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% i \ 'it •a EOEQ I&M STPO CO¥l ESiDf] EXPEI STS* 1903 WHITE HOPES 1913 E Copyright, ►y Tad 1913, International News Service. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT McGraw’s Bluff Gets Him His $25,000 Salary •{•••I* *{•••$• 4**^* ^t*!* Threatened to Quit If Given Less Money High School Sprinter Ties World's Record vjh ms WOpES ioQW the POSE ' i''- » ^,^40 v>iE'<yHT' PUT LITTLE ETiG EXCEPT PAfrcNA frElL * PAl-z.E'R AMD MOEAM WILL HOPE IT oUT~ •50 O/U ,M Sl-V' And Maybe We Shouldn’t Hand It to Elberfeld’s Pepper Kids—Whai? 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. HI 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. tbw. Wh ittingi th r,, B 4 tlj L L 1 1 t ft- U The Biggest Hit at the Ball Game #5] BASEBALL TO-DAY Every day of the baseball season a thousand ball games are played throughout the United States—and hundreds of thousands of “fans” enjoy “Bull” Durham hand-made cigarettes while they watch the games. “Bull” Durham has become a part of the national game. Millions of “fans” would no sooner think of sitting through a ball game without rolling “Bull” Durham, than they would think of seeing a circus without peanuts. 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