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i Desert Atlanta Saturday PERCY H. WHITING EXODUS OF BALL PLAYERS COMES SATURDAY NIGHT With Arrhfr Improving nicely. ew; man on the Atlanta trnn laying for th# Babb- Itcs and everything going atrong, the l>«*e- hall alt nation looks blooming, In spits of Thursday's defeat. Atlanta I* atlll only one email victory from the lead and the prospect* for going to the front look fine and dandy. Meuiphla •hot her one Mg bolt when Llebhart wai allowed to pitch, and It look* aa though a trimming waa about all which la now due Secretary MH'nllotigh. of the Memphis team, leave* Atlanta Friday night for Bir mingham, where be will attend the league meeting. He aays that he doe* not now what la likely to happen there, but be la not at all worried over the probable oat- The Atlanta clnh will aloo have a repre- * rotative at the meeting—probably Hecre- tary l/owry Arnold. The lisckera of the local club are not looking for irotibb*. The »a«penalon of the baaehall player* agalnnt whom the various club* are kicking wna genuine, they nay, and they ntptc positively that the *us|iendcd men have been draw lug no money alnee they were droppd. In consequence It. la Impossible to *ce how the league can do anything about the mat ter. Saturday will lie the dosing day of the team’s stay at home and the game will tie called at 3 o'clock t« allow the teams to make quick Jumps—Atlanta to Shreveport and Memphis Itack home. Manager Babb seems quite confident of making It two out of three. When assured that bis team was going- to lose the last two games he said: "Why, you're away wrong. Weil win two out of three and inaylie all of them. The team here Is all right, lint ours la lietter. I-ook out for trouble. Weil win In a walk." And for a fact he said It Just as though he believed It. Funny how, by telling the same story time after time, yon actual ly get to believe It. Same way with Babb. Thursday’s Games Ground 4 Into Fancy Baseball Hash Well, we had to lose sometime, and It waa s pleasure to help along the bunch from Memphis. They need the games, and then they are a clever crowd and play hard ball. With the "If*" cot out there la not ao much to say about Thursday's game, ex cept that It was a screamer. Llebhart Is oald to I* among the beat pltrhera In tha league, ^and maybe he Is. Manager Babb says that hla game Thura da v was the poorest he has pitched this year. "Little Chortle" Huggo la In rare form this year and will prove a troublesome in.m. least year waa an off year with lilnr hh with most of the members of the Mein phi a team, but he la back In hla old South Atlantic form this season and la a terror to batters. Hparka replaced Loticka In the sixth. The "Lucky One" wna having an unlucky day. Hparka did well, but no man could stop the Memphis batters after the start they got The game lasted 172 minutes, which Is going after the long distance record. Gee, but that was n great winning atrenk while It lasted. Wouder how milch the absence of Arche had to do with the result. It Isn’t ao the absence of a player which hurts Is the demoralising Influence of having a man Injured. It was very thoughtful of Mhreveport to lose Thursday. That leaves Atlauta right within willing distance of the lead. Old Ilohby Gllk* la hark !u the game at Fhreveport. lie hatted .333 Thursday. First thing we know Ilohby will It apltcblng a game, Juat lo show that h# still baa the wing. Guess Nashville and Little Rock are not playing hall for the last position. The «blrly*o-rouml swung Nsahrllle'a way Thursday, l*robaldy Little Rock Is due apt Montgomery sliced another chunk off New Orlcnns. Many thanks, Mullsney. Hold the iviican* down while the Crackers at tend to Memphis. We don't want to be passed by New Orleans again. nlng team Atlanta had--fop Knowles' 1396 hunch, which landed the rag Imt mmm eucherod out of It. He played a mil.. I of games at second that year and lu later years. When his arui gave way he gave up pitching and became an Inflelder. Well, wouldn't It thump yoo. Chicago b«*st New York It to a The Hpuds made thirteen runs In the second Inning. Mathew s*>n was knocked out of the box In the Aral Inning and McGInnlty In the second. The "Giants" t?) made five errors and four hlta. It took the New York Americans thirteen Innings to beat 8t. Louis. Old "Noodles" Hahn was In the box for the Yankees. Itartsell'a error lost the game. "Bags" Raymond woo n game Thursday. Good for the hr ml p ter. Addle Joaa pitched three-hit ball against ft.** i Thursday and the once champions lost la the usual style. boas for Montfom.rjr, wu OOOOOOOOOPOOOOOOOOO O O O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O O 0 C Memphis at Piedmont park at O O « p. m. 0 O New Orleane at Montgomery. O O Shreveport at Birmingham. O o Little Rock at Nashville. O O O OOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOO “BIO ED” IS VALUABLE. HE WON’T BE HAPPY TILL HE GETS IT. POLICE STOP BOXING SHOW By Private leased Wire. New York, June 7.—A cordon of police wna thrown about the I-ougncre Athletic luh last night nnd a proposed boxing ex hibition stopped. The Inning show was called off by Man ager Mike Newman. Newman maintained that hla club la a bona fide one, and that the police had no right to Interfere with Its show, hut Bingham's orders wore to stop nil boxing exhibition* In this elty. Hundreds of men who had membership cords were turned away from the door of the club by the police. AU8TELL WIN8 EASILY. Special to The Georgian. Austell, Un., June 8.—In a alow gome of linll played here yeaterday. Austell defeat ed Marietta by n score of 12 to 0. The feature of the game was the . Martin and Strickland, who struck out 15 men. Austell plays Dpuflasvllle and Powder Brings Friday and Saturday. Hcore by Inning*: Winning Stroke Ends in Long Extra Inning Game Springs I Hcore ti Austell ft Marietta ft League Standings Edward L. Hurlburt. Taken nil arouud, "Big Kd," as he la fa- tnlllsrly known, la the biggest man In the league. HUui Jliu Fox Is slightly taller, Dominick Mullnuey stands n little higher when hts hair Is mussed; but Big Kd out weighs any of them by Ore pounds. He doesn't throw quite as well as Jimmy Arch et, but he certainty la a big help to young pitchers. Uke ill successful athletes, Mr. Hurlburt Is good to bis folks, lie doesn't have to bo Itocnuao they are well Axed, imt he does Just to make sure of hla success, lie has annulled the muchly talked of Ah that he carries sixteen trunks of swell clothes by displaying an afAdavIt to the tfect that hut ten trunks, two autt cases and a valet are part of hla personal follow ing. Kd clouts the twill, ns both trucks and llnxttr Hparka will testify. But he hates to run and contents himself with taking two lames when the hall he bits aafe stays In the lot. Mr. Hurlburt taught n rowdy member of the New York Giants a lesson In Hoiithern politeness recently. The New Yorker at tempted to address a Indy on Main street In Memphis without waiting to be Intro duced nnd wna promptly knocked Into the glitter by the Intrepid Memphis catcher. The Georgian’s Score Card. 80UTHERN. Club— Played. Won. Lost. Shreveport . . .46 28 17 Atlanta .... 46 28 18 New Orleans . 46 27 20 Birmingham. . .48 21 21 Memphla ... 46 25 21 Montgomery . . 46 21 25 Nashville ... 48 18 SO Little Rock . . 44 11 33 80UTH ATLANTIC. Club— Played. Won. Iuoat. Augusta ... 44 28 16 Columbia ... 43 24 19 Charleston . . .43 22 21 Savannah ... 45 22 23 Macon .... 42 20 23 Jacksonville . . 43 17 26 GEORGIA STATE* CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. WaycroM ... 27 19 8 Cordele .... 24 15 9 Columbus ... 26 16 10 Valdosta ... 26 12 14 Albany . ... 25 8 17 Amertcua ... 23 5 18 ' AMERICAN. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. New York ... 45 29 16 Cleveland. . . 40 25 16 Philadelphia . . 43 25 18 St. Louts ... 45 24 21 Detroit .... 40 21 19 Chicago .... 40 18 22 Washington . . 43 15 28 Boston .... 45 13 32 NATIONAL. ATLANTA. R. | H «' MEMPHIS | R. | H. E. CROZIER. It .... THIEL. If WINTBR8. rf ... BABB, 3b 8. SMITH. 3b... NADEAU, cf .... MORSE, aa 1 NICHOLAS, aa.. FOX. lb i CAREY, lb • STINSON, cf .... ! PLA8S. Ib JORDAN. Ib .... | MANUSH. rf .... EVERS, c ! HURLBURT. c.. HARLEY, p .... SUGGS, p TOTAL8 ii II TOTALS j Score by Inninta: 1334 56789 10 11—R Atlanta | | | . Memphla ! | | ! | i Club— Chicago . . . Pittsburg . \ New York . Philadelphia . 8t. Louis . . Brooklyn . . Cincinnati . . Boston . . . P.C. .622 .609 .674 .563 .543 .467 .3f5 .260' P.C. .704 .625 .615 .462 .320 .217 P.C. .644 .625 .581 .633 .525 .450 .349 .289 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. CLUBS— Toledo . . , Columbus . . Milwaukee . Kansas City Louisville. . Minneapolis . St. Paul . . . Indianapolis Played. Won. Lost. P.C. . 43 27 17 .614 . 48 26 22 .542 . 40 22 18 .550 . 46 24 21 .633 .465 .455 .429 .349 THURSDAY’S RE3ULT8. South Atlantic. Augusta 0, Columbia 1—1st game. Augusta 3. Columbia 4—2d game. Savannah 2, Charleston 1. American. Detroit 7. Washington 1. Cleveland 4, Boston 0. Detroit 7, Washington 1. New York 6, St. Louts h National. St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 3. Chicago 19. New York 0. Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 2. American Association. Minneapolis 4, Indianapolis 1—first game. Columbus 4, Milwaukee 3. ADDITIONAL SPORTS ON PAGE SEVEN Memphlp declined to add the twelfth straight victory to the Firecrackers' string Thursday, but It took the Rsbbltea eleren Innlnga to quench the battling spirit of the Hmlth cohorts. "Ifa" loom prodigiously In the finale. If the hits hnd come any number of times when eager Atlantans tottered on base ready to romp home, It would have l»een "another story." But at most of these crucial stages Lelhbnrt tightened up aud vetoed the batter. Roth teams did eotne hitting, and both contributed some large and yellow• errors. The Mempbll excelled a hit In both de partments. Nleholls bad n merry time try- lug to stick hla flus In the raps down hla way. At that he made two or three dasxllug slope. v The visitors started off with a rush, send ing a couple across on n base on balls nnd two safeties. From then on the game ricocheted first one war. then the other. When the ninth opoMd-the fans got a renewal of hope by Htlnson'a single and Jordan's double, which tied the score. , Twilight shadows lay over the field na the eleventh began. Memphis aeilt two around the circuit In that Inning. Big Hurlbutr opening the way with a ripping double. Atlanta could only get one over, nnd tho rooters went home sad over the defeat, but comforted with the thought tbnt the locals hnd put up n game fight for It. The score: The score: xrfcxmx: <'mxler, If. . Winter*, rf. H. Hmlth, 2 Morse, os. Fox, lb. ... Htlnsou, cf. Jordan, 3b. Kvera, c. . Loueks,. p. Hpsrks, p. . Tra/ii. u. i*o. a. .5 1 2 4 0 0 M KM I’ll 18— Thiel. If. Itabb. 3b Nadeau; cf. :.. Nleholls, os. .. Carey, lb Itasa, 2b Mnnush,-rf. .... Hurlburt, c. ... Lelbhart, p. ... Hcore by Innings: Memphis 101 000 03-7 Atlanta loo 021 ooi oi—« Hmlth. Double plays— Nleholls to Carey. First base on Italia—Off Lourks 2. off Hpnrks 1. off Llebhart 4. Struck out—By Hparka 4, by Llebhart 6. Wild pitches—Hparka 1, Llebhart 1. Time, 2:52. Linplro—Rudder- ham. NEWS OF THE FESTIVE PUGS By Private Leaned Wire. New York, Jun, S.—Hock Keyei, tha Australian champion who recently da. faatad Amby McOarlty, la considering returning to tha Antlpodea. Koyea aaya that he haa laauad challenge, to tha beat llghlwelghta In the country, Including Nelaon, McOovarn anil Britt, and up to the present haa not heard from any of them. "Fighting” Dick Hyland, whose bout with Kid Goodman waa called off, will THIEL IS SMALL, BUT! leave today for Denver with hla man ager. Hyland haa been promised n match before one of the Denvtr clubs. Jack (Twin) Sullivan, the New England middleweight, and Mike Schreck, of Cincinnati, have been matched to box twenty rounds before the Terre Haute Athletic Club on June 29. Billy Nolan, the manager of Battling Nelson, declares that the Dane will not fight again until next fall. Nolan has contracted for Nelaon to appear with different theatrical companies and hla engagements will keep him busy until early In October. lk« Bradley, the English bantam, will make hla first ring appearance In this country tonight In a bout against Tom my O'Toole, at the National Athletic Club, of Philadelphia. Jack Blackburn whipped Kid Wllaon In the wind-up at the Broadway Ath letic Club at Philadelphia last night , B wax a hard fight, and Wilson kept Blackburn on the Jump all the Ume. In the fourth round, a right awing by . the Jersey man sent Jack^o the,floor. BUFORD WIN8 GAME. Hpef-UI to The Georgian. | Itufonl. Ga., June S.—Buford and Flowery Branch played here yesterday and Buford I won liy a score of 12 to 2. The game wna i n one-sided affair and waa Buford'* from •tnrt to finish. Allien, of Buford, wa* Invincible and struck out ten men. He pure up only four hits. Thl* make* tho fourth Ntralgbt game for Bnford thta sea- •on. They have won one each from Grace chun-h Bnraca and Southern Bell and two : from Flowery Branch. Buford la ready for • all comer*. The line-up for yesterday's game waa aa follow*: Buford—Allen. 2b.: O'Kelly, r.; Hmlth, IK; Hhadhuru. 3b.; Mtrtuger. aa.; B, Power, If.: Rrogdon. cf.; Vance, rf. Flowery Branch—Htevenaon. p.; Holland, e.; 1'arW*. IK; Clark. 2K; Wnodltff. IK; Pugh, aa.; E. Kelly. If.; Parsun, cf.; Davie, rf. I'mplre, Boh Burton. EDGEWOOD SECOND WINS. Buck Thiel. The ruminative left Udder-of the Mem* bll Juat about evens ap In Inches with ■ ickle t'rotter, and. Itk# Croaler. hla worth to the Meuiubll Is not measured by weight nor word*. Buck's actloua streak for th«*m•elves. Yesterday he waa aa busy aa a setter dog. Three of the four runs accred it**! Babb’s Iwya were counted by Buck. Three hlta at*» helped sow* In pushing runner* toward the Plate. Ill* on.- handed crab In the dark after "Slim Jim**" long liner waa a bit of the clmis order, but It Iwnce. itiwk waa purchased -f Mem phis from Uroaka. csterday afternoon the Kdgewood Second team met and defeated the "Victor*" In a very one-sided con teat. Kdgrwond played four subatltnte* In the game, while the "Victor*" were short two of their meu. Hcore by Innings: Victors 010 001.16-S . Kdgewood 604 002 r—17 ' The game waa called In the eighth ou 1 account of darkness. Batteries: Victor*. Fahey. Yavey and Teague; Kdgewood. Cueata. Alexander. ‘ Smith and Kollgfatly. Umpire, Dr. Smith. I Scorer, Fra acts. The tine-op of Kdgewood follows: Go- | lightly, r.; 31. C’ueatn. Smith and Alexander, p.; L. Smith. IK; llaaa, captain. 2b.; c. 1 Smith ami 4'ueeta, manager. 3K; Alexander! and M. Cuesta, aa.; Phelps, If.; Fraud*, cf.; I«ocke. rf. Kdgewood play* the Gmcerymen Friday I ami a good game la expected. I SOME RANDOM SHOTS AT THE BASEBALL SITUATION By WILLIAM BYRNE. (Baseball Writer for The Memphla Commer- clal-Appenl.) a an awfully nice thing to travel with a ball team that Is kuoeklng tar out of club* In the eltle* visited. It'* another thing to travel with a losing club. But when you get ou the road with a small band of earnest worker* whose losses of the day before are burled with the past nnd all thoughts turn to the task laid out for the present day'* work, there’s a feel- lug akin to brotherly love for the boy* working hard to win. The recent losses encountered by Babb's l>oya on the rood are not to l»e wondered at. There never was*a team,from the Giants down, nor yet. a player of even the Lnjole or Wagner type, that didn't have a dark day. But the silver lining of doll losing clouds Is hound to make Its appear ance at the proper time. On Southern diamonds there are two field* that stand out preeminent, Piedmont park and I ted Kim |mrk are the two. Hod (led Infield and grassy outfield present pleasing and restful picture* to the tired ball plny- eraMeyea and the glare of. a burning aun Is offset. Other diamonds around the circuit are "aklnned" and the aun la mirrored In the white aanda almost aa vividly as It would l»e In a looking glass. The heat and glare worries player* from Atlanta and Memphla who arc used to their eineyald surroundings. But there are other drawbacks more serious and one In par ticular. The umpire! A* long aa baseball exist*—and thkt will he as long na the United State* Is a re public, which means for nlf time—the am- l>lre qnretton will be e, wrfon. a. ti„. . vnl.t sir! problem. Went now In (He mi league there are two umnlre. * TlallltlK player* treat. One In r.nrtl -Ml”" haa eiKrneil the title of -On the i" «t»Hf.l« M'r hy hla fearless dm,ill! wytWjM .t panon* and place* aS^XlreV^lA SSTJZ n'm plre’a he*.l7\ire, turned, and. wSkui ward the IdeUera. placed hi, haSd *„ t funnel abape. anW In n few choice word! directed nt tho peWtratnr demanded tSt be ahow hlmaelf. /rhe man or pc* " fuaed. The umpire, walked th. diamond nnd umpire), , vldunl. probably ,wene>il with hi. own h^ portanee, awore out aYwarrmt f„ r th umpire charaln* him wft, H>! ,„decem language. The umpire-wa.\ force i to * bond and will lie put to nn V- i of .Imply lieeauae he rearmed whahhe be^ to be n peraona! -attack, in tbe\ meantime the origin of all the trouble u „ hidden quantity and will remain In ground. % All heenuae a fair-minded umpire could not pleaae one rnltlrf home fan T h „. apeclmena of aueb fana In everr city' can't lie helped. But for the geoi ■ ■/ game aome effort ahould be made to‘ Dr „ tect good umpire, from fana Inflicted .dti, hydrophobia of the lunga. Fearleaa umpire, are acarce and especially In the Konthern League. Otra ua aome more of the "On tho level" kind and patron, of the „... aoc baaehall played that la worth double the price of admlaalon. Yeaterday', was a sample. , “BOBBY” WINS THE RACE Bobby Walthour, the beat bicycle rider the world has ever ieen, added another feather to bis cap Thursday nJght, when he defeated Tommy Hall, the champion of KnglAnd. In two straight heats. The time for the five-tulle events was 7:38 3-5 and 7:31. Atlanta sport lorera dearly love bicycle races Qiul especially motor-paced events. And the way they turned out last Thurs day ulght .must, have brought Joy to the heart of Jack Prince, who was tHiilnd the schemo nnd who ! has transformed the FRENCHMAN PLAYS SOME. Phil Nadeau. Memphis wna downright lucky In get th, hlg Frenchman from New Orleans. Kvcry day ho springs a new wrluklo when the chance present. Itself. Either a Imae hit at the proper moment or n peg lo the plnte from hla far stand In renter Held, or elae he purloins n base. He usra hla noodle whenerer he can. He gut hit In the head at Montgomery by n pitched Iwll. Yester day he chaaed all over renter Drill, rob bing Atlanta Utters of legitimate hlta, bat It wna noticed that he took what wa, com ing lo him nearly every time he stepped up to Ut. He sent Thiel across the plate three times by timely drlvra. Coliseum Into an Ideal place for blcyci, raeea. Both heats, though won by tYalthonr were stubbornly contested and were u , eacltlng. The huge double cylinder moier. were working In flne shape and ihc ,,y they annihilated distance down the stretches nnd negotiated the sharply hank-1 turns brought gasps from the apc.t,tr,r. The sensation of seeing for the fine time n motor bicycle, followed hy a rider ,. u » racing hike, hit one of those turn, I, never to lie forgotten nnd the fascination of watching them Is one which never weara off. Walthour showed hlmaelf to lie In hi, old form aud had the Englishman at hi, mercy at all stngea of the game. How. ever, Hall proved to Ito a game rider and stuck clone to Ills pace nt all stage,. H. 1. Norton took the mile event In good style. The time waa !:17 2-5. The concluding event wna an exhibition motor-paced mlla. hy Wllllnm Jenkins, n local rider, who will meet Norton In the near future. Jenklna covered the mile In 2 minutes flat. FITZ MAY YET FIGHT BURNS By Private Leasefi Wire. Philadelphia, Pa., Jnne 8.—The promoters of the' Tuxedo Athletic Club nt Kaiilngtnn have not yet given up hope of having tho Fltxslramons-Burna boot before their club. The promoters are hopeful tbnt nt taut they have found n way out of the tangle and that Governor Pennypncker will con sent to their reopening the doors of the club. The attorneys for the club have been working hard for the past week nnd today something definite In the way of a state- ment waa made by If. 1>. Prettyroan. of the firm of builders which erected the club bouse. Mr. Prettyroan, who la the ruling spirit here in the club, said: "The bout has uot been Indefinitely postponed, na has !«*en ■fated. We are still endeavoring to |n>r- atinde the governor that we are not violat ing the law and wa are hopeful of being aucceaaful. If we can get the governor to cancel hla edict the two men will meet nt the club Monday evening next, and we would welcome any official sent hy the governor to see that the contest wa* per* fertly legal" Tommy Burns has continued to train tor the event NORCROS3 A WINNER. Special to The Georgian. Norrross, Ga., Jane 8.—In a fast and snappy game of hall here yesterday Nor* crons defeated the strong Buford team by the score of 11 to 6. Amoa Martin, of Nor- cross, put the halt over deep center Hold fence /or a home ran. Dodson, for Norcroas, pitched a phenome nal game, allowing Buford only two hit* casino TONIGHT—MATINEE 8ATURDAY Vaudeville'* Greatest Novelty. Laeky and Rolf*'* Spectacular Produc tion, THE MILITARY OCTETTE and Th* Girl Behind the Baton, the DeMuths, Lewis and Green, Azra, Her ald Square Quartette. Cameramnh. Marble Week “" L,tt,e Ch, P and P 0NCEDEU°)| DIRECTION JAKE WELLS, PfBiisi NOWJPEN A PERFECT AMUSEMENT RESORT! BAND CONCERTS DAILY. NAT KAISER & CO. Confidential loan, on valuables- Bargains In unredeemed Dj»7J® 15 Decatur St. KlmbtllHfY!!: Atlanta vs. MEMPHIS JUNE 8 and 9. Ladles’ Pay Today- Game Called A! 4 P. Winning S freak Bro ken at i -ast