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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.