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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
10
Francia Oulmet of Boston High ties Vardon and Bey for United Sites One championship after finishing level. A playoff is set for todarx with the English atars in a tense finish.
A sweeping sports column recounts the famed events and players at the national golf championship. It notes Brookline, Vardon, Bas, and Cravath among others, with team futures, management changes, and prospective winners shaping the season. The piece blends historic figures and team shifts, hinting at promotions and notable matches ahead.
The newspaper fragment references sports editor Wil Lader and staff at The Const, with mentions of Cincinnati games, upcoming dates in September and November, and discussions of league pricing and personnel. It preserves a period tone while outlining season coverage plans and key figures.
The Rome Athletic Club football team began practice today under captain Bubbles Covington from last year’s Georgia team. The lineup includes several former college prep stars. Games are set with Chattanooga High on October 11 and Basler School on October 18, with additional games against Tech High Atlanta, Alabama State Normal Jacksonville, Bearn Academy Cave Spring, Darling ton High Rome, and McCaine School Chattanooga.
Willie Ritchie the world lightweight champion has been offered 1000 dollars to travel east for ten rounds with Johnny Dundee at Madison Square Garden in the last week of October. The proposal came as promoters seek a high profile title bout in New York.
Francis Ouimet tied with England’s Harry Vardon and J. H. Ray for the national open championship after a nerve free final round in wet conditions. The Brookline youth, carried on by a large home crowd, birdied the 17th and 18th to force a playoff and was carried off the course amid cheering as the American hopes stayed high in a dramatic finish.
Under thin head, a sketch of the rival teams' players appears for the approaching World's Series. Manager John J McGraw of the New York National League team, born in Bruxton NY on April 7 1873, rose from Baltimore and Cedar Rapids to shape the Giants. His leadership has brought consistent success from 1904 championship to recent pennant battles.
September 19 baseball results include Reds and Dodgers in a 1-0 and 2-1 split. Brooklyn and Cincinnati split a doubleheader. Reulbach pitched well until extra innings. Wingo and Rescher drove in key runs. Chicago beats Boston 9-1 behind Wimmerman’s two runs and homer. Pirates and Phillies played two. first game 3-2 in ten innings, Magee stole home. second game called due to darkness with 5-5 tie. St Louis and New York split. Mathewson vs Sallee in game one, Marquard dominant in game two. Wingo leaves game after being hit.
Carl Morris of Sapulpa Oklahoma defeated Reich of this city in the second round of a scheduled ten round match. A hard right to the jaw started the end as Reich wore down under body punishment. Morris, debuting recently, showed improved ring tactics and physical condition with straight rights and lefts to the head and body. Reich fell after a heavy blow to the stomach and did not rise before the count.
Brooklyn meet Pittsburgh New York visit Cincinnati Philadelphia travel to Chicago Boston hosts St Louis St Louis plays Washington Detroit at Philadelphia Cleveland visits New York Chicago faces Boston in a nine inning slate.
Sunday sport features freak plays from games at Ponce du Leon and an all-Atlanta team picked from players since 1902. Includes pennant winner comparisons, boxing notes on Welsh, Harvard and Cornell football outlook, Old-Time Fan breezes, Big League Averages with Wednesday games, Tech stars photos, Heisman introductions, and full Associated Press reports with boxscores and golf notes.
The Atlanta Athlete club season ends with the T A Hammond trophy event. Players qualify by net scores and club handicaps, with match play flights filling the schedule. Handsome trophies awarded to flight winners. First rounds by September 27, semifinals by September 27, finals by September 28. Finals in first flight are thirty holes, others eighteen.
Brookhaven golf talent from the Capital City Country club competes today for the Brookhaven trophy with a qualifying round this afternoon. Players qualify by net scores and club handicaps, followed by match play. Multiple flights, trophies for each flight, and deadlines for rounds run from September 2 to October 4.
Washington defender Love, a 6 foot 7 recruit from Atlanta, earned a win in his first start for the Senators as Detroit stranded thirteen runners. Boehring closed for Washington after Comstock pitched seven, with Comstock pulled for a pinch hitter in the ninth. Final score shows Washington 2 to 1 over Detroit with nil hits for Detroit late rally fizzled.
Yesterday's results show Pittsburg 3 Philadelphia 2 and other marked games like New York 0 St Louis 0, Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 1, Chicago 6 Boston 1, Milwaukee 2 Columbus 0, each listed with additional matchups and postponed games. Multiple leagues including American League, American Association and International League features standings and city references.
Carlisle faces Albright at Hampden Sidney while Richmond hosts Blue Tide at Hampden Sidney. Maryville meets alumnist Maryville in a regional clash with stakes for standings and pride at stake.
Newark in a near pennant chase in the International League as Rochester falters. Newark needed one win in three remaining games while Rochester dropped a doubleheader to Toronto. With two games left against Toronto, Rochester must sweep to keep pace. If Newark loses and Rochester wins, final percentages would be Newark 0.605 and Rochester 0.640, shaping a tense finish.
Beginning next Monday morning the route of Atlanta Northern railway cars to Marietta with Georgia Railway and Power Company River Line cars will be altered in the business district. Marietta cars enter Walton street from Marietta but will now travel Forsyth after Walton to Marietta, then return via Walton junction to their usual path. River line cars will enter Walton from Marietta then switch to Forsyth and Marietta before resuming their standard route. The change follows completion of a new switch and tracks at Marietta and Forsyth this week.
Slim Love pitched seven innings beating Detroit 2 to 1 while Joe Conzelman worked five innings in Philadelphia's 3 to 2 win. Love, a reliever turned starter, allowed eight hits and one run as eleven left on base. Conzelman debuted, allowing three hits and two unearned runs due to catcher errors.
Montreal hosts the women’s championship starting September 29 at Disie with entrants including British champion Suiss Murfet Dodd and Irish champion Miss Mabel Harrison arriving to compete. The American tournament follows at Wilmington Tech in October.
Incomplete data shows scattered figures like points totals and player codes such as Jackson and Speaker. The garbled text hints at a basketball or team box with odd numbers, but specific game details or dates are not recoverable from the readable fragments.
England stars Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, tied with Francis Ouimet for the U S open, may come to Atlanta with Stewart Maiden of the Atlanta Athletic Club arranging rotations and a tentative October 11 date. Definite word awaited as plans near completion. They were also reported to play in Chicago in a separate noted event with Charles Evans and Warren K Wood.
Chief Beavers outlines lessons from the Mary Phagan case. He will train officers to preserve scenes and keep hands off corpses and garments until fingerprint experts arrive. He stresses the value of fingerprints and says federal experts will be used until modern methods are established locally.
General Manager Dan Carey closed Piedmont pond bathing season at 6:20 PM quelling a crowd of bathers. The season drew visitors from Georgia Alabama Louisiana and as far as Saginaw Michigan with over ten thousand bathers registered. Carey expressed sadness at ending the fun and told the crowd he can hardly break up their joy.
A well dressed man about thirty, after a sudden stroke, was found unconscious on West Peachtree Street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth at 11 pm Friday. In his pocket Grady hospital staff found the name John M. Ansley RF D No 2 box 158 Atlanta Ga. He wore a blue serge suit and a diamond ring and pin. He had not regained consciousness by early morning.
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