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THE ATLANTA GEOmUAN AND NEWS. A\ I N EVERY ATLANTA HOME By Tad Copyright, 1913, International News Service SILK 1 IAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT till 11 I, MU. i i nliUllJI'P u herd's a pREi>ewTS - UONJt cook Suppeii-- VJB:'K£ ALL GOIVQ) OOWV Ttwv TOCTAT TOA/lOHT- AVO THEK/ Tt> THE ^KO^nzs — oiurss up \ Vlul / Y Y'y'~Y 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. i 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. j VOUK MOXlCR VJf WILL T , j i ; ^ id a TED HSRmAf AMQ f^ex/o «.jty\ xu rut P'WK MOt'ifi (AP£ OVJ TH€. 0WE OF MA£cm I Q I I VlHETW VJFT*e~\ Vou 0»u E\J£ OF MAfl-CM 10. 14(0 V V , WHAT M w'h (vc I DOMT GerT VOU WP66 ' ~T SPt-OuOEVi- j OQB He'& A Bit HARO OF HTABuOG aL ( WHERE VMERE VOU ON THE EM/E- CF , MARCH 10. H/0 • CAHT 00 IT 3V0&E I'VE ONLN GrOT A FO AAV 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 i x ■ i 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 -j 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 v#v 4**v •!•••!• 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 THIS _ WEFK 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,