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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
By Sam Crane.

"a EANAGER M'GRAW has surely
MI one good friend In Philadel
phia, and Connie Mack is the
man
At the banquet given the other
night in Philadelphia to the Athletics
and to do considerable celebrating on
account of the victory of the Mack
men over the Giants, Connie in his
speech took occasion to laud John j.
McGraw as a most worthy rival and
to otherwise praise him for having
the same ideals of craftsmanship that
have made Mack himself famous, and
living up to them.
Connie Mack is one of those rare
kind of fellows who never gloat over
his defeated opponents He sympa-
thizes with them and is magnanimous
enough to accord his rivals all the
credit that is their due.
Not that the Giants had whole lot
of credit coming to them. but what
there was Connie found out and spoke
about.
Surprise to Quakers.
The Athletics managers praise of
McGraw must have come as some
what of a shock to some Of the 500
guests at the banquet, for the Giants
leader is looked upon by the majority
OF Quaker City fans as being a cross
between an intentional disturber OF
Quakertown peace and New York
gunman.
There has been heretofore nothing
said in Philadelphia about McGraw
that has not been to his discredit His
well-known aggressiveness and eX-
treme desire to win has been unjustly
described as rowdyism. pluguglyism,
muggyism and in fact about every
thing that Philadelphia fans can con-
coct in their brains while in the throes
OF close race during a baseball sea.
son.
1t was only last summer that NC
Graw and his players were followed
by bowling mob of frantic Philadel-
phians from the ball park to the de-
pot, and pelted with stones.
It Is therefore quite a pleasure as
well as a new and unexpected de-
parture that someone there has been
man enough to come out publicly and
tell about AlcGraw's good traits.
Thanks Due to Mack.
Connie Mack Is therefore, entitled
to our congratula ions and also our
thanks, which we hasten to extend
and with the hope that Comics stand
will open new era of amicable rela =
tions between the Giants and Phillie5.
And | can express nothing more re-
clprocally than to express the wish
that the Phillies will again finish Sec
ond to the Giants in next seasons
race for the National League pen
nant.
The Athletics got their best adver-
tisement when McGraw mentioned
that the present worlds champions
would be Il white elephant on their
owners hands. This remark was
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
Maroons VS.. Gophers
For Gridiron Title

CHICAGO, Nov. s.--The football
championship Of the Middle Western
conference colleges win be decided
one week from next Saturday. when
Chicago and Minnesota meet at Min
neapolis The defeat of Wisconsin
by Minnesota and the trouncing OF
Illinois by Chicago on Saturday elm
mated two Of the final contenders for
the title. Chicago will meet North
western this week, but the battle Is
not considered a hard one.
Chicago has gone through a hard
schedule this season without a defeat
Minnesota has been defeated once
by the strong Nebraska team. Since
1895 Minnesota has defeated Chicago
five times and Chicago has admins
tered four defeats to Minnesota. This
year Minnesota has scored 80 points
against opponents to 10 scored by OPP
posing teams. Chicago has made a
total OF IS points to 20 scored by
opponents.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
McGraw Lauded by Connie Mack
PHILADELPHIA Banquet Love Feast
BY Tad

made at the time the National and
American Leagues were at logger
heads-in fact, at each others throats
but while McGraw Is now doubtless
satisfied that he was mistaken, the
management of the Athle, les still hold
to the white elephant" as their en-
blem, and l hardly think they would
part with 1t and all it represents, even
If they had to give up the worlds
pennant in exchange.
Veritabie Love Feast.
The banquet turned out to be veT
table love feast, and President Hemp
stead and Secretary Foster, who rep
resented the New York club, were
made to feel perfectly at home, al
though, as was to be expected, they
were the recipients of many little
digs" but still gentlemanly ones And
1t can be said that they both took
their medicine like the good loosers
they are. II was the Athletics and
Philadelphia inning, and well did they
have the right to celebrate
Many of the Athletics made
speeches, and Secretary Jster says
the one made by Catcher Ira Thomas
was the best among the PLAYERS. Ira
has now figured in four Worlds Sc
ries, and is considered one of the
1uckiest players in the business on
that account. When Ira was catch
eT of The Yankees his future did not
horoscope" that much. But he was
handed over to the Detroit Tigers al
the psychological time. and he was
fortunate enough to join the Athlet-
les when they were on the upgrade.
and, allow me to whisper, our old
Yankee Ira has earned all the reward
that he has received, for he did his
full share, and possibly a shade more.
to pull the Athletics up to their past
and present prominence
Fooled Gotham Fans.
AS Yankee Ira was very weak on
foul fiys and did not appeal to New
York fans as being blessed with a
whole lot OF mental activity or physi-
cal, but he fooled US all and developed
into one of the headiest backstops In
the country.
He fully deserves all the good
things that have come to him, as do
all the rest of the fellow worlds
champions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
HARVARD MUST
DEFEAT TIGERS
NEXT SATURDAY
Football Hardest Sport in World
to Dope" Hutchinson
Eleven Looks Best.
BY Frank c. Menker.

NEW YORK. Nov. 3.-The unde-
niable fact that football is football
IS about the only thing that to-day
checks the impulse to order an east
ern championship" banner, the hand
ing of it to that Harvard gang and
the ringing down of the cuRtain on
The 1913 gridiron season in the East.
But football being football makes
Il the hardest sport in the world TO
dope out-a game that furnishes
more surprises than Temperament
tai prima donns-and therefore it
behOoves one to 5"rb such impulses
and let the boys fight it out for sew
ersl weeks longer firstly to provide
the boys with a little exercise, and
secondly because the near future may
hold some very unexpected result.
y IGHT now, however, the Crimson
N tint of Harvard shows so brightly
along the football horizon that ii OBJ
literates all else, and there seems to be
nothing left to do but slip the hon
ors along to the Cambridge institu-
ton of learning Yale has been twice
tried and once beaten by inferior
teams. Princeton has been beaten,
but Harvard. the other member Of
the Big Three" has damned the
daylghts out of each and every team
that 1t has tackled so far this sea-
son, and in each game the Crimson
has shown better, Despite. the fact
That Harvard, on account Of injuries
has been unable at any time this
season to put it's full varsity team
INTO action, critics are calling it one
Of the greatest aggregations that eve+
rayorted along the chalk lines.
II AWARD, with it's smashing at
tack and almost lnvulnerable de-
tense, collides with the speedy Prince
ION aggregation next Saturday in the
,.FSi Of the three big games in the
East. Judged by their respective
SAoWings so far this season Harvard
ought 10 triumph by a score around
~ 10 6. But, football is football
S' don't hook your overcoat and bet
me proceeds on Harvard, unless you
want TO take chance on going hither
ana thither this winter overcoatless.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
Sidelights on Sports
BY A. r. c. MITCHELL

opinion that the player had a
rotten" year and it can not see
where there is any call to pay
over the bonus. Result: A fierce
argument and the player doesn't
get his extra $500.
From that time on he is of lit
tie use to the club. He would bet
ter be traded or sold He is sore
over what he considers rank
treatment.
There are many cases of this
kind every year. The only way to
put a stop to these chickering's is
to pass a law preventing the Of
fering of bonuses.
7 Asst season the management
IL OF the ST. Louis Nationals
promised Larry Mclean a bonus
of $500 if he abstained from malt,
spir1tuous and vinous liquors dur
ing the 1913 brush,
Larry was on the wagon all
season, but in the middle of the
season was transferred to New
York. Chief Meyers was on the
catching, prevented the pennant
from slipping from McGraw. At
the close of the season Larry
wrote to the Cards about the $500
bonus. The reply came quick:
we don't pay bonuses to play
ers Of rival teams"
Then he went to President
Hampstead, and received another
blunt answer:
I'VE never promised you bo-
nus of $500 last spring, because
you weren't with us"
r ONNIE MACK says he did not
leave Ty Cobb Off his all-star
team for the reason that he did
not pick one. He is quoted as
saying:
81 would not pick such team
for publication, as do not believe
in stirring up trouble among
players, and think picking an
all star team is foolish business.
"If 7 picked such a team, Ty
Cobb most certainly would have
been my first choice for the out
field. | never allow personal feel
ings to interfere with business,
nor do ] allow them TO prevent
me FROM giving player his just
due
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
Arthur Pelky Going
After Gunner Smith

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Nov. g.
Tommy Burns is not going to take
Arthur Pelky to New York at once If
he can put through plans he is MAX
ing for a match between Pelky and
Gunboat Smith to be staged here. He
wants Pelky to meet Smith over the
derby route, rather than in a short
bout, and is negotiating with jim
Conroth TO that end. II Smith can
not be had he will consider a Pelky-
Willard match. but prefers that all
bouts be over the twenty -round route
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
CONLEY VS.. DELANEY.

1HlCAGO, ILL, Nov. 3.-Cal Della
1ey and frankie Conley scrap ten
rounds a Racine, Wis, November L
Jimmy Brady, Doc Krone's speedy
- FOUNDER will clash with special
ne llEery'' Hirsch in the eight -round
semi Windup. They should make a
nor hight Of it. In another bout Jos
in'.shop, the Hammond star, will col
,ue with Young Sinnet. the feather
,Te.Sht apple in the eye of Larney
l@chtenstein.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

A TLANTA is tIe BEST BASEBALL
"a TOWN IN THE SOUTH.
We made that statement few
times, also in capital letters, during
the attendance competition with Biz
mingham in the last few weeks of the
season.
We now submit Judge Kavanaugh's
figures in proof.
We are not running away with any
Wild Ideas, because Atlanta had a
good ball club last year, and made a
rousing finish that brought out some
prodiglous crowds.
D UY allowing for all of that. and
II taking into consideration the fact
that 1918 was a slack" year in base
ball everywhere, Atlanta's average OF
$3.50 persons to the game looks
mighty big for town of Atlanta'S
size-or a bigger town.
An average of 1000 persons to the
game is considered good, out in the
American Association. which has
Kansas City, and Minneapolis,
Louisville, and Toledo, and lot of
big cities in it.
Atlanta's average in 1913 was $3.50.
Don't forget that. It's worth re-
membering, as a tribute to the town,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
HURT IN FOOTBALL GAME.

PHOENIXvILLE. PA, Nov. s.
George Gay, who was injured in
football game here Saturday between
Pottstown eleven and Union Club,
Is in such critical condition tonight
that physicians hold out little hops
for his recovery. Gay, who was play
ing fullback, was tackled and thrown
heavily, fracturing his spine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
Sox Pound F'romme
And Beat Giants, ga

MARLIN, TEXAS. Nov. s.-The
Giants and White soK, worlds tourists,
arrived here to-day from Houston. Tex
az, to play the seventeenth game Of
the tour series. Each team has taken
eight games.
The Sox won yesterdays game, 9 to
T. Russell and Fromme were the rival
hurlers. Mike Donlin was benched by
Umpire KLEIN In the sixth inning.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
PATSY CARDIFF INSANE.

PORTLAND. OREG. Nov. 3.--Pat-
sy Cardiff. who once fought draw
with John l.. Sullivan, and another
with Charley Mitchell, and was after
ward defeated in ring battle by Pc
ter Jackson, has been committed to
the oregon Asylum for the Insane.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
PHIL HARRISON STOPS LINN.

MOOSE JAW, SASKATCHEWAN,
nov. Phil Harrison, of Chicago,
GmnU,ehe5 out Young Linn, of Minot, n.
''Jr''N., IN the sixth round of a sched-
t tIgu I7-round fight Saturday night,
larson led from the start. The men
-'uE"t at 145 pounds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
By O. B. Keller.

tn HIS bit of repetition isn't by way
of being a gloat. It's Just a mat
ter thta We thing is worthy Of q
place in the memory of Atlanta fans,
and fans ALI around the Southern
League circuit.
Here are the official figures on the
paid attendance for the season of
1913:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

And the total Off anybody cares) is
SS6.557 But that is not the point.
There is a little Moral to the Tale
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

n FANAGER M'GRAW has surely
MI one good friend In Philadel-
phia, and Connie Mack is the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

~ HICAGO, Nov. 3.--FTom Novem-
I Der to April 10. or thereabouts,
is some jump, but the festive fan
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

AYEW YORK, Nov. 3.--The twinkle
~ OF the stars was the only MUIR
n,ur that Disturbed the ouie-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
''P0P- BOY" SMITH WINS
16-INNING GAME IN CUBA

BIRMINGHAM. Feb 14.-When
young Clarence Smith got away with
a siXteen-inning game for the Havana
Reds (Almeida's team) in Havana re-
Gently the natives went wild, and now
the Birmingham lad is the biggest man
IN CUBA. Not only did Our Clarence"
hoid the opposing team in check for
sixteen long innings, but when the
plnch hit was needed he delivered the
GOODS and drove in the winning runs.
During the sixteen innings he gave I'D
but nine hits, walked three men and
struck out eight. He f1elded his position
IN remarkable style and at the conclu-
sion or the game the Havana fans
showed their Joy by escorting him from
the field on their shoulders and shower
Ing him with presents.
Smith has been in Cuba about ten
days and will remain there until the
white Sox training period begins. He
writes that he is delighted with Cuba
and that he Is in splendid condition. He
mad been in Cuba but four days when
he pitched the sixteen inning game.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
PINCH HITTER MCCORMICK
Is H0LD-OUT ON GIANTS

NEW YORK. Feb. Hilary Nc
Cormick's idea Of his worth to the
Giants as pinch hitter extraordinary
apparently does not coincide with that
held by Manager McGraw. Harry is
still outside the pale.
He visited the Giants headquarters
yesterday ostensibly to sign a contract,
but after a conference with McGraw
left without having put a pen to pa
per. McGraw evidently anticipated no
trouble with Mac as a holdout, for be-
fore he stepped into his private office to
talk business with the champion pinch
puncher he tipped off the scribes that
he expected to announce in few min
utes that Mccormick had signed.
After being closeted with his man
ager for short time. however, McCor-
mick came out, and it was evident from
his manner that he was not pleased
with the proposition made to him.
1t is not believed, however, that the
difference between what Harry thinks
he Is worth and what the club is will
ing to pay him for the season is SO
great that they can not come to an
agreement before the start is made TO
Marlin
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
J. Bradley Hogg, Georgian and
Mercer Graduate, Counted on
By Finn to Equal Al Demaree

EOBILE, ALA, Feb. Al.
MI Bradley Hogg is the name
OF a pitcher Manager Mike
Finn has secured, who he expects
to take the place of AL Demaree on
the 1918 Mobile club. ]. Bradley
comes to the Mobile club via the
draft route from the New England
league and claims Buena Vista, Ga,
as his home, where he now awaits
the call from Manager Finn to re-
port here for practice. Hogg is
anxious to come to Mobile and has
written the Gull leader that the
change to the South, his home, Is
most welcome to him.
Hogg. as that ]. Bradley he wears
In front of his name would imply,
is college boy, and is graduate
Of Mercer college, at Macon. Ga.
Manager Finn, in writing Of Hogg,
says:
THE year I was scouting for the
New York club l looked at Hogg
III a NGSh. saw ulIl plICH TWO
games, winning both, one of them
against Can't, of the University of
North Carolina. considered the star
pitcher of Southern colleges that
year. the beating he suffered at
Hogg's hands being the first time
he had been defeated. CAN'T is now
with the Baltimore club. Although
Hogg looked we'll in those games,
l could not. see where he would
benefit McGraw at the time and did
not recommend him. The Boston
Nationals, however, picked him up
when he finished school at Mercer,
Joining them about June 1. He was
green and with a bad club did not
make much of a showing and was
sent to the Haverhill CMass) club.
OF the New England league, and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
By Sol Ple1.

NHICAGO. Feb. 14.-Jack Brit
ton, Packey McFarland's
greatest rival, drifted in out
of the fresh lake breezes last night
to tell US the story of that memora-
Bile draw battle he fought with
Packey at Memphis on January
30, 1911. Jack surprised us with
the statement that Packey did not
seriously ask him to take one on
the chin and flop" He admits that
Packey said something to that eff
feet, but only in a kidding way.
When Packey found he had
caught a tartar he tried to Dull"
Jack out OF the fight with that sort
of repartee. That is all there was
to it, according to Britton. What
is more, Britton says he never made
the statement that Packey asked
him to take the count He claims
that story originated with Referee
Willie Hack, who became suspi-
cious during the battle because
Jack and Packey were talking a
whole lot and Gliding each other.
The story itself was sent broadcast
over the country by the man who
managed Britton at that time.
Here is what Britton says of the
scrap which made him famous:
Real Scrap All the Way.
That Memphis fight of mine
with Packey was a real scrap all
the way. Packey was at his very
best at the time and so was l, and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
Jack Denies Pakey Seriously Asked Him Flop Memphis
BRlTTON TELLS OF HIS BATTLE WITH MCFARLAND

the bout was fought on its merits
every second. I really won because
! beat Packey with my left-hand
punch in every round. At the An
ish he was bleeding from the mouth
and nose and had a black eye.
while l was unmarked. That Ger
tainly shows who was doing the
clean hitting.
Il want to say right now that
Packey did not ask me to flop in
a serious way. He found | was
shading him and tried to josh me
out of the fight with that sort OF
talk. But | was too smart for him.
You know many a veteran fighter.
finding himself up against tougher
game than anticipated has tried
that trick Sometimes it works,
too. Clarence Forbes was a past
master at it in his heydey l am
told that he talked Special Deliv-
cry Hirsch out of the ring at Ke-
nosha last year by telling him to
flop or I'll knock you out That
Is all Packey tried to do. but he
could not get away with it.
Hack Questions Britton.
1T was along in the third or
fourth round that he started that
sort of stuff. 1 did not pay any at
tention, but simply kidded him
back. Referee Hack was suspi-
cious and came to my corner after
one of the rounds and asked me
what Packey said. ] told him Nc
Farland was only kidding me.
Hack did not say anything after
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

they have signed, by which de-
cree he has forced the issue. Either
they must sign before the end
of the month, according to McAIeer,
or they will have to pay their own
fares and their own expenses at the
Springs.
D UT nobody ever heard of a
II worlds champion remaining on
the outside looking in when bust
ness started.
TIM HURST, the veteran umpire,
tells one on Bill Dahlen, man
ager of the Brooklyn Nationals,
when Bill was youth toiling un-
der Cap. Arson in Chicago. Said
he:
"Anson called Dahlen good and
hard In a game l was umpiring in
Chicago. Dahlen took it without
saying a word, but a few minutes
later Bill remarked to me: Watch
me bark that old fellows shins.'
Ans was not as agile then as he
was in his younger days and he
stopped with much effort. All
through that game Bill made great
stops, only to throw the ball a few
feet in front Of the bag, and it
was up to Arson to stop it with his
shins
However, that was not the end
of it. A few days later the White
Stockings had to make trip to
st. Louis, and Arson told Dahlen he
would not be taken on the trip. Bill
had been told that several times
and he thought Ans was only fool
ing. The train left Chicago about
midnight and Dahlen was with the
rest of the team.
when the train was about Is
miles out of Chicago the conduc-
tor told Arson there were sixteen
men in the party and he had re-
ceived only fifteen tickets. Arson
said there were only fifteen men
and named the berths they occu-
pied.
1.-The man in berth No. says
he is a member Of the Chicago
team said the conductor, who was
referring to Dahlen. He's stringing
you replied Arson Poor Bill was
asked to cough up and couldn't.
The train was stopped. and Dahlen
was put off about thirty miles
from Chicago. How he got back to
Chicago only Bill himself knows.
but he would not talk to anybody
for a week"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
SWAN BUYS RELEASE AND
SIGNS WITH BEAUMONT

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.-Another
of the 1912 holdovers was cut loose from
the Pelican squad when Manager
Frank announced that "Ducky" Swan,
diminutive southpaw. purchased last
June from Toledo, Ohio, to assist the
fioundering Pels, would not report for
duty this spring.
Swan purchased his own release so
that he could Join Eddie Wheeler's
Beaumont club.
"Ducky," from all accounts, has been
dickering with a half-dozen clubs all
winter, but with no success. He ar
ranged a deal, however. with Eddie
Wheeler, of the Beaumont aggregation,
which will reimburse him for the nom
inal amount paid into the Pelican eX-
cheQuer
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
FIFTH REGIMENT WINS:
HAS LOOK-IN FOR TITLE

In one. Of the closest, hardest fought
games OF the Atlanta Basket Ball League
brought its season to close last night
by losing to the Fifth regiment team,
Graves, of the Wesley team, in pIavin :
In the second half when he vas In
WTetcched physical condition was an ex-
hibition of grit that came near winning
Ior MS team. Had he been In good shape
there might have been a different tale
me victory of the Fifth regiment as
sures them OF second place in the stand
nRnt ~ pen
The Young Mems Christian association
Auanta Athletic club game scheduled for
Tuesday night.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
FRED DILGER SIGNS WITH
BAR0NS; Is NOW IN FOLD

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Feb 14.-An-
other Baron has dropped into the sig
nature fold, this one being Fred Dilger,
Dilgers hitting and running ability
rank about as high as suffragettes,
chances for electing the president If
the United States four years hence, but
when It comes to performing behind
the plate. mailing would-be purloiners
of bases and the like, digger ranks with
the best of them, He has a powerful
whip and is a wonderful receiver.
AS Wordsworth said. Il would rather
have digger behind the bat when there
Is a man on third than any catcher l
know Of"
The arrival Of Dilgers contract makes
fifteen of the Barons who have signed