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Never Mind the Grandstand; the Path of Glorv Leads but to the Bench
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SAVANNAH NOW
LI KELT TO ENO
AOTO CLASSIC
Harvey Granger Announces That
Manufacturers Ask Entrance
Fees Be Returned.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 16.—Unless
there is a satisfactory number
of high-class entries in by Oc
tober 1, the Grand Prize and Vander
bilt races will not be run over tnv
Chatham County course this fall.
This positive declaration was made
by Harvey Granger, president of th«
Savannah Automobile Club upon 1:
return from the Elgin races, who i
far from optimistic about the outlook
for the big events. The manufac
turers and others, who ow n racing
cars, balk at paying the entrance fees,
and in Eome instances even demand a
bonus for running their cars.
President Granger says the Savan
nah races will not boos the hippo
drome character, and that is what
they would be if entrance fees were
waived and no restrictions imposed.
Unless the same high-class events
can be had as have always been held
here the races will be called off. That
is why President Granger has ar
bitrarily fixed upon October 1 as the
outside date when the entries are
to be in.
Manufacturers Balk.
President Granger says neither the
cars nor the drivers were entered
in the Elgin races, and the disposi
tion of the manufacturers of the best
class of racing cars is not to pay
for the privilege of entering their
cars in a trophy event. All of the
manufacturers have been sounded out
on the proposition, and almost to a
man the demand has been made for
a waiver of the entrance fees. This
will not be done. Am already stated,
the Savannah club does not care to
run a hippodrome down here.
In the 1911 races the receipts from
entries alone amounted to $19,500.
And then the margin of profit on the
whole racing proposition was small.
If all of this amount were waived
to the car owners, where would the
promoters get off? The situation was
different at Indianapolis, where. Presi
dent Granger says, perhaps more than
50 per cent of the entrance fees were
rebated. Then there were more than
100.000 paid admissions, which av
eraged $3 a day. Thor* the main ob
ject was to get cars on the track to
entertain the people, the same as a
vaudeville show manager gets actors,
without particular regard to the class.
Mr. Granger says it was never the
intention of those who started the
Grand Prize Trophy that it should
be cheapened in this way. anti he
feels the same about the Vanderbilt
cup. He has written a long letter to
Mr. Vanderbilt explaining the diffi
culty he is having in interesting the
racing world 1n the fall events on a
high-class sporting plane. He also
advised Mr. Vanderbilt that unless
a high-class list of entries had been
received by October 1 the races would
be declared off. Ry satisfactory, ha
means class and number of cars and
first-class drivers.
Some of the prospective entries
even want the Savannah club to pay
the freight on their cars here.
Will Make the Effort.
**We owe the Motor Cups Company
an honest effort to got entries to run
the races,” said President Granger
“We will make that effort. That is
the reason we have fixed an outside
date for the entries. The manufac
turers certainly ought to know bv
October 1 whether they intend com
ing in. If they know it we are en
titled to bo advised. There will be
plenty of time for us to ger the course
in condition after that time if the
prospect is satisfactory. In fact, we
could get ready for the race in ton
days or two weeks.
“I went over the situation thor
oughly with the owners and drivers
of the cars entered in the Elgin races.
On my arrival at Elgin I found,
through Mr. Rea croft. official referee
there, that to secure the cars which
participated in the various events, all
entrance money was guaranteed to
be refunded if the cars showed up
at the starting line. I went into the
entry proposition with Mr. Stutz,
owner of the car which won the prin
cipal event; Mr. I>usenberry. man
ager of the Mason racing team, and
others. While they are all willing and
anxious to come to Savannah, they
take the position that all entrance
money should be refunded, and that,
in some eases, the freight on their
cars should be paid
•'I made it plain to both Mr. Stutz
nnd Mr. Dusenberry, as well as the
others, that unless the fees for en
trance provided in the blanks of the
Savannah Automobile Club for the
Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prize races
were paid, and that unless there was
a satisfactory list of entrants, both in
number of cars and in character, re
ceived before October 1. there would
be no ra- es this year at Savannah.
Little Interest in Game.
”The trouble is that the manufac
turers are taking little interest in the
racing game. Instead of having fine
racing teams, as tn the past, the
whole scheme of things has been
changed, so that it is more of a
hippodrome proposition now, where
the independent, professional driver
goes into the race purely for the
money he has a chance to win, and
not for the honor and glory of own
ing the handsome trophies which are
offered. The racing game has swung
around to the point of purely profes
sional entertainment.
“We are making every possible ef
fort to secure entries which will make
the races we hope to hold here this
fall the splendid success they have
always been., but unless entrants are
prepared to pay the fees we call for.
‘just as in the past, and unless the
class and number of entrants is en
tirely sufficient in our estimation to
make the meeting* in every respect
an event which will reflect credit
both on the city and the State, and
furnish just what the visitors to the
city and the residents of Savannah
expect and want, there will be no
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ONLYFOURMEN
EMM 'I I TEAM
CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C., Sept.
16. —Why should the Tigers
worry? They lost only four
men from the regular varsity football
team —Captain Britt, Coles. Kangeter
and Turbeville. These were good
men. but their places can be filled
with a little extra care. There were
a number of fine scrubs last season
that are back, eager for a chance
to make varsity. Fifty old students
were out in uniforms yesterday. The
freshmen will report to-day. and it
is said that there is much likely ma
terial in the bunch.
So Captain Gandy is hopeful.
There are to be tiiree football fields
this year. Dr. Calhoun, president of
the Athletic Association, says that
one field will be used for the purpose
of learning signals. This field will
be at some distance from the others
so that no one team will know the
signals of another. This plan will
make the scrimmages much more val
uable. The main athletic field will
give room for two gridirons. On one
the scrubs and the clas« teams will
practice; the other will be used al
most exclusively for match games and
for formal practice.
The fields will soon be in fine con
dition. The regular practice is going
on every afternoon under the care
ful guidance of Coaches Williams and
Major. Falling on the ball held the
boards last evening. A new tackling
dummy is to be put up at once.
There have been a few changes
made in the schedule. Manager Dou
thit gives out the following revised
schedule:
October 4—Davidson at Clemson.
October 11 —Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
October 18—Auburn at Clemson.
October 30 —University of South
Carolina in Columbia, at the fair.
November 6. —University of Georgia
in Augusta.
November 8 - The Citadel in
Charleston.
November 15—Mercer in Macon.
November 27 -Georgia Tech In At
lanta, Thanksgiving game.
Baseball Summary.
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
Games To-day.
Boston at Pittsburg.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at St. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. Pc. W T.. Pc.
New Y. 91 45 .669 B’klyn . 58 75 .436
Phila. . 80 49 .620 Boston 58 75 .436
Chicago 78 K 0 .565 Cin’nati s!* 82 419
P’burg.. 73 65 .529 St. L... 48 94 .338
Yesterday’s Results.
New York. 4: Chicago. 3.
Rronkiyn-St. Louis game nff; rain.
Philadelphia. 2: Cincinnati. 2.
Boston, 6: Pittsburg. 5 (first game).
Pittsburg, 6; Boston, 1 (second game).
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Chicago at Washington.
Detroit at New York.
St. Louis at Boston.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. Pc. ! W L. Pc.
Phila 88 48 .647 Chicago 72 68 .514
Cl’land. 81 5R .583 Detroit. 59 78 .431
W’gtnn. 78 59 .569 St. L 52 89 .369
Boston. 70 64 .523 New Y. 49 85 .366
Yesterday’s Results.
Chicago. 5; Washington. 0
Detroit, 7: New York, 5.
Philadelphia. 8; Cleveland. 6.
Boston, 6; St. Louis, 3
OTHER RESULTS.
American Association.
Minneapolis. 12: Columbus, 1
Milwaukee. 3: Indianapolis. 2.
St. Paul. 4; Louisville. 0
Kansas City-Toledo game off: rain.
International League.
Buffalo. 7; Montreal. 2
Rochester, 10; T< ronb>, 5.
Providence. 5; Newark, 2
Buffalo, 4. Montreal, L
Salt Lake Wants a
Pacific Franchise
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 16.—Ben
H. Hite, president of the Salt
Baseball Club of the Uninn Associa
tion. announces that the local club
would make application for entrance
into the Pacific Coast League. Pres
ident Hite said he would present facts
to the directors of the Pacific Coast
League to justify their taking Salt
Lake into their league.
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SPORTING COMMENT |
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By Ed W. Smith.
THE whole system of rearing the
•’white hope” crop is wrong. They
start the big burlies on their fight
ing Citreers too late in life to make
them effective. As a result, the
boxer is too old when he starts in
to learn the rudiments of tht‘ box
ing game. This at least is the
opinion of George Dawson, one of
the veterans of the boxing game
and a student of the present day
methods of the ring. Dawson isn’t
an active agent at present and
never expects to be again, all of his
time and attention being taken up
by members of the Chicago Athletic
Association, who like a little exer
cise with the gloves now and then.
But George is a keen flgurer just
the same and his ideas are sound
and true.
• • •
ACCORDING to the Dawson sys
tem of figuring a boxer should
begin early in life to learn the sim
pler points of the boxing game.
When yet a boy he should know
all that one man can teach another
about the art of hitting straight
and stopping ’em before they can
reach you. If that system pre
vails then the boy can finish his
fistic education at his leisure as he
grows Into manhood and th? nicer
points of the game will come with
experience, and in that way only.
As a matter of fact, Dawson be
lieve* the real fighting man should
be reared carefully, so that by the
time he becomes a man he will be
able to embark on a boxing career
well equipped and not be forced to
learn what there is to the game.
• • •
<4* |*H E Y wait too long before
* starting out.” says Dawson
in discussing the “white hope” sit
uation, which just now isn’t much
of a situation. “Ry the time the
present-day heavyweight is well out
on his career, he’s almost too old
Agler Goes by Draft
From Jersey City
To Detroit Tigers
News from the Seat of War, now
located in that dear Cincinnati, has
it that Joe Agler, class of the South
ern League at first-basing in the sea
son of 1913, will not linger in Jersey
City, to which club he recently was
sold for $3,000 by the Crackers.
It seems Detroit’s draft for Joe has
been allowed, and the Jersey club
management—unless special arrange
ments have ben made—is stung.
When Joe was sold to Jersey City
some weeks ago. the idea was that
J. C. was purchasing him as a sort
of agent for Frank Chance and the
New’ York Highlanders, and that Ag
ler would start the season of 1914
with F. Leßoy Chance. Th? Cracker
management sold Joseph to give him
the chance to better himself which
he certainly had earned and because
there seemed to be no way of avoid
ing th<* draft process, should he be
not sold, except by the unsatisfactory
and unjust method of “covering.”
One hundred and eight minor
league players were elevated by the
drafting process, th? St. Louis
Browns getting 30 of them, under the
system of award which includes
drawing names out of a hat. Under
this system, it is noteworthy that the
St. Louis Cardinals got only one play
er in the draft, and the New York
Americans two.
Wolgast and Nelson
: To Meet Again Over
Ten-Round Route[
MILWAUKEE, S. pt. 16.—What for
three years th? leading fight pro
moters of the country have failed to
do was accomplished in Milwaukee
to-day when /Xd Wolgast and Battling
Nelson were matched for a second
time. The pair have agreed to go ten
rounds before Ben Steinel’s Milwau
kee club th? second week of October.
There was little trouble in bringing
the two hated rivals together.
Both Nelson and Wolgast were
spectators at the Charley White-
Mickey Sheridan fight in Racine last
night. The matter was put up to the
Dane and he accepted without hesi
tation. Ad asked for time to con
sider. and when seen in Milwaukee |
this morning accepted. He wants to
rest two weeks and then will begin
training.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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to learn anything. The system is
all wrong. Just because a man has
the cize and the natural strength is
no sound reason that he is going
to be molded into a champion with
a few weeks of instruction. Yet
that is what some managers expect
of a man. Th? best athletes have
been those who started early,
learned thoroughly, and then got
their experience by actual fighting.
Such men always last better and
are in every way thoroughly
equipped for the serious business of
fighting. You can not develop a
good fighter, except in very rare
cases, In a hurry any more than
you could develop a great musician
in a brief time.”
/"'LANCING over the list of the
leading whit? heavyweights of
the day. we ar? impressed with th?
wisdom of Dawson's remarks. Most
of them right now are almost too
ancient to be classified as young
men. at least in an athletic sens?.
Arthur Pelky admits being 29 years
old, but some who know him insist
that he is at least 31. Carl Mor
ris. who has been doing well lately,
1f 27 or over, and Frank Moran,
vho trimmed Al Palzer in New
York the other night and jumped
well to the front, is 25. Gunboat
Smith is the youngest of the lot—
that is. of the real prominent ones
—and is only about 22. Th? avail
able list of big ones has about dwin
dled down to these now -and of
them Moran and Smith look to be
the two that should fight It out
unless Morris shows enough pretty
quick to entitle him to the highest
consideration.
• • •
IXfpRAN has come to the front
with a greater degree of
sharpness than any of the others
and if his improvement in the next
year or so is as great as it has been
in the last six or eight months they
will have a hard time of it keeping
him out of the championship.
One Hundred Atlanta
Fans Chip in to Buy
0. Frank Loving Cup
Charley Frank will have a tribute
worthy of a high place in his esteem
and on the parlor mantel when he gets
the loving cup the Atlanta fans are buy
ing for him.
John D. Harrington, a good fan him
self. has got a hundred other fans to*
“chip in” for the cup to mark in the
Dutchman’s memory the heroic battle of
Mobile Sunday, September 7. 1913. The
fund hasre ached $75 and has been
turned over to F. E. Callaway, President
of the Atlanta Baseball Association, at
his office, 810 Third National Bank
Building. Mr. Callaway will receive ad
then apply the total to a handsome cup.
suitably inscribed tn bo sent to C. Frank
with a bushel of compliments.
English Paper Has
Boost for U.S. Golf
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 16.—A Times edi- I
torial, apropos of the American open '
golf championship, says:
“It is not only in the youth of their I
leading players that America has an
advantage over us. Americans are
prepared to make experiments with
the game such as we. with our older
traditions, feel adverse to attempting.
“If this country is to maintain her
position at golf her leading players
would certainly be ill-advised to thin 1 .:
th<>re is nothing to be learned from
players in the United States”
“THE VICTOR”
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VANCOUVER GME
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Bv W. W. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.. Sept. 16.
Willie Ritchie’s incontinental
flight from Vancouver is the talk
of sportdom and everyone is won
dering what really impelled Ritchie to
»-ut and run. Willie says it was be
cause the promoters did not play fair,
so far as a division of the money ac
cruing from the advertising privileges
is concerned, but Harry Pollok, man
ager of Freddy Welsh, pooh-poohs the
idea.
Pollok was known years ago in San
I'rancisco as a youth with fine ideas
•f finance. When Harry had poor
.lack Munro training at the beach
for the right with Jeffries. Munro and
Pollok had everything figured out.
They knew just what the loser’s end
would be in any kind of a house from
<»ne of $5,000 to one of $50,000, so that
directly Coffroth made known thr
gross receipts Harry and Jack knew
in an instant what was coming t«
t hem.
Pollok says the advertising priv
ileges which Ritchie made an issue
of amounted to but a few hundred
dollars, and that is ridiculous to sup
pose that Ritchie would make his es
cape on that account when there was
a sum of $16,000 lying in the bank
for him, no matter whether he won
lost or drew with Welsh.
Looking at It from a common-sense
viewpoint, there is logic in what Pol
lok says and, consequently. Ritchie’
explanation <»f the causes leading up
to his flight are made to appear some
what diaphanous.
Sood Time Now
For Blood Health
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J In the cellular tissue* of the body and <
> noon show decided changes In the <
’ akin. The skin is but a fine network '■
J of tiny blood vessels and the specific [
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• pronounced stimulation of the actlv- 1
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i In a surprisingly short time any skin <
• eruption shows a most remarkable <
•change; it begins to dry up; the skin '
, seal** off in tiny flecks, and soon a
• layer of clear, healthy and firm tie- '
• sue results
The reason for this is In the pe-
• culiar stimulation of s. S S., which <
• enables the cells in th? skin to se- '
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SWEETS'*
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[Food forSport Fans
W. RITCHIE.
lie ffrind* out columns every day to
fill the sporting pupe,
He does a little soap and danee upon
the vaudeville stage.
In many ways he gathers all the iron
men tn sight,
Hut he would t throw a spasm if you.
offered him a fight.
And if you should converse with him
and ask the reason why
The noble youth would look on you
with wonder tn his eye.
“I do not fight.” he would reply, with
pity in his glance,
‘‘Because they can not whip me if I
never take a chance.”
Mr. Ritchie believe. In the ancient the
ory that It Is useless to pursue a car
after you have caught It.
Miller Huggins will retain his berth
In St Louis, but there are times when
a lower berth Is not altogether comfort
able.
Bombardier Wells knocked Gunner
Moir Into a comatose condition yonder
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~ By GEORG* *. PHAIR.
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their veins, who do the world’s work, and
do it well, learn to appreciate things at
their real worth. They are not fooled by
frills they demand honest value.
These are the millions of men all over
the earth who smoke “Bull” Durham in
fresh, fragrant, hand-made cigarettes! Because this
pure, good tobacco —rich, mellow and fragrant as nature
made it affords them complete enjoyment and lasting satisfaction that
no ready-made cigarette in the world can give 1
GENUINE
801 l Durham
SMOKING TOBACCO
{Enough for forty hand-made cigarettes in each 5-cent sack )
A bonk of "papers**
TREE with each 5c
I i lEr •.*psw r
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twMF ~ we i u-j
eve, thus proving the theory that the
dead return.
Looking over the baseball results from
day to day, one Is led to suspect that
Cleveland Is trying to win the pennant
fur Connie Mack.
Cleveland scribes tell us that the Naps
will be the strongest team In the league
next year, but methink* we have heard
them there words before.
BRAINS.
The fihade* of nitjht were Jailing faxt
When from the earth a birdman
passed.
And ere they laid him in the ground
They opened up his dome and found
Excelsior.
The sublime silence hovering over New
Haven is due to enthusiasm over the
fact (hat Yale won the Intercollegiate
golf championship.
Doctors in Wilmington. De!., have dis
covered that the spitter Is dangerous
but George Stovall has discovered that
It Is positively fatal.
/ On the "
7 Firing Line
in every walk of life you’ll
find good old “Bull”
Durham. Men of action,
men with red blood in
The millions of “Bull” Durham
smokers are proud of that muslin
sack, because they know that the
quality is all in the tobacco —where it
belongs!
Get a sack at the nearest dealer’s
today —“roll your own” and you’ll
understand why enough “Bull”
Durham is sold in a year to make
approximately 12 billion cigarettes—
and the sales are still growing.
By “Bud” Fisher
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Brookhaven Trophy
Tourney Next at
Capital City Clutr*'
The qualifying’ round for the
Brookhaven trophy will be played at
the Capital City Country Club course
on Saturday. It Is expected that over
fifty golfers wiU compete for the
beautiful cup. The club handicap
will be used even In the qualifying
round.
The first and second ronnd.« must
be played oy September 27. The final
round will have to be completed by
the following Saturday.
Scotty McKenzie, the dub profes
sional. will have the course In top
notch form for this tournament and
some low scores should be turned in.
! Lynch Plasters on
Three Big Fines
CINCINNATI, Sept| 16.—President
Lynch announced he had fined both
, Manager Tinker, of the Cincinnati
! club, and Shortstop Maranville, of
i the Boston team, JSO, anil First Base
man Meyers, also of the Boston team.
stno for fighting on tne field during
the first Kame of the double-header
here last Saturday. Tinker also was
: suspender three day. for using abus-
ive lanruase to Umpire o’Day. J
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