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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907 , 11 " ■■ 11 1 ■'""“T "It Ri —! 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. MUENCH& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Diamond*, Watches, Jewelry. Flnt Watch, Clock tnd Jewelry Repair ing. St Peachtree 8tr«et—Atlanta, Ox. Bell Phene 1311. tip* sltnvtnr The U* th»* onlarjr lt«t kV,.MTO; WrthhlltgMP. | piii.t. Palthrr "llr.sidw n with Hi- Glint* .<< I- I* iiKUHUM i ' P«mv .1 . h JohnV Jack Tti»!or of Its- mu -o In thlrkii- I hail rhi'.ig* itteeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeei 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. tv la NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. IS Dtc. ur St Kimball Houta. Barccina ia Unradaamad Diamond*. GET YOUR LUMBER FROM E G. WILLINGHAM & SONS Hardwood fi.mrtng a specialty. Wa deliver promptly and guaraatr< satisfaction. A full stock of Lumber. Bash. Door*, etc., on hand. Price* right. 542 WHITEHALL STREET.