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H Tfll'J ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1907. GO TO BENEFIT GAME—THE ATLANTA PLAYERS DESERVE BIG SUCCESS JESSE FRED BECKER. PoHltlon, right field. Age. 24. Height. 5 feet, 8 Inches. Weight, 165. First professional engagement. Lake Linden. Winter home, Hnglnaw, Mich. Born Burt, Mich. Played with I^ake Linden and At lanta. Hus one child. Was on pennant-winning team nt Lake Linden and Atlanta. ROBERT 8PADE. Position, pitcher. Age. 27. Height, 5 feet 10 3-4 lnc!;as. Weight, 186 pounds. Winter home, Akron, Ohio. Born, Akron. Ohio. Played with Youngstown, four years; Kent, Interstate Association; Indianap olis; Chicago Americans; Ht. Louis Na tionals, Macon, Atlanta. Married. Hase two children. Has been on two pennant winning teams—Macon and Atlanta. 8IONEY SMITH. Position, catcher. Age, 23. Height. 5 feet 8 1-2 Inched. Wright, 17* pounds. First professional engagement, at Charlfflton, 8. I*. Winter home, Camden, S. C. Horn. Camden, 8. C. Played with Charleston and Atlanta. 8!ngle. Never before on pennant winning team. GEORGE HENRY PA8KERT. Position, left field. Age, 25. Height, 5 feet, 11 Inches. Weight. 182. First professional engagement, Day- ton. Winter home, Cleveland. Born Cleveland. Played with Dayton, Warren, Ohio; Atlanta. Married. Has or.e child. Never before on s pennant-winning team. IHMHtUMHIHMMHHtHIMlIMHM'tHttHHIHIHHMIMIHIHMHMMHMNItHtlMIMHHHIMHIi j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS | Onrne called. The day’s hot work i» done— The player is a man again— And even ns you and other men, In grateful that his rest is won. LJU16 IvtiCKAcL CA61 Kv. Position, shortstop. Age. 29. Height. 5 feet. 8 Inches. Weight, 165 pounds. First professional engagement Utica, In 1895. Winter home, Birmingham, Ala. Where born, Medellin. United States of Columbia. South America. Played with the following teams: New London. Auburn, N. Y.; Atlantic City, Patterson, Philadelphia Ameri cans, Rochester Baltimore, Portland, ; Kansas. City, Nashville, Blnvuntiimui, PETER WILLIAM ZELLER. Position, pitcher. Age. 23. Height. 6 feet 3-4 Inchefe. Weight, 175 pounds.. First professional engagement, at Homestead, Pa. Winter home, Beaver Falls, Pa. Born. Youngstown, Ohio. Played with Homei.tead and Atlanta. Married. No children. Never before on pennant winning team. - I STORY OF THE GAME JAMES CLAUDIUS FOX Position, first base. ' Age, 28. Height. « feet « 1-2 Inches. \\ eight, 185 pounds. First professional engagement In. venport, Jown, In 1901. ’ a Winter home. Atlanta. Born, Randleman, X. c. V *7?* l) ?" n I» r ': Greensboro. lantn' "heeling,( \\. \a.; Macon; At- Married. No children. con” ° n * pennant " lnne r before—Ha- Otiim* called. An error or a hit ? Why, what to iih are praise anil hlanie- We only know we played tile (fame— Home beckons—and the lights are lit. —E. V. COOK. WiLLIAM ANDREWS oi.n i r, Position, manager. Age. 37. Height. 5 feat, 7 1-2 Inches. Weight; 150, First professional engagement, Elk hart, Md. Winter home, Atlanta. Where born, Chtlllcnthe, Ohio. Played with Klkhnrt, Fort' Wayne. Springfield, III.; Hamilton. Ohio; Owensboro, Ky.; Knoxville, Mucun, At lanta. Hlngle. RUSSELL WILLIAM FORD. Position, pitcher. Age, 24. Height, 5 feet 11 Inches, Weight, 188 pounds. Winter home. .Minneapolis. Born, Bravelon. Manitoba, Canada. Played with Cedar ltaplds; Spring- Bold. 111.; Atlanta, Single. Has been on the following pennnnt winning teams; Coda ltaplds. Spring- field, Atlanta. r It’s over. The Southern Leapne race—probably the best ever run in a Southern League—has come to a glorious close. As a fitting finish Atlanta won her closing game, while Mem phis lost. That gave the Cracker team the pennant by a margin that wns beyond dispute. And n month ago hardly a man outside Atlanta conceded the Crackers a chance to heat out Memphis, aucr croakers at home and abroad predicted a second place finish for Little Rock, witli Memphis ns the peuimiit winner. Verily thnt finish will go down in history, and ten or twenty years from nmv you will hear of a “Hill Smith finish” ns often as nowadays you hear or the “Uarrison” variety. For the Inst time it is urged on the Atlanta baseball fans— show your appreciation of the team’s work by going out and making today’s benefit game the lmwlingest success that the South has ever known. If the fans turn out ns they ought to the nffair will be a suc cess beyond anything the players even hope for. And never fear, they will. LIFE HISTORY OF B. SMITH, WINNER By THE REFORMED SPORTING EDITOR. huOwrri \j i i %j vonuMit, Position, second base. Are, 27. Height, 5 feet 8 1-2 Incited. Weight. 180 pounds. First professional engagement, ut Binghamton, N. Y. Winter home. Atlanta. , Born, Pittsburg. Played with Binghamton, Brookh-n md Atlanta. , Married. Has no children. Wo* never before on pennant wln- llng team. j Standing of the Clubs. t*LCB8— ITI.ANTA. , jempht* . . Jew orleana .tttle Bock . Ilrsnltiirb«tu . ihreveport . . fontgoiiiery . I'libvllle . . !krdiid . )«»trolt . . •>w York . tMMfOU . . t. Loula *. . Vashlngton Southern. l*Ur«L Won. I/xt. P. C. . . . i32 7* 64 .6*1 American. nu;«L Won. Loet. P. C. . . . . 128 80 GO .616 .S30 William Algernon Smith, not un known In aelect banebaM circle* ns "BUI the Crab," has been In the rnme for eighteen years, and Is pretty nearly In the class with Lave Cross, Theo. Brelt- ensteln, Cy Young, Jeems McOulre and ithrr near-centenarians. William has been manager of twelve teams; he has won four pennant*, ho* tlnished second once, third four times, I and never worse than fourth. It Is | doubtful if any minor Irugue manager of the same service has ever made so I good a record. The best part of It Is i that he has Improved with experience, and In the past four years has brought three pennants to Georgia. And the most wonderful thing about It Is that he enptured for Atlanta her first pen nant since the year of grace and Monk t’Une, 1886. Twenty-one years of waiting, plus the acquisition of BID Smith have turned the trick, A vast amount of credit Is due Grouchy William. He has planned like a Mnchlnvelll and "fit" like a enta mount for the flag. And outside of this city he has had no friends In the Southern Leaguo circuit. Everybody has been against him: Charley Frank, ('barley Babb and the others all say of Bill: "Why, that dub’s nothing but busher; he's got no business In this league, and we are going to show him up." lie has been violently assailed In every newspaper In the circuit, and every story that might dissatisfy or dlsorganlxe his team tins been printed against Bill. To all of which he has merely grunted and taken another chew off hts best friend, a big black plug of tobacco. Bill came to Atlanta in the fall of 1905, pledged to give Atlanta a winner In two years. He took the remnants of a sadly demoralised *quad and gav* Memphis the race of her life for second place last year. Then he whacked off all »he dead wood, and after a long up hill fight, won the rag his second year, living up to his promise. He has had the sympathy and un qualified financial supfiort of the At lanta directorate, but no meddling—for which he Is duly grateful—and he fens demonstrated that he Is no "busher" and that he Is In his proper class In the Southern League. Bill Is a good manager because he Is an excellent Judge of a ball player. Is a disciplinarian from the word proceed, and Is the hardest loser In the history of organised baseball. It takes him twenty-two hours to get over the loss of a game. None of your smile and say: "Better luck next time" for him. Hardly. He Is plunged In profound, Stygian gloom after a defeat and his tongue bites like caustic potash. Where fore. his players hate to lose a game; It depresses Bill so. As a Judge of placers, he Is all to the good. He has unearthed and sent to company from the "hushes," Bid Smith, Ed Sweeney, Bob Spade, Bussell Ford, Jim Fox, Neal Ball. ^George Paskert and Grunt Schopp. Now, about that release of Neal Ball. Ball's subsequent showing at Mont gomery made It look as though Smith had committed a bud break In letting him go. But between "Count" Castro, a good dependable shortstop, n fair hit. ter. nervy In a pinch, and a greut coacher, and Neal Ball, with a bad arm that might not get well, Billy did the wise thing In keeping the South Amer ican and s »lling Hall. Castro, with his ever-flowing wit and fun. has been an Inspiration to his team-mates all the year and has Injected more ginger and lighting spirit Into them than any other one man. He Is Just what was needed to turn a good team Into a pennant winning squad, and Bill Smith knew It. And while Hall has outbntted Cas tro, It Ih seriously to be doubted if he would have been half as valuable to the team Billy hasn't played regularly since he left Macon. But he used to he known ns "Phenomenal Hilly" Smith and was one of the finest minor league outfielders in the country. He sturted out ns an Inflelder, and In a pinch could now play a creditable game nt second, third or short. But sixteen years of gruelling service, plus the worries and cures of manager, have sort o' put him on the blink as a play er ami he has very discreetly with drawn from active service In the Held, Personally, Smith Is a quiet, taciturn, solemn gentleman. That is, In the win ter months- when the sting of Oefeut doesn't aeldulate his temper. He saves his money, dresses well, flashes a mod est diamond or two, and attends to his own business. Ills home Is In Knox- vllltvTenn., where his mother and sis ters reside. He Is unmarried, and de votes all of his domestic attention to them. Here Is his managerial record: Year and team. League. Finished 1895, Lynchburg. .Vo. State... .Second 1896, Lynchburg. .Vu. State First 1897, Norfolk .. ..Atlantic Third 1898, Ottumwa, la..Western.. .Fourth 1900, Albany.. ..N. Y. State.. ..Third 1861, Davenport.. .la. State.. ..Third 1902. Davenport.. .In. State.. ..Fourth 1904, Macon...South Atlantic....First 1905, Macon...South Atlantic.. ..First 1906, Atlanta.. ..Southern Thlnl 1907, Atlanta.. ..Southern First oooooooooooooooooooooooooo o O CRACKER8 BANQUETED O O AT KIMBALL HOU8E. O O O The banqueting of the Cracker O Exhibition Game Promises To Be a Great Suc cess. The grand wind-up of the baseball season Is to be pulled off at Ponce De Leon purk Monday afternoon when the field sports and exhibition game are uncorked. The players and their friends have been selling tickets far and wide during the past week, and It looks now though the receipts would amount up to a fat sum. Each of the directors will drop In a check for |60 In the ticket box when they enter the park this aft ernoon and there will be plenty of fut contributions. It Is likely that nt least a couple of thousand people, nnd maybe more, will be out to see the concluding romp of the season. In addition to the program which hnk already been announced, there will be a parade. A band h*s been secured and the players In uniform will ride In open carriages. The parade will start at 1 o'clock. At 2:30 o'clock the field sports will begin with the 100-yard dash as the first event, and chasing the greased pig as the wind-up. Mayor Joyner, with the kind assist ance of Chief Jentxen. nns procured the pig for the occasion and the porker has been given fast work-out* for sev eral days. He Is hard a* steel nnd fast aa PaSkert running bases. When nicely greased he will be the slipperiest cus tomer that has ever hit the burg. Here Is the program of events: 1. One-hundred-yard dash. 2. Around the buses. 3. Futigo hitting. 4. Distance slide. 5. Long-distance throwing. 6. Most accurate bunt. 7. Chasing the greased pig. The Itnc-up of the two teams In tho game which follows the field stunts Is us follows: O team was concluded Sunday night O O when Manager Zimmer, of the O O Kimball, entertained the team Q O with a big spread. The menu was O O excellent, the favors handsome O - , O and the speech** the most brll- O the big league such nlayers as Luther O ifnnt yet. Mayor Joyner acted as O Taylor, Dan McCann. Al Orth. "Doc" 10 toastmaster. „ * O Newton. Ollie Pickering and the late IO Q _ ~J) "Cra*y Dolan, ami hu* brought to thl. OODDO^OOOOPOQOOOQOOOOOOOOQ record wax six”gamt*. Bill Smith*. Team. Jim Lafltto . McKentle .. Spade .... Sid Smith Castro .. . I.fpe Ford Loft field ., Bill Smith ..Center field Becker Right Held' ptto Jordan's Position, Team. .. ..Catcher .. ..Sweeney . ..Plfcher Schopp or Castleton ..First base Fox . Second base .. Al Jordan . .Shortstop .. Otto Jordan Third base Dyer .. Left field .. .. Paskert .Winters ....Zeller Atlanta defeated Little Rook In the last game of the Southern League season on the Ponce DeLeon grounds Saturday by the score of 10 to 4. The Crackers made a picnic out of the battle at the start, but the Travelers were trying with might nnd main to overthrow Atlanta, nnd In the third and fifth Atlanta got busy. In the third inning tho Crackers scored two runs and five In the fifth. The Crackers hit Walters, Finn’s slubmnn, at will. It could be plainly oeen that they had him going from the Mart. Rube Zeller pitched a nice gan*»‘ for Atlanta, nnd the Klntiites could not hit him hard enough to win. Zeller was In fine form nnd was Invinci ble In the pinches, although the hit column In the box score does not show it. Page, the first man up for Little Rock, hit to short and on Dyer's error was safe. Gilbert singled nnd went to second. On Rockenfeld's sac rifice lie went to third nnd scored when Wood grounded to first. Walters hit to third and on Jordan’s error went to station No. 3. Page singled nnd Walters scored. On two wild pitches In succession by Zeller Page went to third. Gilbert singled and Page also scored. In the third Bowcock tripled and scored when Hess filed out to left. After the third there was nothing doing for the Travelers. The Crackers scored their runs In this iqpnner: Paskert slrgled in the third Inning. Smith, Fox and Jordan did sim ilar stunts and Paskert counted. Sweeney singled nnd Fox and Smith scored. Zeller singled (his eighth hit this season), and Jordan and Sweeney scored. This ended the Inning ar.d also the slaughter. The Crackers scored three moro tallies In the eighth Inning. Castro hit to short and on KockenfeUVs error ho was safe nt first. Rube Zeller fanned. Becker was hit In the shits and Winters wns safe on Page’s error nt second and Castro scored. Puskcrt singled, Becker scored and on Sid Smith's hit Winters tallied. Little Rock. ab. Page, 2b. . .4 Gilbert, cf. . . 4 Rock’feld, *s.. 1 Wood, c. . .4 Miller, If. . . 4 Bowcock, rf. . 4 Hess. 3b. . .4 Stark, lb.. ..4 Walter, p. ..3 r. h. po. a. e. 21 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Becker, rf. . . 3 2 0 2 0 0 Winters, cf. . 4 1 1 0 0 0 Paskert. If. . 4 2 3 2 0 0 .Smith. c.-3b. . 4 1 3 2 2 1 Fox. lb 3 1 2 9 0 0 Jordan. 3b.-2b. 4 1 3 0 4 1 Dyer. 3b 1 0 0 2 0 1 Sweeney, c. . 2 1 1 3 0 0 Castro, ss. . . 4 1 0 4 2 0 Zeller, p. . . 4 0 1 0 4 0 Totals.. . .30 10 14 24 12 2 Totals. . .32 4 Score by innings: Little Rock 102 100 00— 4 Atlanta 002 050 3x—10 Summary—Three-base hit, Bowcock. Stolen bases, Becker, Miller. Sacrifice hits, Rockenfctd, Dyer. Bases on balls, oft Zeller £, off Walter ♦. Hit by pitched balls. Walter (Fox and Becker). Struck out, by Zeller 2, by Walter 6. Passed ball, Wood. Wild pitch, Zeller. Time of game, 1:50. Umpire, Pfennlnger. EDWIN MORGAN M’KENZIE. Position, pitcher. Age. 20. Height, 6 feet. Weight, 155 pounds. First professional engagement, at Jamestown, N. Y. Winter home. Cleveland, Ohio. Born, Kansas City. Kan*. Played with Jamestown; Youngs town; Canton, Ohio; Columbia. Married. ( No children. Never before on pennant winning team. WHEN ATLANTA WON HER OTHER “RAGS Up to Saturday about nunnet, at which time the Atlanta playrra became the ehamplon. of the Southern ansocla- tlon of hnaeluill club., Atlanta had .one twenty-one yeura without a pen nant winner. Hack In 1885 and 1888 Atlanta won her pennant*. And tho,e were big year* In baseball. • It happened at the time the loot rag wan won that tho .porting editor wan nome nix year. old. and lived aome thounand tnHen from the Southern League circuit. In conneiiuence he doesn't know much about what hap pened then, our gentlemanly annlnt- ant wunn’t even born In 1888. And an 7' „ . , m _ ......1.1 I.. n olnn.l 4 linen ll'ltu llltlTl, n I II •», of the league. Gus Schmeltx was At lanta'* manager. From the start It could he seen that all of the rlubn were evenly balanced nnd thnt dome good baseball tvould surelv he the renult. The aea.on Opened with the follow. Ing clubs playing each other: Atlan ta nt Augusta. Birmingham at Mem phis. Columbus at Nanhvllle and Chat- tunooga nt Macon. The following were the winner* of the !ir*t game* \nd the *core*: At lanta defeated Augusta by the score of 10 to 1; Nanhvllle beat Columbus 11 to 9; Macon beat Chattanooga 19 to 2. and Memphis was easy for Binning. Bill Entertain., Billy Smith entertntned the member, of the Atlanta team, the official* of the hanetmlt association and newspaper men nt it banquet nt the Aragon Sat urday night. Handsome presents, bought by the team, were given during the evening to Manager Smith. Secretary Ethridge and Dr. Mitchell. Among the guests was A. Clark Miller, secretary to the president of the league, who represent ed President Kavnnaugh here at the wind-up of the season. Here are the Inscription, which were on the present, given to Messrs. Smith and Ethridge and Dr. Mitchell: “With best wishes to the dandy llttle manager, from* his pennant winners, as a slight token of their appreciation of his ability and kindness." "To Colonel Newt Etheridge: "As a token of our appreciation of your friendship on all occasions, especially on the lat and 15th, from the team." "A* n token from the team to our faithful friend and well-wisher, 'Dock' Mitchell, who we think, should be entered In the 100-yard dash. Held day events, as he has always proved to us to t>e Johnnv- on-the Spot. THE TEAM.” “Eva** Breaks Rscord. Wilhelm, of the Birmingham team, wound up the season by breaking n world’s baseball record. He rounded out the performance of shutting out his opponents for the flfty-nlnth con secutive Inning. The best previous far an could be ascertained there wns not a man on the editorial department of The Georgian, outside of the market reporter, who claimed to be of years of discretion when Atlanta won her 1888 hnseball championship. In order to give Georgian readers the real facts of what happened back In those momentous years, the sport ing editor's assistant dug the neces sary fncts out of newspaper flies. And here they are: By CLIFFORD HORTON The pennant raees of 1885 and 1886 were memorable In the history of the Mouth. Both years the contest hard fought. And both years Atlanta won. In 1888 Steve Ryan waa president of the Atlanta club, or Champions, an they were called In those days. He backed the club anti made money. Purcell was the manager. In both years Atlanta hud.a great club In the field, although the team of 1886 was far superior to that of 1885. Atlanta had easily the best club ever known In the South that year. The Atlanta*, a* the dally papers In those days ct\lled them, played a number of practice games with the big leaguers before the season started, and they ? :ave the majors some of the hardest ought conteatu ever seen In this city. The Atlanta club played the cham pion White Stockings, of 'Chicago, a series of three games In the spring of 1886. Atlanta lost the first game by the score of 17 to 16, but came back In the second contest und Anally won by a count of 11 to 10. Chicago won the last game. Pop" Anson was manager of Chica go that year. Anson played a great game at first for Chicago, and he was probably the only man In the baseball world who got hts picture In an Atlanta paper In 1886. Anson hail on his team such stars as Pfeffer, second base: Cline, left field, anil others too numerous to mention. The attendance at the practice and league games was remarkably Urge for a city the size of Atlanta. Almost al ways a* many as 900 persons witnessed each game, and many times more than a thousand paid admission. Race of 1885. The old Southern League race of 1885 began on April 15 and ended Rep- O hall team, tember 13. H. W. Grady was presldeut UOODODODOODOQOODOOOGODOCOU The following were the line-ups: Atlanta—Cahill, ss.; McVey c. Clarke, rf.; Jevene, If.: Cleveland, lb Dundon, lb nnd pitcher; Bauer, p.; Henke, of.; BUttnan. 2b; Sullivan, r Augusta—Kllrny. If, anti p..; Rox burg, rf.; Leary, 3b: Hofirod, p.; Don nelly, lb; Burns, cf.; Heard. 2b; East erdny, **.: Sexsmlth, c.; Collins, p. Birmingham—Murphy, rf.; Phlnsey, cf.: Corrldon, 2b; AfcCauley, lb: Ber ber. 3b; Capehart, If.; Parsons, Meriltt, sst; Crossly, c. and p, Nashville—Sowders, lb; Hllley 3b; Cullen, c.; Werrlck, ss.: Voss, If.; Wine, p.; Hellcmun, 2b and p.; Ryan, cf.; Crowell, rf. Chattnnooga—Selgler, rf.: Hnrrls, 3b; Ryan, If.; Holland, lb.; B. Gllks, cf.: Otternon, 3b and p.; Bulla*, c.; Bcntall, ss.; Rnmsey, p. Macon—Helnsmnn, cf.; Sewer, lb; Collins, ss.; Mock, 2b; Wnlker. rf.; Balferty, Sb; Zell, If.; Morrlsiy, c.; Johnson, p. Columbus—Strauss, ss.; Lyons, 3b; Collins, 2b; Landis, p.: Hamburg, lb; Fltxgernld, rf.; Kappcll, c.; Hoger, If.; Clarke, cf. Memphis—Cross, ss.: Bell, cf.: 8yl- velster. If.; Wenlen. lb; McLaughlin. 2b; Corrigan, o.; Stclnhsff, Sb; Nash, p.; East, rf. (To be Continued.) ROAD RECORD. *' In answer to a query, Atlanta has on 19 games on the road and lost 25 since June 10. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOQOO O 0 O CLUB DIRECTORS Q O WILL HOLD MEETING. O O The directors of the Atlanta O O Baseball Association meet Monday 0 O night. At that time Secretary O O Ethridge will make his financial O O report for the season, the business 0 C of the yesr will be wound up and O O plans made for remt year. It la O O probable that Billy Smith w)l! be 0 O formally appointed manager for 0 O 1908 at the meeting. 0 O The baseball season of 1808 has O O been the most successful ever ex. G perienced by any Southern GEORGE WILLIAM WINTERS. Position, right field. Age, 31. Height, 5 feet, 8 Inches. Weight, 175. First professional engagement, Syr acuse, N. Y. Winter home, St. Louis. Where born, Ht. Louis. Played with Syracuse, Montreal, At lanta. Single. Never before on a pennant-winning team. WILLIAM HENRY DYER. Position, third base. Age, 26. Height, 5 feet, 10 Inches. Weight, 156. — . First professional engagement, Wor cester. Winter home, Worcester. Whtrc born, Worcester. Played with Worcester. Montreal. Harrisburg (Outlaw), Rutland t"ut- law), Atlanta. Never before on a pennant-" Inning team. SUNDAY’S RESULTS. American. Cleveland I, Chicago 2 National. I Pittsburg 8, fit. SATURDAY'8 RESULTS. Southern. Atlanta 16. Uttte Rm* «• BSS21: HBS^nfasirsu Birmingham l Shreveport 0 (sjeond New Orleans 8. Nashville 2 (first Nashville 14. New Orleans 4 (second k™' New York . I'hlUi'Ieliibln Philadelphia gr-knirfiLffTyaL fit. Dmls 4. Iketroit 3 (second game). Chicago 7, Cleveland 3. National. Pittsburg fit. Droll 1. Phtlsdelldila 3. Boston 1 («r»t ir u. 0 Itillsdelpnin x. (saw * 7 e.met. L * a Philadelphia s. Boston l.tsj^Lg^ bane- 0 Brooklyn S. Sew lock ( (first gam . . O Kiy!! LKew York® tsevoad **“*'• Chicago Cincinnati 2.