Newspaper Page Text
ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1807.
I UP-TO-DATE NEWS
I Of SPORTING WORLD
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
jy^jrfi
THE DUQQAN BROTHERS.
On Uieee iwlrlare Miiuiir Dobbs will dspsnd Isrgoly this ysar.
J. WOOD
~
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS |
By PERCY H. WHCTWO.
Ban Johnson, who ia turning up noraething new in tin-
line now and then, ia out with a proposal for a fund for diaiiM
ball players. , ' u
Soint*form of aceideut and life insurance, under the cnnt,„|
of the National Association, ought to be a big scheme for tin- n ,
jor leagues.
Hall players are not the most saving class of men in the
world and there ought to be some scheme in effect to provide
for those injured in plsy and for those who grow old in ih.
game.
The bill prohibiting race fraelf gambling in Arkansas gas at
last become a law. Threats are mado to fight the law in the
courts, but the fight will doubtless result as it did in Tennessee—
in a new law.
Race track gambling in the so-called “West” is passim-
chietty because it is crooked.. And few tears arc bein'- sh.-.i
the bier of the dear departed.
Something will soon lie stirring in local amateur baseball eir-
eles. With a pennant offered for a City League and with a dozen
or fifteen first class teams on the verge of organization there will
surely he city league baseball in Atlanta this summer.
And City League hull is the only kind which is worth the
notice of first class amateur teams. It is practically impossible
for a fast amateur team to get gain.es all through the season mi.
less in some organization with and ready to play at the appointed
time.
Another advantage of a city league is that the teams are
kept before the public better than unorganized amateur teams
and with the aid of the advertising that they get during a long
season they arc able often to pull off a few benefit games at the
end aud make enough money out of the admissions to pay all ex
penses for the season.
/. Dobbs Announces
Nashville Line-Up
Team Which Will Represent Rock City
Looks Lot Stronger Than Weak
* Finnites of 1906.
—M—MS——MM—BMfSlN—M——l
YOU CANT KEEP JACK O’BRIEN OUT
Our old friend, Philadelphia Jack O’Brian, juat naturally WILL’buat into print now and than Jack «,:i.u
in hie attempt j few daya ago to knock out three men_in .18. raunde at Lot AngeUe" He mfjht havi done el hid
Charley Frank’s baseball team has at last been ammimi'eil
and it is not as strong as everybody feared. "That Dutchman"
has a team which, with the right amount of luck, will win the
pennant.—Httf-no hnn AlInnDyAlemphis. Hirniinplmm slir..v._
port and possibly Little Hock,
With such evenly balanced teams as the league lias this year
luck is going to cut a lot of figure and it may not lie tIn- lu-.t
team which wins.
not Abdo, the Turk, hia first opponent, to fouled the Philadelphia glove artiet that ha wasunabla lo till. ai
Brown and Jim Tremble. In the picture O’Brien ia shown in characteristic fighting Ittitudaland* in the back
ground ha is shown in one of hia favorite training atunti. nB °* CK
BULGER GOE8 BACK.
Cincinnati Sends Over Sixty
Players to Leagues of South
Ch ,* r J?* “O' 1 item her. Of Galveston,
non d T?I2 de i t 8all ".!r d ‘ ’lulls—Jaek-
Itain. iCbevnner, llunchle.
Mulll* nnd MeTlithe. Pnrkrmburg, W
•^5-n S,rt ‘ hlR Hint Mas-
P«ri. ®ff. S To au| ’’ "W ^l- Keever.
Hlek, W Hunger and ilorrl.ev
lloicinnn IlulpT, bnnehnll writer qf tin*
it*o’ York Kveulng World, loft Wednesday
nr New York. Inuteml of waiting fur tin*
Now York Amcrlf-AiiH boro, lit- will moot
tlioin In Now York uml trnvol hack to At
lanta with tliom.
M’CAY LEAVES MARCH 1.
Remit McFay leaven Atlanta Friday
for. Mobile. trherr Im begin* prepuru-
tlon f*>r the Hprlng training of his .Mo
bile team.
8AY8 8C0RE WAS WRONG.
To the Sporting KUItor of Tin* Uoorslan:
I notlcotl In your column* tin* other il.it
statement that the 1905 Tech rinn
reunited In n tie. Till* In liieon* -’ TU
*eoro tvu* 17 to 10 In Teelf* favor.
ruril.
Tin* Jiit'k*in flub. «»f tin* Cotti
Ijenguo. ba* trailed Art*’HfoWifi L TtU
ornii beeouil lutaeiunji, lo .Meridian.
O League pennant:
O Outfielders.
O Dobbs. Wleemui. Pearson
O Hocknu.
S Infielder*.
McCormack, McGanimell, Jnn-
O stag. Horae, IfcKIvern, Yates,
O “Dillard. “Peary.
O Catchtra.
O LatUmer, Walla, Hunly.
O Pitchers.
O Ely, Borrrll. K. Duggnu. J. O
O Duggan, Mills, Deubrrt. ttinlth, O
O Johnson. •Herman O
O “Doubtful. O
O O
oooooooooaooooooocooooaooD
When the Naahvllle Ia-iiaurrs re
spond to “Mis Urap'*’’ rail for tint Aral
game tn Athletic Park April In. nays
Will Ewing tn The Nashville Atnrrl-
cap. there will be many new fmes In
troduced lo -fandom. This much wna
made known Tuesday on Hie arrival In
the city of Manager Johnny Dobbs.
Hardly had he entered Into n dis
cussion with President Kulm at thu
baseball otBco before atone cume sev
eral fane to make hia aouintlntam-e and
Ukewlse welcome him to the oily.
Between the manager and president
there, was nothing of Importance to
transpire. They merely looked over the
eltuuUon and talked '‘shop.’’
"I am Indeed glad to l>o In elinrge
over here," sold Mr. Dobbs. "It Is so
dose to Chattunooga that It Is almost
like home and 1 am sure we n 111 nil get
along O. K.”
With but little known of the relative
merits of some of the players signed. It
.was natural that all wanted to Jieur
: what J. Dobbs had In the way of ms-
iterhil.
••Well, It looks pretty good to me."
was the manager's reply,
crowing. We haven't got any ot those
: \40« hitters* or fielders that never tmiko
an error which you read about. The
men under contract look to be up to
Ithe average. They constitute a well-
,hoUnrcd list and when the dead timber
;haa been weeded front the roster 1
think the tana wUl be pleased. It was
a hit late, you know, when I took
i-'ebanre. There remained hut three days
In. which to draft players from other
- Qf count* I wan At u duon-
__ hut despite this. I Junvjied
’-into tbn rush and In n Jiffy went
, When once wrapped up In the
Mope’ there was nu atop. 1 hove been
NAT KAISER A CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
6n valuables.
15 Deoetur 8L \' Kimball House.
Bamains In Unredaainad Diamonds.
grabbing men here ami there at every
opportunity and I may nay that 1 tint
not through Y«i If what I have don't
toe the mark there will he oTfict'M *n
trtktMhelr place*, Xu hailing *«»«•* till*
year.'* '
Twenty-four players constitute tin*
O i list, Manager l>obU« announcing two
now ones on arrival. The last to come
Into the fold are a catcher named liar-
dy. and Yates a young college Intielder.
who hull* from the <*hi« ugn rnlvendty,
where he played several seasonn under
Staggs' tutorship.
Of the list, tno of the players will
not likely report. Frury. Ium year's
first sarker v Is slated for h berth with
Decatur. III., while Herman, tlm lanky
stabumii. who Jumped the game tu 1900.
will be disposed of to whoever want*
him.
Hardy managed the Fort Wayni
teutn last year. He did all tile catch-
Ing, reminding tin* campaign as the
champion hitter and the heat backstop,
lie tv also a good out fielder, ami tt
may be that Dobbs will give him a
trial In the garden. It all depends on
how Lattlmer turns up behind the
hickory.
Of the tnftelders. there III he hut
one old man In tin* line-up. Janslng
returns, hut will not play the third
pillow. Which has been his long suit
for several years. Manager DoPIm
thinks a shift will work to better ad
vantage. and ft om tin* stall the
•'Swede'* will he scooping ’em Up around
the keystone sack. McF.lveen will prob
ably he the matt at thlid. |>ro\ tiling lie
proves best of the others. W'httey
Morse will go to short. At Mist Me-
Qamwell, drafted from Rlnghaiuton. N.
Y. will be stationed. Itlughamtoti Is
still after this fellow, and has made the
locals several handsome offers to l»*t
him remain there, hut l>obhs, realising
his value as a player, refuses absolute.
!y to consider any proposition by which
tin* team would lose him.
"Nl\, they can't get Mae," said
Dobbs. "I have seen him perform and
know what he can do. lie smashes
the hall when It needs smashing, uml
doesn’t waste any blngles."
While he did not state. Mr. Dobbs
aeenm to he of the opinion that Archer
Pearson, "Dock" Wiseman and himself
will he the regulars In the outfield,
not He has, though, several very bright
prospects to work on. and In case Pear
son or Wiseman fall then* will he some
one ready to Jump Into their shoes.
Haekatt. an old major leaguer, Is
slated for tin* position of utility man.
He is not only a good fielder, but can
step tn the rubber In it pinch and hold
his own.
"They tell me \ m have some pretty
good slabmen." remarked the mogul.
"Well, If that Is the case, we should 1m*
right at In* top in this deimrtmcnt. for
some of the new men on the roster will !
keep them busy holding their lM*rth.
Mills, whom l have signed, was with
HAittmore. where he pitched great ball
He went along a couple of seasons with
this club. but. on being refused an
advance In salary, to say nothing that
he had been Vovered up' several times
by the big leagues, he broke away from
Baltimore and took Up with the out
laws. After signing him he took up
111* case with the national commission,
who reinstated him after learning all
partlculais In the matter."
March 15 Is the date set fur report
ing. this being the time the men gener
ally begin to arrive.
The i4t-y of t’lmiinn «tl may not have
produced as many ball players «** any
In the country, hut It ranks well up in
the list.
laud year there were a number of
residents of "rimy" in the Southern
"DHIIfl 11 . >m H Fljf-d h;|lV- gor^n
from tills organization. Harry Mat
thews w III play on the const this year.
Kid Busch has gone to the Houth At
lantic League, •'Young'' Urelt* nstein
will play with Springfield. Ohio, and so
they have drifted away.
But n few residents of the Ohio huiv;
still remain In the leAgue. Harry
Vaughn, of Birmingham, comes from
there, and so does Young Turner, the
ex-Hally player, and Hilly Hart, of
tttlo Rock, Is a product of that town.
Paul Hazel, a youngster who comes
(Mnclnnutl, will In* given a trial
with Bhreveport this season, and Roet-
Huger, of Birmingham, had the same
birthplace us the al>ove-named celebri
ties.
Other Southern baseball organiza
tions boast of-4t number of Oncln-
untluns on their pay rotts. Tlw\v
Houth Atlnnth* Ijeague — Manager Ed
Ranslck, Hlermnn. Munson. Rhcinhurdt.
of Augusta; Dexter and Helsman. of
Savannah; Reistnger and Glenn, of
Charleston.
kmipm Ts-iigur— o. Woodruff.
Drury and Kenny, of Baton Rouge.
Prout and Wagner, of Mobile, uml em
pire Brady.
Yitginlu league Manager nennv.
•lake llenn. Regge. Ritchie, M« Donald.
• ’"IHns. Xurlngc and O'Connor, of Dun-
v ill**; Hondo, of Norfolk; Bateman, Mo-
Shane and Heins, of Roanoke; Mann-
ger Jack Irvin and White, of Lynch
burg; liogg. of Richmond, ami I’mpl: *
Hmld lantly.
K. I. T. League—Manager Eddl
Kolb. Blcrkulte. J. Bantlev ami McCain.
• *f Vincennes; Miuiager Harry Ido> I.
lb*n Nlppert uml Perry, «>f Paducah.
Beiite. of Johnsonville, and L'tnplte
Mike Devanney.
North Texas League— Kmtg. of Dai*
nrrntt.
THIS IS JIMMY.
ORDINARY RAT
DEFEATS DOG
i REMARKABLE PIT EXHIBITION IN
RING PITCHED NEAR
MEMPHIS.
<|Ui'h«d
! Hr»u
, plot * m*
j COIlllit (
phis. Tenn., Feb. 2s. An oidlim-
ssc i’rtt. of medium size, van*
prize bulldog tu a match
The "ring" was pitched In a
i*.ir the local nice track and the
itnessed by a large num-
. It ling the dog dashed !
at Hit rat, hut ’after playing with him
dropped his vieltlm The rat then
commenced t * light hack, amt by Im
bedding 111** treth*In the bulldog's under
Jaw tadsotl the tlog to howl lotnll/ and
show evhh m es of readtnes.H to quit.
Tim referee under the agreement
aw.11 doil the sp ills to the nit's hat k« rs. |
Quite a sum of money changed hands'
GET YOUR LUMBER
FROM
E G. WILLINGHAM & SONS
Hardwood flooring n ,prclalty.
aallatartiou. A full aloiK ot
rtghL
842 WHITEHALL STREET
\V i dclhet promptly and auurantve
8aah. Do«>rs. etc., on hand. Prnrva art
JAMES MAIOEN.
Here is n snapshot of Jlinmy
Muidtn, the young Sc dchm.in w|«»
was recently secured ts tsM'inanent
professional «»f the Atlanta Xthletie
club uml who will mtir on his new
duties regularly as soon is Ab \
Smith leaves for the North.
Malden tlnlshtd tliftil tn the last
o|m n championship and It Is ex
pected that the local club will send
him to trke part In tii n**xt one,
which w II In' lu hi in Philadelphia
In the fall.
GREAT CULINARY FEAT.
! Npeek;i to The Georgian,
j Hot Springs. Aik. IVb 2s -The »ac-
j Ing goose lii Arkansas is cooked
| This was brought about when the
govenvr signed the Amiss racing hill,
I which prohibits |h»oI selling <111 horse*
races within the state limits *»f Arkan
sas. a violation of w hlth, by the meas
ure, |s 1 •iisiltuted 11 felony and punish
able li\ .1 tim* of $.'*«*'* uml Imprisonment 1
for a term not to exceed si\ months
AT THE
BIG STORE
ONLY—we will tell any Buck'e Range
In our etore Friday and Saturday
ONLY at
Two
Days
$1 Down and $1 a Week
IiMAI'A If you want a GOOD Range now
^ your time—but Juat TWO daya.
A Toy Range
FREE
For the best reasons in 60
words why, in your opinion, you;
Buck’s Range is better than all
others, we offer a fine Toy
Buck's Range to the little girl
k you love. Bend in your an-
swer. We have receiv-
SwV ed h u n d r e d s, but
your'a may win the
SSsSwL prize. This conteit
■ySEyWXwt closes positively
Saturday nigbL
Send your an-
swers tod&y.
A
Special
Message to
Little Girls
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
To the Sport lug Editor nf Tin*
I'lwnst* |H«bl(sli nn aii»wi*r «•* t
f.*i a w rs*Hlllug Unit pi|ldl*ll«s|
iduUi * IWIS r. *•) J ltd'llh
I ni oi.l lb*’ s b.-itleiige trr ih**
V.U.Id UL ’ llM U lu VJttK* eff A*
MUENCH&
BEIERSDORFER
THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS
Diar.onda, Watchea, Jewelry. Flm
Wutch. Clock ; nd Jewelry Repair
ing.
59 Peachtree Street—Atlanta, Ga. I
= :i; Pl.c c till.
Be sure to see tliat your
mamma sends her answers this week. The
contest will close next Saturday. We hope
YOU’LL win the Range.
, This is the biggest Bangs week we’ve ever had. Remember only two days
more you can have any Range in our house for $1.00 down.
WAITER J. WOOD COMPANY,
, £03-5-7-9-11 Whitehall Street.
1