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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1907.
UP-TO-DATE NEWS
OF SPORTING WORLD
NEWS OF
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
GEORGIAN OFFERS TWO
HANDSOME PENNANTS
Will Put Up Trophies For City League and
Junior City League To Be Played
For This Seasons
CLARK GRIFFITH HAS GOOD CATCHER ' G00(Htt AtW0UnC€S
Football Schedule
Full List of Games For Tech Team Mad
Public at Last—All Games Except One
Played in Atlanta.
th» new mat*rial in tha various
clubs. Hsrt is ona of tho Now York
American League team's reerults,
of whom mush ia expected. He ie
Ira Thomss, catcher and stiff bats*
man. Thomas made his first stride
to greatness on the Providence
Eastern League team, on which he
made a batting record ef 411 in
" nkeee purchased him .
I
If a city league cant»r~.;r£Jtntxert in
Atlanta The Georgian will lie pleased
to offer a handsome pennant for the
race.
Moreover. If a Junior league ten l>e
organised The Georgian will also offer
a pennant for that.
This paper has always stood for all
that Is beat In sportland and has done
everything possible to promote the In
terests of the amateur baseball play
era.
Last season, as soon as The Oeor
gtan was started, the rolumna were
thrown open to the amateur players
and The Georgian carried a very con
slderable amount of amateur baseball
news.
Later In the season It assisted In the
organisation of the Commercial League
and offered a pennant In that league
(which was eventually delivered to the
winning <««"«,. after a aeries of veia
tlous delays).
In order etlll further to promote the
Interests of the amateur players, Th»
Georgian today announce! that It will
gladly give two handeome pennants—
one for a city league and one for a
Junior city league. If tho offer Is ac
cepted the pennants will be ordered at
once end displayed at The Georgian of-
—ttce cut aoon aa they can be secured—•
—probably—before the—araaon—begins—
though the ways of pennant-makers
are strange and the writer has found to
his sorrow that It never pays to prom
ise the delivery of a pennant until It Is
In hie hand.
There Is a large chance In Atlanta for
a city league. .. ..
The writer began advocating the or
ganisation of one a few daye after his
arrival here last spring and he lias
been at It off and on ever elnre. The
Georgian was the first on the field with
the suggestion thet one he orgenlsed
last year. It was the first In the Held
with the suggestion thet the city lit up
a lot of parks for the use of local ama
teurs and It will continue to try to do
everything possible for amateur base-
ball In this city.
It the writer can be of any service In
the organisation of a league he would
be glad to give hla time to It. He as
sisted In drawing up the constitution
and by-laws of the Memphis city
league—undoubtedly the moat success
ful city league In the South outride of
Kew Orleane. was connected with the
MO® RETAINS
CHAMPIONSHIP
KNOCKS OUT TIGER SMITH IN BIO
BATTLE FOUGHT IN
LONDON, ENG.
Special Cable.
London. Keb. Gunner Molr
knocked out Tiger Smith In the nrst
round of their nght before the Na
tional Sporting Club last night. By
this victory Molr retains hts title as
heavyweight ehamplon of England.
The ngh! was the most Important
sporting event of the season In Eng
land. and the two men fought for a
purse of $6,750. *
Molr opened the light with n rush
snd dazed Smith with a hard right to
the face. The Tiger came back In a
second with a Jab to the Jaw, but It
hud little effect and Molr landed right
and left that sent Smith to the floor;
8mlh rose gamely, hut was hardly on
his feet when the Gunner forced him
t.. a neutral comer. There the chain-
1,Ion landed at will, and after sending
him down twice, knocked him out
tompletely with n right to the Jaw.
TIGERS LAND
IN AUGUSTA
The mrt«len of the South by llie major
league teams baa begun.
The advance guard of the Detroit agave
gallon, numbering In ita ranka James Ar-
rhrr. baa la mini In Ausuatn numbering all
pin vers snd Manager Jennings
The rut of the mill 'll Is expected soon.
H
f ANOTHER CHALLENGE
To the flportlng Editor of The Georgian;
I hereby challenge Kid Hums or Dan
York for a side bet of H>. fall* to lie heat
Is<t of three, cstchat eaicli emu style. To
take place In or out of city, within one
week'e time
I prefer Kid Burnt,
iklgnedl J- IIEAI.E.
l/ieal Champion Koatheravlght.
A riltaburg scribe hue nt laat told
Hum. He says; "An the limits now
ilar.ii they won't do” At times It is
hard to make some people understand
wust everybody on tho outside has
known for years.
h
MUENCH&
BEIERSDORFER
THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS
Diamonds, Watchee, Jewelry. Fine
Watch. Clock rnd Jewelry Repair
M Peachtree Street—Atlanta, Gs.
M.'Msat 1311.
JvnshvtHs eKv league uo.1 ha* been
Identified with the advancement of
amateur hasehall in every way possi
ble wherever lie has been employed.
If what he knows about city leagues
will lie of any usslstnnce to nny league
organised In Atlanta lie would lie glad
to give hts services.
The need of n Junior league Is very'
strong and The Georgian would lie glad
to assist In any way In the organiza
tion of one.
Bucii a league should he limited to
players 16 years old or under and
doubtless six or eight good teams made
UP of hoys of that age could tie se
cured. Other elites have done well with
Junior leagues and Atlanta could doubt
less do likewise. The Georgian Is con
fident enough of the poealtillltlaa of
such a league so that It offers to put up
a handsome iiennunt fora Junior organ
ization.
We should he glad to hear from the
amateur baseball players along this
tine.
\~not~news7but views
By PERCY H. WHITING.
The sporting page of an Atlanta Sunday
tin- following in iknI a lenient:
“II,v this appointment (that of the paper's sporting editor
~~irr-nffirTffL-ifl»on?H The .loiirniil will lifetime I ho official organ of
the Atlanta Kaseball Association.”
('resident .John F. Dickinson, of the Atlanta Hasehall Asso-
eiation. was asked: ‘‘Did you authorize the statement that any
paper was the offieial orgat) of the Atlanta Hasehall Associa
tion?” ,
To whieh he answered, “I did not. I made no swell state
ment ami NHitl nothing whieh could have beet, construed as
meaning anything of the kind.”
He was then asked: ”Do you intend to favor nny paper in
the matter of news or announcements?”
His anxwei was: “I do not.” •
"The papers have made hasehall here,” added Mr. Dickin
son. "anti we try to treat them all right. Hut wilder nc circum
stances would we appoint any paper as official organ. I can
not understand how any man could have made such a mistake. I
hail no conversation with the new scorer nt the time of the ap
pointment further than to turn the hooks over to him. lie
drew a wrong assumption from that act. I ara afraid.”
William Smith, manager of the Atlanta hasciiaTI team, was
interviewed, and asked the same questions.
“Did yon authorize the statement?’— :—
Answer—“I certainly did not.”
(Question—“Do you intend to favor any one paper in giv
ing out the news of the bnNchall team?”
Answer—“I do not. I have never favored any one paper,
and never expect to.”
“Such a statement is absurd,” continued Mr. Smith. “I
think a great dcnl of The Georgian. It has always treated me
fairly and 1 have always treated it fairly. I have given The
Georgian every piece of news I have ever given any other paper
anti 1 intend to give it every hit of news that the others get. I
tlo not believe in favoring any paper which gives us a fair
ileal.”
It would thus seem that the said paper is in error.
Or may he it appointed itself "official organ.”
As n matter of cold fact, the job of being offieial scorer is
nothing more than a nice gift lor the appointee. It means fct.OU
a game. Anil that is all.
In the first place, it is not a club appointment, lint a
league appointment. The club reetnnmends a scorer amt the ap
pointment is matte by the president of the league.
Hut the league president may go over the ball club's head in
this matter. The writer, after being “fired" ns scorer by the
Memphis Intselmll association—during a particularly stormy time
in the little unpleasantness in Memphis in between (lie ball
club and the newspapers—served out-his season at the request
of President Kuvnnaugh. >
The paper whose baseball writer is made scorer is no more
the offieial organ than ns though tine of its employees were ap
pointed Hit umpire. Hnth scorers anti umpires are league serv
ants. and paid by the president, out of the league treasury.
The job not only does not make the sporting writer the of
ficial mouthpiece of the club or league, but it tines not even give
him the exclusive rights to the official scores. Hy the league
regulations he must furnish a copy to each paper whieh desires
one.
So the scores which appear ill The Georgian will he just as
“offieial” a* those whieh appear in nny paper; and, as in the
past, nil official notices from league or local bHsehall headquar
ters will appear in The Georgian ns soon as in any afternoon
paper.
The Georgian will attempt also to give all the baseball
news in the future as it lias in the past.
It is up to the public as to which sporting page they pre
fer to read.
And we are quite willing to leave the verdict with them.
the bulk of the work Fall on thle
young giant, who la 2S yoara old,
• foot T inch tall, and walghti 1*9
Founds, whan in condition.
SALLEE DOPE ALL WRONG;
SMITH DOESN’T WANT HIM
Manager Oondler bin announced Tech**
football schedule for next season, a ud from
present Indications It's (ruing to lie a hum
uFei\ UitljT one game wltt be pfsyed nwer
from Atlanta. an that Atlanta people will
have all Hie footlall tbej wnnt. All tin
ol<! time rivals are on tbt Hue up, nml in
dlore of lift v hi sou list Imh'D substituted
Tennessee.
Clrutsou tin iiniihI w111 he phiyetl vn
Thunk*ghlug tiny, ami tbln Bill proluility lie
the knoat bitterly contested game of the
season. lAnt season. (iruisou whs victo
rious. the year before Tech, nud the year
lief ore It was n tie’ 11 to II. Tlda year
will he the ruhlter. nml iMitb tenuis lire go
lug to neglect nothing that will lead them
to. victory.
For the Amt time tn her athletic !»!••
tory Tech defeated Auburn hint season, mid
tho Alabama boys am coming luck with
blood III their eyon nml 11 determination
to wipe out the atlug of defent. Georgia,
of course, wants to wI|h» out the defeats
of the last three years, mid the Georgia-
Tech gsuie bids fnlr to In* it rent warlike
tug. Hewn nee will undoubtedly give the
Yellow Jackets nil they tvnur. mid Tcunen-
■W Will try to-get buck on a higher plane
possible to gft thin game trnimf.rr t .
stmed UmtlOttlUg will be do,,,. 7 "•*
direction. However, It |« n ».»re tin.
W,,, g hi ‘ n "fiwnwir a'l
^JWS tu F % Ju,l * ho it hiii t... i,
definitely known yet. Imt It In re,» , r , ? (
llwt It will lie Auburn mill .jJJ'k
two Irani, liar,* never in.I i„
a fimflulll tattle In-twee,, III.in n'.i .i .n..
u big rniwd nliuo.i nnr Uni. ,, . *
ulsn gin* Allan!, people 7 ,;' S£j.. r
<•» lb. Thonkaglrliig g,T h "
f« only a Inn tier of •iiruilim n.
II iasy lie Unit Georgia win
Mimr good Irani. In which <•«., ,
wniil.1 rlmw equally wrll. It win i...
did npiniriiniliy for aotne oatrl.l.
V> *ad draw a rood rr„« ,| u
i: ,h " «» <• "
With moat of ib. otrn on fa,!
lllir-ll|i arlimllllnl In rnnir l.n.k
proapert, look good for a n |.,,
Vl.lortrs, Itiaugli tbls I, I m „„. r „, a 7 «
b. dlsriiMml with more serarmy wi.au'
rJ 91 Iteretnt^T. fjinr rwir t?
thought Hint moat of the Teh vet,
would return, nud when the tuMia..),
ibere were Just three men In
bad lieen on I be. learn the year ui.,,.
Ibla numlier was lnrrea>r,| i„
days Isler by the timely nrrltnl „f |; r „'*
Ths List of Gsmss.
Here Is the sehedule a, given mil hr S| 3n
ogwr UoudUr ; '
Of toiler IS- rnlrerslty of Troneswe !
lanls.
Oetolier M—Auburn In Allnnhi
Noremlier S—l.eorgla III Atlnntu
November S-dewxnee In Allnnlv
November It—Vanderbilt In Nn.livll;,
November a-Morcer m Allnuti.
Novemlier IS (Thsnksgleln*i-r|.T„»
Atlanta.
THREE JUMP THE TEAM
MAY ORGANIZE
SMALLLEAGUE
ALABAMA, GEORGIA AND TEN
NESSEE TOWNS MAY TRY TO
GET TOGETHER.
S'lM'dnl to The Georgian.
AiinlNtoii. Ain., Keb. 25.— Owing to the
Ithdrnwul of Kelmn mid the Iimbllliy of
lluutavllle nud rhnttntiiNiCn to utteiid. the
ting of the lummgera of the prop«*<u*d
Trl Stntc l.cngue, to Ih» held nt the Ain-
biuiin yesterday, hns l»eon postponed.
Whether or not the organisation of nn
Alnbiiiuii-(li*orglii Tcmiesaci* longue U per-
footed nt the mooting t^ l*e held In thin
Inter, however. It seems certain that
Aiinlntssn will hnve g«Hn| baseball for the
mtliig sea non. A fast team, cotnjM»N.*d
tostly of local men. Iins lieen partially
in Ideit u|mui nml n number of games prom.
I*cd with lienr by cities.
Here Is n list of the men from whom n
lemu will Ih* seliN*tiNl:
l , tlcUera—Womack, Sneinblect, Rivers,
t’osnrt.
fntrhrra—Ilurgcs nml flullard.
I iificlders-1 loffmn u. Newkirk. MrtVy.
Avers. J. W Morton. Holden.
«uufielders—Hull nml llnrrls.
It wns sold that the meeting hen* w.ml.i
In* nttcndiNl by representnlives from Kn"\-
> Hl«*. Cliiittiinoogii. tindsdeu, Rome. Tslln-
ligii and Huntsville, with protmtde repre-
flilcago, Feb. 26.—Threw of the New
York ainntn players refused to accom
pany the team on the training trip to
California when the others of the fa
mous baseball aggregation left here
last night, and Secretary* Knowles had
to deal with a small mutiny.
Those who did not go were Devlin,
Bowerman and Mullln and In each case
******************** the salary question the bottom
HENLEY STILL
ON-fflE FENCE
HAS MOT SIGNED WITH BROOK
LYN BUT EXPECTS TO
VERY SOON.
of the trouble. Bowerman took a train
for his farm In Michigan: .Mullln \M-nt
back to Wllktsbarre and Devlin re
tnalned here.
It Is said that Donlln contemplates ,
theatrical tour with his wife, Mabel
Hite, who Is well known In vaudeville
circles. The loss of these three met
will necessitate several changes In tl
ranks of McQraw’s player*
Weldon Henley, the local pitcher who
wss drafted last fall by Rrooklyn from
Rochester, has not yet B)gned his 1*»7 con
traet.
Henley states, however, that he exited*
to sign, nml that he anticipates no trouble
over the queatlon of salary.
Henley, by the wny, scouts the now of
ten advanced Idea that marriage ruins a
ball player.
"The year they called me the ‘bridegroom
pitcher* was my best lu bsselmll,’* he wild
Monday. "I look to see Jordiin nml Fox
have tlielr best seasons In 1907."
Henley Is looking very fit thU year, and
expects to give n good account of himself.
(In the Itrooklyn team fie will lie on the
pitching staff with another famous ex*
Southern I,eaguer. Harry McIntyre, the
man who won for Memphis her last peii-
nnut.
successful In
It Is almost uti assured fact that I'ostmssic
.1, M. Ragan of tills city will be selected
to head the orgiiulxntlou.
Tonopah Offers Ten Thousand
For a Burns-Schreck Battle
Chicago, Feb. *26.—Jack Noon»n, set-
Jury of the t’union Athletic Flub of
Tonopah, New, today offered a lio.ono
«e for n tn* teb between Mike
Kelt reck nnd Tommy Hums, the light
* take place In Toiioiwh on July 4.
Noonan made bin Appearance In the
lice of The rhlcagn American today
lilt u cert Hied check of Slh.OOU, reudy
. post It to Insure the heavyweights
good fAlth. lie demands, however,
that $2,500 1h* jmsted for each of the
pilnclpuls, giving him some surety that
they will tight. Should either Hums or
Hehreck lose to some fighter In the
meanwhile the offer will be withdrawn.
Tommy Bums, w hen seen, spoke fu-
vorably about the offer, but there are
certain things that may cause a hitch.
Tommy Insists thut the offer go wheth
er he wins or loses with O’Brien on
May 9. Noonan does not approve of
this, for he says Hi.ms beaten Is not
the card. Tommy declares that should
he win from O’Brien his services In
the ring wifi be worth far more than
$10,000.
t’hatley Babb, of M**mphK has offer down lie dot * not think that the
sprung the rumor that Atlanta ti.it «•. »mun who won onl> 17 out of 32 games
cured Bailee, the Birmingham pitcher I " ***’ w l H *RGnnt-winning team lost
of latt season.
I ill te
So
This, howevei. 1* n f«|«c nlaitn At-h, |f.
lantit has not secured the elongated '
southpaw nor «!•*•* tie |.h,.: dub wnntj
the man. Hughes J« nningi lei
Home tine . I Bt|l> i it#i hid a •ton fo» Hot springs
xhwtHw sMt a .Ulii Liit4U.il Jit** '“L L* it oil Tl'jirs.
imugh ho Atliinm
h.irlev lltiltli will please forget
!*• smoking the wrong dope.
GRANTLAND RICE WRITES EPITAPH
FOR BELOVED BASEBALL SLANG
i 'uncvi nlug the pussing of baseball slang. Grant land Bice, of the
<io\eland News, perhaps the foremost slang-writer In the country, bus
written the following bit «>f verse, th» epitaph of "another soul gone to
his reward."
THE EPITAPH.
Above your tomb today we drop a tear
You’re down and out and that’s no "Idle pipe."
Wr hate to see you ”t»enty«thr*e’’ ftom here.
But so It cornea to those no overripe.
Our hearts are broke, for nev« r. never mi re
dan we write down, "Hmv’h hit sexVeil up the score."
We hate to dump you In this i lam nv sp«i.
• And plant a brick above your busted but.
Tou once were kicking and your puce was hot.
But now ei last your hectic stride t * done,
our i > es are dimmed-im longer can wc w rlti:
"BUI Bradley Jammed a corker out to light ”
Farewell, o Slung, a long farewell to y»*u
You’re listed now among the port red rend.
VIh.vc your mound we i»t e* thy word ’ Skhlo*\"
«wing the laurel w*eatlt alr ve . out head
I your w«y—-you’\e rot:ndr«l • »tit jour tint*
had pro.'C n« '•» ;! <•* bn>r!val| rltyim.
SWEET SHOULD BE ONE OF
TECH’S GREATEST CAPTAINS
As exclusively stated in The Atlanta tteor-
gtan of yesterday, tla? Tech football squad
lias elefttnl as their captain for next season
t'barley Sweet.
Coniine after four year* of yeoman service
nn the football field In the Interest of the
Old Hold and White, this la ii well deserved
honor. Sweet has lieen one of the moat
verantllo players who ever donned the
moleaklns at Tech, nml In every oeaaon he
played nioNt of the time nt end, making
with ”l.obater" Ilrown what Tech men l»e*
lleve to lie the best pair of ends In the
Smith, barring none. In the season of 19(1C
he played end for a part of the time, nml
then was shifted to guard, where he did ex
cellent work.. At other tliiicn lie has played
back of the Hue. so that ns captain he will
understand the needs of every department
of play.
Sweet linn lu time past shown that he
possessed no siunll ability ns a cos eh. Slid
many of tils, friends predict that If lie were
to take up tbnt line aftrr grm1tmfHt*
1M6 be would make a wark for him* Jf
year or two ago he coached nnr nf
class teams after the close of the regular
season, nml had the pleasure of seeing bis
charges easily the ehamplons ,.f Un
it la hardly thought, however, iImt he will
take up coaching as a profession, ns
perts to graduate after next setiEun
tile engineering, and will probably hate
open to him after graduation a pnsltli
that will lie more lucrative than machine
would Im*.
Sweet Is nn Atlanta lioy who has r***-el
hla entire nthletle training at Tech Win
be entered tile Institution several years «
he looked so frail nml light Hint no ••
would have expected him to innke the ten
tnseli less Ins-ome a star player: but
took an Interest In athletics from the *ta
and now one would hardly rcrognlxe b
lu the stalwart athlete who expect*
lead the Tech team to victory nett fall.
Dixie Land’s Richest Race
Will Be Run on March 23
New Orleans. I.a . Feb. 2t*.—Within a
fortnight now the "Derby bug" will be
huxxlng In every noodle down here, for
on the 23d of March will he contested
tho rlcliost horse race ever run Ii
Dixie Land—for on that day the fa
.nous Crescent city Derby will be de
cided.
Tho race has n fixed value of $10,000,
and Is to the whole tier of gulf states
exactly what the Brooklyn Handicap at
Gravesend. L. 1. nnd the Burns Hnn-
Heap out ill t'nllfornin are to those re
spective localities.
In a few days the several colts nnd
llllles aspiring to the honor nnd the fat
purse which goes to the winner will be
put In training. In fact, several of
them are already taking the mile and
eighth gallop—the distance of the
race.
ODD WAQER IS MADE.
latte last week a remarkable wager
•n the two local dvrbte* was made. You
know there Is also u derby—the New
Orleans Derby over the tity Burk—In
iddltlon to the (’rehcent «ity Derby.
Tllelng. the 3-yenr-obl son of Hastings,
w hich Trainer J. H. McCormick has re
cently made Into a veritable racing ma
chine. though he paid but $1,200 for
him last spring, ran a very creditable
iac« when he won the Hi \ Handicap on
February 12. Itentlng su* n good horses
;.s Alma l>ufour and Peter Sterling.
Bob" Mnyne. the well-known conti
nental •*porting man nnd wine agent,
was ltoasting of the prowess or tile get
of Hastings that night in the "pad-
dock” at the St. Charles Hotel. Book
maker "Doi" Cline was also then*. I
tenlng to Mayne'a ld<a of Just h"« **•*
the Crescent City Derby would l
the son of Hastings. "He’ll win one
both of the derbies." exclaimed Mat
In concluding'hts eloquent estimate
the eolt’s chances.
"Well. If you think so well of lum at
that, you may get on a small 1st "itn
me at about lo to 1 that h* doe*
win either of those derby races,
the bookmaker. f
In u moment a small crowd . r
followers bad gathered about tl"' fijj*
The upshot of the thing "a*
Mayne got on $10» at 30 to i "
chances of Tllelng winning .» * n >
here next month. ,
Smart price-makers Ilk. ”• ,
Celia and "Bob" Lloyd deel.it‘“l
away out of line. "Well. > * * 1
Tllelng A 50 to I shot Im*» ..
whenever he met t’onvlle. Moiug'O
or that eort," retorted Chm. "hun
fact the "dope" will show.
WORKING AT MEMPHIS
Both Montgomery nn<l <
to «ny anything of Marathon- ,lr
Ing "preparfd" at Montgjtnwt' I" 1
Memphla. Tenn., for thr '
Derby. It look* u» If tl"' , ‘" 1 "
will go to the pout. In "J’"'
t'tlnc'n liberal quotation 1
New York colt may not b< -
line" os auppoiietl nt flret glut";
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