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TTIF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
I
N EVERY ATLANTA HOME
By Tad
Copyright, 1913. International News .Service
SILK 1
TAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
No H^art-Breaking Rally, No Blood-Sweating Finish, Can Beat Us Now!
THANKS TO C. FRANK WE’RE STILL THERE—TO STAY!
Crackers Were Greatest Team Ever in Southern League, Says Billy
SMITH PROUD OF VICTORY-PROUD OF HIS MEN
By (). B. Keeler.
F OR the LAST TIME, boym—
We’re THERE!
We’re there, and we’re still
there, and we’re going to STAY
THERE.
Cham pions—1913!
* * *
N O hard-luck flurry in the ninth
can rob us now. No more blood-
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!
By Bill Smith.
F OR the third rime, l am to-day
the leader of a South Tn League
pennant winner.
For the third time Atlanta can |
boast a < hampionahip club.
It is entirely natural that I am
proud.
Rut my proudness comes from the
thought ’hut I have had the honor
of leading the greatest, gameat 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< om • from behind and. wi'h
relentless purpose and undying spirt',
do tire things * bit my club '*• s done.
I tak no credit for myself. I be-
Urvo that every man from Vgler to
Welchonce, and thftt'u us near to the
end of tlie alphabet as I can come,
have contributed as much and more
to the success of the club as I have.
• • •
AM) don't think for a serond 1 am
overlooking old Charley Frank.
In the last analysis, Frank won the
pennant for Atlanta. The schedule
makers put this Job up to him rather
than to me.
No two cities in the league are more
closely allied than Mobile and New
<>rlwins. Frank himself is a native
of Mobile. Thore is where his family
lives. There is hi<t real home.
Rut Frank proved the honesty of
baseball He knew that his two games
with Mobile would deride the #cri »s.
He tried hie best in each game. He
battled valiantly for the first and
ume near winning.
When he sent "Finis” Wilson In fer
the last he knew he was doing all
that mortal man could do.
He 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.
J GUESS the fans of Atlanta can
I Can
you imagine your sensation when you
are handcuffed and a rjbbtr is g »ing
through your pockets?
Can you Imagine how you would
feel when your automobile breaks
down in the middle of the Sahara
Desert for lark of water?
You know that you have got to de
pend on aime one else to help vou
through.
You know that you are helpless in
aiding yourself.
i had to sit through yesterday
afternoon listening to the i degraph
instruments, and I thought *h;r every
dot and dash would mean blighted
hope and unachieved ambition to me
1 couldn’t see the sunny side at all.
And when the last message came
over, I was too faint to cheer, but I
will .‘■jay that I rendered a prayer of
thanks.
Aftermath stuff is always bad.
* * *
I WANT to say just a few things in
* 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 most loyal fans that ever gave
encouragement to a band of profes
sional athletes.
I believe the Southern league has
seen its bent race this year. Mont
gomery finished fifth and was in the
race for the pennant up to two weeks
ago. That’s enough.
As for next year, I have only this
to promise. I will work os hard as
I did this >ear My hope is that I
will have »he splendid support that
players and fans gave me this season.
If I do. another pennant will fly
at Ponce DeLeon.
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
*■ ever any club deserved anything
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 crown that would
| mark, but add no luster to, the
i Homeric campaign of 1913.
And now we have the glory of the
tight, and the crown of championshio,
as well.
A ND just 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 to beating us!
ENTRIES
1
J
Play Starts To-day
For A. A. C. Title
Match plays in the four flights for
the golf championship of the Atlanta
Athl tic Club will commence this aft
ernoon over thi East Lake course.
Here are the pairing# in the four
flights.
First Flight.
George Adair vs. w. P. Hazelwood.
J. S. Deer vs. I. L. Graves.
H. P. D Cowee vs Lowry Arnold.
R. C. Richards vs. C V. Rainwater.
J. Ormond Smith vs. C. E. Corwin.
AY R. Tichenor vs. R L. Winston.
W J. Tilson vs. H. Block.
V. B. Fay va R. G Blanton.
Second Flight.
Perry Adair vs. Milt Saul
J. S. Raine vs. S. C. Williams.
C. J. Holditch vs. R. T. Jones, Jr.
R. A. Palmer vs. A. T. Todd.
I>. K. Root vs. R. E. Tripper.
W. H. Rowan vs. G. N. Howell.
R. P Jones vs. Frank Adair.
A. A. Doonan vs. c. B. Hott.
Third Flight.
C. G. Lippold \ s. I >. R. Henry.
(». N. Spring vs. N. C. Warren.
R. J. Morris vs .1 M. Hoxsvy.
W. Markham vs. K. R. Cobh.
Clark Donaldson \ s. H. M. Ashe.
R I. Gresham vs. Scott TT^dson.
E. H. Burnett vs. S. Hard.
H. R Calef vs Wintei Alfriend.
Fourth Flight.
G L. Simpson drew a bve.
J. C. McMichael vs. J J. Smith.
AN'. B Seabrooke vs. \Y B. Nininger.
E. D. Richardson vs J. S. Cohen.
Dr. Jackson vs. J. E. Hickey.
D. A L'Usperanee vs. J G. Darling
B. M. Blount vs. Keith Conway.
Unofficial Figures
Give Welchonce
Batting Trophy
Unofficial figures give Harry We. - ,
cbonce, leading stlckm&n of the
Champion Crackers, the top place in i
the list of Southern League batsmen 1
for the season Just ended. Wei- 1
chonce and Robertson ol tht Guils
were tied £t .340 when Mobile and j
FOUR MUSKETEERS
By O. B. K.
(Being a Small Argument for an Old Contention That a
Team Is as Good as Its Pitchers.)
A'ou may sing of the speed of the Rabbit—
Of the noodle of Billy Smith;
You may point to t he bludgeon of Welchonce
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 Conzelman.
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 the glory
To Thompson, and Dent, and Price—
And Conzelman.
Sports andSuch
New Orleans startsd their final strug- discrepancy. Welchonce will get the
gle. The great Dave failed to get a
hit in four times at bat. and hlipped
back below' his rival for the first time
since early iu the season.
Unless th#jpfflcial figure" turn up a
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
THE WONDER.
"Look tcell, upon yon irhite man'*
hope," a stranger Raid to me:*
"Look well upon yon gent—he a
wondrous sight to see.
He never was a wonder as a wielder
o/ th< mitts;
An ordinary irhite man's hope could
put him on the fritz."
“Then tell me irhy the lowbrow is
so famous," answered I.
"He never whipped Al Falzer" was
the gentleman's reply.
Bill Carrigan has been condemned to
manage the Red So* in 1914. but it
strikes the casual observer that the Job
is more In Oscar Hammerstein's line.
Frank Chance has signed a youthful
pitcher named George Shears, probahlv
on the theory that he will cut a wide
swath.
HARVEST TIME.
(An elegy written by a wrestler.)
Full many a dollar lingers all un
seen
Within the pockets of the wrestling
fan.
Full many a healthy roll of virgin
green.
Full many a coin we cal' the Iron
Man.
I he boasts of challengers, the pomp
of pow'r
And all that press stuff lures the
wrestling crank.
We cop the coin and fourflush for
an hour—
The paths of wrestlers lead but to
the bank.
Frank Gotch has returned to the
game, but not because he needs the
money. It is simply because collecting j
coins is one of his incurable hobbles.
one deplorab'e feature of Mr Goteh's
return is that it will cause one Zbyszko
to burst in with an ultimatum or two.
Messrs. Gotch and Zbysiko will un
doubtedly meet this winter. If the pub
lic will stand for It.
P.S.: The public will stand for any
thing.
AT TORONTO.
FIRST—5 furlongs, selling. Over file
Sands 101, Smash 106. Philopena. Wild
Ijfsslc 106, Horn M. Lutz 106, Hudas Sis
ter 111, Tiny Tim 111, First Aid 111.
Flims 111, Danville II 116.
REWIND 5 furlongs, selling Consti
tuent 100, Doll Baby 111. Pretty Milly
111, Miss Martimas 111, Christmas Daisy
111, Fleece 101 May Bridge 116. Miss
Menard 116, Miss Dultn 116, Seat-well 119.
THIRD—furlongs, selling: Casso-
nova 111. Fort Arlington 112. Gay 112.
Tee May 112. Tiger .Jim 111. Dust 117,
Kaufman 117, T-.il> - T’axti.n 117,
FOURTH -Mile and one-sixteenth.
Helling. Foxixaft lit. Sam Barnard 113,
Max ton 113, Mirilll 113. Sweet Owen
116, Horicon 116, Kiddy I-ee 116, Mon-
tagnio 116.
FIFTH 7 furlongs, selling. 'Veil 106,
Our Nugget 112. Col. Brown 11... Hose
O’Nall 112. Dick Dead'Wood 114 Doctor
Holzberg 117, L-eiloha 117,
SIXTH—5 furlongs, selling: V, Powers
110, Con Carne 110. Sally Savage 115,
Veno Von 115, Dellgluful 115, Isabelle
Cassc 115. Naughty- Hose 115, lack Nun-
nally 115, Chess 115. True Step 115.
SEVENTH- 5 furlongs, selling: Nila
108, 4anus 108, Kincun 108, Pierre Du
mas 110, Princess Thorpe 112. The Busy-
Body 112, Curious 113, Premier 118,
Herpes 113-
EIGHTH—5 furlongs, selling: Yankee
Dotus ion, Prologaris leu. I^tdy Robbins
109. Fanchette 110. Gliplan 114, Jennie
Wells 114. Starboard 114, Koranl 114,
Modern Priscilla 114. I.ou l.anier 114.
Conditions 3-year-olds and up.
Weather clear: track fast
Richards and Graves to Gash
•I- 9 *r v • *!« -J- e r v ® v 4*#v
Big Race at Drome To-morrow
fpWO of the greatest speed mer-
] 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 he the two
heats and the finals in the Southern
championships and the three heats of
the sweepstakes.
Here is the complete program:
(Heats 1 miie, finals 2 miles, 25 points
for first, 15 for second and 10 for
third.)
First Heat—Lookner, 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).
AT MONTREAL.
FIRST $900, - year-olds, selling^ 5
furlongs: xThe Idol S« ranata 96, Su-
wnnee US. Colors 103. Salvadora 106.
Water La<l\ 109, Requiram 111. Scarlet
Lteeer 96. xBatty Began 98. Montreal
101. Haribell 106. xHarbard 107. Jesail
109. Stevesta 111.
SECOND $600, Canadian bred, all
age*. 7 furlongs: Maid of Fromme 96,
Muster 97. Buster 104. ’Floral Crown 110.
Bacchante 97. King Saxe 103, xOndra-
mida 106. Amberite 117.
THIRD Bluebonnet Breeders Stakes.
Canadian bred*. 3-year-olds. * 1,000. mile
and one half: Irish Heart 98. Flanover
100. Lindesta 110.
FOURTH $1,000 added. Stratheona
handicap, steeplechase, 4 year-olds and
up. about two and one-half miles:
Bronte 133. Jack Dennerlen 134. A.Jiu
Jitsu 119. H- We Id ship 114. B Bello 152.
Brosseau 134. Mystic Light 145, A-Wick-
8o n 160
A — Eekers entry. B Coupled.
FIFTH $400. 3 year-olds and up, sell
ing. mile: xl'rsula F oma 93. The Rump
106. xBobby Cook 107 Beach Sand 106,
Tom Sayers 106, x .’om Holland 108.
xChemulpo 10b, l.ove Day ill, Henry
Hutchinson 111. Ciem Beachey 103.
Pliant 10S. Camel 114
SIXTH $500 added. 3-year-oids and
up. selling. 7 furlongs: Spring Maid 96.
Harcourt 107. Henry iBtte 110. Spring
Mass 115. xUord Lucre 101. xHardeman
107. Von al.er 110 Feather Duster 115.
Henpeck 105. xFree Levy 107, Fairchild
112. Napier 116. Mi.-cossukee 106. Ques
tion Mark 109. Schuller 113
SEA'ENTH $500, handicap, selling. 3-
year-old and up. mile and furlong: Ella
Crane 94. Uavanel 103. Krum 109. Sped
bound 114. Trovato 101. Font K4, Cogs
113.
x Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather clear: track good.
Anotner sign of approaching winter s
the annual tale that Joe O Brien is going
to be president of the National League.
FODDER FOR FANS
Persons with gambling instincts are
laying slight odds 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 up just about the
best brand of baseball being displayed
in tlie National League, and 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
cago yesterday against the Cardinals
when the Cubs, in a 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 i 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 six 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 stops and throws, and
it was his war club that earned three
.allies for the Naps.
• • *
Mathewson. of the Giants, has been
; kidding badly in the last month, being
beaten in the majority of games in
which he has started.
Frank 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.
AValter Johnson, the wonderful 1 wirier
of the Senators, whose $7,(KM) contract
expires this season, has announced he
will hold out for $12,600 for next sea
son. It isn’t likely that Johnson will
hold out for very long The Washing
ton management is said to he perfectly
willing to pay him the price he de
mands and give him a three or five
year contract to boot.
"Kid" Elberfeld. the old Yankee
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
charity. The battle ended in a 1 to 1 I
tie at the end of the eleventh inning .
because of darkness.
* * *
Ty Cobb, of the Tigers, gained on Joe i
Jackson, of the Naps, who is leading
him in batting in the American League. ;
yesterday Joe went hitless in five trips 1
to the plate; Ty got one out of three at- j
tempts.
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.
Night*, 25c t t $1.50. Mat., 25c to $1.
LYRIC 2,^ s k
Mats. Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday
The Season s Greatest Play ~
THE oALL OF HE HEAiiT
A Cast of Merit
A Great Stage Production.
Matinee Prices, 15c. 35c.
MOTOR RACES
Tuesday Night
8:30 P. M.'
MOTORDROME
FORSYT H DAILY MATIWEE 2:30
_ _ J 1 1 n Night at 8:30
WORLDS GREATEST TURKEY
TROTTERS,
Prank Inez
HALE and PATTERSON
LYDIA B R4Y queen of
*■ W ' H " * ' SIHIW COHEDI
Deimore and Lee: Dorl* Wlloon
and Company, and other*.
v. /
V
V
\T OW, about this Honesty of Bas -
^ ball thing.
How many unwitting fans—or nu
tation fans—have you neard say ir.
the last two weeks:
"Oh, it’s all a frame-up, to get ti.
gate receipts. It’s all fixed for Mo
bile to win out from the Pelicans.
Mobile didn’t need to win in At
lanta."
And how many times have you
heard it raid 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 th3
realm of sport—
THE ABSOLUTE HONESTY OF
BASEBALL.
...
W E'LL let it go at tliat, Lioya, wil l
one mor? .-mall comment, which
you may possibly have seen before—
We're THERE!
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 clay 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 amply rewarded by the class
and number of the entrants.
Players from Birmingham, Chatta
nooga. Nashville, Knoxville, 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.
The present title holder, Lee Afien
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 I een made to handle
the attendance, which is expected to
lie record-breaking.