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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1907.
CRACKER TEAM GOES TO FRONT IN PENNANT RACE
SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS I
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
Gness if all games were like Thursday’s even the new Poneo
DeLeon park would not be big enough. It was the best quarter’s,
worth that has been offered this year.
About this waiver business there seems to be some con
fusion, not only among the fans, but among the managers.
For the benefit of the fans (not being in Birmingham, we do
not attempt to tell the managers how to run their business) ‘wo
might mention a few things about the waiver rule.
In past years when a manager in the league has had more
good players than he knew what to do with he has kept the best,
released the worst and farmed out in smaller leagues the ones who
were too good to release and not quite good enough to keep.
These farmed-out players have often been excellent perform
ers and men who would have strengthened other Southern league
teams.
So the league felt that the custom was working to the disad
vantage of the weaker Southern League teams by depriving
them of a chance at players who would have been useful to them
and to the^Iayers by making them work in Class Q and D
leagues when they really had the ability to command Southern
league jobs and salaries.
To prevent any injustice being done, the league, at its an
nual meeting, passed a law that, before any manager in the South
ern league could sell a player to a smaller league he must first
secure “waivers” (that is, permission to sell) from every man
ager in the league. If a manager refused to grant waivers lie had
the right to buy the player on whi$h he refuses to waive claim
on payment-of $400.
Now comes President Kavanaugh with a lengthy ruling on
the subjeot. With the words all boiled out of it his new ruling is
that if, after waivers have been asked .they arc not granted
within three days the manager asking waivers shall have right to
sell the man whore he pleases; that the club first refusing waivers
on a man has first claim to his services; and—now note this—if,
after waivers have been asked and granted, th% manager asking
them does not disposo of his player within TEN DAYS he must
got waivers again before he lets him go.*
On this ten days’ provision Managers B. Smith and C. Frank
unite in a kick.
And you can depend upon it that when Billy and Charlie get
together on a proposition it must be right, for either one of them
would rather bo shot than agree with the other.
They both claim that there was not such provision ns the
“after ten days’” affair in the law ns passed by the league and
that President Kavanaugh had no right to make such a ruling.
SOUThPAWCASTLETON
REPORTS IN ATLANTA
Roy Castleton, the southpaw twtrler
from Salt Lake City, rounded up by
Clark Griffith and given a trial by him
this spring, arrived In Atlanta Thurs
day night and will spend the season
with the Atlanta club.
Thin la the "ground-rent pitcher**
Clark Griffith promised Atlanta when
he left here several weeks ago.
Castleton Is a first-class pitcher and
will doubtless rank among the best In
the league this year. Griffith was
greatly Impressed with all his prellml
nary work and believes that he will
"do" for the Yankees after this year of
seasoning In the Southern.
Tom Hughes was the "ground-rent
pitcher" last year, and he led the
Southern League.
Standing of the Clubs.
CLUBS— I*layed.
ATLANTA 12
Meuiphla ..... 6
Little ltock. ..... 9'
New Orlenus 7
Nashville 11
Birmingham 11
Montgomery 12
Shreveport 8
George Washington Team
Loses to Georgia Players
7 .125
South Atlantic League.
CLUflS- Played. Won. Lost. P. C.
Savanunb 13 8 5 .616
Jacksonville 15 9 6 .600
Clmrlcaton 16 9 7 .£62
Macon . 14 7 7 .BOO
Columbia. ..... .14 6 8 .429
Augusta 15 5 10* .333
American League.
Now York .
Cleveland .
Chicago . .
Detroit . .
Washington
Boston . .
St. Louis . .
THINNING OUT
B0XARTISTS
New Orleans Releases Long and
Will Probably Drop
Crystal.
ROY CASTLETON.
Love Invincible
And Tech Loses
New York 11
Pittsburg S
Philadelphia 10
.667
.625 Special to The Georgian.
Nashville. Tenn., April 26.—The Tech
hitters could not locate Love, Vander-
*5oo flit's star left-hander, and a hitless
game was the result—ns tar as Tech
was concerned. Fafltte bumped Into
Cunningham In a p!ay at the plate in
•d® the third and had to retire from the
pitcher’s box to the outfield. The other
>6 oo Tech pitchers were easy for the Com
modores.
Score: R. H. JE.
•2j» Vanderbilt 100 120 20*—6 8 2
Tech 000 000 000—0 0 0
Batteries: Love and Fueler, Lafitte,
Robert Parker 4nd Knight.
India nape
Louisville .
Toledo . . .
Kansas City ,
Milwaukee .
.v',7
Washington, April 2«.-Oeorge Washing
ton tint varsity yesterday went down to de
feat before the heavy hitting of the Uni
versity of Georgia nine at Van Nest park
by a score of 8 to 4. , . .
flostor was Coach Cummings choice of
pitchers, but the big North CaroUnan was
most erratic at times, nnd. In the fifth, the
Southerners connected with his delivery for
si* bits—two of them triples—which netted
five runs.
f>ptaln Tltua, who waa substituted for
itor In the next inning, was n decided
- four rounds In
• ha allowed the
vfsltora only five scattered hits, none of
which countod.
Ucdferu wan on the flrlug line for the
visitor* nnd was n puzzle to the Hatchet
Ites throughout the game.
The visitors started the run-getting early
In the gume, getting two runs In the
Inning on a triple from Graves' bat
a Texan leaguer by Hodgson. In tho sec
ond, Watson's’ triple and Heitor's error
gave them another run.
Tho next two Innings the winners went
down In order on easy outs, but they start
ed tho swatfent In the fifth. After the
substitution of Titus, tho Georgians were
unable to register another tally.
Field Day and Concert at
Stone Mountain School
leclakto The Georgian.
Stone Mountain, April It.—The TJnl-
ralty School for Boya at Stone Moun-
in will hold Us aeventh annual field
y Saturday. The official! of the
set will be:
Referee—T. IL Weenie.
Fudges—W. B, Griffin, J. B. Sibley,
rime Keeper*—A. D. Grlffln, J. II.
lffln, J. M. Demeron.
Scorer—Sandy Beaver, Jr.
tealstant Scorer—O. T. Griffin.
Starter—R. W. Horning.
Announcer—T. J. Kelley.
In addition to the usual track and
field events there will be speclnl event*
as follows: Throwing the baseball, Tilt-
yard dash, three-legged race, p’le race
and thrce-mlto relay, race.
Merchandise prises will be nwarded
In all events end gold medals will be
given to the hoys scoring tho highest
number of points In sections 1 and 2.
Saturday night there will be a con
cert and tumbling and pyramid exhtbl.
tlon for the benefit of the Athletic As
sociation. An attractive program has
been prepared.
John L. Jailed
In Worcester
Worcester, Mass., April 26.—John L.
Sullivan, who has been In Worcester
on a theatrical trip, ha* been arrested
on a mesne process at the Instance of
Henry N. Farr, of Boston, who claims
a bill of tttt for board paid for Sulli
van and for money lent him.
The process was served by Deputy
Sheriff Albert F. Richardson. Sullivan
waa under arrest a few minutes when
the claim was paid and he was set
free.
HUESTON RETAINS TITLE.
Oreenshurg. Ps., April Ifi.-Thomm Hues-
ton, of St. Louts, ably defended hi. title
to the pool rh.mplon.blp by defeating
w. II. Clearwater, of Green.burg. In the
final game of the match last night by
NAT KAISER & CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
15 Daeatur St Kimball Hou»~
Bargains In Unradaamad Diamonds.
No Handicaps
For the Present
Notices have been posted by the
tournament committee of the Atlanta
Athletic club that no more handicap
tournaments will be played until after
the Southern chainplonahlp ban been
decided. From the preaent until ahort.
ly before the tournament temporary
tees and green will be used and with
a constantly changing courae the task
of handicapping has become too com-
plicated to be worth attempting.
The full course—regular greens and
tees—will be thrown open the latter
part of next month for the first time
alnce last fall, fieveral days of play
will be allowed and then the greens
and tees will be given a few daya rest
Just before the big event.
Will Billy Smith be with Atlanta
next season? Auk the Atlanta stock*
holders.—Birmingham News.
You’re might ''tooting” he will.
The fans of Macon have subscribed
$100 for Ilnriia, who broke his leg in
sliding, to base. lie la reported to be
resting easy at tffe City hospital.
He will probably lose the majority
to Atlanta, but Montgomery will serve
to ^deaden the jlmd. — Birmingham
Ledger. #
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Southern.
Atlnntn 5. Nashville 4.
Montgomery 3, Birmingham 2.
Little Hock 6, Shreveport 4.
New Orleitna-Meinphls; rain.
South Atlantic.
Jacksonville 4, Augusta 1.
Charleston 2, Nnvnminh 0.
Macon 2, Columbia 0.
American.
Philadelphia 4. Boston 2.
New York 11, Washington 2.
National.
New York 6. Philadelphia 3.
Boston 6, Brooklyn 1,
Southern R’yTeam
Goes to Marietta
The Southern Railway ball team will
go to Marietta Saturday to play the
fast aggregation repreaentlng that city.
The Southern team of thin year expects
to win ns many victories or more than
In the sehson of 1906. A number of
the old players are on the team this
season, and the new recruits have
shown up in fine form. The manager
expects to give air teams he meets a
hard tussle. The players individually
have that enthusiasm that necessarily
generates ginger. This team has had
only one practice and their work on the
diamond Is encouraging.
Special to The Georgian.
New Orleans, La,, April 26.—It was
rumored early today that pitcher Crys
tal had been released. Manager Frank
i not at his office and the report
could not be verified. Birmingham re
fused to waive on Crystal. Not long
ago, when Crystal pitched marvelous
ball against the bi$ leaguers, Frank
said he was out of his class.
Pitcher Long was last night released
to Meridian. '
The protest of Birmingham against
the asking of waivers on all their
pitchers by Managers Frank and Billy
Smith 4 looks funny from this distance.
It Is believed that President Kava-
naugh's ten-day stipulation counts for
nothing, and nothing has come oft to
show that the two managers were
wrong. Frank says he has acted with
in the law and will pay no attention
to Birmingham's kicks.
Condensed Dope
On Vandy f s Team
Nashville, Tenn., April 26.—The Van
derbilt team, which beat Tech so
handily Thursday has been an In-and
outer this year.
Out of twelve games played victories
and defeats have been divided.
The first series of three was played
with the Nashville professionals. These
were defeats for the Commodores. After
this Vandy went to Alabama and met
defeat Jn two games, the first resulting
1 to 4. and tho second 4 to 7. On
April 8, Vanderbilt won her first vic
tory, defeating Howard college on Dud
ley Field, 7 to 2.
Vandy then won a series from S. W.
P. U., taking the first and last game.
In the pitching department the boys
from Clarksville showed up especially
well, having two prizes In Lemon and
Allen. The latter Is one of the best
college pitchers In the country.
Cumberland university then met de
feat for three successive days, the
scores being 14 to 2, 4 to 2 and 4 to 8.
Love, Vanderbilt’s best pitcher, was in
the box and gave a beautiful exhibition.
The team played well together and the
batting showed improvement. Captain
Craig, as usual, was the star for Van
derbilt. Cumberland had a good team.
Their best man Is Busherhead, the In
dian runner, who holds a regord for the
100 and 200-yard dashes. His hitting is
strong and sure and his Jielding
at short a marvel.
BOOSTERS DEFEATED
IN STRENUOUS GAME
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Nashville In Atluul
Game called ut 3:30
Birmingham In Montgomery.
Memphis In New Orleans.
Little Hock in Shreveport
Piedmont park.
Cotton 8tates. i
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost, p C.
Gulfport H 7 4 .636
Mobile . 11 • 7 4 .636
Jackson }2 7 »
Vicksburg H 5 b
Meridian 12 5 *
Columbus n 3 s •*<*
Cotton Stats*.
Vicksburg 4, Jackson 3.
Meridian 5. Gulfport 1.
Mobile-Columbus, rain.
Perry Lipe Is in Sore Need
Of Man to Fill Harris’ Shoes
Macon, Ga„ April 26.—In vain Man
ager Llpc has been searching for an
outer gardener to take tlie place of
Harris In left field. ‘Since the game
little left fielder was Injured early In
the week. Nicholas Harnlsh has been
filling In the gap, but Nick Is not a
natural pieketman. Long service be
Piedmont Defeats
State Normalites
Athens. Ga., April 26.—Piedmont Col
lege, represented by, Hinton Blackshear
and Hubert Ford, won three sets over
the State Normal school, represented
by Farrell Reaves and Gordon Single
ton. here Tuesday.
Score: 6-1; 6-1; ^6-2, In favor of
Piedmont College. *
Practice Battle
At Piedmont Park
The Southern States Electric Com
pany team and the Southern Railway
team, both of The Georgian's Commer
cial League, will meet Friday afternoon
on the diamond Inside the Piedmont
park race track for a practice engage
ment. The Southern States Electric
Company team’s line-up will be:
Oppenhelm, c.; Smith, p.; Hudson,
lb; Vaunt, 2b; Lawrence, 3b; Clifton,
ss.; Woodward, If.; Samples, cf.; Hum
phries, rf.
Saturday the Southern States Elec
tric Company and the West End Stars
of the City League will meet.
Poor old Montgomery was slaughter
ed again Saturday. Chattanooga will
have that franchise that the fresh
Chambers got mad about. There is not
Atlanta beat Nashville at Piedmont
Friday afternoon by a score of 5 to 4
Jn a game made notable by at sensa
tional seventh inning rally, a home run,
a triple play, a demonstration by the
police and a few thing* like that.
It took a dozen or so players on each
side, two umpires, i three thousand
spectators and a squad of policemen
to pull off the game.
And it was the peachiest of the sea
son.
We lost a hard one'Wednesday, but
the Crackers turned the tables Thurs
day. . . > .
The game was as full of features a*s
a dope artist of brain, quakes, but tho
real genuine article was the triple play.
. To get the affair straight you have to
hear what happened In the first part of
the tumultuous seventh.
Becker opened the exercise with hls
third consecutive double. He stole
third and scored on Dyer’s single. Fox
and Paskert followed with singles, but
In neither case was the ball hit on the
nose and Dyer had only progressed to
third when Hoffman came to bat.
Perdue gave Hoffman one strike and
three balls. Then the distress signal
went up and Dobbs' rushed in for a con
sultation. When It was over, Perdue l*t
out to the bench and Borrell went In to
pitch.
The first attempt he made was a ball,
and Hoffman walked, forcing home
Dyer. It was Schopp’s next turn at
bat. but the case was critical and Billy
Smith called on Sid Smith. Sid was
just out of bed and not half recovered
from the strain which has had him laid
up since the first day In Birmingham.
But for all that he met tiio ball on the
noso In his usual style for a nice single
and Fox and Paskert scored. Ford was
put on first to run for Smith and Win
ters came to bat. He walked and the
bases were full, with Hoffman on third,
Ford on second and Winters on first.
And now, enter the triple playl
The “squeeze" signal w'as run up by
Otto Jordan when he came to bat. The
program was for him to bunt and go
out at first, allowing Hoffman to scoro
and the other two men to advance ft
base. Nobody was out and the bases
were full, so the play looked easy.
When Sorrell let the first ball fly
Hoffman, Ford and Winters all started
on a run for the next base and Otto
bunted.
But alas! for Atlanta’s hopes he
popped Into the air.
SorreH walked under the pop and
caught It on the fly. That retired Otto.
Sorrell then threw to McElveen and
Hoffman, Instead of being on the base,
over by home plate. He was out a
mile. That completed a double play.
Then McElveen threw to "Whitey”
Morse and Ford was caught off second
bas*. also about a mile. That retired
Ford and completed the triple play.
Maybe you don’t know It. but triple
plays/are something of % a rarity. The
writer figures that he has attended
probably twelve or fifteen hundred ball
games in hls life and the triple play
described above Is the first one he has
ever seen.
Idgar, and Castro, looking like a sw ,„
undertaker, shortly returned to
grounds and occupied the seats usu-nJ
reserved for "A. B." and hls
Morse made hls first local anneal-.—
1? entitled "Poetl,- ^'
tlce Thursday. He made the hit ,11',
scored Nashville's first run, turne.1
as end man In the triple play 1 u
scored the Boosters’ last run.
McCormick was hit by a ball durlne
the practice before the game and
quite biuHy bruised. He played to thl
end, however. n *
“What are all these managers gettinz
waivers on their players for?" asked
Johnny Dobbs. “
The writer proved an alibi.
"Well, I don’t either,” said he "It t.
absurd for Charley Frank, say. to
waivers on Breltenstein. It looks ,»
me like a game to get waivers on a ,
many men as possible before the
Southern League teams are cut dona
to tho limit and before the manager,
have discovered their weak places it
Is much easier to slip men out of' th.
league now than It will be May 10.”
"I was glad to hear from President
Kuhn, of Nashville, that Wall had re
ported,” said Dobbs. "I think that he
w/11 hit around .800—he always has—
and I think that ho will be satisfied to
stay In Nashville. He has played
everywhere and has almost always
made good. He Is a first baseman and
outfielder, but I am not sure what r
shall do with him.
It looked In the ninth as though Per-
sonB had put a run over and untied tho
score. With Sorrell on second and two
out, he hit an awful swipe down tho
line toward third base. It looked like a
certain hit, but Dyer stuck out hls un
gloved hand, picked tho ball right out
of the dirt and threw It perfectly to
first. It was undoubtedly ns brilliant a
stop as has been made this year at
Piedmont—and that remark goes,
though Lajoie, Turner, Elberfeld, Brad
ley, LaPorte and the fast Brooklyn and
Detroit infields did stunts there earlier
In the season.
hind the bat has changed hls eye but enough money In Montgomery to pay-
even at this his work has been above ^ or a * UF * n t team. Birmingham Led-
the slightest reproach.
The effort to secure Danny Burt has
been frustrated as Mullaney has se
cured him. The -hurry-up message
sent to Robert Houston In Alleghany,
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EVERYTHING IN YELLOW PINE.
Here is a shot at Harris, of Ma
con, the man who smashed a pin
the other day. He was a valuable
player and Macon will find It hard
to fill the gap In the line-up caused
bv hi. misfortune.
Pa., was answered with tho statement
that Houston had not made up hls mind
whether to play again this season or
not. Now, an effort Is being made to
get Arthur Long, who Is in Kansas
somewhere. It Is tlmuppt that Jack
sonville has some strings tied to him
yet.
Macon cuffed Mr. White with a ven-
ganee In the opening round of Thurs
day afternoon's play and sent two then
acmes the plate. From this point on
there was no scoring and both teams
played hard, though they failed to make
a really Ihterestlng game of the re
mainder of the battle. In the opener.
White was located for three successive
blngles, after Murdoch had gone out.
Singles by Llpe and Rl4iton were fol
lowed by Stinson's double to center
and both men scored. A base on balls
and an error followed the run* but
no more runs were tallied.
Three fast double plays kept Interest
from lagging too much nnd helped
Macon tn keeping a shut out ahead:
chandler's sore heel Is mending. i
Good weather tomorrow will bring
2,200 people to the game easily.
Otto Jordan was the Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde of the piece. Kxcept that he
dfu the Dr. Jekyll number In the last
act. Hls pop-hunt retired the At
lanta team In the .seventh when tt
looked like a sure victory for the
Crackers, but his long fly in the ninth
allowed Paskert to score with the win
ning run.
In addition to calling Sid Smith Into
the game to bat for Schopp In the sev
enth, Spade was run In to perform for
Sparks In the ninth. He drew a base on
balls.
Rudderham had on hls war paint and
sent "Count" Castro and Billy Smith
off the field.
It looketf us though there was going
to be a spectacle for a while. But
finally it turned out quite peacefully.
Becker's hard luck In the fourth In
ning started It. He hit n clean three-
bagger and when he was rounding first
base Hardy clearly Interfered with him.
This threw him oft Ills stride and he
was caught at third.
Castro passed Home comment on this
as he went out to hls position and the
skhloo signal was set. But Castro shut
hls eyes and It looked as though he
would have to he hauled off bodily, as
he was last Fourth of July when play
ing for Nashville. But Billy Smith
flagged the cops and ordered him out of
the game.
It wasn't long after that that Billy
had some more words with Ruddy and
was shooed,himsetf.
Smith, luxuriously smoking a long
The score:
Naahville, ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Dobbs, cf. . . . 4
Wiseman, cf, . . 6
Persons. It . . , 6
Morse, 2b. ... 3
McCormick, ss. . 4
McEleveen, 2b. . 3
Hardy, lb. ... 2
Lattimer, c. . . . 4
Perdue, p. , . . 3
Sorrell, p. . . . 0
Totals 33
Atlanta, ab.
Winters, cf. . . 4
Jordan, 2b. ... 6
O'Leary, c. . . . 2
Becker, rf.. . .3
Dyer, 3b. . . . . 4
Fox, lb 4
Padkert, If. ... 4
Castro, ss. . . . 1
Hoffman, ss.. . , 2
Schopp, p. . . ■ 2
Sparks, p. . . . 0
•S. Smith .... 1
••Spade .... 0
Totals
.32 5 10 27 12 3
•Hit for Schopp In seventh: ••hit In
ninth for SparkB. .'.Two out when win
ning run was made.
Score by Innings:
Nashville 100 021 000— 4
Atlanta 000 000 401— 5
Hits by Innings:
Nashville 200 121 000- «
Atlanta 101 100 002-10
Summary—Left on bases, Nashville
7, Atlanta 7: hits, oft Perdue 7 In sev
en Innings; Schopp, 6 In seven innings;
SparkH 0 In two Innings, Sorrell 3 In
three Innings: two-base hits, Hardy,
Wiseman. Becker 3, Paskert; home run,
McEleveen: stolen bases, Becker, Mc-
Elevecn; sacrifice hits, Becker, Dobbs;
triple play, Sorrell to McEleveen to
Morse: first base on balls, Perdue 1.
Schopp 2, Sorrell 4, Sparks 2; bit by
pitched balls, Sparks (McEleveen);
struck out. Perdue 3. Schopp 5. Sor
rell 1, Sparks 1: balk, Sorrell. Tim*.
2:00. Umpires, Rlnn and Rudderham.
Auburn Defeated
By Alabama Men
Special to The Georgian. .
Auburn,. Ala.* April 26.—In the first
of the aeries of three games between
Auburn and Alabama Auburn lost.
Score 2 to 1. .
Several times during the game Au
burn had the bases full, but could not
put in a hit when It was needed, tm
Score by innings: * i -
Alabama . . . .099 902 000 - 4
Auburn 000 100 000— 1 3
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