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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1907.
EXTRA!!—ALL ABOUT SOME STRENUOUS BASEBALL!
SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING
j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
That was a great game Wednesday and everybody enjoyed
it—except the scorers. These poor unfortunates wore out a
couple of pencils apiece, mussed up a half dozen sheets of a score
book and brought on writer’s jjramp.
It wasn’t high class, world’s championship baseball or any
thing of that kind, but it was fun to watch.
The game marked the passing of one pitcher—II. L. Ford,
the Mississippi mistake, and the sensational debut of another
who really arrived. The 'nother one was Bob Wallace. He jump
ed into the breach when the Detroiters had just pulled up to tako
breath after a swatting bee that ran the outfield breathless and
he gave them plenty of chanco for rest, since not another Tiger
made a hit
Sid Smith is of the opinion that Wallace is going to make a
pitcher. “He’s got everything that any of the rest have,” said
Sid after the game, “nnd more speed than any of them.
“I’m going to do some work with him and I think I can teach
him a good delivery and steadiness. He’s worth working with,
all right.
If Bob Wallace should make a pitcher there would be a sur t
prised lot of knockers in this burg. They have all had it in for
Wallace. As he says himself, “If I made a hit every time I was
knocked I’d lead the league.”
But maybe he’s the logical successor to the almost “late” C.
Matthewson, and surely he is erratic enough to fill the place left
nearly vacant by the almost-passing of Waddell.
Bob has speed and a wing, all right. He says himself that he
has thrown the ball 140 yards, (which is further than the world’s
record) and those who know of his South Atlantic exploits, such
as throwing a ball on top of a 13-story building and then a few
like that do not doubt it.
“He has the head, too,” says Sid of him. “He may cut up
on the street, but he knows baseball, all right, and he will stick
with any of them.
Schopp shows up better and better in each game nnd it
taems as though the Ottumwa wonder was destined to hold down
a job regularly.
And how that man Becker does hit the ball. Three more
swats Wednesday—a single, a two-bagger and a three-bagger.
There are more quitters among the fans of this city than
there are stickers. Let the team lose a couple of games and their
“hearts arc broke.”
They seem to think, too, thnt if they come out and see the
games they have done their full duty toward the team. Fact is,
the useful fan is the one that roots when the team is losing. Be
sides being useful ho is very rare.
WONDER BALL!
WELLRATHERl
Batting Matinee Lasted Two
Hours—Detroit Won
13 to 10.
In a same which waa good fun from
the start and a scream from the fourth
to the sixth Innings, Detroit downed
Atlanta In the opening game at Pied
mont Park yesterday by a score of 13
to 10.
The affair began to show comedy
tendencies In the second Inning, when
'Atlanta scored four runs off Forrlster.
Atlanta baiters found him for two two-
baggers and a single, which Ty Cobb
tried to fall on and then lost In the
grass. Before he located It Smith cir
cled the bases. Mullen came next In
the box for Detroit and got away with
the third Inning all right, but In the
fourth four hits and two errors In the
outfield let In four more runs. Slever
ended the game for the Tigers and al
lowed no hits.
With the leak stopped Jennings' team
iturned Its attention to winning.
iBchopp. the Ottumwa southpaw, held
Detroit well while In the box, but re
tired In the sixth to give a chance to
H. Ford, the Delta Demon, who had
never pitched before In a professional
game. Ford lasted for a base on balls,
a hit. another walk and an attempt to
.knock off Coughlin’s bean. Then Man
ager Smith shooed him nnd Spade tried
: It. His arm was cold when he went In
and was In no shape when warmed.
1 In consequence he was mauled until
the team had batted around and then
HENLEY BACK
IN ATLANTA
Weldon Henley Is back In Atlanta.
He returned from Jacksonville Wed
nesday and was at the ball park to sec
■ Detroit and Atlanta perform.
Henley went to Jacksonville and
there had a talk with President Kb-
betts. Thera seemed no chance for
them to come together on the question
i of (alary, however, so Henley returned
home.
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two over. Wallace, another experi
mental performer, Itnlshed It out for
Atlnnta. Today's game was his flrst
offense In the box. Ho let Detroit
down without a hit.
A full story of how the runs were
scored would till a Sunday paper and
exhaust a dictionary. Here's the score
to the best of our ability:
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Becker, rt. ... * 3 1 3 0 0
Dyer, 3b 4 3 1 3 1 3
S. Smith, c. . . . 5 2 2 3 2 1
Paskert. If. ... 4 1 3 3 0 0
Castro, cf. . . . 4 0 0 3 1 0
Ball, ss 4 0 0 2 2 1
Hoffman, 2b. . . 4 1 0 6 1 0
Sweeney, lb, . . 3 0 0 6 3 0
Schopp, p. . . . 2 1 1 0 3 0
H. L, Ford, p. . . 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spade, p. , . . 1 0 0 0 0 0
Wallace, p. . . . 0 0 0 1 0 0
Total 10 10 27 13 4
Detroit. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
D. Jones, cf. . . 4 2 1 1 0 0
Coughlin, 3b. . . 3 2 1 2 3 0
Cobb. If. .... 3 3 1 0 0 1
Crawford, rf. . . 4 1 1 2 0 1
Rossman, lb. . . 4 2 2 13 1 0
Schaefer, 2b.. . . 3 1 0 3 5 0
Archer, c 4 0 2 4 0 0
Payne, c. .'..0 0 0 1 0 0
O'Leary, ss. . . . 3 1 0 1 7 0
Forrlster. p. . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mullen, p. . . . 2 1 1 0 0 0
Slever, p. . . . 1 0 0 0 1 0
•Downs 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals . . .32 13 9 27 17 2
•Downs batted for Forrlster In the
third.
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Score by Innings:
Atlanta 240 400 000—10
Detroit 102 118 000—13
Summary—Stolen bases. Coughlin:
sacrifice hits. Sweeney, Coughlin: two-
base bits. Becker, Paspkert; three-base
hits, Becker; home runs, Sid Smith,
Cobb, Rossman; bases on balls, off
Schopp 3, off Ford 2, off' Spade 2, off
Wallace 3, off Forrlster 5, off Mulluney
I, off Sevier 1; struck out, by Schopp
4, by Forrlster 2, by Mullen 2; Innings
pitched, by Schopp 5, by Ford, about
three minutes, by Spade 1 Inning, by
Wallace 3, by Forrlster 2, by Mullen
4, by Slever 3: hits apportioned, off
Schopp 5, off Fort! 1, off Spade 3, off
Wallace 0, off Forrlster 4, off Mullen 6,
off Sevier 0; double plays, O'Leary
to Schaefer to Coughlin, Schaefer to
O'Leary to Rossman, Becker to Ball to
Dyer: hit by pitched ball, by Ford 1
(Coughlin), by Wallace 1 (Coughlin).
Umpire, Lafltte. Time of game, 2:03.
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TRY TIGERS
ONCEAGAIN
One More Battle With
Detroit, Then the
Yanks.
HERE’S THE “BEST IN THE BIZ."
TERRY TURNER.
This Cleveland shortstop is as brilliant a fielder as there is in action today
TECH PLAYS PREPS TODAY
AND MERCER ON SATURDAY
The Tech team will tackle Donald
Fraser Thursday afternoon at Tech
park and on Saturday the Yellow Jack
ets go up against their flrst game of
the season when they have a try at
Mercer. The local collegians hope to
do well In the opening contest.
As compared with last year's team,
Tech undoubtedly looks weaker. It Ib
true that four of tho best men are back,
but tho new men -haven't yet measured
up to the missing ones. Brooks Is a
good twlrler for a youngster, but he
can’t take the place of Craig Day with
his four years of experience In the box,
his swiftness on the paths and hts abil
ity with the stick. Nor can any one
be expected to tako the place of Mc
Millan, who for three seasons had un
questionably been the best college
shortstop In 'the South. Hamilton, who
also made the AU-Southem. will bo a
hard man for a youngster to succeed.
Stiles, at flrst, while not strong with
the stick, was one of the best fielding
flrst basemen In the South. Robert is
back In his old place In the outer gar
den, and It remains to be seen how the
new men will do. They didn't have
enough Opportunity last Saturday to
show whether they would be up to
Combs, Wright and Beane, of 1906, or
not.
In one department of the game, at
least, It looks as though Tech Is going
to be stronger this year than last, and
that Is In the stick work.
With a fairly easy schedulo ahead
and Lafltte back to do the most of the
box work. Tech ought to come out of
the season of 1907 with credit to her
self. even If the record Isn't quite as
good as 1906, when only three games
out of twenty-six were dropped.
The second and last gome of the De
troit series will be played at Piedmont
park this afternoon. After the battle
the Detroiters hie back to Augusta' and
the New York Americana resume their
position In the limelight.
The Highlanders play the Crockers
Friday and Saturday, and -It looks os
though the game should be close. The
Highlanders are just sufficiently on the
bum from injuries, “cholly hosses,"
sore arms and the like to put them
right In the Crackers' class.
Next week Is the closing one of the
exhibition season. Cleveland ' Is here
Monday and Tuesday, Brooklyn Wed
nesday and Thursday and New York
ends the week.
Look out for soma good baseball next
week. Jim Fox and George Winters
will report Sunday and will be In Mon
day's game.
Otto Jordan will probably stay over
In Mllledgevllle until Tuesday, but he
will certainly be on hand for the first
Brooklyn game.
Then look out for baseball. By that
time all the pitchers ought to be work
ing around Into good trim and tHb
Crackers can be counted an to put up a
good front. ' .
Monday and Tuesday of the following
week will be given over to light prac
tice and the final polish and on the
ntghLof April 8 the Crackers leave for
Birmingham for the opening game of
the league season. „
After that battle they dash back to
Atlanta and on April 10 open the league
season In Atlanta In a battle with
Montgomery.
Pitcher Promised Atlanta?
By SID MERCER, of the New York Globe.
matter. Clark Griffith was wonderlni
where he stands, but he will get flrst
call. Griff, it Is understood, has prom.
Ised Atlanta a pitcher, but has not
made up his mind which one It shall be
Yesterday's game did not afford much
of an opportunity to size up the De
trolt club. It was one of those fre«
hitting affairs with plenty of runs on
both sides.
On the whole, the Detroit team, with
Rossman on first base, appears strong
er than last season. Ball players think
that Jennings will get more out of
them than Armour did. The former
Brooklyn shortstop has put a lot of iif„
In his men. Yesterday Jennings was
on the coaching lines every inning and
with the assistance of the energetic
"Dutch" Schaefer he kept things mov-
Ing. These two made so much nolee
that the spectators didn't know wheth
er they were looking at a ball game or
a vaudeville sketch.
Griff and Jennings talked about a lot
of things last night. When It was first
announced that Tyrus Cobb would be
traded. Griff made Jennings a prono-
sitlon to hand over Frank Delehanty
for Cobb. It has developed that Jen.
ntngs has never asked for waivers on
Cobb, and there Isn't much chanco for
New York to get him. Jennings proba.
bly will keep his four best outfielders—
McIntyre, Crawford, Cobb and Jones
More high-class baseball talent can
bo found In Atlanta this morning than
In any city In the United States, unless
It Is New Orleans, where the Giants
and Athletics are playliig.
Besides the Yankees and the Atlanta
team, the Detroit Tigers—thirty strong
—are quartered at the Hotel Aragon,
and last night the corridors of the ho
tel were so crowded with ball players
that other transients thought a con
vention was In progress.
The coming of the Detroit band puts
the Yankees Into the background tem
porarily. The New York boys laid off
again yssterday afternoon and went out
to Piedmont park to see the game. In
the morning the Yankee regulars lined
up against the Yanlgans and had a
aeven-lnnlng practice game. The two
teams met again this morning. To
morrow the game will be cut out, as
there Is a contest with the Atlanta
team booked for the afternoon.
Jennings Is carting a lot of extra
players about the country. He Is es
pecially strong on pitchers and wants
to leave one or two of them here if ho
can bring his team here to train next
spring. Yesterday Jennings and Man
ager Smith, of Atlanta, talked over this
Griff After New Men
-By BOZEfoAlJ BULGER, of The New York Evening World,
GEORGIA BEAT
AUGUSTA TEAM
Speclsl to The Georgian.
Athens, Ga. t March 28.—Ths.Univer
sity of Georgia team distinguished it
self here yesterday by defeating the
Augusta team in a pretty game by a
score of 2 to 1.
Scoro by Innings:
Georgia 100 100 000—2 4 1
Augusta .. .. ....000 010 000—1 5 3
Batteries: W. Brown and J. Brown,
Armstrong, Platt and Evers.
Clark Griffith has two new players
In eight, and If either of them Is land
ed the New York club will be strength
ened materially. The two men are
Mike Welday and Lee Quillun, both
formerly of the Western League.
Welday Is an outfielder, while Qull
Ian Is an Inflelder. The latter, however,
can play in either' place.
Both men were sold to the Chicago
White Sox and being overstocked.
Comlskey tried to get wavers on them
so that he could put them In cold stor
age with ',a club In some smaller city.
Griffith wired Comlskey his refusal to
waive claim. That promptly shut off
Chicago's opportunity to cover them up
and now the only way they can dis
pose of them Is to sell outright to the
New York Americans.
If Griffith can get this pair he Is not
only In luck, but In four-leaf clover.
Welday cjouted the boll at a clip of
.359 and no matter what kind of pitch
ers may have been against him, that Is
going some. Qulllan, who comes from
the Lincoln, Nebr., club, hit the ball at
a rate of .350.
The Highlander manager had a fow
hours of solace Wednesday night, only
to be faced with trouble again Thurs
day morning the flrst dash out of the
box. Morlarlty’s legs have gone bad
and he Is having great trouble in get
ting around. He wna so stiff that Grif
fith has excused him from work.
“I have trained lots of ball teams,'
said Griff, In a half laugh last night,
“but this Is tho flrst time I ever trained
one that wasn't present. One day I gi
out there and have two Inflelders and
three outfielders: the next day we will
have four Inflelders and two outfielders.
You know we can do lots of team work
that way. Sometimes It Is really fun
ny. It often reminds me of Bubo Wad
dell—the time he ordered everybody off
the field, but a pitcher, catcher and two
Inflelders. I guess I am the second
Rube.
"But don't give up, old man,” laughed
Griff, as he slapped a few of us on the
back. "There Is a good,time coming.
"Just think," he continued, “if Elber-
feld Isn't able to turn that back yet he
Is learning to talk In public at the
Catholic school. That all helps, you
know. The Kid some day may be a
lecturer and he would bo a pretty good
one at that." The Kid’s back Is mend
ing slowly and he Is not going to tako
any chances yet. A wise move, too.
Elberfeld delivered a lecture lasting
an hour yesterday and as his subject
was baseball he had the students of the
Catholic school sitting with their
mouths open.
"At flrst I thought It would scare me
to doath," admitted Elberfeld, "but aft
er I got started and worked up to my
subject the time passed so fast that I
didn't know It.
"I’ll tell you.” said the Kid phllo-
sophlcally, "the secret of this public
•peaking Is If you have got anything to
say you can certainly say IL and If you
haven’t you had better sit down."
Sporting News Continued on
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