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TTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Crackers Were Greatest Team Ever in Southern League, Says Billy
SMITH PROUD OF VICTORY-PROUD OF HIS MEN
By Bill Smith.
F OR th© third time, I am to-day
the leader of a Southern League
pennant winner.
For the third time Atlanta can
boast a championship club.
It is entirely natural that I am
proud.
But my proudness comes from the
thought that I have had the honor
of leading the greatest, gameet club
that has aver fought for a Dixie title.
There have been clubs to win pen
nants before, but there has never been
a club to come from behind and, with
relentless purpose and undying splrl’.
do the things that my club has done.
I take no credit for myself. I be
lieve that every man, from Agler to
Welchonce, and that's as near to the
end of the alphabet as I can come,
have contributed as much arid more
to the success of the club as I have.
• • •
AND don't think for a second 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
Orleans. Frank hltm'elf l* a native
of Mobile. There is where his family
lives There is hie real home.
But Frank proved the honesty of
baseball He knew that his two games
with Mobile would decide the series.
He tried his best in each game. He
battled valiantly for the first and
came near winning.
When he sent "Finis” Wilson In for
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 ild Atlanta
He wanted only to preserve the in
tegrity of baseball.
And he did it.
T GUESS the fans of Atlanta can
* realize how I felt yester «ay Can
you imagine your sensation when you
are handcuffed and a rjbtnr 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 lack of water'.’
You know’ that you have got to de
pend on some one else to Iwlp you
through.
You know that you are helpless In
aiding yourself.
I had to sit. through yesterday
afternoon listening to the telegraph
Instruments, end I thought ’hat every
dot and dash would mean blighted
hope and unachieved ambition to roe
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 nay that I rendered a prayer of
thanks.
Aftermath stuff is always had.
• • •
I WANT to say just a few things in
A conclusion, though.
Atlanta fas 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 best race this year. Mont
gomery finished fifth and was in the
race for the pennant up to tw’o weeks
ago. That’s enough.
Ah for next year. I have only this
to promise. I 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 I do. another pennant will fly
at Ponce DeLeon.
Cotton States Play
Begins at East
Lake This Afternoon
Match plays Inu the four flights for
the golf championship of the Atlanta
Athletic Club will commence this aft
ernoon over the East Lake course.
Here are the pairings in the four
eights:
First Flight.
George Adair vs \V. P. Hazelw’ood.
J. S Deer vs. 1. L. Graves.
H. C. Richards vs. Lowrv Arnold.
J. Ormond Smith vs. C. E. Corwin.
W. R. Tlchenor vs. R. L. Winston
W J. Tllson vs. H. Block.
F. G. Fay vs. R G. Blanton.
Second Flight.
Perry Adair vs. Milt Saul.
J. S. Raine vs. S. C. William**.
C. J. Holdlteh vs. R. T. Jones. Jr.
R A. Palmer vs. A. T. Todd.
D. E Root vs. R. E Tripper.
W. H. Rowan vs. G. N. Howell.
R. P Jones vs. Frunk Adair.
A. A. Doonan v». C. B. Hott.
Third Flight.
C. Q. Lippold vs. D. R. Henry.
D N. Spring vs. N C. Warren
R. J. Morris vs J M. Hoxsey.
W Markham vs. K. R. Cobb
Clark Donaldson vs. H. M. Ashe,
ft. I. Gresham vs. Scott Hudson.
E. H. Barnett vs. S. Hard.
H R. Calef vs. Winter Alfriend.
Fourth Flight.
O L. Simpson drew a bve.
J. C. McMiehael vs. J J Smith
W. B. Seabrooke vs. W. B. Nlnlnger.
EJ. D. Richardson vs J. S. Cohen
Dr. Jackson v*. J. E. Hickey.
D. A. L’Esperunce vs. J. G. Darling
B. M Blount vs. Keith Conway.
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Unofficial Figures
Give Welchonce
Batting Trophy
Unofficial flg-urea rive Harry Wel-
honce, leading rtickman of the
Champion Craokera. the top place in
ihe Hat of Southern league batsmen
/or the season just ended Wel
chonce and Robertson of the Gull*
Were tied at .340 when Mobile atvl
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—
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.
New Orleans started their final strug
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 In the season.
Unless the official figures turn up a
discrepancy. Welchonce will get the
handaom© 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 m in 1901.
Sports andSllCh
THE WONDER.
"Look well upon yon white man's
hope," a stranger said to me;
"Look welt upon yon gent—he is a
wondrous sight to see.
He never tool a wonder as a wiclder
of the mitts;
An ordinary white man’s hope could
put him on the fritz."
“Then tell me why the lowbrow is
so famous" answered I.
"He never whipped Al Falser" was
the gentleman's reply.
Bill Carrlflan has been condemned to
manage the Red Sox In 1914, but It
strikes the casual observer that the Job
Is more In Oscar Hammerstem’s line.
Frank Chance has signed a youthful
pitcher named Georqe Shears, probably
on the theory that ne 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 call the Iron
Man.
The boasts of challengers, the pomp
of pow'r
And all that press stuff lures the
wrestling (rank.
We cop the coin and fourflush for
an hour—
The paths of wrestlers lead hut to
the bank.
Frank Gotch has returned to the
game, but not because he needs the
money. It Is simply bscauss collecting
coins is one of his Incurable hobbies.
One deplorable feature of Mr. Qoteh's
return Is that It will cause one Zbyssko
to burst In with an ultimatum or two.
Messrs. Gotch and Zbyszko wIM 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 STAY!
By O. B. Keeler.
F OR the LAST TIME, boys—
We re THERE!
We’re there, and we’re *t111
there, and were going to STAY
THERE.
Champions—1913!
MO hard-luck flurry In the ninth
can rob us now. No more blood-
sweating finishes; no mote 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”
Thank*. 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 de.^rved 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 lo*e 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 ND just a word for Mike Finn and
the Gull*.
They lost, Just as the Crackers
came near losing. And they lost
fighting—fighting gamely to the end,
even as the Cracker* 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 Billlkens from their high
place and sent them reeling into the
discard.
And in doing that, Mike Finn and
hia 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!
N OW, about this Honesty of Base
ball thing.
How many unwitting fans—or imi
tation fan*—have you heard say in
the last two weeks:
“Oh, it’s all a frame-up, to g*t 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 ABSOLUTE 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!
j Sporting Food
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' QIOKM E. PH AIR-
BUSI N ESS OF YAWNING.
In the days when trees are budding
and the baseball bat starts
thudding
And the baseball teams are all a'thirst
to get each other's gore,
Hen will hang around the ticker
watching for each little flicker
And on every mortal's lips we hear
the question: “What’s the
score f"
But in days of mild September there
is but a dying ember
Of the flame we mortals cherished
in the happy days of yore.
Xo one hangs around the ticker
watching for each little flicker
And we answer with a yawn wheb
someone questions: “What's
the score 7”
Just as we had begun to think thsre
was nothing nsw In baseball Tom Lynch
busts in and decides a protested game
against the Giants.
Mr Lynch deserves great credit tor
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 Adams Is now the Iron man of
the National League, but It would take
an expert accountant to keep track of
all the \jrooden men.
WHAT’S THE USE?
“/ am worth ten thousand dollars,"
said the player from the bush.
But / failed to notice any signs of
gladness on his mush.
“I am worth ten thousand dollars,"
he repeated teith a sigh,
And he wiped away a tear drop that
was shining in his eye.
“/ am worth ten thousand dollars to
the tunn I’m working for,
But J haven't had a two-bit piece
for seven days or more.”
Clark Griffith arises to offer 3100,000
for Trie Speaker. Clark la bound to
be one of our beet little spendthrifts, as
long as It doaan’t coat him anything.
Another s'gn of approaching winter la
the annual tala that Joe O’Brien !• going
to be president of the National Leagua.
HARBINGER.
Full well I know that summer wanes
and autumn comes apace.
’Tis not because 1 see the gold upon
Dame Mature'* face
'Tts not because I see the leaves are
falling all about
While children wend their way to
school, nor pause to laugh or
shout
'Tis not because I see the flowers
die in glade and glen—
I know it teAen / read that old
Frank Gotch is loose again,
Richards and Graves to Clash
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Big Race at ’Drome To-night
Gf^WO of the greatest speed mer-
J chants in the world will hook
up to-morrow night at the Mo
tordrome when Tex Richards on hia
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 miles, 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 aide 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 odds that tne Braves beat
the Red Sox in October when the two
teams meet In an inter-city series.
Thh Brave* 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 eerie* with th* Red Sox trav
eling at their present dip it would not
be surprising if they grubbed the city
championship in easy fashion.
see
Just about the best slugging exhibi
tion of the year was staged in Chi
cago yesterday against the Cardinals
when the Cubs. Tn a double-header,
punched out three doubles, six triples,
three home runs and five singles, which
swats were enough to give them both
game.
e e e
Baumgartner. of the Browns,
triumphed over the White Sox in a
pitchers' battle with Bentz and Clcotte,
gaining the count 1 to 0.
e e e
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 laat eix weeks, the Cleve
landers continue to harass the Phila
delphian*, and now are only six full
games behind the league leaders, with
each team having about twenty-five
games still to play
• • e
It was the wonderful fielding and tima-
ly batting of Larry Turner, the veter
an thlnVsackar. 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 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.
Frank Schulte, of the Cuba, who is
aiming for the title of the best home
run hitter in the old league, craoked
out a brace of four-base swats yester
day.
• * •
Walter Johnson, the wonderful twirler
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 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
tie at the end of the eleventh Inning
because of darkness
• « *
Ty Cobb, of the Tigers, gained on Joe
Jackson, of the Naps, who is leading
him in batting in the American League,
yesterday. Joe went hitless In five trips
to the plate; Ty got one out of three at
tempts.
Play Starts To-day
For A, A. C, Title
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 ©vent
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 claas
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 titleholder, 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 drawing 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 hajkU©
th© attendance, which is expected to
be record-breaking.
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Orchestra of Fifteen.
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