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ATLANTA, GA.
*GEORGIAN SPORTS' COVEREID 4 EXPERTS:
By Chaarles (Chick) Evans.
National Open Golf Champion.
HICAGO, ILL., Sept. 14.—With
out doubt there are too few
tournaments for junior golfers
in the Chicago district, and unless
they increase in number Chicago must
eventually lose the splendid position
it has held in the world of golf for so
many years. |
When I was a very youthful golfer, |
one of my greatest incentives were |
the junior championships at West- |
ward Ho. To play only in tourna- |
ments with golfers who have already |
arrived is a bit discouraging to the |
youthful player; for a boy needs a|
victory now and then—or a nvar-onv’
==to cheer him on the difficult way.
The future depends on the youth of|
today. Age-limit tourneys are desir- |
able things, but the disproportion be- |
tween them and the junior events t.u!
startling, and it is not the junior alone |
who needs encouragement, but the fel
low in between. t
. . .
I'.l' is instructive to note that the |
leading qualifiers in the junior |
tournament at Hinsdale, 111, are pub- |
e course players. Bennie Buffham. |
the low medalist, was a former cadv‘.»ol
at the Chicago Golf Club and was
one of the best caddie plavers there.
A study of the list shows that three
out of the first four qualifiers were
from public course go!f clubs, and, in
deed, 70 per cent of all the juniors en
tered came from the public parks
Now, this can only mean that the
sons of private club members are too
lagy to develop a game. They want
the things that come easiest and
quickest, and the way to a good golf
fiune is long and difficult. When pub
c park golfers trained on the “built
for speed” municipal courses can g !
to a private links and play it as well
as these boys have done, it means that
they have got the real stuff in them.
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Tuum boys were nearly all caddies
at the different clubs, and after!
the caddie age was past they went tol
work; but they still longed to play. |
and they were enabled to do sol
through the cheap memberships of the |
public park golf clubs. |
Japanese Net Stars
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Lose to Chicagoans
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Walter T
Hayes and Ralph H. Burdick, local
tennis cracks, defeated Ichi Ya Kum
agse and Hachi Chiro Micami, the
Japanese, In a two set match here
The scores were 9-7 and 6-4.
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HATTANOOGA, Sept. 14.—Most
1 of the individual members of
the Lookouts have returned
home for their stay during the off
season. It is believed that most of
the players will be back in uniform
lnext year, though very few of them
are considered strong enough to be
brought on without competition. The
team of the past season was strong
in many respects, but was never thor
oughly balanced and was always weak
in pitching. Yet it was one of the
[Y:est the city has employed, and,
doubtless as such, will not have to be
“doctored” as much as some of the
Equads of the past.
It is feared that either Joe Harris
or Jake Pitler will be caught in the
draft net. These two boys are too
Eood to be overlooked, at Jeast by the
Class AA clubs, even if the majors
pass them up. It is a pipe, however,
that the one who is not snagged in
the lottery will be back next season
with the bells on. Moreover, the re
mainder of the infleld would not be
unwelcome, without a break.
Fred Graff is said to have expressed
desire to be traded because he believed
that he had been long enough on one
club. This may be true, but it is a
cinch that the Lookout roster has
never contained a more popular or a
more faithful player than Freddie.
Moreover, Graff had his best season
this year, batting 20 points higher
than usual, setting up a reputation of
being the best “squeeze player” on
the club or in the league, besides field
ing the bag in his accustomed sensa
tiona] style. Just why he shouldn't
be brought back is a mystery. If he
goes, however, it's certain that a serv
iceable player will be secured in ex
change.
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TO.\!MY McMILLAN played a phe
nomenal game after he Joined the
team and undoubtedly will be retained
for a try-out mext spring. Tommy is
not a certainty and doudbtiens will
have other competition in addition to
young Watt, who has been sen: down
by Detroit
In the outfeld it Appears ocertain
that Heine Jantzen will go hence
Heine finished in a bad slump and his
health has been such ss to handicap
him Heine is a hard-working, gin-
FeTY scrapper, but hits rather light
for a fielder. Ham Hyatt also wound
up siowly, but Ham proved a val
uable citizen all things considered,
and probably will come back next
Spring. 1f Harris is caught in the
draft Ham will be taken on for a
first-sacker, and it must be confessed
that he played a much better first
bag this year than outfield. Bob Mes- |
Senger played good, steady baseball
all season, hitting a few points shy,
but fielding better than in previous
years. Bob is a high-salaried man,
and it is not unlikely that he will be
traded, though he :a Elenty fast. |
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BEF"ND the bat, both Kitchensand
Peters may be back, but several
other catchers must be secured to
compete with them. Kitchens was
far from ?hylnx the game this year
that he did last, his arm going bad
and his batting eye considerably
dimmed. Peters improved consider
ably in all departments.
Strange as it may seem, the pitch
ing staff bids fair to be retained al
most intact, though here, as in the
catching, a lot of “help” will be [lned
up. Rube Marshall, Jim Allen, Tom
my Knowlson, Howard Merritt, young
Bacon and Dixie Walker will make a
quintet around which Elberfeld may
build. Arthur Johnson doubtless wil]
&0 back to Birmingham. There is not
one of the five named who is a cer
tainty as a star, but every one has
shown enough to compel being
“looked over” next year.
~ The new owners of the club will be
up against a problem of finding a
couple of good-hitting outfielders, an
infielder to replace Harris or Pitler,
at least one first-class catcher, and
not less than a trio of pitchers to
augment the squad next spring, be
fore they can enter the 1917 training
season with any degree of confidence.
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BUCK WEAVER BANKRUPT
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Buck Weaver,
White Sox shortstop, is bankrupt.
Buck's attorneys have flled a petition
to this effect in Federal Court, list
ing his liabilities at $1,002 and his as-
Sets at nothing. Buck formerly op
erated a poolroom on the South Side.
@ remmamy
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s WHEN—
LD DOC CHILDS gave the finest little exhibition of raw
O courage and fighting against impossible odds I ever saw on
a baseball diamond.
It didn’t get him anything, so far as pennants go. And lam
inclined to think it ruined Doc’s arm, pitching that desperate
game on a chilly September afternoon at Piedmont' Park, Any
way, Doe never was much good after that, and he surely had plen
ty of stuff that season.
It was the tail end of these
the Atlanta team and ’Gene Der
practically manager for the
club. They had brought Doe up
from the Sally Leagne with Al
vin Bayne when that season
ended, to help the local club in a
desperate chanece to land the
pennant.
It was no great shakes of a chance.
New Orleans and Memphis and At
lanta all were in the hunt, but At
lanta was pretty well behind. It came
to a series with New Orleans, where
the Crackers had to win every re
maining . game to land the flag. One
game lost, and there were five more, I
think, and the chance was gone., In
short, it was an absolutely critical
game for Atlanta.
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DO(‘. CHILDS was sent in to pitch
—a huge, lumbering chap, with
worlds of stuff and speed, but very
wild. He hit the first batsman to
face him. The runner—none other
than “Diamond Joe"” Rickert—prompt
ly swiped second on Nig Clarke, went
to third on an out, and scored on a
wild piteh. |
And right there Doc settled down,
He pitched regular baseball. He had
all the stuff in the world, and he was
getting it over the pan, and the Pels
had just as much luck with it as the
oldest inmate of the Soldiers’ Home |
killing flies with a folded newspaper.
But, while Doc was making mon
keys out of the opposition, the town
boyd were having absolutely no luck
at all against Winnie French. He Was
using a sweeping curve ball, and
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TO CHICK EVANS.
e CHARLES “CHICK” EVANS is deservedly the national amateur
golf champion. None is more enthusiastic over his vietory than we. For
& decade “Chick,” who is the finest golfer up to the green ever de
veloped in America, has “blown” in big tournaments because of his
infinite capacity for poor putting. But this year he won the National
Open and learned that he could putt. Then we predicted he would g 0
through the current amateur field much as he did go through it at
Merion last week, and as he should have gone through it long before.
The victory of Evans in golf and that of Willlams in tennis proves
that the man who sticks it out in the face of fate's rebuffs will event
ually win if his backbone is of the proper firmness,
Tennis and golf for 1916 are out of the way. Boy, page a world’s
series,
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VERSES FOUND ON A PAIR OF STILTS.
Dirive, Dinner,
Long ; Show,
Brassic, Roof,
Ntromg ; Dough!
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Joy; Great!
Putts, . Raising,
Punk ; Ned!
Golf, Morning,
Bunk ! Head!
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CINCINNATI'S FAVORITE PLAY is the hit-and-done!
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CONNIE MACK TO THE contrary notwithstanding, Flo Ziegteld
is the only manager who makes a business of staging Follies.
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CLARK GRIFFITH'S AREN'T the only Senators who will finish
along about seventh in November.
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A RELIGIOUS GOLFER never plays more than thirty-eight holes
on Sunday.
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HEADLINE: “KELLY TAKES Senior Sculls at Washington.”
Took 'em from Griff, probably!
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SWITCH IS SWITCH?
Braves or the Dodgers, or Phils,
Which of the three will come in?
Which will step home with the world's series bacon.
With enough dough to buy Moscow or Macon,
Which one is going to win?
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THE IRRESISTIBLE TYRUS.
IT WOULD BE like Tyrus Raymond Cobb to catch Speaker. There
Is something irresistible about the “Jule of Jorga” when he is pressing
on toward a given point. One set or current averages show that Cobb
has made only a few less hits than Speaker, While Tristram of Texas
has made a few more trips to the plate,
Speaker without a doubt is as great a hitter as Cobb in the sheer
power of swinging, but he Is not so smart nor so fast on his feet.
Cobb 1s the ideal type of batsman for amassing a high average, as his
nine years' record of leadership shows. In the matter of hitting in
runs, no doubt Speaker is quite as valuable as the Georglan-—perhaps
more so. This leads to the premise that great hitters are of two kinds.
One kind is he who is of the strgjgnt-away, slam-banging "school that
rolls up a large number of hits that reach a pretty aggregate of total
bases. The other is the smart hitter who mixes his style and keeps
the defense on its toes trying to nab him.
A more perfect {llustration of this difference could be found no
where better than on the Brooklyn Dodgers. We can think of no
barder straight-way hitter than Zack Wheat. He swings at a ball
more powerfully than Daubert; yet, beeanse the Dodgers’ first baseman
has the ability to dump the ball and beat it out, or pull an infield in,
in expectation of a bunt, and then hit it through, Daubert annually
complles a better average then Wheat, When there are men on bases
we have no doubt most National League pitchers would rather face
Daubert than Wheat.
+ Cobb and Daubert are the same type. They are smart and
versatile hitters and fast afoot. They not only have keenly developed
batting eyes, but they possess razoredged brains that outguess rival
pitchers and infields,
Speaker is not dumb--far from It. But he ix neither as fast nor
as clever a bunter as Cobb, and that margin of difference in itself ought
to be enough to swing the leadership to Cobb., Because he has a
chance now to extend his leadership through ten years wost fans are
pulling for the “Jule of Jorga."
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POP BOTTLES don't care who IN; them.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
ason of 1904. Ab Powell owned
nontreville was field captain and
b =
Clarke and Heinie Krug and Whitey
Morse and George Winters were
looking foolish. Inning after inning
was reeled off, and that one run be
gan to look like a winning margin.
Stafford and Koehler were as helpless
as the rest against Winnie, and the
crowd was getting more and more
desperate.
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THE game rolled into the ninth in
ning, and once more Doc sat the
enemy down ‘in a row. Then the
Crackers came on for their last ef
fort. :
The first man up was an easy out.
Then Nig Clarke was retired, and it
was up to Doc—for they didn’t run in
pinch hitters for pitchers very much
in those days.
And, boys, old Doc was THERE.
That big chap, who hit vther less
frequently than Professor V. M. Day
cdoes now, cracked out a beautiful
single, and the crowd got to its feet
to cheer better. And not only that—
old Doc began burning up the tow
path. He weighed over 200, and was
slow and clumsy and no base runner.
But, boys, that big, slow, clumsy
pitcher stole second—and stole third
—and, by gum, he was stealing
HOME, and was darned near the pan,
when George Winters missed his third
strike, and Atlanta’'s pennant hopes
went into the limbo of things that
might have been.
But Doc had done his damnedest—
angels and big fat pitchers can do no
more.
JIM LYNCH.
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HEN the magnates of the
Southern League get to
gether for their December
gabfest in Nashville, the spirit of
brosperity is going to rule the meet-
Ing, and as a result, Sputhern League
fans will have considerably better
baseball provided for their delectation
in 1917 than they enjoyed in 1916, al
though thic season just ended provid
&d plenty of high-class amusement.
The race of 1916, however, was
staged: under poverty conditions.
When the magnates assembled for
their winter meeting last year, base
ball was in the throes of the Federal
war. Hardly a club in organized
baseball had made monev in the dark
Year of 1915. The magnates very
wisely decided to trim expenses all
along the line.
As a result, the Southern League
started off with a 140-game schedule,
twenty games shorter than the sched
ule of the year before, adopted a four
teen-player limit rule, which prohib
ited clubs from carrying any reserve
players, and adopted a salary limit
80 small that even the Mobile <lub
couldn’t hardly live up to it.
That isn't all they did. They pass
ed a rule abolishing the guarantee
that home clubs had in the past paid
visiting teams, thereby imposing a
tremendous burden on Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Memphis, though, of
course, Mobile, Chattanooga and Lit
tle Rock protited finmensely.
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THIS vear, however, the league has
enjoyed good attendance, and
while there hasn't been a lot of
money made, the magnates are feel
ing a lot more hopeful as to the fu
ture of the sport in the Southland.
New financiers have been found for
the Mobile club. There will be new
blood in the Chattanooga association,
Memphis has had a record-breaking
vear of prosperity. Little Rock has
done splendidly. Birmingham has
done poorly from a financial vlew-i
peint, but Rick Woodward has never
believed in pinching pennies, and he
will be in favor of loosening the purse
strings. Nashville is naturally feeling'
gay. Atlanta has fared well enough.
In short, nearly everybody is satisfled
with -conditions, |
So after the magnates have had a
drink and a fanfest, the lid is going |
to go off. ‘
Beyond doubt the season will be
lengthened, probably to a 154-gamel
schedule. The reason for this is nh-‘
vious. Ball players of the higher
class don't care to come South if they
are to lose their pay for September,
with all the other Class “A" leagues
running until October.
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A ND the fourteen-player limit will
be done away with. In all prob
ability, a rule will be passed permit
ting each club to carry fifteen play
ers, which, with the one playver who
can be carried as “ineligible,” will
give the league plenty of talent.
The salary limit had just as wel)
remain the same, No club paid any
attention to it, and it could be two!
bits or two million dellars withnutl
changing anything.
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Phlls Break Even.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14.—St. Louis
80t an even break yesterday, winning
the first game by knocking Rixey off
the rubber in the seventh inning 7 to
4, while Philadelphia took the second
5 to 0, largely through Cravath’s hard
hitting. Cravath’s home run drove in
two runners ahead of him in the sixth
Inning and his double in the eighth
helped to score the winning tally,
FIRST GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
8t lonls. ... 200 003 200—7 & 1
Philadelphta ....." 121 000 000—4 8 3
Batteries: Ames and Gonzales; Rixey,
Oeschger, Bender and Killifer.
SECOND GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
Bl louln v. 7 000 020 002—4 7 1
Philadelphia ..... 100 003 01x—5 6 3
Batteries: Lotz, Currie and Gonzales,
Brottem; Demaree and Burns.
Pirates 5, Dodgers 3.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 14.—~The Pirates
beat the Superbas 6 to 3 yesterday and
tightened up the National League race.
glotoper held the Brooklyn batters to six
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Score by innings: R.H.E.
Pittsburg "........, . 000 003 300—§ 12 ¢
Brookiyn ... 00 010 001 010—-3 6 3
Batteries: Cooper and J. Wagner;
Smith, Dell, Rucker and Meyers.
Perry Makes Debut. ’
BOSTON, Sept. 14.—Winning two from
Chicago vesterday, the Boston Nationals
gained ground in the pennant race gnd
are now one and one-half games bhehind
the leading Brodklyns. The scores of
the games, which were marked by hard
hitting, were 7 to 3 ad 11 to 6.
FIRST GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
GRS i 100 200 000—3 7 2
BOROR . .. ...\ic. . 001 31X 01x—7 14 2
Batteries: Vaughn, Prendergast, Perry
and Wilson; Reulbach, Tyler and Gowdy.
SECOND GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E
Chicago .......... 300 000 030— 6 13 4
BOSION ..., o 0 1100 400 33x—11 14 1
Batteries: Lavender and Archer:
Barnes, Reulbach and Blackburn.
Glants Win Two. ;
New York, Sept. 14.—New York made
it eight straight by defeating Cincin
nati in a double-header yesterday, 3 to
0 and 6 to 4.
FIRST GAME.
Cincinnati ......... 000 000 000—0 s 32
oW York v, 000 003 Wox—3 9 ¢
Batteries: Toney and Huhn; Schupp
and McCarty,
SECOND GAME.
Cinclnnati ......... 100 002 1004 9 1
New York ....... 500 010 00x—8 ¢ 2
Batteries: Schneider, Schulz, Knetzer
and Wingo; Smith, Perritt and Rariden.
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Gather for Meeting
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Sept. 14.—
Baseball magnates, big and little,
gathered here today for the annual
draft of minor league players sched
uled for tomorrow. Plans also will
be made for the world's serfes, al
though nothing definite can bec ace
complished because of the tangled
conditions of both races. 3
The first game of the series probn-‘
bly will be played on Saturday, Octo~.
ber 7, said Garry Herrmann today. \
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White Sox 9, Browns 8.
CHICAGO, Seg)t. 14.-—Chicago defeated
St.. Louis 9 to 8 in ten innings of wild
and erratic playing yesterday. Weilman's
wild throw of Weaver's grounder sent
the winning run across the plate in the
tenth inning after two men were out.
Score by innings: . R.H.E.
St. Louis ........ 111 004 100 o—B 10° §
Chicago .......,.. 300 032 000 I—9 13 1
Batteries: Hamilton, Davenport, Koob,
Weilman and Hartley, Rumler; Wil
liams, Cicotte, Faber, Russell, Danforth
and Schalk, Lapp. 3 -
Tigers 4, Yanks 1.
DETROIT, Sept. 14.—Detroit defeated
New York in the opening game of the
series 4 to 1 yesterday and moved with
in three points of first place. There
was good pitching on both sides and
much spectacular fielding. Coveleskie
had the game well in hand until the
eighth inning, when he issued his first
base on balls. The next two men hit
safely and a run was scored. Dauss
then was sent in. Pipp was sent In to
bat for Shawkey and Russell finished
the game, ’
Score by innings: R.H.E.
New York ........ 000 0000 010—1 § T
Detroit ............ 100 010 02x—4 10 0
Batteries: Shawkey, Russell and Alex
ander; Covelegkie, Dauss and Spencer,
Stanage, ‘
Indians Win.
Cleveland ......... 102 200 20x—8 9 0
Philadelphia ....... 100 200 100—4 12 1
Batteries: Beehe, Lambeth and De
berry; Myers and Haley.
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’ Increased to 8
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Sept. 14._ Hir
’vgxrd's football squad was increaseq i,
sixty-eight today. The newcomers i
cluded Eddie Casey, Hamilton Coolids
and Jack Linder, freshmen stars st
year. The coaching staff today includyg
Dr. Paul Withington, who leaves Thum.
day to coach Wisconsin; Bob Fisher. R,
Guild, Frank O'Brien, Derric Parma;
ter, just returned from Annapolis, s
Henry Sprague. F
The squad tackled the dummies 7o
the first time today.
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CINCINNATI, Sept. 14.—1 t was da.
cided yesterday that the annual draw
ing of the drafts of the major leagy e«
from the minors would be held in ih.«
city tomorrow by the National Bas:
Commission. This will be the first lim,
since 1913 that the drafts will be 4.
nounced as drawn. In 1914 and 1915 t},
drawings were kept secret, owing to th,
war that was then on with the Feders)
League.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Sept. 14
M. Acosta, the Washington outfielder.
now with Minneapolis, will be out of
the game the rest of the season with
a broken leg. The bone snapped iz
the Cuban was sliding home,