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But Why Saddle Bill Smith With Results of Dissension in Finnland? MEMPHIS PAPER SEEMS PEEVED AT GULLS’ DEFEAT ■fflffll mm nJ 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 Suburban Schedule Central of Georgia Railway Effective September 14. suburban train No. 108 will leave Atlanta 6:15 p. m. Instead of 6:10 p. m. Arrive Jonesboro 7:15 p. m. Adv. 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 \ ECZEMA SUFFERERS S R**<! whtt L 8. Gtddftns. Tampa. Fla.. *•*. S It prove* that Tetterine Cures Eczema Far mw* ytari I had tozama an my a*Ha. I triad aiaav rtmadlaa and nu mar»NS I triad Tattertoa and attar alfM w—kt mi aatlrafy fru tram tha tar- ' rlbia eeiama. ) Tettorln# will da as much for othara. It < cure* fcaeaa. U'tftr. eryalpelaa and other akin ? trouble* It cur«a to May cared. Get It te- ? day—Tettrrina. SOe at drudfiat*. er by mall. 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. YALE IS GOLF CHAMPION. 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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