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♦G 1E0MM SPORTS’ CQ¥1 ERED-^1 EXPO ffs* 1903—- WHITE HOPES—1913 ,l a .±, SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT McGraw’s Bluff Gets Him His. $25,000 Salary +•4* 4 , *4* 4*t4 # 4**4' +§4* Threatened to Quit if Given Less Money VJHlTH HOpEi TOOfVf THE POSE £SNO V'AEItyH'H but li me EXCEPT PA/VNA &£$• tr^ PAlxe-j? Awd rv40 RA VAULL HOPE IT O 0T~ •SOOu ,u m-V. And Maybe We Shouldn't Hand It CRACKERS SMASH WAY T */o Elberfeld’s 0 CHANCE A' Pepper Kids~ f 1913 PENI -What? v'ANT By 0. B. Keeler. W ELL, boys, we're still THERE. As these few twittering lines escape a stalled and har assed typewriter, the Crackers are resting in their tents, calmly contem plating the toughest test an Atlanta ball club ever went up against. And the fluttering Gulls, pop-eyed from a terrific upheaval by the Pep per Kids, are fighting for their sec ond wind, and wondering if they can take as many as ONE GAME from the Town Boys. • • • B IL.L SMITH and his men smashed their way to the supreme test by winning eleven out of the last twelve games. Winning eleven out of twelve games is something of a trick, at any stage of a pennant race. It reaches the Homeric stage when those games MUST be won—when the Last Chance tension strings the nerves to the snapping point in EVERY GAME. And for nearly two weeks, now_. the Crackers have trotted on the field dally, knowing well that the Last Chance was hanging on every game; on every play; at times on every ball pitched or pegged or hit. * * • G ET this, boys — e-o-u-r-a-g-e doesn't spell all of what the Crackers displayed In fighting for that Pinal Crack at Mobile. It's a shorter word than "courage," and It means a lot more. But we can’t get It by the proofreader. It’s a little old. good old Anglo-Sax on word, and the polite name for It is “viscera.” . That’s what the Crackers used In their smashing fight. ... A ND what Is this Last Chance, that has sent a game ball club fight ing like the Greeks at the gates of Troy, and turned the best baseba’l town in the South upside-down, and got Itself talked about by everybody, everywhere? • • • T HIS is the Last Chance. Mobile is here to play four games, one a day. Mobile has a lead of three games on the Crackers After the Mobile series. Atlanta plays one game with Chattanooga, and Mobile plays two games with New Orleans. Atlanta’s Last Chance at the 1S13 pennant Is to trim the Gulls FOUR' GAMES IN A ROW. That's all. • • » E VEN "that mightn't win the rag. That performance would put the Crackers one game to the good. Then, if they could beat the Pepper Kids from Chattanooga — probably with th. Big Pole pitching—the. Gulls could go ahead and beat the Pels twice In the same rlace. and the Crackers would finish the season half a game ahead. • • v O N the other hand. If the Pepper Kids trimmed the Crackers in that single game Saturday, while the Gulls beat New Orleans, the two clubs would stand at a tie in the percentage column. Then it all would depend on that single game between Mobile and New' Orleans, played in Mobile Sunday. Mobile would win or lose the pen nant by that game. • * * S O you see what a fragile thing it is—this Last Chance that Bill Smith and the Crackers have fought their hearts out to get; the chance to try to whip Mobile FOUR GAMES IN A ROW. That’s w’hat It Is. * • * B UT we want to say. here and now, that even if the Gulls win to-day, and win to-morrow—if they win the series straight—we want to say that Bill Smith and the Crackers of 1913 have earned their niche in the Hall of Fame, and a place in the heart of every true baseball fan in Atlanta. No ball club, and no manager, ever made a gamer fight against heavier odds than Bill Smith and the Crack ers of 1913. Charlie White Hands Griffiths Bad Lacing CANTON, OHIO, Sept. 2.—Johnny Griffiths, the local sensation, suffered the first defeat of his career at the hands of Charlie White, in a twelve- round bout here yesterday. White gave the greatest exhibition of boxing ever witnessed in a local ring. The Chicago boy had a big margin in eight of the twelve rounds and nearly had Griffiths out at the finish. White showed a stiff punch in his left hand, and several times made the home boy cover up in order to keep from being knocked out. Griffiths managed to have a slight shade in two rounds, while the other two were even. This Is the first time that Griffiths was forced to leave the ring a loser. He was badly beaten at the finish. Promoters here are now trying to match White with either Joe Mandot, Tommy Murphy or Leach Cross. His showing here yesterday entitles him to a bout with the best in the light weight division. Dent or Price for ‘Jump Game’ ***••!• •£•••!• Crackers Tuned for Great Series G ilbert price or Elliott Dent will draw the pitching assign ment in the “Jump” game of the sternest series -of the year—the grimmest and most important that has confronted a Southern League ball club since Atlanta faced the Pel icans in 1904, with four straight games to win, or lose the pennant. Billy Smith was quite himself this morning, after the terrific strain of yesterday. But he was in no wise talkative, that not being his custom. "We’ll do our best,” Bill said. “We know what we are up against, and it’s a tough Job. But I never saw the boys more confident.” In fact, in the clubhouse yesterday afternoon, when the Crackers had beaten out the Pelicans in a hair-lift ing finish, and the news had been re ceived that Chattanooga had beaten the Gulls, the members of the Cracker club gathered in a close conference. And at the end of it they shook hands all ’round. And they said to each other: “Boys, we can lick these birds—and we’re going to do it.” That’s the way they feel about It. And we believe they’re going to be mighty tough picking for those said Gulls. C HICAGO, Sept. 2.—John J. Mc- Graw, of the New York Giants, is the highest paid manager in baseball. McGraw receives $25,000 a year for managing the Giants. McGraw will receive this sum for five years after the expiration of 1913. For the first time the inside story of the way in which McGraw signed this big contract is told. The story came from the lips of the little boss himself. And it revealed him as a man able to play the game of “bluff” off the field as well as on It. McGraw demanded that sum. And one of the reasons he secured it was because he offered just one alterna tive—his resignation. Here is what happened; McGraw, during the lifetime of John Brush, was satisfied. The relations of the magnate and the manager wen cordial. They understood each other McGraw knew’ what to expect and the two went along very pleasantly On the death of Mr. Brush new men I came to the head of the club. Mc- Graw’s contract had but a short time to run. As the story goes. Brush had as sured McGraw that for his faithful ness in handling the club he would be rewarded in Brush’s will. It was understood, it is said, that he would get a piece of the club. McGraw wa content. But w’hen the will was opened then was nothing thore for Mugffvy. An gered to the quick, he rushed in with his resignation. It is wild there were no prellmi naries. The scrappy manager said h. had come to resign. The officials couldn’t understand the proceeding They asked McGraw if he wasn’t sat isfied. He answered that he was not. They wanted him to go into detail and to state his grievances. Then came the opening. They want ed to know’ whether there wasn’t sonc way by which he could he retained if there were not some clrcumstan< ♦ which would cause him to reconsidei his determination. The fighting boss answered that there was. He stated that if hi9 sal ary was increased to $25,000 a year and the contract ran for five year> he wmuld sign a new contract then and there. They demurred. McGraw w'as get ting In th<> neighborhood of $18,0< It was pointed out that this wm rather a heavy increase. McGraw ad mitted the fact, but stated that $25.00' a year for five yearn was his price. A new contract was drawn up. Me Gravv was handed a pen. He affixed his signature and went out of the office of the New York ball club the highest salaried man connected with the playing end of the game. The story comes straight from the little Napoleon, as they sometimes call him, himself. In those five years McGraw will be paid $125,000. And you can wager it isn’t one of those baseball contracts that permit a club owner t,o turn player, salary and all over to some other club or give him his uncon ditional release, with the salary ceas ing on the day that it goes into ef fect. • It’s $25,000 » year for five years, rain, shine, thunder, lightning, first place, last place, top of the second division or last place in the first. MANAGER DRAWS SUSPENSION. FORT WAYNE, IND., Sept. 2—Pres ident Heilbronner, of the Central League, to-day suspended for the remainder of the season Manager Nee, of the Day- ton club, and imposed a limit fine on the player for his attack upon Umpire Robs during Sunday’s game at Dayton. High School Sprinter Ties World's Record HARTFORD, CONN., Sept.. 2.—How ard P. Drew, the Springfield, Mass., High School sprinter, yesterday equaled the world's record in the 100-yard dash on Charter Oak track at the Connecticut Fair, going the distance in 9 3-5. Five stop watches caught the time at 9 3-6, and this time was offorally announced, but it was given out later mat two stop watches had caught 9 2-5. A rew min utes later Drew ran the 220 yards in ;22. HEAVIES IN SHAPE. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Both Frank Moran and A1 Palzer. “white hopes,” announced to-day that they were in prime condition for their ten-round bout which is to he staged in this city to morrow night. Palzer Is a slight fa vorite in the betting. Brown and Christie In Ten-Round Draw TERRE HAUTE, IND., Sept. 2.— George “Knockout” Brown and Gus Christie battled ten rounds to a draw here yesterday. Brown kept on top of his opponent at all times, and had he been able to land more clean blows would have carried off the ver dict. Christie was the cleverer of the two and fought the cleaner fight. The bout was full of action. Third-Rater Gives Wolgast Bad Beating OAKLAND, CAL., Sept. 2.—Ad Wolgast, former lightweight champion of the world, arrived at the conclu sion to-day that he belongs to the “has-been” class. The “Michigan Wildcat” tri^d conclusions yesterday with Joe Azevedo, regarded as a third- rater, and the latter severely punched the former champion. He battered Ad all arounfi the ring and sending him crashing to the mat in the seventh round. Wolgast was on his feet at the finish of the ten-round bout. NEW PACING RECORD. H VRTFORD, C< INK., s.-pt. 2. Braden Direct to-day is the holder of the sea son’s pacing record. He stepped a heat hero yesterday in 2:0214- BROU’S INJFOTlOy—A P f n. l —' MANF-NT (IRK of the moat obstinate case* guaranteed in from 3 to 6 days ; no other treatment required. Sold by all druggists. M’DERMOTT FIRST IN SWIM. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2.—Mike McDermot*. of the Illinois Athletic Club, won the seventh annual national championship 10-miie sw’im, conducted by the Missourf Athletic Club here to-day. He covered the distance in 1 hour 50 minutes and 45 seconds. -8MOUV1IW UO 3MVM3 B - AN NATMOOdS lSAaN3H £6 N31NVW HOHJ ■09TIVHM Aa xoa iviHxHogisissnua xv - - inoinu Diaiyaiimj A.V N3IAPCJAG3 S’3TfiSdVO. ^ y o y T 9 , d o 4 318Vn3d cno 3H1, SOUTH ATLANTIC SEASON ENDS; SAVANNAH WINS FLAG SAVANNAH, Sept. 2.—The South At lantic League has closed the second half of its 1913 season. Savannah finished in first place with Jacksonville second, Columbus third and Albany, Charleston and Macon next in order. Savannah won In the first half of the season and gets the pennant. Savannah won 34 and lost 25 games during the second period. 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