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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1906. j EXCITEMENT OVER BASEBALL EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING HAS RISEN TO HIGH FEVER I HART WILL BE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE Ex-owner of Chicago Nationals Will Succeed Harry Pulliam, Who Will Buy Boston Nationals, and Make Cliffy Mgr. By Private Lease*! Wire. Chicago. July 24.— James A. Hnrt. until a few months ago the president of the Chicago National League Imsetiall eluh, Is to be made president of the old league In the near future. Harry Pulliam, tired of the rares of of- flee, and unable to resist the faselnatJons of the game, will become owner of tlie Boston National League club. * Hugh Duffy, always a Boston Idol, will be made manager of the Bostons, and will be given a powerful nine to work with. That's the way the slate Is fixed, ac cording to the best Inside Information. When this story Is diffused, there will be hurrying nnd scurrying and wild de- *. nlals-but It will work out that way, Just the same. Harry Pulliam has for some time been seeking n chance to make more money, be an active participant in the excitement of the sport, ami get rid of official cares. The place, however, was not open. The clubs were either too well fix**d as they were, or else were not inviting fields. The situation at Boston right now offers a golden opportunity. While the Nation al League team of flint city fa down and out, Collins' American Leaguers, the pets of the Boaton fans, are even worse off— nod the world loves n winner. If a crack Natlonnl League team could Im* put Into Boston, the nld-tlnie patronage would return n»d the town would again be one of the old league's lo*st cities. Hence the decision <r*f Pulliam to buy out the Bostons. Bos ton Is owned by old men, tired of the game. Pulliam can buy 'the plant reason ably, nnd the capitalists of the National league will furnish him with the where withal. Boston, bnsehalllcnlly speaking. Is an Irish town. The Boston Bins love Irish players, and an Irish team Is to he given them, with Hughey Duffy ns the leader. Duffy has always l»eeii extremely popu lar In Beanville. * % Habit, the second baseman of Memphla who made *u«li a terrible botch of Butiday'a game nt the Bluff City, has IhhjU shipped to Houston, where Clark. » the Memphis pit* her. was sent. In exchange for those two men the Bahlders got Watson, star pitcher of the Texas League. SAM BERGER HAS CLAIM ON ANOTHER GO WITH O’BRIEN HARVARD CREW GOES_ABR0AD| WILL ROW CAMBRIDGE SEPTEM.I BER 1, WITH SAME CREW THAT DEFEATED YALE. By Private Lea led wire. Bo«ton. July 24,-The Harvard rnlv.ruh crew, which defeated Yale at /, J laat month, will till for Kncluul Friday, and. nnleaa the date u rhaa«.<l jrlll on Saturday, September j, r „„. “■ with the Cambridge eight. wIiMi ford laat aprlng. The race will i. r ‘1 over the tegular Cambridge Orf.,,.,1 ,., lC ‘f The Harvard and Cambridge h be made up exactly aa they were It ■ BIG FIELD IN GREATEST BATTLE FOUGHT AT BRIGHTON BEACH. THEY ARE, READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, FIR8T PREMIUM. TIPTOE, CONSISTENT, HANDZARRA, LADY ANNE, LA SORCIERE, MONET, GENTIAN, RUBRIC. ’ 8NAPSHOT OF SAM BERGER, OF CALIFORNIA, WHO GOT THE BE8T OF BIG O’BRIEN, THE PHILADELPHIA HEAVY-WEIGHT. BV W. W. NAUGHT Go. By Private a leased Wire. Ran Francisco, July 24.—Sam Berger hes itated quite a while about .turning "pro- fesalonnl," giving his friends to understand that he believe*! he could devote his time to better use by going Into business. The die Is east, and Ham Is steeped In professional pugilism to the topmost wrin kle of his classical forehead, lie may •til! have doubts as to whether lighting for a living Is being "In business.'* hut he will be kept busy any how, that Is, If hs tries to accomplish half of what Is ex pected of him. Ram made his debut In Philadelphia re cently. and won good opinions from the wise of the East through his clever show ing with Jnck O’Brien. Whether It be n i good omen or bnd, Berger certainly caused a far better Impression than did big Jim Jeffries when the uoW,retlred champ cut loose for the flrst time m one of the Idg cities beyond the ltocktea. Jeffries boxed In New York with Bob Armstrong and was voted a duffer. When thoroughly tried, he showed the experts who* hail passed Judgment on film that they were all wrong. Keeping right along, he retired with the reputation of being the greatest heavyweight that lived lu this or any other age. Slurs have .been enst on the O'Brlen-Ber* ger bout In Philadelphia, there being a suspicion that the affair was framed up with an eyo to longer nnd better paying contests In California. Being simply a suspicion, without nn atom of evidence to support It, the "knock" may l»e taken for what It Is worth. Hiving Berger the benefit of the doubt, nnd being fortified In doing so by the manner In which those nt ■ th»’ ringside viewed the bout, ns well as the enthusiasm the Ran Frnnelseo boy*evok ed, It U made to appear that Berger held O'Brien safely In the kind of milling that O'llrlen bss served no apprenticeship lo— to-wlt: a six-round l»oat. It Is more than likely thnt Berger nnd O'Brien will meet In Han Francisco before uinuy weeks have passed. Berger has cer» until bare settled No matter by turns out, n match lad ween ... mail and Ham Berger la aurc to come on the hoards. The youngsters BILLY SMITH MAY BUY ELMER DUGGAN; KAVANAUGH IS NOT COMING TO ATLANTA „ rival Ran Franciscans, amt Han Frnnelseo wants to know which Is the better fighter. ROSWELL SLAUGHTERED. Special to The Georgian. Jfest last Saturday by a score of 17 to 3. The only features were the henv and nice base-running of the boys. Alpharetta would strong tear from her. v hatting dpharotta The Georgian’s Score Card, L ATLANTA. | CROZIER. If .... n. H. E. (j SHREVEPORT. |; KENNEDY, rf .. R. H. E. j JORDAN. 2b .... Ji ItYRNE, ss WINTERS, rf ... j! ABSTKIN, lb.... I | 8. SMITH. 3b .... | DALY, If MORSE, as a. |1 KING, Cf FOX. lb j! HESS. 3b ....... WALLACE, cf ... \ i EVANS, 2b ARCHER, c GRAFFIUS, c ... [ 1 SPARKS, p fi LEE, p HARLEY, p I 1 | T0TAL8 TOTALS | | i 1 i Score by Innings: X234 6 6 789 10 11—R Atlanta } | 1 ! j ! Shreveport 1 ' | ( •1 l ‘ i Atlanta la negotiating with Dayton for the purchase of Elmer Duggan, lending pitcher of the late lamented Interstate League, and now with the Atlanta team. When Secretary Farrell of the National Association ruled that Duggan belonged to Dayton and ordered Billy Smith to send him back there, Billy nt once wited Dayton asking for terms. He has not heard ns yet. but is In hopes thnt he can close a deal for the man. From Little Bock comes the news thnt Judge Knvnnuugh has no immediate inten tion of coining to Atlanta.* Where the rumor that he tyat arose Is not known. Why he Isn't Is nlso not known. The Little Hock correspondent of The Atlanta (leorglan wan asked to Inquire of President Kavnnnugli If he intended to tako any notion against Buckley on the charge that be used foul nud profane lan guage while umpiring In league games. His reply was: "Judge Kuvnituugh says no formal charge* have been preferred against Buckley. 1'nless' there are there will be no Investigation." It la understood that Manager Finn made some kick ngnlust Buckley's language nud Pitcher Fisher of Mhrevcport states thnt he has written Judge Knvnnnugh a long letter on the question. However, nothing In the way of formal charges have been made, and It la probable that, unless some action Is token, Buckley will go Ills way un molested, unless perhaps Tom Fisher car ries out hta threat of slaughtering him when ho gets down In Rhreveport. When the charges were made around the longue that the Memphis team wns throw ing games to New Orleans because Frank had ordered the club to do so the writer wns n little Inclined to hoot nt the Ideu. Humes are not usually thrown In this or any other league, mid It xyns hard to sec, with the bftter feeling against Charley Frank that exists In Memphis, how the management of the Bluff City club would litre to do such a thing, even If It wanted to. But Sunday's game looked a title fishy and now thnt the Memphis Commercial Ap peal Is nt hnnd, with nlmost direct charges that the game wns thrown, the af fair begins to assume another aspect. The Commercial Appeal’s sporting page Is the most conservative In the whole league, and Its editor, T. H. Hcnrliorough, enu be rolled on to give exact accounts of whnt hap pened. Here are a few of the things that the Commercial Appeal of Monday hns to say about Sunday's game: "More than 6,0(10 people, some 4,800 paid admissions being Included, were humiliated at the sudden turn of affairs tu which a hen-pecked second baseman, n disappointed pitcher who had worked hard for tin* spoils aud a disgruntled catcher enacted the role of village cut-ups. "Suggs disappeared after pitching to five Pelicans In the ninth, during which time five opport uni ties were presented to retire Pelicans without a run. Careless aud crimi nal support made Suggs sick nnd ha left the green with the audience dubbing him •Hard I.uek George.’ "At* flipped a fly thnt any ordinary see nml basemau might have handled, but Plan was ronitnnndcd to race under the hit, aud muffed It, after a hard chase to the edge of the diamond. O'Brien then tapped high bounder over Suggs and Louis Haltlf was again confronted with the opportunity to redeem himself, i He not only failed dismally with an the (mil so wide to Nlcholls that an out oat of the question. It was a plain attack of whnt Imll tossera refer to ns Imseball non compos.* It wns another pop-up toward secoud base, but far out of Plans' reach this time. It required but a Tew steps of the second baseman to reach the s|*ot where Phillips' fly was descending, but Italdt wheeled round ami round, until drunk from <11**1- ness, aud when he reached the spot, the sphere fell with n sickening thud while Ats registered the rtm that tied. •Rlekert was next up. nml connected to safe spot In left, seorlug O'Brien nnd Phillips. Thiel fielded the bsll home promptly In the hope of getting Phillips, •kert dashed for second on the throw. It was then that Big Ed Hurlbtirt led on net that may take many for the fans to forget, by dellh- throwing over the hen-pecked head,' |H*rmlttIng Blekert to pro- •*There were many dopestera trying to lace the blame on. the guilty after the second hnseman traveling in too fa at com pany was beard. "Manager Babb was not In a happy frame of mind after the contest, but when asked If any suspensions were In store for the ones who had committed breaches of dis cipline, said that he could not say. "The gift of the game to the Pelicans produced many angry murmurs from admir ers of the Mcmphll, and some were so caustic In their comment ns to vow thqt the Memphil hadn't tried tlielr best. Such adverse turn of affairs falling on top of such a brilliant showing In Atlanta seemed n reversal in baseball form quite bard for the closest of students to fathom, but only the hot bends emitted remarks after thoroughly coled out' that would reflect on the playing nt any stage, nnd then even they must have been thoroughly convinced that had n deliberate attempt been made to allow the I'ejlcans to win, the Memphil could not possibly have been guilty of such n hare faced deal aa they committed. "Habit's shortcomings were so flagrantly flavored with odor not at all fragrant/nnd llurlburt's weird throw to center was so palpably plain and cold-bloodedly executed thnt the Idea seems slly that the game wns not ofi the level. Still the huge family of fans are Indulging In plain tnlk aud the recent Inx ways of several connected with baseball In the Routh la held responsible for the state of affairs. "Two weeks have passed now since Rreltensteln openely attacked Carey and Idue-strenked Red Elm atmosphere with snch a torrent of obscenity and abuse to boot thnt he wns fined In police court. Yet, through schemes and refusals to tell the truth, President Knvnnaugh hns been prevented from punishing Breltensteln. Ilreltensteln hns not been pnnlsbed. He has pitched three games since, and the public, or, rather, the eighteen hundred or more present the day of the assault, are probably ridiculing the report made to President Knvnnnugh that the affair was exagger ated. "Thnt a player as guilty as Breltensteln can proceed to celebrate a semi-monthly nuulversnry without having been punished Is probably no more mystery than why Hurlburt Is allowed to throw the ball nt will to nuy part of the grounds on occa sions when things are not going to please him. He baa been accused of aiming and hitting the outfield this year at Birming ham and Shreveport. Yesterday wns bis third attempt, nud on each occasion tho run or runs resulted thnt caused defeat. No punishment, however, hns been an nounced. nnd when asked Inst night. Man ager Babb did not know whether any ex ample would be set or not." Clubs— Birmingham . New Orleans . Shreveport . . Atlanta . . . Memphis . . Montgomery . Nashville . . Little Rock . SOUTHERN. Played. Won. LoaL Clubs— Augusta . Savannah . Columbia . Macon . . Charleston Jacksonville SOUTH ATLANTIC. Played. Won, LoaL Pet. .595 .59.1 .580 .561 .549 .475 .337 .321 Pet. .617 .595 .500 .481 .487 .312 Clubs— Meridian . . Mobile . . . Baton Rouge Jackson . . . Gulfport . . Vicksburg . Clubs— Chicago . . . Pittsburg . . New York . Philadelphia . Cincinnati . Brooklyn . . St. Louis . . Boston . . . , COTTON 8TATE8. Played. Won. Lost AMERICAN. Clubs— , Philadelphia , Now York . . Cleveland . . Chicago . . . Detroit . . . . St. Louis . . Washington . Boston . . . . *519 .500 .475 .409 Pet .693 .643 .626 .477 .435 .400 .378 .337 Pet .614 .598 .585 .541 .530 .506 .378 .250 WOODRUFF IS TliIRDBATTER ONLY TWO MEN IN THE COTTON STATES DOING BETTER THAN ATLANTA BOY. NO S. BERGER FOR JEFFRIES “I'M OUT) HOW OFTEN MU8T I TELL YOU?” ASKS RETIRED PUGILIST. By Private Leased Wire. San Francisco, July 2*.—Jim Jeffries, the world’s heavy weight champion, says he will not light Sam Berger, who bested O’Brien the other night, nor any other heavyweight. Jeffries wa* seen In reference to a possible battle with Berger, and he de clared If Berger had whipped all the Jack O'Briens In the world he could not be Induced to return to the ring. He declared that he was out of the ring forever. He was fully satisfied with his rus tic, or as he terms It, “the simple life,” and has made enough money out of pugilism to keep him In comfort to the end of his days. Jeff, It Is said, would prefer to sacri fice one-quarter of his fortune rather than enter upon a long training siege at this time. race asglnst Yale and Oxford J DECISION FOR JOSEPH GANSl By Trieste Leased Wire. Seattle, Wash., July 24.—Joe Ganj,| the negro pug of Baltimore, got the de.l clslon over Dally Holly, another ne-l gro, of Trenton, N. J., here last nlghtl after twenty rounds of clinching. jJ was a tame light throughout. Gar.sl went after Holly most of the time anil the other negro fell, dodged and rani Into clinches time after time, seeming.! ly In a desperate effort to avoid punish.I ment. Oans went through the rounds, and was always anxious fori more. Some of his blows had a lot oil steam behind them, and his footwork! was clever. Holly disappointed a hos:| of admirers. Neither of the men wai| punished, Blnce most of the blows wer.| delivered at such close range that they| did ho execution. 1 , The Baltimore man Is In good shape,| and it was freely predicted that Holly| could not have lasted fen rounds If hs| had stood up and tried to fight It out. WANT TO RACE WALTHOUR AGAINST FOUR H0RSES,| Special to The Georgian. Opelika, Ala., July 24.—John T. Hsr-I rls, Jr., a stockman of repute of thl,| city, has received a letter from W. F.l Davis, of Birmingham, asking for an! exhibition race for Bobby Walthour, ofr Atlanta, the famous bicyclist. The chal-l lenge Is for a relay race between Oval horses, each to go a mile, and V.'al*I thour, the motor-pace follower. r It la not definitely known whethafl this rape meet can be arranged. PARSONS’ RIB BROKEN IN FIGHT WITH WILSON,| By Private Leased Wire. Fort 'Wayne, July 24.—In i round bout here last night with Kill Wilson, of Baltimore, Willie Pattons,! of Indianapolis, had a rib fractured.! Parsons was going well up to the tlnul of the accident and It looked as thouga| he would win. Fine Pitching and Fielding Gave Good Game to Crackersl AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Columbus . . Milwaukee. . Minneapolis Toledo . . . Louisville . . Kansas city St. Paul . . Indianapolis , flayed. Won. Lost. p.C. . 95 60 35 .532 . 92 51 ’ 41 .554 . 93 50 43 .538 . 91 47 44 .516 . 90 46 44 .511 . 91 41 60 .451 .413 .378 90 34 56 00000*00000000000000000000 o o O MONTGOMERY GET8 O O PITCHER B. BARTLEY. O O O O Special to The Georgian. 0 0 Montgomery, Ala.. July 24.— 0 O Billy Bartley, formerly r Shreve- 0 0 port pitcher, but who was pur- 0 0 chased by the Philadelphia 0 O Americana, has been bought by 0 0 Montgomery and will report 0 0 here tonight. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO4JOO00OOOO Special to The Georgian. Meridian, Miss., July 24.—"Dnsty" Miller recently voiced the sentiments of every thinking fan lu the Cotton States League when he stated thnt the race fbr the flag would be between Meridian and Mobile. Naturally be selected Mobile as the win ner In the two-club race, however, nnd the dope sheet of the rest of the schedule tends to give the Alabama city the better of the argument Of the regular players, Gardner, Merid Ian's left fielder, easily leads the league In Imttlng. He ha* n tutting average of .335 In 72 games, while his nearest rival is Jnck Boltn, of Gulfport, In less than half the number of games—33—has an average . of .303. Woodruff, of Baton Rouge, really de serves to rank second, however, as he has played* In 67 games with un average of .300. The Meridian team Is hitting harder, ns a team, than any others In the league, hav ing a general average of .246, five of" he regulars swatting the ball nliove the leapt average, with two others right around It. There are 132 players In the Cotton States League, nnd the lowest Merhllnnlte in the batting order Is Billiard, a pitcher, whose hitting ability la 98th, with an average of .130. MONDAY’S RESULTS. Southern— Atlanta 3, Shreveport 1. New Orleans 1, Nashville 0. Little Rock 3, Birmingham 1. South Atlantic— Macon 3, Columbia 0. Savannah 5, Augusta 0. Charleston 2, Jacksonville 0. National— Brooklyn 4, Chicago 3. Pittsburg 7, New York 1. Boston 5, St. Louts 3. American— Chicago 4, Philadelphia 0. Philadelphia 5, Chicago 0. * Washington 3, St. Louis 2. Boston 3, Cleveland 1. New York 4, Detroit 2. American Association— Kansas City 4. Toledo 2. Milwaukee 8, Louisville 4. Minneapolis 6, Indianapolis 2. St. Paul 4, Columbus 2. Cotton States— Mobile 13, Baton Rouge 2. Gulfport 5. Vicksburg 2. Meridian 5, Jackaon 2. Virginia State— Lynchburg 3, Roanoke 2. Danville 0, Roanoke 1. BADLY CUT. Panamas cleaned, reshaped with same'bands $1.00; new bands, $1.25. More Sports on Page Niue. Bussey. 281-: Whitehall. By EDWIN CAMP. Tom Hughes' Titanic hurling, su perbly supported, sent Shreveporters down the chutes In Monday's opening matinee, despite the presence of the "Red" Fisher on the firing line for the Loulstanans. It was a magnlfjcent battle, sctnttl- lant from start to finish. Puncture- proof pitching, dazzling fielding and Inside play of most effective sort made the contest notable, not the least sat isfying feuture being that home talent got the verdict. 3 to 1. Th.e twain of twirlers are almost In a class by themselves In this little league. Both have been bowing op posing clubs in defeat with regularity all season, and when they tied up Mon day there was a sort of personal com bat between them—ut side bet, as It were, to the play for the big pot. T. Hughes made T. Fisher resemble a selling plater. This despite, the fact that the ex-Bostonian received poor support at critical moments. But, of this, - more anon, as the editorial wri ters say. Fisher started off with hiH usual ter rific speed and he appeared to be able to shave the corners of the plnte with razor-llke fineness. But he was hit. and hit hard. Hughes didn't seem to have much and cut loose little speed, but they couldn’t connect with him. Two little singles, both In the fifth, were the swat output he yielded. The fact of the matter seemed to be that T. Fisher Isn’t accustomed to get ting his bumpR and has forgotten how to take them gracefully and keep pitch ing, Hughes' slashing double, followed by Absteln's excusable bobble of Cro- xler’a bunt and Winters' corking single, all In the third, nettled the chubby one and he lost his temper. Then tt was all off. He started a bootless quarrel with Umpire Buckley and kept up tho low ering during the rest of the battle, aris ing to gigantic wrath when the judge of play called a palpable balk nn him in the fifth Tom didn't take his mod- ' iclno gracefully, and began firing the ball at his own team-mates In repre hensible fashion. »On throws to Ab- steln at first he would cut loose at short range* with all his speed and about all Abby could do was to (ling his mil In front of his face and shut his eyes. The play of the Atlanta team reached Its height of effectiveness in the fifth. Hess opened up with a line drive to right-center. Evans followed with a terrific clout to left and Dick Crosier, right up against the fence, muffed the ball. Hess pasesd third and was start ed for home, but little Dickie made a superb throw to Sid Smith, who re layed to Hughes, who flung to Morse, cutting the runner down trying to get back to third. Great work. With Evans playing way off second! old Frozen-forehead Grnffius anted-f up with a single to left. Crozler threwl well to the plate, but too late to get! Evans, and Jeems Archer, like a nasa. flung to second, where Jordan tagged Graff. Fisher ended the flash In tni pan by a slow and difficult grounder lo| Morse. It was a rare fine combtnatoni of mechanical and noodle play by lw| locals. w ..... | Atlanta tallied twice In the thlrd-I Hughes' double, Crozler's sacrtflOJB rap which Absteln came In on too fasti Winters' single and King's Hying I !’“ T of Smith’s drive gave a brace. Jor dan's screeching single, followed by■ Winters' double, added another In Hughes' peerless pitching, his raitgTl fielding and his long two-bagger tho salient points of Atlanta spun I but the entire team was In Inrinciw I fettle. Tubby Tom's test) temper j helped things. The score: Atlanta. Crozler, If. Jordan, 2b. Winters, rf. Smith, 3b. . Morse, as. . Fox. lb. .. Wallace, cf. Archer, c. . Hughes, p. Totals ... AB. R. H. TO. 30 3 7 2'. Shreveport. Kennedy, rf. ... 4 Byrne, as 4 Absteln, lb. ... 4 Daley, If. 3 King, cf 2 Hess. 3b 3 Evans, 2b. 2 Graffius, c t Fisher, p 3 Totals 28 AB. R. H. PO. \Vint«*| TWO-DOSS mis— ri ,her if Struck out—By Hughes -, b> udel Bases on balls—Off Hughes -.. on L er 2. Sacrifice hits—Fox. ‘ " r „d*| dan. Winters. Stolen bases-- ■ Jordan, Fox. Balk—Fisher. Buckley. Time 1:35. NAT KAISER & ca Confidential loans on valuable Bargains In unredssmed I Kimball Hat**! IS Oeeatur St ATLANTA VS. SHREVEPORT JULY 24, 25. LADIES’ DAY TODAY—GAME CALLED 4 P.Jv