Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, February 02, 1907, Image 20
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LEAGUE MEETING WILL
BE HELD VERY SOON
TWO GOOD FEATHERWEIGHTS j
Little Suburban Park
School For Gamblers
People Who Work Through Week Lose Their
Money There on Sun
day. .
By J. 8. A. MACDONALD.
New Orleans, La.. Feb. I.—America's
only Sunday rare track—Suburban
, Park—Is In a flourishing condition just
now and will probably continue to ex
ist so long as raring and betting arc
legalised In this state.
It Is A wonderful)- Interesting spot,
this home oenter of a desecration In
the name of sport, and one of the real
sights of the current season here.
On last Saturday fully «.ooo racego
ers witnessed the sport at the Fair
Grounds, while the very next duy quite
as numerous a crowd assembled at the
Sunday plant. Scarcely a single face
neen at the Fair Grounds could be ills
earned at the Suburban, a ctrrum
stance which affords aims Indication of
the enthralling hold race track gamb
ling has upon the community at large.
At the Fair Grounds und City Park
the rale of admission Is 11.60. while
you pay but half u dollar nt the Sun
day plant. Until the coming Into ex
istence of Suburban Park's Sunday
game this city was Just like the aver
age horse race renter -quiet and sober.
Then what a transformation followed.
As In the days of the old lottery, men
and women who scarcely knew of horse
racing going on suddenly la-ramo Honda
for the game. In the Imrher shops, the
hotels, and In the marketing plucee.
the by-word la as to the probable win
ner of the afternoon handicap.
Catches tbs Workers.
Thousands of men and women whose
time and attention had been engrossed
by their dally work through the week
found Suburban Perk a line medium
for an Indulgence in the sport of kings
on their one day off—Sunday Two or
three trips to Suburban Park and they
became rnnflrmed horse players. The
Hutiday trac k has really proved u feed
ing source to the older courses, for
the old sporting adage, “once a player,
always one," was never better exem-
plltlcd than In hundreds of cases of
clerks and young artlsnna. who, mak
ing a winning on the Initial venture at
Suburban Park, quickly forgot the dif
ference In admission, and deserting the
kindergarten course, blossomed Into
regulars nt the Pair -Oroifnrts or City
Park
With three race troika running In n
city the size of this, soon no one but
the old men and the nurse girls will
be left at hnmi, the rest of the impu
tation being at the track side. As a
matter of fact there are more of the
•mall hand fotm books in circulation
here this winter than Is the case dur
ing the summer about New York.
Halting la amounting to a veritable
. era*. and the Sunday game at Subur
ban Pork Is the cause of It When
MUENCH&
BEIERSDORFER
THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS
Diamonds, Wstchts. Jewelry. Fins
Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repair
ing.
M Peachtree Street Atlanta, G*.
Bell Phone 1111.
will It nil cease? Rome seen sny
when the race truck bettng becomes a
thing of the past In this state.
The professional race track follow
ers who tlnd the Runday afternoons lag
ging sit their hands, or. again, the los
ers who crave Immediate action In the
hope of "getting out," stroll down the
ferry slips about noon. There they
embark In special race track ferries
bound nrross the Mississippi river to
Algiers, La., a distance of 2 miles
Once landed, a quick change to the
race trains of the Grand Isle Railway
follnwa. A whlak through a region
abounding In the lineal sugar, rice and
cotton plantations In the South soon
lands the enthusiast at the track aide.
It Is a half mile course with a grand
stand capable of accommodating not
more than 1,004 persons. The betting
shed Is enclosed and la no larger than
an ordinary barn.
Dams la Vary Poor.
Imagine what the scene looked like
on the afternoon 6,00 race-goers aaw
fttarter Risk send a Held of horses away
without waiting for one of the choices
to toe tlie mark. He had not observed
the horse coming slowly around the
quarter stretch to the starting post and
thought the field was complete Inn um
ber Two yearn ago there ueed to la-
four nr flve bookmakers doing buslnpes.
Now there are u score or more of
them. "Tom" Rhaw, the noted prtce-
maker, finally cutting In on behalf of
"Harney" Rchrteber last Runday
‘Over nt Rheepaehaad Ray," la the way
the wags put It. But still they go,
Runday after Runday.
This suburban park Is not only the
te Runday afternoon race track
upon which thoroughbreds are raced,
but It Is the only half mile course In
the world where hurdle raeea and
steeple chases are run.
LONG CAREER
COMES TO END
Unlea* President William M. Kava-
naugh. Southern League mogul, calls
the spring meeting of the Southern
League for Atlanta and for soma data
Inside the next couple of weeks. It
will be a big surprise to local fans.
The spring meeting Is about due. The
one last year was held enrly In Febru
ary and the one this year la likely to
be held at about the same date.
However, Preeldent Dickinson, of the
local club, baa been unsuccessful In his
efforts to ascertain the exact date. He
has wired President Kavanaugh, but
baa bad no reply pa yet. Mr. Dickin
son Is of the opinion that the date has
>t been decided up< n as yet, but that
the meeting will bo held soon.
It Is hard to tell what will be dona
at the meeting, further than to decide
on tho new schedule. This I* always a
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
We’re off on tho last dead month of the sporting year.
With February out of tho way wo can count on the advent
of baseball. Then comes tennis, then all the spring sports.
The New York Americans come March 8. Then thv Atlanta
team reports. Then the exhibition games begin.
Also about that time the college baseball players crop out in
all their glory.
On April 10 the Southern League season begins and from
then until October there is baseball galore.
Other things will interest the sport lovers of Atlanta during
summer.
The annual Southern Lawn Tennis championship will be
. held in Atlanta in June. ■
So will the annual championship of the Southern Golf Asso'
ciation.
Probably the Southern Grand zYmcrican tournament will find
its way to Atlanta,
And next fall there will be football as usual.
Verily there is plenty to wait for—and not long to wait.
Pennsylvania state has been dropped from the Yale sched
ule. And the Penn. Staters ore rather proud of it. Yale had
to admit that the Dutchmen were too strong for early season
competitors.
The New York papers keep busy these days denying each
other's stories. Hal Chase says he is not holding out for more
salary—as stated, Mike Donlin allows that he didn’t have to pay
his doctor’s bills, as alleged—and so it goes.
It's awful how hard it ii to get anything to write about in
this dull season.
The Southern League has sent a large number of very prom
ising recruits to the major leagues and is much interested in
theirsuecesa. —— —
In this connection it may be interesting for the fanatics to
know that Rube Waddell has solved the problem of why so many
good minor leaguers fail to make good with the major leagues.
Rube says it is because they can't play good enough.
All hope of holding race meetings in Salem, Mass., has
been abandoned and the promoters'of the scheme arc left hold
ing a million dollar bag. Lovely game for somebody. Verily
the annual crop of suckers is something astounding.
fruitful source of wrangling, and doubt
less will be this year. Otherwise noth
ing of an exciting nature Is due to
come up at the session.
DIXIE BREAKS RECORD.
Palm Beach, FIs.. Fab. 1.—The fast
motor boat Dixie undoubtedly set a
new world's record In the nt* yester
day for the Blr Thomas Dewar trophy
when H covered a mile In 2:20. The
Dixie, of course, won this event, and
also the Wannamaker cup and the spe
cial race for fast boats. The consola
tion event wan won by the Gray Wolf.
You have to get right foolish these days to get any free ad
vertising.
President Dnvey, of the Boston Nationals, had to offer $25,.
000 for John Kling and “Three Fingered” Brotvn in order to get
into the papers. He could safely have made it ■foO.OOO, though.
Chubby Charles Murphy needs the men more than the money.
The New York Sun objects heeause Cincinnati has signed
Charles Grapewin. the actor, who is to ait on tho bench and
root for the team. They claim that there are enough “joaks” on
the Cincinnati team already. But then, The Sun always had a bad
diaposition, anyway.
Joe Kelley gets $5,000 a year for managing the Toronto
Eastern League club. This is supposed to be the largest salary
ever paid a minor league manager.
I#oxlngton. Ky . Feb. 2.—Charles Mar-
In, nurd 6S, one of the moat famous
driver* and trainer* of race hor*e» In
America, died In a ho*pltnl here last
night.. During hi* career he owned
many hor*e* **f national repute and
probably won more vlctortea with har
ness horse* than any uther American | l.V
tmtner Among hi* 14m »>f employer*. Third race -Six fusion**, selling:
n»re Renat or* and congressmen. Ill* Hlue Dale. -So. Spton. i‘8. l«ndy Caret,
arly home was In Meadvllle. 1’a I!'"'. Columbia Girl 106; ohlyesa. I0«;
Marvin was at one time manager; Happy Jack. II. Iftit, Goldie, 100; Dr.
f the famous Palo Alin farm of Tall- j »'"rulll. lOS^Gold _Proof._lOt; Salvage,
fornln. owned by the late Senator Le
RACING RESULTS.
NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans. Feb 2 —Her® are the
results of the races today:
FIR8T HACK—Refined. IS to 10.
won; Dapple Gold, 5 to 2. second; Ma-
falda. 0 to 6, third Time. 1:17.
SECOND HACK—Mont he rt, 11 to G.
won; Ruby wick, 2 to 1. second; Whisk
Broom, out. third Time. 61 3-6
THIRD RACE—Tllelmr. 7 to 10. won;
Grunudu, 11 to 1*. second. Glamor, out.
third Time. 1:45
FOCRTH RACE—Missouri Lad. 13
1, won; The Englishman, 6 to l,
second. St. Valentine, 4 to 5. third.
Time. 2:13 4-5.
FIFTH RACE—Ternux 8 to 1. won;
Foreigner. 3 to l. second, Flavlgny. 4
to 5. third Time. 153
Entries for Nsw Orleans.
New Orlean*. t«a.. Feb. 2.—^Entries
for City l»ark Monday
Flr*t rnce—Three un.l a half fur
long*. purse Parisian Model. 108;
Elvira M. 108. My Love. 108; La*a-
tnuda, 108; Edna Matter, 108; Reela.
108. Rea. 108. Snlnc-law, 108; Ren
Hand. 109. llucket Brigade, 109;
Bayou Lark. |0»; Rrauney Lady. 109;
Truce. 109; Lawle*. 10s.
Second race—Steeple Chase, short
ourse: Kara. 107. Pitkin. 110; Henry
. Schroder. 137; Harufoot. 144; Ladv
l; Sllllr Newcomb, 148; Aules.
Refined. 110.
Sixth Race—Six furlongs: Cora
Price 100; Nellie Karine. 100; Excuse
Me, 100; Rosemnrion. 100; Imposition.
100; Nedra. 100; Itelsoy. 102; Voting.
102, Turbulence. 102; Do Oro, 105; Colt-
ness, 110.
Seventh Race—Mile and an eighth,
selling: Dr. McCleur, 102; St. Noel,
102; Lady Ellison. 105; Fonaoluca, 107;
Torchello, 109; Ed Tierney. 110; Ar
thur Cummer. 110; Sanction. 110;
Chnmblee. 110.
ohmoaa. 109; Dargln. Ill
Fourth race—One mile, the Lagarde.
selling stakes. $1,000 added: Elfall, 100;
timer Larsen. 10o. Lamp Trimmer.
103. Tom Dolan. 107; Tilting, 113; Val
entine, 108; Drotnlo. 100.
Fifth race—Six furlongs. pur*e: 'Bel-
_ rongres*. Mat vln I mlna. 100; Tanbark. 100. Prince Ros-
Itlt for leveral years. I ler. P>9; Steerforth. 105; Decklaw. 105
land Stanford
In 1*00 Marvin was presented with n
b»g stabl** of race horse*., valued at
’•.''0" hi hi* employer*. Miller * Sib-
*( of Franklin. Pa. Both men were
ulonalre*. Joseph Sibley
time «i member
had been in III h*
van at one
*nth ago he sold hi* entire stable Urate George. 105; Soprano, 105; Lens,
of horses. 1 107, Captain Hale, 100. BudhlU, 110;
MACON CLUB NAMES
BUSINESS MANAGER.
Spe*ial to The Georgia a.
Macon. Ga. Feb. 2 — Ralph R. Dun
woody ha* been named bualneaa man
ager for the Macon bn*ehall club and
ha* taken up the work. The duties of
a business manager of a hall club are
not now to Mr. Dunwoody, a* he acted
In thin capacity during the season of
1905.
JUDGE HANSEL'S FRIENDS
ENTERTAIN HOPE8
Special to The Georgian.
Thoinnsvlll**. Ga.. Feb. 2 —Judge A.
H. Hansel In resting as well aa could
be expected today. Scant hop® 1* en
tertained for hla recovery.
BISHOP WILLIAM STANCE
IS CLAIMED BY DEATH
St. Paul. Minn, Feb 2.—Bishop Wil
liam Stange, of Fall River, Mass. died
at St. Mary-* hospital, st Rochester,
Minn., at 8 a. m today. He underwent
an operation for the removal of a
tumor January 21. The bodj will be
taken to Fall River tonight.
HERE ARE PICTURE8 OF ABE ATTELL AND FRANKIE REED.
TWO OF THE BEST LITTL FIGHTERS IN THE COUNTRY.
MACON STUDENTS BELIEVE
THEIR TEAM THE WINNER
•pedsl to The Georxtea.
Macon. Ga., Feb. 2.—Never In the
history of Mercer University have the
-student* an4 tho faithful-Jana of the
city of Macnn felt so confident of a
successful season upon the baseball
field for the local college team.
Dyre, the great college twlrler who
played with the Baptists several years
ago. Is back at hie first love and there
Is no doubt but that he will put In a
good season's work.
Hog*, the man with the "steel arm."
who was a student of Mercer for sev
eral months In 1000. Is bsck and
ready to put In the hardest game of hla
Hogg, with a little training, will ns
doubt become one of the beat cnllex.
pitchers the Routh hss ever known.
ogteiby. fHinttlarty known on tin*
esmpus as "Prep." the man who won
the rag for Bellebuckle, halls from
South Georgia. Thla Is hla first year
In collage ball, but he Is expected to do
his share In winning the rag for tht
Merrertane.
Smith, of the last year's staff, has
returned and will make a good man.
A number of applicants are trying
out for each position and there Is no
doubt but that Mercer will put out th-
best club this season that aha baa ever
had.
JOCKEY TRUST JOLTS NEW ORLEANS
When the Select Few
“Are Down” Long
Shots Win.
Combination of Riders
for whenever a certain well-defined
betting faction puts down the checks,
the selected medium brings home the
coon skins. This has gone on with
unfailing regularity for four or flve
and Players Is
weeks now, and, of course, the tongues
The ’same condition of affairs oh-
Hard to Beat.
while laet winter, with ths result that
New. Orleans, La., Feb. 2.—Wherever
the professional speculative set gath
ers In the ofT hours away from the
race track the one great topic dis
cussed Is the so-called “Jockey Trust.”
The Insinuation, in effect, that a
clique of strong local and foreign spec-
ulators have the leading race riders un
der their direction and control, la heard
everywhere.
bookmaker la here now, where he Is al
lowed to operate at City Pork and de
barred from the Fair Grounds.
Whether the so-called "Jockey Trust
will be dissolved without recourse to
extreme measures on the part of the
stewards at the Fair Grounds and City
Park remains to be seen.
Some days ago one of tho main
projectors of the combination was po
litely warned to “cheese” and he forth
with did so.
Beating 4-5 favorites with 12-1 shots.
And It aeemn not without reason, too.
backed down to fours. Is about the
range of the evildoers' scope, though
they did knock down a J-5 favorite
with a 10-1 shot early In the eeaeoa
These Insiders, too. grabbed the tops
as If they had had a first past the port
cinch In hand.
This dead-cinch play and the Infu
sion of the new money and the new
blood from New York. St. Louis nnd
Chicago, which annually occurs Ju»t
before Mardi Gras, constitute the latent
phases of the money end of the Inn*
winter's grind.
NAT KAI8CR A CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
IB Dsestur St Kimball House.
Bsrasin. In Unredeemed Die me ode.
Some Gush From Baseball s Spouting Geyser
Here are aome entries on the ofllclnl
records of J. H. Farrell, eecretary of
the National Aaaoclatlon, which are of
interest to Southern fans:
CONTRACTS SIGNED:
With Naahvllle—W. G. .Mills.
With Little Rock—William Hart.
With Augusta—Tyler Christian.
With Savannah—Carl Thompson.
William Harley.
With Vicksburg—G. W. Blackburn.
With Gulfport—R. J. Gllks.
With .Meridian—Ray E. Marshall,
Everett M. Utter, G. O. Sample.
TERMS ACCEPTED.
With Montgomery—Andy Anderson.
With Gulfport—George Manush.
With Atlanta—Oeorgc Winter*. James ;
Fox. Neal Ball, L. Hoffman, A. O. Jor
dan.
With Little Rock—D. E. .Miller, R
Corklll
With Jacksonville—Thomas McMil
lan. Cliff Thomas. F. Reach.
RELEASED BY PURCHASE
Pv Memphis to New Orleans—Phil
Nadeau.
By Atlanta to Nashville—Whltey
Morse.
By Birmingham to Atlanta—Louis
Castro.
By Portland to Nashville—P. M. Mc-
Elveen.
By Portland to' Birmingham—Peter
Lister.
By Birmingham to Portland—Harr> ,
Matthew *
By Little Book to Terre Haute—Bert ■
Noblett.
By Shreveport to Springfield, Ohio - |
O. W. Evans.
RELEASED.
By Atlanta—Tom Plummer.
Lowell i» no better or worse than
many another city, says The Sporting !
News, hut combined misfortune of Fred
!«ake and hi* team was too much fo»
the veteran to overcome; he was forced
to surrender his franchise to the New
England League.
Lake g.ws to Little Rock next season
and •will show fans of that section
something In the line of bail playing
they have never before seen. He Is In
excellent condition anti will start the
season in line fettle.
Several of the Southerners at the
New York meeting spoke highly of
Frank Rudderham a work as an umpire,
anti this set thing* In motion, so that
league presidents were after him.
proof of hla assertion that the duo was
the stingiest on record:
Wasn’t the story of the old pennant
WANT8 MORE COIN.
Joe Vila hands this little bunch to
Soden and Conant. the recently retired
owners of the Boston Nationals, in
UAA TER ttPARKB.
Here is the man who it holding
out tor more salary.
each year of donating $100 to th*
champion club for the purchase nf a
suitable pennant. Why was this do
nation cut off? m tell you! The Bos.
ton club won the National League pen.
nant In 1891, 1892 and 1893. Soden an !
company bought a pennant with the
$100 and had It Inscribed “Champions.
1891.” The next yedr they irot .mother
hundred, but they Just changed the
date on the old pennant to 1892, alter
ing Just one figure. A third century*
note was handed to them and again
they worked th© same trick, altering
the ”2” to a ”3.” aid threw the faltered
old rag to the breexe. making Just
$198, on the two pennants Is the two
changes cost exactly $1 each.
This took place when the B'* I n
club was making all kinds of m *n*y
In the twelve-clib league, and when
the other magnates heard of It. they
were so mad tint they didn't buy *
drink for the Boston m©n for nearly
two years.
The possible successors to Billy Ollhert
at second bsse on the New York team *re:
Mullln Ktrsng tlsnnlfan-Corcnrnn
Corcoran In not likely to* get It. TotnmrU
too good a utility man to be placed r**s'»
Inrly at one place.
Jennings and Hanlon tout “Skip” Mul*
IIn sa a star, and think that he esn M'1
down the Job. This la the only *h*nse
Impending on the New York team.
will continue In the outfield and Metiaus
at first base.
Captain Beiter. of the Harvard
nine. My* that neither Willie Keeler u *
BUI Donovnn will coach the Harvard t' n#
this spring. The rumor has been rlf-
weeks that l»oth men would pul th** • 1,11
**»n nines on to nil the trick* of the 8 ,in *’
The Chicago Americans hat** signed U»*
fence Cheney, of Belleville. Ksn*.
The 81. IxmiIs tennis will play a ►P r,R *
series iH'glntilng March 3f>.
enough to answer my question? Never
hear,! It ? Well, let me tell ft. The
National League In the old day*, that
Is fifteen years ago. wan In th© habit
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