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Atlanta Georgia PERCY H. WHITING, SPORTING EDITOR >RTING PAGE, DECEMBER 31 THE NEW YEAR’S DAY SCRAPPERS SPORT [ MOBILE PAYS $2,500 records I TO GET IN SOUTHERN JTCI03CTOE RECORDS Special to The Georgian. tr,.UL ii. ti... >1 CHAMPIONS OF SPORT. BASEBALL CHAMPS. BASEBALL—Chicago Cubs. BOXING—Tommy Burns. JOCKEY—Walter Miller. OWNER—-James R. Keene. TRAINER—James Rowe. RACE HORSE—Colin. FOOTBALL—Yale team. BILLIARDS—George Sutton. POOL—Thomas Hueeton. MEN’S TENNIS—W. A. Larned. WOMAN’S TENNIS- .Chicago Nationals . .. Chicago .... Detroit .. .. Toronto .. Columbus .. ..Atlanta .. .. Omaha . .Springfield Williamsport . .Charleston .Rock Island .. Worcester .... Holyoke World's champio National Leagui American Leagu Eastern League American Association Southern League .. .. Western League .. .. Central League.. ,. ., Tri»Stato League.. ., South Atlantic League Three I League New England League •Mist May Sut« MEN’S GOLF—Jerome Travers. WOMAN’S GOLF—Miss Margaret Curtis. WRESTLING—Frank Gotch. AUTOIST— Barney Oldfield. SWIMMING—C. M. Daniels. ARCHERY—Harry Richardson. SHOOTING—J. J. Blanks. TROTTING HORSE—Sonoma Girl. PACING HORSE—Kruger. DRIVER—Ed Geors. RUNNER—Alfcflirt Corey. WALKER—Dan O’Leary. Connecticut Leajjus . Western Association Ohio-Pa. League .. .. New York State League Western Pa. League .... Interstate League .. .. Texas League ...... . Cotton States League .. . P„ 0„ M. League .... Canadian League .... Indiana-Ohio League .. Oooooooooooooooooooooooocto .... Wichita . Youngstown .. .. Albany .. .. Fairmont .. ..Bradford ,. V. ..Austin Mobile . .Steubenville Medicine Hat .. ..Decatur Here ar.e the two fighters who will meet In the fntefnatlonal bat tle on New Year’s day. On the left Is Owen Moran, the great little English fighter, and skipping the rope Is Champion Abe Attell, the wisard-llke scrapper. THE TURF LEADERS. O Best 2<*j%ar-old Colt—Colin. 0 O Best 2-y#ar-old Filly—Stamina. O O Best 8-year-old—Peter Pan. 0 O Beet Handicap Horse—Nealon. 0 O Leading Owner—James R. Keene. O 0 Leading Jockey—Walter Miller. 0 O Leading Trainer—Jamek Rowe. 0 O 0 O0O000000000000OO00000000D TWENTY LEADING OWNERS. Total BIG LEAGUERS WANT T JONES KELLY AND PAPKE FIGHT TO A DRAW Papke Had Better of Bout After the Second Round. In favor of doing nirny with The fart remains, however, that they Were rery mneh In earnest, but have not Ikh*u Why THEBES /ugeR-nom; ithank you so (AUCH 1 J AH! A PEACH. Ail Alohc. IM IN LUCK.' You ABE VERY KINO! f HELLO keNEUHL'l thanks! y fine > PAY FoR ^katinc:! . 1W. M.—Beer.J.ry Mnthon, York Aatilnu, will arrive :lme next imt ami contracts : .,iit Iiimicllatrty. It la eatl- the salary Hat will reach -the . ('base. Klhrrfetd and Stahl nnilcr contract. ►I. l» 17 will I* about UTO) tor with ttie prorWoa that If lie t..rr - - 1. all next season bo a I1,'«0 Iniana In the falL . Owner. 1st. 2d. 3d. nlngs. J. R. Keene ... 70 46 23 *402.000 II. P. Whitney . 33 34 29 137,684 Newcastle Stable 43 31 21 J /71,882 J. L. McGinnis . 15 IS 14 ■ 71,836 T. Hitchcock. Jr. 23 ii 20 69.914 B. Schrelber. . . US 102 73 63,883 R. T. Wilson. Jr. 36 3 8 34 68.850 Patchogue Stable 21 12 9 58,900 Burlew A O’Neill 30 35 26 58.839 T. H. McCormick <37 11 7 03.766 F. J. Farrell . . 26 15 10 51,963 C. E. Durnell . . 31 20 16 51,940 R. F. Carman . . 51 40 38 49.615 A. Belmont ... 18 22 24 48.160 sS. O. Hildreth . 45 34 19 47.290 J. E. Wldener. . 10 8 9 45.905 J. W. Colt. . . . 41 48 29 47,870 F. R. Hitchcock. 9 It 8 44.360 C, R. Ellison # . 26 22 23 43,002 J. E. Madden . . 21 21 27 41.825 BIG TURF EVENTS. Brighton, Peter Pan (Notter). .*19,760 .Suburban, Nealon <W. Dugan).. 16,800 I riioklyn, Superman (W. Miller) 16,800 Carter. Giorifler (Mountain)... 8.860 L.vclifor, Dr. Gardner <J. Mar tin) 7,360 Metropolitan, Glorlfier (Gar ner) ... 10.670 Queen City, Tlleing (GarnecJ.., 8,326 West minster, Flip Flap (J. Mar lin) 7.800 Commonwealth, Montgomery (Gnmer) 13.850 Saratoga, McCarter <W. Miller) 8,30m Twin City, Nealon (Knapp).. . 11.700 Hums. Kercheval (C. Koerner). 8.850 Futurity, Colin (W. Miller).. .. 25.073 Great Trial, Colin (TV. Miller).. 18,660 Great 'American. Cohort (Lowe) 14.760 Tremont, King James (Radtke). 13,200, Hopeful. Jim Gaffney (N'lcol) 16.600 1 Produce (f.), Stamina (Notter).. 11.825, llrlghton Junior, Colin (W. Mil- • 1 lor) 11,(30 Notional Stallion, Colin (W. Mil ler) 12.000 Eclipse, Colin (Mountain).. .. '8.735 Saratoga-Special, Coltn (W, Mil ler).". 12.000 Matron (c.), Colin <\V. Miller).. 8.340 BOWLING CHAMPIONS, *1907. Five-Men Team*. American—Furniture City, Grand HnpUla, Mich 2.775 Eastern—Corinthian, New York city 2.814 Weatern—Paulaons, Denver, Colo,.2,78 Canadlnn—Brunswick, Chicago,. .2,863 Two-Men Teams. American—Richter-Blgley, Louis ville .. ..1,184 Eastern—Tuthlll . Nelson, Brook- 11 n, N. Y 1.220 Western—T. Voght - Everhart, Kansas (Tty 1,288 Canadian—Stolke-Wood bury, Chi cago ..1,188 Individual, American—Marshall Levey, dlanapolls.., *24 Eastern—F. Sauer. New York City *57 Western—J. V. Morris, Seattle... 787 Canadian—J.'Noonan, Quebec.... 612 RUNNING RECORDS BROKEN. Five Furlongs—Jack Nunnally, at Oakland 0:582-6 Mile and 100 Yards—Rapid Water, ut Oakland. Cal.. ..1:44 1-5 Old Honesty’s mark (1:43 4-5) was not accepted at distance was short. Mile and One Furlong—Charles Edward, at Brighton Beach.. 1:503-5 Three Miles—Mamie Algol, at City Park 5:18 Four Miles—Los Angeleno, at Oakland ■ 7:18 1-5 Six and n Half Furlongs— Brookdale Nymph, Belmont Park, circular course 1:17 2*6 0000OO0Q0U0O000OOO000O0O0O o o O CHAMPION BATSMEN. O O — O 0 National League—Wagner, Pitts- O O burg 350 O O American League—Cobb, De- O 0 troll.. ... ... . 350 O C American Association — Beckley. O c Kansas City... 354 O Cl Southern League—Meek, Blrro- O t Ingham. . .340 O a Pacific Coast—Egan. Oakland .316 O o Central League—Osteen. Spring- O O field >. .238 O n O c00OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Yanks’ Salaries Reach $65,000 ♦— j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS J By PERCY H. WHITING. Grant Schopp, who played with Atlanta, Nashville and in the South Atlantic League last year nnd who will be'with Atlanta or Montgomery during the coming season, has been the hero of many baseball adventures. For one thing he won fame by throwing the harpoon into Memphis a couple of times in u row last season, at the time when Memphis began collecting harpoons. And by so doing he helped his old friends in Atlanta to win a pennant. Likewise he mate rially assisted Memphis in her race to get into second place. This is all league history, But few people, even in Atlanta, know of the day that Grant Schopp pitched Marietta to victory over Alpharetta. As Mayor Joyner has his country residence in Marietta, the Marietta club feels called upon to wallop nil the teams in the sur rounding country. And it generally does. But one (lay last fall, while Schopp was looting around At lanta, waiting for Bill Smith to nao him—which Smith didn’t— there was a critical game achecluled for Marietta. The Alpharet ta players, mighty batsmen, every one, were coming down to take a tumble out of the Cobh county “chnmpeens.” To thwart this design something desperate had to he done. Dick Joyner was called into consultation and ho told the Ma rietta manager that' he knew of a famous “rube” pitcher named “Grant” he could cobrall for five bones. They’re demon spenders up in Marietta, when their baseball honor is’at stake, and they collected the necessary coin. Dick Joyner secured Schopp and hid him out on the Joyner farm until just before time for the game. Then Schopp drove over in nn ox cart .and they ran him in. And if ever man looked the part it was G. Schopp, of Ottum wa, I-o-way, by heck. Ilis dialect was not exactly Cobb county* esque, but he didn’t tnlk much. , The first time lie said anything was when the first run had been put across by Alpharetta. Somebody made n hit, one of the three they got off Schopp,’a side-swipes, nnd the Mariettas threw the ball nil over the lot. Meanwhile the only Alpharetta run was scored. Then Schopp made a talk, “Don’ never th’ow the ball but onot,” he said. “If yon quit right there they won’t never get further ’en first.” And they never did. And'm consequence the Mariettas won in a walk. The little chap’s control was mnrvellous all the way through. When the game wns over somebody asked him if htf “wasted any.” I never wasted but one,” lie said. “I th’owed that at one of them smart guy’s bends.”- a ATLANTA CLUB WAIVES ON SEVERAL NOTED PLAYERS President Kavanaugh linn fern nut | that the Southern League managers his official ruling that managers desir ing to dispose of players outside the league must gel waivers on them, and that this rule applies the year round. In consequence of this ruling waivers have been asked on Rockcnfeld, Malar- key, Nye and others. Manager Hmtth has waived on all of them. From Memphis the news Is sent out have decided on a 10 per cent cut of salaries for players. Manager Bmlth denies that he Is par ty to such an agreement. "We have not asked any of our old plnyors, to take a rip. Of course. If we carry 15 men we shall have to cut aalarles somewhere, but It will not be those of the players of Inst year. And, then. It Is not at all certain that we shall carry 15 men regularly." TENNESSEE PREP SCHOOLS WILL NOT ABOLISH FOOTBALL 10 HEAVYWEIGHT—Tommy Burns. O -O LIQHT HEAVYWEIGHT—Jsck Cl 0 O'Brien. O O MIDDLEWEIGHT—Tommy Rysn. O O WELTERWEIGHT — Young O O Ketehell. a O LIGHTWEIGHT—Joe Gtns. O O FEATHERWEIGHT—Abe Attell. 0 O BANTAMWEIGHT—Kid Murphy. O O O IoOOOOOOOOOOOtWDDOOOOOOOaoo TWENTY LEADING JOCKEY8. Jookeys. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. W. Miller ..332 227 167 4bl J. Lee ..214 150 145 566 B. McDaniel ... ..176 158 118 ti? K. Dugan .163 152 117 175 r C. H. Shilling .. .134 113 79 269 . f Nicol .138 81 59 211/ M. Preston .... .123 113 97 400V Notter .1*1 99 102 313 C. Koerner .... .118 110 so 259 Moreland ...... .116 117 103 39S Mountain .113 84 88 312 Garner 64 60 269 Delaby . 85 60 68 206 W. Knapp ...... . 84 64 56 251 Pickens . 79 71 72 424 Bandy . 77 85 95 371 i Englander ...... D. McCarthy .. . 78 66 91 47 73 271 268 O. Swain ...... . 72 73 56 419 A. Brown ...... . 71 70 70 324 “JEFF” AND MORAN TALK OVER RULES Special lo The Georgian. Nashville. Tenn.. Dec. It.—The movement ninnng the preparatory schools of middle Tennessee to nhallsh football will doubtless blow up In smoke. Several of those who voted for the resolution at rlie recent meet- tug of ths prep school association now de clare they were "only Joking" nhie to slend the pressure- brought to liettr the S6J0 and 3700 n season nnd Hint In addition to Itelitn expensive It tm>k too much time nwny from Kindles early la the session. It Is predicted, however, that when next senses rolls round the schools that are now howllua about expenses and studios will have meat taunts In the Debt all right, the same ns usual. BILLIARD MATCHES. New York. Dec. 31.—Two of the most Important billiard conteila ever played In America are being planned for Die eastern section during the coming ntnnth. Sutton and Momlitgstar will play for the 18.2 emblem, representing the world’s championship. In this city Jnnuary 27 or 28. The Scbaefer-Out- ler match for the 18.1 trophy hongs tire, but simply for location nnd dme. Schaefer prefers Philadelphia and Cut ler holds out for Boston, his home city. JEFFRIES’ MOTHER SAYS HE WILL NEVER FIGHT. Columbus, Ohio, Dec, 31.—Mr*. L. Jeffries, mother of Jim Jeffries, tlio heavyweight champion pugilist, who Is visiting her niece, Mrs. \V. F. Leon ard, of this city, says that her son will never ‘fight again, at. he has promised her that he has retired ■<ermaaently from the ring nnd w ill keep his word. Milwaukee. Wls..-Dec. 31.—Altho Ueferee Mnlnehy llogtin declared the Itout here lie- tween Hugo Kelly, (if Chicago, sail Billy! I’upke, of Spring Valley. 111., a draw, there; Wna in, iionbt la the minds of the spechiltirs ■ when tbn contest was over tlist I'npkr was tlie better man. At leant tho "Illinois thuii-j derliolt" clearly outfought hla veteran rival. I Kelly wns not the lingo Kelly of old. The j moment he stepped Into the ring It wos - seen he wns drown thin nnd after the see-j oud round llm fnet w»s nil the more pslpa- j tde Hint he was ant there—In fact. Kelly cams hock to hla corner after tho second aeNaioii and admitted that be was "la. The fnet of the matter In that Kelly shot Ida hull In the second round. In that time he came nearly cracking Papke out, flooring him cleanly and heavily, something never Indore done by uuy man. Papks proved himself to be a wonderful fighter, lie showed a style that has tterer lo‘oa seen la the ring before, at lesat by a lighter of high floss. He slnrply fought from the start to tb< ~ ‘ “ MT stopped “ second. finish nnd never All-Star Players Reach Savannah Special to The Georgian. Savannah. Go.. Dec. 31.—Forsyth's All-Southern Stars arrived hero this morning from their training grounds at Hardeeville, where they have been dur ing the holidays. Two changes have been made In the All-Stars line-up. Ketron, from Geor gia, has been replaced by McLaurln. of; Clemson. captain and All-Southern, tackle this year. Bocock, of George- I town, haa been replaced by Sadler, of j Clemson. McLaurln Is expected to' strengthen the All-Stars, and Is regard ed as one of the most formidable tack les In the South. Retired Champion Will Ref eree International Fight. Mnn Francisco, Pnc. 31.—BIr Jim Jeffries cniut* from Lw AtiReles yesterday, nnd de* Mjdte. tho stormy weather, went to Son I (a filed to.tulk ovpr tho niQttora of ring eti quette. with Moran. The retired champion tr/ut t he fCwrlJftli. fo/H her weight were soon on Rood term*. Mornn (insured Jeff that Ho would keep within the hounds of fair piny In his scrap with Alw Attel and would »l*»*ervH the nun» fl *—M— Moran said all a mimire deal. “iou will got a *'Ho will your opn mu «. square deal." Slid Jeff. Ii your opponent. Neither will Ret >. As to otHierrlnf the rules, I will my i utr.e been thru the mill myself nud I know what Is coming to n mnu. I will treat yon the way I always llkfd to bo created myself." Mornn did half an hour's work for the on ! tert.ilunioiit of Jeffries nnd Ids friends and I the bhr follow Kpomod to be favorably Itn ; presjMtl with the little Britisher. ; Bald Moron: *‘I nm satisfied that Jeffries , will make fi good referee; thqt he rill do i the right thing by Attel nnd myself." !aooooooooooooooooooooooobo .0 O 0 JOHly L.'S TRAINER , 0 10 DIES FROM SHOCK. 0 10 O 0 Kenosha. Wls„ Dec. 31.—John O IO Cash, trainer for John I,. Sullivan 0 '0 at tho time the great pugilist a 0 wns at the height of his career. 0 : 0 died on board the steamer J. C. 0 ; 0 Suite, in the Kenosha hRrbor, last 0 ! O night. Cash, who had been work- 0 10 Ing an a deck hand for some time. 0 (O had fallen Into the harbor earlier 0 10 In the evening, nnd, altha rescued 0 i0 and revived, he suffered so from 0 ; 0 the shock that he died. Cash was 0 0 55 years old. o •O * 0 t nOOO0OO00000O000O0QOpOO00o BILL BERNHARD. Nashville at last has a manager. Bill Bernhard, plfcher for the Cleveland team last year, haa been secured to lead the Middle Tennes see brigade. This veteran should make a great manager and doubt less he will rank among the lead ing pitchers of the league. It Happened in Birdland One Cold Winter’s Bay. ojmfcJ-BxAmieer. WONT You LE.T ME HELP YOU fix your (Skate COLLEGE CHAMPIONS. Football ' Yale Track athletics Pennsylvania Rowing .. .. .» .. .. .. Cornell •Baseball Cornell •Baseball Princeton Bowling - .. Columbia.. A- Cross country ,. Cornell Assxoclatlon football .. .. Haverford Basket ball Ynl- Cricket .. Pennsylvania Shooting .. ..Yale Lacrossa .. .. Cornell. Swimming 7 Princeton Hockey Princeton Water polo Yale Wrestling Yale Gymnastics.. .. New York University Fencing Annapolis Golf Ynlo Tennis Harvard ••Chess .. .. .. Columbia ••Chess .. Pennsylvania ••Chess Brown •Tie for first. "Two tournaments. NOTABLE BASEBALL EVENTS. April 27.—At Sacramento, Cal,, Fred Brown, of Sacramento, pitched ten III-, nlngs without allowing a single oppo nent to reach flrit base. Score: Sac ramento 1. Stockton 0. May 8.—At Boston big Jeff PfefTcr pitched a no-run, no-hlt game against Cincinnati. Score: 6 to 0. .May 28.—At Hutchinson, Kan a. Ok lahoma City, of the Weatern Associa tion, defeated Hutchinson In 23 Innings 2 to 1. June 8.—At Boston Plerco School, of Dorchester, defeated Bennett School, u7 Brighton, 4 to 3 In 28 Innings. June 10.—Up to this dato at Weser. Idaho, Pitcher Walter Johnson hnd pitched 76 Innings without- allowing h run. breaking the world's record. John son was : afterwards signed by Wash ington. July 6.—At Columbus, Ohio, two am ateur teams, the Victors and . Selects, played 24 Innings to a tie—2 to 2. This Is the longest game on record. Tpn longest professional game was between Boston American and Philadelphia, who played 24 Innings, the AthletUs winning 4 to 2. July 18.—At Cleveland Washington and Cleveland played 12 Innings to. u tie—0 to 0. September 13.—By winning two no- hlt games In succession Zanesville, of the P. O. M. League, established a world’s record. September 14.—Wilhelm, of the Bir mingham Southern League team, com pleted hla fifty-ninth consecutive In ning without allowing a run. If the season had not closed at this time ho might have established a world's Rec ord. September 20—At Pittsburg Maddon' pitched a no-hlt game for Pittsburg against Brooklyn. 0O000000000000000000000OO0 O THE LEADING STALLIONS. 0 O O 0 Commando (dead), by 0 0 Domino *274,008 O O Sain (imp.), by St. Serf .. 116.000 0 0 Hastings, by Spendthrift.. 107.000 O O Star Shoot (Imp.), by 0 O Isinglass .. 84,637 O O Voter (imp.), by Friar's 0 O Balaam 82,375 0 0 Caesarian, by Faustus.. .. 72,330 O O Ben Stmme (Imp.), by 0 O Ben d’Or .. .. 71.895 0 0 a 000OOO0OO0OOO0O0OOO0OOODOC BICYCLES VS. CHARGERS. Army orderlies used In Berlin as messengers for the German war de partment are now equipped with bicy cles Instead of horses. Tho wheels are enameled In the colors of the de partment, and at they nnd their rid ers nre easily recognized they have the right of wav anywhere. There Is some thing rather luuhetlc In the abolition of the gayly caparisoned army Aorses In favor of the more prosalo bile, but after all It’s a matter of enmmo/t sense when resuits are considered. , I „ ''