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• ■ vmv " - muiipu H upi! wjpqpi ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1907. edited by PERCY M. WHITING With fin Amount slightly In **xoeai of IS.- nm niit»«<TiiMMi fur the new Country flub pf flu* Atluntn Athletic flub nml with a in*w roinillltt**H n|»|M»lnt«n! to solicit the SSuvn more which In needed fur the pwjwt. tin* prositect* for tho erection of the bhlbl- tnir hi tile near future look brighter tlmu ' 7u fart. a committee will In* named In a few (lay* to have plan* for the new battoe prepared to In* submitted to the nunual M. FINN Gets Rid of Old Men and Signs Big Bunch of New Ones. In a recent letter to the sporting edit* of The ibHirflnii, Mike Finn turn* !<*»« some luformatluu olmiit hla team for 1HTi7. Mike ha* Abut the old Utile Itm-k team all to |»I*ht*. lie lino »»l<l Frank Allen. Ota Johnson. F.l lllckey. Toni Bln!, furl White and Fat Meam y. To fill their pla< lie tiua signed Max Addington. Jack Bolnn. K. i\ Kyler.* Ilol. Itnmly. O. W. Brasil. «i F. IMwnrU*. Fred Uke. l». B. Mill, nml William Hart. In n.MItlon lie In purchased II. Ihdter*,- W. Ihirtell, Join. Buchanan. fhnrle* Hchuninn, II. Zoll#*rt and If.-faln lloblnaoii. Iljr nienna of a trade, lie landed (tuck "Wearer, and drift he brought to the fold W. l*Afe and J. W Hopkins. Till* fire* Manager FJnn seven of lilt old man. but he will not bring Kehimerllng liack. *o bl* available supply of last year'* material la *1* men They arc YA Orr, catcher; Charles Keith, pitcher; William Houflaa. flrat baaeman;. fharlea DsAr tnond, third baseman; Jack <Slllwrt. ont- tisldtr. and Kirby Brennan, out fielder. W. O. Ilnrtnian. who naa on Mike's re strrs Hat na n *u«|M*iute«l player, goes to Altoooa. under the term* of the fietlce pact. Aa to position*, Mike baa at preaent three or four candidates for Aral baae, caUn**r and nine pitchers, oue or two men who can play flrat haac, ouc second hancmnu, shortstop. five condldatea for third bane and four men for the outfield. How It All Dopaa Out. (Jadoubtedly Finn la counting on Fre.l !<skt, the man lie plekcd tip from Law rence, Maas., to do the bulk of the catch Ing. Ed Orr. Ida oilier catcher, la a Lit tie Rock product, and while lie did k«mm1 work last year, lie do.*a not care In g. the road with the team, nod an la n»t egpeclally Yelnablu. Of nnn w, Hill Hong DeARMOND DOUGLAS. KEITH. BUCHANAN. Inat year, Kirby Drenmin nad duck CONTRACT FOR 190 The last of the kickers has come tulo the fold, and Billy Smith’s mind I* lit ease. Baxter Sparks, the twlrler. who held out for more salary, has signed. A few weeks ago, Baxter could not see any fun In pitching for Billy Smith, even at the salary Billy offered-which was *5 a month more than Spark* got last year. But times have changed, and Baxter baa I This la good news for Atlanta. While Baiter had a little i„. share of bard lack last yent. nevar ceased to believe that 1: the routing pitchers of the i,- ; , will unt aurprlae the local nin K finishes the season with n g... cent of games won. With Zeller. Sfairka and 11.. year's working a.|uud. signed, feels that his pitching stuff \ looked after this year. roluinbus player, ought man for Little Itork. long time, and I* a ve water. Met'alu Itoblusoi elissed fmui Jackson, home Is lu UiundeslMiro man touted has played iriin of the first whom Finn pur ll*«., and whose Ala., Is another Another rella- tn» <*oiiiited on to go In ami do the ratvblng whenever necessary. and they do not make them any Imtter. Bill hatted ,£ri Uat year. Charley Keith, the ei-L*nlversltjr of Ar kansas star. Is the only pitcher Finn car ried over from last year. However, bo lias a bunch of now ouea. Bill Hart, the old Ido man secured by Finn Is Buchumin, the It. Haul twlrler. who was with Nash llle last year. Bin-lianan handles himself |H*rt ttian any III Hie league last .V Breltenstelu, nml with good backing ouglit to win the mujorlty of Ills games. Among the other pitchers whose names have been recently announced by Finn are 'liarles Hcbuman, late of the Fhlladelphln Amerb-nus; II. W. Brasil, of Camden. Ark.; Bob Bandy, of Fine Bluff, Ark.; K. C. of Lincoln, N’cbr., and .1 iigstouu, Ohio. Out «*f this aggregation of “stick talent," Finn hopes to liable twirling stuff. Pretty Fine Infield, ill hold dnw* lug on him to muk At third bgse ar tie.. i barley I*.-/ team, will Im back Into coni|N*tltl from Last LU villi team. Is «oiiuted on n second base. Johnson's stop will probably Im* W. Malibu II. Ilelte s| for sure, ite a bunch of posslbill- •Armond. of last year's •k again, but be will go ItB II. Zollera, purchas«M| «1. Ohio; Max Addington, Youngstown. Ohio, Inst whom Mike bought from . nud W. Furtell, pur- llls., team. Fine Team for Finn. r~trwn Newark:—LU. outfielders Ith Wbhltu. Ka and J. W. Hopkins, who was drafted from Norfolk. Va. T:ds team will certain), than the ZluieuirttcM of 19or, Whether It will Im* good enough to make a fight for tli»* pennant this year l« uncertain, hut Mike Finn has u habit of doing that stunt over lu Little Rock, and he may pull It off again. THE DOOM OF BASEBALL SLANG . NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. 1« armlhur ' column nn Oils pnpo is a little obituary notice fll- tled “The Doom of HaBehall Slnug.” In this article two dia- tinguiahed puhlieatioiiH comment nn the passing of the fricasseed •suguiigw U1 »'O mt.ivMi*.. ..... The hend of the dope department of The (Jcnrginu can wit ness the passing of the era-of slangy wwapapor *Uiff without a aiph. lie never could use it effectively anyway and long a go c|uit trying, except on such occasions when nothing else an- awered. —•— There have been hut few bicu-hall writers who could make slang anything hut n Imre and a botch; and the ones whh could were geniuses and soon jumped the baseball reporting game for somcthini; more remunerative. Collier's Weekly and The Milwaukee Xepjinol cannot ac complish the downfnll of buselmll slant;, hut the distorted lan guage is toppling of itself. The crop of geniuaea is so lamentably small that the slang .proposition worked itself out, without any help from the lan guage reformers. The writer can recall only two real slant; geniuses who have performed during the limetime of the preaent Southern l.eaguc, and those two were Grantland Hire, and Harrington Jones. The rest were imitations. Hut fi. Rice could command too much salary to stay in the South, and Jones passed out. too, someway. And gradually the slang game has passed away, as far as slang can ever pass out of hasehall writing, leaving only the words and expressions which explain the meaning heller than real English could. The Atlanta Athletic Club is a remarkable institution. It has been here a long time and people take it for granted to a large extent. Sort of expect big things of it and are not surprised when they get them. It is most remarkable for wlint it offers. With its town and its country club it furnishes its members with more chances of good healthy pleasure than any other similar institution in the South and perhaps any in the country. Certainly no club which has ever come tinder the writer's observation offers so much for so little monev. •kly iwnlljr contained th< following: “ItiiKchnll slnng In doomed, say The Milwaukee Hentluel. Before long It will till* of ItM foreetl extreme*. Ouoe u riot of Joyous metaphor, It hits become a mass of technical slang. It Is not n play ing with tin* language, but a studied de parture from It. Twenty years ago bless of speed nml energy, success nml failure, wen' expressed with-oov*w*4—Uypm:ljuli!!!_£!l the prairie Now nil the re|M»rtera *lt down In a box together to see how many stupid ly Incomprehensible words they ran Invent. :T.?rjItff,i| l 'Vblh' l» due a royal diadem of |« ii .....w.illation of Rtmanua <.r epithet«. without n spark of feeling for en joyment. iis Im also the allegation ~Tu Hie same narrative niaT’TlaUO'lA‘.’lTJ' said |i*»y would go off his lieau.' Fifteen or twenty years ng“. Mr Ibiolev nml other less gift- ed hut not less happy brnjpnnt* trf fit* 1 bleacher* or the grandstand were giving expression lu riilcngo newspapers In the American tongue to emotion aroused by the spectacle enaetisl for their Joy. What was then ii reerentloii. a caprice, a spree, has lH*coine n profession nml It has be- MUENCH& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Diamonds. Watches, Jewelry. Fine Watch, Clock .-nd Jewelry Repair ing. 09 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Ga. Bell Phone 1311. ruuii- mi Mt II t.-.t ami full of lulMir Hint 11 remaining years on earth lire few." The eonelusions reached are true; l»n the. writer may have employe*! the past tense, for the absurd nml nousensleal liieta plmrs of latter-day Imltatora of the original Chicago genlusea who started the meta phorical nud picturesque method of cover ing n ball game, were so disgusting that tin* public tired of them long ago. That h. when hnsetinll slang really met Its doom. The Hentlucl, so long Bgnrgx two years, eoutendiMl for rational lauguage In reporting and commenting on sports. It mnliitniued, ami still considers, that slung la uuneees- YANGER STILL IN THE GAME HAMMERS THE FACE OFF JOHNNY MORRISON AT HOT 8PRINGS. ~***- and u prepared to con tend It »« ""desirable. T r '«e. expressions tlmt were originally slang •or*-*- slang tiarr tirmmr *rr tfittmatf-ly M**olllb**| -with n iiartb^mif sport thaj other expression! m»t se«>m to convey tin* exact meaning, have been so persistently employed thnt tlw.y have been cunverted lntu the dlgulM or peniilsslhle language; hut, lu the sti'uvt. slang Is better avoided. Tin* t(*ehnleal will Immediately raise the point that these pet expressb never have become ncoeptahh* If they had not been continually used, nml that < by use can they he converted. True; Is. they never should have h • tlrwt place. The languag* ve enough tiv cover nil etneri; sporting nml otherwise, that i Hlnug Im unue.-essary and may \ idded. lu all elrenmstnnces. Hot Springs. Ark., Fob. IT*.—Bonnv Yanger demonstrated last evening to the aatisfaetton of 2,600 fight fana that he is, and will be for many dhya to come, a very prominent factor In the Ul.Wiustl ui * intuit -# SfrlKPHi. He beat and battered Johnny Morrison Almost to a pulp. The finish came in 4ha-seventh xuund irom n left to the mouth, followed by a right over the kidneys, which mnde Morrison groggy abtf while in tbt* xrondHlon Yanger shifted a left hook to the solar plexu*. which dropped his opponent like a log. £"•* n "" w * "nnprehei jlslat lire gti Sunday baseball lu the Old Kay State •u N'nrk, Ilhiile lslaml and l'enusyivnuln i* also considering Sunday hall. he N’t. Louis Lnl\crslty athletic ni latter |wirt of next mouth. - a notable affair. Among are counted upon to t.-ike - light hotly. Arehb* llahn NAT KAI8ER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. New Committee Will Finish Soliciting Club House Coi meeting of the club, which June. The new committee on sul>»< i ihI last at the meeting Thursibi \V. II. lllenn, chairman: W K ' M. Grant. Lowry Arnold, F**rr» m I*. Colquitt. H. It. Otis. Heorge i K. It. Johnson, T. W. Conunl!< Compton and Clarence llnvert v Atlanta School of Medicine Is to Have a New Gymnasium A bl* ineel In* of the atudenU of the Atlanta Reboot of Medicine and the Routhern College of Pharmacy was held at the Medical Rehool Thursday night, and In consequence of action taken at that meeting, a gymnasium Will he equipped for use of the students of the two colleges. Berate McCay. Coach J. W. Hela- man, of Tech, and Physical Director Weems, of the Young Men's Christian Association, were among the The young doctors plan to nit ath letic teams In the Held anil may bl sum out with a baseball 0 spring. Catcher Frink Crons tad Slmrt.inp n,* who played l.at year with Pati. 1»ecn secured hy the Houth lt.-i.-l the Central league. Emmons for Quality The Emmons Reduction Sale Wkel her you need clot hint; now or not. it would be it coW investment for you to buy for next season—a saving of just S per eeut. The styles will he just the same and—Emmons qualitr to bsek up the wear. This season's best styles in Suits, Overcoats, Rninfoutx and: odd Trousers to select from. Come tomorrow. IS Dacatur 8L Kimball House. Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. TWO OF AMERICA’S BEST ATHLETES The most recent stunt of the t-luli—the raising of .ti'i.OOO by subscription for the purposeo f erecting a club house—is wor thy of note. Other clubs throughout the country have built club houses, but usually they did it with borrowed nmiiey or bv any method except subscription. • Thnt is not the Atlanta -style, however. The dub needed n house, so its members reached down in their pockets and peeled $25,000 off their bank rolls. Quite a stunt, it seems to us; ami one Worth ineutoining. Hut the club wants $5,000 more and a new committee has been appointed to raise the money. Will it get it ? Sure, and easily. For a club which has chipped in $25,000 is not likely to balk nt $5,000 more. With n club house a East Lake the Atlanta Athletic Club will have a marvelous amusement plant, one of the greatest in the United States; nml one of which its members may well he proud. GET YOUR LUMBER $9.00 11.25 $12.00 Men's Fancy Suit $15.00 Men’s Fancy Suits.. $18.00 Men’s Fancy Suits.. 13.51 $20.00 Men’s Fancy Suils.. 15.00 $25.00 Men’s Fancy Suits $27.50 Men's Fancy Suits $•'10.00 Men’s Fancy Suits 18.75 20.(6 22.00 $12 Overcoat or Raincoat S 9.00 $15 Overcoat or Raincoat $11-75 $18 Overcoat or Raincoat $13-5® $20 Overcoat or Raincoat $15.00 $25 Overcoat or Raincoat $18.76 $.'10 Overcoat or Raincoat $22.80 $25 Overcoat or Raincoat S262f $.'1.00 Men 's Tn'iusers... $4.00 Men's Trousers... $5.00 Men’s Trousers... $0.00 Men's -Trousers... $7.00 Men's Trousers... $8.tm Hoys' Suits. 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