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-. hi; ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907.
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FOOTBALL COMES TO THE FRONT—“23” 1
FOR BASEBALL
EDITED BY
P. H. WHITING
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If everybody will please understand that we don’t take this
All-Southern League team business very seriously, and if they will
kindly accept our apology for doing something we don’t really
know anything about, we will—with your kind permission—pick
our all-Southern baseball team for 1907.
You can have our frank admission nt the start that we have
never managed a baseball team in our lives, and we will admit
further that probably if we haa the pick' of the Southern Leaghe
to draw from, Bill Smith or Charley Babb could sort over the
discard and get out a team that would hammer ours off the scen
ery completely.
But, anyhow, here goes:
Ilardy and Sid Smith would do all right for our catchers.
Hardy is a man of the right age, height, weight, and wing for a
catcher. He did not have much chance to show off with the Nash
ville team this year, for they drove him from pillar to post; but
he conld doubtlessly shine with any of them. And he can hit—
almost at a .300 clip.
Everybody will concede Sid Smith the other place. Sid did
not play his best game this year—not ’till near tno end of the
season, anyway. But Sid has everything. He is a good back-
stopper, has a fine throwing wing and knows where second base is
located, and besides that, he is the best utility man in the
league and the best pinch hitter. In addition he is a good all-
the-year-rmind slugger, though his .287 this year hardly classes
with his .326 last year. With Sid on the team a regular utility
man is not needed and five pitchers could bo carried.
Sweeney was a good backstopper, though his batting was
weak. Seabaugh was a pretty good all-round man.
There are those whp will doubtless give a loud laugh at the
selection of Harry Meek for first base. But Harry will do very
well for us. He is no Lister in the field, but when he comes to bat
he is a terror. And somehow we always had a nation that a first
baseman ought to be able to bat. Lister is too much of an in-and-
outer at batting to be quite satisfactory. Jim Fox was off this
year, especially on fielding low balls, and is out of the running,
though first honors were his ensily last year. Sabcie seems to be
a comer, but a .233 batting aveiage puts him out.
Don’t let’s nrgno any about Otto Jordan for second base. It
is his easily, with nobody else in sight.
You can get an argument on those short-stop and third base
positions. It is certainly n toss-up between Atz and Ball. Both of
them were poor as need be at the first of the season and both made
wonderful improvement. All things considered Ball seems the
better of the two, though there is so little choice that anybody else
can have Ball and we’ll keep Atz.
. The third base question is open. Lave Cross is getting tho
call all along the line and Lave is a good one. But with the whole
leaguo to pick from wo should take Charles Babb and put him
back at his old place. A bad hnbit of starting to the left for
every ball, no matter on which side it goes, hurt his fielding nt
short this year and managerial worries dimmed his batting eye.
Last year he was the most brilliant third baseman that this
league ever saw and we would gladly risk him.
Left field is another position we shall not bother to argue
about. Paafcert is “it.” J. Manning of Memphis was good, but
not such a man as George.
The crop of center and right fielders in tho Southern this
year was not good. Practically all of tho rogulnrs were good
fielders, but none of them was as good a batter ns he should have
been—not by a very large majority.
The three best center fielders were Winters, Molesworth and
Dobbs. Strange to say two of them batted .263 and one of them
a single point less. So there is not much to choose in batting.
All three arc good fellows. Winters and Molesworth have it
on Dobbs at base running. Winters is the shiftiest man in tho lot
at bunting and besides ho hns been in the league forever and
knows every batter and where to stand f r them. Also ho is n
quiet, well-behaved player and is generally in fair condition.
’ George will do all right for us. Though Carloton is a star.
And Becker is our pick for right fielder. His .264 in batting
gives him the call if nothing else. But in addition he is a good
base runner, a handy man in getting on bases, a good fielder and
the most enmest worker in the league. Cnrtcr and Cnrlos Smith
are both good men, but were off in batting this year.
C. Smith was with the disgruntled Birmingham team and
that hurt his work. Last year he batted .278 and he can do it
again.
That team strikes us as one that could hit the ball right on
the scam and keep hitting it all day. Also it could field Borne and
run bases.
For lack of space, time and some few other things we will talk
over the pitchers later.
Atlanta and Memphis Have
Had Best Average Position
Sporting Editor Atlanta Georgian;
Dear Sir—Perhaps the glorious vic
tory la still recent enough to make the
following facts, elicited from your ta
ble of final averages, and the corrected
percentages of this year, Interesting to
the tan.
Averaging the relative standings of
each club at the end of the season,
Atlanta and Memphis tie for the best
average position. Their average stand
ing during the six yean Is a little high
er than third place. The team with the
lowest average standing Is Montgom
ery—5 4-5—or just a little above sixth
place.
Averaging the percentage made each
year, Atlunta and Memphis still lead,
but Memphis Is 3 points to the good.
Following, Is the table showing the
results for each club, 1903 to 1907;
Average Average
per- standing
NAME— centage. at finish.
Memphis 553 2 5-4
Atlanta 550 2 5-6
New Orleans 545 3 4-6
Birmingham 499 4 5-6
Nashville 465 5 3-6
Montgomery 460 5 4-5
Little Koek 457 5
Shreveport 443 5 2-6
WINFIELD P. WOOLF.
Paskert Promised Nothing,
Says President Dickinson
George Paskert, the Atlanta outfield,
er sold to Cincinnati, haa refused to
report because he claims that he is
due part of the money paid for his
contract.
Just what kick George has coming
teems to be doubtful.
Manager Billy Bmlth of the Atlanta
club is out of Atlanta and hence
could not be questioned, but President
Dickinson stated that as far as he
knew Paskert had been promised no
part of the nice bunch of money paid
for his contract and he added further
that he thought that he would have
known if any such promise had been
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§ AUTO WENT 100 MILES
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FOOTBALL MEN ARE GETTING BUSY THESE DAYS OUT AT TECH
SNYDER 8NAPPINQ THE BALL BACK TO BUCHANAN.
CAPTAIN CHARLE8 SWEET.
THE LATEST
IN BASEBALL
made.
O William Drasch, driving a four- O
O cylinder, 45-horse-(tower car In a O,
O 24-hour endurance contest for au- Q
O tnmobfles. which started yester- O
O day afternoon at the state fair O
O park, covered the first 100 milc.-t in O
O 2:01.09, which. It is claimed. Is a O
O world s record. The previous rrc- O
O ord for the distance was 2:03.24. O
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Some Dope On the Game
Picked Up Here and
There.
Jnkey Atz. late of New Orleans, seems
to suit the'Chicago Americans all right.
Tho Record-Herald says of him:
The teams made narry an error, per
feet ball being the cry. Atz subbed
again for Tannohlll and accepted three
chances neatly and with dispatch.
Again he showed that he hns the goods
In hlm„and if he can pole ’em oift with
the big club will be a valuable a:«set to
tho tltle-holderb. As It is, ho looks
O. K.
Tho report that Pittsburg Nationals
had drafted Cy Neighbors seems to
have boon premature. Next year, may-
Bubh says he is not going to draft
any players.
With Tnaffe and Schmitz, whom he
farmed out. and Hnvldge and Schwenck
whom ho bought, he believes he has
mnde. a pretty good start.
Like Atlanta. Momphls will try to
buy some good players from the big
leagues next Spring.
Cleveland may sign Francis J. New
ton, of the Rherldnn, Ind., team. He
has won 12 out of IS games and struck
out 199 men.
St. Louis Nationals played the
Springfield team of the Three I League
an exhibition game Sunday. Raymond
allow’ed S hits and struck out 18 men.
’•Bugs” was a member of the Spring-
Held team in 1903 and was let go be
cause he didn't show.
After Charley Frank blew back to
New Orleans he gave this out:
"The season has been a good one and
I believe not only New Orleans fans,
but ’bugs' all over the league, are bet
ter satisfied than they were at the clone
of last season. Atlanta made a strong
finish and the Pelicans, not havtng the
great good luck of either Memphis In
the first part of tho season, or Atlanta
in the last, did very well. In my opin
ion. All of the clubs have played good
baseball and the close finish has helped
every one of them, for ttyere will be
much more enthusiasm next year than
this season, if that were possible."
It was too early to tglk about a pos
sible line-up for next year, but Man
ager Frank believes he will do a little
careful pruning, which will be clear
profit to the ball dun when some of
the dead wood on this season’s squad
Is cut nut. He Is very enthusiastic over
the acquisition of Pitcher Ray, the Mo
bile no-hit, no-run phennm. and says
Ray will probably pitch against Vicks
burg here next Sunday at the post-
•eason struggle at Athletic park.
Pete Lister lm»ks pretty good. He
hns some admirable qualities. For In
stance, with men on the bases Lister
does not make a tnad effort to kill the
first ball pitched up to him. He prefers
to look over the twlrler’s offerings a lit
tle, hoping to find nmong them one that
he stands a fair chance of hitting safe.
Pete Is young and no doubt has lots to
learn, but it Is a pleasure to record that
Lister Is nllvo to the fact that no pitch
er cun retire a batter on one pitched
hall If the butter refuses to swing at It.
Withal, he Is u quiet, modest, pleasant
appearing young man. who seems to
realize his proper station in life and try
to fill it.—Cleveland Press.
FOOTBALL BEGINS
NEXT SATURDAY
Tech and Georgia, However, Do Not Play
Until October 5, When Real Start
Is Made.
The flret boom of the football (une
comen one week from today. The
only exception la at Charlotteevllle, Va„
where Virginia plays William and
Mary College September 23.
But the boome at that time will not
be very lout). No college with a grain
of wisdom leade off with a hard game,
except some poor college! that lift the
lid with anything they can get. The
headllnere lake something easy.
Witness Clemaon opening against
Oordon, Sewanee agalnet Mooney and
Arkansan ngalnnt the Hankell Indians.
Tho.se are the only gamee elated by
prominent Southern colleges for next
Saturday.
October 6 comen the local opening
and the general bombardment. Tech
team off the flrnt game that day, play
ing Frnnk Blnke'n (Jordon team. Geor
gia tries on Dahlonega, Vanderbilt
Plays Kentucky State, Auburn meets
Howard. In addition, one of the teams
that made Its debut the preceding Sat
urday plays again October 5. That Is,
Arkansas, which team plays Ottawa
University. Wo never heard of such a
S ince, but guess It Is all right. Ar
ansas doesn't, cut much figure here
anyway.
t Once under way. Tech and Georgia
play steadily. Tho local toam takes on
Ita first college game October II, when
Dahlonega Is the victim. GoArgla plays
Tennessee that day, and a etlff game
it Is likely to bo.
Mercer tears loose that day, too,
playing Locust Grove.
From then on there Is football stir
ring for Georgia teams practically eYery
Saturday to the close of the season.
Vanderbilt loses three good football
players In the Noel brothers, who go to
Yale this fall.
Two of them—Ed and Oscar-ware
likely to play some football under ,the
blue banners of old Ell. Neither Is
eligible this year, but If both keep up
In their scholastic work they will have
a line chance at the 1908 team.
Wllllame, the ex-Gordon star, now
at Vanderbilt, Is being worked nt half
back. Campbell, the St. Louie man,
who failed to show up when expected,
has reported and has been eet to work
by McGugin. Dan may try to make a
fullback out of him.
PASKERT
REPORTS
ATCINCY
George Sees the Error of Hi3
» Ways and Joins Ned
Hanlon.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept 21.—G.org.
Paskert has capitulated.
After going home in a huff btesuts
he claimed that he ought to have a diet
of his purchase money,’he hat changed
his mind about it.
And Georga is already on hit way to
ati team.
join tho Clnoinnat
It is probable that ha will play within
a day or two.
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IO New York, Sept. 21.—"Tod" O
10 Sloan Is to be married. The o
"TINY” HENDERSON,
The heaviest man on the team.
0 bride-elect Is MtS3 Julia Sander- 0
0 son. now playing with "The Dairy O
; O Maids” at the Criterion theater. O
I 0 She is about 29 yenrs old, and by 0
0 ninny persons Is considered one of 0
O the strikingly beautiful women of O
0 the American stage. o
0 Sloan admitted the correctness O
0 of the report of his approaching 0
0 marriage to the actrens. o
O "In a few days," wns the near- 0
0 eat he would eet the time. 0
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When Sewanee cornea down from
those tall and rocky Tennessee moun
tains this fall to measure football
strength with Tech and Georgia the
purple Is likely to bring along n team
which Is the equal of any she ever had.
Studies and Parents Hurt
Georgia Football Prospects
Lost year Sewanee bent Tech with a
cracking good team—a team that look
ed to be nt Its beet when It played In'
Atlanta, but which Improved constant
ly until the Vanderbilt game on
Thanksgiving Day.
Nine members of this team are buck.
Only Shipp and Watkins are missing—
two of the three beet men on the team,
perhaps, but atilt their places can be
filled.
Of the new men, Evans a Texan;
Foulkcnberry. from Morgan's School,
and Lanier, from Castle Heights, seem
the best. Evans Is lightning fast and
weighs 198 pounds. Foulkenberry now
weighs only 206, but he may fatten up
some.
Geet but maybe sparks won't fly
when this Imneh clashes with Tech
and Georgia. And the annual Vnnder-
bllt-Senanee game. Well, It will bo a
hummer all right.
Frank Kyle, Vanderbilt’s best quar
terback, will soon be In Nashville to
coach the Vanderbilt scrubs.
If there la one mun who know* os
much McGugin football as McGugin
It Is Kyle, and the wonder Is that some
It II* rtj iu, imiu sitv nuuuci as last**
college tms not picked him up as a
coach before this.
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O BASEBALL WAS “IT." 0
0 Maybe It doesn't seem cheerful 6
O to turn from baseball at this angle O
0 to n new set of stage scenery. O
O Down In Atlanta now they are O
O willing to let the senton glide on O
0 Into the Christmas festivities, but O
O the Mtunflon In the two towns Is 0
O not what you would call Identical. O
O Maybe we'll be there ourselves 0
O next year. In which cose we will O
O not make any such forcible at- O
0 tempt to drag football on the map. O
O In the Atlanta papers Tech's open- O
0 log practice wne burled beneath O
O six nnd three-fourths columns of O
0 baseball dope, for In that wild- O
O eyed town bankers and bootblacks O
O nre turning flip-flaps side by aide O
O up Peachtreo street. If Roosevelt 0
0 had been abducted nnd Bold Into O
0 nesday the oddH are Teddy's dls
0 appearance would hnve been 0
O chronicled In a "stick" of agate on O
O the market page—whlrh same. O
0 translated for the layman, means 0
O "dumped Into the smallest type O
0 and ranged by the side of a flut- O
0 ter In eggs or an upheaval In po- O
O tatoes." _ “
O The wildest brainstorm Thaw O
O ever threw resembles a lucid In- O
0 terval of Kantian logic compared O
O to the mental nnd psychical fits O
0 they have been tossing In Atlanta O
O all the week.—Tennessean.
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PLEASE DON’T KILL
THE POOR UMPIRE.
It Is wrong to kill the umpire," Is
the conclusion reached by The Courier-
Journal after duly considering the case
of the St. Louis official now dy.'ng In
hospital from attacks by the fans.
This Is the line of thought pursued by
The Courier-Journal:
With the Impulse to slay the umpire
no honest, red-blooded man ran quar
rel. It Is as natural to deslifc to kill
hint or to do him great, and If possible
Irreparable, bodily Injury as It Is to
desire to smash. In the full flush of
IAN0THER ON “RUBE.”j
When the Philadelphia club teaehed
Chicago recently the mighty Waddell
was suffering tortures of the unblessed
on account of a refractory tooth.
The pain became so great that he
could really stand jt no longer, and
though It was rather late at night, he
expressed the determination to have the
tooth extracted, and he asked Schreck
to go with him In search of a dentist.
"Why not let Harry White do the
puUIng?" cried Ossie.
■Tture, I'll let Doc White pull It," said
Waddell, and together the ball players
beat it In the direction of Harry’s ho
tel. They found "Doc" In the lobby,
and when their errand was explained,
Harry arose and led the way up to
his room, where his dental Instruments
were.
Waddell, who Is gifted with a man-
site mouth, began to atretch his Jaws
to their widest patent, so as to enable
the doctor to Insert his forceps, when
6chreck, with the appearance of labor
ing under some excitement, cried out:
"Don’t stretch your mouth open any
wider, Rube; the doctor Intends to
stand outside when he does the pull
ing."—Exchange.
I Special to The Georgian.
Athens, Go., Sept. 21.—Captain Kyi*
1 Smith, ftf the University of Georgia
; football team. Is worried over th« fact
I that scholastic requirements and pa-
I rental objections to the strenuous same
! nre likely to knock the team out of
' some of the best men on the squad—
among them Barrett. Franklin. Han-
nan. Hatcher, Collier and Hodgson.
The last named was one of tho star
hack field men lost year, but this year
he Is out because his family objects to
his playing.
Coach Whitney has thirty men at
work, and a lot of new onee will be out
as soon os the new men finish regia-
tering.
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Standing of the Clubs, j
KYLE 8MITH,
his prosperity, a mosquito full fore and
aft with a cargo of blood extracted
from your circulatory system without
regard to your personal comfort. But
such desires must be curbed. A
The umpire. If corrupt or Idiotic—
and oftentimes he seems to be either
the one or the othei—should be Im
peached, but not assassinated. This
thing of registering a protest against
his rulings, by pounding him upon the
cranium with a blunt instrument Is
unpardonable. However exasperating,
the umpire Is necessary to the game.
From a utilitarian standpoint slaugh
tering hint when the game Is only Ijalf
played Is Indefensible, and then, aside
from this consideration. It Is wrong to
kill any human being, even an umpire."
THE AMERICAN LEAGUE RACE
PHILADELPHIA.
3 points ahead of Detroit.
16 points ahead of Chicago.
34 points ahead of Cleveland.
P.2 games to play.
15 aames at home.
With Detroit 4. Chicago 3. Cleve
land 3, New York 2, St. Louis 3/
7 games abroad.
With New York 1, Boston 1,
Washington 5.
DETROIT.
3 points bohind Athletics.
13 points ahead of Chicago.
31 points ahead of Cleveland.
No gamos at homo.
17 gamos abroad.
With Philadelphia 4, New York
3, Boston 3, St. Louis 4, Washing
ton 4.
CHICAGO.
16 points behind Philadelphia.
13 points bohind Detroit
18 points ahsad of Cleveland.
2 games at home.
With Cleveland 2.
14 games abroad.
With Washington 2, Philadelphia
3, Detroit 2, Cleveland 1, New York
3, Boston 3.
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0 New York, Sept. 21.—Roseben, 0
0 the great sprinter which Is recov- 0
0 erlng from an attack of blood 0
0 poisoning that placed him at 0
0 death’s door, will race aguln and 0
0 may again be the means of build- 0
O ing up the often-shattered for- 0
0 tunes of his owner, “Davy" v
0 Johnson. O
0 That Roseben will live to win O
0 more races Is now the opinion of O
0 veterinary surgeons who have O
0 been doctoring the great gelding O
0 from the hour when he was sup- 0
0 posed to be dying until tho early 0
0 hour today, when the consuming 0
0 fever was conquered and the racer O
0 was declared out of danger. 0
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lift roll. . .
Chicago . .
('le vein lid. .
New York. .
Ifoston. . .
St. Louis. .
Washington .
American.
Flared. Won. Lost. V. C.
... 113 SO 53 .*1
135 44 91 .3.1
National.
Flared. Won. Lost. P. C.
, . . 117 98 » .711
Cincinnati ..... 127
lloston 112
St. Louis 138
WHERE THEY PLAY SATURDAY.
Amtriean.
Detroit at New York.
Cleveland at Boston.
Nt. Louts at Philadelphia.
Chicago tt Washington.
National.
lloston at Chicago.
New York at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at Pittsburg.
Philadelphia at St. Louis.
FRIDAY’S RESULTS.
Amtriean.
Chicago 2, Washington l («rst ganiel.
a v: i
L Ne
National.
New York 5, Cincinnati 3.
Philadelphia t. Nt. Louis 3.
Chlcago-Boston; wet gronnds.
Virginia State.
Norfolk 5, Portsmouth 1. ,
Roanoke 4, Lynchburg 0 (6r»t S”™*'..,
Roanoke 4. Lynchburg 0 (second
Danville 6, Richmond 6 (called on *»
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TAKE MR. NOAH’S TIP
By QRANTLAND RICE.
Old Noah was the warmest fan that ever lived at all—
He’d walk a hundred miles or more to see a game of ball—
He knew more dope than Tim Murnane or Sam Crane ever saw.
He ran a ball club better than Comlekey or McGraw.
He won the pennant every year by fourteen city blocks
With Jim McGuire behind the bat and Cy Young In the box—
No matter how things broke for him he’d hnve a winning nine—
Jake Beckley, too, was on his learn and so was Brsltensteln.
But one day, so the story runs, he nearly went Insane—
Just as the schedule was begun It started In to rain—
And every day they tried to piny the sky Juice rattled down
Until old fS'oah's seamy face was wrinkled in a frown.
He waited for a solid week and still the water fell—
The pitcher's box was full of mud and right Held was a well—
Until at lost the water rose 9 feet within the park—
The reet all quit—did Noah? Nit—he wint and built the Ark.
Old Noah lived some years ago ar.d yet his keen Intrigue
l think might well be copied now down here 'in Dlxle’e league—
tt rained for only forty days when Noah hnd hie Ark.
But here It’s rained for forty weeks or pretty near that mark.
—NosbvIUe Tennessean.