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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. AUGUST 3907. THE END IS VERY NEAR OF THAT WESTERN INVASION SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING • * NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS What are the minor leagues going to do to keep the majors from cornering the visible supply of baseball players! Nobody objects when the “big guys” get the cream of the players. They hnve the most money nnd play the fastest ball. But we do object when they get more than they need and can possibly use. And we especially object because their obvious object in so doing is to hold up tho minor league clubs next spring when they sell the players back. Weeks ago Billy Smith wailed that the major league man agers had bought up every really first-class player in the little leagues he was watching. * Now that Harry Vaughn has gone out after players ho stacks up against the same proposition. Every player who is a real star in a small league has been bought. The few overlooked in the first scramble will be draft ed. And when teams like Atlanta, Birmingham and the other Southerners want players they will have to take the minor league culls or buy next spring from the majors at advanced prices. From here this looks like a clear case of gouge. Tho major leaguers have to employ scouts and can therefore get a better line on minor league stars than can the Southern League managers. They also have more money and can go right out after any promising player. It costs them nothing to hold the players over until spring and then they can sell them off. They buy them when .the demand is light and the price is low. They sell when the demand is great nnd the price nigh. In consequence they make money from the minor leaguers. This thing is getting to be a regular trust, nnd wo guess it is up to our friend, T. Roosevelt, president and trust-buster. If ho would kindly give them a little of that Landis treatment it would help the situation a lot. With fine irony Will R. Hamilton dopes it out in The New Orleans Item that the reason Charley Frank got Lave Cross to come South was to place him as manager of the Memphis team. He points out that (according to Memphis newspapers) Frank was trying to get Babb drafted out of his job with Memphis and says that he will put Cross in his place. All of which is somowhat humorous—as was intended—and only goes to prove that Cross will play third bnse for Charley Frank again next year. And in passing you might discount all these rumors that Frank will manage Montgomery. They’re jokes. LEADER OF THE CHAMPS ED LAFITTE HAS SIGNED WITH JERSEY CITY TEAM Ed Lafltte has signed with the Jer sey City team of the Eastern League. This signing took place a oouple of months ago, but official announcement has Just come to light In a bulletin of Secretary Farrell, of the national asso ciation. Lafltte will not Join Jersey City un til next season. Drawings Have Been Made For A. A. C. Tournaments BERNIE M'CAY MAY MANAGE PRETZELS Mobile, Ala., Aug. 20. — Official an nouncement of the sale of Manager Bemey McCoy and Center . F11 d e r Woodle Thornton of the local Cotton .Stutos I.oaguc team to .Montgom ery of the South ern League, was made today by Secretary C. Z. Colsson. They are two of the best players on the team. McCay will prob ably manage Mont gomery next sea son. Montgomery is kicking for an other Mobile play er. > Official confirma tion is also mode of the Pitcher Bell Bruner to New Orleans. The news of the sale of Bemle Cay to Montgomery and th™'eno« that he may manage the aggre««>t„, is welcomed by Bern!.’. man'y . Bemle won deserved popularity sin, the Atlanta team and fans by ! thousands who were sorry when h, was turned away. "• As mannger of the Mobile tens Bemle has done very well. His team has copped the pennant and he hu displayed a wonderful knowledge of baseball and players. If he la given Mnlarkey’s Job u manager of the Montgomery team h. will doubtless do well. " FOY COMING HOME. Jack ,Foy, the Atlanta puguin. who has been In New York looking for some scraps, has re-opened an old wound and will have to give un fighting for the present. He will n . turn to Atlanta to regain his health. Hers Is Frank Chance, manager of the terrible Cube, and a few sketches depicting the hard luck of the (Hants. HMIIMMMIHHINNMNtMHtHtMMMtimtnM I Handicaps sf Golfers A new bunch of handicaps has bean pre pared by the golf handicap committee of the Atlanta Athletic Club for the tourna ments Saturday nnd Monday. Tbla handicap list. In addition to the 117 names which bavo been there since It was first prepared, contains fifteen pew names which hare been added within the last few weeks. The fnll revised handicap list follows Atkinson.... 12 Armstrong Lowry Arnold... K. Arnold A. 8. Adams.... O. W. Adair.. W. E. Ameud 1* rae M , ...... ... Lnttlmer 20 8 A. Lane 30 20 11. Ladd 20 OOF. M. Lsxton 12 Mary*. Mo. Plans have been made for the golf tournament* over the Atlanta Athletlo Club's course at East Lake on Satur day and Monday. The new list of handicaps Is pub lished elsewhere oh this page. The drawings for the Invitation tourna ment which begins Saturday after noon follow: Holland vs. 8tovall, Byrd vs. Adair, Whiting vs. Brown, Hill vs. Paine, An gler vs. Tlchenor, Marye vs. Tllson, Glenn vs. Arnold, Williams vs, Palmer. Tho completo arrangement of the teama for tho team match Monday have not been made. However, Cap tains Adnlr and Glenn have paired the following player, and other names will be added: Glenn vs. Adair, Byrd v*. Hill, Tlleon ve. Marye. Street vs. Holland, Tlche nor vs. Arnold, Paine vs. Moore. WI1-, Hams ve. Brown, W. K. Stone v*. Pal mer, Goddard vs. Clay, Stovall vs. Laxton, Phillips vs. Boyd, Charles King vs. Hammond, Hopkins vs. Scott, Ruse vs. Smith. Fast Amateur Ball Out at East Point What promises to be on* of the most exciting games of the season will oc cur Saturday afternoon, when the : Young Men's Christian Association and | Maddox-Rucker teams play the first gnmo of a series to determine the city ' championship of Independent teams. As these games con not be played on the Jackson street ground*, the owner ; having let the property for other pur poses, the game Saturday will be play, ed on the East Point grounds by spe cial Invitation of the East Point team. The same batteries that have kept these teams so high In the percentage column this season will work Satur day—Green or Savlts and Luck, for the Young Men's Christian Association, and Alford and Williams for the bank ers. No doubt a large crowd of fane will attend this gams, as the going Is bound to be something strenuous. Cora leave comer Broad and Alabama streets ev ery ten minutes. DAYTON GETS JACOOWAN "Big Lad” Finishes Season With Central League Team. H. V. D. Allen Mies Brawn .20 Edward Barnett. W. Bongber... Macon, Go., Aug. 10.—Jack Rowan, one of Macon'e star pttohers, secured from Atlanta this summer, will finish the season with tho Dayton, Ohio, team In the Central League. Rowan was fanned out to Atlanta by the Detroit Americans. Evidently Jack could not make good in Atlanta, and he was sent to Macon, where from the very first he pitched fine ball, and worked himself Into the, limelight of the Central League, one of the fastest clsse B leagues In the country. Keep ArbockW Ariose Coffee in the original package, and grind it at home as you use it Wanning it sBghdy develops the flavor, and makes the grinding easy. That delicious appetizing aroma is too good to lose in a grocery store. Coffee loses its identity as coffee after it is ground. If you know and want a good coffee buy Arbuckles’ Ariosa Coffee and grind it at home. TLx cheapest good coffee in the world. ) ARBUCKXJ3 BROS., New ork City. .. BuiL... _ T. E. Brown...20 N. H. Broyles IS Dowdell Brown. Stuart Boyd — P. O. Byrd b* Fulton Colville 10 Brutus CUy 10 W. A. Connolly....» W. O. Choirs... J. C. Colquitt...,, It. M. Crumley to A. Word Cobb 12 Arthur Clork... E. E. Clapp Milton Dorgon. Coke H. Dovls.. J . C. Dinkins.. . T. Doonon... k L. P. Potter 20 B. M. Grant 13 F. L (Borer W Jobs (Bonn 28 W. n. (Benn 14 Ewell Bar 20 J. N. Goddard it W. P. Hill " Harvey Ilttrher... Dr. F. Holland...- . V. C. Ilollsjrman..23 P. Huger U Hou.tonn Harper. .20 II. Hall U 0. A. Unwell 20 J. A._ Hammond...In Hodgson 20 ii. Holliday!...201! H. 1. Hopkins 1*1’ Harris to „ ... h. r H. D. Unit, Geo. M. Ilk - - J. F. Johnson 23 P. T. II. Cloy Moore, I* C. Moeckle. Cuy Mitchell 23 E. F. Malone 20 lohn Mnddox 10 \ M. Unfelb I. E. Moore SO i. B. Naff,... " •Valter Nosh, E. II. Moore, Geo. Obesr.. Phillips 18 Peel ....JO Ituso I.... *0 Ri * II. Reed,. 12 Russell Richards...,10 M. Ratnspcok..s.20 Rountree 80 D. Street 8 Wm. K. Stone 12 J. r, MOOKueu Cbaa Wrong.. I. I). Rfott ....II Carlton Smith 21 H.- Thompson 1 Percy Taylor 2 W. ft. Tlrbehor H It. Thornton 20 8. Y. Topper, Jr....II Percy whiting. 3 8. C. William. It John C. Wheatley. .10 ■ U. Whnlcy 23 B. Wynne 30 . E. Corwin X W. C. Coles 30 Thornton 30 Frank Adnlr,.... Lawrence Grant FT A. Johnson p II. 1>. Storcr .,14 J. f>. Lynn to Preston Hill N Edward Anitln 13 lohn l'ltten 23 no Rtlne 30 Panl Goldsmith 30 chan. P. Kins *John Corrigan N J. C. Kirkpatrick..* r Clyde King 30 B. W. Ford 11 ,. O. BYRD, W. K. TIClIBNOn, W. K. STONE. Handicap Committee. g000O000000000O000O000OOD0 0 R. RAINEY LOSES $51,000. 0 0 0 0 Saratoga, Aug. 30.—Roy A. 0 0 Rainey, the wealthy Ohio sports- 0 0 man, has been trying In vain to 0 O woo fortune at the wheel at the 0 O Saratoga Club. He has finally 0 0 given it up ns a bnd Job, and left 0 0 Saratoga 261.000 loser. It was 0 0 tho biggest play since the lid 0 0 camo off at Saratoga some weeks 0 0 ngo. 0 o a O0000000000000000Q00000000 HARDY A MAJOR NOW. HARDY, First Bass. This man, who was traded to the ■ Cubs for Seabnugh nnd a bunch of money by Nashville, played his first game with Murphy's team : Tuesday. | Standing of the Clubs. ] Southern. CLUBS— Flnyed. Won. Loat P. C. Memphis. . .... 117 68 49 .681 ATLANTA 118 66 52 .669 Little Rock 113 59 64 .522 New Orleans 117 60 67 .518 Montgomery 117 66 61 .479 Birmingham 123 57 66 .468 Shreveport 118 61 62 .461 Nashville ..... 120 62 68 .433 CLUBS— Charleston . Jacksonville Macon . . . Augusta . South Atlantia. Played. Won. Lost. I*. C. .... 115 72 43 .626 ft . 4(11 .478 .233 111 23 64 American. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lo.t P. C. Detroit 113 C9 44 .611 Philadelphia U3 67 4S ,B2 Chicago » 70 49 .688 Cleveland . . , , • 117 68 49 .381 New York 114 S3 61 .463 Boston ...... fif 6} 68 .429 8t. Louis 113 43 66 -425 Washington 121 34 77 .806 New York . Pittsburg . , Philadelphia Brooklyn . , Cincinnati . Boston ... . Bt. Louis . National, Played. Won. Lost. P._C :: ill • . Ill . r . 117 ::j§ WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Atlanta In Little Rock. Birmingham In Shreveport. Montgomory in New Orleans. Nashville In Memphis. PENNANT PROSPECTS BRIGHTENING DAILY With Crackers Only Two and a Half Games Behind Memphis, and Going Strong, Things “Look Good.” According to the old saw there is a lot of slippery going between the cup and the outside edge of the food hop per, or words to that effect. But with all flue regard to this bit of wisdom and a lot more about not counting your chickens before the In cubator corned off, we ar$ due to re mark that It looks more and more like Atlanta for tho pennant. Atlanta's victory Thursday and the fact that Memphis did not play, puts the Crackers Just 21-2 games behind the Babblers. . ' If Atlanta loses her four remaining games In the west nnd Memphis wins her three remaining games, Atlanta will come homo only six games behind. But nobody expects any such hard luck for Atlanta. The Crackers are going strong. Cii. tro Is due to get back In the game to- | day. That will put Sid Smith behind the bat and give Sweeney that rett In lias been needing. Castleton, Zeller and McKentle era pitching their best, and all three men are practically Invincible. Ford won his game Thursday and Spsde !■ In fulr condition. It Is hard to dopo It out any other way but that Atlanta has the loveliest chance ever for the snappy, happy, eld rag that typifies the leadership In Un | Southern League. Double-headers will be billed Frt« day and Saturday In Little Rock. Monday tnomlpg tho Crackers opin I at homo with Shreveport. A game *11! < be played In tho afternoon alio, TRAVELERS A CINCH . IN THAT FIRST GAME! YESTERDAY'S RE8ULT8. Southern. Atlanta 12, Llttls Rock 8. Birmingham 4, Shreveport 0. South Atlantic, Augusta 1, Havannah 0. Jacksonville 3, Macon 3. Charleston 2, Columbia 0. American, Washington J, Boaton 2 (first game). Washington 2, Boaton l (second game). New York 6, Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 5. Chicago 1. Detroit 4, Bt. Louis 0. National. Philadelphia 3, Pittsburg X' Chicago 5. Brooklyn 0. Cincinnati 8, llostou X KAUFFMAN KNOCKS OUT SCHRECK San Franclico, Aug. 30.—Dope got a bad upset here loat night when Al Kauffman knocked Mike Schreck o|t In the seventh round of their fight. The blow that sent the big Cincinna tian down for the count of ten was ons to the stomach, and Schreck claimed a foul on It. Referee Roche refused to allow the claim, and awarded the fight to Kauff man. The decision seemed to please the people who saw the bout, though most of the heavy betting hod been done on Schreck. and the odds before the fight favored him very materially. Up to the time the blow was struck that ended the fight Kauffman seemed to have a shade the befit of It. What the Fighters and Referee Had to Say OD0000O0OOOOO0OO0OOOO0000O 0 O O By AL. KAUFMANN. a O 0 O San Francisco, Aug. 10.—I was O O not'hurt by any of Schreck'e O 0 blows. He hit me a number of O O times, but non* of the punches 0 O did any damage, and I was con- 0 0 fident all through the fight that 0 O I was a winner. O O I must say for Schreck that he O o con stand an awful lot of pun- O O lehment. He was ready to give 0 O up When I landed that body 0 a punch and his claim of foul was 0 0 simply an attempt .to get away 0 O with the decision. ( O O 0 OO0OOOOOOOOOO000O00O000OOO Comhkey needs no scoot for tho Chicago White Koi. lie makes good players out of such cast-offs as llshn. Dougherty, Altrock, Donahue and McFarland. OOOOOO0O0000OOO000OOOOO000 0 O 0 By REFEREE ROCHE. 0 O O 0 There was only one thing for O 0 me to do. The blow which 0 0 Schreck tried to moke me believe O o was foul was a fairly lilt atom- 0 0 och punch. I figure that the O 0 whole truth of the matter Is that 0 O Schreck was tired and thought he 0 O could put one over on me and the O O public by simulating a foul. O O When a punch of that kind comes O O In a clinch It Is hard to tell O 0 whether or not It I* a foul. This, O O however, was out In the open. O 0 O OOOOO00OOOO0O0O00OOOO0OOOQ If John McGraw, Fred Clark and Fielder Jones sll quit nt the end of the season there will he xmie strenuous bustling for capable managers qext luring. 0OO000OO000O0O00O000000000 a o O By MIKE SCHRECK. 0 0 ■ 0 O San Francisco, Aug. 30.—I was 0 O hit low, and the only thing I 0 0 could do was to stay on the floor. O O I tried to signal to Referee Roche O O that I had been fouled, but I 0 0 couldn't make him understand. I 0 O guass he didn't see It If I could O o have got to my feet and gone on 0 o fighting. I would have done so. O 0 but It was Impossible. The pain O O was something terrible. I tried to D O rise, but all I could do was to 0 O make motions with my hands. 0 O 0 000O00O0O00000000000000000 Fred Tenney says: "Jennings wss a great hull player, tint b« bad It all over him. With all due respeet. etc., notesly had It all over Jennings or was his equal os a shortitop.—New York Sun. Special to Tbe Georgian. Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 30.—The Traveler* made a poor show of carry ing out their threat to put Atlanta down In third place by losing the open ing game of the series by a score of 12 to I. Mike Finn was slightly nuts about winning that game. If there was one thing he wanted more than another, It was first money In the contest, So Mike put In Hughes, the man who had only lost one game, and who was leading the pitchers of the South ern League. And what the Crackers did to him was a genuine sufficiency. He waa lam basted for eighteen hits In the nine Innings, giving up from one to three 'swats to every man on the Atlanta team except Ford. Sixteen of the hits were for one bag. The extra base hits were made by Dyer and Becker. Pas kert, Sid Smith, Dyer and Sweeney helped their batting averages by get ting three hits apiece. Hughes was steady as they make them. He did not allow many bases on balls, he did not hit a batter, ho did not moke a wild pitch. He Just followed the old saw about "puttin' ’em over nnd lettln' ’em hit." And hit they certainly did, to all cor ners of the lot. Perhaps Ford profited by hts lesson over In Atlanta, when ho held Bir mingham batters down and hurt a lot of feelings, when the Crackers were winning a runaway game. This time he waa generous with the hits, and only used his deadly spit ball on the rare occasions when It was needed. In consequence, the Colts rolled up gh some fourteen hits and scored enougl runs to win any ordinary game. Atlanta's exhibition was marvelous. The teem was tired as a llmburger cheese from riding the long, hot, dusty, bumpy trip across the barrens from Shreveport to Little Rock. Also Swee ney was pretty well "stove-up," ns n result of his strenuous career behind the bat, and Sid Smith was bock In his old capacity of utility man and playing In Castro’s place at shortstop. This weary bunch of workers hit right into Mr. Hughes at the Jump, and when they found how easy It was to hit, they freshened right up and began to "lam" the ball In proper style. After that It was all over but the shout ing. Little Rock was shut out to the sev enth Inning. In the eighth and ninth, however, the Travelers made eight rune, four to the Inning. The Crackers scored enough rune In three Innings Thursday afternoon to have won the game, although It would have been a close call. The nine runs were scored In this manner: Fifth Inning—Poskert singled to left and went to second when Sid Smith hit safe to the same place. On'a passed boll Poskert advanced to third ard Smith to second. Fox walked and tne bases were full. Jordan singled to center and Poskert scored. Bill Dyer singled to left and on Miller's error Smith andTox scored. Jordan went to second and Dyer took a resi on first. Sweeney filed out to right field. Jordan page second to first . . Sixth Inning—Winters flew out t* right field. Pnskert singled to left tteld. I Smith singled to right field and Paskert I went to third. On a wild throw W Bowcock to catch Pnskert at thin, 1 George scored nnd Smith went to »u- I tlon No. 3. Fox walked. Jordan AM I out to left field nnd Smith scored to I the throw-in. Bill Dyer doubled to left I field and Fox scored. Sweeney nit to 3 short nnd nn Rnckenfclil’s error DfU I went to third and Sweeney to fim [ Ford fouled out to the catcher. I Seventh Inning—Becker singled on: I first and went to the keystone Ml when "Ginger" Ooorge Winters elnglM I to center. Poskert singled and BecW I scored. Winters went to third to! I Pnskert to second on the throw-la I Smith grounded to third arid wse out tt I first, no advance. Jordan hit to thin I and Hess threw the ball wild, " Inter* I nnd Pnskert scoring and Jordan golW I to second. [ The Travelers scored their eight ruci In this mariner: . Eight Inning—Douglas singed H center, nnd when Hughes singled » went to second. Page hit to pitcher Ford errored the ball and the btio were full. Gilbert singled to center. Douglas and Hughes scoring. Rocket- I feld hit to short and was out at Urn I Puge scoring. . . I Ninth Inning—Hess best out a I Douglas singled nnd Hess went to ««• I ond. Keith batted for Hughes and i£ I gled to left. The bases were full, rw I hit to short, nnd on Smith’s error Hea I Douglas nnd Keith scored (!) and/fS I went to third. Gilbert doubled to us I and Pago scored. Rockenfcld filed »* I to left. Starke filed out to second »■ 1 Gilbert was caught off second. D°uw I play. Side out and Atlanta won. The score: •b. 6 Little Rock. Page, 2b. . . Gilbert, cf. . Rockenfcld ss Woods, c. . . , Stark, c, . . . Miller, If. . . Bowcock, rf. . Hess, 3b. . . . Douglas, lb. . Hughes, p. . . •Keith . . . . 1 2 1 0 2 » !| i i « }| 1 ! * X 2 • I i o 3 !l 3 10 J 1 0 7 Totals ....•= » — - •Batted for Hughes In ninth. Atlanta. .38 8 14 27 Becker, rf. . Winters, cf. , Pnskert, If. . Smith, ss. . Fox, lb. . . Jordan, 2b. . Dyer, 3b. . . Sweeney, c.. Ford, p. . . Totals . . By Innings: Little Rock . 0 ! I ■! j 0 * 2 ! 18 27 15 ooo non 044-»I Atlanta -1 Summary—Two-base bits. 1,11 clier ;l Woods, Dyer: three-base hits. “ , r; I sacrifice hits. Poskert, lf ^ I f-t■ .1.11 bases. Smith; base on I Woods: — .page to Douglas, and Dyer remaining at their same stv- Fox. Jordan to Smith. Time si n._i M s > • . T. ! .. s n,,.4.lo BlUieu UBura, ossstas.. k 0 yt to ■ Hughes 4. off Ford 3, e*™ e rrof*| Hughes 3. by Ford 3; « r " t n " n bl m t Little Rock X, Atlanta >• Little Rock 4. Atlanta 11^^ ts | s; double plays, . < to DouglaB. Smith to . ^ e« Ketilfh Tim® OI • tlon*. fanned and Becker was out, \ Umpire, Rudderham. \i n