Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-14

M EMPHIs. TENN. July IA
mi The Turtles are on the
road now. but they get
back July II for a long stay Eight
cen games on the home lot are SEIZED
uled ordinarily this would bring joy
TO the hearts of the local fans. but in
view of the fact that the Coleman ag-
gregation has been playing Class 9
ball for some time, the announcement
viii probably bring nothing but wrin-
kles TO the brows of the official scorer
and the pop boys who will be com
PEELED to witness them.
Unless something is done before
that long home series is unreeled the
sessions are going to be pathetic.
That interest in the Turtles doings
has sagged pitifully was evidenced
when scant 5000 witnessed the
game OF Sunday. July 6. If the Tur-
ties can't draw a crowd in Sabbath
game with the league leaders, then it
stands to reason that a continuation
OF poor playing win mean empty
benches during the week days.
The situation is distressing, because
Memphis is by long odds the best
baseball city in the league despite tn
claims OF Atlanta, Birmingham and
Mobile. Given a team that would
make a decent and respectable show
ing and keep its head about the murk
of the second division Memphis would
break all attendance records. Last
year with a team that finished down
IN the running Memphis was second
In point of attendance.
But enough is enough and too much
| Is suiticiency, TO use some Weber
Fields stuff. Anyway that's the way
the average fan is looking at the Sit
uation, and when he Graves excite
ment nowadays he goes out TO over
! ton or to Edgewood Park and watches
the amateurs.
{ " course, there are some few base
ball enthusiasts who will stick to
| the last ditch, but even these have
/ about decided that the last ditch Is
mighty close a hand. A few more
| exhibitions or loose. Indifferent and
/ downright rotten playing is going to
/ sicken even the most ardent enthusi-
/ asst to the point that he will be com
/ PEELED TO admit that hieh-class base
/ ball I'm Memphis is a lost art
/ At that though there IS chance.
! The question Is. however have the
I Turtles any really good games left in
/ them
II they have The local club viii enc
/ tie season with the balance on tina
/ right side of the ledger FOR il is not
believed that to date there has been
any deficIt to say the least
/ | oCAL fars have been Iowa to a
= fault They have turned out in
goodly numbers and they have stuck
TO the Turtles in fair weather and
! foul Then, too The weather man has
been unusually kind to the local man
agtment. To date not a single Sun
/ day game has been prevented bv
rains, and not even a heavy cloud has
appeared just before game time "a
keep hundreds of enthusiasts AT home
AT things considered. it's been a
lucky season thus far for the cash
box but a decidedly bad one from a
simon pure baseball standard
A Sunday game means, at a con
servatlyC estimate, from 1880 a.
S25a0 And last season the club wa,
cheated out of several OF these Juicy
dates right at the start. to say moth
ing OF many week day games thai
we're prevented during the early part
OF the year Thus II is easy to pre-
sumo that SO far the team isn't a
loser, but its now a matter of dollars
and cents TO the club owners Either
the team must take a brace or be bof-
stored or a deficit is going to be
chalked up. for it's cinch thar the
Memphis fan is going to scratch Red
Elm off his visiting list if some i'm