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Kid Jinx Gets Kick in Ribs and Crackers Win Two Games in One Day
ZOWIE! SOME HITTING!! 29 SWATS FOR 20 RUNS
PITCHED CIVET
FATED TO LOSE
HIS RIGHT EYE
T RUE baseball fans, no matter
how much they want to see At
lanta beat Mobile in the ap
proaching scries here, will regret to
learn that the (lulls will be minus the
services of their prize southpaw, Pug
Cavet. And it will be with deeper
regret they learn that Pug probably
ha* pitched his last game.
Members of the Memphis club said
yesterday that Cavet’s right eye,
which has troubled him from child
hood, had been getting steadily worse
with some malady that would proba
bly necessitate its removal in order
to save the other eye and not render
the lanky pitcher totally blind.
Specialists are treating Cavet, but
hold out little hope of saving the eye.
It would be a mechanical impossibili
ty for a one-eyed man to play base
ball successfully, owing to the ex
treme necessity of judging distan e
at all times a feat accomplished un
consciously by the eyes themselves,
using the distance between them as
the base of a triangle, with the ob
ject on which they are focused as
the point.
' Should Cuvet be forced to retire the
game will lose a most promising
young pitcher and one who was prac
tically certain of making good in the
Big Show
Come On. Cracker Fans, Let’s
Beat Out Birmingham
We MUST Prove That Atlanta Is the Best Baseball City in
the South by Fuming Out Biggest Yearly Attendance.
TWO MONTREAL PLAYERS
GRADUATE INTO MAJORS
BROOKLYN, Auk 27 -President
Lychtenheim. of the Montreal club of
the International League, announced
yesterday at Ebbets Field the sale of
two prominent Montreal players. Out
fielder Gilheely goes to the New York
Americans in exchange for Pitcher
George McConnell and a cash onsld-
eratlon not stated. The Philadelphia
Nationals secured Catcher Burns in
exchange for Catcher How ley and two
other players to.be announced later.
BOXERS IN DRAW BOUT.
NEW YORK. Aug. 27.—Tommv !
Berges, of Lewiston, Maine, and Rail
Anderson, of this city, fought a ten-
round draw here last night.
ONEY
LOANED TO SALARIED MEN
AT LAWFUL RATES
ON PROMISSORY NOTES
Without Endorsement
Without Collateral Security
Without Real Estate Security
NATIONAL
GO.
lit-12 Fourth National Bank Bids.
“Now is the time for all good fans to come to the aid of their
ball club.”
You remember the old racing “speed sentence,’’ the first one
everybody learns to pick out on a typewriter?
Weil, it says “party” and omits the reference to baseball
fans.
But the exigencies of the situation in Atlanta seem to war
rant a little editing of the famous old sentence.
Over in Birmingham they are going after two things, both
of which now are held and much prized in Atlanta.
One is the reputation of being the Best Baseball Town in the
Southern League.
The other is the attendance record for a season’s play.
ATLANTA HOLDS THE PRESENT RECORD—196,000.
And that is what makes Atlanta the best baseball town in
the circuit. That is, it is one of the things. There are others too
numerous to mention just now.
Anyway, Birmingham, with a club that is fighting to stay
out of the second division, is near breaking the attendance record
this year.
And Birmingham is a couple of jumps ahead of Atlanta,
right now—and Atlanta with a ball club making a great little
fight for the pennant, and almost sure to land as high as second
place, anyway.
The Atlanta merchants and business men are taking up the
boastful challenge from Slagville. It doesn’t listen good to them,
this hearing that another town is the best town in the Southern
League.
And so, boys, here’s a little tip:
Requests for the afternoon off, beginning to-day and lasting
until the afternoon of September 6, will be given preferred atten
tion in Atlanta business and mercantile offices—
PROVIDED—
The petitioner adds that he WANTS TO GO TO THE BALL
GAME!
Try it and see.
The following, just for example, have asserted openly that
they will grant afternoons off to just as many employees as they
can possibly spare, from now until the end of the season—to go
to the ball game!
W E. Chapin Insurance Company, Royal Insurance Com
pany. Georgia Railway and Power Company, Southern Bell Tele
phone and Telegraph Company, Third National Bank, V. H.
Kreigshaber & Son, and others who are adding their prestige to
Atlanta’s battle to retain the title of the ‘ ‘ Best Ball Town in the
Southern League. ’’
Try it and see.
TRY IT TO DAY.
To-day ’s a mighty good time, what with it being the grocers’
and butchers’ half holiday, and the date of the baseball track
meet of the Memphis and Atlanta clubs, starting at 3 o’clock,
with five events for which Atlanta merchants have offered
prices.
EVERS IS HAPPY.
“/ have no complaints to make”
Said Evers to a fan,
“But the utrips are out to break
And slough me if they ran.
"The Giants' luck still blocks me;
Mg team is full of kinks;
And Bresnahan still knocks me,
And Murphy is a jinx!”
A BALL PLAYER HAS BEEN
fined $10 for calling Umpire Bill
Klem. a catfish. And yet—what
should he have called him?
PRESIDENT EBBETS IS SIGN-
ing up a few college men, but not
with the idea that they will assist
In the preparation of forthcoming
dedication speeches These will
still be the old Ebbets brand.
MANAGER MILLER HUGGINS
is going to be asked to resign be
cause he has been finding fault
with the playing of the U&rdinals.
We don’t wonder. Hanging is too
good for him.
WE ALWAYS WELCOME A
touch of softer sentiment in a box-
fighter. Arthur Pelky is going to
do his training at Calgary, right
where he killed Luther McCarty.
PELKY. BY THE WAY. retired
from the ring on that occasion, but
only in the Pickwickian or Buffalo
Bill sense.
IF It WERE NOT FOR THE
attitude of the magnates on gam
bling. we would be Inclined to be
lieve that Connie Mack's daily an
nouncement of casualties among
the Athletics might be a sign that
he is laying back for bets.
MR. SNODGRASS.
(World's Series, 1912.)
Me, oh my!
Here*8 a fly!
I'll nail it with a half a try.
There it goes—
On mg toes!
The gang will break mg nose!
YOU HAVE TO ENVY MR.
Chance his optimism. After losing
two gam to the Browns in one
day. he still thinks the Yankees
are not the worst team iu the
league.
MR. CHANCE. THE MANAGER,
and Mr. Toucfrard. the tennis
player, each understands how the
other feels. Both lay all of their
troubles to foot-faults.
IT’S FUNNY THAT ball players
succeed In annoying Hank O’Day.
You’d think that any man who had
managed the Cincinnati team would
be immune.
LEACH CROSS LEAVES FOR
RULY it has been said, It’s a
Long Worm that has no turn
ing.
The Crackers turned yesterday and
ripped off a couple of games, the
same being all two ends of a double-
header—something that hasn't hap
pened in weeks and weeks. Scores,
12 to 2 and 8 to 0.
Memphis was the rlppee. of course.
But that Isn’t the point. This being
supposed to be a feature narrative,
a feature must be found. You can
get the new* from the Box Score.
Well, here are a brace of features,
the second of which can be subdivided
ad lib.
prodigality, the original P. S. had
nothing whatever on Bill Smith’s
hands, battering away at the reeling
Turtles yesterday afternoon.
C*OR example, there was one in-
1 ning in the first game—the
seventh—when six hits were arranged
carefully In a row, one after another.
Then an error was inserted, and two
more hits added, the total produc
tiveness being limited to five runs
only by scandalous performances on
the bases.
T^EATURE No. 1—Winning both
1 games of a two-ply matinee.
Feature No. 2—The method of win
ning same.
course, there was extremely air-
tight pitching, for one thing. But
that would have won with a good
deal less than a total of 29 hits and
20 runs in fifteen innings.
That might be construed into pil
ing it on. And when it comes to
I N another round of the same en-
* counter, four hits produced four
runn but the Turtles kicked in with
three boots, which naturally aided.
Everybody on the Cracker club took
at least one safe whack while the
whacking was good. Long, Smith
and BIsland took three apiece, and
Agler Welchonce, Nixon and Chap
man were content with two each.
Nixon scored three runs and made
himself otherwise obnoxious to the
enemy.
VITALLY SMITH got the long hit of
the day, a triple that rolled
nearly to the score board. He du
plicated the feat in the second game.
but the ground was heavy, which af
flicted Mr. Smith’s feet, and he was
out at third after a nice gooey slide.
Thompson pitched a one-hit af
fair in the s>ix innings the Turtles
batted in the second game, while Doc
Newton discovered a lot more about
the law of gravitation by watching
a shower of base-hits dropping in
various parts of the field.
A MONO the other legitimate head-
^ liners might be mentioned Jack
Love's glove-hand stab of a line drive
from Bislana’s bat: Schweitzer’s long
running catch of Smith’s fly; Agler's
stab of Bisland’s assist on Shanley;
Nixon’s great running catch of Ab-
stein’s foul fly, and Baerwald's de
bate with Umpa Stockdale in the first
inning of the first game.
Baerwald spoke with fervor, but
lost the decision. Als»o, he was cannel
from the game.
O NE more feature, because it’s one
you don’t see oftener than once
in an ordinary lifetime.
In the fourth inning of the first
game. Bisland hit a sharp grounder
to Abstcin at first. Abby came in
to threaten Smith, who was on third,
and Bizzy stopped right in front of
him. Abstein swung at him with
the ball. Bizzy ducked right to the
ground, dodged under the big fel
low’s wing and beat it to first.
He was nafe—and he hadn’t run
out of the line, either.
IJ EGULAR daily feature: Mobile
won.
Bearing on the death grapple: We
just got back the half-game we lost
the day before, when the Gulls won
while we got into a dogfall.
Prospects for first place: Chilly.
(A H, yes—it rained, too.
^ Another one of those inhuman
showers that appear to contradict
the adage that the rain falls alike
on the just and the unjust.
This particular rain fell mostly on
the ball park. The sun wa.« shining
everywhere else, as on the celebrated
occasion when Mr. Casey was at the
bat. But it certainly did rain be
tween games.
At that, most of the flood dis
appeared from the earth by the time
Bill Smith did the dove act, and
the second game got its 5 1-2 innings
played in less than an hour, in spite
of the sloppinessi and the terrific hit
ting of the Crackers.
TUESDAY’S
GAMES.
FIRST
Memphis. ab.
GAME,
r. h.
po
a.
e.
Love, 2b . . .
.3
1
0
5
3
0
Merritt, cf . .
.3
0
0
1
0
0
Baerwald, If .
.1
0
0
0
0
0
Ward, 3b . .
. 4
0
2
1
2
1
Schweitzer, If
. 3
1
2
2
1
0
Abstein. lb . .
.3
0
1
5
0
0
Shanley, ew. .
. 4
0
0
4
1
2
Seabough, c .
. 3
0
0
4
3
0
Parsons, p. . .
3
0
0
0
1
/
Harrell, rf . .
.3
0
0
2
2
0
—
—
—
—
Totals . . .
.30
2
5
24
13
2
Atlanta.
ab.
r.
H.
po
a.
e.
Agler, lb . . .
1
9
12
0
0
Long. If
. 5
0
3
3
0
0
Welchonce, cf
. 5
0
2
3
0
0
Smith, 2b . .
. 4
*>
3
4
o
0
Bisland. ss .
4
2
3
1
6
1
Holland. 3b .
. 5
0
\
2
3
1
Nixon, rf . .
. 5
3
2
0
0
Chapman, c. .
4
2
2
1
1
0
Price p. . .
. 4
2
1
0
3
0
Totals . .
.41
12
19
27
15
2
Score by Innings
Memphis ....
100
000
001-
2
Atlanta.. ..
010
420
50x—
-12
Summary: Two-base hits—Bisland,
2; Agler. Schweitzer. Three-base
hit—Smith. Double play—Holland to
Smith to Agler. Struck out—By Price
1; by Parsons. 2. Bases on balls—
Off Price. 2. Sacrifice hits—Merritt.
Abstein. Stolen bases—Welchonce.
Nixon, 2; Bisland. 2. Wild pitch —
Price. Hit by pitched ball—By Par
sons (Smith). Time—2:00. Umpires
—Pfenninger and Stockdale.
Second Game.
Memphis.
ab.
r.
h.
po.
a.
e.
Love, 2b . .
3
0
0
1
1
0
Merritt, cf .
2
0
0
4
0
0
Baerwald, rf .
2
0
1
1
1
0
Ward, 2b . . .
.2
0
0
1
1
1
Schweitzer, If
. 2
0
0
1
0
0
Abstein, lb . .
j>
0
0
3
1
0
Shanley. ss . .
9
0
0
0
0
1
Snell, c . . .
9
0
0
4
0
0
Newton, p. .
. 2
0
0
0
1
2
—
—
—
—
—
—
Totals . . .
.19
0
1
16
5
3
Atlanta.
ab.
r.
h.
po.
a.
e.
Agler. lb . . .
.4
0
0
8
0
0
Long. If . . .
0
1
1
0
0
0
Welchonce, cf
. 2
2
1
0
0
0
Smith, 2b. .
3
0
1
0
1
0
Bisland. ss .
2
1
1
1
9
0
Holland. 3b .
. 3
2
2
9
1
0
Nixon, rf. . .
3
1
1
3
0
0
Dunn, c . .
3
1
2
3
0
•*
Thompson, p .
. 3
0
1
1
0
0
Totals . . .
.25
8
10
18
4
0
Score by innings
Memphis
.000
000-
—0
LOS ANGELES. Aug 27.—Leach
Cross, the New York lightweight,
shifted his plans of coming back to
New York immediately and left with
his retinue for Vancouver. B. C., to
watch Willie Ritchie. th<“ champion
in action there on Labor Day.
Atlanta 223 lOx—8
Summary: Two-base hits—Smith,
Holland. Double nlay—Love to Ab
stein to Snell. Struck out—By New
ton, 3; by Thompson, 3. Bases on
balls—Off Newton. 2. Sacrifice hit—
Bisland. Stolen base—Long. Time—
So. Umpires—Stockdell and Pfen
ningtr.
BASEBALL SUMMARY
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Memphis at Atlanta. Game called at
3:30 o’clock.
Montgomery at Chattanooga.
Mobile at Birmingham.
New Orleans at Nashville.
Standing of the Clubs.
M obile
Atlanta
Moot.
B'ham.
W L. Pc I
77 50 .506 | Chat.
70 65 .560 M'phis.
65 57 .533 1 N’ville.
66 61 .520 ! N. Or.
W L. Pc
63 59 .516
61 64 .488
54 72 .429
40 78 .339
Tuesday’s Results.
Atlanta 12-8, Memphis 2-0.
Chattanooga 2, Montgomery 1.
Mobile 6. Birmingham 2.
Nashville 10, New Orleans 7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Pittsburg at Boston.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
N. Y.
Phila.
P’burg.
Chicago
Sending of the Clubs.
^V. L. Pc. ' W. L. Pc
82 35 .701 B’klyn. 61 63 .447
67 44 .604 , Boston 50 65 .435
63 54 .638 C’natl. 48 75 .390
64 56 .538 I S. Louis 43 77 .358
Tuesday’s Results.
Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 5.
New York 1, Cincinnati 0.
Pittsburg 3, Boston 0.
Chicago 6. Brooklyn 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
No games scheduled.
Standing of the Clube.
Phila.
C’land.
W ash.
Chicago
W. L. Pc.
80 39 .673
72 49 .695
67 61 .568
66 69 .524
W. L. Pc.
Boston 58 59 .496
Detroit 52 71 .423
S. Louis 48 78 381
N. Y 40 76 .345
Tuesday's Results.
Washington 5. Chicago 3.
Cleveland 3. New York 0.
Philadelphia 8. St. Louis 0.
Boston 7. Detroit 6.
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday,
Valdosta at Thomasvllle.
Brunswick at Waycross.
Cordele at Americus.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pet. I W. L. Pet
T'ville. 30 17 .638 | Wcross. 23 26 469
V’dosta. 26 24 .520 i Am’cus. 22 27 .449
B'wick. 23 25 .476 I Cordele 22 27 .449
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Albany at Charleston.
Columbus at Jacksonville.
Macon at Savannah.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. Pc J W. L Pc.
Bav’nah 32 22 711 Albany. 24 28 .462
C'bus. 29 24 .547 Ch’ston 22 28 .440
J’ville. 28 26 .519 ! Macon.. 22 29 431
Tuesday’s Results.
Columbus 3-0, Jacksonville 1-4.
Other games off, rain.
McLoughlin Retains
His Tennis Title
OTHER RESULTS.
American Association.
Louisville 5, Toledo 1.
Milwaukee 4, Minneapolis 2.
St. Paul 5, Kansas City 2.
Texas Leaaue.
Houston 8. Beaumont 0.
Dallas 8. Waco 4.
Galveston 2, San Antonio 0.
Austin JO, Fort Worth 4.
International League.
Buffalo 20. Baltimore 4.
Rochester 13. Newark 6.
Toronto 17, Jersey City 7.
Montreal-Providence, rain.
Carolina Association.
Winston 9 Greensboro 0.
Durham 10, Asheville 4.
Raleigh 3, Charlotte 4.
Virginia League.
Norfolk 4, Newport News 8.
Petersburg 6, Roanoke 3.
Richmond 6, Portsmouth 1.
Appalachian League.
Morristown 12. Bristol 3.
Johnson City 6, Midllesboro 3.
Rome 8, Knoxville 5.
SMITH TO MEET WINNER
OF PALZER-M0RAN BOUT
NEWPORT, R. I„ Aug. 27.—The
lawn tennis championship record for
1913 was practically completed on
the Casino Grand court when Maurice
E. McLoughlin, of San Francisco, suc
cessfully defended his own title in
singles and maintained the Pacific
Coast supremacy by defeating R. Nor
ris Williams, second, of Philadelphia,
in the finals of the all-comers tourna
ment, in a well-fought four-set match.
The scores 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. 6-1.
As McLoughlin and T. C. Bundy, of
Los Angeles, won their second cham
pionship in doubles last week and Miss
Mary Browne, of Los Angeles, is still
the women’s title holder, the ascen
dancy of California in the principal
departments of tennis is assured for
another year.
JIM GRIFFIN TO REFEREE
RITCHI E-WELSH TITLE GO
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Aug. 27—Ne-
gotiations for the Freddie Welsh-
Willie Ritchie battle for the world’s
lightweight championship were offi
cially closed here. Jim Griffin, of
San PYancisco, will referee.
GERMANY SCHULZ GETS JOB.
ANN ARBOR, MICH., Aug. 27—Germ
any Schulz, called “the greatest center
that ever played foot ball, has taken the
Job offered by his alma mater, and will
coach the Michigan linesmen this fall
under the supervision of Head Coach
Yost.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—-Gunboat
Smith announced to-day that some
time In September he will meet the
winner of the Frank Moran-AI Pal-
zer ten-round bout, which is to be
staged in this city September 3
GEORGE BEATS COFFEY.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 27.—“Kid”
George, of Stockton. Cal., won the
decision over Walter Coffey, of Santa
Rosa, Cal., in a twenty-round boxing
contest here Monday night. The gong
saved Coffey in the seventeenth.
Tuesday’s Results.
Waycross 2. Brunswick 1.
Cordele 6. Americus 3.
Valdosta 8, Thomasville 2.
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