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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1907.
SEASON DRAWS TO A GLORIOUS CL0SE=AND ATLANTA WINS SURE
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FORD AND !j If Atlanta plays today and wins she wins the pennant, unless the Memphis- Winning streak
I Shreveport game is given to Memphis. In that case Atlanta must win 1
HARTWORK
Veteran and Kid Face Each
Other in Crucial
Battle.
Th« next to last same of the Southern
League eeaaon—the game that If won
givee Atlanta the pennant—le elated
for Ponce DeLeon park at the usual
time.
In this critical game Russell Ford
will perform for Atlanta, and probably
the veteran Bill Hart for Little Rock.
However, Hart la not in tip-top shape
and Mike Finn may save him for Sat
urday and pitch Walters.
This game ought to be the deciding
one of the Southern League pennant
race. If Atlanta wins It the Crackers
can not be beaten out of. the rag unless
In the directors' room. If Atlanta loses
It the Interest is continued until Satur.
day.
But Atlanta is not going to lose It—
not if the players can help It.
Plans for Benefit.
Big preparations are going forward
for the exhibition game and field day
at Ponce DeLeon Monday. Undoubt
edly this will be the biggest thing of its
kind ever held In the South.
The following events have been de
cided on:
Hundred-yard dash.
Hundred-yard dash (Paskcrt barred).
Chasing the greased pig.
Long-distance throw.
Running bases.
Fungo hitting for distance.
Accurate bunting.
Fine Lot of Prizes.
The prizes which have been given by
the merchants and which will go to the
winners and second men In the various
events are:
X. H. Oppenhelm, box Webster
cigars 15.00
Ward Shoe Company, pair Flor-
shelm shoes <.00
Adler's Toggery Shop, fancy vest.. <.00
Jj. C. Vandiver, Home Plate boa
cigars 6.00
J. J. Good rum Tobacco Company,
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today and tomorrow, provided Memphis wins two games today.
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NEWS AND VIEWS ON THE PENNANT RACE
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Well, of course, if Memphis plays two double-headers and
wins all four games and Atlanta plays-two with Little Rock and
loses them both, Memphis will win the pennant by one-half a
game.
But this is not exactly what you would call probable.
And as we have remarked several times of late it seems to us
that Atlanta is going to get that pennant.
If it should happen to rain Friday and. Memphis played a
double-header and won both games, then it would be up to the
Crackers to win Saturday.
It is an awful chance for the Memphii. They must play four
games in two days and win them all—and even if they do it is
hardly likely to get them a pennant.
For, with the Atlanta team playing the way it is, Smith is
practically certain to tuck a game away and cinch the rag.
That Forfeited Game
That forfeited game still lpoms large and dark.
If it is taken away from Shreveport and given back to Mem
phis, then things look a bit different.
Should Memphis get that game and win four in two, days
from Montgomery, Atlanta will have to win two from Little Rock
to even things up.
But, Mike Finn and other good authorities to the contrary
notwithstanding, we do not think that the directors will ask that
that game be given back to Memphis. When a team is guilty of
breaking a league rule it will have to take the consequences.
It is evident from Thursday’s game in Montgomery that the
Pretzels are not going to “give anything” to the Bluffers.
The opening game of Memphis’ last series was maue notable
by some of the hardest playing of the year and the Tennesseans
were lucky to escape with an even break.
For twelve innings the two teams battled and then darkness
settled down and “His Umps” Davis cnllcd it a tie.
Maxwell pitched a magnificent game for the good of the
cause. During the long contest he pave up only seven hits, and
struck out 15 men. It must have been tough luck that kept the
Pretzels out of a victory. For the Blfiffers made five errors, Bills
soaked one batter and walked six and two’of the Pretzel’s hits
were for extra bases.
Now For the Benefit
It is getting to be about time to whoop it up for the Atlanta
baseball team and their benefit game of next Monday.
That event should be one which has not been equalled in the
history of Southern League baseball. Every pluyer in the lot
ought to net at least a couple of hundred dollars out of it, and if
the people in Atlanta who have been yelling so hard for a pennant
will now come forward and do what they said they would do, the
receipts will be $3,000 at least—which is the least that Atlanta
ought to give to the boys who have won the pennant.
Let’s all buy as many tickets as we can afford and then some
we can’t afford and show the Crackers that Atlanta fandom ap
preciates their pennant.winning efforts.
It is not every year that a town can have a pennant and
when they get one they ought to set a high-water mark of appre
ciation that other cities can shoot at.
50 El Principe <!e dales 6.00
M. C. Carronj The Tailor, shirt.. 2.00
Anderson Hnrdwnre Company,
sweater or baseball shoes 6.00
Levy & Stanford. Christy hat .... 6.00
Oeorse Muse Clothing Company,
umbrella 6.00
Eusone V. Haynes, gold cuff but
tons 6.00
Essig Bros., hat, Stetson 3.50
Mueneh & Belersdorfer, gold fob.. 6.00
The Globe Clutliius Company,
*Emmons for Quality
BOB BLAKE
IS IN CITY
Bob Blake, captain of the Vanderbilt
football team and all-Southern end, ar
rives in Atlanta Friday and leaves dur
ing the day for Barneevllle, where he*
will assist his brother, Frank Blake,
In coaching the Gordon Institute team.
The Gordon team has this year the
hardest schedule ever attempted by a
Southern prep school team and In an
effort to round the team rapidly In con*
dltlon these two star football perform
ers will work. Boh Blake will be In
Barnesvllle until It Is time for him to
return to Nashville und take up his
work In Vandorbllt.
JOHNSON WHALES BURKE
WHO PUTS UP GAME FIGHT
STILL UNBROKEN
Spade Pitches Three-Hit Game and Drives!
in Three of Atlanta’s Four
s Tallies.
The
‘Emmons’ Special
$3.50 Derby for Fall
Pay $5.00, or as much as $6.00, but you won’t
get a whit better derby than the Emmons Special at
$3.50. Perfect in quality, beautiful in finish, light in
weight, self-conforming—in every way a perfect hat.
In black and light brown, $3.50.
A New Telescope
—and Good Value at $3
The telescope eehown here is one of the many
Btvles to be seen in our hat department for Fall and
Winter. This special style is especially becoming to
young men—it comes in black, light brown, pearl and
dark brown, $3.00.
Every other hat style that's new and
good tor Fall and Winter is here.
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O ’TWAS EVER THU8. 0
0 Th« melancholy days are nigh. O
0 When ice cream fiends must turn 0
0 to pie, O
O While pennant longings fade and 0
0 die. O
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O The straw hat now evokes a Jeer; O
0 Gone Is that luscious thirst for 0
0 beer,
0 While baseball bugs growl out
0 "Next Vear!" 0
0 Alas! Thnt summer's joys must
0 wane:
0 Alas! That we fnust mourn again 0
O For first place chances, rudely 0
0 slain. 0
0 0
0 C. People rings the plumber's bell,
0 The coal man, thank you, does
O quite well; 0
O But for us fans—say, pal, It’s 0
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O simply terrible, the way we think O
0 every year, about this time, thnt O
0 the Naps arc going to make a dash 0
O to the front, and cop the flag, and O
0 then they fall down, and don't do 0
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Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 13.—Jack
Johnson gave "Sailor” Burke a terrible
beating last night In their six-round
bout at Smith’s theater here, but failed
to knock out the sturdy marine.
There have been rumors afloat
around New York for a year or so re
garding Burke’s gamenesa, but you can
bet all you have that he Is as game as
the next one and will simply cat up
anything In the line of wallops that
comes his way.
For the six rounds last night he took
a whaling that would have torn the
heart out of the ordinary fighter, bat
his great condition and unbounded con
fidence carried him along arter he look
ed to be done for.
Seventeen times Mr. Burke hit the
carpet. A great many times he was
knocked down and several times, like
Joe Grim, when a knockout seemed on
tap, Mr. Burke very carefully sat him
self down on the canvas and waited
until the referee tolled off nine before
he brought himself to his full height
again and resumed boxing.
In the flrrt round or two the sailor
tried once or twice to fight. He swished
by Johnson’s Jaw with rights and
slashed his left to the body, but these
were either cleverly blocked or missed
their mark by an Inch or two. Johnson
Invariably came back with a rush,
knocking Burke down or belting him so
hnrd about the body that he was forced
to the floor for a respite. The game
little marine made a hit with the crowd
by returning to what looked like cer
tain defeat and they cheered lustily.
It was a bit of a come-down to play Little Rock after that Mcmchii
series. Not that Mike Finn hasn't a good team and not that there is not i
consuming Interest In the present trio of games.
' But 2,000 people aren't 10,000 and you don’t take the Interest In playlns
the third place team that you do In wrestling with the Individuals who art
trying to yank you out of the gladsome lead.
All of which Is a prelude to the remark that Atlanta added some more
pressure to her strangle-hold on the lead by downing Little Rock 4 to 1 at
Ponce DeLeon Thursday afternoon.
Just at the very start of the game Atlanta had a hunch that It might
be a cinch. And the Crackers took It painfully easy.
The Travelers on the other hand worked like demons and were ai
pleased as the Memphll ever dared to be Over the one-run lead they had
for awhile.
Spade Turned the Trick I
A gentleman named Mr. Spade was In the box, however, and when you
down him a stunt has been pulled off. You'll think he Is down and i u ,t
at the critical moment he bobs up—and wins the game.
Maybe Bob did not win Thursday's game, but anyhow he helped an aw.
ful lot.
To begin with. Spade pitched a three-bit game. Hess, Miller and Gil-
bert made a blngle apiece, and that was the limit.
The first hit—Hess'—came after Miller had walked and. stolen s«cond
and It netted a run. This looked rather gloomy, but as a dlspellcr of pes-
slmlsm Spade shines. And with his kind assistance three runs were
scored and the game won.
There was a weird similarity between the first trio of tallies.
In the third, fifth and seventh Innings, Bill Dyer—Lawyer Bill—was the
first mnn up.
Each time he singled.
Each time Ed Sweeney sacrificed.
And each time Spade brought Dyer home.
In the third Inning Dyer went to second on a pitched ball that Mr
Woods neglected to gather In and advanced to third on the sacrifice. Then
he scored from third on Spade's fly-out. The other two times Spade eent
him home on a single.
The fourth run was largely due to Rocken'feld's bobble. Becker lived
at first on a fielder's choice, took third on Winters' hit and then came home
when Wood's peg to block a double steal was missed at second by ''Rocky"
Eyler pitched a fair game for Little Rock, especially. In the early staget
Dope of the Day\
Eyler is a lanky, gangly looking guy, but he has a nice delivery and
Is generally effective.
It takes a wonder to hold the Crackers safe right now, though.
Mike Finn Is certainly within the playing limit. Just at this writing
he has eleven men—a complete team and three pitchers.
Golf Tournament
Starts Saturday
The tournament committee of the At.
lanta Athletic Club has sent out the
following notice In regard to the handi
cap tournament which begins Satur
day:
Medal Play Handicap, Open to All, En
try Fee One Ball,
Sixteen low scores In above, play off
at mntrh; play using 3-4 of difference
of medal piny handicaps.
Entry Fee 3 Balls—Handicaps will
be rearranged for theae events.
The committee requests a lnrge en
try In this tournament and that all
cards be turned In.
F. G. BYRD.
W. R. T1CHENOR.
W. K. STONE.
39 and 41 Whitehall St.
trousers 6.00
Daniel Bros. Company, suit case.. 0.00
Sid Holland, pair cuff buttons.... 2.50
Hunting the Pig.
Mayor Joyner, who Is something of a
farmer and stock expert on the side,
has agreed to furnish the pig for the
occasion, and Is now on n hum for a
long. fast, wild rasor-back. He has
some fancy Berkshlres of hla own, but
they have not the requisite speed and
toughness, and he Is now on the mar
ket for something lively In the pig
line. ' It you have anything that can do
a hundred yards In ten seconds and can
keep It up all day, please deliver the
same to Ponce DeLeon Park.
Hughes Coming Hero.
Tom. Hughes, tbs leading pitcher of
the Southern League last year, who has
been on Clark Griffith's Montreal farm
this year, will winter In Atlanta. He
has written Billy Smith that he does
not like a cold country In the winter
time, and that he will be In Atlanta
soon after his season closes.
8mith to 8ceuL
On Tuesday, as soon aa the benefit
game Is out of the way. Bill Smith
sets salt for Cincinnati and for a cou
ple of weeks or so he will do the sleuth
act through ths O. A P. League and
elsewhere.
B. McCay Finishes Fifth in
Hitting and Throwing Events
Bemte MsCay, the Mobile manager
and "Johnny McGraw" of the Cotton
States League, entered the long dis
tance fungo hitting conteot and the
long distance throwing at the Cincin
nati Brewers’ field day list Monday, and
came out fifth In both events.
In the long distance hitting, Bernte
slapped the ball out for 368 feet and T
Inches. In the ■ throwing event Bernle
was fifth and he also beat out the
great and only Hans Wagner. McCay's
record waa 343 feet and 111-2 Inches.
Handsome 'Arry McIntyre, the for
mer Memphis twlrlcr, represented the
Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, and came
out second In the long distance fungo
hitting.
Sheldon A. Le Jeune, outfielder of the
Springfield club, won the long distance
throwing event and also came within
nine Inches of breaking the world's
record made by John Hatfield.
DETECTIVES GUARD COBB.
While the Detroit Tigers were play
ing In Cleveland recently, two detec
tives were with Ty Cobb, the Georgia
boy, to keep Harry Bemls, the Naps'
sturdy backstop, from doing the Geor
gia boy harm.
The Naps, and especially Bernle, are
sore at Cobb. Bemls was spiked dur
ing a game In Cleveland by Cobb, and
was out of the game a good while.
Bemls says Cobb spiked him on pur
pose. Cobb says he didn't.
OXFORD WON AGAIN.
Special to The Goorglau.
Oxford. Ga.. Sept. 12.—Wednesday
afternoon Oxford won Its fourth
straight game from Covington by the
score of 11 to 3.
The features of the game were the
batting of the Sandlford brothers and
the base running of Branham and
Barnes,
Batteries: Oxford. Stone and Sandl
ford; Covington, Vlnelng and Slocum.
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Little Neiicr. the former Harnnnah pitch
er of the Sally Leagns, la pitching grei -
The Travelers have about the same Infield and outfield that they
had the last time they were here—barring the absence of First Baeeman
Douglass, who recently Jumped.
"We haven't changed our line-up this year,”, says Mike Finn, "except
pitchers and catchers. We've had twenty-seven of tljem and that Is no
Joke. ,
"We lost our malnstayB In Lake and Buchanan, who got sick on u<
early In the season," added Mike.
. “Buchanan had an awful time. We let him go to a bush league, but
he was too sick to stick even there So he came back to Little Rock and
they cut him open for something, I forget what, but didn't find It.
"They did find, though, that he had appendicitis, a floating kidney
and a deposit of fat on his liver. The doctor who took out hie appendix,
scraped off the fat and anchored the kidney said he could not have lived
a week If he had not been opened up. Buchanan was out at a ball game
nine days after the operation—though he was not In much shape to pitch,"
added Mike, reflectively.
In Broken Doses
Sfd Smith worked out his curves before the game and was so "good"
that he asked permission to pitch the closing game—provided Atlanta had
the pennant cinched without It.
Bill Dyer’s error came as the result of a sincere effort to "choke" t
alow-hit ball. And It was no disgrace. It Is about an even chance that
anybody will mtas a ball like that.
With two Travelers on bases In the sixth Hess hit up a low fly that
tried Ita best to fall safe. But Otto got under It with one hand.
Wh»r. Page stole second he was lucky to get there. Otto had the
ball and tagged him, but the collision was so hard that Otto dropped the
ball.
Sid Smith yanked what looked like a hit away from Hess In the ninth.
Sid went way back out of hla position for the ball and made a sensa
tional stop.
Bob Spade, was given <42.50 by his admirers for his great batting and
pitching In the game.
That Is the way the thing started, ' ball for the Now York Americans
and now the entire Cleveland team, ex- Sf' h ,p„ ISIS SfSSli,fl'-'I LVl'i ’’""•liter
ceptlng probably a few of the older • * ,l,u ,,lp PKt rann ’ Griffith a alnli corps,
and cooler heads are after Cobb's scalp. | I<0 , IU>|| wllI , ( „ n(tm | ttlH , froo t0 nU . ffntn( . H
You can count on < obb doing his port, n,,, Hnithlera and tho Climbers piny in
however, for he can whip nearly any i Montgomery on Thursday, Friday anil Bat
man In the two big leagues. • urdny. .
THE DUTCHMAN IS PUZZLED.
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Standing of tke Clubs.
CLUB8-
ATLANTA .
.Memnhli. . .
I .It tie Itnok . ,
New Orion nn
Shreveport . ,
Rlrmlnuhnni. .
Montgomery .
Xaalivlllo . ,
This standing of tho clubs is official
and was wired to Tho Georgian by A.
Clark Miller, secretary to tho president
of the Southern League.
American.
Played. Woo. I.oet. P. C.
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C. FRANK SCRATCHING HIS HEAD.
When the New Orleans manager was in Atlanta he was asked how it
happened that his team couldn’t finish jiny better than fourth. Just before
he admitted that "he was durned if he knew," this is the way he looked.
CLUBS-
Philadelphia
Chicago . .
Detroit . . ,
Cleveland . .
New York . .
Ihiatnu . . .
St. lamia . .
Washington
ri.itns-
Ohleagn . .
I’lttalnirg 12,
Nov York .... 130
Philadelphia 121
llmoklyn 130
Cincinnati 131
Boston 137
Ht. lamia 131
Uttls Rock.
Page, 2b. . . .
Gilbert, cf. . .
Rnckenfeld, sa.
Wood, c. . . ,
Miller, If. . . .
Bowcock, rf. .
Hess, Sb. . . .
Starke, lb. . . .
Eyler. p. . . ,
ab. r. h. ro.
Totals .... .31
Atlanta.
Becker, rf. .
Winters, cf.
Paskert, If. .
Smith, as. . .
Fox, lb. . .
Jordan. 2b. .
Dyer, 3b. . .
Sweeney, c. .
Spade, p. . ,
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3 24 11 1
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8 0 J I
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Totals
Kuna by Innings:
Little Rock
Atlanta
Hits by Innings: , ,
Little Rock 011 000 010- j
Atlanta 002 120 30»— <
Summary—Three-base hit. ro*-
struck out, by Spade 2, by Eyler -
bases on balls, off Spade 4. off Eyler i-
sacrifice hits, Sweeney 3; stolen hoe"!
Miller 2. Hess. Page. Smith; pa;*”
ball. Wood. Time, 1:50. Umpire. Pi™
nlnger.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Little Rock In Atlanta, Ponce Deloon
park. Game railed at 3:l0 o’clock.
Memphis In Montgomery.
New Orleans in Nash rifle. -
Shreveport In Birmingham.
Mlque Finn’s angel face eras all smiles
Inst nlchf. He felt elated that he hut
managed to get ont of Birmingham -vtili
even break. “Yon may now depend on
It. raid he. on leaving, “that we will
hand Atlanta n package, it,, not understand
me an saving that we will take nit the
gnmc* from the t’mekera. Bat we will
break their 'never-losing' streak, Inst the
■aim*. — lllnulngbnm Age-llerr.ld. 1
THURSDAY’S RESULTS.
Southern.
Atlanta 4. Little Rock 1.
New Orleans 7, Naaiivflle t ,
Memphis 3, Montgomery 1 J
Itlrtnlnghatn 2. Shreveport 1 (flrit j
Shreveport 5, Blrmlnghnm 2 I second if 3 ®** f
American.
Chicago 3, ht. Lnnla 2.
Cleveland 2, Detroit 1.
Philadelphia 7, Ronton 1.
Wn(thington 2, New York 0.
Notv York 5. Brooklyn 0.
Ronton 3. Philadelphia 2 (first
Rost on 3. Philadelphia 2 (second
Chicago 3, Cincinnati 1.
ASEBAU
ATANTA vs. LITTLE ROCK.
September 12,13,14. Tickets on sale at Oppenheim's*
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