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THE ATLANTA GEOliOLAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
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CRACKERS STILL FIGHTING
TO GET IN SECOND PLACE
It looks like third place for Atlanta.
But at that, aecond 1« amoni the re.
mote possibilities.
To land second Atlanta will have to
win say * of the 8 games to be played
this week, while Memphis must lose
five out of the seven she Is due to play.
The former proposition Is a cinch,
but the latter Is not so easy. Atlanta
ought to win the six out of eight all
right, but It 1s doubtful If Memphis will
lose five out of seven.
If Atlanta gets running In good order
and takes all eight games this week
then she has a better chance, of
course. For If the Crackers make a
clean sweep and Memphis wins only
four out of the seven, Atlanta would
finish In second place.
So there Is a chance, even though It
Is pretty remote.
The Shreveport team arrived this
GOOD SCORES
FORJEVERETT
BROKE 134 TARGET8 OUT OF 150
AND SHOT WELL IN EV
ERY EVENT.
Tli«* regular weekly shoot of the At
lanta Gnu Club waa held Saturday at Lake-
wood. With the exception of the Korea
of Everett, the abootlug waa not quite
aa good aa nwsl. Evans made a 22 and
Ilunnlcutt n 21. but outside of Ererett's.
these were the beat. Krerett broke 124 out
of 150, and made olid 21.
The score* follow:
NAMKH-
Mitchell.. S
X. G. I’barr.
Criswell. ..
Ilunnlcutt. .
Mlllner.. . .
Krerett.. ..
Coolldge.. ..
H. K. Pharr.
Thornton. .
51. Abram. .
J. Abram. .
JadtaottMM
Ewing
morning from Montgomery on the 11:40
or thereabout**, and the players are
ready for the four game* scheduled for
the first three daya of the week.
On Tuesday a double-header will be
played with the Pirates.
John Fox, the pltchef who waa pretty
badly bumped Saturday, when he made
his debut, will be given another trial.
“Fox waa not In good condition for
that game," says Manager Smith. “He
had not had a ball In hit* hands for
about a week and waa In no shape to
pitch. I think I will try him again
agalnat Bhreveport.”
Spade la not expected to report thla
season. The Sally Leaguer la In bad
condition and will not show up.
SOUTHERN FOOTBALL TEAMS
WILL REPORT THIS WEEK
This is “reporting week” for most of the
college football tenuis lu the South, aud
by next Monday moat of the big teams
will \hs' hard at work.
Out at Tech, th^ men are due to put
In an appearance September 13, though It
la not likely that anything strenuous will
l>e dope thla week.
The practice during the first week or
two will l»e of the lightest character, ow
ing fo the extreme heat and the fact that
the candidates for positions on the team
are mostly soft and In need of something
which will harden their muscles to stand
the rough work of regular practice.
By the end of thla week, the momentous
question of “Who’s coming buck?” will be
settled. Thla la always n matter of Inter
est for nround n nucleus of “old men”
practically all successful football teams
/7i£/V/Vi9/Vr
must be built And usually the 1
week tellu the atory.
From nppearaheen now, Teh wlI1 .
buck enough old men to nuke ' “1
Sturt, though some of the m.,»t v.42
members of her Inst year's team
nmong the missing, tjeorgln „ln *
bly lmm hock more old men ihnn t-
hut ns her teniu Inst yenr wns mueh iJ2
the stiindnnl this will not la, *
grent ndvuntnge. “ *
More Interest will surround the „ r ,i,
fnnry prnettee nod first practice ®
nil football tennis this yenr ihnu C
fore, owing to the fuel that the
will then lie put Into foree f„ r the
time. At.these opening games, the both!
sharps will be tilde to get wra.tblnfO
n line on the new ^ules, nnd him the? J
likely to work, nnd entt then Jn.lt. i2
.the big teauia nre likely to shmv .,
grent gnmes of the yeur.
CLAIMS GANS
AS_HIS SON
JAMES COTTON, A TEXAS NEGRO-
SAYS JOSEPH IS HIS LONG
LOST SON.
Fort Worth, Tex., Sept 10.-A p| 0ll .
eer Texas negro, James Cotton, d t .
Clares that Joe dans, lightweight fight.
Ing champion of the world, is his ,, A
"Cotton Eye Joe.” Until Gans ballet,
ed Nelson out of any chance of belt
considered as champion of his clai,
the aged Texan lived In Ignorance of
the tame built by "Cotton Eye Jot,"
alias Joseph Gone, of Baltimore.
Cotton, who owns a small farm neir
Asle, this county, was In Fort Worn
today, -making arrangements to visit
Gans. The old negro Is backed In hk
claim of relationship by William Htn.
derson, a farmer; Sheriff John '
nea and F. D. Jones, a leal
dealer.
STAR GOLFER
IN ATLANTA
Andrew Mauacn. of Darien, (la., twice
golf champion of the Month, nnd vice pres
ident of the 8outhorn Golf Association,
wns In Atlsuta today on his way from
Darien to Memphis, where he will piny In
the Invitation tournament which begins
there this week.
5!r. Mnnseu will !>e back at the end of
thla week, and will then play the new lo
cal course.
It Is doubtful If Atlanta will be repre
sented at the Memphis tournament. As
far mm can be learned, none of the local
players will be able to get away for the
affair.
NAVY TUGS”
GETTING BUSY
, New York. Sept. 10.—The pugilists
In the United States navy are evidently
stirred up by the challenge printed re
cently from "Rollins, the champion of
the navy."
E. M. McCook, boiler maker at the
United States navy yard, Brooklyn,
thinks he has It on Rollins nnd wunts
to fight him for 11,000.
McCook Is quite a formidable speci
men of manhood. He Is only 6 feet
8 Inches tall, but Is well built and has
had plenty of opportunity to test his
fistic ability among his seagoing com
panions.
BEATS AUTO RECORD.
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 10.—The
automobile record from New York to
San Francisco was again lowered when
R. H. I.lttle, G. O. Huger!v and three
asalstants arrived here. They crossed
the continent In 24 days, 8 hours nnd
48 minutes. This beat the old record
almost nine days.
The upper picture shows Jockey Notter giving Coy Maid a warming
wts In the lead, closely fallowed by Coy Maid and Inquioitor—racing head
8CENES AT THE BRIGHTON TRACK,
up gallop before the race. The lower one shows a critical point in the test Handicap at Brighton when Kiamesha
and head. Coy Maid slipped through on ths rail in the stretch and won by a head.
ZIMMER’S NINE MISTAKES
LOSE CLOSING STRUGGLE
ATLANTA 6. LITTLE ROCK , ..2.
In a game punctuated with twenty-three hits and enlivened by three enter
taining errors Atlanta downed the Mistakes Saturday ufternoou by a acoru 'of
6 to 2.
Jim Fox's long brother John waa the opening slnhster for Atlnrftn, but he
was not at his liest nnd nfter roughing up aeveu hlta In three innings, he retired
In favor of Sparks. The Mississippi Midget waa In fine form, nud did not let Zlm-
mer'a Lobsters wore.
Allen, wjio defeated Atlntitn by a acore of 1 to 0 last time he pltrhed, proved
not very pnaxlltig, tttnl the Cracker*, with hartlly aa exception, ran their I jutting
averages up it point or two.
Wallare knocked out n eouplo of two-hnggern nnd n single, nml Sid Smith, Jim
Fox nnd Morse were right there wlth'the willow.
The score:
I League Standings j
SOUTHERN.
ATLANTA— All. R. II. I’O. A. K.
Winter*, rf 3 112 0 0
L1TTLK ROCK- Alt. It. H. t*0. A. K.
Do iif bis, lb 5 0 0 8 1 0
Hid Smith, C * ....4 1 2 5 2 0
Morse, mm 3 1 .2 1 5 0
Hoffman. 31).. 4 0 0 2 1 0
Jordan. 2b 3 0 1 0 3 0
Wallace* cf 4 I 3 2 0 0
John Fox, p 1 I 0 o 2 0
Archer, 2b n U 0 0 0 0
Spurkn, p 2 0 0 0 3 0
Totals 32 ~i a S 17 1
DeArtnond, rf 4 0 1 1 0-0
MoCay, 2b 2 0 1 2 0 1
Bird. 3b 3 0 3 2 2 1
White, If 3 0 1 2 0 0
Johnson, sa 3 0 1 3 5 o
Zimmer, c 4 0 2 3 2 0
Allen, p 4 0 1 2 2 0
Totals 32 2 -11 *23 12 2
•Jordon out, hit by batted bnll.
Soon* by Innings:
Atlanta..... “ : ..3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 •-«
I.lttle Rock 1 0 t 0 0 0 0 0 9-2
Summary: Two-barn* hits, Morm*. Wnlloco 2. Win lot's: stolon Imisos, 8. Smith, Mo
ray, Jim Fox, Winters; sarrltU’o hits. Mi Cay, John Fox, White; double plays, J^hn-
Him to MrCny, Morse to Jim Fox to Sid Smith; first Imm* on balls off John Fox 2,
off Alien 3, off Spark* 2; hit by pitched bnll by Allen (Winter*!; struck out by John
Fox I, by Alton 3, by Hixtrkn 2; bits nptiortloned, off Johu Fox 7, off 8|Nirks 4;
Innings pitched by John Fox 3, by Sparks 6. Time, 1:40. I.’mplre, Ruddcrbam,
RECORD FOR 8UOOS.
Genrge Suggs, the "hnrl luck” pitcher"
of the season of 1W6, milled soother stunt
to his olresily Ion* list, by pitching n no-
hlt eleven-inning gntne.
This wns quite the hnachnll event of
the season. Wilhelm nnd Fisher have nlso
pitched no-hit gnmes, but Imth hove lieen
contented with nine Inning nfTnlrs.
Not satisfied with this. Suggs went nfter
the "Iron mnn" title In the Mime after
noon. nn<l finished out the second game at
the double-bender.
The Georgian’s Score Card.
WINTERS, rf
8. SMITH, c.
MORSE, ss
HOFFMAN, 3b
JORDAN. 2b ..
JIM FOX, lb ..
WALLACE, cf
ZELLER, p ...
■fdfAtir
SHREVEPORT.
EVANS, 2b
KENNEDY, rf
ARSTEIN. lb..
SMITH, is
Score by Inn
Shreveport
DOINGS PUGILISTIC
IN MANY RINGS
Now York. Sept. 10.—Pallor Burke will
meet Hugo Kelley, at (Tudsen, on Tuesday
night. Thla will be the first Important
fistic encounter of his rnreer, and
friends In Brooklyn nre wultlug with In
terest for the result.
Tom MeCnrey, of the Pacific Athletic
Club, would like to have a meeting of the
different fight promoters of the world, to
rearrange the fighting weights and to ad
just the disputed titles. MeCnrey says be
will probably call a meeting of the promo
ters this winter to take place at Los An
geles.
Willie Fltsgcrnld nud Jim? Gregg, the In
diana fighter, have been matched to meet
before the Xatlonal Athletic Club, of Phil
adelphia, next Friday night.
Tommy ('oily, of ('hieago, hsa accepted a
match with Johnny Morrison again. Cody
and 5Iorr1aou fought a terrific fifteen-
round draw a few weeks ago, nnd Cody
has always claimed that he had the better
of the milling.
The Grand Hnplds Club has,sent out an
offer for a bout between Bennie Yan-
ger and Joe Galligan. who recently defeat
ed I’nk Hassell. Galligan has accepted, nml
the club ts now waltlug to hear front
Yaugcr.
A boxing bout Is carded to take place
next Sunday when Adam Ryan, the Quaker
City welterweight, anil Clarence English,
of Kansas t’ity, will meet for Ofteett
rounds, at Kansas City.
Frank Carsey, of Chicago, who quit in
the thin! round tu his recent bout with Abe
Attell, Is having trouble with the Daven
port club. Carsey waa to have received
S5.MQ for hta end. but the club officials
claim that he la not entitled to any money,
owing to hfa action, ami have refused to
pay him. They even refused to pay him
traveling expense*.
Clubs—
Birmingham.
Memphis . .
Atlanta . .
New Orleans
Shreveport .
Montgomery.
Nashville . .
Little Hock .
Clubs—
Chicago . .
New York .
Pittsburg . .
Philadelphia.
Cincinnati .
Brooklyn . .
St. Louis . .
Boston . . .
Played. Won. Lost P. C.
126
129
128
129
127
126
129
.643
.589
.570
.558
.535
.492
.333
.288
.646
.«2»
.453
.424
.405
.364
.323
Clubs—
New York . .
Chicago . .
Cleveland .
Philadelphia
St. Louis .
Detroit . .
Washington
Boston . . ,
AMERICAN.
Played. Won. Lost P. C.
. . 125 77 48 .616
. 125 76 49 .608
. . 122 69 53 .066
. . 124 68 56 .549
. . 125 64 61 .512
. 123 56 67 .455
. . 126 49 77 .389
SUNDAY’S RESULTS.
Southern-
New Orleans 2, Memphis 1.
Memphis 2, New Orleans # l,
National—
.Chicago 7, Pittsburg 2.
Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 0.
Cincinnati 3, St. Louis 1.
American—
Cleveland 3, St. Louis 0.
Chicago 4, Detroit 0.
Eastern—
Rochester 8, Montreal 2.
Montreal 1, Rochester 0.
Providence 6, Baltimore 4,
Baltimore 3, Providence 0.
Jersey City 4. Newark 1.
Newark 5, Jersey City 4.
Buffalo 3, Toronto 2. s
New Course Opened Saturday;
Trawick Tournament in Week
The old golf course at Piedmont park
and the six temporary holes at East
Lalte will fairly hum this week, .for
local golfers are busily preparing for
the Trawick cup tournament, which be
gins September 18.
The big event of the present week
will be the opening of the new course
at East hake—a course which prom
ises to be far and away the best In the
South. This event takes place Satur
day and local golfers will have a couple
of days to get used to the new round
before the qualifying round for the
Trawick cup Is played.
The annual Trawick tournament Is
the star event In the local golf world.
The cup offered this season Is an un
usually handsome one, and the cbm-
petltion for it Is likely to be decidedly
keen., w. P. Hill and F. O. Byrd are
regarded as the most dangerous candi
dates, though several other players
stand a fair show.
For the second cup the race is likely
to be decidedly open, and In the third
night—-the duffers' division—It would
be a brave man who would try to pick
the winner, even after the qualifying
round was finished.
The new course promises to be In
fairly good condition by opening day.
F. Q. Byrd, chairman of the golf com
mittee, and Superintendent Pickering
have been rushing the work with a
large force of men. nnd already the
holes on the far side of the lake are
In fairly good condition. On opening
day all of the regular green, with the
exception of the second, fourth and
part of the eleventh, will be thrown
open and the course In use at present
will be put out of commission.
NIFTY NOTES ON A GIDDY GAME
SATURDAY'S RE8ULTS.
Southern—
Atlanta 6, Little Rock 2.
Memphis 1, Nashville 0.
Memphis 9, Nashville 0.
Birmingham S, New Orleans 2.
Birmingham 2, New Orleans 0.
Montgomery 3, Shreveport 0.
American—
Washington 6, Boston 2.
New York 11, Philadelphia 4.
Cleveland 4, Rt. Louts 0.
Chicago 4, Detroit 3.
National—
Boston 8, Philadelphia 0.
Brooklyn 6. New York 0.
Brooklyn 1, New York 0.
Chicago 3, Pittsburg 0.
Virginia 8tats—
Lynchburg 4, Danville 8.
Lynchburg 2, Danville 2.
Richmond 4. Roanoke 2.
Richmond 10, Roanoke 8.
Portsmouth 4, Norfolk 4.
American Association—
Columbus 7. Louisville 8.
Minneapolis », Milwaukee 4.
Minneapolis 5, Milwaukee 1.
Rt. Paul 2, Kunsaa City 1.
Rt. Paul 4. Kansas City 5.
Toledo 2, Indianapolis 1.
HOW’S" THIS?
Bussey cleans and reshapes old felt
hat «to look like new. 28 1-2 White
hall street.
Chicago Iwill fans nay that tha Cuba nre
good for, nt leant, two more pennant*,
which would make three year* In a mw.
The Windy City l« swelled up for fair.
Among the American League cluba next
season there will l»e found three or more
new malinger* and, at least, one lu the
National league.
Quite the moat remarkable event of the
game waa the fact that In Atlanta'* half
of the fifth Inning, the first three iiiiui
up made hits—one n two-ongger—nnd yet
these were’the only men up In the In
ning. Jordan singled nml atopped nt first.
Jim Fox adit the ball down between first
nnd hccoiiiI, and Jordan ran Into It. That
put Jordan out nnd gave Fox a.lilt. Fox
wu* then out stealing. Wallace followed
with a two-bagger, but went out trying
to steal third.
The first half of the ninth Innliur cloned
with an uuunual double—from short to first
hose to catcher. Zimmer aud Allen, the
first men up III that Inning, singled, Dougina
went out, thlql to flrat. Then came Oil-
l»ert, who bit n grounder to Morse. Whltey
threw him out at first nnd Fox shimmed
the halt home, entebiug Zimmer on hi* way
to the plate. Tom Hughes' comment
the play waa that Zimmer ought to have
put h (| n«elf out of the game for trying
to come home on that bit. Maybe be did.
But na the game was over then, it was
hard to tell.
White wns caught off flrat very nicely
by John Fox, who threw to Brother Jim.
White was asleep.
Sleeping during the game seems to be
chronic with the Travelers. Might call
them the Dreamers.
Otto Jonlnn Just missed a nice donble
in the third Inniug. When White hit him
a hot grounder. Bird was advancing from
first to second on the play. Otto stainmed
nt. Bird with tint ball, apparently touched
him. and then threw White out at first
base. “Ruddy,” however, decreed that Bird
was safe.
That must have been what ruined Otto's
disposition, for later In the game be was
put out for quarreling with-Hudderbaiu.
When Winters stole his Iwse In the
eighth, the pitcher had the Ixtll In hls
hands, and never even Attempted to throw
to second.
Over-anxiety and nervousness have mar
red Mil's y's work with the Travelers.
He wns trying a bit too hard. However,
this*will wear off before the seasou cuds—
and that event happen* Saturday.
Dougina Is the l*est man on the Little
Ibtrk team. Barring the pitchers, he Is
worth all the other players put together—
4>n their recent showings at any rate.
Brady. Keith aud Allen would he winning
pltchrra with a halfway decent team.
Brady Is n flrst-clns* mnn. nnd the other
two would come with the right kind of
trnlnlug.
TAD HANDS ATTELL
HEATED PACKAGE
G. M. C. DEFEATS G. S. S.
Special to The Georgian.
MilledgerilJe, Ga., Sept. 10.—In n r.
•aided game of ball here Friduy after
noon, G. 51, C. defeated the strong (l. 8.
8. club by the score of 23 to 8.
son, the star pitcher of the G. S. 8.,
bntted hard. The feature of the j
was the pitching of Brooks aud the t
run knocked by Whllden.
Brooks struck out twelve men nnd
lowed no hits.
The score wns ns follows:
(I. it. c.-
Shepard, 3b
Brooks, p..
Whllden, lb.
51oore, 2b
51. Allen, cf.. ..
Barron, ss
Stelnbrldge, rf..
II. Kxley, If.. .
B. Rhodes, c
Totals..
G. 8. 8.—
Hurt, *m.. .
Folia, 3b.
Gilmore, lb.
Wilson, If
F. (Iffuiore. 2b...
Mcddlln, rf
Little, cf
Smith, p
UadMoii, e
Totals
Snmmary: Home run, V
base hit, Hamm; two-base
struck out by Brooks 12, by
pi re, Richards.
8ATURDAY’8 EVENTS.
By TAO.
New York, Sept. 10.—The represen
tatives of Abe Attell and Terry McGov
ern met at the, Metropolitan Saturday
to arrange for a six-round battle to be
fought in Philadelphia. They could not
agree on weight so’ the meeting fell
through.
For over a year Attell has been yell
ing hls head off about lighting bigger
men than himself. He has said that
McGovern forfeited 11,000 to him at
Fort Erie some years ago because Ter
ry was afraid to meet him. Only three
imonths ago Attell came out and tossed a
dell at Joe Gans saying that he want
ed to fight for the lightweight cham
pionship and If Joe would weigh In dt
133 Abe would fight him. He fought
Nelson at catch weights and offered to
meet Britt the same way. Saturday he
would not meet McGovern unless Terry
scaled 126 pounds.
Very strange how these young men
suddenly change their Ideas.
In the future Attell can "holler" hls
head off about scraps.
Young Corbett things It’s all a jolly
when they say that Jockeys and fight
ers are bad tippers.
"Take It from me,” said the pudgy
little Denverite, "fighters can pick win
ners Just aa well as any one else—that
Is, If they are not prejudiced. I pick
ed Gans to beat Nelson because I knew
he was the best man. It was not be
cause l am a bit sore at the Dane. I’ll
give you gnother tip. If Gans'and
Britt fight It will be Gans Inside of six
rounds. Gass plus Britt equals on
undertaker. That’s the example I see.
... Sawyer, of the Wheaton fid!
Club. (lefcnted Wnrroif II. Wood, of I'*?
wood, over the Uleu Echo conroe, or ft-
!.onl«. nud won the Western Golf eh**
plonsblp.
Track nnd field sports held nt Sownntt
Several records broken.
I)nn Patch, the world’s champion p*e*
paced n tulle nt St. Paul behind n »»
shield nml with two pace-makers. In *
This Is the world's record. The pw™"
figures were I:MI4, usds by Itnu tales
nt Lexington, lost year.
Wnanessec won the fourth rnee for tM
Roosevelt cup, off Marblehead, Ms**.
BEALS C. WRIGHT WINS
TRI-STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
By Frlvnte I-enned Wire. .
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 10.—tleuls w
anil May Buttou nre the Trl-8htte Ten”*
ebnmplons. Wright won the mens
here Saturday liy defeating Robert »
the mnn who bent Nit TUorntnb. ot *'
lantn. By winning. Wright gnlned r*™*
nent possession of the governor’s ,,oW ’ ^
of the luuidnoinest trophies ever o
In this country for a tennis tournnine
511s* May Sutton won the Biriie*
r iii'fiMitliiu her alster, Florence,
Say, switching the bull a bit.
going to Denver soon to . j,.
few months and get back " h /,'. th”
long. I don’t believe honestly “J
there is a fellow In the world
128 who has It on me. I ‘ * p ^i|
soon. I’ll get In shape, /!* h '
year and In that time will ntak
to satisfy me for a lew years to
All I need Is'the condition, i
everything else.”
NAT KAISER & 00
Confidential loans on valushl«»-
Bargains In unredeemed 0I*' 1 ’ 0
Oscatur St Klmbsll H
Let Brotman, The Tailor.
Make your fall clothes. 3 b •'
bama St., opp. Century BulMW*
Watch Brotman Grow
Atlanta vs. Shreveport
SEPTEMBER 10, 11, 12.
Ladles’ Day Tuesday. Game Called at 3:30^