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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEW8, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1907.
BOTH TEAMS PREPARING FOR FRIDA VS CONTEST
1 SPORTING PACE EDITED BY PERCY H, WHITING
BjrPDUJY E. WH1TIH0.
Guess the weather mao haa a alight grouch. Handed ua some-
thing pretty nice at the jump. And now—no, not a lemon exact
ly, but anyway n pretty sour orange.
Cheer up. though, the worat ia gone and unleaa it actually
raina it will be poaaible to work aome. Theae changea in temper
ature, though, play particular picklea with aoft but expensive
■alary wings.
Did you go oujt to see the new Crackers work Monday? Look
** The new men all seem promising and the old men have turn
ed np in fine trim. ...
Old Sidney Smith ia the fittest looking man in the bunch. It
ia a regular ahame to look as healthy aa Bid does. He haa turned
up ten pounda lighter than he was last season and every pound he
ia carrying now ia bone and muscle. Sid has been playing polo'
and hunting all winter and ia hard aa a boarding house ateak.
Sidney ia going to make another effort to lead the league and
it will doubtleaa take fancy batting to beat him.
“If you keep it up you go to the big leaguea in the fall," aaid
somebody to Sid.
“No I don’t," aaid Sid. “Because I don’t want to. Playing
ball up there ia too much like work. They take it too seriously.
Playing ball down here ia fun, and here'* where I’m going to
stay."
Zeller ia looking pretty chipper too, and ia snorting a pair
of blue and white stockings that will be the envy of every college
ball player who sees him. Rube seems to be all there with every
thing he had last year and right at the jump he was burning
them over with plenty of steam.
Becker, the new outfielder, is a sturdy proposition with a
build like Jim Brown, the old Memphis pitcher, and with a bat
ting crouch like Carleten Moleaworth. Unleaa somebody's dope
ia wrong he'll “do.”
Sweeny, the catcher from the South Atlantic, is a fine looking
husky chap and ought to develop into a wonderfully good oatch-
' Faakert, the ex-Central League outfielder, ia a young looking
and rather alight chap, but be handlers himself well, and Manager
Smith is enthusiastic over his work. Schopp, the only southpaw,
is another rather small man, but he seems to have plenty of bone
and mtibcle, and Manager Smith is banking on him.
The arrival of Spade lifted a load off the minds of local fans.
Spade and Manager Smith could not get together on the aalary
question and there seemed to be a chance that Spade would kick
over the traces and tangle the local baseball harness. He landed
Monday noon, however, and will be with the team this year pro
vided he makes good. He looks fit and in trim, like the rest; and
can doubtlessjump right in and do business in a few days.
There they go again, cutting in on our preserve.
Since the spring of 1903 we have always had the honor (t)
of starting the first real baaeball writers’ row. And here goes
Will Hamilton, of The New Orleans Item, accusing Birmingham
baseball moguls of doing “queer business,” and Atticus Mullin, of
The Ledger, comes back with a warm one to the effect that Ham
ilton, or hia stuff or something “briatlea with fabrications," and
now they’re off!
Poor imitators all of them. Just wait till Atlanta starts some
thing. Then there’ll be language and plenty of it—and it will be
talk that will make words like “fabrication" look like fleeting
compliments.
Ratchford and Babb have not yet come to terms. The ex-
Sally may as well give the game a whirl. He is no Hal Chase or
George Stone and the Memphis management has him backed in a
corner.
Oyler and Aleock bluffed up to “ticket time” and then
wired Vaughn that they would play. They usually do. It takes
a major leaguer to hold out beyond reporting season.
In order to complete his collection of nomenelatural phenom
ena Charley Babb has signed Noah Henlienc. “Hen” is an out
fielder and played with the Kitty League. Washington drafted
him once but changed its mind and gave him up again.
NUPLAND RECRUITS ARE
SHOWING UP VERY WELL
By ED F. BANG, of
Macon. <•»., March 12.—It look* very
much aa If Charley 8omer», one of the
owners of the Cleveland Napa, ta a
trust magnate At leaat. he appear*
to have txtuRhl up Old Hot, judging
from the brand of weather handed out
here M<»ndny Everything In hie Block
of warmth and glow wan ehowered
upon Manager l«ajote and his men. If
the weather of Monday Is any crite
rion of what may b** exp«*ct»»d during
the training trip. It will not ho the fault
of the old fellow if the Naps do not
win the pennant.
Mr. Homers wu* an Interested specta-
tor at the practice, lie did not watch
Lajote. Bradley. Turner nor any of tho
other veterans He knows well what
they can do. He contented himself
with following almost every move of
the recruits he haa gathered together
*t a great expense
Berger cost the Cleveland club $1,000.
Hlnchmon. $3,too, and IVrrtng. $2,500.
Ltebhardt alto represents a big Invest -
ment. ■*>
Bo me re was well pleased with the
form displayed by the new men. Lleb-
hardt Is In splendid form right now.
while It will only be a few days until
Berger rounds to. Both these pitchers
look good, while Thlelman also looks
aa If he has an excellent brand of
goods up his light sleeve
Buff Ehman. the Akron O. and P
League pitcher, who may wear a- Nap
uniform In ItOI, handles himself well
and Bomera manifested great interest
The Cleveland Newt.
In the youth who uorka like big Earl
Moore.
Hlnchman and Birmingham In the
outfield and O'Brien In the Infield came
In for their share of attention. The
two former are clever fielders. They
ure off with the crack of the bat. and
although It was the first day, their
Judgment was unerring. O'Brien Is
still slightly lame and did not exert
himself to any great extent. Perrlng,
who Is a big fellow, has the earmarks
of a great player. No matter which
a kithi pia>er. .no mat ter wnten
nf the two men land* thw berth as
utility Inllelder. Cleveland will be
Stronger In this respect then ever be
fore.
Manager Lajnlo will continue with
hue one practice dally until-Monday
or nest week. Hy that time the play
ers will have given the kinks nnd en
tanglements In their muscles the cold
Shoulder and can get down to real bual-
ness and two workouts each day will
be ihe program from then on. The
Naps are scheduled to play their first
regular game Haturday, Macon lining
UP ngatnst them. No games have
been arrunged with Mercer College as
yet nnd it la not likely that there will
tie anything doing unleaa Mercer should
dim the Macon team In Ihslr game
Hal unlay
All of the Napa were confident that
Dusty Rhoades would sign just aa
soon ss he learned that Joaa had coma
into the field and they are hoping
agalnai hope that Elmer Flick will also
eiperlence n change of heart.
FOUR NEW MEN REPORT
TO MANAGER PERRY LIPE
E pedal to The Oeorglan
Macon. Gw, March II —Pitchers Hoas
Balm and "Wild Bill - Clarks reached
Macon and reported for duty ty Man
ager Upo last night The early morn
ing train brought Frank Rhoton. sec
ond baseman, and Nl^k Harnlah, catch.
ar. to (ho oily.
i to (bo oily. \
Mandeb la suffering kith a stiff cold
but otherwise the quartet la In splendid
form.
Aa mailers now stand all Macon man
an* on hand hut Jack Hoblnaon and
Quiflrldrr Hhumann.
Cleveland la still looking for word
from Elmer Flick, who la In Florida,
where he played "hotel league" ball
during tbq winter.
SMITH MAKING PLANS FOR
OPENING CONTEST FRIDAY
AGAINST GRIFFS YANKS
With* eleven Crackers In the local
pack. Including the manager hlmaelf,
Billy Smith la beginning to make plana
for the opening game. Thle comeat
come* on Friday with the New York
team- and It means a big hustle to get
the aggregation In running' order for
that engagement.
However, Smith has about doped out
a line-up.
O'Leary or Sweeny—perhape both—
will catch. Sid Smith will hold down
first, Castro will be at second. Ball at
short; Dyer. If he le here by then, at
third, and Paekert, Becker and Wal
lace In the outlleld. 1
Of course none nf the pitchers will
g 'o In for the full game and It will not
e until the last minute that Manager
Smith will decide which of his t wirier*
wlit take the opening ehot at the Yan
kees.
Sid Smith at first and Castro at sec
ond la likely to be the regular thing
until April 1, when Jim Fog an^ Otto
Jordan retire aa coaches and return to
the festive baaeball game. However.
Bid Smith may be relieved at the Initial
sack by aome of the other catchers.
The absence of Jordan will give
Smith a ilrat-claas chance to try out
Castro.
IF GRIFFITH DOES NOT COME ACROSS
DETROIT GIVES B. SMITH TWO PLAYERS
AND TRAINS IN ATLANTA NEXT SPRING
It begins to look aa though Clark
Oiifflth will come across with that
much-needed pitcher.
In fact fan talk haa It that Castle-
ton. the young left-hander, may be the
man Orlftlth will leave. In order to
make good his claim on Atlanta for a
training ground next spring.
And if It la not Castleton, says tile
same rumor. It will be Ilia lengthy
nibs Cy Barger.
What Orlffllh thinks about It he
does not say. but he left Tom Hughes
with the Crackers leal year and may
leave aome other man this year.
If Urtttlth does not leave a player
rlih Atlanta to look nut for his claim
on the local park It Is known positive
ly that Detroit hackers stand ready to
leave one or two. Of course It la not
admitted that they are doing so to
grab Ponce de Leon from the High-
landera, but that's the way It looks to
an uutslder. '
HE BATS 80ME.
GEORGIA TEAM
STRONG
THE BIO CATCHER.
LOOKS
«n»rfal to Tho Georgian.
University of Georgia, Athens, Oa..
‘March II.—Of course, It's almost Im
possible. after seeing a college team's
flmt performance of the seasons to dope
I It out what the team Is going to do on ;
the whole season, but Judging from j
■Saturday's game. Georgia Is going to
’ have a great team this year, and the
teams played-this season have got to
' hump themselves some to beat Georgia
.out.
• The 'varsity showed more team work
! than la usually exhibited by a college t
iteam at this stage of the game. The;
| Infield, composed of t’aptaln Brown as
catcher. Lee on first. Derrick at sec
ond. Martin at short and Hodgson at
• third, la probably us swift an Infield as
any found on a Southern college team
. today.
I In the outfield. Marcus McWhorter,
1 who led the team In batting laat year,
,nnd who secured two out of the six hits
yesterday; Cobb, who played as a sub
: on the team two years ago. and Graves,
' who was Georgia's star punter on the
i football team last fag. and Is by the
way a good pitcher, too—all showed
j wHI.
; For pitcher there la a stiff fight go-
• Ing on between several men. Redfern.
: Foley, Harman and . Graves are the
' most prominent candidates for this
i Job.
• Dick Hyland wants to box Young
Corbett und Jimmy Britt In the same
! ling at the same time. What makes
! lighters think of so much foolishness?
DOINGS OF THE YA NKS
Red^'p^o^dS™" 0 * " mA ' r W “ much of “>• muchnea. „Wb. .
. The weather was The kind doped out especially for baseball — '
Si mSd^season style. ** om the JumpB *** down «*• stretch in reg^
meat* toSnro* a’ffftoSThS rUSdaYo b2£ ,Urt *° flnl,h and
-rWJr 1
around fast and the lame muscles era rounding iback tato ml trtm ^
sarararjnarasswS*«
PUNCTURING THE PNEUMATIC
By BOZEMAN BULGER, of Tho Now York Evening World.
^ «•» «r > tennis
now haa punctured the boom of tho
pneumatic ball and another now-fan-
Kind scheme le adrift. For four days
the Highlanders have experimented
with the new Invention and It won lota
of friendo. but from the outoet It didn't
look sood to Klberfeld, who llkfeo lo
hear the ball ring when the bat meets
It with a sood wallop. Somethlns In
that. too.
The new ball haa In the renter a
chamber of compressed air Just the
same alxe aa the little rubber ball,
which la used aa a center for the or
dinary baaeball. The ball aa a conse
quence la very hard, and when riven a
ahnrp rap Is liable to break an lafleld-
er's hand. It can be hit much further
than the rerulatlon baseball, but there
la no tins to the blow. When struck
by a bat the contact gives out a mushy
ball. In wairht, alse and reneral ap-
pearance the pneumatic ball can not bo
dlatlnsulahed from tho regulation artt-
* ur, * c * "rapping and tho
horaohlde cover la just the aarao.
The detnlae of tha new diacovary
S*"L e „? l ? ,ut ,hrou « h ‘ho anxiety of
Jack Kle/non- to get In one rood wallop
before the boom burst. While Orlffllh
woo pltchlnc the pneumatic ball Klal-
now caught one of hlo benders squarely
on the trade mark and the air-tight
pill shot over left Held fence fully tlfty
feet above the top rail. It rolled up
the car track and a conductor on ff
pasalnr car snatched It aa a tropljf
and. like our friend Maniuchl. of
steamboat fame, sailed away. Them
are no more pneumatic balls In Atlanta
and the Highlanders will get right back
to their old diggings.
ATHLETIC MEET FOR BOTH TEAMS
By 8ID MERGER, of Tha New York Qlobo.
Clark Orlffllh Is planning a novelty
aprlng training which, he thinks, will
j be an entertaining break In the rou
tine work and at tho same time brlitk
out aome athletic qualities In hla ball
players hitherto hidden for lark of op
portunity to display them.
drift proposes lo hold a dual athletic
meet at Piedmont Park next week,
members of the New York team to
i compete with the Atlanta players. The
C rises will be baaeball shoes, donated
y Managers Grlfflth and 8mlth. The
players ard quite .taken with the Idea,
nnd Trainer Mike Martin la already
coaching them In their specialties.
Among the evonts will be dashes to
drat base after hitting the ball, mak
ing a complete circuit of the baooo aft.
er hitting: 100. 220 and 410-yard'
straightaway dashes: hair mile run:
standing and running broad jump and
weight throwing. Borne burlesque fea
tures will also be Introduced.
There nre_ several good sprinters
od sprinters
eee./unnny Hoffman
- to win the'ahnrt sprints. Mika
Martin says ho will bock Louis Brackett
In the longer distances. Brockett Is
short and chunky, but has speed. Big
Cy Bargar and Ids long legs will ‘
prominent In the jumping contests. Cy
in do a hundred yards
Insists that he can i
In ten seconds flat. Everybody” was
from Missouri when he mads thla
statement.
1-
Y. M. C. A. GOLF PLAYERS
. TO HAVE A TOURNAMENT
The Y. M. C. A. will hold Ito first
golf tournament Saturday afternoon
over the Piedmont Park course. A
prise of s dossn golf balls has been
offered by F. O. Byrd.
All players will be placed a< scratch
unless before Friday they turn In to
F. O. Byrd, who wili do the handicap,
ping, three t-holo acures.
BECKER.
Besides managing the baseball team.
Frank Helee Is the pugilistic promoter
of Puebto, Colo. •
This man Is a Wonder worksr
with tha ash, and prsmiass to bs a
tarror to Southsrn Laagus pitchsrs
this ysar.
Ohio scribes say that "dost" Ander
son. the new "Pirate," lives In Indiana,
and Indiana scribes- say "Ooat" live.
In Ohio. Where do you live. Kid?
ED SWEENEY.
This man playsd good ball in tha
Sally Laagus last ysar, and looks
as though ho might dsvelop into a
wondar with Atlanta.
DOC CHILDS
HASLANDED
IN ATLANTA
Detroit Tigers Get Down.
To Hard Work at Augusta
"Doc" Chllilx 1* In
Tht chubby twlrler who pitched some
cracking food ball at odd time* for
the Atlanta tan in lu*t ytnr ha* re
ported at bttPebnll hoiwlqimitrra,
"Doc" wm a prominent member of
the down and out club la*t year during
ino*t of the *enson. He was unable to
E *t In condition, and in consequence
Illy tiniltli kept him under suspension
a good part of the time.
Child* Is In poor trim and leaves
Tuesday night for Hot tipring*, where
he will boll out for two week*.
Y. M. C. A. Baseball.
Wednesday evening a meeting of all
er* will be held at the Y. M. C. A.
building to make plan* for the com
ing season.
Augusta, Go., March 12.—The entire
Detroit team with the exception of Ty
Cobb ha* reported and Jennings now-
ha* twenty-five men from which to
pick a team. The equad already here
waa augmented laat night by the ar
rival of Captain Coughlin. 8am Craw
ford, Dutch Hchaefer, Ed. Sieve, Ed.
Killian, O’Leary and George Mullin.
Hard practice waa pulled off yester
day afternoon at the ball park. The
feature of the practicing was the hit
ting of Claude Roaemon, the stalwart
first baseman, who hit to the center
field fence for a home run and got
two singles besldea. Cobb will come
today.
NEW PLAYERS
ARE ON JOB
The new arrivals of the Crackcrclan
are Catcher O'Leary* who came In
Monday night, and Pitcher Bob Spade,
who landed Monday noon.
FISHER GETS
NEW PLAYER
Shreveport, La.. Murch 12.—Manager
Flatter haa xecured Edward Lewee, who
was manager of the Decatur, III., team
of the Kitty League last year. He
will captain tne Pirates thle year.
PROMISING VOUNOSTER.
"OUR SOUTHPAW."
Ex-College Phenomenon
Shines With Highlanders
A young man with hie trouser* rolled
up put up a fast practice with the
Yankees at Piedmont Park yeaterday
afternoon and made aueh an Improa-
alnn with Manager Urlfflth by the way
he handled hlmaelf that he waa in
vited to come out again and try for
the position of. utility man during the
training aeaaon at leaat.
The atar In dlagulae la Billy Wea
ver, who once performed for the
Huntsville club in the now defunct
Tennessee and Alabama League. He
la a southpaw' pitcher who won hla
apurs In hi* college days. Later he
pitched and played the outlleld for
lluntavllle and led the league In hlt-
tlng. Two year* ago he gave np base*
ball at a time when a brilliant future
In the big leaguea waa predicted for
him, lo travel for a Nashville com-,
menial home Stopping at the Ara*'
gon. he waa thrown In with the com
pany of New York players and got tha
fever. Despite tha fact that he had
not handled a baseball for a long lime
he displayed much cleverness In hla
itelding yeaterday and finished by
throwing some wide curves lo lrtt
Thomas.
JORDAN’S TEAM
MEETS DEFEAT
Thomaatnn, da.. March 12.—One of
the hardest fought games ever played
on the local grounds waa played Mon
day between O. M. C., of Mtlledgevllle,
and R. E. Lee. Otto Jordan came here
confident of winning by a good score.
HI* boy* ar* large and are a line lot
of player*. They knew the game from
A to Z, but In a few words the game
can be told.
"Long" Slower*, of R. K. Lee. fanned
g out of • men who faced him In the
laat I Inning*. In 9 Innings Stowers
fanned sixteen of Otto's pet*. Weldon
made one of the finest catches at third
ever seen on the local diamond.
Kid Howell, at ahort. played a alar
game and made 3 hits out of 4 time
Play at the Mountain.
The Y. M. C. A second basket ball
team will go to Stone Mountain Sat
urday to play olf the tie game with
the Slone Mountain tram. Thla game
will decide the leadership In the Y. 31.
K. Junior League.
MACON NOTES.
John Fox, the old-sland-by of laat
year's learn, ha* arrived, and will he
eeen from now on working out at Cen
tral City Park. John look* to be In due
condition and Hems to have toil (lone
of hla old cunning.
Inatead of meeting tha Gordon cadet
team tndav In Macon. Mercer will not
play the Barneavllle club until March
1». The dale for the game waa lefl
with Manager Moore, of Mercer, and
for several good reason* he made the
change.
Manager IJp*. of the local club, has
received the signed contract of deorge
Stinson. Thla la good news to the fans
In Macon, aa Stinson had been holding
oft for aome cause. Stinson I* a good
all round player, and no doubt will be
•sen again this aeaaon In bla old place
in light Held.
Karri* wks steady a* a clock nnd
■cored two runs by hla timely hitting.
For Q. M. Cm Hammond. Reynolds.
McLane, Barron, nnd Jordan played
the beat ball. McLane Is a southpaw
and was no easy mark, but R. E. Lee
secured 11 hit*.
R. E. LEE WIN8.
gp*ctal to The lleorgtau.
1 Thomason. Qa.. March 12.—The
Gresham High Bcliool players of Ma
con were out of their claas when they
met R. B. Lee here Saturday. The work
of Kid Howell, who pitched for R. E.
Lee, waa too much for the Oreaham
boys. The Lee boys ran up a score of
17 to 2 easily. , . _ ,
E. Lee pla»* lb* Georgia Mllt-
Erakin* Wins.
Due West. S. C„ March 12.—In an
Interesting hut one-alded game of ball
here Saturday afternoon Erskln* Col*
lege opened Ita baaeball aeaaon by de
feating the crack team from Piedmont
to the tune of lg to 1.
The stare for Piedmont were Cleve
land. Ross, and Oatean: whll* those for
Kraklne wen too numerous to mention.
However, Laval, Wldaman. and Orter
denerve special mention. Both teams
batted well. Kraklne securing It hit*
to Piedmont's 3.
Every one here feela confident that
Eraklne will win a large majority hf
her gamea thla year and all credit Id
given to Coach ‘Wily" Laval, whOM
hard work has wrought miracles with
the untrained material he found who!
he first arrived. The score:
he IIrat arrived. The ecore: R . H . E.
Eraklne *
Piedmont e 6 d
Two baas hlta for Eraklne, Otter,
Wldeman. Kirkpatrick, and Latlraar;
for Piedmont. Rnaa; t baa* hlta, for
Kraklne. Laval: for PladmonL Donald;
■truck'out by Braklnt'a pitcher. by
Piedmont's. 6: baa* on balle
klne'a pitcher.
i»»
by Piedmont’s, 3.
—
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Bargains in Unrsdaeinad Diamond*.
Academy of Mllledgavllle Monday
Th:
Lee—Matthew*, c; Howell, p;
Harper, lat; Lowe, td; Vibbert. aa.
Whalen, 3d: Hightower, left: Harp, c;
Bethel, r.
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