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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3,190T. I 1 [JOBBERS ARE FURNISHING 1 LOTS OF EXCITEMENT 1 SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING STRENUOUS TENNIS MATCHES MARK OPENING OF TOURNAMENT Rain Bothers Somewhat, But Many Sets Are Decided. The second Southern tennle cham pionship ever held In Atlanta began on the East Lake courts Tuesday aft ernoon. It opened up In line atyle, and unless something unexpected goes wrong, will be as much better than last year’s tournament a* last year's was than any previous one. The entry list Is larger all up and down the line: the courts are In perfect condition, all arrangements have been carefully made and It only remains for the weather to do Its best to guarantee a great tournament The bureau of precipitation cut In with a little shower late Tuesday aft ernoon, but It did. not make Its debut until a goodly bunch of matches had been pulled oft. During the first afternoon of play a majority of the preliminary matches were played off, three events In the first round were disposed of and one In the second round. , No surprises eventuated. Of the Atlanta "regulars," S. C. Wil liams, F. Fltxslmmons, Nat Thornton. F. O. Byrd, Mansfield, Berrien and Howell won their first matches. Carter and Mlddlebrooks, the Uni versity of Georgia team, took their first matches In good style, though Car ter had the hard luck to draw Cowan Rodgers In his second round and was put out. He won the second set, though, 4-6, whloh Is a stunt, and he worked the Knoxville star and Tennes see champion to the limit. The two Memphis players, Cornelius and Norton, won >th«lr first matches. The former Is an ex-Vanderbllt base ball player, well known In college cir cles; and the latter Is a veteran of wide experience, who once held the Tennes see championship, Memphians expect this team to be heard from In the doubles. Judged by all standards, the tourna ment now In progress Is due to be a good one. Certainly the field Is more evenly balanced than last year's, and the matches are destined to be harder fought. Right now the championship appears to be a two-up between Nat Thornton, Cowan Rodgers. Dr. Karl Little, J. F. Day and perhaps Bland Logan. Hence Orme, of Greenwood, Ind., the sole Hooster entry, will not do to over look. Mr. Orme, who claims farming as his profession. Is an athlete of na tional fame. He played great football at Pennsylvania State and for fourteen years has kept up the game with ath letic club teams. He weighs 215 pounds end can play tennis from 6:86 a m. until 46 minutes after sunset, anjt fin- Evenly Matched Field Fights For Champion ship. tested to the limit. The results of Tuesday's matches fol. low: Preliminary Round. Williams defeated Haas, 6-1, 7-5. Fitzsimmons defeated Baxter, 6-1, 7-5. Norton defeated Alfrlend, 6-2, 6-2. I>ay defeated C. Smith, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. Thornton defeated Patterson, 6-1, 6-2. Byrd defeated Kingman, 6-3, 3-6, 8-6. t'rawford defeated Sawyer, 6-0, 8-6. Henderson defeated Ayres, 6-2, 6-3. Logan defeated Cowan, 6-1, 6-4. Grlma defeated Hatcher, 6-3, 6-1. rornellue defeated V. Smith, 6-2, 6-3. Mansfield defeated Logan, 6-0, 6-1. Bates defeated Meek. 6-2, 6-4. Charles Bodgers defeated Bamspeck, 6-3. 6-3. Mlddlebrooks defeated Tyson, 6-0, 6-0. Berrien defeated Starer, 6-4, 6-1. First Round. Cowan Bodgera defeated Farley, 6-1, 6-0. Carter defeated Vangelder, 6-3, 6-0. hogan defeated Henderson, 6-1, 6-2. Howell defeated W. B. Grant, 6-3, 6-4. 8«cond Round. Cowan Bodgers defeated Carter, 6-1, 4-6. 6-2. High Team Will Play C. -J. -DuB. "HITLESS WONDERS League Leaders Are Batting Like a Bunch of Be ginners. A “red hot" baseball game will be pulled off July 4 between the tennis of the J. ?!■ 'Ugh Company and Chambcrlln Johnspn. „„ ... foregoing statement, Memphis HI n. in. inose WOO Want to see I nurilhnlnplv n$ art of rnn. Atlanta and Shreveport are leading the league at batting, Memphis and New Orleans are bringing up the rear. This Information (s Jarring, but It is borne out by the figures. That Memphis, the team which Is In front of the field by such a safe ma jority, should be next to last In team batting. Is rather of a surprise. With Babb, Carey and the rest of them hitting the ball over the lot, no body had the Babblers lined up as ‘hitless wonders.” But the views have to change for the team batting average of Memphis is 221 and only New Orleans Is worse. Only one team in the league has made os few hits as Memphis and that is Charley Frank's brigade. Both the Babblers and the Pelicans have mjide 339 hits to Tuesday. The Atlanta team has made the most hits of any team this season—488—and Is tied with Shreveport for U?e league leadership, with an average of .287. Nashville Is third on the list with .254 and Montgomery next with .247. Then comes Little Bock and Birming ham. Next to Atlanta Nashville has made the most hits—477. Shreveport third with 431 and Little Rock fourth with 414. The rest are under 300. Babblers Make Runs. At run-making Memphis shines, de spite the small number of hits. The Babblers have torn off 247 this year. Atlanta Is next with 245. New Orleans is a poor lost at the scoring game with only 177 runs scored during the entire season. As might reasonably be expected from CRACKERS COP FIRST GAME, BUT MEET RUNLESS DEFEAT IN NEXT Good Hitting and Fielding Make Opener a Cinch For the Crackers. B. M. GRANT. This star player Is likely to out quite a figure In the Southern championship, especially In the doubles. With his partner, Nat Thornton, he holds the doubles tills at present. lsh stronger than when he began. He teems destined to make somebody hus tle for'first honors. V Despite threatening weather, a good- sized crowd turned out to see Tues day’s matches, and before the end of the tournament the capacity of even the big new grandstand Is likely to be AMERICANS WIN. London, July Yesterday the Lowe brothers lost their match to Beals Wright and Karl Bshr, the Americans. | NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS Charley Frank is in troublo again. Wc always said that if he had sufficient good strong rope ho would save the hangman any exertion. And now he hns got in trouble with the only friends ho had around the circuit—the Memphis management. It seems that Tuesday Dutch Charles did not like tho condi tion of the ground around tho turtle-backed home plate at Memphis and refused to play. That brought on more talk and there was an argument, accompanied by much licat and con siderable dark-blue profanity between Charles and his undle-by- marriage President Coleman of the Memphis association. But Frank absolutely refused to piny and the game was awarded to Memphis. Frank protested the game but it is more than likely that ho will have to stnnd the $300 Hue which tho Southern League pro vided for the especial purpose of keeping Frank’s team on the diamond. Of course there is something behind all this which does not come out in the dispatches from Memphis. Frank would not take his team from the field because he did not like the condition • of the grounds. lie is far too wise for that. Before this thing is thrashed out something is likely to come out that may throw quite a bit of light on the inside politics of the Southern League. In the meantime there is the pleasing certainty that, unless C. Frank was in the right,hc will have to cough up $300, and the unpleasant knowledge thnt Memphis got another game without playing for it. And still the hitting continues hard in .the major leagues and light in the Sally League. With the “big bugs" Tuesday seven of the teams which played made ten hits or over. In the Sally League four teams made five hits or less. “Ducky” Holmes made the star showing of the day, letting Jacksonville down with two hits. The American Association is on the point of turning outlaw! Horrible, but true. Just about once a year the Association gets on this point, but it never gets off. A little while ago the Association was “miffed” because the National body would not let it form a class AA in the associa tion, with the privilege of drafting players from leagues like the Southern. Now they are grouchy because it is impossible to got waiv ers on all of the players which some major league clubs are ready to discard. They say that big leagues refuse to let their excess players retnrn to assoeistion ranks. Any complaint raised by the American Association is looked on with suspicion by the rest of the baseball world. The Southern League has had some cause for complaint along this line, hut probably the waiver rule works out for the best. It largely prevents the "farming” of players which has long been one of the worst evils of baseball. The only time when it might work harm would be when some major league manager would get in a bit of spite-work and refuse to waive on players he really did not need. However, such spite work would be expensive and big league managers are not much given to high-priced revenge. Vendetta does not go in the big leauges—not if it costs money. the fun ehmiM take I*nrkIe ^treet 1 ('*r■, and I ®!>lnes particularly at the art of con- off at West North nvenue. There will I verting- a email number of hit* into a ’ ' " large number of runs. A little paae at the arithmetic game shows that the It' Ih> comfortable seats for nil who come. No Admission fee will be charged. A big crowd Is expected. The line-up of the two club* la ns follows: High Company— C.-J.-D’B. Co. Bedding first bate Pearson lit shop shortstop Porter JIndley catcher Hill Siegel.. .. .. ..center field.. llnlighten second bane . Matin third bnse .. .. Hughe or Bayle .. pitcher . Barfield right field .. Ilnynlo left field .. .. ..Hnye ,.B. Snye .. Fanner , ..Shonrd .. Bnlney a . ..Gentle RELIC FOR FINN. Little Rock, Ark., July 8.—Manager Finn ha* signed Bill Hotter, the major league veteran. Hoffer and Hart will make a pair of veterans equal In age and experience to Brelteneteln and Phillips, of New Orleans. SLUGGERS WANT GAMES. The Davis Street Sluggers wont a game for July 4 with any amateur team In the city under 13 years of age. Ad dress all challenge* to Elmer Slider, 134 Davis street, Atlanta 'phone 2055. Babblers can make one run out of ev ery 1.4 hit made. That la, a hit and about a half make one run for Mem phis. The despised Barons are next best at the business of doing much run making with a few hits. It takes them .6 more than a hit to score a run. Little Rock and Montgomery come next, and every time either team averages 1.7 hits It puts over a run. It takes Atlanta and New Orleans almost two hits apiece to make a run—1.9 to be quite accurate. v And the Shreveport team brings up the rear. Every time the Pirates need a run they have to ear off an average How Team. Team. A.B: Bat. R. H. Pet Atlanta . . • • . 1,828 245 488 .267 Shreveport . . NaahvlUe . . . . 1.613 203 431 .267 . 1,849 221 477 .254 Montgomery . . . 1,537 222 385 .247 Little Rock . . . 1.694 281 414 .244 Birmingham . • . 1,601 229 371 .240 Memphis . . . • . 1.528 247 339 .221 New Orleans . • . 1,695 177 839 .200 ELECTRICS DEFEATED BY ATLANTA BOWLERS The Atlanta bowtlug team defeated the Georgia Railway nnd Electric Company team Tuesday night by 104 plna on the lat ter's alleys, tasking It four straight defeats handed to the railway boys. Although the Atlanta team has won mrery game of the series, they linre bad no easy uinrka to defeat, na tho Georgia Hallway has an ex traordinarily strong team and ono which Is proving stronger at each meet The next game of the aeries will be rolled Friday night, beginning at 8:15. on George W. Case's alleys. Members or the teams are as follows: Atlanta—Elliott, Herbert, Shaffer, Uttley, Finn. Georgia Hallway—Chambers, West, Lyons, Reeves, Burks. PUGNACIOUS TY COBB IS DUE TO FIGHT H. BEMIS The Cleveland Preas does not seem to like our friend Ty Cobb, now of the Detroit team. Ty and Harry Bemts had a little mix th* other day. Hero ts The Press' version of it: Harry' Bonds will probably draw suspension for his j>art In Saturday’s fracas at Detroit, while Tyrus Cobb will likely go unpunished. This is be cause Bemls wns technically guilty of assault, having used his t!«ts, while Cobb WAS ONLY GUILTY OF DIRTY HALL PLAYING. Cobb had no chance In the world to score on his three- bagger. nnd he knew It. But there were two reasons why he made the crazy attempt to do s«|. First, no De troit player had made a home run on the home grounds this season, and Ty wanted the glory. Second, a cartload of hats, shoes and other stuff was of fered by merchants for the first four- base drive, nnd Ty wanted the stuff. The Detroit eoacher tried to hold him at third, but he broke away, Bir mingham's throw being then well on Its way to Bradley. When Bradley's relay reached Bern Is Cobb was 20 feet from the plate. Harry stood waiting for him. Cobb Jumped into the air, threw hfs arms out before him and drove headfirst into Bends’ stomach, knocking him over. A* the two went to the ground Cobb knocked the ball out of Remls* hand. As soon as Harry got to his feet he landed twice Cobb's Jaw. O'Loughiln Jumped front of Cobb. , Davy Jones grabbed Bemts and George Stovall threw his strong right around Jones' n«r*k, bend Ing him backward and pulling him off Bemts. Peace was soon restored nnd Bemts was benched. It doesn’t seen that Cobb Is to get either the *locy or tho merchandise, however, as the offi cial scorer gave him a tl ree-baae hit nnd Bemts an error. The Detroit players say Cobb will find an opportunity to have It out with Bemls as soon as possible. There Is much speculation as to the result. Ty Is wiry and has the longer reach, but Harry' is strung as a little bull, and If he can bore in close he will surely Fhmmer the stuffing out of Mr. Ty Cobb. Here's hoping he does. Georgia Tennis Championship Begins Monday in Macon Special to The Georgian. Macon. Ga., July 3.—Interest 1n the coming state championship tennis tour nament. to be held at the Log CaMn Club, beginning Monday next, is by no means confined to Macon players, the cracks of this city are but a small portion of ttmse who are to compete for the prizes In singles and doubles. The holders of these two cups are gentle men from California nnd Cincinnati, nnd a strong effort will be made- this year to bring the trophies back to Geor gia. The three dirt courts at the cabin NAT KAISER ft CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. IS Decatur St. Kimball Haute. Tannins in Unredeemed Diamonds. are now undergoing a special treatment at the hands . -r experienced men and by Monday next all three will be In the best of condition. New nets have been received for the tournament and but lit. tie remains to be done. From Atlanta Sam C. Williams, Nat Thornton, Bryan Grant and half doten good players are looked for. New Or leans will tend some other fact players, and the West Is alto to be represented. Shreveport had the largest crowd of the season present yesterday. Forty- two persons paid admission to the game. Tlmt's three more than what, saw the Pelicans play last week.—New Orleans Stales. Yes. and about the site of the usual week-day crowd In New Orleans. Nashville, Tenn., July 3.—With a new deal In the way of batting orders, and with Spade In the box, the opening game of yesterday's lengthy double- header went to Atlanta in easy style, The score was 3 to 6. In the second game new pitchers opposed each other and the local man had a shade the better of It, though at that his advantage was not a noticea bly large one. The score of the second game was 2 to 0. If extreme length can be considered a feature, then the time It took to pull off the double-header Is deserving of extra-special notice. The first game waa dashed through In the alarming time of two hours and four minutes. The second was hustled up a full seven minutes, but the pair of them lasted four hours and one minute. If ever a bunch of fans got a lot of baseball for their money, the bargain sale was yes terday. The bleacherltes drew 241 minutes of play for a quarter, which waa sweetness long drawn out at the rate of almost ten minutes for a cent. Can you beat It? One of the strange performances of the day—stranger even than Umpire Hackett’e work—was the fact that In the first game both teams made 11 hits each and In the second both made 8. Just how the Crackers mixed It up In the first and ground out eight runs off 11 swats, and then could not make a single tally off eight In the second. Is still a mystery to those who saw it done. Somehow, In the first game Sorrell managed to let loose a hit Just when Atlanta needed It, and It was all kinds of a cinch to put runs across. Perhaps the summary helps to ex plain how It happened. It shows sac rifice hits for Dyer and Winters, stolen bases for Paskert and Winters, two- base hits for Jordan, Fox, Winters and a pair of them for Sweeney and a three-base hit for Spade. However, It took some of these to. neutralize the five bases on balls that Spade sent out. The one unfortunate Incident of the game was the accident to ’’Whltey” Morse, the ex-Atlanta shortstop. In sliding to second, hie' leg waa badly wrenched and a tendon broken. The accident was both painful and serious, and It will be well on toward the end of the season bafore Morse can get back Into the game. In the second game the Crackers did not field quite up to par, and this may have made some difference In the re sult, though It does not explain the Inability of the Crackers to make a sin gle run out of eight hits. Stanley Yerkes, the pitcher Dobbs secured from Buffalo, pitched nice ball, but so did Swalm. Each man allowed 8 hits, as has been noted. And Atlanta New Pitchers Meet in Sec- made two error* to Nashville'* perfect ond Game, and Yerkes play. But otherwise everything broke Atlanta's way—except the score. At lanta men stole all the bases, hit for three extra bases, against Nashville's one extra base, and made three double plays. Each pitcher allowed one base on balls and Swalm struck out tjiree men to Yerkes’ two. But, anyway, Nashville won and that was all there was to It. The scores: First Game. Nashville. ab. r. 1 Pearsons, It. Wiseman, rf ft 2b 4 Dobbs, cf. . .. .4 McCormick, ss. .4 •Morse, 2b. . . .0 E. Duggan, rf . .3 McElveen, 3b. . .4 Lister, lb 4 Wells, 4 Sorrell, p . . • .3 Totals . . Atlanta. Becker, rf. , Dyer, 3b. . Paskert, If. Winters, cf. Castro, as. . Jordan, 2b. , Fox, lb. . • Sweeney c. Spade, p. . , Totals. . . 2 .35 6 11 27 20 sb. r. h. po. a. e. .38 8 31 27 32 E. Duggan ran for Morse in the sec ond. Buns by Innings: Nashville 010 200 003— 6 Atlanta 300 301 001— 8 Hits by innings: 123456789 Nashville . . . .0 1 2 3 0 1 0 1 3—11 Atlanta .30041101 1—11 Summary. Sacrifice hits, Dyer, Winters; stolen bases, Paskert, Winters, Morse; two- base hits, Jordan, Dobbs, Fox, Sweeney Winters; three-base hits, Spade, McElveen; bases on balls, Sorrell 1, Spade 6; double plays, Castro to Jor dan to Fox; Wiseman" to Wells to Mc Elveen; left on bases, Nashville 3, At lanta 6; struck out, by Sorrell, two, Castro, Fox; Spade two, McElveen, E. Duggan. Time, 2:04. Umpire, Hack- ett Second Game. Nashville. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Pearsons, If .. ..4 1 1 1 0 0 Wiseman. 2b. . .4 0 2 3 2 0 Dobbs, cf. . . .4 0 1 3 0 0 McCormick, ss. .3 0 1 4 4 0 McElveen, 3b. . .3 0 0 3 1 0 Lister, lb 3 0 1 7 1 0 Wells, c 2 1 1 5 5 0 E. Duggan, rf Yerkes, Wins Out. Fox. Dyer; Swalm three, McCormick. McElveen. Yerkca. Time. 1:57. r m . plre, Hackett. O TWO GAME8 JULY 4. a o a O The Atlanta team will be home a O Thursday morning and will play a O two games that day with the a O Montgomery team The first game 0 0 will be called at 10:30 a. m., the a G second at 4 p. m. a o<H?<HsaGO<HjoocH>t>0aoaaGo<>00y Squires-Burns Fight July 4th San Francisco. July 3.—With the Squlre.-Buma fight a little over :« hour* away, fight fans In this city are flooding the pool rooms with Squire, money, and the odds of ten to seven, with Bill the favorite, are rapidly be. Ing forced down until it looks as though tho Australian will be a two to one choice before the men enter the ring. Manager Cofroth has signed up a good preliminary tor the big fight, and has engaged John Murphy and Frankie Edwards to box ten rounds at 128 S ounds. Eddie Hanlon will referee the out. | Standing of the Clubs. * 8outhsrn League. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P. C. fi ® » ■lesi New Orleans Shreveport . Little Rock . Nashville . . Montgomery 31 81 30 30 . 67 17 .492 .486 .433 .432 ~rYT««3® outh Atlantio League. _ CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P. C. Charleston 71 43 28 .IM Jacksonville 70 Macon 70 Augusta 6S Savannah ...... 68 Columbia 67 Played. Won. Lost. P. CLUBS- Chicago. ...... 63 Cleveland ....... 66 Philadelphia 63 Detroit 60 New York .... .61 St. Louis ...... 66 Boston 63 Washington ...... 68 National Laague. :«i Played. Won. Lost. P. C. New York ....... 60 Pittsburg .61 Philadelphia . .... 62 Cincinnati ...... 65 Boston . 61 Brooklyn ...... 64 WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Atlanta In NaahvlUe. Birmingham In Montgomery. 7-ew Orleans In Memphis. YE8TERDAY»e RE8ULT8. Southern. Atlanta 8, Nashville 6 (first game). Nashville 2, Atlanta 0 (second game). Memphis 9, New Orleans 0 (forfeited Little Rook 5. 8hrevenort 0. Montgomery 10, Birmingham 7. South Atlantic. Charleston 3, Savannah 0. Columbia 11, Macon 0. Augusta 2. Jacksonville 0. American. Detroit 8, St. Loula 5. Cleveland 4, Chicago 0. Washington 6. Boston 2. New York 8, Philadelphia T. National. Pittsburg 4, St. Loula 3. Chicago 5. Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 8, New York 1 Boston 2, Philadelphia L American Association. Toledo 5, Indianapolis 2. Kansas City 7. Milwaukee L 8t. Paul 5, Mlnnean " “ Louisville 7, Column Totals. . Atlanta. Becker, rf. , Dyer, Sb. . Paskert, If . Winters, cf. Castro, as. , Jordan, 2 b • Fox, lb. . . Sweeney, f c , Swalm, p. . ..3 .29 Manager Finn has returned Pitcher Gremilllan, secured from the Alexan* drla Gulf Coast League, to that club. The youngster's wildness Is said to be the principal reason for his failure to make good. THAT TRIPLE PLAY. [laving nimlo two attempts to get «n nip swer elsewhere lu regard to a question of some Importnnee to several pnrtles con cerned, thus fitr we hnve been unsuccess, fill In getting a response. Will you kindly ndvlsc us thrmigb your paper If there bus been n triple pln.v made this year In Atlsnts during tiny of tho Southern League series. Thanking you In advance for this Inform,- tlon, I am yours very respectfully. II. G. FL’LENWIIIER. Yes, at Piedmont park April 26. It nil made by the Nashville team—Sorrell u McElveen to Morse. COMMERCIAL MANAGER. .81 8 24 Total*. Run. by Innings NaahvlUe Atlanta. Hits by Innings: 123456789 Nashville I C 2 3 2 0 0 0 •— S Atlanta .. .. . .0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— S Summary. Btolen bases, Castro, Fox; two-base 1 its, Wiseman, Castro; three-base hits, Winters; base on balle, off Yerkes 1, off Swalm 1; double plays, Fox to Castro; Fox (unosrlsted), Jordan to -.’astro; left on bases, Nashville 4, At lanta 6; struck out, by Yerkes two, CLIFTON. Here Is an action photo of Clif ton, manager of the Southern States Electric team of the Com mercial League. Clifton la a scarp- py ball player and Is proving on efficient manager. gfHJOGOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOg ATLANTA’S SORROW. 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