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ZOWIE! SOME HITTING!! 29 SWATS FOR 20 RUNS
PITCHER CUVET
FITED TO LOST
HIS RIGHT EVE
T RITE baseball fans, no matter
how much they want to see At
lanta beat Mobile in the ap
proaching aeries here, will regret to
learn that the Gulls will be minus the
services 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 (’a vet’s right eye.
which has troubled him from child
hood. hatj 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. I
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 Cavet be forced to retire the
game will lose a most promising
voung 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 Turning Out Biggest Yearly Attendance.
TWO MONTREAL PLAYERS
GRADUATE INTO MAJORS
BROOKLYN. Aug. 27—President
Lyehtenheim. of the Montreal club of
the International League, announced
vesterdav at Ebbets Field the sale of
two prominent Montreal players, out
fielder Giiheely goes to the New York
Americans in exchange for Pitcher
George McConnell and a cash consid
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.
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“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.
Sports andSuch
EVERS IS HAPPY.
“/ have /to complaint* to make”
Said Ever* to a fan,
“Itut the um/>* 1ire out to break
And slough me if the}/ can.
“The Giants' luck still blocks me;
My team is full of kinks;
And Bresnahan still knock* 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 Cardinals.
YVe 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's a fly!
I'll nail it with a half a try.
There it goes—
On my toes!
The gang will 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 in 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.
IT’S FUNNY THAT ball players
succeed In annoying Hank O’Day.
You’d think that any man who had
managed the Cincinnati team wou^d
be immune.
LEACH CROSS LEAVES FOR
VANCOUVER TO SEE CHAMP
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, tfye
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 be found. You can
get the news from the Box Score.
Well, here are a brace of feature*,
the second of which can be subdivided
ad lib.
17OR 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 basea
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, w r hile 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.
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.
Mobile
pEATURK No. 1—Winning both
A games of a two-ply matinee.
Feature No. 2—The method of win
ning same.
(~)F course, there was extremely alr-
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
I N another round of the same en-
A 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 Blsland took three apiece, ar.d
Agler Welchonce. Nixon and Chap
man were content with two each.
Nixon scored three runs and made
himself otherwise obnoxious to the
enemy.
A MONG the other legitimate head-
1 * liners might 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 cannel
from the game.
O EGULAR daily feature:
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.
YVT ALLY 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.
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 Abstein at first. Abby came in
to threaten Smith, who was on third,
and Bizzy stopped right in front of
f 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 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.
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, the champion
in action there on Labor Day.
TUESDAY’S GAMES.
FIRST GAME.
Memphis. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Love. 2b ... .3 1 0 6 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, ms. . . 4 0 0 4 1 2
Seabougli. c . . 3 0 0 4 3 0
Parsons*p. . .. S 0 0 ft 1 }
Harrell, rf . . .3 ft 0 -2 2 0
Totals ... .3ft 2 5 24 13 2
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Agler, lb ... to 1 2 12 ft ft
Long. If . . .5 ft 3 3 ft ft
Welchonce. cf . 5 0 2 3 ft ft
Smith. 2b ... 4 2 3 4 2 0
Bisland. ss . . 4 2 3 1 6 1
Holland. 3b . . 5 ft 1 2 3 1
Nixon, rf . . . 5 3 2 0 ft
Chapman, c. . . 4 2 2 1 1 0
Price p. . . . 4 2 1 ft 3 0
Totals ... .41 12 19 27 15 2
Score by innings:
Memphis lftft Oftft ftOl— 2
Atlanta 010 420 5ftx—12
Summary: Two-base hits—Bisland,
2; Agler. Schweitzer. Three-base
hit—Smith. Double play—Holland to
Smlth^to Agler. Struck out—By Price.
1; by Parsons. 2. Rases 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:ftft. Umpires
—Pfenninger and Stockdale.
Second Game.
Memphis. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Love. 2b ... 3 ft 0 1 1 0
Merritt, cf . . 2 0 ft 4 0 0
Baerwald, rf . . 2 0 1 1 1 0
Ward, 2b ... .2 0 0 1 1 1
Schweitzer. If . 2 ft 0 1 ft 0
Abstein. lb . . .2 0 0 3 1 0
Shanley, ss . . .2 0 0 0 0 1
Snell, c .... 2 0 0 4 0 0
Newton, p. . . 2 0 0 0 1 2
Totals ... .19 0 1 15 5 3
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. • a. e.
Agler. lb. ...4 ft 0 8 0 ft
Long. If .... 2 1 1 ft ft 0
Welchonce. cf . 2 2 1 0 0 0
Smith. 2b. . . 3 0 1 0 1 0
Bisland. ss . . 2 1 1 1 2 0
Holland, 3b . . 3 2 2 2 1 0
Nixon, rf. . . . 3 1 1 3 0 ft
Dunn, c . . . 3 1 2 3 ft ft
Thompson, p . . 3 0 1 1 0 0
Totals . . .25 8 10 18 4 0
Score by Innings:
Memphis (>A0 000—ft
Atlanta 223 lftx—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—Stockdeil 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
66 61 .520
Chat.
M’phis.
N’ville.
N. Or.
W L. Pc
63 59 .516
61 64 .488
54 72
40 78 .339
Tuesday’s Results.
Atlanta 12-8, Memphis 2-0.
Chattanooga 2. Montgomery 1.
Mobile 6, Ilirmingham 2.
Nashville 10. New Orleans 7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Pittsburg at Boston.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs.
N. Y.
Phila.
P’burg.
Chicago
W. L. Pc. 1 W. L. Pc.
82 35 .701 I B’klyn. 51 63 .447
67 44 .604 Boston 50 65 .435
63 64 .538 ! C’nati. 48 75 .390
64 55 .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.
N<* games scheduled.
Phila.
C’land.
Wash.
Chicago
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc.
80 39 .673
2 49 .595
67 51 .563
65 59 .524
W L. Pc.
Boston 58 59 .496
Detroit 62 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 f. Detroit 6.
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Wednesday.
Valdosta at Thomasville.
Brunswick at Waycroes.
Cordele at Americus.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pet. | W. L. Pet
T’ville. 30 17 .633 j Wcross. 23 26 .469
Vdosta. 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 Clubs.
W. J. Pc
Pav’nah 32 22 .711
C’bus. 29 24 .547
J’ville. 28 26 .519
W. L. Pc.
Albany. 24 28 .462
Ch’ston. 22 28 .440
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 3, Kansas City 2.
Texas L-aque.
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 City 6. Midllesboro 3.
Rome 8, Knoxville 5.
NEWPORT. R. I., Aug. 27.—The
lawn tennis championship record for
1913 was practically completed on
the Casino Grand court when Maurice
E. McLougfhlin, of San Francisco, suc
cessfully defended his own title in
singles and maintained the Pacific
Coast supremacy by defeatin'”- R. Nor
ris Williams, second, of Philadelphia,
in the finals of the all-comers tourna
ment. in a vveli-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
RITCH!E-WELSH TITLE GO
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Aug. 27.—Ne-
gotlations 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 fail
under the supervision of Head Coach
Yost.
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 Fal
ser 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.
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