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16 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1906. ■ SMITH CRIPPLED TEAM SPORTS Edited by PERCY H. WHITING L!ll LEAVE TONIGHT TO INVADE WEST BADLY CRIPPLED TEAM HEADS WESTWARD TONIGHT Jim Pox ha* blown back to tow looking and feeling fine. But the wound on his arm Is still In rather bad condition. It has not healed, and if Jim uses his arm he will do so at con siderable risk. Whether he will be able to play Saturday or the early part of next week will depend chiefly on the result of consultations with his doc tors. Jimmy Archer's shoulder, which was Injured Monday when he did the ground-and-lofty tumbling act at first base, is *till in wretched condition, and it Is not unlikely that he will not be able to go out with the team for the opening of the trip, though perhaps he will be able to rejoin the bunch later. Of Wallace's condition nothing defi nite I* known, except that he Is yet far from well. The Atlanta team pulls nut Saturday night on the Prlsco train for Memphis. The bunch will play three game* against Babb's Burglars, four against Little Rock, including a double-header August 25, three games at Shreveport and three against New Orleans. Then they come back for the Labor Day opening and the final series home, at the end of which the team disbands and the baseball season over. With the team badly crippled a* It Is, local fans look with dismay on the coming swing through the West. Un- less luck changes, it Is likely to be a scries of misfortunes, and there will be Just cause for thankfulness If the bunch comes back with whole skins. Atlanta has gone back to fifth place. That double-header Friday was more than the standing of the club could bear and there was a decided slump. Birmingham still has a good lead in the race, but If the gap in the Infield caused by the illness of Oyler and Aleock is not filled, there is trouble due for the tribe of Vaughn on the coming ing through the West. THANKS rf Friday’s Battles Both Go Same Route As Thursday’s FIR8T GAME—MONTGOMERY 1, ATLANTA 0. 8EC0ND GAME—MONTGOMERY 8, ATLANTA 2. About Friday’s game there is little to say from Atlanta's standpoint which isn’t profane. After the scores—Montgomery 1, Atlanta 0; Montgomery 8, and At lanta 2—any healthy-minded man would most desire to cuss a few soulful curses. Just to relieve hls feelings. It was a case of cripples against cripples, In which the product of the Alabama invalid foundry had all the better of It. Mullaney's Pickle* were more or less "stove up," though they only had one man out of hls regular place, and that was Pitcher Breltenstein, who was at second base. , Atlanta’s line-up was on the order of a crazy quilt at the start and after Archer hurt his bad shoulder and had to come out and Hughes went in, the once stout local aggregation was far, far. (and then some) from Its best: The members of the team played with the same disregard tor physical ills and with the same determination to do their best, be It ever so painful, which has characterized their playing qll along, but even this kind of work did no good. In the first game It was a case of too much Maxwell. This twirling ■tar allowed Atlanta only a single hit, which was Std* Smith's two-bagger. Doc Childs, who opposed him, pitched a magnificent game, allowing only three lilts and keeping these three hits scattered one to an Inning. A base on balls, a wild pitch and an error allowed the only run to ’ cross the plate. There would be no pleasure In writing about the second game and less In reading what might be written. So let It go, with the statement that Zeller was not at hls best and that he received only such support as could be hoped for from a very tired and very sick lot of cripples. Malarkey opened up for Montgomery, but he was off and Walsh was sent in to take hls place. The scores: First Gams. Second Game. K tf y?' x 1,4.. f 'll' i V/ I, \ V// W/ 'UW AUGUSTA WINS AGAIN AND STILL HOLDS 'I00M 1 Y7> 6*160. o*- \ xvV ■AY ^ -su ^ HANDING 'EM THE "LEMONI" All. It. II. PO. A. E. Hoffman. 2b 3 Winter*, rt 2 8. Smith. 3b 4 Mora*. Jordan, lb,. , Ever*, c.. Archer, cf. Child*, p. . - Totals.... 0 0 0 ft 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 112 2 0 0 110 ....1 0 0 12 3 0 0 0 2 0 ..27 0 1 27 14 4 " fioS’TGOliKUY- AB U. llTPO. A. K. Iloutz, If 4 0 0 4 0 0 Hauaen, e 4 0 0 3 2 0 Appertous, cf 4 0 0 6 0 0 McCann, rf ...4 0 2 2 ft 0 Mullancr. lb 4 0 1 9 0 0 Perry, 3b 1 1 0 0 0 0 Hum'll. a» 2 0 0 3 2 0 Brcltenatcln, 2b 2 0 0 0 4 0 Maxwell, p 3 0 0 0 2 0 ..28 1 1 27 10 1 Score by inning* Montgomery Atlanta. ....000 000 010-1 MS) 000 000-0 Two base lilts. *H. Smith; sacrifice hits. Perry, Breltenstein: first base on balls off Childs 2. off Maxwell 5; struck out by Childs 5. by Mnxwell S; wild pitch, Childs. Time. 1:40. Crnplre. Hudderhnni. 4jl045^H$000000ljHlHt40004!)00000000 0 GOVERNOR CANT O O STOP BIG FIGHT. O o o S By Private Leased Wire. O Goldfield, Nev„ Aug. 18.—'There O O Is only one man In Nevada op- O 0 posed to the Gans-Nelson tight, O O and he happens to be the govern- O O or of the state. O 0 Governor Sparks expressed hls O O view* upon the subject after this O O fashion: O O "My sentiments against the O O licensing of prise fighting are O O strictly against permitting them O 0 under any circumstances. I have O O no power to prevent them under O O the law, however, though I deplore O O the stgtute, which I consider a O 0 disgrace to the state." Q 000000000000004*0000004*004*0 All. It. II. PO. A. E. Huffman, 2b 3 Winters, rf And cf 3 8. Smith, 3b 4 Morse, mm 4 Jordan, lb.. ..41110 10 13 0 0 2 2 0 0 Football Season Which Opens Next Month Promises To Be Best Atlanta Ever Had Ev Archer, cf.. Zeller, p. . llUKbes, rf.. 0 0 3 4 2 0 0 12 ft 1 ....4 0 0 7 0 .2 0 0 0 0 0 ....S 2 5 27 10 4 Totals MONTHOMEUY- All. H. It. 1'<V A. E limits, If.. * Hausen, c.. Apperloua, cf, McCann, rf.. .4 2 2 4 0 0 ..6 2 1 4 0 0 Perry, Busch. Brcltenatcln, 2b., Malarkey, p.. .. Witlsh, p Total*.. Score by I linings: 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 10 0 1 ....37 8 10 27 7 3 ...003 040 100-8 ..110 000 000—2 haw* hit*, Walsh; stolen Summary: Two hascM, Apperloua; double plays, ••• Busch to Militancy; first base on ball* off 6. by i, Zef. Itudder by Walsh 1: struck out by . Malarkey 2, by Walsh 2; wild pitches, ler 2. Time, 2 hour*. Umpire, haul. ONCE AGAIN—"SIGN IT." A story of the Foote & Davles-Edge wood game pent to the office Friday was turned down becaue It was not signed. News stories and communica tions of all kinds must be signed or they are not acceptable for publication in The Georgian. NAT KAISER & CO. Confidential loan* on valuablaa. Bargain! In unredaemad Diamond* IB Decatur St Kimball Houat The Georgian’s Score Card. ATLANTA. CROZIEU, If R. H. E. MONTGOMERY. HOUTZ. If R. H. ' E. HOFFMAN. 2b... | HAUSEN, c WINTERS, rf. .. || APPERIOUS, cf S. SMITH. 3b.... | M’CANN, rf MORSE. M.’ .... j| MULLANEY, lb.. JORDAN, lb.... || PERRY. 3b EVERS, c 1 BUSCH. «s 4 . HUGHES, cf .... || BREITSTEIN. 2b. HARLEY, p 1 TRIBBLB, P 1 J TOTAL8 i TOTALS Score by Inning,: 1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11- R By BRIAN 8. BROWN. Those residents of Atlanta who love the gentle and lady-like game of foot ball will have abundant opportunity to gratify their tastes during the com ing season. There will be fought out at Tech park during the coming fall a series of what should be the most memorable games known to the history of Southern colleges athletics, and un less all signs fall, the Southern cham pionship In football will be decided upon the same field whereon last May the baseball championship wo* fought out. * The schedule of the eleven represent ing the Georgia School of Technology will probably bo the heaviest of any Southern college this year, embracing as It does every team which now seems to have a look-in at the championship —8ewanee, Vanderbilt, Ciemson and Auburn. Present indications do not point to Georgia as a candidate for high pig-skin honors, yet Athens has a football tradition that will go far to ward the regeneration of the once haughty Red and Black. Hopes are expressed all 'over Georgia that the change of coaches at Athens will result In a much better team than represent ed the institution on the gridiron last year. With Williams in charge at Clemaon, there should be no let-up of the high standurd which the Tigers have main tained for years past. Representing tile technical school of the two great states of South Carolina and Georgia, t'leinson and Tech have been natural rivals for athletic honors for years, nhd though the palms of vie tory were waved over the old Gold and White last Thanksgiving day, Tech feels that it will take several such drubbings to wipe off the slate the to-0 defeat of 1903, Williams was the only man who was ever able to get the decision over Hetsman while the latter was coaching Ciemson, and now that he has left South Carolina college, where football has been abolished, and gone to ciemson, warm times may be looked for there. Watch the prediction that the Thanksgiving day game will he a memorable one, with a memor able crowd to witness It. Vanderbilt! There we have the key to the situation. Most authorities in the South say that when the Gold and Black of Tennessee meets the Gold and White of Georgia that there will be decided the real question as to "who’s t" In Dixieland. Those in a posi tion to know, state that the material that will line up for Dan McGugin’s Inspection next month will not be near up to the standard of last season, and though no one doubts that he is a good oach, he will have to match his brains against the smoothest artist In that line the South has ever seen. Jack llels- man is a law graduate of Pennsylvania, hut he doesn't confine his plays to e he learned nt college. The fact is that he d*»esn't use the same plays any two seasons In succession, even when there Isn’t any change In the rules. John Counselman was assistant coach nt Tech in I9'»4, and when he went to Cumberland last year he thought he knew all of Heisman's plays and how to meet them, but so skillfully did the "wizard” of South ern football train Ms men that the double pass which Counselman had helped to drill into the men the year j before was worked right under ids gO000000000000000000000000 o TECH'S SCHEDULE. O 0 O Q The corrected Tech football O O schedule follows: O O September 13—First practice. O 0 September 29—Practice game. O 0 October «—Practice game. O O October 13—University of Flor- O O Ida. O O October 20—Sewanee (prnctl- O O cully certain, though contract not O O yet sighed). O 0 October 27—Davidson. O November 3—Auburn. O November 10—Georgia. 0 November 17—Vanderbilt. O November 24—Mercer at Macon. 0 November 29—Ciemson. O All except the Mercer gamo will 0 0 be played on Tech field. 000000000000004^00000000000 I. man couldn’t see Under the new rules the grandfather of football would hardly know* the game. Originality of attack and de fense Is going to count a w'hole lot and Helsman Is nothing If not original. With all due respect to evefy coach In the South, he has done more with the material entrusted to hls care than any other man who has ever attempted to guide a Southern team to gridiron hon ors. Another team that Is going to make hard going for Tech is the Orange and Blue, of Auburn. Like Ciemson, Au- bqrn is a technical school, and as Its students play the best football In Ala bama they are natural rivals of the Atlnnta college. Although Mike Donahue’s team wns weak last season, he Is no novice, and may be depended upon to give a good account of himself with this year’s squad. Sewanee is another college where there is a football tradition and the purple-clad Tigers may be looked for to give the mighty Blacksmiths a struggle as vicious as they did last year when the best the two teams could do was an even break—18 to 18. It looks as though Helsman Is going to haVe to put up a half new team this year. Day and Clark, two of last year’s stars, are sure not to be back, and the chances are Just about even that Brown and "Red” Wilson have played their last games. If was stated at first that Billy Wilson, who Is due to captain the bunch this year, would not be back, but later developments make It look as thbugh the plucky lit tle player will be there when the ref eree blows hls whistle for the first down of the year. Another man who will be badly missed Is Butler, who, next to Kyle, was considered the best quarterback In the South last year. He was conceded to be the finest inter fere r who ever played in Atlanta. Sam Roberts, who played such a star game on Thanksgiving day, graduated in June, but Is to be back for a course In mechanical engineering, and will probably be used to fill the gap at quarter. Though light, he Is one of the quickest men on his feet which the game has developed. Selman, who played guard in most of the games last season, will not be back. , Little things like brenklng in a new team have no terrors for a man of tho resourcefulness of Helsman, and when the Atlanta public Journeys to Tech park next October and November It can expect to see playing that will he well worth the price of admission, both by the Blacksmiths and their rivals. American Association— Indianapolis 1, Milwaukee 4. Indianapolis 3, Milwaukee 4. Louisville 2, Kansas City 7. St. Paul 6, Columbus 6. Minneapolis 2, Toledo 0. Cotton 8tatss— Gulfport 7, Mobile 3. Meridian 2, Baton Rouge 0. Jackson 6, Vicksburg 2. 8peclnl to The Georgina. Augusta, Go., Aug. 18.—The Augusta team took the second of the series with the erst while leaders of the South Atlantic League yesterday afternoon by again shutting Sa- vaunoh out. Nap Rucker, the ex-Atlanta star, was the firing line for the locals, and the w derful Harry Kane was doing the box stuut for the visitors. He wns, us he usually is, while in Augusta, ”off color," nn*T n'L*& he first went on the grounds It could be seen that he did not have the goods. The very first ball that be tossed In the game plastered Frank Korean), and the big In dian made hls way nrnuiid the circuit be fore he could 1h» stopped. The Augusta team played good hard ball, and there wns not a time that it looked as though the visitors were going to do any thing with Rucker. The old Georgian wns in the finest of form, and had every thing that was needed for the capturing of the game. He allowed but five hits, and Kane did the'same. Kane, however, was i wild as a March hare. The winning of the game yesterday made it four for this week which go to the credit of Rucker, ns he won Monday’s game and a double-header Wednesday and the game yesterday, lie is making quite a rec ord for himself. The following is the official , game yesterduy: AlOLHTA- Aim ■i » i i juivTiimi. .ii Header, Jr.. . Carson, c.. . Smith, lb.. .. Kustus, cf.. Blerman, as.. Eichler, 3b..*, Rucker, p.. . Totals.. King, rf, .. .. *.,4’ Mortis, ss 4 Kahlkoff; e 4 Knbrie. lb 4 Howard, cf 4 „ . Hex ter. If 3 0 •» Hoff. 2b 4 0 5 i/cwis, 3b 3 0 0 Kane, p 3 0 0 Totals 33 ~0 ~h • •McKernan out, hit by hatted hall.' Score by innings: 2 ? ? « Angn,t«.. .. . 101 w mil Havnminh <>.> Summary: Two-Urn- lilt, [iMtrrWT'sl hm»-« AiiRUitfi 4. Hnrnnnnh 6; him.., on h«nil off Hunker 1. off Kune f Work ,i p Hooker 8, by Kune 4- hit by pltrher N»P , own: Meriden hit. rteroler; ,toleu niZT Carson. South; wild pitch, Kane* - Ill II Knhlknfr S Rn ... nil ball. Kahlkoff. Time. H . . and McLaughlin. Attendance nm-lr,.,. R„,l Pitcher Still of Richmond Joins Atlanta Septemberl\ Special to The Georgian. Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 18.—"Colonel" Still, the Richmond club's crock twlrler. has been •old to the Atlanta baseball club of the Southern League. He confirmed the'report that he will play with the Gate City team on the Southern circuit after September 1, when he will report to Manager Smith. Re ports regarding the sale of Still to Atlanta have been circulated widely on the Vlrtfnul circuit of late, but Still would never talkL about it until today, when he n<imitte4| that he will go south nt the end »f th'.il month* He fa n Kentuckian, and bv profession newspaper man. He aspires to own a nrri*| Sad, Funeral Notes Sounded After the Fierce Slaughter FINE HOSPITAL for Panamas and old hats that need cleaning and repairs. Bussey, 28 1-2 Whitehall. Friday always was an unlucky day. Guess we'll have to transfer the title of Burglars from Memphis to Mont gomery. The opening game was one of the best of the season, but the locals are so badly over-trained and over-strain ed that they could not keep the pace through tho second one. Guess Doc Childs will be with us for awhile yet. He pitched nice ball Fri day. Speaking of pitchers, what’s Harley’s Job these days? Hls familiar face ha* not been seen anywhere except on the bench or on Peachtree street for theso many days. If the team behind Childs had been able to hit Maxwell the game would have gone to Atlunta with a rush. But the Pickle was rather too warm a prop osition. Regular Dill. / Apperious went to sleep when Win ters came to bat in the fourth inning and strayed well over to the left end of hls territory. So when Winters sent one down between center and left it was out of Apperious’ reach. But Me C&nn got under It and spoiled what looked like a good single. It was pretty hard luck that Perry scored. A base on balls and a wild pitch let the stubby third baseman get to third base. When Perry ambled oft Childs threw in an attempt to catch him. The ball went a trifle wide and Smith dropped It. Not a bad error by any means, but It happened to be the unfortunate play that lost the game. No kick coming on Sid Smith, though. He is playing a beautiful game at third and is undeniably one of the most valuable men on the team. Apperious nearly scored In the first game. With two men down in the fourth an error let him get to second. When McCann singled he tried to score, but Winters sent the ball to Jordan, who relayed It to Evers and completed the put-out. Fine business. Zeller pitched the widest "ball” of the season Friday. Instead of going over the plate it slid off Rube’s fingers al most at light angles to its proper di rection and brought up against the grand stand. Fortunately no men were on bases During the progress of the. gams some admirer of Mullaney sent him half a watermelon. This Dominick re ceived with much thanks and ate as the game progressed. body else connected with Babb's Bur J lars will be fired. ( Or maybe the New Orleans-Mem-1 phls-Shreveport-LIttle Rock confederJ ation has nominated Memphis to viol the pennant this year, since New 0r-| leans begins to appear out of it. League Standings 80UTHERN. Club— Birmingham , Memphis , . , New iirlcnns Shreveport , Atlanta . . . Montgomery. Nashville . . . Little Rock . , Played. Won. Lojt.PCt| SOUTH ATLANTIC. Club— Augusta . . . .Savannah . . Macon . . . Columbia . . Charleston . Jacksonville. NATIONAL Club— Played. Won. Lo«t P. Chicago ..... 108 7S 30 New York . . 104 60 35 107 67 40 107 Pittsburg . . Philadelphia, Cincinnati . Brooklyn , . St. Louis .. . Boston . . . , 108 41 107 Club— Chicago . . Philadelphia New York .... 101 Cleveland ... 103 St. Louis ... 106 Detroit 106 Washington . . 10A Boston 107 Played. Won. LostP.I 107 64 43 .5 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Played. Won. Lost.F P-l Club— Columbus. . Milwaukee . Toledo . . , Louisville . Minneapolis Kansas City St. Paul . Indianapolis. 116 119 49 The Charge is Absolutely False a —BILLY SMITH. Billy Smith was rightfully Incensed at the charge made by Charley Frank that he had won two pennants In Macon by the use of "rubber bails," * i This charge Billy denies absolutely. Such a dental Is hardly necessary, however, for any one who knows Billy Smith feels confident that he would* not resort to any such meth ods. He Is the kind of a manager who takes advantage of any legitimate opportunity, but whatever he wins he wins on the square. In answer to Charley Frank's charge Smith said: • Any statement that I used rubber balls In Macon or anywhere else Is a deliberate falsehood. 1 have never used one, and do not expect to. In fact. I never saw a rubber ball until I went to New Orleans on that famous trip. Such a charge Is absolutely false, as well as absolutely absurd." Atlanta vs. Montgomery AUGUST 18. GAME CALELD 3 P. M. Apperious made a lucky single in the first inning of the second game. Zeller slapped the ball and almost stopped It and Hoffman went In behind him and picked It up nicely. Unfortunately Lar ry's balance became misplaced In the shuffle and he fell down. Before he could throw the ball everybody wan safe. Walsh has rather the most awkward delivery' seen at Piedmont this season, hut It Is certainly effective. The At lanta batters could do nothing with him. Archer made a great one-handed catch Just befor® he had to give up In the second game. Busch got away with what looked like a hit, but Jeems speared It. Looks as though Augusta were hard after the South Atlantic pennant Handed another shut-out to Savannah Ft May. Well, even if Atlanta did lose two Birmingham won, so there Is a crumb of comfort in the gloomy situation. . FRIDAY’S RESULTS. Southern— Montgomery 1, Atlanta 0. Montgomery 8, Atlanta 2. Birmingham 2, Nashville 1. Memphis 2, New Orleans 1. Shreveport 5, Little Rock 2- South Atlantic— Augusta 2, Savannah 0. Charleston 3, Jacksonville L Columbia 2, Macon 0. Macon 8, Columbia 4. American— Detroit 6, New York 0. Washington 3, St. Louis 1. St. Louis 4, Washington 3. Chicago 4, Boston 3. Cleveland 8* Philadelphia 4. Philadelphia 4, Cleveland National— Pittsburg 4, Boston 2. Chicago 5, Brooklyn -• New York 6, St. Louis 4 Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1 Eastern— , Providence 6, Rochester I- Newark 5, Buffalo 0. Toronto 2, Jersey City 1- Baltimore 8, Montreal "• Vlrflini*— Richmond 1, Danville -■ Portsmouth 3, Norfolk *»• Portsmouth 5, Norfolk 0- Loucks pitched fine hall for Memphis against New Orleans. And Memphis! _- won. Gee, if this keeps up long Char- hur--- ’Docrt* SeVeHI ley Babb, Tom McCullough and every- MOfG SpOlTS 011 *^6® ® I