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But Why Saddle Bill Smith With Results of Dissension in Finnland?
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Toe Agler Holds Enemy fo 15 Hits in Great Pitching Duel in Benefit Game
WEALTH OF FEATURES DISPLAYED FDR 2,000 FANS
Bv O. B. Keeler.
T HE final appearance of the
Champions of 1913 at Ponce
DeLeon — the much - heralded
benefit game—offered a couple of
thousand fans, among other things,
a great pitching duel between Joe
Agler, sport writer, expert first-seek
er and fork-hand pitcher (some
times ) and John D. Rockefeller Vow.
Joe's performance was especially
ROt.ibh. H- let the opposition down
with only fifteen hits. Joe's support,
while brilliant and gilt-edged, wob
bled slightly, however, and several of
the seven errors might be said to
have had something to do with the
ten runs made by the enemy.
Still, Joe's* performance was
notable.
• • •
Vf R VOSF also mi* hit rather fre-
quently. particularly by Mr. Ag-
ler, his slat) opponent. If all Mr.
Voss' enemies .ad made as many
hits as Mr. Agler, Mr. Voss would
have yielded n total of 46, which
would come near being a record for
modern baseball.
Mr Voss' support, however, was
eomewhat off It only complied six
errors, as against seven by the Bie-
lantis
In the matter of runs, which was
of a somewhat secondary considera
tion. the W. Smith pitcher suffered
only six tallies to be extracted from
his system, evidently partaking of
aome of his famous namesake’s pro
clivities
# • •
CO the Wallop Smiths won the game.
^ and Manager Billy Smith played
center field with much eclat and a
regular put-out, besides showing a
remarkable whip and a couple of hits,
just to prove he was mill there
• • •
C HAPMAN was suffering from n
•trained back, so he umpired.
Once In a while he got the sema
phores crossed in the matter of balls
and strikes, and once he called George
Winter safe with one hand and out
with the other, eo that the unfor
tunate George could not possibly have
followed directions without being
twine
But Chappy had a noble voice and
a determined air. beside* a supply
of baseballs, and there were not more
than forty protests on his decislohs
in any one irmlng.
C PEAKING of G. Winter#, that re-
^ doubtable veteran slammed one
beautiful home run up the side of
the Red Mountain in right field, pull
ing up safely at second Just ahead of
Carl Thompson's three-furlong peg
George ran after several hits in his
ward, too. and Goat Holliday was
there to make the relay.
• • •
IN addition to a fine curve ball, Joe
* Agler showed h disposition to
catch fouls back of the plate Once
he ran in nearly to the grandstand
and took a high pop to great ap
plause by Mr. Wahoo, who was catch
ing.
* • *
C OUNT CASTRO played shortstop
for the victorious team. Hie beat-
ting was a feature of the struggle,
he being the only man in the line-up
not making ut least one hit off Joe.
The Count was Indeed playing In
Crisp Weather Makes'
Fast Play in A, A. C.
Golf Tournament
tough luck, but he hit the pill every
time up, and It was not his fault if
some loafer should be hanging around
where he couldn’t get out of the way
of It.
After the game, the Count wan re
quested for soma expert explana
tion of his neglect tv hit where they
weren’t.
Grant-Ramspeck
In Brilliant Match
In 3d Tennis Round
One record the speed record—bids :
fair to be broken in th«- annual golf j
championship of the Atlanta Athletic j
Club being Hayed at East Lake this j
week. The cool, crisp weather has
had its effaot on the,play, and yes-i
ter day afternoon found both the first
and second rounds in all (lights com- '
pleted, and tin* pairings narrowed I
down to the third round.
Play was uniformly good, as well j
as rapid. A number of matches re- |
attired extra holes to dtoldi them* I
though the first (light contests were
rather lop-sided. W. R. Tiehenor, C.
V. Rainwater and R. G. Blanton are j
among the survivors in the first flight, 1
with Hamilton Block, Lowry Arnold
and C. E. Corwin eliminated.
Followdng are the results
First Flight—First Round.
J. L. Graves defeated J. L. Derr, 5
up and 4 to play.
C. V. Rainwater defeated R. \.
Richards by default.
W. R. Tiehenor defeated E. ?.
Winston. H up and 5 to play.
First Flight—Second Hound.
C. V. Rainwater defeated Lowr>
Arnold, 2 ir and 1 to play.
W. R. Tiehenor defeated C. E. Cor- !
win. 4 up and 2 to Huy.
R. O. Blanton defeated H. Block, 2
up and 1 to play.
Second FIioht—First Round.
C. B. Mott defeated A. A. Doonan, 2
up.
Second Flight—Second Round.
Perry Adair defeated S. C. Wil
liams. 7 up and 6 to play.
G. N. Howell defeated R. E. Trlppe.
1 up. 19 holes.
Frank Adajr defrated C. B. Mott, fl
up and f* to play.
Third Flight—First Round.
H. M. Ashe defeated Clark Don
aldson. 4 up and 3 to play.
Third Flight—Second Rounc ! .
W. C. Warren defeated D. R. Hen
ry. 6 up and 5 to play.
W. Markham defeated R. J. Morris,
6 up and 6 to play.
H. M. Ashe defeated Scott Hudson.
1 up. 19 holes.
Winter Alfred defeated E. H. Bar-
nett 1 up
Fourth Flight—Fir** Round.
W B. Heabrook defeated C. M. Nin-
ninaer. 4 up and 3 to plav
Fourth FK-ht—Second Round.
E. D. Richardson defeated \V B. I
j Seabrook, b up and 3 to play. |
The fireworks began on the East
Lake Tennis courts yesterday after
noon. where the third round of play
in the Cotton States tourney, held
by the Atlanta Athletic Club, w'ns in
progress.
The toughest struggles of the aft
ernoon, and the most brilliant mutch,
was that in which Carl Ramspeck
was eliminated from the list by
Bryan Grant, in a desperate match
that required all three sets, one of {
them a long deuce affair, to settle it. !
Cnrleton Smith kept easily on his
way, winning his match in the sec
ond round and again Ln the third
round by comparatively soft scores.
Darkness put an end to the doubles
match between Mansfield and Smith
and Carter and Grant. Interrupting
a grand struggles after the first set,
which went to the former, S—6.
The semi-finals in singles will be
played this afternoon.
Following are yesterday's results:
Singles.
(Becond Round.1
E. S. Mansfield defeated E. W.
Ramspeck, 6—1, 8—6.
Vernon McMillan defeated R. B.
Scott, 6 -4, 6—1.
E. IX Cintz defeated Frank Owens,
6—2. 6—4.
Carleton Smith defeated M. O.
Tupper. 6—1, 6—2.
(Third Round.)
Bd Carter defeated D. H/ Starr
6— 0, 6—1.
B. M. Grant defeated C. M. Rani-
speck, 6—4, 8—10. 6—4.
Oarleton Smith defeated E. D.
Cints, 6—1, 6—2.
Doubles.
(Second Round *
Whiteside and Smith defeated Al
bert and Reynolds by default.
(Third Round.)
Ramspeck and Orr defeated Lee
Douglas and Smith. 6—4. 6*—0.
Men's Consolation Singles.
(Second Round.)
J K < >i r defeated C. A. Raw son. •
6-0, 6 0.
The Count declined. That is. his
explanatidri was entirely too heavy
for the proofreader to handle.
# • •
jiiANAGRR BILLY SMITH added
to his reputation as a speech-
maker, started at the recent dinner
given the ball club at the Capital
City Club.
The eruption took place at the start
of the sixth inning, and was brief,
well worded. un.d to the point.
“On behalf of the boys,” said Bill,
”1 want to thank you fans for all
you have done for the club this sea
son. You have stood by us from start
to finish, and every man on the club
appreciates your support and thanks
you from the bottom «of his heart.
And it Is my earnest hope and prayer
that wo see you all again, when the
season of 1914 rolls around.”
Groat applause.
Bill unquestionably was there w’ith
the oratory, and you could tell by the
way he said it that it was something
more substantial than hot air.
* • •
CAM WOODWARD and Charley
. Wahoo completed the list of rook
ies for the game, and each distin
guished himself by a triple. Charley,
in addition, rushed the football sea
son a trifle and fell on the ball after
getting hold of a wild peg from some-
u here in the outskirts. He sat on
the ball quite a w’hile, but it declined
to hatch.
» » •
OAT HOLLIDAY, a candidate for
^ Joe Agler's job at first, played
a nice game. His bright particular
stunt wae circling the bases on a
single, an error by Thompson and
another by Wahoo.
• • •
\Y/ ALLOP SMITH established a
vv new benefit game record for
put-outs. He had eleven in the of
ficial score, consisting largely of pop
(lies.
• • *
CO it was a great game, and the
fan9 did their part nobly, turn
ing o it as if to a regular game—a
tremendous improvement on the usual
style in benefit contests About 2.000
were at the game, and a good many
who couldn’t go bought tickets. So
it was a pretty substantial token of
appreciation for the bovs.
• • •
■"THE sun wae getting low ns Voss
* took Bisland’s bounder and
towed out the Best Shortstop in the
World. There was a crisp breeze,
and it carried the tang of autumn.
A hint of gold that was not of the
low vun’s rays touched the trees in
the distance outside the great park.
And the fane were sort of quiet
as they filed out
The baseball season of 1913 was
over.
By O. B. Keeler.
0 1JR old friend, The Memphis
News-Scimitar, comments in
its always breezy and enter
taining manner on the untoward end
ing of the late campaign generaled by
the Hon. Mique Finn, of Gullville, and
lays the brodie of the smiling Irish
man to that well-known cause, dis
sension.
Far be it from us, living at this
distance from the seat of the alleged
war, to go into any authentic dis
cussion of Mike’s relations with the
president, directors, stockholders,
board of governors, entertainment
committee, groundkeeper and bet-
boy of his ex-club.
Frankly, we don’t pretend to know
anything about it.
• «
n UT The N.-S. writer appears to
have a whole snootful of inside
information.
He even rakes up old scores in the
incident of a Certain Director of the
Gulls, who is Maid, several years ago.
to have risen majestically In his box
and bellowed ruucous instructions to
the perapirlng manager concerning
the removal of a fluttering alabman.
That was indeed pad.
But it is not understood that the
incident had any particular bearing
on the gonfalon chase of 1913, ex
cept as illustrating the sort of stuff
Mike was up against.
• • •
RANTING our News-Roimmetrical
friend to be correctly primed, we
sympathize deeply with Mr. Finn in
his mruggles with a meddlesome
ownership.
That is one of the toughest things
in baseball.
It must be discouraging to a man
ager to lead hi«* cohorts out on the
ball field with no idea whether Cavet
or Hogg is to pitch, or -if •Schmidt
is to toil back of the wrood or In
center field, because the inStructionr*
from headquarters have been delayed
in transit.
We remark again, it is indeed sad.
Even tough.
• • «
D UT it occurs to us as being falnt-
^ ly In order to protest mildly and
amiably against Mr. New? Battle-Ax’s
evident Implication that Billy Smith's
laurels are anywise tarnished as a
consequence of the managerial sor
rows of Mr. Finn.
• • «
IT mar possibly be recalled that Mr.
A Smith hod a trouble or two of his
own.
Not of the directorial brand, cer
tainly. The Atlanta owners and di
rectors gave Mr. Smith carte blanche,
which is Gaelic for full swing, both
in the matter of new hands and man
agement.
That much is admitted cheerily.
But there was rather more than a
trifle of tough luck ln the behavior
of Mr. Alperman’e vermiform appen
dix. r ; ght at the critical juncture. And
Mr. Bailey's ribs gave wav at pre
cisely the same time. And Mr. Calvo
proved of low grade filler instead of
straight Havana, besides breaking a
wing. And Mr. Chapman turned an
ankle wrong-side out. And Mr. Dent’s
digestion suddenly gave way. And
Mr. Long was out with a congested
lung for several daye.
And some other .thing.?
All in the last drive to the wire.
• • •
W HICH little alibis never would
have seen the light of day, in
view of the happy ending of the
crool war. had It not been for the
added luster they shed on the last
drive of Mr. Billy Smith, and (just
CHANGE
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a little bit) because of the evident
uneasiness of the News Cleaver.
IT also is suggested that kindly and
1 beneficent umpiring aided the
Crackers to trim the Memphis club
in the final series here, and also cut
into the Mobile series.
And the Turtles’ official organ even
makes use of that pessimistic term,
“outside influence.”
Putting It with all the fairness and
candor the typewriter will stand, it
sticks ln our craw that the umpiring
might be called a number of other
Crackers Leave for Knoxville
Players Pull Down $150 Apiece
W ILLIAM ANDREW 59MITH
and the champion Crackers
of 1918 departed from Atlan
ta at 7 o’clock this morning on the
way to Knoxville, where they are
scheduled to play three games with
the Appalachian League club of that
city, beginning to-day.
Price, Dent and Thompson will
pitch the series, and it is expected
that the champs, with nearly their
full power in the line-up, will have
an easy time with the minor leaguers.
The net results from the benefit
game and sundry subscriptions to
taled about $2,500, to be divided
among the members of the club, so
that each man received about $150 as
his share. The boys expressed much
satisfaction at the way they had been
treated in Atlanta, and spoke of their
prospects of returning next year with
lively anticipation.
things rather than kindly and benefi
cent
And that goes for the home club,
and the visitors.
The umpiring in the series men
tioned was uncertain.
That was the worst of It. A calm
reflection, with the reverberations of
recent strife dying in the distance,
stirs up no flagrant example of either
club getting a decisive advantage by
maladministration of justice.
(~\H. and by the way—Mr. Finn is
reported to be going to Memphis
next season to manage the Turtles.
That is a consoling thought; a c.c.
of Balm in Gilead for the raw places
left in our memory by the mistreat
ment of Mr. Finn by the directorate
of the Guile.
We feel comfortingly certain that
The News-Scimltaj; will hang, like
the well-known Can-Opener of Da
mocles, over any attempt by the Pow
ers to hamper Mr. Finn in the exer
cise of hi* managerial function.
And optimism must prevail.
Murray, the French right fielder, yes
terday demonstrated that his title of
“the best throwers in the National
League," is no misnomer, by throwMig
out at first base two Pirates who had
cleanly hit into his district.
* * *
The Dodgers with Rucker in the box
took the opening game of the final
series from the Cubs yesterday.
* * •
Meyers, of the Giants, continues to
convince the populace that his month’s
lay-off did not .affect his batting eye.
He whanged out two doubles yester
day.
♦ • •
Hans Wagner, the aged shortstop of
the Pirates, may be slowing up as a ball
player, but it wasn’t especially noticea
ble yesterday. Hans quit the daV with
a batting average of .500 and a fielding
average of 1.000, accepting nine difficult
chances without the semblance of a
foozle.
Ty Cobb yesterday made a slight gain
on Joe Jackson, the leading batter
of the American League, annexing two
hits out of four attempts, while the Nap
clubber got only one out of four times.
• • #
The “lucky seventh" figured in the
Red Sox victory over the Tigers yes
terday the Boston boys driving in 'two
runs which put the game on ice.
* • •
The Reds touched up "Hub" Perdue
for five runs In the first inning of yes
terday's game, which were enough to
give them the battle, although the
Braves made a nice rally later in the
fray.
• « *
Once again the Naps had a chance to
cut down the lead of the Athletics and
once again the Nans spurned it. The
White Sox administered a beating to
the leading Philadelphians, whereupon
the Naps proceeded to drop another
game to the Senators.
• • ft
Cleveland’s chances of winning the
pennant this year may now be looked
upon as about a 50 to 1 shot. The Naps
have but 19 games to plav and are six'
games behind the Athletics. To grab
off the flag the Nans, just now playing
a poor game of ball, must win all of
their remaining games, while the Ath
letics can afford t
win out.
• « •
Miller Huggins, manager of the Car
dinals. has been given assurance bv
the owners that he will be at the head
of the team again next year. The own
ers think that Huggins, with the ma-
ter ?. a li. n ^und, has done remarkably
well this season.
# • •
The Giants got away to a nice start
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SHUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. 6A.
on their final Western Invasion which
will settle the pennant race in the old
league by trouncing the Pirates in
rather easy fashion.
• « •
The Phillies skidded still further away
from fulfillment of their pennant dreams
vesterday by losing out to the Cardinals
in a ten-inning pitching duel between
Eppa Jeppa Rixey, the spire-like, and
Doak, a 1913 recruit of the Cardinals.
• * *
The Browns turned a. mean trick on
the Yanks yesterday. They permitted
the New Yorkers to get a five-run lead,
which made the New Yorker.s gleeful as
a victory yesterday dvould just about
have lifted them out of last place in
the American League. And then the
Browns, in the final four Innings, batted
out eight run*, giving them the game.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.—-Yale
University won the Intercollegiate
team golr championship by defeating
Williams College in the final round
on the Huntingdon Valley Country
Club links at Noble by six matches to
four.
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