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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. JULY 1907. | NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS ‘‘The bookkeepers of the league are forgers or not a team in the league is exceeding the player or the salary limit.” Judge Kavanaugh has spoken. What we want to know now, though, is: “ WHICH»” DO YOU RECOGNIZE THESE CHAPS? After somg thought our answer is, ‘‘Neither.” It is not probable that any team is actually exceeding the limit. That is, the money paid out to the players, when totalled up, does not run over $2,700. And yet it is doubtful if most of the managers are not getting around the salary limit rule some way. It isn’t so difficult, ‘‘Presents,” and things like that don’t count against n manager— not in his own estimation—and there are more ways of killing a pig than tickling him to death. • As a genernl proposition we are for the salary limit and hope that it will be enforced. Without it the league will be something of a joke—especially on Montgomery, Shreveport and kittle Rock—and a very “unpractical” joke on the whole league. An utter disregard of such a limit will certainly bring ruin to the league. At best the rule can be only partially enforced. It is against human nature not to spend money for ball players when the play ers are available, you need them and you don’t care for the ex. pcnsc. The best that can be done'is to keep the clubs as close as possible to the limit and make them cut out the funny business. But how it is possible to figure that Charley Frank is, and has been within the player limit when he has been using those Gulf port men is hard to see. Henry Chadwick was doubtless the Father of Basebell, but the honor of being the father of the most good baseball players goes undoubtedly to Jnmcs Dclehanty, of Cleveland, Ohio. Six of his sons have been baseball players and one of them, Ed. Dele- hanty, was one of the greatest baseball players in the world. Three of the Delehantys bad Southern League experienoc. Joe played with New Orleans, Frank with Montgomery and Jim with Little Rock. Napoleon "Rube” Rucker won another game for himself Monday. Boston lammed out sevon hits, but Brooklyn, for a won der, was batting some, too, and the Dodgers won, 6 to 8. In the American League our old pal Nig Clarke chopped out a home run and assisted the Naps in putting it over St. Louis. The men who favor changes to increase the hitting ought to have been nt New York Monday to see the Highfanders and the Washington team clinch. A double header was played and in tho first game Washington made 19 hits and 15 runs, Now York mado 18 hits and 16 runs. The second was a little better, but in the two games a total of 43 runs, 58 hits and 18 errors was made. Can you beat itt It was a different proposition, though, in the Sally League. r ivannah made 5 hits, Charleston 4, Jacksonville 2 and Augusta hits. Baxter Sparks, the Mississippi Myth, let Jacksonville down with the morbid total of two. That chap Bills is too good. He spoiled the fun Monday over in Memphis. Three was all the hits Now Orleans could get off his delivery and a shut-out resulted. Not so long ago tho East was roasting Memphis for throwing games to New Orleans. No chance for any tnlk along that line this year. * Walthour Loses To Hugh McLean Germany, where night he rode hi* flret race sines he wne injured, and lost to Hngh Mc Lean, of Chelces. The eveut wa« for 35 mllea. at the fnmnua Ilcrero Iieach track. ■ Walt hoar rode cleverly, but larked ateum for the gruelling content. Walt hour’* faro Is teamed, one tooth la broken, there la au open wound on hla knee, tnd he has a stiff left arm. [ Just Notes Smith, If reports are correct, I, espe cially anxious to win the rag this year. It Is aalil that when he butted Into the Southern League lest season he prom ised Atlanta a pennant. He failed even to land In second place. He was given a second trial. - Therein Is the reason for his natural desire to win out. The Atlanta team la a ernck-n-Jnck, save for the need of one or two more ef fective pitchers. However. It Is not be lieved that Smith can win a pennant In the Southern League. We may be mistaken, but that's our belief at any rate. If Birmingham can't win, the fans here would rather see Atlanta tri umph than Memphis. There are many, however, who would rather seo liabb win out than Billy Smith. With all that. Smith Is all right.—Birmingham Age-Herald. Critical fans scrutinised Lave Cross' every action. For more than twenty years this duck-legged player remain ed In the big league, and no one num bered more friends among players or spectators. Ho has never mauled a newspaper man, nor spiked an oppo nent and was doubtless never charged with committing an underhand base ball act In hts entire diamond career. Yet Cross has been aggressive and a pioneer In many ways, being the nrat third baseman to abandon the linger glove for the light mitt, an act that has always been argued for and against on account of Inability of the flelder with the mitt to clutch grounders a, oulckly as those provided with Anger sockets. Owens slapped a hard one to Cross' left yesterday and the fans taw Lave smack at It, hut It wiggled on to left. He got through without an error though, and still maintains that the mitt Is the thing for third base men, as It enables them to knock down then pick up more fast shots than the Anger glove would stop. His liner to Hanning In the last was the hardest Jolt he landed on, although he was giv en a hit when Xetghbois and Ilabb missed his Ay In the seventh.—Mem phis Commercial-Appeal. iteeeesssssseeeesseeeegesesessseeseeeeeeeei Standing of the Clubs, 1 Southern Lsaaus. Played. ~ Memphis 00 ATLANTA ...... 64 Now Ortwins 61 Shreveport . .... 69 Nit ah vlTie 66 Little Rock 64 Iltriutiighsm 64 26 36 .438. Montgomery 66 28 88 .424 8outh Atlantlo Lssguo. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P. C. Jitckaonvllla 69 42 27 .600 t'hnrleaton 70 42 28 .600 Macon 67 37 32 .638 Augusta 67 32 35 . 478 Savannah 67 31 36 . 463 Columbia 68 20 46 .303 Detroit . . . , New York . Ht. Louis . . Boston . . . Washington CLUB8- Chlcago . . . Now York . Pittsburg . . Philadelphia Cincinnati . . NAT KAI8ER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur St. Kimball House. Bargains In Unredeemed Diamonds. I'layed. woe. Lost. P. C. . . 62 41 21 .661 . 39 ■:8 . 57 16 41 ARLEY PEASE. BOBBY GILKS. GOODWIN. These men were one. famoue In the Southern League, Now they are back In the Cotton State.. Charley Peaae, now playing shortstop for Vicksburg, used to be with Atlanta and will be remembered by the older fans. Artis Goodwin was Msmphis’ second best pitcher the last time Memphis wen a pennant, and was sold to Brooklyn along with Harry McIntyre and Eddie Beecher. Some way Goodwin “wont back” and not only failed in Brooklyn, but lost out in Memphis when hs roturnsd. He is doing well for Vioksburg this year and pitched a ons-hit game against Meridian recently. He used to be known as the "Curveless Wonder.” Bobby Gilks is too well remembered to need much comment. He managed Shreveport for several years and always had a team which was “up there.” He ig now doing well ao manager of Charley Frank's “Fishery” at Gulfport. SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT CASTLET0N AND FORD A lot has been said this year about Zeller and Spade, the star pitchers of the Atlanta team. The hard-luck pair —Castleton and Ford—have been more or leas passed up. However, these two are worthy of lotlco, both because they ore good men and because they are not winning as many games as they might If their luck was as stout as it ought to be. Thus far this year Castleton has taken part In thirteen games. Of this number he has lost only four and tied one. This gives him a per cent of .667, which Is protty well "up there.” If Boy could get away with three or four In a row pretty soon—and It would not be surprising—Ills average will go soaring pretty close to tho top. Ford has not fared ns well. He has been used only seven times since the season began and during thts time he has lost four games and won three. However, Ford hasn't pitched such bad ball. His game Monday was a nice one, and he deserved to win. The team did not hit behind him and the Crackers were outluckcd. Consequent ly a game had to be scored against him. At batting Castleton Is a shade bet- Umps and Grounds For Next Games The following assignment of umpires nn<l dlnmouds for next Saturday's gnmes Is announced: Sun Proofs vs. Beck & Gregg, Ponce De« . .eon avenue and Myrtle street K. B. Sykes, umpire. Boca Noli! Southern Railway, Gam- Company, Piedmont park. Carletou Floyd, t\ips« gnmes promise to he as good. If not better, than any that have been ployed thin season In the Commercial league. The Hun Proofs and Beck & Gregg are mu lling close together lu the penimut race. the M. Kuts players and tho Elec- WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Atlanta In Nashville. YESTERDAY’8 RESULTS. Southern. Nashville 3, Atlanta 2. Memphis 2. New Orleans 6. Macon 7, American. Chicago 4, Detroit 2. Boston 5, Philadelphia 1. Cleveland 6. St. Louis 2. New York 16, Washington 15 (first game). New York 8, Washington 4 (second game). National. Brooklyn 6. Boston S (first game). Brooklyn 3. Boston 2 i second game). Philadelphia 2. New York 1 (first game). New York 2, Philadelphia 0 (second game). Chicago 5, Pittsburg 2. Cotton States. American Association. Kansas Clt/ 5. Ht. Paul 2. Columbus i, Toledo 2. Milwaukee 7. Minneapolis 5. Indianapolis 16, Louisville 1. COLUMBUS LOSE8. Special to The Georgina. Amerlcus, Gil. July 2.—A merlons de feated Columbus In a fast and pretty game of ball here Monday afternoon by a score of 4 to 3. Frank Foloy, Geor gia's star twtrler, pitched a fine game for Columbus. trichina. Ho, for that matter, are tho Koca Nolns and tho Southern railway teams. No arrangement of teams could Ihj made which would be likely to bring out jnore closely fought games than the schedule which Is In force for Saturday. CANTON IS LUCKY, Special to The Georgian. Alpharetta, Ga., July 1.—Alpharetta lost a "hard luck” game to Canton on the latter'a ground by a score of 6 to 2. Three times Alpharetta filled the base* with two out, and each time the next man up was the weakest batter In the bunch. . The chief feature of the gome was the excellent work of both pitchers. M. Rucker, for Alpharetta, struck out 8 men and gave up only four hits; and A. Jones, for Canton, struck 9 men and gave up seven hits. MT. ZION 15, JOYVALA 13. The Mt. Zion Sluggers won a close game from the Panola Whackers Sat urday afternoon. The final score was 15 to 13, with the Whackers holding the lemon. Mt. Zion outbntted, outflelded and outplayed them In every way. John McKee. Roy McKee, Flournoy White and Winston Clark played nice ball for Mt. Zion. Lewis Simpson was the star of the game in fielding for Mt. Zion. Neither Birmingham nor Atlanta will win the pennant this year, and Mr. Hugh Roberts can bet hla suspenders on that. If New Orleans does not fin ish first no other team in the league save Memphis will end the season on top. Billy Smith has about as much chance to win the flag as Harrs Vaughn, which is to name a 100 to 1 •hot.—Tlmes-Democrat. Bum dope from New Orleans. 00000000000000000000090000 O NARAZZARO WINS. O O O O Paris, July 2.—Naraxxaro, on a 0 O Flat machine, won the Grand Prlx O O automobile race over the Dieppe O 9 course today In six hours and for* O 9 ty-five minutes. O O O 00900009000909909000990909 ter than tho average pitcher—and Ford u shade worse. The Mormon has cracked out eight hits this year out of forty-seven times at bat Ford has been at bat fifteen times and has made "nary a hit.” He hasn't made any errors, though, and neither has Castleton. Tho ex-Yan kee has had 33 chances and the ex- Central Leaguer 25. And neither man has errored even once. Like most left handers, Castleton Is a pretty fine striko-out performer. In thirteen games he has caused the hu miliation of 64 batters, an average of about 6 to the game. Unlike most left handers, he has not been especially wild and has had only 41 bases on balls charged against him, an average of a trifle more than three to the game. Ford has yet to make his first wild pitch and Castleton has uncorked only three. The Mormon has hit six bat ters and Ford only one. During the entire season, opposing batters have found Castleton for 85 hits, which they hare converted Into 3S runs. This Is slightly more than 6 hits to the game, and slightly whnt less than 8 runs to the game and ex actly 7 hits per game. Take it any way you like and these pitchers stand out ns good men and twirl- era who should win a mnjorlty of their games. With Zeller and Spade as the headliners, and this pair and Swalra as fillers In, the Atlanta pitching bill ought to be a good one from now on. Just a word to the headliners, though. If you want to get your names In with big type you will have to keep hustling. Castleton is after you, and Ford Isn't so far behind that a winning streak would not put him in with the celebrities. The records of the two men follow: Pitching average: Games. Won. Lost. Tied. P. C. Castleton ... 13 8 4 1 .667 Ford 7 8 4 0 Batting STerAge: Games. A. B. Runs. Hits. P. C. Castleton ... 14 47 2 8 .170 Ford 8 15 0 0 .000 Fielding average: Games. P. O. A. E. P. C. Castleton .... 14 7 26 o 1.000 Ford 8 3 22 0 1,000 Sac.: H. It. g000000000000000000000000g O EX-COTTON STATERS a WHO HAVE GONE HIGHER. 0 0 O 0 A Vick,burg (an has doped out 0 O some teams who have advanced 0 0 (rnm the Cotton States League 0 0 Into (aster company. 0 0 Here are tho ex-Cotton Staters 0 O who have "gone up": 0 O Pitchers—Dougherty, Mllwau- 0 O kee; Doyle, New York Americano; 0 0 Camnltx, Pittsburg; Eubanks, Do- 0 O trolt Americans, 0 O Catchers — Schlle, Ctnclnnatt; O 0 Blue, Columbus; McAllister, Buf- 0 O (alo. 0 0 First Base—Hunter, Baltimore. 0 0 Second Base—Niles, St. Louis 0 O Americans. O 0 Shortstop—Sentelle. Jersey City. 0 0 Third Base—Grubb, Holyoke. 0 0 night Field—Hahn, Chicago 0 O White Sox. O 0 Center Field—Weldey, Chicago 0 O White Sox. O O Left Field—Woodruff, New- O 0 castle. 0 O Also In the Southern League: 0 O Pitchers—Beeker, Frltx, Manuel, 0 O Maxwell, Hickman. O O Catcher—Massing. O First Base—Sabrle. 0 Second Base—McElveen. 0 Shortstop—Morse. O O Third Base—Kling. 0 O Right Field—Smith (Carlo*). 0 O Center Field—Gaston. 0 O Left Field—Gardner. O 0 In the South Atlantic League 0 O there are: O 0 Pitchers — Denver. Raymond, 0 0 Harley, Holm. Schwenk, White. O 0 First Base—Kanzler. 0 0 Second Base—Shlppy. O O Third Base—Lewi*. 0 O Shortstop—Llpe. O 0 Catchers—KalkholT, Relslnger, 0 0 Fox. O Center Field—Howard. 0 Left Field—Gnadlnger. O Right Field—Houston. O High School Wins From Milledgeville Special to The Georgian. Milledgeville, Gn., July 2.—The High school tonrn broke even with the Georgln Military College organisation (or the sea sou of 1907 by defeating them a double- header Saturday. Scores 4 to I and I to 0. Score by Innings, flrst game: R. H. B. Mllledgovllle too 000 000-1 4 3 Boys High School 172 000 000—4 natterlos: Ellison and Reynold*; Cape and I.ockhart. Score by Inning,, ,econd gnme: It. H. E. Mllledgovllle 000 000 000-0 Boy, High'School 000 000 001—1 Ilatterlee: Billion and Reynold,; Cape and Lockhart. Jesse Cnp, displayed comtderable pitch ing ability by allowing only ,oven scattered hit* throughout both game,, holding the Milledgerlllo eluggere at hie mercy. Wilburn IUaiock’e atlck work wna also a frnture. Out <>( eight tlmea at bat, he ae- eureil four two-hnggers and a single, one nf which won the second gnme In the ninth Innntug, after Lockhart had doubled and Lnndrum singled. The High school Infield, with Solms, whose atendy work le a feature of every gnme, at flret; Blalock and Landrum, the '’clock-work” combination nt aecond and ehort, and Goree at third, whose work throughout the week has been topnotch, especially In Saturday's guinea, la hard to surpass In amateur circle*. The High school boy* w-ere entertained every evening by the young Indies of Mil- ledgerllle, whleh added much to the pleas ure of the trip. 0 o O 00000000O0OO00OO0000O00000 CANTON WIN8. Special te The Georgian. Canton, July 1.—Canton defeated the Alpharetta team here Saturday ( to 3. The score by inning* follow*; R. H. E. Canton 202 020 OOx—0 6 5 Alpharetta 000 000 020—2 S 6 Battertem—Canton, Jonea and Jor dan; Alpharetta, Rucker and Smith. GAMES WANTED HERE. The Southern Hell Juniors would like to get games with any team under 17 years old. Address all challenges to John Townley, Mailing Department. Southern Bell Telephone Co, or tele phone main 5050, 00000000000000000000000000 0 O O JEFFRIES TO REFEREE. 0 0 o 0 Los Angeles, Cal, July 1.— 0 O James J. Jeffries, the retired O 0 heavy-weight champion of the O O world, left on the Owl at 5 o'clock 0 0 last night for San Francisco. Jef- 0 O ries will be the third man In the O O ring at Colma Thursday, when O 0 Bill Squires and Tommy Burns 0 O clash In a forty-flve round battle O 0 for the world’s championship. 0 0 O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO0OOOOOOOOOO0OO0OOOOOOOO0 O COIN FOR BARONS? 0 O 0 0 Birmingham, Ala, July 2.—J. M. 0 O Sibley, a wealthy brick manufac- 0 0 turer. guarantees the Barons *1.- O 0 004 If they finish the season a* 0 O high as one, two, three. vi O Waller Brodle, recently employ- O 0 ed as outfielder, was given his 0 0 unconditional release yesterday. 0 O Gardner will continue to play 0 0 left field. 0 O O 00000000000000000000000000 TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP BEMNS AT EAST LAKE Drawing For Opponents Has Been Held and Final Plans Made For Opening of Great Event. Unless rain Interferes the flrst games In the long series for the Southern lawn tennis championship will be played Tuesday afternoon on the Easi Lake courts. The drawing for opponents has been held and eyerp sosrlble arrangement made for the tennis event of the year In the South. The flrst game is due^at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and quite a few of the preliminary matches In singles will be run off before night. Doubles, ladies' matches, mixed dou bles and about all the events are likely to be on Wednesday's bill, though the program for that day will depend on several things, chiefly the weather. Last year the Southern champion ship went through without much in terference from rain, but this year the last afternoon of practice was cut into by a heavy shower and tho courts were prfetty well "soused.” However, a bli force of men was put at work earl! Tuesday morning and barring an! more downfalls of rain the courts win be- in almost perfect condition for Tues. day's play. • The visiting players are: Knoxville—Cowan Rodgers, Charlei Rodgers, Woodruff, Meek, Saxton Crawford. Robert Cowan, John Ayret McGhee Tyson, McGhee, Baxter. Frank S. Van Gilder, Miss Janet Storrs. Memphis—George B. Norton, Ben Cornelius. New Orleans—Bland Logan, William Henderson, W. B. Giant, Alfred Grlma, Miss May Logan, Miss Mary Minor Miss Janvier. Charleston—Edwin Mayberry. Nashville—J. Floyd Day, Norman Farrell. Murfreesboro—W. D. Mqoney. D0BBERS SHADE THE BEST AND DOWN CRACKER CREW Nashville, Tenn., July 2.—Holiday week began badly for the Atlanta team. The bunch which Is slated to make Memphis hump, if Memphis EVER humps, came up here full of run. And a world of It got out of their system yesterday. But at that the Dobbers a little faster and Atlanta lost to Nashville, 3 to 2. Russell Ford pitched nice ball. He had his long, swinging delivery in good working order and he was cool and col lected as a car load of iced cucumbers. He had the hard luck to hit one man and he gave four bases on balls. He was far from wild, however, and de served a better fate. Nelson, who twirled for Nashville, was quite on the Job. too, and though he allowed six hits, he had the happy faculty of getting the balls over the plate some way and this helped him. There wasn’t anything to choose in the teams, either, except luck. Both of them had some, but the home play ers had a shade more than the visitors. Hence the result. The Atlanta team played Its usual up-hill game. Every man fought every Inch of the way, arid at the finish it looked as though Atlanta might make one of those ninth-inning rallies and get away with the game. - Paskert man aged to get as far os third with two out, but died there. The umpiring was anything and everything but gilt-edged. Hackett seemed to be a trifle off on balls, slightly mixed on strikes and very un certain on base decisions. But worst of all, he had no control of the men and they did as they pleased and beefed until the noise of the fans was drown ed. Both teams scored In the third in ning. Castro, Dyer and Becker worked out the flrst run. Castro beat out a dull tap to the Infield. This enabled Dyer to live when he hit a fielder’s choice which retired Castro. Then he pilfered the second sack and scored on Becker’s nice hit. This was Atlanta's lead, but the poor thing died young. Wells tied it up right away hy hitting a three-bagger and scoring when Nelson dabbed a crawl, er down by Ford. The game was won in the seventh Morse-was passed and grabbed second McElvecn's bunt found him at third and he retired, but "Mac” pinched thi second- bag and scored when Lister hit a three-bagger. And Atlanta was beaten by tht strong hitting of the weak batters ol Nashville. The score: —SPORTS Nashville. Persons, If. Wiseman, rf. . . 2 Dobbs, cf. . . . 4 McCormick, ss. . 3 Morse, 2b 1 McElveen, 3b. .. 3 Lister, lb 3 Wells, c 3 Nelson, p 3 ab. r. h. po. a. t Totals 26 3 5 37 Atlanta ab. r. h. po. Becker, rf 3 0 1 1 Winters, cf. . . 3 0 0 2 Smith, c 4 0 0 3 Jordan, 2b. ... 4 1 1 2 Paskert, If. ... 3 0 1 0 Fox, lb 4 0 2 13 Castro, ss. . .. 3 0 1 1 Dyer. 3b< .... 4 1 0 1 Ford, p. . .. 3 0 0 1 Totals. . ,,.-..31 2 6 24 Runs by Innings: Nashvllla.- .. .. .. -.001 000 2Ox-1 Atlanta 001 100 000—I lilts by Innings: Nashville.. 003 100 lOx— Atlanta 002 300 100-1 Summary—Sacrifice hits, Wiseman Morse. Winters, Castro. Stolen base* Wiseman, Morse, Jordan, Paskert i Two-base hit, Becker. Three-base hit* Wells, Lister. Struck out, by Nelsot (5), Fox, Ford 2, Winters, Becker; bj Ford (1). McCormick. Base on ball* off Nelson 2, Ford 4. Double play* Fox to Jordan, Ford to Fox. Left bases, Nashville 4, Atlanta 6. Hit pitched boll, Ford 1. Time, 1:82. Um plre, Hackett. 50 "EAGLE” REFRIGERATORS JUST RECEIVED TO BE SOLD AT The Great “EAGLE” Refrigerator, exactly like cut. Is the bluest, best tnd most economics! of Ice on this mar- „ ket. 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