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TTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. UT THEY’RE OFF IN FRONT AGAIN By Tad . THE JUDGE WAS WILLING TO HELP OUT, ANYWAY Service [ FATED TO LOSE IIS RIGHT HE rr^RUE baseball fans, no matter I how much they wanl to see At lanta beat Mobile in the ap proaching series here, will regret to learn that the Gulls will be minus the •ervice® of their prize southpaw. Pug Cavet. And it will be with deeper regret they learn that Pug probably has 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 distance at all times a feat accomplished un consciously b\ 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 Cavet 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 TWO MONTREAL PLAYERS GRADUATE INTO MAJORS BROOKLYN, Aug 27 President Lychtenheim. of the Montreal club o f the International League, announced yesterday at Ebbets Field the sale of two prominent Montreal players. Out fielder Gilheely goes to the New York American' in ex mg< George McConnell and a ash « ..Mod eration not stated The Philadelphia Nationals secured Catcher Burns in exchange for Catcher Howley and two other players to be announced later. BOXERS IN DRAW BOUT. NEW YORK Aug 27.—Tommv Berges, of Lewiston. Maine, and Bull 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 DISCOUNT CO. 12 It-12 Fourth National Bank Bid®. Come On, Cracker Fans, Let's Beat Out Birmingham We MUST Prove I hat Atlanta Is the Best Baseball City in the South by Turning Out Biggest Yearly Attendance. “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? Well, 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 prizes. SA'i tuoge the v*jisc is sick • hex*-—• _ \WOOCO OO l£t qjT pda. A PC'*) WOUKJ TIU. I SC-OClT of a mV R S C i TC 0A/0(2C(r »ie tlvr ca/v soni't TOH-G>* rvHXT 3iCK- I'uL GrCT- rws-wuE sei POO* OCt> Ok i+'w> ro nii OArxffvAJipp i a.7 - Uia-y — Kid Jinx Gets Kick in Ribs and Crackers Win Two Games in One Day ZOWIE! SOME HITTING!! 29 SWATS FOR 20 RUNS Sports andSuch EVERS IS HAPPY. “/ have no complaint* to make," 8aid Ever* to a fan, “But the urn/)* arc o\it to break And slouyh me if they can. “The Oiant8* luck still blocks me; My team i* full of kink*; And H re-ana han *till knocks me. And Murphy i* a jinx!" • • • A BALL PLAYER HAS BEEN fined $10 for calling Umpire Bill Klem. a catfish. And yet—what should he have called him? * * A PRESIDENT EBBETS IS SIGN lng up a few college men. hut 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 Cardinals. 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 Athletic® might be a sign that he is laying back for bets. • * • MR. SNODGRASS. (World’s Series, 1912.) Me, oh my! Here's a fly! I'll nail it with a half a try. There it poes— On my toes! The panp trill break my nose! • * * YOU HAVE TO ENVY. MR. Chance his optimism. After losing two games 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. Touchard. the tennis player, each understands how the other feels Both lay all of their troubles to foot-faults. • * * ITS 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 VANCOUVER TO SEE CHAMP LOS ANGELES. Aug 27.—Leach Cross, the New York lightweight, shifted his plan® of coming back to New York immediately and left with his retinue for Vancouver. B. C.. to watch Willie Ritchie, the champion in action there on Labor Day. By O. B. Keeler. T 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 rippee, of course. But that isn't the point. This being supposed to be a feature narrative, a feature must b£ found. You can get the news from the Box Score. Well, here are a brace of features, the second of which can be subdivided ad lib. • • • CKATURE No. 1—Winning both 1 games of a two-ply matinee. Feature No. 2—The method of win ning samg. • • • /"\F course, there was extremely air- w 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 prodigality, the original P. S. had nothing whatever on Bill Smith’s hands, battering away at the reeling Turtles yesterday afternoon. m * * OR example, there was one in- 1 nlng 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 N another round of the same en- * counter, four hits produced four runs, 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. Nixdn scored three runs and made himself otherwise* obnoxious to the enemy. • • • YVT ALLY SMITH got the long hit of vv 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 six 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. • • • AMONG the other legitimate head- liners mighf be mentioned Jack Love’s glove-hand stab of a line drive from Bisland’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 Umps Stockdale in the first inning of the first game. Baerwald spoke with fervor, but lost the decision. Also, he was canned from the game. * • * r\ 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. Bjsland hit a sharp grounder to Abstein 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 safe—and he hadn’t run out of the line, either. • • • 13 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. • • • 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 was 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 sloppiness and the terrific hit ting of the Crackers. iUIjODAt O UrAiYLEjD. FIRST GAME. Memphis. ab. r. h. po a. e. Love, 2b . . . .3 1 0 6 3 0 Merritt, cf . . .3 0 ft 1 0 ft Baerwald, If . .1 0 0 0 ft ft Ward, 3b . 4 0 2 1 2 1 Schweitzer. If . 3 1 2 2 1 ft Abstein. lb . . .3 0 1 5 0 0 Shanlev. hs . . 4 0 0 4 1 _• Seabough. . 3 0 0 4 3 ft Parsons, p. ... 3 0 0 0 1 / Harrell, rf . . .3 0 0 2 2 0 Totals . . .30 2 5 24 13 •) Atlanta. ab. r. ft. po a. e. Agler. lb . ... 5 1 2 12 ft 0 Long. If . 5 ft 3 3 0 ft Welchonce. cf . 5 ft 2 3 0 ft Smith. 2b . . 4 0 3 4 2 ft Bisland. ss . . 4 2 3 1 6 1 Holland. 3b . 5 ft 1 •> 3 1 Nixon, rf . . 5 3 2 0 0 ^hapman, c 4 2 2 1 1 ft Price p. . . . 4 2 1 0 3 ft Totals 41 12 19 27 15 •J Score by innings Memphis . . . lftft ftftft 001 — •t 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 bv Parsons. 2 Bases on balls — Off Price, Sacrifice hits— Merriit. 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 ft 1 1 0 Merritt, cf . 2 0 0 4 0 0 Baerwald, rf . 2 0 1 1 1 0 Ward. 2b . . j> 0 0 1 1 1 Schweitzer. If . 2 0 ft 1 0 0 Abstein. 1b . . •> 0 ft 3 1 ft Shanley. ss . . . 2 ft 0 0 0 1 Snell, c . . . . 2 0 0 4 0 0 Newton, p. . . 2 0 0 0 1 •» Totals . . . .19 ft 1 15 6 8 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. #. Agler. lb . . . .4 ft ft 8 ft ft l^mg. If . . 2 1 1 ft ft 0 Welchonce, cf 2 2 1 0 0 6 Smith. 2b. . 3 0 1 ft 1 ft Bisland. ss . 2 1 1 1 2 ft Holland, 3b . . 3 2 2 *> 1 0 Nixon, rf. 3 1 1 3 ft i) Dunn, c . . S 1 9 3 ft ft Thompson, p . . 3 ft 1 1 ft 6 Totals . . . 25 8 10 18 4 0 Score by innings: Memphis. . OOO 000—0 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— :55. Umpires—Stockdell and Pfen ninger. 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. Mobile Atlanta Mont. B'ham. W L. Pc | 77 50 .606 70 55 .560 ' 65 57 .533 j 66 61 .520 I Chat. M’pbis. N'ville. 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. ■' Sending of the Clubs. ^V r . L. Pc. N Y 82 35 .701 Phila 67 44 .604 P’burg. 63 54 .538 Chicago 64 55 .538 W. L. Pc B’klyn. 51 63 .447 Boston 50 65 .435 C’nati. 48 75 .390 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. Standlnq of the Clubs W. L. Po. 80 39 .673 2 49 .695 Phila C’land Wash. 67 51 Chicago 66 59 .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 Thomasville. Brunswick at Waycross. Cordele at Americus. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pet. I W L. Pet T’ville. 30 17 .638 ' W’cross. 23 26 .469 V'dosta. 26 24 .520 Am’cus. 22 27 .449 B wick. 23 25 .476 I Cordele 22 27 .449 Tuesday's Results. Waycross 2. Brunswick 1. Cordele 6. Americus 3. Valdosta 8, Thomasville 2. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Albany at Charleston. Columbus at Jacksonville. Macon at Savannah. Standing of the Ciubs. W. L Pc t W. L Pc. Sav’nah 32 22 .71 1 ! Albanv. 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. OTHER RESULTS. American Association. Louisville 5. Toledo 1. Milwaukee 4, Minneapolis 2. St. Paul 3, Kansas City 2. Texas Leaaue. Houston 8. Beaumont 0 Dallas 8, Waco 4. Galveston 2, San Antonio 0. Austin 10, 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 3. • Petersburg 6. Roanoke 3. Richmond 6. Portsmouth 1. Appalachian League. Morristown 12. Bristol 3. Johnson Pity 6. Mldllesboro 3. Rome 8. Knoxville 5. SMITH TO MEET WINNER OF PALZER-M0RAN BOUT NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Gunboat Smith announced to-day that some time in September he will meet the winner of the Frank Moran-Al Pal- zer ten-round bout, which is to be staged in this city September 3. McLoughlin Retains His Tennis Title 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 Francisco, will referee. GERMANY SCHULZ GETS JOB. ANN ARBOR. MICH., Aug. 27—Germ any Schulz, called “the greatest center that ever played football,’’ has taken the Job offered by his alma mater, and will coach the Michigan linesmen this fall under the supervision of Head Coach Yost. GEORGE BEATS COFFEY. 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