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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 will 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 rs points to 20 scored by
opponents.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
AtlantaFansAverage2,66O
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Best Ball Town Theory Fixed

and as TRIBUTE TO A FIGHTING
BALL CLUB.
People will go to watch a fighting
ball club play ball Particularly in
Atlanta.
CHIFTING with some abruptness to
~ the training season of 1914, we
note with regret that the Brooklyn
Dodgers probably will side step Au-
gusta as warming pan next spring.
The floods in the park there are given
as a reason, and in the effort to es-
cape that inconvenience President
Ebbets may go as far as Texas, al
though he has invitations from half a
dozen Southern towns in more civ
tlized communities
ALSO, we have it pretty straight
- that c. w. Somers president of
the Cleveland club and owner of the
Toledo American Association club,
has offered Cholly Frank the handling
of his baseball farm next year
Whether this has anything to do with
the reported holding up of Kid FL
berfeld's engagement to manage the
Pelicans is not generally known at
this time.
D that as it may. the opportunity
u of adding deals with Toledo to
others with the Maps is not a conces-
sion lightly to be sneezed at, and if
the Dutchman can't make a fight for
the top on 1914 with that lay out
well, he may assist the Crackers to
another rag, anyhow.
Still. the layout isn't settled yet.
. DOR old Chattanooga, Just one
L blamed thing after another
No sooner is Boots Williams dis
posed of for fair margin of profit to
the Lynn club in the New England
League than Mike Balenti goes to
Alaska to spend the winter. Aside
from Alaska not being our idea of
winter resort. it will cost the Chatta-
nooga club about two hundred bucks
to get Mike back to the stable next
spring. And If there is any hook in
the preliminary arrangements. think
of the telegraph tolls!
Poor old Chatty!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
Boxing Notes

Jim Corbett never misses a chance
to see Packey Mcfarland when he
boxes in New York Corbett says that
the Chicago boy is the cleverest man
in the ring and that he ought to be al
lowed to make 1856 pounds at o'clock
as a contender for the lightweight title
Gentleman Jim also believes that
Packey could whip Mike Gibbons at
las pounds ringside.
Charley Lee and kid" Young are
putting on the final touches for their
ten-round go at Athens Wednesday
The boys are showing much class in
their daily work outs and should put up
corking battle.
The other ten-round bout at Athens
between Frank Baker and Jack Payne
is also attracting much attention among
local fans. Baker has many friends
here who think he can beat any boy of
his weight around these parts and are
wiling to back him with good money.
In Payne, however, Baker is going to
meet tough boy Jack is one of the
hardest boys in the ring to get at, and
is also glutton for punishment He is
the owner of dandy kick in his right
hand.
1t looks as if the Richie Cross bout.
postponed from last Wednesday until
November 10, may not take place until
December, as the Garden is not avail
able.
Packey Mcfarland and Jack Britton
meet for ten rounds at Milwaukee No
vember 26. 1t will be their third ring
engagement.
Packey says that he will not allow
at 8 o'clock This means that their
proposed scrap IS OFF for good.
Bat Nelson intends to enter the polit
lcal ring. He wants to be Sheriff Of
Cook County.
If Eddie Hanlon, local hoy. succeeds
in defeating Jack Caro-, at Jackson
vile, Fla, Tuesday night, Billy Lutz,
his manager; says he viii send him
against the best boys in the country.
Eddie appears to have the markings of a
good boy.
Matty Baldwin and Johnny Griffiths
will clash in twelveround go at Ak
tatnly reaping In the dough these days.
He is fighting on the average Of three
times a month.
Georges Carpenter, the French cham
pion. will go through with his match
with Bombardier Wells In England next
month. He feared a bone was broken
in one of his hands in his recent bout
with Lancaster, but the X-ray exami-
nation showed that only the thumb was
sprained.
Young Ahearn, one of Dan McKet-
rick's stable of fighters, was defeated by
Bodon in eighteen rounds in France
the other day, He was the first Ameri-
can fighter to be put into action by
McKetrick, who has six ringmen from
this side with him.
Larney Lichtenstein manager of
George K. .. Brown, wants 10 bring
his protege to Atlanta. Larney writes
that he will send Brown against any
middleweight in the world, George Chip
Frank Klaus and Jack Dillon preferred
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

opinion that the player had a
rotten" year and 1t 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 ne 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
ferlng Of bonuses.
T Asst season the management
IL of the St. Louis Nationals
promised Larry Mclean a bonus
Of $500 If he abstained from malt,
spirituous and vinous liquors dur
ing the 1918 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
llJuA tl lISl anu lsciI II y ny HIS SOOd
catching, prevented the pennant
from slipping from McGraw. At
the close of the season Larry
wrote to the Cards about the 5000
bonus. The reply came quick:
I'VE 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 a bo-
nus Of $500 last spring, because
you weren't with us
n ONNIE MACK says he did not
~ leave Ty Cobb off his ais 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 l think picking an
all-star team is foolish business.
"If ! picked such q 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 10 prevent
me from giving a player his jus
due
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
POLLOK STILL
At TER RICHIE
TO BOX WELSH
England Ready to Offer $4,000
For Twenty-Round Bout Be-
tween Rival Ringmen.
By Ed Curley.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The twinkle
" of the stars was the only muir
muir that disturbed the quie-
tude Of yesterday evening until H,
Connolly Pollok, accompanied by his
walking stick and H. AIRY Burke, the
playwright, hove into the ofiing.
"'Tis only a few words | Wouldst
have with thee" sayeth II. Connolly,
and then | will heave my party
into the blackness of the night
THE fewer. the lesser, the better
we answered agreeably: Inhale a 1T
tie oxygen, turn on the fountain of
words and then bid us bon voyage"
You're on" he replied. list to my
tale
willie Richie, who claims the
lightweight championship title of the
world, evaporated one fine eve in
Vancouver a few days before he was
to fight Freddie Welsh, the English
champion, for the worlds crown.
"Ritchie is nowhere, and so are we,
and to make matters interesting there
is an offer of S25, 900 for the boys to
battle twenty rounds in England.
0NTOW Richie says he will accept
IN the offer and sign articles as
soon as the money Is posted. | don't
think he can be dragged into the same
ring with Welsh, but II he is on the
level the money will be posted with
any bank in this city or with any rep
utable stakeholder as soon as he says
the word. All Richie has to do is to
cable to England that the offer is sat
isfactory and the bout is as good as
on.
Now, as long as Ritchie announced
after he got the title from Wolgast
that he would only defend it at 1873
pounds ringside Welsh will agree to
those conditions. AS to the division
of the pure, Welsh will fight him,
winner take all or divide the money
as Richie desires.
GIVE will forget all about his run
w ming out on us in Vancouver if
he accepts this chance to make good.
You know Welsh has a decision over
Richie, and he should only be too de-
lighted at a chance to wipe that blem-
ish off his coat arms.
You know ! have christened
Richie the No decision champion for
the plain reason that he delights in
bouts where there is no chance OF
losing his title unless knocked out,
which in ten rounds is hardly prob
able
Welsh, on the other hand, prefers
the other kind Of a scrap, for he Is
confident that he can whir any other
lightweight in the world. but II any
lad gets the decision over him, why,
that's part of the game
"TAKE a tip from me. however,
that If he loses to one of the
lightweight stars In this country he
win fly back to his mansion in Wales
Come up some evening and see my
little baby girl" added Pollok She's
the greatest child in the"
Dodging a chair, he dashed out into
the darkness
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03

NJ 'o oos good A ts'saa in 'i PD isssy
phia, and Connie Mack is the
man.
At the banquet given the other
night in Philadelphia to the Athletics
and 10 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 a whole lot
of credit coming to them, but what
there was Connie found out and spoke
about.
Surprise to Oual<ers.
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 a 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-
trnn1a ApGira n NgiF1 haG hppn InilIgt 10
described as rowdyism. pluguglylsm.
muggyism and in fact about every
thing that Philadelphia fans can con-
coct in their brains while in the throes
of a 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 bah park to the de-
pot, and pelted with stones
1t 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 McGraw's good traits.
Thanks Due to Mack.
Connie Mack is therefore, entitled
to our congratulations and also our
thanks. which we hasten to extend,
tIiu WIN thV HoPe tHal NCuhiS : StdHu
Will open a new era OF annicable rela-
lions between the Giants and Phillies
And l can express nothing more re-
ciprocally 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 he a white elephant on their
owners hands. This remark was
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
McGraw Lauded by Connie Mack
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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 Athletics still hold
to the white elephant" as their en-
blem. and l hardly think they would
part with it and all 1t represents, even
If they had to give up the worlds
pennant in exchange.
VeritabIe Love Feast.
The banquet turned out to be YER
table love feast, and President Hemp
stead and Secretary Foster, who rep
resented the New York club, were
made to feel perfectly at homo, al
though s was to be expected, they
were the recipients Of many little
digs" but still gentlemanly ones. And
IT can be said that they both took
their medicine like the good loosers
they are. 1t was the Athletics and
Philadelphia inning, and we'll did they
have the right to celebrate
Many of the Athletics made
speeches, and Secretary Foster 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
luckfest players in the business on
that account. When Ira was catch
ct OF the Yankees his future did not
horoscope" that much. But he was
handed over to the Detroit Tigers at
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 rood
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 G. 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 1t to that Harvard gang and
the ringing down of the curtain on
the 1913 gridiron season in the East
But football being football makes
it the hardest sport in the world to
dope out-a game that furnishes
more surprises than a Temperament
tai prima donna-and therefore it
behOoves one to curb such impulses
and let the boys fight it out for sew
eral weeks longer, firstly to provide
the boys with a little exercise, and
secondly because the near future may
hold some very unexpected result
2 IGHT now, however, the Crimson
~ tint of Harvard shows so brightly
along the football horizon that it 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,
HuJ Harvard, the UlileE IhGiIbtl VI
the Big Three" has damned the
daylights out of each and every team
that it 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 its full varsity team
into action, critics are calling 1t one
Of the greatest aggregations that ever
eavorted along the chalk lines.
II AWARD, with its smashing at
tack and almost 1nvulnerable de-
tense, collides with the speedy Prince
ton aggregation next Saturday in the
hrst of the three big games in the
East. Judged by their respective
showings so far this season Harvard
ought to triumph by score around
10 to g. But, football is football
80 don't hook your Overcoat and bet
the proceeds on Harvard, unless you
want to take a chance on going hither
and thither this winter overcoatless.
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 10 New York At once II
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 tine
derby route, rather than in a short
bout and IL negotiating with Jim
CCffroth to that end II Smith can
not be had he will consider o Pelky-
Willard match. but prefers that an
bouts be over the twenty -round route.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
HURT IN FOOTBALL GAME

PHOENIxVILLE, PA, Nov. 81
George Gay, who was injured in a
football game here Saturday between
a Pottstown eleven and Union Club,
is in such a critical condition tonight
that physicians hold out little hope
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 Fromme
And Beat Giants, ga

MARLIN, TEXAS, Nov s.-The
Giants and White Sox worlds tourists,
arrived here to-day from Houston, Tex
as, to play the seventeenth game of
the tour series, Each team has taken
eight games.
The Sox won yesterdays game, . TO
4 Russell and Fromme were the rival
huriera. Mike Donlin was benched by
Umpire KLEIN in the sixth inning.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
/ TLANTA is the BEST BASEBALL
TOWN IN THE SOIITH

A TLANTA is the BEST BASEBALL
"A TOWN IN THE SOUTH.
We made that statement a 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' $
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
prodigious crowds.
. UT allowing for all of that, and
u taking into consideration the fact
that 1913 was a slack" year in base
ball everywhere, Atlanta's average of
1850 persons to the game looks
mighty big for a town of Atlantas
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 a lot of
big cities in It
Atlantas 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
coNLEY VS.. DELANEY.

CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. 3-Cal Della
ney and. Frankie Conley scrap ten
rounds at Racine, Wis, November L
Jimmy Brady, Doc Krone's speedy
l2s- FOUNDER will clash with Special
Delivery Hirsch in the eight-round
semi windup. They should make a
not fight of it. In another bout Jos
Bishop, the Hammond star, will col
Lide with Young Sinnet, the feather
weight apple in the eye of Larney
Lichtenstein.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-03
PATSY CARDIFF INSANE.

PORTLAND, ORBG.. Nov. 3.-Pat-
sy Cardiff, who once fought a 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 3.-Phil Harrison, Of Chicago,
knocked out Young Linn. of Minot, ~
OAK, in the sixth round Of a sched-
uled 15-round fight Saturday night
Harrison led from the start The men
fought at las 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 gloat. It's just mat
ter thta we thing is worthy of n
place in the memory of Atlanta fans,
and fans all 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 Of 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
BY Sam Crane.

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

n HICAGO, Nov 3.-FTom Novem-
I Der to April 10. or whereabouts,
is some jump but the festive fan
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-12

regular monthly convOcatiOn Of the
chapter Wednesday night a committee
composed OF George W. Rice, Ashley T.
Reed and Rufe p March was named 10
order the photographs framed and hang
them. The style of framing VIII De
similar to that used by FL Paso lodge
No 100. A. F. & A NJ, in preserving
the pictures Of its past masters
viii ATTEND 1. o. o. f. EneamPment.
c. H. Campbell will attend the en-
campment of odd Fellows at Waxa-
hachie Tex, which viii be in session
all next week. He will represent FL
PasO lodge No 2S4 at this meeting.
FL PasO lodge viii give the first de-
gree to number of candidates Mon
day evening at the regular meeting.
The lodge meetings are now being held
at 80 D. m. instead of o'clock
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows viii meet in Minneapolis,
AIinn., next month, which is the third
time that the meeting has been held
in Minnesota Dhe report for 1912
which has just been completed shows
that the gain in membership of the
subordinate lodges during the past
year was 2O,76S and the Rebekah
branch showed an increase of 24,S34-
Haecabees Name Sick Committee.
FL PasO tent 10, Knights of the Mac
cabees, has appointed a sick commit
tee for the month of October consisting
of W. H Mccullough, L P. McChesney,
w. L Mcconnell, c. A. Martin and f.
\. Mccullough
knights Of F[hOrassan Organize
Knights Of KhOrassan is the newest
fTaternal organization in FL Paso's
lodge circles This lodge was organ
lied among the members of the FL Paso
lodge No 81. Knights of Pythias
Thursday night at the lodges castle
hall There were 103 charter mem
bers of the new organization which
corresponds to the shrine of Masonry
and has large membership through
out the country r A WhitIOcE[ was
elected royal prince. the presiding off
Ger; j. \. MOrrisS. secretary. and r F.
Love, treasurer A request has been
made for the supplies Which will be
used at the Initial ton of all members
on October %. and a number of visit
ing officials are expected to be here for
the initiation