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THP: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TL ESDAl', MAY 21, 1907.
WIND-UP OF WESTERN TRIP COMES ON THURSDAY
j SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING |
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS j
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
Rube Zeller is"certainly plowing through the Southern
League teams, leaving desolation in his wake.
He hit Pelieanville Monday and absolutely annihilated
the Clan of Frank. Two hits was the best the Pelicans could
do.
MARIST COLLEGE BASEBALL TEAM
So of course they laid it to the umpire. But the “limps”
is paid-to stand for such things and he doesn’t especially
mind.
Also Frank protested the game.
Howerer that is a chronic failing of that Dutchman’s—
and yet he is always the first man to rise in the annual meeting
and say “move all protest withdrawn.”
“Dutch Charles” has registered a kick this time because
he says that Smith has never released himself as a player and
that because he has 14 other players on his staff he has exceed
ed the limit.
This protest is fourfded on the woggly belief of Sir
Charles the Great that Smith had to get waivers on himself
before he could release himself.
The writer recently expressed his belief that the Dutc’ man
is wrong in this contention and he hasn’t changed his mind.
However, the matter is now up to the league. *
Atlanta must have butted into two poor games in succes
sion. The last one in Shreveport was said to have been the
worst pulled off there this year and the identical remark was
made about the first New Orleans game.
f However, we were not privileged to see any of them and
as the Crackers split even there is no kick arising from At
lanta.
Friday morning the Atlanta team i* due to return to At
lanta and Friday afternoon comes the opening of the new park.
And given a nice bit of weather, it will be a big event for
, fair.
The baseball association intends to make it a gala day and
has sent invitations broadcast. Undoubtedly the biggest crowd
of the senson, exeept for holiday outpourings, will be there to
see what the new plant look* like.
There will, of course, be a band, Mnyor Joyner behind the
first ball and a lot like that.
Also there should be a cracking good game of baseball.
The town (and state, in fact) is still humming with the after-
math of that “defaulted game.” Tech sympathizers are roasting
Georgia and the Georgia delegation is returning the compli
ment. ’
The writer, in his comment on the affair, seems to have ex
pressed the Tech side.
lie desires, however, to be perfectly fair in the matter and
will give a reasonable amount of space to Georgia’s version of
the incident. •
1fandy’s Football Schedule
About Toughest on Record
Tbs Vanderbilt schedule la complete
and It looks like the hardest ever at
tempted by a 8. I. A. A. collefe.
Here It Is:
October S. Kentucky State College, at
Nashville.
October It, United States Naval
Academy, at Annapolis.
October It,Wabash College, at Nash
ville.
October 28, Iloee Polytechnic Insti
tute, at Nashville.
November t, Michigan at Nashville.
November 9. University of Mississip
pi. at Nashville.
November IS, Georgia Tech, at Nash
ville.
November 28. Sewannee. at Nashville.
With the Annapolis game due Octo
ber It, and the Michigan battle on
November t, McGugln will be up
against the proposition of training his
team up to form In almost no time. And
as everybody who la familiar with
weather conditions In Nashville knows,
this Is nn Impossibility.
One thing looks good for Tech, the
Yellow Jackets play the Commodores
after all of the hard gnmea and In con
sequence will get the Nashville team
after It has commenced to come oft the
top of Its form.
There Is a great uncertainly about
the Itne-up of the Vanderbilt team thla
fall, but this Is the way a Nashville
expert pipes It off:
Ont*r. McLain; right guard, King;
left guard, E. Noel; right tackle, O.
Noel; left tackle, Stone; right end. Bob
Blake: left end, V. Blake; quarterback,
('oaten; right half, Craig: left half.
Hamilton; fullback, Morrison.
FRANK WILL PROTEST
ALL ATLANTA GAMES
Claims Smith Has Too Many Men, and Roasts
Kavanaugh—Castleton Has Bad Ann
and Comes Home.
Special to The Georgian.
New Orleans, La., May 21.—Manager
Frank said today that he would protest
all games played with Atlanta on the
grounds that Smith was carrying four,
teen men on contract besides himself.
The Atlsnta manager, declared Manl
ager Krank. has never taken any
action since he was told by President
Kavanaugh that he would either have
release one man ' or himself.
The local manager also hit Pres
ident Kavanaugh pretty hard for
going on a hunting trip In Arloxna
while Billy Smith and lilt Crackers sat
fifteen strong on the bench at Little
Rock.
If I were to do such a thing as
Smith is doing now, I would be roasted
from one end of the circuit to th»
er." quoth Manager Sank. '.-Vnn
tell you right now. that If the Mhm
are -going to start thla sort of s„btJJ?
fuge, they'll be lorry for It. To,-
are not the only ones In this ln^;
that can afford a Mg team.” * *
Manager Smith was asked f, r
statement thla morning and he ti
there was no explanation to rive
said he had talked with both Pre«W«t
Kavanaugh and Director Lowry a?
nold, who agreed that ha would neltli
er have to release a man nor Join th
New Orleans team.
Weather conditions are favorable ta
day. The Crackers expect Spade h
represent them on the slab. Ctitu
ton has a bad wing and left for hom
today. Frit* or Phillips will pitch f.
the locals this afternoon. 1
TOP ROW—KAUFMAN. KNIGHT. BATTLE, DUBARD, JENTZEN, DALEY. JACKSON.
SECOND ROW—FALVEY, HARRISON, LARRY HOFFMAN (COACH), DUNWOODY, REDMOND.
THIRD ROW—O'KEEFE.
American Colleges' Challenge
Unanswered by Englishmei
"NO GREAT CHOICE,” SAYS G. RICE,
"BETWEEN DOBBERS AND CRACKERS”
TWO HITS OFF
RUBE ZELLER
New Orleans, La.. May 21.—With
Rube Zeller pitching two-hit ball and
the Pelicans cutting loose an even half-
doten errors yesterday, there wasn't
anything to It but the Atlanta men.
They won by a score of 5 to 1, and It
should have been more.
The Pelicans were all to pieces and
only shone at umpire halting. "Matty"
Matthewa was, as usual, the worst of
fender, and Sunny Jim Hnckett
'"shooed" hint before the performance
ended.
Zeller was In wonderful form and,
with the uhl of ull fifty-seven varieties
of curves, he made the Pelicans look
SUPERMAN WINS.
? *w York. May 21.—Superman,
Janies R. Keene's main reliance, won
th. Brooklyn handicap nt Gravesend
ye. terday before a crowd of 2&,00d peo
ple. .Many of the stars were scratched
on account of the heavy going. Beacon
Light was second anil Neslon third
Atlsnta—
Winters, cf. .
Jordan, 2b. .
Smith, c. . .
Beeker, rf. . ,
Dyer, Sb. . .
Fox. tb. . . .
Paslsrt, If. . .
Cxstm, sa. . .
Zeller, p. . \
Totals . . .
New Orleans
Nadeau, If. .
Beecher, Sb. .
Phillips, rf. . ,
Sa title, lb. . .
Gaston, cf. . ,
At*, as. . . .
Gatins, 2b. . .
Matthews, c. .
Stratton c. . .
Manuel, p. . .
Totals ... ,
Atlanta . . .
New Orleans
ab. r. It. pn. a. e.
sb. r. h. pn. a. e.
.3 I it Id 1 !
.4 0 t I 0 0
.21
.1 0
The team of the east which Atlanta
will have to beat out of the pennant la
Nashville.
In consequence of that fact, the fol
lowing comparison of the Crackera and
Dobbers, from the fluent typewriter of
Orantland Rice, of The Nashville Ten
nessean, wvllt be of Interest to local
fans:
This hustling township has jumped
out of Its baseball tranee with a wool
ly whoop alnca Dobbs and hla clan
have blown away the wreckage of the
past two years and landed old Nash
ville back on the map again. From
the way things are going now It looks
like a finish light between NaahvlUe
and Atlanta unless an upset to the
dope comes along, and between these
two there fqn't any great choice.—
Down In Atlanta they figure Billy
Smith haa a death grip nn the flag,
and they can't see any other worthy
rival to block him off. The experts of
Georgia’s metropolis are kind enough,
however, to grant Nashville a l-I wind
up. hut against Atlanta they see no
hope for the Rock City outfit.
Suppose we' cut Into the good old
dope for a spell and figure out about
how these two rivals stand.
Back of the platter Dobbs has Har
dy and Wells to pit against Sid Smith
and Sweeney.
This end of the game looks to be
about a stand off. Smith out hit Har
dy by a short margin, but the Nash-:
villa gent haa a shade nn the Georgian
when It comes to steadiness and abil
ity to shoot 'em down while whlxxlng
to second.
Along the tiring line Duggan. Sor
rell, Fisher, Mills and Purdue are
planted against Zeller, Castleton.
Spade, Sparks and Ford. Zeller and
Castleton are Atlanta's two mainstays,
while Duggan and Horrell hold ,the
same Jobs for Nashville. Zeller prob
ably baa Just a abide on either Duggan
or Sorrell, but It Isn't so robust that
you could notice It on a cloudy day.
Aa a metier of fact, there Isn't great
dl(Terence between Atlanta's two stars
and Nashville’s winning pair. Dobbs’
men hgVe done Just'as well this season
as Bill Smith's have. No matter what
their reputation Is—“It Isn't what you
used to be—It’s what you are today"
that carries the point of the nrgument.
Atlanta may figure that Spade. Sparks
and Ford are better men than Mills.
Purdue and Fisher, hut for . our part
we'll lake the latter trio. Spade hasn't
very much on Purdue, while Mills and
Fisher stack up better than Sparks or
Ford or Rownn, who hasn't been used
to any extent. Hence, looking at the
slab corps from stem to stern and
from cabin deck to steerage we would
...toot
Summary.
Two-base hits, Becker
llecker;
Your House Furnished for $i.°°aWeek.
MATTY’S MEN
WALLOP SOME
S-eclal iii The Georgian.
Charleston. S. C.. May 21.—Three of
Charleston's team—Ote Johnson, Pnt
Meany and Tom Raftery—are batting
over .Bin, Including Saturday's game
at Jacksonville. Johnson has nn av
erage of .320; Raftery Is hitting .317,
and Meany la baiting nt a clip of .308.
charleston lends nil the South At
lantic League teams In batting.
Frank Lohr, recently sold to Co
lumbia. whose players can't hit, had
hatting figures of .301 when he was
acquired by Columbia. The terrldc
batting of- the Sea Gulls I* what ac
counts fur their fine standing.
A typographical error In an Atlanta
paper the other day hail lots of people
on the wonder wagon. The dope read
"Henley released," meaning Hurley.
Hentey Is still to the good In the big
league.—Exchange.
And whe Is Hurley, please?—Birm
ingham ledger.
You can search us!
sacrlflra hit. Jordan t struck ont. by
Manuel X by Zeller 4; bases on balls,
off Manuel J, off Zrller 3; hit by pitched
'ball. Zrller 1 (Sabrte); passed balls,
! strsHon; left on bases. New Orleans
j 4, Atlanm 3; first on error*. New Or
leans 1. Atlanta 2. Time i:«6. Urn-
Iplres, (tudderham and HacketL
say that It's pretty, near an even loss.
Jim Fox Is the beat first baseman In
the league, and therefore looms up a
few notches over Wall, who although
not as graceful os a ball playing ga-
xelle, has yet done good work right
along.
Jordan,- too,, probably has .Whltey
trimmed a few square.feet at second,
for Otto Is without a peer In the league
around that bag as an alt-round per
former. At that Morse is above the
average, a rleqn hitter and a safe ac
tor on ground balls. He hasn't Jor
dan’s speed nor-Is.-he-quite as sura
In tagging the wishbones of bascateai-
ers that happen to scoot. Into the bag.
McCormick at short has'Castro wal
loped to a fragile .any way you take
him. He'a a-better Inllelder, steadier,
faster and a higher grade clouter. So
far as we have seen, McCormick has
anything In the league chased off the
boulevard around this job.
McElveen and Dyer stand out on a
par. It's a pipe that the Georgian Is
no batter than Dobbs' guardian of this
Anal corner, but Dyer, like McElveen.
Is a - first-class man. ’ so we'll. count
honors even here. If there was any
BARON'S BIG BACKSTOP.
shade to hand out we'd pass It to Mr.
McElveen right off the reel.
Taking up the outfields we find again
another well matched proposition.
Persons In left Is just sa strong with
the ash furniture as Becker and a
trifle faster on hla pins, but his weak
ness In choking off ground balls brings
him back to an even break. Dobbs
and George Winters are both star men
and there Isn't any long pick here.
Dobbs Is good enough for Nashville
and Atlanta has the same spiel to set
loose regarding the sterling ability of
the earnest Mr. Winters. If there's
any pick left between Doc Wiseman
and Paakert, we don't know where It
could be made. Julius may not whack
the ball quite as often as the Peach
Belt athlete, but there Isn't a better
outfielder or base runner In the league,
nor a better man to get around the
mcka In a pinch with the winning
tally.
In the above comparlaon wa have
handed out the dune aa It strikes us,
without prejudice or favor, simply cut
ting Into below the surface and ex
hibiting the resultr of our search.
Taking the two teams, man for man.
It looks Ilka an even break, and It
equal fortune harassed both all the
year the odds are they will be nose
and nose at the wire. But fortune
doesn't work this way, and the odds
are within a few fleeting fortnights
something will happen -to change the
present aspect of affairs. It Atlanta
draws .the break, she’ll beat out Nash
ville. If the fickle goddess sticks by
Dobbs, there will be no flag flying over
B|ll Smith's palntla! emporium for an
other year at least. Take It a* you
sill, but the dope up to date doesn't
give Atlanta any odd a against the
iresent outfit scrapping for Nuah^jlle
n th# wild and woolly west.
As Shakespeare might put It—
Where fortune smiles the flag will
fly—
But If the Dame should pass us by—
There's nothing—nothing left for us
Except to tear our hair and cuss.
For when a team meets cruel luck.
There's naught to do except to duck."
We beg to acknowledge the receipt
with thanks of Atlanta's golden em
bossed Invitation card to attend the
formal opening of her park this forth
coming Friday. Everything Is now In
readiness for this noteworthy occasion
! and the affair will be without n hitch,
providing the diamond sunburst which
! will be suspended from the club house
I arrives In time. There Is also some
i doubt.as to whether.President Roose-
I veil or King Alphonso will press the
Jbuttnn. but In case neither shows up.
! Mlke-the-BIte Is already on the job.
(trained especially for the purpose.
Boston. May 21.—Yala and Harvard
track athletic officers are keenly dis
appointed In falling to receive from
Oxford and Cambridge universities the
answer to their challenge for a meet
In America this summer. The chal
lenge was sent three weeks ago, and
the Americana wished to confer after
the Yale-Harvard dual game relative
to the details of the meet, which tlx
take for granted will be held, althougi
details can not be perfected until tlu
answer from tha English la received
Despite the non-arrival of the i
swer. Manager Rowe, of Harvard l
Manager Hummer, of Yale, agreed thil
their preference of time and piece* l
for July In the Harvard stadium.
Inter-City Bowling Match
Is on Again Tuesday NighI
The four, two-men teams represent
ing the cities of New York, Chicago,
Cleveland and Atlanta, meet Tuesday
night at 8: IS o'clock, on George W.
Case's Alleys for th# second live games
of the fifteen-game tournament. There
Is great Interes.t In these games, and
while the Atlanta team has a slight
lead at present, the other teams all
feel confident of their ability to push
to the front be(l>re the tournament
end'. Because the total number of
pins and not games count In deciding
the contest, each team has a good op
portunity of overcoming any lead
against them by drawing a number!
good games of the ten remaining i
forts.
Irwin and Hobe. composing the Chi
cago team, are but recently from CM
cago, where, during the past Mata
they took high rank In the strom
bowling clubs of that city. Wlih i
thing like a good brexlt thla
should Tuesday night overcome aoi
If not all, of the lead against them. 1
public la Invited to witness theie cm
tests. No admission fee Is charge
The present standing of the clubi It a
follows; Atlanta, 1.1(5; Chicago. 1.IN
Cleveland, 1,50»; New York, 1,407.
TRACK MEET
MAY BE HELD
Special to The Georgian.
Nashville, Tenn., May 21.—There Is
still tha greatest Uncertainty here In
regard to the annual track and field
meet' of the Southern Ijiter-colleglate
Athletic Association. If Georgia and
Texas will send teams there will be h
meet. If they will not, then the ‘meet
Is off, for It would be absurd to hold a
meet with only Vanderbilt man present.
As soon as Georgln and Texas
are heard from a decision wilt
reached.
MEEK8.
Here is the nun who is supposed
to lie Birmingham's catcher. As
a matter of recorded Tnct. however,
he usually Usurps at flrat base. Just
at preaent he has a "busted" Anger,
A. A. C. Bowlers
Are Challenged
To the Atlanta Athletic Club:
We hereby challenge you to play a
. series of- games of tenpins, five-man
teams, total pins to count. Games to
be played three games each night de
rided upon for the games and te be
rolled on the George W. Case alleys or
alternately on the alleys of the two
clubs If preferred by you.
As your club lias recently bowled a
tenpins tournament with a large num-
■ ber of entries, you should be able from
' your membership to select a team to
defend the honor of your club. We
have Issued you several challenges fora
tenpin* match without success and we
ask the courtesy of a reply.
- ATLANTA BOWLING TEAM.
By J. R. ELLIOTT. Ckptaln.
STANDING BARACA LEAGUE.
P. W. L. PC'.
Bfough'lon’a Tab; : .'8 3 0 1.000
Wesley Memorial..3 J 1 .000
Capitol Avenue 8 1 3 .333
United Brethren...8 0 3 .000
Results of Saturday’s games:
Broughton's Tabernacle, it; United
I Brethren. 10.
| Wesley Memorial, 10; Capitol Ave-
ntfe. 3.
COVENANTERS’ LEAGUE.
To the Sporting Edlror Georgian; „
Below pleas* find correct statement
of tame played Saturday afternoon at
Jay Birds pnrk, city, between the In
man Park Covenanters and the North
Avenue Covenanters, ^two of- the four
teams which compose the Covenanters'
League. Will you kindly publish this
and greatly oblige
CARLYLE HALL,
Acting Cdplain I. P. Covenanters.
In n closely contested game Satur
day afternoon the Inmnn Park Cove
nanter* defeated the'Covenanter* from
North Avenue by the score of 4 to 3.
The feature of the game was the pitch
ing of Maddox for 1. P. Covenanters and
that of Waldron for North Avenu* Cov-
knantera. Maddox let his opponents down
with 3 lilts and led 18 of them to fan
theee times In v&ln. Waldron fanned
12 and gave up 6 hits. Each team made
2 error#.
Here la the score by Innings;
I. P. C 000 110 110—4
N. A. C 000 210 000—I
Batteries: For I. P. C., Maddox and
Hall; for N. A. C„ Waldron and Hol
liday.
j Standing of
'•IMtMIMItHMHtlgHIIH
the Clubs.
ItMIHHIUlHHMIlll
Southern Leaaut.
CLUBS— Played* Woo. Lo»t P. C
ATLANTA 2* 17 I* “
Memphis. ...... 24 14 i
Nashville SI 17 1
Shreveport 24 12 i
New, Orleans 26 13 1
Little Bbok ..... 29 14 1
Klrmtntfttaiu. . ... 27 Jl I
Montgomery 29 11 l
Jacksonville
Savannah 32
Charleston 36
Mscoii. ...... 34
Augusta 34
Columbia. ..... 31
Amer»can veagua.
'blcago . .
'ieveland . .
Beaton . . .
Washington
St, Louis . ,
Played. Won. Lott. P.C
. 24
10
15
... JWI v. ~ ....«*rq. . The features of the Wesley-Capitol
but ivlten la form he is % Hacking j Avenue famf was the pitching of Can-
good man and can"hit Jhe ball aa non. far Wesley, and the heavy hitting
far and an hard aa ihybody. I of that team.
STANOING OF THE TEAMS.
P. W. L. PC.
Decatur. On., Cov. .1 1 0 1.000
Inman Park Cov..l 1 0 1.000
North Ave. Cov... .1 0 1 .000
South Pryor Cov..l 0 1 .000
“Bat Crossing” at
Marchman 9 s Park
Special to The Georgian.
Slloam. Ga, May 21.—Siloam and
Union Point will play the second game
of their series at Marchman's Park on
Wednesday. Both teams have been
practicing hard and a good game Is ex
pected. Rhodes and Davis will d» the
twirling for tho Slloam team, while B.
Rhode* will do the receiving. Durham
and Overton will do the battery work
for the visitors.
NAT KAISER & CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
.. Oec_'.ur SL , v Kimball Hous<*»
Earcaint in Unranecinad Diamonds.
CLUBS- N,tl ° n rV..^^, led. I
Now York 27 21 <
riilcago 28 23
Pittsburg 22 14 •
Philadelphia ...... 24 13 11
Boston 39 »
Clurlanatl 3 8 M
Nt. lands 39 7 22
Brooklyn .... ■ . 24 4 -
YE8TERDAY’8 RESULT*.
8outh.rn.
Atlsnta 5, New Orleans 1.
Memphis X Birmingham X .
Montgomery 5, Little Book 2
Shreveport 8. Ntlhrllle 2.
South Atlantic.
Jacksonville 6. rharlettoa 9.
Savannah 1, Columbia X
Macon 4, Augusta f.
American.
Philadelphia L Detroit 0.
Chicago 4. Boston 0.
Nt. Louts I, New York 2.
Washington X Cleveland X
National.
Boston A Chicago X
Ht. lands x New York 4.
Philadelphia 4. Cincinnati X
Pittsburg X Brooklyn a
Cotton SUtos.
Vicksburg X Gulfport 2.
Meridian X Columbus X
Mobtla-9, Jackson X
Virginia 8tate.
Danville 4, Roanoke X
Lynch burg t, Portemootb «
WHERE THEY PLAY ToDAY.
Atlanta In New Orleans
Birmingham In Memphis.
Montgomery In Little Bock
Xaehvllle In Shreveport.
Here's the way they talk to “ffl
In the American Association *
choice bit was delivered to i"
Sullivan at Kansas City by
Carr, of Indianapolis: 'You're * v !
moss of bone* for an umpire'
ought to be working In the F mirt
league. You're a douWe-dred.tiiaj
third degree, spavined dub. . r ,„
what I say? You're * Wg J“* ■ ,.i
gar, a box of cibbage. go**”,,, y
column cut of the xurorabo'c
hear that r'-Sx Louis P 0 *'' n D .« ,9l
Poor fellows, we have a t»nd«
for them.