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I Tennis Tournament and Ball Games Divide Interest in Atlanta I «BD $> © ® © © © © © © © © © © © ® © © © «H»© © © ®«H& «H& ® © © © Edited by PERCY H. WHITING ®@@®®©©®®®©®»»©®®®®®©©©©©©©©©©©®©®© SOME EARLY ROUNDS ARE PLAYED IN THE SOUTHERN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP A grand (tart wta mad* la the Southern Tennis championship Wednesday on courts at East Lake, where about thirty matches were finished la etaglea and four la doubles. From 16:38 In the morning until sunset every court was a scene of uninterrupted activity ns the early matches la singles and doubles were pushed through to com pletion and much of the preliminary work of the tournament was cleared away. > la all a matter of M games were played during the day. The weather and court conditions were Ideal. The air was cool, the son bright and the breete refreshing. And the courts were In nearly perfect con dition. Superintendent Pickering and his force of men had been at work on them from sunrise until the first matches started and they were la doe trim-smooth, Just the right degree of hardness sad eery fast Host of the contestants spent the day at the club, and lunch was served at pooa. In the afternoon several hundred spectators made the trip to Bast Lake and the seats arouod the courts were dlled at all times With Interested.onlookers. The matches turned out a good deal, as was eapected. A few surprises were noted, however. For Instance, the , defeat of Seguln. the veteran New Orleans player, by II. M. Ashe was a hard blow to the Crescent City contingent, while the way r w. Haley, of Nashville, defeated Charlaa Bodgera. of Knoivllle. In the second round was somewhat of a Surprise, Llttle*a de feat of Ashe la the second round was also unexpectedly overwhelming. After the At lanta man had won so easily from Heroin bln chances against tha Cincinnatian looked, II. F. Prescott defeated W, D. McNeil fairly bright, bnt ho went oat $4 8-L by default. Howell defeated II. E. Moore by With tha setting of Wednesday's sun Atlanta’s chaacss for championship honors In slngtss were left chiefly In tbs cars of Williams and Thornton. Nona of tbo other Atlanta contestants woro regarded as hav ing a chance. In the doubles only four matches wars run oil, bnt a big hols will bs mads In the early rounds Thursday. Tbs results of Wednesday’* matebsa fol lows v t First Round, I,. D. Scott defeated U. L.. Freeman, U, 6-4. A. M. Post defeated M. D. Berrien, 44. U Williams defeated Professor W, D. Mooney, U 1-1 II. Logan defestsd F. O. Byrd. 64. 4-4. T. Mailary defestsd O. Mlddlebrook, (-1, U W. C. Lao defestsd A. F. Fltxslmmons. M. <1. Karl Little defeated F. II. Sawyer, M. II. M. Ash* defeated A. Seguln, t-t, T* |, I). Scott defeated II. L. Freeman, 62, A. Fischer defeated A. S. Adams. 62, t-L Cowan Bogart defestsd N. B. Broyles, U 61. Nat Thornton defeated S. H. Blackihcar, 7-6. M. Enormous Crowd Witnessed Slaughter of the Finnes Before 7.164 wildly enthusiastic baseball fans at Piedmont park Wednesday after noon, the largest crowd over assembled In Atlanta to witness a baseball game, tbe Atlanta aggregation bad little difficulty In defeating tbo Nashville bunch to the tune of ( to i. In a contest much mom close nod exciting than tbe morning game. "Doc" Cblldx was In the box for Atlanta during tbs early part of the contest, but Sparks was sent In by Manager Smith in tbe fourth, after Childs had been found for live safe ones and the visitors had two Nnen on bases. Both pitchers pitched good ball, the weakening of Childs In tbe fourth and the putting in of Sparks probably keeping down the number of hits considerably. The game was one of the slowest of the season, but with the tremendous good-natured crowd there was something doing svory minute. The crowd which lined tbs Held on sll rides mads ground rules necessary, and prevented sll chances of throe-baggers. Atlanta started on her road to victory In the second Inning. Fox, second man up, hit Into the crowd In center Held, and got his two Iwgs. He was advanced to third by a timely single by Billy Smith. Archer, Chllda and Crosier each singled, nnd Fox, Billy Smith nnd Archer aafely . crossed the piste. In the next Inning, the ■ good work was continued. Jordan hit s single, Sid Smith and Morse did the same, and n two-bagger by Billy Smith sent two more mon across the piste. The start of tbs homo team rather phased . the visitors, and with the uphill light lie- •fnre them they Were able to accomptlah only a little In each Inning, la tha fourth, j.Wlaemsn got a two bagger and Frary a free ticket to flrat. A alngle by Caatro aent iWlaeman home for tho flrat run for Nash- I vide. Good pitching held them down, and i there waa nothlag more doing In that la ming. In tho fifth, II loked good for, at tessb two more runa for Naahvllla, but at tho crlteal moment, Sparka waa put In the box and aaved the day. Duggan, flrat up, alngled, advancing on a alow hall from Pleraon'a bat Ha was later thrown out at second, but Pierson kept going tho cir cuit, und on n hit by Wloeman, ha scored. There wns nothing mors doing In that In ning, hut In the seventh a single by Jan- sing and another by Bohannon acorad tbo former. The official scorer saw tbs gtma fol lows: ATLANTA- Crosler, If. and cf, Jordan, 2b Winters, rf H. Smith. 3b Morse, si Fox, lb 11. Smith, ct. and If Archer, Childs, p Hpafka, p Totals AB. It. II. PO. A. I 6 0 11 4 110 3 0 i o o o o o « I If 27 7 3 NASHVILLE— Pearson, If. 6 Gilbert, cf. 6 Wiseman, rf. I rary, lb. Castro, sa. Wells, c. . Dugan. p..„ 4 0 1113 3 0 1 0 2 0 _ I j 10 24 13 Score by Innings: _ H. II. & Nashville 000 HO 100-4 10 4 Atlanta 033 ofo 00*-i 13 2 Summary. Twn-hsse hlta, Fox, II. 8mtth, Wiseman, plays. Jordan to Morse; flrat haae on balls, off Chllda 3. off Dugan 2, off Sparks 3; struck out, by Childs 6, by Dugan 4, by Sparks 6. Time, 3:26. Umpire, l'frtmluger. Crackers Swinging Around Through Eastern Circuit Thursday night Billy Smith and hla , cohorts left for a hurry-run around I the Eastern circuit of the league. ; The Cracker* went flrat to BlrmliiR- i ham, where they will clinch with the I Barone In games Thursday, Friday and Saturday. From Stnokevllle the bunch takes a jump to Nashville. and after trimming the Flnnltes will return to Montgomery for a tuaeel with Man ager Dominick Mullaney’s bunch of Indiana. From Montgomery the team returns home for a two-weeks' stay, during which time tho Bmllhltea will meet In turn Llttl* Bock. Memphis, Shreve port and New Orleans. Though things did not break any too well for the Crackers during their re cent stay at home, Billy Smith haa not lost hit cheerfulness, and he believes that he and hi* men can make a better showing against the Eastern teams on their own grounds than they did ngainst these teams when they played lam at Piedmont With road games against the East ern loom and then home games against the Westerners following each other In feat succession It looks as though tha t'rnckcra ought to get a start for the top In tho near future. It G. Hunt defeated W. ft Tlchenor, defkuib F, II. Smith defeated V. C. Kingman, 64, 6-1. 8eoond Round. Daley defeated Charles Bugera. 6 3. f-L Logan defeated Mallory, 6-2, 6-2. Llttl# defeated Aaho. 6-0. 6-1. l’oat defeated Unwell. 6-3. C-L Cowan Ilogors defeated Itamapcck, CO, 6-L Yarborough defeated Hpratllu. 64). 6-7, 64k Mauafleld defeated Fleeter. 64 64 Hunt defeated Davis. 63. 6 L Third Round. Hunt dofoatad Prescott. 62. 62. Thornton defeated Grant 74 63. Dalay defeated Lee, 6L 66, 64. Cowan Rogers defeated Manafleld 60, 66. Hunt defeated l’reacott 62, 62. Ilowell dofeated Kingman, 74 6L Doubles. The following are tho scores In the flrat round of doubles: Blackahear and Taylor defeated Byrd and Tlchenor, 67, 6L Solomon and Mallory defeated Jtsbe and Broyles 64 74 Poat and Yarborough defeated Fltsalm- mons and F. II. Smith, 64. 64 Hunt and Lee defeated Williams and Scott, 64 64 ATTELL GETS DECISION OVER GAME LITTLE NEIL By C. E. VAN LOAN. By Private Leased Wire. Los Angeles, Cal., June 6—-Abrakam At- tell, real lighting man. Is attll the feather weight champion of tho world, and Frankie Nell Is a vary soundly trounced young man. Tha ex-bantam weight champion waa beaten from end to end of a terrific twenty- round fight—beaten at hla own style of light by a man who had never been rated aa anything mors than a superlatively clever .boxer. A low-browed gent In a stilt bat and a flaring rad tit voiced my sentiments aa the coatlea* man struggled In the runways after the light waa over. Abe Attell a parlor boxer, ehl" aald ’•Well, ohow mo where yoo get your flghtori.'' If a featherweight ever took more puntahmeut than game little Frankie Nell stood np under yesterday It did not happen In this part of tha country. A* early aa tbo second round the blood was streaming from Nell's nose; In the fourth round Frankie's eye began to close; from the tenth round on to the finish tha blood poured from hla month. Blinded by left jaba, dated by righthanders full In tbs face, Noll kept on lighting like the LEWIS LOSES TO MELLODY BOTH BOY8 TEAR OF SOME Faj t FIGHTING, BUT HONEY LAND* THE FATAL PUNCH. By Private Lcssod Wire. Ilnsion, July 5.-Tile championship eiain, X" 1111a Y Ala-la ♦ V, _ V* a- * tlons of Willie Lewis, the New York wpl terweftgbt. got hitched to a skyrocket Uk night nn<l Iloney Mellody, of Chxrlest£ touched off the fuse. Th.:r boat at Ckstall lasted two -u.) ut<-» nnd 31 a Into tbo third Moaij Y. M. C. A. TEAM YVINS. tpeclal to Thn Georgian. IanwreDcevtfle, Ga., July 6.—The Atlanta M. C. A. team played tho Lawruncevlllo nine on the home diamond Wednesday and won by a acore of 4 to 2. Baraga pitched for the Atlanta team, while Pentecost * “ *“ * home boys. wh.'ii Mnllody crossed hit right with £ Gotham lad's Jaw and Willie stretched hi* self full length on the mat lie tnracg over twice, but got no nearer to rhto within the limit of the fatal ten Beconfc *'A chance punch. I wta careless," mu Lewis. "I can do It quicker next time," mm Mellody. Up to the sudden ending of the cootaa It waa decidedly In Lewla’ favor, second round was one of the hardest fought over seen In a local ring. In the middle of It Lewla hooked bit left to Mellody’a Jaw and Iloney went down for the count. It looked bad for him, but he' gained hta feet on the count of nine u4 tore In like a bull dog. At tbe end c{ the roupd both boxers were weak. Mellody came back fresher In the thirl while Lewis seemed tired, probably froa the body blowy that Mellody had Loea hooding him. At the rery start It was t*t% that tbe fight had begun to turn lu Mel- lody'a favor. League Standings! MIMMItlfMIMMlMIMI 80UTHERN. CLUBS— Played. Won, Lost. p.£ little demon he Is. He htd no excuses to offer; ha fought on* of tha byst fights of hla life, bnt he met a man who proved himself his master it everything which koes to make np a fighter. The grand climax cam* when the gong rang for the nineteenth round. Nell came out of hla corner and trotted to tho center of the ring, hla bruised lower lip banging Ilka a pendulum, hie nose spread to twice Its normal slxe and hla right eye a blue slot In a puffed cheek. Nell rushed In, trying to land with right and left upper cuts, but was sent back with a heavy left under tbe chin. A left awing and a right brought blood from Attell's now. Attell put in a light left to tbe head and took two hard lefts In the eye In return. Both landed hard rights In the face and Nell reached the head with right and left. It was a question of brute strength and both became exhausted. < In the last round Attell fought more carefnlly, but refuoed to give an Inch. Attell rushed Nell, all over the ring, land ing right* and left* to the head. They both were so exhausted at the end of the round thut they were scarcely able to stand without holding on to each othor. New Orleans . Shreveport . . Birmingham . Memphis . ... Atlanta . . . Montgomery, Nashville . . . Little Bock , , 64 46 .III 18 4 6 .281 80UTH ATLANTIC. Clubs— Played. Won. Lost P.C . 69 40 29 .114 . 68 38 30 .111 . 67 39 28 *0 .III 84 28 26 .411 64 22 42 .111 GEORGIA STATE. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P.C. 1 . 4 4 31 13 .766 I . 43 27 16 000000000000O00000 ATTENDANCE 11,0001 Eleven thousand people saw the two baseball games at Piedmont park on July 4. In tke afternoon 7,914 paid admissions were recorded. It Is now up to New Orleans up to 1 O to say something more about Q 0 th* "backbone of the league.” o 000000OOOOOOOOOOOO0 H. L. DOHERTY WIN8. By Private Leased Wire. Wimbledon, England, July 8.—H. L. Doherty Is the International tennis champion. He won that title here yes- defeating F. L. Elseley In round. The scores were I. cnampion. nv w terday by defeat the challenge rou 8-4. 4-8, 8-3, 8-3 The consolation round promises to bs more than strenuous. With auch players In It as W. I). Mooney, F. O. Byrd. A. tennis Is bound to be turned looee. 00000000000000000000000000 WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Good Shooting at East Lake Twenty-three shooters took part In the afternoon ehoot at East Lake Wednesday ever tke Atlanta Athletic Club’s traps. Carrier did perhaps tbe beat wuvk of tbe day, breaking H* out or 126 target*. Hwnln. who abut at U>0. broke IX Wortheu shot steadily, breaking 101 out of 1&. aud Duuu was close behind him with 104 out of IX George Adair, president of the Atlanta Athletic Club, was undoubtedly the real hero of the occasion. Under pressure he consented to give an exhibition aud suc ceeded In npihlng the grand acore of 23 ttlsaes out of X That gives him a per cent of .<*, which la remarkable. The scores follow: Targets. » S 3 a S S 2 m ,r j r - • M -ray 12 Lollard J 8 i r :::: :: :: CTy8 ,| 8 :: :: :: :: <*ormau furrier 1‘roller JYorthen pass ***»-tl» *».» way 6 2 r: a 31 :i § :: 22 if 23 a n 1» 21 17 _ n 71 W 19 » 17 24 22 Anderson MADDOX-RUCKER WINS. Ppecliil to Tbe Georgian. Morrow, Ga., July 6.—To tbe surprlae of many, tbe lltvcrdale baseball team met Its first defeat of the season here yesterday, at the hauds of the Moddox-Kocksr •‘money changers.** of Atlanta. The contest was remarkably free from errors, considering the poor condition of the grounds. A. Ilule pitched a fine game for the Clayton county boys, striking out twelve meu. but as his team mates only secured two lilts off Maddox-Uucker's veteran twirl- er, McBride, defeat seemed certain from the start. The Maddox Kuckers offset their wild throws by timely batting and base running. B. Ilule knocked the ball Into tke woods for s home.run. A fine running catch by ftmlth, and the excellent work of the catchers were fea tures, while tbe umpiring of Jesse Blalock wns without criticism. Krone by Innings: It H. E. Maddox Hucker 013 CIO 1«*-W • 4 lilverdale 010 QOS M2— 7 f 4 NAT KAISER Ss CO. tonfld,ntial loens on valuables. Bargains In unredeemed Diamonds M ii i* it it & a 19 Decatur 6L - - Kimball Atlanta. *t Birmingham. .Memphis St Llttl* 1 Shreveport at New Orleans 0000000000O000O4J000004J0000 Commercial League Play Good Games Wednesday 43 32 .2111 PUGILIST IS DYING AS RESULT OF FIGHT. By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, July 6.—Charles Greenberg, a local prise fighter, le dying In St. Mary's hospital In Loselle from the effects of a blow received In a battle with Eddie TnnceL another Chicago pugilist. Greenberg took a terrible beating and after the gong had eounded In the last round, col- lapaed completely. Up to t o'clock today he hod not re gained consciousness. 8TANDINQ OF THE LEAGUE. TEAMS— Played. Won. Lost. P. C. . .2 2 0 1,000 0 1,000 1 .600 COTTON STATE8. CLUBS— Played. Won. Lost. P.C. Meridian . .' . 62 35 27 Baton Rouge . 65 34 31 .lit Jackson ... 65 36 30 .tit Mobile . ... 63 33 30 Gulfport ... 64 31 33 Vicksburg ... 63 23 40 West End. M. Kata. Hllvey.. J. Helen stein. . Foot and linvls. Beck A Greff.. , ..3 ..3 .000 FOURTH OF JULY GAME8. g00OOO000000004>0000000O000 BELGIANS WIN CUP. By Private Leased Wire. London. July 6.—For the first time In Its history th* grand challenge cup haa been won by a foreign crew. Today at Hen- dub Nsutlque De Gaud, of Bel gium. eseily won the final race for the cup. Trinity Hall, of Cambridge, was three lengths behind at the finish. The time of the winning crew was seven minutes and nine seconds. WEST END WINS, a rather onesided game, the West Ends defeated the J. 8threy team, at the latter's diamond, Wednesday sfterlnoon, by s score of II to 3. J. Hllvejr seemed to be all off edge. Every West End msn hit-the ball, and hit It was almost sore to bs good for a-base or mors. In tbs very flrat to ning, West End had eleven men' np at bat, made six hits and seven runs. They ran the bases until tired. They added three rune In each of the next two Innings, four In the fourth, end two mare In the seventh, while J. Hllvey got one each In the sixth, seventh and ninth, on s wild throw and two. htu. Boggs was Uko s rock, as nsusl, Hllvey roolere. but they SMHHBilM. 8olaon~ ~ beautiful catch of a long Gy. 000O0O0O0OO0O000O0Oooooooo IOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MORE SPORTS ON PAGE 9. The Tourists t ” Augusta's Great Team The score: J. 81LVEY A CO.— Daniel, lb Bolomooson, cf Young, Sloan, R. Young, aa Rauuders, 2b Polk. 8b Miller, If Loose/, rf.... .. «... To tali. WrisT Hooa, if Middle!)rooks, c.. .3 3 13 CLUBS— Cleveland , . New York . Philadelphia. Chicago . . Detroit . . . St. Louis . , Washington. Boston . . . AMERICAN. Played. Won. Lost. P.C k: urn ..2 2 6 ..2 1 6 l’srks, 2b.. Boggs, p..-.. Frank, as... 1 2 0 . Hllvey 6 Vest End. by Innings: A Co. .19 14 1 CLUBS— Chicago . . Pittsburg . , New York . Philadelphia. Brooklyn . . Cincinnati . St. Louis . , Boston . . • NATIONAL. Played. Won. Lost P.C . 69 39 20 .711 . . 66 43 23 -Hi Summary: Ylome run, Frank; three-hsas Ills, Parke (2). II. II. Hannlcntt; two-base AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. CLUBS— Played. Won. Loot. PC 77 46 20 .«4 Saturday afternoon West End plays Pot it Davis, while J. Hllvey plays Beck Gregg. PITCHERS’ BATTLE. A very fast gams at ball was playsd on the 4th between J. Begenstein A Co., end Beck A Gregg, at Fort McPherson. It was a pitchers' battle from th* start to the fnlsh. Each pitcher gsvs up only six hits. West, for Beck A Oregjf| gave live bases on balls, while Wslksr, for Regensteln A Co., did not flv* soy. Tbe time of the game was one hour nnd twenty-live mlnntes. The score; J. BEGENSTEIN’ A CO.- II. It. B. Schwab. 2b 6 Xsrharlss. lb 0 I'oUlua, cf .... I Jacobus, c I Walker, p _.l Maodle, 3b 6 II,Ins. If I Bar weld, rf.... Blck, •< BEcg y BftErtd- Parlsh. c.. Strange, lb., Garwood. 3b.. ti ll K. II. Dockendorf, 3b.... WL r WlBbnrn. »*f C. Dockaudorf, If;. . I • Totals.. ■4 < 2 Th# W#st End tram aud tha M. Kutx tram are tied for th# lead In.tbe Commer cial League's race for Tho Georgian pen- nant. The West F.nde best the J. Silver team Wednesday, white M. Kutx look tbs measure of the tmnrb which wears the Fort A Davis colors. Good crowds turned out for the Comtqer- Hal Leagse games July 4. and th# congests proved Interesting. The i to 4 victory of J. Regensteln A Co. aver Berk A Gregg were played. Tha players shown in tha accompanying cut are: From left to right, top row— Ransick, South, ib{ Norcom, rf; Chamberlain (released); Carson,c; Howard (released): Rucker, p; Ku Bottom row—Holmes, p; Eichler, 2b; Bierman, as; McKernan, utility; Shippy, 3b. Moore, p; SULLIVAN PITCHES WELL. Inability to hit Solllrsn at times lost Fort and Da via I league game. The contest was alow, but at times Interesting. It waa a hit feat for Kuta‘s team. The feature of the game Edeu’a loog drive Score by Innings Kutx ... .. Fort and Porto mrj; right, which Hell pilled~down oat of s wi'Amia Columbus Toledo . . , Milwaukee . Louisville . , Minneapolis , Kansas City. St. Paul . . Indianapolis . WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS, Afternoon Games. . Southern. Atlanta 6, Nashville 3. Birmingham I, Montgomery 2. Memphis 7, Little Bock 4. New Orleans 6, Shreveport 6. South Atlantie. Columbia 1, Charleston 0. Macon. 6, Jacksonville 2. Savannah 9, Augusta 0. National. * Philadelphia 6, Boston 0. Chicago 1, Pittsburg 9. ew York 3, Brooklyn 2. New SL Louis 2, Cincinnati 1. Amsrioan. Boston 3. Washington 3. New York 2. Philadelphia 1. Cleveland 2, Detroit 1. Chicago I, SL Louis l.« American Association. Louisville 7, Columbus 1. UUUIBTIUD l, LUlllimnw a* «js Mslwsukee *, Kansas City 0. fl"** Minneapolis 3. St. Paul 0. Toledo 3, Indianapolis 3. tree. The bit looked good for three »tftt Edens also nude s pretty ploy when » doubled Spongier at recoad ussssl.icd. TI “ * cor ' : ntt "KCHCT N. Sullivan, *«.. E. Sartortus, If.. Aptes, cf t\ Hsrtorlns, 3b.. Edens. 2b E. Sullivan, «.... Franklin, lb Abraham, rf Hsltlvsn, p„„ .. -I { I : ! ::: » •} ....•> : i ,.i • ' Totals FOKT AND DAVIS— .'..111* ;:r. nr. } • Moll, rf - J i I Carrie, lb... , I Banks, 2b. - — •_ _ . — nrirf' -Kara* Totals..