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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. 1906. >9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9 Glorious Fourth is a Strenuous Day in the Local Sporting World f 9 9 9 9 9 <4 © 9 O « 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 < 9 999999999999999999999999999999 99 9 9 Edited by PERCY H. WHITING 9999999999999999 9 9 99.9 9999999999 9 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 a 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. CROZIER. If .... WINTERS, rf a SMITH. 3b. MORSE, at FOX, lb JORDAN. 2b B. SMITH, cf.. ARCHER, c .... NA8HVILLE. TOTALS PEARSON, If GILBERT, cf WISEMAN, rf ...| J ANSI NO. 3b . v ..} BOHANNON. 2b FRAfrV. !j COOOAN, c I DUOKX. p (I TOTALS 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. inlfi ... ,^ _ ____ 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 0000006 0 00 0 00000000 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. 00 0000000600 0000000 o o 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. 0000060000000000000 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. 43 HI 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 15 Decatur St Kimball House. 0000000 000000006000 oooooooooooo ooooooo ooooooo o oo ooooooooo ATLANTA vs. NASHVILLE LADIES’ DAY TODAY. Morning 6ane 10:30 O’clock. TWO GAMES TOMORROW Afternoon Game, 3:30 O’Clc:-