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. fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1000. UP-TO-DATE OF SPORTING NEWS WORLD EZ s SIDNEY SMITH LEADS BATTERS OF LEAGUE Atlanta’s Catcher-Third Baseman Was Best Among Stickers, While Tommy Hjghes Led in Pitching Records. HOW ATLANTA MEN BATTED THREE STAR PLAYERS OF YALE’S CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM Player*. 8. Stilltb 134 Winters 1*4 Fox 126 Morse ..................................... 128 Jordnn 134 HtluRon 24 E. Duggan 12 Crosier 145 Wallace 43 Archer 83 W. A. Smith 4* Hughes 37 Ever* 5*5 Loucks 21 Hoffman 73 Raymond 7 Curtis li Sparks 2* Keller 42 Hurley 26 The leu true averages nr r «»nt. Hid Smith Is the lending baft Tom Hughes Is the tending pitcher. *R. Smith, Attniilii Dough**, Idttlu Itork. Ahateiu. Mireveporr.. rtiwriu, • MeekH. Ilirinlnghnm THE HONOR ROLL. Jlero ;ire the leagtte leaders In the vn- rious department* of th»* fame. (If the man who 1**1 In hi* position played In le** thun fifty. game#, the leader among tho?e wbo ployed in more than Hint number Is u!»o given.) Batting. Sid Smith. Atlanta. Pitching. • tlnglies. Atlanta. Fielding. Catcher*-C.arvin. Birmingham ttirty one games*. IMtelier* Rnymoiid, Atlanta (seven gstne?*) first ltn*enmn-Mull(in*\v. Montgomery (121 gamesi. Ser.utd lta*omcn—I CofTnmr, Atlanta (scv- Theso star players from Yalo dis tinguished themselves in the {jreat gridiron batt'e of the past season. From loft to right they are Hock- enberger, center; Morse (captain), recovering a fumbled ball, and Forbes, loft end. Atlanta, Douglas of Little Hook, Abatelu i ten men In the longue who took part In IHH i Flsl lilbK than fifty game*) Made iuo*t error*, playing In i lou -Nichols, of Metuphl*. »K5 (and lie to the big league! Oh, mamma!) Pitched In tin* most game*- I.fohhnrdt, oj Memphis, 4C. Made Hie most put-nula—Fairy, of Mem phis, 1.5! 3. Made lh>* most assists-Nichol*. of Mem* I phi*. 49*\ Made the highest lidding average mote thi.ii one hundred gnnic*)— Mails Of Montgomery. .991 Irf Ul guinea. Undo worst fielding uxerngo Mn than ouu hundred gsrne*t—.Innsing, Na«!iyiI1c, .Vij In US game*. Below wi’J «*. founn «»e nop,. <mi base st ruling mid K*«rllhdnff nbtlltle* th" best men In those line* In the Iragu THE BASE-STEALERS. Byrne, Shreveport 1 louts, Montgomery lllrkerf, New Orleans Babb, Meniphi* •I hie), Memphis Meholl*. Memphis Pin**, N. O.-Meui. Ndhli Crosier, Atltnfa...., Gilbert, Nashvllli-f.lttlo Uoek M "ismafi, N ishvllie Apperloos. Montgomery Penrson, Nashville THE SACRIFICE HITTERS. Cargo, N»»vv O.lenn* Hear, Blnnlnghmii Byrne. Shreveport tVBrlen, New Orleans Nadeau, New orient)*-Memphis Crosier, Atlanta Hiultli, Birmingham Carey, Metuphl* Hntmen. Montgomery Winter*. Atlanta The lidding averages of tbo At! j player* follow: ! HOW CRACKERS FIELDED. Cstchsrs. 1 NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS «i. PO. A. K. P. Ct. 71 840 inw 12 .071 NAME— ttnymon*! Harley ... Hiighe* .... <i*nrU* ... Keller .... • ill*'* .... First Baasmen. PO. A. K. P. ct. I 12*» ims 71 14 .9*s; Lsagus’s best bsttsr. —Jordan, Atlanta (125 games). — * * “ i-Bri •* Shortstop*—Hoffman. Atlanta mix games*. Hbortstops (more than fifty games)—Oyler, Blnniuglinm (eighty-four game*). Outfielders—Evers. Atlanta (fourteen game**. Outfielders (more than fifty games)—Knoll, New Orleans (132 games). Other Departments. Played in most games—Dick Crosier, At lanta. At l»st most times—Blake, New Orleans, 545 time*. Kcored most runs—Ifouts, Montgomery, 85. Made most hits—Douglas*, of Little Bock, and Babb, of Memphis. 150 each. lilt for the most bases— Abstain, Shreve port. 152 hit* for 20C lm*c*. Most sacrifice hits—Cargo, of New Or- lean*. 39. Stole most bases—Byrne, of Shreveport, NAME- s. Smith . Hoffman . Third Bsstmsn* Outfielders. NAME- O PO. Evert 14 29 Archer H 18 Crosier 145 261 Winters 144 IBS Wallace 4.1 108 StiliHon 24 47 Curtis W 14 W. A. Smith 41 76 PITCHING AVERAGE8. NAMK- II us lie*. Atlanta 32 l.lebhardt. Memphli TOM HUGHES. Lssguo's best pitcher. ••••*••••■••••••* Wilhelm. Birmingham Walthour Beat Guignard in Motor Paced Race Tuesday Hobby Walthour won lil* Christmas day rare from Gulgnaid, tin* record- breaking: Frenchman, at tlio local Col- scum Tuesday afternoon. Ho took both flve-mlle heats. A crowd which was unusually large, considering the bitterly cold weather. the In ttyr* second heat Hobby took a tumble, owing tr» the fact that his rear tire blew up. but he was not badly hurt, and *ys soon as ho could get u now wheel, continued with the race. PO. A. E. P. C. wilhelu*. Birmingham ..36 22 13 ■■ 5 18 1 .»» Clark. Birmingham 37 2. .128 231 404 69 .914 McCrane. Montgomery .. 6 dalle** Birmingham' ......21 '17*12 Hooker, Shreveport 27 15 11 r P c lllekman. Blrm -8hreve...28 13 10 1.000 Mamtel. Now Orleans ....32 17 II 1 000 Maxwell, Montgomery ...32 17 15 — Harley. Atlanta 24 12 11 Sugg*. Momphls 95 U 16 Gnosis Now Orloans 27 14 13 Malarkoy. Montgomery ..33 IS 17 P Clark. Memphis 14 7 7 s mb Brown. Memphis 10 _ __ _ _ _ | Breltonstolu. W., Shrew.- ERAGE8. Montgomery 24 11 11 (7. W. L T. PCI. fforrell, N. Orlenns-Nnsh.22 11 H *33: 1'hllllp*! New Orleans ....33 15 17 Tta I Wafoh. Montgomery “* " “ •i. i Ixmek*. Atli*nta-Memphl*.18 Itenguu. Birmingham ... 31 21 8 Zeller, Atlanta 42 24 12 , .emphli :n Hermann. Nashvlll. •geg Spark*, ***-"*- ., Atlanta 20 itnehanan, Nn*livllle 13 Hrady. Llttlo Rock 40 14 21 DELEGATES FROM MANY COLLEGES WILL PASS ON FOOTBALL RULES New. York, Dec. 26.—Captain Palmer B. Pierce, of West Point, presi ded of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, has Invited every Insti tution of college ranlc In the country to send a delegate to the annual convention which will be held at the Murray Hill hotel, Saturday morn ing. At this meeting the reports of the football committee will be read and a new committee appointed to consider more changes In the regula tions for next year. The executive committee of the association will meet ot Murray 1II1I Friday evening to study the main questions that will be put before the convention. Atlnntn is .satisfied with the baseball averages, even if slie did get them one day later than several other cities in the league. The official count gives Atlanta the lending batter. Sid Smith; the leading pitcher, TomHughes, and a lot of Ininor honors. Smith, with his marvelous showing of .320 in 134 games, makes,all the other batters look like jokes. Winters was well toward the top with .287. Tommy lihghcs made monkeys of the other pitchers with .833 for a per centi The rest oi the hunch trailed, with the “Dutch Boy'' of Memphis second. Zeller was sixth among the pitchers. In fielding Atlanta stood right at the top. Raymond and Ilarley were way up among pitchers, Fox was fourth among the first sackers aud"Jordan led the second basemen who took part iu more than seven games. , ., ' As may have been mentioned before in these columns, Atlan ta did not win the penuaut, but for all that the publication of the averages gives n feeling of satisfaction to .local fans that maybe the Birmingham bunch is missing—for the Birmingham stars did not shine very brightly among the leaders ns shown by the league’s averages. Pennsy” Will Play Games With Chicago and Michigan Philadelphia, Dec. 28,-Wltb the likeli hood of having one of the best football teams In Its career, the University of Peun- syivnnla has secured fames with Michigan nud Chicago for uext year. The Quakers will go to Auu Arbor sod meet Michigan November 9 und Chicago will como here November 16 to play on Frankllu field. The Coruell-Pennsylvanla game will 'fol low on Thanksgiving day, so the Quakers Of Course mesH pum Xi. <TtKOlArES* BONBONS > *h-^ JfTLfjffT/i Iff* THE STANDARD OF PURITY. , Watt. Little R.-N. Or 32 10 . _ Allemnng. Nashville 6 2 4 0 .333 Ely. Nashville 21 7 14 0 .333 Tribble. Moutgomer.v .... 6 2 4 0 .333 1 iiuggau. L. AtI.-Nash.... 13 4 8 1 .383 Seltb. Little Rock X % 17 0 .32) ’Idle, Montgomery 12 3 7 2 .3)0 ! 'rtu. O-. Shreveport ....26 7 17 1 .291 •*hlnn. Little ll -Nash....15 4 11 0 .256 tohnsOD. Little Kock 8 2 6 0 .250 Ulen, Little Bock 17 8 12 2 .2» - ** * . .12 2 9 1 .HI .. 7 1 6 0 .142 A3 TO THE AVERAGES. That Italey chap, of Memphis, batted *ome—.293 In seventeen game*. Heroic McCsy did well In the wind-op with Little Rock. Batted .286 la. nine games. Mona '.* standing of .265 with the ash was surprisingly good. The yellow-headed short- stop hit 'em out pretty well—far better than any shortstop In the league save Byrne-unu Byrne will not be 'In our midst’* next season. Not If he makes good with the majors., Archer batted only .224 last season. He will have to .better that considerably, or Atlauta will have another chance nt him next spring. McCrnne, of Montgomery, had the honor at bringing up the rear In the list of butters. In six games he did not make a hit. Harley, with a per cent of .087, was next to last among the Ifpgne's batters. TOs worst batter In the league who took part lu one hundred or more games was Milo Stratton, of New Orleans, who hit .161 In 119 games. Loucks Is ranksd fourth among the pitch ers of the league In per ceut of games won. This Is a great surprise. It did not look as tboogh V. Loucks would be "among those present” at all. Georg* Suggs, of Memphis, rated by many o( the managers and players us the l*est pitcher In the league, after Hughes and Llebbardt. finished eighteenth in per cent ot games won. Suggs' marvelous carves and phenomenal speed did him lit tle go«*d. for ho never had the uupport of bis team. Mnllsney, of Montgomery, batted .262 and fielded first among the luttlal sackers, and yet be has been allowed to go back to the '•sab-minors." BUTLER WINS FOR SAVANNAH EX-TECH PLAYER DOES FINE WORK AGAINST ALL-STAR FOOTBALL TEAM. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26.—The Savan nah feam won In line Etyle from the All-Star aggregation In the game here yeeterday afternoon by a score of S to 7. Butler, the ex-Tech player, made two goals from the field, scoring all ot •Savannah’* point*. The Ilne-up: SAVANNAH. ALL-STARS. Cornwell, f. b. Hanvey, t b. J. Artley, r. h Burke, r. h. Wilton, I. h H. Yancey, L h Butler, q Mclrer, q. Shuey. r. e. Hamilton, r. e. Palmer, r. t Derrick, r. t. Black, r. g. ...Bennett, r. g. AIL c Oden. ■*. Seely, I. g. Forsythe, L Roietter, 1. t Huron, L t. W. Artley, L e. Sadler. L t. LOCAL TEAMS CANT SCORE will hnva n hard schedule, but that li* wel comed, with a chance to settle all doubt a* to the supremacy of the East In football and every supporter of Pennsylvania be lieves It will 1)6 done with the team (fiat assured for. heat. fill. Chicago wW pfay Minnesota November 3 an*I therefore have the experience of that coiifo*r with which to tackle Pennejlvatda- It Is thought here that 8tagg*s eleven be the oue.to fear, but the Quakers win have met Mlcblgap nod bod* a taste of lVed era football by the time the Maroons ar rive. RHYOLITE ON JEFFS TRAIL The Christmas morning football game at Piedmont park between tho Atlanta Athletic Club team and a col lection of stars, headed by Joe Beene, resulted in a score of tero to xero, which was appropriate, considering the weather. Both teams played good football, considering that they had done little or no practicing and considering that the ground was frozen hard and the weath- er was cold os Greenland. The Ilne-up follows: ALL-STARS. ATH. CLUB. McLeod, I. e Strong, 1. v. Simmons. 1.1. Johnson, 1. t. Tuscany. L g. Cunningham. L g. Quarles, c. Thrash, c. Tolbert, r. Brown, r. g. Reid. r. t Fitzsimmons, r. t. ne <0apI ) ’ 0 «M00 purse, and the battle probably •. .Thornton, r. c. will take niace at the mining iov*u Merritt l L h : l Spense and M. Smith, L h. V^a SKINNER GOES TO LOS ANGELES TO ARRANGE FIGHT WITH SQUIRES. Los Angeles. Cal- Dec. !l.~F. D- Skinner, the Rhyolite fight promoter, accompanied by B. F. Taylor, a weiliar Nevada mining man, arrived la WJ Angeles yesterday for the purr 08 '“ arranging a finish fight for the heavy weight championship of the world « »•—-n J. J. Jeffries and Squires, of Aus tralia. who Is now - . _. .. America. It 1* understood Skinner is ..Gregg, L h. nt. t. b. Jim Don, r. h. Hogg, f. b Brine leapt" Summary: Score. Athletic Club. 0; All-Stars, (I. Referee, O'Donnell, of Pennsylvania. Umpire. Charley Sweet of Tech. Head linesman. Chip Robert of Tech. Timekeeper. Hoyt, of Ath- lethlc Clnb. NAT KAISER 4 CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS «.*.j > r ALuAS ®.»" iS - Bargains In Unredeemed Diamond*