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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1907. GAINING AT EVERY STEP, CRACKERS DASH FOR RAG SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS New Orleans was beautifully stung by a "wrestling contest” the other day. A local boy named Bonura wrestled Ackerman and was easily thrown twice in 17 minutes and 46 seconds. This cost t world of money to a lot of victims who had bet that Ackerman sould not turn the trick twice in an hour. The odorous part of the deal came out later when Bonura claimed that Ackerman did not live up to a secret agreement not to throw him more than once within the hour. So the thing was a clear case of fake and hold-up. Bonura was evidently double-crossed by Ackerman and Bonura’s backers were stung. Everybody who knows enough not to buy green goods or gold bricks knows that so many wrestling matches are fixed that there is no use risking the honest ones. The point worth making is that if otherwise self-respecting newspapers did not prostituto their columns by puffing tho fakes the bouts would not pay and fake wrestling would die without a struggle. The elimination of this evil is up to the sporting writers. GEORGIA'S SCHEDULE CRACKING GOOD ONE Special to The Georgian. Athena, Ga., Sept. t.—Following la Georgia's football schedule for the season of 1907: October 5—Dahlonega at Athena. October 12—Tennessee at Knoxville. October 19—Mercer at Macon. October 26—Alabama at Montgomery. November 2—Tech at Atlanta. November 11—Sewanee at Athens. November 16—Clemson at Atlantn. November 22—Open. Thanksgiving Day—Auburn. Coach Whitney will arrive about Sep tember IS to take charge of the squud. Eight of laat year's regulars will return and practically all of the scrub team will be on hand when practice begins. In spite of reports to the effect that they will go elsewhere, Blms, of Dah lonega, and Williams, Franklin nnd Barrett, of Gordon Institute, will enter the university. In addition to these men, six of Stone Mountain's regulars will enter. Graves, who played end last season, has been during the summer perfecting the place nnd drop kicks. He Is at present punting an nvornge of 86 yards. In addition to the eight games al ready scheduled, Manager Mills expects to arrange another later with Missis sippi A. & M„ to be played In Colum bus, Miss. Driving and Approaching Events For Local Golfers A driving and approaching contest will be held on the Atlanta Athletic Club golf course at East Lake next week for ball prlxes offered by F, O. Byrd. In the driving contest eight balls will be presented to the man driving three balls In the course with the best ag gregate dlstunce and four to the man driving the longest ball within bounds. The driving contest will be held from tho fifteenth tee. In the approaching and putting con test the prize will go to the man put ting three halls Into the hole In the least number of strokes. This event will be pulled off on the eleventh green. First prize Is eight balls, second prize four balls. Four straight victories ami the lead only a half a game away I Such was the verdict after Thursday’s game. The Crackers played the ball of their lives and Birmingham beat Memphis. As a result Atlanta is exactly five points behind the leaders. We have to slip it to our old friend, “Little Eva” Wilhelm. After he handed that luscious lemon to us at I’once DeLeon awhile back we wanted to garrote him. But lie evened up by handing ' some fruit of the same variety to Memphis, and he is now square with the game. We can't help feeling that it looks all right for Atlanta. The Crackers have not cinched the pennant yet, but if they keep playing the way they have beeu they will certainly win it—bar ring something unusual in the way of hard luck. It looks as though Birmingham ought to be counted on to take one more game from Memphis. Then the Babblers move on to Atlanta and the games ought to be the warmest ever. We flatter ourselves that Atlanta will attend to the Babblers during those three games nnd that they will not give the Bluffers any thing that is not coming to them. If only Montgomery can be counted on to give us an even break when Memphis plays there, Atlanta ought to get the pen nant. The prospects of n double cross, however, are too bright to be encouraging. Last year Malarkey and his pets handed Memphis the second place on a platter. This year they may be able to give them the E ennant by the same class of work. And all through the season it as been evident that Montgomery’s friendship is for the western team instead of for her sister of the east. We don’t ask Malarkey to give us anything except a square deal. But we would much prefer that he does not give Memphis anything else. The fact that “Smiling John” lets Ball go just before tho Memphis series docs not strike us as an evidence of good faith. Another wrestling match is to be pulled off in Nashville nnd some of the papers are whooping it up in fine style. The last time a wrestling bout was held in Nashville the pub lic was, as usual, thrown down hard. A claim that the thing was fixed was made and the case went to the courts. GUESE BLEW UP JUST ONCE; CRACKERS BA TTED OUT VICTORY Ford’s Pitching and Cas tro’s Coaching Looked Good to Fans. LITTLE EVA WILHELM, of the Baronz, who beat Memphis Thurs-' day. Things Happened Thursday In Many Baseball Battles It may. have been due to the longi tudinal, eaffron-hued streak which Is alleged to lie adjacent to "Whltey" Guese’s spine. Or, then, again, It may be that the Crackers are so determined to get the pennant that there Is no heading them. Anyhow, It happened that In the fourth Inning of Thursday's game Guese went skyward, and before he was on hls feet again Atlanta had made (three runs—the only tallies of the day. Outside of that Inning, Guese handed a large, fat, green dill pickle to At lanta, allowing but three hits nnd three bases on balls. But the fatal fourth llxed him. Paskert, the first man up In the In ning, walked. Smith laid down a bunt and beat It out—a truly wonderful per formance for Sid, who refuses to take hls own base runnltlg seriously. Fox went out, "second to first,” but mannged to get over a run during tho performance. Jordan then singled, scoring Smith, and Dyer singled, scor ing Otto. With one more man out, Ford pulled off hls second successive single, but It did not produce any runs. It took brilliant base running to put over those three runs, and every man had to slide for It. The Pelicans played marvelously good ball and gave Guese absolutely faultless support. The fenture of the seance was the vocal work of Count Castro. Billy Smith sent hls Injured man onto the LAVE CROSS, the ex-big league third baseman. LOCAL MOGULS SAY BABB IS OVER LIMIT! Charge That He Has Fifteen Men, and Take| Matter Up With League Presi dent. That Charley Babb has fifteen men on hls Memphis team and that he Is violating the laws of the league and liable to the forfeiture of several games Is charged by local baseball moguls. The matter has been taken up by President Dickinson with Judge Kava- naugh and It Is likely that something will happen. In any event Babb will be prevented protest, provided he Is over the ntar»l limit. Any games he may win In o I ianta will doubtless be taken from him If ne has more than fnurt«!l men with him. “I The matter will likewise be thra.hu I right out and not left for decision hi the next league directors' meeting 1,1 present It Is up to Babb to prove th, I he has only fourteen men or to take SI consequences. McKenzie and Breitenstein May Pitch] Castleton or McKenzie will do the twirling for Atlanta Friday. And prob- I ably the latter will get the call. Billy Smith believes that "Scotty" ! cun easily bent New Orleans, and does not count hls previous effort against j the PellcaTis In their favor. ! it Is Billy's Idea to save Castleton for I the Memphis series and he will not pitch him unless necessary until I day. ' 1 Breitenstein or Manuel are billed f performance by New Orleans. p rob , 1 bly Brelt will get the nomination H«l wants to get away on a trip, and to do I so he will have to work Friday if hi I does Manuel will take hls turn Satur.l day. 1 coaching line and he riddled Guese with an line a line of talk as has been heard this year. There Is no deserting the fact that Castro did hls full share In winning the game. The Count Is the best coach- er In the league. He Is large-mouthed, noisy and has a bunch of conversation that Is calculated to worry the best of them. Billy, knowing Guese's weakness, sent Castro onto the coaching line with instructions to "give 'lm the best you got," nnd Louis followed Instructions. The Instant Guese walked Into the box Castro unloaded a broadside of Invective and he kept on unloading until "Whltey” was hopelessly beaten. "Oh, Whltey, come down, come down. What are you trying to throw anyway? Oh, you Big dub! There goes the yel low cropping out!" Then he would turn to the batter and shriek: “It's all right. He's laid down. He's quit. Just hit It any where.” Set down In cold pencil on ordinary copy paper, Ij looks neither very edi fying nor very amusing. But somehow It kept the crowd laughing at ''Whltey'*’’ expense and It worried the big chap to the limit. Toward the end he got to looking at Castro Just before he threw every ball, and Anally the desired event happened and "Whltey" exploded. After the pieces were picked up and pasted together again, “Whltey" was the pitching marvel once more. But the game was lost for New Orleans. Nothing very extensive has been said about Colonel Russell Ford up to this time, but that was an oversight. Russell was the man whose magnlA- cent pitching shut out the Pelicans. Four hits were the best that the New Orleans players could do off Spit Ball Russell's delivery. Two of these hits came off In one Inning. Matthews BIG ED SWEENEY, who is catch ing good ball for the Crackers. made the Arst one, which looked like a mistake, but after he made It he tried to steal, which was certainly a mis take. He was pinched a mile or more. Guese followed with a single, and that ended the batting for that Inning. The other two came In the fourth and sev enth Innings. The score: • *' New Orleans, ab. r. h. po. a. e. Atz, ss 3 0 0 3 1 0 Manning, rf. . . 4 0 0 1 0 0 Cross, 3b 4 0 0 3 3 0 Sabrie, lb. . , 4 0 1 9 0 0 Brelt., If 3 0 0 0 0 0 Gaston, cf. . ..3 0 1 » 1 0 Gatins, 2b. ... 3 0 0 4 2 0 Matthews, c. .. 3 0 1 4 3 0 Guese, p 3 0 1 0 1 0 Totals. . . .30 0 4 24 11 0 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Becker, rf. . . . 4 0 0 2 0 0 Winters, cf. . .. 3 0 1 2 0 0 Paskert, If 2 1 1 1 0 0 Smith, ss. t .. 4 1 1 1 3 1 Fox, lb ;. 3 0 0 10 1 0 Jordan. 2b. ... 3 1 1 6 3 0 Dyer. 3b 3 0 1 0 6 1 Sweeney, o. . . 3 0 0 6 2 0 Ford, p 2 0 2 0 0 0 Totals 27 3 7 27 17 Score by Innings: New Orleans 000 000 000—0 Atlanta 000 300 000—8 Hits by Innings: New Orleans.. .. .. ..002 100 010—4 Atlanta. 201 400 OOx—7 Summary—Double play, Jordan to Fox to Smith. Base on balls, off Ford 1. olT Guese 4. Struck out, by Ford 3, by Guese 2. Time of game, 1:46. Um pire, Rudderham. Saturday's Game Will Start Early Saturday afternoon's game will be called early. The NeW Orleans team was due .to play three games In Montgomery Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. But the league gave Malarkey per mission to transfer the games to New Orleans and already one of the thru I has been played. 1 So tho Pelicans are going to New Or. leans and play a double-header Sun. ■ day. Then the New Orleans and Mont. J gomery teams will have three dayi to 1 lay off before their next series. i In order to let New Orleans get awiyl Saturday's game will start earlier than f usual. 1 Mobile Wants to Play Atlanta Team\ Dale Gear, acting tor Bernle McCay, has asked Manager Smith for post season games In Mobile. Hls applica tion will be turned over to the players of the team, and they will act on It as they see At. Probably the Rome-Chattanoog». ■ Knoxville-Richmond trip will be taken. I In any event, no exhibition games will I bo played In Atlanta after the big af fair Monday. Many Baseball Players in Atlanta SOME NOTABLE EVENTS OF THURSDAY’S GAME The Shreveport Pirates defeated the Montgomery Sleepers Thursday after noon by the score of 6 to 4. "Kitty" Beeker. the Shreveport alabman. put tt all over the Climbers, and Montgomery could not hit him when hits meant runs. The Climbers secured only six htts ott BeekeFs delivery. The Pirates batted Ross Helm and John Malarkey to all pasts of the lot Little Rock took the second game of the series frortj Nashville Thursday afternoon by the score of 5 to 4. The Dobbers played good ball and Stanley Terkes was in Ane form, but somehow the Finnites won the contest. Walters twirled for the Travelers and allowed the Dobbers 12 hits. Camtnltz, the former American Asso. elation pitcher, but now a Pittsburg Pirate, shut out the Chicago Cubs Thursday afternoon and allowed them only one hit. Camlnttz pitched a great game and the Cubs simply could do nothing with him. Lundgren twirled for the Cubs and was batted hard. The Cleveland Naps defeated the De troit Tigers Thursday afternoon In a pretty game by the score of 3 to 0. Addle Joss, the star twlrler of the Naps brigade, allowed the Tigers only one hit, and Detroit could do nothing with hls puzzling delivery. The Naps If he has. It Is strange that the news papers didn't And out something about It before this time. A St. Louis paper carries a story to the effect that Fisher has been bought and will report next spring. B ASEBALL ATLANTA vs. NEW ORLEANS. £ THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY. r \ * If you talk with some of the “Great Unbalanced,’* they will tell you that New Orleans Isn't trying very hard to beat Atlanta. Maybe so. But If the Pelican* did not try Wednesday and Thursday then we should like to nee them let themselves out Just once. They played major league ball both days. Thursday's game was full of long foul*. Sweeney got one right up agnlnat the grand stand In the fifth Inning, Dyer missed one In the ninth, Matthews got one In Uie fourth and one In the sixth, Cross got one In the ■Ixth and Manning captured one out by the score board In the ninth. BUI Dyer was the last of the Crack ers to report Thursday afternoon and hls team-mates and the fans gave him a round of Ironical applause as he am. bled Into the field. The first two throws Bill uncorked would have gone by a less efficient fielder than Jim Fox, but J. Claudius stopped them all right. After that Bill's fielding was sensational In the extreme, and he did some one-handed stopping and aerial throwing that has not been equalled at Ponce DeLeon this year. Dyer Is certainly playing the game now. When Tom Fisher was here he said: "You have the best third base- man In the league.’* And after BUI pulled off a particu larly sensational stop Thursday Brelt- ensteln turnoil to the applauding stand and Bald: "Go on; clap. That’s the man you have been roasting all sum mer." The Crackers pulled off an t>dd dou ble in the sixth Inning. After Guese had gone safe on Sid Smith’s error and out on the grounder that Atz hit to Dyer, Manning sent a grounder to Jor dan. » Atz started to second and Otto tried to tug him. Then J.ikay changed his mind and went bock toward first. So Jordan changed his mind, too. and threw Manning out at first. Then Fox threw to Sid Smith at second and Sid, after a run, retired Atz. Getting hit by pitched balls Is one of the delights of George Winters’ life. The other day some amateur volun teered to pitch awhile during the early batting practice. He had steam te let and about as much control as a runa way automobile. One by one the batters walked to the plate, dodged a couple and then went back to the bench and sat down. "Where all you fellows going?** asked Winters. "YVhy, that guy ain’t got any steam.’’ Whereupon George walked up to the plate ( whisked Into the throw and let It hit him full In the usual place. ■'I told you he didn't have anything,” said George. Paskert had hard luck with htz steal In the eighth. He slid for second base ao hard that he went beyond and was touched out. However, he gets credit for the steal. Good Pitching and Batting Helped . Charleston Win Bpeelal to The Georgian. Charleston. S. C., Sept. 6.—Charles ton's pennant winning team got a rous ing reception here today, returning from Columbia, where they dropped three out of four games with the rag cinched. The players had a good crowd at their benellt game yesterday after noon. Perhaps that pennant Is due to the work of Charleston’s pitchers as much an to anything else. The following dope may be studied for comparison of the Sally League pitchers' work for the f eason: Charleston— W. L. T. P.C. Raymond 37 13 5 .740 Paige 15 6 0 .714 Johnson... 5 3 0 .625 Foster ,.10 13 I .433 Columbia— Sthwenck 15 22 t .405 McKenzie 8 12 2 .400 Buckley 2 10 0 Augusta— Schopp 12 6 1 .667 Holmes., .. .. .,,.22 15 4 Sparks 14 15 * 2 .488 Nelson 3 5 1 .375 Lakolf 2 7 1 .285 Maeon— Clarke 16 9 0 .640 Harley 19 14 1 .576 Helm 17 13 2 .567 Rowan ...5 5 2 .500 Quinn 5 6 1 .453 Savannah— Xeuor 17 14 2 .513 Deaver... 14 14 5 .500 Kc Iber * 8 0 .420 Ford ....6 0 2 '.343 Half 4 8 1 .333 Jacksonville— Lee..' 20 11 1 .645 Savldge 18 10 4 .643 Sltlnn 16 16 3 .500 Stultz 13 11 0 .541 Other*— Willis. Chas.-Sav. . 4 6 0 .400 Vlebahn, Chaa.-Col.. 6 12 1 .338 White, Col.-Chas.. . 7 . 17 1 .293 But maybe the batting figures show how those seventy-Ave games were won. The swatting, rant, hits and stolen bases of Charleston for the year follow: AB. R. H. SB. P.C. Lohr K 10 2* S .301 Raftery 420 65 123 73 .266 Johnson. . . .376 44 97 23 —53 .432 .214 ..443 .140 ..282 Meany. , Gridin. . Mullln. . Evers.. . Heixtngcr. Fox.. .. Smith.. . Wilkinson.. .341 Shlppy. . ..291 Paige. . Frost. . . Foster.. . Reddick. Raymond. ..132 17 23 10 27 53 20 . 74 . 74 .. 83 ..145 17 .245 .241 .232 486 .184 .183 .174 .155 .162 .150 .150 .132 .125 .117 Atlanta Is Just reeking with distin guished baseball visitors these days. The Arst arrival yesterday was Dick Harley, the ex-Atlanta player who ha* been In Macon this year. He watched part of the game from a box and de parted late In the afternoon for hls home In SprlngAeld, Ohio. Other Sally League players in town are Jack Lee, Sttton, Kahlkoff and : Evans. And last but nq| least, our old col lege chum, Mose wormser, league aud. i itor, Is here to go over the books ol the I Atlanta association. I ' Mose has been to the Alabama town I and winds up hls career this season by | looking over the books In Nashville. Will Keep Castro, Line-Up Unchanged] Perry Llpe has reached Atlanta, but Manager Smith has decided not to sign the Macon manager. Louis Castro worked out Thursday end appeared to be at Irlght, so he will retain Castro as utility man and mil take on Llpe. I There will be no change In the line-1 up. • "You don't catch me breaking a win. I nlng combination,” aays BUI. MtlHHMtHJ Standing of the Clubs. Sacrifice hits to the number of over 155, eighty-seven two-bane clouts, eighteen three-baggers and eight home runs helped some. League figures In runs, hits nnd er rors show that Charleston made moro runs and mote errors than any other team In the South Atlantic League. The figures are: Charleston 393 804 261 Macon 352 894 194 Jacksonville ..324 769 199 Augusta 312 800 219 Savannah 280 775 243 Columbia 270 767 255 Errorless games: Charleston 20, Co lumbia 18, Augusta 30, Macon 33, Sa vannah 16, Jacksonville 28. OOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOO O OH, HAM, QUIT O O YOUR KIDDING! Q O If the writer of "Sporting Chat" O O were a baseball manager and he O O wanted to pick a team which 0 g would not only stand the best 0 chance In a gruelling post-season O 0 series, but would also come near- O 0 er making a runaway race of the 0 0 championship, he would try to O O sign the following players and O O assign them to the following post- 0 O lions: 0 0 Pitchers — Phillips, Manuel, O CLTTBR- Memphls. . , ATLANTA. . Little Hock . New Orleuns. Montgomery . Birmingham . Hhreveport . . Nashville , . New York . . Boston . . St. Louis . , Washington . CLUBS— Chicago . . . Pittsburg . . New York . Philadelphia . Brooklyn . . Cincinnati . . Boston . , . St. Louis . Southern, Played. Won. ... 125 72 . ... 126 72 . ... 118 61 . . . . 123 63 . . . . 123 59 . ... 129 59 . ... 118 53 ... 128 56 American. Flayed. Won. 1 . ... 121 73 ... 120 72 , ... 123 73 ... 125 73 L S tP i6 64 .671 67 .517 60 .512 121 . . . 124 54 .... 120 60 ... 128 36 National. Flayed. Won. ... 127 91 . ... 124 72 . . . 122 73 , ... 118 66 71 !413 81 .308 Lost. P. C. S g . 120 . 125 45 75 0 Maxwell, Fritz, Suggs. 0 a Catchers—Smith, Hardy, O O First Base—Fox. 0 0 Second Base—Babb. O O Shortstop—Atz. O O Third Base—Cross. O 0 Left Field—Paskert. O •Center Field—J. Manning. O Right Field—Becker. 0 0 —Hamilton. In The New Orleans 0 Item. 0 000000O00000O0000000000000 .375 .312 WHERE THEY"PLAY TODAY. New Orleans In Atlanta, Ponce DeLeon park. Game called nt 3:30 o’clock. Memphis In Birmingham. Little Rock In Nashville. Shreveport In Montgomery. YESTERDAY’S RESULT8. Southern. Atlanta 3, New Orleans 0. Birmingham 4, Memphis 0. Little Rock 5, Nashville 4. Shreveport 6, Montgomery 4. American. Cleveland 3, Detroit 0. Ht. Lou!* 4. Chicago 3. N. w York 6, ■ ’hlladelphla 3 (Ar.t game). Nvw York 8, Philadelphia 3 (second same). National. Roston 2. Brooklyn 1. Philadelphia 5, New York 2. Pittsburg 5, Chicago 0. • 8t. Louis 6, Cincinnati 6. $1,300 Raised For Briskey FundI Special to The Georgian. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 6.—Asa flttlol I Jlnn!e to the baseball seaaon, the S* - 1 vannah team allowed Itself to he beat- I en by the local amateur aggregate I Thursday. The acore waa 6 w i. tm ■ game waa given' a* 'a benefit to ’*1 Briskey fund, and a large amount I reallxed, swelling the fund to aboffll *1,300. _ .1 George Butler, formerly of Tech.** 1 ] who played quarter on the local w"'* ball team last season and kicked tat, two Aeld goals which won fmmjnii ailSouthern team, waa on the nriat I line for the amateurs. But si* hail were made from hla delivery, and «*> ■ ler swatted out a clean single w hen tci ■ bases were full In the eighth. B*7*J I a brother of "Brindle" Bayne, who w I recently been pitching for Mercrr*— I several minor teageu teams, oppos—l Butler and pitched a fairly good K*"*I The rest of the Savannah team ® ,n | the regulars. Season in Texas Closed Thursday] Austin, Sept. 6.—The Texas ... a,-.... Lragurtl season came to an end yesterday. *>“ | Austin the winner of the pennant. Has Tor- Fisher, manager of t»l Siam A III' TIBilOi, .pal Shreveport Pirates, been bought t>S | St. Louts Americans? If we could take you through our establishment, and show you the vast care and cleanliness which produce the old original egg and sugar coated Arbuckles’ Ariosa Coffee, no one could ever tempt you to change to any other coffee. A1UJUCKLB BR03., New York Cttjk