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I i AutomoMtittp GAN . ectiou l^tbaU ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMHER 14, 1913. Throe Men, Agler, Dent Conzelman, Probably Gone for Good. are By A 1 *•; \ * Here’s Johnston, Fo rmer Chattanooga High School \ Boy, Who Is Sure to Mal^e Yellow Jacket Team and “' & i mB&m&mtw. THEN RIVINGTON BISLAND SHOULD BE DRAFTED, SURE Outfield, However,Seems Likely to Remain Intact, With Good Pitchers Left. 0. B. Keeler. R esuming the discussion of 1914 prospects for Bill Smith and the Crackers—lust now disbanded after a lively tilt with the Knoxville club of the Appalachian League—there are certain points that lend a glamour of encouragement, even this far ahead. Also a margin of gloom—but that, like the aforesaid glamour, is merely by way of surmise. You can’t always sometimes tell, as the poet says. * * « T any rate, the fans may count on seeing not more than four of the champions missing from the line up when the welcome reverberations ' of “Play ball” resound from the Red Mountain and the Green Dell at Ponce DeLeon next spring. Many are called, but few are chosen—the old Scriptural adage cer tainly holds good in baseball. Agler Dent, Conzelman, Long, Hol land, Love and Thompson have been selected for trial starts in the Main Show. Our guess is that the first trio will stick. Harry, Slim and Carl are more likely to return for “further season ing.” And Carl may decide not to play at all. We look for Tommy back, too. • • • B UT the Crackers appear due to ■ lose one more man by the draft ing process. There are three candidates for that hcncr—Ptslasid, Welchonce and Chapman. And right here we will just clear our conscience of a haunting fear that has oppressed it ever since Bob by Gilks and Billy Gilbert, scouting respectively for Cleveland and the New' York Giants, stuck around the better part of a week in this town, looking ’em over. There was no use saying anything about it then, and it may be equally useless now. But we weren’t going to assist any such gimlet-eyed sleuths to lamp the Best Shortstop in the World. Our guess is that Rivlngton Bls- land is going from us. We hope it's a bum hunch—for the Crackers’ sa,ke. • • • T HIS much about Bizzy. The writer watched Chapman, of Toledo, and Red Corriden, of Kansas City, play shortstop for a couple of seasons. Red went to the Cubs and made good. Chapman went to the Naps and made better. If our judgment of short fielding is worth the quantity of white paper this humble opinion will cover, Rlv- ington Bisland is as good a hitter as Corriden or Chapman, and can field rings around either. That is one of the reasons why we fear Bizzy Is going from us. * • « F IGURING even with that calamity in view, the Crackers still have remaining a first-class core for the 1914 billet. The outfield should remain intact— Welchonce, Long and Ai Nixon. It looked good enough this year; it won’t look any worse next. Nixon is sure to improve with experience. He has a world of speed, is sure death on a fly ball, handles ground hits well, and probably sports the best whip in the league. At bat he pulls away from many a hit, but probably can be coached out of that fault. And he does get on the bases. He Is aggres sive and a fighter, takes chances and plays hard all the time. The outfield looks good. • * • W HITEY ALPERMAN will be back next year, and minus his trouble some vermiform appendix should have a brilliant season. He told the writer while In Atlanta on his way home after the operation that he hadn’t felt just- right all season, and be lieved it was his appendix that had been troubling him. Holland probably will be at third, and that leaves first and short to care for. “Goat” Holliday, the rangy Tech star will be tried at first base; Ham Reynolds, Walter Keating and Leon ard Dobard. farmed this season—will be back trying out for regular jobs. Then the reliable Frank Manush will be on hand, and Bill Smith may ex pect some help from his big league connections. ..... So a corking good infield ought to result. , . . T HE pitching staff will lead off with Thompson, Price and Voss, and probably Love—unless Slim makes a huge hit with Clark Griffith and Carl Thompson with F. Chance. Conzelman very likely will stick with the Pirates. To our mind, Elliott Dent was the best man the Crackers sported this year, and he stands a good show to stick in the Main Top. Gill Price is a valuable citizen, and It Is to hope that Carl will be with us. Anyway, we have a good start. B ACK of the wood, Chapman and Dunn made a good team this year and should be better next. Chapman is . developing, and Joe Dunn had the only bad year in the nine he has been in fast company. And it wasn’t so bad at that, . . •o BETTER 11 BY 311 FEB CENT Tech Coach Reserved, but Hope ful Over the Outlook for 1913 Football Season. . ■_> NEW MATERIAL SHAPES UP HEAVIER AND FASTEB Six Veterans of Last Year Supply Core of Prospective Machine for Initial Scrimmage. o TITLEBBUBLES 111 1 SETS ALL Great Cotton States Match Must Be Played Off—Smith Wins Singles. Travers First 4-Time Champion +•+ +•+ +♦+ +•+ +•+ +• + Great Record by Young Golfer T HE sun went down at East Lake yesterday afternoon, or some what to the westward, and a large, round, yellow moon began to climb up through the well-known azure sky when the pink dust settled on a certain clay court, and the ref eree announced that the champion ship match in doubles, standing two sets all, would be finished later. He meant earlier, of course, but it didn’t matter. The gallery was ready to call It a day’s work, for they had seen the classiest tennis yet exhibited in the Cotton States tournament, fought out to a temporary dog-fall in the chal lenge match for the title, Smith anl Mansfield against Brooks and Bart lett Smith Won Singles Title. In the morning Carleton Y. Smith had made good a raft of predictions by winning the singles championship from Lee Allen Brooks in the chal lenge match. Carleton got by in easy fashion, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2, and It gen erally was expected that, w’ith Mans field working^ in anything like the form he displayed the previous day in the doubles against Ramspeck and Orr, the championship in doubles would move over from Birmingham to Atlanta withou* undue delay. The transfer is being effected—If at all—with some delay. Hallman Won Consolation Cup. Before going into the specific causes of the delay, it may be men tioned that the youthful Mr. Harry Hallman—a deceptively fragile-ap pearing youth with a most provoking chop shot—stood on the back line for an hour or so during the after noon and watched T. M. Wilson chase himself into a state of coma. Mr. Hallman contributed occasional chop shots to the chase, placing them judiciously, first in one corner, then in the other, while Mr. Wilson alter nated between the points of attack after the manner of a shuttle. When it was entirely over the consolation goblet In singles was the property of Mr. Hallman, the scores being 6-1, 6-2. Last Rites Lasted Well. Reverting to the principal fire works of the afternoon, a large and appreciative gallery assembled shortly after 3 o’clock to watch the last rites in the accumulation of tlfe Cotton States doubles cup by the Atlanta representatives. The cup, along with three other cups, a brace of vases (pronounced vawzes, if you prefer, and something that looked like a vanity box, adorned the table of the official referee and jingled in harmony with his occa sional agitation. The referee was changed three times during the match, but, it should be said in justice to the various officials that none of the changes was due either to defective officiallng or the proximity of the silverware. Some Clever Tennis. Anyway, the gallery fully expected to watch the cup transfer business. Instead, they saw some of the pret tiest tennis that has graced the fa mous red clay courts this season. It wasn’t tennis of the rough-neck California type, to be sure. There wasn’t so much of the smash-every- thing-and-cop-it-or-lose-it style in evidence." It was good, careful tennis, shot through with brilliant flashes and dazzling strokes and every now and then a dashing rally or a sudden burst of speed. * It was smooth tennis. The Longest Set. The visiting team opened with some fast work and ran the count in games to 4-1 before Smith and Mans field settled and began to reel off the points. The set ran into deuce and hung there, palpitating, with Brooks and Bartlett on the defensive, either at 1 deuce or a game down, until the At lantans finally ran out, 11-9, in the "v m - f -• i i* * BY KNDXVILLES Atlanta’s Only Error, Made by Welchonce, Lets in Pair of Tallies. ’ HkOTO W SWDKY M4E(?\bMT STAW FHO'TOGiek'PIUMe Continued on Page 2. Column 7. Umpires Beaten in Melee When Braves And Redlegs Fight Tinker Starts Trouble When Maran- vllle Bumps Him and Team Joins in Scrap. CINCINNATI, Sept. 13.—The Bos ton and Cincinnati National League ball players engaged In a fierce mix- up during the playing of the first game of the double-header to-day. Rounding second in the first inning, Maranville accidentally bumped into Tinker. Tinker made a pass at Ma ranville and a terrific fight began. Half a dozen players ran in and began exchanging blows. Umpires O’Day and Emslie tried to stop it, but were overthrown. Cooler players separated the belligerents. Tinker was badly bruised and Ma ranville struggled to get at him and renew the fight. Both players were ejectel from the game* Baseball Summary AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. No games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. YV. L. Fc. Phila... 87 48 .645 C’eland. 81 67 .687 W’gton. 78 58 .673 Boston. 69 64 .519 W. L Pc. Chicago 71 68 .611 Detroit. 58 78 .427 N. York 49 84 .369 S. Louis 52 88 .371 Yesterday’s Results. Boston, 3; St. Louis, 2. Chicago, 6; Washington. 4. Cleveland, 3; Philadelphia, 1. New York, 4; Detroit, 3. NATIONAL LEAGUEL Games To-day, Philadelphia at Cincinnati. New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at SI. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. I W. L Pc. N. York 90 44 .672 1 B’ooklyn 58 74 .439 Phila... 79 49 .617 j Boston. 57 74 .435 Chicago 77 69 .566 i C’nnati 59 81 .422 P*sburg 72 64 .529 j S. Louis 47 94 .333 Yesterday's Results. New York, 4; Pittsburg, 2 (first game). Pittsburg, 8; New York, 0 (second game) , Philadelphia, 2; St. Louis, 0. Chicago, 4; Brooklyn, 0. Cincinnati, 5; Boston, 4 (11 innings; first game). Boston. 1; Cincinnati, 0 (5 innings; called, darkess; second game). K OXVILLE, TENN., Sept. 20.— Knoxville played Atlanta to a standstill, 4 to 4, this aft ernoon in as pretty an# eleven-inning game as was ever seen on the local diamond, the contest being witness ed by about 3,000 people. Knoxville outbatted the visitors, but the hitter team put up the better fielding game. An error by Burke in left was directly responsible for two of Atlanta’s runs, the ball being hit by Long and rolling between Burke's legs up left field bank. Welchonce. however, duplicated, letting a hard hit ball pass him, the local team sub sequently scoring two runs in the second Inning. After the fourth Inning some very classy ball was served, and though several times each side had runners on third the necessary hit was not forthsomlny Eight of Thompson’s fifteen strike outs were charged up to Wynne a»d Merritt. Knoxville’s four runs resulted from a pass, an error and four hits, three of them comini? before anybody was down. Atlanta’s three in the third resulted from three successive hits by Thompson. Agler and Low? and an error, the tying score following a beat-out hunt by Holland, who stole second and went to third on Bis- land’s out at the plat and a passed ball. The box score; Knoxville. ab. r. a. po. a. e. Knox, rf. . . . 5 J 2 4 0 1 Wynne, lb. ..B 0 A 9 0 0 Burke, If 6 0 1 3 0 1 Cleveland, 3b.. 4 112 0 0 Clunk, cf. . . ■ 4 1 2 4 0 0 McElveen, ss. . 4 1 2 0 6 1 Hummell. 2b... 5 1 2 4 2 0 Wallace, c. . . 4 0 1 6 2 0 Merritt, p. ... 4 0 0 2 4 0 Schelfley, p. . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . .41 4 11 33 14 Weisn Recovers His Lord Lonsdale Belt SEATTLE, WASH., Sept. 13.—The Lord Lonsdale championship belt, eipblemalle of the lightweight box ing championship of the British Em pire, which was stolen from Freddie Welsh at Vancouver August 28, was recovered here by a customs officer. The purser of the steamship Princess Victoria, from Vancouver to Seattle, noticed that Henry Beckett, one of his passengers, was wearing a gold belt underneath his coat. He notified a customs officer here, who halted Beckett* _ Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Agler, lb. ... 5 1 1 » 0 0 Long. If. ... 5 1 1 1 0 0 Welchonce, cf.. 3 0 Smith, 2b. . . 5 0 0 3 5 0 Bisland. ss. . . 4 0 0 0 1 0 Holland, 3b. . 5 1 J } * ® Manush, rf. ..6 0 2 1 J ■ Dunn, c. . . . 4 0 0 16 8 0 Thompson, p. .4 1 1 0 0 0 Totals . . 40 4 7 33 11 1 Score by Innings: Knoxville 040 00 000 0 4 Atlanta 003 100 000 0—4 Summary: Two-base hits—Knox, Clunk, McElveen. Burke. Three-base hits—Welchonce, Manush. Stolen bases—Welchonce. Slunk, Hummell. Sacrifice fly—Welchonce. Bases on balls—O; Merritt, 2; off Thompson, 2. Struck out—By Merritt, 4; by Thomp son, 15. Hit by pitched ball—By Mer ritt—Dunn; by Thompson—Wallace. McElveen. Passed ball—Wallace. Left on bases—Knoxville, 7; Atlanta, 7. Time—1:66. Umpire—Campbell. McGoorty Will Start Training on Monday CHICAGO, Sept. 11 Eddie McGoorty, Oshkosh middleweight, spent a few hours In town to-day before his de parture for his home city, where he will [ spend Sunday with his folks. On Mon day he will return to this city and be- i gin training for his ten-round contest I at Milwaukee with Frank Klaus, the bout being billed for September 22. McGoortv declares he will beat the Pittsburg "bear cat” and then take on jimmy dabby. By Tick Tichenor. \ T THEN Jerome Travers defeated X/V John O. Anderson in the * * finals of the amateur cham pionship at Garden City, he was the first man to win this event four times. Walter J. Travis previously had won it three times, and H. Chandler Egan had won it twice, but It was left for the Upper Montclair playeT to be the first to add four of these trophies to his collection. Over in England John Ball has won the British «mateur championship eight times, while Harold II. Hilton has won it five times, but both of these players have been in the game a great many years. In fact, John Ball won his first championship about the time Travers was born. • • • TRAVFJRS played tn his first cham- * plonship tourney at Englewood In 1906, when he was 19 years old. Here he won his first two matches handily, but was beaten in the third round by Walter J. Travis. He won at Cleve land in 1907, defeating Archibald Gra ham in the finals. In 1908 he won again, defeating Max Behr, 8 and 7. in the finals over the Garden City course. In 1909 and 1910 Travers did not play in the national, but in 1911 he was beaten by Harold H. Hilton In the third round. Last year at Wheat on he defeated Chick Evans in the final round nnd again this year he was unbeatable. Thus it will be seen that Travers has started in the championship six times and four times he has been the winner. Only once has he been beat en in this event by an American, and this defeat was administered by Tra vis in his very first appearance In the national. I am, however, Inclined to the belief that this defeat has had much to do with his success since that time. Here is what he has to say about this match: • • • i'TFTE match with Travis was pro- » * greasing very satisfactory when a photographer snapped his camera at me, quite unexpectedly, so fas as I was concerned, and I made a bad shot. Under ordinary circum stances 1 am by no means camera- shy, but when a golfer is under hign pressure the slightest unusual dis traction will cause him to take ills eye off the ball. There is no reasoa w hy one bad shot should lose a match, hut in this case I foolishly lost my temper, with the result that Travis took hole after hole and finally won, 3 and 2. "The lesson was a severe one, and I have not forgotten It to this day. "I do not mean to be understood as claiming that,but for the camera man I would have beaten Travis, and I am not relating the incident as an ex cuse for my defeat. Always to the victor belongs full credit, and a poor loser in golf 1s a pitiable object. Tra vis played better golf and won the match, but I handicapped myself by losing my temper. Moral—Never loss your temper.” • • • H OW well Travers learned the les son to hold his temper as firmly ss he grips his clubs Is evidenced by his four triumphs as the first ama teur of the United States, and the on* achieved at Wheaton last year whs under circumstances as trying as it has ever been the lot of any golfer to successfully overcome. And again this year, when he was so badly off with hla wooden clubs that he was force! to use a driving-iron almost entirely from the tee, he did not allow this weakness In his game to worry and fret him. If golfers generally would follow Travers’ advice, there is no doubt that they would get more pleasure out of the game, and at the same time the lowering of their medal scores would show the marked improvement In their play. It is said of old John Ball that nothing ever seems to disturb him In a match. Spectators may move or talk or stand almost within reach of the swing of his club, yet so great is his power of concentration on the shot that he does not notice them. If this is true, it goes a long way to explain why he has won the Brit ish championship eight times. • • • ! T T was with sincere regret that I 1 read of the defeat of Chick Ev ans by John G. Anderson. I had hoped that Chick this year would ac complish his ambition of winning this tournament. After doing a brilUaitf. 71 on the morning of the second day, and es tablishing a record for the course— In which he came home In 32, hav ing six threes to his credit—it was his luck to have the harder side of the draw. In his first two matches he had to dispose of W. C. Fownea and Kben Byers, both former cham pions. In his match with Byers he almost threw It away after being six up at one time, as he flowed Byers to draw even with him and to carry the match three extra holes. In his next match, which was with Travis, he won from the “Grand Old Man" quite handily. Thus he had In his first three matches to send to the disrard three former champions. Then came his match with Ander son. From reports of this match it seems that Chick played brilliantly until he reached the green. His driv ing was fine and he was playing his mashle beautifully. In the morning round he was two up and but for poor work on the green should have been four or five up. Then came the afternoon round, and he literally put ted himself out of the tournament. Time after time he missed two foot putts. He had lost all confidence in his putter. With the loss of con fidence on the green went the match. • • • I T is a pity that a player as bril liant in all other departments of the game as Chick can’t learn to put. Yet it has been this mme falling, this inability of Harry Vardon to get short puts into the cup. which has cost him several championships. It is indeed strange that two such fir s exponents of the game of golf as Evans and Vardon should be so weak on puts which seem almost too easy to miss. New Booking System Obviates Delay at Tee 1, East Lake Freat buslne*, fml Athletic elnb golfers 1 New system for booking your shot at the first tee—no waste of time, no conflict of schedules—Just get up there and shoot your drive Into the lake, or on to the first green, accord ing to your ability. No delay—that’s the thing. As It used to be, you had to go out and stick a ball in the trough— you know. And If there were sixteen balls ahead of yours—well, you Just stuck around and practiced mid-iron swings until your time came. Maybe half an hour. Now', you Just telephone out from town to the club, and tell the proper person to put your name down to tee off at 2:30 olclock, or 3 o’clock, r whenever you will be ready to tee off Just like in a dentist's date book. If that exact hour Is already taken, you take one five minutes earlier, or later, or near enough to suit you. Then you had better be out there on time. For when your "date" comes •round your name will be called, and If you aren’t there to shoot your name will be dropped down to the next open date. It’s a big convenience, say those golfers who have tried It, Packey McFarland To Quit Fight Game And Enter College NEW YORK. Kept. 10.—Packey Mc Farland. one of the greatest boxers the ring has produced, is through with the game In a few weeks the wizard who has delighted thousands during the past few years with his wonderful boxing ability will be enrolled as a student at Notre Dame University, where he ex perts to take a full course of study to fit him for a business career. Unless he receives more money than he has yet drawn down for a bout Packey de clares that he will not engage in any more public bouts. As McFarland drew down a guarantee of $10,000 for his bout with Matt Wells here, it will not be very easy to coax him back into the ring. McFarland has had nine years of ring work and he thinks it is enough Dur ing that time he has saved money and invested wisely, with the result that he now has a hank account running well up into six figures. He will celebrate his twenty*fifth birthday in November next, and figures that there is yet time for a college course before settling down to some business. McFarland Fs new in this city as the guest of Billy Gib son. and will return home during the coining week. NCE upon a time there was « football coach, and whan the season rolled *round, he got out hli squad and looked it over and said it was a good equad, and that he had some more good material coming on, and that every prospect pleased him, and that he was going to clean up. That was very long ago. So long ago that the name of that ooach, and whether he reaiiy did clean up, do not stick in the memory of the * f- flant hereof. But that coach was not named Heisman; neither did he overlook the young idea at a place called Grant Field, • • • A ND, at that, things look pretty fitfr out at Grant Field, somewhat to the eastward of that celebrated In# fitltution of learning and football known as Georgia Tech. There is a deal of new concrete going into the building of stands, and nome of It is kicking pigskin ovals—» so-called because they are made of horsehide—about the northern said of the huge lnclosure. And in the sunlit, dusty a!*, through which resounds the hollow “thut” of the practice punta, there Is the taste and the scent of a kill ing—of a “big year” in football for Tech, • • • '"THAT is, with the gathering student 1 body. As mentioned, some chapters toward the front. Coach Heisman is reserved in his predications. • • • D UT Coach Heisman has hopes. l - J The 1913 eleven, for one thing, will be at least ten pounds heavier to the man than that game little team of 1912, which averaged only 154 pounds. And it should be fully 30 per cent stronger. “That team of 1912 was a wonder,” the coach said yesterday. ”It lacked both weight and speed. It had noth ing that is usually taken as a requi site of a winning football team— nothing except a lack of stars. “That sounds like an odd thing to nay. But I mean it. The team of 1913 had no man on it who consid ered himself a star. On the other hand, every man put implicit faith In his coach, and went the limit to carry out instructions literally. And I can say honestly that I never coached a team of which I was prouder than that slow, light, little eleven of 1911.” • • • p OR this year, six of the regulars * are gone: six remain. Hutton has gone, and "Scrappy” Moore, and Montague, and Luehrmann and Col ley. Also Stegall. There remains the backfleld, Intact—McDonald, Fielder, Captain Cook, and Thomasson, and Loeb, center, and Means, guard. But there Is the fault of lack of weight, even among the surviving veterans, and they may have to hustle—some of them—to hold their jobs this year, with the heavier material coming on. • • • 44 A NUMBER of good men have ** been developed on the sernb of last year,” Coach Heisman said yes terday. "Rainey and Lang are good, and W. Goree and Tyler and Edgar Montague; also ’Polly' Smith and Trawlck. They should help out a lot In getting out a good, sound squad, with previous training. “That experience is a great thing in a squad. The success of an eleven may be in a large measure predicted by the percentage of the working squad that starts the season with a knowledge of the game and some hard experience already ingrained tn the system. Especially is this true if the experience • has been In the same college they are working for. Sometimes a real star practically is wasted on the desert air for one of even two years, simply because he doesn’t get shaken down Into his place In the order of things.” • • • A ND Mr. Heisman declines posi tively to count any new material until It has matriculated and he has looked it over in uniform. Wherefore, there isn’t much doing in the prophetic line at Grant Field. But it Is stated by the coach that of the 85 men at practice Saturday. 25 were men of previous experience and training. "And before this week is out,” Mr. Heisman added, "I hope to have 7T men out, of whom 50 will know some thing of the game by reason of that best of all experience—playing It.” • • • S O Grant Field Is a pretty lively, dusty, spirited place these days. And the gathering student body hums with the old Tech spirit, and buzzes with rumors of the great Devore. all- American tackle In 1911 and famous as a West Point star, who may be obtained to coach the varsity line men. he being now stationed at Fort McF’herson, with not much to do in a football way but look over the work of the soldiers* eleven. And the new men do look husky, in their soiled, yellow jerseys—husky 1 In some measure with the old suet ! that will have to come off as wind j and legs are developed And that is what Mr. Heisman is l doing out at Grant Field, rather than tooting any fanfares on tin trumpets. But he doesn’t deny that he hopes for a team “fully 30 per cent stronger * than that of last year.”