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i THE ATLANTA OEOKGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1007. EASTERNERS REVENGED IN WEDNESDAY’S GAME SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS BY PERCY H. WHITINO. Has it ever struck anybody that the pennant race this year is going to'be the “rip-snortingest” on record! Well, it is. Such a prediction would not amount to much before the season opened because everybody was making just such pre dictions. It’s about all there was to say then. Now, there are other things to talk about, but the fact comes home to us stronger than ever. Look at the standings of the clubs. Of course, the teams could be more closely bunched, but if you think they are in the other leagues, look at the Nationals, with New York at 870 and their neighbors over the bridge stonding .136. Another striking feature h/is been the number of won-by- a-wliisker games. Scores of 1 to 0, 2 to 1, 3 to 2 and the like are as common as two-figure scores in an amateur league. And the team which is a couple of runs to the good at the finish has won by a mile. Rapid rises and falls havebeen numerous. Tho team which is leading today may be down with the dead ones next week, though we beg leave to call to the attention of a]l that the At lanta team has shown a marked attachment for first place. So far no team has a cinch on any place—not even on last. For awhile it looked as though the Pretzels woidd per form true to the predictions. But, alas for "dope,” the Pretzels refused to admit that they were beaten, and have strengthened right along. Just how they will finish is uncertain, but they nrc likely soon to un- clinch their stranglehold on last place. Another tiling: don’t you think that the Barons are going to stay down near the bottom always. The team which won tho Southern League pennant isn’t quite good enough to “repeat,” but anybody who has bet that the Barons will finish last had better hedge. It always did seem a mistake that they won the pennant last year, but they are good enough for first division this year sure, barring some more bad luck. And so it is all along the line. The teams at the bottom have a chance of improving and those at the top have a vast possibility of doing worse. But, anyway, our one-best-bet is unchanged, and is: To win the pennant, ATLANTA. LEVENE, OF PENNSYLVANIA, WILL COACH TENNESSEE CASTLETON, LEAGUES BEST SOUTHPAW Ground Rent Man- Still Pitches' Win ning Ball For Atlanta. THE START. Roy, the Mormon. In certainly (Ivins every Indication Just at preaent of bring the name old same winning kind of n performer aa waa Tommy llughea, the first “ground rent man." Castleton has yet to have a de feat scored against him In the Southern, but still he seldom'wins his game by a large margin. Castleton Is one of these per formers who generally pitches Just well enoufeh to win—and that’s all. However, that’s plenty good enough. Castleton has made such a swell start that he has most of the bat ters In the league buffaloed. They know lie Is a winner and they get cold feet when he heaves In sight. It Is evident, from the regular way Smith Is working them In, that Rllly, the manager, Is going to count on Castleton and Zeller to win the pennant for him. He passes his other performers every time It Is possible In order to work In one or the other of these men. And It Is doubtful If any team In the league has such another pjtlr of winners. INVADERS FROM EAST DEVASTATE THE WEST THE FINISH. COLLEGE TENNIS SHARPS START FIRST MATCHES ON THURSDAY They’re off Thursday In the first Southern Inter-collegiate tennis tourna ment. The nearer the event has appronched the brighter the prospects have been, and Just now It looks as though the event will be a double and twisted hummer. Play starts Thursday afternoon In the singles and It will take fast work to get the event through In time for the finals Saturday. To judge from present appearances, the tournament will be as hard fought as any tennis tournament ever was In Atlanta. The Wake Forest delegation has shown up strong and the supporters of that Institution believe that they have the winners. However, Georgia and Tech are both exceptionally “hefty” both In doubles and singles. If It hap pens, as It must, that Tech and Geor gia men are thrown together In the events It can be counted on that the players will work themselves to death to win, on account of the Intense rival ry between the two colleges. Knoxville, Tenn., May It.—Negotia tions have Just been closed with George Levans, all-American end of 1901, of the University of Pennsylvania, by which the stocky rash will coach Uni versity of Tennessee football team. Levene was a choice for position by- leading critics, and should make good at the state varsity. The football prospects on the Hill are unusually bright. Word, the ex- captaln Ineligible, will return, as will the Fox. brothers, Wert, the former Georgia Tech star, and eighteen of the squad of last year, without the loss of a regular. Several prep school stars are considering entering, and with In- orsoaed facilities at the university ath letics will be placed on higher plane. The schedule Is: September 21 —Baker-Hlmel, at Knoxville. October 6—Chattanooga High School at Knox. October I*—University of Georgia at Athena. October 10—Georgia Tech In At lanta. October 21—Maryville In Knoxville. November 2*—Dahlonega In Knox ville. November 9—Kentucky State Knox. November It—Mississippi A. A M. In Memphis. November II—Probably Arkansas In Memphis, Tenn. November 21—Open—probably wanee. November 21—Alabama In Birming ham. November 10—Tulane In New Or leans. May Trade “Rip" and Roy For Hickman and Graffius Special to The Georgian. Birmingham. Ala.. May II.—A deal Is pending whereby Birmingham trades Ragan and Montgomery for Hickman and Grafllus, of Shreveport. Manager Fisher could not arrive at a conclusion In regard to this last night, but will notify Vaughn by letter at Little Rock. Hagan Is dissatisfied with Birming ham, mi l Hickman, an old Birmingham boy. would be satlslled here. This deal will please the fans In Birmingham. Montgomery formerly played In Shreveport and will be glad to go hack. Haher needs an Inttelder, and Birmingham a catcher. Therefore, the deal for Grafflus will be satisfactory. Tech Rooters Get in Trim For Battles With Georgia The noon hour at the Tech Thun day was given over by the students to making plans that every man In the Institution will be In the rooters’ cho rus at the games Friday and Satur day with Georgia. New yells will be practiced and a degree or enthusiasm worked up which will go far toward nerving the players to do the very best there Is In them. A special train from Athens will bring almost the entire University of Georgia student body Saturday morn ing, so that there will be no lack of college spirit manifested at the games The Georgia team will arrive In At lanta Thursday night and will be sent to bed very promptly by Coach Slouch, who Is going to make every effort to land both games. Either team would rather lose every other series of the season than this One. as they consider the season as successful or unsuccessful according to the way they come out In the three games which go to make up the con test for the state championship. A CHEER UP DOGGEREL It seems like old times to be “copping” a bit of good Southern League baseball verse from Oranttand Rice. Here Is one of his itrat ef forts since his return Into the South, and appeared In The Nashville Tennesseean: (BROOKLYN—WON 2| LOST 17» PER CENT, 101.) If the standing of our ball club Isn’t high enough, my friend; And you think there Isn’t any chance for them to ever mend— If your spirit seems to falter and you’re feeling dull or blue. Here’s an antidote for sorrow which I’ll recommend to you— Just suppose In place of rooting for the Nashville tram today— You had to live In Br.ooklyn^and to see that team at play! Sometimes the outlook's gloomy when the team Is on the bum— Quite often everything goes wrong and every prospect's glum— But when you feel like knocking, or of giving up the game Because the batsmen fall to hit—the slabmen pull up lame— Just suppose—and when you do so you will draw a cheerful hunch. You had to live In Brooklyn and to watch that frosty bunch! Cheer up—the worst Is yet to come—you're better by a mile Than those who live beyond the bridge on old Manhattan Isle— You think the outlook's groggy every time we lose, I know— But think how It must feel to lose a dozen In a row— , We may not—as we hope to—win the pennant In a walk— But think of those beyond the bridge In Little Old New York. P. RAINEY UNLUCKIEST MAN ON TURF; LOST ABOUT MILLION IN TWO SEASONS The Eastern clubs of the Southern League got In their One work Wednes day. Atlanta did a nose finish stunt over In Little Rock, defeating the Travellers I to 3; Nashville absolutely over whelmed and disgraced Memphis with a 7 to 0 score; Montgomery nosed out New Orleans 2 to I. and Birmingham managed to scratch out a victory over Shreveport. That for Charley Frank and his co horts! By the glaring Idiocy of the method of scoring “games won and lost by pitchers" used at present In the South ern. Zeller will get credit for winning the game Irf Little Rock. At the end of eight Innings the score stood 3 to 2 In favor of Little Rock. In the ninth Castleton was taken out. not because he was not pitching good ball, but because Smith wanted to sub stitute a strong hitter. And. of course, Spade was put In. ' And Zeller llnlshed out tho game. How about giving It to Spade? When he went In the game Atlanta waa behind by one run. When he re tired It was ahead by one run. Then why not give the credit to him? One of the reformed sporting editors of the office says he ought to get It. But unfortunately for Spade, he went In as a batter and not as a pitcher. And Rube Zeller, who pitched only one Inning, gets the game chalked up In Ills favor. ■ That must have been a bully ninth Inning. Dyer walked, Fox singled and Pask- ert got three wide ones. Then there was a delay of a fraction of a minute while Lakaft was “yanked" and Eyler substituted. Then Paskert walked, Castro fanned and Spade, who went In to bat for Castleton, hit a fielder’s choice, which retired Paskert, but al lowed Dyer to score. This tied It up. Then winters sent a grounder to llrst and died there, but Fox scored. And that won the game. • Over In Memphis the Dobbors fell on Cnrstall and hammered him to bn, which only goes to prove what eveS body has said all along—that "CrystU Isn’t so much. ' The score of the. Atlanta-Little game follows: Rock ab. r. h. po. Little Rock. Rockenfeld, ss. Gilbert, cf.. . Douglass, lb. . Miller. If. . . . Hess, 3b. . . . Page, 2b. . . . Bowcock, ,rf.. . Kunkel, c. . . Lakaff, p. . . . Eyler, p. . . . •Lake Totals 30 3 9 27 * Batted for Eyler In ninth. Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. Winters, cf. . . 5 0 o o Jordan, 2b. ... 5 0 0 ;, S. Smith, c. . . . 4 0 0 7 Becker, rf. . . . 4 0 1 o Dyer. 3b 3 1 o o Fox, lb 4 2 2 10 Paskert, If. ... 2 1 2 2 Castro, as 4 0 2 2 Castleton, p. , . 2 0 l i ‘Spade 1 0 0 o Zeller, p 0 0 1 # Standing of the Clubs. CLUBS- ATI.ANTA. . Nashville. . . Memphis . . , New Orleans. I.lttle Book. . Shreveport. . Southern League. rinyed. Won; Lost. r. C. South Atlantle League. CLUBtL- Played. Won. Lost. P. C. By J. 8. A. MACDONALD. New York. May 19.—The unluckiest man on the turf! Ah, there Is an Interesting personage! We have all heard and read of the golden belucked plunger, whose star of fame and prosperity startled the on- looking world as it soared to its ze nith. But who Is the black prince of the ne’er-do-wells? After the Metro politan handicap running a group of well-known campaigners of the turf sat together at the Belmont Park club house, discussing the great rare and a hundred and one side lights of racing In general, the consensus of opinion being that the unluckiest man a-raclng today Is Paul J. Rainey. This young sporting enthusiast aame down from Cleveland, Ohio, Just two years ago, determined on rutting a pur ple path In the realm, of society, and within the effete circles of the turf. Of course, he expected a modicum of good fortune to help matters nlong, but In this he has been grievously disappointed, for two seasons of tho game have cost him upward of 11,000.- 000. He put down twenty big losing bets as against one winning one last summer, and though he paid the high est prices for what he considered the best horse flesh In the market, he has been inconseqqentlal In the winning owners' list. Even Radtke, the Jockey for whose services he paid 223,000, has come un der the spell of the Rainey “hoodoo," for he, too. Is suffering from an eclipse In form. The story of Rainey Is a hard luck tale. He Is a tall, thin, callow youth of about 22 years of age. He nnd a brother Inherited the 240,000,000 be queathed by the Rainey of Connells- vllle, Pa., coke ovens fame. Roy Rainey, a brother of Paul, also shared In the Inheritance. After a jaunt at Newport, R. L, where the brothers ex celled In the Casino tennis tourneys, they decided on taking up racing. En gaging “Bud" May, of Tennessee, as trainer, the celebrated Tippah Farm waa purchased and eight head of young racing stock at an outlay of 2216,000. Yankee Consul was the only one of the lot to amount to anything. He won the Platbush stakes of 1906 and then died on the way to Kentucky winter quarters. Next year Paul bought a two-year- old son of Goldllnch for 346,000 cash on the strength of the colt having worked a half mile In 46 seconds. This Is the much decried De Mund, the “Champion Lemon." Then hearing of the prowess of Horace E. and Sir Wilfred, then racing for "Barney” Schrleber on the Pacific coast, Rainey THE CUB’S ...COLUMN... ••••••••••••• (•••••••••••••••••••I The 'Birmingham Baseball Associa tion would make 36,000 In Increased attendance If It*would sign a couple of Inflelders.—Birmingham Ledger. Old pal, don't KNOCK. Enterprising cigar stores nnd other places uptown have been cut off from securing returns from Red Elm, ns the baseball club believes that the posting of bulletins on the game keeps fans from the park. The club Is In error there. Instead of hurting the attend once, the effect of receiving the scores uptown Is to stimulate Interest In the game and make the fans anxious to see the real thing, not dead figures.—Mem phis News Scimitar. The fans In Birmingham are up against a bitter proposition. I.ast sea son hurrahs filled the air. for the Bar ons were on top. This year, grumbling and complaints sadden, for the Barons are on the bottom. When, day after day. the Barons lose, the Am grits his teeth, and sometimes bites his tongue In order that what he thinks might not come rushing out. It’s a heap easier to say Just whet you think. Sitting down with a "holler than thou” expression, and. like a “cheer up" poet, handing out a poesy for the morrow, sometimes Is exceeding NAT KAISER &. CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. i* Osc.'.ur SL Kimball Hsus- Bargains In Unredeemed Diamonds. hard. The day for excuaea la fast drawing to an end. The fan want! reaults. He will listen to excuses aa long aa any other. But excuaea do not make the mare go.—Birmingham Age-Herald. You fellows want the Barons to be the whole show. Well, old pal. It looks as though by this time you should have learned that every dog has his day—sooner or later. The Bar ons were It last season. Why can’t Little Rock or Nashville—or Atlanta— be the name this year? We nll.wunt n taste of It. Get wise. Don’t knock. Dick Crosier has been signed to play- one of the outfleld positions with Au gusta. and It Is said that he will re ceive n salary of 6250 a month. Of course, Augusta Is within the salary- limit! Anyway, Crosier Is worth the money. Columbia could have gotten him a week ago tor the same figure, but the club didn’t want to pay that much for a man to attend to one of the outsklrt positions.—Columbia Record. It does not seem possible that even a minor league baseball player has never heard of Manager Lajole. Up to last season, however, there was one "busher" who did not know with what team Larry- was playing and was not aware that he was In the game, even after he hail played against Cleveland. That "busher" was Snail Joe Doyle, formerly w ith Wheeling. W. Va., in the Central League, who pitched for the Highlanders against Cleveland Satur day. Baaebull history records where Doyle pitched his first game aa a Yank last season against Cleveland. The records show that Lajole fell victim to Doyle's twisters twice In that one game. Cleveland was defeated and In the club house after the game Doyle's teammates congratulated him upon winning and for fanning Lajole. "Lajole? Who la he?" asked Doyle. paid 325,000 and $16,000, respectively, for the colts. "You must have a first-class Jockey,” advised Rainey's mentors, and forth with he produced a check for 325,000 In favor of J. o. Keene, discoverer and developer of Radtke. Then came a long series of disap pointments on the part of De Mund The colt won but one first-class race, and that the 1906 Flatbush stakes. This spring, he ran woefully bad In the Carter handicap and live days later he was defeated by common platers In nn overnight condition race. Last year the Raineys lost over $200, 000 In their betting. If reports are to be believed, while Paul Rainey la a big loser on the season to date. Both Sir Wilfred and Horace E. are In bad physical condition because of too much racing In their tender two-year-old form, and may not win more than ex penses this year. However, bad ns may be the Rainey- luck, the liable has been reinforced by the purchase of Stray and Blenheim this past week, and the acquirement last autumn of R. T. Martin, 8t. Kevin, and one nr two good Jumpers at a cost of $35,000. Roy Rainey, having had enough of the expensive pastime of racing thorough breds. has left young Paul nlone In the venture. "Billy" Garth, the Vir ginia trainer, Is now handling the sta ble. In the meantime, Rainey's dogged III luck Is proverbial. What?” yelled the Yanks In uni son. , “Is he the big duffer who fanned twice? He’s soft. Where did he come from?” asked Doyle. Never mind where he came from, but remember that he may- send you to the tall timbers the next time he bats against you," said Kid Elberfeld. Doyle has never forgotten his Intro duction to Larry.—Cleveland News. No. “Hot Fan," a battery- error la not Included In the error column of the official box score as printed In the newspapers. A battery error Is a mls- play by the pitcher or catcher, which does not count against their fielding averages and must be included In the written summary beneath ami not In the columns of the box score. There are three mlsplays which are classed as "battery errors." They are the wild pitch, the passed ball and the wild throw to second when n runner is try ing to steal. Bear In mind, however, that a catch er can be credited with an error In the regular column If he makes a wild throw to second which allows the run ner to go on to third. If he merely makes second the battery Is not charged with an error, but the runner must be given a stolen base. A “wild pitch" or a "passed ball" con not be so scored unless there Is a runner on base or the batter Is allowed to ad vance thereby-. They must never be chalked up against a catcher or pitch er, unless a base be gained.—Bozeman Bulger In New York Evening World. COLUMBUSTEAT ALBANY. Special to The Georgian. Albany. Ga.. May 1$.—The Columbus High School ball team defeated the Albany High School team Saturday afternoon by the score of 1 to 0. It was one of the prettiest and fastest games of ball ever witnessed on the local dia mond. Rawlins, for the locals, pitched a star game, while Duncan, of the Co lumbus team, waa equally os effective. Jacksonville. Charleston 33 Macon 80 Savannah 28 Augusta 30 Columbia 30 11 19 .000 200 100— J .001 010 002— I .101 101 302—1 ““ 031 101- t Totals 34 4 8 2 •Hit for Castleton In ninth. Runs by Innlnga: Little Rock ... Atlanta Hits by Innings: Little Rock . . . Atlanta Summary—Innings pitched, bv Lak- aff 2, by Eyler 1. by Castleton S. Zel ler 1; hits apportioned, off Lakaff * off Eyler 0. off Castleton 7. off Zeller 2; two-baae hit, Kunkel; sacrifice hits, Gilbert 2, Douglass, Kunkel: Castleton, stolen bases, Hess 3, Bowcock: bases on balls, o: Lakaff 1. off Eyler I. off Ca«. tletnn 7: struck out, by Lakaff 2 (Css- tleton. Winters), by- Eyler 2 (Castro, Jordan), by Castleton 4 (Gilbert, Lak- aff 2, (Miller), by Zeller 1 (Lake); first base on errors, Atlanta 2; passed balls, Kunkel. Time two hours. Umpire, Pfcnnlngor. Cotton Statss League. CI,cHR- l’layed. Won. Lost. P. C. Mobile 24 16 8 .667 Gulfport 21 14 10 .683 Meridian 25 13 ,12 .520 Columbus 24 10 14 .417 Vicksburg • • • . Jackson Detroit . . , New York . I’bllndelpbla Cleveland . . Boston . . . Washington . St. Louis . . 10 15 won. Lost. P. C. Here’s a Game For Some Fast Bunch To the Sporting Editor The Georgian: The Eut Point baaeb&U club is open for a game of ball Saturday, May IS. We would like to meet some of thoM fast amateurs that can’t be beat. Ad* I dress all challenges to G. H. Hall, cap- j tain. East Point, Ga., or telephone No. j 6, E. P., either ’phone. J)ne of life’* luxuries—a c«o<l chew of tobacco. 8QUARK AND HONEST If good MATTY PITCHES SOME. CLUBR- New York . Chicago . . rittalmrg . . Boston . . 1’hilnilHphla Cincinnati . . St. leonls . . Brooklyn . . Kansas City Colunitm* . . leoulsvllle . . Milwaukee . . Toledo . . , St. Paul . . National League. 1'lnyed. AVon. Lost. P. C. . . 3 20 . 3 .*70 . . 24 20 ' 4 ,m Every leaf of SQUARE AND IIQNEST tohnrco cleaned by a machine of our own Invention; not an iota of grit In a thousand YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. ■HIVEMiat HIP •), a UIIIII1III Charleston 4. Macou 3. Augusta £, Savannah 1. Cotton States League. Mobile !♦, Gulfport 0. Columbus 2, Jackson 1. American. Philadelphia 8, St. Loulo 5. National. Chicago 4. Philadelphia 2. Boston 2, Pittsburg 1. College Results. At New Haven—Yale 2, Brown 2 (thir teen InnlURs). At Ithaca—Cornell 15. I.ehlgh 0. At Princeton—Triulty 3, Princeton 12. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Atlanta In Shreveport. Birmingham In I.lttle Rock. Montgomery In Memphis. Nashville In New Orleaus. You kuow he knows ebewlug tolmcco. r oooooooooooooooooooaoooo BOWLING SOME! 8 Special to The Georgian. 8 O Shreveport. La., May 16.—Frank O O Comer, of thla city, bowled 110 O O atralght atrikea here la.t night. O O nuking an average of 172 1-4 tor O O eight garnet. O - , I’hlte Plains ... 3 1 - reensbnro .... 3 o •> —,2^. This la a correction ofthe sii»£ team a* we noticed In the ’ yesterday the percentage of the - - team waa .600. We have played o o games thla teuton and won o'. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODG lost none. Since breaking Into the National League Mathewaon hat won 155 games and Inat 83, an average of almmt two victories to one defeat, says The Cin cinnati Enquirer. He has won four garnet thla season, three of which were ahut-outa. He hat won more game, from every team In the league than lie has lost, hit easiest victims being the Cardinals, the Quakers and the Red.-, from whom he haa won 68 and lost only 25. Hit hardest club to beat has been the Cuba, whom he haa defeated 20 tlmea In 36 games. Yon want tbe greatest bleMtng of *11- henltb. He careful shout your chewing to bacco. No Impurities In 8QCARK AMO HONEST. CAMILLA WINS. Special to Tbe Georgian. , Camilla, Ga.. May 16.—Camilla nnd Pelham played here on yesterday aft ernoon In a alow game. Score 10 to », In favor of Camilla. The game on the whole waa not » bad effort. There were several more runs than errors. Hill. Twltty and Barrow did heavy work on the field for Pelham, wldl* Hand, Fitzgerald and Mize handled the stick for them. , , Camilla's star players were Einstein. Perry, Hartafleld, Allen and Rolen. Culltna played hit first game with the "big league" and ahowa up well. Score by Innlnga: . „ *7 Pelham 000 001 122 0- J Camilla 303 ooo OQl 4-' 1 Forty long year* behind SQl'ARE AXO HONEST. Is not ezperleneo » prlcvlew teacher1 GREEK ATHLETE SHOWS VIEWS OF OLYMPIC GAMES. All lovers of athletics will be inter ested In the moving picture show »t the Paris.Electric theater, at the cor ner of Whitehall and Mitchell street*, during the remainder of thin week, for Andrew G. fapdakl* »'■>• lh,,n ^ views taken at the Olympic games an Athena. • PapdakJs waa at tbe games hlm*ir, representing the Bridgeport. Young Men’s Christian Association.aae won first place In the broad test. On hla way home from AtMW he Ktopiied In London to get 'he Am lean rights of the moving ph’WJJJ which were taken by a British eoruc These rights he secured and he " been exhibiting the pictures with gr success for several months. . These pictures show clearly the m umph of the American athletes were at the meet and who won n * .jh ease, and are of Intense Interest to lovers of outdoor sports. ,11 SILOAM CORRECTS. To the Sporting Editor Georgian: Will you kindly add thlw corractW to your sporting Hat as early »• ™ slble and oblige. „ ... T , a0 . Manager of the Slloam Baseball T Slloam, Go., May 16. „ <• Played. Won Lost. FJ, Slloam 5 6 0 ‘-j, Union Point. ... 4 3 > gj, Washington .... 6 * : jji White Plains * ’ Greensboro