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"PW" 1.1!'!' JMUi wpwsppw THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 1907. CRACKERS WILL INVADE ALABAMA ON THURSDAY SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING BASEBALL MYSTERIES MADE CLEAR BY CARTOONIST TAD TOO WET TUESDAY Big Crowd Went to Park But Rain Spoiled the Fun. CASTLETON AND RAGAN ON SLAB Crackers Jump to Mont gomery Thursday for Three Games. With Wednesday's (am* wound up and stowed away In the right placa the Atlanta team will be ready for the nice, cool Jump to Montgomery. And thla Jump will have to be made In a hurry, for Thuraday afternoon the Cracker* are slated to do business down In 8Ieepyvllte. Manager Smith la going to take the whole team along. Only three games are scheduled to be played there, but with several of his men near-crlpplca he does not care to save railroad and hotel bills at the expense of his men. Also there Is a postponed game there which may be played. So the whole packagp of Crackers will be shipped over Wednesday night and back Sunday morning. Thess games In Montgomery end the east-agalnst-eaat series. After they are out of the way the Invasion of the east by the west begins. And with It trouble, for the west, we trust. Sufficient for the day la the game thereof, so hurrah for Wednesday’s battle. Manager Smith will use Castteton and Sid Bmlth for his battery while Vaughn will probably work Ragan and aarvln. Paskert Is not feeling any especial III effects from playing with his bad wrist and wilt be back In the game again. A Birmingham dispatch to The Memphis Commercial-Appeal gives It out thst Harry Vaughn's hold on his Job Is very weak and mentions Wil helm as a probable successor. Whether this has good foundation, In fact, Is open to grave doubt. A strong fight has been made on Harry Vaughn In Birmingham, but hla work Is satisfactory to the club owners and that Is the main thing. Another Birmingham dispatch has It that Vaughn Is going to trade Turner and a bonus for Sorrell. Mnybe so. bdt we doubt IfT Sorrell Is about the beat pitcher Nashville has and Dobbs is not at all likely to let him go. Vaughn also rled to land Klnloch Swann, but this ex-8hrevsporter could not be worked out of the American As sociation. The Birmingham Ledger, which paper Is making a tight on the base ball association, gives out ths In formation that the baseball club clean ed up 100 per rent dividends on ths capital stock last year. Pretty fair business, that. “Rsd" Wright, the former Southern Leaguer. in »ftACriCE WITH Line ... .BUT... *n the real Same S'O - oifferehT. BA3EBALL 18 A GAME OF WEIRD UNCERTAINTIES. 80ME OF THE THINGS WHICH HAPPEN IN IT ARE QUITE BEYOND EXPLANATION. SOME FEW OF THESE ARE 8HOWN BY CARTOONIST TAD IN THIS CARTOON. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS oooooooooooooooooooooooooo O MEETING TONIGHT. O o o O An Important meeting of the O O Commercial League managers will O O be held Wednesday nlglu at The O O Georgian olllce. O O O oooooooooooooooooooooooooo NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 10 Decatur St. Kimball House. Bargains In Unredeemed Diamonds. A slight atmospheric disturbance put baseball out- of busi ness Tuesday. \ It wasn’t such a collossal disturbance but it managed to spill water about ono inch deep over all of Ponce DeLeon., The trouble began shortly before 4 o ’clock, when a miserable little cloud, about the size of a small table cloth, poked itself into view over in the West. It wasn't n notable cloud in size but it was the wettest little thing. About 3:46 p. m. the spill began and it lasted all of an hour. The ground-keeping force made a grab at the tarpaulins and covered the pitchers’ and catchers’ boxes and some of the infield, but the water piled upon the rest of the diamond And shortly after 4 o’clock it became obvious that there would be no game. However, nobody seemed to be in n hurry to go home. A thousand fans or so sat around the grandstand and talked base ball until the rain slowed down a bit. Then they reluctantly pulled out for home. Down in the burg of New Orleans the weather threnteded all of the afternoon, but New Orleans and Memphis managed to pull off nine innings. Charley Prank’s pets made a run and so did Babb's boys. The ninth came and went with the score 1 and 1, and it was getting dark and looked like rain. So Sorrowful JamcR Ilnckett flagged tho game aijd it went over until Wednesday, when it goes off as a double-header. With a patched-up line-up the Nashville team managed to get one game out of two from Montgomery Tuesday. Elmer Duggan lost the first, but Sorrell won the second. Tho Dobbers are still playing with Wiseman at second base and Johnny Duggan in the outfield. Billy Smith has again assisted in putting the kibosh on one of Charley Prank's schemes. That Dutchman wanted to transfer some Montgomery games to Now Orleans—thereby presenting his bunch with a few easy victories. Of course it is a cinch to beat Montgomery at home (usually) but it is a double and twisted snnp when you hnvc them on your own grounds. Tho voto of tho other league managers is not "known but it is a practical certainty that Prank will not be granted permission for the transfer. As was to be expected, Charley Prank has refused to pay his $300 fine until’ the matter is passed on by the league directors. Nobody blames him for that. And now comes Charley Babb, who says that he will pay $500 to any New Orleans charity—half out of his own pocket and half to be donated by the Memphis association—if ho is found guilty of having tampered with the batters’ box or with having it tampered with. And still the merry war goes on, with the Memphis papers calling names and the New Orleans papers doing likewise and everything heating up nil along the line. Gee, but it seems a shame for a nice warm fight like that to be on and Atlanta not in it. JSIMMIIHIHHMtHIHtMMMtMMHMMIMtMM | Standing of the Clubs. 8outhsrn League. CLUB8— Played. Won. Lo«t. P. C. Memphis 67 41 26 .612 ATLANTA 71 39 32 .549 New Orleans 68 35 33 Little Rock 72 37 85 Shreveport 65 31 34 Xmihvllle 76 36 40 Birmingham 71 32 39 Montgomery 74 31 43 Charleston Jacksonville 76 Mncon 75 Augusta ... .... 74 Hnrannnh ..... 78 Columbia 78 Some Random Notes on Baseball and Things Macon defeated Columbia Tueaday afternoon, acore 1 to 0. “Wild Bill** Clark, the Macon twlrler, pitched su perb ball and had the Columbians at hit mercy throughout the entire con test. Columbia made only two scratch hits off Clark's delivery. Augusta and Charleston played a ten-Inning tie Tuesday. Both teams played good ball and the game was a peach from st^rt to finish. Lakoff, the former Little Rock twlrler, pitched good bnll for Augusta. He allowed Charleston only four hits for the ten Innings. twirled against Philadelphia and he received perfect support. Bartley, the former Shreveport twlrler, was on the firing line for Philadelphia,' and, al though he pitched good ball, he was beaten by the peerless White Sox. The fans of this city remember the game Bartley pitched against Atlanta about three seasons ago. Bartley was hatted to all parts of the lot and At lanta won by the overwhelming score of 25 to 5. Charley Smith pitched for Atlanta. The New York Amerfcanr trimmed Larry Lajole's Clevelanders Tuesday afternoon. ••Smiling” A! Orth pitched a good game for Griffith and won his game handily. Rhoade* pitched for Cleveland ari was batted rather hard. Now York At. Louis . . i Boston . . . Wssblngton . , CLUBS— Chicago . . . New York . IMttsburg . . Phllntlelphli Boston . . . Cincinnati . . Brooklyn . . National League. IMayed. Won. Lost P. C. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. 3icnipli!s in New Orion us. 8hrevej»ort In Little Rock. YE8TERDAY’8 RESULTS. Southern. Memphis 1, New Orleans 1 (called i count of dnrkneMsl. Montgomery 6, Nashville 8. Nashville 8, Montgomery 1. Little Rock 6, Shreveport 0. Little Book l. Shreveport o. South Atlsntio. Macon 1, Columbia 0. Savannah 3. Jacksonville 2. Augusta 2, charleston 2. American Association. Minneapolis 8, Louisville 7. ludtniMpoltH 7. Milwaukee l. KnnMfl City 7, Columbus 2. Ht. Paul 4, Toledo f. Cotton 8tates. Columbus 3, Gulfport 1 (first came] Gulfport 6, Columbus 0 (second gnu Vicksburg 4, Mobile 1. Jackson 4. Meridian 2. American. Chicago 5. Philadelphia 1. New York 3, Cleveland 1. St. !.outa 5. Washington 4. Boston 7, Detroit 3. National. Plttslmrg 8. Philadelphia 4. Philadelphia 2, Pittsburg 0. Roftton o, Cincinnati 1. New York 5. Ht. Lottltf 8. New York 6. Ht. Louis 5. Chicago 7, Brooklyn 1. Klick. Conroy and Ganley are the best base stealers In B. B. Johnson's Ircult. The former has twenty-four to his credit. DAVIS AND STINSON HAVE FIGHT ON THE BALL FIELD Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga., July 10.—During the eighth Inning George Stinson, of the Macon team, and Umpire "glats” Da vis had a two-round match. In which Stinson was an easy winner. Davis appeared to be off all the after noon on balls and strikes, and when he called a strike on George that was al most over the right fielder's head, George kicked. During the argument that followed Stinson was put out of the game and told to leave the field. He left the grounds, but before go ing Jabbed several blow’s on "Slats”* face, spoiling his facial beauty. They were soon separated, and his honor, the "umps,” Imposed a fine of $10 and three days for his touching up. Secretary Starr, of the Macon base ball club, has wired President Boyer of the affair and asked him to send another umpire to Macon for the rest of the series. ATLANTA BOWLING TEAM SCORES ANOTHER VICTORY The Atlanta bowling team defeated the Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany’s team last night on George W. Case's alleys by the score of 116 pins. The highest Individual score for single game, made by Herbert of the At lanta team, w*as 210. One of the largest crowds that has ever attended a match game In Atlanta was present and witnessed some splen did bowling, prior to the schedule match a three-cornered game of nine pins was played by Meeks, C. Smith and A1 cock, of the Birmingham base ball team, Molesworth acting In the ca pacity of official scorer. The game was close and exciting. In the tenth in ning Meeks and Alcock were tied while Smith was only a few points behind. After repeated efforts to break the tie, Alcock finally won, defeating Meeks by one pin. The Atlanta bowling team and a team composed of the Birming ham baseball team headed by Meeks will play a series of match games on their next trip to the city. Scores of last night's games were as follows: Atlanta. 12 3 Elliott 168 186 189 Stanley CLARKE WINS GREAT GAME Special to The Georgian Macon, Ga., July 10.—Clarke pitched wonderfully good ball for Macon yw. terday. Seldom In his career has ht showed up In better form. Sles was the total of hits for Colum bia, and In addition six men fanned. McKenzie pitched nice ball for the South Carollnans, but Macon mad, flu hits off his delivery and scored one run. Wohlleben had the distinction of br ing the only man on either team nhg made more than one hit. The scoret^L Macon. ab. r. Murdock, cf. \ . 3 0 Llpe. 3b. . lJi.1l 0 Houston, If.-..I. 4 .1 Stinson, rf. . 3 0 Wohlleben, lb..j. 4 0 Rhoton, 2b. . ./. 3 0 Uepe, SB,.. . .1. 2 0 Hnrnlsh. c. . 2 0 Clarke, p. . . •. 3 , 0 Hurley, rf. . Y 0,‘ 0 Totals 27 Columbia. McMahan, ss.. Qulgly. 3b. ... 4 Loher, If 3 Hallman, rf. . . . 3 Gnallng, cf. . . . 3 Schwenk, lb. . . 3 Lally, 2b 3 Smith, c 2 McKenzie, p. . . 3 t I 1 5 27 10 1 ab. r. h. po. 0 4 41 .28 .oon coo coo-41 .000 001 OO'-ll Herbert 181 210 Irwin 158 142 Hobe 175 183 Georgia Railway. 1 2 Chambers 202 188 West 143 192 Uttle.v 97 136 M. Elliott 187 136 198 Lyons 123 Totals Score by Innings: Columbia Macon Summary—Left on bases, Mnoon ' 171 Columbia 5; struck out, by Clarke 41 161 by McKenzie 5; bases on holla, oS| 171 I Clarke 2, off McKenzie 3; wild pitch. 172 I McKenzie: stolen bases, Murdock 41 3 Llpe, Wohlleben; sacrifice hit. H»r 178|nlsh. Time, 1:45. Umpire, Davis. 201 166 Rhodes Scholarship Man Is Pitching Some Ball Jack Robinson Is Now in the Gomel The Chicago Whit. Sox defeated Charley Smith, the forme.- Atlanta Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon In a pitcher, lost his game to St. Loula well played game, acore 6 to L White Tueaday afternoon by the score I to 4. St. Louis secured only 10 hits off Smith’s delivery, while Washington made 11. but luck was against him and he lost. Smith Is a good pitcher now. and he la holding hla own In the American League. The New York Giants won both ends of Tuesday's double-header from St. Louis. Matthewson gave up only live hits In the first game and won hla contest with ease. McGInnlty, the Iron man of baseball, won the second game for the Giants. He gave up only six hits. The Boston Nationals won out from Detroit Tuesday afternoon. Detroit could not hit Tannehtll and Boston won with ease, score 7 to 3. Ty Cobh, the Georgia boy, and Shafer were about the only members of the Detroit aggregation who could hit the Boston pitcher to any effect. Each of these players made a home run. • Does this chap look like a scholar to you? No? Well, he is. This Is a good representation of Charles Keith, A. B„ of the University of Arkansas, and next fall to represent his state In Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar. Just by way of working up for the atrenuoslty of his season abroad Char ley pitched two shut-outs yesterday for Little Rock against Shreveport. Ten hits was the best Shreveport could do In the entire afternoon, and at no stage In the game was there any chance that a Pirate wns going to score. Not a free pass was issued by Keith. This was far and away the best long-distance performance of the year, and if Keith can keep up this work when he gets to Oxford, no doubt he will lead the league—If any. Keith looks more like a baseball player than a scholar, but under the careful training of Mike Finn, he Is beginning to look “real Intellectual” by spells, and right now he would slack up pretty well alongside of Bill Dyer, A. B.; Sidney Smith, Ph. D.. and the other college degree men of the league. CRAWFORD WINS. 8pecln! to The Georgian. Crawford, Oa, July 10.—Comer and Crawfopd played their second game of the- seaaon at Comer laat Monday. Much Interest centered In this con test since Crawford had already won the laat three games played against Comer and had not lost .a game this year. Norman pitched tine ball tor Craw ford, while McCannon did similar duty for Comer. It was simply a case of too much Norman. Allen, Brooks. Calloway and Hargrove played good ball. The Anal score was 8 to 3 In favor of Crawford. Earl Stevens um pired a fair and Impartial game. Batteries, for Comer, McCanncn and Davison; for Crawford, Noritum and All— Hperln! In The Georgian. Macon, Go., July 16.—After helnl laid up and out of the game for ilk past several weeks with a broken h0"B ger. Jack Robinson, the crack btwft stop of the Macon club, Is back Inti the game. Jack's Unger was broken while iw;| Ing In this city several weeks age, i since that time he has been on !■ bench. Nick Hnrnlsh has been cattle Ing In Jack’s place, and during his th» In thut position caught a good arikt of ball. . - Macon fans are all glad to see 1W| Inson back In the game agnln. »• "1 Is one of the steadiest catchers l» tji league, and when It comes to throwing. Jack can make them **■ take notice. MONROE WINS. Special to The Georgian. Monroe, Ga., July 9.—The str'tjl Monroe and Rutledge bitseball played here Tueeday In a fast and : | teresting game of ball befon and enthusiastic crowd. The game was pronounced h; to be the fastest contest ever P»J on the Monroe grounds. It was I 1 *’ In the record time of l:2h. Monroe scored her first ran on error and the next two on two > hits. The Rutledge boys filled bases twice with one out, but ri mond was very steady and rei the side both times without Bonnell pitched an excellent sh allowing only four hits. Stone s th I Ing to tho bases was a feature. -X The score by innings: ^ "j tfl Monroe Rutledge . Batteries Bonnell and Stone. Attendance, 250. .010 020 ’ .’ iooo 000 000—;o • Hammond and Pf _. > l SPARTA L08E8, 2 TO 8. Ini to Th** Oeorgian. .Wathlnf* 1 *^ !p«*cl nSSrusss •’tiyyre&rd.r gnnie of a series. Battery **''*,; Thurmond, Jackson; 8parta bn** or • ,, am! Reynolds. lilts: Off Grate* ATLANTA VS. BIRMINGHAM JULY 8-9-10 Game Called 4 O’clock Tickets On Sale At All of Oppenhcim's Places.