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1 -T4*aro b* doubt Seventy per rent of the stock ’of the new syutllcRte has been subscribed. The prospect* for u good season with Post, master Harris"as president Of the torsi club are exceedingly bright. HORAf*M- ■ t , Th ***J #ur "; w "»•" *7 •!'•*J wc ‘* d t0 during th«> comln a •••ton, and aach of thorn hto on •nviable rscord on ths diamond. At tho oxtreme right is shown John Mullan, who is tha Istost addition to tho Giants'squad. Ho startod playing basoball at Manhattan Collage, whsro ho was a star aeoond batman. Next is shown Tom Corcoran, s groat shortstop, whom Hanlon had planned to send to manage tho Baltimore team this season. MeGraw, however, did not want him to atop playing and bought hit release. Next it shown "Spike" Shannon, who came to tho Gianta last seasoh in a dsal which coat tho Giants $10,000. Next is shown "6y" Seymour, whoso release MeGraw bought from Cincinnati last season for tha sum of $10,000. Jusl Some Junk, Fresh From Ballville ATLANTA GEOBQIAN AND NEWS, THURSDAY, BEBRUART 1807. . UP-TO-DATE NEWS ! OF SPORTING WORLD j HWW5MWOM* NEWS OF SPORTS • I edited by PERCY H, WHITING W. MATTHEWS HAS SIGNED UP PUTS HIS FIST TO CHARLESTON CONTRACT AND GETS VERY BUSY. Specie] to The Georgias. Charleston. 8. Feb 7.—For the first time today formal announcement was made by the Charleston baseball club that Wilson Matthews had been signed as manager of the Charleston team for the season of J907. The club owners here hove been dickering with Havannah for weeks over Mutt hews. He reports March 9 Men reserved for the team are: Rav* Idge, Foster. I-owe. Haftery. Mullins, Fox. Crowder and liuease. Klnlei h. an outfielder, and Christian, a south pa$, have been signed. Two pitchers, one catcher and three fielders will he signed shortly, The Phillies play here March 25 and 2$. The Kuperbss play March 27 and "KID" SAYRES WINS. Bridgeport. Conn., f«b. 7.—"Kid” riayrea. of Milwaukee, had the best of a six-round bout with Willie Fltxger- ald. of Brooklyn, before the Colorado Athletic Club last night. It was a fast bout, which was stopped In the sixth round by ths referee, who saved Fitxgerald from a knock-out. BILLY DEVINE DEAD. Philadelphia. Feb. 7.—Billy Devine, the well-known boxer, died early Tuoo. day afternoon after a short lllnssa. HERE ARE FOUR NEW PLAYERS OF THE GIANT SQUAD Joe Bowker Wants to Fight Any Featherweight in World London. Fob. 7.—Jo. Bowker. the Kncllah champion featherweight of the work), loot nluht called Battling Nei- aon'e bid. Bowker offer, to fight any feather* weight In the world for the beet purae offered, ring aide weight to be 121 pound*. Bowker haa pooled 11,000 forfeit and may. he will go to America. If neceaaa* ry. to meet anybody taking up the challenge and finding a aultahle purse. (f Nelson thlnka he can fight at 111 pram., here l» a chance for him to meet the cleverest boxer In England. If Bowker flnde an American taker tha fight may revive the Anglo-American pugUlsUlf contest. decadent these ^Nf'eon haa made no .newer to Bow* bra challenge, buf hi, TH*nfl* con cede that he la unable to make 131 RT SKETCH OP SENTELL’S LIFE. Pssl Hentell. Ib»* New Orlcun* man. who ustd to play with llllly Hmlth. In the booth Atlantic lenguc. Is well known to Atlanta fans. Here In w-tist The New Or* least State* bss to ssy slnuit him: * Hen tell began ptsytug ball around the lots here some twelve years ago. After playing with various amateur dubs In the city for a uumber of years, be was given his first professional engagement by Baton Bouge lu 1903, then In the Cotton Htntea IdSSgue. lie remained In that anug little derail one season, and was picked up by Billy Bmtth. now of Atlanta, who wnt then managing the Macon Houth Atlantic league team. In Macon. Ben tell t»egsn to display flashes of the brilliant form which • has since made him fntuous at l'hlln- dslphla. After two m-asoos lu Mscou. the New Orleaus product was bought outright ‘by the Philadelphia National l<e«gn* team, • to which club he reported last March. “ttenteU's record with the guakers thus far bss Indeed been an enviable one. Thrown Into contact with the fastest play- ■ era of modern times. In n dub then torn with internal dissension, he played stead ily and consistently throughout the aensnn ' of 1M, and gslued a regular berth lu the Phillies* Infield. He wua repeatedly dis abled during the season, but stuck game* j ly to his post. last scasou. during a dose • and egrlttng game at New York, Hentell was playing thin! base for the Phillies i Mugsy Mctiraw, of the Ulants. as Is his wont, went over to the third base coaching , lines and begau sarcastically referring to Hentell's ability, stntlng that the Houth • had never yet prwlucel a player of cour- , age and nerve. Hentell stood this and many other taunts until after the game; ' tbeu he demanded nu apology from Mc tiraw. Ilarry Tuthlll. an eg pugilist and tbs trainer of ths New York club, dipped In his oar In l*ehalf of Mctiraw. The wrap that followed Is at III reverberating lit Gotham's sporting anual*. Tuthlll emerged from the fight with a broken nose, while Mctiraw, after receiving several stunning wallops from the New Orleans player, took refugs lu flight to his own dub lions. . "Hentell Is known among his associate* as a quiet. Well-bred young man, who takes perfect care of himself, and does not dissipate. He excels u*» n batsman and liase ruuner. Iieshles lu lug n splendid In fielder, lie Is considered n brainy player, and Is rated as ooe of the In st Inside uten on the Philadelphia pay roll " FOR POOL CHAMPIONSHIP. •A'ew York. Feb. 7 —Thomas Hues- U»ltr“»»T" St.' LouTX, who rrcerntr Ttr- <iutred the world’* championship pool honors .by defeating Jerome Keouglt In Buffalo. la to defepd his tjtle against Kdward Dawson In a series of matches MIDSHIPMEN WILL ROW IN FIVE RACE8. Annapolis, Md.. Feb. 7.—The beat crew of the midshipmen will row five racea this season. There will be dou ble-headers with Pennsylvania and Georgetown, and It la expected that Yale and Columbia will send two crows. Pennsylvania will eend her 'varsity and freshman and tho other first and second crew*. The next big event on the pugilistic cal endar will l«e the fight between Honey Mel- Indy, of Boston, and While Lewis, of New York, for tbs welterweight championship. The mm It elated to taSe place Mote <»n# of the Bhods Island dubs pest Monday night. Joe Calliope Burke, of Birmingham, has signed to umpire ln # the New York Htat«* League this season. J*h» will Relate in thb aeries or rhf ** probably games that the Cincinnati team sched uled to play at Birmingham late In March. Hobe Ferris, the second baseman of the Boston Americans, Is holding off from signing his contract for 1907 be cause lie wants President Taylor to pay hltn for the time he was under suspension last fall following his row with Jack Hayden. Hobe was under suspension from September 12 to the end of the neaaon. and, of course, he was not paid for that period. When he called at the office of the club last Hat. urday he was escorted Into the private office of President Taylor and a con tract for the coming season was placed In front of him, with the request ftrat he read It over and sign his name at the bottom. Hobe read It over and then put In his demand for the money for the Inst month of the season. The Boston club con not pay Ferris for the time he was under suspension without Inclining all sorts of trouble. The penalty Imposed on Ferris was not ordered by fhe Huston club, but by President Ban Johnson, of the Ameri can League, and for the Boston club to NOTNEWS, BUT VIEWS] By PERCY H. WHITING. A (-rent nmn.v improvements could be HUggextril for the aver- age Imgcbnll park. The writer lias often advocated reclining chairs and electric fans for the press box, hurricane cellars for . the umpires and portable lunatic asylums for some of the players in the loague whose nnmes it is unnecessary to mention. But we now drop the lieforementioncd crusades to rise and second the motion of the gentleman with the punk hatting eye who wants the center, field fences of all ball parks painted green. pay Kerris the money he aaka would be a direct violation of Its contract with the league. Hu« h^an^act^ would^leave league In addition to putting Itaelf In the rather unenvluble position of be ing dictated to by the players. Baseball stimulates the appetite, and possibly there Is no class of gastro nomic artists In the world, excepting harvest hands, that can compare with profeaslonal bull players as feeders, writes Hugh Fullerton. Usually they confine their eating feats to breakfast and dinner, and are content with a light lunch before the game, but there are exceptions to that rule. Harry Pulliam, when he was running the old Louisville club for Dreyfuss, once attempted an experiment which he never repeated. He put the team up at a European plan hotel In New York and thought he was saving money. When the bill for the first meal was rendered to him by the ap prehensive proprietor, who figured tha: the total receipts of the Colonels might not meet a week at that rate. Pulliam turned as red as his vest, then white as his collar. Hahnus Wagner led with a total of 311.33. and Pets Howling was second with tlS even, with the re.,t ranging from 13 upward. The next meal was on the American plan. averages, but for real aolld slugging must look to the normal right-handed batsman. The Cincinnati players will be unable to meet the Athletics at Waco on Hut.- day. March 10, as Connie Mack has scheduled hie two teams at Dallas and Fort Worth on that day. Frank Ban croft la trying to put the vets and colts Into Waco for a Sunday game on Mnrch 17. The two teams drew a big crowd there last season and made on excellent Impression on the Texas fans. The Hot Springs colony will be re inforced by Ed Aahcnbach In about a week. Aah weighs 315 In his Prince Albert and wishes to remove the odd figures before starting In with hts Saints at Leavenworth on St. Patrick*-; Day. “I always take on some weight In the off-season.'- he eaye. “In the summer 1 keep It down by chasing out- curves.”, . The Portland (Ore.) Journal haa made the following discovery" "About >4 ner cent of otherwise normal people to the the right hand In preference 6 tier cent—kre left-handed, and It Is a III (he first pinop the esthetic sente of the Average fail is rudely jolted by those fence signs. Even a color blind fan, who comes to the jmrk arrayed in a bright pink shirt and a bright red tie, hut a kick coming on those signs. He has paid big money and his sente of the beautiful .is sufficiently jarred in looking at the clnsaie features of Charley Frank, “Chief” Zimmer and the . rest, to tlint it is a combination of intuit and injury to atk him to stand for those advertitementt. But this is no crusade for the beautiful in baseball. Wo had to fill this column with something today and anyway we are out to right the wrongs (right or write, it doesn’t matter much which) of the ball players. The players tny that a center field fence decorated with gar ish ("garish—showy, ostentations, gaudy," Webster. It’s nil right. I looked it up.) colors makes him google-eved and cuts down his batting, average. Maybe it is the allurement of the beer advert isements that muses the eye to wander us the festive spit ball comes tripping over the piste, just subsequent to which the umpire remarks "Yerunt. ’ Or maybe the optic nerves protest against the mis placed rainbow. But anyway the hatters snv that’highly color ed fences hurt batting. So how about a green center field fence at the new something cool mid restful, a sort of an imitation of the grass—a fence so beautiful and so artistically painted thnt you can’t tell where the grass ends ami where the sky begins. If it would add .l'2.'> to the batting average of every man on team it would will the pennnpt for Atlanta. And we want that pennant this year. nnuthpaw pitchers nn< cut no notice whatever. As It Is. fully a third of the players In the major longue* are left-handed, or at least pitch and bnt left-handed, while only « tow thWiw with the south paw. This extraordinary percentage* Is doubtless due to the fact that magnates and man. oxers sedulously cultivate southpaw pitchers and batsmen, particularly the latter, under the belief that the left- handed pitcher ha* something on left- handed batters, while such batsmen have an advantage over right-handed batsmen In a quicker start to first base and a fraction of a second In close plays at the bag. This latter fact counts for the steady Increase of natu ral left-handed batsmen and of right handers who change to the other hand. This advantage of time on close plays at banders to high position In the ! AN EX-TECH STAR. Seems ns tlmuuli \v« in tilt* league somewhere, cool ami restful to llio o iinv. luive seen a preen center field fence I oft 1c Hock, isn’t it! Anyway it was e ami probably didn’t hurt tho batting: •Inc Bowker. the Kuplish feather, has apreed to take on. any man in the world »i 1l”J. Ilole-l n-The-Snow, Nevada, will now dash for the any. * lime lipht with a £1.000,000 offer for the fight—if muench& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Diamonds, Wstchsi. Jewelry. Fin* | > Watch, Clock end Jewelry Repair-, ;»-i Huvsrm befors «n.l not lug, l~ of shape, and he Is desirous of a W Psachtrts Street Atlanta, Ga. tiue*t!m l> nvid i >!, u Del* Phona 1311. ' scheduled to continue thrve nig to If 11 next on Is •it he u in play ugh The lot. ; * ill \\ hen lie NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 13 Dscatur St. Kimball Houat. Oarcaint In Unredeemed Diamonds. TOMMY M'MILLAN. Hsro is tho Atlanta boy who goto a trial this spring with Jack* stnviti* Nashville will soon have a new base ball park. Tho old 8ulphur 8prlngs Bottoms' disgrace has been sold to a real estate firm, and the Nashville team has to move. The now ball park will be out near Centennial Park. This lo a good section of the town and the new park will be reached by two car lines. The organisation of a baseball league Is stttl hanging fire, says a Home ex change, but the Indlcat’ons are encour-, aging. Rome fans are still looking for manager for the P.oire team that last night pad not succeeded In finding one. —L_ The following from a Gadsden paper will probably be read with Interest by local fans: "No definite agreement has yet been reached by parties In the several cltleu near Gadsden who are rndeavorlrg to organise a baseball league, hut It Is probable that a meeting will be held by the promoters of the scheme within the next few days In this city to per fect the organisation. "Clay Leath. owner of the local ball imrk. who was at the he id of the asso ciation here last season, stater thnt he Is In correspondence with representa tives of a number of other towns w ho desire to be admitted to the league, and he thinks that there Is every assurance that the proposed league will be a sue- cess. "It Is likely that six teams will be In cluded In the organisation, which will be known aa the Georglu-Alu'mma- Tennessee League. The cities under consideration are: Gadsden. Anniston. Talladega. Rome. Dalton and Chatta nooga. Thia number may be Increased tonight so aa to Include Knoxville and Selma." MOTOR RACE IN AMERICA VANDERBILT CUP AFFAIR WILL BE HELD IN UNITED STATES AGAIN. .race will be htid in thl. cuunir. Automobile club of July, whirl; ,, first claim on the contest bereu... the French Automobile Club's dnl.na lion lo officially participate, la i„ vor of huvlnfi the race held i,. lh . Untied Slates. There Is no duuht i, .. understood, that the Oermun n U h shares the same views. ALL HOPE GONE FOR RACING IN MEMPHIS. Special lo The Georgian. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 7.—That the racing gome In Tennessee Is ns .1,,.] as a door nail, and all prospects , spring meeting at Montgomery Pnr, this season withered. Is the■ const; ut. - lion Berrelary Malcolm X. Marfar. Ian, of the new Memphis Jockey Club, puts on the passage of the nnti-ra.. track gambling bill. Governor Patteraon will certainly sign the bill, which passed with such unanimity In both houses, as. In campaign speech In Memphis, October he pledged himself lo “slxit anv race track measure." All preparations had been mad,. r,,r the meeting at Montgomery Pari; which was scheduled to begin Ah it 15 and last until May 8. Emrl, - r >• the ten big stakes—the annual f,:,. lures—have been well filled. J. Dorn. Mullaney Has Signed Fine Team For Jacksonville J. Dominick Mullaney. the man who has been assigned to preside over tha destinies of the Jacksonville baseball club for the season of 1907, arrived In town this morning, says The Jackson ville Metropolis, looking the picture of health, and just as handsome as ever. "Mull's" arrival has been expected and announced for many days. Secretary Burbrldge said thin morning that he knew the next snow storm in Louis ville would turn the "big one" this way. and right he wan. "Mull" was accompanied to breakfast by a reporter of The Metropolis, and while partaking of the choice viands discoursed food for the fans that will be relished as much an a hot meal by a froten tramp. The Jacksonville manager hasn't said much In advance of his coming, but It.only takes fire minuter to convince you that he has been at work with his eyes peeled. Mtrtr says he doesn't know what the other fellows have landed for this sea. son. and It la not worrying him a bit. for he Is confident he has a bunch that "go some" and keep In the running with any team In the league. The Infieldert. "Who have you signed up. Mull?" asked the scribe. "Well, here's the bunch." Fred Beach, catcher, who comes from Ellwood, Ind. He has been playing In dependent ball In the West, and Is a very promising player. Beach will al ternate with 8hea. of last year’s team. Cliff Thomas In an Infielder from Salem, Ind. Hankie, nn Infielder from Chicago. He played last season with Decatur, 111. SULLIVAN WANTS FIGHT WITH ATT5LL.I Tommie McMullln. who plays an In field position, and was with the Tech College of Atlanta last season, nnd one who Is touted as able to deliver the goods. Allison, nn Infielder. comen from Bowling Green, Ky., nnd ban been play. Ing Independent bnneball Moore Is another Infielder. who comes from Los Angeles. Cal. Thl* fellow, says "Mull*" "was recommended to me by Van Haltren as being one of tho best minor league Inflelders he ha* seen for some time." Jimmy Kuhn, who has played In the Cotton States ami Southern league*. will play for "Mull" this year. Kuhn Is an Infielder. Tha Pitohsra. Delaware Willis and Pete Baker will be retained from last year. They ai** both good. Among the new* ones Is Stultz. wlw comes from the. Southern League, and was with Mullsney last year while h* managed the Montgomery. Ala. club Summers Is a southpaw, who hall* from the city of Chicago. He has l*en playing Independent oall, and Mull con. slders him a "find." He Is a youngsm^ only 20 years of age. Balllatte comes from Bloomington. III. He played last season with Inde pendent teams In the West. Walters, Long and Viola will con stitute a trio of outer-gardeners hard to boot. Walters halls from Louis ville and la*t season played with De catur. Itt. At First Bats. J. Dominick Mullaney, besides doing managerial duties, will perch at firv. base and direct hts athletes fmm timi . position. "Mult" needs no introduction. He Is a ball player—that's all! Hankie and Kuhn will fight It out for second base. Alllsqn nnd McMillan *••111 do battle for shortstop's place, and Moor? nnd Thomas will contest f"r third base. , Mullaney has been given the right to Issue the official programs this sea son. and they will be something en tirely new and a souvenir that even one will want and*one that evervhodv will want to keep. He will btgln work on the programs at once. "Muir' ha* a few original Ideas of his own that will be Incorporated In the program*, and are sure to catch the fans, lie will also have work started at once on* the ball grounds. The Exhibition Games. The players are ordered »o report here on March 10. The Brookl* r.< nre due March 8. and both tennis will ut once begin their work. On March 15, 18 and 22 and 2J. the Juckhonvllte and Brooklyn team* |Jav x hi billon games, which will b«* «b-' first of the season. 8ome of the tentm come h*re from the east roast and the Jacksonville team will play In t. Augustine during Ponce Del.'”* eek. St. Louis. Mo., Feb. 7.—Jack Sullivan* who manages "Brooklyn Tommy" Sul livan.' announced yesterday that be would deposit $1.00) to Insure Sulli van’s presence In the ring with Attell In-March. Sullivan made the Hint*. lent after being Informed that Man ager McOargy had wired that AcMl had agreed to meet Sullivan at 13d pounds ring side. NOTES OF SPORTS. Bob Walthour Leaves Soon For Short European Trip Hubby Walt bun i ifiiv for NVir York. •Hy Tuesday on t 111 leave Atlniitn Hun K«*to ml will mil from thnt tlu- Knlser Wilhelm for le ha* coiitrm-t* f»:- four iflld on** III I»re»'li-li mi Huii'ln will mei Hubby hint lie will Ih* htum* -'i-.H lh« next dii) In fb -f -f ently received lin lb*""-* h* take pnrt In «lx-iUy rnre* nt H< t'b-velNiiil. hut his furelgu engagement- I voided him. The Virginia State 1. ague nf Hh-mImiI ’lulu* hold* It-* it ilium I unn-tlug In Itb-liiiioiu today. It l* likely that Jake Well* will le lee ted to the pre«ldel»c*V nnd will nu YOUNG BALL PLAYERS ARE QUEER e tiiidi-rgrailunte* of Harvard oiv pin ulitg a ir»*ud deal of faith on the belief tin I’reMldfciit Kooaerelt. when he visit* tin 'nuihrldge inslltutlun the latter (am cf ttill nonth. will any puhllely and prlvntely iuin- thing* that will help their side of the i-n-*i In the present turmoil m»*r liiten-ollogl.ip athletics. of tin- tfhrdlitnl*. In dn r.uid of a fanning l*ee u* mi old maid •»f a tea party, and any time of the day or night. In hi* o|m*ii fneed mil:, be I* ready tO ill* ll*» bi|H4 ll nolltul l>M*l« the and most - InrJtable »Ihm*rvers of the "bitgglncNN" of Nome „f the fuilUtlVN Of the came, and If* not hard to lead •! Id'!* Into a «IIm*iin*Iou of the aubjeet that «y fur the «•'** be entitled * Hug* That I Have to be h-ld * Known." HoIiImmi hold* tlidt the fUi-dm j of Nome Olle iHt-nllrt , *hv ehnwee* if-i» -youngster lo nuHrtog"good spring ^ proviul *• , hi fa-t eoinpaii) These Idea* run tllv i e« III nt all the war from extreme tuodestv I laek n| eontbletiee tip to a deulrc to IS tO Blip fi*: - isve marked Ik- an outfielder m trying for one of the regular |n- Promptly on hi* arrival lie went i« » ernn covering the iwsltlon nnd thiti lie would kill hltu If he did i- It. lie next attacked one of »b* young*ter* mid only prompt ln«* » i prevented a tragedy. Thl* player also threatened nil" mi* eoiiNtantl) burning with a m»i- 'that even fhe* fuelb* pen of ah .1 Aden IN** would |»*ve been ImnliN’ It,. w» nbnnt «• rosum"' iirr * mtthmtmki* nnd wt* «**ut to Ik liefore the *cn*nu was very old. Thought Ho Had Enomiot. Another bsutllng pnssesead lit*' n: a man pursued l»y cuemte*. He h« fnwi a minor club, where bl* GET YOUR LUMBER FROM G. WILLINGHAM & SONS Hardwood flooring a specialty. We deliver promptly and guarantso satisfaction. A full stock of Lumber. Hash. Doors, etc., ot) hand. Prices aro C42 WHITEHALL STREET. botlve obscurity bad "soursd" would come ou the field, and. If not the glad band, would go to the ben- sulk the rest of the day. lie *• over hi* Imagined Ills, and. a* » hi* plnylug was of s poor order bl* good qualities were so ee||o»e.| self-created melancholy that the •> "25" ws* the only uafnral sequel" • •layer nioloubtevlly esnied !*»• k mi... league friMU whb-h be stmuic the the hard row he had to hoe during I. day* in Idg league society.