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L W, tuft'll 1 MAH'jBMI STifiri I w mi~ **£uCmm THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WARMING ! UP By Tad Copyright, 1913. International News Service. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT / \ I?A*V A&a iv — fairs SOMC FteSH FAT HO. t> .STOLE (*V gTORfJ' STICK ^/e-yrEWPA-w - i u 7EUU T>*e»^ t>j couier tdoan' f AHEM" ~r V TWCRE LMA& A M yM0R6U-A STOLFN- FRom tmi 5 ROOAA VEVTEHOA-V- AMO IFTHC PER30i^ \K*0 COPPED |T 0063 WOT RETURN 1 rr pv tomorr 0 ^ H6 vMIU- GET ^ COOLER fa MONTHS V IV t Know voho STOLE <T- I WILL. GIVE HIFA owe CH>NC£ — Court's fs& .toorned SHELL THIS IS. A^OTKETR DAW IF THAT STtXETJ 0M8REUA iiuT Rfivis-weo - cll LOCK UPfiNEIWOwP I KJ COU^T- WF9XMS VTClA K/ you low Yfrm r 1HE WORLD I LnT round - rrs STRAIGHT LIKE i A CORK SCR6VN 1_- . " •) THATr MORN THE- FAST ONt 7^ Can You Figure Good Old Mike Finn Mixed Up in Any Shady Tactics? C. FRANK MAKES RAW CHARGES AGAINST MOBILE FANS ft* Dixie Developed Greatest Aggregation of Athletes Section Has Known FlIZZV WOODRUFF PICKS ALL-SOUTHERN TEAM FOR 1913 By 0. B. Keeler. S EEMS «ort of queer to settle back and look the old typewriter in the keyboard without having to hold on to something with the off hand to keep from slipping. Sort of let doiwn—what? Maybe you’ve noticed It yourself. • • • B UT the Crackers ARE champs, you know. Pinch yourself If you want to. but try to get that right. It’s all over now. And it turned out the right way. Still, there are exciting rumors rumorir. around. * * * I X one quarter—maybe as much as a half—frantic Cracker bugs are collecting money to buy Cholly Frank a Loving Cup that would keep him under the table the rest of the night if he undertook to empty it. Others are collecting a fund for the By Fuzzy Woodruff. T HE shouting and the tumult hav ing died in approved fashion, it Is now incumbent for the pallbearers to don their white gloves, the mourners to remark on the final conversation with the late lamented and the undertaker to look forlorn as he smiles Inwardly on pocketing a handsome fee. Baseball obsequies are as true to precedent as a funeral ceremony. The loser congratulates the winner, the winner commiserate* with the loser, the club owners* formally feed the athletes, the popular player is given a watch fob with crossed bats and a date engraved on it. whether he has a chronometer or not. and the All-League team is picked. All except the last have been done. Now for the •’dutn to dust” stuff. • • • D fCKTNG an All-Southern team is 1 considerably easier this year than it has been for several seasons past The standard of the organi sation was raioed considerably In 1913. and a tine cohort of regular ball players were developed. Thev cover e«ch position and stand out in as noticeable bas relief a# the eagle doe* on a new-milled iron dollar. Beginning wtth the behind-the- piate position, it is found that the palm inuat be awarded to veteran players. Strange to say. this is the case with almost every other position. The men who have had major league experience were undoubtedly the most valuable in the South this ‘year. • • • n HARLEY STREET, of Chatta- ^ nooga. and Charley Schmidt, of Mobile, appear to have It on the other catchers by a considerable distance The warm climate of Dixie seemed to bring the former Senator and the quondam Tiger back to their old big tent effectiveness But one other catcher in the league compared with them and he is Harry Chapman, the youthful Cracker back- stopper. Chapman undoubtedly has a roseate future, but he has a lot to learn. Hie principal drawback was in his method of working his hurlers. Two out of three of his signals were for curve balls, and this undoubtedly caused much of the weakening of the Cracker pitchers in late innings and their general tendency toward wildness. Street and Schmidt are both excel lent geoeralti. great receivers ex cellent peggere. Both hit hard and opportunely They should he given the jobs. • • • A FINE quintet of pitchers is pre sented Each of them goe? higher next year, and it seems altogether likely that they will each Brick. The hurling jobs go to Harry Cove- lesirie, of the Lookout*; Elmer Brown, of Montgomery, Bill Prough. of the Barons: "Pug* Cavet, of the Gulls, and Klliott Dent, of the Cracker* Here are three righ«-handers and two southpaws, an Ideal pitching ALL-SOUTHERN FOR 1913 Street (Chattanooga) Catcher Schmidt (Mobile) Catcher Coveleskie (Chattanooga) Pitcher E. Brown (Montgomery) Pitcher Prough (Birmingham) Pitcher Cavet (Mobile) Pitcher Dent (Atlanta) Pitcher Agler (Atlanta) First Base Wares (Montgomery) Second Base Bisland( Atlanta) Shortstop Elberfeld (Chattanooga) Third Base Robertson (Mobile) Left Field Welchonoe (Atlanta) Center Field Messenger (Birmingham) Right Field combination. No one can question their effectiveness. There were other good pitchers working down in these parts, notably Gil Price, of the Crackers. Curly Brown, of Montgomery. Bradley Hogg, of Mobile; Finis Wilson, of New Orleans, and old Rube Kissin ger. of the Turtles, but the mentioned five >ieem to me to be the best com bination. * • • F IRST base is as easy to pick as the winner in a political race be tween Republicans and Democrats In Cobb County. Joe Agler stands head ai d shoulders above all the others. Gene Paulot run# a favorable sec ond but not even the most rabid Mobillan could olnsw the Gull guar dian of the first cushion with the sen sational southpaw of the Crackers. • • • C LYDE WARES’ great haserunning ability, his pinch hitting and steady fielding give him the keystone from a rather ordinary field The Montgomery player seem# more val uable than Charley Starr, of the Gulls, and Lil M a roan, of the Baron#, the only other seriou# contenders. A P shortstop, there i# no queation for a second. Rivington Bisland is not only the best stortatop in the Southern League thi# season, but 1* very probably the best shortstop that the South has ever produced. More wonderful fielding than he showed in the crucial Mobile scries ha# never been seen, while his work was uni formly game, consistent, and timely. Milton Stock, of the Gulls, deserves honorable mention, a# does Roy El- lam. of the Barone, and Cotton Knaupp. who showed a revival of form after joining John Dobbs’ outfit scrappy Lookout manager. Elber- feld played third as well a# he did any other position and he played them all as well or better than any man in the league, so we’ll make Mr. El- berfeld the third-sacker. IN the outfield, two positions are * given by a unanimous vote Davy Robertson, the slugging Gull, is sent to left and Harry Welohonce. of the Crackers, to center. There can be no dispute about their qualifica tions. The right field posltiori causes trouble. There is Tommy Long, of the Crackers: Sloan, of Montgomery. Baerw&ld, of Memphis. Anv of these would be acceptable But Bob Mes senger. of Birmingham, gets the honor. Messenger Is perhaps the fastest man in the league. He is finished fielder and has the most accurate throwing arm seen In this league since the days of Ike Dirrrett. He bangs the ball at so near a 300 clip that he might be put • in that select company, and he 1# withal man always in supreme condition. T AKEN all in all. the club looks de cidedly stronger to me than any All-Southern team ha# in years. Just as the race this year has looked de cidedly better than any race since 1908 Of this club, every man has had major league experience, with the exception of Cavet. It’s true that the experience of some of them has been brief, but they’ve been up there and will go again. Street starred for years with Wash ington. while Schmidt was |*erform- ‘"THIRD bain show# a lack of mate- | * rial. There was really no high- j class regular performer there this season Old Bill Elwert. of Mont gomery. showed about as much a# any .f thpin hut Bill Is too anclsnt It Pn.i,i,u. or w. .kip rrw«, pi.p.id upo, to he placed on an all-Ptar aggre - ' xeeipt of II. lull particulars mailed on request Cure* In 1 t© 5 dan unnatural discharges Contains no poison anti may be used full strength „ absolutely without fe«r. guaranteed not to stricture, rr events contagion. BigG WHY NOT CURS YOURSELF? gat ion. The place go## lo Kid Eiberfeld. the (BEKYANS CHEMICAL CO- CUdusU. a ing similar duty for Detroit. Coveleskie pitched himself into fame and the New York Giants out of a pennant when he was with the Phillies. He has also seen service w ith the Reds and next season goes to De troit. Elmer Brown worked a season for the St. Louis Browns and will be a Dodger next year. Bill Prough has worn a Red uniform and will be on the Detroit pay roll from now on. while Dent worked briefly for the Senators and goes back to Griffith. Agler worked a while for the Cubs while Chance was manager and is due to work again for the Peerless Dead er with the Yankees next year. Wares has had experience with the Browns and goes back to them. Bisland was with Pittsburg for a while, but in asmuch as it was his job to horn Hans Wagner out of work, he nat urally fell down, and without dis grace. Rlberfeld has worn the uni form of Detroit, the Yankees and the Senators. In the outfield. Robertson has been and will be a Giant again. Harry Welchonce was tried out by Wash ington. while Bob Messenger has twice been with the White Sox. Beyond peradventure, this has been the veterans’ big year. Flynn and Morris May Be Matched cure AGO, Sept. 9—Jim Flynn ar rived in the city yesterday and lost no time in getting in touch with I^ar- nev Lichtenstein, manager of Carl Morris. Flynn agreed to meet Morris and it is probable the match will be closed to-day. Flynn is anxious to box Morris in Kansas City, where he defeated A1 Kaufmann in 1911. New Orleans players, notably Finis Wilson, who surely did It to the pop- eyed Gulls of dangerous memory. Yet another group wants C. Frank to run for President, or Governor, or something, unless Bill Smith can be induced to enter politics. * * • A ND this leads up to the REAL THTNG in rumors. Charley Frank comes right out in an interview—after getting back to New Orleans all In one section—and he aays some pretty gloomy things about Mobile and Mobile fans. * * * ■pVTDENTLY the Dutchman is pret- ty sore—or else he has been gen erously misquoted. He savs that every eort of effort was made in Mobile, from using un worthy protests of friendships to open warfare and possibilities of the well- known Hoos-Gow. to bring about an easing up of the Pelicans in the two games they played in Mobile, and es- Fraternity Will Not Take in Federalists NEW YORK. Sept. 9.—Persistent reportsthat the Baseball Player#' Frr- ternltv was about to become allied with the Federal League were set at resn by a statement by David L. Fultz, president of the fraternity. Fultz de clared his organization would make no alliance with any faction whatver in the baseball world. New Motor Records Due To-night +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•* Graves and Richards Clash T HE two fastest motorcycles in the South will be given “everything they have” to-night at Jack Prince’s Motodromc, with Morty Graves “up” on one and Tex Richards “up” on the other. Richards and Graves are to meet in a special match race. There will be three heats. The first over a route of one mile, the second will be two miles and the third three miles. The match race to-night will be a continuation of a series of clashes held last week. Richards on his famous Indian No. 23, and Graves on his record-break ing Excelsior, rode three heats last week at the drome, the average speed being 88 miles an hour. Graves won the first heat, Richards the second, and the third was a dead heat. Their side l>et of $50 put up last week still goes at to-night’s races, and there will be thrill after thrill in the three heats that they will ride, one, two and three miles respectively. Richards has one leg on the handsome silver trophy that goes to the rider winning three finals in the Southern championships at the drome. Richards won this last week and will be out after the second leg to-night. The man that wins this cup will be designated the^ southern motorcycle champion. Here is to-night’s program : SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS—(Heats 1 mile, finals 2 miles, 25 points for first, 15 for second and 10 for third.) First Heat—IxK-kner. 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 southern championships. SWEEPSTAKES—(French point system, 10 for first, 6 for second. 2 for third.) 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.) pedally the Sunday game, on which all depended. Frank is quoted as saying that there was a consistent effort made, on the field and off. to provoke his players into fighting, which would have resulted in arrest, which would have resulted in a weakened line-up. which would have resulted—by the same method of reasoning—in a pen. nant for Mobile. • * * T HAT is bad enough—if the Dutch man has been quoted correctly. But the other side is worse. The New Orleans manager is quot ed as saying that friends of his in Mobile came to him. “hinting at things.” and asking if it were pos sible that he intended to allow' Mo bile to be beaten out of a pennaiu. It seems Mr. Frank informed these friends that he not only intended to allow Mobile to be beaten out of a pennant, but he had some ideas of taking an active part in the beating. At any rate, events bear out that surmise. • * * F OR our part, we would rather not go too deeply into what may have occurred in Mobile. It doesn't matter now. But we would take a positive posi tion on two points. Point 1—We do not believe that Mike Finn had any part in any of the activities, as charged, either the rough-neck tactics or the “friendly” overtures. Mike is not that kind of a sport. Point 2—Discussed in the follow ing chapter, which might be cap tioned: “The Fighting Dutchman.” * • * T HrS for the Fighting Dutchman. Let’s get it In the Record that Charley Frank did one grand turn for clean baseball when he sent his men out on Monroe Field Sunday afternoon to win that ball game at anv cost. It is a thing to make the prickles chase up the back of the neck to consider the stalwart Dutchman, his broken club in last place, rallying his best pitcher, shaking up his bat tered line-up. offering battle to the limit—with nothing to gain by it. That victory helped (’barley Frank not at all. It gained him bitter ene mies in the town that he calls his Home Town. It had no bearing on the league race, so far as C. Frank was concerned. 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