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TirF ATLANTA CJEORCrTAN AND NEWS.
IN EVERY ATLANTA HOME
By Tad
Copyright, 1913. Internallonal News Bervics.
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1AT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Crackers Were Greatest Team Ever in Southern League, Says Billy
SMITH PROUD OF VICTORY -PROUD OF HIS MEN
By Bill Smith.
F OR the third time, I am to-day
the leader of a Southern League
pennant winner
For the third time Atlanta can
boApt a championship club.
It la entirely natural that T am
proud
But my proudness comes from the
thought that I have had the honor
of leading the greatest, gamest 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 to com- from behind and. wi ll
relentless purpose and undying sp rl’.
do the things that my club haR done.
I take no credit for myself. 1 be
lieve that every man. from Agler to
Welchonce, and that's as near to the
end of the nlphnbot as I can come,
have contributed as much and more
to the success of the club as I have.
• • •
A NT> don’t think for a second I 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 und New
Orleans. Frank hlmwdf 1m a native
of Mobil*. There is where his family
lives. There Is his real home.
Rut Frank proved the honesty of
baseball Me knew that hts two games
with Mobile would decide the series.
He tried hie bent in each game. IF*
battled valiantly for the first and
came nenr winning.
When he sent ■•Finis” Wilson in fer
the last he knew lie was doing all
that mortal man could do.
He didn't want to beat Mobile.
He didn’t want to aid Atlanta.
He wanted only to preserve the in
tegrity of baseball.
And he did It.
[ GUESS the fans of Atlanta can
* realize how 1 felt yesterday Can
you imagine your sensation when you
are handcuffed and a rjbbtr Is gjing
through your pockets?
Can you imagine how you would
feel when your automobile breaks
down in the middle of the Sahara
bewrt for lack of water?
You know that you have got to de
pend on tome one else to help vou
through.
You know th.it you are helpless in
aiding yourself.
I had to sit through yesterday
afternoon listening to the telegraph
instruments, and I thought that every
dot and dash would mean blighted
hope and unachieved ambition t<» rne,
I couldn't see the sunny side at all.
And when the last message came
over, 1 was too faint to cheer, but I
will ?gy 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 I^eague has
seen its beat race this year. Mont
gomery finished fifth nnd 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. 1 will work as hard as
I did this* year. My hope is that I
will have the splendid support that
players and fans gave me this season.
If 1 do another pennant will fly
at Ponce DeLeon.
Play Starts To-day
For A. A. C. Title
Match plays In J^e four flights for
the golf championship of the Atlanta
Athletic Club will commence this aft
ernoon over tht Fast Lake course.
Here are the pairing* in the four
flights:
First Flight.
George Adair vs \V. P. Hazelwood.
J. 8 Deer vs. 1 L. Graves.
II. P. D. Cowee vs. Lowry Arnold.
R C. Richards vs. i' V. Rainwater.
J. Ornmnd Smith vs. C. E. Corwin.
\\\ R. Tichenor \s. It. L. Winston.
W. J. Tilson vs. H. Block.
F. B. Fay vs. R. G Blanton.
Second Flight. '
Perry Adair \ Mill Saul
J. 8. Raine vs. S. C. Williams.
C. J. Holdltcli vs. K. T. Jones, Jr.
R. A. Palmer vs \ T Todd.
D. E. Hoot \s It. E. Tripper.
\V. H. Rowan vs. G. N. Howell
R. P. Jones vs. Frank Adair.
A. A. Pooiuin vs i B Holt.
Third Flight.
C. G. Lippold vs. D. K. Henry
G. N. Spring vs. X. t*. Warren.
K. J. Morris vs J M. Hoxaey.
W. Markham vs. K. It. Cobt.
Clark Donaldson vs. H. M Ashe.
R. I. Gresham vs. St oil II jiUon.
E. H. Barnett vs s. Hard
H. R. Cab f vs Winter Alfriend.
Fourth Flight.
G L. Bimpaon drew a bye.
J. C. McMichael vs. J J Smith.
W. B. Seabrooke vs. W. B. Nininger.
E. D. Richardson vs J. S. Cohen.
Dr. jacks.>n J. K Hick* \
D. A I. Hspcram e .1 G Mriling
B. M. Blount vs. Keith Conway.
Unofficial Figures
Give Welchonce
Batting Trophy
Unofficial figures give Harry Wel
chonce, leading stlckman of the
Champion Crackers, the top place in
the list of Southern League batsmen
for the season just * nded Wel
chonce and Robertson of the Gulls
tied at .*4o when Mobile and
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 the noodle of Billy Smith;
You may point to the bludgeon of Welchonce
As a scepter to conjure with;
You may boast of the smooth machination.
Team-play at the top of its bent-
lint the heart of that organization
Was Thompson, and Price, and DenJ—
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 t he glory
To Thompson, and Dent, and Price—
And Conzelman.
Xfw Orleans* started their final strug
gle The‘great D«ve failed to get a
hit in four times at bat and hlipped
back below his rival for the first time
since early in the season
Unless the official figures turn up a
discrepancy. Welchonce will get the
handsome Rose medal for batting and
win emablUh 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 icell upon yon white man>
hope,'* a .stranger said to me;
“Look well upon yon gent—he is a
wondrous sight to see.
He never was 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 J.
“He never whipped AI Falzerwas
the gentleman's reply.
Bill Carrigan has been condemned to
manage the Red Sox In 1914, but It
strikes the caaual observer that the Job
Is more in Oscar Hammersteln’s line.
Frank Chance has signed a youthful
1 pitcher named George Shears, probably
on the theory that he will cut a wide
swath.
I
HARVEST TIME.
• An elegy written by a wrestler.)
Full many a dollar lingers all un-
seen
Within the pockets of the wrestling
fan.
Full tunny a healthy roll of virgin
green.
Full many a coin we call the Iron
Man f
The boasts of challengers, the pomp
of pme'r
And all that press stuff lures the
wrest ling crank.
R> cop the coin and four flush 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
coins le one of his incurable hobbles.
One deplorable feature of Mr Gotcha
return is thftt it will cause one Zbyssko
to burst In with an ultimatum or two
Messrs. Gotch and Zbyszko will un
doubtedly meet this winter. If the pub
lie will stand for It.
P S.: The public will stand for any
thing.
No Heart-Breaking Rally, No Blood-Sweating Finish, Can Beat Us Now!
THANKS TO C. FRANK WE’RE STILL THERE-TO STAV!
By O. B. Keeler.
F OR the LAST TIME, boye—
We’re THERE!
We’re there, and we’re still
there, and we’re going to STAY
THERE.
Champion*—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’
• • •
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. Pelican*.
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!
* • *
T HE Crackers deserved that rag. if
ever any club deserved anything
Bill Smith deserved It. Atlanta de
served it.
A month ago—two week?*—two days
ago. It seemed that the sole reward
of a great, game club and its great,
game manager was to be the splendid
flght they had made, to lose at the
finish only the crown 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 NT) just a word for Mike Finn and
** the Gull*.
They lost, just a* the Crackers
came near losing. And they loat
fighting—fighting gamely to the end.
even as the Crackers would have lost.
In a way, Mike Finn and his Gull*
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 Billiken* from their high
place and sent them reeling into the
discard.
And in doing that, Mike Finn and
his good, game ball club fought oift
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!
N OW, about this Honesty of Base
ball thing.
How many unwitting fang—or imi
tation fan®—have you heard say in
the last two weeks:
“Oh, it’s all a frame-up. to get the
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 said 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 one
more ABSOLUTE PROOF of that
clearest and cleanest thing in the
realm of sport—
THE \ BSOLUTE HONESTY OF
BASEBALL.
• • *
W E’LL let it go at that. boys, with
one more small comment, which
you may possibly have seen before —
We’re THERE!
| Sporting
1 my QBOAQI ft.
Food
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BUSINESS OF YAWNING.
In the duns when trees are budding
and the baseball bqt starts
thudding
And the baseball trams are all a'thirst
to get each ether’s gore,
Men will hang around the ticker
watching for each little flicker
And on every mortal's lips we hear
the question: “What’s the
scoref”
But in days of mild September there
is but a dying ember
Of the flame xce mortals cherished
in the happy days of yore
s’o one hangs around the ticker
watching for each little flicker
And we answer with a yawn when
someone questions: “What's
the scoref”
Ju.t as we had begun to think there
was nothing new In baseball Tom Lynch
busts In and decides a protested game
against the Giants.
Mr. Lynch deserves great credit for
his adamantine firmness, etc., but the
Giants didn't need the game, anyhow.
We note by the paper that Cleveland
fans are looking forward hopefully to
nest year. This Is the best little thing
they do In Cleveland.
Babe Adame is now the Iron man of
the National League, but it would take
an expert accountant to keep track of
all the wooden men.
WHAT’S THE USE?
“I am worth ten thousand dollars,’’
said the player from the bush.
Hut 1 failed to notice any signs of
gladness on his mush.
“I am worth ten thousand dollars,’’
he repeated with a sigh.
And In wiped away a tear drop that
was shining in his eye.
“I am worth ten thousand dollars to
the man I’m working for,
llut I haven’t had a two-bit piece
for seven days or more.”
Clark Griffith arises to offer $100,000
for Trls Speaker. Clark Is bound to
be one of our best little spendthrifts, as
long as It doesn’t cost him anything.
Another sign of approaching winter is
the annual tale that Joe O'Brien is going
to be president of the National League.
HARBINGER.
Full well I know that summer wanes
and autumn comes apace.
'Tis not because I see the gold upon
Home Mature's face
'Tis not because I see the leaves are
falling all about
While children wend their way to
school, nor pause to laugh or
shou t
'Tis not because I see the flowers
die in glade and glen—
1 know it when I read that old
Frank Gotch is loose ogain.
Richards and Graves to Clash
+•+ +•+ 'J*#*!* *!••+
Big Race at Drome To-morrow
T WO of the greatest *peed mer
chants in the world will hook
up to-morrow night at the Mo-
tordhome 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
iB? 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 miles, 25 points
for first, 1b 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 firat, 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).
FODDER FOR FANS
Persons with gambling instincts are
laying slight odds that the Braves beat
the Red Sox in October when the two
• earns 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 the National league, and if they go
into the series with the Bed Sox trav
eling at their present clip It would not
be surprising if they grabbed the city
championship in eaAy fashion.
• • *
Just about the best slugging exhibi
tion of the year was staged in Chi
cago \esterday 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
pitcher's’ battle with Bentz and Cicotte,
gaining the count 1 to 0.
* • •
Those pesky Nars refuse to let Con
nie Mack and his Athletics dream un
interrupted pennant dreams Counted
out of the race at least a half dozen
flmes 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 Packer, 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
tallies for the Nap6.
• • •
Mathewson. of the Giants, has been
skidding badly in the last month, being
beaten in the majority of gai#iet> 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.
* * *
Waiter Johnson, the wonderful twirler
of the Senators, whose $7,000 contract
expires t-hls 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 him a three or five
year contract to boot.
‘‘Kid*’ Elberfeld. the old Yankee j
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
l charity. The battle ended in a 1 to 1
tie at the end of the eleventh inning j
because of darkness.
• • *
Ty Cobb, of the Tigers, gamed on Joe •
Jackson, of the Naps, who is leading ;
him ir. hatting in the American League,
yesterday. Joe went hitless in five trips !
to the plate: Ty got one out of three at- !
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 clay courts of the
Atlanta Athletic Club at East Lake,
with one of the finest cards of tennis
cracks £ver 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. a»d a host of other local cracks
are prepared to bring the big title to
Atlanta, if it can be done.
The present title holder, I^ee Allen
Brooks, of Birmingham, will be here
before the week is out to defend hi*
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 been 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.. 26c to 7So.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The STRAUSS Music Play
The Merry Countess
Orchestra of Fifteen.
SEAT SALE TUESDAY.
Night*, 25c t 0 $1.50. Mat.. 25c to $1.
LYRIC OKS.
Mats. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
The Season’s Greatest ^lay
THE CALL OF « HE HEART
A Cast of Merit
A Great Stage Production.
Matinee Prices, 15c, 36c.
^^ —>iiHM hnc|h^Prices^15c^Mc.
MOTOR RACES
Tuesday Night
8:30 P. M.
MOTORDROME
FORSYTH
WORLD’S GREATEST TURK
TROTTERS.
Frank Inez
HALE and PATTERSON
LYDIA B P ?Y QUi-tN of
kiuiHDhniii Si*Gi*b CQMt0|
Delmore ar.d Lee: Doris Wlfl
and__Company. and others.