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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. 1906.
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GEORGIAN GIVES PENNANT
TO COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
The Commercial League of Atlanta, the
organisation the first aeason of which has
been so successfully Inaugurated and which
glees proinlrc of being one of the most
successful leagues ever known In Atlanta,
will play this season for a pennant offered
by The Atlanta Georgian.
* This pennant was offered Tuesdny night
at a meeting of the league, and was grate-,
fully neeepted.
The hunting will be ordered In good time
and will go lo the ineuile*r «>f the organi
sation which finishes hi head In the season
which la now under strenuous headway.
Aa waa to hare hcen expected, the league
baa been overwhelmed recently with re-
quests for places !u the organization. It
has been the history qf most dty leagues
that It took search warrant* to get the
first six or eight teams In the league, and
that after the organization had wada a
good start It was ueccssary to use force
to 'teep other teams out.
- obuhly n dozen teams hare made oppU-
c,..lon for n place In the league, hut ft
tins been derided thut ns the season Is
short and ns the opening games have been
played the league will continue as It start*
ed-ft six-dub organization.
The second round of games the league
RAIN STOPS PLAV AT THE OPENING
OF SOUTHERN TENNIS TOURNAMENT
BILLY NOLAN WRITES
OF NELSON-CANS BOOT
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By Prlrate Leased Wire.
New York, July 4.—Billy Nolan, manager
of Buttling Nelson, glres today an outline
of hla position on the much discussed pros
pect of a bottle !>etween Nelson and Joe
Gan*. This la the situation and the pros
pect for the ffebt:
By BILLY NOLAN.
Just to sort of clear up the cloud of talk
and settle oil the conflicting stories of
what I have said nliout matching Nelson
with Joe (inns. I want to make this sfn'l •
ment, and make It clear to the flghtlug
public what I am willing to do;
In the flrat place, - we nersr drew the
color line, and don’t Intend to.
Then why don’t you tight Gana? You to
amusement, or anything like that. We an
looking for the money all the time. ao4
we are not going to take on one of tjj*
greateat tighter* the world crer saw J11*
for the chance of the glory of beating hi*.
You can go up along Broad and anyMj
will tell you there that Nelson and Gnat
would draw $25,000 in a barn, but th#
dope does not show It.
Before you call me down on that, look
over Gana* biggest fights and see If h«
ever drew anything like a really big chin,
plonshlp house.
There la another very Important point
* - bat
IWHEl
Weather Is On the Bum
Says Umps and Calls Game
Only part of the first Inning waa played
Tuesday afternoon at Piedmont park In the
game between Nashville ah<l Atlanta. Then
the rain Itogan to fall and the teams took
to shelter and the usual' thirty mtuutes
Walt followed. When the end of that time
* came the field was In fair condition,
little or no rain was falling.
Hut Umpire 1‘fennlnger decided that It
wits too wet to play, and tho crowd went
disgustedly homeward.'
A disposition was shown by the funs to
crltlcse Manager Hmlth and Manager Finn
for not playing the game. Much criticism
Is ridiculous, however, for tho fault la/
With the umpire.
Rule 29. of the National Association rules,
quite distinctly sgys:
"When It began to rain, after the game
waa started and bad gone past an In
nlng, we went under shelter and stayed
there about fifteen ’minutes. Then It let
Up, and we went bark to our bench* and
some of the twys licgnn passing the Imll
around.,
"Well, we waited there for the thirty
minutes that the rules ask for, and then
wo waited a few minutes over, lttit the
umpire did not order tia to play hall.
"And then he called the game.
"When I started out, the crowd began
yelling nt uie, and calling me a quitter,
and all that. Well, they ought to know
that, after a game Is started, tho umpire
Is sole Judge of the fitness of the grounds
for play. I couldn’t piny unless he said
After play has been called to, and If lie did I had to play whother !
(started) by the umpire, he alono shall
■ be the Judge of the fitness of the ground
for resuming play after the game has been
Suspended on account of rain."
Mike Finn Is a Idt sore that the game
was not played Tuesday afternoon.
"It lan’t that we need the money." said
• Mike Tuesday ulght, "hut we Just like to
[ play baseball. Now, look at that game
! yesterday. We were willing to finish It
out, and, Billy Rmlth anya that ho waa
willing to finish It."
Wanted to or not.
"Nomehody told mo that the reason tho
game was not started was that tney were
afraid that I would protest It. Well, that’s
the worst I ever heard, The Idea of any
sane man's protesting a game ou the ground
that the umpire was not capable of Judg-
lug whether or not the grounds were fit
to ploy. •
"Oh. gee!" said Mike. And then he
stroked hla niustarhe, which he denies Is
red, and walked on.
PLAY DOUBLES
AT WEST END
The matches In the doubles for the cham
pionship of the West End TennI* Club will
i be played Tuesday on the courts of the
. dub, |on Park street. In West End.
The West End Tenuis Club hna about
twenty members, among them mauy crack
tirnnls players of the younger aet. Nine
teams have entered the tournament, and
* the day promises to lie full of sport.
The tourney for the single championship
; of the club was played recently. The final
! matches were left unplnyed, however, owing
to sickness of one of the participants.
Among those who are playing In the
tourney are Abernathy, Wagner. Irby, Ar-
; Bold, Willingham. Prince, Hpniflln, l«eou*
ard. Jennings, Mlddlehronks and others.
Ths tourney la open to memlter* only.
CONYERS PLAYS S. R.
Special to The Georgian.
Conyers. July 4.~The crack Conyers team
| Will play k double-header with tlu* Southern
| railway team front Atlanta nt Conyers to-
; day.
The batteries for Conyera will be: Flrat
Mauguiu and Colic; second game,
• Griffin and Colie.
• The Conyers team has been very sueeeaa-
ful this season. It hss won nine out of
ten games played, with the best amateur
teams In the state.
BIG DOINGS
FOR SPORTS
If the weather holds good to sunset, some
remarkable s|H>rtliig events will pass Into
history In Atlants.
In' addition to two ball gnntes at Pied
mont park, the second round of games In
tbs Commercial longue, and about a hun
dred amateur games of greater or let*
Importance, there will la* Innumerable ten
nis matches at East Ukc In the 8outhcrn
Tennis championship, a doubles tennis tour
nament of the West End Club, all-day
shoots nt East Lake and Lakewood, and
some other sporting doings of less Im
portance.
WHAT THE CAMERA FOUND AT EAST LAKE* WHERE THE 80UTH ERN TENNI8 CHAMPIONSHIP 18
BEING PLAYED.
Preliminary Matches Scheduled for Tuesday All Go Over to Wed
nesday on Account of Tuesday’s Hard Rain—Large
Crowd Out fof Opening Games.
80UTHERN BELL BEAT WINDER.
Special to The Georgian.
Winder, Qa., Jnly 4.--Winder lost her
third game of the aeason yesterday to ths
Southern Bell team of Atlanta by a score
of 4 to 3 In by far the prettiest game
played here this year. Tho teams are even
mntehed and the two winning runt
resulted from what were seemingly easy
utH. but which got by the fielders.
Today's game will l*o a battle royal. The
opposing pitcher# will be Ed I*aFttte. the
Tech star, for Southern Bell, and John
Kcgurm the Georgia wonder, for Winder.
Score by Innings: It. II. K.
Winder 100 010 000-2 7
Southern^ Bell 100 008 100—4 10
Batteries: Bush and l>e I^Perrlere; Not
tingham and l.aFltt<». Time, 1:35. Umpire,
Durst.
The Georgian’s Score Card.
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MORSE, at
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JORDAN. 2b
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TOTALS
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Score by Innings: 12 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 II—R
Atlanta
Nashville
Before the flrat half dosen games of the
flrat seta of the first round of the South
ern Tennis tournament were well under
way Tuesday, the heavy black clouds which
began to gather early In the afternoon
spilled out a copious downpour of rain,
and the matches were off for the day.
For nearly an hour, the rain came down
In chunks, and when It ceased the courts
presented a very disheveled appearance.
Large puddles stood In all the Indenta
tions, lines were all waabed away and
altogether the prospect waa not cheerful.
Had the weather remained good, tb
preliminary round of eighteen matches
would have been plnyed off and the work
of further elimination would then have gone
steadily forward.
As It wna, everything went over until
Wedgemlay, and from now on It will be a
case of "grind" In order to finish up the
many events on the schedule.
The men's singles will probably occupy
all of Wednesday and n largo part of
Thursday, though the doubles will undoubt
edly be started Thursday.
The attendance Tuesday afternoon at the
tournament was good, and the prospects
are that large crowds will be out during
the remainder of the week.
The officials of the athletic club and the
Southern Teunla Association arc highly
gratified at the large entry Hat In this, the
flmt Southern Tenula championship ever
held In Atlanta. And I Resides being Inrge,
the list Is one which represents many
sections of the country. It comprises two
men from Michigan, two from Ohio, one
from New York, and delegations from
many parts of the south.
The drawings for the woman's Cham*
plonshlp resulted In matching 511m Kath
leen Brown -against Mins Florenee Smith,
and Mrs. M. l\ Word against Miaa May
Logsu. Miss Caroline Westmoreland drew
n bye, and will meet the winner of ths
Mis* llrown-MIta Smith match.*
TOURNAMENT NOTES.
The cups offered by the Atlanta Athletic
Club are on exhibition In the club house,
and have attracted much attention,
waa n beautiful display, and It la Just cause
for sadness that the cups may be scat
tered all over the face of the .United
States at tjie end of the tournament.
It seema to be generally admitted that
tteubcu Hunt baa something In the nature
of a flrat mortgage ou the Southern cham
pionship.
However, there will be eeveral who will
run him a very close race. And If the
weather happens to tern broiling hot,
will find the going rather strenuous In tho
final rounds.
The annual meeting of the Southern Lawn
Tennis Association will be held while the
tournament Is lo progress—probably on Fri
day.
Nat Thornton, who Is the main depend
ence of Atlanta for tho singles champion
ship, and who, with hla partner, Bryan
Grant, la regarded as the atroogtet doubles
proposition loathe tournament, la gradually
recovering from tba.IUucas which baa kept
him from tennla alnco hla return from
Nashville.
One <if the moat Interesting of the vis
itors nt the tournament Is ITofessor W. D.
Mooney, of Murfreesboro, principal of
Mooney school, which now holds In the
Southern Interscholaatlc world the position
which Vanderbilt held last year In the
world of Southern football, and which
Tech now holds in baseball.
Professor Mooney Jg visiting * Atlanta
purely for the pleasure of the trip, as ho
hna small chance for the championship,
lie has played tennla but n few times
this year, and It Is only bit wonderful
agility, hla good eye and hla indomitable
will which make him the formidable 1 markable? T# U *n# ..
player which he will he found to be during he will win the championship?
tho present tournament.
Profeasor Mooney Is as good a handler
of athletes as be Is an athlate himself,
and his football and track teerms have
won victories Innumerable for several years
past This spring his track team mode a
clean sweep, and bis football team of tha
previous fall was tbs champion aggregation
of Tennessee.
The game between Normal Farrell, -r..
of Nashville, and Bryan Grant has heefl
designated the "Battle of the Serves."
Both men have tremendous swipes. Grant
In particular hitting a peculiarly swift and
pussling ball.
The amallneaa of the entry for the worn-
an's singles hss been a disappointment to
(be tennis enthusiasts, but It Is hoped
that next year the affair will draw a score
or more of players. The matches for ths
ladles’ championship promts# to be of In*
terest, though not very numerous. Ths
firs players entered ars evenly matched,
and before the finals are over some bril
liant tennla will be played.
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it will be a model for beauty "and con’
— ** * leted. Tha dress
during thl course
. Reubent Hunt seems to be the "one best
bet" In the singles and Grant and Thorn
ton or the. Rogers brothers In the doublet.
But when It comes to picking the "o. b. b.”
In the other events, the task Is even mors
difficult. -
In the ladles' championship. It Is thought
that Miss Brown and Mlsa laigan will
meet In tho finala, though surprises may
develop. Id the mlx4d doubles, the affair
seems to be given by the experts to Miss
and Mr. Logan, though the two Atlanta
teams will work hard for ths prises.
of tenuis, said of ftunt's tennis: "H6 plays
the game aa a roan plays billiards. It is
matter of stroke# with him. Hs
licked everybody else; see If you can lick
him, Is what we get everywhere. And
the answer Is easy. You don’t sen any
body hanging up any deep-chested offer* for
the fight, do you? Noticed any $20,00? or
$30,000 purses kicking around loose? Show
us the money, that's the main dope.
Nelson ain’t fighting anybody for the lotzo
of the gnme, or because Its bis form of
PUGILISTIC JUMP-SPARKS.
not fighting welterweights, and the bert
welterweight In the world at that
case It does come to a question of talking
fight with Gana, that thing might aa wdl
be understood how.
Gana will have to make the lightweight
limit, which Is 133 pounds at the ring side,
and he will have to weigh In at' that
figure.
By Private Leased'Wire.
New York, July 4.—Johnny Whittaker, of
Columbna, and Gua Bezcnnh, of Cincinnati,
have been matched to meet for twenty
rounds before the club offering the largest
purse for tbe bout
After waiting for two months for an
opportunity to meet Battling Nelson It be
gins to look na If Kid Hermann, of Chi
cago, would 1»e rewarded. Tho Hayes Val
ley Athletic Club, of San Francisco, which
la controlled by Eddie Graney and Morris
Levy,’ Is trying to match the boys
twenty rounds ou September 10. Ilerjnan
has alresdy accepted the offer nnd the club
officials are now waiting to hear from
Billy Nolan, the Dane’s manager.
Bobby Lundic, of Denver, and Charley
Dunn are to meet for 30 rounds tonight at
Bremerton, Cola, at 124 pounds ringside.
Tom Corbett, brother of the eg-champlon,
has been selected to roferce tbe contest.
■Harry Lewis, the lightweight. Is after
another match with Joe Gans, who de
feated him recently In the Quaker City.
Gana says he la not anxious to meet Lewis
again, aa he would not draw a good crowd;
Gans says he would rather meet Battling
Nelson than any ono .else In the world.
Fighting Dick Hyland and Eddie Hanlon,
the Frisco fighters, are to meet at Oak
land on the night of July 20 for 15 rounds
weigh In at 229 pounds at 6 o’clock.
Spike Robson, the English featherweight,
and Tommy Mnrphy will meet before the
National Athletic Club of Philadelphia at
tlx rounds on Monday, July 23. Robson
recently heated Murphy In a six-round bout,
but tbe latter claimed that he was not
In shape and wants a change to redeem
himself.
SOME SPORTING NOTES.
Neil and Attell Fight for the Championship
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NEIL WANTS ANOTHER
WORLD’8 CHAMPIONSHIP
By Frank!* Neil.
I landed one world's cham
pionship and I think I can land
another one.* A clever fighter
doer not bother me. All I ask
la a chance to reach him with a
swing or two and it wilt be
"curtains." I don't have to tell
anybody that I have trained
w ell. A good'Judge of form ran
look me over and tell that I
am as tight aa possible.
I know I ran stand a good
hard pace, hit with either hand
and atop the tight aa soon as
I connect with a vital spot. I
will have the advantage of
clever handling In my corner
and I feel confident that It will
be a question of etamlna before
the end. If that la the case, I
think I will win, for I know I
have more natural strength
than Attel.
There will be a new feather
weight champion before night.
By Prlrate Leased Wire.
Loe Angeles, July i.—This afternoon
will see the first championship light
ever held In Ian Angeles. It will also
be the first daylight boxing tourna
ment ever seen In this city. Enthusi
asm In the event did not seem to
awaken until yesterday and last night,
but, Judging from the activity In bet
ting quarters und the amount of Inter
est taken In discussion of the merits of
the men, a record house will no doubt
be on hand.
Promptly at 1 o'clock, after two six-
round contests Ttave been held, the
nu n win enter the ring.
Abraham Attel and Krankle Nell will
face each other for the featherweight
championship of the world. The arti
cles call for If! pounds ringside. Both
men are well under this weight. At
tel weighed 119‘j pounds yesterday af
ternoon. Nell's weight was not made
public, hut In vl*w of the fact .that
his fighting weight heretofore has been
lit pounds. It Is safe to say that he
will go In the ring well under the mark
called for by the agreement.
Small ss are the men, today’s mill
promises to be the best, from every
point of view, that has ever been seen
here.
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CANADIANS LOSE RACE.
Special -Cable—Copyright.
London, July 1.—The Trinity
hall crew of Cambridge beat the
Argonauta-of Canada today for
the grand challenge cup.
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ABE WANTS BELT FOR
PAWNBROKERS' WINDOW
By Abe Attel.
Shall I give you that old talk
about never being In better
shape end confident of my abil
ity. etc.? But that la not hot
air with me. I really think I
can win and win at any kind
of fight Nell wants to start. I
know his style pretty well; I
have seen him fight from the
time we were kids together. We
have sparred the same night In
amateur lights. The night he
knocked out Georgia Gibbs In
two rounds I did the same thing
to Kid Powers In two rounds.
I know hie style* of a fight to a
dot.
How am I to light? Huh! He
would like to know that him
self. He’ll find out thla after
noon. But you can be dead
sure of one thing: the Attel
pawnbmk|ng syndicate wants
that gold belt to put In the win
dow, and we're going to get It,
too.
large entry list Is reported for tho
sixth annual toarnamsnt of the Richmond
Gan Club, of Richmond, Vs.
Tbe Illinois Valley harness racing circuit
starts ths ball rolling for 1906 with a meet
ing opening today at laballe, 111.
The three days’ harness meeting opening
— at Terre tfsute today promises to be one
hat I of the most successful etcr pulled off In
I that city, which Is probably the liest town
_ I for horsemen In the whole of Indians. The
program provides classes for tho 2:10, 2:13,
2:1*. 2:20, 2:24 nnd 2:90 trotters nnd the
3.-48. 2:11, 2:14. 2:17, 2:24 and 2:31 pacers.
"Broadway Aleck" Rmlth caught his
drat gnme of the season recently for the
New York Nationals.
Fred Mitchell, who was formerly with
the Boston Americans and the Brooklyn
Nationals, Is Toronto's “main squeess" In
the box this season.-
Tbe Fort Brott club of the Kansas Stats
League won 34 games out of 44 played.
With so many youngsters breaking Into
baseball nowadays, tbnse old players who
wars so hard to manage s year or two
ago will now slsnd without being tied.
League Standings
SOUTHERN.
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost
Shreveport . . 71 41 28
Netv Orleans . 85 3) 26
Birmingham. . 67 89 28
Uemphla ... 64 14 10
Atlanta .... 66 34 12
Montgomery. . 68 31 15
Nashville ... 70 27 43
Little Bock ... 62 18 44
80UTH ATLANTIC.
Clubs— Played. Won. Lost P.C.
Augusta 67 40 27 .597
Columbia ... 66 16 10
Savannah .... 65 17 28
Charleston.... 61 30 31
Macon .... <2 24 36
Jacksonville . . 62 22 40
georguTstate.
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. PC.
Waycross ... 42 30 13 .761
Brunswick . . 41 25 16
Cordele .... 39 21 20
Valdosta ... 45 24 21
Albany .... 40 15 35
Amerlcua ... 39 10 29
CLUBS—
Chicago . . ,
Pittsburg . .
New York .
Philadelphia.
Brooklyn. . .
Cincinnati. ,
St. Louis . . .
Boston . . .
NATIONAL.
Played. Won. Lost P.C.
. 87 4 7 20 .701
AMERICAN.
Played. Won. Lost. P.C.
. «1 37 24 .607
63 38 25
CLUBS—
New York .
Philadelphia.
Cleveland . .
Chicago . .
Detroit . . .
St. Louis . .
Washington .
Boston . . .
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
CLUBS— Played! Won. Lost. P.C.
Its members keep an eye on every man,
woman or child, and. In addition, watch
one another.
Wigs—Do yon believe that every man hss
Is price?
Wsgg—No. Lots of men give them selves
sway.—Philadelphia Record.
Bacon—Ton say your wife does all her
own cooking?
Egbert—Yes: she dors her own. I take
y meals at tbe club.—Yonkers Statesman.
"Hare yon had any experience as chauf
feur?"
"Welt I esn show yon the receipts for
the lines I bare paid."—Women's Homs
Comps nlou.
Columbus
Toledo . . .
Milwaukee .
Louisville . .
Minneapolis .
Kansas City.
8t. Paul '. .
Indianapolis.
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TUESDAY'S RE8ULT8.
Southern.
Shreveport 6, Little Rock 1.
South Atlantic.
Charleston 1, Columbia 0.
Macon 2, Jacksonville 1.
Savannah 1, Augusta 0.
National.
Philadelphia 4. Boston 1.
American.
Cleveland 5, Detroit 0.
Chicago 5, St Louis 3.
Washington 5, Boston 0.
Chicago 1. St. Louts 0.
American Association.
Columbus 6, Louisville 1.
Minneapolis 7. St. Paul 1.
Kansas City t, Milwaukee 0.
BREAKS AUTO RECORD.
Chicago. Ills.. Jnly 4.-OI!le Ravin, "f
Texas broke the world's record for 50 mb'*
for stock touring cars here yesterday It
the auto meeting on the Hawthorne track.
He covered tbe distance In one hoar. »u
minutes end nine seconds
NAT KAISER & CO.
Confidential loans on valuables
Bargains In unredeemed Diamonds
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ATLANTA vs. NASHVILLE
LADIES’ DAY TODAY.
Morning 6ane 10:30 O’clock.
TWO GAMES TOMORROW
Afternoon Game, 3:30 O’Clc:-