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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
LIURSDAY, AFKJL 38,1907.
CRACKERS AND BARONS ARE WATCHING THE SKY
SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING
It has been a cold, soggy stay in the slag city. Monday
the crowd was ice-bound, Tuesday it rained, and Wednesday it
tried to snow.
If it hadn’t been for Monday’s victory the dejection in
camp Cracker would have been rather fierce.
The news that Charley Frank had asked waivers on Pitch
ers Cry stall, Long and Fritz gives fans something of a line on
the Dutchman’s team.
It Rhows for one thing that he will count on the four pitch
ers he had last season—Breitenstein, Phillips, Guesc and Man
uel, a quartette whoso aggregate ages ' would be something
(though not much) less than a thousand years.
Breitenstein is the “fox” of the league and a wonder. But
he is old and naturally on the down slant. The same is true of
Phillips—only more so.
“Whitey” Ouese is another veteran and a wonder in his
way. He has every known (and some unknown) curves, but
with them all he combines a faint heart. As long as the sailing
is smooth “Whitey” can fan them all, but when things get
squally Guesc is so busy looking for a good place to land that he
just chunks the ball over and anybody can find him.
Moxie Manuel is the only “comer” on the Pelican staff and
he has a long ways to come before he will be a really first-class
twirler.
Don’t put the Pelicans down as anything really easy. They
are far from that, for Frank has a brilliant (though erratic) in
field and an unusually good outfield.
If his team can hit it will go pretty well to the front; but
a pennant winner!—well, no, not without a lot of luck.
Speaking of fnint-henrted pitchers, they’re a queer lot. The
league bns a raft of them. Most of them have everything in the
world which makes a pitcher famous, and yet they lack the cour
age to do their best stunts.
. Atlanta lost several games last yenr because her pitchers
were not “game.” This yenr, though, things are likely to be dif
ferent. The Cracker, team is one which will play hard behind
any kind of a twirler and will help to pull any of them' out of
the hole.
If the Atlnntn pitchers show the right kind of courage this
year the Crackers will have a good road team. For nothing short
of an earthquake could-rattle the rest of the bunch.
Apparently the weak part of the Birmiugham team is the in-
Pete Lister is no star. He fields fairly well but is green
and rather raw in his actions at but.
Lew Walters is a steady man at second, but his first yenr
in a town is usually his best and someway he doesn’t hit. lie
is one of the unfortunnteR who usually hits the ball smack ou the
seam—only to see it shil into a fielder’s hands.
Oylcr is a brilliant shortstop—rather too brilliant in fact,
though a good man for all that; but Montgomery at third ap
pears to be on the down start.
Ball players tell me that Montgomery is “all out.” If ho is,
Vaughn is itf a fix.
field.
That much for the infield.
The outfield is a good one. Carlos Smith is ns good as any
of them and so is Molesworth, while Gardner will do very well,
though bis playing against the Crackers has not been notable.
The Smoke-Town catching nnd pitching staffs nre as good
as any, and the team stacks up well with the best.
It will take a lot of luck to give Birmingham another pen
nant, but it will take more than a lot of hnrd luck to keep, them
out.
President Baugh tells me that his team this year will be fit
exactly the salary limit—no more and no less. To get there they
had to cut $15 off the salary of an old player, but the Barons will
be right at hard pan when the player limit goes in force.
Speaking of the limit, it goes into effect May 10th.
That date will find the Atlanta team in Memphis on their sec
ond road trip.
Montgomery May Be Out of
League Before Season Ends
By PERCY H. WHITING.
Birmingham, Ala., April 18.—What
about Montgomery?
There seems to be a firm belief In
this end of Alabnnfa that the Monties
are sure losers this year and that un
less something unexpected happens,
Montggmery will be out of the league
before the end of this season, nnd that
Chattanooga, Mobile or any of the rest
of them can get the franchise ut a bar
gain.
There Is no attempt anywhere to hide
the fact that Montgomery Is weak.
Everybody started out the season by
piping off the Pretzels for tali-enders
and they now promise to live up to ex
pectations.
Of course that prediction does not go
provided the team Is strengthened. And
evidently the Montgomery management
Is attempting to do something tiling
that line. '
Ratchford nnd Ball have been added
to the infield. And both of them are
good men. But it Is hard to see how
they can pull the Pretzels «»ut of the
rut.
Even when the Montgomery team
was going strong last year, which It
actually did for a while, the attendance
was not much to brag about. What it
will be with the team strictly on the
blink will be hard to tell.
Nobody wishes Montgomery anything
but the best of luck. The team bus
made a good tight against numerous
disadvantages, it deserves to land well
up In the first division and Southern
League fans hope that It will. But they
say here that unless something unex
pected happens right soon there will be
a shift In the Southern League circuit—
and one which may leave the league
bark where It was in 1902.
If Montgomery does happen to jump
the game it will not make any particu
lar difference to anyone outside Mont
gomery. Mobile and Chattanooga would
positively full over each other to get 1?.
Chattanooga Is on record as wanting
It, and Mobile would doubtless be glad
to get It, provided It did not come too
high.
Probably this Is another false alarm.
The end of every season finds a pre
diction out that Montgomery Is going
to quit. But It seems more like the
real thing this time.
Birmingham, Ala., April 18.—Thursday night will find the
Atlanta team hitting the rails for Montgomery.
j And if a Cracker in the crew is sorry he has kept very still
about it. It isn’t that they love Montgomery more but Birm
ingham less.
Sewcmee Tigers Will
Play Tech Saturday
►
The Sewanee Tiger* come down from
their mountain den* Friday and Sat
urday to tackle the Yellow Jackets in
their nest The Tigers are not sup
posed to be as strong as they were
last season, but '‘dope” on baseball is
very unreliable.
The Yellow Jackets are not over
confident in their winning, and will do
their best to down the Tigers.
Hightower will be out of the game
and Stewart will hold down the sec
ond sack, with Derrick on first.
A double-header will be played Sat
urday. the first game beginning at 2:30
o’clock. LafUte will pitch both games
Saturday, if he is able; If not, he will
be relieved by Robert’. Brooks will be
on the firing line Friday. The pitcher*
w|II alternate in %e field.
GEORGIA WILL
PLAY SEWANEE
AFTER THE GAME GEORGIA WILL
LEAVE FOR A NORTHERN
TRIP.
Spoclal to Tho Goorsrlnn.
Athens, G«„ April lS.-The ge W . n „
team rcachcil Athens Thursday mornimr
nnd will piny Georgia Thursday afternoon
on Ilerty Held. Sewnnee does not look
very strong this year, for Howard rec-ntl.
won two games from her. 7
Coach Stouch will probably have tho fol
lowing line up for Georgia: Martin. t « •
Derrick, 2b.; McWhorter, cfBrown c*
Hodgson, If.; Watson, rf.; Graves 'ti,’
Cobb, lb.; Brown or Foley, p. ’ 3b •
After this gome, the Georgia team win
son, 8. C.; April 23, Washington un',1 £2'
Lexington, Vs ; April a. Virginia
Institute, Lexington, Va.; April n Ssn
Anns polls, Md.; Apri l 25. George Washing
ton university, Washington. D. ('.• Anrll >:
nnd 27. University of Virginia In chariot .i.
vllle, Va.
His Wife Never Returned.
Special to The Georgian.
Brunswick, Ga., April 18.—j. p.
Willis, an old resident of Brunswick!
has been placed, In the Insane section
of the county Jail and will be commit
ted to the Insane asylum In a few days.
Sir. Willis was deserted-by his wif.
about a year ago, who went on a visit
to Liverpool, their old home, and would
never return. The grief was too much
for the, old man.
The baseball season of 1907 Is now in full blast and the opening which wss hailed with delight by all
fsne throughout tho length and breadth of tho land, is hero dopicted. The gentlemen at the right of the ball are
Pitcher Amei and Manager McGraw of the Gisnte.
RAIN-THEN MORE RAIN
IN GREAT SMbKY BURG,
BUT DRY TIME ANYWAY
THE CUBS’
...COLUMN...
By PERCY H. WHITING,
Birmingham, Ala., April 18.—More
rain. And still no game.
Brat! Cussl Thunder! Fiddlesticks!
Another cuss! And then some that we
don't dare print.
We knew the answer at breakfast
time Wednesday morning. Nothing but
a red-hot sun and a lot of wind from
sunup to "play ball” would have ren
dered the diamond playable. And
neither eventuated.
Billy Smith and Secretary Etheridge
stood In front of the hotel for one hour
and "rooted" strong for sunshine. But
there was nothing stirring. Atftl after
a while they gave it up.
There wasn’t much rain during the
morning, but there wasn't any sunshine
nor any warmth cither, and the big ball
went in early In the afternoon and
stayed In all the afternoon.
"If we can’t play we can work,” wns
Billy Smith's verdict, so he took his
team out to the Held, picked out a
nice place on the turf and proceeded
to let 'em work. His pitchers all
warmed up In fine style nnd all of them
seem to be In good trim. He man
aged-to work them Tuesday, too. si
they are keeping right In form.
The ground wns so bnd that nothing
beyond a little "tossing” was possible,
and the team returned to town early,.
To say that time angs heavily on
the hands of all Is expressing It v
great mildness. Birmingham is a line
town, but It doesn't offer the ball play
ers much In the way of nmusements In
rainy weather. And time dies hard.
All the Birm'ngham papers came out
today nnd salt’ that the rain saved At
lanta two defeats. "The dickens It
did," was Billy Smith's comment—only
he dklnGt say "dlcens.”
The prevailing opinion here was that
Atlanta would have drawn an even
break out of the four games. As It Is,
Atlanta can't get worse than an even
break, having won one game and hav
ing only one more to play.. But the
Crackerlnes would have preferred to
get these four battles off their minds
anti do not like to have them piling up
In the form of postponed game*, which
will have to be played off later In the
season as double-henders.
I guess this'll be about all for this
time. If you think It'a any fun being
a war correspondent when there Isn't
any war you ought to come over and.
try It.
JUST A CHANCE OF GAME
IN SLAGTOWN THURSDAY;
OFF TO MONTGOMERY NEXT
By PERCY H. WHITING.
Birmingham. Ala.. April 18.—There
Is only a chance that there will be any
baseball in Birmingham today. At
bed time lu*t night the stars and moon
were doing business, and It looked like
good weather, but it has clouded over
again and the weather prediction for
today and tomorrow Is "rain.”
However, it Is not raining much now,
and the clouds appear broken. Possi
bly a game can be pulled off this aft
ernoon. Game or no game, the team
for Montgomery, and
is down to pitch the opener, with
O’Leary as catcher.
if there Is a game today. Ford will
probably get the call. If not, he will gq
in for the second Montgomery game.
Billy Binlth wanted tq ship Sid Smith
home this morning, but he was hardly
In shape to travel, ami will not leave
for home before Friday or Saturday.
His condition Is not serlouH, but he will
have to rest for at least ten days.
Schopp is hotter this morning. He says
he feels like a new woman.
The Atlanta team Is strong. It has
been pointed out several times that At
lanta's infield is perhaps the fastest In
the leugue. It Is now proved that At
lantal outfield Is also very good. Pas.
kert Is panning out a star. He fields
like lightning, is a deer on the paths
and stings the ball. It all depends on
j rtJje twirler*. If the staff is tip-top,
1 then Atlanta .will probably win the rag.
Atlanta deserves the rag.—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Manager Harry Matthews, of the
Charleston team, has s signed ‘'Bill'*
Blake, who played with New Orleans
last season.
The new checked traveling uniforms
of Finn’s club are responsible for the
Memphis fans dubbing tho aggregation
the Arkansas Boodlers. At least, they
did not try to make any secret of the
fact that they were willing to accept
two out of the four games with Babb’s
men.—Arkansas Gazette.
Atlanta looks pretty good. It hurts
16 say Itf but they tell us we should
give the devil his dues. The infield, as
said before and by many, can not' be
beaten In this league. If Paskert, Win
ters and Becker keep up their good
work people will be saying the same
about the outfield. As usual, the
strength of the staff shall decide the
gait of the dependent.—Birmingham
Jfew*.
Atlanta Is here for four games and
"Billy” Smith said last night he really
believed he would win all four games.
The Idea of such nerve. Billy Is be
coming affected with a brain storm. He
has defeated Birmingham on the home
ground, find he says this Is harder to
do than to win a pennant. Of course,
It is not, but* Billy has never won a
pennant, ami he doesn’t know.—Bir
mingham News.
No, he hasn’t in -the Southern League.
But he might do such a thing.
The Birmingham fans seem to think
that the Barons played In miserable
form while In Nashville last week. Not
>. They were beaten on tjielr merits.
•Nashville American.
Atlanta came back at Birmingham
with a rush yesterday, taking the open
ing game handily. You’ll have to keep
an eye on those Firemen. They are
certainly playing good ball just now'.—
Nashville American.
Second Game
On New Field
Thp second gania of Ilia Marlut t’ol-
lege series nas ployed on tin 1 now ball
Belli Wednesday afternoon. The Golds
ante to the front this time winning
by a scat* of S to 4. The play was
lever and snappy on both teams from
beginning to end. Mnny old Marine
College hoys were present.
The two teams will meet again next
Wednesday. The line-up:
Blue,. Golds.
Kalvoy, p. .. Morris, If.
Jackson, 2b Kaufman, o.
Williamson, 3b. .. „ .. Dumvody, lb.
Dubard, .* O’Keefe, ss.
Knight, Harrison. 3b.
Battle, lb Redmond, p.
Daley, cf Collier, 2b.
Caihart, If. Jentze . cf.
Hanlon, rf Callagliau, rf.
Score by Innings:
Blues 1»1 OHO 20n— 4
Golds . .«*•> 011 100— S
Time, 1:30. Umpire. Carl Ridley.
Tech and Clemson
Clash Thursday
The Tech and tiettison track teams
get together Thursday afternoon In
what promises to be a warm contest.
The meets is scheduled to begin at 2: SO
o’clock, the time consumed In running
off the many event? necessitating an
early start.
Nothing Is known of either team on
this line of sport, only that Georgia
woe from Clemson with apparent ease.
RAINY DAY DREAMS
ATTEL WHIPPED
BY O’TOOLE
1'LUadrIphia, April IS.—'Tommy O'Toole,
of this city, sprung a surprise lust night
when he won a six-round bout from Abe
Attel, the foatliertt'olglit champion, nt the
Rational Athletic Club. For three rounds,
each mop fought very cautiously. In the
fifth and sixth touisIs, O'Toole drew blood
from -After* mouth, nnd In the last round
By PERCY H. WHITING.
Birmingham, Ala., April 18.—With
two long rainy days to while away the
Crackers have had more time than they
knew what to do with. But somehow
they finally got rid of both.
Having nothing better to do, the
boys put up a good one on Sid Smith—
and different from most practical
jokes. It turned out all right for both
the Jokers and the Jokee.
The bills of fare at the Colonial are
printed affairs, but the star events of
tho day are written In. In some way
the bunch got next to a blank bill and
Ihey proceeded to load it for the espe
cial benefit of Sid, who was In bed and
couldn't well protect himself.
In the blanks they wrote most of the
delicacies nnd eome of the Indelicacies
of the season. Among the Imaginary
viands they put on* the "phoney" bill
were frizzled frogs’ legs, soft shell
crabs, a la Colonial, tenderloin of beef
strangled In onions, pheasant and shad
a la board.
It looked pretty good to Sid and he
decided on a large and lusty order, in
eluding soft shell crabs and a few such.
When the cook saw tho order he
fainted. After he revived he sent for
the bill of fare. When he saw It he
fainted again. However, he died game
uml after a struggle managed to get
some canned crabs put of the store
room nnd faked up the order.
Unless the great white light has
broken recently the floor manager of
tho dining room hasn't seen the Joke
yet.
The water or something In this burg
has put the visitors on the blink.
Umpire Rudderham is sick In bed
nnd for a day or two was In serious
condition. Schopp nnd Sweeney have
both been off their feed and several
of the others have been more or less
troubled. .'
Schopp was of the opinion that he
had eaten something that did not agree
with him.
"Do you know how my stomach
feels?" he Inquired.
I said I didn’t.
"It feels," said he, "as though It
didn’t fit.” *
George Winters was of the opinion
that the Inrge consignment of cucum
bers was what had put the Atlanta
team to the bad.
"There Is only one way to fix cu
cumbers so they won’t hurt you.” said
George. “You take tqem out. put them
on Ice over night. Then you slice them
up fine, put salt, pepper and vinegar on
them and throw the cussed things out
of the window."
Birmingham 'papers have been em
phatically denying The Georgian’s story
that O'Leary was likely to figure soon
In a trade or sale. They say Billy
Smith said that he had no Intention of
disposing of O'Leary. ,
This conies as a sad surprise. For It
is known pretty surely for some time
that Billy Smith Is going to retain
Sweeney. As It Is out of the ques
tion that Atlantu carry three cachcrs,
it must be that Sid Smith Is to be re
leased 1
Don' that Idea Jar you some?
Of course Billy Smith Is nqt taking
the Birmingham newspaper men Into
Ills confidence, and he hasn't taken me
there; but It stnnds to reason that If
Billy Smith is going to keep Sid Smith
and Sweeney he , will have to let
O’Leary go.
The present Indisposition of Sid
Smith will postpone the Inevitable for
some time, maybe; but It still continues
to be' Inevitable.
Mark my prediction, O’Leary will b^
disposed of'before the 10th of May.
Billy Smith Is far too wise to let him
go, unless something turps up which U
not down on the bills at present.
As long ago is Tuesday the New Or.
leans Item had It doped out that New
Orleans would be leading the league in.
side of 24 hours. And yet this has
never come to pass. P. H. IV.
Coach Ben Lacy
Goes to Oxford
Within the next few days Ben 1L
Lacy, winner of the Cecil Rhodes
scholarship from North Carolina, coach
of the Donald Fraser baseball squad
and one of the most popular members
of the faculty of that Institution, will
leave for England to take up a course
of study at Oxford.
When the contest for the Rhodes
scholarship was begun Lacy, who Is a
graduate of Davidson College, decided
to, become one of the contestants. He
went to Wake Forest, where the ex
amination was held, and won the North
Carolina scholarship.
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j Standing of the Clubs. \
CLUBS—
ATLANTA.
Nashville. ...... a i
New Orleans. ..... 4 3
little Hock ..... 5 3
Memphis. ....... 4 2
Shreveport 5 1
Birmingham r» 1
Montgomery . 4 . . 6 3 i
South Atlantic League.
CLUBS- Played. Wou. Lost. ?.£.
Jacksonville “ * * 467
Savannah. ,
Macon . .
Augusta. .
Columbia. .
Charleston.
CLUBS—
Cleveland . .
Philadelphia.
Chicago. . .
Boston. . . .
New York. .
Detroit
St. Ivoulfl .
Washington.
CLUBS-
National League. „ „
Played. Won. Lott. P. C.
Played.
Chicago- 3
Cincinnati 4
Boston 4
New York 4
Philadelphia ..... 4
Brooklyn 4
NEGRO IS ACQUITTED.
Charged With Larceny.
Spec ini to The Georgian. »
Gadsden, Ala., Apr.! 18.—Marion Si - *”* 11 ,rt Georgian.
Campbell the alleged moonshiner ami, Athena, Ga„ April 18. In Clarke su-
Uespe»j<o of Mount.yuborc, who ha* I l^rlo.* court Will Martin, colored, was
alread* u number of care:: pending
aguln.«t him In the courts, has been ar
rested on a charge of burglary and
grand larceny. He vat released on a
$1,000* bond.
acquitted of tho charge of murder.
Martin shot at,El Brawner. another ne
gro. who had thrown a lamp at him.
and In doiug so killed a negro named
Graham
The writer and all Atlanta fans who
have seen Dan at work will be sorry
to see him go. He Is a catcher of
great ability and a good hitter. The
hlef reason that he is going to lose
out in favor of Sweeney is that Swee
ney, who Is a younger and less expe
rienced man. can be secured for lbs*
money. Both catchers wilt rank well
with any In the league. And as both
are first-cla** men and es there is lit
tle to choose between them In the mat
ter of ability, Sweeney is practically
certain to get the call. This young
atcher is going to be a wonder and
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
r Southern. ._
Little Itock 3, Shreveport 3 (eleven In
Dings).
Atlanta Birmingham, rain.
Memphis-New Orleans, wet grounds.
Montgomery-Nnshvllle, rain.
South Atlantic.
Charleston 3, Macon 0.
Columbia 4, Augusta 3.
Jacksonville 4, Snvnnuah L
American.
Boston 2, Washington 1.
Cleveland 5. St. Lout* 2.
Chicago 4, Detroit 1.
New York 5, Philadelphia 4.
National.
Boston 2. Philadelphia,, L
Chicago 6, Pittsburg
— * ” “ Ut. Look -
Brooklyn 1.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Atlanta In Birmingham.
Nashville In Montgomery.
New Orleans in Memphis.
Shreveport In Little Hock.
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