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1 1 1903 — WHITE HOPES — 1 1913 By Tad Copyright, 1913, International News Service. — SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUiT >4E MUAi l-»eu-e TH6V ) ANN 516- FAT gooB IS A HOPE "TVie.5^ 0A-/-> McGraw’s Bluff Gets Him His $25,000 Salary ^ wISXcoS ^••1* •$•••!• •I’tv 4*+ +•+ Threatened to Quit if Given Less \ttH\TE HOPE'S TO Ok-/ mane nve Pose \/ AMO VJE'&HT" guT LITTLE elie ) tvAANA&E^-S. PAL7-^R Awd MORAhJ \aiill HOPE ir our £> OO ^ , bj KJ. V/ . And Maybe We Shouldn’t Hand It to Elberfeid’s Pepoer Kids—What ? CRACKERS SMASH WAY TO CHANCE AT 1913 PENNANT By 0. B. Keoler. 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 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 game-* is something of a trick, at any stage of a pennant race. It reaches the Homeric stage when those games MUST he 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 Last 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 (Track 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. 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 Bid Smith and the Crackers have fought their hearts out to git; rhe chance to try to w hip Mobile FOUR GAMES IN A ROW. That’s what it is. * * * Di T we want to say. here and now, that even if the Gulls win to-day, and win to-morrow —if they win the ^•eries straight—we want to say that 1 Bill Smith and the Crackers of 1913 j have earned their niche in the Hail ; of Fame, and a place in the heart of | every true baseball fan in Atlanta. No ball club, and no manager, eve made a gamer tight against heavier) odds than Bill Smith amd the Crack ers of 1913. ND what is this Last Chance, that has sent a game ball club fight A ing like the Greeks at the gates of Troy, and turned the best bas^b;Fl town in the South upside-down, and got itself talked about by everybody, everywhere? • • • 'T'HIS is the La?t Chance. I Mobile is here to play four game?, one a day. Mobile has a lead of three games on the Crackers. After the Mobile series. Atlanta play? one game with Chattanooga, and Mobile plays two games with New Orleans. Atlanta's Last Chance at the 1913 pennant i** to trim the Gulls FOUR games in a row. That’s all. • • • I ^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 Kid? from Chattanooga — probably with the Big Pole pitching—the Gulls could go ahead and beat the Pels twice in the same place, and the Cracker? would finish the season ha’f a game ahead. • • v O N the other hand. If the Pepper Kids trimmed the Crackers in ihnt single eame Saturday, while the Guile* 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- j round oout 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 ftni*h. 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 thi ring a loser. H? 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 Tump Game’ Crackers Tuned for Great Series G ilbert price or Kiiiott Dent will draw the pitcning 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. "Well do our best,” Bill said. "We know what we y are up against, and it’s a tough job. But I never saw the j 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 Tracker 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. Ar.d one of the reajions he secured it was because he offered Just one alterna tive—his resignation. Here is what happened: McGraw, during the lifetime of Job i Brush, was satisfied. The relations <*f the magnate and the manager were cordial. They understood each otheA McGraw knew what to’ expect am* the two went along very pleasantly < »n the death of Mr. Brush new men came to the head of the club. Mc Graw’s contract had but a short time | to r un. 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 sold, that he would get a piece of the club. McGraw wa content. But when the will was opened there was nothing there for Muggsv. An gored to the quick, he rushed In with his resignation. It is said there were no prelimi narie3. The scrappy manager said h« had come to resign. The official 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 detaii and to state £is grievances. Then came the opening. They want ed to know whether there wasn't som way by which he could be retained if there were not some oircumstan which would cause him to reconside his determination. Thf* fighting boss answered tlv there was. He stated that if his sal ary was increased to $23..»00 a yen and the contract ran for fiv** year i he would sign a new' contract thei and there. They demurred. McGraw was gel ting in the neighborhood of $18,000 It was pointed out that this wa rather a heavy increase. McGraw ad mitted the fact, but stated that $25.not a year for five years was his price. A new contract was drawn up. Me <C?raw 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 come, straight from the little Napoleon, as ibey 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 othei club or give him his uncon ditional release, with the salary ceas ing on the day that it goes into ef fect. It’s $25,000 ** year for five years, rain, shine, thunder, lightning, first place, last place, top of the second division or last place in the first. HARTFORD, CONN., Sept. 2.—How ard P. Drew, the Springfield, Mass., High School sprinter, yesterday equaled the world's record in the 100-yard dash on Charter Oak track at the Connecticut Fair, going the distance in 9 3-5. Five stop watches caught the time at 9 3-5. and this time was offctally announced, but it was given out later r-iat two stop watches had caught 9 2-5. A rew min utes later Drew ran the 220 yards in :22. MANAGER DRAWS SUSPENSION. FORT WAYNE. IND., Sept. 2.—Pres ident Heilbronner, of the Central League, to-day suspended f<»r the remainder of the season Manager Nee, *>f the Day- ton dub, and imposed a limit fine on the player for his attack upon Umpire Ross during Sunday’s game at Dayton. HEAVIES IN SHAPE. NEW YORK. Sept. 2.—Both Frank Moran and A1 Falser, "white hopes,” announced to-day that they were in prime condition for their ten-round bout which is to he staged in this city to morrow night. Palzer is a slight fa vorite In the betting. *$ 5QQP ,feRjHITTING! THf, B tjLL b* Brown and Christie » In Ten-Round Draw TERRE HAUTE, IND., Sept. 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 j 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” 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. NEW PACING RECORD HARTFORD. CONN., Sept. 2. Braden Direct to-day is the holder of the rea son's pacing record He stepped a heat here yesterday in 2:02*4- BROILS M'DERMOTT FIRST IN SWIM. ST LOUIS, Sepi 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 j in first place with Jacksonville second. Columbus third and Albany. Charleston ! and Macon next In order. Savannah j w-on in the first half of the season and [ gets the pennant. Savannah won 34 ) and lost 25 games during the second period. BASEBALL -TO-DAY MOBILE vs. ATLANTA Game Called 3:39 FORSYTH ? ECZEMA And all aliments of the akin, such as tetter, ringworm, ground dtrh and erysipelas are In stantly relieved and permanently cured to stay cured by TETTERINE Don’t suffer when you can relieve yourself | so easily. Read what Mrs A. B. King. St. Louis, says Hava been treated by special 1st for ecze ma without success. After using Tetterlne a few weeks I am at last cured 50c at druggists, or by mall. SHUPTRIME CO SAVANNAH. GA. 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