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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. i6fMI6l66ll6H6«MI6M666IM*t*H6M6«6MI 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 tlDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOnO'Wvo We are certainly excelling ourselves and everybody else in the present quality of Ar- buckles’ Ariosa Coffee. No such quality of coffee can be sold out of a bag, bin or tin, or under any other name by anybody in this town, for anything near the same price. That’s a strong statement, but you can take our word for it, and we are the largest dealers in coffee in the world. Another thing JSr5"j|:'---the egg coating on ARIOSA COFFEE r “ yi <v " w 1 does not improve its appearance but preserves. the flavor and aroma. Remember that ARIOSA is not sold to look at, but to drink. Complies with all the requirements of the National Pure Food Law. Guarantee 2041 Filed at Washington. ARBUCKLE BROS., New Turk City. tmmfm BHHBOI