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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1907. SEASON DRAWS TO A GLORIOUS CL0SE=AND ATLANTA WINS SURE XMtIHHMIMMHM <•••••••••••••••••••••••••' >•••••••••*••••••••! FORD AND !j If Atlanta plays today and wins she wins the pennant, unless the Memphis- Winning streak I Shreveport game is given to Memphis. In that case Atlanta must win 1 HARTWORK Veteran and Kid Face Each Other in Crucial Battle. Th« next to last same of the Southern League eeaaon—the game that If won givee Atlanta the pennant—le elated for Ponce DeLeon park at the usual time. In this critical game Russell Ford will perform for Atlanta, and probably the veteran Bill Hart for Little Rock. However, Hart la not in tip-top shape and Mike Finn may save him for Sat urday and pitch Walters. This game ought to be the deciding one of the Southern League pennant race. If Atlanta wins It the Crackers can not be beaten out of. the rag unless In the directors' room. If Atlanta loses It the Interest is continued until Satur. day. But Atlanta is not going to lose It— not if the players can help It. Plans for Benefit. Big preparations are going forward for the exhibition game and field day at Ponce DeLeon Monday. Undoubt edly this will be the biggest thing of its kind ever held In the South. The following events have been de cided on: Hundred-yard dash. Hundred-yard dash (Paskcrt barred). Chasing the greased pig. Long-distance throw. Running bases. Fungo hitting for distance. Accurate bunting. Fine Lot of Prizes. The prizes which have been given by the merchants and which will go to the winners and second men In the various events are: X. H. Oppenhelm, box Webster cigars 15.00 Ward Shoe Company, pair Flor- shelm shoes <.00 Adler's Toggery Shop, fancy vest.. <.00 Jj. C. Vandiver, Home Plate boa cigars 6.00 J. J. Good rum Tobacco Company, . w „ jmpJ today and tomorrow, provided Memphis wins two games today. VMH<HMKHIHHIM<HMKMIM<HHI NEWS AND VIEWS ON THE PENNANT RACE 1 I^MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMt oeeeeeeee ee sees ee e eeee e eeeeeeeeeeeee e eeeeeeeeaeei <HMMHM<HHHM<H<MMMMH<H<I Well, of course, if Memphis plays two double-headers and wins all four games and Atlanta plays-two with Little Rock and loses them both, Memphis will win the pennant by one-half a game. But this is not exactly what you would call probable. And as we have remarked several times of late it seems to us that Atlanta is going to get that pennant. If it should happen to rain Friday and. Memphis played a double-header and won both games, then it would be up to the Crackers to win Saturday. It is an awful chance for the Memphii. They must play four games in two days and win them all—and even if they do it is hardly likely to get them a pennant. For, with the Atlanta team playing the way it is, Smith is practically certain to tuck a game away and cinch the rag. That Forfeited Game That forfeited game still lpoms large and dark. If it is taken away from Shreveport and given back to Mem phis, then things look a bit different. Should Memphis get that game and win four in two, days from Montgomery, Atlanta will have to win two from Little Rock to even things up. But, Mike Finn and other good authorities to the contrary notwithstanding, we do not think that the directors will ask that that game be given back to Memphis. When a team is guilty of breaking a league rule it will have to take the consequences. It is evident from Thursday’s game in Montgomery that the Pretzels are not going to “give anything” to the Bluffers. The opening game of Memphis’ last series was maue notable by some of the hardest playing of the year and the Tennesseans were lucky to escape with an even break. For twelve innings the two teams battled and then darkness settled down and “His Umps” Davis cnllcd it a tie. Maxwell pitched a magnificent game for the good of the cause. During the long contest he pave up only seven hits, and struck out 15 men. It must have been tough luck that kept the Pretzels out of a victory. For the Blfiffers made five errors, Bills soaked one batter and walked six and two’of the Pretzel’s hits were for extra bases. Now For the Benefit It is getting to be about time to whoop it up for the Atlanta baseball team and their benefit game of next Monday. That event should be one which has not been equalled in the history of Southern League baseball. Every pluyer in the lot ought to net at least a couple of hundred dollars out of it, and if the people in Atlanta who have been yelling so hard for a pennant will now come forward and do what they said they would do, the receipts will be $3,000 at least—which is the least that Atlanta ought to give to the boys who have won the pennant. Let’s all buy as many tickets as we can afford and then some we can’t afford and show the Crackers that Atlanta fandom ap preciates their pennant.winning efforts. It is not every year that a town can have a pennant and when they get one they ought to set a high-water mark of appre ciation that other cities can shoot at. 50 El Principe <!e dales 6.00 M. C. Carronj The Tailor, shirt.. 2.00 Anderson Hnrdwnre Company, sweater or baseball shoes 6.00 Levy & Stanford. Christy hat .... 6.00 Oeorse Muse Clothing Company, umbrella 6.00 Eusone V. Haynes, gold cuff but tons 6.00 Essig Bros., hat, Stetson 3.50 Mueneh & Belersdorfer, gold fob.. 6.00 The Globe Clutliius Company, *Emmons for Quality BOB BLAKE IS IN CITY Bob Blake, captain of the Vanderbilt football team and all-Southern end, ar rives in Atlanta Friday and leaves dur ing the day for Barneevllle, where he* will assist his brother, Frank Blake, In coaching the Gordon Institute team. The Gordon team has this year the hardest schedule ever attempted by a Southern prep school team and In an effort to round the team rapidly In con* dltlon these two star football perform ers will work. Boh Blake will be In Barnesvllle until It Is time for him to return to Nashville und take up his work In Vandorbllt. JOHNSON WHALES BURKE WHO PUTS UP GAME FIGHT STILL UNBROKEN Spade Pitches Three-Hit Game and Drives! in Three of Atlanta’s Four s Tallies. The ‘Emmons’ Special $3.50 Derby for Fall Pay $5.00, or as much as $6.00, but you won’t get a whit better derby than the Emmons Special at $3.50. Perfect in quality, beautiful in finish, light in weight, self-conforming—in every way a perfect hat. In black and light brown, $3.50. A New Telescope —and Good Value at $3 The telescope eehown here is one of the many Btvles to be seen in our hat department for Fall and Winter. This special style is especially becoming to young men—it comes in black, light brown, pearl and dark brown, $3.00. Every other hat style that's new and good tor Fall and Winter is here. 00000000000000000000000000 a o O ’TWAS EVER THU8. 0 0 Th« melancholy days are nigh. O 0 When ice cream fiends must turn 0 0 to pie, O O While pennant longings fade and 0 0 die. O 0 0 O The straw hat now evokes a Jeer; O 0 Gone Is that luscious thirst for 0 0 beer, 0 While baseball bugs growl out 0 "Next Vear!" 0 0 Alas! Thnt summer's joys must 0 wane: 0 Alas! That we fnust mourn again 0 O For first place chances, rudely 0 0 slain. 0 0 0 0 C. People rings the plumber's bell, 0 The coal man, thank you, does O quite well; 0 O But for us fans—say, pal, It’s 0 o o O simply terrible, the way we think O 0 every year, about this time, thnt O 0 the Naps arc going to make a dash 0 O to the front, and cop the flag, and O 0 then they fall down, and don't do 0 O It!—Cleveland Press. o 0000000000O0000000000OO000 Bv TAD. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 13.—Jack Johnson gave "Sailor” Burke a terrible beating last night In their six-round bout at Smith’s theater here, but failed to knock out the sturdy marine. There have been rumors afloat around New York for a year or so re garding Burke’s gamenesa, but you can bet all you have that he Is as game as the next one and will simply cat up anything In the line of wallops that comes his way. For the six rounds last night he took a whaling that would have torn the heart out of the ordinary fighter, bat his great condition and unbounded con fidence carried him along arter he look ed to be done for. Seventeen times Mr. Burke hit the carpet. A great many times he was knocked down and several times, like Joe Grim, when a knockout seemed on tap, Mr. Burke very carefully sat him self down on the canvas and waited until the referee tolled off nine before he brought himself to his full height again and resumed boxing. In the flrrt round or two the sailor tried once or twice to fight. He swished by Johnson’s Jaw with rights and slashed his left to the body, but these were either cleverly blocked or missed their mark by an Inch or two. Johnson Invariably came back with a rush, knocking Burke down or belting him so hnrd about the body that he was forced to the floor for a respite. The game little marine made a hit with the crowd by returning to what looked like cer tain defeat and they cheered lustily. It was a bit of a come-down to play Little Rock after that Mcmchii series. Not that Mike Finn hasn't a good team and not that there is not i consuming Interest In the present trio of games. ' But 2,000 people aren't 10,000 and you don’t take the Interest In playlns the third place team that you do In wrestling with the Individuals who art trying to yank you out of the gladsome lead. All of which Is a prelude to the remark that Atlanta added some more pressure to her strangle-hold on the lead by downing Little Rock 4 to 1 at Ponce DeLeon Thursday afternoon. Just at the very start of the game Atlanta had a hunch that It might be a cinch. And the Crackers took It painfully easy. The Travelers on the other hand worked like demons and were ai pleased as the Memphll ever dared to be Over the one-run lead they had for awhile. Spade Turned the Trick I A gentleman named Mr. Spade was In the box, however, and when you down him a stunt has been pulled off. You'll think he Is down and i u ,t at the critical moment he bobs up—and wins the game. Maybe Bob did not win Thursday's game, but anyhow he helped an aw. ful lot. To begin with. Spade pitched a three-bit game. Hess, Miller and Gil- bert made a blngle apiece, and that was the limit. The first hit—Hess'—came after Miller had walked and. stolen s«cond and It netted a run. This looked rather gloomy, but as a dlspellcr of pes- slmlsm Spade shines. And with his kind assistance three runs were scored and the game won. There was a weird similarity between the first trio of tallies. In the third, fifth and seventh Innings, Bill Dyer—Lawyer Bill—was the first mnn up. Each time he singled. Each time Ed Sweeney sacrificed. And each time Spade brought Dyer home. In the third Inning Dyer went to second on a pitched ball that Mr Woods neglected to gather In and advanced to third on the sacrifice. Then he scored from third on Spade's fly-out. The other two times Spade eent him home on a single. The fourth run was largely due to Rocken'feld's bobble. Becker lived at first on a fielder's choice, took third on Winters' hit and then came home when Wood's peg to block a double steal was missed at second by ''Rocky" Eyler pitched a fair game for Little Rock, especially. In the early staget Dope of the Day\ Eyler is a lanky, gangly looking guy, but he has a nice delivery and Is generally effective. It takes a wonder to hold the Crackers safe right now, though. Mike Finn Is certainly within the playing limit. Just at this writing he has eleven men—a complete team and three pitchers. Golf Tournament Starts Saturday The tournament committee of the At. lanta Athletic Club has sent out the following notice In regard to the handi cap tournament which begins Satur day: Medal Play Handicap, Open to All, En try Fee One Ball, Sixteen low scores In above, play off at mntrh; play using 3-4 of difference of medal piny handicaps. Entry Fee 3 Balls—Handicaps will be rearranged for theae events. The committee requests a lnrge en try In this tournament and that all cards be turned In. F. G. BYRD. W. R. T1CHENOR. W. K. STONE. 39 and 41 Whitehall St. trousers 6.00 Daniel Bros. Company, suit case.. 0.00 Sid Holland, pair cuff buttons.... 2.50 Hunting the Pig. Mayor Joyner, who Is something of a farmer and stock expert on the side, has agreed to furnish the pig for the occasion, and Is now on n hum for a long. fast, wild rasor-back. He has some fancy Berkshlres of hla own, but they have not the requisite speed and toughness, and he Is now on the mar ket for something lively In the pig line. ' It you have anything that can do a hundred yards In ten seconds and can keep It up all day, please deliver the same to Ponce DeLeon Park. Hughes Coming Hero. Tom. Hughes, tbs leading pitcher of the Southern League last year, who has been on Clark Griffith's Montreal farm this year, will winter In Atlanta. He has written Billy Smith that he does not like a cold country In the winter time, and that he will be In Atlanta soon after his season closes. 8mith to 8ceuL On Tuesday, as soon aa the benefit game Is out of the way. Bill Smith sets salt for Cincinnati and for a cou ple of weeks or so he will do the sleuth act through ths O. A P. League and elsewhere. B. McCay Finishes Fifth in Hitting and Throwing Events Bemte MsCay, the Mobile manager and "Johnny McGraw" of the Cotton States League, entered the long dis tance fungo hitting conteot and the long distance throwing at the Cincin nati Brewers’ field day list Monday, and came out fifth In both events. In the long distance hitting, Bernte slapped the ball out for 368 feet and T Inches. In the ■ throwing event Bernle was fifth and he also beat out the great and only Hans Wagner. McCay's record waa 343 feet and 111-2 Inches. Handsome 'Arry McIntyre, the for mer Memphis twlrlcr, represented the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, and came out second In the long distance fungo hitting. Sheldon A. Le Jeune, outfielder of the Springfield club, won the long distance throwing event and also came within nine Inches of breaking the world's record made by John Hatfield. DETECTIVES GUARD COBB. While the Detroit Tigers were play ing In Cleveland recently, two detec tives were with Ty Cobb, the Georgia boy, to keep Harry Bemls, the Naps' sturdy backstop, from doing the Geor gia boy harm. The Naps, and especially Bernle, are sore at Cobb. Bemls was spiked dur ing a game In Cleveland by Cobb, and was out of the game a good while. Bemls says Cobb spiked him on pur pose. Cobb says he didn't. OXFORD WON AGAIN. Special to The Goorglau. Oxford. Ga.. Sept. 12.—Wednesday afternoon Oxford won Its fourth straight game from Covington by the score of 11 to 3. The features of the game were the batting of the Sandlford brothers and the base running of Branham and Barnes, Batteries: Oxford. Stone and Sandl ford; Covington, Vlnelng and Slocum. i Little Neiicr. the former Harnnnah pitch er of the Sally Leagns, la pitching grei - The Travelers have about the same Infield and outfield that they had the last time they were here—barring the absence of First Baeeman Douglass, who recently Jumped. "We haven't changed our line-up this year,”, says Mike Finn, "except pitchers and catchers. We've had twenty-seven of tljem and that Is no Joke. , "We lost our malnstayB In Lake and Buchanan, who got sick on u< early In the season," added Mike. . “Buchanan had an awful time. We let him go to a bush league, but he was too sick to stick even there So he came back to Little Rock and they cut him open for something, I forget what, but didn't find It. "They did find, though, that he had appendicitis, a floating kidney and a deposit of fat on his liver. The doctor who took out hie appendix, scraped off the fat and anchored the kidney said he could not have lived a week If he had not been opened up. Buchanan was out at a ball game nine days after the operation—though he was not In much shape to pitch," added Mike, reflectively. In Broken Doses Sfd Smith worked out his curves before the game and was so "good" that he asked permission to pitch the closing game—provided Atlanta had the pennant cinched without It. Bill Dyer’s error came as the result of a sincere effort to "choke" t alow-hit ball. And It was no disgrace. It Is about an even chance that anybody will mtas a ball like that. With two Travelers on bases In the sixth Hess hit up a low fly that tried Ita best to fall safe. But Otto got under It with one hand. Wh»r. Page stole second he was lucky to get there. Otto had the ball and tagged him, but the collision was so hard that Otto dropped the ball. Sid Smith yanked what looked like a hit away from Hess In the ninth. Sid went way back out of hla position for the ball and made a sensa tional stop. Bob Spade, was given <42.50 by his admirers for his great batting and pitching In the game. That Is the way the thing started, ' ball for the Now York Americans and now the entire Cleveland team, ex- Sf' h ,p„ ISIS SfSSli,fl'-'I LVl'i ’’""•liter ceptlng probably a few of the older • * ,l,u ,,lp PKt rann ’ Griffith a alnli corps, and cooler heads are after Cobb's scalp. | I<0 , IU>|| wllI , ( „ n(tm | ttlH , froo t0 nU . ffntn( . H You can count on < obb doing his port, n,,, Hnithlera and tho Climbers piny in however, for he can whip nearly any i Montgomery on Thursday, Friday anil Bat man In the two big leagues. • urdny. . THE DUTCHMAN IS PUZZLED. tHHHMMMHHMMMHMHMMHMHMMMMHI Standing of tke Clubs. CLUB8- ATLANTA . .Memnhli. . . I .It tie Itnok . , New Orion nn Shreveport . , Rlrmlnuhnni. . Montgomery . Xaalivlllo . , This standing of tho clubs is official and was wired to Tho Georgian by A. Clark Miller, secretary to tho president of the Southern League. American. Played. Woo. I.oet. P. C. . . . 1» 78 50 .0)9 C. FRANK SCRATCHING HIS HEAD. When the New Orleans manager was in Atlanta he was asked how it happened that his team couldn’t finish jiny better than fourth. Just before he admitted that "he was durned if he knew," this is the way he looked. CLUBS- Philadelphia Chicago . . Detroit . . , Cleveland . . New York . . Ihiatnu . . . St. lamia . . Washington ri.itns- Ohleagn . . I’lttalnirg 12, Nov York .... 130 Philadelphia 121 llmoklyn 130 Cincinnati 131 Boston 137 Ht. lamia 131 Uttls Rock. Page, 2b. . . . Gilbert, cf. . . Rnckenfeld, sa. Wood, c. . . , Miller, If. . . . Bowcock, rf. . Hess, Sb. . . . Starke, lb. . . . Eyler. p. . . , ab. r. h. ro. Totals .... .31 Atlanta. Becker, rf. . Winters, cf. Paskert, If. . Smith, as. . . Fox, lb. . . Jordan. 2b. . Dyer, 3b. . . Sweeney, c. . Spade, p. . , 1 1 • 0 11 0 • 0 0 4 * 3 24 11 1 ab. r. h. pa 2 .22 5 0 } l 3 J 8 0 J I 0 3 J 6 ° 0 0 • .010 000 000—J .001 010 20’- • , Totals Kuna by Innings: Little Rock Atlanta Hits by Innings: , , Little Rock 011 000 010- j Atlanta 002 120 30»— < Summary—Three-base hit. ro*- struck out, by Spade 2, by Eyler - bases on balls, off Spade 4. off Eyler i- sacrifice hits, Sweeney 3; stolen hoe"! Miller 2. Hess. Page. Smith; pa;*” ball. Wood. Time, 1:50. Umpire. Pi™ nlnger. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Little Rock In Atlanta, Ponce Deloon park. Game railed at 3:l0 o’clock. Memphis In Montgomery. New Orleans in Nash rifle. - Shreveport In Birmingham. Mlque Finn’s angel face eras all smiles Inst nlchf. He felt elated that he hut managed to get ont of Birmingham -vtili even break. “Yon may now depend on It. raid he. on leaving, “that we will hand Atlanta n package, it,, not understand me an saving that we will take nit the gnmc* from the t’mekera. Bat we will break their 'never-losing' streak, Inst the ■aim*. — lllnulngbnm Age-llerr.ld. 1 THURSDAY’S RESULTS. Southern. Atlanta 4. Little Rock 1. New Orleans 7, Naaiivflle t , Memphis 3, Montgomery 1 J Itlrtnlnghatn 2. Shreveport 1 (flrit j Shreveport 5, Blrmlnghnm 2 I second if 3 ®** f American. Chicago 3, ht. Lnnla 2. Cleveland 2, Detroit 1. Philadelphia 7, Ronton 1. Wn(thington 2, New York 0. Notv York 5. Brooklyn 0. Ronton 3. Philadelphia 2 (first Rost on 3. Philadelphia 2 (second Chicago 3, Cincinnati 1. ASEBAU ATANTA vs. LITTLE ROCK. September 12,13,14. Tickets on sale at Oppenheim's* I -z. 1