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TTTF ATLANTA (rFORCTTAN AND NEWS.
Predicted on April 17 That Cobb
Would Join the New
York Club.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
A S it Is a habit with sporting
writers in the South to come
out with a big story whenever
their predictions come true, we cheer
fully wish to announce that we were
first to predict that Ty Cobb would
become a Yankee.
We printed in The Georgian on
April 17 the following story:
Ty Cobb is going to wear New
York American League spangles.
On the face of matters, it
doesn’t listen good, but about
three months ago Ban Johnson,
high mucK-a-muck of the Ameri
can League, dropped off in this
burg for a couple of hours. B
B. J. came down to this neck of
the woods to look over an inland
off the Savannah coast. He and
C. Comiskey. White Sox franchise
possessor, wanted said isle to fish
and hunt on.
Yours truly paid Mr. John.^n
a call at the Piedmont Hotel.
The topic of interest in b. b. cir
cles at the time was the report
that Francois Chance was to affix
his J. Hancock to a New York
contract. I asked Ban about it.
“Cinch the Yankees will get
Chance. I fixed the thing all up
myself.” So spoketh B. Byron.
And his chest swelled a couple of
inches as he spoke the "I.”
“Farrell is going to have a win
ner. too.” added the $25,000 per
president. “I believe he will have
the greatest player in the world
with him if a deal that is pending
goes through.”
1 was inquisitive, but Ban would
go no further. And trying to get
a bit of news out of him when he
doesn't care to give it is like try
ing to tear vour teeth through
an Athens steak.
But right now everything points
Cobb’s way.
The American League simply
has got to get a team in New
York that can compete with the
Giants. Gotham is the National
League stronghold. Ban Johnwn
is a wise gazink He never over
looks a bet. With Cobb and
Chance both in New York, Mc-
Graw and his bunch would have
’<• divide prestige with the Amer
ican League team.
Now, isn't it likely that there
is a perfect understanding be
tween the player. the Detroit
owner. Frank Farrell and Ban
Johnson?
0F ET
A Boost for the Down-Trodden Umpire & By Al Demaree, Ex-Gull Now a Giant
HE IS A STRICT C.1S Cl PLIMASU A H
ArSD IS MASTER OF AMY A N O AUV*
SITUATIONS THAT HI AT ARISE:
Had Crackers Started Spurt Sooner, Local Club Would Have Copped Pennant
BILLY SMITH NEARLY EQUALS BERNHARD’S FEAT
Griffith Is Touted
To Defeat C. White
Ohio Scribes Are Looking for Akron
Wonder to Lower Charlie’s
Colors.
CHICAGO. Sept. 1—If Johnny
Griffith, the Akron lightweight, can
make the showing against Charlie
White Labor Day afternoon at Can
ton, Ohio, that his admirers think he
can. Charlie will have to start his
ring career all over again.
Ohio scribes, particularly those in
Cleveland, are hailing this Akron boy
as a wonder and a sure conqueror of
the local Hebrew, and a knockout
victory is even predicted by one. So
sure do the Cleveland people feel that
Griffith will win that they are won
dering if it will be wise to send their
hope against Willie Ritchie. That
Griffith is one of the most promising
youngsters of the game goes without
saying. He is fast. clever and can
deliver a stiff kick with either hand.
He has been getting bigger and
stronger steadily and with his grow
ing has improved his finer points of
the game. He i9 going to give White
a stiff argument, that much can be
looked for. but there is doubt that he
will be able to do as well as draw
with the local lad.
Just now Charlie is at his» best and
without question the best 128-pound
er in the business. He has shown
Cleveland his worth by making Kil-
bane go the limit to get an even break
and he polished Kid Julian off in
handv style
White’s one-two punch, the most
effective in his repertory, did deadly
execution. He used it with such ex
cellent judgment that Julian never
knew when to expect it, and as a con
sequence he was not prepared for the
jolt when White launched it.
White is a good two-hanied boxer.
He is'without doubt the most formid
able boy that Griffith has yet been
called upon to do battle with, ano
should the Akron boy happen to win
the dopesters could not help conced
ing him the right to step out into the
swiftest of lightweight compan> and
toss his hat into the ring with^ the
championship contenders, for \\ bite
has defeated boys who have fought
for championships, Owen Moran, the
noted English lightweight, among the
number
Cheissong Ordered
To Report by Mack
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Sept. 1—Wil
liam Cheissong, who has been pitching
for the Paines in the North Attleboro
Jewelers’ Shop League, has been ordered
by Connie Mack, of the Philadelphia
Athletics, to report in Philadelphia next
week He is a former captain of the
Melrose High School.
C. W. Murphy Favors
Change in Rules
CHICAGO. Sept. 1.—The suggestion
of TYesident Comiskey, of the Chicago
Americans, that the playing rules be re
vised next winter at a convention of
managers, umpires and newspaper # men
has been indorsed by President Mur
phy, of the National League team.
T \CK PRINCE is working about
I twenty hours a day right now
J trying to sign up the fastest au
tomobile drivers in the world. Al
ready he has secured most of the
great American drivers, and he ex
pects to receive signed contracts from
Europe in a few days from the great
est speed demons on the other side
of the Atlantic.
Work on the track is progressing
fast. Nearly all the underbrush has
been cleared and the carpenters will
get busy within the next 48 hours.
It Is almost a certainty that the
first meet will be staged the last two
weeks in October. A 100-mile race
will be the feature the opening day.
On the second day a 200-mile event
will be staged, while on the third and
final day a 300-mile grind will be
held.
Following is the list of subscribers
who are with Smiling Jack in this
monster venture:
J. S. Coher., J. R. Smith, F. J.
Paxon. G. W. Hanson, C. 1. Ryan.
Lowry Arnold. C. L. Anderson. R. A.
Smythe, E. Rivers. T. B. Felder. John
Aldredge, C. C. Needham, R. A. Me-
Tyer, C. H. Butts. Howard McCall,
T* * M. Webb. D. S. Walraven, Mark
Nabors. Wylie West. Frank Weldon.
J W. Leroux. Ben Lee Crew, L. S.
Crane. R. S. Abbott. Chests Lagomar-
sino, Johnson-Gewinner Co., H. J.
Lee. *L. F. McClelland. Arthur Thur
man H. M. Beutell. George D. Mc-
Cutcheon, John T. Thompson. J. C.
Caldwell. George W. Anderson. I. Lip-
stine, Al Dunn. Phil L’Engle. Earl
Moore. Ralph Reed.
Fay Defeats Ellen
In Finals for Davis
& Freeman Trophy
Playing in great form. T. B. Fay won
the Davis & Freeman trophy yesterday
in the final round of the big golf tour
nament on the Atlanta Athletic Club
course at East Lake, defeating J. A.
Ellen in a grand battle that went the
entire thirty-six holes to reach a de
cision. An idea of the class of golf
played may he gained from the fact
that the last round of eighteen holes was
played in 82 and 83 strokes by the con-
testants.
This is Mr. Fay’s first win of the
handsome trophy, which has been won
at various times by * Tick Tichenor,
Hamilton Block and F. G. Byrd, the lat
ter having won it twice. To become
permanent property, the cup must be
won three times.
In the second flight, J. G. Darling de
feated H. C. Moore, 3 up and 2 to play,
in a close and well-played match. Mr.
Darling's trophy also is a handsome cup.
The third and fourth flight finais were
decided Saturday.
KETCHEL AND JOHNSON TO
CLASH IN 20-ROUND BOUT
CHICAGO. ILL., Sept. 1.—Steve
Ketchel's next tight will be with Ed
die Johnson, the ’’fighting Dane." of
Denver. The boys are scheduled to
meet in Pueblo September 15 over
a distance of twenty rounds and are
to weigh in at 133 pounds at 3 o’clock.
The Englewood star has shown by
his recent great fights that he is one
of the classiest lightweights turned
out in Chicago in many a day. Up
in Canada his many admirers con
sider him another Battling Nelson.
SOX MAY GET KELLIHER.
HARTFORD, CONN , Sept. 1.—Mick
ey Kelliher, the first baseman of the lo
cal Eastern Association baseball team,
will Join the Red Sox, by the purchase
route, if he survives the draft next
month.
Bv Fuzzy Woodruff.
H AD William Andrew Smith and
his Crackers started their sen
sational spurt to the wire at
the quarter pole instead of waiting
until the stretch, William Andrew
and the Crackers would have per
formed a feat that has been done but
once before in the history of Judge
Senator President Kavanaugh’s cir
cuit. It would have been the case of
a club's rising in one brief year from
cellar to the top rung of the per
centage ladder.
Bill Bernhard turned the trick for
Nashville in 1908. and strange to say.
he did it after the Vols had finished
in eighth place . for two successive
years.
• • *
TT is strange that the feat Isi not ae
1 eomplished more frequently. Of
course, taking a cellar major club to
a pennant is a different thing, but
in the minor league, where clubs are
practically built anew each year, it
would seem far from impossible for
the team of lowly standing to rise to
the Mublimest heights in a twelfth-
month. ^ ,
But it’s evidently a pretty tough
job. If it were not it would be done
mire often. , ,
The first pennant of the rejuvenate.!
Southern League was won in 1901 b>
Newt Fisher at Nashville. He re
peated in 1902.
Charley Frank won his brackets
with Memphis, in 1903. but Frank had
been well up in the first division the
year before and had a team of vet
erans in a circuit that was far from
being as strong as it is to-day.
* • *
L EW WHISTLER took what Frank
left in the Turtle City in 1904
and galloped in with the honors, but
Frank left him much of his pennant-
winning bunch.
Frank had builded well in New Or
leans that year and had his club in
third place at the end of the sea
son. He came back in 1905 and just
breezed in. though his club was driven
from home by the last yellow fever
epidemic.
Harry Vaughn had made a good bid
for Birmingham in the closing year
of 1905 and in 1906 came along and
won a pretty race.
Atlanta had been comfortably clew
up when Vaughan won and under Bill
Smith’s capable guidance came in
with the Crackers’ first pennant i
1907. That year John Dobbs had the
Nashville club and finished a miser
able last, despite capable manage
ment. Bill Bernhard was put jn charge
in 1908 and, with the fine nucleus
of a ball club left by Dobbs and a
little loosening of the Nashville purse
strings, won in a hair-raising finish
from New Orleans, the odds-on
favorite.
* * •
O LD Bill Smith had been right up
fighting all year and was in ex
cellent shape to come back in 1-909.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Ad Wolgast, ex lightweight champion,
will get into action to-day. Ad is schorl
tiled to meet Joe Azevedo in a ten-round
sel-to at San Francisco. Ad says his
left hand is good again and expects to
stop his rival before the tenth round.
* * *
Frank Moran's manager and publicity
promoter is busy sending out dope to
show that Moran is. on past per
formances. a better betting proposition
than Al I’alzer. The two heavyweights*
clash in a ten-round go at New York
this month.
* * *
“Bob” McAllister, the San Francisco
middleweight, has retired from the ring
temporarily because of his youth. This
new style alibi will unquestionably he
regarded with interest by the boxers |
of past generations, who. while nearing
the half-century mark, insist they are
the real hopes of the white race.
* * *
If Jake Abel wants to step out of
retirement he can have a battle with
his ancient enemy, Terry Nelson. The
local Greek lightweight received an offer
from Augusta. Ga.. yesterday for a bout
against the Hebrew lightweight. Terry
is still of the opinion tHat he can take
Jake to a neat lacing
Charlie White, one of the greatest
lightweights in the game to-day. will
be called upon to meet Johnny Griffiths
at Akron. Ohio, this afternoon. The lat
ter has a string of 50 successive vic
tories. and it will be up to Charlie to
put a stop to Griffiths’ rapid rush to
the top of the ladder They are billed
to go twelve rounds.
• • *
George “Knockout” Brown is another
boxer who will don the padded mitts
to-dav. George taken on Gus Christie
at Terre Haute. Ind., the latter being
substituted for Jack Dillon. Tommy
Walsh, manager of Brown, is looking
for his protege to come home with a
decisive victory.
* * *
Kid Kansas, the Eastern lightweight
who has fought such 'stars as Bert
Keyes. Jimmy Duffy. K. O. Brown and
Young Shugrue. is anxious to come to
Atlanta. Kansas is particularly wild
to get a match with either Charlie
White or Frank Whitney.
* * •
Instead of boxing Johnny Dundee at
Los Angeles to-day Leach Cross will he
battling Jack Boscawen at Vancouver
There is still a slight chance of Leach
being put on in place of Freddie Welch
against Willie Ritchie on September 20
The Englishman’s ankle is not as strong
as it should be.
• * *
The busiest man in the boxing game
is said to be Danny Morgan. The talka
tive manager is handling about ten
fighters and is also in a position where
he can get in touch with any of the
star Eastern scrappers. And still they
say Morgan is broke.
Two Hurlers Kingpins of Game
4*#*i*
Mathewson and Johnson Stars
By H. M. Walker.
P ITCHERS may come and pitchers may go, but Walter Johnson and
Christy Mat hey Son we have with us always.
The Washington Wizard failed in his attempt last week to win
his fifteenth straight game when he let the Red Sox down with three hits
and lost to them 1 to 0 in eleven innings.
“Big Six” is easing his great arm with all the cunning at his command,
nursing himself along for the trial of all diamond trials—the world’s
series of next October.
In all probability Mathewson will be called upon to work in three
games against the Athletics. Had Washington been able to win the Ameri
can League pennant Johnson would have been asked to do the same amount
of work for the Senators.
Imagine the winning or losing of a world’s series deluding upon the
efforts of two men. The major leagues fairly twinkle with star performers,
but if it came down to a question of.dollars, cents and public worship,
Johnson and Mathewson would lx* tagged the two most valuable players
in the world to-day.
Their successors? As Blinkey Ben would say: ‘‘There ain’t going to
be no such animal.”
* * *
1 ARRY M’LEAX is working for John J. McGraw. There’s one fight
we would like to see.
* * *
H UGHEY JENNINGS says Ty Cobb is worth every cent of $100,000.
• The Detroit papers claim that the entire Tiger outfit* is worth all of
$7.85. It’s all in the point of view.
* * *
A CHICAGO man was arrested for claiming that he would live to see
the day when Cincinnati and St. Louis would play in the world’s
scries. Enough "hop” to clean out a Chinese laundry was found in his
pockets.
j
OIINNIE WILLIAMS is going to France. The next announcement will
1m» that Charley Lcdoux is sailing for America.
And he did. winning in a grand race
with Nashville and New Orleans as
the principal contenders.
Frank had a great organization in
1910 and won with tase, although
crowded at times by the Barons, who
had taken on new life with Moles-
worth as manager and Rick Wood
ward as owner of the club.
He repeated ; n 1911 after a thrillir g
finish with Dobbs’ Montgomery club
and the Barons. That year the
Crackers finished a sorry eighth.
The Barons had been building f«*r
three years and came along for, the
championship in handy style in 1912
and won handily, though driven one*
or twice by Mobile, which gave in
dications last year of the strength it
has shown this year. The Cracker;-,
it will be remembered again, finished
as low as they could without drop
ping out of the race
And now it seems that the runner-
up Gulls of 1912 are to be the cham
pions of 1913, but. the Crackers under
Smith have put up a remarkable bat
tle. considering the fact that Hemp
hill left Billy nothing but Alperman
and Agler.
• • •
IF Smith had won. more credit world
* have been due him than was due
Bernhard for his remarkable 1908
race. For Dobbs had left Bernhard
a ball club, or the basis of one. while
Hemphill left Smith little more than
a ball lot and some bat bags, and two
players, one of whom was hurt at the
most critical point in the race.
“SEPT.
H
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
J OIINNIE COriJiN advises that his physical condition is such that he
will never Ik* able to defend the bantamweight title again. He probably
will improve rapidly after J. Williams has left for other shores.
* * *
r.\B<>AT” SMITH dashes madly into print with the announcement
that he stands ready to light Sam Langford, but insists that it be a
battle to a finish.
* * *
117 ELTER W EI (IHT CHAMPION PACKET M’FAR LAND will meet any
VY 142-pound man in the world, providing said 142-pound man doesn’t
weigh over 128 ringside.
* * #
EACHKS CROSS is returning to New York. Matty Baldwin will
rejoice at the news. Mat and Leaches are great little pals.
L
Ball Player Refuses
Contract; Suspended
NEW YORK. Sept. 1.—The Brooklyn
club has suspended Raleigh AJtchison,
the pitcher recently purchased from
Newark, for refusing to sign a contract.
The club offered him the customary 25
per cent increase of salary over that
which he received from the International
League club.
Pitcher Byers Is
Released by Sox
BOSTON, Sept. 1.—Pitcher Byers, who
Joined the Red Sox early last week and
was given a try-out against the Syra
cuse team on Wednesday, was released
by Manager Bill Carrigan yesterday and
sent to his home in Minnesota. Byers
proved very wild in his appearance
against the New York Staters and Car
rigan took it for granted he would not
do in the big leagues.
The Cleveland Naps moved half a
game nearer the Athletics by conquer
ing the St. Louis Browns. Within a
week the Naps have succeeded in reduc
ing the lead of the Athletics from 9Vfc
games to 7.
• • •
Twenty-two hits were made in Sun
day’s slugging match between the White
Sox and the Detroit Tigers, the Tigers
winning the game
• * *
The National League went through
yesterday's schedule without a forfeited
game. The Reds slammed the Cardi
nals twice and the Cubs beat the Pi
rates.
Not counting purchases by the draft
ing process on September 15 the New
York Yankees have spent $50,000 for
new players this season who will help
Manager Frank Chance make up a
strong baseball team next year.
• • •
Legal Adviser Branch Rickey, of the
St Ixiuis Browns, will succeed George
Stovall as manager within two weeiks,
according to an authoritative report.
• * *
It is said that formal charges will be
brought by President H. N. Hempstead,
of the Giants, against Manager Dooin,
of the Phillies, for the latter’s un
bridled talk after Saturday's forfeited
yame in Philadelphia It is charged
that Dooin madt* the assertion in Hemp
stead's presence that "the New York
Giants could buy the umpires.”
* • •
The Boston Braves who tackle the
Giants to-day have been greatly
strengthened since their last apear-
ance at the Polo grounds.
Seven Ball Leagues
Close Season To-day
Seven baseball leagues will bring their
seasons to a close to-day with double-
headers.
Here Is the list: South Atlantic. Ap
palachian, Canadian, Central, Kitty,
Michigan State and Northern.
There are several other leagues that
close their season with the end of the
present week.
T "l T ELL. the Crackers are right
\/\/ jam up against it this Sep
tember morn, and—as re
marked with alarming frequency re
cently—this afternoon’s low. de
scending sun is due to gild either a
Revived Hope or cast a sorrowful
wreath of golden beams athwart the
new-made grave of the Last Chance.
And all that sort of thing.
Bill Smith was not highly excited
this morning. Bill was eating tobac
co at the usual rate, but he was not
throwing any fits His statement was
brief and to the point..
“We're out there to lick ’em two
games,” said Bill. "As to what hap
pens in Chattanoga. we can’t help
that. Our Job is with the Pelicans.
We'll do our durndest- -hasn’t some
guy said angels couldn’t do any bet
ter? I reckon that applies to hall
players, too."
Bill was manifestly cheered up,
however, at the news that Sommers
and Coveleskie were scheduled to at
tack the Gulls in Chattanooga.
For the Crackers( Carl Thompson
has been groomed for the opening
struggle this morning. Elliott Dent
will be intrusted with the afternoon
combat, if his lfime shoulder is well
enough. If not -well, Bill will see.
• • •
’T* HE absence of a Labor Day pa-
* rade. and the desperate finisn
staged by the Crackers, attracted a
great crowd t<> the ball park for the
opening struggle. Birmingham’s
chances to cop any attendance record
from Atlanta this year looked mighty
slim at 10 o’clock this morning, the
viewpoint being the Ponce DeLeon
press box.
FIT SI 0.
ILL THIS WEEK
L AST call to beat Birmingham!
This week winds up the
Southern League season.
Atlanta still Is struggling toward
the top of the heao in the leicue
standing—and Atlanta and Birm'ug-
ham are neck and neck for the top of
the heap in the season’s attendance.
The fans did well last week, and
cut down Birmingham’s boastful mar
gin to a degree that can be bridged
by a full house every day this week.
Beginning with this morning, the
“S. R. O." sign should be displayed
at Ponce DeLeon Park every day.
Indications are that the Crackers
and the Pels will play to capacity
houses In both engagements to-day,
and that Birmingham will be rele
gated to its proper place In the list
of baseball towns in the Southern
League.
Atlanta is the best baseball town
in the South—and now is the time to
demonstrate it.
HENRICKSEN RECOVERING.
BOSTON. Sept. 1.—Olaf Henrlck-
sen is at his home in Canton con*
valescing from the operation for ap
pendicitis which was performed on
I him in Chicago. He is getting along
i very nicely.
THE ATLANTA SEAT SALE
TO-DAY
Wed. and Thurs.; Mat. Thurs.
Nights 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to $1.
WILLIAM PFIRRMANN
1 PRESENTS
THE
MUSICAL COMEDY SUCCESS
MARY5LAHB
BY RICHARD CARLE
WITH
DEN MCGRATH
PRODUCTION DE LUXE
50 PEOPLE.
LYRIC ALL THIS WEEK
Matinees Mon.. Tues., Thurs. and Sat.
EMMA BUNTING
In Her Greatest Success
“THE CIRCUS GIRL”
Special Matinee Labor Day.
FORSYTH
TO-NIGHT 8:30
Sam Mann & Co., TSSJSr'
WILLARD SIMMS & CO ALEXANDER & SCOTT
GASCH SISTERS MAMIE ELMORE
CAMILLE'S POODLES R. E. KEANE
KEITH VAUDEVILLE ALWAYS
BASEBALL
■TO-DAY-
New Orleans vs. Atlanta
TWO GAMES
10:45 A. III. and 2:30 P. M.
HEMPHILL OUT FOR SEASON.
ST. PAUL. Sept. 1.—Charles Hemp
hill. the local American Association
team’s right fielder, has been mus-
pended for the remainder of the sea
son by Manager Friel. Failure to keep
in condition is given as the cause.
The suspension followed Hemphill’s
failure to report at the' park in a re
cent game.
Motor Races
8:30 To-night
Motordrome