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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1907.
! NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
i
Wtfll, there aren't tiny apolopriea to make.
“Oinprer” Clark is one of the best pitchers in the league and
last yiaa was practically invincible. And he is likely to get
away with any team any time.
Moreover Birmingham hasa good team—its position in the
league standing to the contrary notwithstanding.
Practically Vaughn has as good h team as he had last year,
and it was good enough then to cop the hunting.
He hasn’t any world-beater, but Lattimer is a reliable catcher
and Garvin a first class man behind the bat. Meeks is a hard
hitter and a good fielding first baseman. Walters is a reliable
second baseman and Demont is as good as they make them at
short. Alcock seems to be doing well at third und the Birmingham
outfield is good. “Extension” Smith is one of the league’s best
outer garduers. Molesworth is as good us anybody's outfielder
and Gardner has developed into a good man.
The Baron team is a living example of the way luck breaks
in baseball.
Last year Birmingham had a nice team—one which could
have been expected to finish fourth or fifth with an even break
of luck.
And that team won the pennant. ,
Why J
Well, chiefly because fhat team was lucky.
We said so last year and {he Birmingham writers frothed at
their respective mouths. They hooted at the idea that luck
played any part in the race. They even put Atlantans down as
near-lunatics because we did not admit that the Birmingham
team was the best that ever played in the South.
In the last four years it has happened only once that the
team which won the pennant was so good that there was no
question about it.
That was Charley Frank’s aggregation which won the pen
nant ‘‘Yellow Fever Year”—1905.
There was no doubting it that time. Frank had the best
team in the league—the best team that the league has ever seen.
Of course it took luck to put that team out ns far ahead of the
rest aa it was at one time during thnt race, but on the other hand
it would have taken an almost unheard-of amount of hard luck to
have put the Pelicans of 1905 out of first place.
The year before that Memphis won more by good luck than
by good guidance and so it has usually been.
In 1907 this ‘'luck” theory has been vindicated.
At the end of last season Vaughn said “I stand pat.”
And practically he did. He had to fill the place of one pitch
er—Sallee—but he was no great shakes. Also he had to round
up a new man in the outfield but he got a good one.
And what happened. Well, look at the standing. The posi
tion of the Barons speaks for itself.
This year, as last, the Birmingham team ought—with an
even break in luck—to finish perhaps fourth.
But it has not had even a fair share of luck. Everything has
gone wrong and the team hns gone down and down—just as last
year it went up and up to the very top.
It looks as though Vaughn ought to have pulled through all
right. He has had more advice than almost any man in the busi
ness. Every sport writer in Birmingham devotes fourteen col
umns a week to telling him how to run the tenm. Every fan in
the city has from one word to a whole dictionary full of ’em in the
way of suggestions and if there is anything helpful in the way of
a deep interest by other men in your affairs Vaughn has certain
ly been helped in his perplexity.
But as ever}’ manager has found, when a team is losing, nd-
vice is plentiful and players are scarce.
All this is just by way of saying that Vaughn hns n pretty
fair team and one that—with plenty of luck—will win a majority
of games during the rest of the senson.
But here’s hoping for the next two straight for Atlanta.
A FAMOUS CUB PITCHER
Married Ball Players O. K.
But Their Wives-—Whew!
A Detroit pitcher la credited with the
tallowing:
‘There • too durn many married men
»n the team/' he wld. "1 can't ataml
t tor longer. You can't hare a success*
ul club with •o many of them married."
This rather atartllng declaration waa fol-
owed by an explanation.
"Women are Inclined to talk, and they
»re of Jealous dispositions," be aald. "A
mneh of ball playera' wlrea will get talk-
ng and-bang! Momethtng start*.
"Mr*. So-and-eo will any that her MUe
emarked aonnd-ao about the way l'ete
dayed In the outfield. Pofo's wife wIIL
eaent It, aud with her mind Inflamed
igatnut Mike, will tell Pete a whole lot of
kings that were never thought of.
"Maybe Mike had Just made some psaa-
eg remark to wlfey over the corn beef
nd cabbage without ever thinking of hurt-
ng the feelings of Pete, the Iwst friend
ho ever had.
"Ilut Pete doesn't know that. He tells
his wife that he'll knock the block ofT
Mike, and wlfey tells Jim's better half.
Jim's better half tells Mika’s wife, and—
and—well, you ran see what a tangle It Is.
"Every wife thinks she knows more
about baseball than Father.Chadwick thinks
he does. All her 'done' shows Conclusively
plre.
"Believing so. she says so. And she tella
the other fellow's wife. The other fellow's
wife tells him. and ho sa y a sotnel>ody has
got a swelled head. It's the real and
only genuine perpetual motion gag ever
sprung.
"I’m not talking for publication, but If
all the causes of Detroit's downfall were
sifted to the very last screen, one of the
big causes thnt can't slip away would he
Just wives and their opinions.
"It didn’t cause us to lose the pennant:
I'm not saying that. Ilut It helped a whole
lot."
OXFORD WIN8.
Emory College, Oxford, Ga.. July 9.—
The Emory summer school team went
town In defeat before the Oxford team
donday afternoon by a score of 8 to 0.
Price, for the summer school, did
food work during the first three In-
lings, and succeeded In striking out
line out of twelve men tip. Branham,
he Oxford catcher, nailed every man
»ho tried to swipe second, and was
be star of the game.
Oxford 0(‘0 321 02x—8 8 3
Summer School..OOrt 000 000—0 2 5
Batteries — Oxford, Honnell and
Branham; Summer School, Price and
Bush.
H. D. CLARK HITS WINNING STREAK,
AND BARONS DEFEAT THE CRACKERS
Down jvhere the purling Mla.laalppl
loop* the loop and forma the beautiful
but lll-amelllng mudple on which New
Orleans Is built, our two most hated
rivals battled Monday from 4 p. m.
(prompt) to sunset.
And what we wanted to have happen
happened.
For the moet dangerous of the two
rivals—the Inflated but dangeroue
Memphis team—suffered direful defeat.
And right here on our own pet dia
mond we had the league picnics—the
punctured Birmingham Barons, once
mightiest of the league leaders, now
the easiest marks In the circuit. Also
we had our best line-up on tap and the
league's best pitcher In the box.
On paper, It couldn’t have worked
out better. Memphis lost and Atlanta
ought to have won.
And It all went wrong.
For one "Olnger” Clark, a good pltch-
r, but one who has had his bumps
pretty hard and quite regularly this
year, struck a winning streak and Was
•o nearly unhittable that one real good
single and three ecratch hits was the
turn total of the damage done by At
lanta.
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Jordan made the only genuine bingle
for the Crackers and scratched out one
besides. His second so-called hit went
down to Clark, who had a compara
tively easy one-hand stab for It. But
Qlr.ger missed It and Otto beat the
thing out for a hit.
Paskert got Ills sole "hit” by bunting
to Garvin after that catcher went to
third base to take the place of Alcock,
who was relieved from any further
exertion In the hot sun by order of
"Chief Zimmer. Castro got the only
other thing that counted in the hit col
umn, when he sent a slow one down the
first base line and beat It to the bag.
Clark started out like a four-times
winner and for a while nobody got
anything like a hit.
In the fifth Inning Castro and Jordan
hit and Castro scored from third on
Fox's fly-out.
And that ended the scoring for At
lanta.
Zeller was pitching by streaks. In
the second Inning he let .them mix up a
double and a single on him and one
run went over.
In the third, after retiring the first
two men, he hit Molesworth, walked
Deinont and then gave Carlos Smith a
chance to hit a single. These hits,
Many Shut Outs
In the National
8outhern League.
CLUBS— Played, Won. Loat. P. O.
Memphis 67 41 26 .612
ATLANTA 71 39 32 .549
New Orleans 68 35 33 .615
Little Kook 70 35 35 .500
Hlircvcuort 63 31 32 .492
Nashville 74 35 39 . 473
Birmingham 71 32 39 .451
Montgomery 72 30 42 .417
CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P. C.
Chicago 68 41 24 .647
Cleveland 71 44 27 .620
Detroit 66 38 28 576
Philadelphia
New York
8t. Louis .
Bouton . .
Washington
Boston . .
Cincinnati
Brooklyn .
31
43
BATTLE HILL WINS.
In an exciting game of ball Battle
Hill defeated the Adamsvllle tenm by
the scire of 6 to 5 In a ten-inning game.
The feature of the game wan the
beautiful catch of Laurens at shortstop.
LOG CABIN CLUB IN MACON
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Birmingham In Atlanta, Ponce DeLeon
park. CSame called at 4 o'clock.
Nashville In Montgomery.
Memphis In New Gilenii*.
Shreveport In Little Itoek.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.
Southern.
Birmingham 6, Atlanta 1.
New Orleans 3. Memphis ft.
Little Rock 3. Shreveport 1.
Nashville 5, Montgomery 0.
South Atlantie.
Cotton Stataa.
Mobile 5. Vicksburg 4.
Jackson 2. Meridian o.
Gulfport 3, Columbus 0.
Virginia Stata.
Danville 7. Richmond 6.
Roanoke 7, Portsmouth 2.
Norfolk 5, Lynchburg 2.
American.
Philadelphia 5. Chicago 2.
New York 5. Cleveland 4.
Detroit 6. Ronton 5.
St. Liuls 3, Washington 2.
National.
Boston 2. Cincinnati ft tflrst game).
Cincinnati 4. Boston ft (second gutne).'
St. Louis 2, New York 0.
Chicago 5, Brooklyn ft.
l'lttslmrg 3, Philadelphia ft.
Mike Finn la determined to land in
the first division thla year, and at the
rate he Is going It Is not unlikely that
he will succeed. He Is not losing time
with dead timber, but as soon ns
member of hta crew fails to make good
his name Is dropped from the roster and
Mike Is out on the hustle for new ma
terial. He has made many changes so
far and his hustling tactics are produc
ing good results. When Finn was oust
ed from the local camp last fall, he
made the remark that he would beat
Nashville this year. Maybe he will
aucceed ami maybe he won't, but the
Boosters will have to get at a faster
pace to stop the Travelers.—Nashville
American.
View of Log Cabin Club houaa and courts where the Georgia stata
tannis championship it now being played.
NAT KAISER & CO.
j CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
115 Decatur St. Kimball House.
1 Bargains In Unr*H«*med Diamonds.
Don't be surprised to see Atlanta neek
mid neck with Memphlt In another gort
night.
Speaking of lemons, they do eay that Aua-
trnlla hns grown the flneat specimen ever
known In the annals* of nny fruit Industry.
It weighed something over 130 pounds and
left a bitter tnsto In the mouths of over
8,000 people who took s'chance to see It
gqueesed.
"We walked right In—then turned around—
and enme right out again—
We’d tin rely ^reached the blooming ring when
Jeffries counted 'Ten.' "
—Nashville Tennessean.
Lnat season on the Fourth of July the at
tendance on the two games played at West
End was the largest In the history of the
Southern league.
On the Fourth this year Atlanta easily
copped the prise. More than 14,000 saw the
two gnmee.
Atlanta Is pre
tutor*. People will go In Inrger numbers
to those places where they cau move with
out being rubbed up agalns
Moral: Get a new nark, a big ona; build
a modern grandstand; keep your tenm In
the first division.
stipulations are fulfilled, At
"C’y Young Is the greatest* pitcher the
game has ever seeu,” said BUI Dilteen In
discussing the big fellow with the Sporto-
grnpli Man In the Browns' club house.
"After eighteen years* hard service In the
his nrm Is better than ever. I
"No other twirler has tven approached
is the only modern pitcher wi. „
wtried a no hit no-manroacb-flrstbase
game.
Resides being a great slahman, Cy la as
honest ns the day Is long and popular with
" 'mil players.
will he n sorry day for baseball
*y pucks his satchel and tells hla
tiger, i am going back to I'anll to apend
the rest of m.v days on the farm.*
"Long live Cy Young, who la the oldest
vet the youngest pitcher In the game. May
his glory never fade."
Isn't that a graceful tribute for a pitcher
game of hall at 8t. Loula re
known ns the Oslerltea. The Methuselahs
won by n score of 23 to 19. but the game la
being protested by the other able. Captain
sliding across the plate a la Mike Kelle;
a mid the cheers of the crowd.—Exchange.
Nichols, secured from Waterbuftr, of
the Connecticut League, and who la
slated to take Capt. Morse's place down
at second base, did not play the Inrield
last season. He was In left garden and
the records show him to be a fairly
good man both in hitting and fielding,
having batted .278 and fielded .962. In
case Manager Dobbs can bag another
good man for the Infield It may be that
Nichols will be shifted to the outskirts.
—-Nashville American.
Every game played In the National
League Monday afternoon waa a shut
out. Five games were played, and
In every caae the winning teams gave
the losing teams a coat of whitewash.
Boston and Cincinnati played a dou
ble-barreled afTair. The result was an
even break. Boston won the first game,
■core 2 to 0, but the baseball players
from Cincinnati had a nice dinner of
"Bawston** baked bean* In the second
contest.
St. Louis defeated the New Tork
Giants Monday, 2 to 0. The Chicago
Cubs had an easy thing In Brooklyn.
The final score was: Chicago 5, Brook
lyn 0. Pittsburg won from Philadel
phia by the score of 8 to 0.
Shreveport Buys
New Outfielder
combined with an error, gave Birming
ham two runs.
Likewise In the sixth he walked
Molesworth, let Demont sacrifice, gave
Smith an opportunity♦ to "three-bag
ger," and then "put 'em over" so Gard
ner and Meeks could single.
Also—and then this ends It—he gave
Gardner a single In the eighth and let
Garvin get another of the same.
But it was not that way always.
In the fourth Inning Zeller fanned all
three'men who faced him—Gardner,
Meeks and Walter; and In the next In
ning put three more to his credit—Al
cock, Lattimer and Clark.
It was Just an off day for the Rube,
though.
Part of the time everything was
working all right for Zeller, and the
rest of the time It wasn't.
He did his best, but It didn’t happen
to be good enough.
In the eighth Inning Billy Smith tried
to get a regular Atlanta rally under
way and put Sid Smith In to bat for
Zeller. However, Clark had worked
back Into his early. Invincible form and
the rally refused to do business.
Sid Smith as usual waa put off the
coaching line. Sid Is the bane of every
umpire's life when he Is working In
the capacity of coach and he la shooed
with great regularity.
It looked as though Rube Zeller were
actually going to make his fifth base-
hit of the season In the fifth inning.
And It was sorely needed. For a man
was on second and two were out.
Rube hit the ball "rfeal hard" and It
sailed over Meeks' head and out along
the foul line, but safely Inside.
The fifth hit was not to be, however;
for Carlos Smith brutally ran under the
ball and caught It. after a speedy run.
Otto put In a brilliant day at fielding
In spite of his one error. He made an
especially fine stop of Alcock's hit
In the second, though he could not get
the ball over to first in time to put the
man out and several times he pulled
down hard ones which did count.
The error that went against Jordan
was a hard-luck one. Molesworth was
hit by a pitched ball and stole second,
as Is his usual custom.
Sweeney waited until he was off sec
ond and threw to Otto. "Moley" was
"caught a mile," so he decided to risk
it on to third.
Dyer was there waiting for the h.n
but Otto made the mtitake of trvln. ,
throw around Molesworth.
how "Gladys” Is "put up"
not have tried It. but anyway he iu
and caught the chunky outflelder iboLi
three Inches to the right of the sp|„, 1
It was tough to give Jordan an error
for attempting the tmpoeslble, but th...
did not seem to be anything else for' *
There were also regrets at scorln.
Paskert an error for the single of
vln's that he let get by him. with both
wrists In good working order and on .
smooth diamond It would not have bap.
Here Is how the.game went, accord.
Ing to the scorer:
Birminnham. at
Molesworth, cf. . 2
Demont. es 3
Smith, rf. . . . 4
Gardner, If. ... 4
Meeks, lb. ... 4
Walter*, 3b. . .4
Alcock, 3b.. . ,3
Garvin, 3b. ... 1
Lattimer, c. . . 3
Clark, p. . a . . 4
Totals 32 I 9 27 It T
Becker, rf. .
Dyer. 8b. . .
Paskert, If. .
Winters, cf.
Castro, se. .
Jordan, 2b. ,
Fox, lb. . .
Sweeney, c.
Zeller, p. . .
Ford ....
•Smith . . .
ab. r. h. po,
0 o in 3 j
0 0 0 i o
0 0 0 0 0
oooo*
Totals 29 1 4 27
Runs by Innings:
Birmingham 012 002 010— j
Atlanta 000 o to noo- i
Hits by Innings: _
Birmingham 021 003 120—i
Atlanta 000 021 loo-
Suinmary—Hits, off Zeller 9 in right
Innings, off Ford 0 In one Inning: two.
base hit, Gardner; three-base hit. C.
Smith; stolen bases, Molesworth, Jor
dan 2, Gardner: sacrifice hits. Dyer,
Paskert, Demont: flrst base on balls,;
by Zeller 2: hit by pitched hall, ('lark
(Becker), Zeller (Molesworth. I.attl-
mer): struck out, by Zeller 10 (Gardner,
Meeks, Walters 2, Alcock 2, Lattimer!,
Clark, Smith), by Clark 4 (Zeller. Dy
er, Smith, Paskert). Time, 2:03.
plre, Zimmer.
ATLANTA BOWLING TEAM
AFTER BARON BOWLERS
The Gee—:1a Railway and Electric
Company's ootvllng team will meet the
Atlanta team Friday night on George
W. Case’s alleys to ploy a match of
three games.
These teams are both bowling In line
form and those who attend will doubt
less witness a close and exciting con
test.
The captain of the Atlanta team is
now In communication with Weeks, of
the Birmingham baseball team, en
deavoring to arrange a match with that
team, wh'le they are In the city.
Birmingham baseball team Is i
posed of a number of good bowls-
especially Meeks, who Is captnln o
the Birmingham bowling team. Thru
players will be present tonight and gti
i line on the Atlanta bowlers. BhmiM
this match be arranged local bowlsti
have a great treat In store. Tucsdajr
night's games begin promptly at 8:1S;
o'clock.
it
Special to The Georgian.
Shreveport, Ln., July 9.—A special
from Little Rock saya that Manager
Fisher of Sheveport has purchased
Outflelder Mclvor, who has been play
ing with Temple, In the Texas League.
JULIETTE WINS.
y 9.—Juliette defeat
ed Forsyth here Saturday afternoon by
the score of 15* to 6. Fhe following is
the score:
Juliette.
Walts, p 6 ,
Williams, ss. . . 6
Chambliss, lb. . 4
Williamson, c. . 5
Zellner, rf. . . . 6
Wilkes, 2b. . . 5
Baxley, 3b, ... 6
Wilson, cf. . . . 4
T. Wilkes, If. . . 5
Totals 46
Forsyth. ab.
Burks, p 3
Brady, 4
Anderson, lb. . . 4
Wilson, 2b. ... 5
Evans, ss. . . . . 3
L. Ellis, 3b. ... 5
Ellis, cf. . . . 4
Hickman, rf.. . . 4
Stewart, If. ... 3
Totals .... .35
Score by Innings:
Juliette
Forsyth
ab. r. h. po. a. e.
You Can’t Beat Memphis
On Her Own Turtle-Back’
—SAYS HARRY VAUGHN.
"You can't beat Memphla on that tur
tle-back diamond.”
8o npoke Harry Vaughn, of Birming
ham, Cincinnati, England and a few
other place*.
We were talking Southern League
ba.ebhll and the queatlon, "Has Mem-
phl* really got It over the re.t of u«?’
brought out that atatement.
"Their diamond I. not ao extra
bad,” continued Manager Vaughn,
"but It take, a lot of 'knowing.'
"In the flr.t place It I* of the turtle-
back con.tructlon—only exaggerated.
It hump* up In the middle like a camel,
ln conaequonce the nhortstop and aec-
<.nd basemen are on the down-hill aide.
When a ball la hit over the middle of
the diamond It hit* on a down slant
and Instead of bounding It 'shoots.'
Anybody who has thrown a ball down
hill will understand what happens.
"Of course this does not bother the
Memphis Inflelders because they nr-
used to It. They Just go lower after
them and get 'em. But our men never
stay there long enough to get onto the
tricks.
Then It Is hard and rough as a
hunch of cobblestones. And I defy any
■nan who has not played there a long
time to tell how a ball Is going to
bound.
"I don’t think that they will ever best
Memphla very much at home—bo*i
when they have a diamond like that I
DOVER WINS.
Special to The Georgian.
Dover, G»., July 9.—Dover defeated fl»
lol.l In a good game on the funner*
grounds Saturday by a score of 16 i
Powers, for Dover, played n very line
gnnie nt flrit bate. Nonnan pitched a"* 1
ball, striking out nine of the opposing hate
' - .crutch bits
hit. rf
hit*
men, nntl only giving up live .cm
The Dover lioy. made twenty sub
the Golold pitchers. Three of tie
were two-baggers.
Score by Innings: It. II. £
Dover .497 101 2I*-16
(loluld 140 600 009-7
Summary: Two-lutse hits. Norman. Bre*
-*■ 121: stmek out by Norman 9. by IN' 1 ' 1 ”
nnd McDougle 5. umpire, Ilolllnireworth.
8PORTING MAGAZINES OUT.
Three magsslnes devoted to sports hsre
just made their appearance for July.
They are Gif, American Lawn Tennla and
Recreation.
The July Golf contain* an account, with
Illustrations, of the Southern golf champion
ship recently played In Atlnnta, and much
se of Interest.
The tennis magailne hi* Issued n high
class numlier as usual and Recreation meaa-
i up to the itandard. The Illustrations
n feature.
CLARK8TON GETS GAME.
Clsrkaton and Scottdale played a scrappy
game of ball on the Utter'* grounds Satur
day afternoon The game waa given to
Clarkiton hy the umpire—g to 0.
In the ninth Inning, ScottiUle kicked,
claiming that a man on second was oat.
though the umpire called him aafe. The
next man up hit aafe, and tt was then that
Scottdale renewed the kick. At thgv time
Scottdale was slightly In the lead, hnt
Clarkiton bid three men on base*, and no
outs From then on Scottdale refused to
l 'c!arkston Is always ready to play sad It
•nxlou* to yet game*.
The ltn«'-un follows: Leavitt, catcher;
Barrett, pitcher: 31auck. flrat bsse; Cook,
second base: «*nntedge. third base: Thebaur,
shortstop; McCullough. left field; Alderman,
right field; Built h, cefter field.
MID-SUMMER VISIONS
. By GRANTLAND RICE.
Some day I'll be a millionaire;
I II own it mansion grand somewhere.
My undergarments will he silk:
I «»««* rich cream In place of milk.
I II have ten chefs, or eveu more,
And fancy butlers by the score.
Klghtebnufreur. und six good machines,
And then I II visit foreign scenes.
111 pass up all you common folk— ►
I will some day; but now I'm broke.
Jtome day I’ll hold a royal straight
HhS? 1 *!.' h£ ven l ,on « to wain,
JJ hlle kind fate to my rival brings
* 1* shove his blue chips oat.
Ami. looking as If welshed In doubt,
>5 tom back for a spell, aloof.
anticnJv 1 [alsehltn through the roof.
LABT NKHiri session hurt;
They barely left my pants and ahlrt.
Some day I'll write a ballad gsy.
A sonnet or a roundelay—
th,lt ’ *• nre ■» f*t».
win puce my name among the great.
Throughout eternity's long reign *
My reputation will not wpnc;
And when the poem yoi» have limned. *
X?. u L ? jr s?* 1 \ have Blutkcspcnre dimmed,
ru make the whole world haves flt-
fiome day I will—bat THIS ain't It
{.Jr °ld ting wave on high:
* JJ fse Atlanta Iteaten oat. *
with Babb’s fast outfit put to root.
!v»,H r * nd !*»T5f y u 0t * r WRMd will come,
5-m e ‘^“‘l*** h <>n». fife and drum
«•!!! r " D, l overy mouth
d".v Of the Honih-
SOVlV Dav STJP'.r&V! •>•>—
nonfc DAx—KOMI. DAY—but not Till* year.
-Nashville Tcnoesscsn.