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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1913
Page
7
The Atlanta sports scene debates unfair scoring and possible favoritism in the Southern league title chase. Widespread talk targets official scorer C. B. Keeler over fair base hit calls affecting Welchonce and Robertson. Fans urge just conclusions as teams eye pennant status and managerial rumors brew for Mobile in 1914.
Burlesque at Columbia Theater on Monday at 7 30 p m details unverified in readable text but indicates performers Jackson and Cravath in a pellet themed act at the Burlesque venue Columbia Theater Monday evening showtime 7 30 p m
Drafting season begins as major and minor league clubs prepare. Atlanta Crackers star players including Bisland Long Waldrones Dent and Chapman are eyed for possible drafts. Manager Smith travels to Cincinnati for the draft records amid broader draft activity across the Southern League and major leagues.
Robert W. Emmons Jr of Boston was chosen by the Vanderbilt syndicate to manage their America's Cup defender next year. The selection includes Oliver Yselin as adviser, with Herreshoff building the yacht and a sail area around 16,000 square feet.
Dick Jemison delivered a standout sparring performance for the city, earning top early acclaim. The article notes the standout cutter’s role in the Ona game against Chattanooga and highlights Thompson as a key figure in the season’s early matchups.
Philadelphia September 14 Jack Coombs star pitcher of the Athletics and two time world series hero is in University hospital. Muscles from a recent typhoid fever attack weakened and unable to sustain work may require a plaster cast for several weeks. N ray photograph to be taken tomorrow to decide on casting.
Brookline Mass September 14 The open championship field includes Jack Weemon Harry eu and Fawara Ray and other notable players. Amateurs D Travers John G Anderson among entrants. Two-round prelims decide the qualifiers for the 3 hole championship with cash and plate prizes.
New York dispatch notes ground gained by Leaders in both leagues. Giants and Athletics show stronger play with key pitchers Marquard Demaree and Wemaree among standouts. Washington stops Naps as Cleveland fades. Phillies and Giants race for top NL spot.
Boated in Pitsburg Philadel’ic in Cincinnati New York in Chicago Grovkirn in St Louis American League Chiisto in Waab’toa Cleveland in Pasadeia Detroit in New York St Leas In Boston.
Chicago dispatch reports welterweight Ferns of Kansas City and Walters a former sailor will meet for ten rounds in Kenosha Wisconsin on September 26. The winner will then face Mile Gibbons of St. Paul in a welterweight bout two weeks later, with Burlesque at Columbia on Monday to begin at 7:30 p.m.
The 1918 wolf season at the Atlanta Athletic Club nears end with one remaining tournament for the T. A. Hammond trophy. Qualifying rounds use set scores and club handicaps, with multiple flights. First and second rounds by September 25, semi finals by September 27, and finals by September 29. Finals in the top flight will be 18 holes.
President Andrews of the Chattanooga club announced from Cincinnati the purchase of Mike Balenti from the St. Louis Browns. Balenti, the Indian shortstop, had been a Lookout in 1922 before being drafted by the Browns.
Chicago shut out New York 7 to 0 as Cheney held the line behind a bunt of errors and baserunning misfires by the Giants. Fromme relieved Marquard in a flood of hits that produced four runs, Weners and Snodgrass were ejected after argy-bargy with umpires. large crowd saw a ground-rule game on September 14.
Athens Ga September 74 Special Dr Andrew M Soule will return from Canada Tuesday and preparations for the opening at the State College of Agriculture department of the University of Georgia will be completed Most faculty present and a larger attendance expected than last year Changes in the institute faculty include DeLoach moving to direct experimental work Cotton industry duties reassigned under Fain Rast and Crabb New instructors Childs and Watson join the staff Bishop leaves for Washington to enter the commercial dairy business with Pure Food Wiley Carpenter resigns Kiger’s replacement in horticultural department selected Blackburn from Davis University Hollingshead resigns from soil survey work
The world championship rodeo at Pendleton resolved with A K McCormach of Cheyenne winning the championship after a late night ride for the title. Hertha Blancott of Los Angeles claimed the woman’s relay cowgirl championship by sweeping heats in the three dashes, while Nettle Hawn of Fresno defeated Blancott for the bucking contest title on Snake. Waller Padgett of Cheyenne set a recent world record by bull dogging six seconds, and the event recalled Padgett’s prior 1947 bull dogging title.
Utica N Y September 14 The seventeenth season of the New York State league closes with Binghamton the pennant winner and Wilkesbarre second. This is the first time the trophy has gone to Binghamton in the league s history.
Featherweight champion Johnny Kilbane and manager Jimmy Dann left Cleveland for Boston. Kilbane meets Jimmy Walsh in a twelve round bout next Tuesday, and Kilbane states his confidence in defeating Walsh.
McDevitt, once a Yale football lineman, will assist as an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota per today’s announcement.
Atlanta hotel demand remains high as newly opened properties like the Ansley and the Piedmont report overflow crowds on Sunday. The Georgian Terrace and other first class houses also run at capacity while older hotels match or exceed past performance, with Winecoff joining the top-tier group.
Tifton farmers report one third of Tit county cotton gathered and over a quarter marketed at the semi monthly meeting. Early cotton opened quickly with favorable picking weather, sixty percent of early cotton in slate due to planting issues. Corn, hay, peas and forage crops described as not good, with one farmer selling green hay at 87 dollars per acre.
Hewat September 11 Ray and KB South, former treasurer of the RoneyiNe Teasl Company, turns himself in after disappearing August 13 and is released on $15000 bail. He plans to confer with bank directors and assist examiners to straighten the tangled affairs, denying any personal use of bank funds. A shortage has risen beyond 260000, with statements suggesting wider losses. He pledges to surrender assets and aid investigators, claiming he did not misuse funds. In a Me Belfast garden a collector notes over seven hundred shrub varieties, including rare old-fashioned kinds.
Galgary Alberta September 14. Pelrey former heavyweight boxer and associate of Luther McCarty retracted his Portland confession claiming Burns and he did not fake their Calgary match last spring. He said he signed under duress while ill in Los Angeles hospital and that Burns has settled all debts. Burns remains his friend and ally.
Indianapolis wins the first Federal League pennant as the league closes its inaugural season. Owners meet September 20 in Indianapolis to award the pennant and elect officers. A new president is expected to be named to replace John T. Powers. Indianapolis finished eleven games ahead of Cleveland. other clubs were St. Louis Chicago Kansas City and Pittsburgh.
Thomas A Edison is ordered by his physician to take at least a week's rest at home in Orange New Jersey after an illness kept him bedridden for several days. Edison's longtime associate Mr Raison notes he seldom rests and dislikes medical orders but this time is expected to comply.
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