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UP-TO-DATE NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD | NEWS OF SPORTS ] EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING AROUND NUCLEUS OF! 51 AR VETERANS S MITH HO PES TO BUI LD A PENNANT WINNER League in Their Positions, and Other Old Men SID SMITH, CATCHER Thla man lad tha Southarn Laaaua in batting I a at year and flo* lead the contestant!* In a 15-mlle cross country run. Similar runs will In? pulled off every Wedneaday and Sat urday. the weather permitting, until March 2. when the regular track prac tice begins. Valuable experience will be gained In this kind of running that cannot be secured luter In the season, and a large one In which her team haa taken | and thla one defeat came last when the team waa In a crippled < dttlon. Manager Harris haa been w«r hard and wttt gtve the University beat achedule this spring. Inclu games with Vanderbilt. Tech. Etr Auburn nnd Ciemaon. the local hill climb, but it Is likely t a system of electrical timing will employed. with two 'or three s watt lies in use nl tach end of the Billy will probably manage tha taam thia year from tha bench, aa he did meet of laat year. On a pinch, however. Smith can go to the outfield and put up graat ball there. . urea among tne neat or tne catch- •re. He will be Atlanta's regular catcher in 1907. RUBE" ZELLER, PITCHER SOUTHERN DOUBLES TEAM WILL PLAY FOR NATIONAL HONORS Meet the Eastern and Western “Champs” in National Event. New York, Feb. 4.—The determina tion to lend another challenge to Eng land for the Dull cap salt'to Incor porate the aaaoclatlon waa reached laat night at the twenty-sixth annual meet- Inf of the United States National I*awn Tennis Association, held In the \Vnf- dorf*Astoria Hotel. Thtrty-onc clube were represented by delegmtea and alterrates. nnd twenty by proxies. The annual election re sulted In the continuance of the entire board of officers and of the executive In office. There was satisfaction expressed that tha Americana are again to challenge for the International cup and that at laat Incorporation Is to be effected. Both of these matters were left to the executive committee to effect. The of ficers chosen won: President, l>r. James Dwight; vice MICHIGAN TO PLAY VANDY Nashville. Tenn. Feb. C —Michigan has offered to send her football team . to Oils city either November 2 or Octo. her 26 for n game with Vanderbilt. Arrangements will at once l»e made to * give Michigan one or the other of these dates. ONE MOGUL HAS A KICK Special to The Georgian. Kavannuh. Go., Feb. •.—There was at least one South Atlantic mogul who i eras disappointed when he learned that President Boyer had called the m?et- ! fng of the Bailie directors for February | IS. In Augusta. Not that this i*artlcu- l lar party at Interest objected to the I meeting being held In Augusta, nor that he hod any compunction about meeting on the 17th day of the month, j but, be It known, N P. t’ortuh. ►••**. I rctury of the Savannah club. I* the ; newly elected clerk of council of tbs ' city of Savannah. Last year when the iHiumut otic*- , tlon was worrying the hi nds of all the • other local owners. N;ck was not think ing of baseball alon«. lie hud Ids eye on a plum that was hnnging high, and when the now crowd ctme m Nick was rewarded for his tubbctlng Hut j it is unseemly, say* Nhk. that Presi dent Bover, after waiting >i month and taking his sweet time nuout culling the meeting, should have picked nut thf worst day In the month, the very day when couloir holds it* February me salon. Among the several matters which Mr. Corlsh wants to bring bef ire tbs meeting Is that of securing a new make of ball thin season. MUENCH& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Diamonds, Watch*., Jewelry. Fin* Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repair- Ing. n Paachtraa Stroat——Atlanta, Oa. Bell Rhone 1311. |>restdrnt. Robert D. Wrrnn; trraaurer. Richard Steven.; arrretary, Palmer K. Prreely: executive committee, William A. Earned. Itwlght F. Davie. Krlgh t'ellln., Raymond I> Little, Holcombe Ward, William J. Flothi.i, Frederick (). Anderson, A. J. Hoikln. und L. D Hcott. L 1> Scott, of Atlanta, aecretary nnd irea.oirr of the Southern Anenctattnn. ■I>rnng a auriirlac upon the meeting when he anked that the Southern play- era' have rrprc.entatlon In the national champion.hip tournament at Newport. His request took the form of u motion that the winners of the Houthern dou bles rhamptonahtp h- admitted tutu tha comp-titlour for tb« doublM title and that they play In the preliminary with the K.i.lrm anil W.aiem champions for the tight to challenge for the chain- plon.lilp. Thin waa fnvnrahly acted upon and the prellmlnatlea may be de L. D. Scott Re-Elected Director of Tennis Association. elded at Longwnod. Southampton, or Orange a't the discretion of the execu- Uyo committee. The statement that the amateur nthtettc union wa. aaaklng to get In rontrot nt lawn tennis, made by Louts Phillips, was not taken seriously by the members, hut It ptuvokad m heated die. cus.ton as to amateurism. By PERCY H. WHITING. So Michigan is comint; down to play Vanderbilt in Nash ville. Will we nil he there! Well, we should 3nv ves! Nashville in ttoiitK to have it new ball park, (irent enter prise. vest The kind of enterprise which was started in motiou because the old park was sold out from underneath them. How ever, anything for a new park in Nashville. The wrestlers have lit on Knoxville, Teun. Well, that is pretty tine excitement for that town. Only the shell game has outworn its original charm there. Hacing iu Tennessee is dead—for the legislature has passed a hill killiug race track gambling. With the death of gambling the "sport of the kings" goes to the wall. Somehow the “king's own game" does not seem to flourish very well without the gam bling side ltile. Those who know the game best in Tennesaee regret its passing least. It was conducted on a higher plane itt that state tliuti in any other where the various Western turf associations have jurisdiction, but at that it had its faults—and they were faults so obvious that the legislature decided thnt the only way to reform it was to kill it. The story is going the rounds now that Francis Trevelyan iptit as steward at City 1’iirk, New Orleans, because he refused to sanction the reinstatement of John J. Ryan. The admiration of the race-going public for Trevelyan lias not diminished arty in consequence of this resignation. John 1). Rockefeller’s new automobile has been c<|tiip[Vd with shook-absorbers. Wonder if he takes his magazine litera ture with the same equipment! A new racing automobile has been named "Cigar.” Some fresh guy wants to know whether because of the shape or the ' smell. Harvard •■urstnaii lias just gone crazy from over-study. Two possible morals for college men—il l Don't row. (2) Don’t study. Take your choice. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo O Soc ial III The Georgian O Montgomery. Ala.. Kelt »; it is O nmwutv t'tl that • n o* ti»b**r -G the O University of G.nrirta ami the O University of Alabama will |*lav O a game of football In till* cUv. O unit that It I* |tro|to*t»i| t«* make O thl* game an annual affair. O O oooooooooooooooooooooooooo «’atelier bni I’rlcrr ami Pitcher l*y Voting, tin* star button *»f th* Ittmtnn Americans, hate tlgncd their confrnt t» for the coining •eaaon. The I ntrmltjr of «'hl>*ago foot 1*1) eleven la trying to arrange for an Kssteru game thl* fall. Jack It ceil, of Chicago, an«l Jack Hough %*rty are hltcheU up for a ten -round fight to he pulh'tl off nt Indianapolis tonight. OOTCH THROWS BARR. Knoxville. Tcnn.. Feb * — I • Sotth took two straight fall* n Jim Hnrr. the Engti*h wiwiu*r. lu.-t night. NAT KAISER A CO. , CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. [ IS Decatur 8L Kimball House. Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS When, at the annual meeting of tha Bout hern League In Birmingham. Charley Babb said. "I'm going to win the pennant thla year, depending on what Billy Smith haa In Atlanta," he came very ctoae to expreaalhg the opinion of the inanagera and mogula of the Southern League. "We've got to beat Atlanta" la the feeling all down the line. New Or leans has her fingers creased when At lanta la mentioned. Birmingham la worried over the atrength of the Crack ers. And so It la all over the league. It la the undivided feeling of the ex perts that the team which beats At lanta Is going to win the pennant, and a lot of them doubt If any team In the league can turn the trick. Well, let’s see what Atlanta haa that scares the reet of the bunch ao badly. Take the old men first, for we know the most about them. Tha Three Best For one thing. Atlanta has three men who are the beet in their 'positions In the league, and maybe four. The cer tainties are: Bid Smith, best catcher In the leagu Jim Fox, beat first baseman In the (•ague. Otto Jordan. be«t second baseman Ui the league. No doubt If Birmingham paper* war* running sporting page* 5which they aren’t, for the sporting editors In that lively burg are covering <>».aths and funerals as a winter’s pastime) they [Would rise up end denounce the writer a* an escaped lunatic and The Geor gian and New* as a res ut f« r the fee ble minded on the st remit h cf such *n utterance. And yet evety fan with average human Intelligence \% ill adml*. that these men were the best the league had In their iea)»ectlve positions In 1906. Probably some would allege that there were better fielding catchers In the league than Hid Smith. Atlanta will not admit this, esptotally consider ing the disadvantage under which Smith worked, but anyt.ay look at tiia; batting average—anJ then hush. We’ll have to slip It to Sid. lie was the beat catcher In the league. There wasn’t much argument about GEO. WINTERS, RIGHT FIELD George is the only bona fide veteran on the team, and yet he played last year, with all the vim and friakineaa of a youngster. Hie fielding waa always of a phenome nal nature and shows Atlanta's eeoon man ready to crack off a nice tin gle. Otto batted better than any other aacond baseman in tha leagua in 1906. Jtm Fui, either. Hyrt+dnot *vxt n* Abstain, but he fielded hi* position wonderfully well and h'.s t,*une exhibi tions under trying circumstances would have entitled him to a poaltiri at first base on any man's team. At second base it was the consensu* of opinion among the possessors of av erage baseball knowledge that Otto had It over all of the second basemen. No Southern League second basemen haa fielded his position better and done a* much sensational work In stopping balls. And Otto’s batting has been up to the standard. Wintara Laads, Too. Another man on the team who rank ed right around the top was George Winters. In fact, now that-you come to think about It, what fielder in the league had anything over “Olnger George?*’ We ll tell you the answer right now: ’’Nobody.” Winter* absolutely led the outfielder* In butting. His .2*7 was nhead of any other fielder who took part I11 any rea- GLEN UEBHARDT IN ACTION - better than Winters: KnoIL Nadeau. Crosier, Wiseman. Rlckert. McCann— that Is, counting only thoae who took part In more than 80 game*. Winters himself played In 144. Five of these men are counted out of the race because of weak batting. The men and their batting averages are: Knoll. .239; Crosier. .227; Wise man, .252; Rlckert. .252. und McCann, .272. The only star-fielding outer-gar dener who batted along with Winters waa Nadeau, of New Orleans and Memphis. For purposes of comparison, their full bnttlng averages arc given, ’’aide by each:” Games. W. 144. N. 140; at bat. W. 529. N. 522: runs. W. 68. N. 65; hits. \V. 163. X. 146: total bases. W. 194. N. 179; sacrifice hits. W. 25. N. 31: stolen bases, W. 12, N. 29; per cent, W. .287. N. .279. Doubtless It Ih a very even break between the two. But the difference between Winter*’ advantage in bat ting and Nadeau's advantage In field ing -t-.niM to Ih- nil In favor of the At lanta man anil we may ae well writs It down here and now that George Win ters was the heel outttelder In the league- last year. Zeller -Right Than." In addition to three four league- beaters. Hmlth can count on a few- more reliable members of last year's JAMES FOX, 1ST BASE. In this pietsrs Jim was. by spa- cial rsqusst, giving an imitation of a human bsanpole, at which stunt ha avar shines. Rube wasn't the beat pitcher In the league last year by five. These live were Hughes, Llebhsrdt. Brelten.-t-m. of New Orleans. Loucks and Reagan Three of these men will not be ba< k In the Southern nekt year, however— Hughes and Llebhardt. who will In- in the American League, and Brelt.n- steln, who haa, It Is reported, retired from baseball. Of the remaining two Loucks pitched In only IS game*, against 40 for Zeller, and Reagan—u. II, he waa with a pennant winner where winning came easy. Out of the 40 games that Zeller pitched last year he won 24, lost It and tied 4. "The Rube" Is a hard working pitch er and la ambitious. He wants to get In shape for the big leagues and Hilly Smith believes that this year will be his lost with the minors. Also he be lieves that, unless Hughes cornea buck. Zeller will lead the league. It may be mentioned In pasalng that Zetler fielded hls position In 1904 a, well aa any pitcher who took part tn an equal number of games and batted— well, let's not talk about that. Zeller le a good pitcher, so who cares whether or not he bate. That about covers the regulars who will be back. We hoped to say a bit about the new men. but the limits of spare make this Impossible In this ar ticle. Hut It Is coming soon. Georgia Track Candidates Taking Cross-Country Runs Special to The Georgian. University of Georgia. Athens. Ga.. Feb. 6.—Manager Harris nnd Captain McCaffry. of the Georgia track team, are now making preliminary prepara tions for the ensuing season. All long-distance runner* nnd 440* /nrd dash men hove been Instructed to report for the first work-out Wed nesday. Ex-Cuptxln Raoul will then number of contestants will take ad vantage of every work-out. RcRuiar track practice, beginning March 2. will give ihe team nearly a month before Held day, which will be held March 3»* A great team Is expected to be put on the field by ths students this sprlns Rvery man on last year’s team ha* re turned and It Is hoped that good ma terial will be found among the new men. Georgia has won every dual meet, but ' ■ * ‘ 1 has taken p in. ----- *— year I c*»n* r Emory, Local Autoists Making Plans For Hill Climb of February 22 Preparations are going steadily fo* - I ward for the nutomnblle hill rllttm. which will be held <»n the Ilapevlllc I road, on Washington’s birthday, i All the preliminary arrangement* f«»» ! the event have been made and all which remains to be done l* to complete th % I lint of entries, nppolnt the official* and | get the timing apparatus In good run- ! nlng order. of course such n thing ns a hll! j climb where the cats race each other | up the Incline I* nn Impossibility »n any hill yet discovered. All climbs are I with one car nt a time in 1 the tint * taken for each cur It has not been definitely decided Just t It I* Impossible to tell Just how many auto* will be in the race, but there are five events and each must have three entries to be declared filled. Undnub'* edly each race will have at least th* allotted number and probably severjl will have more. In fact, twenty • thirty cars will doubtless take part the event. Handsome cups have been offered *n all live events, and It Is likely **nt other prlies will be put up so thit there will be nt least two prises f ’ r each race. As soon ns the weather settle* ' trlHe and warms up a few pegs contestant* will begin taking prn-ti trips up the Incline In order to get »' Inv of the land before the day of tin* climb. RYAN BEAT BARRY. Hot Hprlngs, Ark, Feb. •.—Ton Ryan knocked out Dave Barry In " Barry was knocked down four time- m the fifth round and the last time unable to rise. This fancy motion picture of "The Dutchman” was taksn in Clovtland shortly after the Southern League season of ‘C00 closed. It thowt the sec ond boat pitchor of tho Southern Letovs met at the erd of his delivery. Liebhardt will bo aivon a thorough trial with the Cleveland team thr year, and Larry Laipie believes that the es-Southerner will make good. GET YOUR LUMBER FROM E. G. WILLINGHAM & SONS IfnrdwtMid (liNU'ing a specialty. We deliver promptly and guarani* * satisfaction. A full stock of Lumber. Hash, Doors, etc., on hand. Prices are ! right. g 042 WHITEHALL STREET.