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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, SATURDAY. MARCH 2, 1907. UP-TO-DATE NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. The weather since the recent Atlanta automobile hill climb haa not been especially conducive to automobile enthukiaam, but for air that the local car owners are so well pleased with their first road venture that they are casting around for something fur- ther in that line. The possibilities of running a road race are not consid ered very numerous. These events are the most interesting pos sible for the Hiitomohilists, but they are so hard on the spectators and the people who use the roads.’ If a road race were run out of Atlatna there would be a couple, maybe more, cars in it that could do fifty to sixty miles an hour on the level and never drop below thirty to the 'hour on any hill they would meet. Give these automobiles a clear road and they would put up as entertaining a race as any man could wish. Their chances of getting a clear road, however, are very poor. It takes tens of' thousands of dollars expended on regular and special police to clear the course for the annual Vanderbilt cup race. It takes troop after troop of soldiers to keep thy foreign courses clear for their hig races. And with all these protections accidents enn- . tinue to happen. It is practically impossible to hold a road race in this sec tion of the country. It is also out of the question to hold first class track races,.for there is no track in the vicinity large enough and with turns sufficiently liauked to give the motors half a chance. So about all that is left is hill climbs and endurance runs. Another hill climb may he attempted later this season. After all the new 1007 ears hit town there ought to he plenty of inter- eat in such an affair. The endurance run question is an open one. It is rather unfortunate” Itiartha South cannot lie provid ed with a run of some kind which would be to this seotioji of the country what the Glidden tour is to the whole country. x Of course the roads in the South are not udapted to fast running, bntTjardy tourists have covered most of the country and what has been done once can he done again. As an endurance run the (Hidden tours of last year and the year before were jokes. The ears entered were so strong and so well built and the roads so good that many of the cars finished with perfect scores. Over Southern roads perfect scores would be almost out of the question and there would he enough going over had roads to furnish plenty of excitement. It is unfortunate that.some sueh run hns not been attempted for surely it would be a big success. BIRMINGHAM BALL CLUB OF 1907 AS STRONG AS PENNANT WINNERS Vaughan Fills All Va cancies With First _ Class Players. Rlrmlnghnm, (he pennant winner of the Houttorn League laat year, opens up the aeason of 1(07 with the amall- Ml (if any In the l.u.ur ■ Only aeventeen. men will respond In Mnnager Vaughan's rail for players and - Adoxen cilka ia the South could be counted on to furnish Ht least two entries for a Southern run, to be held in late spring or early fall. With this number the affair would be an assured sue- eeaa. Such a totir would furnish a lot of enjoyment to a number of people, would teach the beauties of the South tu many people who-do their automobile touring nowadays in the North and would do more for the cause of good roads than ten days 'talk In congreaa.-—— ' Prospects Unusually Rosy For Baseball at Sewanee 6p*cUU to The Georgian. Sewanee. Tenn., March 1.—'With Old Lem Bailey aa coach, a *ood achedule (which Includes three fames In At lanta) and a lot of first-clan material, baseball prospects "on the mountain" are rosy enough. The gamea scheduled thus far fol low: April 10 and 11—Howard College, ot Birmingham. In Sewanee. April 1§—University of Georgia, In I'Athens. April II and 20—Georgia Tech. In 'Atlanta. (Double-header on the sec ond day.) May 3 and 4—Vanderbilt, at Se wanee. May 9. 10 and 11—Vanderbilt, at Nashville. May 24 and 25—University of Ten nessee. In Knoxville. The final arrangements have not yet been made for the dates of April 25. 26 and 27, but the probability are that these games will be played with the Missouri School of Mines, the contests to be played at Sewanee. From present Indications, there are to be six of last year's players to re turn. these being Captain J. \V. Scar borough. third base nnd pitcher; Stone, first base and pitcher; George Watkins, outfielder and pitcher; Wadley. catch er: P, H. Penlck and Elsele, In the out field. The positions of Captain Whent. all- Southern captain and first baseman of the team of 1906; Sparkman. the "Graceful Charlestonian." well known for hts pitching; Gordon, at shortstop; and Sawrle. at second base, will be hard to replace, but a great deal Is expected of the two new men. Shipp und Lewis, for second base and short stop, respectively. NOTES OF SPORT. The Northern t'oppfr Country Bn*elinll l.cittftif tins fixed upon Winnipeg, t'nluuiet, llouKhtou, Fargo. Duluth snd Dike t.tmlen to make up Its circuit this vesr. The season Is •rlioilulei! (,> ojwmj Mat- hi. Hurry llowell nml Jock OVonnor, of the Ht. Louis Americans, pick t'lovelnnd to win the peunsut. Maine old thins e\ery spring- t'levelnnd the number mid all the other ten ms Idn tike. .Inines McCormick, owner of the champion CiiIoiimwii team of the l\ O. M. League, Is totally blind, lie never iiiIknc* ft game, nnd a compaitlou describes to him each play. | hold it together Is a feat worth talking I about. Andyetthere 4>e 4ho»eof m -who would bet «tir last penny that Birming ham is not going to win the pennant this year. The tegm ls golng to be a wonder, though. Htrfi’a the Team. Lee Garvin nnd Harry Meeks of last year's catching staff, am back. Pitchers Wilhelm, tha no-hlt phe- nora; H. D. Clarke and Arthur Bagsn will also return to the Baron's camp. Lew Walters will be on hand 'to play second base again: Oyler will presum ably be at ahofffctop: Boy Montgomery will be at third bane again and the 1906 outfield la Intact, with Molesworth, Gear and C. Smith all reasonably sure to be back In the fold. All Harry Vaughn had to do to make his team as strong as it was last year was to fill the places of Matthews and Fnlloe and to get a regular man for first base. Evidently he decided to take a chance on Garvin and Meeks at catch ers, for he signed no new ones. To cover first base he traded Mat thews for Lister of Portland. Oregon. This man Is about the only puxzle of the outfit. If he fills that first base gap Vaughan’s team Is all there. ft»r Harry Matthews’ place Is practically filled and Hullec will not bo greatly missed. 8oms Fist Youngsters. Although there were no other gaps in the pennant grabbers, Vaughan wise ly decided to mnke all his men hustle, so he purchased Bill Ilruner. of Meri dian. Miss.; drafted Vincent Turner from Charleston, 8. C.; drafted L. C. Gardner from Meridian, and signed Al- -twn Boetlinger.—tt—< 'InelnnaH ' semi- pm.” Bruner and Turner are pitchers, and both will be given a try at the vacant place on the Birmingham staff. Both did well In small leagues In 1906, and will, perhaps, make good In the South ern. Hoettlnger wllll be given a trlul In the Infield. The last we heard Oyler was bucking on the salary proposition and had refused to sign. If he keeps Baron Team Sure To Make Good Race Forlhe Pennant. mlnyhum would not have been at the top. , However, that proposition I* not one which can be proven, no let It go. Give Blrmlnaham enough luck and the Barone will win the pennant. Give them enough hard lurk and they will t^ARt-OS SAHTH. - Thi. 1. our old frlond Carlo,. Ho olippod in Tho Georgian ono day a, "Eetonoton" Solloo, But thora I, no chonco to miotoko o man wlllrr lhapo liko C. Smith',. every mnn on the team, with the ex ception of "Silent'' Bailee and Harry Matthew., will be bock to try again for the old places. Harry Vaughan hna something of a cinch this year. To manufacture a pennant winner, jm he did, and then M’CAY AFTER VANDYPLAYER MAY SIGN "BEEF" DAVI8, A COM MODORE STAR OF A FEW 8EASONS AGO. Iternle Moray, who left today for Mobile, may sign "Beer' Davis, the old Vanderbilt player nnd conch, for a trial with Mobile this spring. Da\ls played five years on the \ an- ilerhllt tettm, back 111 the days of (•runtland Hire und the other stars of that period, and frequently caught for "Noodles" Hahn, when that southpaw star wus playing hall around Nashville, Iiavls was one of the best college ■ateliers the South has ever turned out. anti as a conch he did well, piloting the Commodores to two victorious sen- sons. Lucky Loucks in Form Again; Baseball Happenings in Afacor gpclal to Tbl OMrjIflii. Mseou. <)•:. Mnreh L—Sylvester trucks, letter known to Maeon fmnloiu e» “I.weky” (joiickn, will remain In Macon until the bad weather la «rer and then be will report to Tlaiuiger TJnTih n( Memphis. Lourk* hns been In Mneoii nil the winter and la In good condition It will lw» remetuhered tUat-he played In bad luck lust sen son ou neocunt of sickness itt the Iwjfiunlitg of the sen sou. In addition To This, htx forefingerwnx broken. It wm for this reason flint be wus released by llllly Nmltb. but wus Immediately slgued by Ualdi, with whom he made good. The Cleveland tenn) will arrive In Mnroti on March H with nil the players except the old pitchers, who wll l»e given a week’s practice In Hot Springs before they arrive Instills city, March 20. They will lie given every chance for effective practice at Cen tral City park, and will also have ample op portunity to work out with the Mncou team. Wood, I’epe and Harris have wired Malin ger l.lpe that they have left on the Oeenu Meamshlp Line for Kuvuuiinh. where they will arrive In n few days nnd from thence they Will report to ,M*c«n» st <one. Manager l.lpe has nuiiouured that lie has reeel veil the slgued contract of Johnny ItnmmerL the fast little fielder who c abort lu such fine style laat aeason. it 4q niert sent a letter to Maaager Llpe ,,, terday and onld that be was ready to when wanted. _____ Tt Wfli Thought Tfilt Llpe would no: mlile to land Itammert on account of | (i . family ties lu Diulslaua. It will la* r*n.,. Uk . beml? thul Bnmmertflxkeil for hu ^^^. a short time ago, and It was thought he would ipit l»e able to play with Ma« th*a year. Itnunuert was one of the finest sh.>rr« the league last season, bla only weakti* being at the twit, Init this year he hope* Improve hi that particular, and It he *i, It will class him among the atnr short of the league. Th|a makes the number players trying for fchort three—Pnt|,. UCr Ilominert and I’epe. Pinns for t!»e early mpruluf leagm Mneoti wdl be discussed at it meeting lie held euriy next mouth by the bntiehall promoters of the city. At this seastnn tb# tun lingers and captains of the clubs whirl linve been in the league In the pah' lie present. Representatives from th»* )U glcs and Klks will lie asked for. It tended to organise a strong six or ~ixfa? dub league. So clubs will In* admitted after the opening game. The league will get u n .|« way about the middle of April. Junior Teams Get in Line To Accept Georgian’s Offer That the juvenile bail qilnyern are as Interested in a league and an organlxed rare for a'handsome pennant ns their older brothers Is certain. lift?_ere the views of a Pulliam street enthusiast! Atlanta. Gn„ Mareli 1. Sporting Editor Atlanta Georgian: think the Idea of organizing Junior League a tale one and would gladly help organize It If so ie one would help me. I ain get ting up a team that 1 think would win the pennant. If here is any other amateur with me In this, please write me, and let's sec what we can do. Yours truly. JOE LEWIS. 264 Pulliam Street. A junior league takes a world of work to get started, and there are al ways innumerable squabbles and the weaker teams fluke out. and alt.), gether there I, lots of trouble and lot, of fun for everybody concerned. However, such n league Is nltngeth.r practical and one ought to fan ureas- IzecI. If some llmlt--say, 16 years old of under—-nos agreed upon and absolutny adhered to. It Is possible to get team, which are evenly balanced and which play first-class baseball. These yotin,. sters would put up a nice race for thi pennant and furnish plenty of amuse nteqt for a lot of Interested friend, of relatives, as well as plenty of eierdx for the players themselves. The Georgian will give a pennant, provided a junior league Is organized and a season completed, and would be glad to hear from any other manager, who plan to get up teams within the age limit. --PITCHER WILHELM. __ H«e»4e Hiemi«ph,m'. star twirtsr who wilt be beck with the Vaughn- itea again thia year. Ha ia one of tha cleverest and most popular players in the (vague. flnleh absolutely last. But with aver age luck they will—well, nobody knows. Anyway, you can pin this away for reference: BIRMINGHAM IS GOING TO BE RIGHT THERE IN THE PENNANT RACE FROM FLAG FALL TO FIN ISH. Cenyto, with all raqiraxai* of the Nabooal Pure Food Law, Guarantee No. 2041, Bed at Washington. Advice of the l&rgett coffee dealers in 6ie world it always to buy the old- fashioned Aibuckles’ ARIOSA Coffee in the sealed packages. Don’t ad foe a pound of Mocha and Java, or buy b; ___ for CoUce fluctuates and you cannot get the nine coffee (or the tame pneeafl the time nclen you pay too much for it. Most of the to-catted Mocha and Java Coffee is amply masquerading, and is not neatly os good coffee (or you as Arbuckle* ARIOSA. the blend of the Coffee, most suitable to the lode and health ol American people. By the looks there i* no difference between masted Java and Brazilian Coffee,; many people drink BraziKan but p»vfor Java. The principal difference is that Arbuckle,* cost, you 1cm. ft is a mistake to believe that a high price guarantee! quality. When you buy Aibuckles’ ARIOSA Coffee, you get a fuB one pound package of the leading Coffee of the world. It* sale, for 37 yeti, are greater than the combined sale, of all the other packaged coffees. By giving belief Coffee for the mooey, we have built up a business exceeding the combined businesses of the four next larged coffee tnsu b the whole world. If your dealer will not supply the genuine, write to arbucxle bros . n« v«t Go. C. MOLESWORTH. Carlton ia ona off tha 8outharn League vatorana. Ha haa played good ball with both Alabama clubs. up that rncket, like* aa not Roettlnger will 1m* Riven a serious chance to make himself useful In the Infield. However, he will have to beat out Forbes Alcock, who Is down on Manager Vuughan's list ns n utility man. Gardner, the Meridian player, is an outfielder, anti If the rumor that Dale Gear Is not going to play this year Is true, then Gardner will probably be slapped Into the outfield and kept there If h«* Is nf anv use at all. And there’s your Birmingham dub for 1907. Wax It Skill Or ? Well grant you that It Is as strong as last year’s aggregation. Then. tf« It won on Its merits last year, and If none of the other teams have strengthened over hist year's form It Is a case of another pennant for Birmingham. With all due regard to Vaughan and his men. It seems, however, that luck played a pretty good part In the 1906 pennant MANY TEAMS ORGANIZING EAST POINT WILL BE THERE WITH SPEEDY BALL TEAM. null clubs lii AiIhiiIii nnd the vicinity Ir I whig organised rapidly. With tin* prospect* of n couple of league i operation, tin- ball players with maim gerlal dcwlgii* arc dinslng around aft *r t!i< likely player*, and Iteforc long all tin* renll; -egentlv held a it Mast Point. plains Its.If: 27 J. A Wit cMptnln; J II lltirgi i*liftlh*itBc* to J. A. the March 1 -To the Stmt otglnn: The Bust l*ol nrgitniKcd on Felirun manager; G. II. Ila |v to plav anv nmntoi ’ April 15 Addle** i WAUltl’.V Manager. •Kn*t Point, tin." News of Dick Crozier and Other Baseball Notables Dick Croxler. the ex-.^tlanta ball player, is In Atlanta for a short visit -fibtT wniW* here WTTT d»»UT>rh*s« moke definite plans for the season. Dick wants to pln.v with Atlanta, for he has a business here and figures that he could combine It with baseball very nicely. But he says that he* does not care to play baseball with Atlanta for less than he Is worth. Just because he ha* cer tain ties In the city. It I* evident that the ball club nnd Dick place a different value on Ills services ns n ball player and there Is little hope that the two parties to the possible agreement will get together. Dick has a good offer to play with another Southern League club nnd a better offer to go to another league. He also has a gtmd proposition to return to Wake Forest for another ye.tr. Just what he will do remains to be decide.!. Manager Dobbs, of Nashville, has signed a player named Henry Legen- ous. He Is also closing a deni to sell Frary to Decatur. III. Bob Wallace has asked Billy Smith A»r his release. William, however, fig ures that the release of such a man is worth money, and refuses to give It for nothing. He has offered to sell Wallace to Indianapolis, but does not figure that the American Association team wants him that bad. So Bobby will import. Says The Enquirer, of Cincinnati: The fans of Connersvllle. Ind., ore In mourning on account of Irish Llnd- sley signing a contract with Ed Run- slck. manager of the Augusta club. Ltndsley Is a prime favorite with the tuns of I’onnerstllle. and his host of friends predict that this will be banner year Vicksburg has landed Lolly., o vet known Ohio ball player. Wonder this Is the Southern League Lolly? fine thing only we.ask of the Knsttrt division clubs of the Southern locaitu« this year—don’t let "Cheaty Charltf Babb win the pennant. At this stage of the game he Is a lit* tie too certain.* * Cleveland has swapped Catcher Ruf- low for Second Baseman O’Brien, of tin 8t Louis Americans. O’Brien will do .the utility role. In a»! probability, and gives Manager Lsjnk the much-desired understudy for him self In the utility role. A* March ’29 Is n legal holiday rn Conn** Heat, It menu* mans nice ’’easy nmn*\C for the lift selrn 11 clubs. Jjist yesr the New ark cluli took down WOO ns Its share el (lie Flint Huy game In Wsterhury. Billy Ityan. of Syracuse, nnd I etc Pouch erty ore matched for n Imut to he puliH off In Wllkcslmrre March 11. MUENCH& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS OKmondi, Watehe,, Jewelry. Fine Wjtch, Clock znd Jewelry Rtpsin Ing. 09 Ptachtree Straat——Atlanta, 6a a,i; Phono 1311. ce and that without It Blr- I j RACES NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans. March 1.—Here are the results of todav's races: FIRST RACE—Schrocder’s Midway, 11 to 5. won; Golden Wave. 2 to t. second. Quugga. II to 10. third. Time. 147 i-:. SECOND RACK—Elvira M . 5 to 1. won. luck Rose. 6 to I, second; Grem- se. 1 to 3. third. Time. :50 3-5. THIRD RACK-sir Toddington. I to 3. won. Rusk, 7 t oP>, second. Joe Fal len. P» to 1. third Time. 1:09 4-5. FOURTH RACE—Bcalplock. 13 to |0. won: John Ganlner. R to 6, second: Feter Knight. 4 to 6, third. HOT SPRINGS. Hot Spring*, Ark., March l.—To day’s races resulted ns follows: FIRST RACE—c. H. Shilling. 2 to 1. won: Torso. 3 to I, second; Waterlock, 3 i»* 5. third SECOND RACE—Erebus. 9 to 2. won; Billy Bowlegs. 1 to 4, second; Wntugu. out. third. THIRD RACE—Dulweber. * to 1. won. Campan. I to 1 second, Theodo- cio, even, third. BERNIE M’CAY WILL ACT THIS SEASON AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GEORGIAN IN THE COTTON STATES LEAGUE Rernle McCay. the b- ll player-manager who leaves Friday to take charge of the Mobile team In the Cotton States League, will be the special representative of The Georgian In that league. MtCny will serve. In addition to The Georgian's regular staff of c-r- respondents In the Cotton State* cities, and with the aid of his servl' ,#,< thi* paper hopes to cover the ('itton State* League as fully In the futut** as It ha* the Southern League and the South Atlantic In the past. Mr. McCay has promised the Atlanta, readers a weekly lettsr from tic Colton States, written with a special view of Interesting Southern League readers; nnd no man l* better fitted to write such a letter than Mr. M* * Cay. He not only knows tm*ebali from end, to end. both as a player and a* a student of th** game, but he likewise is a writer of considerable ability, und can be counted on to turn out letters which will be highly Interesting The Cotton State* I* practically a Mississippi league these days, and I* .»f no espetlal local Interest to Atlanta readers; but tnAny Southern boy* are playing In the organisation nnd many of the best players In tiu 1 Southern League are drawn each year from the Cotton States. In addition to corresponding for The Georgian. Mr. McCay will repre- r **m The Commercial Appeal, of Memphis, and probably a New Orleans paper as well. BERNIE M’CAY. • NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Osc'.ur St. Kimball Houis. 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