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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 "Emmons for Quality. ” Men’s Fancy Mixed Suits $12.00 Suits, now... .$ 9.00 15.00 Suits, now... . 11.25 18.00 Suits, now... . 13.50 20.00 Suits, now... . 15.00 25.00 Suits, now... . 18.75 30.00 Suits, now... . 22.50 35.00 Suits, now... . 26.25 Odd Trousers Are Reduced $3.50 Trousers, now. .$2.65 4.00 Trousers, now. .. 3.00 5.00 Trousers, now. .. 3.75 6.00 Trousers, now. .. 4.50 7.00 Trousers, now. .. 5.25 7.50 Trousers, now. .. 5.65 8.00 Trousers, now. .. 6.00 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. RACE FOR THE RAG WARMING UP RAPIDLY New York Globe Boosts Zeller All Boys’ Wash and Wool Suits One-Fourth Off Bovs’ Wash Suits, fresh and clean, of this season’s best styles for boys 2 1-2 to 8—and wool suits for all ago boys up to 17 of new and stylish patterns, aTl at one- fourth off. $1.50 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 8.00 Suits, now. Suits, now. Suits, now. Suits, now. Suits, now. Suits, now. Suits, now. .$1.15 . 1.50 . 2.25 . 3.00 . 3.75 . 4.50 . 6.00 All Straw and Panama Hats Half-Price 39 and 41 Whitehall St. 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 «HWW00G<H»ot»0<HW»00 O 0 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 . FREE—40c box of Wiley's best candy with each 30c Want Ad brought to The Georgian office today or up to 12:30 Saturday, for Sat urday’s paper. 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