Georgia State Tennis Tourney Opens Monday
The eleventh annual Georgia state tennis tourney begins Monday at the Piedmont Driving Club with men’s singles and doubles and ladies’ singles. Winners receive three year cups and trophies. top doubles team also wins a cup. Notables include Nat Thornton, Carleton Smith, Eden Taylor, Ed Carter, Dr. Carl Little, with players from Macon, Augusta, Savannah, and Atlanta expected. Match play starts Monday afternoon after drawings Monday morning.
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Btead
Nat Thornton
Carleton Smith
Eden Taylor
Macon
Ed Carter
Atlanta
Carl Little
Cintratl
Augusta
Savannah
Jeff Hunt
Tia
Frank Reynolds
Jim
Driving Club
Mammaux Leads National League Pitchers
Mammaux the youthful temperamental hurler of the Pittsburg Pirates sits atop the National League pitching standings. He has pitched in 32 games winning 19 with six defeats, aiding the Pirates in their strong campaign. Standridge of the Cubs is second with a 1.50 average for the season, while many NL hurlers struggle to reach .550. Top pitchers through September 1 include Ritter, Nehr, Kelly, Schupp, Blandridge, Alexander, Rucker, and others with varying records and ERAs across the circuit.
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Mammaux
Fittsburg Pirates
Ma‘emaux
Pirates
Standridge
Cubs
Leon Kelly
Pittsburg
Leoo Schupp
New York
Ovo Maommaux
Blandridis
Chicago
Alexander
Philadelphia
Rucker
Brooklyn
Pierce
Acworth and Adairsville Tie In Pitchers Battle
In Nashville for the greatest game, Acworth and Adairsville tied after a pitching duel. Hunt struck out sixteen with four hits and four walks. Parker fanned seventeen with four hits and one walk. Adairsville led early, Acworth tied it with three runs in the sixth, then an eighth inning error produced a final tie. Time two seventeen. Umpires Averty Reeves.
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Acworth
Adairsville
Hunt
Mercer
Parker
Aunirsville
Phillips
Hawking
Rite
H ‘and
Sandlin
Phillipa
Awtrey
Reeves
Pelicans Lead Southern League Batting Averages
By Dick Jemison The league leading New Orleans Pelicans top the Southern league batting charts through Thursday with the team average. The Crackers sit fourth and the Barons last. Pelicans have the most runs and hits while Barons are second in hits and the Wols in runs scored. Details list New Orleans Memphis, Atlanta, Nashville, Little Rock, Chattanooga, Birmingham with various figures.
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Dick Jemison
Nashville Vols
Pell
Faas
Crackers
Soums & Po
Nashville
Orieani
Leza
le Rock
Memphis
Birmingham
Gee Mobile
New Orleans Pelicans
Thursy Sentember
Barons
Pelicans
New Orleans
Sraaioh
Mable
Tianta
A Little Rock
Chattanooga
Pelicans Lead League Slugging Says Dick Dennison
The New Orleans Pelicans top the league in slugging with 1,432 total bases through Thursday. Moblie leads in doubles with 155, New Orleans in triples with 71, Mobile in home runs, and other scattered figures path the season.
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Dick Dennison
New Orleans Pelicans
Moblie
New Orleans
Mobile
New Ormany
Essa
Birmingham
Motlig
Rashville
Little Rock
Atlanta
Covington Team Claims Northeast Georgia Title
Covington Ga September 4 Special The Covington baseball team disbanded after an unusually successful season 20 wins 13 losses 2 ties claiming the championship of northern Georgia They lost only one series to Monroe but beat them five times and split other key matchups The record lists multiple games against Monticello Monroe Madison and Washington with several close scores and a final note about a pettifogger quote.
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Covington
Covington & Well-Founded
Georgia
Monroe
PWS
Thunderer Wins Rich Futurity at Belmont Park
Thunderer a chestnut colt trained by James Rowe and ridden by Joe Notter won the $25,000 futurity stake over six furlongs at Belmont Park. Bromo, stablemate of L. R. Thompson's entry, was second by a head with Carmen's Achievement third. The Thompson trio also included Vermont, who finished tenth, as the field of 16 stretched out then and in.
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New York
Thompson
Thunderer
Broommstick- Jersey Lightning
Hb. Whitney
Belmont Park
Bromo
Michard J
Carmen
Borel
Regret
Joe Natter
Tommy McTaggart
Vermont
James Rowe
Notter
Primero
Achievemnt
4 Spie
Calandria
Alman
Grilles
Libyan Sands
Marac
Henry
St. Rock
Fanny Dodge
Kilmer
Water Cress Is
Feminist
Gordon Eleven To Start Practice In September
Gordon College in Barnesville prepares for football practice starting September 10. Captain Sims and several players have reported, with the full squad expected by week’s end. The season opens September 25 against Mercer University, and games loom against Riverside, Darlington, Sewanee Military Academy, and G. M. G. Expected losses include Bell, Puckett, Hughes, Prentiss, Beasley, and McConnell, but the squad aims to show strength despite long odds.
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Barnesville
Gordon Will Gex
Sims
Avena
Ybane
Mercer University
Maced
Hioe
Riverside
Darlington
Sewanee Military Academy
Bell
Puckett
Hughes
Prentiss
Beasley
McConnell
Germany Economy Group Formed To Boost Latin American Ties
Ferlin September 4. Dr Bernhard Dernburg elected president of the new German Economic Association for South and Central America formed by uniting the German Argentine Central and German Brazilian Commercial associations. The group aims to foster commercial links, gather and distribute news, and support Germany's postwar market drive in Latin America.
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Ferlin
Tuckerton
German Economical Association For
South and Central America
Bernhard Dernburg
Herr Maschke
Germany
Schulte
Argentina
Russia
Dernberg
South America
North America
Viscount Maldene
Manchester
Aconce
Technica
Barons Lead League With Twin Bill Wins In Region
Birmingham boss Molesworth celebrates double-header victories as the Barons exceed rivals in twin bills. The squad has outsized other Southern League clubs with multiple double-headers, including two against Chattanooga and Memphis, and one against Atlanta. The highlight comes September 10-11 in New Orleans with back-to-back double-headers against the Pelicans as Birmingham seeks to overtake New Orleans in the chase for the pennant.
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Birmingham
Ala
Caxiton Molesworth
Barons
Twin Bill
Molesworth
Memphis
Little Rock
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Nashvile
Mobile
New Orleans
Pelicans
Lookouts
Jawn Dobbs
jAtlanta
Nashville
Maley
Labor Day Aquatic Meet at Atlanta Athletic Club
The Atlanta Athletic Club hosts a Labor Day swimming championship at East Lake tomorrow afternoon at 5. Nine events draw about twenty five entrants including 100-yard freestyle, 30-yard freestyle and backstroke, 100-yard breaststroke, plunge for distance, underwater 140-yard freestyle, miracle canoe race and fancy diving.
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Atlanta Athletic Club
East Lake
Murder confession denied by negroes case unsettles Mohr death
Providence September 4 A repudiation of alleged confessions by three negroes shifts the Mohr murder case. Mrs Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Mohr denies involvement and blames possible third degree pressure on suspects. Police say no signed confessions exist. Hearings for the trio set for September 16 with grand jury possible by December. The Mohr estate is valued around 400000, with Mrs Mohr and her two children likely to receive the bulk.
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Providence
Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Mohr
C. Franklin Mohr
Thomas F. Rovbing
Barrington
Toway
Mir Mohr
Mohr
Hetlis
Arthur Cushing
Atrs
Ernest Marr
Baltimore
New German Submarine Seen Off Norway Coast
A dispatch from Christiana reports a German submarine of a new type, much larger than prior vessels, observed off the southwestern coast of Norway. Berlin regards this as confirmation that Germany plans to commission super submarines far exceeding earlier submersibles.
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Berlin
Sayville
Christiana
Norway
Terlin
Germany
Mexican Train Wreck Kills 200 Persons
Washington reports two hundred people including women and children killed in a train wreck several days earlier on the line 200 miles east of Mexico City toward Vera Cruz. American refugees aboard the train brought the news to Vera Cruz while U S Consul Silliman called the disaster an appalling one.
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Washington
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Silliman
Vto
Notorious Forstner Dies on Battlefield
Berlin reports Lieutenant Baron von Forstner, famed for the Zapern incident, killed in action near Lowvain on September 14. He provoked clashes with civilians at Zalern in Alsace, where his unit faced anti German sentiment, and he allegedly sabred a lame shoemaker. He was sentenced to forty three days imprisonment, though upheld by Colonel von Reuter.
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Berlin
London
Baron von Forstner
von Forstner
Low
Vain
Zalern
Alsace
von Seuter
von Reuter
Strikers End Work At Brooks Plant In Dunkirk
The 03 machinists at the Brooks plant of the American Locomotive Company ended their strike in Dunkirk after a formal off tool declaration. Workers, who produced shrapnel shells for allies, won a satisfactory wage schedule from the company.
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Dunkirk
Brooks
American Locomotive Company
Iron Hindenburg Statue Dedication in Berlin Sparks Masses
Berlin witnesses the dedication of the 3 foot wooden Iron Hindenburg statue, to be gold silver and iron nailed. Princess Augusta Wilhelm drives the first gold nail as thousands crowd the Square of Victory. The project aims to raise funds for East Prussia rebuilding with walls purchased at 1 mark each and gold nails at high prices. The ceremony features Dr von Bethmann Hollweg, Baron von Der Goltz, and Zeppelins overhead.
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Berlin
London
Hindenburg
East Prussia
Augusta Wilhelm
Biswarek
von Bethmann-Hollweg
der Hrueck
Buren von der Goltz
Adolf Wermuth
von der Goltz
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