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ATLANTA’ GEORGIAN AND NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1907. FIRST GAME A GOOD ONE. SECOND SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING TODAY ByPKRcnr a whiting. On the strength of Friday’* showing the Atlanta team of 1907 will do. It looked pretty fair on paper when the full line-up w«* drat announced. It looked better' when the men actually put in an appearance. Hut it looks best now that the Crackers of ’07 have had their first public work-out. CRACKERS DEFEATED BY YANKS IN FIRST OF EXHIBITION GAMES Of course it was not any regular Craeker outfit nor had the team had aa much practice as their sdversaries. It was juat a flimsy pretest, an incipient imitation of the.real thing. Yet the bunch held down the fast New Yorkers fairly well, outhit them, outfieliled them and only failed in the much needed stunt of getting hits when hits meant runs. On Friday's performance i the Crackers are the hnrd-bitting things. Seven hits for thirteen bases off Hogg and Orth is clout- ing the sphere a few. And that Ball boy! The 'idea of the smallest man on the team walking to bat the first time for the Atlanta team and smashing out a four hag off no less a producer of easy grounders and pop flya than Albert Orth—he of the large physique nnd the smiling countenance. Becker, who is going to run Sid Smith hard for the honor of being the team’s best hitter, yanked him off a single .and a two bagger, and I’askert ripped off a couple of singles. Not so much on Friday '* dope hs ou general appearances and past performances if is here by predicted that the Crackers are going to be the hardest hitters of the longue. Sid Smith won his title of Superior Slugger Inst year nnd needs no further comment. O'Leary clouted them a few last season in the Weatern Aaaociation and looks the part of a swat- ater. Old Jim Fox on first is a dependable hitter. lie was doing it at a .300 rate when he was hurt last year and can repent. Otto Jordan ia a bandy man with the hat and has streaks of knocking the very homehide off the ball. Neal Ball has been hitting in yean past. So has Cnstro. Dyer is reported to he a awatfest performer extraordinary, and Hoffman ended last Reason g'ith soma select slugging. So it looks like a hard hittiug infield how ever it ia selected. George Winters ia a .280 hitter, year in and year out; Becker is a league leader with the stick, I’askert hit last year nnd looks like a wonder with the stick, while Wallnce used to hit in the South Atlantic and broke up at least one game in the Southern League last year with the bludgeon. So the outfield can bn count- on to paste the sphere. Both Teams Put Up First-Class Article of Baseball. HERE’S A MAN WHO CAN SWAT SOME Friday’s game ia only a faint indication. No pitcher is try ing to throw any fancy curves at this season mid, the Crackers were up against men who did not know their hatting peculiari ties. The new men stood right up to the bat ami pasted at the ball though in an encouraging fashion. If they .keep it up they will hit right along with any of them. The new men all looked good. O’Leary did clever work behind the bat, Sweeney filled in acceptably at first, Schopp pitched well, Ball was the handy man uround short, (’astro was the saino old fast-fielding “Count” at third. I’askert handled himself well in the outfield and mndc a nice throw to the plate in an attempt to intercept Moriarity Becker would doubtless have done as well, but the canny Highlanders did not send any thing out his way. If anybody has been downcast over the season’s prospects forget it. The team looks good. It may not win the |iennAnt. It takes fate as well as hall playing to do that. Hut it is going to be r team which will hold up its end and put up a good fight. And right now it is hard to dope out any other team in the league which is better or even as good. West End Stars Want Place In the Commercial League gam** m.irvfl*MiHlv well played for the Reason's opener the New York American* defeated tin* Atlanta team at Piedmont park Friday afternoon by •re of 5 t Usually the Aim exhibition name of a season la >« large, flit "ha-ha." Cool wind*, error*. changes in Ilne-up*. small crouds, and Jol;** h.nfebnlL generally make flietn thinks to smile at. nut both the Highlanders and the Cracker* got away with a rush Friday and played nhe tmsehull. Only three error* were ‘made and ull were ex- < usable. Atlanta did the star hitting but could not make the swats count. New York opened the run-making In the second inning with a tally. Hall knocked a home run In that Inning and tied things up New York put away three in the third, however, and after that hud easy sailing. Hilly Smith works’ll Schopp, Harley anti Sparks, and all showed well—es pecially 1 he "Mississippi Myth." who gave up only one lilt while In the box. The Atlanta line-up was slightly lerd, with a catcher behind the bat. another on first, and stilt another on mil, but good baseball was the order all the way through. Tbe box score follows* NEW YORK— Alt R nil PO A E Hoffman. l..f 4 Keeler, rf 2 Klberfeld. s- 3 Moriarity. lb 4 Williams. 2b 3 LaPorte, 3b 3 t’onrby, cf.... 4 Thomas, c 4 Orth, p 2 Hogg, p I This it Btcktr, •tar hitter of tho Lake Linden team, premier # bludgeon performer of tho Coppar Country League, and tha first man at bat for Atlanta in tho opening gomo of tho aoaaon. Local fana art counting on Back er to bo one of tho star hittera of tha laagua thia yaar. o 2 3 10 DOINGS OF THE YANKS THE YANKS HAVE THE GOODS By BOZEMAN BULGER, of Th« N.w York Evoning World. T«n days of hard work havr brought tho Highlanders Into such claying i oh- idltlon an will permit of an opinion as to their chances In the American League race of t»07. If they do not finish first. It can be sefely said that they will not finish worse than third. Any time a prophet can pick them either one, two, three or In the money he's going some. Baseball predictions Imre .queered more baseball writers tlinn nil the In- suability or Ignorance of the Kngllsh language known to the cult. Let the greatest baseball writer In the world pick tho losing team for a winner and he Is In wrong. ' Kear of all such consequences d-*, not deter yours very truly from saying Without hesitancy, that If the High.’ lenders do not finish one, two. three baseball clubs have quit running a r. cording to form and the fans are ag.nr, colling Jim McGuire "Kid." 11 . The American League team Is c , m . plete with the exception of Pha«» a! IIret base, And Frank Delehomv m left. Conroy Is fully able to till the bin In left and Morlarty Is making a very successful slab at holding down the Job made lofty by the wonderful formances of the gentleman from r,i:i. fornla. CLEVELAND HAS THE ONLY CHANCE The rent of tbe club 1* a* fast nnd reliable aa any net of players In the American league, and they hit well up toward the standard mark of .300. The Cleveland club would always hit. Rut when It comes to baseball Judgment and cleverness In the organisation and effectiveness of teurn work, they would have about as much chance us a rye | highball in a I>. T. convention. Leave out the Cleveland club, which | never finishes strong, and there Is no jclub In the American League which has Total ..30 6 6 27 15 ATLANTA— Becker, rf Warmer, cf... . Hid Hintth. 2b.. Paskert, If... .. Castro, 3b Rail, ss Hweeney. lb. .. O’Leary, c Hchopp, p Spark.*, p llarley, p 3 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 4 1 3 110 2 0 3 0 1 10 l 0 Emory Teams Are Selected And Schedule Announced Total .30 27 19 1 Score by Innings: R II E New York 013 Old OOO—r. H 2 Atlanta oio 000 OrtO—I 6 7 Summary: Two-base hits, Moriarity, Wllllsinw. Becker, Sweeney. O’Leary; home run. Ball: stolen bases. Elberfeld. Paskert; sacrifice hits. LaPorte. Hogg; double plays, orth to Elberfeld to Mo- rlatlty. Elberfeld to William*, to .Mo riarity; 1. Orth. 1; Hogg. 1; hit by pitched hall, by Schopp 7. Spark* I. Orth 2, Hogg l; struck out. by Schopp by llarley 3. by Spark* 1. bv Orth 2. by Hogg 2; wild pitches. Schopp I. Time, 1:50. Empire, Riggs. Special to Tbe Georgian. Emory College, Oxford, Ga., March 15.—The baseball season opens here Monday with games between the Juniors and Seniors, and the Sopho mores and Freshmen. The schedule Is as follows: March 18—Juniors v. Seniors; Fresh men v. Sophomores. March 25—Seniors v. Freshmen: Ju nior* v. Sub-Freshmen. April 1—Sophomores v. Subs; Juniors v. Freshmen. April 8—Juniors v. Sophomores; Sen iors v. Subs. April 15—Freshmen v. Hub*; Seniors v. Sophomores. April 22—Juniors v. Subs; Seniors v. Freshmen. April 29—Juniors v, Freshmen; Soph omore* V. Subs. May 5—l,eft open for field day. May 13—Seniors v. Hubs; Juniors v. Sophomores. May 2u—Senior* v. Sophomores; Freshmen v. Subs. May 27—Sophomores v. Freshmen; Seniors v. Juniors. The lineup* of the teams have been announced by the respective class com mittees, ns follows: Seniors—Pitchers, Stipe nnd Hanson; catcher, Simmons; first base, W. L. Ilryan; shortstop, McGregor; second base, P. E. Bryan; third base, W. A. Woodruff; outfield, Burt, Harvard, J. M. Woodruff. Juniors—Pitchers. Armour nnd Price; catchers, Jones; first base, Arnold; sec ond buse, Felker; r.hortstop, Smith; Ihlril base, Orr; outfield, Cle ments, W. C. Smith, Blair. Sophomores—Pitcher*. Burt and Greene; catcher, Drake; flmt base, D. L. Smith; second bane, Roberts; short stop. McCann; third base, Copeland; outfield. J. M. Bryan. Mobley, Beck with. Freshmen—Pitchers, llummnnd nnd Garrett; catcher. Bond; first base, Wood; second base, O. Clay; shortstop, A. Clay; third base. Partridge; outfield, Fox, Edmondson, Wesley. M’CAY DOPES OUT SITUATION DOWN IN COTTON 57 ATES LEAGUE By BERNIE M’CAY. Another candidate for one of The Ian's Leagues ha* turned up In S /est End Stars, an aggregation made a good showing In the •rclal League last year, nor Mlddlebrooks. manager of the writs*: ng Editor of Tho Georgian. At lanta, Ga. Dear Sir: I would Ilk* to state In of our boy* that tho West End Stars will go back In the Commercial League If we can. We are somewhat stronger this year than we were Inst, and by tho time the league reorganize* we will be able to hold our own. Tt’UNKR MI DHL! ’.BROOKS. Tho West End Star* will be a val uable addition to any league, and It Is certain that a place can be found for them In either the Commercial or City longue. ti Matty" Roasts Vaughn; Dug Up Castro Deal Ala all pennant races termed "Ims^all luck.” In this league the team which suffers the least amount of mishaps Is the one most likely to be on top. This Is the case In any Class I) league, be> cause they have tv» place to recruit from In case of emergency except the Independent nnd umateur teams. Ho look out for the team that has the least trouble In holding Its Ilne-up Intact The Jackson players have nearly all Special to The Georg!* it New Orleans. HsMi !« llarry Matthews, til* former lllrislngimiii • strlier, attributes hi* fa** with Vaughan to n reursraatlnn he had with Vaughan last summer, tn which he laid tha manager he would not play with Birmingham again, ”1 (old hint I Atf’d net stand for his methods any longer," antd Matthews, "and I hs Immedlatoly fried to ship me from the Mali# In tha flout hern l.ngm- were trying I nil ths liras to gvt ms. Little llock and I New Orlnnaa mads «“ Vtlle wanted me. t«*». If Vaughan had wanted to net fair with me nnd with th.* other clubs In the league he certainly could have found ss good a trade for me In the Houtli a* he did with I'crtlnud g|y auboe- quent sale by Portland to New Orleans proves thl* "When Vnugban tried to get me out served with ft good menu of wonder- ful exhibition stunts. Tho wise opes are having their nnnunl privilege of dop ing the probable strength of the teams. Fan feasts me the same year after your, und to stand and listen to three or four dyed-in-the-wool fan* prate about the prowess of thl* and that hull player Is akin to an Introduction Into a woman’s sewing circle. The same old • story Is going the rounds and you can hear the oft-re peated statement usually Mobile. March 16.—The past week has been reporting week, nnd the man age r* In the Cotton States League are busy deal- !"* " U * i reported, and among them Is the tnone>^ nnd pin* j <w inch j a} *i word might mean anything utiusunh "Bugs" Raymond He I* back again to his tlist love and he certainly hn* «i large place reserved for hint. And deservedly, tog. becuuse there I* m» gainsaying the fait that he pitched wonderful bull for Jackson un der Ace Stewart. A New On* on "Buga.” A story Is told ubout "Bugs” to the effect that on July 4. 1905. he was booked to pitch a double-header, nnd previous to the game, between 11 a m. and 2 p. m.. lie drank seventeen bottles of beer nnd ate a whole goose, and then pitched the double-header, allow ing only one hit In both games. Whit he would have done had he eaten two Reese and gulled thirty-four 'outties of beer i* only a matter «*f conjecture. Ie»ok out for Jncksoti If he repeats Ills 19o.\ |M>rfortu:ince In this league, is, the Jackson malinger ting their men through the trulning stunts. From this time on to April It. when the season opens, the fans class lio the let pie without cmuidtlng me I nntur ally felt badly over It. I am not trying to •tart any trouble, nnd mu tu*t bonmlue that I know n whole lot at tout Vaughan, but 1 don’t hesitate to m? that be didn’t play fair with mo .nut With the othe lug shake of the head. "The Icuguc Is going to be faster this year than ever before." Well, time will tell Faster Ball! Of court*! ^ ^ * lu,> Judging from the reports from • a|fl , u nnd played second for Jackson. I clubs. : the various training grounds, the play-(one of the best tickling second base list himself. and the n* score* 1 against the Capltollan* will few and far b*»t\ve« n. Meridian’* gain will l>«» Jackson’s Local Exhibition Games Go Merrily Forward The Cracker* nnd the Highlanders . meet again thin afternoon at t o'clock. 1 Hughe* will probably pitch for the "Rube" Zeller Is ex- I to perform for th* local team. The exhibition game* scheduled for next week arc; Monday and Tuesday, Macon. Wednesday nnd Thursday, Highland- Friday and Saturday, t’leveland. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, W« want orders for TIMBERS AND HEAVY FRAMING in car lots or loss. We can furnish orders of any size, also everything in mill work and dressed stock. G. WILLINGHAM & SONS.. 542 Whitehall Street. In tills league seem tq have been | men selected with greater care than ever tlon before, ami every Indication seem* to point to a brui*l!ig race. The vhanc are that the team that win* the t’ott States ttrnnnnt In 19«»; will In* the a most favored by that elusive factor from A to 7s. Tevls will have a Imrd Job replacing him, and Meridian will be strong thl* year In a place where they were weakest laat season. With Billiard and Pylant. of laat year’s stuff »h a nucleus. Sample’s hox- men should loom up. a quite formidable array. However, he will feel tho logs of Bruner nnd Gardner, who go *o Birmingham. Vicksburg it Stronger. Manager Blackburn, of Vicksburg, has corrulcd a likely bunch of young ster* with n goodly sprinkling of vet erans. Vicksburg CAN'T do any worse than last year, and the chances are that they will do a great deal better. Reab nnd Bishop are both reliable pitchers, and Blackburn himself can still twist them a few. Herotd on short 1* os fast as they make them, and Hooker and MfAvoy are both fast outfielders and good hitters. Manager Law, of Columbus, 1* keep Ing mighty quiet and little 1* known of his Ilne-up beyond the fact that he will catch. Red Wright, of laat year’s Mo bile team, will play first, and Huber, of Meridian, will handle short field. Gulfport seems to be the most feared team In the league und nearly every body predicts that the team which bents Gulfport will win the pennnnt. Mobile will have u good, fast aggre gation and expects to be In the run ning at ail times. By next week the first exhibition games will have been played, and then some kind of a line an be had on the strength of the teams. The Chicago Nationals, with Chance at their head, will be here for game* Monday and Tuesday. The fans of Mo. bile will then have a chance to site up their own team. real chance of beating New York. The Whlto Sox, of Chicago, though champions of the world, ore now. and were Inst season, an Inferior team to the Highlanders. Except In case of accident. Conroy Is a more valuuble man in left than l>el- ehanty, but Grifllth Is anxious to have the boy from Cleveland along t » h. Ip out in a pinch. In the first professional game ..f tt]» season the Highlander pitchers showed themselves equal to the occasion though they did not let themselves our The Highlanders found themselves U ii against a glittering assortment of « .uiv spring curves when they fared a v..un* left-hander called Schopp. nnd ft v.„ some time before they could get hen going. He had u very distinct variety ofothe "bean ball," and everv Ktp«. r who walked up to the plnte was afr.t I of getting Ills head knocked off until he was unable to hit the ball. Hitting these curves, however, gave the New Yorkers some good practice, and they feel much better from the experten< Now, don’t let Jl worry you. To* Highlanders have the goods this v.-ar. Take It from nie: MORIARITY SUITS ALL RIGHT By 810 MERCER, of Tho Now York Glob*. Plucking sour grapes Is a specialty that Is quite common at this time of the year among baseball managers who are trying to convince stubborn play ers that their services will not bring more than the regular market price. While Clark Griffith hands Hal Chase the palm as the American League’s best first baseman, the Yankee man ager does not intend to recede from hts stand, for In George Moriarity lie has a first sacker who would undoubtedly de- velop Into one of the bent In the busi ness. , Manager Griffith read Chase’s latent declaration which his reculeltrant first baseman made this week to Our Head Office Roy, but hail no comment to make. It begins to appear that th* deadlock may last all summer, and If thin proven to be tho case, I predict that tho Yankees will not lose the pen nant through any weakness at first base. If Moriarity continues In that po sition. This Is said with due regard to Chase's exceptional ability. Yesterday’s game with Atlanta leads me to believe that Moriarity In one sea son would develop so much that not more than one first sacker In the league would have anything on him. And un less hie judgment of experienced base ball linen goes astray, tho Chicago boy will develop Into a great hitter Mo. rlarty Is no bloomer. He Improved last summer and thl* year he looks like the real article. He Is broader nnd heavier, has confidence and brains and Is fired with ambition. He hit well In streaks last season. Griff Intends to teach him to use the short hat thl* year and believes It will help him as It did Chase. When Chase came to New York he was not n good hitter. It didn't take him long to develop once he got on the right track. The same should be trio- of Morlarty. He 1s a young man of excellent habits and takes excellent care of htmself. In yesterday * game he was the big noise among the Yan kees. He made one of.those stops of a bad bounder and even Chase could have done It no more neatly or grace- fully. He figured In the final act of three double plays and went In after a bunt once and turned It Into a force- out at second bate. But at the bat was where Morlarty put In his best licks. He mad* three hits—half the,, entire New York output —drove In two runs nnd scored two himself. The big fellow assumes a crouching position at bat. but when the ball comes over he straightens and hits It an Awful whack. This morning the Yankees were up early nnd put In a couple of hours **f hard practice at Piedmont Path Then they hustled back to-the hotel ami right after lunch got Into uniform again f >r the games here begin at 3 o’clock. A NEW YORKER’S DOPE ON THE GAME NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. IS O.c.tur St Kimball Moult. Bargain, in UnrodMinod Diamond, “KID” BURNS THROWS BEALE MUENCH & BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Oiamonde, Watch**, Jewelry. Fin* Watch, Cloek rnd Jewelry Reoair- Ing. M Peachtree Street—Atlanta, Ga. Bel; Phene Ull. "Kid" Hums, tho lightweight wreat- ler of Birmingham. Ala , defeated J. Brule, the l«>cal featherweight, Friday night. In one of the fastest matches that has been pulled off in Atlanta In some time. Burns* weight Is 16 pounds more than Beale’s, which was. of course, a handi cap to lleale. who Is In the feather weight division Burn* secured the first fall with a hammer lock and half Nel son. Beale took the second with a half Nelson, and Burns the third with a head lock. Both men are up to the standard at BARTL THROWS CHRISTENSEN Hpeclal to The Georgian. Nashville. Tenn., March 1C —Demon Bartl. champion welterweight wrestler of Canada, threw* Alex Christensen at trie Athletic Club last night beet two out of three. Bartl went on the mat weighing about 154 and Christensen 175. An Immense crowd witnessed the bout. Bartl meet* DemetraU the "Terrible Oreek." here on Friday night, next. The 2,000 Atlanta fans who assetn- , hatted flies out to Conroy until Mi bled at Piedmont Park yesterday were j tongue hung out from so much run- surprised by the good baseball. which both teams put up In the first practice game. There were few fielding breaks, nnd the Southern leaguer* slightly outhit the Yankees, but could not get their best blown In at the right time. Both Orth nnd Hogg took things easy. Orth handed up a few curves and now ami then rung In a "spit ball." Hogg used his fast ball almost exclu sively nnd had the batters Jumping back from It. None of the twtriers on either side had good control and several men were hit. The local pitch, era used plenty of curves and Imd some of th«^ Yankees swinging at the air. "Widow" Conroy did u tumbling spe cialty In left field an he turned to run back for a long hit In the seventh In ning. Griff kept him after echool. and when the game was over the manager nlng. Conroy played the outfleM terday with only two days’ practice Little Willie Newsome, the official mascot of the team, has written Grlf- who lltli a letter to make sure that his Job I* safe. Willie read In the New* York papers about the colored bo wanted to travel with the Yankees u his gambler’s finger to ward "ft luck, and he worried over It So wrote Orlff for assurance. "I know j haven’t got time to write to tn**," " r Willie, "but tell Ira Thomas t» ansi this letter and relieve me. I want Thomas Is Willie's good friend, and last night, after catching the game, the big backstop oat down and wrote m* little friend that the application of the colored mascot had been turned down. TECH DEFEATS B. H. S. TEAM The Tech baseball team won Its first practice game Friday afternoon when It beut the Boys* High School team by a score of 9 to 0. The box score follows: TECH— Wrights. 2b . . . Roberts, If Pratt, ss Knight, lb Brook*, p. nnd cf. Buchanan, c . . . Stewart, rf. . . Parker, p Davenport, p. . . Walden, p Drake, cf. and rf. TEN PLAYERS , . AT PRACTICE ADVANCE GUARD OF CHARLES TON FORCES SHOWS UP AND THE TEAM GETS BUSY. ah. Totals 33 B. II 3 — Rice, 2b 4 McGovern, s*. . . 4 Lockridge, 3b. . . 4 Smith, p 4 Keen, rf 3 Cape, If 4 Brady, rf 3 Holms, lb 3 Landrum, c. , . . 3 Special to The Georgian. Charleston, 8. C, March 16 --W i Matthew’s, manager of the ton team. Is working ten men *•» r * * They practice four hours every da*- The Charleston players tnls^ng a • Pitchers Willis and Morrissey. * n - t ,h- ers Hunter. H*nneger, Llndsev. ‘ er Fox. Fielders Raftery and Fox nnd Raftery are due tonight, but Hunter are expected by M“ n '; • ut Matthews will have the 1 ^ down to fourteen men by April The manager baseball on his grounds. 11 ..j youthful players steal lead pl|" n * break up the diamond. their About 175 people witnessed the match and all were well pleased. Harry Staten acted aa referee. Totals 31 4 0 24 9 Score by Innings: R. II. Tech 000 130 14*—9 11 B. 11. S 000 000 000—0 4 Summary—Struck out, by Brooks Park 3. Davenport 3. Walden l. by ‘•THE YOUNG MAN „„ ! AS A CITIZEN” Mr. SAM D. JONES. Smith 2; bases *>n ball*, off Walden 1; I.. -- — . /* Smith 5; two-base hit*. Davenport l.|Y # jUflQu) *^ #, v I