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SPORTING PAGE.
APRIL. 2r4, 1908
The Atlanta Georgian
PERCY H. WHITING
SPORTING EDITOR '
“Home umpires nre the curse of this league,” says Bill
Smith.
And while Bill can hardly he called a purveyor of dispas
sionate testimony on the umpire question he is probably about
right in this case.
There is no doubting it. an umpire ought to give the plays
as he sees them, whether the decision is against the home team
or for it.
In a very large measure fans are responsible for the produc
tion of home’umpires. Every time a close decision goes against
the home team they roast the judge of play. And in the long
run this makes the umpire a shade uneasy about making a close
decision that goes against the home team.
The fact that almost all Southern League umpires in years
past have been “home umpires” is the reason that no team can go
on the road and do as well ns at home. At home they have nine
men to heat—on the road ten. And they have to piny a consider
ably stronger gnme to get away with it.
The fans ought to have some consideration for umpires. ' If
they did not “go after” them sq hard they might be inclined to
give all plays as they see them. And in the end that is nil that
should be asked of them.
If we are to take Birmingham’s word for it the Montgomery
team is not as strong as the dope sheet indicates. According to
the Baron players and the Birmingham sport writers who saw
the Birmingham-Montgomery games in Montgomery, the Sleepy-
ville team Is a fairly good one—and lucky as n four-leaf horseshoe.
They say that the pitchers nre poor ns punk, that the hatting
streak is only a fluke and that the bottom is going to fall out of
the present winning streak in a very few days. A Birmingham
construction of any Montgomery institution is not likely to err
on the side of fulsome flattery, so we don’t know exactly what to
think.
Local fans will have a chance to judge for themselves Fridny,
for the Montgomery team is here for four games.
TECH AND SEWANEE MEET
TODAY ON TECH'S FIELD
Tech and Bewanee meet at Tech Flat*
Friday for the first game of the eerlea.
Tech haa put in the paat week (n
good hard practice and Is confident of
victory, while the Tiger* seem to be In
about the same frame of mind. The re
sult should be a good hard-fought con-
teat.
Robert will be In the box Hr Tech
and the rest of the line-up will lie:
Hightower, lb.; Davenport, as.; Buch
anan. c.; Luck, lb.; Penae. 2b.; Ayres,
If.; McClure, rf.; Frazier, cf.
Walden will probably be In the box
for Tech on Saturday if his arm Is in
condition. If not, Mayer will do the
flinging.
Sewanee Is rendy for Tech. This Is
one of the hardest series of the Tiger
schedule and Conch Mulky has had his
squad on the go, with dally Improve
ment.
The showing against Maryville last
Monday looked good to Sewanee sup
porters. The Tiger Infield Is fast and
sure, and the whole team hit consis
tently against Ozle. Maryville's star
slnbmnn. The team that will appear
against Tech Is as follows:
Brown, ss.; Lanier, 2b.; A. Stone
(captain), 3b.; Klsels. lb.; Faulklln
berry, c.; F. Stone. If.; Lyon, rf.; K
Williams, cf.; 8. Williams and Shad
dick, pitchers.
Bill Was Wild and
Charleston Won
MACON, Ga., April 24.—In the Drat
Inning "Wild Pill" went up In the air
and during the first and second Innings
Charleston icond the only two runa of
the tame.
The bo* score:
Msoon. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Murdock, cf. . . 4 0 2 2
Dawkins, 3b. . . 2 0 0 1
Stinson, rf. . . . 4 0 2 1
Rhoton. 2b. ... I 0 0 2
Wohlleben. lb. . 4 0 tt 11
Lewis, If. ... 4 0 1 1
Shea, e 4 0 o 3
Whalsn, ss. . . . I o o o
Clark, p, . . . . t 0 0 0
Totals ... .11 0 6 27
Charleston ab. r. h. po.
Maine, cf. . ... I 0 1 2
Ball. If. .... I 0 0 1
Moansy. rf. . . . 4 1 3 2
Lewie. 3b I 0 1 1
O’HoJowrnn, lb. . 4 0 0 4
Itetsenger 0. . . 4 1 I 10
Wilkinson, lb. , . 3 0 0 7
HortaeU. as. . . I 0 0 0
Foster, p. . . . 3 0 0 0
Totals SO 2 ~l 27
Score by Innings.
Macon .. .. .. .
Charleston
Summary: Struck out, by Clark 8,
Foster 10: bases, oft Clark 0, Foster
1; left on bases. Macon 7, Charleston 4:
sacrifice hit* Rhoton, Ball. I.»wti, Wil
kinson and Foster; stolen bases, Mur
dock 2. Stinson. Hartsell, Relalnger.
Tim* 1:10. Umpire, Ooodheart.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
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Southern.
CLUBS- Flayed. Won. Lost. P. C.
Montgomery « 5 1 .183
Mobile *.. S d 2 .750
•Memphis 7 4- 3 .371
Atlanta C 3 1 .400
Narhvltle 6 2 3 .400
New Orleans 8 3 5 .8*5
lllrnihighniii 6 2 4 .333
Little Flunk 7 2 3 .236
South Atlantic.
CUIUS- i’ia.eed. Won. Loaf. P. C.
Jni'kannvllle 11 9 2 .818
Columbia 8 5 3 025
Aiigmitn 12 t! 6 .son
Maenti 11 5 « .435
Savannah 11 5 0 .455
Charleston 13 3 10 .231
CLUBS—
New York . I
St. T.mils 9
Cleveland 7
Boston 9
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Philadelphia
Detroit .. ..
Washington .
CLUBS—
Chlengo 8
New York 8
Pittsburg 8
Philadelphia 8
Cincinnati ,
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Montgomery In Atlanta. Pones DeLeon
park, (lams called at 1:30 o'clock,
lilrratnghsm In Nsshsllla.
Mobile In Memphis.
Oick Crozier Signs
With Decatur, III.
WAKE F0RE8T, N. C.. April 24.—
Dick Crosier, ex-Atlanta player, and
now coach of the Wake Forest team,
has signed to play with Decatur, III.,
this year.
BECK & GREGG TEAM
WANTS GAME FOR MONDAY
The Beck 4k Oregg baseball club
would like to get a game for Monday
afternoon. Call E. II. Adams, cure of
Beck 4k Gregg.
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O MARI8T VS. G. M. A. O
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O Marlst College and G. M. A. O
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O season Saturday afternoon on the O
O Marlst College campus. Ixivers of O
« baseball will be sure of seeing a O
good afternoon’s sport, for the two O
O teams are evenly matched, nntl the O
O O. M. A. boys are determiner) to O
O retrieve the defeat they met nt the O
O hands of the Marlst College hoys O
O two weeks ago. The game will be O
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A BAD FOUL.
is, straws, soft aim! •
ljrril, reshaped. llussey, »
G. M. A. Team Loses
To Gordon Players
MILLEDQEVILLE, Ga., April 24.—
In a game characiei Ized by the fast,
snappy work of every man on Gordon's
team, Gordon won here yesterday from
G. M. A.. 6 to 3. Gordon secured 13
hits off Dick Stembridge, while Hogg,
for Gordon, allowed only 5. The two
teams play ngaln today. Big Joe Mer
cer will be In the box for Gordon.
SAMSON WINS FROM”
COFFEE SPRINGS
AMATEUR WHO 1 FOUGHT O’BRIEN
A. J. DREXEL BIDDLE.
Here is the Philadelphia millionaire and clubman who recently met
and was dsfeated by Philadelphia Jack O'Brion.
SOME NOTES ABOUT THAT
SLAUGHTER OF CRACKERS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 24.—Those
Birmingham players are likely to hit
the ball hard nt any time, regardless of
who Is pitching.
Ratib, the ex-Trl-Hntc catcher; Doug
las, Meek, Downey, the new third
baseman; Iloutz and Moles worth are
all sluggers from way back among the
sticks. Any one of them Is liable to
tnke the kink out of any old curve any
old time, and knock the ball out of the
lot.
Also the Barons nre liable to worry
the steadiest team on earth with their
base running. They have a couple of
human steam rollers In Meek and Wal
ters. But every other man on the team
Is reasonably speedy and several of
them are fast and furious. Thar Do-
montrevllle Is liable to do anything
these days If he only reaches the first
sack. He Is speedy and shifty. Moles*
worth Is running faster than ever this
year, and he was always lightning.
Thnt Downey Is very probably the fast
est runner In the league. Raub Is the
fastest catcher thnt has shown up In
the South in years, and both Reagan
and Iloutz nre nice base runners.
In fact. If that crop of Birmingham
pitchers Is all right and If Vaughn
keeps all the would-be managers (with
in and without the Birmingham team)
In their proper places, look out f<»r the
Barons. They nre bad business.
The flag was nt half-mast yesterday
In memory of Henry Chadwick, the
father of baseball.
Rut one of the Irreverent Birmlng- |
ham baseball writers said It was In
memory of Henry Meek's two errors,
made Wednesday.
Lou Castro was the sniffy little hit
ter. He slapped out two singles and a
two-bagger.
I*ou Walters is playlnfg a nice field
ing gnme, ns usual. In the third In
ning lie robbed Dyer of what seemed
n certain hit. And he got it with both
hands, too. That's a good point about
Waiters' fielding. He puts both fins on
the ball If he can get them there. No
one-handed stabs for him unless it Is
necessary.
When McMtitny, the ex-Texas
Leaguer, was sent In to bat for Walsh
In the ninth he hit a Texas Leaguer
eff the ex-Texas Leaguer, Abies. Reg
ular Lpne Star performance.
can beet the squeeze play all
IT'S A SAD,
SAD, SAD
STORY
Birmingham Butts Into a
Batting Streak and At
lanta Is Jolted.
By PERCY H. WHITING.
It was a tired, sore and disgusted lot
of ball players that tumbled out of the
Seaboard special a^ the Atlanta station
shortly after midnight Friday morning.
Fo( the Birmingham team had taken
the closing game from them In Baron-
vllle by^the Jolting score of 12 to 3.
as simply a case of going crazy
on the part of the Barons. They got a
wild notion at the start that they were
going to knock the ball all over the lot,
and they certainly got away with the
performance. They ran Into one of
those horrible batting streaks that any
team Is likely to run foul of, and Rube
Waddell could not have stopped them.
Castleton, who Is never good at the
first of the season, was not even at his
early-season best yesterday. In the
first Inning he had hard luck and the
Barons scored twice on one hit.
In the next, however, the sickening
thud of hickory against leather re
sounded across the slag pile and back
again, and Roy "got his."
Billy Smith sent Walsh to the rescue
In the third, but there was no heading
the Birmingham batters then. They had
on thfclr hitting clothes add they ever
lastingly knocked the core out of the
ball.
In the meantime Abies, the Texas
Wild Man, was faring pretty well and
up to the ninth Inning he allowed but
one run.
Then came the usual Cracker rally.
Ilurlburt singled, Castro doubled. Me-
Murray, batting for Walsh,
single, scoring Hurlburt, and
did likewise, scoring Castro,
ended It.
The score:
Birmingham, ab. r. h. i
Molesworth, cf. . 5 2 1
Iloutz. If.
MONTGOMERY TEAM HERE;
PLAYS CRACKERS TODAY
The Montgomery team, now leader
In the Southern League pennant race,
arrived In Atlanta this morning and
this afternoon meets the Crackers.
Manager Jimmy Ryan's team ha»
been almost Invincible to date. Jimmy
states that several of his men h»v.
colds and .that Oremlnger has a «nrain
ed ankle, but for all that they are w n
nlng games. ' n * I
Ryan will work Sam Weems again., I
Atlanta today and probably mil ,h I
will use Cummlnga or McKenzie 1
Log Cabin Golf Team To
Play A. A. C. Team Saturday
The golf team representing the Log I will be very strong.
Cabin Club of Macon will play the At- | The members of both teams win 1>»
lanta Athletic Club team at East Lake j entertained at a buffet luncheon at
Saturday afternoon. ‘ The Central City | Thomas B. Paine's East Lake residence
team will be made up of six men and!before the.match.
Meek. lb. . .
Raub. c. . .
Downey. 3b..
Demont, ss. .
Reagan, rf. .
Walters, 3b..
Abies, p.. .
Totals . . .
Atlanta.
Manning. If..
Winters, cf. .
Becker, rf. .
Dyer, 3b.. .
Jordan, 2b. .
Fox. lb. . .
Hurlburt. c.
Castro, ss. .
Castleton. p..
Walsh, p. . .
Me Murray .
3
.35
9 24 12
Totals - .
•Batted for Welsh In ninth.
Score by innings: R.
Birmingham 230 122 02*—12
Atlanta 010 000 002— 3
„„ Summary—Two-base hits, Downey,
right If you know the other team's Abies, Watters, Castro, Reagan; three-
signal. Billy Smith got wise to the
Barons' signal for that play and Walsh
made n m »nk*y of them when Walters
tried to »core < n It In the fourth. He
threw the ball about "steen" feet wide.
Of course, the batter could not bunt,
and Lou ran right Into Hurlburt, who
was waiting with the bull.
This Abies, who pitched for Birmlng.
ham. gut a trial with Shreveport two
years ago. He Is a big southpaw’, nnd
If he ever gets the location of the plate
firmly In mind nnd can send the ball
there, he will be a bad man.
Boys’ High School
Defeats Peacock
SAMSON, Ala., April 24.—Samson
anil Coffee Springs played the Initial
game for Samson on the home diamond
yesterday with a score of 5 to 3 ii
favor of Samson. The butteries were
Samson, Morris anti Farmer; Coffee
Springs. Warren and Murdock. Attend
ance, 5o0. empire, Harris.
CLOSE GAME AT CAVeTpRING.
CAVE SPRING, Ga., April 24.—An
Interesting game of ball was played
Saturday between the Hearn Academy
and Piedmont, the latter winning by
the score of 2 t«» 3. The Piedmont
pitcher gave up three hits.
u n ion" poJnT* wTns.
I’NION POINT. (Ss.. April 24. By the
more *»f 9 to <>. Burkhend lost to th.>
strong rnlon Point team Ttuwlay itfferttnon.
Klm-H wan tint much for the Bm-khradBc*.
while "lied" hyir was lilt freely lor Pnlitn
Point. John lMirhUui'N timely hitting was
a feature of the game. The whole liiloii
Point team played a g.**! game, and Burk
head was dearly out«-hi**i-d.
ATLANTA VERSUS MONTGOMERY
APRIL 24th, 25th, 27th and 28th.
LADIES' DAY, TUESDAY, 28TH.
In a very fast ami hard-fought game,
the Boys' High School defeated the
Peacock team by the score of to 2.
The game was interesting .and both
Hides fought for It from the beginning
to the end.
Landrum was on the firing line for
the B. H. S. nnd pitched a fine game,
striking out ten of Peacock's stri ng
hatters and letting them down wit
five hits, two of which were scratrhe
In the fourth Inning the High School
started scoring. They opened up their
fire on the Peacock team and before the
Peacocks could recovei the SI. S. hoys
had sent three men across the plate.
Holland played a good game for Peu-
•i>cks. He got several chances that
could have made a professional’s hair
stand on end, and his throwing robbed
the High School boys of two hits, t’un-
„ ... was sent In by Peacock to do the
pitching and he pitched a nice gam* 4 ,
but was touched up Just when hits
meant runs.
The score:
B. H. 8. ab.
Everett, 2b 4
Cues!a, rf 4
Goree. c 4
I .oel>, 3b 3
Slate, lb 4
Peeples. If 4
Crandall, ss 4
tandrum. P 4
Wallace, cf 3
Totals.. .
Peacock.
Cunyus. p..
Blalock, 2b.
Armistead, c 4 l l
Holland. 3b 4 1 1,
Keene, ss 4 •> 1
SlffoU. lb 4 0 a
Ewing. If 2 o o
Gray, cf 3 0 l
Hciple. rf 3 0 0
h.
T ab.
S
Sewanee Nearly
Defeated Georgia
ATHENS, Ga., April 24.—The Se
wanee Tigers came very nenr to put
ting a dent Into Georgia's aspirations
for the Southern championship Thurs
day afternoon. The score at the close
of a warm contest was 4 to 2 in the
'Varsity’s favor. The boys from the
Mountain nre the hnrdest hitting ag
gregation which has been seen on Her-
ty field thin season. Georgia was rather
off on form, tho Watson Foley and
Martin played spectacular ball.
Shaddlrk. Sewanee'* pitcher, was a
hog for luck. Harmon, altho frequently
rapped, kept the blngles well scattered.
Following Is the box score;
Georgia.
Martin, ss. .
Derrick. 2b.
Hodgson, lb.
Barnett, rf.
Watson, cf. .
ab.
1
po. a,
1 1
base hit, Raub: sacrifice hit, Demont’;
stolen bases. Molesworth 3. Meek 2;
double play, Demont to Meek; Innings
pitched, by Abies 9. by Castleton 2, by
Walsh 6; hits, off Oastelton 5, off
Walsh 9; struck out, by Abies 9. by
Castleton 1; bases on balls, off Abies 4.
off Castleton 1. off Walsh 2: hit by
pitched ball. Cnstelton (Meek). Time
of game, 2:10. Umpire, Pfennlnger.
YESTERDAY'S RE8ULTS.
7. Mobile 0.
Nashville 4. Montgomery 2
Now Orleans 6, Memphis 4.
Hnrnntinb 0, Cotumhln 0.
Augusta 4, Jacksonville 1.
Cotton States.
Gulfport 5. Manure 1.
Columbus .2, Jnekson 0.
Vicksburg 5. Meridian 0.
American Association.
Toledo S. Kansas City 7.
Milwaukee 3. Columbus 1.
I.imlsrllle 6. St. Paul 0.
Indianapolis ft. Minneapolis 0.
Virginia State.
Ulehinond 7. Danville ft.
Norfolk 5. Portsmouth 4.
Uonuoke ft. Lynchburg 4.
American.
Detroit ft. St. I .mils 2.
New York 5. Philadelphia 3.
Cleveland 5. Chicago 0.
Washington 6, Boston 4.
National.
Boston 9. Philadelphia 0.
*klyn 4. New York 1.
Foley,
tVH>y.
Harnn
Brown,
.25 4 7 27 12 3 1
ab. r. h. po. a. a.I
Lanier. 2b. . .
Klsels. lb. . . .
A. Stone, 8b. . ,
Falkenberry, c.
l.yne. rf. . . .
F. Stone. If...
Williams, i f. .
Shaddlc
p.
Totals
Total* 31 2 5 4
Score by Innings:
B. H. 8 000 3»t Old—5
Peacock t 000 200 000—2
... .32 2 9 . 25 10 4
by Innings: R.
Geoigla 011 001 01*—4
Sewanee 100 000 100—2
Summary: Two-base hits. Martin.
Lanier: struck out, by Harmon 8. by
Shaddlrk 3; bases on balls, off Har-
men 2. off Shadrilck 2; double plays,
Graven to Derrick to Hodgson; wild
pitch. Shnddtck 1; left on bases. Geor
gia Sewanee 7. Time, 2 hours. Um
pire, Beusse.
ADEE'S BICYCLE TOUR.
Assistant Secretary of State Adee.
io for several years ha* spent ills
vacations awheel in Eur *p«\ has left
a two months' cycling Jaunt.
A me rl car bicycle riders doing the
Continent are much more common
than wn* the cose a few years ago.
GAME WANTED HERE.
The Highlanders are anxious to get a
game for Saturday,
general delivery.
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WHITE CAPS VS. ACME BREW. fl8 Mnn.ger Weatherly, of the Whit. c.m.
The White Caps are going strong, biutu* j
The Acme baseball team will Invade the won the last three games played, making*
(■amps of the White Cups nt Poplar Springs total of five out of seven games. All nre
Memorial day. Monday, April 27. nt 3:30. j Invited to be present. Take South heratqr
Acme has not lost a game this year. {ear. corner Alabama and Prjror-sts.. at
Malinger Strange 1s confident of winning, ns p. in.
Pitlsburg Taxes
Baseball $5,000
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permament print,. No .cratchcd nnd
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but every order handled with utmo.t
rare by hlgh-clan* operative* guaran
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every film or plate sent it,. Send for a
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irdlnance whereby baseball clubs will* HALL AND ALABAMA STS.
April 24.—The city'AGENCY, AT BR0WN_& ALLEN’S
hlch met last night, passed an DRUG STORE, CO
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THE GHAS. F. STONE GO.
Atlanta, Ga.
he taxed 373 per game, the biggest tax j
In the history of the national game.
.This will cost the Pittsburg dub at I
Address Uoscoe. i lea.-t 33.251) for the coming season. Tha
usual price la fltw per year.
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is, the Made-
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kind. Usually
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price. They either
shrink, invariably fade
and seldom if ever hold
their shape. My English
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shrunk” and guaranteed
against getting “rusty”
or turning color. My
Never-Break Fronts are
rigid, "cannot shift nor
sag.” Stop in and let
me show you why I am
now making all my reg
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You can’t equal it at other tailors for less than $30.
Bring a sample and I will duplicate for $18 or give
you a Suit Free.
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