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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failing of that Dutchman’s— and yet he is always the first man to rise in the annual meeting and say “move all protest withdrawn.”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.