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Rm m 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. — NAT KAI8ER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANB ON VALUABLES. IS Oec.'.ur SL Kimball Houaa. 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. MUENCH& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Diamonds, Watchaa, Jewelry. Pin* Watch. Clerk end Jewelry Repair! Ing. gg Peachtree Street Atlanta, te a.i: Phone 1311. 1 GRANT SCHOPP. This little left-hander is tha man This slaver player did wall with Dayton, in the Cantral League, last on’ whom' Billy Smith ia going to depend to upset the Babblers _ and tha rest of ”tho olf-aido hitting bunch. Ho hallo from Ottumwa* lows. GET YOUR LUMBER FROM E. G. WILLINGHAM & SONS We deliver promptly and guarantee satisfaction. A full stock of Lumber, Saab, Doors, etc., on band. Prices are right. ] M2 WHITEHALL STREET.