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v During balance of this great Range Sale we are going to give abso lutely free of charge this beautiful 10-piece gold decorated chamber set—the handsomest in Atlanta— OUT^8?ECIAr TpiLrr t/iS 4 nr tK THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY; DECEMBER 3,1007. SPORTING PAGE BIG FIGHT PROVES CINCH FOR T. BURNS, OF CANADA : EDITED BY jP. H. WHITING OH THREE TWIRLERS WHO HAVE PERFORMED WITH ATLANTA WILL CLARK GRIFFITH DEPEND TO STRENGTHEN HIS STAFF Hughes, Castleton and Zel ler Look Best of the New Ones. tTnltw >11 signs fall. Clark OrlfUth will have a rellnhle art of pttehers to aid him In hla atxtb attempt to bring tile American League pennant to the Hilltop. Orlflth la not altogether relying on all hla tire reterana haring good years, and haa placet on hit Half for nt leatt three of the wonderful Juveniles who were purchaaed from minor league teama thla fall. "Rube" Zeller, of the Atlanta, and Joe Ijike, of the Jersey City team,- were uectmnted reapec- tlrely the heat pltrhert In the Houtberu and Eastern league, In 1W7, and nt they are hlgh-prlml Investment, probably will re- calve every rhnnee for thorough try-outt. Zeller wnt In the Southern League two yaara. attention being illreeted to him mat spring by the way he twirled ngnluat the big teama In the exhibition guinea. Illlly Keeler Ihlnka the Hoiltheru (lube I* wine pitcher, for the Highlanders - right fielder struck out It one of the gnmea Zeller pitched ngalntt New York. Idle Atlnntulia won the Bonthera League ting In HOT, and Zeller reeelved much credit for hla ahare Br nril iNHinrr in memj tiiit' .. For Atlantn Seller won J7 games, lost 14 soil officiated In n draw. Early In the campaign be out together n run of seren straight rlctorlea. while* bo never loat more than three gnmea In snccssalon. Two of Ksller'a triumph* were of the whitewash variety, and he fought a 12- _ _ little lurk lie would have had higher percentage of vletorlea. Dame Fortune did not nlwnya bestow her atnllra on the curver, for lie loat a l-to-0 game. In which he held lile opjament* to one bachelor awat, a wild throw by iuil Caatro. the former Mnnlmttnii College In who played for the Athletlca nud Itn tnorea In the American League five yeara ago, letting In the run. Run Without a Hit. Zeller alao pitched a no hit game (luring the aeaaon, tint Ills adveraartea were able to score a run on him, Ida « BU. t The Little Itocka, who are known on the Dixie circuit na the Arkunan* Trnvelera, were hla vlctlina. the date lielng June 4. Zeller hit the flrat man who faced lilm- Rockenfleld, the midget nerond aaeker whom McAleer hnd fqr two Seasons—and then walked the next two Imttera. Itockenfleld scoring on n fly to the outfleld. Among ZelleMi pitching feata, bealdea .the gnmea of no-blta and one rap. were a two-hit com bat. one of three wallopa, three of four M l seven of live. Zeller wnt successful In overtime events, working In four, of which he won three and tied one. He whs koocked out only once during the year. Griffith alao will have another curver on SHIPP LANDS Will Play Ball With Denver When School Year Ends. TOM HUGHE8. hla staff who helped win the flag for At- litntn—Itoy Cast let on. who wna farmed to the Houtherner*. having been recalled. The Mormon soutbpnw hnd even n better sciimmi . tlmn Zeller, for he earned bracket a In IS out of 27 events and figured lu three drawn. The man from Utah did not put together any reinnrkable chain of vletorlea. four Im»- rcTtn 4tLLtn. at blanking hla opponent*, denlltig out seven times. In (.nstleton'a last four his adversaries were not able to score on hint and in the Inst 11 set-los of the cam paign. Just 10 tallies‘were made by the op position. Can Qo ths Routs. Like Zeller, Castleton had good slaying powers, for no team took hla measure In n gnme.thnt got heynuil.the regulation length. Early In the season 1 he worked lu a 13 stnnaa battle that resulted In a tie, 10 of hla opponentN being act down on atrlkea. He got a 12-lnnlng deelnlou In mld-stiininer. and later held n strong team safe for the same duration of piny, yielding only oue ROY CASTLETON. run. Twice Castleton struck out nine men In nlne-Innlng events, and the more work that was heaped on Ills shoulders apparently the better was Ills showing. Tile Salt Lake l*oy did not officiate In any hitless games while lie wns In the South, but three tlmea he limited the enemy to a trio of swats, seven times twirled four-jab eonteata and once confined the op|Kisltloii to five smashes. Cfistleton was knocked off the rubber three times, twice early In the running, when be hnd not become acclimated. l|or probably will be known ns the “Mormon Marvel" ou vices In consideration of allowing the spring training In 1905. Another pitcher from the Lantern League on whom Griff Is banking Is Tom Hughes II. who>was with Montreal. Hughes caught Griffith's eye two years ago, and now the Old Fox having fnr/ned the tall Westerner for two seasons In Class A leagues, thinks he Is ripe for a berth with the Highlanders. Necessarily on a tail-end team like Montreal a lock of hitting and a sufficiency of errors behind n pitcher are not calculated to pro- game for the Highlanders* farm hands. Five 8hut-Out Victories. Hughes' best pitched game In 1907 wns on June 12, when he shut out Providence for twelvo Innings. He pitched In fir* "Chi cago" victories for the Royals, and in a game ngnlnst the Toronto flag winners, on August 31, made nine of them hit the air. In the same contest Ids elm wee so bad that the Kelleyltes drew eleven gifts. Hughes showed better form against the lenders than against the tall-enders and was a thorn In the aids of the Toronto* al most all the campaign. I(e signs Used hla firm appearance In a Montreal uniform br holding Buffalo to two hits, but Juft a week later the liisons Jumped ou him fqr all six teen aunts. He wns knocked off the rubber four tlmea. and In his brushes with his present team rival. Joe Lake, haired things, winning the first tussle and losing the sec ond. three, seven In which they made four and in* In which they nequlred five. Other Twirling Timber. Zeller, Lake, Castleton and Hughes arc GUNNER MOIR PROVED EASY FOR SHIFTY TOMMY BURNS Chattanooga. Tenn., Dec. 8.—Frank Shipp, more familiarly known to foot ball fane In the South as “Skinny, ,r will 'Turn professional" next spring According to a statement of Shipp's fcrothar-ln-law, Johnny Dobbs, *mann ger of the Nashville Southern League team. "Skinny" haa signed with the Denver team of the Western League, and will leave for the Rocky Mountain City as soon as the baseball season Is over at Sewanee. Shipp la being depended upon to play an Infield, position at Sewanee next spring, and he will not leave the moun tain until ubout June 1. Shipp haa been regarded aa ono of the fostcHt college baseball players In the South for several years, but wheth er he can make good In profesalonal company Is entirely anothei question He Is a fast and nure fielder, being es pecially good on ground balls. Shipp played In the City League here last season, an amateur organlxatlon, and according to the official averages batted at almost a .500 clip. In fifteen games he had two home runs and six three- base hits to his credit. He got both four-sack drives In one game. He played In a number of other amateur games last summer and batted like a fiend In every contest. In his hitting the star Sewanee football player has one advantage which every ball player dees not possess. If a pitcher Is going too fast for him, or has too many curves, Shipp can dump the ball and then beat the fastest throws to first base. Jimmy Johnson, another local boy, will make his ptofesslonal debut next season. Collie Spencer, the former Cumberland star football and baseball player who coachtd teams at that school after he entered professional t e.ll, will take Johnson to Cedar Rapids, Three I League, for his maiden expe rience. Johnson has every requisite for a great ball player, and his friends here believe that he will go higher soon. Dave Gaston, who Is slated for the captaincy of the New Orleans team next year. Is spending the winter v/?ry quietly here. Johnny Dobbs Is running his dairy farm In tip-top shape. Strang Nicklln, the New York Giant, Is off on a hunting trip in Mississippi. He will return before Christmas. Hugh Hill, the old Nashville Southern leaguer, is In town and gathers around with the boys at a local hotel for a fanning bee every few days. POLICYHOLDERS ARE DEFEATED Washington, flee. 3.—The supreme court ywterjlay decided against the policyholder, in their suit against the Mutual Rceenre Fund Life Association of New York. The policyholders al leged a fraud was perpetrated when the name wag changed, and claims scaled down and complainants unlaw fully deprived of property. Hot Battle For Six Rounds, After That a Merciless Slaughter. London, Dec. 8.—Outfought, outgen- craided and outclassed from the first sound of the gong, Gunner Molr, the pugilistic Ideal of Great Britain, went down to defeat In ths tenth round of the terrible battle with Tommy Bums at the National Sporting Club last night, and the latter won the title of the world’s champion. The bulky and heretofore undefeated English champion was like an amateur In the hands of the American fighter, who toyed with him from round to round ah a mischievous cat plays with a helpless mouse. After that the Britisher began to tire and the Canadian scrapper started to wear his man down. Jab after Jab found a resting place on the mouth and Jaw of the gunner, otioaooooooCKJoooaooooootKfoo o o O By TOMMY BURNS. O 0 — O O That man Molr can hit like a O O mule’s kick. I discovered this ear- O O ly In our light and on that account O O took no chances. Just waited for O O the opportunity and then slammed O O home the winning punches. I O O thought 1 would win earlier than O O I did. but ten rounds was not so O O bad. O O o ooooaooooooooooooooooooooo O By GUNNER MOIR. 0 O O Burns Is a great fighter; a much O O better man than 1 thought. He O O bent me fairly and squarely, and O O 1 have no excuses. I wns In fine O O condition, put up my best fight O O and wns licked. Burns’ cleverness O O kept him out of danger, though 1,0 O do think 1 shook him up a lot once. O 0 or twice with my right to the face. O O O UOO00OOO0O000OO0000000O00U and in return he was unable even to hit his shifty opponent. COSTEN ELECTED CAPTAIN OF VANDERBILT TEAM Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 3.—Sam Cos- | ten, quarterback of the Vanderbilt team, was last night elected captain of the Commodore team for the coming! year. At the banquet It was announced; that McGugin would be with the Van- • derbllt team as coach for the next five ( terms. This announcement was greet ed with the wildest enthusiasm. It was also announced at the banquet J that no more haxlng would go at Van derbilt “Moir Absolutely Painful,” Says The Sportsman of London. London, Dec. 3.—To many the Burns- Molr fight last night was u disappoint, ment and many expressions of dissat- takes this view of it: "It was the case of an eclipse In the persons of Burns and the Scotsman now here. Burns gave the spectators little for their money. Had he let himself go onlookers would have got isfaction arc heard. The Sportsman less. He took u feeler for a few rounds and then, satisfied that he could end the business whenever he felt so In clined, toyed with his opponent until after the affair had gone half way through the tenth round. “It was not the fault of Burns that the splendid crowd that packed the National Club In every part had to sit out such a dlsappolnment. Molr is the mun to blame. It is not our policy to go back on the loser, but Mqlr was absolutely painful. “l*nder the most favorable condi tions. however. Molr could never hope to make any show with Burns, who will, despite the disappointing display given by his opponent last night, ex perience very little or any trouble In bt Hannon has been re-elected to lead ; the University of Alabama team again, i He is a 130-pounder and plays quar- j ter. CAPTAIN COSTEN. Parlor Baseball Arrives; And It’s a Genuine Hit Parlor baseball has arrived. We have had the real 18-karat arti cle for these many years and indoor baseball for quite a spell. But the parlor game of baseball that was worth a hang was not Invented un til a short time ago. t When the game hit Atlanta the first man that tried It went batty on the subject. He took the only board In Georgia down to the Atlanta Athletic dub. The usual crowd wns there and they scoffed. •Take It over t.» the kindergarten,’* they told the discoverer. lie didn't say anything, but sat down and began to play by himself. In ten mfnutes they were fighting for places around the table, and the game was a hit. A retail supply did not reach town until the other day, and they say that there were a couple of men sitting on tii*! front steps when the boards ar rived, waiting to get the first one un packed. OOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O AN ALL-AMERICAN TEAM. O O Ends—Wlster (PrlncedJni and O n Alcott (Yale). O 0 Tackles—Draper (Pennsylvania) O O and Horr (Syracuse), O O Guards — Thompson (Cornell) O o and Ziegler (Pennsylvania). O O center—Phillips (Princeton). O O Quarterback—Jones (Yale). O O Halfbacks — Unuser (Carlisle) O O and Wendell (Harvard). 0 O Fullback—Coy (Yale). O O Second Eleven. O O Ends—MacDmald (Harvard) and O 0 Dague (Navy). 0 O Tackles—O'Rourke (Cornell) and O O Bankhnrt (Dartmouth). O O Guards—Erwin (Army) and Gal- O 0 higher (Pennsylvania). O O Center—Grant (Harvard). O O Quarterback—Dillon (Princeton) O Q Halfbacks—Douglass (Navy) 0 O and Folwell (Pennsylvania). O O FullbacH—McCormick (Prince- O O ton).—New* York Herald. 0 QQO0O00000O000000000O000OO not the only men from the minor league* who are expected to odd strength to the Ifllltoppers* pitching staff, for Neuer, from the South Atlantic; Manning, from the Trl- State, and Arrelnnea, from the Pacific Coast, are all counted on us good Uniter. So, too. Is Eddy Plunk's youthful brother, Ira, wh<» paatlnied In the Connecticut Longue lust aenson. Zeller. Lake, Castleton and Hughe*, however, are more highly consid ered In minor league circles than tlie others and on the strength of th**lr 1997 perform ances seem destined to be successful In (’nofriclal Information ns to their,-Per formances In the ml pended: minors during 1907 Is op- victories Defeat a Drawn games Pitcher's percentage. Club's percentage— Ko-hit games One-bit games.;.,.... Two-hit games Three-hit games Four-hit gnincs Five-hit gnmea Shut-outs Strlke-onts liases oil balls Hit batsmen Wild pitches Balks —E. J. Lanlgan In New York Press. j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWSI By PERCY H. WHITING. The South id fc.ad that Dan McGugin is going to stay with the Vanderbilt football team for five years more. When Dan landed in Xaidiville no team of the middle South had ever won national fame at football. During his second year in Nashvi.lle the Vanderbilt team made a creditable showing against Michigan. In 1906 the Commodores made another good showing against the Wolverines and later/startled. the football world by defeating the Carlisle Indians in fhe most sensational game ever played on Dudley field.' This year’s record of Dan’s team hardly needs to be dwelt ou at length. Only phony, decisions by the . officials saved the Navy from a drubbing at the hands of the Nashville team and only a brace of field goals staved off a tic game for Michigan. You can say what you like about McGugin’s material and other advniUages, but most of Vanderbilt’s success on the grid iron is due to Dan. Before he came—back in the days of Crane, Watkins and the earlier coaches—Vanderbilt had practically as good material as she is getting today. But the results were so very different. McGugin knows football as few men have known it. But to our mind the biggest factor of his success is his personality, which enables him to instill a knowledge of football, an enthusiasm and a desire to win into his men that makdh them all but invincible. The regard that McGugin’a players feel toward him is little short of worship and when he calls on them to win Jhey go into the game and play their heads off if mxr.v»n.. F———— Given The xams Is too complicated, aa is baseball, to give a Rood description In a few words. Sufficient to say that it's a Kamo with sense. It 1.** played on a metal table. One man takes the field, the other takes the but. The ball Is pitched, batted, the base runner circles the bases, is put out or gets home as It happens—all on a metal field no bigger than an over grown platter. It Is a game of quick thinking and quicker acting, and It presents practically the same problems and requires the same mental agility as baseball. We prescribe it for all fans. 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