Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-09
RIVALRY
|. HOT FOR PRIZE
OPENING DAY
Chamber of Commerce and
Mayor Plan To Get Half
Holiday tuesday,
By 0. B. Keeler.

IN
the shedding rather bumpy for
this colyum-busting up ball games
between the Crackers and the Bron-
chos, you know-if there wasn't a lot
of other stuff to pull.
Chief among the prospective diver
sions, Of course, is Opening Day.
Everybody knows tine Gay by this
time, we should guess. But there's no
harm in repeating it-Tuesday April
IA, at 9:15 O'Clock in the p. m
Also, everybody knows or should
know, that the Crackers and the Vol
unteers from Nashville will be the
contracting parties.
d UT here is a point that we wish
ID especially to hammer IN and
clinch on the other side:
There is an uproarious, and in some
quarters unseemly, effort abroad in
the Southern League to win away
from Atlanta the prestige and pride Of
coping the Grand Prix offered to the
city that turns out the largest crowd
on Opening Day
Atlanta won that prize last year.
That marked Atlanta, in way, as
the best baseball town on the South
ern League map, That is absolutely
the case. but with some people de.
Birmingham. New Orleans, maya
nooga and others you simply have 10
prove it,
x,,r17prr,opr oartair civic bodies
w snc5 ae the Chamber Of Com
Ad Mems club, have taken the we'll
known steps looking TO another rous-
ing demonstration Of the fact that
Atlanta is the Best Baseball Town In
the Southern League.
won Woodward for exam
M Al IN w - $3.50 .nDt,art n
Pc ilds 9leiieu "a INN ri
r.. ~ In. 80 nc littIa demon
lIolt lem NJ Sr.s.o, - ,,!ncdr,.srd has
S1Ia..o5i H ,.oJ;.,, way ~ ~ baIf shell
0IuerVu Holiu'S "a ti,a I.it,, danart
IoI an we ny e.o,.. ~, - no snent
iiIe.ies, Sf''O -, raatjrg for The home
pieIei'o'S ~
'es sIi c,,,....s,,r 90 ,,,>,,,,,,arce toucb
nc 49, +t',i,ii.,l, iacalit,. h., the
ca an Us Iilo4e 80 a. al
- s ~ va S'ti INTO the blooming
discard is preparing cards to be
i ~ t+I, o., tbat are members of the
u, ~ e'.aiIoo 80, rennesting them
ilusg VI .s ,i,.in 1oS,aIt,- The Ma
u tIle l l.eIlie ~ noy,n WIN Rir-
.ioIlal ~ ar'r+ boIf holiday to
NJ ~ llai,'' ~ . +tei. on, nlovees as
an OF ds iIiauS ~ 40 tbeir ann nv
possloIe, ~ ~
I"eli paieii'
A GOOD many firms have not walt
= ed for the invitation. The Geor-
gia Railway and Power COMPANY MAJ
a Bank. and Harry Schlesinger "a
cracker maker. you seel. ana the Guy
4aU CAS- aforementioned. and others.
re-, v.iu be issuine- edicts right along
80 ~! - it,e inst as we'll
lloli NV ~, ~. parly bes several
mat Fonce DeLSo!i -, ala
spare acres out ~ HIo,,rtain and
and along the Red MOUNTAIN anu
ather Swiss scenery to the eastward.
Our lunch is that If the Weather
49,. go rai, the fans reaching
90 noT con park Iate on the after
Ponce DeLeoii al "a. In ho,.a
noon OF Iuesddy' April - WI 20
to be inserted with Shoe HoIu 1,
Ihev eypect to see the Crackers anu
Eba NoluptpprS engage in deadly COLI
.
Da1'
.-.,-l, ec L., ,.o +alse
II OLLOW ING an on uaE -,
this occasion OF producing piaS
In one act. for which all rights arc
,eversed and all responsibility at
tooI,a5 70 Tho author who signs his
a'i,ou " ter tha name Of Toney
producuon win wy ~ tbis roto-
Miller. Inc pfooucIloi VI -
rious drama is not 10 De ldNen as O.
symptom that other similar literary
offsnring will meet the same tate.
I,aise a ehot at mis- one. and see what
- ~ it II is entitled
n0u nlaNe Va ''
'BlILA,
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YOU may fire when ready, GrldleE'
I Here she goes:
Bizz was the shortstop for the
home team from a boy He was the
hest long distance hitter on the team
and could always be counted on to
was a IT0gg for work. but would