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12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1,^1006. i UMPIRE’S UNFAIR DECISIONS EDITKD B Y PERCY H. WHITING FOLLOWED BY GIDDY DOINGS ! 3BE32BBBE8S PHOTOGRAPH OF 80ME OF THE CELEBRITES OF THE PRESENT RACING SEASON AROUND NE W YORK. ON THE LEFT IS IVAN THE TERRIBLE, OWNED BY W. W. DARDEN, WHO MAKES HIS HEADQUARTERS IN NA8HVILLE, IN THE CENTER IS THE MAN EATER, ORMONDE’S RIGHT AND JOCKEY RADTKE. ON THE RIGHT IS THE GREAT SPRINTER ROSEBEN. to imui niwwiuiiiw in nmnnut, in If Atlanta Wins Today She Goes To Second Place With any kind of lurk Wednesday, the Atlanta tram will be In aecond place In the pennant raett Wedneeday hlfht. Jnat at prrarnt the Crackers are .001 twhlttd yew Orleans and .003 ahead of Memphis. If Atlanta takes l»oth games Wednesday, she will fo to .090. If she wins one and loses one, kIio will be .579. Hut the Crackers are going to win, and If they do they are safely In second place, and right behind Illrmlugham. Just now the nsrons are one game won and three lost better than Atlanta. The two games Wednesday * should cut this down. Then If Atlanta can do as well as she ought against Birmingham and Mont gomery In* the coming trip to Alabama, the Crackers will return home In the lead. Hounds pretty fine, don't It? If we can only keep this pipe lit a bit longer. Or, maybe It Isn't a pipe. Anyway, things look better now than they hare In months. RIPPLES IN THE RING By Prlrate Leased Wire. York. August 1.—The fifteen-round bout between Mike (Twin! Nullran, of Bos ton, nnd Hubs Smith, of Denver, which «nx to have been decided Monday night, hss been postponed until August 10, In or der to give the men more time to get Into forra.^They will box in a tent outilde of Jack (Twin) Sullivan fa anxlnua to meet the beat men of bis'weight, and particu larly Ham Berger. Sullivan haa started for Dawson Clir. where ho la to meat Jack Mates, the big henry weight of that place. In a twenty round bout for n purae of 12,500, the lost- week In September. The latest fighter to challenge Jack O'Brien la Jnok Palmer, the hsarywtdj champion «>f Ragland. Palmer anya National Sporting Club, of I^imlon, la ready to offer a good sited purse for a twenty- round bout. The club would like to use the bout late In September or early In October. It is hgrdly likely O'Brien will A! Delmont. the Boston featherweight, has been matched to meet Ike Bradley, of England, nt n boxing show to take place st I.j mnnsvllle. B. L, August 7. .Timmy Britt has refused to accept the offer of the Evrrrtt Athletic Club, of Washington, to meet Loole Ixtng. In a tweoty-mund boat. When Britt received the offer, be wired to the manager that uld not think »f meeting Long unless baof *6,000. This the efused to r Berger 1ms decided not to take part more fights until September, ller- ys he needs a rest, and besides he anxious to fight In warm weather. ... O’Brien In a twenty-round battle Berger says the bout roust take place In California, aa they can get much more money there. * Young Murphey ami Spike Robson are hard at work training for their bout st I’hlladclpbla next Monday night. ••Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien l» now on the ocean, Imund for Rnglaud. Re soiled from here without waiting for hla relatives and frlendy to give hint a farewell recep tion, aid will be gmv* for six weeks. Ills ■■■■■: believed to he preliminary “ the ring, ns this U his ‘ ' r?l age is bell pahrn In tl method of ursa within the ropes, j noxious to get Ham Bei NEWS AND NOTES. best nt the second station, but always has beeu a weak hitter. wyi develop Into the greatest ball player the world eTer has seen. The Chicago White Hox will have to start — 7 soon If tt * tie pennant. When It comes to keeping a baseball club iaar the top rear after year you will have o pin the ribbon on Cohnla Mick. This Is the fourth sei Pittsburg and Chicago testants for the Natjoi __ _____ with the other lire clubs trailing. The Columbus club of the American As sociation Won 19 out of 19 games on tbslr receut western trip. The Houston club won 16 out of the first 19 games In the aecond half of the Houth Texas League season. When It cornea to an evenly balanced league, there la no baseball aggregation In the country that has anything on the West ern Association. the pace In the Cotton Htates League Jack O'Brien. A movement Is on foot In Toronto to ap point Edward Hanlon of rowing fame to sonic imsttton In connection with the har bor wfilch will lie a recognition of the pub licity he gave Canada, mid particularly To ronto, through hla aquatic prowess. but for a twenty-round bout. t7e at covin gton. to The Georgian. 1 1 here i yesterday the liM-als and Lexlngtau, resulting n a ten Inning contest. Despite the wet grounds ami a driaillng rsln, the game was exciting throughout. Htowers, the slab artist for Islington, and a former Covington pitcher, was wild, which resulted In a defeat administered to him. Norman's pitching for Covington waa steadier lu pinches. Both teams played good ball. Cnrlugton made the winning run In the tenth Inning In this manner: Jackson sin f led to renter, lloyd filed out to third, erggren singled to rl«ht, advancing Jack- son to second, who went to thin! on Htow- era* wild throw, and scored on another wild throw by Htowers to catcher. Kcorc by Innings: Covington. ..... .00 1 0 1 0 00 01—4 Lexington. ...... .00 1.1 000_00d-l RIOTOUS SCENES FOLLOW DECISION WHICH ROBBED ATLANTA OF GAME Lively doings went on at Piedmont park Tuesday afternoon just subsequent to the calling off of the second game by Umpire Hbuster. Wbeu this utterly rank decision waa rep-' dered, as more fully told about In the story of Tuesdsy's game, the two or three thousand fans In the stands stood on their feet and booted nt the rottenness of It. In a second after Hhuster made his an nouncement, Billy Hmith and the other members of the team rushed at the tabby amp and demanded to know what he meant by calling the game under auch circum stances. Billy Bmlth was almost beside himself at the decision, and rushed at Hhuster, pulling him around roughly. When the police saw that trouble waa Imminent, they closed.In. Smith turned away from 8huster. After hesitating n minute, be turned back again and went at the umpire with hla fists. Fortunately for the good name of the club, the police In terfered before Hmith could laud a blow. As soon as Smith was calmed down a bit, the police started to bustling Hhuster to a place of safety through the rapidly growing crowd. Cries of ''Lynch him!" "Kill the robber!" biases and cat calls were heard on all sides, and the fans showed a comparatively good natured deter mination to press around and make thlnga lively. With ample police protection, Hhuster was hustled through the players' gate and along behlud the grand stand to the box office. Behind the Dutch ump and bis body guard came the "Roman mob," push' lug, yelling and doing Infinitely more barm to each other than to the umpire. Hhuster reached the box office safely, and here he remained for a half hour, guarded by the police, while around him a couple of hundred "Irreaponslbles" stood and hooted. When Hhuster was finally brought out of the office, the crowd closed In again, and on toward a hundred boarded the same car and rode to the heart of town with him. Here they disembarked and marched t^ the side entrance to the Kimball house. In went Hhuster, nnd In wont the crowd, too, creating no end of a sensation among the guests of the hotel. Out the other aide went Hhuster and a couple of newspaper men, but then the cops barred the door, while Hhuster cut across the railroad tracks. A neat little fight between a cop and one of Hhiiater'a "followers" caused n flurry of excitement around the Kimball doors, and during tt Hhnster was spirited away Into hte dark* When asked why be celled the game, Shuster enld: "It was too dark to play any longer. Even the Atlanta men tsld that they could not see the ball." When asked later If he would be on hood for Wednesday's game, he said: "Sure, my schedule calls for me to um pire tomorrow, and I'll be there." While Shuster's decision waa rather the worst that the writer or anybody else at the game had ever seen, atilt there was ho justification for Smith's attempted as sault on 8buster, nor for the demonstration which followed. A ball player is not justified In hitting an umpire under any circumstances on the ball grounds, and If any of Smith's blows bad landed, Shuater could have put the local manager In a decidedly awkward po sition. It Is always well to remember that assaulting the umpire !a out of style in or ganlxed baseball, no matter what the provo cation may be. As for the men who followed Shuster- well, It seems aa though their sense of hu mor would hare saved them from anything ao ridiculous. Evidently no man In the crowd had any serious Intentions' against his umps, for a dozen chances to mob hint were overlooked. The crowd which fol lowed him went along In the hope tbnt somebody else would do something. Bat evidently not a man had the necessary nerve. Huch scenes, however, are likely to be misinterpreted outside of Atlanta, and It la hoped that the one Tuesday conclude! the record of such performances for the season. AFTER WINNING BOTH GAMES TUESDAY ATLANTA IS ROBBED OF THE SECOND The Georgian’s Score Card. ATLANTA. CROZIER, .f .... JORDAN, 2b . WINTERS. Tt ... S. SMITH. Sb .... MORSE. ■■ ..... FOX. lb WALLACE, cf .. ARCHER, c .... HARLEY, p ... T0TAL8 ... Score bjr Innings:1 NASHVILLE. GILBERT, cf .... WISEMAN, rf . || PEARSON. If.. JANSINQ. 3b... MILLER.. lb..,. CA8TRO. »•...... BECK. 2b WELLS, C if BUCHANNON.p 9 10 11—R After Atlanta had won the opening game of Tuesday's double-header by a score'of to 1, the Crackers were robbed of the second by the most outrageous decision that has been rendered on local grounds by any umpire lu the memory of living fans. The second gntne had gon« four Innings, and Atlanta led by a score of 9 to, 1. Only three more oats bad to be made to make It n complete game. The time waa 5:63 nnd as the clouds which had cov ered, the aky moat of the afternoon were breaking up somewhat, It waa compara tively light, fully as light, at lenat, as when the game was started, for nt that time the aky was heavily overcast. And yet, with the gsme only five or six minutes from completion, and with victory right In Atlanta's grasp, Hhuster declared the contest over on account of darkness. From time Immemorial nnd undoubtedly somewhat previous to that, umpires have been making mistakes. It Is only human. Bnt for Insane, Inefficient, balled-up. sap- headed, ld|otlc, chuckle pated, miserable, lop-sided, nutty, unfair, • Incompetent and thievish decisions, that one takes the bln,? ribbon. It waa suspected from the jump that Hhuster was n lemon, but up to the time of thnt decision people did not consider him ernsy. wliat they thought about him nf ter ward*. Judged by their remarks, we quite positively refuse to say. There ls,no reason to suppose that Bhus ter meant to h® unfair. The decision will have to be put down to the score of In- competency, and It Is humbly suggested to Judge Kavanaugh thnt he replace Hhuster with some mini who Is com|*etent to dis tinguish darkness from daylight. Atlanta won the first gsme from Elmer Duggan, late a Cracker, but uow a Finn, by the score of 4 to I. It was n rlp-anort- ing game, punctured with errors by Nash ville. but full of brilliant plays. Elmer allowed only four bits, and deserved a vic tory,' but errors sjxdlefl his chances. Hparks pitched a nice game nml bad good support, ,ln the seventh an error and hit gave the men from Nashville their only run. With Nashville's half of the eighth In ning played, and Wallace, the first roan up. on first,'the wind which had been blowing the dust nml dirt ucrofi* the diamond nt n terrific rate, finally landed some rain, nnd the gsme was declared off. pending a ces sation In the fall of moisture. Umpire Hhnster allowed the usual thirty minutes and then a few for good measure. Then he came out and announced that the game was colled, and that the second gsme of the double-header would gtart lu ten minutes, provided the weather permit ted. At the end of something more than ten minutes, It waa decided by Billy Hmith that the grounds were In a condition which ified a second ’game, snd as the rain practically «os sei I to fait, he ordered second game to begin. . Aere can be no doubt but that mo than the allotted forty minutes elapsed between the calling of the llrit game ami the beginning of the second. However. ^ Finn agreed to play, that fact _ no Justification for the umpire In hla act In calling the game at the eml of ifc# fourth. In the opinion of Mlkt Muu, Finn sent In johnny Duggan to pitch the second game, while Smith depended i **“ *■*— pin, Totsanr " * had the Minnies just where he wanted all the way, while Duggan proved easy, as a result, Atlanta was three runs to the good at Nashville’s end of the fourth In ning. As soon as Atlanta came to the bat, thyre were loud cries of “Hurry up!" "Strike out!" and the like from the fnns, who wanted the game pushed through first half of the fourth tuning, In order thnt It might eount for Atlanta In the clinmidouHlilp race. Archer nnd Hughes, the first men tin, made easy outs, nnd Dick Crosier deliberately fanned In order to hurry things. At this time, the clouds were break ing fast, nnd It was certainly ns light as when the second game wan started. In fact. It would have liefrn nn easy matter to have played thirty minutes longer. To the surprise and disgust of everybody present, however, 8buster called the game. The score of the first game follows: ATLANTA- Crazier, If Jordan. 2b Winters, rf., .. .. H. Hmith. 3b.. .. Morse, sa Foz, lb Wallace, cf Evers, c.. ., .. .. Hparks, p.. .. „ .. ,...3 3 4 1 I 3 2 13 11 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 15 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 9 0 ...25 4 4 24 16 1 AB. R. II. 1*0. A- E. ...413101 ...201 1 0 0 ....4 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 ....401512 .. .2 0 0 3 0 0 ...3 0 l 1 3 1 ...» 1 ~5 21 1 ~4 1 NAHIlVILf/fc-- Gilbert, ef Wiseman. If. . . . Pearson, rf .Tansing. 3b , Miller, lb Bohannon. 2b „ Castro, ss Freary, c E. Duggan, p. . . , Total*..,.. ,♦ ., ♦, Hcore by Innings: Atlanta 20.) 001 l*-4 Nash villa......x..,., 001 000 00-1 ~~nummary: Two-base hits, Winters; stol en bases, 8. Hmith, Morse 2, Gilbert 2. Jor dan, Winters; sacrifice hits, Uobnnunn, j Ever*, Winters, Wiseman; double plays, Hparks to Even to Fox; first bnse on ball* off Hparks 2, off E. Duggnu 6; bit by pitch ed ball by Hparks 2; struck out by Hparks 2, by E. Duggan 2; wild pitch, E. Duggan 1. Time 1:40. Umpires, Hhuster nnd Buck- RICHARD CROZIER. The fickle fans change from one favor ite to another as tutting average* go up and fielding averages rotne down, but there U one man on the Atlanta team who Is always popular, and that Is Dick Crazier. Richard is always lu the game TEAMS MEET AT PIEDMONT The Atlanta Baseball Association has tendered the use of Tledmout park Ha tar. day afternoon to the Foote A Davies and M. Kutx teams of the Commercial league, and they will play there. A small admix i elon fee will be charged, and It Is ex’ ! pected. that many of the friends of the | two teams will be out to see the con test. , ’ Both teams are playing good baaeball these days, and the contest ought to be it well-played one. TENNESSEEANS~FKJURE~~ IN CLASSIC "C. OF C." By Private Leased Wire. Cleveland, Ohio, August l.-A Tennessee ; owned mare, trained In Tennessee and 1 Urlvrti by a Tent |<*ecan. won the Cham- low of Commerce Make here yesterday over the (Renville track, when Ardelle captured the opening day event at the local Grand Circuit meeting. The man* Is owned by F. G. Jones, of Memphis, and waa trained last winter In that city and waa driven by Ed Geers, of Columbia, Tenn. Bonanza was second. ! freary’called AWAY BY BROTHER’S ILLNESS Some Knocks for Shuster And Boosts For The Rest It wa« certainly raw. Back to the Three-I for Hhuster. It la likely to become too warm for him If ever an umpire made a worse de cision It haa slipped our memory. No umpire la ever roasted In these col umns. All that la necessary in Hhuster'i case Is the truth*. Pretty hard on Tommy Hughes to lose the credit for such a game aa he pitched. Everybody got the worst of the rusj up the alley to the box office Tuesday except the umpire. One enthusiast nearly poked a lung out of the sporting representative of an afternoon paper, nnd then went around bragging*that he "guessed he got square with the blankety blank umpire." The slight ruction betwe«*i a policeman and an "Innocent bystander" materially as sisted Shuster In his get-away. While the crowd stopped to see the fun, Shuster made good bis retreat. Mika Finn would have had fairly good grounds for protesting the second game. Undoubtedly, it waa started mote than for ty mlnutea after the flrat one was called. •We did not try to delay the second game," said Mike Finn, "while Atlanta players deliberately went out lu order to hurry It. That may not be against the National Association rules, but the umpires are instructed not to allow It. Hhuster did right In calling the game. It waa only a bluff, anjwray." When seen .Wednesday, Mike Finn was rather dubibnt about playing a double-head er. "We don’t have to play It because the league rules require that Smith give m< twenty-four hour* notice In such n case. And he didn’t do that. With Freary gone, e are In bad shape for a double-header." The wind and dirt storm which came up during the first game was hard ou spec tators and players alike. It finally ended In a rain storm, and the rain precipitated w, so thlnga went from bad to worse. Ing of Elmer Duggan In th^ opening game, He should have won It," said Mike. Of Johnny Duggan, Finn said, "I think he Is as good as any tnnn in the league. We have had to work him to death, and be la not quite at bis best now. If be had had the support and the chances that some of these other pitchers have, be would rauk with auy of them." * OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOO O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O o o O Nashville In Atlanta. o O Montgomery In Birmingham. o 0OtK*>0O0OOOOO0OO0O0O000O0o TUESDAY’S RESULT8. Southern— Atlanta 4. Naahvllle 1. Montgomery 8, Birmingham 1. Little Rock I. New Orleans 0. Memphis S, Shreveport 3. South Atlantic— Macon 1, Augusta 0. Jacksonville 2. Columbia c. Jacksonville 7, Columbia 1. American— St. Louis 3, Boston 1. Detroit 5, Philadelphia 3. Chicago 4, Washington 3. ' Cleveland 3, New York 0. National— New York 3, St. Louie 0. Brooklyn 3, Pittsburg 2. Chicago 5. Philadelphia L Boston 4, Cincinnati 3. American Association—^ Columbus 3, Toledo 1. Louisville 6, Indianapolis. 4. Milwaukee 3 Minneapolis 2. St. Paul 9, Kansas City 8. Cotton State,— Mobile 1. Gulfport 2. Jackson 0, Meridian 8. Vicksburg 1, Baton Rouge 4. Virginia State— Danville 5. Richmond 1. Roanoke 1, Lynchburg 4. Eastern- Providence 2, Newark 2. Buffalo 3, Montreal 3. Rochester 2, Toronto 0. Baltimore 4. Jersey City 2. 0000000000000000000004x1000 O 0 WHAT THEY THINK. O o 0 0 A few prominent sporting au- 0 0 thorltlea were asked for opinions 0 0 In regard to Shuster, and his de- 0 0 clslon. 0 0 Billy Smith: “I think Shuster 0 0 Is a blankety, blankety, blank, 0 0 blank of a blankety blank, by 0 0 blank.” 0 O Mike Finn: "I couldn't aee 0 0 whether the umpire waa rotten or 0 0 not. It was too dark." 0 0 Umpire Buckley: "I refuse to 0 0 be interviewed. But It was rot- 0 0 ten.” 0 0 Ex-Captain Castro: ‘T can’t see O 0 that It will materially affect the 0 0 price of bananas." 0 0 Umpire Shuster: "Next time 0 0 they play till midnight. It as- 0 0 slats In the get-away." 0 0 Consensus of opinion: "Shuster 0 0 Is the rottenest umpire ever known 0 0 since baaeball began." 0 0 0 00000000000000000000000000 league Standings SOUTHERN. dub— Played., Won. Lost P. Ct Birmingham New Orleans Atlanta . . . Memphis.. , Shreveport . Montgomery Naahvllle . . Little Rock . 34 .405 .581 .550 .573 .582 .454 .327 .304 SOUTH ATLANTIC. Club— Augusta . . . Savannah . . Macon . 1 . . Columbia . . Charleston. . Jacksonville. Piaved. Won. LosLP.Ct 33 .480 .418 .333 COTTON STATES. Club— Meridian . . Mobile . . . Jackson . . . Baton Rouge Gulfport . . . Vickaburg . . Played. Won. Lost P. Ct. . *7 52 85 .598 . *7 61 38 .588 .87 44 . 43 .608 . 88 43 43 .600 . 88 42 48 .477 Club— Chicago . . . Pittsburg . . New York . Philadelphia . Cincinnati . Brooklyn . . St. Loula . , Boston . . . NATIONAL Played. Won. Lost I .438 .411 .379 .337 Club— Philadelphia New York . Cleveland,. . Chicago . . . Detroit . . . Rf Louie . . Washington . Boston . . . AMERICAN. Played. Won. LostP. Ct AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clube— Columbus . . Milwaukee . Minneapolis . Toledo . . . Louisville . . Kansas City SI. Paul . . . Indianapolis . Played. Wane Lost P.C. .622 .644 .515 BADLY OUT. Panamas cleaned, reshaped with same bands 31.00; new bands, $1.26. Bussey, 28 12 Whitehall. NAT KAISER ts 00. Confidential loans on valuables. Bsrgalm In unredeemtd Diamond* IS Decatur St Kimball Heuem Freary. one of the .Naahvllle catcher*. | has been called to gt. ful. hr the III- 1 ne*« of Ills brother. It will be some days before be return,, and. In the meantime, the Nashville team Is likely to be ame. what embarrassed for catrbetra, especial- lr If anything happens to • Kid'’ Wells ATLANTA vs. NASHVILLE AUGUST 1. DOUBLE HEADER TODAY; FIRST GAME CALLED 2:30 P. M. aidggfc.