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THE ASSASSIN
By Tad
Copyright, 1913, International News
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lot Boasting, but Ready /
LER TELLS HOW 1
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TEAM FEELS A
Fight They Have
lBOHT task
Bv Joe Agler.
lyTHILE it isn’t exactly the time
W for letting off a ijt or h r d
air, 1 want to say »h;it the
Crackers licked the Gull# yesterday,
and licked them good and plenty.
OT that Finn’s rr*rn quit. They
did not quit, or show any signs
of quitting. If anything, they made
more fuss in the field than we did.
and they were fighting all the way.
But while we are charged with more
error# than they are, 1 believe a
(dose survey of the game will show
that they overlooked enough bets to
more than balance the account, and
that, to my mind, shows they were
feeling the strain.
I know all of oar boys were feeling
it. Speaking" for myself, I know' it
was all I could do to look over old
Hogg carefully .when I was at bat
and not give way to a crazy desire
to swing like a garden gate at every
thing he wheeled up—for. as I said
before, Hogg had some stuff yester
day.
• * •
A ND Tight there was where the
** Gull# played into Dent’s hand.
Dent had it on them, anyway, and
I am sure he would have beaten them
that we’d every one give the best we
had in the shoo to this next series,
and win if we could, and lose fighting
all the way if we couldn’t.
• * *
A PTER the game yesterday, the
bunch had another little round
up In the clubnouse. and they were a
shade more cheerful. Not that we
feel that three game# in a row aren’t
just about as tough as four to win,
when you have to win every one.
But we felt we had one of Mobile's
Crackers Face An Old Task CRACKERS *RE
In Same Fix Nine Years Ago PLIYilS UNDER
By an Ex-Sport.
A TLANTA’S desperate fighting
chance for the Southern
League pennant this year had
an almost exact parallel nine years
ago when Ab Powell’s team was faced
with the task of winning nine straight
games at the < lose of the season in
order to rapture the so-ealled gon
falon.
Tiie parallel goes so far that the
next to the last series of the year
was against the leaders, New Or
leans—managed, as now, by Chubby
Charley Frank. In one particular, ail
fans join in the hope that the par
allel will not V>e carried out. Atlanta
lost one of the necessary games, and
the pennant as well.
They played later in September
then than in these effete and degen
erate days. And along about the
hr*t of the month of oysters. Frank
and hie Pelicans left New Orleans,
far in the lead in tin* league race. It
was regarded certain that the flag
would come bark with the team.
So Frank made a triumphal march
of it. He had the team photographed
before leaving home, had half-tone
engravings made of his* stalwart ath
letes. labeled as the *'1904" cham
pion^'' and prepared to distribute
these among all newspapers in towns
in which he and his hand appeared
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T T NFOITI’NATELY f-*r Frank and
v “-' his premature champions, everv
night on that trip was a big night
for them. The popping of cork- made
more of a fusillade than the crack
of their bats against the ball.
And by the time the Pelicans
reached Atlanta this situation existed
By defeating the Pelican# in four
straight games and then defeating
Shreveport (yes Bobby Gilks was
managing 'em then, as usual) the
Cracker.- were -ure of the pennant,
' i*h Lew Whistler’s Memphis team
enlv an eyelash behind.
So Ab Powell and Atlanta went
right to it. Powell sent down to
Bill Smith’s Ma< on team and bought
the late Alvin Bayne, Georgian-born
and ;.# remarkable a youngster as
•vex hurled i rvi u, sent over to
Charleston and bought "Doc" Childs
of Butts County. Georgia. Thus for
tified by new pitchers to help out
old Charley Smith and Jack Ely, it
appeared that the Crackers had a
bare lighting chance.
And. take my word for it, there was
something in the nature of a base
ball fight put up at Piedmont Park
for four successive days. Frank’s
team was really no slouch, and by the
time they had readied Atlanta and
had sweated the alcohol out ;>f their
systems at a Turkish bath, they were
fighting mad and ready to put up a
real scrap for the pennant.
• • •
CAN Saturd * the -• ason opened and
Doc Childs, wild as a hawk, but
unhittable. was put in to tame them
Doc did it admirably. Atlanta wofi
' >n V. • . < ' rdy Smith. ■ .«
the Cubs, had them eating out of his
hand, and Victory No. 2 was marked
up for the Crackers.
On Tuesday, Alvin Bayne who had
'••von 40 games and the first South
Atlantic League pennant for Billy
Smith pitched, and the Pelicans were
almost licked for the year.
But there was one more game to
the seri. .
Powell sent Doc Childs* back in to
wind it up. Frank, offered Winsome
Winnie French, who had a round
house curve and consummate courage
an his excuse for pitching.
The game opened badly for At
lanta. Childs it it the * it batter, then
cut loose with a wild pitch on which
the runner went to third. A fly to
the outfield scored what turned otjj
to be tiie only run of the game.
After that Childs was the master
of the Pelicans. The only trouble
was that French wan the master of
the Crackers. And it so happened
that two men were out in the ninth
inning and the game and the pennant
gone a-glimmering when Childs him
self came- to bat.
Doc’s normal batting average was
.038.
Doc singled.
Then Doc stole second base. Dot
weighed 210 pounds and was slower
than old Harry Meek. But he didn t
know when to quit lighting! So Doe
lit out and stole third.
• • •
T LL never forget the finish of that
* game George Winter- was at bat,
nervous for perhaps the only time in
his life. A hit from him meant may
be a pennant. There were two strikes
on him. and there on third base was
Doc Childs, puffing and dancing and
sweating and blowing and fighting
as game a fight as ever man put up
for a chance to save the year.
French ut loose a curve. Winters
swung, mis i d. and the game was
over. But only a tenth of a second
before Childs hurled his tremendous
form across the plate.
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C* * Atlanta didn’t w in the pennant.
^ New Orleans didn' . either, for
Lew Whistler and his Memphis team
had gone one game ahead while tiie
Crackers and the Pelicans were bat
tering each other.
But so long as certain old-time fana
know a baseball from a tomato can,
Doc Childs, of Jackson. Butts County,
G 'orgla, now a idler of the soil, will
stand out as a man who played out
hi# string in the face of certain de
feat and who never said. "I quit."
For in this one game Doc threw
out his arm forevermore. And in
this on*' game he stole more ba#es
than he had ever done before in all
his life.
McNeil Benefit Races
At 'Drome’ Friday
Tiie Jock McNeil benefit races at ttie
Atlanta motordrome will be staged Fri
da y night. The races were originally
scheduled to take place last Frida)
night, but were called off on account of
rain.
Tiie entire proceeds from this race
will be sent to the Scotchman's mother.
McNeil was one of the most popular rid
ers in Atlanta, and it is hoped that a
big crowd turns out.
No passes will be honored at this
meet. Newspaper men, clerks, judges
and other officials have all agreed io
pay Tiie riders, who are also giving
th*ir services five, have agreed td race
as they never have before. Thev were
all great friends to Jock and will do
most anything to help the cause.
By Lou Castro.
I T was one of those old-time ex
citing battles and the home boys
won a thrilling victory. At times
I couldn’t help but think of the great
series between the Turtles anil (’rack
et# in 1907.
During the latter part of that year
the boys from Memphis traveled to
Atlanta to meet u# in a series that
practlca!i- meant a pennant. True,
the serio# didn't mean as much as
the present one means to the locals,
as we had several more game# to
play. But the team# were the leaders
in th* fight for the rag and the series
meant much t* both teams. We won
the series and the pennant. I hope
th** Cracker.'* do the same.
But. going back to yesterday’#
game I can’t help but take my hat off
to the boys playing under Billy Smith
I know the strain they are playing
under, and I hope they can keep
themselves together unfit the end * f
the series.
Every game th(> boys go into thev
must feel that it 1# their last. If
they lose. It is all over. If they
win. they have another game to think
about. On the other hand. Finn’#
in* n need but one victory. They can
take chance# that Bill Smith’s men
dure not take.
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The men playing ball for the honor
of Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon are real
fighter# and they will battle to the
end. If they win. they will be ac
complishing a nvracle. Think of it.
They have two more games to play
Mobile and must win both of them
One defeat and it's all over. Surel)
this seems impossible. Every pla>
and every move must be figured out
Q NE rally by the Gulls, one mis-
w play, or one error of judgment
may lose one game. It may lo.-e a
P* nn •» ’. This is the strain the boys
are playing under. 1 watched yes
terday'# game and couldn’t help but
pull for Smith’s crew. I fought with
might and main under him for vic
tory and can just feel him urging
the boys on.
Dent was the big boy yes
terday. Although a little wild, he ap
peared like a giant in the pinches.
Hi# curve ball had the visitors puz
zled. and 1 would advice Smith to
use him again by all means. He ha#
the nervryan courage. He appeared
confident at all times and seemed to
be strong at the finish.
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TO-DAY'S game is now the battle
1 tiie Crackers must win Also,
they must face t ie pitcher whom I
think to be tlie strongest of Mike
Finn’s hurling crew when facing the
locals. W Robertson has beaten the
Cracker# on many occasion# this se.i-
aon an*, ‘meins to have their number.
Finn says Robe*\son is on edge, and
when he is inert are few twtriers
in the Southern League who have
anything on him.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Mobile.
Atlanta
Chatt....
B'ham.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Be. | VV. L. Pc.
80 54 .597 I Mont... 68 53 .519
78 56 .581 I M'phis.. 62 71 .470
68 61 .527 N’ville.. 59 75 .441
71 64 .526 | New (). 43 85 .336
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs
W. L. Pc.
Phila.. 83 42 .664
Cl’land. 77 51 .601
W’gton. 70 54 .665
Chicago 67 63 .558
W. L. Pc.
Poston.. 62 61 .504
Detroit.. 56 71 .441
St. L.. . 48 83 .367
New Y. 42 .80 .344
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of l he Clubs.
W. L. P
New Y. 85 39 .686 j B’klyn.
Phila.... 72 46 .610 Boston.
Chicago 70 56 .556 | O’nati...
P’burg.. 66 57 .537 1 St. L.. .
W. L. Pc.
52 69 .430
53 68 .448
53 78 .405
45 83 .352
Experts Travel to
Game in Cartercar
The Georgian’s baseball experts
were taken out to the opening game
of the series between the Crackers
and Gulls at Poncy Park yesterday
afternoon in a Cartercar, driven by
the local manager, W. C. Mahoney.
The Crackers and Gulls may have
played a fast game, but their speed
was tame compared with the trips
given the experts by Mr. Mahoney in
his beautiful seven-passenger car.
Milwaukee Manager
Signs for Two Years
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 3— Harry
Clark, Milwaukee’s fighting third
baseman and manager, who has pilot
ed nis team to the top of the Ameri
can Association this year when most
of the sporting editors about the cir
cuit picked Milwaukee for second di
vision. signed a two-year contract to
manage the team to-day.
Mrs. Agne# Havenor, ow ner, refused
to divulge the terms of the contract.
Welchonce 3 Points
Behind D. Robertson
Harry Welchonce is right on the heels
of Dave Robertson for the batting hon
ors of the Southern League. Harry
managed to get one hit out of four times
up yesterday, while his opponent was
held hitless.
Latest figures give Robertson a bat
ting average of .341, while Welchonce
is hitting the ball at a .338 clip. But
three points separate the two outfield
ers.
MARTIN JOINS YANKEES.
BOSTON. Sept. 3.—Patrick Martin,
a southpaw pitcher, purchased recent
ly by the New York Americans from
the Lawrence (Mass ) dub of the New
England League, has reported to
Manager Cfance.
Crackers Win the First Games
And The Georgian Wins in
Just as Convincing Manner
THE CRACKERS WON THE FIRST GAMES AND THE
GEORGIAN WON IN JUST AS CONVINCING A MANNER.
THE SOUTH HAS NEVER SEEN AS COMPLETE AND IN
TERESTING ACCOUNTS OF A BIG SPORTING EVENT AS
THE GEORGIAN CARRIED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE
STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE GULLS AND THE ATLANTA
CLUB FOR SOUTHERN LEAGUE SUPREMACY.
AND THROUGHOUT THIS BIG S E R I E S, TO-DAY,
AND TO-MORROW, THE ACCOUNTS WIL LBE JUST AS
MINUTELY COMPLETE, THE COMMENT AN DG0S3IP OF
THE STRUGGLES WILL BE JUST AS GRIPPINGLY IN
TERESTING TO BASEBALL LOVERS .
IN THIS SERIES THE GEORGIAN WILL BE REPRE
SENTED EY THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF EX
PERTS IN THE SOUTH. THEY WILL OVERLOOK NO
POINT. THEY WILL PLAY THE CAMS FOR YOU EX
ACTLY AS IT S PLAYED AT PONCY PARK.
AMONG THOSE WHO WILL "COVER” THIS SERIES
FOR THE GEORGIAN ARE:
BILLY SMITH. THE CRACKER MANAGER. THE
MAN WHO BROUGHT A RANK TAIL-ENDER OF l‘ji2 UP
TO THE TOP.
JOE AGLER. THE CORKING FIRST BASEMAN, WHO
HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY JERSEY OITY, BUT WHO WILL
BE WITH THE YANKEES NEXT SEASON.
LOU CASTRO, FORMER CRACKER, WHO KNOWS
"INSIDE” BALL BETTER THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN
THE SOUTH.
0. B. KEELER, THE GEORGIAN'S BASEBALL EX-
PERT, WHO WRITES THE BREEZIEST ARTICLES OF
ANY CRITIC IN THE SOUTH.
W. S. FARNSWORTH, SPORTING EDITOR OF THE
GEORGIAN, WHO FOR SIX YEARS TRAVELED WITH
THE RED SOX. YANKEES, GIANTS AND DODGERS.
FUZZY WOODRUFF, KNOWN BY EVERY FAN IN
THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE, WHO HAS A WONDERFUL
STYLE ALL OF HIS OWN.
INITIS BROWN, FORMER VANDERBILT HERO, WHO
PERSONALLY KNOWS EVERY MEMBER OF THE GULLS
AND CRACKERS.
THE GEORGIAN WILL ALSO HAVE STAFF PHOTOG
RAPHERS AT THE PARK TO SNAP EVERY PLAY OF IM
PORTANCE.
THE GEORGIAN’S BASEBALL EXTRAS WILL RUN
COMPLETE DETAILED REPORTS OF THE GAME, SENT
IN PLAY BY PLAY. FVERY BALL AND STRIKE WILL BE
ACCOUNTED FOR IN THESE EXTRAS.
ORDER YOUR GEORGIAN EARLY FOR THE NEXT
FOUR DAYS IF YOU WANK TO BE SURE OF GETTING
ALL THE REAL NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THIS GREAT
SERIES.
could tell the Gulls were nervous
by tiie way they kept tearing in and
trying to murder the first ball pitched
them.
Dent saw right off hog eager they
were, and he fed them bad ones—and
yo t saw how they were popping them
up and fouling out and rolling easy
grounder# at us.
• * •
7VT OW, about the rest of the#*?
~ games
We all realize just exactly what
we are up against. I don’t suppose
the best fan in Atlanta has figured
over our chances any harder than
every fellow on the club.
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AFTER the last game with New <>r-
** leans, when we had heard that
the Gulls los the afternoon game,
and knew for the first time we had
a chance to win the pennant—I tell
you. fans, it was a queer kind of
eipht in that old clubhouse.
The boys were mighty solemn about
it. They knew what they were up
against. Gut we •shook hands all
around and we made a sort of promise
best pitchers—probably their best-
out of the way. And then we felt
that we had them on the run. I
can’t tell just how that feeling is. b it
it comes over you once in a while—
and when it does, your team will be
going great guns, first thing you
know.
• * *
W E aren’t bragging any. mind you.
But we are just determined to
put up all the fight there is in us to
beat Mobil? the rent of the Seri?'
And I believe I can promise those
same Gulls that, win or lose, they
will know they have b^en in a fight
for the pennant of 1913
Chick Evans Mak&s
New Coif Record
GARDEN CITY. N. Y.. Sept. 3.—
Chick Evans, Jr., of the Edgewater
Golf Club, Chicago, has so far shown
the best golf in the national amateur
golf championship here yesterday. His
round of 71 is a course record.
Wolgast May Quit
Ring To Be Farmer
I SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 3—The
obituary of Ad Wolgast, former light-
I weight champion, is written on all the
j sporting page# with the record of his
defeat at Oakland by Joe Azavedo, a
green and nervous youngster who won
the decision at the end of ten rounds.
"What’s the use of going any fur
ther?” asks Wolgast to-day. "I don’t
need to box for a living. I don’t like
these short fights, and I would rather
quit altogether than spend my time
training and boxing around like a side
show- man.” He added that he was
thinking of returning to his Oregon
ranch and settling down as a farmer
Wolgast fought a characteristic
battle, but was wild. His blows lacked
the old sting.
Thomasville Beats
Valdosta; Series Tied
Coombs Sick Again;
Out for Season
PHILADELPHIA, Pept. 3.—Pitcher
Jack Coombs ha# had a recurrence of
hi# old trouble and to-day was forced
to return to bed. Manager Mack and
the club physician announced that the
twirler will be unable to don a uni
form again this season.
AGOGAS TEAM WINS.
The Agoga# team triumphed over
J Wesley. 9 to 2. yesterday. The win-
1 ners scored three runs in the first in-
j ning and practically put the game on
j i'•*■. York was on the slab for Agogas.
j with Lew is catching. while W.
j Thomas* did the slab duty for Wesley.
Crosley was on the receiving end.
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THOMASVILLE, GA., Sept. 3.—
Thomasville and Valdosta are now on
an even standing in their fight for the
Empire State League pennant. Thom
asville took yesterday’s game, 5 to 0.
Both teams have now won two games.
Roth, on the mound for the locals,
hurled the best game of his career. Ho
held Jordan’s men down to two scat
tered hit9 and was master of the sit
uation at all times. Hawkins and
Zellar# w'ere hit hard by the winners.
The former was knocked out of the
box in the third inning.
BASEBALL
TO-DAY —
MOBILE vs. ATLANTA
Game Called 3:20
THE ATLANTA ° E P S G
TO-NGHT AT 8:15
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