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16 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1907. CRACKER TEAM FAST CLOSING IN ON THE MEMPHII SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING IIINIMIMlWNItHNNIINIIII NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS On Monday it did not seem possible. But it has actually happened. > Memphis has lost two games in a row, Atlanta has won two and the Crackers are exactly one and one-half games behind Mem phis. If Memphis loses that last* game to Little Rock nnd Atlanta takes the last game from Nashville the Crackers will be but half a game behind. Then comes a shift in league line-ups. Montgomery comes to Ponce DeLeon and Memphis mov^s on to Shreveport. The local players therefore get a crack at the easiest team in the East, while Memphis draws the official “pudding” of the West. But Atlanta plays at home and Memphis is on the road. And that makes a difference. If all goes well this week Saturday night ought to find Atlan ta leading the league. It may not turn out that way, but then again it may. And the fans are certainly worked up to feverish expectancy over the prospect. Next week it is not going to be such a picnic. Atlanta hits the road for some little side-trips about the East, playing first in Birmingham and then in Nashville. Memphis plays New Orleans in the Crescent City, August 4, 5 and 6, and then goes home for four games with Shreveport. The New Orleans games will be no cinch for Memphis. Since the Pelicans and the Bluffers hnve stopped losing any love between each other there is a certainty of hard-fought battles when they get together. There is no team in the league that the cohorts of C. Prank would bo any more delighted to beat than their erstwhile friends from the Bluff City, and blood, hair, fists and profanity are likely to fly over in Memphis. One thing that is going to help through the rest of the sea son is that several clubs in the league would rather beat Babb than draw a pension. New Orleans and Nashville may be num bered in that outfit and in fact the "chestiness” of Babb’s team has lost it friends all around the circuit. CASTLETON VS. YERKES These Are Probable Pitch ers in Wednesday’s Game. PRICE FOR PASKERT BROKE ALL RECORDS Mayor Joyner Will Proba bly Accompany Team on Final Trip. It looks like Castleton against Yorkos tin Wednesday's battle between the Dobbera and the Crackera. But, then, again It may be Mackenala agalnat Perdue. Neither manager la quite certain which alabater will bear the brunt (If any) of the battle. Wella will catch for Nashville, not only because he la a'star, but likewise because he la the only available catch er. Hardy, the other backstop, la work- id Smith will catch for Atlanta If Mackensle works. If Castleton goes In Sweeney may take a turn. DOBBER THIRD BASEMAN. M Standing of the Clubs. CLUBS— Memphis. . • ATLANTA. . N *• "• < >rl**nn«. Little Hock. • Hinnlnifhnm . Nashville. . . Shreveport. . Montgomery . 8outh Atlsntio. Charleston 91 65 Jacksonville. .* .... 98 54 Macon. .91 27 64 .297 American. Played. Won. Lost P. C. ~ " .607 .0- jm .v:. 86 34 .414 61 .400 National, Played. Won. Lost P. C, M’ELEVEEN. Here Is the speedy third base- man of the Nashville team. He has been putting up a good game all the year and his hitting has been tlnpely. Nrtv York M Philadelphia 84 Brooklyn ....... 91 guilty of having kept mum about how young he really Is. But he now swears that those are the figures. That makes him the youngest catcher and pre sumably the youngest player In the Southern League. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Nashville In Atlanta, Ponce DeLeon park. Game called st 4n. m. 4 Montgomery In Birmingham, fthrereport In New Orleans. Memphis In Little Rock. Weldon Henley, the Atlanta boy who Atlantaplays her last August games at home August 12, 13 and 14. Then she goes on the road for a trip which finishes up the month. JUST DOPE. Good. Gu.rry, .porting editor of The Ravnnmh Morning Newa, haa picked an all South Atlantic League team, which b^says would almost beat any regular team In the Southern League today. Guerry has picked a strong team from the Hally League, one which In all probability would make Southern League team - hustle to win flrat honors. The members of the testa fol low: Wohlleben, lb.; Logan, 2b.; Morrla. M.; Llpe, 8b.; Robinson and Kahlkoff, c.; Rnftery, If.; Howard, cf.; Murdoch, rf.; Sarldgc, Raymond nnd Helm, p. There will be quite a rivalry for the honor of representing the Cincinnati club on Bowlera' day In the base running event Hujggtna, Lobert, Odwell, Mitchell nnd Kru ger all have it chance, and Pnskerf, the Atlanta recruit may cut In also. The en try In this event will hnve to lie decided by test. Pnakert may also be chosen for tne long distance throwing contest.—Cin* clnnntl Enquirer. 0O000OO0OOOO0O00 OO00OOOOOO $ . RESERVE LIST OF THE O WESTERN ELECTRIC8. O Captain 8tll«s, of tha Western 8 Electric Company's team, of the O O the following men for places on O his reserve list: O 0 Stiles.-Cook, King, Jackson, 0 0 Keetlng, Brown, Bnelllngs. Jones, 0 — ----- — ■ > A 0 Howell, Galloway, Sears, Hulsey, 0 0 Almond. • 0 O00000000000000000000O0O0O BRUNSWICK WIN8. Special to Tlie Georgian. Brunswick Go., July 1.—The Bruns wick baseball club defeated a team from Waycross Friday and Saturday at thla place. Friday's gome was a pretty exhibition, resulting In a score of 3 to 3. Tho game Saturday was listless and full of errors. Boon 6 to I. ATLANTA vs. NASHVILLE July 29, 39, 31. Games Galled at 4 p. m. , A close Investigation Into league rec ords leads Atlanta fans to take back an exception mode when It was an nounced that the price paid for Paskert was the largest given up for any Southern player, except pitchers. This exception was made to let In Llebhardt. But Memphis now admits that she received only $3,000 for the young Dutchman, and the Paskert price— 33,260—stands os the Southern record. Is now with the Rochester team, holds the strlke-out record of the league. He put an even doxen men to the bod In one game this season. Mnyor Joyner, who Is the deeneet dyed-ln-the-wool fan In Atlanta, will probably make all or part of the laet round of the circuit with the Atlanta team. "I haven't hod any vacation lately, 1 said the mayor Wednesday morning, "and I think I shall take mine that way.” Bill Holler has been releoeed by Mike Finn, of the Little Bock team, and Walters, a left-hander, has been signed. This gives the Travelers a brace of southpaws. Manager Smith asks that It be an nounced that a large number of arti cles—on empty purse, a pair of cuff buttons, some umbrellas and a few things like that—have been found at Ponce DeLeon Park lately, and that they will be returned to the ownera If they will ask for them at the box office. The annual "orphans' day" will be given by the Atlanta baseball club on Thursday. Through the courtesy of President Chambers, all members of the orphans’ homes In and around At lanta will ba admitted free to Thurs day's game. Only orphans accompa- tho homss will be allowed to enter. They will be passed In through the carriage gate and will be seated In the east end of the smokers. Ed Sweeney Is 19 years oldl He reached that advanced age July There hoe been a lot of discussion over the matter, and Sweeney pleads The feet of holding the Nashville team down to seven hits In two games which was performed by Ford and Spade Tuesday wak rendered especially notable by the fact that Nlcholls and Wells, of the Nashville team, are the second and third best' batter In the league and can generally ram the ball to the woods whenever necessary. YE8TERDAY’8 RESULT8. Southern. Atlanta 3, Nashville 1 (flrat game). Atlanta 3, Nashville 1 (second game). Little Rock S, Memphis 4. New Orleans 4, Shreveport 1. STONY OF GAMES Montgomery - - South Atlantto. Augusta 2, Jacksonville 1. Charleston I, Macon 0. Columbia 2, Savannah 1. "I believe that Wells Is the most scientific batter In the league," said Manager Dobbs of him. "You can talk about Willie Keeler and the rest of them, but I have yet to see a man who has anything on our 'Kid.' "He can hit any kind of a ball, can place It where he pleases and his bunt ing Is marvelously good. It Is prac tically Impossible to tell whether he Is going to Jay one down or hit It 1 got used to him 1 used out. Before to get mad every time he went to bat with ordets to bunt. Ha would grab hla bat os though he was- going to slam It a mile. And then. Just aa I got ready to cuss because he hit It out, he would change his grip and drop the ball right In front of the plate. “You can all have your other catch ers, but I.il take Wells for mine. I think he Is the most valuable all-round catcher In the league." OXFORD DEFEATED. Emory College, Oxford, Oa., July 31. In a close and exciting game played on the Weber athletic field yesterday aft ernoon, the Emory College Summer School team defeated Oxford by a score of 3 to 2. Summer School. .000 101 30*— 3 7 5 Oxford 100 100 000— 2 4 3 Batteries—For Summer School, Deen Nstlonsl, Pittsburg 12, Boston 2. Chicago 7. Brooklyn fl. New York 11, Ht. Imuls 6. Cincinnati t, Philadelphia 0. Cotton 8tatos. Mobile 6, Meridian 1. Vicksburg 4, Jackson 3. Vicksburg 4. Jackson 3. Gulfport-columbus, no game. Virginia State, Roanoke 3, Danville 0. Portsmouth 4, Lynchburg 3. Norfolk 3, Richmond 1. American Association. Indianapolis 5, Louisville 0 (flrat game). jiiuiMunpuiiB u, uuumtiiip u mini gnuin;. Louisville 13, Indianapolis 2 (second game). Minneapolis 2, Kansas City 0 (flrat game). Minneapolis 4, Kansas City 3 (second game). and Sharp; for Oxford, Donnell and Robert*. Summary—Three-baso hit, Roberts; struck out, by Deen 8,- by Bonnoll 6; banes on balls, oft Deen 1, off Bonnell ‘ Umpire, Price. The Cohen ontflslder, Pardons, who pitch ed such star hall In tho South Atlantic, Is tub leads the fait organisation. Padrone Nashville batters couldn’t hit the Cracker pitchers here yest*rd«« and In consequence lost both games of the double-header with Atlanta” The scores were 4 to 1 and 3 to 1. "• In the two games the Dobbers made the alarmingly slim tots] t hit*. Ford gave up only 5 In the first and Spade coughed up *^ n it,, second gome. • , Ine Home few errors to the contrary notwithstanding, It was a brilliant fielding game. The players on both teams got away .witn' some bhanom enal stunts, and tho Nashville players put up an especial effort to mau. by swell fielding for their weakness at the bat. ae up In the opening game Ford and Sid Smith worked for Atlanta ..a Elmer Duggan and Wells for Nashville. The little ex-Atlanta soil Gin.™ did well, except In the third Inning, and there a bit of rough work h... him. Becker was the first man up nnd he singled. Winters nulled his usual neat sacrifice and Paskert followed with a short slnrle to aa- ter field. Dobbs fielded the ball In wall and Becker had 'to slide' for it" but ho scored. He nnd Wells bumped at the plate and both were In th. dust for a minute, but neither was hurt 118 Sid Smith came next and sent a little Texas Leaguer back of third base. McCormick landed the ball and threw to McEleveen, who tried to relay It to the plate. But he threw wild and Paskert scored easily a wild pitch then let Sid Smith home and the game was on the pork for Nashrnis ■ The Crackers scored one more run in the first game. Jordan slnrUd was sacrificed by Fox and advanced to third by Castro, who singles Then Otto and the Count worked tho double steal in swell style and Jnr dan came home. Nichols was the man who stood off tha shutout In the first earn. With one down In the seventh, he slnrled, advanced on Carr's out and scored when McEleveen hit a one-bagger. ' The sefond game found Spade and Sweeney, the Sally League bat tery, working for Atlanta. Sorrell and Wella did a similar stunt for th» Tennesseans. And things looked pretty good for Nashville for several innings With one down In the third. Hardy was hit by a pitched ball, Sorrell was an easy ouf, but Wells hit a warm one which Jordan missed. The little catcher was safe at flrat and Hardy ditto on third. Then came the double steal and Hardy scored. Wells fell down when midway between the bases, but the Crackers were busy watching Hardy score and did not bother him. The Dobbers pulled out of bad holes in the first, second and fourth Innings, but then the strain was too great. In the fifth Spade and Becker, the first men up, were easy outs, win ters then walked, after which Paskert, Cincinnati's 13.260 purchase slammed a home run" to left field and with the assistance of his sensa tional base running, two runs were tallied. Sweeney and Jordan followed with hits, but nothing more happened. Atlanta's only other run came as a result of Castro’s homer In the eighth. The Count soaked what looked like a single fo left field. He was loafing to first when the ball took a bad bound over Wiseman’s head and rolled to deep left field. • Castro then put on steam and scored. The scores follow: FIRST GAME. Nashville, ab. r. h. Wells, c. . . . 4 0 2 Wiseman, If. . 3 0 0 Dobbs, cf. . . . 4 0 1 Nlcholls, rf. , . 4 1 1 Carr. 2b. ... 4 0 0 McEleveen, 3b. . 3 0 1 McCormick, ss.. 3 0 0 Hardy, lb 8 0 0 E. Duggan, p. . 3 0 0 po. a. e. Totals . , Atlanta. Becker, rf. Winters, cf. Paskert. if. Smith, c. . Jordan, 2b. Fox, lb.. .. Castro, ss. . Dyer, 3b. . Ford, p. . . .31 Nashville. Wells, c. . . Wiseman. If. . 4 Dobbs, cf. . . . 4 Nlcholls, rf. . . 4 Carr, 2b. . . .4 McEleveen, 3b. . 3 McCormick, ss. . 4 Hardy, lb. . . 1 Sorrell, p. , , . 3 8ECOND GAME. ab. r. h. po. a. 0 3 0 0 ab. r. h. po. a. e. Totals ... .29 4 7 27 14 1 Runs by Innings: Nashville 000 000 100—1 Atlanta 003 001 00*—4 Hits by Innings: Nashville 101 000 201—5 Atlanta ..013 002 10"—7 Summary: Stolen bases, Wiseman, Fox, Castro 2, Jordan; sacrifice hits, Winters, Fox, Smith; base on balls, off Ford 2. off E. Duggan 3; hit by pitched balls, Duggan (Winters); struck out, by Ford 3 (Hardy 2, E. Duggan), by E. Duggan 4 (Becker, Winters, Ford 2); wll(K pitches. E. Duggan. Time of game, 2:00. Umpire, Rudderham. Totals . . Atlanta. Becker, rf. Winters, cf. , Paskert, if. Sv+eeney. c. Jordan, 2b. Fox. lb. . Castro, ss. , Dyer, 3b. . Spade, p. , .30 1 2 24 7 0 ab. r. h. po. a e. 4 -0 0 1 11 27 Totals ... .34 Buns by innings: Nashville 001 000 000—1 Atlanta .. .. 000 020 01'—! Summary: Home runs, Paskert, Css- tro; stolen bases, Wells, Hardy, Dyer; sacrifice hits, Wiseman; double pl&jrs, Hardy to Wells to Hardy, Fox to Cas tro to Jordan, Wells to Carr; bases on balls, off Spade 3, Sorrell 3; hit by pitched balls, Spada (Hardy): struck out, by Spade 7 (McEleveen 3, Wise- our, oy spnue i (aicisieveen J, Wise man, Carr, Sorrell 2, Nichols), by Sor rell 2 (Becker, Paskert): wild pitch, Spade. Time of game, 1:65. Umpire Rudderham. left Jacksonville nfter musing much discus-1 HOT GAME 8URE. slon and criticism In this league. The - Jacksonville eluh was accused of signing a Special to The Georgian, plnysr with negro Mood In hit veins. This Ilogansrllle. (In.. July 31.—Ilogansrl they strenuously denied. The matter was I Mnnntvlllc piny here Thursday. Warm do settled by l’sdrone leaving the longue. He I Ings are anticipated, for the MonaMM la a fierce batsman.—Charleston Post J players have some old scores to settle. Emmons Great Mid-Summer Reduction Sale Begins Tomorrow “Emmons for Quality “Emmons for Quality ” The policy of this store is to never carry over clothing from one season to another—prices are sacrificed to clear out all styles at the end of every season in order to show you only the newest the next season. Tomorrow we begin our mid-sunuher clearance sale of Spring and Summer Clothing. Price reductions will prevail during the entire month of August. ' * You well know the meaning of an Enunon’s Clearance Sale for you—it’s an opportunity to get the highest known quality and at genuine cut prices. Just the season, too, when you need extra Trousers, or a now suit for the trip you’re about to take—or a fresh Straw or Panama Ilat. ’ i Good choosing for you in every line—and remember there’s three long months yet to wear Summer apparel. Come and share in these great values. Men’s Fancy All Men’s Boys’ Wool Mixed Suits Odd Trousers and Wash Suits One-Fourth Off One-Fourth Off One-Fourth Off Men’s two and three-piece sin- Men’s odd Trousers of this seas- .Bovs’ Wash Suits fresh and gle and double breasted sack Suits. on’s smartest styles and patterns clean, of this season’s best styles in all the new fancy mixtures of in smooth Worsted and Serge and' for boys 21-2 to 8—and wool suits smooth Worsted, fancy Serge and rough Cheviot materials—cream for all age’ boys up to 17 of new rough Cheviot woolens, one-fourth and striped Flannels, plain and and stylish patterns, all at one- off. roll-up bottoms. fourth off. $12.00 Suits, now . $9.00 $3.50 Trousers, now $2.65 $1.50 Suits, now. . .$1.15 15.00 Suits, now ..11.25 4.00 Trousers, now 3.00 2.00 Suits, now. '•..1.50 18.00 Suits, now ..13.50 5.00 Trousers, now 3.75 3.00 Suits, now. .. 2.25 20.00 Suits, now 15.00 6.00 Trousers, now 4.50 4.00 Suits, now. .. 3.00 25.00 Suits, now. ...18.75 7.00 Trousers, now 5.25 5.00 Suits, now. .. 3.75 30.00 Suits, now . .22.50 7.50 Trousers, now 5.66 6.00 Suits, now. .. 4.50 35.00 Suits, now . .26.25 8.00 Trousers, now 6.00 8.00 Suits, now. .. 6.00 Straw and Panama Hats At Half-Price Take .your choice of our entire stock of Straw and Panama Hats at half-price. Genuine Panamas in nice clean smooth braids, straws in stiff and soft brims in shapes for old and young men. $1.50 Hats, now.. .. 75c. 2.00 Hats, now.. . .$1.00 3.00 Hats, now.. .. 1.50 4.00 Hats, now.. .. 2.00 5.00 Hats, now.. .. 2.50 8.00 Hats, now.. .. 4.00 10.00 Hats, now.. .. 5.00 39 and 41 Men’s and Boys’ j Whitehall Street Outfitters 32 and 34 South Broad St.