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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2,1907
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
Atlanta is now one game behind Memphis and the leader
ship of the league.
The victory of Memphis over Shreveport and the tieing up of
the local game cost Atlanta a half game.
But at that, the race is very close. And don’t overlook the
fact.
If Atlanta wins Friday’s game and Memphis loses, the
Crackers are then tied with the Chesties for the leadership.
We’ll have to admit that Manager Mnlnrkey was a little
too good on Thursday.
But we are happy in the belief that ho hasn’t any other twirl-
ers on his staff who can do as well.
And with three games against his Pretzels in two days, At
lanta ought to pull up a bit.
Our friend Thomas Fisher and his team of Pirates nearly put
a crimp in Memphis. Charley Shields proved a shade better
than Gordon Ilickman—or, anyway, the Memphis man got the
better support and won.
Saturday's dotible-hender winds up tho present stay-at-
home of the Cracker team. On Sunday night they hit the tics
and from that time until Labor Day, barring August 12, 13 and
14, the teBm is on the road.
This last road trip is going to tell the story. All Atlanta
fans hoped that the Crackers could get so far in front during
the stay-at-home now ending that there would be a slight surplus
of “games won” left to draw on during tho rond trip. But tel
ler’s being down and nearly out and more or less hard luck com
bined to hold the Crackers down so that the' end of the stay-at-
home spell finds the Crackers battling hard for the leadership.
HARD GAMES AHEAD FOR PITCHERS;
CRACKER STAFF WORKED TO LIMIT
With Zeller Out of Game the
Other Three Must Travel
Some.
Local Players Charge That
Nye Is Too Rough With
Spikes.
With a game scheduled for' Friday
and two Saturday, and Rube Zeller
laid up for a while. It looks aa though
the local pitcher* would get plenty pf
work thl* week.
Ford Is due to work Friday, and
It will be Spade and McKenxIe Sat
urday. The Animated Gimlet will get
two gamen pretty cloae together, but
he I* flt and doea not mind.
Next week, fortunately, there are
no double-headers scheduled tor the
Crackers. The following week, how
ever, there will be two. On Monday,
August 12, there will be a double-
header at Ponce DeLeon with Bir
mingham and at Montgomery another
Is to be played, probably on Friday.
However, by that time both Rube
Zeller and Hid Smith ought to be back
In the game, and the battery pressure
will be relieved.
This lonj? August trip is going to be critical. If the Crackers
can hold near enough to the top so that they are within striking
distance when they return home, then look out for fireworks in
September. But unless they break pretty nearly even on the
road there will bo no heading Memphis, even after we get them
back in the East again.
Emmons’
Mid-Summer
Clearance Sale
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Odd Trousers
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If Nye, the Montgomery second
basoman. does not reform his tactics
there In liable to be a spiking match
down around second base Friday or
Saturday that will rival anything the
Memphis und Nashville teams have
thus far put up.
Atlanta players charge that In
Thursday's game Nye deliberately
spiked Becker and that after he block
ed Paskert In the twelfth Inning, he
deliberately stood on Paskert's arm
with his spikes.
From tho press box these outbursts
of brutality were .not apparent, but
It was obvious that Nye blocked Pas
kert off second.
This Is bad business any way you
take It, and not to be encouraged.
Malnrkey Is not the kind of a man to
stand for such playing by his men,
and It Is up to him to stop It. If he
doesn’t Nye nmy as well prepare for
the consequences.
ATLANTAN IN COTTON STATES
, President Knvnnaugh evidently In
tend. to have the player limit enforced.
In sfilfe of hi. protestations that It I.
being enforced, made recently In At
lanta, he ha. Issued a bulletin calling
for the enforcement of the rule. In It
he nay.;
"Managers seem to have an Idea
that they can 'play a man In five game,
without signing him, but thl. It. not
the case. In the future any club play
ing a man who Is not signed to a con
tract or one who.e signing they have
not wired me will forfeit all game. In
which ho plays."
—Photo by Larry Hoffman.
JIM I80N. .
Here la a picture of an Atlanta boy who la now playing groat ball at
second base for the Jackson team, of the Cotton States League.
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The New York Globe hands out this
nice little line of talk about "Rube*
Zeller;
In "Rube" Zeller, the pitcher who haa
been purchased from the Atlanta team,
Southern League critics see a future
big league star. Zeller Is a big right
hander who has a "spit ball” that
makes him feared by all teams In Dixie.
He won some fame this spring by
being the first pitcher to strike out
Willie Keeler.
To Zeller and Roy Castleton, the
southpaw loaned to Atlanta by Grif
fith, Is due most of the credit for keep
ing the Atlanta team well up In the
Southern League race. Both will Join
the Yankees for spring training at
Atlanta next year. Last season It was
Tom Hughes, another Yankee, now
pitching for the Montreal team, and
Zeller who kept the Crackers up among
tho leaders. They were among the
leading pitchers of the league.
When the Yankees were training In
Atlanta this spring, several of the At
lanta boys mode good Impressions. An
outfielder named Pnskert, with an arm
like George Rrowne’s and a good bat
ting eye. looked very promising. He
has been purchased by the Cincinnati
Club. Sid Smith, a hard hitting young
catcher, goes to the Philadelphia Ath
letics.
KID8 CHALLENGED.
Sporting Editor of The Georgian;
I desire a challenge for a boxing
match for the lightweight 15-year-old
championship of the city at the weight
of 105 pounds. I would like to get a
match for August or September.
HENRY BOLTON.
The Commercial League season Is
drawing to a close. And It's a peach
of a close, all right.
The Sun Proofs, the Beck A Gregg
team and the M. Kuts bunch are clus
tered right around the top, and It Is
possible for any one of them to do as
much as tie for first place at the fin
Ish.
For the Kutx, team to get a look-in
It must win both Its games, while the
Sun Proofs must lose both theirs. And
as this is not likely to happen, the
Kutx team Is \o be regarded seriously
only as a contender for second place.
But Beck A Gregg and the Sun
Proofs are closer together.
The hardware team has a postponed
game, and If It wins that and Its two
remaining scheduled games it will have
eleven won and four lost
If the Sun Proofs win one and lose
one they will be tied with the Beck A
Gregg bunch. If they lose both Man
ager Bell's team will cop the rag.
The critical game Saturday will be
the Sun Proofs vs. the Western Elec
trics. The league’s newcomers are
strong, and If they can down the
painters they may change the complex
ion of the league race quite decidedly.
Here Is the standing of the clubs;
8TANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Played. Won. Lost. P.C.
Sun Proofs . . .1*
Beck A Gregg . .12
M. Kuts .... .13
Westsrn Electric. 12
L. A N IS
Koca Kolas ... .13
12
.769
.667
.615
.633
.303
.077
By agreement, the Beck A Gregg-
Koca Kola game for Saturday next is
transferred to Gammage Crossing. W.
P. Shumate will umpire. The Sun
Proof-Western Electric game will be
played on the Ponce DeLeon and Myr
tle street gounds. E. B. Sykes is the
umpire. M. Kutx vs. L. A N„ North
diamond, Piedmont park. Carleton
Floyd, umpire.
The Kutx line-up for Saturday Is;
E. Sullivan c. N. Sullivan p,.8arto-
rlous lb, Bosche 2b, Huddleston 3b, W.
Sullivan ss, Edens rf, Glsnn cf, Me-
Robinson, Hudson. Stevens and Rich,
ardson have been signed by the Beck
and Gregg team.
The Western Electric Company team
has released Almond and Galloway,
who are out of the city and signed to
take their places Baker and Cay. '
Here Is a little stunt doped out by
Manager Thomas, of the Sun Proof
team. He says: "You can add the
at the bottom If you wish—
SUNPROOFS
NOWELL.
KEENE
CUNYUS
DALEY
KLEINE
POTTS
WALL
LOCKRIDOE
REDWINE
COLLINS
BICE
HARMON
MAY8
STORY OF GAME
An even dosen Innings of eTort, strenuous but futile found
settling at Ponce DeLeon Park—apd the score tied. 0 aarknfs >
Atlanta had a run. So also Montgomery.
And Umpire Rudderham reluctantly called the game and enrf.s .
a draw one of the best battles of the Southern League season natS n
ters.
It was the old,' old story of the pitchers being too good for the bat
John Malarkey, he of the pompous stride and the winning rurv.
pitched one of the very best games seen In Atlanta this year in .L 1,
twelve Innings played Atlanta made but four hits oft his delivery » !
of these four only one was a genuine single. The other three »..L n]
near bogus that It took luck to make them good. e ,0
As a consequence of Malarkey's near-invinciblllty Atlanta was i,,.*.
to score at all. CK ”
Once was .the limit, and that run was made In the seventh r„.
course). 101
consecutive base. Sweeney sacrificed him to third and then Jordan
one by Nye that was good for one bag. And Paskert scored
At the time If did not look like so much of a stum, but In the light
subsequent events It was a notable affair, that run.
Castleton wasn't In Malarkey's form, not by several. But he nltrh.s .
wonderfully good game. He dug Into holes and then out In a wav th.i
made the blood run cold and the hair stand on end. As a getter ini
holes he has nothing especial on the Animated Gimlet, excent that
spread It over more time. v ne can
It was wildness rather than hits that let even a run be scored
Castleton. In the third Inning he walked Gear, and Seabaugh sacriflerd
Dale to-second. Malarkey was then walked and Houtz followed with,
fly-out to left field. Baxter then made a single and Gear came srrn..
with a run. *
After that Castleton held the Pretxels safe, though thev came «o .....
scoring several times that there was no fun In It. nfar
It would take volumes and wear out a couple of typewriters to men
tlon pll the holes, apertures, chasms, gullies, orifices and other In
fundtbular openings which Castleton got himself iato and out of
But It may be casually mentioned that, for Montgomery-
One man singled In the first Inning.
The second man up walked In the second.
The first man up singled In the fifth.
The second man up made a two-bagger In the sixth.
The first and third men up singled In the seventh.
- The second man up singled In the tenth and an error was made on
A loot nlnv •*
the last play.
The second man up In the eleventh singled and stole second.
And In the twelfth a single and a twa-bagger were made.
There were sensational happenings In that one-dozenth Inning
The first two Montgomery men at bat were easy outs. Seabaugh.
the fast young catcher, was third up and singled. Manager Malarkey
was next up and did what he could toward winning his own game by hit
ting a two-bagger to right field. Becker fell as he went after It and
with Jepne on the ground, the ball bounding toward the bank and Sea
baugh racing for home It looked like '’all day" for Atlanta.
But Becker recovered the ball, threw perfectly to Fox. Jim relaved
It to the plate like a flash and Seabaugh was tagged out, right at the
rubber.
Winters was the first man up for Atlanta and he was out at first
Paskert drew a base on balls and, of course, stole second—making
his fourth steal In one game. Sweeney was next at bat and he hit an
easy pop over second. Nye wobbled under It and missed the bill. Pas
kert took a lengthy chance and made a desperate dash for home. If he
had made It his base running would have won the game. But the odds
were against him. Nye located the ball Just In time and soaked It to the
plate, nipping Paskert by a whisker.
Then, to the huge disgust of the Atlanta fans and the Cracker team,
the game was called.
The *core:
CLUns-y
. 92
r,4
ATLANTA 90
New Orleans 90 47 43
Little Hock 92 45 47
Nashville 96 47 61
Birmingham 91 43 48
Shreveport 89 39 60
Montgomery 96 '42 64
. P. C.
.687
,r.7s
.622
.Iff
.480
* South Atlantlo.
Charleston ' 93 67
Jacksonville 96 65
Macon 94 61
Augusta 93 48
, M
.290
CLUBS—
Chicago , .
Detroit . . •
Cleveland . .
Philadelphia
New York .
8t. Louis . ,
Boston . . ,
Washington
American.
Played. Won. Lo*t. P. C.
. 91 66 35 .615
... 87 62 » .698
. . . 92
. ... 88
. . 89
. . 87
...86
41
47
68
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O HOW’S THIS TEAM7 O
O o
O It la a little early In the eeaaon O
O for All-Southern League teams, O
0 but the assistant sporting editor 0
0 has submitted his add here It Is; 0
O Pitcher*: Bills, Castleton, O
0 Stockdale; catchers, Wells, 0
O 8weeney. first base. Fox; second O
O base, Jordan; short stop. Babb; 0
0 third hose. Cross; deft field. Pas- 0
0 kert; center field, Dobbs; right 0
0 field. Smith; utility man, Plass. 0
00000000000000000000000000
LOCAL BOY8 SIGN
FOR FINISH FIGHT.
Billy Slim and Eddie Hayes, two lo
cal fighters who have won some good
battles have signed to fight at 118
pounds In a finish battle for the feath
er-weight championship of the South.
The event will be put on before the
club offering the best Inducements,
CI.UB8—
Cuiesxo . . .
Pittsburg . .
New York . .
Iiillsdelphla
Brooklyn . .
Boston . . . ,
Clminnstl . .
St. Louis . .
National. '
Played. Won. Lost. P. C.
... 92 66 24 . 739
Montgomery
Hputx, If. . .
ab. r. h. po. a e.
Baxter, lb.
Ball, ss. . . .
Henline, cf...
Perry, 3b.-. ..
Nye, 2b.. ..
Gear, rf.. ..
Seabaugh, c..
Malarkey, p..
Totals .. ..
Atlanta
Becker, rf...
Winter, cf..
Paskert, If..
Sweeney, c..
Jordan, 2b..
Fox, lb.. ..
Castro, ss...
Dyer, 3b.. ..
Castleton, p..
0 2 0
Total 36 1 4 36 1* 1
Hits by Innings: Hits.
Montgomery ... .101 011 200 112—10
Atlanta . . . .). 100 000 201 000-I
Runs by Innings: R
Montgomery . . . .001 000 000 000—1
Atlanta 000 000 100 000-1
Summary.
Two-base hits, Baxter. Malarkey;
etolen bases, Paskert 4, Ball; sacrifice
hits, Seabaugh, Sweeney; base o«
balls; off Castleton 3, off Malarkey4;
struck out. by Castleton 7. Houlz J.
Malarkey 3, Baxter. Nye; by Malarker
5; Sweeney 2, Dyer. Castro, Winters;
passed balls, Seabaugh. Time of game,
2:18. Umpire, Rudderham.
YE8TERDAV8 RESULT8.
Southern.
Atlanta 1, Montgomery 1 (twelve Innings)
New Orleans 12,
Nashville 7, Birmingham 8 (second game).
South Atlantic.
Charleston 2, Mseon 1.
Sarnnnnh 4, Augusts 1.
Jacksonville 8, Columbia 0.
American.
Detroit 4. New York 3.
Phllndelnllln 2, Ht. lends 0.
Boston 14, Cleveland 1.
Chicago 7. Washington 2.
National.
Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 6 (first game).
1 » eiis iiiiiii11 v iiiim
Cincinnati 1, rhilnrtelpMa 0 (second game).
Boston 4. Pittsburg £
Chicago 7, Brooklyn 2.
Bt. Lools 8, New York 7.
Loo pitched a good article of ball JjJ
Jacksonville Thursday, and the Column*
team wnn ea»y. The Jays won the contMj
by the score of S to 0. Columbia securel
only three hits off Lee’s delivery.
American Association.
Columbus 6. Bt. Paul 4 (first
Ht. Paul 15, Columbus 6 (second gaotj
thirteen Innings).
Toledo 3. Minneapolis 1.
Indianapolis 6. Kansas City 5.
Louisville 8, Milwaukee 8.
Virginia State.
Richmond 8, Roanoke L
Lynchburg 1 Portsmouth 1.
Danville 7, Norfolk 6.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Montomery in Atlnntn, rone DeLw*
park. Game culled nt 4 o clock.
Birmingham In Nashville.
Memphis In Shreveport.
New Orleans In Little Rock.
NOTES ON THURSDA Y’S GAME, AND BASEBALL IN GENERAL
Memphis won In a pitchers’ battle from
Shreveport Thursday afternoon, In which
Shields, the new man secured for •Memphis,
hits each. Memphis scored her two runs
In the third Inning on two stolen Itases.
■ n error snd a hit by Netghltors, the stocky
Metnphll center fielder. The final score was
Memphis 2, Shreveport 1.
The Dobl>ers won a double-header from
the Barons Thursday afternoon at Nash
ville. Pete Lister was In the game for the
Bobbers, and he made himself known to the
Barons by his hard and timely hitting. Us-
up around
.300. The score In the first game was
Nashville (I, Birmingham 5, and the Mecoud
was 7 to 6 In favor of the Bobbers.
New Orleans won from Little Rock Thurs
day afternoon In a game replete with hard
hits by the Pelican hatters. Kommcrs. a
new pitcher secured by Mike Finn, was
hatted all over the lot by the Pelicans, nn-l
Kyler relieved him, hat ne was also batted
hard. The final score wo* 12 to 2 In favor
of New Orleans.
Rob Stafford’s Savannah club defeated
Dick Crosier’s Augusta team Thursday afr.
ernoon In a listless game of hall by the
score of 4 to 1. Crosier's team out up a
listless article of ball, and Savannah had lit-
tie or no trouble In defeating them. Neur
allowed the Auguatana only four hits.
The cripple*! Cleveland team wa* made a
target Thursday by the Boston club. Bos
ton mad* twenty-two hits off TheUmann,
the Nap pitcher, and he wai batted all over
the lot. The Bean Eaters Just simply had
a feast, and the way they fattened their
hatting averages was a shame In the sight
of Jsnrry Lajole’s Clevelanders.
Charley Rmlth, the former Atlanta twlrler
and Georgia peach, was knocked out of tho
box Thursday afternoon by the White Box.
Smith lasted only three Innings, and during
that time seven hits and three runs was
the sum total for the Sox.
Little Lew Moron, the former Atlanta
twlrler, certainly Is pitching the ball of his
life for Philadelphia, In the National
league, at present. Thursday afternoon
Moren defeated Cincinnati by the score of
4 to 0. I*w allowed the Cincinnatians only
three scattered hits, and held them helpless
at all time*.
The Columbia (S. C.) State of Wed
nesday, July 31, ha* the Southern
League standings a* follows:
Won. Lost. P.C.
Memphis 53 27 .663
Atlanta 61 28 .646
New Orleans 48 42 .400
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The Georgian received a communica
tion this morning from an ex-Atlanta
fan now living In South Carolina, and
hence the correction. The won column
(n the standing in the Columbia paper
Is right, but the standings, whew!
Incompetency haa been charged
against Umpire Eldrldge, but nothing
worse up to now. The New Orleans
States, however, has come out with a
charge which Is worth noting. Here
Is what The States says:
Clarence .Eldrldge, formerly
sporting editor of The Arkansas.
Gaxette, of Little Rock, and now
an umpire of the Southern Base
ball Association, drawing, It la said,
a salary of 2250 a month for the
purpose of being a fair and impar
tial umpire, made a spectacle of
hlmeelf yesterday afternoon at
Athletic Park when he conspicu
ously seated himself In the front
row of the ladles' stand, directly
In the rear of the press box, and
rooted boisterously for the Shreve
port club, and at the same time
yelllgg at Umpire "Slata”. Davis
whenever he rendered a decision
on balls and strike*.
It waa the first time In the his- ,
tory of baseball In New Orleans,
sod, perhaps In other cities, where
an umpire, employed by the South
ern League, who Is detailed to as
sist In umpiring, rooted for a club
nml shouted his disapproval of a
fellow umpire's decisions.
It Is said that the reason that
Umpire Eldrldge did not assist In
the umpiring yesterday was be
cause he suffered from an Injured
ankle. It Is a pity that the ball
that struck him on the ankle did
not strike him In the throat, which
would have prevented him from
yelling out a lot of senseless yaw
ping*.
About two weeks ago the Birming
ham baseball club wa* dickering for
the purchase of Pitcher Bailey, of the
Texas League. Vaughn wired the man
ager of the team Bailey was playing
with and asked him to send Bailey
along for a ten days' trial, and If he
made good he (Vaughn) would buy him
for 21,000. This Is what The Birming
ham Ledger has to say of the affan-
"You further heard the little sto a ) '
the effect that an answer was sent)
manager of Bailey offering to take •
ley on a ten days' trial, further P r0
bly specifying that he must have sp •
curves and must win nineteen 0
every twenty of his games. In
words, the llbernl Birmingham Bas
ball Association did not propose
any chances of the said Pitcher Baliw
not being able to go the ro '* le ' h rt it
"Well, to make a long ■‘"F|2vtw
was sent over the wlres Tue.daj tn*
Pitcher Bailey, of the Texas
had been sold to the 8t. Lou 1 * v, j Jf
can* for *1.100. Now, woukln t thl« ^
you 7 Not good enough for Blrm
ham. but plenty good fortheAme
League. Since when, we W0U T ' < ' get
fully ask. did the Southern Lea*n*^**
so much faster than the Ameri
Atlanta vs. Montgomery
August 1, 2,3. Double Header Tomorrow—First Game Called