Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-18
ANNUAL MARBLE
CAME FEATURE
Of PICNIC
DR.. ConnaIIy Engages in Contest
at Church 0uting-Rev Mr..
White Plays Ball.

Just suppose you went for a stroll
through Grant Park on a glorious
summer afternoon; suppose you
should see a couple of hundred kids
yelling at the top of their voices while
they rumped over the grass covered
hillocks, and scores of women and
girls taking luscious things from big
baskets
Suppose you should see two silver
haired, pleasant-looking old gentle
men down on their "all-fours" PUNK
ing marbles-reaI ones, "agates," the
kids call them; suppose, a little far
Their on, you should see in progress
a red hot ball game and at the bat"
dignified looking individual, in a
light mohair suit and panama hat,
whom the bleacherites are cheering
on TO the tune Of Hit it out, Brother
White, you can do it,
Just suppose this much and little
more and you should have a pretty
fair idea of that joint picnic affair of
the Second Baptists and the First
Christians Tuesday.
Never in the history of Atlanta has
A-AEA e bEEli SuAll a oltllAig oNlAuol plN-
nic-both in point of numbers and in
spirit.
Mr.. SpauIding Lost Track.
John $. Spaulding, superintendent
of the Baptist brigade, started out
keeping head tab but he stopped
long before the lemonade gave out,
for the picnickers came from all di-
rections and in such pell-mell fash
ion that even the Second Baptist eff
ficient method of checking up
proved a failure.
The fun-and real genuine. whole
some. unadulterated frolic it was. too
started early in the day and it last
ed long into the evening hours, when
many of the picnicking Johnnies and
Marys are usually tucked away in
their little beds.
This fun was not restricted to class
SUNDAY SCHOOL, nor was it restrict
ed to size, sex or age.
And just here we beg to introduce
Judge John T. Pendleton, Of the SUI
peri6r Court of Fulton County, and
DR.. f. L. Connally, an Atlanta ply
siCian of wide reputation, who took
fun advantage of the picnic to engage
in their annual game of marbles, and
Justice 3. d. Evans, of the State Su-
preme Court, who refereed the game,
A Cracking Good Game"
W ueLueI JuNEt L tllulttbll put IL
over DR.. COnnauy or whether the
Doctor Judged" out a victory with
that long. bony thumb Of his is Of
little consequence. Besides, the pho
tographer promised to depict he game
pretty accurately. Suffice it to say II
was a cracking good game from start
to finish-one that kept the wonder
struck kids on their tiptoes till the
last big "suckie" had been plunked
gf tba r9Du, Inv the InQga.
Many and amusing We're the Incl
dents leading up to and following the
-honored conflict, however
To begin with, Judge Pendleton
filed a protest previous to the game,
requesting a forfeiture on the grounds
that DR.. Connally had been ''practic-
ing up on Sundays in order to beat
Protest Is overruled.
Judge Evans ruled out the point,
however, following retort Of DR.. Con-
nally that his rival had had the same
opportunity to practice up that he
had.
'That point" said Judge Evans
gravely, lis well taken, doctor, and so
I order you, judge, to proceed with
the game in lieu Of making for
fixture yourself"
After further parleying in which
that loaded stones" and Clipped
agates. which can't be plunked out
of the ring so easily, were being used
the game was on.
And it might have been on until
now if DR.. Conally had had his way,
for, as he announced previous to the
conflict, "he came loaded for bear"
He was in the game to stay, he said,
and, to prove it, he produced from his
pockets an enormous sack Of mar
bles which made the kids mouths
water more than did the early prepa
rations for lemonade.
The contest of marbles was the sec
ond Of its kind, the first having been
pulled off between the doctor and
the Judge at Mt. Gilead less than a
year ago. 1t is an annual affair now,
according to the contestants, who
also announce that they have en-
gagged the services of Judge Evans as
permanent referee. The justice it
is announced on the side, made quite
a hit" with the contestants Tuesday
afternoon.
DR.. White Makes a Hit.
Nor was this a the only hit" made
at the big Baptist Christian affair as
the reporter learned later when he
paid an official call at the ball game.
Determined not to eoutdone by
his worthy but froHcsome deacons,
DR.. John E. White the popular pas
tor of the Second Baptist Church,
went into the game-mohair suit,
Panama and all-and almost sue
ceeded in batting out a victory for
the Baptists, but not quite, for the
final score was Christians 8, Baptists
T. As a result of his efforts, DR..
White made a decided hit" with the
bleaCherites, as well as another hit
of a different sort, which would have
lambasted the left field fenCe-if
there had been one.
DR.. White was placed in the right
field position to stem the tide of juicy
swats in that direction by the OBJ
posing players, it was given out of
fiCially," but there are others who
declare that he was put there so as
to be out of hearing distance Of the
usual "infield jawing."