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arm A'lLAraa UAUrtuxiUi Ai\u j\awo, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, liw;.
RAIN PLAYS HAVOC WITH OUR PENNANT PROSPECTS
SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS |
The Sally League Reason winds up today.
Charleston wins the pennant, due chiefly to the erratic but
efficient efforts, of the Only Living What Is It, Raymond.
Artistically the senson has been a success. At least four out
of the five teams in the league have played good ball—too good,
in fact, for a Class B league.
Financially the season has left much to be desired and the
Sallys are up against the proposition of living up to the salary
limit or losing nincc money.
The league is game.. It will keep right on doing business—
no matter what it costs.
But there is no reason why it should cost anybody anything.
The Sallys have a nice, tight little league; made.np of good base
ball towns. If they did not all try too hard to win, the clubs in
every city in the circuit would pay.
However, what’s the use of talking about expense,while At
lanta is engaged in the pleasing pastime of winning a pennantf
We can’t truthfully say that the rain of Tuesday afternoon
was welcome to baseball fanatics. Doubtless the crops needed it
and certainly the old town was dusty to the very verge of suf
focation.
But there iB no use in saying that Atlanta did not want and
need those two games which were to have been played.
They ought to have been e«sy. Fisher, who was to have
E itched one of them, bad a badly injured linger and could not
ave done his usually good work, graham, who was to have
pitched the other, has been easy most of the season. So the
donble bill looked like a cinch for Atlanta'.
We’ll let this pass, but we want to serve notice on the
weather man that we expect an even break with Memphis on this
weather proposition. It is highly possible that old “Jupe” Plu-
vius could beat us out of a pennant, just by an unfair distribu
tion of rain. However, we trust that he will not.
The New Orleans team is with us for four days and should
not be unduly obstreperous. About three of these games would
look very nice on the winning side of our ledger and Charley
Frank can easily spare them. For once in the history of the
league there is no love being lost between C. Frank and Memphis
and in consequence the Pelicans arc unlikely to make a more
than superhuman effort to sink the gaff in the Crackers.
Gordon’s Schedule Hardest
Ever Attempted by Preps
Frank Blake, ot Nashville, coach of
the Gordon Institute team, left. Atlanta
Tuesday for Barnesvllle, and today
starts practice with his football team.
Coach Blake has ground out for his
players the hardest schedule ever at
tempted by a Southern prep . school
team. As far as arranged, It Includes
the following games:
September 28—Clemson.
October 5—Tech.
October 12—Auburn.
October 15-rTulane.
November 1—Howard.
November 18—Chattanooga Univer
sity.
Mercer and Florida University are
also after dates, and It Is probable that
Coach Blake will bo able to arrange
games with both of these teams.
This schedule at present does not
Include a single prep school game, and
Is as hard a schedule as Is taken op by
the average college team.
"I did not get up such a schedule,"
said Coach Blake, "because I thought
our team was anything extra good.
But It Is Just Impossible to get games
with any of the prep school teams In
the state. We should like to take on
some of those middle Tennessee prep
teams, but they are too far s»way.
"Wo aro going to have a hard time
getting up our team. Georgia seems
to havo most of our last year's men,
and It looks as though we should have
to develop a lot of now material.”
No Games Here on Tuesday;
Rain Soaks Local Diamond
T*o the disappointment of about throe
thousand fans, many of them feminine,
who had planned to seo Shreveport
downed twice In one afternoon by the
Crackers, no games were played at
Ponce DeLeon Tuesday afternoon.
Nor were theie three thousand the
only ones disappointed. For ubout
130,000 fans In Atlanta, and perhaps
2,§00,000 In Georgia were pained and
disgusted that Atlanta could not take
down the two games scheduled with
Shreveport.
Hut there was nothing to It. When
It came time for the first game the
park was a foot deep In mud anil the
rain was falling hard. When the hour
for the second game nrrlved, conditions
underfoot were decidedly worse and
overhead they were little better.
So, with great reluctance, Hilly Smith
had to call off both games.
CONALY WIN8 TWO.
Conaly, Ga., Sept. 4.—Conaly took
two games from the Democrats, Mon
day afternoon. The score of the first
was 11 to 1, and the second 3 to 1.
Hule pitched both games, and he
had the Democrats guessing.
The visitors got only three hits off
Hule In both games. Two of them
bobbed up In the first game and one In
the last. #
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O MACON'S “OET-AWAY.” O
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O Macon, Gn., Sept. 4.—Many of O
O the Macon ball players will leave O
O Thursday for other cities. Those O
O who have been sold to other teams O
O will report there, and several of 0
O the players will go home. O
O Wohlleben and Murdock are O
O going on a flying trip through the O
O West, and will likely be gone for O
O several weeks. O
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WANT PENNANT SO BAD
THAT'IT FAIRLY HURTS
The knockers who have groaned that "Atlanta don’t want to win
the pennant" ought to take u trip to local headquarters.
There Is more suppressed excitement therb In a minute than In the
average fan’s home In a week.
"I don’t see how we can help It now,” said Mayor Joyner, Tuesday
morning. "It Is going to be an awful disappointment If we lose It.”
And Billy Smith—well, for the first time on record, Billy Is grouchy,
though winning. •
"I’m shot all to pieces.” says Hill, "I have worried over this thing
until I’m right sick. We’ve GOT to win.”
CHARLEY FRANK'S PELICAN TRIBE IS HERE
FOR FOUR GAMES WITH THE CRACKER CL Ah
McKenzie Will Work Wed
nesday and Again on
, Saturday.
The New Orleans team put In an ap.
pearance shortly before noon and bar
ring any further storms there will ebe a
game here this afternoon at 3:30.
Just at present Ponce DeLeon park
worse than the proverbial sea of
mud, because Georgia mud Is stickier
than the usual variety.
However, unless there is more rain
the tw'o teams will be called on to swim
through about nine Innings.
Hoot Mon” McKenzie, the human
v/hlrliglg. will pitch for Atlanta, Swee
ney will catch and Sid Smith will again
be at short. Perry Llpe will not report
for his Job at third until Thursday or
Friday.
Smith hopes to work McKenzie again >
iiupiliiii du IHM luillAroa Mint thi
Satunhiy, at. Bill believes that th,
Scotchman has sot the Pelicans’ gout, j
Richmond Wants Craokara.
Manager Smith has .received an offer
for six games In Richmond after the
season closes. The Richmond manager
Is willing to give 81,000 for the use of
the Atlanta team for a week, whether
or not It wins the pennant.
Becker Will Stick.
It has Just come out that even though
Cincinnati has bought Becker back
from Atlanta, he will he with ths
Crackers next year. Under the Na
tional Association rules, Cincinnati has
to buy Jesse back and get waivers on
him again before he can be turned over
to Atlanta for good.
But Becker will play with Atlanta
next vear. It Is practically certain that
the major leaguers will give options on
the ex-Lake Linden performer and
Jesse will be on hand for the first crack
of the bat.
In fact Jesse likes Atlanta so well
that he hopes to spend the winter here.
He Is a mechanic and expects to land a
Kid Wells Will
Go to St. Louis
Kid Wells, the young catcher of
the Dobbcrs, will go to the St. Louis
Nationals next year, Instead of to the
Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, as It was
announced earlier In the season.
Wells Is a natural ball player, but
It It. not expected that he will make
good In the big league next year. Wells
needs another year of seasoning.
By the stnrt of the 1909 senson he
should be able to stick In fast com
pany.
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O RAIN AT MACON. O
0 Macon, Ga., Sept. 4.—On account'O
0 of the hard wind and rain storm 0
0 that visited Macon Tuesday after- O
0 noon, there was no gnme of ball O
0 played between Augusta and Ma- 0
0 con. The league diamond was 0
O covered with mud, and a down- 0
0 pour of rain lasted almost all the 0
0 afternoon. O
0 This afternoon Macon and Au- O
O gusta are playing a double-header, 0
O the last game of the present sea- 0
O son. O
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Fritz Is Probable Slab Ar
tist For the Peli-
ans.
as yet has had no reply.
Johnny Dobbs, the Nashville mogul,
returned to that city early Monday
morning from a scouting trip, and
would not give the scribes of Nash
ville any news, saying that he thought
it best to keep quiet at present.
Dobbs said that the national com
mission refused to ratify the deal
whereby Hardy was to be sold to the
Chicago Cubs In exchange for Sed-
baugh.
The commission, in Its ruling, stated
that it would be necessary for the
Cubs to re-sign Seabaugh, then ask
for waivers on him, and provided the
other clubs consented, could make the
deal. Otherwise, they could not. This
Is what Dobbs said when he arrived:
"To make our plans known might In
terfere with future deals, so for the
present will have to keep everything In
the dark.”
BILL PHILLIPS, a veteran Pelican
Pitcher.
job at his trade for the winter months.
Becker, Bill Smith and Otto Jordan
are the only members of the Atlanta
team who will winter In Atlanta.
As soon as the season closes here
Paskert will go to Cincinnati. He is
probably the only member of the out
fit drafted or sold to the majors who
will report. Sid Smith and Sweeney
will not, and Crtstleton Is not likely to.
What Roy and Rube Zeller will do is un
certain. Manager Smith has written
Clark Griffith and asked him what he
wants done with these two men, but
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Just Notes
Listen to this about "Bugs" Ray
mond from Jack Hoston, chief of Boss
McCloskey’a scouting bureau:
“The ’fans’ are going to like Ray
mond, the pitcher we bought from
Charleston, S. C.
He has everything. Raymond Is an
erratic cuss and came honestly by the
nickname of ’Bugs.’ However, he’s the
Class A pitcher. The cut-ups are the
cnes w hom the public notices the most
and when one of them has a bad day
the ’fans’ talk about It for a week.
"Here Is Waddell winning another
pennant for Mack and capturing
something like two-thirds of his
games. Thursday ho shut out the Sox.
clearly besting Ed Walsh. Still, the
•fans’ hardly noticed him when he
came out on the field today.
"Had he been walloped he would
have been hollered at to beat the band.
The same with Mike DonHn. He’s a
wonderful hitter and can make hit
after hit without anybody making any
noise, but the first time he strikes out
everybody Is heard from. I tell you,
the public keeps close tab on the
’Rubes’ and ’Hugs.’"
Jim Dclchanty’s work nt the hat with
the Washington team has been nothing
short of phenomenal. This “ensboff” from
the browns has become one of the leading
American League hitters tinder Cantillon's
ninnagemeiit. besides playing various |h»«I-
Itti Increasing certainty and speed.
lions
Mike Finn, of the Little Rock Trav
elers, Is already getting ready for next
season. Mike has signed Outfielder
Wilson, who played a few games for
the Flnnites earlier in the season. Wil
son was sent to Des Moines for a little
seasoning. Finn has also signed Pitch
er Taylor and Catcher Krebs, of the
Vicksburg team, In the Cotton States
League.
McMurray, a catcher, now playing
with the San Antonio club. In the Tex
as League, has been purchased by At
lanta for next season. He Is said to
be a slugger as well as a clever back-
aughn was offered this man and
turned him down. When In Birming
ham Billy Smith denied that he was
after the catcher.—Birmingham Age-
Herald.
Those who know McMurray say he
Is a good man, and the fans of At
lanta hope the assertion will prove
Crackers Get Offer to Pi aj
the Richmond
Team.
the Babble™ will win the renn,.,
Babb has worked oat some iff
and the way he dopes tt out, it
that Atlanta will finish one game ,
a halt behind the present league lea
ers.
The Memphis Commercial Wo
In commenting on the situation *
WRIGHTSVILLE TEAM
PLAYS GOOD BASEBALL
Special to The Georgian.
Wrightsvllle, Ga., Sept. 4. — The
Wrlghtsvllle baseball team has won
four of the last five games played. On
Monday the team played the Dublin
nine and won from them by a score
of 6 to 4.
The team went from Dublin to East
man where three games were played
with scores as follows: 7 to 4 for
Eastman, 9 to 0 for Wrlghtsvllle and
to 2 for Wrlghtsvllle.
Summerlin pitched the first two
gatfies and Brinson the last. Both
pitched superb ball. "Big" Joe Mer
cer twirled the first and last games for
Eastman. He pitched good ball the
fl™t game, but was hit hard In the
last, giving up 11 hits. On Friday aft
ernoon the Wrlghtsvllle aggregation
again defeated Dublin by a score of 4
to 3.
true. As Sid Smith and Sweeney will
not be with us next year, we will need
good man or two. and It looks as
though Billy Smith has already found
one.
“Chesty" Charles Babb, manager of
the Memphil, Is of the opinion that
M
According to Manager Babb's
tires, the Memphil haven't such'
strenuous undertaking as some mi.
think In the attempt to remain*
the lead until September 14, the i
day of the 1907 pennant race rl ,
ures compiled show that the MeratS
wilt win by several points' marri.
provided they can grab seven gam«
out of fifteen remaining games >,« w
be asked to play, all but one beln,
scheduled for foreign grounds
summing up of this average Is on i
basis compared with past trips thi
season of his team.
"Babb predicts nine victories for At
Innta out of thirteen to be plaved
home, which, he says, will leave th,
teams standing tike this at the wind
up:.
“Memphis—Won. 79; lost, 57'
cent, .581.
'Atlanta—Won, 77; lost, 38; percent
.570."
The Atlanta press and some other
papers on the circuit think that Babb
has doped It out a little the wrong »•„
Just at present, although he may h,
right.
They have dug up that game that
was forfeited to Shreveport on Austin
2 again in Memphis, and It Is whisper,
ed on all sides that President Hava,
naugh had no authority under th.
Southern League constitution to d,.
Clare the game forfeited to the riratei.
It Is said that the forfeiture will ba
taken up at the next league meetlni
and then settled for good. If it is taken
up. It Is expected that It will be set
tled.
Sun Proof Team
Defeated by Rome
BOY WONDERS WIN.
The Boy Wonders defeated the
Simpson Street Sluggers, Thursday
afternoon, by the score of 27 to
Green, of the Sluggers, was batted all
over the lot. Kelly pitched good ball
for the Wonders.
Score by Innings:
Wonders 324 052 470
Sluggers 003 000 000— 3
Batteries—Kelly and Crown, Green
and Davis.
WHERE THEY PLAY TQDAY.
New Orleans in Atlnntu. Game called
at 3:30 o'clock.
Dobbers Helped the Cracker Team in Race
It will be some time before local fans
cease to be obliged to the Nashville
Dobbers for the help they gave At
lanta by winning two games Labor
Day.
Especially Is a debt owed to Grant
Sohopp, the ex-Ottumwa southpaw,
who won two gumes from Memphis In
four days.
Outside of Sohopp and Yerkes, the
! star of Labor Day In the games Nash-
j vllle played against Memphis was Carr,
j the Shreveport cast-off, who Is with
He played notubly good
GRANT SCHOPP.
SMITH SAD BECAUSE RAIN
KEPT TEAM IDLE TUESDAY
with
The fact that Atlanta was unable to play those two games
Shreveport was an awful Jolt to Billy Smith.
"I believe we would have won them .both,” says Bill. "They had a
stronger team yesterday, with King hack, but I was pot worried. I think
we could have taken both. IWe will have to work harder than ever now.”
The gloom around baseball headquarters Wednesday morning was so
thick you could have cut It with a knife, and it will be a week at least
before Billy Smith smiles again.
NOTES ON TUESDAY’S GAMES, AND MISCELLANEOUS BASEBALL DOPE
Memphis defeated Nashville Tuesday
afternoon by the score of 10 to 3. J.
Duggan and Sorrell of the Dobbers
were batted all over the lot, and the
Memphil had a cinch. Shields pitched
good ball for the Babblers.
The Senators of Montgomery and
the Travelers of Little Hock engaged
In a dandy game of baseball Tuesday
afternoon. The Climber* won the con
test by the score of 3 to 2. by bunching
hits In the eighth Inning on Keith,
v.ho was twirling for th»* Travelers.
Maxwell twirled good ball for Mont-1
getnery.
The Birmingham Barons were de
feated by the Pelicans from New Or
leans Tuesday afternoon by the score of
6 to 2. Turner pitched fairly good ball
for the Barons, but five errors behind
him caused the defeat. Manuel was hit
harder than Turner, but he got away
with the contest.
Pugs Raymond, the 'human microbe”
of the Sally League, shut out Colum-
bla Tuesday afternoon and allowed
them 4>nly two hits. Raymond won his
BASEBALL
ATLANTA vs. NEW ORLEANS,
Weclnoscky, Tkurzdcy and Friday.
gnme by the score of 3 to 0. Charles
ton played good ball behind the "Bug.'*
The Philadelphia Athletics won two
games Tuesday afternoon. The Ath
letics' victim was the "strong” Wash
ington club. The Athletics won the
first game by the score of 15 to 6. and
the second by the score of 9 to l In
five Innings. Philadelphia batted three
pitchers out of the box In the first game
and only one tried his hand In the last.
He was batted hard, however.
Th** New York Americans and the
Boston Bean Eaters broke even in a
o»»uble.header Tuesday afternoon. Ibis-
ton won the first by u score, of 3 to 2.
t the last 10 to 5.
and !
The
liar
taken
dislike
Slid!it. pit* Iter of tin* U nite Sox, Ihhiiiiw 1 i l' W1ZT,, ‘ V .
, , . .... Imre with only two nsslstc. MrGInnity hud
ae waits too long to throw. Ihree y»mrs j j w ,|^ *
»P»*• Sl.ina»*r Jones hud to put a lime*
lock on Sa.I:h to keep him from working Several members of tbe Cleveland team
too fill
Tin* New York Americans ore negotiat
ing for Ill’ll, center tlehler of the Ilutte,
Mont.. ti*nm. In two games nt Seattle re
cently, he got eight eleun hits out of nine
time* at I sit. Among the lot were two
■n games last week he
enteeii hits.
Hnrry I lurk, plteher of tin* Wilmington
iBel.i Trt-**l«te League eiitb, has lieon pur-
’tiitlie* mid will Join them nt
mire. U«> is principal of the Camden iDel )
High school when not playing baseball.
I; Is rumored that Kjl Grill'
Neil Hanlon as manager of
Reds.
The New York* broke the assist rec
ord made l*y Itostoii some days ago by
going fltorugU tin* Friday game nt Iltt
threaten to put Tyrus Cobb, of the De-
i J-
trolts. out of luisluess lieennse he secured
decision over Catcher Rends, of the Naps,
some time ago. Judging by Cobb’s record,
It will require several of tue Clevelands to
do the trick.
The Detroit chib has offered IndlanapoPs
Pitchers Wmeit nml Fulxtnk and $1,000 for
Plteher Hummers, of Iudhiuii|Mdis. to la* de
livered at ante. Tills Is in addition to the
*t.:sio already |uild for him by the Hermit
dub for, del I very at the close of the Amer
ica n Annotation sensou.
nt Bryce. of the Columbus dub,
the story thnt he has sold Catcher
and l*Iteher I’pp to 8t. Louis, lie nc-
tbe Browns’ management of spread
ing the story In order to scare other clubs
off. That makes It look letter for Cincin
nati's chances of getting I'pp.
Charley Prank has failed to show much
ability running a pennant-winning club this
year. The Pelicans have Itnidlied little from
th * fnnntnln of wfsdiuu. nml although the
shrewdest manager in tbe league, helping
his team by cauuj *c*cblug. U another
thing #
Labor Day the Sun Proofs, cham
pions of Thd Georgian Commercial
League, met defeat at the hands of
Rome by the score of 2 to 1.
It was one of the best games ever
seen upon a Rome diamond. From be
ginning to end the game was a pitchers’
battle, and but for one bobble there
might be another tale to tell.
In only three Innings were the Ro
mans on the bases. Twice they scored
and again their man died at second.
One peculiar incident of the game
was that In the first inning Mangum
only threw three balls, and In the first
two innings he only threw seven.
Both teams played good enough ball
to win, but It seemed that Rome i
due to cop the game.
This was the second game betw
these two teams, the first game going
to the Sun Proofs.
The score:
Sun Proofs.
Rice, ss.. ..
Wall, rf 4
Daley, 2b 4
Lockrldge, c. . . 4
Keen, If 4
Nowell, 3b. ... 3
Collins, cf. . . . 4
Harmon, lb 4
Mangum, p. . .. 4
ab. .r h. po. a. e.
0
Totals. .
Rome.
Steele, 3b..
Bruzzell. rf. . .. 4
Miller, G., 2b. .. 4
Colby, lb 3
Moses, c 3
Long. If 3
McClure, cf.
Miller, II., sh
Wiggins, p.
34 1 4 24 16
ab. r. h. po. a.
-.311
Standing of the Clubs.
Southern.
Played. Won. Lost P. C.
ATLANTA. .
New Orleans .
Little Itock .
Montgomery .
Birmingham . ,
Bhrerer
Shreveport 116
Nashville 126
South Attsntlo.
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost r. C.
Charleston
Jacksonville • .
Macon
Augusta . , • .
Savannah . . . .
Columbia . . . .
American.
CLUBS- Played. Won. Lost. I
Detroit 118 72 44
Philadelphia
Cleveland 121
New York 119
Boston 124
St. Louis 118
Washington 128
CLUBS—
Chicago .
Pittsburg .
Brooklyn ,
Cincinnati
St. Louis .
Boston . .
Pupped
* 1 121
. . 119
. . 117
. . 122
. . 122
125
119
YESTERDAY’8 RE8ULT8.
Southern.
Montgomery 3, Little Rock 2.
Memphis 10, Nashville :
.. 3
12
Totals. . . .30 2
Score by Innings:
Sun Proofs 010 000 000—1
Rome 000 010 100—2
Summary—Two-base hits, Nowell,
Moses. Double plays, Nowell to Daley,
Wiggins to Miller to Colby. Struck
gut, by MTmgutn 3, Wiggins 2. Bases
on bals, off Mangum 1, off Wiggins 2.
Stolen bases. Keen, McClure, Nowell.
Time of game, 1:20. Umpire, Graham.
8outh Atlantic.
Charleston 3, Columbia 0.
Jacksonville 3, Savannah 2.
Mncmi-Augustn, rain.
American.
St. Louis 1, Cleveland 0. .
Philadelphia 15. Washington 6 (first gam^
Philadelphia 9, Washington 1 '• pr0Bl
game!.
Boston I. New York 2 (first game).
New York 10. Boston 6 (second gninet.
Detroit 7, Chicago 6.
National.
New York 3. Brooklyn 0 (first game).
Brooklyn 1, New York 0 (second game).
Chicago 5, St. Louis <
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