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WARMING 1 UP By Tad Copyright, 1913. International News Servics. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Can You Figure Good Old Mike Finn Mixed Up in Any Shady Tactics? C. FRANK MAKES RAW CHARGES AGAINST MOBILE FANS Dixie Developed Greatest Aggregation of Athletes Section Has Known Fl'ZZV WOODRUFF PICKS ALL-SOUTHERN TEAM FOR 1913 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 commiserates 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 “dust to dust" stuff. • • • DICKING an All-Southern team is 1 considerably easier this year than it has been for several seasons past. The standard of the organi zation was raised considerably in 1913, and a fine cohort of regular hall players were developed. They cover each position and stand out in as noticeable has relief as the eagle does on a new-milled iron dollar Beginning with the behind-the- plate position, it is found that the palm must 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 moat valuable in the South this year> • • • C 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 baek- 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 generals, great receivers ex cellent peggers. Both hit hard and opportunely. They should be given the jobs. * • • A FINE quintet of pitchers is pre sented. Each of them goes higher next year, and it seems altogether likely that they will each stick. The hurling jobs go to Harry' Cove- leak le, of the Lookouts; Palmer Brown, of Montgomery. Bill Prough, of the Barons; “Pug" Cavet. of the Gulls and Elliott Dent, of the Crackers. Here are three right-handers and 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 Welchonce (Atlanta) Center Field Messenger (Birmingham) Right Field By 0. B. Keeler. S EEMS oort 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 down—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 rumoring around. * * * I N 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 New Orleans players, notably Finis Wilson, wljo surely dld.it to the pop- eyed Gulls of dangerous memory. Yet another group wants C. Fra*k 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 THING in rumors. Charley Frank corner right out in an interview—after getting back to New Orleans all In one section—and he says some pretty gloomy things about AJobile and Mobile fans. • * * ITTTDENTLY the Dutchman Is pret- ty sore—or else he has been gen erously misquoted. He says that every Mort of effort was made in Mobile, from using un worthy protests of friendships to open warfare and possibilities of the vs ell- known Hoos-Gow, to bring about an easing up of the Pelicans in the two games they played in Mobile, and es>- combination. No one can question their effectiveness. There were other good pitchers working down in these parts, notably Oil Price, of the Crackers; Curly Brown, of Montgomery; Bradley Hogg, of Mobile; Finis Wilson, of New Orleans, and old Rube Kiasiti- ger, of the Turtles, but the mentioned five F«eem to me to be the best com bination. • • • F IRST base is as easy to'pick as the w inner in a political race be tween Republicans and Democrats in Cobb County. Joe Agler stands head ai d shoulders above all the others. Gene Paulet runs a favorable sec ond but not even the most rabid M obi Han could class the Gull guar dian of the first cushion w ith the sen sational southpaw* of the Crackers. • * * C LTHK WARES’ Kreat IjasoninninK ability. hh> pinch hlttlns nn.i steady fielding Rive him the keystone from a rather ordinary field. The Montgomery player seems more val uable than Charley Starr, of the Gulls, and 1,11 Marcan. of the Barons the only other serious contenders. • • • A r shortstop, there is no question ** for a second. Rivington Blsland is not only the best stortstop in the Southern League this season, but is very probably the best shortstop that the South has ever produced. More, wonderful fielding than he showed in the crucial Mobile series has never been seen, while his work was uni formly game, consistent, and timely. Milton Stock, of the Gulls, deserves honorable mention, as does Roy El- lam. of the Barone, and Cotton Knaupp. who showed a revival of form after Joining John Dobbs’ outfit. • • • T HIRD base shows a lack of mate rial. There was really no high- class regular performer there this season. Old Bill Elwert, of Mont gomery. showed about as much as any of them, but Bill Is too ancient to be placed on an all-star aggre- gat ion. The place goes to Kid Elberfeld, the scrappy Lookout manager. Elber- feld played third as well as he did any other position and he played them all iis well or better than any man in the league, so we’ll make Mr. £1- berfeld the thlrd-sncker. • • * IN the outfield, two positions are * given by a unanimous vote. Davy Robertson, the slugging Gull, is sent to left and Harry Welchonce. of the Crackers, to center. There can be no dispute about their qualifica tions. The right field position causes trouble. There is Tommy Long, of the Crackers; Sloan, of Montgomery. Rnerwald, of Memphis. Any 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 a finished fielder and has the most accurate throwing arm seen in this league since the days of Ike Durrett. He bangs the ball at so near a .300 dip that hi\ might be put in that select company, and he is withal a man always In supreme condition. # • • • T AKEN all in all, the club looks de cidedly stronger to me than any All-Southern team has 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 perform- BicGi Cure* In 1 to 5 unnatural discharges Contains no poison and mar be used full strength ^ absolutely without fear, guaranteed not to stricture l*revents contagion. WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? At Druggists, or we ship express prepaid upon eceipt of $1. Ml particulars mailed on request nit CVANti CHEMICAL CO^ OaciamaU. O. Qoveleskie pitched himself into Phillies. He has also seen service with 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 Lead 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. Elberfeld 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 CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Jim Flynn ar rived in the city yesterday and lost no time In getting: In touch with Lar- nev Lichtenstein, manager of Car! 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 Al Kaufmann in 1911. Fraternity Will Not Take in Federalists NEW YORK. Sept. 9.—Persistent reportsthat the Baseball Players' Fra ternity was about to become allied with the Federal League were set at rest by a statement by r>avid 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 lie given everything they have” to-night at Jack Prince's Motodrome, with Morty Graves “up” on one and Tex Richards “up” on the other. Richards and Graves are to meet in a special match race, ilieie 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 lie a continuation of a series of clashes held last week. Richards on his famous Indian No. 23, and Grhves«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 bet 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—Lockner, Lewis, Glenn and Graves. Second Heat—Renel. Luther, Swartz and Richards. SPECIAL MATCH RACE—(Best two out of three, 1, 2 and 3-mlle 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 Ileat—Sweepstakes (7 miles.) pecially 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 pennant. 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 net 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 HIS 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 any cost. 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Y. — BEWARE OF IMITATIONS*- . 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 Charley 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, :*> far as C. Frank was concerned. But Charley Frank went out there, and he fought as if for a gonfalon for himself. He won—and he did a big thing for baseball. That’s our position. THE ATLANTA TONIGHT, Wed. Mat. and Night A Dandy Show for a Dollar LITTLE MISS FIX-IT Nights, 25c to *1; Mat. 25c to 75c. SEAT SALE TO-DAY FRIDAY & SATURDAY The Merry Countess Johann Strauss Music —Orchestra of 15— Nights, 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to $1. FORSYTH asmiig WORLD’S GREATEST TURKEY TROTTERS, Frank Inez HALE and PATTERSON LYDIA BARRY Delmore and Lee; Doris Wilson and Company, and others. LYRIC w^ s k Mats. 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