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THE ATLANTA GEOmUAN AND NEWS.
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Copyright, 1913, International News Service
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Crackers Were Greatest Team Ever in Southern League, Says Bitty
SMITH PROUD OF VICTORV-PROUD OF HIS MEN
By Bill Smith.
F OR the third rime, I am to-day
the leader of a South rn League
pennant winner.
For the third time Atlanta can
boast a championship club.
It If- entirely natural that I nm
proud.
But my proudneas comes* from the
thought ttint I have had the honor
of leading the greatest, garment club
that has ever fought for a Dixie title.
There have been clubs to win pen
nants before, but there has never been
a club t- com? from behind nnd. with
relentless nurpose and undying »pirl\
do the tilings that my ,‘lub .i s done.
I tak. no credit for myself. I be
lieve that every man. from Agler to
Welchonee, and that’s as near to the
Play Starts To-day
For A. A. C. Title
Match plays in the four flights for
the. golf championship of the \tlanta
Athletic Club will commence this aft
ernoon over tht East Lake course.
Here are the pairings in the four
flights
First Flight.
Georg> Adair vs \V. P. llagelwood.
J. S. l>eer vs. I. L Graves.
H. P. L>. Cowee vs. Lowry Arnold.
R U. Richards vs. (V V’. Rainwater.
J. Ormond Smith vs. c\ E. (’orwin.
W R. Tichenor vs. R. L. Winston.
W J. Tilson vs. H. Block.
V. B. Fay vs. R. (5. Blanton.
Second Flight.
Pet r. Adair vs. Milt £aul.
J S. Raine vs. S. (\ Williams.
(’. J. Holditch vs. K. T. Jun' t», Jr.
It \ Palmer vs. A T. Todd.
I > E. Root vs. R. E. Tripper.
AV. H Rowan vs. (1. N. H *well.
B. P. Jones vs. Frank Adair.
A A. Dounan vs. B. Hott.
Third Flight.
C. G. Lippold \ i- DR Henr>
G. N Spring vs. N. C. Warren.
R J Morris vs J. M. Hoxsey.
\Y. Markham vs. K. R. Uobb.
Clark Donaldson vs. H. M. Ashe.
R. I. Gresham vs Scott F .dson.
K. H. Barnett v.v s. Hard.
H. R Calef vs. Wtnlei Alfriend.
Fourth Flight.
G. L. Simpson drew a bye.
J C. MrMicha 1 vs. J J Smith.
W. B Seabrooke vs. YV. B. Nininger.
K. V Richardson vs J. S. Cohen,
Dr. Jackson vs. J. E. Hickey
D. A. L’Esperance vs. J G. Darling.
B. M Blount vs. Keith Conway.
Unofficial Figures
Give Welchonee
Batting Trophy
Unofficial figures give Harry We -
chonce, leading stickman of the
Champion Crackers, the top place in j
the list of Southern League batsmen I
k for the seajion Just ended Wei- j
Jchonee and Robertson of the Gulls !
rvsero tied at .340 when Mobile an l j
end of the alphabet as I can come,
have contributed as much and more
to the success of the club as I have.
• • •
A ND don’t think for a second I am
overlooking old Charley Frank
In the last analysis. Frank won the
pennant for Atlanta. The. schedule
u».ik» r« put this Job up to him rather
than to me,
No two cljles In the league are more
closely allied thun Mobile and New
Orion ns. Frank him-vlf is a native
% of Mobil 0 . Th*'re is where his family
lives. There is hla real home.
But Frank proved the honesty of
baseball. He knew that his two games
with Mobile would decide the aorl \s.
He tried hisi bef*t in each game. Ho
battled valiantly for the first and
came near winning.
When he sent •‘Finis” Wilson in fer
the last he knew lie was doing all
that mortal man could do.
Tit didn’t want to beat Mobile.
He didn’t want to lid Atlanta.
He wanted only to preserve the in
tegrity of baseball.
And he did It.
f GITKSS the fans of Atlanta can
* realize how 1 felt yester'av Can
you imagine your sensation when you
are handcuffed and a rjbbtr is g dng
through your pockets?
Can you imagine how you would
feel when your automobile breaks
down in the middle of the Sahara
De.^rt for lack of water?
You know that you have got to de
pend on some one else to help vou
through.
You know that you are helpless in
aiding yourself.
1 had to sit through yesterday
afternoon listening to the t degraph
Instruments, and I thought that every
dot and dash would mean blighted
hope and unachieved ambition to me.
I couldn’t see the sunny side at all.
And when the last message came
FOUR MUSKETEERS
By O. B. K.
(Being a Small Argument for an Old Contention That a
Team Is as Good as Its Pitchers.)
You may sing of the speed of the Rabbit
Of tlie noodle of Billy Smith;
on may point to the bludgeon of Welchonee
As a scepter to conjure with;
You may boast of the smooth machination,
Team-play at the top of its bent—
But the heart of that organization
Was Thompson, and Price, and Dent—
And (Jonzehnan.
While you cheer for a pennant, unfurling.
As the work of a master-mind
Spare some little praise for the hurling
That trailed eager foemen behind;
And the moral of this little story,
While proudly the gonfalon flies.
Is to give a big slice of t he glory
To Thompson, and Dent, and Price—
And Conzelman.
over, 1 was too faint to cheer, but 1
will nay that I rendered a prayer of
thanks.
Aftermath stuff is always bad.
• • •
J WANT to say just a few things in
1 conclusion, though.
Atlanta has been represented by
the best ball club this year that ever
won a Southern League pennant.
That team has been supported by
the jnost loyal fans that ever gave
encouragement to a band of profes
sional athletes.
I believe the Southern League has
seen its be*t race this year. Mont
gomery finished fifth and was In the
race for the pennant up to two week*
ago. That’s enough.
As for next year. I have only this
to promise. T will work as hard as
1 did this* year My hope is that I
will have (he splendid support that
players and fans gave me this season.
If T do. another pennant will fly
at Ponce DeLeon.
Sports andSllCh
THE WONDER.
’"Look well upon yon white man's
hope,* 1 a stranger said to me;
"Look well upon yon gent—he is a
wondrous sight to see.
He never teas a wonder as a wielder
of the mitts;
An ordinary irhite man's hope could
put him on the fritz."
"Then tell me why the lowbrow is
so famous" answered /.
“He never whipped Al Paizer," teas
the gentleman's reply.
Bill Carrigan has been condemned to
manage the Red Sox In 1914. but It
strikes the casual observer that the job
Is more in Oscar Hammeritetn's line.
Frank Chance has signed a youthful
pitcher named George Shears, probably
on the theory that he will cut a wide
swath.
HARVEST TIME.
(An elegy written by a wrestler.)
Full many a dollar Hugos all un
seen
Within the pockets of the wrestling
fan.
Full many a healthy roll of virgin
green.
Full many a coin we calf the Iron
Alan.
The boast* of challengers, the pomp
of pow'r
And all that press stuff lures the
wrestling crank.
We cop the coin and fourftush for
an hour—
T)u paths of wrestlers lead but to
the bank.
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Ntw Orleans started their final strug
gle. The great Dave failed to get a
hit in four times at bat. and hllpped
back below hi^ rival for the first time
since early in the season.
Unless the official figures* turn up a
discrepancy, Welchonee will get the
handsome Rose medal for batting and
will establish a new record for total
number of hits in a season, his mark
being 193. as compared to Huelsman's
total of 191 in 1901.
Frank Gotch has returned to the
game, but not because he needs the
money. It is simply because collecting
corns is one of his incurable hobbies.
One deplorab'e feature of Mr Gotch’s
return is that it will cause one Zbyszko
to burst in with an ultimatum or two.
Messrs. Gotch and Zbyszko will un
doubtedly meet this winter. If the pub
lic will stand for it. <?»
P S.: The public will stand for any
thing.
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No H?art-3reaking Rally, No Blood-Sweating Finish, Can Beat Us Now!
THANKS TO C. FRANK WE'RE STILL THERE-TO STAVI
By 0. B. Keeler.
F OR the LAST TIME, boys—
We’re THERE!
We’re ther£, and we’re still
there, and were going to STAY
THERE.
Champions—1913!
* * *
\T O hard-luck flurry in the ninth
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sweating finishes; no more heart
breaking rallies; no more agony of
suspense as brain and whip are pitted
against brain and bat in the pinches.
It’s all over.
And we’re THERE!
• * *
T HANKS, Dutchman!
We couldn’t have done it better
ourselves.
Thanks. Finis Wilson.
Your good left whip wrote a mighty
“FINIS” under the last chapter of
that absorbing serial, “The Pennant
of 1913.”
Thanks. Pelicans.
You cinched the pennant already
morally’ won by -Gamest Team on
Earth—
And you proved again, and bril
liantly. and gloriously, the ABSO
LUTE HONESTY OF BASEBALL!
* * *
THE Crackers deserved that rag, if
A ever any club deserved anythin..
Bill Smith deserved it. Atlanta de
served it.
A month ago—two weeks—two days
ago, it seemed that the sole reward
of a great, game club and its great,
game manager was to be the splendid
fight they had made, to lose at the
finish only the crowm that would
mark, but add no luster to, the
Homeric campaign of 1913.
And now we have the glory of the
fight, and the crown of championship
as well.
A ND ju*t a word for Mike Finn and
** the Gulls.
They lost, just as the Crackers
came near losing. And they lost
fighting—fighting gamely to the end.
even as the Crackers would have lost.
In a way, Mike Finn and his Gulls
helped the Crackers to the champion
ship. For it was Mike Finn’s good,
game ball club that finally stopped
Montgomery’s long winning streak,
and tore the Billikens from their high
place and sent them reeling into the
discard.
And in doing that, Mike Finn and
his good, game ball club fought out
their hearts and arms, and when the
final test came, they had nothing but
their courage left.
That never left them. They re
quire no sympathy There will be
no feeble wail from that fine old
Irishman. No flowers—no tears for
Mike.
But—hats off. boys, to Mike Finn
and his fighting ball club, that came
so near tu beating us!
N OW. about this Honesty of Bas -
ball thing.
How many unwitting far?—or irri
tation fan?—have you aeard say in.
the last two weeks:
“Oh, it’s all a frame-up, to get the
gate receipts. It’s all fixed for .V -
bile to win out from the Pelican.-.
Mobile didn’t need to win in At
lanta.”
And how many times have you
heard it staid in the last three days:
“Well, it will be a tie. now—and a
fat series to play it off in.”
If the last, game of the season in
Mobile did nothing else, it added ono
more ABSOLUTE PROOF of that
clearest and cleanest thing in tho
realm of sport—
THE ABSOLUTE HONESTY OF
BASEBALL.
• * *
W E’LL let it go at that, boys, with
one mor A small comment, which
you may possibly have seen before —
We’re THERE!
ENTRIES
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AT TORONTO.
FIH.ST—"> furlongs, selling: Over the
Sands 101. Smash 1(H>. Phil opens. Wild
l^assie 106. Dura M. Lutz 106. Hudas Sis
ter 111. Tin> Tim 111, First Aid 111,
Films 111, Danville II 116.
SECOND 5 furlongs, selling: Consti
tuent 109, Doll Baby 111, Pretty Milly
111, Miss Martimas ill, Christmas Daisy
111. Fleece 104. May Bridge 116, Miss
Menard 116. Miss Dulin 116, Seaswell 119.
THIRD—6^2 furlongs, selling: Casso-
nova 111. Port Arlington 112. Gay 112,
Tee May 112, Tiger Jim 117, Dust 117,
Kaufman 117. Lily Paxton 117.
FOURTH Mile ami one-sixteenth,
selling. Foxcnaft 111, Sum Barnard 113,
Maxtor 113, Mlrdli 113, Sweet Owen
116, Horicon 116, Kiddy Lee 116, Mon-
tagnie 116.
FIFTH. 7 furlongs, selling. Cecil 106,
Our Nugget 112, Col. Brown 11*.. Rose
O’Neil 112, Dick Deadwood 111, Doctor
Holzberg 117, Leiloha 117.
SIXTH 5 furlongs, selling: V. Powers
110, Con Carne 110 Sally Savage 115,
Veno Von 115, Delightful 115, Isabelle
Casse 115. Naughty Ruse 115, Jack Nun-
nally 115, Chess 115, True Step 115.
SEVENTH—5 furlongs, selling: Nila
108. Janus 108. Fincun 108, Pierre Du
mas 110. Princess Thorpe 112, The Busy
Body 112, Curious 113, Premier 113,
Herpes 113.
EIGHTH—5 furlongs, selling: Yankee
Lotus 100. Protogaris 109. Lady Robbins
109, Fanchette 110. Glipian 114, Jennie
Wells '114. Starboard 114, Koroni 114,
Modern Priscilla 114. Lou Lanier 114.
Conditions 3-year-olds and up.
Weather clear: track fast.
Richards and Graves to Clash
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Big Race at Drome To-morrow
AT MONTREAL.
FIRST {300, 2-year-olds, selling, 5
furlongs: xThe Idol 95, SVranata 96, Su-
wanee 1*8, Colors 103. Salvadora 106,
Water I*ady 109, Requiram 111. Scarlet
Lteeer 96. xPutty Regan 98, Montreal
101, HaribelL 106, xHarbard 107, Jesail
109. Stevesta 111.
SECOND $500, Canadian bred, all
ages. 7 furlongs: Maid of Fromme 96,
Muster 97, Buster 104, Floral (Town 110,
Bacchante 97. King Saxe H3. xOndra-
mida 106. Amherite 117
THIRD- Bluebonnet Breeders Stakes,
Canadian breds, 3-v ear-olds, $1,000, mile
and one half: Irish Heart 98. Planover
100. Undesta 110.
FOURTH $1,000 added, Stratheona
handicap, steeplechase. 4-year-olds and
up. about two and one-half miles:
Bronte 1S3. Jack Dennerlen 134 A Jiu
Jitsu 119. B- Weldship 114. B Bello 152.
Brosseau 134. Mystic Light 115, A-Wick-
son 160.
A- Eokers entry B—Coupled.
FIFTH $400, 3 year-olds and up, sell
ing. mile xUrsula Emma 93. The Rump
106, xBobby Cook 107 Beach Sand 106,
Tom Sayers 106, xTom Holland 108,
xChemulpo 106. Love Day ill. Henry
Hutchinson 111. Clem Bear hey 103.
Pliant 108. Camel 114
SIXTH $500 added. 3-year-olds and
up. selling. 7 furlongs: Spring Maid 96.
Harcourt 107, Henry iBtte 110. Spring
Mass 115. xLord Lucre 101, xHardeinan
107. Von aLor 110. Feather Duster 115,
Htnpe k 105 xFree Levy '"7. Fairchild
■ ■. \ ■ e< Ques
tlon Mark 109. Schuller 113
SEVENTH $50g. handicap, selling. 3-
year-oid and up. mile and furlong: Ella
Crane 94. Ravanel 103. Krum 109, Spe’.l
bound 114, Trovato 10l. Font 104. Cog's
113.
x—-Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather dear; track good.
Anotner sign of approaching winter is
the annual tale that Joe O Brien is go.ng
to be president of the Nat-onal League.
/*pWO of the greatest speed mer-
I chants in the world will hook
up to-morrow night at the Mo
tordrome when Tex Richards on his
Indian flyer and Morty Graves, strad
dling his Excelsior record-maker, will
engage in three heats of a special
match race of one, two and three
miles, respectively.
Last week they staged the greatest
match races ever pulled off with mo
torcycles. Graves won the first heat.
Richards the second and the third
was a draw. They went at an aver
age speed of 88 miles an hour.
Can you imagine just how fast that
is? They circled the local saucer
four times in 41 seconds. That’s al
most as fast as you can tell about
their doing it.
The remainder of the program is
also good. There will be the two
heats and the finals in the Southern
championships and the three heats of
the sweepstakes.
•Here is the complete program:
(Heats 1 mile, finals 2 rmies, 25 points
for first, 15 for second and 10 for
third.)
First Heat—Lockner, Lewis, Glenn
and Graves.
Second Heat—Renel, Luther,
Swartz and Richards.
SPECIAL MATCH RACE.
(Best two out of three, 1, 2 and 3-
mile heats, for side bet of $50.)
First Heat (1 mile)—Final South
ern championships.
SWEEPSTAKES.
(French point system, 10 for first, 6
for second, 3 for third.)
(Three Heats, 3, 5 and 7 miles.)
First Heat <3 miles)—Lockner,
Lewis, Glenn. Swartz, Luther and
Renel.
Second Heat—Special match race
(2 miles).
Second Heat—Sweepstakes (5
miles).
Third Heat—Sweepstakes (7
miles).
Persons with gambling instincts are
laying slight ockls that the Braves beat
the Red Sox in October when the two
teams meet in an inter-city series.
The Braves for the past three weeks
have been putting ui> just about the
best brand of baseball being displayed
in the National league, arxi if they go
into the series with the Red Sox trav
eling at their present clip it would not
be surprising if they grabbed the city-
championship in easy fashion.
• • *
Just about the best slugging exhibi
tion of the year was staged in Chi
eago yesterday against the Cardinals
when the Cubs, in u double-header,
punched out three doubles, six triples,
three home runs and five singles, which
swats were enough to give them both
game.
* * *
Baumgartner. of the Browns,
triumphed over the White Sox in a
pitchers' battle with Bentz and Cicotte,
gaining the count 1 to 0.
* * *
Those pesky Naps refuse to let Con
nie Mack and his Athletics dream un
interrupted pennant dreams. Counted
out of the race at least a half dozen
times in the last aix weeks, the Cleve
landers continue to harass the Phila
delphians. and now are only six full
games behind the league leaders, with
each team having about twenty-five
games still to play.
* * *
It was the wonderful fielding and time
ly batting of Larry Turner, the veter
an third-sacker, that enabled the Naps
to win over the Tigers yesterday. Time
and again Turner stopped Detroit ral
lies by brilliant steps and throws, arid
it was his war club that earned three
tallies for the Naps.
• • •
Mathewson. of the Giants, has been
skidding badly in the last month, being
beaten in the majority of games in
which he has started.
Prank Schulte, of the Cubs, who is
aiming for the title of the best home
run hitter in the old league, cracked
out a brace of four-base swats yester
day.
* * *
Walter Johnson, the wonderful (wirier
of the Senators, whose $7,000 contract
expires this season, has announced he
will hold out for $12,500 for next sea
son. It isn’t likely that Johnson will
hold out for very long The Washing
ton management is said to be perfectly
willing to pay him the price he de
mands and give hifn a three or five
year contract to boot.
“Kid” Elberfeld, the old Yankee 1
shortstop, has resigned as manager of
the Chattanooga team, in the Southern :
League, and will handle the reins for
the New Orleans team next year.
* * *
The Giant and Athletic- recruits and
substitutes clashed in Newark, N. J.,
yesterday in an exhibition game for 1
charity. The battle ended in a 1 to 1 j
tie at the end of the eleventh inning
because of darkness.
* * *
Tv Cobb, of the Tigers, gained on Joe
Jackson, of the Naps, who is leading
diim in hatting in the American League,
yesterday Joe went hitless in five trips
to the plate; Ty got one out of three at- i
tempts.
Cotton States Play
Begins at East.
Lake This Afternoon
The third annual tournament for
the Cotton States Tennis champion
ships Is to begin this afternoon on
the celebrated red day courts of the |
Atlanta Athletic Club at East Lake,
with one of the finest cards of tennis
cracks ever assembled in a Southern
meet
Forty of the best players in the
South are entered for the tourney,
which was obtained by the Athletic
Club as its feature sporting event,
this year. Carleton Smith was at the
head of the movement to get the Cot
ton States event here, and his work
has been ;vnply rewarded by the class
and number of the entrants.
Players from Birmingham, Chatta
nooga, Nashville, Kno*xville, Macon.
Montgomery. New Orleans and other
cities are here as guests of the Ath
letic Club, while Carleton Smith.
Bryan Grant, Nat Thornton, Ed Car
ter. and a host of other local cracks
are prepared to bring the big title to
Atlanta, if it can be done. i
The present title holder. Lee Allen
Brooks, of Birmingham, will be here
before the week is out to defend his
title against the winner of the tour
ney, while Brooks and Barrett, also of )
Birmingham, will be contestants in >
the doubles matches.
The drawings for the opening round
are being held at the East Lake club
house this morning, and play will be-*
gin this afternoon before a great
crowd of tennis fans. Special ar
rangements have 1 een made to handle
the attendance, which is expected to
be record-breaking.
THE ATLANTA
MATINEE WEDNESDAY.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
LITTLE MISS FIXIT
Nights, 25c to $1. Mat., 25c to 75c.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The STRAUSS Music Play
The Merry Countess
Orchestra of Fifteen.
SEAT SALE TUESDAY.
Nights, 25c t* $1.50. Mat., 25c to $1.
LYRIC
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Mats. Tuesday Thursday, Saturday
The Season’s Greatest Play
THE lALL OF Ht HEA.tT
A Cast of Merit
A Great Stage Production.
Matinee Prices. 15c. 35c.
MOTOR RACES
Tuesday Night
8:30 P. M.
MOTORDROME
F HRCtYT M daii y matinee 2 30
1 ■ n Night at 8:30
WORLD’S GREATEST TURKEY
TROTTERS,
Frank Inez
HALE and PATTERSON
LYDIA B P queen of
L I UIH D . It A I SINGING COMEOI NNES
Delmore and Lee; Doris Wilson
and Company, and others,