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THE ATLANTA CrEOBWAN. WEDNESDAY, JULY Iff, 1906.
STRENUOUS SPORT
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
BETWEEN SHOWERS - ]
II
Shifts Are Made by Both
B. Smith and Chief Zimmer
Owing to the S Inches, and then
■ome, of water which fell upon
‘Atlanta Tuesday morning, the diamond
at Piedmont Park wae slightly to the
Atlantic by 4 o'clock and the contest
scheduled between Atlanta and Little
Rock was declared off ugtll some later
date.
Which was very unfortunate, for Lit
tle Rock needed the money.
Just to keep up the Interest, both the
Atlanta and Little Rock managers did
& little business.
Manager Zimmer sent for Allen, the
Waycross pitcher, and that worthy re-
,ported Wednesday morning. Even with
this new man Zimmer Is still safely
'Inside the limit without releasing any
one.
Zimmer also traded Cy Watt to New
Orleans for Bird, the outftelder. This
trade Is rather hung up, however, by
;the refusal of Watt to go to New Or-
(leans. Just why he objects Is not
stated, for New Orleans would seem
rather a pleasanter berth than Little
Rock, but Cy ha* been with the team
which represents the City of Roses for
a number of years, and It may pull his
heart strings to leave.
To local fans there seems something
mysterious In the fact that Zimmer,
who Is hard up for pitchers, and who
I has been In sad need of them all this
season, should let his best man go to
' New Orleans right In the middle pf the
season, when the race for the pennant
Is really warming up.
Some few claim to see the all-pow
erful Influence of Charley Frank 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 waa made by Billy Smith
to arrange for a ladles' day Wednes
day, because It rained on Tuesday, 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 I*
likely, however, that he will try to play
It Friday and get It out of the way.
Like all Managers, Billy Smith doe*
not care to pile up too many games to
bo decided at the end of tho season.
And then he 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 has 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 maybe
four games with the Atlanta team.
Memphis at present Is bnly .015 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
I* always a chance for trouble against
a team which has pitchers like Lleb-
. hardt, Stockdale and Suggs and a man-
• ager wbo puts the ginger Into hts 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
tho attempts. The Memphis team al
ways draws good crowds In Atlanta
and It deserves to. Babb has a fine
' team and the men play good ball, right
from flag-fall to finish. The men be
have deoently on the diamond, fight
hard for the games, but always tight
fair.
The following opinion of the Mem
phis team and Its manager Is from The
Birmingham Ledger ,and Is echoed by
local fans;
"Manager Babb Is extremely popular
iOnd should be able to get evoiythlng
> out of hi* men that can be gotten. In
Llsbhardt many think that he numbers
the star minor leaguer of the country,
Suggs, too, Is a fine twirler. He seems
to be pitching In hard luck this season.
No one realises this more than Suggs.
There have been rumors thaj the team
does 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 Tamsott would die. This was
Invariably the case during his stay In
Birmingham. The same kind of a hoo
doo seems to be following Suggs
through this season. "Old Man"
Stockdale showad 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
faring from malaria.
"Everybody here likes the genial
Tom McCullough and the gentlemanly
Babb, and Birmingham fans 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 clalsm that Babb only entered ths
game because Frank would have taken
his men off the Hold, and Babb did not
want to stop the game and thereby dis
appoint the .patrons of Red Elm Park.”
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JUDGE KAVANAUGH
WILL NOT DECLINE
Just to gat it In the president's own
• handwriting and so that there could be
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 o£
the Southern League. The reply,
which follows, was characteristic;
"July 16, 1906,
“Mr. Percy H. Whiting, Sporting Editor
Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga.
"Dear Mr. Whiting: 1 beg to ac
knowledge receipt of yours of the 14th
Instant, and In reply heg to say that 1
i have never said to any one that I
would refuse to accept the presidency
of the Southern League for another
• season. I 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 I should serve them In
' that capacity. I do not know who
: atarted the recent report and I do not
j 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, 1 am not going to solicit votes for
the presidency. If they think they
■ con find some one else who can do
, better than I have done, 1 am perfectly
, willing to step down and out. I ac-
i cep ted this position at considerable
| personal sacrifice tn order to perpetu-
| ate the game In the South. That has
< been my sole purpose of remlanlng at
the head of the organization, and In
A WORD OR TWO ON
LEAGUE STANDINGS
often easy enough to And out tbst
Incorrect.
A fairly accurate test Is tn add the
won and lost columns. They should add
the same. For example, In the Southern
League standing of Wednesday, the won
column and the lost column should each
total 311.
It Is obvious that every time a game Is
played, one la added tn each column, and,
therefore, they must always balanco.
It might happen that the won and lost
columns of a league standing balanced, and
attll the standing would be Incorrect. Bnt
If they do, It Is a cinch that the standing
la wrong.
Try tola test on the Atlanta papers to
day.
Babb Is the most popular manager
who vldlta 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, os happens to be
tho 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
most likely break ail records for ate
tendance at Southern ball games. Offi
cial returns show that Birmingham out-
drow New Orleans and all other cities
on July 4 by many dollars' worth of
gate receipts. Manager Vaughan has
retired from the active Interest oh the
diamond, but the aged Baron Is watch
ing everything transpiring like an eagle
from a high perch. He Is Instilling pol-
Itlcs 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
CommercTal-Appeal.
Right you are, Billy.
Sporting writers all over the circuit
are. picking Birmingham, Atlanta and
New Orleans to fight It out for the
rag. Bhroveport 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
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 lx certain—Just as long
as President Kavanaugh will stand for
re-election he will be the president of
the league.
77ie Georgian's Score Card.
ATLANTA,
CROZIER, If ..
JORDAN, 2b ..
WINTERS, rf
8. SMITH. 3b .
MORSE, ss ...
WALLACE, cf .
ARCHER, c ...
SPARKS, p
TOTALS
E. J L. ROCK.
DEARMOND, 88
NOBLETT. 2b
DOUGLASS, lb
QUICK. If
HICKEY, 3b ..
DRENNEN. cf
JOHNSON, p
j; TOTAL8
Score by Innings: 12 3 4*6 6 7 8 9 10 11—R
Atlanta
Little Rock ...
Atlanta Smith Is noticing the doings of
fils old right-hand man, P. Llpe. It Is
too bad, though, that Smith cannot get
before - his 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 Macon 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
glass 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 Llttld. 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, promlser 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 tor Himself. Since he
came back to the league on May . 23 he
has pitched In sixteen games. .Of .this
number he has won thirteen and. lost
two. One of these losses was to Co
lumbia, the no-hlt, 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.
WOMAN WILL
• RIDE IN RACE
lly Trlvate Leased Wire.
London, July. It—There U much Interest
In sporting circles In the North Midlands
over s coming match between a race horse
owned by a gentleman of Xork and one
owned by a woman near by, who tyfil ride
their.own mounts In a 6-furlong flat race.
The conditions are weight for age. The
woman claims allowance for a year.
Tho only women Jockey ever recorded In
the British racing calendar was Mrs. Thorn
ton, who. In 1804, rodo astride In a 4-iulle
match for 600 guineas, nnd lost.
PREACHED AT
BALL GROUNDS
By Private Leased Wire.
Beloit, Wit.» July U.-Rev. James Car
dan, rector of fit. Pauls Episcopal church,
delivered s sermon ou tho baaetall grounds
yeatarday In the Intarvnl between a double*
header, iu which Beloit nnd Oshkosh
struggled for supremacy. He took as his
test. •*Remember the fiabbath day to keep
It holy.”
Whether Sunday baseball playing Is a
said he, “la ouly a matter of con*
science. I admit |t Is a good clean aport,
but under the laws of the state, It la un
lawful to play Sunday garnet. I admit
that the workingman must hare recreation,
but he must noVrlolate the state lawra In
gettlug lb**
A crowd of 5.000 gave him respectful at
tention. and w'heu be finished, the visiting
team gave Beloit a drubbing. Rev. Car
den sat through the game, fils only com
ment wras:
“It la laid enough to play on Sunday,
but to get beaten on Sunday was a
sin.”
BANK CLERKS TO
PLAY RIVERDALE
The Maddox Rucker Banking Company
and Riverdale baseball teams promise nn
Interesting game next Saturday nt 4 o'clock
p. m.. when they meet ou the Jackson
street grounds.
The Riverdale boyn are the pride of
Clayton eounty. and have suffered but one
defeat this season, while the tank clerk*
■re confident of holding them to a close
score. The clerks have won their last three
game*.
All fans are Invited to see the game. No
admission fee Is to be charged.
CONNIE MACK
GETS LENNON
By Private Leafed Wire.
Altoona, Pa., July !8.-Th!rd Baseman
Lennon, of the Lancaeter Tri-State League
club, hue elgned a eontraet with the Phil-
ndelphlu elub of tbe American I e-ague.
Lennon will Join the Athletlce Saturday.
The Laneaater elub will appeal to the
eourta to prevent Lennon from playing with
the Athletlca In Philadelphia, na wna done
lu thu Lajote, Bernhard, Delehanty and
other caaea.
A BIRD, BUT NO PELICAN.
. A “ a P_ 0 {_L h ® Oilmen tour in which some of the prominent automobile tourists
?£. , are taking part la shown In the above picture. On the left ie the
*»“* a-.OynlPS trophy, wbfeh will be won by one of the care. Bcelde It Is a ecenc
«d JlS. ChaA'ea J. Gllddmn h pn,s ' I)olow 15 n P |ct «ro of Mr.
START AGAIN
ON LONG TOUR
By Private Leaned'Wire.
Hotel Champlain, N. Y„ July ll.-Ahort
forty-fire cars atarted faom here for lion-
•real In the Qlldden tour, and tlx atarted
In tbe Denting nice. In tbe Gilddco twcowl
elx nntoe claimed clean scores Only tw«.
ty-two etarted ''clean" from bare In ths
Ulldden, and In the Demlng contest! there
were ou)y three clean etartere.
Each car will be taxed <10 for the rood
of the king. The ran to Montreal todty
will be made la Are hoars and flfty eli n,ii
utea, covering s ^stance of aerenty-ei,,,
miles. The roada are said to be "itlcky"
part of the way at leaat.
When tbe touriata reach the Place Vin.
Hotel in Montreal tonight they will hate
completed Juet one-half of their dlitinc.
There will then remain elx days of ru».
nlng over the woret and moat dacg.rou
part of the 1,200-mlle tonr.
The official spore keeping nnd miuy
things about the tour are being bitterly
complained of, and It Is Impossible now te
give an absolutely accurate recount of the
Handing of the care.
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0 Shreveport In Nashville.
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GAME FOR SATURDAY.
GREEK TO WRESTLE SWEDE
FOR BIG BUNCH OF MONEY
A wrestling match tor real money
and for real blood will be decided Wed
nesday night at .the'Peachtree Audito
rium between Olsen, - the champion
wrestler of the South, and Demetrlal,
thi Greek, who threw' Glllmore In his
bout Monday night.
The men tell! wrestle with a side bet
of 32,500 depending on the'outcome, and
the affair will be no exhibition, but the
real thing from way up in Wreatlevllle.
Stavros YaJtUIs, a local mnn, Is back
ing tho Greek, while the Swede Is put
ting up ;hls own coin.
DemeMril Is right. In his best form
and full of confidence as a result of his
easy victory over Glllmore Monday.
Olsen, .who threw the Turk, Bob All,
thinks' that there Is nothing to It but
Olsen, and the contest Is certain to be
full of Interest.
Practically , every Greek In Atlanta
will be out. to cheer for the Greek
champ'on, and a good crowd of wrest
ling fans of other nations will also
be on hand. The bouts Monday night
proved to be so very much the real
thing that the public Is confident that
It will get Ita money's worth Wednes
day night.
The match will be catch-as-catch-
can, best two out of three falls and
Police Gazette rules will govern.
Before the main bout Bob All and
Miller will do a few exhibition stunts.
The Grace Church Baraccas will pl»y
the Fourth National Bank team Sat
urday afternoon on the Grace Church
Baraccas' grounds, corner of Highland
avenue and Randolph street.
SOUTHERN.
Clubs— Played. Won. Lost
New Orleans . . 82 49 33
Birmingham . . 76 46 31
Shreveport . . 76 46 31
Atlanta 76 42 33
Memphis ... 77 42 35
Montgomery . . 77 36 41
Nashville ... 82 28 54
Little Rock . . 77 24 63
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Clubs— Played, Won. Lost
Augusta 76 46 30
Savannah .... 75 45 30
Columbia . . > 76 88 37
Macon .... 74 36 33
Charleston . . 83 34 48
Jacksonville . . 81 23 49
COTTON STATES.
Clubs—
Meridian . .
Mobile . . ,
Baton Rouge
Jackson . .
Gulfport . .
Vicksburg . .
Clubs—
Chicago , . .'
New York . ..
Pittsburg . . .
Philadelphia.
Cincinnati . .
St. Louis . , .
Brooklyn . . ,
Boston . , . .
Played, Won. Lost
, STARROS YALALIS,
Ths local man who is backina ths
Gresk,
Today 9 s Dope Developments
This it Bird* the outfielder, re
cently traded to Little Rock by
New Orleans for Cy Watt.
Loo* Herman, the Iron Man of the
Southern League, baa announced* his re
tirement from baseball.
Tbe -paaslnff or Arthur marks the end
ing of. a long nnd useful baseball ca
reer. When he started la baseball Is a mat
ter for historians to decide. A collector
of bnsetall relics In Nsihvllle has a pic
ture of a baseball team which represented
Nashville back tn the . days not so very
loug after the end of the war. And prom
inent In tho picture Is the famous Arthur,
looking svery day as old as he did the last
time he was seen on the Atlanta diamond.
Herman Is a fine example of the way a
man lasts wbo takes care ot himself. He
was never given to excesses, lived a rea
sonable life, and his. career was a long
and notable one.
Buga Raymond won for 8arannah Tues
day. Charleston mule* six hits off the er
ratic twirler.
Brother Johnny Duggan pltchsd some
baseball Tuesday against Shreveport. In
thirteen tuntugs, the men wbo make a spe
cialty of knocking pitchers out of the box
secured only six hits off tbe brother of
Atlanta’s newest recruit.
Nashville did not do much In tbe hitting
l|ne either, and tbe game ended 0 to 0.
New Orleans got a strangle hold on Mont
gomery Tuesday and won by a score of I
to 0l "Bruiser" Breitenstein was In tbe
box.
That man Sparks, of Philadelphia, Is
pitching some these days. What he did to
Plttsbnrg Tuesday wits something of a cau
tion.
St. Louis made fourteen bits off "Hand
some Harry" McIntyre Tuesday, and
Brooklyn lost. 7 to L
Murphy's Spuds woo from McC*raw's
Mots Tuesday. She mighty Matheweon
gave up nine bits.
While a warfare of charges and counter
charges .Is lielug carried uu between east
ern writers and the scribes In I’ellcanvIUe,
no personal luslnuatluna are Intended
against the Pelican writera. From the tone
of the New Orleans papers, one Is led to
believe that the writers would furnish some
pugilistic exhibitions If they coqld only
reach their adversaries. Nothing personal
la Intended, boys, and you should stand
the "gaff."—Birmingham News.
The only two of the New Orleans
writera that are known to be spoiling
for a light Is "111111. wise Flowdr" and
the “Count." Willie Wise would like to
hnoek the block off the Birmingham gang,
while the Connt would like to wallow In
the gore of "Barber Joe" and Percy
Whiting.—New Orleans States.
LAVONIA WINS GAME.
Special to The Georgian.
Lavonla, Ga.. inly II.—In a game of ball
pulled off here yesterday, Laconia defeated
Csrnesvllle to the tune of 7 to 3.
The feature* of the game were the pitch
ing of Roberta and the catching of Craw
ford, who played In big league style.
Batteries: Laconia, Roberts and Craw
ford: • Carneavttle, Porterfield, Adair and
Carson.
Clubs—
Philadelphia.
New York .
Cleveland . ,
Chicago , .
Detroit . . .
St. Louis . .
Washington .
Boston , . e
Flayed. Won. Lost
. 78 47 29
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Clubs—
Columbus. .
Milwaukee .
Minneapolis .
Louisville . ,
Toledo . , .
Kansas City
St. Paul. . .
Indianapolis.
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TUE8DAY’8 RE8ULT8.
Southern-
New Orleans 3, Montgomery o.
Nashville 0, Shreveport 0—tl*.
South Atlantlo—
Macon 4, Columbia 3.
Savannah 6, Charleston 3.
Augusta 1, Jacksonville 0.
American—
Detroit 5, Boston 3.
National—
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburg 1-
Cincinnati 12, Boston 4.
St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 1.
Chlcago 6, New York 3.
Cotton States—
Mobile 4, Meridian 7.
Mobile 2, Meridian 1. .
Baton Rouge 1. Jackson 3.
Vicksburg J, Gulfport 3.
American Ataoeiatlon—
Columbus 5, Milwaukee 4.
Indianapolis 6, Kansas City a
St. Paul 6, Louisville 0.
Minneapolis 3, Toledo 0.
Eastern—
Newark 5, Buffalo 4.
Providence 6, Rochester 3.
Toronto 3, Baltimore 2- .
Montreal ». Jersey City »•
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ATLANTA vs. LITTLE ROCK
Double-Header Today.
FIRST GAME CALLED AT 2:30