks said he |t be a good catcher some day, "filled out.” He must have done ft- he’s the b'est catcher in base- [to-day and last year he hit .283. are the marks set by the famous catchers during their |ita days: "Nig” Clarke. I \B. R. H. P C. T.O. A. E. P C. 1142 14 36 .253 105 25 3 .076 I 444 60 117 . 263 716 169 25 .972 Jim Archer. i. R. H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P C. ! 18 72 .254 385 133 18 .962 14 72 .224 349 100 12 .971 Ed Sweeney. 15 H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P C. . 12 44 .225 344 79 7 .960 Sid Smith. IS H. P.C. P.O. A. E. P.C. 56 137 .336 191 52 8 .967 39 118 .297 342 100 10 .977 40 118 .280 164 58 9 .967 32 133 .271 363 138 11 .960 | believed that. If Finn can lb Clarke he will do well in ^■Southern. When Nig was with ■ he was under Ab Powell’s and "Uncle Abner” came nearer Bating a lot i f work out of him any man ever did iustwl him like a son and treat - |m like one, thougTi Nig wouldn’t him seriously. In fact he has J 1 taken anybody but himself se- Bly and that is what has ruined »areer. Naturally Nig had more than any catcher who ever his head in the Southern ■ue. He has a fine snap throw, ■Archer's; a good head; is a game ■ an d when he wants to he can L.ist year Nig played part of ■eason with Indianapolis, hitting "1 fie! ling .968 and cutting down humors who tried to steal Imight be added that Sid Smith’s Tuition is what kept him out of ■big leagues—that and a mild je-uj) at Cleveland. Sid couldn’t B baseball seriously. He isn’t B kin(i that takes anything seri- If he were he would to-day with Archer and Sweeney J'naps above them. He started more real stuff than either of JOR old Nap Rucker, the luck Alpharettan! He has prob ■ lost more well-pitched games ■ any other man in the world— ■^yen barring Walter Johnson or •'aish, both of whom have had | ?hare of the misery of trying to jaiong a wretched team. ■ bli?* two £ ames Rucker lost H e Phillies, in neither game did ■■eam score a run for him. Ii he allowed the hard-hit ■ Phillies one run. ■ many ways the Dodgers are the P team in the world. They can’t , ( '^ n t A el(i much—especially — ^utflelders—and they are glued ■P* paths. hre isn’t a chance on earth that r ly J V '-’M have a real ball club , th * active career of Rucker, r ' s less.chance that they will Iah* 8 lon * as has an ything I Ai] the Georgian has to look r rd to is to take w'hat pay I Freeze out of Charley Kbbetts II lf, n t must—and plug along Now Jeff Knows More About Baseball Than Frank Chance Himself By “Bud” Fisher he ER ALL RIGHT fh Rowels Regular I CAN’T UNDERSPEND Vv l r S> BASC- Ball PALS. •T THAT CHASE 5>TEoqc ObTOlS AN “Out drop” and c Ret Made a MIT on AN ‘‘(N drop' 1 t tuOPlDER WMAT "out DROP A64D “ IN DROP” (VIEANS t T ' ll Co ask tAUTT S^T, MuTy, WHAT ‘J the wppcrence e€T«v6EN a* “OUT DROP” an D Uu*U, tvt. SHOW You. ceno YtXJpMAT I A SECOND / DROP’ Tr *~^lii NOW You SEE I DRoPmvy HAT HR RE IN the ROOM. THAT’S AN "IN tJROP” (MOW — T'LL DROP YOuR-S OUT THE WINDOW. that’s THAT'S AN | ’out DR-OP IT'S VERT 5Uv\PlE '///Aasassfc 1 " f'f r r »>yf(i;» rfj' J 0x3 2* smfc ro By Joe Agler. N ashville, tenn., April 22.— If we can manage to get any thing like an even break of luck, we’ll take a battle from Bill Schwartz’s well known Vols this aft ernoon. I'll make that a prediction, and you can sign my name to it. We’ll have blood In our eye and "Old Reliable” Brady on the slab this afternoon—and that’s a combination hard to beat. If we cop this afternoon we make It an even break against the hottest combination of Volunteers and Horse shoes that we ever tackled. To-night we pull out for a bumpy ride home, and to-morrow afternoon we open against Chattanooga. We are going to get back into our stride during those two home series and hit the road again at top speed. Far be it from us to put up any holler. But If the Crackers weren’t outlucked yesterday and generally bumfuzzled by the old Jinx, then I don’t want my pay—and, heaven knows, I need It. The same goes for the game of Saturday. Bill Schwartz has enough horse shoes pinned on him to start a horse shoeing parlor. We lost yesterday, 3-2, in a game in which Nashville had all the luck In the world—which didn’t leave us any. Of course, it wasn’t all luck. Old Paul Musser was wild as a buck and the six bases on balls he allowed helped a whole lot in beating him. “Blondie” gave up only three hits, and if he had the plate a little better located he’d have kept them shut out. It should have been an easy game for us to win, even as it was. If we could have come through with a hit or two in the pinches it would have been easy. Bill Schwartz shot George Beck at us, and the lad seemed to have something on us when we need ed a hit the worst. There weren't a lot of features, from Atlanta’s standpoint. Pat Graham furnished the only real thrills The "Ketchin’ Kid" was there with three hits, one a three- bagger, and if he had only come up in more pinches there is no telling what would have happened. The one time he did come up when he had a chance to do something big for the community, Beck had one more va cancy on bases and he filled it by walking Pat. Jud Daley, the “Comedy Cuss, pulled the great fielding play of the day, combing an awful wallop from Welchonce’s bat out of the breezes as neatly as anybody ever did. Sporting Pood -By GEORGE E. PHAIR^ WHAT’S THE USE? It is a chronic baseball fan: I bring him gladoome newa Methink* the tidings I have brought Will cause him to enthuse. Quoth I: “Thou haat been left some kale— A million bones or more!’’ He only turns his glims on me ‘ ' : “W1 And answers: vhat’s the score?” "Thineuncl©,” I go^ on to quote, “Hath left thee all hU cush,” But not the semblance of a smile Is seen upon his mush. Quoth I: “Thy boob! Thou Joe! Thou nut! Thou makest my heart full aore.” He turns a vacant lamp on me And answers: “What’e the score?” At last I conjure up a way To tempt the wild-eyed gink, uoth I in aooents light and p Quoth I in accents light and gay: “Let’s go and get a drink!” He hands me out a vacant stare And answers: “What’s the score?” And then I hook my trusty right And put him to the floor. The report that Connie Mack haa of fered $25,000 for Tyrus Cobb ia Interest ing until one haa tried to Imagine said Connie Mack In the act of prying him self looae from $25,000. There are various methods of gaining one of money under false pretenses, which ts to insure a wrestler for $10,000. We are informed by various experts that John McGraw’s strength lies in hi* substitutes. This is the first time we have heard an umpire called a substi tute. When a man with a few thousand dol lars invested In a grandstand can drive the greatest player out of baseball It is a grand little pastime, ia It not? SPEAKING OF THE COBB CASE. Oh, say, does the Star-Spangled Ban ner yet wave O’er the game of the free and the sport of tne slave? If we could have believed the press agent, Mr. Wotgaat was almoat a physi cal wreck. Likewise, Mr. Wolgaat was a strong favorite In the speculating. Bum team work Managing a team in the Federal League is a perfectly good job if there is nothing else in sight. Some men go from bad to worae. For instance, there la Tommy Burns, who has become a fight promoter. SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN. A baseball plnyer made a hit; They laid him off for thirty days. They did not like his hit a bit, For he had hit them for a raise. We note by the public prints that they are off at Havre de Grace. They usually are when they fall for that game. BASEBALL ROOTING LEGAL, RULES FRISCO ATTORNEY SAN FRANCISCO., CALIF., April 22.—Baseball rooting may not be classed aa illegal among "loud and unnecessary noises." Such In effect is the ruliig announced yesterday of the City Attorney on the protest of a local hospital against the pro posed location of a new Coast Lea gue ball park in the vicinity of the Institution. An ordinance designed to protect hospitals was cited, but the City Attorney held that it referred only to street noises incident to traffic. DERRICK TO BE OUT OF GAME TWO MORE WEEKS £° h n t /ake Calomel Salt*, Oils or r - ’ uhartic* when you can go |7 drug store in town and Iit ot «ure, saSe, blissful EL SPRINGS LIVER BUT- |«r fan” ° n!y 25 cents - They In! to -rdght means satisfaction I'Oe morning. They are the T Of the greatest medical I ' at the world’s great Sani- f, * a ]}d are now offered to you r:ect remedy for constlpa- , r Pld liver, sick headache, L’ tongue and dizziness. L ’ Sample from Hot Springs r lca t Co., Hot Springs, Ark. NEW YORK, April 22.—Chance stated to-day that Claude Derrick. hl« injured short stop, would be out of the game fully two weeks longer. This mean- that Chance must com plete the greater part of his first month against the three hardest clubs in the league with a crippled infield. The wound was a bad one and Is healing slowly. Derrick attempted to use his hand yesterday and In a few minutes the gore gushed out In a stream. DETROIT RELEASES SHANLEY. DETROIT. MICH.. April 22.—In fielder Harry Shanley. of the Detroit Americans, was yesterday released to the Memphis club of the Southern League under an optional agree ment. After listening to a band perpetrating noise at a ball game, one Is led to won der why they call it popular music. Christy Mathewson fears that some day he will kill a batsman by hitting him on the dome. He never expects to pitch against Fred Merkle. lodges Work on Contest Stories G O © © O © © To Announce Winners Tomorrow T HE three judges of The Georgian’s great baseball contest—Messrs. Frnnk Callaway, Charles Nunnally and A. G. Ryan—have been working a couple of days on the big task and announce that they will be through by to-night. The winners will be announced in the first edition of to-morrow's Georgian. The season tickets will be available for distribution at once and fans who won can get their ticket books in time to attend the game at Ponce Wednesday afternoon. rr HE contest was amazingly successful. It was wonderful the num- * her of fans who were able to write a corking description of the game. This made the work of the judges tremendously dlftirult. It was possible to throw out half "without much trouble. To cut it again to a quarter of the original number was not so bad. But that last cut left hundreds which were excellent. Tha semi-final cut made was to fifteen. These stories were more than creditable. They were high-class de scriptions of an Imaginary game, articles some of which would have done credit to Charles Dryden, Damon Runyon and some of the nota bles of the baseball-writing game. A LL contestants are put on notice that tile winners w ill be announced in the first edition of Wednesday’s Georgian. Grab one when they begin to roll from the press and you will learn the fate of your story. QNE thing—don't be disappointed It you lost It was a large and classy field. Many of the competitors were semi-professionals. They knew the game all six ways. Of course employees of any papers were barred. But graduates of the newspaper game flipped in. And so did a lot of chaps who have never done any real writing but who are crack- erjacks nevertheless. SIX CONTESTS VirATCH to-morrow’s paper for full results of the contest. If you en- v * tered a story be sure to read the first edition for it will contain the names of the winners If your name is among the lucky ones come to the sporting editor’s desk, second floor, Georgian office, and get your ticket book. PREP LEAGUE NOTES Boys High will play Marlst Friday if ^rra-ngemenis can be made. A few weeks ago these tw/> teams played a ten-inning tin which has not been play ed off yet. Neither of the high schools have an the Important game within the next two weeks. Tech High will play some prac tice games with Georgia Tech this week Boys High will aln and Boys High will also meet the Jack ots in a practice contest. The tennis tournament of the students at Boys High has been shortened form a week to three days This tournament will commence Thursday and end Sat urday It will he held on the courts at East l>a.ke. TWICE TOLD TALES. Games may come and game* may go. Stars may rise and stars may fall, Still, one little phrase I know Lingers on in spite of all. In the storms of early May, When the sun is hot in June, Still we hear it day hv day As the ticker sings its tune When the singles coma in flocks. And the swats are loud and long, “Walsh now* pitching for the Sox” ien of the Is the burden he song. WISCONSIN FIGHT BILL HAS MANY GOOD POINTS Peacock is planning some field day exercises this year. They will take place at Piedmont Park the middle of next month, and prises will be given to the highest individual winners and the winning class team. Joe Bean ‘is working hard with his ^ek. f pvinj ce a: well as base running Joe says there will be no repetition of the ragged work shown by his men in tha games with Boys High and Tech High Vannison, of Boys High, is being groomed for a job as pitcher. He is a left-hander, and has lots of speed T HE Crackers will be home to morrow’ morning. The Chatta nooga team will likewise roll in to-morrow morning. That afternoon the Crackers and the Elberklde will tangle in the first festivity of a three- game joy-affair. The chief thought in the dome of every festive representative of the Lookout City is to get revenge. It will be recalled that when the Crackers opened the season in Chat tanooga they won three in a row. This irritated Elberfeld and the E!- berklds and the bunch come back prepared to make trdible. The Lookouts have been continually strengthened for the last two weeks and should begin to show’ a big im provement. With the Lookouts disposed of Bill Schwartz will bring his justly cele brated Volunteers here for three. And that third game at Ponce with the Vols will end the home doings of the Crackers for a good, long while. On April 80 the locals open in Bir mingham and it will be May 19 be fore they show their heads in Atlanta %gain. RIVERSIDE WINS TWELFTH GAME, DEFEATING DAHL0NEGA STOPS THOMAS ITI N EW ORLEANS, LA., April L2.— Pugilism is to-day boosting another contender for the lightweight championship in the per son of Charlie White, the Chicago whirlwind. White took on Joe Thom as here last night and sprang the greatest surprise here since Lea .n Cross stopped Mandot by turning the same trick on Joe Thomas. White stopped Thomas in the eighth round after making the local boy take the count on eight differ ent occasions in the second period. Thomas fought back gamely after g >- ing- down in the second round, but could not get to the Chicago boy. White started the third session with rights and lefts to the Jaw, and again Thomas went to the canvas. Thom as regained his feet, but hardly fered any resistance. The following rounds were practically the same as the first two, with White holding the upper hand. White started out of his corner at the sound of the gong in the eighth. He rushed Thomas all over the ring, until he cornered him and forced Thomas’ seconds to toss in the sponge. path. large number of students will attend. ng fo cept his challenge for a w best two falls in three regardless of weight. FC N R SAI L E IMMEDIATE : DELIVERY — — Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, Creosote, Road Binder, Metal Preservative Paints, Roofing Paint, Roofing Felt and Shingle Stain. f Atlanta Gas Light Co. Phone 4945 JESS WILLARD AND SMITH MATCHED FOR LONG BOUT SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—“Gun- boat” Smith and Jess Willard, heavy weights, have been matched for a 20-round bout to be held here May 17. according to announcement last night. GOLF IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS. CHICAGO, April 22.—The Cook County School Athletic Board of Con trol, at a meeting last night, gave official recognition to golf. The sport in the future will be under the same Jurisdiction as baseball, footbaU, basket ball and other contests. A schedule is in course of preparation, the games to be of eighteen holes. GAINESVILLE, GA., April 22.— Riverside won her twelfth straight game by defeating IJahlonega in a close and exciting 10-inning contest yesterday, 3 to 2. The features of the gam© were the pitching of Haynes and Jones and the hitting )f (’row, Burr and Kent. Dah- lonega scored two runs in the fifth on two errors, a bunt and a single. Riv erside tied the score in the eighth on a hit to right by Mitchell, who took third on Crow’s hit. Both scored on Burr’s sharp single to center. Riv erside won in the tenth on a hit, a pass and a safe bunt. MAT STARS AFTER OPPONENTS. NEW YORK, April 22.—Managers of the two giant wrestlers, Constant Lemarin, the French-German, and George Enrich, the Russian, were busy yesterday trying to secure matches for their men who have been scheduled to appear on April 30 against different opponents at the At lantic Garden Athletic Club. KRYPTOK INVISIBLE BIFOCALS See the opera through a pair of Kryptok Lenses. If made by us they will be correct in grind ing, designing and adjustment. We specialize in making all kinds of glasses from oculists' prescriptions, and make the best, bar none. Atlanta Optical Co. 142 Peacatree W. G. POLK AND H. C. MONTGOMERY, Proprietor*. Fine Artificial Eyes In Stock. YOU FAT? The high schools of Hoyston and Kl- berton. Gn . have two of the Htrnngest nines In the State. These two teams played a two-game series last week which resulted In a game apiece MADISON, WIS, April 22.—Wis consin will legalize ten-round no-de- elsion boxing shows and create a State non-salaried commission to su pervise them if a bill favorably re ported by the Assembly committee on Judiciary becomes a law. The rec ommendation of the committee was unanimous. The commission will have a secre tary at a salary of 21,600 who Is to devote his entire time to hi* work. Licenses Issued to boxing clubs are to cost from $25 to *800, depending on the size of the cities in which they are located. Each club Is to pay the state 5 per cent of its gross receipts. License for a referee Is to cost $10. WILLIAMS ELIGIBLE LONDON April 22.—The commit tee of the English Lawn Tennis As sociation decided unanimously yes terday that there was no ground whatever for questioning the eligibil ity of R- Norris Williams to partici pate in the challenge matches for the Davis cup as a member of the team representing the United States. The Sundsy American goes every- * ‘h. If where all over the South. If you havo anything to *«H Ths Sunday Amer ican it "The Market Pl»ce of the South.” The Sunday American i* th* best advertising medium. Davidson Coller« ha« a star athlf.te in Klutta In a mf*»t last wuek Kluttz ran the quarter-mile in 51 seconds, which beat the school record for that event. The meet was between Davidson and the Charlotte (N. C.) Y M. C. A.. , and resulted in an easy victory for the collegian*, 77 to 31 Georgia Tech haul a nole-vaulter who .bfe to take flr»t in is liable to take flr»t fn that event at the S. I A. A. meet et. New .Orleans next month. Polly Hmith is the boy, and he is doing 11 feet and better daily in practice The Boys High baseball team should “ “ “rounle have little trouble this afternoon In de featlng G M. A. Last Thursday the high school boys made ten runs against two fc*r the Cadets Marist and Peacock will book up to-morrow afternoon on the Mftriat diamond. This looks like an ea*y win for Marist. No important games are scheduled in tho Prep League until the first week In Mav. Then Boys High and Marist will fight it out. Later cm Tech High and Boys High will clash. There, will be a warm fight for the pennant this year, that much is assured. The Boy Seoul* field meet at Pied mont Park last Saturday afternoon was a succescful one, and the officials were so well with it that they have • td to make the event an annual affair. Emory and Mercer will hold a track meet on May 10 at Central Park in Macon This will b© the first time since If you are in need of fresh air and exercise buy a from Elkin and get Into the great life outdoors. It will do you a world of good. We have Kodak* from $1 to $100 We develop your films FREE. ELKIN DRUG CO. At “Five Points”—Open All Night If so, you know that you cannot walk into any store you come across and get just the fit you want. But. there are exceptions, for this is one store where you may he perfectly fitted, no matter how fat and corpulent you he. Our suits for stout men are stylish, too—they fit per fectly—-retain their shape and render excellent service. Wt know we can give you the satisfaction you have yearned for, and it s a pleasure for us to serve Big Men in Big Suits. Stein- Bloch 5 marf CJofhes Have YOU Joined the Camera Club? Twenty to Forty Dollars r- , Core, in l to 5 da?» M unnatural discharge*. 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