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THE ATliANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7,1907.
CRACKERS WILL INVADE TENNESSEE ON THURSDAY
SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
( NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
Ph
It’s a trifle premature to be pulling off ai) official guess at
the question of an All-Southern League baseball team. We usu
ally leave that for the far end of the silly season.
But this year the fans have begun their guessing a month
early and are “pickin’ ’em green,” instead of waiting for the
ripening. »
It is not proposed to dope out a regular gness, but to take a
glance at recently published (unofficial) batting and Adding
averages and select the best men for each position—strictly ac
cording to the figures.
And here let it bo stated that surprises can be counted on.
In the first place it is hard to dope out Hardy of Nashville
and Wood of Little Rock as the catchers. But it can’t be dodged.
Hardy is batting .315 and fielding .971. That is high batting and
low fielding—but not hopelessly low. Wells, of the same team, is
batting equally well, but his miserable fielding average, .942, puts
him out.
Wood is batting not quite as well (.291) and fielding better
(.990.) Only Hardy and Wells are hitting better and only
Sweeney is fielding better. “Ed, the Kid,” is the league’s best
fielding catcher now, but .250 batting knocks him out.
Other catchers who ore “up there” ore Sid Smith and
Massing.
For first baseman, surprising as it may seem, we have to
place the tag of approval with “Big” Meek, of Birmingham, on
the strength of his .283 hitting and his .981 fielding. Hardy
alone ranks him at batting, and Hardy has to be considered as
a catcher.
“Hefty” Douglas is such a dose second that thero is noth
ing to chose. He is batting .283 and fielding .981. The writer
would rather have him because of his experience, but strictly on
dope Harry Meek gets the call.
Honorable mention goes to Sabrie, of New Orleans, and
Carey, of Memphis.
Otto Jordan is the man for second base, though he wins by
a small margin. He has batted .268 and fielded .965 this year.
James, of Memphis, really has a shade the better of it'on dope
(batting .278, fielding .965), but Otto has played in twice as
many games ns the Memphian and is entitled to more considera
tion.
Walters and Loweo are the only other ones who "showed.”
Another surprise at shortstop. Babb is “it,” with Ball n
close second. “Chesty Charles” has fielded .931 and batted .298.
Ball is .012 worse at fielding and .001 better at bntting.
Atz is the only other star.
Third base Is the private property of Lave , Cross. Thero is
no arguing that point. He has fielded .963 and batted 4 307. Mc-
Elevecn is the only other third baseman who has batted well and
Richards the only other man who has fielded that position in first
class style.
The chief jar is the left field position. Manning, of Memphis,
gets it owr Paskertl
The Bluffer’s average is: fielding. 980, bntting .296. Cincin
nati’s new man hns fielded .965 and batted .292.
Molesworth, of Birmingham, is the dope artist’s choico for
center fielder, on the strength of his .271 bntting and .973 fielding.
Winters is a close second.
Right f^cld is an absolute toss-up between Becker and Hen.
line, of Montgomery. The averages: Becker, fielding .949, bat
ting .286; Henline, fielding, .965, batting .280.
In selecting the pitchers, of course the basis is the per cent of
“games won,” and here is the way the five-man staff dopes out:
Castlcton, Atlanta; Bills, Memphis; Zeller, Atlanta; Guese, New
Orleans, and Wilhelm, Birmingham.
The writer will not vouch for the figures used, nor does he
consider that the team thus picked is the “class” of tho league.
CRACKERS
WINNING
Zeller Back in Form, Pitches
a Splendid
Game.
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ARDUCSUB BROS.. New Ter* City,
Then One of Those Old-
Fashioned Batting Ral
lies Ended the Agony.
Special to The Georgian.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 7.—When It
come* to breaking up tight game* with
the aid of the efficient willow, the fan*
of Birmingham take off their hats to
the Cracker*.
A nlnth-Innlng spasm gave Me
battle to Atlanta, and Tuesday's went
the earn* way, except that the’paro'xy-
l*m of hits eventuated In the tenth.
The score was Atlanta 6, Birming
ham 3.
Rube Zeller, the league’s only no-hlt
man during 1907, and Wilhelm, one of
1906's hltless pbenoms, were the op
posing pitcher*. For Zeller the. game
ended a long spell of defeats; for Wil
helm It closed a great series of vic
tories. Likewise, It marked tho first
R arne that Zeller has ever won on the
Istorlc and smoky slag pile.
It doesn't take any careful figuring
to tell how It all happened. Zeller just
naturally pitched such good ball that
he made up for the fielding mistakes of
the Atlanta team. And the Atlanta
batters came to his rescue In the ninth
with a winning bunch of hits.
It looked very much like an Atlanta
triumph at the very jump. Atlanta
opened right up In the second and tal
lied once. And It was so easy. Jim
Fox hit a three-bagger and Jordan sin
gled.
Two men came home In the third In
nlng with equal ease.
Just to prove what a cinch It wa\
Zeller—even Rube—hit the ball safely.
Becker Immediately did likewise. Win
ters couldn't get anything that counted,
but Paskert drew four wide ones and
the bases were full. Fox tried to soak
one through Alcock, but the attempt
failed and Zeller died at the pan.
Then came Otto Jordan, not gener
ally famed as a ptnch-hltter, but re
cently transformed Into the star opera,
tor. And Otto -ut across a timely sin
gle and two runs tallied.
That wae all for Atlanta until the
tenth.
The Barons began to do business In
the fifth. With Meeks out of the way.
Walter* blngled and Alcock walked.
Then came a notable happening. Oar-
vln sent a fly to deep left field and
Paskert dropped It. He got the ball In
-time to hold Walters on third, but It
was close, and did not do any good
anyway, for Wilhelm singled and Wal
ters and Alcock scored.
In the sixth th escorlng ended for
Birmingham. Demont singled, was
sacrificed to second and stole third on
the play Jordan threw wild to nip him
at the last comer, and Demont went
home.
All of which goes to show that all
three runs for Birmingham came In as
• result of errors, and likewise that
Rube Zeller was getting the same va
riety of punk support that has so often
been accorded.htm this year.
Both sides goote-egged In the sev
enth, eighth and ninth Innings, and
then. In the tenth, came trouble for
Baronvllle.
Becker was the first man up and he
singled. Winters sacrificed him In his
usual finished fashion. Then Paskert
poked a three-bagger by Carloe Smith
and Becker scored. Fox then uncorked
ono of those useful long fly* and Pas-
kert scored.
The Barons were helpless In the last
Inning and the game ended 5 to t for
Atlanta.
r. h. po. a. e.
The score:
Birmingham, nb.
Molesworth, cf. . 6
Demont, ss. . . 4
Smith, rt. ... 3
Gardner. If. . . 4
Meeks, lb .... 4
Walters, 2b. . .4
Alcock, lb. . . . 3
Garvin, C. . . . 3
Wilhelm, p. . . 4
Totals ... .34 3 « 30 15 1
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Becker, rf. . . . 6 2 2 1 0 0
Winters, cf. . . 4 0 0 B 0 0
Paskert. If. . . 4 2 1 1 0 1
Fox, lb B 1 1 12 0 0
Jordan, 2b. .... 4 0 3 4 2 1
Castro, ss. . . . 4 0 0 2 1 0
Dyer, 3b. ... 4 0 1 0 7 0
Sweeney,'c. .. 4 0 0 8 3 0
Zeller, p. . . . 4 0 1 0 1 0
Total 5 9 30 14 2
Score by Innings:
Birmingham 000 021 000 0—3
Atlanta 021 000 000 2—B
Hits by Innings:
Birmingham 101 021 100 *—6
Atlanta 012 100 010 2—9
Summary: Three-base hits. Paskert,
Hpx; sacrifice hits, Winters, Castro,
Smith; stolen bases. Smith. Demon-
trevllle, Paskert; double playe, Castro
to Jordan: struck out, Wilhelm 4 (Win
ters, Jordan, Fox, Zeller), Zeller (
(Gardner, Walter* 2, Wilhelm, Smith,
Garvin); bases on balls, Wilhelm %
Zeller 2. Time. 2:25. Umpires, Hack-
ett and Pfennlnger.
STATESBORO 7, WAYNESBORO S.
Special to The Georgian.
Waynesboro, Ga., Aug. 7.—Waynes
boro and Statesboro played their first
game of the series this afternoon and
for twelve long Innings they fought.
The game was won by Statesboro by
the score of 7 to «. Wilson for the
locals struck out 13 men and gave up
7 http, while his opponent gave up 7
hits and fanned 12. It was a pitchers'
battls from start to finish. 8tatesboro
has one of the strongest teams that has
visited our city this season.
Score by Innings. R. H. E.
Waynesboro ..000 032 000 000—t 7 W
Statesboro ...110 040 000 001—7 7 <
. Batteries: Wilson and Wolfe, Bmltt
and Thompson. _
Here Is a snapshot of Ed Reulbach, one of the great twlrlera on the
“ ;lvi
staff of the Chicago Cubs,
great field general,
Besides being an effective pitcher, he is a
Pollard to Coach Alabama;
Howard’ sNew CoachArrives
Special to The Georgian.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 7.—While the
heat of August makes one shudder to
think of football, there's no doubt but
that Interest Is growing In Alabama.
A special from Tuscaloosa of even
date gives. the Information that after
great effort Dr. J. W. Pollard has been
persuaded to take charge of the Uni
versity of Alabama athletics for anoth
er season.
Coach Counsleman, of Howard Col
lege, former Michigan star, arrived In
Birmingham yesterday and will spend
several weeks In looking over the field.
i Just Notes i
Charley Babb's "Chesty" Babblers
just keep on winning, and Friday aft
ernoon defeated Charley Frank’s Pet
Pelicans by the score of 2 to 0. That
was the third game In three days that
Babb has won from New Orleans by
the same score.
Some people In Atlanta would gladly
believe that tho Pelicans are laying
down to the Babblers, although that Is
qalte Impossible.
Charley Frank now hates Babb and
the Memphis association worse than he
does Billy Smith and the Atlanta club,
so It Is snld by those who know.
Shields pitched for Memphis yester
day and gave up six. hits. Phillips let
Memphis down with only five bits. Er
rors by Nadeau and Matty Matthews
lost the game for the Pelicans.
The Boosters, of Nashville, broke
even with the Climbers, of Montgom
ery, Tuesday afternoon at Nashville.
The Boosters won the first game, a
hard-fought battle, by the score of 3 to
2. Montgomery fumed the tables In the
second affair, however, when she won
the contest by the score of 4 to 3.
Hub" Perdue was the man to beat
Montgomery, and he allowed her only
three measly hits. Sam Weems, the
college star, was batted rather hard In
the first contest by Nashville, but fast
ling by Montgomery held the score
down. Perdue also tried his hand In
the second game, but Montgomery
found him for a total of 10 hits In this
affair. and he was mince meat Ma-
larkey pitched the second game, and
with the score a tie. he knocked the ball
over the right field fence.
Big Massing, of Shreveport, knocked
a home run In the tehth Inning Tues
day afternoon and won a hard-fought
game from Little Rock by the score of
3 to 2. Hickman pitched great ball
for the Pirates and allowed the Trav
elers only three hits. Keith twirled a
good game for Little Rock.
Jacksonville won a pitchers' battle
from Charleston Tuesday afternoon by
the score of 1 to 0. Savldge pitched a
great game for Jacksonville and al
lowed Charleston only one hit. Page
also pitched good ball for Charleston.
Jacksonville made only four hits oft
.Page.
Savannah defeated Columbia Tues
day afternoon by the score of 6 to 0.
Denver, of Savannah, let Columbia
down with only one scratch hit and
won his game with ease. Buckley
pitched good ball for' Columbia, but
with five errors behind him and no
bitting done by his club, he could/do
nothing.
Macon defeated Augusta Tuesday
afternoon In a pitcher*' battle by the
score of 3 to L "Wild BIIT Giant pitch
ed a good game for Macon and let
Augusta down with only three hits.
Macon secured only four hits oft Nel
son.
Pittsburg and Brooklyn broke even
''GINGER" CLARK WILL
PITCH FOR VAUGHN
Bill Smith Uncertain About Twirler, But Mc
Kenzie May Get Call—Crackers Go to
Nashville Next.
BlrmlnghAm, Ala., Aug. 7.—In Birmingham tho weather Is as fair as
a Illy.
The game this afternoon Is a postponed affair, the regular]y sched
uled combat having been played April 9.
Manager Vaughn will pitch Clarke this afternoon and Manager Smith
Is undecided as yet between McKenzie and Ford.
"I am so tickled that Zeller shows form again," aald Smith this morn-
ing, "that I am troubling myself very little concerning- today's bat
teries. Tho return of Zeller should mean that I will win many games on
tho western trip.’:
Sid Smith tells Birmingham goodbye this afternoon for good.
“If I fall In the big league," said Sid, “I will quit the game. I am
never coming again to Dixie."
With Wednesday's game hurled Into
the pickle vat and the Birmingham se
ries tucked away by a safe majority
the Cracker# head for Nashville
Wednesday.
, And on Thursday, Friday and Satur
day the Crackers perform In the classic
Sulphur Springs bottoms of Nashville.
And against them will go the strenu
ous forces of Johnny Dobbs.
If the Crackers can take two out
of three from the Dobbers things will
look pretty good and the fans will turn
out next Monday to give the Crackers
an extra warm welcome and again on
Wednesday to bid them a fond farewell
before their long, hard trip through the
West.
If anybody could ever head the Mem
phis team Atlanta's pennant prospects
would be more than good. Bill Smith's
cohorts are winning with cheerful
regularity and are right within strik
ing distance. But somehow the Bab
blers can't be headed.
Certainly no team In the league has
made a harder effort to win than
Charley Frank's Pelicans. And yet
they have been downed three times
running. Of course the Bluffers have
been playing a lot of cripples.
And there’s the luck of It. The Bab
blers get at Frank's team when It Is
blown full of holes. And It Isa two to
one bet that when Atlanta gets to the
Crescent City, Frank's team will be
strengthened until It Is one of the best
in the league.
Atlanta fans are proud of Otto Jor
dan and his hitting. Otto has been
stinging the ball right on the nose
this trip, and winning games right and
left. Becker’s hitting has been timely,
too.
Both pitchers made hits yesterday,
and both figured In the scoring.
Tho Montgomery State says that
Dale Gear has been released and pipes
it off that Hausen Is likely to piny
first, Baxter second and Nye right field.
However, Dale played Tuesday.
We had rather lose a game to At
lanta than any other team In tho
league. While Now Orleans Is throw
ing games to Memphis, the Firemen are.
beating us honestly, but we don't mind
so much.—Birmingham Ledger.
Bosh and nonsense, say we to the
last charge.
It is not likely that Charley Frank
ever threw games to anybody, and it !i
a dead moral certainty that he Isn't
giving Memphis anything these days.
It Is a question of a star team going
against a lot of cripples. And the crip,
pies are making a pretty good show
ing of It.
Says a Birmingham exchange:
Birmingham Is away down the
line and has no chance to fly the
banner of honor.
Atlanta Is In second place and le
supposed to be making a run for
the rag.
This being true, the ginger dls.
played by Atlanta should outrival
that of the Birmingham team, but
such Is not* the case.
Neither team displayed ginger
Monday. The game was tiresome,
long drawn out, but at times in
teresting. The Atlanta players
need ginger thrown into them, and
need a great deal of It. They
should be on the go and whoop 'er
up at every turn.
Don't let those Birmingham papers
worry you any.
If the Detroit team and the Whit#
Sox were to play on the Slag Pile for a
million dollars a side and the cham
pionship of the universe and If th*
game was pulled oft in 47 minutes, with
no errors and a half dozen hits, thoss
people would say that there was no
ginger displayed and that the thing
was slow and uninteresting. They
would ask that both managers
strengthen their teams and would rail
attention to the fact that other man.
ogers were strengthening.
Gee, but they have an awful grouch
down in that burg!
THORNTON L03E8.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 7.—Nat Thorn
ton, Southern champion, shared th*
fate of his team mate Tuesday when
ho was defeated by N. P. Hallowell, Jr,
Ilf this c-lty. Thornton has n 1 If:
and could not get around the court ss
well as usual. -
SPARKS LEAVES
AUGUSTA TEAM
Goes To Be With Sick Wife,
But May Not Re-
. turn.
Dope and the Umpire
By WILL F. KIRK.
(THE UMPIRE.)
(From Hearst Service.)
A book of rules, a frown upon my brow.
An Indicator, a good eye, and thou
Beside me, shrieking “Lobster, thou art rank."
. Oh. this, methfnke, were paradise enow.
Strange, is It not. that when I call a strike
1 raise In every breast sincere dislike?
But when I call that selfsame curve a boll,
I am abused by Tom and Dick and Mike.
I sometimes think that when my race is run.
When three strikes have been called, and, all undone,
I hear St. Peter read the riot act,
IH kick on bis decision, just for fun.
Baxter Sparks, the Mississippi boy
who^pltched for Atlanta all of last sea
eon and part of this and who was with
Augusta, has* left the team and gone
to Memphis.
Sparks' wife Is III with appendicitis
and he has gone to be with her.
He spent a few hours In Atlanta
Tuesday, and, to Judge from his con
versation, Sparks will not finish out
the season with Crosier's team. How
ever, this may be a "wrong steer."
Anyway, Sparks rays that the Au
gusta people are especially anxious to
get Grant Schopp back.
Sidney Offered
$40 Per Month
Just now a lot of dope Is being turned
out about Sidney Smith, the Camden
boy, by the Atlanta papers as Sid will
join the Philadelphia Athletics early
this fall.
. In 1904, Smith made his first appear,
unce In the South Atlantic League with
Charleston. Jack Grim was then man
ager of the Columbia team. Some of
Sid's friends asked Jack to give him
a try with the then Skyscrapers. Jack
offered the chubby one $40 a month
Sid turned down the offer and went
with the Gulls.
His career since then Is quite fa
miliar to the fans In South Carolina
and In the Sally league.
Ills friends little doubt that he will
make good with Connie Black.—Colum
bia State.
In a double-header Tuesday afternoon.
Brooklyn won the first game by the
score of I to 1 and lost the second con.
test by the score of 8 to 0. McIntyre
pitched good ball for the Trolley Dodg
ers In the first game, but Bell was
batted hard In the second. Willie al
lowed Brooklyn only three hits In the
second game.
Dygert. of Philadelphia, defeated
Cleveland Tuesday afternoon by the
score of 4 to 2. Clarkson pitched for
Cleveland. The Nape made three er
rors.
Chicago managed to defeat New
York Tuesday afternoon, and as De
troit failed to play, the White Sox
are somewhat nearer the Tigers. The
score was 6 to 2.
Cincinnati won two games from Bos
ton Tuesday afternoon. The Reds won
the first game by the score of 4 to 3
and the second by the score of 2 to 1.
Ewing pitched the first game for the
Reds and Smith the second. Flaherty
pitched the first for Bolton and Linda-
man the second.
| Standing of the Clubs, I
leaaeeaaaeeeeeteesestiitii*
Southern.
Ployed. Won. Lost P. C.
3S ii
CLUBS-
Memphls 96
ATLANTA .94
Little Rook 97 it 49
New Orleans 93 47 48
Birmingham 91 49 52
Nashville 102 48 51
Montgomery ..... 100 49 54
Shreveport 94 41 53
South Atlantic.
CLUBS- IMoyed. Won. Lost. P. C
Charleston 97
Jacksonville 99
Macon 98
Augusta 99
bhvanntb 95
Columbia 97
37 M
43 .ill
49 .i»
48 ill
50 ,4*4
69 .M
American.
Ployed. Won. Lost I
... 92 67 85
_ _ adelphla 93 B8 37 *1
Cleveland 97 K 42 .547
New York 93 41 60 .43
St. Louie 93 38 55 . 44
Boston 91 37 54 .4*
Washington 91 33 63 M
National.
CLUBS- Ployed. Won. Lost P. ft
Chicago 97 72 a ;d
Pittsburg 93 57 39 .A?
New York 94 K 39 gj
Philadelphia 90 60 40 .»<
Brooklyn 97 4* 54 . «
Cincinnati ...... 97 44 53 .«
Boston .94
8t. Loots 102
78 .2*
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
YESTERDAY'8 RESULT8.
Southern.
Atlente 5. Birmingham 3.
Memphis 2, Nsw Orleans ft
Shreveport £ Little Bock 3. .
NsshrlUe A Montgomery 2 Hirst gem".
Montgomery 4, Nashville 3 (second f'mtV
South Atlantis.
Savannah 9, Colombia 0.
Macon 3, Augusta 1.
Jacksonville 1, Charleston 0.
American.
Philadelphia 4. Cleveland £
St Louis 5, Boston 1.
Chicago 6, New York 2.
National.
Chicago 2, New York 0. .
Cincinnati 4. Boaton t (Brat *»«»'■
Cincinnati 2, Boston 1 (second gam' 1 '
Brooklyn 3. nttsbnrg 1 (Brst »■»**•.
Pittsburg 4, Brooklyn 0 (second
Cotton States.
SIobtlc-Mortdl.in, rain.
Gulfport 9. Vicksburg 8. ,
Jackson 12. Columbus *
Jackson 4, Cotumbns 0 (seven Inning*.
ond game).
American Association.
Columbus 6, Minneapolis 2 (dMt goraj ^
Columbus 7. Minneapolis • <*»»'“JS5.
Indianapolis 5. Milwaukee 1 (first gsm/i.
Indianapolis 7.' Milwaukee 3 (seconJ gam*
St. Paul 6, Toledo 2 (first gawel' ,
St Paul i. Toledo 1 (second gemeb
Louisville 7, Kansas City 2.
Virginia State.
Danville 6, Roanoke 4 (first *am«;,
Roanoke 5. Danville ( (second game,.
Richmond L Portsmouth 9.
Chicago defeated the New York
Giants Tuesday afternoon In » *
fougbt game by the score of *
"Three-lingered” Brown P ltc (!f‘L y^g
game for Chlcngo and let New
down with only three hits. ® . a
Strang, of the Giants, was put out *•
the game for kicking.