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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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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.