Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-22
LIVELY WEEK
IN FRONT Of
ATLANTA TEAM
Newark, Yanks and Boston
Braves on Tap for Local
Engagements.
ATLANTA MEDIcS, ALSO
F. Chance, J. Evers and Other
Celebrities Will Entertain
at Ponce DeLeon.
ATLANTA MEDIcS, ALSO
By 0. B. Keller.
= IE fury of the clements having

STAYED off all the Crackers
practice games with the Maps,
except one indecisive and startling 6
to affair Thursday, Bill Smith and
his men prepared by taking a good
long rest for lively week, starting
Monday.
The first game of the week probably
will not a very severe affair. The
team from the Atlanta Medical Col
lege will oppose the Crackers, and
get work-ou in that contest, That
will be Monday, after which the rest
of the week. weather permitting, will
run along as follows:
Newark, Tuesday and Wednesday.
New York Americans, Thursday.
Boston Nationals, Friday and Sat
urday.
Beanes Here Some More.
The Braves elias Beanies) also Will
collide with the Smithites Monday
and Tuesday of the following week,
after which, April and 2, the Cleve-
landers will return to our midst, and
then Rochester will wind up with SIX
games, taking us up through April IL
That is a tempting layout, and
ought to draw good houses at tW -
bits throw, if only gentle spring will
ease into the offing and start the cold,
cold ground to thawing This thing OF
competing against snow and ice and
sleet and so on is no good for exhl-
/ bition games, or practice, or anything
else, except selling coal and plumbing
Stars Will Shine.
nVWaY. if the sky will stay clear,
there will be plenty of stars twinkling
at Ponce DeLeon from now on tu
make up for the stingy glimpses th@t
were all the fans could get of Joe
Jackson, Larry Lajoie and the other
Napland heroes on their late cXcur-
sion here.
The Maps will be back for one
thing, and we will have another
chance to look. them over the first of
the coming month.
In the meantime, we will have the
pleasure of deciding whether Frank
Chance has done anything good to the
hitherto hopeless Yankees, with Mai
sci and Gilhooley and all the rest of
the speed boys with which Mr.. Peer
less Leader ~arnished the hilltop last
season.
Evers Will Be Here.
Also there will be the chance to see
Johnny Evers, about whose devoted
pericranium ragged the terrific storm
that finally ended in the ditching. OF,
at least, the sidetracking, of c. Webb
Murphy Johnny is one of the big
cards of baseball. 1t is just his way
of doing things-wnning a pennant
for the Cubs in 1903 by noting that
Mr. Merkle had not touched second,
driving the shattered Cubs to a
mighty finish last season, and finally
landing on c. w. Murphy with such
a Jolt that c. w. bounced back and
(to all intents and purposes) out Of
baseball.
Hub Perdue an old friend of the
Southern League fans, will be with
the Braves also, and Rabbit Maran-
vile, one of the most spectacular
shortstops of last year. And it will
be some fun looking over a Boston
National League) ball club that ac-
tually is picked to be in the running
for a pennant. That in itself will be
a strange and unique occurrence.
Maps Retreated From Cold.
Initiating a certain great and SINH
larly named general, the Maps gave
no in the face of the cold and sleet
Saturday, applauded Billy Smith when
he called off the game set for that
afternoon. and beat it back to Athens,
Ga. starting at o'clock in the aft
ernoon, with Jack Knight Just hook
Ing the last car of the RATHER after
another day (almosD of (almosD golf
a East Lake. Jack called up from
the clubhouse and found the train and
the team were going at o'clock. A
desperate race then ensued and Jack
won. but we will risk a trifle that he
didn't get his wind before disembark-
ing,
Bill Smith is not regretting the loss
of the two days practice games SO
much as one might suppose. The help
has been a little famed up by the hard
work right at the start, and the extra
two days rest served to bring around
a good many sore whips and iron Out
a budding charley horse or two.
But there will be lively doings this
week-weather allowing.