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Return of Ancient Glories of Cir
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. cuit Are Expected for Next
Season—Many Clubs to Have
New Managers and Players.
OOK out for a return of the
Southern League to all its an
cient glories next season.
It's a far cry, but, as sure as the
sun shines and sets, there is bound to
be a recrudescence of the national
pastime in these parts in 1916, |
The league has weathered its most
stormy period, and the coming year
should see it back on the high plane it
occupied three or four years ago.
Southern League historians are go-
Ing to write about 1915 as one of the
most peaceful seasons the circuit has
ever known and that's where the dan
ger was. Every club owner and mnn-‘
ager was so afraid of going on the!
rocks that everything was played aft
er the safe, sane and conservative
fashion, and as a result patrons of the
pastime saw the very pocrest sport
that the league has furnished since
two years after its reorganization in
1901, i
And they acted wisely, for never
was an organization as sorely beset
as was the Southern League at the‘
opening of the almost happily past
eeason. Judge Kavanaugh, its organ-l
izer and its one moving spirit, had
passed away. A new president had to
be chosen. Naturally, the new presi
dent was untried. The South's great
est money crop was a drug on the
market. The European war had
thrown Southern finance into a con
dition bordering on panic. The Fed
eral League raids had affected the mi
nors as well as the majors. The
Montgomery club had given up the
ghost. Its franchise had been trans
ferred to Little Rock, a town that had
r.cver supported baseball, Mobile was
shaky. ‘
On account of the Federal League
activities, it was well-nigh impossi
ble to get ball players of any real
ability from the majors, who were
swinging onto anything that looked
like an athlete. Players on the South- |
ern League roster were holding oul}
for higher salaries, recognizing the}
condition the clubs were in as a re
sult of the outlaw movement. To
experienced baseball men it seemed
that Judge Kavanaugh's circuit was
bound to go on the rocks.
But things broke well for the league. |
The selection of Bob Baugh as presi
dent was fortunate. Baugh was unl-l
versally popular, and he had the con- |
fldence of the club owners. He at
tempted nothing radical, which was
Just the thing to do under the circum
stances, Little Rock’s attendance was
unexpectedly good. With a little aid
from the league Mobile was ablg, to
weather the storm.
If the class of ball was not as high
as it has been, the race was fairly
well contested up to the last month of
the season. If no club owners made
any great amount of money, no club
owners lost a great amount, which is
& pretty catisfactory state of affairs.
But now, apparently, all the clouds
have passed. Baugh has been broken
into harness, The cotton situation !s
relieved Monetary affairs are about
back to ncrmal, The Federals have
about quit fighting. It is doubtfu] if
they will exist another year., And the
majors will be glad to send once more
their unseasoned material South for
additional training
With any luck, Little Rock should
make a better showing next season,
and the gate receipts should increase
with the number of games won. Mo
bile seems destined for better things
A movement that is sure to be pop
ular when the league meeting is held
In New Orleans this winter will be
one to cut the plaving season back to
its original length. The plan to ex
tend the season unti]l the last of Sep
tember has proved a miserable fali
ure, as was so confidently predicted
By the first of September all interest
in the race had died, and every club
in the circuit was operated at a loss
for the last three weeks. It would not
be surprising to sce the league go back
to its old arrangement of 140 bat
ties
There is due a big wmanagerial
shake-up next season. John Dobbs
may again lead the pennant-winning
Pelicans, but John isn't very keen for
the job, nor does he care much about
having a fling at Somers’ Cleveland
club. It's more than likely that he
will be back In New Orleans. Of
course, Molesworth will be back in
Birmingham. That's always under
stood, and Bris Lord will have anoth
er whirl with the Memphis outfit,
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Were Only One in Game—Clubs Her Pets.
By O. B. Keeler.
OW, there can be no two opin-
N long as to whether Miss Alexa
Stirling can play golf. And I
spent the better part of one fine, sun
spangled morning at East Lake, find
ing out exactly how she does it. [
know, all right. But whether I can
divulge this knowledge is something
else again.
You see, it is like this—no, let's
start at the beginning.
Miss Stirling departed from At
lanta 17 years old and returned from
the big tournament in Chicago 18
years old—of age, as the feminine rat
ing goes—and halled broadcast over
this somewhat expansive country as
the most startling young woman golf.
er it contained,
As of course you know, she reached
the semi-finals in the National Wo
‘men's Amateur Champlonship, on the
Onwentsia links: and was defeated in
that round by Mrs. C. H. Vanderbeck
in a struggle that went to the twen
ity-necond green and ended in a driv
ing rainstorm-—probably the most
’spfl‘tucular match ever played in a
women's classic.
After which Mrs., Vanderbeck won
the final match handily. So (as
everybody knows) Miss Stirling
might just exactly as well have been
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the national champion this year. And
she would have been, but for one lit
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roots, at the edge of the No. 4 green
at Onwentsia, which I will consider
later,
Romps Through Early Rounds.
And now we have the start, and
then Miss Stirling's coming-of-age
birth anniversary, on September §;
and then the big tournament, starting
the next day; and then a brilllant
romp through the qualifications and
the first two rounds of match play—
and then the finish. For this year,
that is. Chick Evans watched the
play, and Chick stakes his reputation
as a connolsseur of golfing style that
Miss Stirling’s ultimate victory in
the classic is only deferred —probably
for one year,
And here we have Miss Stirling
back with us again, and the Gentle
Reader can get ready for brass tacks,
because the introduction Is out of
the way and we are out at East Lake
pretty early on a bright September
morn, and I am bent on learning how
one young woman, with lots of red
hair and Scotch ancestry, can play
better golf than 102 other young wo
men, practically all of them older
than she, and all set on capturing a
“The Story of Susan Lenox,
Her Fall and Rise”
\“ And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more™
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1915,
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brella stand.
I suppose we ought to include the
costumes with the scenery, which was
in harmonious accord with Miss
Stiring's skirt, waist, hat and mural
decorations. I do not know much
about such things. I know in a
vague and general way that red
headed girls agree with green, how
ever; and In this particular in
stance I will go before a grand jury
and swear that the costume was be
coming. Its salient features were a
corduroy skirt of a marvelous shade
of green; a waist which I would
sooner jump in the lake than try to
describe, except to say it had a gen
tle green stripe in it; an altogether
fetching tie, and a hat with a green
bird's wing, or the green wing of a
bird, or a bird's green wing-—oh, say
it yourself; the wing was green and
it lent a dashing effect to the en
semble.
All the above standing on trim lit
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have pretty nearly the layout, ex
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lected to state) was Inside it.
Oh, and the tools,
Interview Hard to Start.
I carried them over to the falrway
of the Ninth Hole, and there was
quite a sackful. I have the figures
on them and the same will be given
out later, together with Miss Stir
ling's height, weight and golfing tem
perament,
At present we are finding out how
Miss Stirling plays golf.
I led off, with becoming nalvete:
“Now, tell me all about it."”
It was & bum lead. I tried much
the same dodge on Nicholas Altrock
once, when Handsome Nick wasg one
of the greatest pitchers baseball ever
knew. Nick came back at me with
troubles of his own. He sald:
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It when I do, and why I can't when
I don't.”
He added that some dayß he went
“out there” feeling rotten, with a
headache and a sore wing, and turned
in a two-hit shut-out. And other
days, when he seemed to have all the
stuff in the world, the ball might as
well have been a Saratoga trunk cov
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looked to the opposition,
So Miss Stirling did not tell me all
about it; not right off the reel. She
said;
“I don't kaow, 1 just hit the ball
Some days it seems to roll for me,
and every shot comes off right, and
‘the long putts roll up dead and the
‘short ones gink—and I don’t need so
many putts, because the pitches all
go right up to the pin”
1 hoped she would say they sat
down like a poached egy, but she
‘didn't But she pitched some of them
for me later, with the pet mashle
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Stirling holds
her elub. The |
Southern
champion uses
the famous
Vardon over- |
lapping grip.
that she loves more than all the ;lt
of her clubs. And they sat down like
poached eggs. But 1 wag afraid to
say 80, because she had told me it
was before breakfast, and 1 thought
the reference might be mal apropos.
Mashie Pitch Best Shot.
But you may take it from me, who
can't do it, or from Miss Stirling, who
can, that the well-bred way for a
mashie pitch to behave Is to sit down
like a poached egg. And that is Miss
Stirling’s best shot—and that s say
ing a lot for it.
Well, we got out on the ninth fair
way, and did some shots—that s,
Miss Stirling did. She was right
about it. You can't tell how you
play golf. And it is no cinch to teil
how you see it done. But here goes.
Alexa Stirling is just past her
eighteenth birthday, She is five feet
four inches tall. She weighs 122 1-2
~trat is, she would have weighed
that much, plus breakfast. That is
her regular weight. At her longitude,
it argues solidity of construction. So
does her golf play.
Miss Stirling's golf is strong golf.
In this it differs from the play of 90
per cent ¢f the women golfers. Un
feeling masculine critics say women's
play is “flabby.” That is a dreadful
word, but It ig about correct. “Chick”
Evans, who never would say so un
gallant a thing, says they hit their
wood shots well, but lack “crispness”
in iron play. That is about it. Harry
Vardon refers to the “diabolical
straightness” of the wood club play
of women; and adds that they are
chary of taking turf with the {rons.
Here's the Difference.
To my invaluable way of thinking,
that is the exact difference. Jf you
have heard “Chick” Evans playing
full irons and mashies, you will know
what I mean. I sald “heard.” When
a woman hits a golf ball with an
fron, it usually pops. When “Chick"”
hits one, it says “snick,” as if it were
putty. And a very meek little snick,
at that. A golf ball is a wicked little
gphere and does not respond to cajol
ery, Ted Ray knows how to treat it.
It never says “pop” to Edward,
Now, this is a lot of words, but If
you ponder them you will grasp the
idea of Miss Stirling's way of hitting
a golf ball with an iron, It is not the
full, graceful, careful—and “flabby”
sweep of the typical woman golfer.
Continued on Page 2, Column 2.
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by David Graham Phillips
Susan, beautiful, intelligent, unhappily born, cursed with the
cruel stigma of illegitimacy, struggles against the world.
THIS SECTION CONTAINS
AUTOS, WANTS
' g oy
North Carolina, Virginia, Auburn,
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Alabama, Tech and Georgia to
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Clash in This City for Suprem=
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acy on the Southern Gridirony
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By Fuzzy Woodruff.
TLANTA may have suffersd
from sport ennul during the
past six months as a result of
the sleepy showing the Crackers made
during the almost late and certainly
unlamented baseball season. But At
lanta is due to wake up, and do it be~
fore the next month is old enough te
lay aside its teething ring.
For Atlanta is in for a regular foots
ball season. For the past six or seven
years Atlanta has been growing more
and more the fcotball center of the
South. It has mora of a monopoly on
the clasay football of the section than
any BEastern city has on the gridiron
‘activities of that land. It is a bigger
football town to the South than Chi
cago 18 to the West.
And this Is going to be Atlanta‘s
biggest football season.
Ten Games in Nine Weeks.
Just consider the fact that there are
but nine weeks of football playing
season, and that during this nine
weeks there will be ten intercollegiate
clashes on Atlanta fields, and Atlan
ta's pre-eminence as a football cen
ter for the South can be realized,
Mighty few of these games are of
the usual early season warm-up af
fairs between a stronger team and a
college that is hopelessly outclassed,
Six of the ten battles will have abso
lute bearing on the Southern cham
pilonship, and of the great Southern
teams Atlanta will see all In action,
with the exception of Vanderbiit,
Tennessee and Loulsiana State.
The season will open the first week
in October, with Tech meeting Mer
cer. Now, there ig little possibility of
the Macon Baptists troubling Hels
man’s outfit to any great extent, but
Mercer always fights to the last ditch
against the Yellow Jackets, and the
battle should not be devoid of inter
est,
Then will come Transylvania te
meet the North avenue warriors, Lit
tle is known of Transylvania, but the
game will give the followers of foot
ball some definite line on Tech's de~
velopment.
After that the real battles will be
gin. Tech encounters Davidson Col
lege October 9, and Davidson is the
dark horse of the SBouth this season.
The North Carolinans boast a new
coach, are sald to have plenty of ma
terial, and may spring an early-season
surprise.
Big Battles on List.
From that time on there will not be
a week in which a game is not staged
at Grant Fleld with a direct bearing
on the Dixle title. Big game follows
big game. Tech has an early engage~
ment with Alabama, and the Jackets
are keen for this affray, hoping to
avenge the defeat at the hands of the
Crimson-White warriors of last sea
son. But as bright as prospects are
at Tech, this game is bound to be a
hard one, for Alabama has been com«
ing, and coming strong, for seasons,
and thig vear ghould turn out a really
formidable fighting front
Atlanta will see Georgia and Vire
gina on October 23, this game having
been transferred here from Athens.
Atlantans remember the great 1913
battle between these teams, when the
014 Dominion boys won by a long for
ward pass in, the last few seconds of
play. Virgin'a is more powerful than
usual this year, but Cunningham is
using everything he has and looks
to have his men on edge for this en
gagement
Jackets Make One Trip,
Without a break, except for thelr
one trip to Baton Rouge to meet
| Loulsiana State, the Jackets will have
a xame each week at Grant Fleld,
One after the other will come the fe
rocious North Carolinians, the Purple
aristocraty from the Sewanee moun
taln, the all-powerful, plle-driving
Auburn team from the plains of Ala
bama, which will play Thanksgiving
Day and which will furnish a game
second in the spectacular only to the
annual meeting of the Red and Black
and the Yellow and White,
8o there's going to be all the foot
ball that anybody could wish for. And
Atlanta patronizes the collegiate
game. As a matter of fact, Atlanta Is
the only city In the South where foot
ball draws generally. In other South
ern towns the games are witnessed
largely by collegians and former col
lege men, but here the attendance is
|as general as the throng at the base
l)vn.l park