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16 X-tuei AriiABTA uJiiUKLtJLAJN ajnu iNiliVV8. FRIDAY, SEPTEifBER 20, 1907. TWO GEORGIA PLAYERS=RUCKER AND COBB—PICKED ON ALL=STAR TEAM A VETERAN PLAYER DUNN AND DONAHUE NAY BE DRAFTED BY ATLANTA TEAN Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 20.—Joe Dunn, catcher, and William Donahue, outfield er, local players, with the Evansville team, are home, and it is stated on good au thority that they will be drafted by the Atlanta team. They were recommended by Outfielder Slake. COBB AND RUCKER PICKED ON MERCER'S ALL-STAR TEAM N. Y. Globe Expert Gives Positions to Two Geor gia Boys. Hsr, is Cy Young, the pitcher, who h*» been at it •avantacn yeara, but who admits now that the gam* is getting too fast for him. (Charity Frank, plaaaa taka notice.) [not NEWS, BUT VIEWS ] The heated atmosnhere, em minting from Little Rock to the effect that the Atlantn' Baseball Association may be fined if it can be proven that it paid the players a bonus for winning the pen nant, will not cause local fans any sleepless nights. In the first place the question is one between the league di rectors and the baseball association. And ns such questions do not havo any bearing on next year’s pennant race, they arc con sidered by funs as purely academic. The charge that the local association paid pitchers for win ning games against Memphis toward the close of the pennant race is denied. Whether certain over-enthusiastic fans did make such pay ments remains to be proven. And if proven it does not cut nny material ice. By SID MERCER. They're here—the "one beet bet" lieeo bull correspondents. With the race nettled In the National Iecafftic and four tennis declared ont of It lu the Atnerlcnn Longue, the fall style of Ini ac ini II correspondence runs largely to selec tions of Ail-Natlotial and All-Anierlcnn tennis. It la rather hard to make selections that III be universally accepted for the reason int this season has not been marked by the rise of nny new pitching wonders to ilace Mnthewnon and Drown, both of --jom have been relegated to the Arma ment In which twinkles several other ntars. And It la over battery positions that arguments rise. Following nre samples of letters whleh are clogging that large part of the dally mall which rcachea the sporting editor's team and who for an All-American? From these two select the liest men In their respective positions. Yours truly, “II. A. R.” “flportlng Editor The Globe— Dear Sir: Will you kindly select what you consider the best teams that ran be picked from Itoih leagues, nml which of the two would you consider the hotter? Yours truly. “ROBERT I1KMKHTEH." This Is g task which should lie approach- od with fear and trembling. Itnsebnll crit ics nre supposed to otherwise tne dally mind that If you do not agree with the critic that bin brain has.become softened from hearing uncomplimentary opinions of himself, malted In by vnrloua shipping clerks and office workers who aeo a game once a week and, therefore, are able to use calm Judgment. However, we will tnke a chance. As mentioned preTlonsly. the lack of das you must submit to yards of statistics, which always prove you to lie a bush league chooser. For that reason, the writer will Incorporate In his selections the names of the best right and left-handed pitchers In each lengne. It Is only his humble opinion, so la* slow to condemn him. These selections are made according to the Individual ability of each man. No claim of team work Is made. Probably neither of them could win a championship. Here goes: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Player. Cobb .... Stone ... Jour* I.jiJob‘ ... Turner Chase ... Collins ... Hull!ran , KMilan .. Render .. .. left Add . center Acid . second base . ... short stop .. Arst laise .. .. third base .. .... catcher ., .... pitcher ... ... pitcher .... Club. Detroit ... .St. Louis Chicago .... Cleveland .... Cleveland ... New York . Philadelphia Chicago Detroit , Phlladelphli Leads Off Batting Order With Cobb—Boosts Rucker. iiipii limit* piri’iiKiii ui irmii n«’ii. ,«-uihi and Stone good free hitters; Jones and Chase can bunt and sncrIAee well; Lnjole well placed to drive In runs. Same for Turner and Collins. Little choice lietween Collins nnd Coughlin, of Detroit, for third base. Former find liest' season since 1903 this yenr. Hitting better than Coughlin lately. White, of Chicago, not so consistent a winner ns Killian this season, though he has liecn good. Ixits of good rlght-bnmters this season. Donovnti, of Detroit, nnd Smith, of Chlcngo. might lie given In place of Render. Walsh has been a disappoint ment. NATIONAL LEAGUE, rer. Position. Club. •rninn ...... aeeoud base Rrooklyu ce left Add Philadelphia iley right Acid Rrooklyu Hoffman center Acid Chlcngo Devlin third base New York Wagner shortstop Pittsburg Tenney Arst bnsc Heston Kllng catcher Chicago Rucker pitcher ........ Rrooklyu llrow-n pitcher Chicago this season Alpcrmnn must lie considered ■qiifti If not superior to Kvctw of Chi- . ~„-J. He Is a good limn to lead off. as he Is a good wnlter, nnd Is also a long-distance hitter. Magee ran do anything—hunt or slug-sand Is a greet bnse-rnnner. LnMiley feet I ve. Hoffman Is n close rival of Magee as the best nil-round outfielder In the Na tional League. Roth have great throwing arms. Hoffman Is not n long hitter, but I mils np frequently with timely hits. Dev lin Is ensllv the liest third baseman, nnd of coarse Wagner Is a universal choice. The Arst Imtsinen of the American—Gansel nnd Tenner—are the liest pair, nnd Tenney, being a left-hander, has something on John, llnrker Is by far the 1 test left-handed pitcher In the National League, though It Is only bis Arst season In fast company. Drown hns been a steady winner up to the Inst two or three weeks. Like the ofher Chlcngo players, he has let down now that the |>cnnniit Is won, hut during the Job. ALL-STAR TEAM. Player. * Clnb. Cobb, right Aeld Detroit (A) Hnffninii. renter Aeld Chicago IN) Chane, Arst base New York (A» Magee, left Aeld Philadelphia <N> Lnjole. second bane Cleveland (A) Wagner, shortstop Pittsburg IN» Devlin, third base New York IN| Kllng. catcher....;.... Chicago (St Drown, pitcher Chlcngo (N Itucker, pitcher Rrooklyn (N> Remark*—Many chances for arguments here. National longue seeina to bnve a bit the liest of It, Hoffman, Cobb nnd Mngee great trio of hnrd-hlttfng, good base-run ning, and Aur Adding nnd throwing young sters. For the Arst time In ninny seasons Willie Keeler falls to get a place. Selec- tlona nre made on this season’s perform ances, Labile and Wagner only unanimous choices.* No American League pitchers seem to bnve anything on Drown and Rucker ns lending right and left-handed pitchers. Strange ns It may seem, the All-Ameri cans seem to slightly outclass the All-Na tionals, though National League players are In the majority In the nll-atnr team. You •'IMtys your money and you taken your choice.”—New York Globe. But here comes Another academic question: Is it good sports-' mansbip to pay pitchers to beat your closest opponents in the race! Maybe it is. Maybe not. Last year the cold lay-down of certain teams euehcred Atlan ta out of second place. If fans stalled off such a catastrophe by slipping Birmingham nnd Montgomery pitchers something,,maybe they did wrong—maybe not. It is a question of pure and simple baseball ethics—and one which we arc willing to hear discussed. If money had been offered to Memphis players, say, to throw games, that would have beeu dirty baseball. But the other proposition—well, we nre open to conviction. INDIANS PLAY LIKE JOKES; GAME AT PIEDMONT A FROST The baseball game at Piedmont park Thursday afternoon between the Cher okee Indians from North Carolina and the Carter & Gtlleeple baseball team was a Joke pure and simple. The bunch of Indians who played at Pied mont Thursday didn't know the gamo. Hence the laughs. At the outset of the contest the fans believed that the Indians were fooling with the Carter & Gillespie team and that later they would play as they were capable of playing. But alas! there was nothing to that old gag. In about three Innings the In- ‘ dlans showed they were ignorunt of the great national game. It Was not the poor Indians' fault. Doubtless they did their best. Even at the Indian game of lacrosse they did not shine. The bunch of "Injuns” now' In At lanta reminds one of a covey of farm hands. They would doubtless 4 do good work on some farm. The Indians* third baseman, whoever he was. greatly amused the crowd In the bleachers. Time and again he would be called over by the sun gods and would leave his post of duty to talk with the bleacherltcs. At the beginning of the game one big Indian was sent in to catch for the Cherokees. He did his best at back stopping and doubtless would have been a dead *injun'' ere this time today had he remained behind the plate. Hut a kind young gentleman (not an Indian) offered his assistance as a backstopi>er and the offer wag accepted by the In dians* manager. "Rip** Greene twirled for the Carter & Gillespie team and he had the In dians guessing with dewdrops and the like. He would throw' the ball as easy as he possibly could and then the In dians could not hit It. The fanatics seemed to enjoy the game, whether the Indiana could play nre not. Everyone in the stand laughed themselves hoarse. Time and again the Indians would get hit with the ball In trying to catch It. It was no fault of the Carter St Gil lespie team that the Indians were brought to Atlanta. Just where the blame lies Is uncertain. It has been found out that fnsteud of the regular baseball team coming, that a bunch of dubs came Instead. It had been ad vertised that the great Lloyd Owl. the champion Indian pitcher who had been bought by the Philadelphia Americans for a try-out next spring, would bo with them, nnd that Tommie Wildcat, the great bn*© stealer, and Tom I-ongboat, the champion runner of the world, long distance or otherwise, would also be along, and the public was bilked. 00000000000000000000000ops O PA8KERT*S POUTS O 0 WORRY NOBODY. O O O O The fact that Paskert passed up O O Cincinnati and would not report O O to the Red team does not seem to 0 O cause the Cincinnati people much O O uneasiness. 0 O Not© this from The Enquirer: O 0 One recruit who railed to show 0 O up yesterday was George Paskert, 0 0 who passed through our fair city 0 0 en route from Atlanta to his home 0 0 In Cleveland. He refused to re- 0 0 port here at present because he 0 O has not been handed any of the 0 0 purchase money by the Atlanta 0 0 club. Well, there are only nine- 0 0 teen more games to play, so per- 0 0 haps we can worry along without 0 O him. Take care of yourself. O O George. 0 0 ,0 OO0OOOOOOOOOOO00OO00O0OO0O O ROSEBEN DYING. 0 a o O New York, Sept. 20.—Roscben, 0 O peerless sprinter among the thor- 0 O oughbreds of America, Is dying 0 O of blood poisoning. His tempera- 0 O ture early today had reached ISS. 0 O David Johnson, hfs owner, and 0 O Frank Wler, hla trainer, have 0 0 slight hope of hts recovery. 0 O The champion’s illness Is due to 0 0 a stone bruise. During his last 0 0 race over the Bheepshead Bay 0 O track, which he won easily, he 0 O picked up a stone and this cut and 0 O bruised one of his legs so badly 0 O that blood poisoning set In. 0 000000O0O000OO0O00000O0000 TALK OFOUTLAW LEAGUES IN SOUTH; SEEMS TO BE TALK-THAT'S ALL There Is much talk of a new outlaw league In the South, but It Is not being taken seriously. If a new league could be formed which w'ould have no com petition it would have a chance. A cir cuit made up of Atlanta. Birmingham. Memphis, Chattanooga. Lexington and Covington might do some good. But It would have no earthly hope against the w ell-organised, well-protected and well- patronised Southern Longue. The Southern has trouble enough pulling Its weaker members through every year ana a new outlaw league would have considerably more trouble than It could stand. Hacked by unlimited capital—maybe a million or so—the league might have a chance of wearing out the Southern. But If there Is less than a million be hind It Its backers might better put their money In the savings hanks or somewhere where It would be safe. Not so long ago a bunch of Atlanta men talked of buying a South Atlantic League franchise and putting a Sally team In Atlanta In opposition to (he Southern League team. This project went even as fur ns a canvass of the town, nnd a meeting. Whether the people behind the scheme knew that to carry It through they would have to outlaw the Sally Leugue and fight all organized ball Is not known, but anyway the scheme went dead before It came to anything worth talking about. Tip to the fans—go out and see Lis ter before he has got acclimated. Ob serve his display of ginger—the kind young fellow*, pick tip in the minor leagues. Take a peek at him before the rest of the Naps, by precept and exam ple, have taught him to drag himself around the ball field with -his head hanging over on his stomach nnd his feet scraping the dust off the grass as he hauls them along after him. See him before he has learned that really great, high-salaried ball players deem It unbecoming to frisk about and yell and cut up capers.—Cleveland Press. "Kid” Wells, the little Nashville catcher, played Monday with the Wap- akoneta team against the Cincinnati POOR OLD BILL. Standing of the Clubs. I American. ULURU- Played. Won. Lost. I*. C. •hllndelphltt 132 52 Detroit 135 M 55 .$96 Chicago 13S SO 58 Cleveland 138 78 60 New York 134 64 70 llostnu m 58 SO .430 8t. Louis 137 58 79 .423 Washington 133 44 89 .331 NationaL CLUBS— * Played. Won. Loat. P. C. Chicago 137 96 39 .715 Pittsburg 134 81 53 .$06 New York 135 78 57 .578 Philadelphia 139 71 59 .546 ltrnoklyn 135 63 80 .412 Cincinnati ...... 136 56 80 .412 Boston ...... 132 50 82 .379 St. Louis 135 40 15 .296 THURSDAY’S RESULTS. American. 8t. Louie 2. Cleveland L National. Pittsburg 4. RpMtkljn 3. Cincinnati #. Chicago L States' .late l«: Charley Frank at New Orleans. Billy Smith at Atlanta. Mike Finn at I.lttle Rock. Charley Babb at Memphis. Johnny flobbs at Naahvllle. Ed Lewee at Shreveport. Nobody plrked for Birmingham, but Vaughn alated for the can. John Malarkey or Bernle MeCay at Montgomery. • DAN GOES SOME. I Knlamnzoo, Mich., Sept. 20.—Don Pnteh paced a mile here yeeterday "at 2:01 1-4 on a poor track, at the opening of the Great Western circuit. Thi. i. Matt McGrath, the giant hammer thrower of th. New York Athletic Club. Recently he wrested the hammer-throwing champion, .hip from John Flannigan. )••••••tt TECHCANDIDATESLOOK LIKE A HUSKY OUTFIT! have" a football team this fall. you ought to drop nut there ‘home fine aft ernoon nnd have a look at the practice. If you arc a Tech man It will be very cheering. If you are from Georgia It will make you a trifle leary of the prospects. For one thing, Inst year's regular, look bo much better than they did last year. Sweet. Robert. Luck. Hender- aon, Snyder, iluchannn and the rest all seem materially heavier and larger. And the new material looks right. The writer did not know one new man from another, but a dozen of them looked big ns Vanderbilt material and strong as a .pair of oxen. And the way the 'crew ran twice around the field and then went through one of Conch Helsman’s "setting up" and "wearing down” drills showed the whole aggregation to be marvelously lit for this time of the year. Nothing much In the way of extra strenuous work is being done. When Coach Helsman was asked Thursday, ’What Is new?" he replied, "Hard work." But what he Is putting the teem through now Is not a circumstance i what ho will give them later. And i the old men know It. About thirty men are working every day and attending the Helsman lec tures on football. When college o|*ni this number will doubtless Increase I fully seventy. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMKiOOOOOOM O a DIXIE STARS WILL <i TAKE INJUN8’ PLACE. 0 0 • 0 O The manager of the Cherokee O baseball and lacrosse teams wishes O it announced to the public that 0 he thought he had a ball club. 0 Now that he has found h|s mis- 0 take he has arranged for the 0 ter & Gillespie team and the Dixie 0 Stars to,play baseball Friday and 0 Haturday afternoon* at Piedmont. 0 Before each game the Indians will 0 play lacrosse and do a war dance oeeooop000000<i0000O0pyooao WILLIAM BERNHARD. This I stlie Clevc lund pitcher who was batted out of the box 1 hursday afternoon In Cleveland by St. Louts. The Dead Ones p-on 2 to 1. Rhoades finished out the game. The 3t. Louls-CIcveinnii game was the only one played In the American League Friday, and It made no material change in the league startling. Nationals, made two hits and a run out of four times at bat, made one er ror out of nine chances and allowed one passed ball. The Cincinnati Enquirer said of the Kid: Kid Wells, who caught for Wapa- koneta, was with Nashville this season and has been drafted by the St. Louis Americans. He looks a bit light to handle the speedy deliveries of Bill Dlneen and Jack Powell, but the lad certainly can hit some. He got two pretty singles and came within an Inch or two of getting a couple more.. He also throws accurately and handled himself very well behind the bat. Talk of changes In management throughout the Southern League Con tinues to be beard. The Naw Orleani _ "Emmons for Quality' Select Your Fall Suit Tomorrow From This Great Line Such a showing of Clothes to select from you’vi never seen before in Atlanta. The new and handsome shades in wood brown and olive green, in woolens o'f rough effect mixtures, plaids and stripes—and the new Emmons models in single and double-breasted sacks ure indeed smart » looks and are all the well-dressed man could possibli wish for. As to fit—good honest hand - tailoring i 1 guarantee enough of Emmons clothes fitting. Not old) fit well, but this hand-work gives the garment a go 01 shape and long life. Whether you’re read}' to buy now, or later, com 1 and look—you will find it time w611 spent. Men’s Suits, $15 to $40 Youths’ Suits, $10 to $25 Our booklet of Fall and Winter styles is now ready-—and free for the asking. I