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Glorious Fourth is a Strenuous Day in the Local Sporting World
GEORGIAN GIVES PENNANT
TO COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
The Comnerdfll League of Atlanta. « •••
organisation the flrat teaton of whlcli !•.
t>een ao aueceaafullj Inaugurated and whli u
give# promlae of being one of the n»«**t
► Teaaful league* ever known In Atlanta,
will play thla aeaaoa for a pennant offered
by The Atlanta Georgian.
Thla pennant waa offered Tneaday night
at a meeting of the league, and waa grate
fully accepted.
. The hunting will be ordered In good time
. and will go to the member of the organi
sation which flnlahea ahead In the aeaeou
which la now under atrenuoua headway.
Aa waa to hare been expected, the league
haa been overwhelmed recently with re
fer placet In the organisation.
- ii the blatory of moat city leagues
*.t took aearcb warrants to get the
lirat nix or eight testae In the league, aud
that after the organisation had made a
good start It waa necessary to use force
to keep other teams out.
Probably a doseu teams have made appli
cation for a place In the league, but It
has been decided that, as the season Is
short mid ns the opening games bare been
played the league will continue aa It atart-
ed-n six-club organisation.
The second round of games In the league
will be olayed Wednesday afternoon, tiro-
riding the weather la fair, and the third
round on Saturday.
RAW
STOPS
OF SOU!
PLA
THERh
V AT TUI
TENNIS ’
OPENINI
rOURNAM
ENT
BILLY NOLAN WRITES
OF NELSON-GANS BOUT
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THE- LAKE-
Weather Is On the Bumj
Says Umps and Calls Game
Only part of the Drat Inning wna played
■ Tuesday afternoon at Piedmont pnrlt In th«
' ptnw between Xaahvllle anil Atlanta. Then
' the rain began In fall and the teama took
to abelter and the uaual thirty mlnntra
wait followed. When the end of that time
fame the Held waa In fair condition, and
Utile or no rain wna falling.
Hut Umpire 1‘fennlnger decided that It
waa too wet to play, and the crowd went
dlaguatedly homeward.
A dlapoaltlon waa abown hy the fana to
rrltlcae Manager Smith and Manager Finn
for not playing the gama. Kuril crltlelam
la rldlculoua, however, for tho fault lay
. with tba umpire.
Ilule 29. of the National Aaaoclatlon rulea,
. quit* distinctly aaya:
"When It Itegttn to min, after tho gamo
waa atarted nnd had gone paat an In
ning, we went under altelter and alayetl
there nlHttil fifteen mlnntea. Then It let
up, nnd we went hark to our bench, nnd
aorne of the boya began paaalng the hall
around.
"Well, we waited there for the thlrtr
mlnntea that tba rulea aak for, nnd then
we wallet! a few tnlnutea orer. Itnt the
umpire did‘not order ua to play ball.
"Aud thou ho railed the game.
"When I atarted out, the crowd began
yelling at roe, and calling me n quitter,
nnd nil that. Well, they ought to know
that, nfter a game la atarted, tho umpire
la aole Judge of the fltneaa of the ground,
for play. I couldn't play unlaaa ho aaltl
By Private rented Wire.
New York, July 1.—Illlly Nolan, manager
of Buttling Nelson, given today nn outline
of hla position on the much dtarusaed proa-
pert of a battle between Nelson and Joe
finite. Thla la the altuatlon and the pros
pect for the light:
By BILLY NOLAN,
Just to sort of clear np the cloud of talk
and settle all the conflicting stories of
what I.have aald about matching Nelson
with Joe (Ians, I want to make this ata't-
ment, and make It clear to the flghtlug
public what I am willing to do:
In the first plnra, we never drew tho
color line, nnd don't Intend to.
Then why don't you tight Bans? You'vo
amusement, or anything Uke that. We ara
looking for the money all the time, and
we are not going to take oo one of tha
greatest fighters the world ever saw juit
for the chance of tho glory of beating him.
You can go up along Broad and nnylody
will tell yon there that Nelson and Bans
would draw 131.000 In a barn, but tha
dopd does not show It.
Before you call me down on that, look
orer flans’ biggest fights and see If h«
orer drew anything like a really big cham-
plonshlp house.
There la another very Important point.
Nelson does not claim to be anything hut
IL’litwelght champion nnd ha doesn't bar
any lightweight In the world. Bat we are
After play haa been called to, and If he did I had to play whether I
. (Started) by the nmplre, he alone shall
I* the Judge of the fltneaa of the ground
for resuming play after the game has been
suspended on account of rain.”
Mike Finn Is a bit sore that tha gama
was not played Tneaday afternoon.
"It Isn't that we need the money," said
Mika Tuesday night, "bat we Just like to
play baseball. Now, look at that game
1 yraterdey. We were settling to finish It
out. nnd Billy Hmlth aaya that he waa
trilling to finish It."
PLAY DOUBLES
AT WEST END
Tbs matches In the doubles for the chain-
plonshlp of the West Knd Tennis Club will
ba played Tuesday on the courta of the
club, on Park street. In Weat Knd.
The Weat Knd Tennla Club haa about
twenty members, union* them many crack
teanla playera of the younger aet. Nine
teama hare entered the tournameut, and
tha day promises to ho full of sport.
The tourney for the single championship
of the club was played recently. The Anal
matches were left unplnyed, however, owing
to sickness of one of the participants.
Among tboai’ who an* playing In the
toarney are Abernathy, Wagner. Irby, Ar
nold. Willingham. Prince, Nprntllti. l*con-
nrd. Jennings, Mlddlebrooks and others. -
The tourney la open to members only.
CONYERS PLAYS S. R.
Special to The Georgian.
Conyers, July 4.—The crock Conyers team
• will play a double-header with the Houtliern
i railway team from Atlanta at Conyers to
day.
The batteries for Conyers will bo: First
game, Manguiu and Code; second game,
Griffin and Colie.
The Conyers team haa been very success-
Pal this season. It has won nine out of
. ten games played, with the beet amateur
teams In the state.
wanted to or not.
••Somebody told mo that tho reason the
game waa not started waa that tney were
afraid that I would protest It. Well, that's
the worst I orer heard. The ldea~of any
sane man's protesting a gsrae on the ground
that the umpire was qot capable of judg
ing whether or not tho grounds wero flt
to play.
"Oh. gee!** said Mike. And then
stroked hla mustache, which he denies la
rod, and walked on.
BIG DOINGS
FOR SPORTS
If the weather holds good to aonoet, some
remarkable sporting ovents will pass Into
history In Atlanta.
In addition to two ball games at Pied
mont park, the second round of gnmea In
the Commercial League, and about a hun
dred amateur games of greater or lets
Importance, there will be Innumerable ten
nis matches at Knst Uke In the Houthern
Tennla championship, a doubles tennis tour
nament of the West Knd Club, all-day
shoots at Knst Uke and Ukewood, and
some other aportlng dolnga of less Im
portance.
SOUTHERN BELL BEAT WINDER.
Hpoelnl to The Georgian.
Winder, Ga., July .4.—Winder lost her
third game of the season yesterday to the
Houthern Hell team of Atlauta by a score
of 4 to 2 In by fnr the prettiest game
plajrd here (his year. The teams nre even
ly . matched nnd tho two winning runs
resulted from what were seemingly easy
outs, but which got hy the Adders.
Today's game will I* a battle royal. The
opposing pitchers will be Kd UFttte, the
Tech slur, for Houthern Bell, and John
Kcgara, the Georgia wonder, for Winder.
Score by Innings: K. II. K.
Winder 1MOIOWO-5 7 1
Southern Hell 100 003 100-4 10 3
Batteries: Bush aud 1H* UlVrrlere; Cot-
tliicbsin and LaPltte. Time, 1:34. Umpire,
liurst.
The Georgian’s Score Card.
ATLANTA. | R.
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E. ]| NA8HVILLE.
R.
H.
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CROZIER. U ....
| PEARSON. If ...
WINTERS, rt ...
| GILBERT, ef ....
S. SMITH. 3b...
| WISEMAN, rf ...
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MORSE, as
( JANSING, 3b ....
FOX. lb
| BOHANNON. 2b
JORDAN. 2b ....
1 FRARY. lb
B. SMITH, cf....
j CASTRO, as ....
ARCHER, e ....
|| COOGAN. c
CHILDS, p
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TOTALS
!| TOTAL8
Boon by Innings:
12 3
4
5(78
t 10 11-
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Preliminary Matches Scheduled for Tuesday All Go Over to Wed
nesday on Account of Tuesday’s Hard Rain—"Large
Crowd Out for Opening Games.
Bafor, tba flrat half dozen fames or tha
flrat sots of tha flrat round of tha South
era Tennla tournamant warn well under
wnjr Turedajr, tha beer/ bitch clouds which
Imgsn to fathar early In the afternoon
eplllrd out n copious downpour of rain,
and tha matchat wart off for tho day.
For nearly an hour, the rain enme down
In rbunha, and whrn It ceased the courts
preaanted a very disheveled appearance.
Large puddlee stood -In all the Indenta
tions, lines war, all waahad nway and
altofather tha prospect waa not cheerful.
Had tha weather remelnnl good, the
preliminary round of eighteen matches
would have been played otr and the work
of further elimination would then have gone
steadily forward.
Aa It waa, evarythlog went over until
Wednesday, and from now on It will be a
ease of "grind" In order to finish np tbo
many events on tho schedule.
The meu'e singles will probably occnpy
all of Wednesday ahd a large part of
Thoradoy, though tba doubles will undoubt-
sdly be started Thuraday.
Tha attaudanea Tuesday afternoon at tho
tournament waa gi>od. and the proepecta
era that large crowds will be out during
the remainder of the week.
The officiate of the athletic dob and tha
Soutbarn. Tennis Aaaoclatlon ora highly
gratified at tha large entry Bat In thla. tha
flrat Houthern Tennla championship ever
held In Atlanta. And basldrs being large,
tho list Is ods which represents many
sections of the rouotry. It comprises two
men from Mlrbtgan. two from Ohio, ono
from New York, and delegations from
many parts of tho oouth.
The drawings for the woman's cham
pionship resulted In matching Ulas Kath
leen Brown against Mlaa Florence Smith,
and. Mrs. M. P. Word against Mian May
l-egnn. Mica Caroline Weaimorelitnd drew
a by,, and will meet tba winner of the
Mlaa HrownMIrs Smith match.
TOURNAMENT NOTES.
The enpa offered hy the Atlanta Athletic
Club are on exhibition In the club bouse,
and hare attracted much attention. It
was a beautiful display, and It la Just cause
for andneaa that the caps may be scat
tered all evsr the face or the (Tutted
States at the end of the tournament.
It aeema to be generally admitted that
Reutwn Hunt haa something In tho nature
of a first mortgage on tha Southern cham
pionship.
However, there will he eeveral who will
fun him a very doee rare. And If the
weather happens to turn broiling hot, he
will find the going rather strenuous In tho
final rounds.
Tho annul meeting of the Honthern 1-ewn
Tennla Aeeodatlon will ba held while the
tournament la In progress—probably on Fri
day.' __
Nat Thornton, who Is. the main depend
enee of Atlanta for the singles champion
■hip, and who, ,wttlj hla partner. Hryan
Brant, la regarfleil aa tho strongest doubles
proposition In th, tournament, l> gradually
recovering from the Ulnru which baa kspt
him from tennis atneo hla return from
Nashville.
One of the most Interesting of the vle-
Itora at the tournament ta Professor W. O.
Mooney, of Murfreesboro, principal ot
Mooney school, which now holds In th.
Southern tutcrschatastlc world tb, position
which Vanderbilt hejil last y»,r In the
world of Houtbtrn- football, and which
Tacit now hold. In baaeball.
Professor Mooney Hi rleltlng Atlanta
purely for tha pleasure of .the trip, as he
baa email chance for the championship.
He hea played tennis hut n few times
this year, and* It la only hla wonderful
eglllty, hi. good eye and hie Indomitable
will wblrh make him the .formidable
player which he will be found to bh during
tha preaent tournament
Professor Mooney Is aa good a handler
of athletes aa ha la an athlete htmaelf,
and hla football and track turns bav*
won victories Innumerable for several years
paat. Thla spring hla track tram made a
clean sweep and bis football team of tba
prerloua rail waa the champion aggregation
of Tennssiss.
The fame between Normal Farrell, ....
of Nashville, and Bryan Grant haa been
designated tho "Battle of the Serves.”
Both men have tremendous swipes. Grant
jn^rtkular hitting a pecqjlarly awlft and
The amallnesa of the antry for the worn-
an'a singles baa been a disappointment to
lbe tennis enthusiasts, but It Is hoped
that next rear the affair will draw a score
or more of players. The raatebes for the
!■ <11 mm' ohamnlnnahln nerunlu t.i ho n> let.
The new boot house of the Atlanta Ath
letlc Club was used for the Arat time
Tuesday, and although it Is not yet en
tirely finished. It Is already evident that
Inc rooms are being \
ot the tournament.
ton or the Iloffers brothers In the double*.
But when It comes to picking tho "o. b. b."
In the other events, the task Is even mors
difficult.
In the ladles' championship. It Is thought
that Mlaa Brown and Miss Logan will
meet In the Anals, though surprises may
develop. In the mixed doubles, tbo affair
seems to be glren by tbo experta to Miss
and Mr. Logan, though the two Atlanta
teama will work
for the prises.
Professor Mooney, who Is s close student
of tennis, ssld of Hunt's tennis: •"Ha plays
the game aa a man plays Willards, it la
all a matter of strokes with -him. Ha
does not leave hla position If ho is not
forced to. And hla overhead work la re
markable. To me It aeema certain that
bo will win the championship.'*
licked everybody else; see if you can lick
him, Is whnt we get everywhere. And
the answer Is easy. You don't see any
body hanging up any deep-chested offer* for
the Aght, do you? Noticed any 120,000 or
130.000 purses kicking around loose? 8‘uow
us the money, that's the main dope.
Nelson ain't Aghtlng anybody for the log#
of tho game, or because Its bis form of
not Aghtlng welterweights, and the best
welterweight In the world at that,
case It doea come to a question of talking
Aght with Gano, that'thing might as well
be understood now.
Gnus will have to make the lightweight
limit, which la 133 pounds at the ring side,
nnd he will have to weigh Jn at' that
Agure.
PUGILISTIC JUMP-SPARKS.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July 4.-Johnny Whittaker, of
Colambua, and Guo Bexonah, of Cincinnati,
have been matched to meet for twenty
rounds before the club offering the largest
purse for the bout.
After watting for two months for an
opportunity to meet Battling Nelson It be
gins to look as If Kbl Hermann, of Chi
cago, would be rewarded. The Hayes Val
ley A thistle Club, of San Francisco, which
Is controlled by Rddls Graney and Morris
Levy, Is trying to match the boys
twenty rounds on September 10. Herman
has already accepted the offer and the dab
officials are now waiting to bear from
Billy Nolan, the Dane's manager.
Bobby Lnhdle, of Denver, and Charley
Dnnn are to meet for 30 rounds tonight at
Bremerton, Colo., at 124 pounds ringside.
Tom Corbett, brother of the ex-champlon,
has been selected to referee the contest
Harry Lewis, the lightweight, la after
another match with Joe Gano, who de
feated him recently In the Quaker City.
Gana aaya he la not anxious to meet Lewis
again, as he would not draw a good crowd.
Gana says he would rather meet Battling
Nelson than any one els? In the world.
Fighting Dick Hyland and Eddie Hanlon,
tha Frisco fighters, are to meet at Oak
land on tba night of July 20 for 15 rounds
weigh In at 128 pounds at 8 o'clock.
Spike Robson, the Rngllah featherweight,
and Tommy Murphy will meet before the
National Athletic Club of Philadelphia at
six rounds on Monday, July 21 Hobson
recently bested Mnrphy in a six-round bout,
but tba latter claimed that he waa not
In shape and wants a chance to redeem
hlmaelf.
SOME SPORTING NOTES.
large entry list is reported for the
sixth annual tournament of the Richmond
Gun Club, of Richmond, Va.
The Illinois Valley harness racing circuit
•tarja the ball rolling for 1908 with a meet
ing opening today at .LaSalle, III.
League Standings j
SOUTHERN.
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost PC.
71 41 28 .604
. 65 39 26 .604
. 67 39 28 .583
.531
Shreveport
New Orleans
Birmingham,
Memphis . .
Atlanta . . ,
Montgomery.
Nashville . .
Little Rock . .
.515
• .470
.386
.290
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Ctubi— Played. Won. Lost. P.C.
Augusta 67 40 27 .597
Columbia ... 68 36 30
Savannah .... 65 37 28
Charleston.... 61 10 II
Macon .... 63 26 36
Jacksonville . . 62 22 40
GEORGIA STATE.
CLUBS— Ployed. Won. Lost. P.C.
Waycrosa
Brunswick
Cordele . .
Valdosta .
Albany . .
Amerlcus .
CLUBS—
Chicago . . .
Pittsburg . .
New York .
Philadelphia.
Brooklyn. . .
Cincinnati. .
St. Loula ...
Boston . . .
.610
.558
.533
.375
NATIONAL.
Played. Won. Lost P.C
67
22
44
.341
AMERICAN.
CLUBS— Playad. Won. Lost. P.C.
61 37
68 18
65 19
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland .
Chicago . ,
Detroit . .
St. Louis .
Washington
Boston . . .
607
.603
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P.C
Columbus ,
Toledo . .
Milwaukee
Louisville .
Minneapolis
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By l-rirste Leased Wire.
Los Angeles, July 4.—This nftera'oon
will see the first championship light
ever held In Los Angeles. It will also
be the first daylight boxing tourna
ment ever seen In this city. Knthusl-
asm In the event did not
awaken until yesterday and last night,
but. Judging from the activity In bet
ting quarters aud the amount of Inter
est taken In discussion of the merit, of
the men, a record houee will no doubt
be on hand.
Promptly at 3 o’clock, after two six-
round contests have been held, the
men will enter the ring.
Abraham Attel and Frankie Nell will
face each other for the featherweight
championship of the world. The arti
cles call for 122 pounds ringside. Both
men ore well under this weight. At-
tel weighed 1I9H pounds yesterday af
ternoon. Nett's weight was not made
public, but In view of the fact that
his fighting weight heretofore has been
115 pounds. It Ts safe to say that he
wilt go In the ring well under the mark
railed for by the agreement.
Small as are the men. today'! mill
promises to be the best, from every
point of view, that has ever been seen
here.
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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 and confident of my abil
ity, etc.? But that Is not hot
air with me. I really think I
can win and win at any kind
of fight Nell wants to start. I
know hla style pretty well; 1
have seen him fight from the
time we were kids together. We
have sparred the aarae night In
amateur fights. The night he
knocked out Georgia Gibbs In
two rounds I did the same thing
to KM Powers In two rounds.
I know hls style of a fight to a
dot
How am I to fight? Huh! He
would like to know that him
self. He'll find 1 out this after
noon. But you can be dead
sure of one thing: the Attel
pawnbroking syndicate wants
that gold belt to put In tha win
dow, and we're going to get It.
"Broadway Aleck”. Hmlth caufht
lint same of the ssseea recently for the
New York Nationals.
Fred Mitchell, who was formerly with
the Boston Americana and the Brooklyn
Nationals, la Toronto's "main aqueeao” In
tha box thla season.
The Fort fleott clnb of the Kansas Btata
League woo 34 same* not ot 46 played.
With ao many youngsters breaking Into
haaaball nowadays, thoaa old playera who
wero ao hard to manage a year or two
ago wilt BOW stand without being tied.
Wlgc-Do yon believe that every aura baa
la price?
Wagg—No. Lots of men give themselves
.way.—Philadelphia Record.
Bacoo—Toe aay your wife does ell her
owe rooking!
Egbert—Yea: a he does her own. I taka
~iy meals at tka club.—Yonkers Statesman.
“Hava you had any experience aa chant-
fear?"
"Well. I can show yet the receipts for
fine# I have
Wooten's Homo
Indianapolis.
. . . .1 SHIIIIIOIIUUIIg o
The three days harness meeting opening Kansas City,
at Terrs Hants' today promises to ho one I st. Paul
of tba moot successful ever pulled off In
that city, which la probably the heat town
for horsemen In the whole of Indiana. The
program provides -claaae# for tha 3:10, 2:12,
2:11, 2:20, 3:34 and 2:20 trotters and tha
2:06, 2:U, 2:14, 2:17, 3:20 and 3:3 pacers.
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.557
.543
.479
.471
391
.351
TUESDAY'S RESULT8.
Southarn.
Shreveport 5, Little Rock 1.
South Atlantic.
Charleston I, 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 3, St. Louis 0.
Amsrican Association.
Columbus 5, Louisville 2.
Minneapolis 7, St. Paul 3.
Kansas City 6, Milwaukee 0.
BREAK8 AUTO RECORD.
Chicago, Ilia, July 4.-Ollle Havln. <*
Texas, broke the world's record tor 50 mU**
for stock touring cars hero yesterday I*
tho ante meeting on tho Hawthorne track.
Ho covered the distance In ona hour, rli
minutes'and nine seconds.
NAT KAISER & CO.
Confidential loans on valuables.
Bargains In unredeemed Dlamerda
15 Decatur 6L Kimball Houen
LADIES’ DAY TODAY.
Monlq 6»i 10:30 O'clock.
TWO GAMES TOMORROW
Aftinoon Gase, 3:30 O'Cioci.