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16 -. hi; ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907. SPORTING PAGE FOOTBALL COMES TO THE FRONT—“23” 1 FOR BASEBALL EDITED BY P. H. WHITING | WT BUT'WEWs] 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 O00O00O0OOO0OOO0O0OOOO0OOO § AUTO WENT 100 MILES O IN 2 HOURS. 1 MINUTE. O O 0 0 Milwaukee, Wl*, Hcpt. 21.— O 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 OOOOOOOOOOCVJOOOOOOOOOO0O0 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. Ot»Ol»Oi»i>OOOOOOOOOOOOt»OG O SLOAN TO MARRY. 0 O O 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 O 0 0000O0000000000O0000O0OOOO 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. 00000O000000O00O0OO0O0O0O0 0 o 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. OOO00OOOOO0O0000OO00OOO000 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. |«H(6IH*M«MI 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. 00000000000000000000000000 o a a R08EBEN RECOVERS. 0 0 — o 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 0 0 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 *» OODOOODOOD4400DODOGODODOOO count of darkness; nine Ignlnga) 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.