Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-11
FANS To JAM
PONCEY On
TUESDAY
Throng Expected at First Game.
Other Cities Also Plan to
Win Attendance Prize.

Next Tuesday is opening day in At
lanta for. the Southern League base
bali season OF 1914.
It is more than that, too. 1t is the
chance for Atlanta to win the big
prize of the baseball year-next to the
pennant-the trophy for the biggest
attendance at the opening day game.
Atlanta won it last year, beating Biz
mingham out by few hundred, in
spite of the fact that the day was cold
and rainy and sleety
But just harken to Birmingham, in
a dispatch received Saturday,
THE City Commissioners have de-
clared a half-holiday, and the Cham
Der of Commerce and other civic or
CARNATIONS will attend the game in a
body Five thousand extra bleacher
seats are being erected in antieipa-
ton of a crowd that will break all
records for opening day, and win the
trophy offered by the league"
What Atlanta Is Doing.
And so forth. And so on.
Well, and what is Atlanta doing?
To begin with. c. r. VonHerrmann,
the weather director, has come clean.
He prophesies fine day for Tuesday,
Atlanta licked Birmingham last year,
opening in the rain. Now. unless MT.
vonHerrmann fall down, Atlanta will
be favored by a dry, fast track-and
look out for the dust,
His Honor Mayor Woodward has
declared a holiday on the halfshell
for Tuesday afternoon, so that all tine
city employees can attend the game.
His honor also has signed contract
to deliver the first ball, after which
Mr. f. Dent, the Crackers big right
handler, will take up the demonstra-
ton
Ad Men to Assist.
Next on the program, we have the
Atlanta Chamber Of Commerce, send
ing out cards to every one of its
members. urging that they either
close up shop altogether Tuesday aft
ernoon. or, If that be impossible, thar
they let off al their employees posi-
Bile, with the understanding that they
attend the ran game, beginning ct
S:15 o'clock at Ponce DeLeon Park,
between Atlanta and Nashville.
And next comes the Ad Men, with
their bright lexicon in which there is
no motto brighter than ATLANTA Al
ways Ahead"
You would expect the Ad Men to
come out strong on this occasion.
They are going to do it.
Big Auto Parade.
Six huge motor trucks viii fore
gather at o'clock Tuesday afternoon
in front Of the Johnson Gewinner
place. across from the Hotel Ansley
one Of them Will carry a large band
with mlsical instruments in full
blast The others will carry Ad Men,
also in full blast.
And here's another point:
Everybody IN Atlanta who owns or
controls or can get hold OF a motor
car is invited and urged and besought
to insert the same in the parade that
will start from the Johnson Gewinner
place at o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Needless to say. the procession will
proceed ball parkward, but II will pa
rade some first, hurting at the gaping
multitudes along its route thousands
Of peanut and popcorn balls Of the
High Fly variety, supplied by Harry
schlesinger who manufactures them.
$1,000 Attendance Wanted.
Then there will be banners and
whoops and the Always Ahead slo-
gan, and all that sort of thing -and
then Ponce DeLeon ball park, scene
Of many and many heroic battle
damned to the gates with a crowd
that ought 10 reach $1,000 paid adj
missions and thereby settle once ana
for all the question Of which is the
best baseball town in the South