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► 1U I » Vj \ I L.\>4 .\ II I t \ ilid i \ N v.s i > \ V.W rt. fPOEXS 1 o ; THE ASSASSIN By Tad Copyright, 1913, International News Service. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT *' " ‘ " . - - - — “ - . • **Av/e 3ppaia^e_o <t GETT7/JO OOWaJ P/?oM WE 6£UCM VtSTE.'(=0«V JUOCrE OtD £OV - ' i£E tM<»1 VlW CAW i+ACOW . WAv/i&ATe tl+epe goes acMick wnx A SIcwouETTt -5*:i«?T jiiSr a M/WWTH- WC6E, HE.V — ^HA^-RE.£ fH£.V{CT7M / v\ J\y..L\\lE HOWE\JlT& —— ; • Crackers f JOE AG .... lot Boasting, but Ready / LER TELLS HOW 1 o Put Up All the 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 • • * 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. • * • 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. • • • 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. * * * 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. * * ? 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. KING PILES F.verv suiTi r. r from Itching tiles should read thes- won!* iroin K S. llood, of Hcllaire. Mich., Cured by Tetterine For slxt fn years i id Uttn a suff-rrr from Itch in | pies. I fiat a box X Tettulne anu I *s * .n half a box madt a ca spl t». give-* instant relief to all akin <tl«- a> . i'zema. li tter, ringworm, ground ' I' 6as the right medicinal qualities < O'- • ause aid to relieve ihe eiTec* ‘ ii t<> 'lay T> tterii.e. • 5' 1 I H i l*ts. r hy mail. bHU. TRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. GA 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 THURSDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT MARY’S LAMB Bright Musical Comedy Nights, 25c to $1.50; Mat., 25c to $1 COE3CYTM to-day ?:3o r 1 E & ft 1 TO.NIGHT 8.3) Sam Mann & Co., 1 5Br WIU«»P S'MMS 4 CO, ALEXANDER 4 SCOTT G»SCH SISTERS MAMIE ELMORE CAMILLE'S POODLES R. E. KEANE KEITH VAUDEVILLE ALWAYS LYRIC ALL THIS WEEK fj (Vlatinecs rues., Thurs. and Sat. M EMMA CUTTING h In Her Greatest Success “iHE CIRCUS GIRL" i Next Week—"Ca!! of the Heart” k I 4 .< « * > ♦