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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. # 0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOQ00 O MACON'S “OET-AWAY.” O O o 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 OOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOO000O0OOO 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. 00000000000000000000000000 O O 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 O O 00000000000000000000000000 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 •MftlHIMMMHMHtllMlllfl 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). 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