Newspaper Page Text
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST, 28,. 1906.
I SPORTS1 WONDERFUL RECORD ON THE. ROAD
ikLiAiL
Atlanta Players Bewail
Run of Luck That Beat 9 Em
By PERCY WHITING.
Bpeda) Correspondence.
Shreveport, Aug. 27,—Ton may say
what you want to, but If Atlanta had
not had harder luck than nny manager
rould expect and more misfortune than
ran In* guarded against In a league where
each inalinger la limited to fourteen piny-
era. the Crocker* would have wpn the
Southern League pennant.
With the regular plnyera In the line-up,
It la hard to are how* any team In the
league baa nny license to beat the Crack-
era. This la no obituary notice and no
hard luck story, ft la a plain statement
of obvious facts.
On appearances, Memphis and New Or
leans hare stronger teams right now. But
they did not have them at the start of the
season, nor until nearly Its end.
And nt that, Memphis failed to prove
that her rejuvenated and presumaly salary-
exceeding team could do It, and New Or
leans has yet to prove It.
Without expressing It as a personal opin
ion. but as the best Judgment of all the
managers In the league who hare been
asked about the matter, the three most
valuable men on the team, outside the
pitchers, are Fox, Archer and Jordan.
And It Is a fact easily demonstrated by
a glance nt past J>ox scores that these
three men are the ones who have lieen
most often hurt and most frequently out
of tbs game. Bach one of then men met
his hard luck In actual basetiall and while
fighting for the Atlanta team. They re
ceived Injuries while they were plnylng
the game and In a way which could not
be guarded agalaat. But they were In
jured, and these Injuries put them out of
the game, and have beaten Atlanta out of
the pennant.
Every man on the Atlanta team, from
the manager down, believes that If Fox,
Archer and Jordan had not t»ecn hurt,
Atlanta would have won the rag.
This Is no kick against fate and no calam
ity howl. It Is Juat a little spiel to the
effect that the Atlanta manager and the
Atlnnta Baseball Axxorlnlon has done
everything within reason to give Atlnnta
pontiat winner, and that the failure m
no fault of nny man or set of men.
wns hard luck.
Nothing but n short arm Jab from fate
right to the solar plexus (whatever that
happens to 1m») of the Birmingham club
can put the Barons out of the pennant
race. They have It pmetlcully cinched.
We'll all have to hand It to Vaughn.
He got together a good team and he kept
It together. Ills pitchers worked well-
better than nny one expected, except him
self and themselves. They twirled good
ball, and they had snappy support.
But here again we see the line “Bye-
fnllHfi" hand of fate. Vaughn's men linre
had good luck. The team has met with
no serious misfortunes. The only plures
made vacant, Vaughan was able to fill.
All credit to Vaughan for this—but don’t
overlook the luck of It. It took a lot.
Billy Hmltk has come In for n world
of roasting and criticism. Outside of At
lanta, the fans of the south—from Pres
ident Knvniiaiigh right down to the least
of them—have had It In for Smith almost
from the first.
But Hmltli hns gone right 'along mind
ing Ills own business and managing the
Cracker team to the best of his ability.
That the pennant will fly In Alabama's
metropolis Instead of In that of fjcorgln Is
fault of the man who gabled the Ma
con tenm and several others to premier
honors. He tins token advantage of every
opening offered, and has given Atlanta a
ball team which has mude n remarkable
record.
Give Atlanta fairly decent luck to
end of the season and the Crackers will
finish second In the league race.
The final road trip atnrted off with
rush, nnd with nnythlug but a string of
misfortunes In Hhreveport and New Or
leans, the bunch will come home In second
place or within reach of It. And If they
do, It Is n safe bet that they will atay
there to the end of the senaon.
CHARLESTON CLUB AFTER
BILLY SMITH FOR 1907
By PERCY WHITING.
Shreveport, La., Aug. 21—Manager Billy
Smith hns Juat received n splendid offer to
manage the Charleston clnb next year. He
doea not contemplate leaving Atlanta, how
ever.
The Chnrleaton folka have a good deal of
money nnd pennant nsptrntloun. They know
the record Hilly Smith made In the Mouth
Atlantic league In 1904 nnd 1906. With the
cheapest tennis lit the league he won t>oth
pennants.
Charleston hns had high priced teams
which have failed largely hecntiae ef poor
management. They feel sure that Hilly can
turn the trick, mid they w*aut him.
Atlanta will piny a double-header here
with Hhreveport Wcdneadny and Wedncadny
night will take the train for New Orleans,
where the concluding series on the road
will lie begun Friday. An even break In
the remaining six games will satisfy Illly,
although the team Is fighting like a bunch
of Huns nnd expects four out of the re
maining six.
Rhreveport was considerably weakened on
Mondny by the absence of Absteln, who has
been batting heavily. He wll get In the
game again soon.
Foxy base-running by Whltey Morse was
the feature of Mmidny'a game. Crosier
waa on third nnd the double stenl was
started. Whitby dodged back nnd forth till
Croslar scored nnd then "Cotton Top"
dodged through the entire Shreveport tenm.
NAP RUCKER,
BIG LEAGUER
W,U, well!
Our old friend, Nupoleon B. Itueker, of
Cralinpple. Colil, count/, ha, heroine a
large leaguer. Drafted bjr Connie Mack,
be goab all hemlock* and bjr crack/.
Will take a ding at hit Napoleonic ri
val, Lajole, next /ear, ma/be.
Nap la the twlrler whom Ab Powell kept
on the aalarz roll near!/ a /ear and work
ed oul/ In tbe Fourth of July morning
game.
Then he went back to Crmbapple. Thence
to Newunn.
Nap waa thereupon picked up h/ An-
guatn, where he haa pitched for two
/ear*.
He twirled exeellent hall ln,t /ear. Thl,
/ear he baa dona magnldcent work. He
haa quit tr/lug to curro 'em all orer the
lot, and haa quit tr/lng to (care battcra
to death with hla speed.
In other word,, he haa absorbed con
siderable baseball sense.
With careful handling, such aa Connie
Mack can glre. Nap ought. In time, make
a atar pitcher.
But the/ used to aa/ of him, aa of man/
othera, that he had a 110,000 arm and a
10 centa head.
League Standings
Clubs— '
Birmingham .
Memphis , . .
Atlanta , . . .
Now Orleans .
8hrcveport . .
Montgomery .
Nashville . . .
Little Rock . .
.67*
.6*5
.5*0
80UTH ATLANTIC.
Crackers Win the Seventh
Out of Nine Games on Road
By PERCY WHITING.
Rhrerepoft, La., Aug. 2t.-ln a rather wool/ eoutest Monde/ Atlanta took the
drst game of the acrlea from Hhreveport b/ the aeore of 6 to 4. The gnme waa ron-
apleuons hecauae of tho very poor deldlug of both teams.
Errors of omission plt/ed as Important a part In Ilia mlaene line na did (hose of
commission, and a tumble that Cenlerfleldcr King took was rcs|emslhlo for two rims
that Atlanta (cored. Hoffman had loat hla rangn Under ami was awn/ off In hi,
work.
Consecutive hitting by Atlanta won the gnme. Throe runs came In the Bret In
ning aa the reanlt of Wlntera' double, Evan,' error on Croller'a grounder, Hudth'a fiy
out, Moree'a alngle, the double ateal racket and Klug'a error. It wn, poor hall play
ing by the Pirates.
Croaler'a pass, Smith's alngle, and Morse's single gare another In the third. A
pesa to Wlntera and singles by Crosier hml Hmllh added one more in the seventh,
while the coieludlng tally for Atlanta rnme In tho eighth on Pox', getting to grot on
a Haidar's eholce, followed hy Jordan's double.
After two were out In the fourth, single, hy lies, nnd King, s triple by l'owell
and Hoffman's arror gave tbs Pirates three runs. They got snother In llie ninth,
when Hoff man threw away the ball.
Clubs—
Savannah .
Augusta . .
Macon . . .
Columbia . .
Charleston .
Jacksonville
COTTON 8TATE8.
Club-
Mobile . . .
Meridian . .
Gulfport . .
Baton Rouge
Jackson . .
Vicksburg ,
IS5?v.
Graffiti*, c.,
Byrne. ■*.. .»
Daley, If
Dowell, c
I«. P
Total*.. .. .. .. ..
’ 4core by innlof*:
"jinnta'Pflnrir
.4 0 0 21 1
a...* 0 0 9 1 0
....4 0 0 2 1 0
....4 0 0 1 6 0
...,4 0 1 4 0 0
...,211400
...,4 2 1 2 3 0
...211101
..4 0 0 0 1 0
.34 ~4 ~4 27 5 1
~Afr,AT??A~ '
"Winter*, rf..
Harley, p..
Total*. ..
ab. n, it. i»o. A. te,
....i 2 1 o 3 5
4 2 I 0 o I
...6 0 2 9 0 0
... ..4121 2 0
.. ..4 0 0 0 3 3
4 0 3 3 3 0
.. ..4 1 0 10 0 1
4 0 2 4 0 0
....4 0 0 0 3 0
... 37 6 11 27 il 1
0 0 1-4
Mammary: Two-hnae Jilts, iVlntere, Archer; three-bane hit*. I’ewellf Jordan;
•tolen haves, Hess, Crosier, Morse; double pl*ys. Hew to Byrne to Kennedy; struck
out by Lee 2, by llarley 6; bust* on hulls off I.ee 2, off llarley 4; left on I in sea,
8hreveport 7. Atlanta 6; first base on errors, Hhreveport 3, Atlanta 1. Time, 1:34.
Umpire. Itudderhsm.
Cllibi—
Chicago . .
New York .
Philadelphia.
Cleveland .
Ht. Louis . ,
Detroit . . .
Washington .
Boston . . .
Clubs—
Chicago . . ,
New York .
Pittsburg . .
Philadelphia.
Cincinnati. .
Brooklyn . .
St. IdOtllS . .
Boston . . .
AMERICAN.
Played. Won. Loat.
.645
.600
.486
.401
.361
P.C.
.610
.669
.566
.560
.522
.478
.407
.304
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Clubs— Played. Won. Lott.
Columbus ... 130 79 51
Milwaukee . . 130 72 58
Toledo .... 127 69 68
Minneapolis . 129 67 62
Kansas City. . 129 66 64
Louisville ... 129 61 68
Paul ... 128 67 70
Indianapolis. . 129 45 84
Previous Road Failures
Now Seem To Be Mystery
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Shreveport, La.. Aug. 27.—Why At
lanta haa not been a good road team
this year fa hard to tell. Judging In
th*; opening games of the road trip
they should have taken a majority of
road »ame* thl* year. The team has
had enough ginger to run a factory,
and then have some left over for home
consumption. Every man on the team
aeems to have his heart In the game
and every one has kept in condition
and spread himself to make runs and
hold the opponents down.
The Crackers have to furnish all
their own rooting on the road and they
all Join in the yelling and kidding In
a way that make* a moat encouraging
iwcktt.
"«tured kidding with the
bleachers on the road the Atlanta team
would be a hard proposition to beat.
Fox always make* a big hit with the
crowds and jollies along go**! natured-
ly In every game. In Memphis Jordan
invented a war whoop which he turn
off a good play. The bleachers took It
up, for use only when an Atlant-i man
made a mlsplay or was put out.
the last game In the Bluff City Jordan
and the rest rubbed It In good and
proper and the whoop la now the offi
cial team yell.
During: the closing game* of Atlan
ta 'a last home series Umpire Rudder-
ham went astray twice on "balls’' and
"strikes" and on both occasions he
called on the official scorer for Inform
ation as to the number already pitched.
This "Info” was forthcoming botb
times, but the official scorer protestel
that he was not expected to furnish
the umpe with this dope. Ruddertum
said he was.
The question as to whether or rot
this Information was required of the
scorers was put up to Clark Mtler,
secretary to the president of nh.e South
ern League, nnd Mr. Miller stated Most
emphatically that balls amfi *t.1kc*
were to be kept by the um l »4*> and
that "hla umps" was in error |.| calling
on the scorer for them.
Clark Miller was much amused at
MONDAY’S RESULTS.
Southern—
Atlanta 6, Shreveport 4.
Memphis l, Birmingham 0.
Little R«>ck l. Montgomery 0.
New Orleans 6, Nashville 1.
South Atlantic—
Macon I, Charleston 0.
American—
New York 2. St. Louis 1.
Washington 10, Detroit 1.
Cleveland 6. Boston b.
Chicago l, Philadelphia 0.
National—
Chicago 5, Boston 2.
St. Louts 6, Brooklyn 2.
Brooklyn 6, St. Isoula 4.
American Association—
Columbus 7, Kansas city 0.
Milwaukee 4, Toledo J.
Minneapolis 4. laoulsvllle 3.
• Indianapolis S, St. Paul 3.
Cotton States—
Jackson 2. Mobile 1.
Vicksburg 1, Baton Rouge 0.
Gulfport 1, Meridian 0.
Virginia State—
Portsmouth A Danville ft.
Richmond 2, Roanoke 1.
Lynchburg 9, Norfolk 0 (forfeited.)
IN CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Judge KavanaughWill
Again Be Elected
President.
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Shreveport, Lx, Aug. 2*—"Shreve
port will certainly be In the Southern
League next year. The franchise Is
not for sale," so spoke Harry Ehrlich,
part owner of the Shreveport fran
chise and mouthpiece of Captain Craw
ford, the largest owner of the club's
stock In the absence of that gentle
man.
■Well, why won't you 7” the writer
asked. "Your club loses money, your
attendance Is poor and you could get a
good piece ot money for your fran
chise.”
"Because we like baseball," was the
answer.
Now, what are you going to do In a
case like that?
It hurts the league to have a town
like Shreveport In It. Every team
which goes,there loses money, for Its
share of the receipts (or as the share
seldom amounts to the guarantee fund,
it gets Instead the prescribed *76)
never pays the expenses of the club.
Financially Shreveport has always
been a ghastly failure for visiting clubs
and such a club Is a weak spot In the
llnanclnl side of the league.
Moreover, the friendship of the
Shreveport club tor New Orleans
makes possible the supremacy of
Charley Prank In league politics, and
every fan In the eastern wing of the
circuit will readily admit that such a
condition Is deplorable.
But what can you do about It7 The
owners of the Shreveport franchise are
sportsmen. They say they will not
sell. They prefer baseball to the
money, and say that if there Is ever
a deficit It will be possible to pass the
hat and raise $10,000 to pull the club
out of a hole.
The town like the club owners Is a
sport, too.
So there you are.
Shreveport wants to stay In the
league and no one can put It out.
When the owners rate the sport above
money baseball is likely to stick.
Little Rock la In the same boat. The
backers say that It Is a mighty ex
pensive sport, but that they can make
money with a winning team, and that
If they can't they are willing to lose a
bit more.
So you can put a few facts In your
pipe for smoking during the winter.
Little Rock and Shreveport will be
members of next year's Southern
League. >
And Judge Kavanaugh will be re
elected president of the Southern
League.
This isn’t what Atlanta wants. But
It Is what Atlanta gets, and not what
Atlanta wants, that cuts Ice through
the western end ot the elrcult these
days.
And the west still dominates, politic
ally. They don’t get the pennant this
year, thanks to Harry Vaughan, and
they will have to hustle mightily for
eecond place, thanks to Billy Smith.
Mike Finn Is still fuming over the
Castro deal. He Is firmly convinced
that he could have nailed *1,000 to
*1,260 for the man. and Intimates that
as he waa Bold for less somebody was
bilked.
Mike has proved an alibi, so far aa
the deal Is concerned, and undoubted-
BAD COMPANY.
You and a greasy hat. Bussey can
clean and reshape (the hat). 28 1-2
Whitehall.
, mm- ! *»■•» «*»*■ •*-■ »iw mum i-v* a-. rirBII
•a loose every time any Cracker pulled tbe fact that hla name waa projnlnenl- office. 1
ly mentioned a* a successor to Judge
Kavanaugh ns president of the South
ern League. "It Is getting to bo a
yearly thing to mix my name up with
the other candldatea." aald Mr. Miller.
"1 have lust quit denying It. 1 am Juat
one of the hired men of the league, and
It will be a long day before I run for
president. Certainly not aa long aa
President Kavanaugh will accept the
Some Notes and Gos
sip Gathered With
With the Team.
ly had nothing to do with It and knew
nothing about It until It waa com
pleted.
The Birmingham Ledger calls Billy
Smith “four-flushing and ungrateful,”
and charges (hat he started the aglta.
tlon against the Caatro deal. Billy says
they are mistaken. "I never said any
thing against It,” said Smith. "In fact,
I was tickled to death. I would have
been glad If they could have borrowed
Mathewson and a few such to finish
out the season.”
The less Birmingham haa to aay
about the deal the better. It looks
shady, but Atlanta would be glad to
believe that it la all right. So let’s let
It go at that.
Owing to the fact that Jordan and
Crosier are going to open a candy and
Ice cream store when the baseball
season closes the team la now referring
to them aa the “candy kids.”
According to .Jordan, two other
members of the Atlanta team—Even
and Fox—will be engaged In the en
terprise. The last named gentlemen
have consented to walk up and down
In front of the store, with signs on
their backs. Evers' sign will read. "Eat
our Ice cream. It made me fat,” and
Fox's sign, “Our soda water made me
tall.”
It ought to make & big hit.
Crosier and Jordan spend all their
waking hours with their heads togeth
er, doping out tiled floors, soda water
apparatus, fancy fixtures and the like.
"The Candy Kldi" say that their place
along side the Aragon Is going to be
the handsomest In town, and Its pop
ularity Is a foregone conclusion.
It's a race between the mosquitoes
and the ball players for nossestlon of
the hotel here. Winters declares that
the Ktegomylas and the anopholes
(only he didn't say just that) don't
mind the mosquito bars. "Thay just
take a running start and eat their way
through," says Ginger.
To which Whltey Morse replied that
he didn't see how they got a running
start In a room of that slss, and the
tram let It go at that.
But getting back to the moaqultoei
they are certainly blood-thirsty.
COUNTRY CLUB
WORKS STUNT
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 26.—Tbe Country
Club of Little Rock la working out a stunt
which might well be noticed by the Atlanta
Athletic Club.
They now hare a neat little club house In
a delightful situation a half dosen miles or
so from the Arkansas capital.
• Tbe upper floor has for a. long time been
turned orer to the male members of the
club for sleeping rooms and the number of
men who trailed themselres of the privl-
lege of spending the summer nights there
prored so Urge that the club la now mak
ing pUns to accommodate all who wish to
come.
Work will be started la a short tfma ot
a "dormitory,” *p It Will be called. This
will be a neat little two-story building,
where sleeping accommodations will be pro*
rldsd for twenty to thirty men. The rooms
will not be fancy, but they will be cool And
comfortable and there tbe members of the
dab who want to get sway from the best
of tbe dty will spend their nights.
Of course the average country dub Is
provided with Bleeping rooms, but ss a
rule they are rather elaborate attain and
a’ considerable sum Is charged for their use.
In the Little Bock dnb'a dormitory the
rooms will be free to the members. The
dub will provide the furniture and the
men will furnish their own bedding. The
dub will bars a regular breakfast served
each morning and supper may be ordered
by those who wUh It In thU way tbe
member* of the clnb who wish to get out
where it }• cool and comfortable and with
in reach of tennis courts and a golf course
can do so at any time and tha cost will ba
decidedly reasonable.
Watch Brotman Grow, i
O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O
O
Atlanta In Shreveport. O
Birmingham In Memphis. O
Montgomery In Little Rock. . O
Nashville In New Orleans. O
-r O
00000000000000000000000000
That man Beeker has developed Into
a wonderful winner at home. He Is the
man, It will be remembered, whom Bob
Gllks released early In the season and
then signed over again because Brelt-
ensteln was hurt. Well, since that time
he has won eleven games, lost one and
tied one at home. The tie game was
the one which ended with the Southern
League season’s first triple play. Nash
ville beat him the only time he haa
lost. Atlanta was beaten by him here
by a score of 5 to 4—In one of the sea
son’s multitudinous one-run-margln
games—and that one run came as a re
sult of Absteln’s four-sacker.
As Beeker pitched against Nashville
Sunday, It Is not likely that Atlanta
will catch him this trip. However,
outside of Lee. who has a bruised fin
ger. all of Shreveport'i pitchers are
pretty warm propositions at this writ
ing, and about equally dangerous.
EDGEW00D 16, SOUTHERN RY. 1.
Hstunliy sfternoon, Edgewood met snd
detested the Houthern Rsllwny tenm by the
score of 1* to !.
The festure of the gsme wss the pitch
ing of Kline for Edgewood, who did not
sllow Ms opponents s bit.
The saute wss railed at the end of the
slstb Inning on account of rain and dark*
genre liy Innings:
Edgewood
Southern Railway.. .
R. II. E.
..10! 6*2—1* 12 2
. .000 100- l 0 9
NAT KAISER & CO.
Confidential loans on valuables.
Bargains in unredeemed Diamond*
15 Occatur %L Kimball Hous*
Seven out of nine on the road. Per
centage for the trip, .777. Reckon that
would sort o' win thq pennant, If kept up.
At last, old Ote fltockdsle haa . had a
bit of luck. Monday he trimmed tbe
Birmingham* by the score of 1 to 0.
ITofftnsn. was all to the bad Monday,
getting three large errors that would have
been costly hut for the heavy hitting of
the Cracker*. Ills last mlscue was In
tbe ninth. Tbe first man up for fihrsre-
port slammed one down to third, and Hof-
fy threw ths ball Into the bleachers,
giving the runner a free pass all the way
homo. Harley then ateadled down and
put three men down In a row.
It wns the lowly Washington team that
atopped the Chicago Americana, after they
had won nineteen successive games. 'Twss
ever thus.
Jeems Archer made a pretty good start
In center field, getting four put-outs and
two bits.
It was observed concerning one of the
pitchers In a certain professional baseball
team tbnt be was not a particularly bril
liant player In hla position. He had no
better assortment of drops, outcurve* or
Inahoot* than the average pitcher, and hla
speed was not at all phenomenal, jet be
semed to have n faculty of winning game*.
A frequent patron of thla dub once nak
ed the captain for an explanation.
*IIow doea It happen," he oald, "that
you generally win when he pitches?"
"Well,” responded the captain, "you no
tice that he never chins the umpire, sad
never kicks?"
Yes."
He's always smiling?”
Yes."
Always seems to be doing the liest he
can?”
•Yes."
•Well, do yon think we don't notice that,
too? We know he’s a good fellow, we *11
like him, and when he's In the box we
five him the very l»est support we’ve got In
he shop. That’s why we win gsnies
when he pitches." „ ..
Here I* s principle with a wider field
of anpllciitlon than it baseball field.—
nut us Companion. *
Mike Mowery arrived from Baltimore
fast evening, and will play third base In
today's gnme*. The red top Is looking m
great shape, nnd feels confident of contin
uing here the good work that made him
the talk of the Eastern League- <»U»d
to get l*»ek to Clndnnatl. ’ said Mike last
night, ‘‘though they treated me fine brer
In Baltimore. I hop* to *|o well epongU
not to disappoint toe public. —C incinnati
M^ke waa last year the "tar third*
seeker of the gavanuab South Atlantic
League team.