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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. \ » 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.