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VOL. I- NO. 28.
■ATHLETICS
WIN HIGHEST
HONORS FOR
ItHIRDJIME
■ Defeat of Giants in Series Ending
Yesterday Makes Three in
Succession for the National
League Flag Winners.
I STATISTICS ON THE
1913 WORLD’S SERIES
STANDING.
Won. Lott. Pct.
I Athletics 4 1 .800
I Giants ..1 4 .200
SCORES OF GAMES.
1. Athletics, 6; Giants, 4.
2. Giants, 3: Athletics, 0.
3. Athletics, 8; Giants, 2.
4. Athletics, 6; Giants, 5.
5. Athletics, 3; Giants, 1.
BATTING AND FIELDING.
| Total Runs—Athletics, 23; Giants, 15.
■ Total Hits—Athletics 46; Giants, 33.
| Total Errors—Athletics, 5; Giants, 7.
| Athletics' batting average .264
| Giants’ batting average. .. .. .203
I Athletics’ fielding average. ..... .975
| Giants' fielding average .970
I Leading Batters and Average—Ba
ir Athletics) .450, McLean (Giants)
I .53",.
WINNING PITCHERB.
I Athletics—Bender (2 games), Plank,
I Bush.
Grants —Mathewson.
ATTENDANCE AND RECEIPTS.
I Total attendance ..151,396
Total receipts $325,980
B Players’share (4 games) ..$150,181.80
I Athletics' share (each) $3,600
I fitants' share (each) $2,400
JMub owner*’ share . . ..$182,779 30
T hstjanal C-emnSctsion's share. .$32,598
I The Philadelphia Athletics, by de-
I feating the New York Giants yes
| terclay, won their third world’s cham
| pionship In tour years, while the
El Giants lost their -third sveeessfve
| chance to win the highest honors in
I baseball. The Athletics thus made a
I record, and the Giants tied one—that
| established in 1907, 1908 and 1909 by
I Detroit, which team lost three world s
I series in succession.
The campaign this year was short
| and sharp. The last time the Giants
9 a-id Athletics met. rain and snow in
terrupted the series about midway,
and it was two weeks in finishing.
This year the series began Tuesday
and ended Saturday of the same
week.
The special features of the play in
the series of 1913 were the batting
of tlie Athletics and the lack of ef
fective pitching by the Giants, ex
cept the case of Mathewson.
Bender pitched the first game, last
Tuesday, and was opposed by Mar
luard, who was speedily routed, the
Philadelphias winning 6 to 4, in spite
of a brisk attack by the Giants on the
Indian hurler.
Mathewson at Best.
Mathewson opposed Plank in the
second game, which was played in
Philadelphia. He pitched the great
est game of all his honorable career,
blanked the Athletics for ten Innings,
and started the rally that beat Eddie
Blank in the last Inning. The score
was 3 to 0.
Tesreau was selected by McGraw
to pitch the third game played in
New York against Bush, a recruit,
for the Athletics. Bush pitched well,
while Tesreau was driven from the
mound in the early Innings, the final
score being 8 to 2, the loosest con
test of the series.
The fourth game was played Fri
day In Philadelphia, and this time
McGraw started a youngster, Al
I’emaree, who was opposed by the
veteran Bender. Demaree vras knock
ed out, but Marquard stopped the
scoring and the Giants nearly won the
game by hard pounding of Bender in
the closing innings. The score was
6 to 6.
Then came the finish and the
sweeping victory in the series, when
‘J 1 ® Athletics won yesterday on the
Polo Grounds, New York, defeating
hrlsty Mathewson, whose fine work
was rendered futile by the wavering
, *J’ 8 mates and the grand pitching
or Eddie Plank, who yielded only two
nits. The score was 3 to 1.
Giants m Bad Condition.
•A- composite score of the five games
snows that the Athletics out-pitched,
out-fielded, out-batted and generally
out-played their rivals at all points.
Baker and Collins might be singled
out for their batting prowess, with
"-Chang, Collins and Barry for their
fielding.
The Giants vere slowed down by
Merkle’s sprained ankle and Snod
grass' “Charley horse.” and Chief
Meyers was lost to the line-up after
the first game, with an Injured thumb.
McLean, however, caught well and
batted hard in his place.
The total attendance for the five
games was 151,396 persons, nearly
three-fourths attending the three
games at the Polo Grounds. The gate
receipts totaled 8325,980 for the five
games.
Each Mackman Get, $3,600.
The receipts for the first four
□ games were 8250,303. of which the
M* I layer* shared 60 per cent, on a basis
■ of 50 per cent o f t h a t amount for the
■ winners and 40 per cent for the los-
The Weather.
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia: Fair Sun
day and Monday.
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION
= IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
The Sunday American 74,138
Average per Sunday for six months, sworn report to the United States Government. <
The Atlanta Sunday Journal 58,409
Average per Sunday tor six months, sworn report to the United States Government.
The Atlanta Sunday Constitution ; 45,649
Average per Sunday for six months, sworn report to the United States Government.
THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S CIRCULATION FOR SEPTEMBER
THE SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE GEORGIAN
on October 5 published a DETAILED STATEMENT
OF CIRCULATION BT DAYS AND THE PER
CENTAGE OF RETURNS, UNBOLD copies. No oth
er newspaper in Atlanta did this, so no comparison
September 7 106,908
September 14 106,519
September 21 106,246
September 28 116,456
October 5 120,000
The NET PAID CIRCULATION of The
Sunday American IS NOW MORE THAN THE
COMBINED NET PAID CIRCULATION of
The Atlanta Sunday Constitution and Atlanta
Sunday Journal*
To establish a Sunday newspaper with a NET PAID CIRCULA
TION OF OVER 100,000 IN SIX MONTHS, a net paid circulation of
more than its two competitors in the same field, is the most remarka
ble journalistic achievement of the age.
GROWTH OF A GREAT EVENING NEWSPAPER
The figures below should be carefully studied by the buginest, men and advertisers of At
lanta. They show the steadily increasing growth of THE GEORGIAN. They are the figures
sworn to in the report to the United States Government, and INCLUDE IN ADDITION TO THE
NUMBER PAID FOR, sonic papers that are sent to advertisers, to advertising agencies through
out the United States, charitable and public institutions, samples, files, employees, etc.:
April Circulation 37,488
May Circulation 44,203
June Circulation 46,998
July Circulation 49,685
August Circulation 72,351
September Circulation 62,331
Neither the evening Journal nor The Constitution gives circulation figures by days or months,
so no comparison can be made between The Georgian’s figures and figures of The Journal and The
Constitution.
The net paid circulations of the evening Journal and The Constitution, taken from their report to
the Government, show:
Evening Journal, average for six months 53,558
The Constitution, average for six months 42,686
The Georgian’s marvelous growth ifi popularity is shown by comparing the circulation of Th<-
Georgian during the month of April and the month of September, 1913:
The Georgian’s average total circulation for April 37,488
The Georgian’s average total circulation for Sept. 62,331
CIRCULATION NEARLY DOUBLED IN SIX MONTHS
The Georg an’s Circulation on April 1, 1913 35,877
The Georgian’s Circulation on Sept 30, 1913 . . . 67,137
Gain in Six Months 31,260
ers. Thus each Athletic drew about
83,600. and each Giant player 82.400.
Atlanta baseball fans, as usual,
were much Interested In the big series.
Remarkably good facilities were af
forded them to keep closely In touch
with the games. Writers of all kinds,
including many of the disputed
"player scribes," furnished accounts
to the papers.
Numbers of "callers" and electric
scoreboards also portrayed the games,
and there was no reason for any in
terested fan going without the latest
news from the front.
(For complete detail* of the decid
ing gam* and *f th* **ri*a, *•* Sperl
ing Section*.)
r —- ——- IHI S) 11 _ _ '^——y
Copyright, ma. by
Th* Georgian Company.
Family at Theater,
Burglars Rob Home
Residence of A. W. Seavy I* En
tered—Silverware, Revolver
and Razor* Are Stolen.
The residence of A. W. S*avy, No.
98 Boulevard PI as*. wa* entered by
burglars Saturday night, while the oc
cupants were at the theater.
Articles of silverware, a revolver,
raxira. and small bits of house fur
nishings were stolen.
★ ★★
can be made of the CIRCULATION NOW of th* At
lanta Sunday Constitution, or the Atlanta Sunday
Journal. We republish the GROSS figures of the
SUNDAY AMERICAN to show HOW A REAL
NEWSPAPER GROWS.
Automobile Refused
U. S. Vice President
Hout* Accept* Senate Plan to Abol
l*h Commerce Court, but Makea
Place* for Judges.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—The Hou*e
to-day by a vote of 13 to 121 declined
to appropriate 87.000 for an automobile
for Vic* President Marshall.
The House accepted the Senate plan
to abolish the Commerce Court, hut re
tain the four judges of the court on the
Circuit Court bench.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1913.
WANOERLUSTOF
WIFEBREAKSUP
BASSETT ME
She Asks Divorce; He Answers ‘
Her “Nomadic Migrations”
Killed Love’s Dream.
HUSBAND DESCRIBES TOURS |
Beautiful but Restless Helpmeet’s i
Pregrinations Led Her to Six
Towns in Two Years.
The story of a "migratory" wife,
who, "craving a change of scene,” ,
as alleged, left her husband periodi
cally without warning and went from
place to place over the country, was
aired In Judge Bell’* division of the
Superior Court Saturday afternoon in
the divorce and alimony suit of Mrs.
Rena Gossett against Robert A. Gos
sett. local agent of the Texas OU Mill.
As a result of the hearing Judge '
Bell rendered a decision requiring
the defendant, for the second time, to
pay the fees of the plaintiff's attor
neys tn addition to 850 per month ali
mony.
Mrs. Gossett brought suit for di
vorce Inst year, but later withdrew It ,
with the provision that defendant
should pay her attorney’s fees. This
Mr. Gossett did, and the two lived
together again for several days. In
May of this year Mrs. Gossett filed a
second suit for divorce.
In the answer to his wife’s petition
the defendant gives a graphic de
scription of her alleged "nomadic mi
grations." Her wanderings, It is al
leged, during the period of two yeara,
led Yer first to Rlon. B. C„ thence to
Jacksonville. Fla., back to South Car- '
nlina, thence :o Los Angele*. Cal., '
from there to Helen, Fla., and finally |
back home on the husband's promise
to break up housekeeping, rent rooms
and board.
The defendant states In closing his
plea that "he loved his wife and still j
loves her; that he has tried every
thing he could to please her, but that
she can not be satisfied." •
Mrs. Gossett la described as being a
beautiful woman.
Fried Oysters Cost
Howard S3OO Pearl
Georgia Congressman Had Blue
Point* Cooked—Now H*’» Learn
ing to Eat ’Em Raw.
If you are a good friend, Congress
man William Schley Howard, who is
home for a few days, will show you a
big pear], as big as a grain of corn, !
that he found in an oyster in the i
House restaurant the other day tn i
Washington. And he will tell you how I
it happened.
The oysters were excellent In the
restaurant that day, and the negro
waiter, knowfne the Georgia man s ,
tastes, came toward him with a grin
on his face,
"Nice oysters, Mist - Howard.” he
announced. "Nice Cheesypeake blue
Back came the oysters, fried brown,
just as Mr. Howard likes. But just
because he insisted on the cooking. I
he lost his pearl. There it was In ;
the very first oyster, but the heat had
ruined it. It is estimated that, in
Its original unbroiled glory, it would ,
have been worth 8300.
"Just my luck,” says Mr. Howard. ,
“Now I am learning to eat ’em raw.” '
Stanley Waterloo,
Noted Writer, Dead
Author Is Taken 111 With Pneumo
nia As He Talked With
Opie Reed.
CHICAGO. Oct. 11.—Stanley Wa- ‘
terloo, 67, for more than 40 years i
active In literature, big political 1
I movements and In journalism, diet!
here to-night as a result of an attack
.of pneumonia suffered several dayt
ago.
He was taken ill Wednesday even- ■
j Ing while seated at the Chicago Press I
Club talking with Opie Reed, the
writer He was a member of a dis
tinct literary school, which Included
in its list of members Eugene Field.
James Whitcomb Riley, Opie ReeJ,
Will Visscher and Charles G. Sey
mour.
Wilson Has a Slight
Attack of Neuralgia
President Remains in White House
and Denies Himself to
All Callers.
WASHINGTON. Oct’ 11.—President
Wilson remained in the White House
to-day denying himself to all callers
as he was suffering from a slight at
‘ tack of neuralg/x.
WEI PURSUES
CHAUFFEUR WHO
RUNSDOWNGIRL
“Lynch Him!” Is Cry of Crowd
Which Sees Peachtree Street
Accident.
DRIVER ESCAPES BY RUSE
Victim Caught by Fender, Car Has
To Be Rolled Back Off
Body.
Hundreds of persons who saw an
■tutomoblle owned by Otto B. Von-
Dingelhoef, an attorney !n the Can
dler Building, run down a young
woman in front of the Grand Theater
building late Saturday afternoon,
formed themselves Into a mob and
threatened to lynch the chauffeur.
After being followed to the home
of the victim, the driver broke from
the crowd, ran into the building and
escaped through the rear entrance,
while a woman blocked the pursuit of
the mob at the front door.
The victim was Miss Mary L.
Hughes, private secretary to the edl
, tor of The Sunday American. She
received abrasions on her right hip,
right foot and left hand with pos
sible internal Injuries.
Caught by Fender.
Miss Hughes was walking north on
Peachtree street when the accident
occurred. As she stepped from the
curb the right fender of the automo
bile. which was approaching from
behind, caught her dress, and. swing
[ Ing het bodily around, threw her
[ down in front of the machine.
The car was brought to a halt over
! the body of the young woman and
I had to be rolled back before she could
be picked up.
Pedestrians going home from work
witnessed the accident and hastened
to the scene. As soon as the glri
I was picked up a mob gathered about
: the chauffeur. George J. Weaver, a
traveling salesman for the Oliver
Typewriter Company, No. 54 Auburn
avenue, sprang Into the machine,
which contained hut the one person.
1 and clutched the chauffeur around the
neck, declaring that he would hold
him for the police. Other person*
; clambered into the machine, and a
] general attack upon the man was Im
minent.
The chauffeur pleaded with his
captors to be permitted to telephone
to his employer. While th|s was being
done an automobile driven by Dr. W.
A, Selman, who has offices In the
i Candler Building, came up and took
Miss Hughes to her home at No. 17
! West Caln street.
Crowd W*nt* Life.
When the chauffeur came out to
I his machine again he was surrounded
1 by a great crowd, from which mur
murs of "Lynch him” and "Kill him"
were fast growing into shouts. Stitnd-
I ing In his car, the chauffeur ad
dressed the crowd, pleading that he
be allowed to go to the home of his
victim.
The crowd consented and moved
down Peachtree street with the ma
chine. At the door to the home of
i Miss Hughes, which is the Gresham
i apartment building, the chauffeur was
met by his employer. Mr. Dlngelhoef,
I who addressed the mob in an effort
j to secure the young man’s release,
j This was denied by Weaver, who
; still held the chauffeur, and shouts
| from the crowd became more per
■ sistent that he be turned over into
i their hands.
A sharp struggle ensued between
Weaver and the chauffeur, by which
the latter secured his release and
i plunged up the short flight of steps
• into the apartment building. Sev
! eral of the man’s asasllants ran after
| him. but were halted by Mrs. D. E.
I McGaw, proprietor, who stood in the
' doorway and defied them to enter
her home.
Escapes Through Rear.
The chauffeur escaped through the
I rear entrance to the building, while
1 the cries of the mob in front rose to
; a high pitch. To policemen, who ar
rived on the scene. Dlngelhoef prom
ised that he would deliver his driver
at the police station as soon as he
could find him.
According to witnesses, the car was
moving at a high rate of speed. Miss
j Hughes, at her home later, declared
that the windshield .of the machine
was in such a position that it was
impossible for the driver to have seen
her. It was also stated that the man
J kept his seat In the car while pedes
trians pushed It back off of the girl’s
body.
After the young woman was taken
to her home, Father Rapier, of Mar
ist College, was summoned. Miss Car
rie Gubernator, a close friend of the
injured girl, also was sent for. \
Miss Hughes is about 17 years old
and very pretty.
MISS KATIE HOLSTON,
Atlanta girl who kept
fact that she was a bride se
cret for four months.
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Keeps Her Marriage
Secret Four Months
Ml** Katie Holston at Last Tells
She I* Bride of C. D.
McGill.
Miss Katie Holston, who lives at
No. 99 Cherokee avenue, has been a
very happy young woman for four
months. Her friends noticed It, but,
knowing her for the most cheerful
person alive, they thought nothing of
her excessive exuberance.
Therefore they were very m.ich
surprised yesterday when she could
keep the secret no longer and an
nounced that she had been married
all that time.
Miss Holston has been in Americus
for a month, visiting her sister, Mrs.
C. J. Williams, and It was there she
told all about how she nad C. D. Mc-
Gill, a young business man of Daw
son. were married in Atlanta August
10 by the Rev. G. L. Hanscom. Only
four intimate friends were present,
and they were pledged to secrecy.
The news found Its way to Atlanta
almost immediately. Here Miss Hol
ston was popular. In Atlanta she lived
with her uncle anil aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Fulford. Hereafter she will live
In Albany.
Two Sisters Die at
Exactly Same Hour
Macon ants Mobile Daughters of Mr*.
G. V. Knight Pas* Away.
Double Funeral.
MACON. Oct. 11.—Two daughters
of Mrs. G. V. Knight, of Macon, one
living here and the other at Mobile,
died to-day at precisely the same
time. At 1 o'clock this morning Mrs.
L. J. Calloway, of Mticon, died after a
brief il ness. Shortly after telegrams
were sent to various relatives, a wire
was received from Mobile stating that
Mrs. Eva May Lyles, Mrs Callo
way’s sister, had passed away at 1
o’clock. Relatives here were unaware
of her Hiners.
A double funeral will be held here
to-morrow, taking place from the
Knight family residence.
Timothy Woodruff’s
Condition Is Grave
Son Declares New York Politician
Is on Verge of Danger
ous Crisis.
NEW YORK. Oct. 11.—The condi
tion of Timothy L. Woodruff, who
was stricken with paralysis two
weeks ago. was reported to-night to
be very grave
"My father Is now on the verge of
a grave crisis and one which per
haps will last three or four days."
, said John E. Woodruff, son of the
sick man, to-night. “We, of course,
sincerely hope that he will pass safe
ly through this crisis."
MRS. PANKHURST SAILS.
Special Cable to. The American.
HAVRE. FRANCE, Oct. 11.—Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst. militant suf
fragette leader, sailed toaalay for
York. ,
EDITION FOR
NORTH GEORGIA
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
136 BURNED.
521 SAVED,
IN DACE OF
LINERS TO
SHIP IFIRE
Explosion of Boilers Dooms the
Volturno, but Wireless Appeal
Brings Vessels Under Full
Steam Through Storm-Swept
Sea to Rescue.
Hundreds Watch Passengers Hud
dled on Decks as Flames Ap
proach—Prompt Action of Com
mander of Cunarder Cuts Fa
tality List.
FACTS ABOUT THE
SEA DISASTER.
Total number of passengers. . 521
(These were divided as follows:
First csbin, 24; stesrage, 540; crew,
93.)
Rescued 521
Missing (probably dead) ...136
The first call of the Volturno
was, “We are on fire and will
have to abandon ship. Can hold
on for a while. S. 0. S.’’
The S. 0. S. call was heard by
the Carmania, 78 miles away, and
by other ships within the zona
and answered.
It was sent out about 8 o ’clock
Thursday morning. The Carma
nia made 20 miles an hour
through the storm and was there
at noon.
The Grosser Kurfurst and the
Seydlitz, a German tramp,
reached her at 4 o'clock.
Seven other ships—La Tou
raine, Minneapolis, Rappahan
nock, Czar, Narragansett, De
vonian and Kroonland—reached
her by nighttime.
The passengers were taken off
and more than 500 lives saved on
Friday. It was possible only
through the use of wireless.
Special Cable to The American.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 11.—One hun
dred and thlrty-alx persons lost their
lives when the steamship Volturno.
of the Uranium Line, was destroyed
at sea on Friday, having been on fire
24 hours.
Ten steamships surrounded the
Volturno for sixteen hours while the
fire raged at Its height, but none of
the rescue fleet was able to lend as
sistance owing to the terrific storm.
The Volturno sailed from Rotter
dam for New York, via Halifax, on
October. 2. She carried 24 cabin pas
sengers. 540 steerage and a crew of
93. Os the 657 known to have been
on board, 521 have been reported
saved by the ten vessels.
The greatest loss of life occurred
when four of the Volturno’s six life
boats were-dashed to pieces against
the side of the vessel a few moments
after they were launched. Other life
boats launched from the rescue ships
were also crushed by the waves.
Early Friday morning a terrific ex
plosion in the Volturno’s boiler room
almost rent the vessel in halt. When
this occurred the passengers on the
stricken ship believed they were
doomed while the captains of the ves
sels which had rushed to the rescue
could see little chance of saving those
on the burning ship.
Lifeboats Launched.
Suddenly the gale abated and the
sea calmed considerably. Within a
few moments a score of lifeboats had
been launched from the vessels stand
ing by and were rushing toward the
stern of the Volturno, where the pas
sengers and crew were huddled
against the rail.
When the Volturno was abandoned
Friday morning she was seen to be
gradually sinking. Her position was
then about 900 miles northeast of
Cape Race and close to the spot
where the Titanic sank eighteen
months ago.
Many See Disaster.
Never before has such
been witnessed by so many ispecta-