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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29,1907.
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YANK-CRACKER GAMES END WEEK AT PIEDMONT
| SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING
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NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS j
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
“Pitcher Wallace!”
Ye*, the same old Bob, who used to play centcrficld and
throw the ball from the back fence over the top of the grand
stand, just as a pastime.
And the great part of it is that Bob is “getting away with
it.”
He pitched part of the game against Detroit Wednesday,
after having pitched for the New York Yannigans in the morn
ing.
Thursday he again pitched for the Yannigans in the morn
ing and in the afternoon pitched part of the game against De
troit.
He has asked Billy Smith for permission to pitch both games
against New York, one against Cleveland, both of the Brooklyn
games, and he wants to finish up the exhibition series by twirl
ing both games for New York and is negotiating privately
with Clark Griffith for a double header the dosing Saturday.
This Wallace is certainly a glutton for work.
“I never had a sore arm in my life,” says Bob. “I have it
rubbed down every night, whether it needs it or not, but there
- was never a kink in it.
Bob is the twirling wonder these days and has the crowd
with him. When he went in to pitch Thursday ho got the best
hand of the season and long before Harley was through the fans
began calling for Bob.
Here’s hoping he arrives.
Those Crackers certainly do hit? Next to losing most of the
exhibition games it is the most encouraging symptom of the sea
son thus far. The only pitcher who 1ms held the Atlanta batters
down for any length of time was “Ducky” Holmes, and it is
doubtful if he could do it again.
These hits haven’t always been bunched, but they have been
there all right and as long as a team is hitting the ball right on
the nose it will win some games, from teams of its own class, any
way.
DETROIT LEFT NO PITCHER
BUT MAY SEND ONE BACK
Left Hander Smith
Gets One More
Trial.
NFW THIRD SACKER.
Ball and Dyer arc the Cracker cripples these days. Ball’s
arm is bad—so bad in fact thnt he had to drop out of Thurs
day’s game before the finish. And poor Dyer is lame from head
to heels.
The news of the sad end of “Chick” Stahl was a profound
shock to the sixty-odd professional baseball players who were in
Atlanta yesterday. Most of them knew him personally and all
spoke of him in the very highest terms.
One of his baseball friends suggested Inst night ns his epi
taph “He was a good baseball player and a gentleman.”
NAPSMAYBLOWSOUTH
NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT
\ajoie Figures That There Will be 100 Ball
Players Here and Wants to Prevent
Crowding.
By ED F. BANG.
Macon, Ga., March 19.—The Cleve
land team may cut Its stay in tho
I South short by two days.
As now planned the Naps will lay
over In Atlanta Wednesday and Thura.
day of next week, playing there tho first
two days.
Manager Lajolo figures that as three
other teams will bo In Atlanta at tho
'same time none of them would got In
'very much practice. In all over loo
players will bo there at tho samo time.
Of course tho Napa could train nt the
Georgia Tech grounds, but tho pitchers
object, ns they aro compelled to throw
uphill, tho diamond being Inclined.
Lurry Is of tho opinion thnt two days
more further North will servo to acclt-
nmto tho Naps to the chilly blasts that
are almost certain to be experienced.
It Is probable that the Naps will leave
Atlanta Tuesday evening and train In
Dayton for two days prior to the game
on Friday.
ATHLETIC CLUB SHOOTS
WILL BEGIN ON SATURDAY
The trap shooting season at the At-
.lanta Athletic Club will be Inaugu
rated Saturday afternoon. Tho East
{Lake traps have been put In order,
the shooting lodge has been opened and
Barney Worthcn, who manages tho
shoots, has secured flvp famous profes
sionals to give an exhibition as an
opening day feature.
The professionals who will be on
hand arc: A. M. Hatcher, of Bristol,
Tenn.; Harold Money, of New Haven,
Conn.; J. M. Hawkins, of Baltimore,
MB.; Walter Huff, of Macon, Go., and
J. C. Hightower, of Amerleus, Go.
Tho management hopes to moke a
big feature of these shoots, which will
be held every Saturday, beginning at 3
o'clock.
The I
effort to Interest tho
shoots, and those Interested are urgent
ly Invited to be present.
When Hugh Jennings and the De
troit Tigers left Atlanta Thursday
night they carried with them that left-
handed pitcher that Billy Smith wants.
However, he may come back.
Jennings received orders from the
club owners to carry the man on with
him to Meridian, Vicksburg nnd Little
Rock and to work him as often as pos
slble.
From Little Rock the decision will
come ns to whether or not Smith will
get the man. The prospects look good,
however, and Jennings has practically
assured Smith that he has a swell
chance of landing the pitcher.
With this man and the one that Clark
Grimtti Is suspected of having Inten
tions of turning over to Atlanta, the
Crackers' pitching staff ought to be the
beet In the leugue.
The week Is finished out with games
between the Highlanders nnd the
Crackers. Smith will pitch Zeller on
Saturday and arimth has promised to
put Hughes In against him. So the
two star pitchers of tho Atlanta team
last year will face each other on the
Piedmont diamond.
Otto Jordan will report Saturday
morning nnd will be In the game Sat
urday afternoon.
Just how Smith will chnngc his line
up to accommodate Otto Is not known.
It Is quite possible that Hoffman, who
Is In fine trim now, will go'to the relief
of either Ball or Dyer, who are both In
bad shape.
Griffith will probably play Conroy at
MAY FIGHT AT
BALLGROUNDS
Jack Gleason Trying to Get
Gans and Nelson
Together.
Atlanta and tanks
Meet Friday and
Saturday.
Mnriarlty'a legs still worry him and he
thinks by a rest of a few days they
will Improve much more rapidly than If
he tried to work on them. Elberfeld
thinks the same - way about his back
and the doctor has advised him not to
attempt any real work for another
week.
In the meantime, the Kid Is pawing
up earth and champing at his bit. He
Is anxious to get out and help things
along. Without him In the Infield It
has no pivot. He Is director general of
all the plays there. When he and
Chase are both uway things do not
balance.
BILL DYER.
Here is the man who holds down
third for the Crackers this year.
San Francisco. March 29.—Jack Glea
son, the baseball man, wants to get into
the thick of tho frenslcd fisticuff whirl.
Gleason met Nolan and Sellg, managers
of Nelson and Gans, respectively, last
night, and told them he would give a
purse of 140,000 for the Gans-Nelson
fight If they would agree upon terms.
Gleason thinks he could put tho men In
tho ring at the new baseball park on
July 4 and mako money out'of the ven
ture.
short and Klelnow at first.
Mortality and Elberfeld are both too
badly crippled to get In the game.
MURPHY WINS
ON A FLUKE
Knocks Out Sullivan
Technicality and Riot,
Follows.
on
Baltimore, Md., March 28.—Kid Sul
livan was knocked out by Ilarlcm
Zeller vs. Ragan
In the “Opener
Birmingham, Ala.. March 29.—Local
fans arc taking a big Interest In the
opening contest of the Southern
Ligue, which takes place between
Birmingham nnd Atlanta April 9.
The fans here are giving odds that
Birmingham lands the first game from
Atlanta. Information has reached here
that that first game will be pitched for
Atlanta by Dr. Zeller. The fans are
anxious that Ragan twirl for Birming
ham. These two stars will make that
first game more than Interesting.
The visitors from Atlonta and Mont
gomery—many are coming—will see
gathered here many of the moguls of
the league, including President Kuva-
naugh. The Arkansas judge will de
liver on address and will raise the pen
nant.
dTd you hear
TIGERS ROAR?
Crackers Did and Lost the
Game by Score of
8 to 5.
After tho loose-jointed exhibition of
bush bail given by tho Detroit and
Tommy Murphy In tho second round AtInn,a teams Wednesday both aggre
gations reformed Thursday and played
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HOME RUN” JOHNSON
JOINS HIGHLANDERS
By SID MERCER, of Tho New York Globe.
Johnson,” and though he doesn't an.
pear heavy enough to do such lone
range hitting right along, his recoFd
speaks for Itself.
The Giants have cause to remember
this young man. They played an ex
hibition game last summer at Brad-
ford. Pa Johnson was a member of
the Bradford team. He got two home
runs In the game. The first time he
went to bat his manager Instructed him
to hit a certain figure on the score
board. Joe McGInnlty was pitching
Johnson followed Instructions and the
ball missed the spot he aimed for only
by a few Inches. It was a Ijome run
all right. Last season Johnson had a
trial with the Phillies, but Hugh Duffy
didn't give him much of ashow.
Last night when Jennings released
him to Griff, Johnson declared he want,
ed to go home. He wasn't strong for
the Montreal thing, but he didn't have
a ticket and so he Is going to stay with
the Yankees until they go North. Jen-
nlngs gave him a fine recommendation.
He says that Johnson has a future If
he will not lose henrt and advised him
to spend a year at Montreal, as he Is not
experienced enough for major league
tbly will play him In
There will be a new face In left field
for the Yankees today when the team
lines up against Atlanta for an exhibi
tion game. Charley Johnson, of Ches
ter, Pa., turned in hla Detroit uniform
to Hughey Jennings late last night and
now Clark Griffith Is paying his board
bill at the Aragon.
While It Is hardly likely that John
son will remain with the Yankees after
the season starts, still he will get a
chance to show what he can do, and it
he Is fortunate he may draw the extra
outfielder’s assignment. Detroit could
not use him and as Griff offered to
place Johnson with the Montreal team,
the player was left here when the Ti
gers left Atlanta last night. He will
remain here for the remainder of the
training season, at least, and there Is
just a possibility that he will stick
after that.
Johnson Is a ball player who doesn't
weigh any more than Willie Keeler,
though he Is a bit taller. He has played
independent ball with high-class teams
In Pennsylvania and Is famed through,
out that section for his hitting ability.
Up there he Is known as "Home Run
ball. Griff probafa
left field In the remaining' exhibition
games and by the time the season opens
he will have a line on Johnson's abil
ity.
Suicide of Chick Stahl Has
Cast Gloom Over Yankees
By BOZEMAN BULGER, of The New York Evening World.
NEW ORLEANS
G AME ENDS IN
YOUNG RIOT
Special to The Georgian.
New Orlenns, I.a., March 29.—The
New York-Phlladelphla game hero on
Thursday broke up In a squabble In
the flrnt tnnlng. Umpire Zlinmer gave
the game to Phlladhlphla, 9 to 0.
McOraw and Bresnahnn wore ordered
off the field for cursing Zimmer when
he refused to advance runners on an
alleged balk of Pitcher Plank. Rresnn-
han was forcibly ejected by the police,
but McOraw would not budge, nnd aft
er a squabble of fifteen minutes tho
game was forfeited.
It Is likely that the scries will be
called off and It is rumored that the
New Orlenns club will sue McOraw.
About 3,500 were at the park when tho
trouble arose. Manager Frank took
matters Into his own hands and paid
back the spectators.
at Fords theater last night.
It was a technical rather than
clean knockout, and tho fluke so en
raged tho house that a Hot seemed
Imminent. One extra savogo enthu
slant hurled a whisky bottle on the
stage that Just missed Referee Crow,
hurst. Tho fight was a whirlwind af
fair.
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KNEEPADSAND
SHIN GUARDS
FOR N. CLARKE
Spcclnl to The Georgian.
Macon, Ga.. March 29.—Nig Clarke,
the little catcher of the Naps, will In
augurntc nn Innovation nninng AmcH
can League catchers the coming soa.
son. Nig will wear shin pads.
Clarko Is one of the lightest back
stops In the business and last season
suffered nny number of hurts and
bruises us the result of tip fouls bound
ing off his lower niotorettes. Nig has
decided to safeguard against n repeti
tion of the Injuries this year and will
don shin guards and horse-hair knee
pads.
FREEMAN MADE
GREAT SCORE
“Fresh Roasted Coffee?—bah I
Mother didn't use fresh roasted coffee,
she had Arbuckles.’
The way to get a good cup of coffee that
tastes like Coffee with all the delicious flavor
and aroma intact, is to buy a package of the
old original Arbuckles’ ARIOSA Coffee, and
grind it as you want to use it, first wanning it a little to
develop the flavor and make the grinding easy. Coffee
loses its identity as Coffee after being ground or exposed to
the air and is easily contaminated by handling.
Arbuckles* was the first roasted pack
aged coffee.
The pores of each coffee berry are sealed
after roasting with fresh eggs and granulated
sugar to hold the goodness in and make the
coffee settle clear and quickly; an actual appli
cation by machinery, of “ Mother’s" methods—
as patented by this firm.
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ARDL'CKLE BROS, New York City.
The visiting trap shooting profes
sionals gave a fine showing nt the At
lanta Gun Club's traps Thursday aft
emoon.
H. D. Freeman, the local professional,
broke 149 out of 150 birds, missing his
131st.
Other scores were:
Name. Shot at. Broke.
A. M. Hotelier 100
Harold Money 100
Tom Hunnleut 60
Clarence Everett 130 135
West End Stars
Play Saturday
The West End Stars will play their
first match game on Saturday after
noon at 3:30 o'clock, Grady Place dia
mond, West End.
Benches have been put on the
grounds nnd a dope stand will soon be
I erected so those who come out
■ have nil they are looking for.
i The team which will oppose the Stars
] will be unother West End bunch enp-
‘ mined by ''Sis'' Falvey. This team was
defeated by the Stars Ip '06, but this
nr Captain Falvey says that he will
win.
Time will tell.
Both teams moat cordially Invite
I their friends to come and see what
“swell” teams will represent West End
! this year. •
j The probable line-up of the'Stars will
i be: W. E. 8. Middlebrooks, catcher:
I Henley, pitcher: Ward, first base;
j Crane, second base; Frank, shortstop;
I Harks, third base; Stauffocber, Collins,
Evcret, Terrell, outfield.
real baseball. Errors were numerous
enough, but they were mostly made on
circus chances and the hitting was
just "free” enough to mako things
lively.
The visitors went right at the run
making In the first and by steady hit
ting had enough tucked away In the
fifth to end the suspense.
Though errors played somo part In
this run-gcttlng, It was mostly due to
swift slugglnf. Paskert, Hoffman, D.
Jones and Cobb figured most frequent
ly In this bat-waftlng performance.
Atlanta made her dash for the game
In the seventh and eighth. In the for
mer three hits off Eubnnk turned the
trick nnd In the latter a base on balls, a
single and a two-bagger off Willett
produced the same result.
Rnssman was out of tho game on ac
count of a boll on his thumb and Craw
ford was In his place. Cobb’s batting
was fierce, his three-bngger being
line drive that nearly knocked a board
off the back fence.
The score:
Atlanta— ab. r. h. po.
Becker, r. f.
Dyer, 3b 5 0
S. Smith, lb .. ..5 1
Paskert, 1. f. .. ..6 1
Castro, c. f, s. s..3 0
Ball. s. s 2 0
Spade, c. f A 1
Hoffman, 2b .. ..3 1
Sweeney, e. .. ..4 0
Harley, p 2 0
Wallace, p 2 1
Totals 35 5
Detroit— ab. r.
D. Jones, c. f. ... .5 2
Coughlin, 3b ....5 0
Cobb, I. f 4 2
Crawford, lb ....4 l
McIntyre, r. f.
1 12
h. po. a. c.
Downs, r. f.
Schaeffer. 2b
Archer, c. ..
O’Leary, s. s.
Killian, p. ..
Eubank, p. .
Willett, p. ..
Rossman ..
Totals
....1
..4
. .38 8 11
•Batted for Eubank In eighth.
8core by Innings:
Atlanta *10 000 220—5
Detroit 201 210 200—8
Summary: Stolen bases, Crawford,
McIntyre. O’Leary: two-base hits,
Becker. Sweeney, Cobb: three-base
lilts. Paskert. Cobb. D. Jones, Schaef
fer; double plays, Schaeffer to O'Leary
to Crawford; Innings pitched, by Har
ley 6. by Wallace 3. by Killian 3. by
Eubank 4. by Willett 2; struck out. by
Killian 2. by Eubank 2, by Willett t,
by Harley 1. by Wallace 1: bases on
balls, off Eubank I, off Willett 1. off
Harley 1, off Wallace 2; hit by pitched
ball, by Killian 1 (Castro, by Eubank
1 (Hoffman). Umpire, Lafltte. Time of
game, 1.40.
Shreveport Team
Is Down in Texas
Special to The Georgian.
Shreveport, La., March 29.—Shreve
port opens at Houston today, plays
three games there and three at Gal-
eston. returning home Wednesday.
The team will be divided and Sunday
gaines played both at Houston and
Galveston. Fisher expects to let Pitch
er Noah go to a team In the Pennsyl-
vanla-Ohlo League.
Baseball was forgotten last. night
when tho Detroit and New York play
ers got together and discussed the sad
end of Chick Stahl, the one-time great
ball player who committed suicide at
WeBt Baden.
Chick Stahl was one of the best loved
ball plnyers In America. He had
friends by the score In every city where
he traveled. He was of a Jolly, sunny
disposition and always carried a smile.
It was often a saying among ball play
ers that "You couldn't get sore at Stahl
because he was always there with that
happy smile.”
Both New York and Detroit players
are at a loss to know the reason for
the suicide. Stahl's worries as manager
were not sufficient for him to brood
over It. He took tho position tempo
rarily, anyway. Less than a week ago
he asked to be relieved of the Job. ns
the responsibility Interfered with his
playing. His request was granted and
unless there Is something beneath the
surface the players have no idea what
could have prompted such an act.
The death of Stahl cast a damper
over the Highlander camp this morning
nnd mqch of the pepper was missing as
tho plnyers started to the park. The
practlco was scheduled to bo very light,
however, ns New York plays Atlanta
again this afternoon. This should be a
very Interesting game. The Atlanta
pitchers have Improved wonderfully In
tho past week and as New York's In
field Is crippled It ought to be close.
The Regulars defeated the Yannigans
again In a practice gome yesterday and
the affair brought out the fart that
New York has another pitcher and one
who has almost been forgotten. He Is
none other than Mr. C. Griffith himself.
The old fellow went In to pitch against
the Yannigans and what he did to his
team mates was a plenty. Even his old
friend McGuire was buffaloed. Grif
fith used nothing but a slow ball and nn
occasional curve. He had the young
fellows and the pitchers breaking their
backs going after It.
Castleton was given another tryout,
but ho got a bad start and could never
catch up. Right off the reel the Regu
lars Jumped on him for four hits and
these, aided by an error, gave four runs
—and that was enough. The Yanni
gans did manage to get three, but the
Regulars made 7 nnd Jim McGuire led
his team of colts from the field In dis
gust. Toward the latter part of the
game Castleton got control of his curve
ball and the players were unable to do
anything with It. Old-timers like Wil
liams. Keeler, Conroy and Hoffman
were baffled. Griffith would frequently
come behind tho plate and watch this
curve break. As tho season approaches
Griffith continues to be Impressed with
his now southpaw. Castleton Is a very
modest kind of a fellow and as he is
always willing' to be taught all the
players llko him. Ho will work for an
hour trying to do something that ho
has seen an old player do.
TECH TEAM ALL READY
FOR GAME WITH MERCER
Tech stacks up ngatnst a real com
petitor Saturday afternoon when tho
boys from Mercer will Invade Atlanta,
hoping to carry away with them tho
first of the state championship games.
Within the past two years Mercer has
dropped eight straight games to Tech,
and It would not surprise many If they
should turn In nnd get a portion of
their revenge In the first game of the
season.
Reports from Macon state thnt a
number of last year's veterans arc hack
nnd that the team" Is showing up In
great shape. If this is tho case the bat
tle on Tech field will be a sharp one.
with advance honors about even.
Lafltte Win be In the box for Tech,
nnd great work Is expected of the
man who did such remarkable twirling
In hla first season In college ball. I;
he Improvea proportionally he should
be the wonder of the South this year,
and bids fair to prove a second Weldon
Henley, whom he resembles In phy
sique.
The Tech line-up will be as follows:
Lafltte, pitcher; Knight, catcher;
Brooks, first base; Parker, second base;
Buchanan, third base; Wright, short
stop; Davenport, left field; Robert, cen
ter field; Stewart, right field.
Tho game will be called at 3:30.
Cleveland Plays Macon Twice
Then Starts For the North
Special to The Georgian.
Macon, Ga., March 29.—Yesterday was
an off day with tho Macon club, and
the players spent the afternoon, prac
ticing and getting ready for the two
final clashes with tho Cleveland Amer
icans. The last game will be played
Saturday afternoon, and then the Naps
pack trunk for their trip back to the
middle West, stopping first In Atlanta
Eagles Want Game
The Third Ward Eagles have organ
ised a strong team nnd wish to chal
lenge any team under 16 years.
The line-up Is us follows: T. Had
ley. catcher; E.' Shed, pitcher: F. Mar
tin. shortstop; S. Bond, first base: N.
Turner, second base; H. Morse, third
base; W. Hayes, center field; B. Daw
son. left field; S. Henley, right field.
Address all challenges to T. Hadley,
395 East Fair street.
B. M. /. Wins Game
Special to The Georgian.
Asheville. N. C, March 29.—The
Bingham-Military School baseball team
defeated Waavervllie Wednesday by a
score of 8 to 1.
Today Secretary E. S. Barnard will
confer with Secretary H. H. Starr, of
the Macon club, for the purpose of
closing a contract for next spring.
Cleveland Is more than anxious to re
turn, for should rain hold off tomorrow
all three weeks will hove been com
pleted without the loss of one minute
In training. kl „.
The selection of a Macon pitch ng
corps for this season Is still keeping
Manager Llpe upon tho anxious seat.
In Scanlon and Tribble, both left-
handed men, he has found nothing
above the ordinary, and may yet “«•
cldc to retain Shumann. Clarke ana
Helm are sure of their positions, ana
there Is but little guess work about
John Fox. ....
When not engaged In Judging P 1 *'
Slats Davis, the South Atlantic
League's new arbiter. Is busy securing
advertisements upon his own two
Davis has but little regard for a man
who Is not able to grip onto a side line-
and he Is using his head to good ao
vantage. In Macon he has plannra 1
place a satin or plush banner.
plenty of adds surrounding the senea
ule for the season.
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