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12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1906. STRENUOUS SPORT BETWEEN SHOWERS! Shifts Are Made by Both B. Smith and Chief Zimmer Owing: to the 2 Inches, and then •me, of water which fell upon Atlanta Tuesday morning:, the diamond at Piedmont Park was slightly to the Atlantic by 4 o'clock and the contest scheduled between Atlanta and Little Rock was declared off until so,me later date. Which was very unfortunate, for Lit tle Bock needed the money. Just to keep up the Interest, both the Atlanta and Little Rock managers did a little business. Manager Zimmer sent for Allen, the Waycross pitcher, and that worthy re ported Wednesday morning. Even with this new man Zimmer la still safely Inside the limit without releasing any one. Zimmer also traded Cy Watt to New Orleans for Bird, the outfielder. This trade Is rather hung up, however, by the refusal of Watt to go to New Or leans. Just why he objects Is rot stated, for New Orleans would seem rather a pleasanter berth than Little Rock, but Cy has been with the team which represents the City of Roses for a number of years, and It may pull hla heart strings to leave. To local fans there seems something mysterious In the fact that Zimmer, who Is hard up for pitchers, and who has been In sad need of them all this season, should let his best man go to New Orleans right In the middle of the season, when the race for the pennant la really warming up. Some few claim to see the all-pow erful Influence of Charley Prank behind this deal and cite It as another evid ence of Frank's ability to get any man he needs or any concession he wants from Little Rock, Shreveport and Memphis. An effort was made by Billy Smith to urrange for a ladles' day Wednes day, because It rained on Tueaday, but Manager Zimmer could not see It that way, and the next one will probably be on Friday as usual, though Thursday may be decided. Manager Smith Is In doubt whether to play the postponed game with Mem. phis during this coming series or to put It off until September, when the Hustlers will be here again. It Is likely, however, that ho will try to play ft Friday and get It out of the way. Like all Managers, Billy Smith does not core to pile up too many games to bo decided at the end of the season. And then ho needs the games, and Memphis ought to furnish them. Manager Smith Is trying to arrange a game which the children of the,Jew ish Orphanage can witness free of charge, but thus far he has been un successful. Later, however—perhaps during the Memphis series—he will give the children a treat. Jack Evers has been reinstated and Brown haa been turned adrift. C. Babb and His Hustlers Open Here on Thursday Charley Babb, Tommy McCullough and the speedy bunch of Memphis Hustlers will be here Thursday morn ing, ready for their three or maybo four games with the Atlanta team. Memphis at present Is otlly .016 be hind the terrible Crackers, and If they take the three games In Atlanta they will force Atlanta back Into the second division. Nobody expects that they will do any such thing, but still there 1s always a chance for trouble against a team which haa pitchers like Lleb- hardt, Stockdate and Suggs and a man ager who puts the ginger Into his team that Babb does. Local fans hope for three straight victories over Memphis, and at any rate they will turn out In droves to see the attempts. The Memphis team al ways draws good crowds In Atlanta nnd It deserves to. Babb has a fine tenm and the men play good ball, right from flag-fall to finish. The men be have decently on the diamond, fight hard for the games, but always fight fair. The following opinion of the Mem phis team and Its manager 1s from The Birmingham Ledger .and Is echoed by local fans: ■'Mnnnger Babb Is extremely popular and should be able to get everything nut of his men that can be gotten. In Llebhardt many think that he numbers JUDGE KAVANAUGH WILL NOT DECLINE Just to get It In the president's own handwriting and so that there could bo no dodging, the writer sent a letter to William Kavanaugh, asking him for a positive denial or affirmation of the re port that he had announced his Intend ed retirement from the presidency of the Southern League. The reply, which follows, was characteristic: "July 16, 1006. "Mr. Percy H. Whiting, Sporting Editor Atlanta Georgian. Atlanta, Go. "Dear Mr. Whiting: I beg to ac knowledge receipt of yours of the 14th Instant, and In reply beg to say that I have never said to any one that 1 would refuse to accept the presidency of the Southern ljeague for another season. 1 have not said that I Intend ed to retire from the presidency of the league. On the other hand, I have never sought the position of president, but have accepted It because It seemed to be the unanimous wish of the club members that 1 should serve them In that capacity. I do not know who started the recent report, and I do not care. If the club members do not want me to serve them as their president I, of course, do not want to serve. At any rate, I am not going to solicit votes for the presidency. If they think they can find some one else who can do better than I have done, I am perfectly willing to step down and out. I ac cepted this position at considerable personal sacrifice In order to perpetu ate the game In the South. That haa been my sole purpose of remlanlng at the head of the organisation, and In the star minor leaguer of the country. Suggs, too, is a fine twlrler. He seems to be pitching In hard luck this season. No one realises this more than Suggs. There have been rumors that the team docn not support Suggs, but Suggs de nies this and attributes his losses to hard luck. There Is such a thing In baseball and It will sometimes follow a player through two whole seasons. Everyone remembers the hitting of Tamsett. The boy could drive one out which looked good for extra bases and some fielder would make a sensational catch and Tamsett would die. This was Invariably the case during his stay In Birmingham. The same kind of a hoo doo seems to be following Buggs through this season. "Old Man" Stockdale showed himself to be In fine form Sunday. Whether he can keep It up Is another question. In condition Clark Is a good man. He Is now suf fering from malaria. "Everybody here like's the genial Tom McCullough and the gentlemanly llabb, and Birmingham fana wish for them much success on the season's work. Secretary McCullough Is sore about the reports going the rounds of the circuit that Memphis laid down In the recent series to New Orleans. Ho elnlsm that Babb only entered the game because Frank would have taken his men off the field, and Babb did not want to stop the game and thereby dis appoint the .patrons of Red Elm Park.’’ A yrORD OR TWO ON LEAGUE STANDINGS Any one desirous of finding out If s standing of s league Is correct will find It a troublesome matter, lint It Is quite often easy enough to find out that It Is Incorrect. A fairly accurate test Is to add the won nnd lent columns. They should sdd the same. For example. In the Rontbem league atntidlng of Wednesday, the won column mid the lust column should each total 311. ^ It Is obvious that every time a game Is ptnyrd, ouc Is added to each column, sad, therefore, they must nlwnys bslsnce. It might happen thnt the won Hud Inst columns of n tongue standing bslnneed, and •till the standing would he Incorrect, lint If they do, tt Is a cinch that the standing is wrong. Try this test on the Atlanta papers to day. pursuing the policies I have pursued. •"Very truly yours, "W. M. KAVANAUGH. "President.” This seems to settle It. If President Kavanaugh will stand for re-election he will get the support of every team owner and of practically every paper In the league. Certainly he will have the support of The Geor gian. No squarer man than the present president of the league has been known In the history of baseball and what William Kavanaugh has done for the game In the South will always be re membered and appreciated. And one thing Is certain—Just os long as President Kavanaugh will stand for re-election he will be the president of the league. The Georgian’s Score Card. ATLANTA. CROZIER, If JORDAN, 2b WINTERS, rf ... S. SMITH. 3b MORSE, ss FOX, lb WALLACE, cf ... ARCHER, c SPARKS, p L. ROCK. DEARMOND, ss NOn LETT, 2 b MEANEY, rt .... DOUGLASS, lb .. IT || QUICK, If ZIMMER, c. HICKEY. 3b ■ ■ DRENNEN, cf .. JOHNSON, p Atlanta Little Rock Just anEven Half-DozenNotes Babb la the most popular manager who visits Birmingham. This gentle manly player deserves to win, and the fans had rather lose to him than to any one else.—Birmingham Ledger. Gee, but Charley Babb must have been smearing the free cigars on pret ty thick to get so good a notice in Bir mingham. Knocks are more In order there. And when they have not the home team to knock, as happens to be the case at present, they turn on any thing In sight, Including each other. Birmingham Is full of baseball poli tics. The town Is red-heated In the chase for the pennant, and as the city is drawing the largest crowds In the circuit this year, the present series with the Memphll and the coming se ries with Charley Frank's Pelicans will moat likely break all records for at tendance at Southern ball games. Offi cial returns show thst Birmingham out- drew New Orleans and all other cities on July 4 by many dollars' worth of gate receipts. Manager Vaughan has retired from the active Interest on the diamond, but the aged Baron Is watch ing everything transpiring like an eagle from a high perch. He Is Instilling pol itics Into the ears of the local fandom and enthusiasts of the press until every other line of type or conversation con tains some charge or allegation which does the game no good.—Billy Byrne In Com merclal- Appeal. Bight you are, Billy. Sporting writers all over the circuit are picking Birmingham, Atlanta and New Orleans to light It out for the rag. Shreveport and Memphis are nev er mentioned. It would be funny If both these teams finished on top. Back water would be the order of the day.— Birmingham Ledger. Well, If It must be a Western club. Memphis Is our pick. Note this from the Macon News: "No matter who takes the pennant, Augusta or Savannah, It's going to be a race well worth watching. Up In Atlanta Smith is noticing the doings of his old right-hand man, P. Llpe. It Is too bad, though, that Smith cannot get before hla gaze the correct league standing. He is going by the Atlanta dallies for the figures, and they are frightfully balled up.” The Joke Is that The Macbn'News had Its own South Atlantic standing badly balled that very day, which could be easily proved by adding the won and lost columns. They did not balance and The News was twisted. Which reminds us of a wise but very old saying about people who live In gloss houses. An eastern alleged critic said the oth er day that he considered the Little Rock and Nashville aggregations bands of amateurs. The laugh will be on him when the Travelers hit Birming ham. Maybe they used to be weak, but right now this Little Rock bunch Is one of the hardest In the league to beat. There are a great many new men In the line-up, and every new-comer Is right there with the goods. The team Is hitting hard and the only weak spot is In Its pitching staff. Keith, the col lege man, promises to do all kinds of things, but Watt has played out, and that's about all Zimmer has In the way of pitchers, except when Brady Is right, and he takes Johnson out of his position at short.—New Orleans Item. The Little Rock team Is certainly Improving. But it did not give Atlanta much to think about In the opening game here. Harry Kane Is quietly piling up a beautiful record for himself. Since he camo back to the league on May 23 he has pitched In sixteen games. Of this number he haa won thirteen and lost two. One of these losses was to Co lumbia. the no-hit, and no-error, thir teen strlke-out contest. He pitched in a tie game yesterday.—Columbia State. Alas! for that lOct. head of Harry’s. But for that he would be one of the country's wonders. toar ,om . e ,l10 prominent automobile tourists E,'YSS'HJ7* ‘"Mngmirt ", shown In the shore picture. On the left Is the flk3ES& U 0| '£ T, ,T h .,.7 be won by one of the enra. Beside It la a scene Snd Mix CtaSes j.'oilddM. * r0,<1 tho «**»• Dclow '» “ " l<:tur8 ot Mr - GREEK TO WRESTLE SWEDE FOR BIG BUNCH OF MONEY START AGAIN ON LONG TOUR By Private Leased Wire. Hotel Champlain, N. Y„ July lS-Ah..* forty-fire cars started from here for Mon. treal to the (Hidden tour, and six started In the Doming race. In the Glldden twertV six autos claimed clean Korea. Only tw'en ty-lwo started "clean" from here | 0 Glldden, and In the Demlng contests thers were only three clean starters. Efich car will be taxed 810 for the good of the ting. The ran to Montreal t „|„ will be made In Ore hours and Bfty slx min. utes, covering n distance of seventy-elm* miles. The roads are said to be "sticky part of the way at least. When the tourists reach the Place vig»r Hotel In Montrenl tonight they will hart completed Just one-halt of their distance. There will then remain six days of real nlng over the worst and moat dangerous part of the 1,200-mile tour. The official score keeping and many things about the tour are being bitterly complained of, and It la Impossible now tn give an absolutely accurate recount ot ths standing ot the cars. OOOOOOOOOlWOOOOOOOOOOeoojHj WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Little Rock in Atlanta. Memphis In Birmingham. • New Orleans In Montgomery. Shreveport In Nashville. 0000000000000000000O0000OO 0 0 0 NO TENNIS—RAIN. Special to The Georgian. 0 Augusta, Ga., July 18.—Rain 0 O prevented all tentns matches to- 0 Q day In the South Atlantic Cham- 0 O plonahlp. It Is still reainlng. 0 00000000000000000000000000 GAME FOR SATURDAY. The Grace Church Baraccas will play the Fourth National Bank team Sat urday afternoon on the Grace Church Baraccas' grounds, corner of Highland avenue and Randolph street. League Standings Clubs— Played. Won. Lost Pet New Orleans . . 82 49 33 .595 Birmingham . . 76 46 31 .593 Shreveport . . 76 45 31 .593 Atlanta . . . . . 76 43 33 .540 Memphis . . . 77 43 35 .545 Montgomery . . 77 36 41 .454 Nashville . . . 82 28 54 .341 Little Rock . . 77 24 53 .111 SOUTH ATLANTIC. WOMAN WILL RIDE IN RACE By Prltite Leased Wire. London, July 18.—There Is much Interest In sporting circles In the North Midlands ovet a coming match between a race horse owned by a gentleman of York nnd one owned t»y a woman uear by, who will ride their own mouuts In a 6-furloug flat race. The conditions are weight for age. The wonutti claims allowance for a year. The only woman Jockey ever recorded In the British racing calendar wna Mrs. Thorn ton, who. In 1904, rode astride In a 4 mile match fot 600 guineas, and lost. PREACHED AT BALL GROUNDS By Private Leased Wire. Beloit. WIs., July 21—Iter. Jnines Car den, rector of Ht. Pauls Kplacopal church, delivered a sermon ou the baseball grounds yesterday In the iutervnl Itetweeh a double- header. In which Beloit ctud Oshkosh struggled for supremacy. He took ns his test, “Itcmeiulier the Babbath day to keep It holy.** ••Whether Surnhiy baseball playing Is a sin,” said he, *i» only a matter of con science. i admit U Is a godd clean sport, but under the lass of the state. It Is un lawful to play Suuday games. I admit that the worklpgmau must have recreation, but he must not violate the state'laws In getting lt. ,f A crowd <>r 6,000 gave him respectful at tention, and when he anlshed, the visiting team gave Beloit n drulddujr. Itev. I'nr- dtMi sat through the game. Ilia ouly com ment was: •‘If Is bad enough to play on Hunday, but to get beaten on Huuday was a slu.” BANK CLERKS TO PLAY RIVERDALE The Maddox-Rucker Banking Pompnny uud Rlverdale baseball teams promise an Interesting game next Hatunlay at 4 o’clock p. m., when they meet on the Jacltsou street grounds. The Ulverditle boya are the pride of Clayton county, and have suffered but one defeat this season, while the hank clerks are confblent of bolding them to a close score. The clerks have won their last three games. All fans are Invited to see the game. No admission fee to to he charged. CONNIE MACK GETS LENNON By Private Leased Wire. Altooun, I’ii.. July 18.—'Third lluaemnn Lennon, ef the Lancaater Trl-Rtnte I,engue club, baa algned a routraet^wlth the Phil- adelphtn club ef the American League. Lennon will Join the Atfiletlea Saturday. The laiaenater club will appeal to the eourta to prevent I.ennnn from ptnylux wltb the Athletic. In I’hllndelplila, aa waa done In flic Lnjole, Bernhard, Delehnuty and other cases. A BIRD, BUT NO PELICAN. Thia it Bird, the outfieldar, re cently traded to Little Rock by New Orleana for Cy Watt, A wrestling match for real money and for real blood will be decided Wed nesday night at the .Peachtree Audito rium between Olsen, the champion wrestler of tho South, and Demetrlal, the Greek, who threw Glllmorc In hla bout Monday night.. The men will wrestle with a side bet of 42,560 depending on the outcome, and the affair will be no exhibition, but the real thing from way up In Wrestleville. Stavros Ynlulln, a local man, la back ing the Greeks while the Swede la put ting up hla own coin.; , Demetrlal la right In hla beat form and full of confidence aa a reautt of hla easy victory over Oillmore Monday. Olsen, who threw the Turk, Bob All, thinks that there la nothing to tt but Olsen, and the contest la certain to be full of interest. Practically every Greek . In Atlanta will be out to cheer for the Greek champion and a good crowd of wrest ling fans of other nAtlona will also be on hand. The bouts Monday night proved to be so very much the real thing that the public la confident that It will get Its money's worth Wednes day night. ^ The match will be catch-as-catch- can. beat two but of three falls and Police Gaxette rules will govern. Before the main bout Bob All and Miller will do a few exhibition stunts. Philadelphia. 78 47 29 New York . 76 46 30 Cleveland . . 77 46 31 Chicago . . 78 44 34 Detroit . . . 78 41 37 St. Louis . . 78 40 3S Washington . 77 37 50 Boston . . . . 80 19 61 STARROS YALALIS, Ths local man who it backing Greak. Today*s Dope Developments Long Herman, the. Iron Man of the Southern I-engne, Una announced hla re tirement from baseball. The passing of Arthur marks the end ing of n long nnd useful luiseliall rn revr. Wheu.be started In baseball Is u mat ter for historians to decide.. A collector of baseball relies In Nnahvllle haa a pic ture ef a baseball team which represented Nashville Ivack In the days not so very long after the end of the war. And prorn- Inent In the plrtare It the famous Arthur, looking every day aa old oa he did the last time he wan seen on the Atlanta dlamoud. Herman It a Hue example ot the way a man laata who takes care of himself. He waa never given to excesses, lived a rea sonable life, and Ms career was a long uud notable one. Bags Itsyntond won for Savannah Tues day. charleston made six hits off the er ratic twlrler. Brother Johnny Duggan pitched some baseball Tueatlay against Shreveport. In thirteen Innings, the men who nuke a spe cialty of knocking pitchers out of the box secured only six hits elf the brother of Atlanta's newest recruit. Nashville did not da much lu the bitting line either, and the game ended 0 to 0. New Orleans got a strangle hold on Monh- gonicry Tneaday and wen by a score of 1 to 0. ‘'Bruiser" Ureltenstrln was In the box. Thnt nun Sparks, of Philadelphia, In pitching some these days. What he did to Pittsburg Tneaday was something of a ela tion. Rt. Louis nude fourteen bits off "Btnd- »me Harry" McIntyre Tuesday.' and Brooklyn lest, 7 to L Murphy's Spuds won from UcGmw's Mats Tuesday. The mighty Mathewson gave up nine hlta. • While a warfare of charges and counter charges Is being carried on between east ern writers nnd the arrlives In Pelicnnvllle, no [versons! Insinuation* are Intended •gainst the Pelican writer*. Prom the tone of the New Orleana paper*, one I* led to believe that the writer* would furnish some pugilistic exhibition* If they conld only reach their adversaries. Nothing personal Is Intended, Ivoys, nnd you should stand the "gaff."—Birmingham New*. The only two of the New Orleana writers that are known to Ive spelling for a fight la "Willie Win Flowdr" and the "Count." ‘Willie Wist* would like to knock the block off the Birmingham gang, while the Count would like to wallow In the gora, of "Bnrhcr Joe" and Percy Whltlug.—New Orleans States. LAVONIA WINS GAME, Special to The Georgian. Lnvonla, Ga., July IS.—In a game of lvfcll pulled off here yesterday, Lavoula defeated Carneavtlle to the tunc of 7 to 3. The features of the game were the pitch ing ef Robert* and the catching of Craw ford, who played In big league style. Batteries: Lavoula. Roberts and Craw ford; CtmerrlUe, Porterfield, Adafr tad Canon. Clubs— Augusta ..... 76 Savannah .... 76 Columbia ... 76 Macon .... 74 charleston . . 81 Jackaonvllle . . -81 39 37 .613 COTTON 8TATES. Clubs— Played. Won. Lost P.C. Meridian ... 76 43 33 .571 Mobile .... 75 4 3 32 .571 Baton Rouge . 76 39 36 .620 Jackson ... 76 39 37 .51! Gulfport ... 76 37 38 .491 Vicksburg . . ; 74 24 50 Clubs— Chicago . . . New York . . Pittsburg .... 79 Philadelphia. . 82 Cincinnati ... 83 St. Louis .... 84 Brooklyn ... 79 Boston 81 79 51 38 .«« | .311 ; ,341 ! .311 Played. Won. Lost. PfL .413 .005 .59? .644 .524 , .519 .311 .231 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Columbus. . Milwaukee . Minneapolis , Louisville . . Toledo . . . Kansas City St. Paul. . . Indianapolis. Played. Won. Lost PC . 99 65 34 | ; . 85 47 38 -5M | . 88 48 40 5« . 85 44 41 » . 8 4 4 4 4 0 .52} . 86 38 48 443 , 84 33 , TUESDAY’8 RESULTS. Southern— . New Orleans S» Montgomery 0. Naehvllle 0. Shreveport 0—tie. South Atlantic— Macon 4, Columbia 3. Savannah 6, Charleston 3. Augusta 1. Jackaonvllle 0. American— Detroit 5, Boston 3. National— . . Philadelphia 4, Pittsburg 1. Cincinnati 12, Boston 4, St. Louis 7, Brooklyn I. Chicago 6, New York 3. Cotton Statss— Mobile 4, Meridian 7. Mobile 3, Meridian 1- . Baton Rouge 1, Jackson 3. Vicksburg 2, Gulfport 3. American Association— Columbus 5, Milwaukee 4. Indianapolis 8, Kansas Ut> !• St. Paul 5. Louisville 0. Minneapolis 8, Toledo 0. Eastern— Newark 5, Buffalo 4. Providence 6, Rochester 3. Toronto 3, Baltimore 3. Montreal 9, Jersey City 3- NAT KAISER & CO. Confidential loans on vslusblsA Bargains In unredeemed Dlsmoi 14 * J 15 Decatur St. Kimball Han** J ATLANTA vs. LITTLE ROCK Double-Header Today. FIRST GAME CALLED AT 2:30 f