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ltlK ATLANTA UfcUKlilAN AND Nj;W». W&iJXftWUA Y, .1 UNE 19,1 £07,
CRACKERS STILL NEAR FRONT AND GOING STRONG
SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
SIDNEY SMITH
SWATS SOME
Bats by Paskert and Now
Leads Atlanta
Hitters.
By a sudden spurt In swatting. Sid
Smith has taken the lead of the Atlanta
batters. He has sailed by Paskert and
Becker, and Is threatening to regain his
leadership of the Southern league.
* Spade Is a good second Just at'pres
ent and Paskert Is third.
For a man who came to the league
absolutely unheard-of as a batter,
Paskert Is certainly hitting the ball
some little. His average today Is .124
and he has been holding It well above
.100 ever since the season started.
Four men on the Atlanta team are
batting better than .100. three more
have beaten .ISO thus far. The rest are
worse than that.
Zeller le leading the batting order,
backward. He has totaled three safe
ties this season. Qo it. Rube.
In Holding Sweeney la the team's
star. He has yet to make his first er
ror.
Of the regulars, Winters Is still
ahead. He has made but a single error
this season. Paskert la close behind
him with two, and Jordan, who haa
made but four errors this season, la
flrat among the Infleldera.
The averages follow:
BATTING.
Name. Games. A.B.
Smith 44 176
Spade 25 62
- ~ - 6i lti
12
Paskert.
Sweeney
Becker. .
Fo* . . .
Jordan .
Winters .
Dyer . ,
Castro .
Castleton
Rowan .
Zeller . .
H. Pci.
60 .364
17 .236
46 170 20
61 ISO 22
66 166 20
61 121 28
60 182 27
61 186 18
Name.
Winters .
Sweeney
Caatlfton
Paakert .
Jordan .
Fox . . .
Smith . .
Zeller ..... 15
Spnde 25
Becker .... 46
Castro 61
Dyer 60
Rowan .... 8
Ford 5
FIELDING.
Games. P.O.
. . 61 66
51 420 33
.324
.307
60 .294
61 .275
44 .264
48 .246
44 .244
46 .241
6 .171
2 .100
3 .058
E. Pci.
1 .986
0 1.000
0 1.000
2 .983
4 .981
9 .980
8 .965
2 .952
3 .921
6 .914
16 .912
Robert Spade, Pitching Wonder
Hpcnklnff of pitchers—Isn't It pos
sible that we have been rather over
looking Robert Hparte?
When Bobby hit the league he cpm« #
with a reputation as a warhorse-—a
man who could pitch a cotlpls of
times a week', win a fair share of
games, double In the Infield, do an
outfield turn when necessary, and bat
the socks off the ball.
Hut,nobody said much about his
being a pitching star.
Note this, though. Bobby Hpade
has won three games In a row and Is
going strong.
His last defeat came at the hands
of Kyler and the Little Rock crew.
Since th*n games have been easy for
Bob, and he has taken three in a row.
During the entire season Hob has
lost.only three games and has won
seven. This gives him the very im
pressive pitching average of .700.
A little more of the same and the
league leaders in the pitching line will
have to'hunt their burrows and hide.
Besides pitching a few. Robert has
lived up to hta reputation In other
respects. He has hotted the ball at n
.825 clip In twenty-five gsmes and
has fielded at the steady rate of .921.
Taken on the whole, Hobby Spade
has lived up to hla advance notices
and threatens to lead the league at
pitching, batting and a few' other
things.
oltb aPAOc.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
GOOD BOWLING
BY ATLANTANS
Railway and Electric Team
Loses Again By Pair
Margin.
The Georgia Railway and Electric
Company'* bowling team met the At-
lanta team Tuesday night In the flrat
three games of the series, on George W.
Case's alleys. A large number of bowl
ing -fans ware present and witnessed
some good bowling. The Atlanta team
won. the first series by 223 pins. The
hlgHest' score of 224 waa made by El
liott, of the. Atlanta tram.
The next series of three games will
be rolled Friday night. The scores of
Tuesday night’s games as follows:
Atlsnts. 1 2 2
Engnn.. 176 . 141 211
Elliott 200 182 224
• Shaffer ..170 168 157
Herbert 140 181 171
Hobo 180 175 182
. Total pins. 2,720.
G. Railway. 1 2 3
-West .' .. ..200 146 170
Chambers .....; ..162 176 168
Burk •-128 140 146
.Reives 168 176 205
Terry 125 160 141
Total pins, 2,287.
HAvTA REAL VACATION
and rsad Tbs Georgian and Nswt tvsry
day while away. 8snt everywhere 45
cents a month, 10 cants a week. Phone
4928 or write circulation department,
The Georgian and Newt. No trouble
to change addreta.
Whole Population
Out to See Game
An even break in New Orleans to date!
Pretty fair rmiling, yes?
Spade, hero of a hundred bloody battles in the Sally League,
is tin* man who won the argument in the Crescent City Tues
day—he and our friend of the festive t‘monkey-shiny* ” Lonis,
Count de Castro.
Also the rest of the team helped and somehow they got away
with it very handily.
Yoii enn’t keep tBpae Crackers down for long. About one
game in a row is all they ever lose. New Orleans, Memphis,
Little Rock, Shreveport—they all look much of a sameness to the
Crackers.
If Birmingham would only please cheer up and win a game
from Memphis. They have spilled two thus far and will prob
ably finish out their scries in the Bluff City with n regular blaze
pf defeats.
There’s one thing about it, though; the next series'will see
the Crackers doing the heavy battling in Memphis and then, to a
double and twisted certainty, every time Atlanta wins Memphis
loses.
And that will help some.
Guess maybe that will be a feeble series over in Memphis;
not Every time the Crackers and the Babblers have clinched the
sparks have flown and now that the two of them are getting to
gether for tho league leadership the battles will he more fiercely
waged than ever.
Of course Babb’s team will have the advantage of being on
itaown Turtle-back, but for all that Smith and his men are likely
to give an aornumt of themselves which will go down into league
history.
Atlanta waa the only Eastern team which got away with a
victory Tuesday. .Montgomery, howavor, plnyed Finn’s pets to
* a thirteen-inning tie. Sam Weems, the Auburn roan, pitched
against Kylor, Little Rock’s best, and made a great showing.
There is one college man who is making good, all right. Rhondes
Scholarship Keith is another and then there nre more. In fact
there nre more college baseball players in the Southern League
this year than ever before and all of them are showing well.
Rucker won another game for Brooklyn Tuesday. Of
course the only way tor a Brooklyn pitcher to win his game is
to shut the other team out. And this Rucker did.
Naturally the Brooklyn players, seeing that their pitcher
was absolutely invincible, rallied like a lot of rag dolls and man
aged to bat out one run. And thunks to Rucker, that was
enough to win. •
FRANK GETS
LAVE CROSS
Veteran Big Leaguer Signed
to Take Beecher’s
' Position.
Racial to The Georgian.
Sew Orleans, .La., Jpne 19.—Lava
Cron* ulir replace Eddie Beecher at
third base on* the Pelican team.
Thin announcement waa .made from
Wajhlngton’ last night.
Manager Frank had (dipped quietly
out of town. Maying he waa -.'golpg to
Ablta Springs. .
It developed that he went to*Wash
ington and yesterday j*erured <’ro**'
signature to a contract. Cross la ex
pected here Thursday and will play In
the Nashville series.
Frank 1s’also after another pitcher to
take Braltcnstein's place. It la believed
he will get Easlrk. of the Washington
club, one of (’ontlllton’a finds.
Rfcket, who has been unable to get
back In shape, will very probably get
his release soon, and Breltensteln will
be Installed n« the regular left-flelder.
The signing of a big leaguer by Frank
came only a few days after the sig
nificant Hfatdment of the Pelican man
ager that he was going to put the fast
est team In the league In New Orleans
If he had to buy a new outfit.
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Standing of the. Clubs.
8TANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Southern League.
GIANTS’ HE A VY BA TTER
Hero Is George Browne, the
Giant's right fielder, who Is lead
ing the club In batting.
11afed. Woe. Lost. p. C.
. 52
ci.riiH-
Memplils . .
ATLANTA .
Now Orlenna
Little Itork
Nashville 6.1 25 28 <7;
Mnntomerj 52 23 29 *412
Hlrmlnghnm 60 22 •* ’44c
Slirevc|M»rt 46 20 26 .'43G
South Atlantic League.
ruins - 1’isrH. Won. Lost. P. C.
Jacksonville 68 .17 21 636
t'bnrleNtou 60 35 25 68.1
Macon 69 33 % .fifig
Augusts 56 26 *) .1*4
n.cmu.
Chicago *50
Cleveland 52
Detroit 46
I'hllndelphls 50
New York 47
St. Louis 63
Washington 45
Boston 51
r/«?a
Pittsburg .
Boston . .
CUielunntt
Brooklyn .
HUNT NOT LIKELY TO
DEFEND TENNIS TITLE
The opening of the Bout hern Lawn events except the consolation, and In
Tennis circuit comes In X:i*hvllle next addition Individual prises for Jhe run-
week fnr «.» MfifiHiv “th.vr. osr- in ners-up in these events and for the
Special to The Georgian.
Rutledge, Ga., June 19.—Rutledge
won out by the skin of her teeth In a
game with Monroe on the local field
* yesterday afternoon. It took good work
' to beat the gentlemen from over there
on the spur track, but Rutledge is
noted for playing good ball. It was a
great game. All the stores ami buai-
•nees houses closed and every farmer
within a radius of five miles tied his
mule to a plum bush and cut across the
fields to the ball ground to see the
game. Birds were noticed sitting around
In the tree-tops looking on. Half of
the populace yelled themselves hoarse
find this morning can't eptak above a i .iJfemi
tr Vi I a r 4bns mass m.. III,., ilil. ■■ a. .1 I
week, for on Monday "they're
the Tennessee championship.
That event will take up the entire
week and the following Tuesday the
Southern championship begin* in At
lanta. |
This event will rank In Importance
this year with any sectional tour nu
trient In the country. In addition to
handsome cups In five events the win
ners of singles and doubles will be
sent by the Houthern Linn Tennis As.
social Ion to compete in the North.
West. Houth doubles and the national
singles championship and their ex|w*n-
ses will be
" Inner In the consolation singles. The
trophy cups must be won three times
to become the property of the winners.
The winners In the singles must meet
It. G. Hum, of Alameda, Cal., present
title holder. If he defends; In the dou
bles H. M. Grant and Nat Thornton, of
Atlanta, are the champions; In the
Indies' singles Miss May Logan, of New
Orleans. Is the holder, and Miss Kath
leen Brawn and Sam C. Williams hold
the title In mixed doubles.
Flay will begin July 3. .at 3 o’clock
In the afternoon.' Tha tournament is
open to^players -of any-section s>f the
This double inducement of trips and I country. Kntrle* close July
tups will doubtless add so much to the (should be addressed to the tennis
attractiveness «Sf the Bouthern chart!- mlttee, L. I). Scott, chairman. Atlanta
pionsblp that It will be one of the Im»sI ! Athletic Club
attended tournaments In the country,
It Is considered extremely doubtful
If It. U. Hunt will attend the tourna
ment. He Is the present Southern
champion and won his title by defeat
The other tournnnients of the South
ern circuit are:
July 8- Georgia state championship.
Log Cabin Club, Macon. Ofi.
July 16—South Atlantic States cham-
whisper. One more game like this and
Rutledge would have to transact busi
ness by signs. Men who hud been on
fhelr dignity since 1873 jarred loose
and surprised their families and friend*
with war donees that would have made
red-skin warriors weep with shame.
Oh. It was a sight to see these gray-
halred old men Jumping and shouting
with perspiration running down In riv
ulets! Yes, things went wild, sure as
you're born!
The score follows; R.
Monroe ..002 ©00 002—4
Rutledge til 000 000—5
Batteries: Rutledge. Dickons and
Stunton. Monroe. Lock If n and Feflfers.
Ing l>r. Karl Little last July at East i plonshlp. t’ountry Club, Augusta. Ga.
iMke. Nothing has been heard from For the first time since the Atlanta
him tills year and the officials of the! Athletic Club haa been holding tournn-
44outhern Lawn Tennis Association I ments an especial effort will be made
state that It Is very doubtful If he will j this year to get some big crowds out to
■■■■witness the event. Ample grand stands
Four entries have ulheady been re-1 wifi be provided and It Is likely thnt
reived for the tournament—w hich j the largest crowds which* ever turned
breaks a record for early entries. As; out for a tennis tournament in the
u usual thing few entries are received j Houth will be on* hand for the July
until Just I>t‘f4ire the tournament begins. { matches.
Atlanta will pin her hope* this year) —rr—sr. -
on Nat Thornton in the shtRles and on} Gainesville Plays Marietta.
Grant and Thornton In the double* | n , Gainesville. June IS.—There will be
both these event* the local pla>ers i three Interesting games’of baseball at
seem to have :» good chance and it j Chattahoochee Park Thursday to Hat*
seem* likely tliat.or.e or two Atbnita[ urcjiiy of this week between the Galnes-
men will be sent Hast to comiwte Infv.yfe and Marietta teams,
the big «hamplonnhlp*. \ As »hk Mar'ette temp Is managed by
This Is the first year that th** South | a son of Captain Joyner, of Atlanta,
ha* beer allowed to break Into (who Is In touch With ajj tlie best play-
an»l a* the Gainesville players are
NAT KAISER & CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
15 Decatur St. Kimball House
Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds.
j \V»*s»t - Hast double* affair and much In
teres: wIII attach to nils event.
| The events which will be decided in
Uhe Atlanta tournament Will be; Men's
|championship Mingles, men’s champion.,
j ship doubles. m* n's consolation singl es
lame*’ championship singles chant'd"*-.,
j slilo mixed double*^
Tr »phv . -ip* have been offered b- the
Atlanta Athletic Association f«»r all
in good condition. It Is expected that
these games will be 4be ,bc*t played
here, ihl* reason.,; ■ > * * 1 ’ ‘
The line-up of j||e Gainesville team
* as follows:
Parker, jv. Hank*, p.-. Davis. J.. Ik;
l).t\1dji<in. J.. 2nd b.; Turner, 3d b.;
ilmven. .*•*.; Oglesby, rf.; Smith, H., of.;
MeWlWtvr, if.
YESTERDAY’S J1E8ULTS.
Southern.
Atlanta 3. New Orleans 1.
Memphis 6. Birmingham 0.
Shreveport 6, Nashville 2.
Little Uock 3, Montgomery 3 (thl
South Atlantio.
Charleston 5. kavanritib 2.
Jacksonville 4. Augusta 1.
Coluiunin 2, Macon 0.
National.
Philadelphia 7. I'lttsliitrg 5.
Brooklyn L Sf. l.oul« 0.
Chicago 3, Boston 1.
New* York 4, Cincinnati 3.
American Association,
Minneapolis 5, Louisville 4.
Milwaukee 6. Columbus .1,
Toledo 6, Kansas City 5.
St. Paul 4, Indianapolis 1.
Colntnhus 4, Jackson 0.
Vicksburg 4. Merb!|ao 0 (first game).
Meridian 4, ; Vicksburg 0 (second game).
Virginia 8tato.
_ i 4. I.ynrbt *
Dinvltte 1, llosnoke
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Atlanta In New Orleans.
Birmingham In Memphis.
Montgomery In Little Bock.
Nashville In Shreveport.
MACON SIGNS
GRANT SCHOPP
v.iAN! SCHOi-r.
Macon. (In.. June 18.—Grant Bchopp,
formerly of the pitching staff of (he
Atlantn team nn<l a good all roun<!
man. ha. been >tane<l by Mncon anil
will.report lieye Monday neat.
To make way for the cumin* of the
K-uthpavr, Rill Clark* will *o to Green,
villr. In the Cotton State. Lentrue.
The deul »'»> pushed through In Co
lumbia yesterday. Bchopp was with
the Auguion club for untie time thl.
yenr, hut loft on account of difference*.
He pitched one game against Mncon
In thl* city and lost. He also pitched
- name against Mncon at Augusta and
Moxie, the Shut-Out Man,
Performs Against Rowan
Special to The Georgian.
New Orleans, La., June 19.—Big Jack
Rowan Is slated for slab duty on the
Atlantn side this afternoon, when the
tie will be played off.
If Rowan doesn’t feel well, either
Castleton or Ford will be put In the
box.
Against this combination will be
Moxie Manuel. Manuel ha« scored four
straight shut-outs, one against the
Cracker*. He ha* been Invincible In
the last two weeks.
Smith will catch for Atlanta and
Stratton for New Orleans. The weath
er continue* good.
Two Atlanta Men Will
Shoot in Big Handicap
The handicap commute* of the In
terstate Association which conducts the
Grand American handicap shoot nt
Chicago next week,' h%s announced the
distance, allotted to the various con
testants.
The limit—21 yards—was given to
five men only—Lee R. Rarkley t of Chi
cago: \V. R. Crosby. O'Falton. Illinois;
Fred Gilbert, Spirit Lake, Iowa; \V. H.
Heer. Concordia. Kan., and C. G. Spen
cer. St. Louis.
Two Atlanta men—H. D. Freeman,
an ex-pollceman; and Guy Ward—are
In on the next stlffcat allotment—20
yards.
Another Southerner In the 26-yard
crowd la H. J. Borden, of Memphis.
Other Southern trap-shootera who
will take part In the big event and
shoot:
At 18 yards—T. H. Clay. Auslerllli,
Ky.; G. M. Collins, Due West. 8. C.;
F. M. Faurote, Dallas, Texss; A. M.
Hatcher. Bristol, Tenn.; Walter Huff.
Macon, Ga.: C. O. IrfiCotnple, Eminence,
Ky.: Albert Wilcox. Waco. Texas: L.
J. Wade. Dallas, Texas;. P. C. W^rd,
Walnut Log, Tenn.
ANCIENT JAKE
QUITS MAJORS
St. Louis, June 18.—It Is reported
that Jake Berkley, who has been tn the
hlg leagues since 1888, when he started
gut with Pittsburg, haa played Ills last
game In fast comtiany.
Hostetler has succeeded him on the
Cardinals' first corner. Berkley Is ar
ranging Ills own transfer to' Johns
town. of the Tri-State League, and will
go there If the big league clubs waive
on him.'
A Correction.
Rovkmart. Ga.. June 18.—In your la-
sue of June 17th, there Is a report of a
baseball game played ten days ago,
from Dallas, Ga., In which ynnr'cor
respondent must have been In a RIP
Vanwinkle steep of ten dajs, • and
dreamed that Dallas defeated Ruck,
mart by a score of I to 0. Let Rl.t
dienm again and maybe lie will ilreuut
the facts. Dallas played fine ball, but
nevertheless. Bookman won the gam.'
1 to 0.
Heavy Hitters Win;.
The Crew 8treet Heavy Hitters de
feated the Georgia Avenue Sluggers br
a score of 5 to 4.
Julian made n beautiful one-handed
catch In the nlnlh and kept the Crew
Street Heavy-Hitters from scoring.
Score by Inning:
Crew Street H. H..TI0 2IM>
Georgia Avenue 8..002 101
Butteries: Allen und Bruy
and Whitmire.
It wouldn’t be a hod Idea to give Fred
Clark an opportunity to warm the
bench for a while. Clark 1* a disor
ganizes He has been so all season.
He's a quitter. and a vacation might
bring him to his senses.—Exchange.
SPADE WINS
FROM^FRANK
Dutchman’s Team Walloped
by Ex-Sally and the
Crackers.
New Orleans, La.. June 13.—Wh.n
the Atlanta team hit New Orleans thl,
trip It was given out thnt the Cracker,
could make the warmest finishes ever
pulled off in the league.
And after yesterday's showing the,,
are few among Crescent City fan, who
doubt It.
Right up to the time Atlsnta ,„ m .
to the bat In the ninth the score was
1 to 1 and both pitchers were going
strong. Local bettors would have taken
a couple of million at even money <|(
they had had It) that the Pelican,
wers due to win or break even
But somehow It didn't happen that
way.
Jordan and Paakert yanked off -in
gles In the flrat of the ninth, Ju-t at
though those valuable commodities
were easy picking for anybody, yog
sacrificed and then thy team's he-t
pinch hitter, Louis Castro, singled,
scoring two men.
Spade- kept the Pelicans from scor
ing in the last half of the nlnlh and tha
game went to Georgia.
Spade pitched a wonderfully good
gable. At*. Gatins and Matthews were
the only men who could hit the ball
and not one of the trio could make
more than one hit.
Spade struck out five men and al
lowed only three bases on balls. Taken
from any point of view and It was one
of the prettiest exhibitions of pitching
seen In the local tot this year.
The score follows:
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. s.
Backer, rf. . . . 3 0 1 2 0 0
Winters, cf. , . . 2 o o l l n
Smith, c. . . . 4 0 0 B 1 a
Jordan, 2b. ... 3 1 2 2 S o
Paakert, If. . . 4 1 1 2 0 0
Fox. lb 3 0 0 11 on
Castro, as ... 4 1 2 0 3 1
Dyer. 3b. ... 3 0 1 3 1 I
Spade, p. ... 4 0 1 1 3 1
Totals 31
Nsw Orleans, ab.
Ats, as . 4
Beecher, 3b. . .4
Breltensteln, It.. 4
Sabrle. lb. ... 4
Nadeau, rft-. . . 4
Gaston, cf. . . . 4
Gatins. 2b. ... 3
Mathews, c. . .. 3
Frits, p 2
32
3 8 27 14 3
r. h. po. a. e.
2 27 13 0
Totals ,
Runs by Innings:
Atlanta 001 000 002—1
New Orleans 000 010 000—1
Hits by Innings:
Atlanta 003 100 004—1
New Orleans 100 020 000-vJ
Summary: Two-base hits. Atx, Math- >
twi; stolen base. Gatins; aacrlflce hits.
Dyer. Fox: double plays, Gstlns to
Atx to Sabrle, Gatins to Sabrle; struck
out. by Frits (1), Spade; by Spade IS),
Breltensteln 2. Nadeau, Gaston. Frlta;
bases on balls, off Frits 2, off Spade
3; hit by pitched bill. Bpade; passed
ball, Mathews; left on bases. New Or
leans 8, Atlanta 6; first on error*, New
Orleans 2. Time, 1:47. Umpire. Rud-
derham.
Double-Header
In Commercial
Instead of the one game scheduled
between the Southern States Electric
Company and the Koca Nolss next
Saturday, there will be a double-head-
The first time these two teams met
they battled until darkness ended an
slght-to-elght tie. This tie game will
be played off Saturday. Th* first game
will be called at 2:20 o'clock.
A CORRECTION.
Owing to a mlataike—typographical
or otherwise—8tarry, aecpnd baseman
of the Southern Stales Electric Com
pany team, waa given two errors and
no hits In the Beck A Gregg-Southern
States game. As a matter uf fact,
arry made no error* and two hite—
ith three baggers.
OOOGOOOtWOGOODOOOOOOOOOOO
O ALEX SMITH DOES
O NOT DO WELL IN "OPEN." O,
O O.
O London. June 18 — Alex Smith, O j
O open golf champion of America. O |
O finished the first round of the open 0.
O championship of Great Britain O
O with a score of 78. Alexander O
Q Heard, the
O 1802, holds
O 71 for the round.
o — o
O Alex Smith spent the winter In O
O Atlanta as professional of the Hast O
O lake course. O
O O
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