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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1907.
WHAT CRANE SAYS ABOUT AMERICAN LEAGUE RACE ED TEDB
! P. H. WHITING
VIEWS
HE PITCHED A GREAT GAME
the outlook for games
iven.
Brobdignngs of last
ve everything oil their
year.
rcer and S. W. P. U.
and Alabama are
ilt might be able to
Mp of the South. But
lg bndly wenkened by
ritchnrd and handi-
character, the Com-
eir attention to win-
[collcgcs — Navy and
;o look out for them-
October 12, and Me-
GugnTis now bending all his energies to propare for that big
event. The Navy returned practically all m its last year's team
and has a world of good new material. Last year’s team bent
West Point and this year’s promises to eclipse anything that the
Navy has ever had. Poor old Vanderbilt is certainly up against
it in that game.
But to get bnck to the evenness of things in the South.
Sewanee, on the strength of last year’s team and this yenr’s
material, is going to be tremendously strong. In Coach Erwin
tho Tigers have undoubtedly a star and that he will develop a
terrible machine up on that rocky Tennessee mountain is a
double-and-twisted cinch.
Right now Sewnnec looms up next to Vanderbilt and will be
the chief claimant of second place honors. Possibly the Tigers
will bent Vanderbilt this year. Anyway, we shall know more
about the Tigers’ strength in November, for on the ninth of thBt
month the Tennessee Tigers play Tech and two days later they
tackle Georgia.
Tech is out of last year’s rut and may be a contender for
first honors of the S. I. A. A. this year, and if Heisman’s squad
does not land first it will certainly win n ranking far above any
thing it had last year.
If examinations will not work too much hnvoc with Tech ma
terial there is going to be an awful team out on Tech flats and
some grand battles will be seen in Atlnnta this fall.
If you listen to them out at Tech you might easily believe
that the Tech-Georgia gome November 2 wns practically a cinch
for the Yellow Jackets.
While we have not seen the Georgia squad in action this
year, we opine that we can’t figure out nny cinch for the local
players. Georgia had a pretty fair team last year—a team that
might havo beaten Tech or tied anyway if tho bnck field had
been able to handle punts. A good part of this team is bnck in
Athens and in addition there is such a wealth of prep material
that Coach Whitney must keep busy nights trying to figure out
some way to give all his good men a chance.
How Georgia can fail to have a good team this year is some
thing beyond the understanding of tho ordinary football cranks.
With Vanderbilt and Clemson presumably much weaker
than last year and Tech, Sownneo and Goorgia much strongor
there certainly ought to bo some wnrm battles for the football
championship of the middle South this year.
Anyway, we’re waiting and hoping.
JOE GANS AND JIM BURNS
READY FOR THEIR FIGHT
Loz Angeles, Cat, Sept. 28.—Joe Gans
amt Jimmy Bums are down to weight
and In j-erfect condition. The lighten
have ceased training on account of this
happy state of affairs. Today and Fri
day will be periods of rest with only
light work to keep them on edge and
down to weight
Jeffries and McCary will go to
Burns' camp at Long Beach today and
to the Gann camp at Arcadia the fol
lowing day to Instruct the fighters re
garding the rules that will govern the
fight. The articles of agreement fully
cover these rules, but Jeffries Is given
authority to boss the fight from gong
to finish, and he will have a thorough
understanding with the scrappers be
fore entering the ring.
Gans remains favorite at 2 to 1 and
10 to 4, and there Is plenty of money
on tap to support him, while the Burns
money has not come out of hiding yet,
and there Is good prospect that Gans
will go In the ring as good ns S to 1,
ADD £ JOSS.
Joes wae in rare old form st ,4ew York Wednesday and let the Yan
kees down with s single hit. Needless to say he won his game, though
errors In his support cost s run.
Another Big League?
Boston, Sept. 28.—Among the ball players there Is a great deal of talk
about another big league.
It Is very evident that a number of players have been approached
In an official way regnrdlng the talked-of organisation.
The players say that the cities most likely to be in tho Metropolitan
League, the dame already chosen for the proposed rival to tho 'National
and American, are Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Toledo, Co
lumbus, Louisville and Milwaukee.
GORDON TEAM
WORKING HARD
FORTY MEN ARE OUT DAILY
TO TRY FOR GEORGIA TEAM
Special to The Georgian.
Athens, Ga., Sept. 2*.—'The Georgia
football squad numbered forty men
yesterday, and will probably go ns high
os fifty by the end of the week. On
Saturday the scrubs and varsity lined
up for a scrimmage of fifteen nr twen
ty minutes' duration. The teams were
very evenly matched In weight and
material and It was all the 'varsity
could do to carry the ball over three
times.
Wray and McDonald, of the '05
team, have reported and will do a good
deal toward filling the places of the
men whose studies make It Impossible
for them to play.
The 'varsity yesterday lined up
follows: Wray, center: right guard,
Harman; left guard, Lucas: left tackle,
McWhorter; right tackle, DeLaPer-
rlere; right end, Graves; left end,
Hatcher; quarter. Grace; left half, Na
pier; right half, Roman: fullback, Mc
Donald.
Athletics Lead Tigers by
The Width of One Whisker
That American League race loosens
up every day—yet, a lot!
Just now Philadelphia and Detroit
are tied up so tight for first place that
It takes higher mathematics to figure
out any difference between the two.
dope out to the last degree, Phila
delphia leads by .00011, but for all
practical (and baseball) purposes the
teams are tied.
Both Detroit and Philadelphia won
Wednesday.
The most convincing win was that of
Philadelphia, which beat the strong
Chicago team by a score of 5 to 0.
Plank pitched a two-hit game.
Detroit won from Boston by a score
of 4 to 3, and had a hard time of It.
v w, imiu iiuu u liniu illllf XML LX,
putting the winning run over In the
tenth Inning. Killian pitched for the
Tigers and Manning for the Codfish
Crew.
Cleveland won a nice game from New
York. Joss was quite Invincible.
Christensen Will
Accept Challenge
Sporting Editor The Georgian:
Dear Sir—I have read with pleasure
your published challenge from Burns.
Now I do not know him and don't care
to know him unless he means business.
1 will /rive him a chance this week If
he wlslses to meet me. We will put up.
a nice little purse and go In private
£• 'l_.
and Just Invite the sporting editors and
let them see a match on the level.
My backing Is for Mr. Burns. I will
meet him and to give the public a run
or the editors. I will back up a match
with one to five hundred and will throw
this Burns three times In one hour.
So let me hear, for my time Is money.
As ever, yours,
AL CHRISTENSEN.
That Brooklyn has drafted Wilhelm
Is confirmed by advices from National
Association headquarters.
Coach Blake Trying to Get
Ready For Clemson
Saturday.
Special to The Georgian.
Barnesvllle, Ga., Sept. 26.—The work
of the Gordon team, which Is being pol
ished off for the opening game of the
season with Clemson, has been very
discouraging to.Cogch Blake.
The line men—and particularly the
old ones—are not doing what they
might.
In the last practice game with the
scrubs the first team had It badly
nibbed In by the little fellows and four
touchdowns were mode before Coach
Blake decided that the "big guns” had
had enough. Then the first team play
ers were Just able to drag their frames
to the club house, while the second
team topped off with a lap around the
running track.
The Gordon team Is in no condition
for the game with Clemson, and will be
lucky to escape with as few as six
touchdowns. With the loss of eight old
men and with only two substitutes to
take their places, Gordon Is In a hard
ATLANTA TEAM
WINS EASILY
Defeats Its Old Rivals, the
Georgia Railway Ag
gregation.
In the opening game of the season
the Atlanta bowling team defeated the
Georgia Railway team by a large score
on the George W. Case alleys Wednes
day night.
A large and enthusiastic crowd
turned out to see the get-away. Neither
team showed Its real form In the first
games, but both expect to round into
shape In a few days. The highest Indi
vidual score made -was 196, by Herbert
of the Atlanta team. The score was
as follows:
Atlanta— 1
Eagan 185
Elliott 160
Herbert 199
Johnson .. .: .. ..171
Hobe 160
Georgia Ry.— 1
J. Chambers 172
Burks 187
Lyons 141
Harwell 128
H. Chambers 129
2
191
168
148
190
167
U?
137
chance to get In shape for the college
games with which It opens the season
Trout, Smith and Blnlon, of the o\
men. are showing up In last season’s
form, while Cockran and Moore, of the
new men. are playing the class of ball
that It does one good to see. The
balance of the men have not yet gotten
onto the plays In a way to stop them
short of a gain of 5 or 10 yards.
Gordon leaves here Friday morning
for Clemson and will reach Atlanta
over the Central about 11:30 o'clock
and will leave In the afternoon tor
Clemson.
AMERICAN GIRL REFUSED
TO WED NOTED FRENCHMAN.
, Paris. Sept. 26.—A proposal of mar
riage from a French statesman, former
premier of Franco and former and
probably future candidate for president
of France, has been rejected by Count
ess Spottlswood-MaKin, widow of
James S. MaKIn, formerly a state
senator of New York. The name of the
statesman Is withheld. The countess
was born Sallle Bruton, daughter of
the late James H. Bruton, at oen time
mayor of St. Louis.
DETROIT WINS THE RAGr
SAYS EXPERT SAM CRANE
Picks Chicago Second and
Philadelphia in Third
Place, i '
By SAM CRANE.
New York. Sept. 28.—This Is the way
the chibs will finish In the American
League. I will tell you why I place
them In that order and then the come
back that I am bound to get In bunches
can not arrive too quick if It doesn't
come all at once.
Tho way I look at the race, which, by
the way. Is the closest the American
Longue has ever had, Is this: Taking
Into consideration the number of clubs
that have a "look-in," and from the
standpoint of how the clubs are per
forming Just now and also from their
pant games with the same teams they
have still to face, It looks to me like:
HOW THEY FINISH,
6 Detroit,
0 Chicago,
O Philadelphia,
0 Cleveland,
New York. 0
Boston. 0
St. Louis. O
Washington, 0
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Hughey Jennings’ team.
The Detrolta have the best chance
from the fact that they, when here,
were traveling at a very fast clip and
were brim full of confidence. Hughey
Jennings had them Well In hand and
they were in a winning form. They
showed no effects of the awful struggle
they had been in so long and were ap
parently fresh and were still holding
a full team. There was not a weak
spot on the team.
After leaving Boston the Detroit#
have to play the Philadelphia and
Washington#, and I figure it out that
if they can win two out of three from
the Athletic# and break even In Wash-
Says Hugh Jennings’ Team
Is In Winning
Form.
Ington they can not be beaten oui
the pennant. “ r
The Willie Sox took the spurt that
pulled them up where people sat up and
took notice by winning five straliht
from the Senators. The kindness of
the Cantlllon crew put'the Windy cit.
buiiCh Into the running and they again
loomed up aa a most dangerous factor
They followed up this winning streak
after they struck Philadelphia and now
that they have struck their stride ther
of course, loom up big, but from Phlla.
delphla they have to go to Boston and
New York and I have the Idea they an
ffolng to run up against great big sn a*s
In both cities. .na,,
SHAUGHNESSEY POUNDS CLEMSON TEAM
IN SHAPE FOR GAME WITH GORDONI
Special to The Georgiso.
Clemson College, 8. C., Sept. 28.-The
Cleinson College football team opens the
season here Hittunlay In a contest with the
famous prep team of the Gordon Institute,
nml there fs much uneasiness In the Tiger
cn nip* iMH'ftiise of the uncertainty of the Is
sue of the bnttle.
Clemson h/»# hardly got started at practice
this yenr. in the first place, the athletic
field wns ploughed up Just before school
opened, and hus been kept soggy by rains.
Conch Shnuchnessy renched here Into, and
several of the plnyers nre nt present out of
the gnme.
Warren, Isutt yenr*# speedy quarter, wns
sick nil summer and will not he able to
S rnctlce for some dare yet. * , I)oc M McFad
en Is In the gnme, however, nnd If no one
else develops Into n dependable quarter he
enn go In nt n moment's notice.
Since the team hns slnrted to work It bns
fully realised whnt the strength of such
men ns Cnptnlu < Furtlck, Fullback Derrick.
I.ykes nt the i*u«L Carter its gunrd, meniit to
Inst year's tenm. It Is Impossible to fill the
places of such veterans. This Is tterhnps
the flr*t yenr In the history of football at
Clemson when them were not one or two
i the
earn. Not n single one of the men of Inst
As to th
There nre mnny r
make good j ‘
men here who may
_iere, but most of them nre light, very light.
Wyndhiiui Is atnmt the heaviest mnn niuoug
them, nnd he weighs only nlmut 160 tiounds.
Kuliuer. Turner. Keasler, a brother of Gus.
who pin.red center here two year# ago:
Sltton. n cousin of Vedder nnd l'hll. nnd
Cnughmnn. who wns n substitute end last
yi*ar, nre trying for plncps on the team.
Clark will perhaps I#* nt center this yesr
iignin. lie Is strong nml quick. nnd hns n
pccullnr faculty of foretelling the pint of
the opposing tenm. lie keeps n gtwnl head
In the thickest of the light. Strieker Coles,
one of the snappiest playing ends Clemnou
hns ever had. fs trying for his old position,
nml will likely win out. It is barely possi
ble that "Doc" McFadden will be found nt
end nlso. If these two men piny ends.
Clemsotrs weak places will hove to be
looked for elsewhere. There nre not two
more gritty plnyers to lie fonnd on n south
ern gridiron.
Two Good Tackle#.
Cnptnlu Mclaitirlu Is crippled nt present.
v npiuiii .oci.iiiiriu is «-npi»ieu nt mhwiii.
but If he gets Into proper condition nnd
Gnston trains down n little flesh. Clemson
will Imve two of the liest tsckles that ever
pin.ret! here,
All thf otW positions nre uncertain nt
present, except one halfback. Allen will
one of the best runners In college. Lee Is
one of the best baseball and football mral
Cleiusoo hns had. He plays so well nnr-l
where .you nut lilm that It Is mioertnlil
Just where he will be In the line-up, hut I
that he will be there Is certain. }j P j*l
usually switched to whatever place no I
other man enu fill, nnd la practiced nrst I
at one place nnd then nt nnotlmi
res the j
that lie does not depend "cuffreir on I
whnt thla correspondent I
■ ■
old plnys. From whnt this correspondent
sees there will be many new ploy* by the
Tiger sqund this rear.
Gee, What a Squadl
There nre about 100 candidates on the
field every .afternoon; but they nr** kept ns
busy as the hot weather wllf allow, pro-
feasor John Gantt Is sgaln assist lug with
one of the scrub teams. Professor LewU,
an old V. P. i. player, who Is now *
member of the Clomson faculty, hns ebarn
of a squad. Other .squad* nre coached by
old players.
Conch Shaughnessy hns not had time i ._
look over the new men yet lw»cuu*c of the!
necessity of getting a team to play ngnhmtl
Gordon Saturday. After this week be will I
begin to select men for the Varsity wiund. I
Clemson would !h> proud to go there the I
season with an Increased goal line, ns she!
did last year, of coarse; but the prospect!I
for such a record nre not goo4l, owing til
the very heavy schedule.
The Tech nnd Georgia games excite i
Interest than others. These two contest* I
will be fought for with determination.
NEWS OF BASEBALL FROM NEAR AND FAR
Charley Keith haa been offered *300 a
month to pitch for St. Louie and Bays
ho will refuee to report for that. On
the strength of thle year's form Keith
has little chance of making good any
way, even with the Browne, and will
probahly remain In England, for which
tight little Island he has Just sailed. In
company with the other Rhodes schol
ars.
A St. Louis paper springs this story
on Keith:
It Is sold that Keith kept the family
larder well supplied with squirrels un
til he entered the University of Ar
kansas, at the age of 20 years. His
father would send him out In the
morning with three rocks. A short trip
into the woods surrounding the moun
tain fnrm would follow and the boy
would be back with three squirrels. His
first trip out, Keith only brought home
two squirrels. His father administered
a chastleement and sent the boy back
with three more rocks. After being
gone an hour, Keith came home with
two squirrels and a rock, and there
was squirrel hair on the other rock,
ehowlng that a squirrel had been
wounded, but not killed. Again the
father refused to spare the rod. From
that time on Keith nevor failed to bring
In a squirrel for each rock supplied by
the' father.
Outfielders Paskert and Autrey will
play through the Boston series. When
Mike O'Noll arrives later In tho week
he will take the place of one of them
and also get a thorough trial beforo the
season Is over. Paskert looks so far like
a very rapable man In all departments.
Autrey Is doing very well, too. for a
man who has played tho outfield only
one year. His regular position Is first
base.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
There has been some talk about Blit
Armour’s alleged refusal to go after
fast ball players. Armour denies It,
nnd points to' his efforts to land men.
“I got Diehl and Hlnchman, and was
lucky to land them,” he declares. *'I
offered 11.700 to the Nashville team of
the Southern League, for Wells, a
catcher nnd outfielder, and couldn't get
him. One major league club bid 31,500
cash. Detroit offered 32,000, of which
31.000 was to be cash and $1,000 paid I
June 1, 1908. I went In between them I
with a fiat cash offer of 31.700. end had!
to seo It turned down. That same man I
Wells was drafted by a major league I
tram nml Nashville got only 11,000 fori
him by drafL I was ready to pay thal
11.000 or make a deal for player,, If ha|
wanted players.”—Exchange.
Something New In Exeuaei.
On Jimmy Callahan's Chicago teaml
I* a player who, It Is said. Is astonish-1
Ingly prolific In excuses for mlsplays of I
his own making. Not long ago hsl
muffed a fiy. "Well, how’d It happenl
this timet" asked Callahnn. when the!
team came In from the field. "Why. I
said tho player, "didn’t you see? Juitl
before the bnll got to me a double wlnd|
hit It."—Exchange.
Pittsburg has another first ba«
to try out In tho person of Abstelal
secured a year ago from Shreveport,!
and. turned over last spring to Provl-J
dence. He Is considered one of the mh|
first suckers In the Eastern League, and
has been recalled by the Plrates.-
Plttsburg Exchange.
Standing of the Clubs, j
IMMMMt*H8«M(H(8
Chicago. ....... i«
Cleveland. . 142
New York 139
Boston.
St. Louie. .
Weebfugton.
CLUBS— riayec
Chicago . 143
Pittsburg 141
NVW York 144
Philadelphia ns
Brooklyn .... ... 142
Cincinnati ...... 143
Biteton 140
8t. Louie 143
National.
Played. Won. Lout. P. C.
41 .716
Handsome Pennant Offered
For the Amateur "Champs’’I
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
American.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at New \ork.
Ht. LouU at Wnahlngton.
Detroit at Boaton.
National.
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at Ht. Louis.
Boston at Pittsburg.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS.
iwiruu iiiirtiiiii a.
Cleveland 3, New York L
National.
8t. Loula 3, Brooklyn 1.
Chicago 6. Philadelphia 0 (first game).
Phllnddubla 6. Chicago 0 (second game).
•Inhla 6, Chicago
Bout u» 9. Cincinnati 6.
Pittsburg 14, New York J.
Here's the Dope on American League Race
PHILADELPHIA.
Ti«l with Detroit.
16 points ahead of Chicago.
18 games to play.
11 gamea at horns.
With Detroit 4, Chicago 1, Cleve
land 3, New York 2, St, Louis 1.
7 gamea abroad.
With New York 1, Boaton 1,
Washington 5,
DETROIT.
Tied with Athletics.
16 points ahead of Chicago.
14 garnet to play.
No gamea at home, ,
14 games abroad.
With Philadelphia 4, New York
1, Boaton 1, St. Louis 4, Washing
ton 4.
CHICAGO.
16 points behind Philadelphia.
16 points behind Detroit.
11 games to play.
.2 games at home.
With Cleveland 2.
Witl
games abroad,
th Washingtonl, Philadelphia
1, Detroit 2, Cleveland 1, New York
3, Boston 1.
When the Sun Proofs and the Carter
& Gillespie teams clash Saturday aft
ernoon at Ponce DeLeon for the ama
teur baseball championship of Atlanta
they will play for a handsome banner,
which will be given by the Gordon Cir
cle of King's Daughter^.
This prize will give an added In
centive to the two teams to strive to
their utmost for tho game, which will
be a beauty J;r fair.
No amateur game played In Atlanta
In a long time has attracted half the In
terest that this contest will, and It Is
practically certain that there will bo a
big crowd at Fohce DeLeon
afternoon when tho opening gun »»■
be fired. Tho fans of Atlanta have *«•■
ten In the habit of going to Ponce
Leon on Saturday afternoons, and tne.
will welcome another excuse to I*
back to the old haunts. J
Ed Lafitte and Harr)’ Harman
bo In first-class shape for thci gs
and both ought to receive gilt-ei
support.
Manager Thomas of the Sun
team announces that he will use In t
game Saturday practically th " “
line-up that he did all through i
Commercial League season.
gam'. I
Tech Teams."Rounding to”
For Saturday's Big Camel
The last extra strenuous workout of
the week will be pijU-d off at Tech- fiats
Thursday. Probably the playera will
not notice any let-up on Friday, but It
will be there. For Coach Hplsman
wants his old and new men In first-
class trim for the battle between the
Regulars nnd the Yannlgans on S- tur
day afternoon. , ,
• This gnme offers the first
the season to see the Tech team w .
Hon nnd nil the supporter# of the e
lege and'most of the Georgia m I
rnn uof there will be OUt to SC I
can get there will be out
Helsman offering.
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O NORTH CAROLINA’S - 0
O FOOTBALL SCHEDULE.O
O O
0 Here Is the football schedule 0
0 of the University of North Caro- O
0 llna for 1907: O
0 September 38—University of O
0 Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. 0
0 October 6—Washington and Lee, 0
0 at Newport News, Va. 0
O October 12—Oak Ridge, qt 0
O Chapel Hill. 0
O October 19—William and Mary, 0
0 at Chapel Hill. O
O October 26—University of Vir- 0
O glnln, at Richmond. 0
0 October 31—Clemson College, at 0
O Columbia. S. C. O
0 November 9—Georgetown Uni- 0
0 verslty, at Washington, D. C. O
0 November 16—Richmond Col- O
O lege, at Chapel Hill. O
O November 28—Virginia Poly- 0
O technic Institute. nt Richmond. 01 0
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0 EVANS’ JEST.
Billy Evans
0 ously. This was provrt F h “ (
O he was struck by a pop bJt'c'n (
O St. Louts only a week ago and ren
O dered unconscious. . th< (
O Manager Jimmy McAleer of tn (
O Browne was with Evan* at ,
Mullantby llcApttal ' jail' '
» - It's pretty tough —^JJJtc?
O Jim. when you render » corr ^
0 decision.” , h _. j,e
" McAleer remarked tm
ought It was more accidents
O thought It was
O than Intentional. ~ .. rv mn», (I
O "I think the same/’iaM|
O "and I don't want to proeccu: e i
O kid. But say. Jim. dldnt be
O dandy control, though.
O land News,
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