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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24,1907. [NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS Well, we hardly dared hope for the first two straight. But they came. In the opener Atlanta rather had the Bluffers hipped for they were too tired and hungry to play, but in the second it was a clear case of outplaying the Babblers. The Memphis team finishes its engagement here Wednesday afternoon. And next comes our old friend, Thomas Fisher, the only red-headed manager in the league. And with him one of the neatest aggregations of ball players in the South—and one of the unluckiest. With an aggregation which looks like a first-division-sure team Fisher is down in next-to-last place. However, he nas a hard team to beat. Tuesday, over in Birmingham, the Pirates threw a double defeat into the Barons and at present the Shreveporters are go ing far too strong for comfort. The Shreveport team is the last of the Westerners—until September. Nashville finishes out the month here and Mont gomery performs the first three days of An gust. Unless something more tnun unexpected happens Atlanta ought to win a good majority of these games. And if she does and Memphis hAs a reasonable amount of hard luck then Atlanta ought to bit the rails in the last road trip with a fair lead. And the last whirl around the circuit will decide it. And maybe the decision will be our way. It ought to be, for Billy Smith has a good team and it is going strong now, despite the fact that the captain, O. Jordan, is laid up with a bum back. Birmingham wns the only Eastern team which lost Tuesday. But the Barons tried to make up by losing twice. Montgomery downed the Arkansas Travelers, Nashville won out over New Orleans, and, well, what Atlanta did to Memphis was a large and sultry sufficiency. They talk about Zeller and say he is weak-hearted, but if ever a man pitched an up-hill game Zeller did it Tuesday. Error followed error all around him, everything broke wrong; he was in hot water from the time the game started until it ended. When things looked the worst and Bill Smith sent a pitcher out to warm up the Memphis players loudly shrieked and called Zeller’s attention to the fact that a substitute was being prepared. But through it all Zeller pitched steadily, fielded his position neatly and was marvelously good in the pinches. If it had not been for errors he would have had n shut-out. As it was, he pitched a courageous, up-hill game in the face of support which would have taken the heart out of any pitcher. Same Old Story—Atlanta Bowlers Win With Ease ATLANTANS WIN BY NOSE The Atlanta team crowded leas base ball and more excitement Into that one game yesterday than on almost any other occasion this year. The Crackers have made a specialty this year of winning out by a whisker In. the last Inning, with two down and the weakest batter up. Nothing In the way of pulling out of holes has been too hard for them. And usually they do It In the last of the game. But yesterday they took the lead In PICK-UP TEAM MATCH IS GOLFING EVENT OF WEEK A pick-up golf team match Is slated for Saturday afternoon 'over the East Lake course of the Atlanta Athletic Club, which promises to be one of. the most interesting events of the year. W. K. Stone and W. R. Tlchenor, both members of the handlcaplng com mittee, selected teams and these will meet In a big match. Probably fifty players will take part In the event. The conditions as arranged by the handlcaplng committee are as follows: All matches to be at lS-holo match play, the team winning the largest to tal number of holes wins the match. Entrance fee, two golf balls, ticket for same, to be signed at buffet In boat house before starting. Players taking art In team matches may start at any lour Saturday next prior to 3:30 p. m. Players are requested to communicate with their opponents as shown by names opposite and arrange time for starting matches. If for any reason a player named In the list below Is un able to take part In the team match, he Is requested to please report promptly to the captain of his team. Division of the balls won by the winning team to be made equally among players constituting such team. Players who desire to take part In the team match who have not been as signed an opponent will please report to the captain of their team. No threesomes nor foursomes will be allowed on the course Saturday after noon during the progress of this team match. Captain of the Captain of the following team: following team: F. O. Byrd against Joe Tllson P. T. Mayre against 0. D. Street S. C. Williams against. .Thos. B. Payne F. W. Stone against H. Clay Moore Brutus Clay against H. A. Palmer C. H. Strong against. .Dowdell Brown S. C. Dinkins against Percy E. Huger Oeorge Adair against... .W. H. Green L. D. Scott agnlnst Ralph Reed F. M. Laxton against ..C. A. Langston W. B. Stovall against......B. M. Grant Harry Hall against C. P. King H. J. Hopkins against..C. W. Phillips H. E. Bussey against... .F. M. Mikell Clarence Ruse.against... .Miss Brown J. N. Goddard against .... Stuart Boyd W. B. Holleyman against, .S. T. Tupper, Jr. H. V. D. Allen against S. B. Naif Edward Barnett against. .A. H. Haynes Foster Fitzsimmons against F. R. Hoyt H. M. Ashe against. .John C. Wheatley Clyde King against... .A. T. E. Brown Carlton Smith against....A. S. Adams H. W. Ladd against... .Arthur Clarke IHHMIMMtMtHMtl Standing of the Clubs. CLUB&- Memphla . . ATLANTA __ New Orleans ..... 81 Little Kock 84 Nashville 88 Shreveport 80 Birmingham ...... 83 Montgomery 87 CLUB®— Jacksonville 87 Charleston 87 Macon 87 Augusta 86 Southern. Flayed. Won, Lost. P. C. . . . 82 49 33 .698 84 24 .286 Cotton States. CLUBS- Pltyed. Won. Lost. P. C. Mobile 88 66 33 .625 Jackson 83 46 37 .654 Gulfport 88 47 41 .534 Meridian 88 45 43 .511 Vicksburg Columbus 22 64 .256 The Atlanta bowling team added an other Ylctory to Ite long list Tuesday ■ night by decisively defeating the Oeor- | gla Railway team by the ecore ot SOI pine on the latter's alleys. A large number were preeent and witnessed some good work. It la understood that the Georgia Railway team will challenge the At lanta team for another series of games and endeavor to show the Atlanta team up. The scores of Tuesday night's same* are as follows: Atlanta. 1. 2. Elliott .. .. .. .. .. . 173 175 Fagan 173 163 Herbert 185 163 Irvin 185 173 Hobe 166 127 Georgia Railway, 1. 2. Hurt 216 127 Chambers ; 142 175 West 166 202 Lyons 162 137 GEORGE 8UGGS. Here Is a life-like Imitation of Suggs, one of the best but unluck iest pitchers In the league. George lost n tough-luck game to Atlanta Tuesday. National. Played. Won. Lost P. C. . . . 84 82 22 .738 Gordon Man May Play With Vandy Special te The Georgian. Naahvllle, Tenn., July 34.—Vander bilt'. football proepecta have hit ni. awful slump, now that hot weather te here. In addition to the fact that 8. W. P. U. of Clarksville, Tenn., and Wabaah have cancelled their contracts. It Is learned positively that (lwsley Manter, last year's full bock, will not return; that Edwin Noel, If back, will be In eligible, and that Ed Hamilton will not return. However. Vanderbilt la counting on some strong recruits. 14*>mlnent among them Is Williams, from Gordon Insti tute, at Barnesvtlle. This man Is one of the best prep school players In the South, and would make a great record with the Commodores. England Loses Tennis Trophy London. July 34.—Great Brltnln lost he Davis cup. the International tennis rophy. to the Australian tennis play- irs Tuesday aftsrnoon. The deciding natches were played Tuesday. A. W. lore. British Isles, won three sets to ine from A. F. Wilding, of Australia, rhe scores were 3-3, 6-3, 7-5. 6-3. The fngllsh hopes were crushed In the last ingles event, however, when Normon 3 Brooks, of Australia, defeated 11. toper Barrett. British Isles, by tha core of 6-3, 6-0 and 6-1. CUTHBERT WINS AND LOSE8. pedal to Tbs Georgian. Cuthbert, Oa.. July 34.—Monday's ine went to Cuthbert by a score of to 3. Blakely turned the tables and ron Tuesday's game by the score of te 1, after eleven hard-fought In- ilnge: _ _ _ Score by Innings: R.H.B. Haktly. . . .000 000 001 01— 1 4 0 luthbert . . .000 00i 000 00— 150 Batteries—Irwin and Whlstner; Cnlghton and Floyd. The deciding game will be played Vednesday. EXCITEMENT SHORT-LIVED Macon Scored Three Runs in First—Then Nothing Happened. NAT KAISER & CO. IONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. Oeestur St. Kimball House, laraalns In Unredeemed Diamonds Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga., July 34.—In the second game of the eerlee with Augusta, Macon scored three runs In the first Inning, and they were all which crossed the plate during the entire game. With two men on boaes, Wohlleben lined one over left field fence, scoring the three runs of the game. "Wild Bill" Clarke held down the rubber for Macon, and only allowed four bite. Ho pitched a good came of ball and was stssdy throughout tha en tire game. This afternoon's game winds up the gamee at home for some time, as the locals take to the road for the next six games, playing three at Jacksonville and three at Charleston. Meeon. Murdoch, cf. . LI pc, 3b. . . Houston, If. . . Wohlleben. lb. Rhoten, 3b. . . Harris, rf. . . Pepe, as. . . Robinson, 0. .. Clarke, p. . . Totals .... Augusts. Crosier, If. . , Blermxn.es. . Bender, rf. . Dexter, lb. . . Kustus, rf. . McKernan, rf. Bush, Sb. . . , Carson, c. . . . Lakoft, p. . . , Kembrtck. , , . 1 1 Totals . .33 7 34 Score by Innings: Macon 300 000 00»—3 Augusta 000 000 000—0 Summary: r.eft on bases, Macon 5. Augusta 13; struck out, by Clarke 6, Lakoft 10: bases on balls, olf Clarke 1, Lakolf 3; home run, Wohlleben; three- base hit, Rhoten; stolen bases, Llpe, Dexter and Bush; sacrifice hit. Bush. Time, 3 hours. Umpire, Brody. MEMPHIS VERSUS ATLANTA Special to The Georgian. Nashville, Ga., July 34.—The married and single men played another game here Tuesday afternoon. The married men won the came by tbe unmerciful JilLY 22, 23, 24. TUESDAY LADIES' DAY. GAMES CALLED AT 4 P, M. score cf 13 to i msmm ths third and hald It to the end. But! they gave their backers heart disease while they were doing it When Memphis made two runs In the second It looked like the finish right there. Both runs resulted from errors and the team seemed on the blink. Then came the festive fourth. Dyer singled—or anyway the ball went down by Babb and Charley missed It and It went out Into the field, allowing Dyer to reach first. Zeller fanned, and then George Suggs got his bumps. Becker alngled, Winters trtppled and scored on a balk. Paskcrt was hit by a pitched ball and stole second. Then Smith singled, scoring Poskert. Net result, four runs for Atlanta. This looked like the game sure for the Crackers. But a bad error was made by the Atlantans In the sixth, another In the seventh, and still another In the eighth. This one In the seventh let a man go safe, who afterwards scored. And the score stood 4 to 3 at the end of the seventh. In the eighth the very first man up lived on an error, but Zeller managed to hold thlnge safe tor the rest of the Inning. In the ninth the second man up sin gled, and It looked like trouble for fair. But Zeller was there again and retired the side. It was Zeller's game all right. Only once before this eeason—on that eventful day over In Shreveport, May 13, when the Crackers uncorked six errors—has there been any such exM billon of sloppy fielding. About all the Crackers did In the way of assisting Zeller was to yell encour agement and to bat like fiends In the third Inning. Otherwise their exhibition was the coldeat kind of a frost But anyway Atlanta won. and that was what the enormoue bunch of fans who turned out wanted. The Babblers, despite their two er rors, played a much-improved gome. Their speed was about a hundred per cent faster than on Monday, and they pulled olf some nice fielding stunts. Suggs pitched his uaunt unlucky game. He allowqtl the Cracker* ’es» hits than Memphis made and In his support there were only two errors, neither of which cut any figure In the scoring, while Atlanta players made five error* and three of them resulted In run*. But still Georgia did not get away with It. The game was one of the most nota ble of the season In the way of wrang ling. FJdrldge. with the kind asatatanc* of J. Ira Davis, managed to umpire on balls and strikes and got away with It fairly well. But eomehow a lot of close BARNESVILLE WINS. Special to The Georgian. Washington. Ga.. July 24.—The Barnesvllle aggregation ot ball tossers took tho first of the series of games from the home team Tuesday by the score of 5 to i. The visitors hit op portunely and were elded by the costly errors of the Washington boys. The game waa well played at ah times and a large crowd witnessed the exhi bition. Batteries—For Washington. Thur mond and Jackson; for Barnesvllle, Lamar and Lee. MARRIED MEN WIN. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. YESTERDAY’8 RESULT8. Southern, Atlanta 4, Memphis 3. Montgomery 7, Little Rock 8. Shreveport 4, Illrmlnghsm 3 (first gsms). Shreveport 4, Birmingham 4 (second game). Nashville A New Orleans 5, South Atlantlo. Macon 3, Augusts 0. Charleston 6, Cnlnmbta 0, Jacksonville 3, Savannah I. American. Cleveland 8, Washington 0. Batters On Trail Of The Spit Ball Detroit July 24.—"They're overdoing the spltball thing and killing It," said Norman Elberfeld after the game to day. "Take It from me. we’ll be hit ting the spltball all over the lot by the end of the year. We have worked out a system to beat It, but aa It haa not passed the experimental stage 7et won't say what lines we are working on. But we'll solve It yet, mark my word. Before they began to break the spltter two ways It was not such a hard problem. NowJ with apparently the same delivery, lMns likely to break either toward you or away from you. "We're getting so much practlco at hitting the delivery, with every team carrying one or two spltball pitchers, that we'll have a system down pat to beat It before the year Is over—then they can forget the talk of legislating against It. There are plenty of pitch ers using the spltball, and about four or five who know exactly what to do with It. 'Walsh, Llebhardt, Orth, Howell and Dygert are about the best spltballlsts In the business. Walt till fall and see where the pitchers will bo who have nothing to bank on but the spltter— that’s all.” Stockdale was fading fine when the train left for Atlanta last night "I never felt so confident of winning," he said, speaking of his chances In At lanta. The gray fox firmly believes he can fix the Georgians to satisfy the Memphll taste. He says he likes to pitch on the grounds. He Is to work In the opening game of the series against Castlston.—Memphis Commerclol-Ap- ptsL MEMPHIS WIND-UP COMES WEDNESDAY Shreveport Team Finishes Out the Week. Nashville and Montgomery. Next Week’s Victims. With the lost game of the Memphis series out of the way, as It will be Wednesday night, the local fans can sit down In calm contentment and watch tho Crackers Improve their standing In the league race, by haihmerlng Shrove- port, Nashville and Montgomery around at will. Spado or Ford will probably be the Atlanta twlrler In the closing game., Sweeney will catch and Sid Smith will again appear at second. Otto Jordan Is Improving nlcsly, but It will be the latter part of the week before he will be In shape to work. The rumor that Paskert hod been sold to Cincinnati, hit town Tuesday, but It Is discredited by the Atlanta management. "Cincinnati Is only one of a number of clubs which are nfter Paskert.” said Billy Smith. "The Cincinnati scout, and O'Brien for Cleveland, arc the only men who have been down this way vet. But we have had sheaves of telegram.- Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburg are three clubs which are especially strong to get him. "But nothing definite has been done,” says Bill. “We shall give them all a chance. It wouldn’t do to sell to the first man who comes along, ire have got to let him go. for If we don't sell him they will draft him sure. But we propose to get the highest price." Rumor has It that Schopp, who was called back from Augusta, will go to Macon. This Is not confirmed at head quarters, but it Is announced that decision about Schopp will be reached about the end of the week. The little southpaw has not been re-slgncd by Atlanta. . Some uncertainty seemed lo exist In the minds of fans Tuesday In regard to the play that scored Winters from third. There was not much epecula- tlon about how he got theifc He hit the neatest three-bagger of the year, bending the ball over third base with a curve that sent It against the bleachers and would have sent It to home-run territory except for tno stand. But right after thla play Suggs dropped the ball and Umpire Eld ridge, after a consultation with Umpire Da vis, sent the player over the pan Itt run. This play was a balk, because Suggr made a motion while In position to deliver the ball to the bat. without de livering It. Instead of soaking the ball across the plate Suggsy let It slip from his hand and over by second bane. On last year’s rules the men could not have scored from third on the play, but under "the National Assoctatlon'e rules, os Interpreted by President Kav- anaugh, etc," he came home with i run. er. M Geor7e7 InCh th * b<U1 a ,H,le Uffh '* Manager Smith asks that It be nounced that a gold "B. H 8 l#o«- stlck pin was found Tuesday at the ben park. The owner can aecure It by on. plying at the park. y p ■ Perry Line's Macon team put It an over Dick Crozler's Augusta club Tum day afternoon In Macon, "Wild RID* Clarke, the former Southern League slabman, held tho Augustans aafely o all times, and never was he In dancer of losing the contest. The final acori was; Macon 3, Augusta 0. Jacksonville defeated Savannah Tuesday by the score of 2 to 1. MuU laney's team played good ball and th# Savannah club never was In the run ning. Stultx pitched for Jaekaonvliu and Kelber for Savannah. Charleston defeated Columbia 6 to « Paige held Columbia down easily and won his game with little or no trouble fl hwenk pitched a good game for Co- lfmbln, but waa unable to win because ot the Indifferent playing of the Co- lumbla team. Brooklyn defeated Cincinnati Tuei- day afternoon by the ecore of 2 to 0. The Trolley Dodgers Just across tba river from New York have been play- Ing great ball for the last two weeks. Out of the laat 11 games Brooklyn hu won 10 and lost 1. McIntyre, the former Memphis slab- man. pitched good ball for the Trolley Dodgers, and had the Reds at Ills mer cy. He gave up only 6 hits. The New York Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs yesterday afternoon by the score of 1 to 0 In a ten-inning game. Ames, of the Giants, pitched a good game and h e was opposed by the »-eat and only Three-Fingered Brown. Ames won his game in handy style and he had the Cuba guessing at all times. WAYNE8BORO WINS. Special to The Georgian. Waynesboro, Ga, July 24.—In an eleven-inning game Tuesday afternoon Waynesboro defeated Tennllle by tbs score of 7 to 6. The game waa c the most exciting contests ever played on the local diamond and was full I surprises. Wilson, for the locals, pitched fine ball and won his own con's with a hit In the eleventh Inning. Hartley pitched a good game for tin visitors. FREE PRIZE i National. Boston 5. Pittsburg S. S ew York 1, Chicago 0. rooklyn 2, Cincinnati 0. Cotton States. Gnlfport 4, Columbus 0. City 5, Toledo 2 (first came). , Knnane City 8 (second game), lul 4. Virginia State. Norfolk L Portsmouth 0. Richmond 8, Roanoke 2. NEWBORN DEFEAT8 RUTLEDGE. Speclnl to The Georgian. Newborn, Ga., July 24,—A pretty game of ball waa played here Friday between Newborn and Rutledge, which the vlMtora were defeated by a ■core of 9 to 4. decisions came up and there waa con« alderable wrangling. Here Is all that figures can show: You Get This Set Free If You Buy m TO EVERY customer r QU T^&FECJ A IT TO l LET Given Free To Every Buyer to the Amount of m Total. 36 Atlanta. ab. Becker, rf. . . 4 Winters, cf. . . . 1 Paskert, If. ... 3 Smith, 2b. ... 4 Sweeney, c. . .3 Fox. lb. .... 3 Castro, ss . . . 3 Dyer, 3b. . . .3 Zeller, p. . . . 3 15 Totals 33 4 Score by Innings: Memphis .020 000 100—3 Atlanta 004 000 00*—4 Hits by innlngs: Memphts 011 020 301—3 Atlanta 004 110 01*—7 Summary: Three-base hits. Hurl- burt. Winters; stolen base. Paskert; sacrifice hits. Carter. Winters; double plays, Richards to Corey, James th Carey; base on bolls, off Zeller 1, Sugg* l; hit by pitched boll, Suggs (Paskert): struck out. by Zeller 5 (Richards 2. Manning. Suggs. James), by Sugg* 5 {Becker, Zeller, Paskert. Sweeney,. Fox; balk, Suggs; wild pitch. Suggs. Time of game, 3:10. Umpires, Eldrldge and Davis. Given Away Free All This Week. A few weeks ago we offered these Chamber Sets as a free gift to every buyer of $40 or more. There wassuch a tremendous demandour supply gave out in a day or two after the offer was made. We at once ordered another lot and the first ship ment has just got in. We take pleasure in offering you, beginning on Wednesday morning, this beautiful 10-piece set, absolutely Free of Charge. OUR OFFER This week we will give away absolutely free to our customers 100 beautiful China Cham ber Sets. 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