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HOME WORK E Copyright, 1913 >y Tad International News Service SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT '\ But Why Saddle Bill Smith With Results of Dissension in Finn land? MEMPHIS PAPER SEEMS PEEVED AT GULLS’ DEFEAT Joe Agler Holds Enemy to 15 Hits in Great Pitching Duel in Benefit Game WEALTH OF FEATURES DISPLAVED FOR 2,000 FANS By O. B. Keeler. T HE Anal 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-sack, er. and fork-hand pitcher (some times) and John D. Rockefeller Voss. Joe’s performance was especially notable.' He 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. t i 11, Joe’s performance \v a s notable. ♦ • • TV 1 R- VOSS also was hit rather fre- quentlv. particularly by Mr. Ag ler, his slab opponent. If all Mr. Voss’ enemies had made a* many hits as Mr. Agler, Mr. Voss would have yielded n total of 45, which would come near being a record for modern baseball. Mr. Voss’ support, however, was •omewhat off. It only complied six errors, as against seven by the Bin- lands. 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 some of hie 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 still there. • • • f^HAPMAN was suffering from a strained 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, so that the unfor tunate G?orge could not possibly have followed directions without being twin* But Chappy had a noble voice and a determined air. besides a supply of baseballs, and there were not more than forty protests on his decisions in any one inning. * * * CPEAKTNG 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. • • * I N addition to a fine curve ball, Joe Agler showed a disposition to catch fouls* back, of the plate Once he ran in nearly to the grandstand end took a high pop to gfeat ap plause by Mr. Wahoo, who was catch ing. • • • POIINT CASTRO played shortstop for the victorious team. His bat ting was a feature of the struggle, he being the only man invthe line-up not making ut least one nit off Joe The Count was Indeed playing In 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 was re quested for some expert explana- tlon of his neglect to hit where they weren’t. Crisp Weather Makes j Grant-Ramspeck Fast Play in A. A. C. In Brilliant Match Golf Tournament In 3d Tennis Round One record -the speed record—bids fair to he broken in the annual golf championship gf the Atlanta Athletic Club being stayed at East l*ke this week. The cool, crisp weather has had its effect on the play, and yes terday afternoon found both the first and second rounds in all flights com pleted, and the pairings narrowed down to the third round. Flay was uniformly good, as well as rapid. A number of matches re quired extra holes to decide them, though the first flight contests were rather lop-sided. W. R. Tichenor, C. V. Rainwater and R. G. Blanton ire among the survivors In the first flight, with Hamilton Block, Lowry Arnold and C. E. Corwin eliminated. y Following are the results: First Flight—First Round. J. L. Graves defeated J- L. Derr, 5 up and 4 to play. C. V’. Rainwater uefeated R. A. Richards hv default. W. R. Tichenor defeated E. Winston, 6 up and 5 to play. First FliH.t—Second Bound. C. V. Rainwater defeated Lowry Arnold, 2 u /und 1 to play. \Y. R. Tichenor defeated C. E. Cor win. 4 tip and 2 to Olay. R. G. Blanton defeated H. Block, 3 up and 1 to play. Second Flight—First Round. C. It. 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. Trippe, 3 up. 19 holes. Frank Adair defeated C. B Mott, 6 up and 5 to r*lay. Third Flight—First Round. H. M. Ashe defeated Clark Don aldson. 4 un ar.d 3 to play. Third Flight—Second Round. W. C. Warren defeated D. R. Hen ry, 6 up and 5 to play. W. Markham defeated R. J. Morris, 6 up and 5 to nlav. H M. \she defeated Scott Hudson. 1 up. 19 holes. Winter Alfred defeated E. H. Bar nett. 1 up. Fourth Flioht—Fir-* Round. W B S« abrook defeated C M. Nin- ninger. 4 up and 3 to play. Fourth FB-ht—Second Round. E D. Richardson defeated W. B. ( Seabrook, 5 up and 3 to play. The fireworks began on the East I Lake tennis courts yesterday after- j noon, where the third round of play i in the Cotton States tourney, held ! by the Atlanta Athletic Club, was in progress. 4 The toughest struggles of the aft- I emoon, and the most brilliant match, i was that In which Carl Ramspeck I was eliminated from the list by i Bryan Grant, In a desperate match I that required all three sets, one of j them a long deuce affair, to settle it. Carleton Smith kept easily on his way, winning his match in the sec ond round ancf again in 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 farmer. 8—6. The semi-finals in singles will be played this afternoon. Following are yesterday’s results: Singles. (Second Round.) EX S. Mansfield defeated EX W. Ramspeck, 6—1, 8—6. Vernon McMillan defeated R. B. Scott. 6—4, 6--1. E. D. Cintz defeated Frank Owens, 6—2. 6—4. Carleton Sieith defeated M. O. Tupper. 6—1, 6—2. (Third Round.) Ed Carter defeated D. H. Starr. 6—0, 6—1. B. M. Grant defeated C. M. Ram speck. 6—4, 8—10, 6—4. Carleton Smith defeated E. D. Cintz. 6—1, 6—2. Doubles. (Second Round.) Whiteside and Smith defeated Al bert and Reynolds bv default. (Third Round.) Ramspeck and Orr defeated Lee Douglas and Smith, 6—4, 6—0. Men’s Consolation Single*, (Second Round.) J K. Orr defeated C. A, Raw son. 6—0, 6—0, The Count declined. That is. his explanation was entirely too heavy for the proofreader to handle. • • * X/jANAGER BILLY SMITH added to hirf 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, and to the point. “On behalf of the boys," said Bill, "I 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 we see you all again, when the season of 1914 rolls around.” Great applause. Bill unquestionably was there with 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 where in the outskirts. He sat on the ball quite a while, but it declined to hatch. • • • OAT HOLLIDAY, a candidate for Joe .pier's job at first, played a nice game. His bright particular stunt was circling the bases on a single, an error by Thompson and another by Wahoo. • • • WALLOP SMITH established a ™ new benefit game record for put-opts. He had eleven in the of ficial score, consisting largely of pop flies. • • • C*‘ it was a great game, and the ^ fans did their part nobly, turn ing oat 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 boys. • • • *"pHE sun was getting low as Voss 4 took Bisland’s bounder and tossed 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 s»un's rays touched the trees in the distance outside the great park. And the fans were sort of quiet as they filed out. * The baseball season of 1913 was over. By O. B. Keeler. O UR 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 bat- boy of his ex-club. Frankly, we don’t pretend to know anything about it. * • • p 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 said, several years ago, to have risen majestically in his box i and bellowed raucous instructions to the perspiring manager concerning the removal of a fluttering slabman. That was indeed sad. 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-Scimmetrical w friend to be correctly primed, we sympathize deeply with Mr. Finn in his struggles with a meddlesome ownership. That is one of the toughest things in baseball. It must be discouraging to a man ager to lead his 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 wood or in center field, because the Instructions from headquarters have been delayed in transit. We remark again, it is indeed sad. ETven tough. • • • D T !T it occurs to us as being faint- ly in order to protest mildly and amiably against Mr. News* Battle-Ax's evident Implication that Billy Smith’s laurels are anywise tarnished as a consequence of the managerial sor rows of Mr. Finn. • • 4 I T may possibly be recalled that Mr. Smith had a trouble or two of his own. Not of the directorial brand, cer tainly. The Atlanta owners and di rectors gave Mr. Smith (‘arte 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 in the behavior of Mr. Alperman’s vermiform appen dix. right at the critical juncture. And Mr. Bailey’s ribs gave way 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. Ana Mr. Dent’s digestion suddenly gave way. And Mr. Long was out with a congested lung for several days. And some other things. 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 thev shed on the last drive of Mr. Billy Smith, and (just I T also is suggested that kindly and 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 uae of that pessimistic term, “outside influence." Putting it with all the fairness and candor the typewriter will stand, it sticks in our craw that the umpiring might be called a number of other Crackers Leave for Knoxville -Fe-F *I*e*F •£•••!• Players Pull Down $150 Apiece W ILLIAM ANDREW 9MJTH and the champion Crackers of 1913 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 b«een treated In Atlanta, and spoke of their prospects of returning next year with lively anticipation. 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. Murray, the French right fielder, yes terday demonstrated that his title of “the best throwers in the National League, - ’ is no misnomer, by throwing 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 bis 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 day 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. • * m Once again the Naps had a chance to cut down the lead of the Athletics and once again the Naps spurned it. The White Sox administered a beating to the leading Philadelphians, whereupon the Naps proceeded to drop another game to the Senators. • • • Cleveland's chances of winning the pennant this year may now he 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 to drop six and still win out. • • • Miller Huggins, manager of the Car dinals, has been given assurance by the owners that he will be at the head of the team again next year. The own- ers think that Huggins, with the ma- terlal in hand, has done remarkably well this season. • • • • The Giants got away to a nice start 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 yesterday by losing out to the Cardinals in a ten-inning pitching duel between Eppa .leppa 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 Yorkers gleeful as a victory yesterday ^vould 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 golf championship by defeating Williams College in the final round on the Huntingdon Valley Country Club links at Noble by six matches to four. The ATLANTA Now for * Real Show! Frl.. Sat. Mat. and Sat. Night The MERRY COUNTESS Strauss Music; Orchestra of 16. Seats Now Selling. Nights, 25c to $1.50; Mat. 25c to $1. LYRIC w^X Mat*. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday The Season's Greatest Play THE CALL OF t HE HEART A Graat Stage Production. Matinee Price* 16c, 35©. Night Prices, 15©, 60c. F orsyth mmiw VV19V I n Night at MO WORLD'S GREATEST TURKEY TROTTERS, Frank Inez HALE and PATTERSON LYDIA BARRY ween of L I l/IH D>4 VI If I S ,„ 8IW COMEOI^NNES Delmore and Lee; Doris Wilson and Company, and other*. ECZEMA SUFFERERS R**d what L 8. Glddens. Tampa. Fla., aaja. It prove* that Tetterine Cures Eczema For aavan yaara I had ecrema on my ankle. I tried many remedlea and n«- ineraui doetera. 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A calm reflection, with the reverberation* 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. Ftnn is reported to be going to Memphis next season"to manage the Turtles. That is a consoling thought; a o.o, of Balm in Gilead for the raw places left in our memory by the mistreat ment of Mr. Finn by the directorate of the Gulla We feel comfortingly certain that The News-Scimitar 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 his managerial function. And optimism must prevail. 1*' K