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WEARY CRACKERS
BEAT MEMPHII
With blood In their eyed the Fire
cracker* jumped into the cecond of
the Memphle-Atianta come, determined
to get revenge for the treatment ac
corded them on Monday.
Here 1* the way they played the
game:
Pint Inning.
Thiel beat out a bunt. He tried to
awlpe second and vu out. Babb walk
ed. Carter grounded to second and
Babb waa out Carter stole. second.
Nlcholla walked. Nadeau popped out.
One hit; no runs.
Winters walked. Crosier sacrificed
and Winters went to second. Sid Smith
popped out Morse out, short to first.
No hits; no runt.
Second Inning.
Carey singled. Jim Smith sacrificed
and Carey went to second. Hurlburt
out. second to first, Carey on third.
Suggs fanned. One hit; no runs.
Hoffman filed out. Jordan popped
out. Fox out, short to first. No hitsi
no runs.
Third Inning.
Thiel lined out to Fox. Babb popped
out. Carter grounded to third and safe
on Hoffman's error. NIcholts popped
out to Jordan. No hits; no runs.
Archer out, third to first. Hughes
filed out. Winters out, second to first.
No hits; no runs.
Fourth Inning.
Nadeau popped out. Carey fanned.
Jim Smith out, third to flrst.No hits)
no runs.
Crosier singled. Sid Smith grounded
to Suggs and safe on first. Crosier on
second. Morse sacrificed the runners
forward a base each. Hoffman filed out
to right. Crosier scored, and Smith on
third. Jordan out, short to flrst.Ona
hit; one run.
Fifth Inning.
Hurlburt oilt, Hughes to Fox. Suggs
singled. Thiel hit to Hughes and Suggs
died at second. Thiel stle second. Babb
out, second to first. One hit; no runs.
Fox fanned. Archer popped out.
Hughes filed out. No hits; no runs.
Sixth Inning.
Carter fouled out Nlcholls out,
pitcher to first. Nadeau walked and
swiped second. Carey filed out No
hits; no runs.
Winters singled. Crosier sacrificed.
Wontera on second. Sid Smith hit to
short and Winters filed at third. Morse
fouled out No hitsi no runs.
Seventh Inning,
Jim Smith out, second to first. Hurl-
btirt out third to first Suggs fanned.
No hitsi no runs.
Hoffman out, pitcher to first Jor
dan fanned. Fox fouled out to Babb.
Eighth Inning.
Thiel filed out. Babb filed out Car
ter filed out.
Archer filed out Hughes fanned.
Winters put short to first.
Ninth Inning.
Nlcholls filed out Nadeau filed out.
Carey fanned.
Atlanta.
AB.
n.
H.
PO
A.
E.
tVInt.m, rf. .
. 3
0
1
1
0
ft
Crotlur. If.' .
. 2
i
1
0
0
S. Smith, c. .
. 3
0
0
7
X
0
Morse, »». ..
. 2
0
0
0
ft
0
Hoffman, 3b.
. 3
0
0
0
2
1
Jordan. 3b. ..
. 3
0
0
7
3
ft
Fox, ll». ....
. t
0
0
9
ft
0
A rcher, of. .
. S
0
0
1
ft
0
Hughe*, p. ..
. t
0
0
0
2
0.
Total* ....
1
2
27
8
1
Memphis.
AB.
R.
H.
PO
A.
E.
Thiel, rf. ...
. 4
0
1
3
0
0
Babb. 3b. ...
. 3
0
»
2
X
0
Carter. If. ..
. 4
0
0
1
ft
0
Nlcholls, as.
. 3
0
0
1
5
0
Nadeau, cf. .
. 3
0
0
1
0
0
Carey, Jb. ...
. 4
0
1
12
0
0
J. Smith* 2b.
. 2
0
0
l
1
0
Hurlburt, c. .
. 3
0
0
3
-1
ft
Sugge. p. ...
. 3
0
1
0
3
1
Totala ....
0
3
24
11
1
Score by Innlnge:
Memphis ....
000 000
000— 0
Atlanta
000
100
00*-
1
Summary.
Struck out—By Hughe* 3. by Suggs
t Base on balls—Off Hughes 2, off
Suggs 1. Sacrifice hits—Crosier (2),
J. Smith, Morse, Thiel. Stolen base*—
Carter, Nadeau. Hit by pitched ball—
Nadeat. Umpire—Rudderham.
OTHER GAMES.
Nashville • Little Rock game post
poned on account of rain.
Montgomery-New Orleans game Is
postponed on acount of rain.
Blrmlngham-Shrsveport game post
poned on account of wet grounds.
national!
Chicago 010 010 010 —S s 2
Cincinnati ... 001 000 000 —1 t l
Batteries: Overall and Kllng; Kwlng
and Schlet.
Boston . . .. 102 100 002 — « 12 1
New York . . 000 403 31* —11 13 3
Batteries: Young and Needham:
McQinnlty and Bresnaham.
Brooklyn.. . ... 110 000 000— 2 6 4
Philadelphia . ...001 000 14*— 6 9 1
Batteries: Strlcklett and Bergen:
Lush and Donavan.
St. Louis .... 000 000 010 —1 8 1
Pittsburg ... 010 013 00* —5 11 1
Batteries: Thompson and Marshall;
Hildebrand and Phelps.
AMERICAN.
First Game—
New York 004 000 021— 7 15 1
Boston 000 000 000— 0 4 2
Batteries: Clarkson and Thomas; Dl-
neen and Corrigan.
WIND30R.
Windsor, Ont., Sept. 4.—Here are the
results of the races here this after
noon:
FIRST RACE—Peter Paul, 6 to 1,
won; Fustian, 3 to 5, second; Lou I’a-
nla, 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:14.
SECOND RACE—Salvlsa. « to t
won: Sweet Kitty, 5 to 1, second
French Empress, 10 to 1, third. Time,
1:01.
THIRD RACE—Thistle Doe, 6 to ,
won; Dollnda, 3 to 5, second; Prestige,
6 to 6, third. Time, 1:47 1-5.
FOURTH RACE—Minot. 11 to 5.
won; Emlnola, even, second; Reside,
1 to 2, third. Time, 1:07 1-6.
FIFTH RACE—King Pepper. 2
1, won; Sheen, 7 to 2, second; Marquis
De Carlba*! even, third. Time, 1:27 1-6.
SIXTH RACE—Scarecrow, 2 to 1,
won; Pentagon, 2 to 1, second; Annlo
Berry, even, third.
8HEEP8HEAD BAY.
FIRST RACE—Anna May, 3 to 6,
won; Princess Nettle, 100 to 1, second;
Crimson Clover, 7 to 6, third. Time,
1:07 1-5.
SECOND RACE—Wes, 4 to 6, won;
Orly, 6 to 2, second; Water Dog, even,
third. Time, 1:40 3-5.
THIRD RACE—Fountalnbleau, 7 to
20, won; Vox Popull, 1 to 2, second;
Victoria B„ out, third. Time, 1:14.
FOURTH RACE—Neaion. 12 to 1,
won; Cotton Town, 1 to 4, second;
ironsides, even, third. Time, 1:63.
FIFTH RACE—Shot Gun, 11 to 5.
won; Oxford, 6 to 1, second; Prince
Hamburg, 2 to 6, third. Time, 1:13 4-5.
SIXTH RACE—Ostrich, 7 to 1, won;
Sailor Boy, 3 to 1, second; Lotus Eater,
6 to 2, third. Time, 1:47 3-5.
LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 4.—The races
here this afternoon resulted ns follows:
FIRST RdICE—Rothgeb, 8 to 1, won;
Rush Thorpe, 6 to 1, second; Montal-
ban, even, third.
SECOND RACE—Toboggan, « to 6.
won; J. P. Maberry, 3 to 1. second;
go, even, third.
THIRD RACE—Lacene, 12 to 1, won,
Oasis, IQ to 1, second; BUttnsky, 2 to
1, third.
FOURTH RACE—Old Stone, 7 to 1.
won; Ceieres, 2 to 1, second; Alcor,
third.
_ IFTH RACE—Lldrene. 8 to 5, won;
McIntyre, 5 to 1, second; Lady Vlmont,
3 to 2, third.
SIXTH RACE—The Only Way, 3 to
1, won; Inspector Girl, 1 to 2, second;
Male Lynch, 4 to 1, third.
Becond Game—
New York ... 000 000 011 —262
Boston 000 000 000 —0 4 1
Batteries: Orth and McGuire; Glaze
and Armbruster.
Philadelphia .. . .100 004 410—10 10 6
Washington . ..110 000 010— 3 5 1
Batteries: Bender and Schreck; Kit-
eon and Warner.
St Loulrf 200 010 001— 4 14 2
Detroit 000 120 000— 3 » 1
Batteries: Powell and O'Conner; Se
ver und Schmidt.
EASTERN.
Jersey City >1? J
Baltimore 3 “ I
Batteries: Moran and Vandergritt;
Ramsay and Hearne.
First Game— . _
Newnrk 5 11 J
Providence 6 11 2
Batteries: Krettsch and Stannage;
Poole and Higgins.
Second Game—
Newark ... Xj 1® J
Providence 8 9 8
Batteries: Roy and Shea; Frasier
and Cross.
First Game-
Jersey City 1 IX 3
Baltimore 5 9 0
Batteries: McCam and Butler; Ad
kins and Byers.
Montreal ♦ 11 J
Toronto 3 7 7
Batteries: Leroy and Dillon; McCaf-
ferty and Woods.
SOUTHERNERS ARE BEAT
IN GOLF TOURNAMENT
By Private I .easel Wire.
St. lends, Sept. 4.—The Southern teem
ws.le n poor showing In the teiun match
yesterday over the Glen Echo course for
the Olympic championship. The Southern
ers tlhluheil last, but It may l«> mentioned
that the team was far from a represents-
live one. It was made up of II. II. latrton
of Nashville. J. I„ Kerr of Memplila. F. «>.
Watts of Nashville and W. t\ Word. Not
a Southern champion nor a winner of nuy
prize In n Southern championship plnycd on
the team, and it waa small wonder that It
tost.
The Western Golf Association team fin
ished first, while the Western Pennsylvania
WAS I.IKE STEAL)NQ
frow a mam asleep 5
(our Bovs were dead tired from their trip)
PICTORIAL NOTE8 FROM YESTERDAY’S GAME.
GANS GETS DECISION OVER NELSON
IN FORTY-SECOND ROUND ON A FOUL
J*ck Clifford and Eddie Doyle have
witched to fight twenty rounds In Gold-
Uid, Nev., feyteubec 3.
HARRY LEWIS WINS.
Hr Private Wire.
Kaglnaw*. MIeb.. Kept. 4.—After fifteen
rounds of unmerciful slugging. Harry
Lewis wan nwarded the deciaton over Jim
my Itrlw*.
Lewi* showed better form In an aggress
ive line ihitn ever before. lie was sfter
Brig** e\ery moment, nvoiding the Boston-
len s rushes und showering lefts uml
rights to the lusty and face. Briggs was
gntue. Slid showed nn ability to take pun
ishment. ns well ss to stand up under the
driving pumite* Lewis sent to his body.
PICKED TEAM LOSES.
The Atlantns defeated a strong picked
team Monday in n double-header. The
ing of Stipe for the
out fourteen men.
seMtt*»red hits.
The second game also weiti to the At
lanta*. sn ore 9 to 3.
Batter!*-*. Stipe and Adams for the At
lanta*; foHwiuiftu, Smith uud Corley for
the picked team.
S By Private Leased Wire.
Goldfield. Sent. 4.—Well. It's a O
O pity that I can’t make 133 pounds O
0 In my fighting toga and be strong 0
O enough to fight, Isn’t It? I am O
O glad that the question of whether O
I am still lightweight champion Is O
finally settled, and, 1 think, have O
O shown conclusively that I don't 0
have to chop off an arm to make 0
that weight, and be strong enough 0
to lick the present crop of fight- 0
ers who are looking for my scalp. 0
What do I think of Nelson? He 0
Is a game boy, but an unclean 0
fighter. He has a lot to learn 0
0 about the fighting game. 0
0 1 knew that I did not have to be 0
at my strongest weight to beat O
him, and I am willing to admit 0
0 that 1311 -2 pounds, actual weight. O
three hours before the fight and O
no chance to .eat before going In, 0
0 Is not my best weight. But I have 0
0 seen this fellow fight, and I knew O
0 how he won his battles, simply 0
O because he was the strongest boy 0
Q against men who knew the game 0
"" better, but did not havo the 0
punch to slow him up. 0
0 I knew how I was going to fight, O
0 nnd I knew that at the weight I 0
0 was forced to make would not be O
O strong enough to land him with a 0
^ punch, because he certainly has 0
an Iron Jaw. 1 took the other end O
0 of the game, worrying him down. 0
0 So 1 am now the lightweight 0
0 champion. O
0 The hardest blows I got In the 0
O fight were tups he drove against 0
O my Jaw with his skull. He should O
0 have been disqualified a dozen O
0 times before the twenty-fifth O
0 round. He knew that he was beat- 0
O en when that period was reached, O
O and from thnt time he used the O
O most unfair tactics at all times. O
0 The final four was plainly de- 0
O liberate. He was saving himself O
0 the disgrace of a knockout. 0
O O
00000000000000000000000000
T. Q. 8CARBROUQH 18
8WINGING AROUND CIRCUIT
Accompanying the Memphis team on Its
last swing around the Southern Longue
circuit la T. G. Scarbrough, sporting ed-
Itor of The Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
In point of actual service, Mr. Hcorhrough
Is probably the dean of the netive sporting
edltom of the South, am! he Is ,nn ack
nowledged authority on baseball nnd horse
racing subjects. He used to play bail
with the Chickasaw** of Memphis, when
that team waa one of the fastest Inde
pendent organizations In the United States,
nnd he knows the game from experience, os
well ns from careful study.
Mr. Scarbrough has mads the sporting
page of The Commercial-Appeal not only
one of the beat In the 8outh, hut one of
the heat In the entire country, and It
rnnka alongside of The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The New York Bun, and papers of that
character.
Gans Has Best
and “Bat”
Whipped.
of ft
Is
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O BY BATTLING NEL80N. 8
O O
0 By Private Leased Wire. 0
O Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 4.—Billy 0
0 Nolan generally does the talking 0
O for me. My buslnesR la fighting, 0
O and all I want to do now la aome 0
O more of It with Gana aa the other 0
O party In the fun. Everybody who 0
0 la any Judge of condition knowa 0
0 thnt Gana could not poaalbly have 0
0 laated more than three rounda 0
0 longer, nnd I felt aa though I 0
O could fight all night. 0
0 Referee Siler says that I hit 0
O Gana low, and what he says goes 0
§ for me. I agreed to let Siler act 0
aa Judge In the battle, and I don't 0
O want to go behind what he saya. 0
0 But I certainly waa aurprlaed 0
O when he ordered me to my corner. 0
0 I waa sure that I had landed 0
O square In Gana'. stomach. That O
0 was the spot I was playing for In 0
0 the closing rounda, nnd every time 0
0 I landed I could see that it hurt 0
0 the “dingy.” I saw a good open- O
0 Ing, and I let go a wallop that I 0
0 hoped would end the show, and 0
0 the next thing I knew the fight O
0 waa Gana'. O
0 Nobody can tell me that I can O
0 not beat this fellow. I will admit 0
0 that he gave me a harder fight 0
O than I thought he would, but I 0
0 know how to light him now, and 0
O when we get together again I will 0
S bet my clothes that I atop him In- 0
aide of twenty-five rounda. 0
O I want to take back one thing I 0
0 said about Gana aome time ago— 0
O that he Is not game. He and Jim- 0
0 my Britt are two of the gamest 0
O men I ever faced, nnd I thought 0
O both of them were yellow until I O
O got them Into a finish fight. I 0
O beat Britt and I can beat Gana. 0
0 I had him licked when I hit him O
O too low, or they say I did any- 0
O how, and I lost. About this but- 0
O ting nonsense, I 'am getting sick 0
0 of thnt. Because I keep rushing 0
0 my man nil the time they say that O
O I am deliberately ramming him. * O
O O
0000000000000000000000000Q
By Private Leased Wire.
Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 4.—Joe Gana la
lightweight champion of the world.
Yesterday he defeated Battling Nelson
In a fight which went 42 rounda. The
decision waa given on a foul, but the
blow which Nelson landed on Gana’
groin waa evidently a deliberate foul
and was presumably hit to save Nelson
from the knock-out which seemed In
evitable. j
Gana had the beat of it all the way,
though Nelson fought with rare pluck
and forced the fighting an long aa his
strength laated. Nelson received $22,-
600 aa hla share of the purse and Gana
received $11,000. About 8,500 persona
inw the fight.
By GEORGE SILER.
By Private leased Wire.
Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 4.-—It was un
questionably one of the greatest fights
since the first boxing glove was made,
marred only by the rough work of
Nelaon.
I never saw two gamer or greater
fighters In action, and though the bout
terminated in a very unsatisfactory
manner, there can certainly be no
question In the minds of those who
saxv the fight thnt the best man won.
though he won on a foul.
But for the fact that Gana never
appeared to be hurt, excepting possi
bly In two or three rounds In the
twenties, 1 would never have permitted
Nelaon to carry* on hla foul tactics aa
long as I did. But aa it was a grand
battle and as Nelson's constant but
tlhg and roughing did not uppear to
materially Injure clans' chances I nat
urally did not want to deprive the
rowd of the ring battle of a century
Gans fought the kind of a battle that
makes friends with the crowd, and
therefore u clean, sportsman-like
fight.
Hla ring generalship was without
parallel. When weary he permitted
Nelson to hug and wrestle, but he let
Nelaon do the work nnd husbanded bis
n strength. When he felt that he
had rested he cut loose with the finest
exhibition of clean and accurate hit
ting that I have ever seen.
Deliberate and incessant fouling Is
not an Indication of courage, but
taking the beating that Nelson did and
coming back for more, coming back
so strongly that he several times
seemed a winner, certainly Is.
As to the final foul which cost the
fight, 1 am compelled to side with the
great majority, who believe that the
foul was deliberate and premeditated.
Nelson was beaten at the time and I
do not think could have lasted much
longer.
WHAT NOLAN 8AY8.
By Billy Nolan.
By Private Leased Wire.
Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 4.—I have not
a great deal to say about the fight. We
lost and lost t>y an unfortunate acci
dent. All I want to do Is to get Gans
Into another battle In the same terms
and that will show which is the better
OIWOOOO0OO0O0OOOOOOOOOO00
O “MY BOY 18 BEST,"
O 8AYS BATS MOTHER* O
O O
O By Private leased Wire. O
O Hegewisch, III.. Sept. 4.—I am O
O heart-bfoken. My son Is accused O
O of using foul means to beat Gans. O
O but I know Battling Is too much O
O of a man to do anything like that. O
O My boy Is the best little fighter O
O today. Slier, the referee was O
O against him. O
O O
O0OO0O00000000000O000O0OOO shoved in that unlucky punch.
YANKEE BOATS
BEAT GERMANS
By Private Leased Wire.
Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 4.—The flrat race
for the Itoosevelt cup between German nnd
American yachts proved easy for the Ameri
cans, nnd boats owned on this side of the
big pond finished one-two. The winner was
the Auk. owned by C. F. Adams. The V|m,
owned by Commodore Clark of the Ameri
can Yacht Club of New York was second.
The German yacht Wannzze was third.
MOBILE WINS
THE PENNANT
ALABAMA TOWN CINCHES RAG | N
FAST LITTLE COTTON
STATES LEAGUE.
Special to The Georgian.
Memphis, Tenn.. Sept. 4.—Below will t*
found the official Mantling of the Cotton
States longue at the end of the season. Th«
last games of the year In that league wert
played yesterday: ■
Tb standing follows:
, „ Won. Lost. I*, r
Mobile. ........ 73 ' 44 fci
Meridian . 65 54 SJ
Jackson 58 60
Gulfport 1 .... 57 f,l m
Baton Itouge. . 67 6: J75
Vicksburg 44 73 .J7J
Mobile has had the pennant cinched f w
nearly three weeks, and was way out la
front at the finish. Meridian put up n good
fight and kept second place cinched.
Bernle McKay's team iu Baton Itouge fin.
lshed In next to last place, though the
bunch waa not far behind JAcksou and Gulf,
port.
MACON WON.
Special to The Georgian.
Augusta, Go., Sept. 4.—Macon took the
morning game Mondny from the Tourists by
the score of 2 to 1. Batteries: Augusts,
Holmes nnd Carson; Macon, Fox nnd liar*
nlsh. Both pitchers pitched a good gami,
ATLANTA TEAM READY FOR
DASH INTO SECOND PLACE
The Atlanta team spent Tuesday In get- season. Hoffman will continue
ting even with the sleeping and eating
games and In trying to straighten out the
kinks In their tired systems.
The exhibition at Piedmont park Monday
nfterm on may not have looked very pro
fessional to the fans who had loafed all the
morning, eaten a nice dinner and then gone
peacefully to the park.
It was nnother story with the Crackers.
They pulled out of Now Orleans enrly Sun
day* night. after having played a tiresome
double-header on n terribly hot afternoon.
All nljfht they fought heat, mosquitoes nnd
insomnia In the "nlght-ran rish” ride from
New Orleans to Montgomery. As luck
would have It, the train split In the middle
late Sunday night when n drnwhend was
pulled out, and ns n result of thnt mis
chance nnd others the train was nearly
four hours late by breakfast time.
The team had to wait until after 10
o'clock In the morning for any breakfast
nnd they dbl not get any dinner. Every
man went Into the game Mondny afternoon
as hungry as a tramp nnd the game they
played was creditable, under the circum
stances. ...
With the rest thnt came Mondny night
the team ought to brace up a bit.
The line-up used Monday will probably
be tried again Tuesday nnd perhaps through
the rest of the week, though Wallace tuny
be switched Into center field.
Smith has been playing good ball nnd hit-
“ that he will be pretty steadily
n third,
fliidhH
nqd Archer is likely to turn
to do. Jack Evers will be given
Billy Smith expects thnt Spade will land
Tuesday night or Wednesday. After n da;
or so of rest he will be pitched.
Nothing 1ms been heard of Bug Raymond.
He was ordered to rei>ort here, but hui
not shown up.
New Orleans baseball writers will b«
greatly surprised to know thnt Morse hm
turned aj • • •
5."
Ct
thnt he
hey bad It flip:
-rescent City thnt Morse had Jumped ......
not coming back to the At-
The New York Amerlonns nre worklny
hard to get Tom Hughes back to finish ont
.the season with them, hut Billy Smith rnn't
see It that way, nnd the redonbtablc Tom
my will be there at the finish.
Manager Smith and Tommy McCullough,
secretary of the Memphis club, have Ihhmi
worrying n bit over the question of the
game they owe the league. The rule* of the
league require that If teams can not pin;
two games on I-nbor !>ny they must pU;
the game or games which they were foreel
to Dostnone thnt day on some other owe
his Is necessary because the tongue
{NOMi
Klren
rules i
to the league and divided equally amoiu; tbs
eight team*.
Billy Smith wants to iday off the mmi
Wednesday morning, and'has wired Judge
Knvsnnugh, asking for the permission of
tlie league to play at thnt time.
ANOTHER MYTH
HAS EXPLODED
T. ROOSEVELT’S SON
•WA8 AT RINGSIDE
By C. E. VAN LOAN.
By Private Liaised Wire.
Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 4.—This Is the
way thnt Joe Gnus won the light-weight
championship iu the forty-second round of
one of the greatest battles on record.
Gnus, who had been getting tin? better
of It. started the round with a left to the
face and 'they clinched. Nelson had his
head on Gan*' shoulder, and III* arm*
down. Several times he hit Gans Itclow
the licit, apparently feeling for a vital
s|Htt. At last, he drew back his right arm
and hit Cans a virion* blow square in the
groin. The colored Imy sank to hi* knee*
and rolled over on bis back. Referee
Siler, without hesitation, ordered Nelsou to
hi* corner, nnd awarded the fight to Gan*
on a foul.
The blow was dearly observed by every
one In the arena, and none of the specta
tors uttered a protest when the decision
rendered that ended the loug-druwn-
leaves no donldi which was the liettv.
the two men who met before 8,500 specta
tors here Inst night—a vast pleturesqtte
crowd. In which the rough, armed men
of the plnlns nnd the mountains nnd the
ilapper men from the big cities were shoul
der to shoulder—In which. Indeed, by the
ringside sat Teddy Roosevelt, son of the
president of the United States, with a
- 1 gambler on one side of him nnd a
*d cowboy on the other side. .
... fairness. It has now to lie admitted
that Joe Gans, negro though be Is, Is the
greatest boxer ami the greatest fighter
man. Nelson could have stood the gait
that both men were fighting much
longer than. Gans, and every round fur
ther that the fight went made It look
better for Battling. If Gana had not
bumped into that low punch, and It did
not look very low to me at that, it Is
practically a cinch that “Bat’’ would
have copped him before the fiftieth
round. But I have to give It to Gans.
He surprised me. He showed more
gameness than I thought he would, for
he certainly took a bad lacing and was
gamely going under when the “Bat"
The pleasant little fiction of Charley
Frank's that It was through him thnt Otto
Jordan secured his bond after the “rubber
ball Incident" In New* Orleans proved to be
without foundation—like the average myth.
The writer talked with the man in New
Orleans w*ho furnished the money, and he
states not only thnt Prnnk had nothing to
do with It hut that his action In putting up
the coin nearly cost hlui his Job taking
tickets at Charley Frank’s park.
Otto Jordan was sore proper when he saw
hat a Marietta paper had to say about
Nap Rucker nnd hla connection with the
Atlanta team while Otto was managing It.
'll bet a hundred dollars to a tin dime
that Rucker doesn't make good," said Otto.
"They can call me a txonchead If they want
That doesn't change It at all. But
Ituckcr Is no pitcher nnd what they will do
to him In the big league will be something
awful.’’
“Yes,’’ chimed In George Winters, "and
I’d like some of that bet, too. When he
gets to pitching In the big league some big
guy will get on the side line* nnd call him
a ’blankety-blank Booster blankety-blank,'
nnd Nap will go to pieces. He never will
•tick.”
Artie Brouthers Is sore at Charley Frank
good and proper, nnd says he will not be
back w*lth “that Dutchman” next year If
he can help it.
Ilroutliers Is n good ball player, but he
hns not been showing It in his games with
New Orleans.
Croxler and Jordan, the "candy moguls,”
have decided to stay In baseball during the
rest of the scasiin. owing to the fact thnt
their new store will not be ready for use
until after the middle of September. When
the season ends, however, the “soda mer
chants” will get busy at their new Jab.
THOMAS WINS
FR0MMELL0DY
By Private Leased Wire.
Boston, Sept. 4.—Joe Thomas, the Cal
ifornia welterweight, wou a notable vic
tory over Honey Meilody, at Chelsea, last
night, demonstrating his superiority In
eleven rounds of whirlwind fighting.
Mellody's seconds threw np the sponge in
the eleventh round, ns their mail was
down nod out. Honey had been knocked
down iu the- third nnd teuth rounds, but
had lieen the aggressor during the greater
part of the engagement.
GEORGIA BOYS
OUTJN^FRONT
CRACKER TEAMS FINI8H AHEAD
OF OTHERS IN SALLY
LEAGUE.
Savannah Is the winner of the South At
lantic pennant. Thu Inst games In the little
Snllle League were played yesterday, and
ns a result of the season Savannah Is first,
Augusta second nnd Macon third.
The standing follows:
Savannah. .
Augusta. . ,
Macon. . . ,
Columhln. .
'ha rleston.
Played. Wan. Lost. I*. C
. .113 71 42 “
. .114 70 44
. .110 57 53
.112 53 59
.107 48 59
Jacksonville 112 35 77
Two weeks ago It was nip nnd tuck be
tween Savannah nnd Augusta, but Sn
nnh got out ahead In the Inst tw*o week* ol
play, and copped the mg.
The league season hns been a anere^fnl
ne, and most of the baseball association!
owning franchises In the organisation hart
done well.
League Standings j
Clubs—
Played. Won. Lost.
PC.
Birmingham.
. 122
78
44
.63!!
Memphis .
. 122
71
51
.582
New* Orleans
. 123
70
53
.549
Atlanta . .
. 123
69
54
.561
Shreveport .
. 124
67
57
.340
Montgomery.
. 123
60
63
.48$
N’n.-hvllle .
. 124
41
S3
.330
Little Hock
. J27
38
89
.29#
NATIONAL.
Clubs—
Played. Won. Lost.
PC.
Chicago . .
. 128
96
32
.750
Pittsburg .
. 124
81
43
.633
New York .
. 121
78
43
.645
Philadelphia
. 124
56
68
.431
Cincinnati .
. 127
52
75
Brooklyn .
. 120
49
71
.409
St. Louis . .
. 126
46
80
Boston . . .
. 126
40
86
AMERICAN.
Clubs—
Played. Won. Lo*t.
pa
New York .
. 120
72
48
Chicago . .
. 121
72
49
Philadelphia
. 120
67
53
Cleveland. .
. 118
65
53
PI
St. Louis . .
. 121
62
57
Detroit . . .
. 119
54
63
•jfj
Washington
. 122
45
<5
Boston . . .
. 123
37
84
ATLANTA vs. MEMPHIS
SEPTEMBER 4 and 5.
Ladies' Day Today. Game Galled at 4 p. m>