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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907
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UP-TO-DATE NEWS
OF SPORTING WORLD
NEWS OF SPORTS
EDITED BY
i PERCY H. WHITING ’
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY B. WHITING.
The weather Mince the recent Atlanta automobile hill climb has
not been especially conducive to automobile enthusiasm, but for
all that the local car owner* are ao well pleaaed with their flrat
road venture that they ara casting around for something fur-
ther in that line, ■ •
The possibilities of running a road raee are not consid
ered very numerous. These'evpnts are the moit intereeting pos
sible for the automobiliats, but they arc so hard on the spectators
and the people who use the roads. If a road race were run out
of Atlatna there would be a couple, maybe more, cars in it that
could do fifty to sixty miles au hour on the level and never
drop below thirty to the hour on any hill they would meet.
Give these automobiles a clear road and they would put up
as entertaining a race ns any man could wish. Their chances of
getting a clear road, however, are very poor. It takes tens of
thousands of dollar* expended on regular and special police to
clear the course tor the annual Vanderbilt cup race, it take*
troop after troop of soldiers to keep the foreign courses clear for
their big races. And with all these protections aeeidents con
tinue to happen.
It is practically impossible to hold a road race in this sec
tion of the country. It is also nut of the question to hold first
class track races, for there is no track in the vicinity large enough
and with turns sufficiently banked to give the motors half a
chance,
So about all that is left is hill climbs and endurance runs.
Another hill climb may be attempted - Inter this season. After
all the new 11)07 cars hit town there ought to be plenty of inter
est in such au affair. '
The endurance run question is an open one.
It is rather unfortunate that the South can not he provid
ed with a run of some kind which would be to this section of the
country what the (Hidden tour is to the whole country.
Of .course Jhe roads in the South are not adapted Jo fast
running^ but hardy tourists have covered moat #F the country and
what has been done once can be done again.
As an endurance run the Glidden tours of last year and the
year before were jokes. The cars entered were so strong and so
well built and the roads so good that many of the cars finished
with perfect scores. 1
Over Southern roads perfect scores would he almost out of
the question and there would be enough going over bad roads
to furnish plenty of excitement.
It is unfortunate that some such run has not been attempted
for surely it would be a big success. »
BIRMINGHAM BALL CLUB OF 1907
AS STRONG AS PENNANT WINNERS
Vaughan Fills All Va
cancies With First
Class Players.
Birmingham, the pennant winner of
the Southern Leone leet year, open*
up the eeaeon of HOT with tho small-
eet squad of any In the leesue.
Only seventeen men will rcaiamd to
Manager Vaughan's call for players and
A dozen chics in the South could he counted on tw furnish at
least two entries lor a Southern run, Jo be held in late spring or
early fall. With this number the affair would be an assured sue-
Such* tour would furuish a lot of enjoyment to a number of
_peopIe,~ would teach the heanticH of the South to many people’
who do their, automobile touring nowadays in the North and
would do more fbf the cause of good roads than ten days ’talk
Prospects Unusually Rosy
, For Baseball at Sewanee
Special to The Georgian.
Sewanee, Tenn., March 1.—With Old
Lam Bailey ae coach, a good schedule
(which Includes three s*mcs In At
lanta) and a lot of nrat-daea material,
baseball prospects "on the mountain"
are roay enough.
The games scheduled thus far fol
low:
April 10 and 11—Howard College, of
Birmingham, In Sewanee.
April 1»—fnlveralty of Georgia, In
Athene.
April 19 nnd 10—Georgia Tech, In
Atlanta. (Double-header on tho sec
ond day.)
May S and (—Vanderbilt, at Se
wanee.
May 9, 10 and It—Vanderbilt, at
Nashville.
May 24 and 25—University of Ten
nessee, In Knoxville.
The Anal arrangements have not yet
been made for the dates of April 25. 20
and 2T. but the probabilities are that
throe games wUI be played with the
Missouri School of Mines, the contests
to be pltyed at Sewanee.
From present Indications, there ere
to be six of lost year's players to re
turn. three being Captain J. W. Scar
borough. third baee and pitcher: Slone,
tint base and pitcher; George Waiklnr,
outfielder and pitcher: Wadley, catch
er; C. II. I'enlck and Klaelr, In the out
field.
The poelllona of Captain Wheat, all-
Southern captain and flrat bareman of
the team of 1900; Sparkman, the
"Graceful Charlestonian," well known
for hie pitching; Gordon, at ahortatop:
and Hawrle, nt second base, will be
hard to replace, but n great deal I*
expected of the two new men. Shipp
and Lewie, for second base and elnirt-
etop, respectively.
, NOTES OF SPORT.
The Northern Copper Country Itaaoluill
Leaguo hie Used upon Winnipeg. Caluuiot.
Houghton, Virgo. Duluth end lathe Linden
to mi hr up Its circuit thle yeer. The
aeneon la aelteduled to open Mnv 10.
Hurry Howell amt Jock O’Connor. »f the
St. Louie Americans, plch Cleveland to
win tho pennant. Santo old thing every
spring -Cleveland the number and nil the
other teaiua blanks.
Janice McCormick, owner of the champion
Vlilootnwn teem of tho P, ft. M, League,
la totally hllad- lie never misses a game,
and u companion Urscrll.es to him eaeu
ploy.
hold It together la a feat worth talking
about.
And yet there be those of ua who
would bat our laat penny that Birming
ham It not going to win tha pennant
thle year,’ _ _
The team Is going to be a wonder,
though.
Here's the Team.
I-ee Garvin and Harry Meeks of laat
year’a catching ataff, are back.
Pitchers Wilhelm, the no-hlt phe-
nom; II. D. Clarke and Arthur Ragan
will also return to thq Baron's camp.
Lew Walters will be' on hand to play
second boas again; Oyler will presum
ably be at .shortstop; Roy Montgomery
will be ut third base again and the
1905 outfield la Intact, with Motesworth.
Goer and C. Smith all reasonably sure
to be back In the fold.
All Harry Vaughn had to do to make
■its team as strong as It wan last year
uaa to fill the places of Matthews and
Hollce and to get a regular man for
first base.
Evidently he decided to take a
chance on Garvin and Meeks at catch
ers. for he signed no new ones.
To cover flrat base he traded Mat
thews for Lister of Portland, Oregon.
This man ta about the only puilte of
tho outfit. If he nils that flrat baae
gap Vaughan'a team Is all there, for
Harry Matthews' place la practically
filled and Sallee will not be greatly
missed.
Some Fiat Youngster*.
Although there were no other gape
In the pennant grabbers, Vaughan wlae-
ly decided to mnke all hla men hustle,
so lie purchased 11111 Ilruner, of Meri
dian, Miss.; drafted Vincent Turne'r
from Charleston. 8. C.; drafted L. C.
Gardner from Meridian, and signed At-
lan Roettlnger, a Cincinnati "adrnT- -
pro."
Ilruner and Turner are pltchera, and
both will be given a try at the vacant
. place on the Birmingham stuff. Both
I did well In small leagues In 1905, nnd
will, perhupa, make good In the South
ern.
Roettlpgpr wllll be given a trial In
the tnflehl. The laat we heard Oyler
wus bucking on .the salary proposition
and had refused to sign. If he keeps
Baron Team Sure To
Make Good Race
For the Pennant.
mIngham would not have been at the
top.
However, that proposition la not one
which ran be proven, ao let It go.
Give Birmingham enough luck and
Hie Barons'Wllll win the pennant. Give
them enough hard luck and they will
<f*ai rif aaairu [
This it our eld friend Carloa. He
•lipped in The Georgian one day ae
"Katenaisa” Sallee, but there is no
chance to miatake a man with a
shape ilk* C. Smith’s,
every man on the team, with the ex
ception of “Silent" Bailee and Harry
Matthews, will be back to try again
for the old places. -i '
Harry Vaughan haa snmethlng'nFa
cinch this year. To manufacture
pennant winner, sa he did, and then
M'CAY AFTER
VANDYPLAYER
MAY SIGN "BEEF” DAVI8, A COM
MODORE 8TAR OF A FEW
8EA80N3 AGO.
Heroic McCny, who left today for
Mobile, may sign "Beer Davis, the old
Vanderbilt .player and coach, for a trial
with Mobile this spring.
Davis played live years on the \ an-
rirrhllt teum, bark In tbe day*
Grantlnntl Hleo anti the other at urn of
that period. and frequently caught for
"Ni»o»1I«*iT Hahn, when that enuthpaw
•tar wan playing ball around Nashville.
i)uvia whs one of the beat college
catcher* tbe Houth haa ever turned out.
and aa a roach he did well, piloting
the font mod ore* to twp victorious sea-
dona.
Lucky Loucks in Form Again; .
Baseball Happenings in Macon
Rpetal to The Georgian.
Uarnu, Ha.. Marrb 1.—gylvester Loueka.
belter known to Macon faudoui u«
“Larky" Loueka, will remain In
Marei* unlll the half WMlh.r Jj are, .ml
then be will report tc
Memphis. Loueka baa
tbe wtbtrr sail la In guod euudltkm. It
Witt tie reinenitiered that fee played !h bad
luck last era son ua acocnnt of alekneaa at
the lirglaulpg uf tbe sraaon. In addition
t** thle, bis (orellBger was broken. It was
for this resaoa that he was released by
Hilly Mnltb, hut waa Immediately atgurd
by llabh, with whom he made good.
Tbe Cleveland team will arrive In Mneou
on Mureb It with all tbe players except tbe
old pltrhrrs. who wtl l» given a week's
practice In Hot flprluga liefore they arrive
in tbla city, March 3). They will la- given
every rbnnre for effective practice at Cen
tral City |Mrb. and wfll.nloo have ample op
portunity fa work out with the Maroe team.
Wood. Pepe nnd Harris have wired Mans
ir I.live that they bare left on the (Jceau
Kteomalilp Line fiir Hnvtumab, where they
will arrive In a few days aud fruiu thence
they srill report to Mncoa at one,
Manager Upe haa announced that be baa
received the signed routrset of Johnny
Rammvrt, the fail little Oelder who cun
abort In sorb *ne (lyle laat season, tin t u .
mart sent a letter to Maaager LI pc v...
terday ami mid that fee wse ready to report
when wanted.
It was tbnugfet that (Jpe would in.t >..
aide to laud Bnmmrrt oil an-onnt of in,
family ties In Loulataua. It will lie rein,
tiered that Kamo tart asked for feta role.,
a Short time ago. and It waa thought ri, •
he would not I* able to play with Mu......
this year.
Hamiuert was one «f The flneet ahnrt> T i
the league last acaapn. hla only weaku...
tielng at tbe hat. Iiut tbla yrar be hope ■.
Improve In that partleular, and If be ,
It will elaaa btm among the star Bhnrtain;,,
of tbe league. Tbla makes the nunils-r ,-
players trying for short three-Patlcnu,
Itamnicrt and Pepe.
Plofca -for tbe early mnrulag league „f
Alaisin will he diarnmed nt n meeting i,.
lie held early next meath Ity Hie Ims,-I..i:i
pronnitera of the elty. At this session il,
managers aud .raptalna of tba clul.s wlih le
bgre lieeu In the league In fbe past am
lie. present. Kepreseatallvrs from the E*
glea aud Klka will tie asked for. It la n,
leudeil to organise a strong all nr clcti
elnli league. No eluha wilt lie admitted ari. r
the opening game. Tbe league will get under
way alaiat the middle of ^tprll.
Junior Teams Get in Line
To Accept
That the Juvenile ball plnyem are an
Interested In a league and an organized
race for a handaome pennant aa their
older brothem Is certain.
Here are the Yle*v* of « Pulliam
Georgian’s Offer
ways Innumerable squabbles and th«
weaker teams fluke out, and alio,
gather there Is lota of trouble and lot*
of fun for everybody concerned.
However, auefe a league I* altogelh.r
pi Xcllcat And bhe ought to Tie organ*
Atlanta. Oa.. March 1.
Sporting Editor Atlanta Georgian:
I think the Idea of organising
a Junior League a fine one nnd
would gladly help organise It If
ao is one would help me. I am get
ting up a team that I think would
win the pennant. If here 1* any other
amateur with me In this, please write
me. and let's see what we can do.
Youre truly.
JOE LEWIS.
2(4 Pulliam Street.
A Junior league takes a world of
work to get started, and there are at-
If some limit—say. 1* year* old „r
ul Jder—wa* agreed upon and abeolutHv
adhered to. It la possible lo get teanu
wfllch are evenly balanced and which
play flrat-claea baseball. These young,
ater* would put up a nice race for tha
pennant and furnish plenty .of amuse
ment for a lot of Interested friends ,r
relatives. «a well aa plenty of exercl.t
for the players themselves.
The Georgian will give a pennnni.
provided a Junior league la organized
and a season completed, and would l«-
glad to hear from any other manageu
who plan to get up team* within lin
age limit.
PITCHER WILHELM.
H*eo i* Birmingham's star twirler
who will bo bask with tha Vaughn-
Itaa^SMln.thi* yaar. Ha is ona of
tha alavaraat and moat popular
players in tha laagus.
finish absolutely last. But with aver
age luck Ihey will—well, nobody knows.
Anyway, you can pin this away for
reference; *
BIRMINGHAM IB GOING TO BE
RIGHT THERE >IN THE PENNANT
RACE FROM FLAG FALL TO F1N-
I8H.
News of Dick Crozier and
Other Baseball Notables
C. MOLE8WORTH.
Carlton is ons of the Southern
Laagus vatsrans. Hs has played -
good ball with both Alabama clubs.
Cbmpiie* with *D reqtanncaii of tbe National Pufo Food Law. Guarantee No. 2041, filed at Washington.
, Advice of the largest coffee dealers
in the wodd it always to buy the old-
faihioned Axbttckles' ARIOSA Coffee in
the tealed packages. Don't *sk for a pound of Mocha and Java, ot buy by the pnee,
(or Coffee fluctuate* and you cannot get the tame coffee for the same pnee all the time
tmless you pay too much for it. Most of the so-called Mocha and Java Coflee is tunply
masquerading, and ■ not nearly as good coffee for you as Aibockles ARIOSA, the blend
of the Brazilian Coffee* most suitable to the taste and health of American people. By the
looks there is no difference between toasted Java and Brazilian Coffees; many people drink Brazilian but pay fnr Java.
The principal difference is that Arbuddes' costs yoti less. It is a mistake to beheve that • high price guarantee;
quality. When you buy ArbockW ARIOSA Coffee,"^ou""get a fufl one pound package of the leading Coffee of the
wodd. Its sale* for 37 yean are greater than the combined sales of all the other packaged coffees. By giving bettes
Coffee for tbe money, we have bush up a business esceeding the combined businesses of the four next largest coffee fires
in dse whole wodd. If your dealer will Dot supply the genuine, write to arduckle Bros , n™ Y-kco,
up that racket, like ns not Rnettingcr
will be given a nerioun chance to make
hiniNolf uNeful In the Infleltl. However,
he n 111 have to beat out Forbes Alcock,
who In down on Manager Vaughans
list un a utility man.
Gardner, the Meridian player. Is nn
outfielder, and If the rumor that Dale
Gear In not going to play this year In
true, then Gardner will probably be
Nlaptted into the outfield and kept there
If he In of any UNe at all.
And there's your Hlrmlnghum club
for 1907.
• Was It Skill Or ?
We ll grant you that It Is as strong
aa last year's aggregation.
Then. If It won on Its merits last
year, and If none of the other teams
have strengthened over last year's
form. It In a case of another pennant
for Itlrminghum.
With all due regard to Vaughan nnd
In men. It seems, however, that luck
.•fttyed a pretty good part In the 1906
pennant race and that without It Hlr-
SCRUB TEAMS
PLAY AGAIN
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE SECOND
TEAM VICTORIOUS OVER
ACADEMY SCRUBS.
The w rnh teams of Agnes Kent! College
sad Ague** Meoit Academy pln>ed their third
nnd lit * t game In the gyuinn*him Wcdtiendny
afternoon The college won-3 to V The
victory of the eollege encouraged the plnv
en» for future work. The college •erulm
have troll all three game* played, while tile
regular ncndeiuv team won their third Felt
runty '.'I. Wednesday's gstne wn* n go<»«l
one nnd much hard work wns done on loath
allien.
Miss Pope,
tliuekeepra
MANY TEAMS
ORGANIZING
EAST POINT WILL BE THERE
WITH SPEEDY BALL
TEAM.
Itall cluhs In Atlanta and the rielulty Jre
iMdng urgniilse*) ntpldlv.
With the prospect* of n couple of leagues
In o|H‘rittlon, the ImiII plnyem with nmiui
rerlal designs nre clutBlng around after Hie
likely players, nnd liefore long all the really
gtMHl amateur n.td *omt-profem«!oniil players
In the city will lw lined up fur the ftptisou.
One uf the ttrsl claws yIuImi which lin*
reeeutlv held a preliminary meeting I* that
at Fast Point. The following letter ex
plains Its.df:
"Kind Point. Ga.. Mnreh 1—To the Spurt
log t'dltor The Georgina: The Knst Point
Wn set ml I dub was organised on FeWrnnrv
•JT. J. A. Warren, manager; (5. II. Hall,
captain; .1, II. Ilurges*. coach.
•‘Tliev will lie ready to idnv any nmateiir
ten in in iiem-alii l»v April Id. A«ldre«s all
WAIIICKX. Manager.
•*Kn»t Point, On.”
.'hnllcuges to
Dick Crosier, the ex-Atlanta ball
player. la In Atlanta Tor a short vlalt
and while here will rioubtlem make
definite plane for th* seaaon
Dick wants to play With Atlanta. Tor
he haa a business here and figures that
he could combine It with baseball very
nicely.
Rut he aays that he does not care to
play baseball with Atlanta (or leas than
he la worth. Just because he has cer
tain ties In the city.
. it la evident that the ball club and
Dick place n different value on lila
services aa a ball player and (here la
lltlle hope that the two parties to the
possible agreement wtll gat together.
Dick has a good offer to play with
another Southern League club and a
better offer to go to another league. He
also has a good proposition to return
to Wake Forest for another year. Just
what he will do remains to be decldeJ.
Manager Dobbs, of Nashville, has
signed a player named Henry Legen-
ouh. He la also (-losing a dial to sell
Frary to Decatur, III. '
Bob Wallace has asked Billy Smith
(or his release. William, however, fig
ures that the release of such a man ia
worth money, and refuaea to give II for
nothing. He has offered to sell Wallace
lo Indianapolis, but does not figure
that the American Aasoclatlon team
wants him that bad.
So Bobby will report.
Says The Enquirer, of Cincinnati:
The fane of Connersvllle, Ind.. are
In mourning on account of Irish Llml-
aloy signing a contract with Ed Run-
sick. manager of the Augusta cluh.
I.fndaley Is a prime favorite with tho
fans of Connersvllle. nnd hla host .if
friends predict that tbla will be hii
banner year
' Vicksburg has landed forth. . «vn.
known Ohfo ball player. Wonder if
this la the Southern Lenguo Lally?
One thing only we aak of the Eastern
division clubs of the Southern Leagu-
this year—don't let "Chesty Charles
Babb win the pennant.
At this atage of the game he la a lit
tle too certain.
Cleveland has swapped Catcher Hue-
low for Second Baaeman O'Brien, of the
St. Louis Americana
O'Brien will do the utility role. In all
probability, and gives Manager LaJ m-
the much-dealred understudy for him
self In the utility role.
As March 29 la R legal holiday in ('..line.'.
Ilcut, It means noun- nice "eaay uuiiii-v"
for the linoclisll chilis, last year the V »
cluh took down WOO aa Its shun- of
the Fast Dny game In Wntcrbury.
nitl.v Itysn. of Syracuse, and I’ete llmuli
ert.v arc matched for'* bout to In- pnllrd
off In Wllkeaharre March 11.
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BERNIE M’CAY WILL ACT THIS SEASON
AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GEORGIAN
IN THE COTTON STATES' LEAGUE
Hernle McCay. the ball player-manager who leaves Friday to take
charge of the Mobile team In the Cotton States League, will be the special
representative of The Georgian In that league.
•McCny will serve. In addition to The Georgian's regular stuff of cor
respondents In the Cotton State* cltle*. and with the aid of Ida services
this paper hopes to cover the Cotton States League as fully In the future
as It has the Southern League and the South Atlantic In the past.
Mr. McCay has promised the Atlanta reader* a weekly letter from th<
Cotton States, written with a special view of Intereetlng Southern Leaguf
readers; and nn man la better fitted to write such a letter than Mr. Mc
Cay. He not only knows baseball from end to end, both aa a player and a-
u student of the game, but he likewise la a writer of considerable ability.
•mil can lie counted on to turn out totters which will be highly Interesting
The Cotton States la practically a Mississippi league these days an,I
Is of no especial local interest to Atlanta readers; but many Southern
h iya arc playing In Hie organisation nnd many nr the beat player* In th.
Southern League are drawn each year from the Cotton States.
In addition lo corresponding for The Georgian, 51 r. McCay will repre
sent The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, and probably a New Orlean-
impel aa well.
BERNIE M'CAY.
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