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i THE ATLANTA GEOliUIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JULY 26,1907. men when they commence' fighting. Ho wanta IIS pound* ringalde, with fighting toga on, while Sana wanta 111 pounda ringalde, atrlpped. Finally Guns offered to abide by what the reviaed London prize ring rulea aald on the subject, and to thla Nelson's manager agreed. Today it waa found the London prize ring rulea don't contain anything In regard to the "toga," ao dona hna won out and the m«n will have to weigh-in atrlpped, without any toga. Southern. Played. Won, Lott. CLUBS— Memphis. . ATLANTA. , Now* Orleans Nnuhrlllc. . lllrmtuehem. Little I took. Mirereport. . South Atlantic. Played. Won. Lost. P. CLUBN- Charleston. i ncksouvllle. lacoo. . . Augusta. . Hnvnunnh. Columbia. ACHING FOR REVENGE, CRACKERS WILL TRY AGAIN SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING ! NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS NEW BASEBALL ARMOR The Crackers’ pennant aspirations have received a couple of pretty severe blows in rapid and sickening succession. Bnt don’t let that disturb you any. , Two full games makes a lot of difference in the looks of things with Memphis and Atlanta, but the game is young yet. The Crackers have hit a temporary fielding slump, but it can not last. Performers of the variety of Fox, Sid Smith, Castro, Dyer, Paskert, Winters and Becker are not likely to be “off edge” long. And when they get back the merry dash for the pennant will go on in earnest. The Memphis players have nothing on the Crackers and never had, except a slightly chesty belief in their own invincibility. And they are due to be punctured before the season ends. If the average fan were allowed to score a game the error column would be worked to death and the hits would be few and far between. Ye A. F. is an unforgiving individual and every time a ball gets by a player he wants to have that man suffer for it—even if the ball went by him like a limited express on a real railroad. From an ex- Professional scorers differ in their views, too, change we cop the following, on this subject: Many tans would like to .know why scorers sometimes differ In giv ing credit for a baeo bit or an error. For the some reason that two loving hearts, which have sworn to eternally beat as one, will often take a trip In diametrically opposite directions and make the neigh bor* think there's a railroad collision In the flat If every one thought alike there would not be any real thinks to mako the thunks which move the world. No two pair of lambs are trimmed at exactly the same angle. Boxing gentlemen have been known who could see a punch coming In the dark, and others who never knew what was In the offing until the Are bells rang. There are lnflelder* who can locate a silver dollar clear across the diamond, and somo who frequently take aim at first and hit the bumps behind the plate. It'a a matter of vision. One icorer will see the runner bent the throw; another has the ball In the baieman's mit before the runner haa thrown away hta bat. It'a one man'a Judgment against another's. The question relates to whether the lnflelder could or could not have corralled the ball In time.to nail the other fellow at the bag. Willie Fitxgerald, of Brooklyn, is the latest of the pugilistic muck-rakers. He has denounced Jimmy Britt as a faker and a “fixer of fights.” Somewhat before his announcement Joe Gans said the same thing about Britt. This business is now getting monotonous. The only way to create a real sensation in the fighting world is to look up an hon est fighter, and to prove it. Our hats are off to the man who discovers a really honest performer in the ring today. Doubtless they nre there, but of late we have been hearing so much about the other kind. Nelson and Gans Will Fight At Reno, Nev., on Labor Day Ban Francisco, July 28.—Reno, Nsv., will have tho big fight on Labor Day, September 2, between Oans and Bat tling Neleon. Jim May, a sporting man of Nevada, wa# In thle city last night and met Manager Nolan and Joo Oans to talk matters over. May offered them a 222,000 purse to ap pear there with a substantial guaran tee that they will get the coin. Nel- eon'e manager refuaed to go bock on hie stand In regard to weight of the Bowling Tonight At Case’s Alleys The Piedmont bowling team will meet the Georgia Railway and Electric Company's team Friday night on Geo. W. Case's alleys, to bowl a series of games. , The Piedmont bowling team la one of the large number of teame that are now organising, preparatory to the or ganisation of a city league. ■ The members of the Piedmont team are well-known bowlers and will en deavor to make their debut surcessful by defeating the Georgia Railway team as a beginner. Oames begin at S o’clock. The teams' members are as follows: Piedmont—Shaffer, Surat, Lyle, Dean and R. ElUott. Georgia Railway—Chambers, Graves, Hurt, West and Lyons. The New York Americans defeated Larry Lajole'a strong Cleveland club Thursday afternoon by the score of 9 to 4. Famous Slow Joe Doyle was In the rifle-pit for New York and he kept the Clevelanders from hitting him to any extent. Doyle has defeated Cleve land more than once since he has been In the big league. latte during the season of 1204 Doyle pitched hts first game for New York against Cleveland and he won from Larry's team. He let them down with only two hits. Doyle fanned Lajole three times that day. CLUBS— Chicago . . Detroit . . . Ole return! . 1'hllitdelphtt Sew York . St. lands . . Boston . . , , Washington ■ American. Played. Won. Lost P. C. ... Ml 52 23 .<12 M. KUTZ NOTES. The Kuti team was unable to secure the service of Williams and Long. Able* has quit playing ball. His batting average waa .211 and his field ing was .725. Ahles has a splendid record and Mike Winn loses a good man. The Kuts team haa released Kelly, Williams, Long and Ahtea, by request, and signed Kinsey, Emerson, Glenn and Moss. WHERE THfiY PLAY TODAY. Shreveport In Atlanta. Ponca DeLeon pork. Game called at 4 o'clock. Little Rock tn Birmingham. New Orleans In Montgomery. Memphla In Nashville. NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur St. Kimball House. Barcalna In Unredeemed Oiamonde. CLUBR- t'hlcago . New York Pittsburg 82 rhltnrW'tphta Brooklyn ItfMtnn . Cincinnati BL Louis YESTERDAY’S RESULT8. Southern. Hhroreport 4, Atlanta 0. Birmingham 4. Little H«x*k 1. Montgomery 6, New Orleans game). Montgomery 2, Now Orleans 1 game). Memphis 11, Nashville 0. 0 (drat (second South Atlantic. Jacksonville 1, Macon 0. rharleaton 8. Huvsnunh 0. Augusts 3, dotumbta 2. American. Detroit 2. Boston 1 dlrst game). Detroit 3. Boston 2 (secoud game). Philadelphia 2, Chicago 0 (first game). Philadelphia 7. Chicago 3 (second game). Thla photograph of Roger Breen han, the Giants’ catcher, shows that great player arrayed in hie new ear muff. “Brea.” has adopted this re galia because of the recent Injury to hit ear caused by a swift shoot, thrown by Andy Coakloy, of tho Cincinnati Reds. Cotton 8tatcs. «. m. ■ mu n. Kanatts City 1 Mtlwnukee 2. Louisville 12. Columbus 5. Toledo 5, Indiana polls 1. SHREVEPORT versus ATLANTA July 25, 26, 27. Games Called at 4 p. m. SATURDAY’S GAMES. Bun Proofs vs. M. Kuts, north dia mond, Piedmont park. W. F. Shumate, umpire. Western Electric Company vs. Koea Kolos, Ponce DeLeon avenue and Myr tle street diamond. Carlton Floyd, unv pire. L. & N. vs. Beck & Gregg, Gammage Crossing. E. B. Sykes, umpire. The Georgian's Commercial League teams will battle again Saturday after noon for The Georgian's pennant. The race In the league Is getfing to be very exrttlng these days, and some warm battles will surely result when the teams get together. One of the best games on Saturday will probably be the contest between M. Kuts and the Sun Proofs. The Bun Proof team Is leading the league nt present and Is going well. M.,Kuts Is not very far behind In the race' and one or two games won would put them back In the lead. L. (k N. will play the Beck A Gregg team, and thle also should be a good contest. Western Electrics and Koea Kolas will also battle. Tomorrow’s games all should be good ones, as the teams are evenly balanced and the clubs are all In good condition. Contributions tn the way of notes and reserve lists will be found below: Koce Nolet’s Reserve List. Manager Strange has signed W. B. Kales, J. E. Tenny and Oppenhelm. The reserve list Is Strange, Banks, Wilson. Btlner, Brady, Lipscomb, NIs- bet. W. B. Estes, J. E. Tenny, Oppen helm. MAJOR LEAGUE CLUBS TRYING TO BUY FOUR ATLANTA MEN Sweeney Wanted by Cleveland, Zeller on “Shop ping List” of Several Clubs, and Paskert and Smith Sought After—No Deals Yet. The selling season la on In earnest and Just at present Manager Billy Bmlth Is having far more trouble In keeping hie men than he Is In getting rid of them. Clnclnatt haa an option on Paskert for a price decidedly In advance of anything mentioned In any of the sto ries on the subject. But the option has not been closed and the deal Is pending. Three clubs are after Bid Smith, one of which Is tha Philadelphia bunch, but no deal has been closed for him and no deal will be until the offers are all In. The price paid for Sid will be a big one If he Is let go. Sweeney and Zeller are the other two men sought after. Tom O’Brien, Cleveland's scout, when here asked the Atlanta club to set a price-—any old price—on the young backstop. But Atlanta does not want to let him go. And no price was set. When O'Brien left, It was with the threat that he would draft the man. — The fourth man who Is under the watchful eye of the big league scouts Is Rube Zeller. In spite of Rube's, mid season slump, the big moguls are watching him and already some good offers have come In. But none of them hts been accepted as yet. cording to Eldridge'e agreement with Slats Davis, as announced by him In the Atlanta Baseball Association's of fice, Davis was to make the decisions on balks. Bill ssys moreover that It was no balk. He quotes the balk rule to prove his cues. According to his Ideas, wh'ch arc obviously correct, the only port of the rules which could cover the case are: ‘‘Rule 34. A balk shall be (section 1) Any motion made by the pitcher. . . to throw to FIRST base when occupied by a base runner without completing the throw. “Sec. 2. Throwing the ball by the pitcher to any base to catch the base runner without stepping directly to ward such base In the act of making such throw.” None pf the other sections) of the balk rule could possibly apply. And anybody who saw the play will admit that the motion was made to ward THIRD base and that Ford stepped directly toward that base to make the throw. So how It was a balk nobody can possibly guess. vllle Friday night. He was not heard to express any opinion of his umpire, who worked during the gams, K nesday and Thursday. ” Hickman and Massing are slated for the Pirate battery performers In th. second engagement. Hickman Is the smallest pitcher In the league, In fact, probably the email est player. But at that the lad Is a wonder Roy Castleton will pitch today for Atlanta and Sweeney will be behind th* bat. Otto Jordan Is In such shape that he will be In the game by Saturday, in all probability, but he does not care to risk It today. Therefore Sid Smith will perform on second again. Bill Smith Is still highly Indignant over the decision of Umpire Eldridge calling the balk on Ford In Thursday's game. He says In the first place that, ac- Those mix-ups between players In Thursday’s game look peculiarly nasty. It will be remembered that Babb was the man who put Hardy out of business for nearly a month recently by collid ing with him. And It Is said by Nash ville players that Babb made the threat that he was going to do It before he pulled the event off. The next time the two men play against each ether, Hardy and Babb meet again In a frightful bump. May have been an accident, but It looks de cidedly like premeditation on the part of somebody. And such tactics are not encouraged In the Southern League. President Kavanaugh left for Nash- Graham Is the only man Shreveport Is likely to lose during the selling or drafting periods. Already Fisher has had five or six offers from American League clube for the man, and will doubtless close t deal soon after he returns home Shreveport wants a major league club to train In their burg next spring and training grounds for the eprlng will doubtless be Included In the deal A month ago Gasklll locked like big league timber. But suddenly he de veloped rheumatism In his pitching arm and the last two times out he wee hammered for nearly two score hits Fisher had a wire from him Thurs- day night and he said that he was un der a doctor's care and that he hoped to get In shape In a couple of weeki. Fisher Is strong In his hope that ‘‘the Prince" will come around for the August games. manage When asked If he would Shreveport next year, Fisher said that he “supposed so.” Tom has done well with the Pirates this year, despite a marvelous run of hard luck, and will doubtless be given the Job again next year. Fisher Is enthusiastic In his praise of Ford. "He's a grand pitcher," said Tom after the game. "And his spit ball li the finest I ever saw. All the boys commented on It. Besides he has ateam and control. There are few better men in the league." FISHER TOO GOOD IN PINCHES, AND CRACKERS WERE SHUT OUT C0MMERC//U LEAGUERS BATTLE AGAIN SATURDAY Atlanta 0, Shreveport 4! Shut out by the league tall-enders! Gee, It was awful! And If they had not done It so nsatly we should bs somewhat ashamed of the performance. The way that bunch of Pirates dished out the great national game made It look as easy os shooting fish. They let off a couple of harmless, errors and Tommy Fisher gave out a hit now and then. But when there was a pinch the whole Pirate crew, from Captain "Kid" Fisher on down, was steady as the Rock of Gibraltar. Tom Fisher hod everything. Back In his palmiest days In cultured but chilly Boston, he could not have dis played more speed and better control. He clipped the edges and sent them high or'low; he put them over the middle or any old place where he thought It would pusxle the batter. And he certainly puszled them. Not but that the Crackers could get bits. In the third Inning Ford was the first man up and got his second—or was It the third?—hit of the year. And It was nothing less than a three-bagger. It was a question who was more sur prised—Russell or the crowd. But In either rase, with a man on third and nobody out, It looked l|ke runs. They did not go over, though. were Becker, Winters and Paskert cinch outs. In the fourth, with one out, Sweeney and Fox singled. And nothing further happened. In the fifth Ford, the first man up, went safe on an error. Becker filed out. and then Winters singled. That put two men on bases and one out. After which nothing Happened. The last chance came in the seventh. Dyer was the first man up and he singled. After that not a single Crack er could get as far as first. And that was all there was to It—as far as Atlanta was concerned. In the fifth the famous plonk-walking act came off. No one, unless troubled with a mor bid mind, would care to hear the sad details. Sufficient to say that War- render nnd Mclver made hits, Lowee was hit by a pitched ball. Ford made a balk, and Castro and Fox mado errors. Shreveport scored four runs. From that point the Pirates had the game crocheted Into a hard knot. Nothing could have loosened up things but an ax. And Atlanta did not have the ax. The second out of the day afforded Becker an opportunity for a brilliant catch. The ball looked like a guaran teed two-bagger, but Becker raced aft er It apd managed to spear It before 1* hit terra flrma. Boiled down to a last analysis and shorn of excessive verbiage, Fisher was too good In the pinches and the At lanta fielders had another off day. And speaking of off days—It was the third In a row. The score: 8hr*veport Carlin, Sb. . . , Benson, ss. ; . , Daley. .If. . . , Warrender, cf. , Lewee, 2b. . . , Mclver, rf. . . , Clark, lb. . . . Rapp, c. . . . Fisher, p Totals 21 4 5 2? 9 t Atlanta. Becker, rf. Winters, cf. . . . 4 Paskert, If. ... 4 Smith, 2b. ... 4 Sweeney, c. . . 4 Fox. lb 2 Castro, ss. . . . 4 Dyer, ss. . . . 4 Ford, p. . . . 2 Total 34 Runs by Innings: Shreveport 000 040 000—4 Atlanta .. .. 000 000 000-4 Hits by Innings; . , Shreveport 010 120 001—1 Atlanta 011 210 10*—4 Summary: Two-base hits, Carlin: three-base hits, Ford; sacrifice hlta Fox. Warrender; struck out, by Ford . (Carlin, Warrender, Lewee, RsPP Fisher I), by Fisher 2 (Paskert, Fox, Castro); bases on balls, off Ford 1; nit by pitched balls. Ford 1 (Lewee); balk Ford. Time of game, 1:60. Umpire*. Eldridge and Davis. Doleful Notes on the Awful Catastrophe Beck A Gregg Reserve List. Parish, Garwood, Grist, V. Moore, Adams, Cannon, Power, II. Moore, O. Moore, Davis. Dope. C. Parish’s timely single and Virile Moore’s beautiful drive broke up the game In the ninth last Saturday. Cannon pitched good ball for Beck A Gn*itg last Saturday. SUN PROOF NOTE8. There wll lie no changes In the Sun Proof team from now until the end of the season. The Sun Proof boys have played three successive errorless games. The Sun Proof-Kuti game tomorrow at Piedmont Park will be the game of the day In the Commercial League. All the boys connected with the sphere last Saturday! Will It Will it be "\vtn” r or only Winn to< morrow? sometimes a name 4lke that •Kutz” quite a dgure. Sun Proof friends are Invited to wit, ness the contest tomorrow. A. A. C. Tennis Championship Will Be Started on Saturday The ninth annual tennis champion ship of the Atlanta Athletic Club will begin on the East Lake courts Satur day at 2 p. m. As many matches as possible will be played off Saturday. The remaining events will be stretched through the following week. The week, day matches will start at S o’clock. The winner of the singles event must meet Nat Thornton, present champion of the club, and In the doubles Grant and Thornton. Tom Fisher may not be a "contin uous performance” Iron man, but he has Just established a record. During the last seven days he has pitched four games. Friday, Bun- day and Thursday he worked. The other three days he rested. v Pretty good performance that, espe cially as his lost day he shut out the hard-hitting Crackers. support he would have won his game. Sweeney made two singlet In a row. And they were the first two hits of the game for Atlanta. Paskert’s grounder to Carlin In the firat looked like a hit. It woe a des perate chance and "Car Line" missed The crowd was distinctly small. Whether this was due to Wednesday's defeat or to the fact that the Shreve port club Is way down In the list is un. certain. Probably the former explanation would stand. Atlanta fani hate to see the team lose and a couple of defeats cuts Into the gate receipts In awful style. Ford's three-bagger was an event. If Rube Zeller hod made a home run there could not have been more sur- Pr Russe!l had an awful run for It and slid manfully at the bag. He beat the boll there a mile, actual measurement, but he did not Intend to take any chances. Ford struck out seven men, which Is the record along that line. And he pitched nice ball. With the Ford took an awful chance In the fourth, when, after Carlin had doubled Benson sent a grounder to him and he threw to third Instead of to first. Dyer handled the ball perfectly and Carlin was tagged. But It was the closest de. clslon of ths day and took absolutely perfect execution to get away with It. At fielding his position. Ford has few equals In the league. Tom wasn't on hand to prevent * fight In the bleachers, though. Just as the excitement died do*» on Uie diamond a couple of men In < bleachers began to cut loose, andI * a few minutes there was some ram? milling. In the fifth there was a hot wran gle when Umpire Eldridge allowed Lewee's claim that he was hit with a pitched ball. Many fans, and several of the Atlanta players swore that El dridge called the boll foul and that It was foul, but the young umpa sent the man on to first. After Carlin doubled to left Paskert gave him a' fright. He threw the ball right to the bag and the Pirate had to hurry some. In the fifth It was on even break between Castro and Fox. as to which deserved the error on Carlin's ground er. Castro threw on the ground and Jim missed It utterly. usual Atlanta hitting and the usual fare. looked like a real warfare In the fifth, when Umpire Eldridge de- clared a balk and allowed Warrender to acore. • “V - * a mot,on In throw to third, hesitated and then threw. El- 3£M«« *a!4 It was a balk and sent Mum across the plate with the first score of the day. Then Bill uncorked a demonstration and It looked to the caaual spectator ss though he was going to thump his umps. But Tom Fisher interposed his huge bulk between the would-be bel ligerents and effectually ended the war- Everybody took a hand *“ within reach, nnd It looked Ilk* young riot. The comedy element was fural>n„ me comeuy cieniciu , J iha by the police. ' With everybody “ grounds standing up and yelling two fighters, the officers were the « onee who did not see the excitement. And they did not start for the sera of activity until the milling wa * °'bui at that they made a couple ot arrests. Rapp's fly In the seventh ««J*J downward Just between Winters* Sid Smith. Both went for «. *»» „ looked like a catastrophe sure, lor J" were yelling. "I got It." «"<> aide showed any signs of*toppin* d Finally, Just as a col 11 * 1 ”" “Xd, Inevitable, Sid grinned bc oa ‘ ,1 >; "Then take It." and folded his arm os he came to a stop. And Ginger did. Ford struck Tom Fisher ™' times In a row. And that »'*■' stunt, for Tom hits hard as a rule. There were a couple of neat pjee*^°* "backing up" by the Atlanta In the seventh Mclver sent on that Ford slapped at. but ml* *• anJ Smith was behind him, lh red with marvelous quickness, *'* ,, th. ball and threw the runner out ""h the ghastly Mte-upASfle'uS* Paskerfs dash from left fl«w to base and hie neat fieldingJJVJy won* ed the disaster from being ■“* than It was.