Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
CRACKERS AND
ROCHESTERIN
FINAL GAMES
Six More Exhibition Contests Be-
fore Atlanta Tries for Record
Crowd Next Week,
BY @. B. Keller.

season having dawned cold and
gray and bearing all the gen
eral characteristics Of the morning
after instead of the morning before, it
now becomes the duty of the Crack
ers to stack up against John Cancels
Rochester ball club of the Interna-
tional League for six games, or as
many as the weather decides to per-
NIT.
This layout also will have to be
enough to allow Bill Smith to sort
out his hands and assign them jobs
for regular work in the season which
opens next Tuesday.
Hence the present week may be ac-
copied as being a Crucial Juncture, or
period or whatever you care to call
1t. in the affairs of our little pennant
hunters of 1914
THE Rochester club has couple of
members well known to Atlanta
fans. There is Tommy Mcmillan. who
lives here, and is the kind of a proph-
ct not without honor in his own
country And there is Tom Hughes,
former Cracker slabman. These ce-
lebrities will add to the local interest
in the series.
d Ut Of course the main thing is to
ID note row the Crackers will shape
Up against a presumably stronger
cluh. iist as their own season is
bout - cren
Biu Smi rs men finally managed to
tnse a ard fall out of the Braves.
The also tied them, and tied and
defeated tho C'evel nd Maps. They
lyo nd
Mr. Camel had just as well prepare
for war
A : for 2. smith he will have his
troubles this week sorting out
rermanen. staff of pitchers from
among a whole lot of good-looking
sla bmen. and settling up infeld jobs
among Lyrch Holland. Manush,
SchWind and The recently arrived
SMorley Jennings.
We take it that Eibel and Neon
nell are settled that Bill is going to
use Long. Welchonce and Flanagan
IN Ire outaeId, and that Kircher will
be utility man Bill Smith has not
said any of these things to us; it Is
merely lunch.
Now for shortstop and third base
and the pitchers.
ALSO it is time for the fans to get
- in training for the game Open
ing Day-Tuesday, April IA,
&There are about three other cities
around the circuit that are making
great efforts to capture the prize that
goes to the town putting the most
paid attendances into its ball park on
the first day of the season. Chief
among these is Birmingham. Atlanta
won the trophy last year, and Biz
mingham was sore Atlanta footed
I'D the tallest attendance for the
whole season. and Birmingham was
screr, whether it is a good word or
not.
Now Birmingham is out for re-
venge.
THE Chamber of Commerce has re
/ duested its members to close up
as many of their business houses as
possible the afternoon Of Tuesday.
April IA, and allow their EMPLOYEES
to 20 wherever they please-which
means Of course, to the ball park to
see Atlanta hook up with Nashville.
A little CO. operation by the Allan
ia employers at this time will mean
a lot Of valuable advertising to the
town all season.
1t means something, to outsiders
when they read:
Atlanta, with an attendance Of
$4,000 headed the list Of Southern
League cities in attendance at Open
ing Day games"
OF course. we don't have to stop at
$4,000. There can be more put in
Ponce DeLeon Park, and there's no
reason why we shouldn't make reg
ular big league affair out Of It.
ID Y the way-the lineup for Mon
ID days game probably viii be as
follows.
Rochester Atlanta.
Mcmillan. Mcconnell, 2b.
Brien. 2b........,........H Holland S.