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 O. B. Keller.


this communicating 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 the day by this
time, we should guess. But there's no
harm in repeating tt-Tuesday, April
IA, at S: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.
PUT here is a point that we wish
- especially to hammer IN anu
cIinch 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 price 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 a way, as
the best baseball town on the South
ern League map. That is absolutely
the case, but with some people Il. e.,
Birmingham, New Orleans, Chatta-
nooga and others you simply have to
prove it.
WI THEREFORE certain civic oodles'
w such as the Chamber OF com
AID 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.
NJ YOR WOODWARD, for exam
WI pie has signed a contract 10
pitch the first ball, after which FL
loft Dent will give his little demon
stration. Also, Mayor Woodward mas
ordered a holiday on the half sheH
for ali the help in the city depart
ments said afternoon to be spent
preferably in roofing for the nome
The Chamber of Commerce, touch
ed i'm its most ticklish locality by the
borrid threats Of Birmingham ct al.
IN shove Atlanta into the blooming
discard, is preparing CARDS TO pe
mailed out to all the business houses
in Atlanta that are members OF tIe
huge organization, requesting tLelIi'
in the name Of civic loyalty the 9 IA
fionaI Game. and Down With BIT
rningbarn to grant a half holiday to
all or as many of their employees %
POSSIBLE. so they can do their duty by
their parent city
A GOOD many firms have not %ai.-
- ed for the invitation. Inc NIe ~
gia Railway and Power COMPANY li1''
come through, and the Lowry Na.'0i 70
nj Rank and Harry Schleslnger "a
rracIFer-malI er. YOU see), and the CITY
Hall las aforementioned, ana oIne el- D
Tbev will be issuing edicts right along
from now on, and it's just as wen
that Ponce DeLeon Park has seVe e ~
snare acres out in left center HeI9
ana along the Red Mountain anu
other Swiss scenery to the east"S.I -, -
orr bunch is that if the Weath tle
Man totes fair. the fans reacllng
Ponce Del, con Park late on the aiteI-
noon OF Tuesday, April IA, VIII ma %
10 be inserted with a snoe morn 80, -
thew expect to see the Crackers an
the Volunteers engage IN oeaulS
bat.
r OTJ,OwING an off day, we TAKE
L This occasion of producing a play
In one act. for which all nights a.
reversed and all responsibility a. a.
tached to the author, who SIGNS ms
production with the name OF Iote'
Miller The production of this nolo.
rious drama is not to be taken az q
symptom that other similar llle fs1o
offspring will meet the same IdIe'
Take Shot at this one, and see VIVA VIVA
you make of it. 1t IS eH't''e0
'BIZZY."
YOU may fire when ready Gnu '
Here she goes; 49,. tor +ba
Biz was the shortstop loI tto
home team from o boy, He was IIle
best long distance hitter on We an to
and could always be couHleu VA Tie
make his share OF the NogeS, would
was a Hogg for work, but SoI ~
never Kroh over what he could 40:
but only said Nixon that sqIL ol
stun When a boy II he acted hilis-
ley during school his Paui and he
play ball every aIiernoo a,,o S,r'e his
schooimates. With three on pdsea,
I sure would like to see Blslaua 4 w
out for n homer. He would Ieiy -
left field fence win ma ms. w. coi,id
IL
either and it was also darcy lass s
with him to get hit. When ne "@S
not playing ball after school, ne 7,, aCJ5
ed as a Messenger but was alWags
very tired when his days W9IIh mra
Dunn In Case any one sno9lu ,m,l ls-'J
a Howell about his PLAYING ne W.9I' uir
Starr the next day surely. ne elIr,g.ll555 -
Love at the age Of 20 with ~
Wares and he was often ca9BHl ~
singer. She had Brown halE an
was Of the Gibson type, ana, az
though very Young, she was o,
enough to Merritt his Love, 30 o,te
day he met her on the street IN
expectedly and they DECIDED y We
married right away at me IaIsoit
After his marriage he inyeste,4, ntS
money In Stock in the fourth VII
but found It to be Graft and VIII
drew his subscription | NAG OIL
heard Lindsay he would Apst 81
from drink, so their married NE
was ever More happy
JEANETTE STOPS JOHNSON
LIVERPOOL, April 9.-Joe Jeann Ii ~,
the American negro pugihst' ldst ~ 7be
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