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LOOKOUTS
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Aug.
SO. —Brady and Priest will
be the opposing mound men
in the second game of the series
between the Crackers and look
outs. The fact that Atlanta lost
yesterday has not discouraged the
Gate City warriors in the least, and
for the first time in weeks they dis
played some fighting spirit this
morning as they lounged around the
hotel. They are confident of win
ning today, again tomorrow, and
thereby cop the long end of the
seHes
The Lookouts captured the first
game of the struggle yesterday by
a score of 4 to 1. The home team's
Polish battery. Covaleskie and Gid
no, proved altogether too good for
Whitey Alperman's misfits It was
the Lookouts' first victory’ In ten
games, too
Johnson Pitched Well.
Lyman Johnson hurled for the
Crackers, and really hurled a very
useful game, but errors cropped
out in his support at critical times,
and when the Ixwkouts mixed some
timely hits with them, runs we-e
Frnred
The Crackers were a trifle too
daring on the base lines, and would
probably have scored more than
one run had they not attempted to
stretch hits or go an extra station
on an error, good pegs cutting them
down. Joe Aglcr offended twice In
this respect, Harbison once.
The Interest in the game was in
tense, and when It was seen that
the rival hurlers wore twirling Just
about the same brand of baseball,
the fans sat back and waited for
something to break The some
thing was the Atlanta support
Bailey's Work Feature.
Harry Bailey’s great running
catches in left field were easily the
feature of the game. He made a
critlca.l error on a fly by Coyle, but
he robbed Mickey of an extra base
hit a few Innings"later, and electri
fied the crowd by racing to the flag
pole 1n left center and capturing
Gray’s long drive that looked good
for a homer.
Coyle’s first base play was the
feature from a Chattanooga stand
point.
The Crackers counted their only
tally in the second inning McFll
veen beat ont a slow roller to
third; Reynolds walked. Humpty
was forced at third on Callahan's
roller. Wolfe kicked In with a
timely blngle and Reynolds scored
Barr’s Double Coetly.
In their half of the same Inning,
the Lookouts scored the, runs that
really won the game With one
gone, Glddo drew’ a ticket Cova
leskie was retired by Callahan after
a hard run In deep center Coyle
flew to left, but Bailey dropped it
and both hands were safe. Barr
cut loose with a two-sacker, on
which the two runners counted.
With one gone in the sixth, Glddo
walked Covaleskie forced him nt
•econd. Harry went to second on a
wild pitch and counted w’hen Coyle
drove out a single.
In the seventh, again after one
was gone, a man walked. This
time it was Balenti Moran went
out, but Jordan kicked in with a
single that sent the chief home
ward.
HANDSOME BOY BREAKS
TRACK RECORD AT MACON
MACON. GA. Aug. 30 The trotting
record for a Georgia track was broken
here by Handsome Boy. owned by G. H
Escos. of Athens, when he made the mile
in 2:12 1 < in the third heat The previous
record was held by Lecco Wilks, owned
by Dan O’Connell, of Macon, and was
made at the state fair here last year.
A crowd of 1,000 people attended the
opening of the three days' race meet
yesterday afternoon and saw two good
events
The 2:20 trot was won by Handsome
Boy. in three straight heats, his time
Veteran, owned by Morgan
Thompson, was second; Clemont, J. T
Morton. Gray owner, third, and Frank
lin, S. Wise. Atlanta, owner, fourth
In the free-for-all race for a purse of
1150. Joe Wilks, owned by Dampier, of
Valdosta, was the winner in two straight
heats. Nellie Gentry’. Dan O’Connell,
Macon, owner, was second, and Lady
White. C H. Esc os, Athens, owner, was
third. The time was 2.15’<
JIMMY BRITT PLAYS
JOKE ON BROADWAY
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—While a scis
sors grinder was busily engaged in
sharpening cutlery opposite the Metro
pole hotel, Jimmy Britt, the ex-prize
fighter, sauntered up to a group of men
in the lobby, east a casual glance across
the street and said:
"Holy smoke, but that's a dandy
make-up."
"What do you mean?" some one In
quired.
“Why," Jimmy replied in a confiden
tlal way. "that's Billy Burns, the de
tective. I used to know him in San
Francisco, No make-up can fool me.”
Instantly the group took life, and in a
few minutes the whole bunch was
across the street. They told others, and
so did Jimmy. Pretty soon the scis
sors grinder was playing to a gallery of
about fifty people, while Britt looked
on from across the street.
Meanwhile Detective Burns was
etrolling down the boardwalk at Atlan
l Lie City.
Billy Smith, Crackers’ New
Manager, Snapped on the Job
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
——
The Delehantys were the greatest of
baseball families Four out of five broth
ers were sent to the big leagues The
fifth played baseball. The fatner was
James Delehanty, Sr., a (’leveland me
chanic. The boys were Ed, Tom, Frank,
Joe and Willie. The greatest was Ed.
Ills most famous feat was that of knock
ing four home runs out of five times at
bat.
♦ • «
Almeida has been directed to report to
the lied team at the close of the Southern
league season and will play his first game
in New York He ana Marsans are ex
pected to draw out the entire Cuban
colony in the metropolis
• • •
Doubt has arisen about the Giants'
round-the-world trip Several of the
Giant players have decided they do not
want to go and some question has arisen
over McGraw's ability to finance It
• « •
The Browns will send three men to
Montgomery In return for first pick on
the Montgomery team next year The
men Dobbs is to get are said to be First
Baseman Joe Kutina. Pitcher Charles
Boy Brown and Outfielder Pietro Comp
ton
• ♦ •
Pitcher Schultz, of the Savannah team,
who has been bought by the Giants, will
report in New York just as soon ns the
Sally league post-season games are over.
« a •
Minneapolis recently won six games In
three days from Indianapolis. There's
one other team in the world in Atlan
ta's class
• • •
It Is said that Claude Derrick did not
take kindly to being traded to Baltimore.
But, shucks, that didn’t get him anything.
Oh. yes. here's a new solution of the
managerial problems at St. Gouls and 1
Brooklyn. Bresnahan is to be traded to
Brooklyn for Nap Rucker and Zack
Wheat. And Miller Huggins is to man
age the Cardinals
Maybe
• • •
They're going to run a special train
from Youngstown for the world's series.
Jimmy McAleer's friends in the Mahon
ing valley are just bound to see his Red
Sox perform
Jud Daley has been called to his home
in Montgomery by the death of his only
child, a little son born this summer.
• • •
Here is the way the clubs finished in
the first half of the Sally league season
»' IJ' Bs Won Lost P.C
Jacksonville 36 17 .679
Albany.. . 31 25 .554
Savannah.. 31 28 .525
Macon 26 29 473
Columbus .... 25 30 455
Columbia 18 38 324
• • •
The reason Bernie McCay let up in his
» for the Sally 'league pennant was
that the owners of the Albany club were
Uh-g "ff all his star players and then
Kick !-.g because he wasn't winning the
pennant
• • •
Asheville is plugging hard for an all
i North Carolina league, and wants Greens
■ bor" and Charlotte in it
* * *
Count out Mobile. It would take a
miracle now for the Gulls to cop Thev
are more likely to pop
’ Also award last place to Atlanta The
Crackers could not pass a given point,
much less Chattanooga
• » •
President William Grayson, of the
Douisville club, re»•» nt]\ turned down an
offer of |65,000 fur his outfit.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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Players Bill Smith Has “Sent Up”
Al Orth, pitcher, star with Philadelphia and New York
American team many years.
Dolan, infielder, several years with Louisville in old 12-
ehib league.
Ollie Pickering, sold to I/ouisville. afterward with Cleve
land Spiders.
Dan McGann, first sacker, sold to Boston, afterward first
baseman of New York National World’s Champions.
George Nill, second baseman. sold to Cleveland, where he
stuck several years.
Al Newton, noted southpaw, sold to Louisville, and later
with New York Americans.
Gilroy, pitcher, sold to Washington.
‘■Dummy” Taylor, sold to New York Nationals, for which
club he pitched many years.
Bernard, outfielder, sold to Boston Americans.
Paul Sentell, shortstop, sold to Athletics by Jlacon.
Bussell Ford. New York American's star pitcher.
Roy Castleton, pitcher, New York Americans, Cincinnati
Nationals.
Ed Sweeney, catcher, New York American’s star receiver.
“Rube” Zeller, pitcher, sold to New York Americans,
now dead.
“Dode” Paskert, outfielder, sold to Cincinnati, now with
Philadelphia Nationals.
Bob Spade, pitcher, sold to Cincinnati, and a star for one
season.
Jimmy Archer, star catcher of Chicago Cubs.
Sid Smith, sold to Athletics, afterward with Cleveland,
now with Columbus.
Williams, catcher, now with Boston Americans.
“Rube” Benton, pitcher. Cincinnati.
‘‘Hub” Northern, outfielder. Brooklyn.
Bob Higgins, catcher, Brooklyn.
Roy Moran, sold to Brooklyn for fall delivery.
FIVE MATCHES SHOT AND
WON AT SEAGIRT RANGE
RIFLE RANGE. SEAGIRT. N J.,
Aug. 30 Five matches were decided
yesterday at the Seagirt shooting tour
nament. Sergeant Perry S. Schofield,
of Massachusetts. won the Nevada tro
phy match: the held and staff of the
Third infantry. New Jersey National
Guard, won tile cavalry team match:
the Manhattan Ritie and Revolver club,
of New York, won the revolver team
match; A P. Lane, of New York, won
the all-comer.- squadded military
match. J. 11 Snook, of Ohio, won the
. all-comers squadded rapid-fire jnatch.
Shooting conditions were excellent.
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HITS BALL
ON LINE FOR 425 FEET
CHICAGO, Aug 30.—Heinie Zim
merman. third baseman for the Cubs
and leading batsman in the National
. league, hit what is said to be the long
est home run ever made on the local
grounds in the game with St. Louis
here It was Zimmerman’s fourteenth
home drive this season and was made
( when one man was on base in the first
inning.
The ball struck the lower left-hand
corner of the score board in left field,
near the club house, and experts on
long drives estimated that the ball
traveled 425 feet before striking the
board.
Last Spark of Cracker Hope Now Extinguished
Smith's Men Did It, But Nobody Blames Bill'
By Percy H. Whiting.
IF ever a faint hope existed that
the Crackers might take a fall
out of Chattanooga, pass the
Lookouts and escape the ignominy
of finishing last, that hope is dead
—-dead as a petrified pterodactyl.
It was assassinated yesterday aft
ernoon when the Lookouts downed
the Crackers handily in the first
game of the series in Chattanooga,
1 to 1.
And thus is there another added
bit of solace to the feelings of Bill
si&ibs?
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|news from ringside|
Jack Dillon, who was scheduled to box
Cyclone Johnny Thompson in Memphis
Labor day, has wired the club he will
not be able to fight on that date owing to
an injury. However, many fans believe it
is simply a case of cold feet, as Dillon re
cently ran out of a match with K. O.
Brown.
V • •
Joe Sherman Is training hard for his
eight-round encounter with Harry Tren
dall at the Southern Athletic club in
Memphis Labor day. This will be a real
■ tryout for Sherman and he will be given
several good matches provided he defeats
Trendall.
Buffalo will have several good bouts on
Labor day. Jumbo Wells meets "One
Round" Davis. K. O. Brennan tights Jack
Barrett and Jimmy Duffy will be stacked
up against Bobby*Wallace In what should
, be one of the best shows staged in that
1 city this year.
* * •
i Patsy Kline has improved so rapidly
that many believe he will succeed Jonnny
i Kilbane as featherweight champion. The
latest victim to fall before the little He-
1 brew was Kid Lenny, who lasted four
, rounds of a scheduled ten-round bout
staged at Newark a few nights ago.
Terry Mitchell and Joe Gans are booked
for a ten-round tight at the Surf Avenue
Opera house at Coney Island tonight.
• * •
Willie Purcell and Young Attell are both
training hard for their ten-round engage
ment in Cincinnati Labor day. These two
I boxers recently stirred up much trouble
, In boxing circles in the Ohio city by sign
ing to box at several different clubs on the
same date.
Smith, sorely wounded by the pros
pect of finishing worse this season
than ever before in his managerial
history. For in the seventeen years
he has been a manager he has never
before finished worse than sixth.
And only three times before has he
finished in the second division.
• * *
a COUNTERPART of Bill Smith’s
managerial career has proba
bly never before been known in
baseball. Certainly its equal is not
to be found in minor league history.
In the first place, Bill started in
Articles have been signed by Cyclone
Johnny Thompson and Eddie McGoorty
for a ten-round light to be staged in Cin
cinnati September 16. Thompson was
originally matched with Jack Dillon for a
Labor day bout at Memphis, but Dillon
was injured while training and will not
be able to appear.
» * *
Johnny Kling, the boxer who was kick
ing up such a howl because he could
not get any one to fight him, has at last
secured a match. He is booked to meet
Hurry Trendall in St. Louis September 14.
■ • •
Patsy Brannigan and Frankie Burns
have been practically matched for a ten
round bout to be staged in Cincinnati on
September 5.
» ♦ *
Leo Kelly, who defeated Dan Cullen in
Memphis recently, is wanted by many
clubs for a Labor day engagement. Kelly I
is paid a weekly salary by his manager
for boxing and the manager runs all the
risk of galmbling on the gate receipts.
RITCHIE INJURES ARM:
HOGAN FIGHT IS OFF
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—The
tight scheduled between "One-Round"
Hogan and Willie Ritchie. lightweights,
for Septembe 9, has been called off on
account of an injury to .Ritchie’s arm
received in training.
ttead and answer the Want Ads In The
Georgian. A good rule for every individ
ual who reads Make it your rule and
you will be more prosperous and more
contented.
as a manager at the tender ag« i
(speaking from a baseball slant) of
25.
Stranger still, he secured his first
job as manager when he had been
playing baseball but two years.
Imagine starting "Dug” Harbi
son or “Kid" Howard oft next
spring as a manager. Yet they
have had two years experience and
they are nearly the age of Bill
Smith when he started.
Perhaps more marvelous still,
this Ohio kid bumped right into a
hot race in the Virginia leagu*
and as manager of Lynchburg he
finished second. The next year,
his fourth in baseball and his sec
ond as manager, he won a pen
nant. Some managers have been
In baseball twenty years without
having the good fortune that cam*
to Bill Smith his second year out.
In all, Bill Smith has won five
pennants in seventeen years.
• • •
ttERE is Bill Smith’s complete
■*• A record as a manager, giving
the year, the team, the league and
the positions that Bill’s team fin
ished :
1895—Lynchburg, Virginia, sec
ond.
189ft—Lynchburg, Virginia, first.
1897 Norfolk, Atlantic, third.
1898— Ottumwa, Western associ
ation, fourth.
1899 — Knoxville, independent.
1900— Albany. New York State,
third.
1901— Davenport, Three Eye. ■
third.
1902 Davenport, Three Eye,
fourth.
1903 — Greenville, Cotton State*,
third.
1904 Macon, South Atlantic, first.
1905 Macon, South Atlantic, first.
1908—Atlanta, Southern, third.
1907 — Atlanta, Southern, first.
1908— Atlanta, Southern, sixth.
1909 Atlanta, Southern, first.
1910— Buffalo, Eastern, fifth.
1911— Chattanooga, Southern,
fifth.
* • •
A NOTHEJR record that Bfll holde
- Is all his own and is one that
nobody will contest with him. Wil
liam has, beyond all question, con
sumed more tobacco daring the
playing season than any living
manager.
Bill hasn’t any fixed amount per
day or per game. But he comes to
every game provided with two lib
eral-sized plugs. If his team Is a
winner all the way, he will just nib
ble the edges of one of them. If
It Is a close contest he will eat
most of both of them.
It would be a fair estimate to say
that Smith ruins one plug of to
bacco a game and one more during
the course of the day’s business.
Now. tn the last seventeen years
Smith has witnessed or played in
something like 3,009 games, count
ing spring exhibitions, post-season
affairs and the like. On a basis of
two plugs of tobacco a day, this
means that he has worried away
close to 8,000 plugs during the
playing seasons.
Placed end to end, these plugs
would measure 500 yards—over a
quarter of a mile.
Stacked on top of each other,
they would rise to a height of 168
feet.
They cost an aggregate of S3OO.
Their weight wm approximately
750 pounds.
As a tobacco fiend, Smith stands
unequaled. It is his prize dissipa
tion. And he goes to it strong.
* • *
ANOTHER chanter 1n Bill Smith’s
career is drawing to an end.
It hasn’t been a particularly pleas
ing chapter. On October 1 he will
turn over a new page, take hold of
the team that brought him his
greatest glory and set out on a voy
age of two years duration—with
the destination Pennantville—but
with reefs, ledges, hurricanes, pi
rates and half a million sorts of
trouble between him and his tenta
tive terminus.
The Big Race
Here is the newest dope on how the
“Big Five” batters of the American
league are hitting:
PLAYER— AB. H. P.C„
COBB 455
SPEAKER 482 194
JACKSON 461 170 .36$
COLLINS 432 146 .3381
LAJOIE 328 105 .320 j
Tris Speaker fell off a fraction oven’
two points yesterday when he failed to'
connect more than once in four at-4
tempts. Collins was up four times and!
didnt secure a blooming hit. He loetl
three points thereby. Cobb, Jackson and!
I Lajoie didn’t play, as Detroit and CleveJ
land did not participate in battle.
BROOKLYN CLUB TAKES
IN NEW STOCKHOLDERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y..~kug. 30.-It was
.innounccd today that former Alderman S«
W. McKeever and E. J. McKeever, Brook-
Ivn contractors had purchased stock In
the Brooklyn baseball club. President'
Ebbetts needed capital to complete th*
new Ebbetts field and the McKeevers
joined with him in his venture
The amount of their Investment wa«
not disclosed, but at an election of offi
cers E. .1 McKeever was made vice nres
ident. Charles H Ebbetts. Sr., retains
control and continues as president, with
Henry Medfcus treasurer and C. H Eb
betts, Jr., secretary.