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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 000000000000000000000^0000 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. O0000000OO0000000000O00000 o o 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 O00000000000000O00OOO0000O ' 00000000000000000— — —' O0000000000001! 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, //