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11} THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1907. CRACKER TEAM GOES TO FRONT IN PENNANT RACE SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS I BY PERCY H. WHITING. Gness if all games were like Thursday’s even the new Poneo DeLeon park would not be big enough. It was the best quarter’s, worth that has been offered this year. About this waiver business there seems to be some con fusion, not only among the fans, but among the managers. For the benefit of the fans (not being in Birmingham, we do not attempt to tell the managers how to run their business) ‘wo might mention a few things about the waiver rule. In past years when a manager in the league has had more good players than he knew what to do with he has kept the best, released the worst and farmed out in smaller leagues the ones who were too good to release and not quite good enough to keep. These farmed-out players have often been excellent perform ers and men who would have strengthened other Southern league teams. So the league felt that the custom was working to the disad vantage of the weaker Southern League teams by depriving them of a chance at players who would have been useful to them and to the^Iayers by making them work in Class Q and D leagues when they really had the ability to command Southern league jobs and salaries. To prevent any injustice being done, the league, at its an nual meeting, passed a law that, before any manager in the South ern league could sell a player to a smaller league he must first secure “waivers” (that is, permission to sell) from every man ager in the league. If a manager refused to grant waivers lie had the right to buy the player on whi$h he refuses to waive claim on payment-of $400. Now comes President Kavanaugh with a lengthy ruling on the subjeot. With the words all boiled out of it his new ruling is that if, after waivers have been asked .they arc not granted within three days the manager asking waivers shall have right to sell the man whore he pleases; that the club first refusing waivers on a man has first claim to his services; and—now note this—if, after waivers have been asked and granted, th% manager asking them does not disposo of his player within TEN DAYS he must got waivers again before he lets him go.* On this ten days’ provision Managers B. Smith and C. Frank unite in a kick. And you can depend upon it that when Billy and Charlie get together on a proposition it must be right, for either one of them would rather bo shot than agree with the other. They both claim that there was not such provision ns the “after ten days’” affair in the law ns passed by the league and that President Kavanaugh had no right to make such a ruling. SOUThPAWCASTLETON REPORTS IN ATLANTA Roy Castleton, the southpaw twtrler from Salt Lake City, rounded up by Clark Griffith and given a trial by him this spring, arrived In Atlanta Thurs day night and will spend the season with the Atlanta club. Thin la the "ground-rent pitcher** Clark Griffith promised Atlanta when he left here several weeks ago. Castleton Is a first-class pitcher and will doubtless rank among the best In the league this year. Griffith was greatly Impressed with all his prellml nary work and believes that he will "do" for the Yankees after this year of seasoning In the Southern. Tom Hughes was the "ground-rent pitcher" last year, and he led the Southern League. Standing of the Clubs. CLUBS— I*layed. ATLANTA 12 Meuiphla ..... 6 Little ltock. ..... 9' New Orlenus 7 Nashville 11 Birmingham 11 Montgomery 12 Shreveport 8 George Washington Team Loses to Georgia Players 7 .125 South Atlantic League. CLUflS- Played. Won. Lost. P. C. Savanunb 13 8 5 .616 Jacksonville 15 9 6 .600 Clmrlcaton 16 9 7 .£62 Macon . 14 7 7 .BOO Columbia. ..... .14 6 8 .429 Augusta 15 5 10* .333 American League. Now York . Cleveland . Chicago . . Detroit . . Washington Boston . . St. Louis . . THINNING OUT B0XARTISTS New Orleans Releases Long and Will Probably Drop Crystal. ROY CASTLETON. Love Invincible And Tech Loses New York 11 Pittsburg S Philadelphia 10 .667 .625 Special to The Georgian. Nashville. Tenn., April 26.—The Tech hitters could not locate Love, Vander- *5oo flit's star left-hander, and a hitless game was the result—ns tar as Tech was concerned. Fafltte bumped Into Cunningham In a p!ay at the plate in •d® the third and had to retire from the pitcher’s box to the outfield. The other >6 oo Tech pitchers were easy for the Com modores. Score: R. H. JE. •2j» Vanderbilt 100 120 20*—6 8 2 Tech 000 000 000—0 0 0 Batteries: Love and Fueler, Lafitte, Robert Parker 4nd Knight. India nape Louisville . Toledo . . . Kansas City , Milwaukee . .v',7 Washington, April 2«.-Oeorge Washing ton tint varsity yesterday went down to de feat before the heavy hitting of the Uni versity of Georgia nine at Van Nest park by a score of 8 to 4. , . . flostor was Coach Cummings choice of pitchers, but the big North CaroUnan was most erratic at times, nnd. In the fifth, the Southerners connected with his delivery for si* bits—two of them triples—which netted five runs. f>ptaln Tltua, who waa substituted for itor In the next inning, was n decided - four rounds In • ha allowed the vfsltora only five scattered hits, none of which countod. Ucdferu wan on the flrlug line for the visitor* nnd was n puzzle to the Hatchet Ites throughout the game. The visitors started the run-getting early In the gume, getting two runs In the Inning on a triple from Graves' bat a Texan leaguer by Hodgson. In tho sec ond, Watson's’ triple and Heitor's error gave them another run. Tho next two Innings the winners went down In order on easy outs, but they start ed tho swatfent In the fifth. After the substitution of Titus, tho Georgians were unable to register another tally. Field Day and Concert at Stone Mountain School leclakto The Georgian. Stone Mountain, April It.—The TJnl- ralty School for Boya at Stone Moun- in will hold Us aeventh annual field y Saturday. The official! of the set will be: Referee—T. IL Weenie. Fudges—W. B, Griffin, J. B. Sibley, rime Keeper*—A. D. Grlffln, J. II. lffln, J. M. Demeron. Scorer—Sandy Beaver, Jr. tealstant Scorer—O. T. Griffin. Starter—R. W. Horning. Announcer—T. J. Kelley. In addition to the usual track and field events there will be speclnl event* as follows: Throwing the baseball, Tilt- yard dash, three-legged race, p’le race and thrce-mlto relay, race. Merchandise prises will be nwarded In all events end gold medals will be given to the hoys scoring tho highest number of points In sections 1 and 2. Saturday night there will be a con cert and tumbling and pyramid exhtbl. tlon for the benefit of the Athletic As sociation. An attractive program has been prepared. John L. Jailed In Worcester Worcester, Mass., April 26.—John L. Sullivan, who has been In Worcester on a theatrical trip, ha* been arrested on a mesne process at the Instance of Henry N. Farr, of Boston, who claims a bill of tttt for board paid for Sulli van and for money lent him. The process was served by Deputy Sheriff Albert F. Richardson. Sullivan waa under arrest a few minutes when the claim was paid and he was set free. HUESTON RETAINS TITLE. Oreenshurg. Ps., April Ifi.-Thomm Hues- ton, of St. Louts, ably defended hi. title to the pool rh.mplon.blp by defeating w. II. Clearwater, of Green.burg. In the final game of the match last night by NAT KAISER & CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Daeatur St Kimball Hou»~ Bargains In Unradaamad Diamonds. No Handicaps For the Present Notices have been posted by the tournament committee of the Atlanta Athletic club that no more handicap tournaments will be played until after the Southern chainplonahlp ban been decided. From the preaent until ahort. ly before the tournament temporary tees and green will be used and with a constantly changing courae the task of handicapping has become too com- plicated to be worth attempting. The full course—regular greens and tees—will be thrown open the latter part of next month for the first time alnce last fall, fieveral days of play will be allowed and then the greens and tees will be given a few daya rest Just before the big event. Will Billy Smith be with Atlanta next season? Auk the Atlanta stock* holders.—Birmingham News. You’re might ''tooting” he will. The fans of Macon have subscribed $100 for Ilnriia, who broke his leg in sliding, to base. lie la reported to be resting easy at tffe City hospital. He will probably lose the majority to Atlanta, but Montgomery will serve to ^deaden the jlmd. — Birmingham Ledger. # YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Southern. Atlnntn 5. Nashville 4. Montgomery 3, Birmingham 2. Little Hock 6, Shreveport 4. New Orleitna-Meinphls; rain. South Atlantic. Jacksonville 4, Augusta 1. Charleston 2, Nnvnminh 0. Macon 2, Columbia 0. American. Philadelphia 4. Boston 2. New York 11, Washington 2. National. New York 6. Philadelphia 3. Boston 6, Brooklyn 1, Southern R’yTeam Goes to Marietta The Southern Railway ball team will go to Marietta Saturday to play the fast aggregation repreaentlng that city. The Southern team of thin year expects to win ns many victories or more than In the sehson of 1906. A number of the old players are on the team this season, and the new recruits have shown up in fine form. The manager expects to give air teams he meets a hard tussle. The players individually have that enthusiasm that necessarily generates ginger. This team has had only one practice and their work on the diamond Is encouraging. Special to The Georgian. New Orleans, La,, April 26.—It was rumored early today that pitcher Crys tal had been released. Manager Frank i not at his office and the report could not be verified. Birmingham re fused to waive on Crystal. Not long ago, when Crystal pitched marvelous ball against the bi$ leaguers, Frank said he was out of his class. Pitcher Long was last night released to Meridian. ' The protest of Birmingham against the asking of waivers on all their pitchers by Managers Frank and Billy Smith 4 looks funny from this distance. It Is believed that President Kava- naugh's ten-day stipulation counts for nothing, and nothing has come oft to show that the two managers were wrong. Frank says he has acted with in the law and will pay no attention to Birmingham's kicks. Condensed Dope On Vandy f s Team Nashville, Tenn., April 26.—The Van derbilt team, which beat Tech so handily Thursday has been an In-and outer this year. Out of twelve games played victories and defeats have been divided. The first series of three was played with the Nashville professionals. These were defeats for the Commodores. After this Vandy went to Alabama and met defeat Jn two games, the first resulting 1 to 4. and tho second 4 to 7. On April 8, Vanderbilt won her first vic tory, defeating Howard college on Dud ley Field, 7 to 2. Vandy then won a series from S. W. P. U., taking the first and last game. In the pitching department the boys from Clarksville showed up especially well, having two prizes In Lemon and Allen. The latter Is one of the best college pitchers In the country. Cumberland university then met de feat for three successive days, the scores being 14 to 2, 4 to 2 and 4 to 8. Love, Vanderbilt’s best pitcher, was in the box and gave a beautiful exhibition. The team played well together and the batting showed improvement. Captain Craig, as usual, was the star for Van derbilt. Cumberland had a good team. Their best man Is Busherhead, the In dian runner, who holds a regord for the 100 and 200-yard dashes. His hitting is strong and sure and his Jielding at short a marvel. BOOSTERS DEFEATED IN STRENUOUS GAME WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Nashville In Atluul Game called ut 3:30 Birmingham In Montgomery. Memphis In New Orleans. Little Hock in Shreveport Piedmont park. Cotton 8tates. i CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost, p C. Gulfport H 7 4 .636 Mobile . 11 • 7 4 .636 Jackson }2 7 » Vicksburg H 5 b Meridian 12 5 * Columbus n 3 s •*<* Cotton Stats*. Vicksburg 4, Jackson 3. Meridian 5. Gulfport 1. Mobile-Columbus, rain. Perry Lipe Is in Sore Need Of Man to Fill Harris’ Shoes Macon, Ga„ April 26.—In vain Man ager Llpc has been searching for an outer gardener to take tlie place of Harris In left field. ‘Since the game little left fielder was Injured early In the week. Nicholas Harnlsh has been filling In the gap, but Nick Is not a natural pieketman. Long service be Piedmont Defeats State Normalites Athens. Ga., April 26.—Piedmont Col lege, represented by, Hinton Blackshear and Hubert Ford, won three sets over the State Normal school, represented by Farrell Reaves and Gordon Single ton. here Tuesday. Score: 6-1; 6-1; ^6-2, In favor of Piedmont College. * Practice Battle At Piedmont Park The Southern States Electric Com pany team and the Southern Railway team, both of The Georgian's Commer cial League, will meet Friday afternoon on the diamond Inside the Piedmont park race track for a practice engage ment. The Southern States Electric Company team’s line-up will be: Oppenhelm, c.; Smith, p.; Hudson, lb; Vaunt, 2b; Lawrence, 3b; Clifton, ss.; Woodward, If.; Samples, cf.; Hum phries, rf. Saturday the Southern States Elec tric Company and the West End Stars of the City League will meet. Poor old Montgomery was slaughter ed again Saturday. Chattanooga will have that franchise that the fresh Chambers got mad about. There is not Atlanta beat Nashville at Piedmont Friday afternoon by a score of 5 to 4 Jn a game made notable by at sensa tional seventh inning rally, a home run, a triple play, a demonstration by the police and a few thing* like that. It took a dozen or so players on each side, two umpires, i three thousand spectators and a squad of policemen to pull off the game. And it was the peachiest of the sea son. We lost a hard one'Wednesday, but the Crackers turned the tables Thurs day. . . > . The game was as full of features a*s a dope artist of brain, quakes, but tho real genuine article was the triple play. . To get the affair straight you have to hear what happened In the first part of the tumultuous seventh. Becker opened the exercise with hls third consecutive double. He stole third and scored on Dyer’s single. Fox and Paskert followed with singles, but In neither case was the ball hit on the nose and Dyer had only progressed to third when Hoffman came to bat. Perdue gave Hoffman one strike and three balls. Then the distress signal went up and Dobbs' rushed in for a con sultation. When It was over, Perdue l*t out to the bench and Borrell went In to pitch. The first attempt he made was a ball, and Hoffman walked, forcing home Dyer. It was Schopp’s next turn at bat. but the case was critical and Billy Smith called on Sid Smith. Sid was just out of bed and not half recovered from the strain which has had him laid up since the first day In Birmingham. But for all that he met tiio ball on the noso In his usual style for a nice single and Fox and Paskert scored. Ford was put on first to run for Smith and Win ters came to bat. He walked and the bases were full, with Hoffman on third, Ford on second and Winters on first. And now, enter the triple playl The “squeeze" signal w'as run up by Otto Jordan when he came to bat. The program was for him to bunt and go out at first, allowing Hoffman to scoro and the other two men to advance ft base. Nobody was out and the bases were full, so the play looked easy. When Sorrell let the first ball fly Hoffman, Ford and Winters all started on a run for the next base and Otto bunted. But alas! for Atlanta’s hopes he popped Into the air. SorreH walked under the pop and caught It on the fly. That retired Otto. Sorrell then threw to McElveen and Hoffman, Instead of being on the base, over by home plate. He was out a mile. That completed a double play. Then McElveen threw to "Whitey” Morse and Ford was caught off second bas*. also about a mile. That retired Ford and completed the triple play. Maybe you don’t know It. but triple plays/are something of % a rarity. The writer figures that he has attended probably twelve or fifteen hundred ball games in hls life and the triple play described above Is the first one he has ever seen. Idgar, and Castro, looking like a sw ,„ undertaker, shortly returned to grounds and occupied the seats usu-nJ reserved for "A. B." and hls Morse made hls first local anneal-.— 1? entitled "Poetl,- ^' tlce Thursday. He made the hit ,11', scored Nashville's first run, turne.1 as end man In the triple play 1 u scored the Boosters’ last run. McCormick was hit by a ball durlne the practice before the game and quite biuHy bruised. He played to thl end, however. n * “What are all these managers gettinz waivers on their players for?" asked Johnny Dobbs. “ The writer proved an alibi. "Well, I don’t either,” said he "It t. absurd for Charley Frank, say. to waivers on Breltenstein. It looks ,» me like a game to get waivers on a , many men as possible before the Southern League teams are cut dona to tho limit and before the manager, have discovered their weak places it Is much easier to slip men out of' th. league now than It will be May 10.” "I was glad to hear from President Kuhn, of Nashville, that Wall had re ported,” said Dobbs. "I think that he w/11 hit around .800—he always has— and I think that ho will be satisfied to stay In Nashville. He has played everywhere and has almost always made good. He Is a first baseman and outfielder, but I am not sure what r shall do with him. It looked In the ninth as though Per- sonB had put a run over and untied tho score. With Sorrell on second and two out, he hit an awful swipe down tho line toward third base. It looked like a certain hit, but Dyer stuck out hls un gloved hand, picked tho ball right out of the dirt and threw It perfectly to first. It was undoubtedly ns brilliant a stop as has been made this year at Piedmont—and that remark goes, though Lajoie, Turner, Elberfeld, Brad ley, LaPorte and the fast Brooklyn and Detroit infields did stunts there earlier In the season. hind the bat has changed hls eye but enough money In Montgomery to pay- even at this his work has been above ^ or a * UF * n t team. Birmingham Led- the slightest reproach. The effort to secure Danny Burt has been frustrated as Mullaney has se cured him. The -hurry-up message sent to Robert Houston In Alleghany, Builders! Contractors! We offer in eai* lots sevct^l cars Sheathing at prices you can’t duplicate. • E. G. WILLINGHAM & SONS, Both Phones. 542 Whitehall St. EVERYTHING IN YELLOW PINE. Here is a shot at Harris, of Ma con, the man who smashed a pin the other day. He was a valuable player and Macon will find It hard to fill the gap In the line-up caused bv hi. misfortune. Pa., was answered with tho statement that Houston had not made up hls mind whether to play again this season or not. Now, an effort Is being made to get Arthur Long, who Is in Kansas somewhere. It Is tlmuppt that Jack sonville has some strings tied to him yet. Macon cuffed Mr. White with a ven- ganee In the opening round of Thurs day afternoon's play and sent two then acmes the plate. From this point on there was no scoring and both teams played hard, though they failed to make a really Ihterestlng game of the re mainder of the battle. In the opener. White was located for three successive blngles, after Murdoch had gone out. Singles by Llpe and Rl4iton were fol lowed by Stinson's double to center and both men scored. A base on balls and an error followed the run* but no more runs were tallied. Three fast double plays kept Interest from lagging too much nnd helped Macon tn keeping a shut out ahead: chandler's sore heel Is mending. i Good weather tomorrow will bring 2,200 people to the game easily. Otto Jordan was the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the piece. Kxcept that he dfu the Dr. Jekyll number In the last act. Hls pop-hunt retired the At lanta team In the .seventh when tt looked like a sure victory for the Crackers, but his long fly in the ninth allowed Paskert to score with the win ning run. In addition to calling Sid Smith Into the game to bat for Schopp In the sev enth, Spade was run In to perform for Sparks In the ninth. He drew a base on balls. Rudderham had on hls war paint and sent "Count" Castro and Billy Smith off the field. It looketf us though there was going to be a spectacle for a while. But finally it turned out quite peacefully. Becker's hard luck In the fourth In ning started It. He hit n clean three- bagger and when he was rounding first base Hardy clearly Interfered with him. This threw him oft Ills stride and he was caught at third. Castro passed Home comment on this as he went out to hls position and the skhloo signal was set. But Castro shut hls eyes and It looked as though he would have to he hauled off bodily, as he was last Fourth of July when play ing for Nashville. But Billy Smith flagged the cops and ordered him out of the game. It wasn't long after that that Billy had some more words with Ruddy and was shooed,himsetf. Smith, luxuriously smoking a long The score: Naahville, ab. r. h. po. a. e. Dobbs, cf. . . . 4 Wiseman, cf, . . 6 Persons. It . . , 6 Morse, 2b. ... 3 McCormick, ss. . 4 McEleveen, 2b. . 3 Hardy, lb. ... 2 Lattimer, c. . . . 4 Perdue, p. , . . 3 Sorrell, p. . . . 0 Totals 33 Atlanta, ab. Winters, cf. . . 4 Jordan, 2b. ... 6 O'Leary, c. . . . 2 Becker, rf.. . .3 Dyer, 3b. . . . . 4 Fox, lb 4 Padkert, If. ... 4 Castro, ss. . . . 1 Hoffman, ss.. . , 2 Schopp, p. . . ■ 2 Sparks, p. . . . 0 •S. Smith .... 1 ••Spade .... 0 Totals .32 5 10 27 12 3 •Hit for Schopp In seventh: ••hit In ninth for SparkB. .'.Two out when win ning run was made. Score by Innings: Nashville 100 021 000— 4 Atlanta 000 000 401— 5 Hits by Innings: Nashville 200 121 000- « Atlanta 101 100 002-10 Summary—Left on bases, Nashville 7, Atlanta 7: hits, oft Perdue 7 In sev en Innings; Schopp, 6 In seven innings; SparkH 0 In two Innings, Sorrell 3 In three Innings: two-base hits, Hardy, Wiseman. Becker 3, Paskert; home run, McEleveen: stolen bases, Becker, Mc- Elevecn; sacrifice hits, Becker, Dobbs; triple play, Sorrell to McEleveen to Morse: first base on balls, Perdue 1. Schopp 2, Sorrell 4, Sparks 2; bit by pitched balls, Sparks (McEleveen); struck out. Perdue 3. Schopp 5. Sor rell 1, Sparks 1: balk, Sorrell. Tim*. 2:00. Umpires, Rlnn and Rudderham. Auburn Defeated By Alabama Men Special to The Georgian. . Auburn,. Ala.* April 26.—In the first of the aeries of three games between Auburn and Alabama Auburn lost. Score 2 to 1. . Several times during the game Au burn had the bases full, but could not put in a hit when It was needed, tm Score by innings: * i - Alabama . . . .099 902 000 - 4 Auburn 000 100 000— 1 3 Complies with all requirements of the National Pure Food Law, Guarantee No. 2041, hied at Washington. Latest book is the most beautiful we ever issued. Pictures in natural colors of 97 presents for the users of Arbuckles* ARIOSA Coffee. Will be sent free to any one who writes for it. Do you realize what * crest fcuiinm this Arbuckles' ARIOSA Code* u> As many as 30,000 letten toe presents sre received here ia a day. 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