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I SPORTING PAGE, DECEMBER 23 IMHINIIHMHMMHniMHMtllMMIHill The Atlanta Georgian PERCY H. WHITING SPORTING EDITOR ’ [not Hews, bUt~views\ By PERCY H. WHITING. Hero ia the All-Southern League team for 1908, picked by the official averages: ELEVEN Pos. Name. Club. G. AB. R. H. TB. SH. SB. PC. PO. A. E. Pet. O—Hardy, Nash.. 92 283 33 89 117 8 18 .312 231 70 11 .961 C—S. Smith. At.. 102 402 39 118 139 19 12 .297 342 100 10 .977 lb—Meek, B'bam.120 441 50 150 203 16 18 .340 1183 73 23 .983 2b—Jordan, At... 127 458 61 116 149 17 19 .253 366 359 25 .907 3b—M'Elv'n, Nsh.141 617 62 148 193 9 19 .285 201 235 41 .914 S3—Atx, N. O. ..139 507 74 147 201 12 40 .311 280 426 45 .940 LF-—Pask'rt, At!.. 139 607 74 147 199 15 60 .289 296 30 8 .969 CF—Mlsw'rth, Bb.142 528 89 151 206 13 24 .280 368 23 7 .981 RF—Becker, Atl.,133 483 77 128 163 18 17 .365 186 14 8 .961 P—Fisher, Shr... 64 205 21 64 283 7 6 .312 15 52 7 .985 P— St’ckdale. Mfs.. 36 104 12 31 39 4 1 .398 30 77 6 .955 P—Spade, Atl 44 142 17 42 60 3 4 .293 11 74 9 .904 Keith, L. R.... 27 87 6 20 24 2 1 .229 11 72 3 .963 Team batting average. ,.296 ' Team fielding average. .962 At the end of the past baseball season in the Southern League the dope dispensers of the league, to the extent of a dozen or so, took a chance of picking an all-Southern League team. Now that the averages are out, however, it is possible to pick a team which really represents the best batting and fielding tal ent in the Southern League of 1907, with no guesswork at all on the subject. This team was arbitrarily chosen. The man with the best looking batting and fielding averages got the call. Of course, as is proper in selecting a ball club, the greatest stress was laid on ability to swat. Atlanta draws five positions on this “automatic All-South ern,” Nashville and Birmingham get two each, Memphis, Little Bock, Shreveport and New Orleans one each. Montgomery is the only team which does not put a representatives across. 'At batting this team would be a wonder. The team average is .296, against the .249 of Nashville, the team that led the league this year. In order to give good batters positions some few weak fielders had to bo selected, and, in consequence,* the team field ing average is below par, .962. That is only .001 better than the fielding average of the league and .005 lower than the average of Memphis, the team that led tho league at team fielding. A team that could bat nearly .300 could do a lot of loose fielding and get away with it all right. That all-dope aggregation does not figure out so bnd, either. Of course, the pitchers were selected for their batting and field ing ability. If the best game-winners had been taken Castleton, of Atlanta; Manuel,.of New Orleans; Keith, of Little Rock, and iWilhelm, of Birmingham, would have been chosen. These men averaged between .621 and .680 games won. Among the first basemen Meeks was unquestionably “it.” Douglas, of Little Rook, was entitled to second call except for his bad fielding. Of the second basemen Jordan’s work averaged up the best. Lewee fielded better and Page batted better, but these men were not well rounded performers. Page’s fielding was the worst of the regulars. Cross would have had third position, except for the fact that tho team was chosen from among players who hnd been in 100 or more games. Cross played in but 84. It was a toss-up between At* and Ball for the shortstop job. It has been a long time since the Southern League has hnd such a pair of shortstops, for both of them fielded better than .925 and both batted over .300. The Southern League outfielders did not shine this year at the bat. A dozen names appear on the list before a single gar dener figures. In left field thcro was, of course,! but one player—Paskert. It did not take the averages to show that—though they DO show it. In oenterfield Molesworth had an equal cinch. At batting and fielding he was tho class of the hunch. Not a right fielded batted better thBn .265. Jesse Becker, of 'Atlanta, hammered tho ball at that clip. Carlos Smith hit .255. Smith had the better fielding average of the pair, but the At lanta man at least had the credit of doing his best, which was more than Carlos—or any man on the Birmingham team—did last year. / . . ■ ■ Our second-best-bet of the league looks about like this: Seabaugh, Montgomery, catcher. , Lister, Nashville, first base. Dyer, Atlanta, third base. Daley, Shreveport, left field. Woods, Littfe Rock, catcher. Page, Little Rock, second base. Ball, Montgomery, shortstop. Henline, Memphis-Montgomery, center field. / Smith, Birmingham, right flejd. Phillips, New Orleans; Ford, At lanta; Spade, Atlanta: Zeller, At lanta (picked because of best pitching average). In this team, as in the other, pitchers who took part in 20 or more games, oatchers who worked in fifty or more and other play ers who took part in 100 or moro games were counted. Finish Fist Fights May Be Pulled Off in Louisiana New Orleans, La., Dec. S3.—The pull ing off of the fifteen-round fight tween Younr Terry, of Philadelphia, and Young Phillips, of New York, In 8t. Bernard pariah, Saturday night, has given rise to a report that finish matches may soon be given In this state. The St. Bernard forces say they will revive fighting In that parish as It wsa In ths old days when Everhardt and McPartland fought there before 10,000, while 10,000 fought frantically for admittance. It la said fight promoters have se cured the services of prominent attor neys who have placed a new construc tion upon the taw. This nsw construc tion Is that as long ss the nffalrs are called "glove exhibitions" they can go any number of rounde. Prise fights are not permitted, and neither are fighters permitted to train In this state for fights. However, "glove exhibi tions” are allowed, and the supreme court has ruled that the law can not Interfere with chartered clubs In giving such exhibitions. What's In a name, anyway? Saturday's was the first fifteen-round affair given In this state In a long time, aa all the local clubs have confined their fights to ten rounds. The present plan is to pull one or two fifteen round . affairs, and then If there Is no tnterfer- with. Harvard Will Not Play Princeton Boston, Deo. 21—At tbe oloee of each football aeaaon a number of persistent re* porta are circulated to tbe effect that Har vard and Princeton art to reaume football relatlona. anil meet each other on tbe grid iron once more. Aa a matter of fact, these reporta are utterly without foundation. While the moat friendly relation* exist be tween the two college*, there Is absolutely no likelihood that they will resume football games with one another for some time to come. Tbe reaaon for this Is that It would be Impossible, so far as Hsnrard Is concerned, to arrange a aultable date for a game with Princeton, llarvard Is peculiarly situated. For a number of years she has had games on her schedule with Carlisle, Brown. Dart mouth and Yale. These games are all hard, and are a great strain for the team to carry as It 1*. Were Princeton added to these four hard gi than the Crimson LAVE CROSS TO RAW SOUTHERN? \ __________ J. Ed Grille Says Cross Wants To Put Out law Club in Washington Made Up of Southern Leaguers. It develops that Lavt* Cross Is one of the. Cross Intends to mak*. up his team of aa prime movers In the effort to place an out- j many local players, and men who hnv« law cluli In Washington, says J. Ed Grlllo, 1 played on the local team, as possible. In the Washington Post. j It In known that he spproflehed both The Onion league, which at the present j Charley Hickman and Harry White of the time only exists on paper, seems to have j White Sox, hut whether they entered Into employed Cross Inst summer to manage thf **'“ *”*—“ local oluh, ami he dirt considerable mis sionary work among the Southern League players last season, and after the season •losed enme to Washington and had scheme is not known. The following i« n Hat of pUyer, whom CroBB expects to got for tho local team. If It Is ever launched: Charley Hickman. Harry White, Wyatt Lee, Ueue Deiuoiit, Jack Carr, Charley Moran. Joe Stanley, Law Drill and several others well known. PHIIBIN, OF PITTSBURG, WITH ATLANTA IN 1908? _ CHATTANOOGA HIGH SCHOOL ELEVEN. Top Row—Erwin, manager; Mays, right guard; Gilbert, center; Swafford, right tackle; McAllieter, full* back; 8, McAllister, coach; S. G, Gilbreath, principal. Second Row—Green, right end; Broxton, left guard; Raulston, right half (capt); Miller, left guard; Wil ton. quarter; Varnell, left end. 8itting—Cochrane, quarter; Crouch, left half. , This team made an almost unequaled record. During the season it played eight games, winning seven and tiding one. In all that time only six points were scored against it. Here is the record: High School 10, Twelfth Cavalry 0; High School 29, Tennessee Military Institute 0; High School 0, Am. Uni versity 0; High School 63, Central High 8chool 0; High School 27, Knoxville High School 1; High School 24, Bankar*Himel 0; High 8chool 24, Bowen School 0; High School 5, McCallie 0. OOOO<W«H»0OO<KH»i»)KHKH»a 0 c a MAY GET PLACE IN O O NEW OUTLAW LEAGUE. O 0 It the American Association 8 O turns outlaw either Pittsburg or 0 0 Cincinnati will get the Louisville O O franchise. O O Tho Kentucky city has never 0 0 done much for the American As- O 0 soclatlon, and the club owners will O 0 be glad to get Into a larger town. 0 dOdddddddddddddddddddddddd Long Auto Race Starts on Feb. IS New* York. Dec. 2S.—The automobile race from New York to Paris, France, will start from Times Square, In this city, February 15. wo more entries for the contest were received recently. These are the Motobloc Company, a French concern, which has entered a 40-horsepower car, and the Brlxta-Zust Company, Italian manufacturers, who have entered a 30- horsepower car. Ty Cobb’s poorest stick work was against the Cleveland pitchers, an aver age of .386. He batted better than .300 against six other teams and clout ed the Washington fllngers for .413. MORE UMPIRES THAN PLAYERS Special to The Georgian. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 23.—President A. C. Crowder, of the Cotton States League, has already received a half dozen or so applications for positions on his staff of umpires, altho he has been occupying the presidency less than three days. Some activity Is being manifested around the circuit In signing new play ers. It Is expected that Stewart, of Columbus: Gilkes, of Gulfport; Mont gomery, of Jackson, and Blackburn, of Vicksburg, will be retained as mana gers during the approaching season. Meridian Is In trouble over the drafting of BUI Roth, by Lynn, Mass. Arrange ments hnd been made to use Roth as manager of the White Rlbboners dur ing the season, but as the Lynn team Is In Class B, the draft will doubtless hold good. GOTCH TO WRESTLE. Baltimore, Dec. 23.—Americus (Qua Schoenletn), Maryland’s champion wrestler, has been matched with Frank Gotch, this country’s champion. It Is to be a handicap match. In which Gotch 1s to agree to throw Americus in one hour, and they are to meet at catch weights. O0000000000000000000000000 a O 0 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 0 0 MOGULS WILL MEET. 0 O o 0 Milwaukee, Dec. 23.—Just exact- 0 O ly what to expect from the Amerl- 0 O can Association In the way of a 0 0 fight on organized ball will proba- 0 0 bly be announced after the meet- O 0 ing which has been called for De- O 0 cember 28 at 10 a. m., at the Au- 0 0 dltorlum annex, Chicago. O Soooochkhjockhioooooo oooocw World*s Champs Kick A bout Medals Chicago, 111., Dec. 23.—The world’s championship baseball medals are be ing handed out each day to the different players who are In Chicago by Presi dent Murphy. Eight of the medals were sent to the local headquarters to be given the play ers whose addresses were unknown to the commission. Several of the play er* are dissatisfied with the workman ship of the trophies, altho It Is a great Improvement over the medals given to championship teams of former years. The new medal is made of four pieces riveted together, with space between the front and back parts. The back part Is so thin that it easily can be pressed in. Doctor’s Orders Cut No Ice, but What Mrs. Trubbell Says Goes. The big league catcher that the At lanta club has landed Is Phllbln, of Pittsburg, with Wheeling last year. This la a guess, but watch and see If It does not turn out right. When the Atlanta moguls returned from New York recently, they an nounced that they had secured a bl* league catcher, whose name they would announce later. It Is now thought that the man Is Phllbln. The Atlanta moguls say they have a man landed, all but getting waivers on him; but refuse to disclose his name. TRAIN WAS LATE AS USUAL; NO BASKET BALL SATURDAY For the second time within twelve months and a day or two the railroads gold-bricked Atlanta out of a basket ball game Saturday night. The Columbia team, which left New York Friday afternoon, did not reach Atlanta Saturday night In time to play tho Atlanta Athletic Club team. Which same, under the usual circumstances might readily have been expected. The Columbia team spent Sundny In Atlanta and left Monday morning for Birmingham. If Its manager had know- the train services better he would doubtless have left right away for Blr. mlngham. A year ago this time a game wan scheduled between Yale and the At lanta Athletic Club, and It, too, wa, called off on account of the non-arrival of the Eastern team. Charley Frank May Sign Rube Waddell—Help! Help! New Orleans, Dec. 23.—Rumor has It that Manager Charley Frank, of the Pelicans, has secured Connie Mack'e consent to release Rube Waddell to New Orleans, In case the erratic pitch- Fighters of Today Are Poor Lot New York, Dee. 23.—“We nerer hail such n lot of poor fighters In the hhtory of the game before,” said an old-timer to me to- day. “Give «» soma of the old-timers who nerer squabbled orer a pound or two. Give us some Terry McGoverns. Frank Ernes. George Mcl*widens, Jim Corbetts, Bob Fits- Pncky MacFnrland, of Chicago, the choice of Joe Gsns for lightweight champion, his been matched to box Harlem Timmy Mur phy for twelve rounds to a decision on Jnitunry 7, before the Amory Athletic Asso ciation. Boston. The boys are to fight at 133 pouiuls. Hanlon Managers A Iways Con e Sack The managers of the Hanlon school always come back. Now and then one dies, but the first surrender Is yet to be recorded. Joe Kelly's return engagement with the majors .brought this to mind. When Ned Hanlon was winning pen nants for the Orioles he was also build ing up a school of generals from which has been picked with great frequency the men who command the baseball destinies of big league teams. No less than seven men connected with Baltimore have held places of Importance in the managerial line. Hanlon himself at Baltimore and Brooklyn landed half a dozen pennants: McOraw won two pennants and a world's championship for New York. Jennings fared rather badly with the Philadelphia Nationals, but, taking the Detroit team from sixth to first place scored a wonderful success on his debut year In the American League. Kelly wasn't a howling success at Cincinnati, but after quitting the big show he went to Toronto, and brought er does not show up well next year. Waddell Is now In Mobile. It was said at baseball headquarters this morning that Frank had secured a catcher to take the place of Matty Mathewa, but the new man’s name wa, not revealed. Cubs May Train On Monkey River Chicago, 111., Dec. 23.—The Chicago Nationals may train on the Monkey river next year. This river Is located In British Hon duras and Is said to have several things on the Chicago drainage canal. Monkey river Is within easy dlstancs of New Orleans and the accommoda tions there are aa good ax can be found In any part of the world, with a climate close to the 30-degree mark most of the year. The Invitation for the Cub, to train In the British colony comes from John Lewis, who Is manager of the Internation Hotel at Sfonkey River, a thriving city situated on the Gulf of Honduras. Lewis Is a well-known hotel man, who formerly lived In New Or leans. He lx anxloux to have the f hl- cago team make the trip to his new home and Manager Chance Is Inclined to accept the Invitation because of the fact that the climate there Is so plea*- Ing and beneficial, compared to me raw weather that prevails In the Lnltea States at that time of the year. The Cubs have been troubled for the lust ten years to find climatic conditions that would enable them to get Into an>- thine like playltig condition before the start of the season. The Boston Americane will »P°N noisy hosiery next season. Owner Taylor la already calling them his Bed Sox, and thinks that should be their title. He should remember that red » not a winning color In the big league". When did those Cincinnati Reds ever win a pennant? a tallender to first place In the Eastern L< Kld Gleason, who handled New York for a time In the stormy days when Freedman was president: Doyle,''" led Baltimore and an American Ass * elation club, and Catcher Wilbur Bob Inson, who bossed the Job In «*•>“' more for a time, are three Orioles a" never landed pennants. MUlHMtHHMMHtlNMHHHIHI KHtMIHIHHtMHlMHHIHMUtHI THE WINTER LEAGUE By WILLIAM F. KIRK. McGraw, ’tls said, la aadly out of humor. Because the other chieftains wish him III; McQann, according to the latest rumor. Will have a Job not far from Bunker Hill. McGfnnlty will pitch for Brooklyn—maybe; George Browne, they say, will play right field In Maine; Dahlen, for many years the shortstop baby,. Will brake, they tell us, on a cattle train. Han* Wagner will be traded for a bat-boy. Spike Shannon will be sold for sixty cents, While Heavy Harry Lumley, Brooklyn's fat boy. Will probably be farmed to Providence. Three-Fingered 3rown will Jump to North Dakota To bolster up the Northern League next year; Chance has been sold to SL Paul, Minnesota;. Hugh Jennings will be swsjiped for McAIeer. Thus goes the dope, and still the wonder grows That all these scribes can print what no scribe knows.