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1 I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907. ZL ! )/ f DiESPITE DUBIOUS WEATHER SPORTS. KEEP BUSY SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS IIHIMIMHHIK IIIMMIMIIMIIHMItHItlMII BY PERCY H. WHITING. r* Has anybody noticed that Atlanta is still leading the league? Haven’t heard anything said about it lately. The Crackers, for once, in a way, have got a good start. And they got it with a stove-up team. Of course the Crackers had the advantage of two series against “them dubs” but their other games have been against Nashville, formerly a first division team, and Birmingham, last year’s pennant winners. Now listen to this, from Birmingham papers: The Ledger was the first paper In the league to say that the Montgomery tees would not stand (or another "punk" team. It also said that It was propable that Chattanooga or Mobile would break Into the Southern league. Watch The Ledger and see If It don’t say ”'I told you so.” Just about three more defoats and Montgomery fans will throw up the sponge. Who can blame them? They have the rot- tenest team In the league, or any other league, for that matter. —Ledger. If Birmingham should win too many games In Montgomery on this trip, look out for the Montgomery franchise taking a walk. Just a word about that franchise matter. That Montgomery fans are not going to support a losing team has been proven. If the team representing that city does not pick up and win some games, developments may prove there Is more truth than poetry In the removal of the franchise.—News. HOW'S THIS FOR A COLLECTION? Now if the writer of this column wns warned to keep out of Montgomery jf ho didnft want his life blood spilled ana if the warning came bccauso he said that Birmingham people thought that Montgomery might give up her franchise if the attendance did not pick up, what do you supposo would happen to Messrs. Mooney and Mullin if they happened into Ennuiville. \ It’s a wonder to me that the Pretzel fans let that \air stay in the state. - * JOHN WAGNON. Wagnon, when last heard from, was doing the utility stunt for Au gusta. When the Augusta team was In Atlanta he played first— and about the "glngerlest" first on record. lie lacks polish as a field er, but seems to be a comer. MURDOCK. Murdock Is playing center field for Macon at present, and leading oft In the batting. “CbUNT" CASTRO. Here Is a life-like Imitation of "Count” Castro, with Sid Smith In the background. Just at present the Count Is playing the kind of ball that put him In the major leagues, and If' he keeps the stride he has hit he will doubtless rank as the best shortstop In the league this year. The Birmingham team will be over for a trimming on Mon day and then look out for atrenuosity. As has been remarked before, the Barons have a crack ing good team. Their infield may bo a bit wobbly—which it sometimes is, but their pitching staff is all there and the outfield is about as good as any in the league. The Barons are going to be near the top at the end of the season and the Cr/ckers will have to look out that they do not advance at Atlanta’s expense. However, just now the Atlnata players are pretty firmly Intrenched at the top of the column and they will probably stay there for a while—at least until they pull out of Nashville for Memphis and the Far West. It is almost too much to Vope that they can hold the lead during that long trip into the enemy’s country, mid we may as well begin to prepare for the worst. But with anything like an even break on the road the Crackers will put an awful dent in tho pennant race during that next long stay at home. CRACKERS WIN IN A CANTER Before a crowd of over 8,000—some 800 "paid” more than loet Decoration Day—the Atlanta team defeated Nash- vllle by a score' of 11 to 2. It was Just such a game as might have been expected with a crowd over running the field and Just the kind of a game that such a crowd wanted Nashville never had a chance. 'The Crackers took the lead In the first In ning, piled up seven runs In the third and knocked two pitchers out of the box. Ford pitched great ball after the first Inning, and at that might have had a shut-out It there had not been an error In his support. The score: Nashville. Dobbs, cf. . Wiseman, rf. . . 4 Persons, If. ... 4 Morse, 2b ... 3 McCormick, ss. . .1 McBleveen, 8b. . 8 Hardy, lb .... 1 Latimer, c. . . 2 Wells, c. .... 2 Schmidt, p. . . . 0 Hackett, p. . . 1 E. Duggan, p. . 1 ab. r. h. po. a. e. Standing of the Clubs. 8outhern League. Plumed. Won. Loet. P. C. CLUBS— ATLANTA 1J Memphis . Little Itock New Orleans Naehvlllo. . Birmingham. Montgomery Shreveport. Atlantic League, CLUBS- Played. Won. L Suva unit h 13 g Jacksonville 16 9 Charleston i« 9 Macon 15 g Columbia 15 6 Augnnta 16 10 CLUB8- Phllndelphla. New York ..... 10 Chicago . . . ‘ .11 Detroit . 11 Cleveland 9 Waahlngton 10 Boston 11 8t. Loula u layed. Won. Lost. P. C. Totals .26 2 6 18 ab. r. h. po. 2 2 12 Atlanta. Winters, cf. Jordan, 2b . . , 4 O’Leary, c. . . . 2 Becker, rf. . . . 4 Dyer, 3b .... 3 Fox, lb .... 4 Paskert, If. ... 4 Castro, ss 4 Ford, p 2 Totals 31 11 15 21 10 1 ..200 000 0— 2 Atlanta 307 010 *—11 Hits by Innings: Nashville Atlanta Summary: Left on bases. Nashville 4, Atlanta 6; hits, off Schmidt 3, two- thirds of one Inning, oft Hackett 10 In three and one-third Innings. Duggan 2 in two innings; two-base hits, Wise man, Fox 2, Becker, Jordan 2, Hackett; stolen bases, Jordan. Paskert. Hackett; sacrifice hits, Hardy; double plays. Ford to Castro to Fox, McCormick to Morse to Hardy; first base on balls, Schmidt 2, Hackett 2, Ford 2; struck out, by Hackett 3, Ford 4. Time, 1:45. Umpire, Rlnn. CLUBS- Chicago . . New York Pittsburg . Philadelphia Bouton . . Cincinnati . Ht. Delia . Brooklyn . CLUBS- Moblle . . Gulfport . National League. Played. Won. Lost. i 12 9 % 3 iTBI .8 5 3 .625 . 11 6 5 .545 . 11 5 6 .455 PITCHING STAFF PROBLEM NOW FULL OF FIERCE COMPLICATIONS NOTES OF THE GAME With Roy Costleton mldcd to the Allan- ta team’s pitching staff, the Job of select* Ing n five-man combination 1ms become more difficult than It wns a week ago— and then It wns bad enough. Cnstleton and Schopp, left handers; Zd* ler, Npnde, Bpnrks, Ford and ltownn, right* handers. That Is the present lay-out. And that number will hate to be reduced to five, provided Smith will" dispense with a util ity man. and four If ho will uot. And the reduction must come before May 10. It might be mentioned, however, that lo cal dope Is that the utility man Idea 1ms been abandoned. Bob Spade, who will doubtless be retained, Is n first-class man In the outfield and fair In the Infield—be sides being a .300 hitter. Ho, with him on the team, a utility man Is not badly need ed. ’ Roy Cnstleton, the “ground rent man." looks good to everybody, and ought to make Breltenstcln hustle for first honors among the southpaws. He wns In the grounds Friday in uniform, oud warmed up with the rest. Cnstleton has been turned over to Smith ns a hostage, and in return for this con- Lnst year Cnstleton wns with tho Youngstown team of the Pennsylvania and Ohio League, which aggregation won the pennant. Ho figured ns the fifth pitcher In tho league, with only Bhman, Scnettler, Kennedy and Armstrong abend of him, and one of his games was a no-hlt affair. Ills records were: Pitching—Won 22, lost 12; per cent .647. , 2; per , -Games 41, at bat 106, runs 11, hits 23. sacrifice hits C, stolen bases 2; per cent .267. Fielding—Games 41, pat outs 9, assists 85, errors 5; per cept .949. That batting performance was rather re markable for a pitcher. It placed the contained over 150 players during the sea son. Cnstleton’s home Is In Salt Lake City, and he reached Atlanta March 10 to prnctlce with the Highlanders.* and pitched his first time against the University of Georgia players, allowing them only three bits in five innings. In writing of Cnstleton, Sid Mercer, the baseball man of The New Y’ork Globe, said: "The boy has many good qualities. He Is nervy and has confidence. Ball players de scribe these qualities In a different way, hut we’ll let It go at that. He was the hero of n no-hlt game lost season,\nml Is ambitious to shine In fast company. He Is pilling to learn, and his habits are the best. "If there Is any weight to the opinion of Clark Griffith. Jlin McGuire, Jack Klelnow and several other Yankee players who ought to be, able to distinguish n real pitcher from a "spring bloomer,” Cnstletou Is a real good left hander." COTTON STATES WEATHER NO BETTER THAN SOUTHERN LEAGUE ARTICLE With such ft top-heavy crowd, Nashville would never had the heart to win. Also the Dobbers did not seem to be there with the ability. - * When the game opened with Dobbs' blngle and when Wiseman followed with a double and an error eventuated and let In two runs, it looked as though the game had gone to the bad and 5,006 fans groaned aloud. After that a hit to an Inning was all Nashville could do, and Ford put a magnificently pitched game to his credit. He had all the Nash ville batters reaching for them and did not let himself get in even a small hole. The Nashville pitchers did not seem to "have It.” Schmidt opened. 1 but his arm was not right, and the Atlanta batter* Just murdered his curves. Then Hackett took a try, but the big boy was particular pie for the Atlanta hitters. Singles, two-bag gers and bases on bfills followed like the perspiration from his umps and before the Terrible Third was ended Atlanta Bad stacked up eight hits and seven runs. It was a reg ular Bartley of an Inning. The conditions favored the heav iest hitting team for the men who could put long files Into the crowd got credit for two-baggers. And the Atlanta players certainly laced them out, salting away five two- baggers. And maybe there wasn't a crowd. It filled the grandstand until the timbers protested with every move ment of the fans; It packed the bleachers until a sardine effect was produced which must have been awful for the sardines. Also it ran over onto the field and formed an unbroken circle around the playing territory. It drove the outfielders right in behind the Infield; It kept the first and third basemen Inside the foul lines, and it made the catching of fouls and 'long files an entirely hopeless task. Chairs were bringing 50 cents apiece, "coke” boxes a quarter, and a paper of any date was worth a nlckle as ground covering. Also about a thousand people didn’t find any place to sit on. k The crowding of the field result ed In one accident. R. Asbell, a spectator, was struck by a foul ball and quite badly injured. It was fortunate that more peo ple were not hurt. Every foul tip which got by the catcher pl</wed a hole in a solid mass of people, and several men were hit. Fortunately none but Asbell, was hurt. The game was called after one- half of the seventh Inning. They said It was dark and the crowd didn’t seem to mind. It wasn't very dark, but the fans wanted to go home, and ten more Innings could not have turned the balance of hits and runs away from At lanta. The crowd gave Elmer Duggan the happy hand when he came In to pitch. The Schoolmaster made a bunch of friends when he was in Atlanta, and the local rooters are always glad to see him do well against anybody but the Crackers. And Elmer did all right this trip, but he arrived too late. Three hits for five bases In five innings was the best record by an Atlanta man. And Otto did it. The most sensational stop was that of the line drive which Johnny Dobbs hit in the seventh inning. And Otto'stopped It. The best piece of base running was when a man scored from sec ond on a Texas Leaguer. And it.was Otto. Taken altogether, It was quite Otto’s day. It was ludicrous, to see Otto and Jim Fox go after a- high fly be tween first and second. Both of them yelled "I got It,” and stood side by side. Before the ball was within six feet of Jordan's out stretched hands, however, Fox had stretched to his full height and caught it. Castro’s bunt in the third was about as neat a piece of work as you would often see. The pitcher and first baseman collided when they went after It and Hardy went down. Tho Nashville team concludes Its engagement with Saturday’s game ; and returns to Nashville Saturday : night. PRELIMINARY TRAP SHOOT AT EAST LAKE GROUNDS Class D People Have Had Only Two Good Days As Yet. Cotton 8tates. Played. Won. Lost. P. C. ;::: 8 Meridian 13 Columbus 12 American Association. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P. C. Columbus 8 Louisville 6 Toledo 9 Indianapolis 7 Kansas City 6 Milwaukee 9 Ht. Paul 9 Minneapolis 7 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Southern. Atlanta 11. Nashville 2. Birmingham 2. Montgomery 1. [>rt 5, Little Ro$k ‘ South Atlantic. Macon 3. Columbia 1. Augusta 5, Jacksonville 9. Savannah-Charleston, rnln. ork 4, Washington 0. National, By Bernlo McCay, Manager. Mobile, Ala.. April 26.—Down here In the cotton etatoe there Is going" on an almost dally battle between old Jupiter Pluvtus and tho magnates. And right now "Old Jup" has the best of the argument and his team Is leading the league quite a few points. It Is now fourteen days since the season opened and we have had Just two days suitable for baseball, although we hove managed to play eleven games. It seems to me I have heard an old say-' Ing which sounds something like “The Sunny South,” and I have also read about "an Oregon mist,” but I am fain to confess that I think the legions of Old Jupiter "missed Oregon und hit Alabama." . . . Hut, for all that, the weather has been so bad as to make the dlamone look like mud pies, the fans In this section of the country have been treated to some warm baseball. I have no hesitancy In saying that the Cotton States League this year Is faster than ever before, and I believe there arc at least four teams which are faster than last year’s pennant win ners. Another pleasing feature of this sea son's race Is the competent and fear less staff. of umpires that President Compton has signed. Brady and Mc Kenzie, of last year's staff, and Leo Dawkins, the newcdiner, are all sea soned officials, who know their busi ness, nnd nre capable of maintaining order on the bnll field, as well as Judg ing the plays In a fair, Impartial man ner. Tills year, President Compton has been vested with almost czar-like power to deal with any difficulties or differences likely to nrise and, with his well known and heretofore demon strated fairness nnd good Judgment, It Is .hoped that this season wilt be de void of any such useless squabbling as took place In this league last year. Every team has about settled upon Its line-up, Hnd there will be few changes from now on. The time limit for cutting down to the -limit of thir teen men has been extended to May 1. Heine Bush, the old Montgomery shortstop, has been signed by Merid ian. Heine held on a lftng time with Montgomery and If he could hit a little better would be there yet. as ht* ability to Held has never been questioned. Bill Brunner, one of my pitchers, has taken unto himself a wife, and the They Are Playing Fast Ball, Though, In Spite of Old “Jupe.” best wishes of all who know him are tendered to him, and his lifelong help mate. Bill Is quite a schemer as he demon strated by a piece of etrategem worked when he left here to get mar ried. He aeked for a day's leave of ab sence so he could go to Meridian after his wife, and It was granted, although at the time I thought It strange that she could not travel from Meridian to Mobile without Bill going after her. Brunner had made out that he was al ready married, so you can Imagine the surprise of his friends when the an nouncement of his marriage was seen In the paper the day following his de parture for Meridian. Then Just to show tho fans that married life agreed with him, he pitched against Vicks burg the next day and won Ills own game with a two-base hit. It Is raining so hard outside that my r ncil Is blotting the pai>er so I guess will discontinue until there Is more news of interest to write about. Virginia Defeats Stouch’s Sluggers rial* took Mr eighth utrslght victory hero yesterday, defeating tieorgla by a score of * Score by Innings: E Virginia 1 0 5 9 1 00 1 •—8 13 1 Georgia .........0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0—3 5 ; Batteries—Fulton, ('handier; W. Brown, Graves and J. Brown. IT'S FIGHT OR STARVE FOR GANS By TAD. New York, April 24.—"The old master,” Joseph Gans, of Baltimore. Md., seema to be between two fires at the present time. Joe has blown his roll and In looking for a big purse he naturally turna toward . the Danish gent from Hegewlsh, who has a manager by the name of Nolan. Bald Nolan understands that Gans Is Hat. Said Nolan wants / the money a* much as Gans does, but also wants his man to fight at the weight best for him. He demands that Gant weigh 133 pounds with his shoes and gloves on in the ring. At first Bans made strenuous howls, but It was one thing or oth er. Joe bad to either go around with a very thin seat on Ills ; In or else accept the weight thie gentleman demanded. For a champion of the world, these are certainly hard line: Cotton States. Vicksburg t, Jackson 3. Mertdlsn 5, Gulfport 1 (seven Innings). Mobile 3, Columbus 0. American Association. Louisville 5. St. I'nul 1. . Kanins City 9. Columbus 2. ^talwaukee 6. Indianapolis 2. Toledo 3, Minneapolis 1. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Locust Grovers Ready For G. M. C. Special to The Georgian. . Locust Grove, Ga., April 27.—The L. G. I. baseball team is rounding into great shape for their game with G. M. O. Monday. The boys will do their best to get revenge for the defeat hand ed them by G. M. C. several weeks ago. Gray Is In great shape and as the team has Improved In batting we are ex pecting a victory. ALBANY WINS. Special to The Georgian. Albany. Ga.. April 27.—The A. H. S. team defeated Damlson on the Damlson f rounds to the merry tune.of 16 to U. lie features of the game were the bat ting of B. Lockett and the fielding of Pope for Albany and of J. Mellon for Damlson. Rawlins for Albany fanned 14 and yielded 4 hits. Score by innings: R. A. II. S 420 203 005—16 12 Dawson .. .. .. ..500 000 010— 6 Batteries: Rawlins and Fleetwood, Patterson, Kenyon and Pace. Umpire, Gelse. Royal Insurance Defeats Marietta Special to The Georgian. Marietta, Ga., April 27.—The Marietta baseball team wax defeated by the Royal Insurance boys of Atlanta of Morris park yesterday afternoon by a score of 8 to 5. Pitcher Camp and Shortstop Jones, of At lanta, were the star performers nnd both did excellent work. Northcutt nnd Hyde, of the Marlettn team, also showed up well. Attendance 500. Umpires, Neal nnd MeNeel. Batteries—Marietta: Mayfield and Morris. Atlanta: Camp nnd Clark. Score bf luuinys: R. H. E. Marietta l 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0—5 6 3 Atlanta 1 3020200 0-8 8 2 Marietta nnd Kenuesaw teams will play here this afternoon. A preliminary shoot will be held Saturday afternon on the Atlanta Ath letic Club’s grounds at East Lake, and this event will .mark the real opening of the trap shooting season among the Atlanta Athletic Club members. new' committee, composed of B H. Worthen, L. D. Scott and W. M. Armlstead, has been put In charge *>f the club shooting and It Is waking things up with a vengeance. Here Is the club’s announcement, as sent to all the shooting members of the club: Trophies. Class A—Gold medal. Class B—Gold medal. Trophy cup for highest average of season. The shooters will be divided into two classes, A and B, the older shooters being in class A and the new' ones In class B. Tho contestant winning class A medal the most Saturdays during the season will keep It permanently. All ties will be shot off satn6 day, miss and out. Same rules apply to class B medal. The preliminary shoot will be held Saturday. April 27. The season will last twenty weeks from May 4. Two 25 rounds each Saturday will be tho regular match, making 1,000 targets for the season. After the regular weekly match is decided, you can shoot as often as you like. All match shoots will be held on Sat urdays. beginning at 2:30 o’clock. Any shooter arriving later than 4 o’clock will not be eligible to contest for tro phies on that day. The contestant making the highest percentage in his class during the sea son will be winner of gold medal for highest average, but he must shoot at least ten Saturdays to be eligible. The shooters will be handicapped every four weeks, past records, of course, deciding handicap. Handicap ping will not be by distances, but by added birds. Targets will be thrown at 1 cent each. Shells will be for sale on the ground nt city prices. Members must sign tickets; if they prefer, they can bring their own shells. The Atlanta Athletic Club has ideal gun grounds—a great place to learn the art of shooting. GAMBLING AND BOXING KNOCKED-OUT IN CHICAGO Chicago, April 27.—Chicago’s pro tected gambling ring has been notified to discontinue operations. Mayor Busse has passed tbe high sign to Alderman "Bath House" Coughlin and "Hlnky Dink" Henna, who, for fifteen years, ruled supreme In the first ward, that gambling operations under their "pro tection must cease. Chief of Police Shtppy was ordered to enforce the decree. It also was reported though not officially, that tha boxing show tonight at the Chicago Athletic Club will be the last of tha game until late In the fall. JOY OVER VICTORY WON BY SHREVEPORT. Builders! Contractors! Wo offer in oar lots several cars Sheathing at prices you can’t duplicate. E. G. WILLINGHAM & SONS, Both Phones. 542 Whitehall St. EVERYTHING IN YELLOW PINE. Speclnl to The Georgina. Shreveport, La., April 27.—Schrlvener. shortstop of Louisville, Ky., here to try out with the Pirates, may play this afternoon. Hamilton, the left-handed pitcher of Ardmore, Ind. T„ will also be tried. Quinn Proved To Be (< The Works*' Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga., April 27.—Pitcher Quinn, the Toledo athlete who was secured by the Macon management about a week ago, proved able to stand the strain of (.000 eyes yesterday afternoon ami copped out a game before half that number of people. Besides pitching tidy ball, Quinn proved a find as a hit ter. He broke up the tie In the fifth by smashing the ball across tho left- field fence. He received no cash for the swat, but V did not have to go without apprecia tion of any kind. The fence over which the ball passed bears the motto, "Hair cut and shave for anyone hitting ball over this fense In league game." This morning found Quinn with his feet high In the air at the barber’s. The actual count showed that more than 2,200 fans paid admissions nnd found their way to places within the park to see Macon trim Columbia 3 to 1 In a stirring fray. Vanderbilt Wins A Hitting Fest Special to The Georgian. NashvIHe, Tenn.. April 27.—In a speo- tacular contest Vanderbilt took the sec ond game from Georgia Tech yesterday by a score of 6 to 5. Twice the game was broken up by 1" the fourth Inning Chip Roberta hit for a home run with the bases full, but was called out at third base for not touching the bag. In the eighth Inning Alex Cunningham for Vanderbilt hit a triple with two men on bases and then scored himself on a wild throw. Inglla for Vanderbilt struck out 10 men. Love, Vanderbilt’s great southpaw, will be In the box.thls afternoon against Parker, of Tech. Score by Innings: R. Georgia Tech 001 040 000—5 Vanderbilt 200 000 13*—0 Batteries: Vanderbilt, Ingtls and Fug- ler; Tech, Roberts and Knight. NAT KAISER & CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Dec-’.ur St. Kimball Hou»** Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. Circulating Library, $5.00 Year. Read all the new books. COLUMBIAN BOOK COMPANY. TIM SAYS SQUIRES IS A CHAMP By TIM M’GRATH. Chicago, April 25.—"I believe Bill Squires Is a better fighter than Bob ^Fitzsimmons or Tom Sharkey. "BUI Squires will be the world's champion Inside of six months or sooner If he can get on a match with Jeffries. "I have studied Squires as I have never studied a fighter before, and I have come to the conclusion that he Is the coming heavyweight cham pion. . .. "Phyatcally lie Is a marvel. You will say he Is not big enough to wh e *'. The 8110 ' ,0 * s not always make the champion. Hertand. five feet ten and one-half Inches In his stocking*. That wa* Sullivans height, and none will dispute his championship. In fighting trim, he will weigh 180 pounds."