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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