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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
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CRACKERS SMASH WAY TO CHANCE AT 1913 PENNANT
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.
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.
'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 what 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.
B ILL 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
daily, knowing well that the La?it
Chance was hanging on every game;
on every play; at times on every ball
pitched or pegged or hit.
G ET this, boys — c-o-u-r-a-g-e
doesn't spell all of what the
Crackers displayed In fighting for that
Final 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 basebaM
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 Lost Chance at the 1913
pennant i-i to trim the Gulls FOUR
GAMES IN A ROW.
That’s all.
E VEN that mightn’t win the rag.
1 That performance would put
the Crackers one game to the good.
Then, if they could heat the pepper
Kids from Chattanooga—probably
with the Big Pole pitching—the Gulls
could go ahead and beat the Pels
twice in the same place, and the
Crackers would finish the season half
a game ahead.
O N the other hand, if the Pepper
Kids trimmed the Crackers in
tha* single game Saturday, while the
Gulls beat New Orleans, the two clubs
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 lscal 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
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.
NEW PACING RECORD.
HARTFORD, CONN., Sept. 2.—Braden
Direct to-day is the holder of the sea
son’s pacing record. He stepped a heat
here yesterday in 2:02Vi.
BROU’S
IXJKCTION--A PER.
LJV 11 M A y F N T Cl It E
of the most obstinate eases guaranteed in from
3 to 6 days ; no other treatment required.
Sold by all druggists.
G ilbert price or Eiiiott 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 Baid
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 Ups of the little boss
himself. And it revealed him as a
man able to play-the game of “bluff”
I 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 Joh '
Brush, was satisfied. The relations
of the magnate and the manager were
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
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 wa?
understood, it Is said, that he would
get a piece of the club. McGraw wa-
content.
But when the will was opened ther-
was nothing there for Muggsy. An
gored to the quick, he rushed in with
his resignation.
It is said there were no prelimi
narles. The scrappy manager said h*
had come to resign. The officials
couldn’t understand the proceeding
They naked McGraw if he wasn’t sat
isfled. He answered that he was not
They wanted him to go into detail
and to ntate his grievances.
Then came the opening. They want
ed to know whether there wasn't sonv
way by which he could be retained
if there were not Rome circumstance*
which would cause him to reconside:
his determination.
The fighting boss answered tha’
t here wa s. He stated that If 1 la
ary was increased to $25,000 a yea/
and the contract ran for five years
he would sign a new contract then
and there.
They demurred. McGraw was get
ting in the neighborhood of $18,000
It was pointed out that this was
rather a heavy increase. McGraw ad
mitted the fact, but stated that $25,00e
a year for five yearsi was his price.
A new' contract was drawn up. Mc
Graw 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 to 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.
HARTFORD, CONN., Sept. 2—How
ard P. Drew, the Springfield, Maas.,
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 3-5,
and this time was offcrally announced,
but it was given out later tnat two stop
watches had caught 9 2-5. A rew min
utes later Drew ran the 220 yards in :22.
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 chib, and imposed a limit fine on the
player for hia Attack upon (Imp re Ross
during Sunday’s game at Dayton.
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.
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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” tried conclusions yesterday
with Joe Azevedo, regarded as a third-
rater, and the latter severely punched
the former champion. He battered Ad
all around 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.
M'DERMOTT FIRST IN SWIM.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2—Mike McDermot*.
of the Illinois Athletic Club, won the
seventh annual national championship
10-mile swim, conducted by the Missouri
Athletic Club here to-day. He covered
the distance in 1 hour 50 minutes and
45 seconds.
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 loHt 25 games during the second
period.
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