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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.” “Tt/urT/ "XTCBYtuc Wry mam tj 9 .*♦*! « BBETTW WOODS J THE TWISH AtKBlOW UTICA. '' HI/ZY13TF cJUiri-f-V . Ss'Vf' Just anEven Half-DozenNotes 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. <JG<hKhKhKhKhKhKhKi<hKi0OOOOo O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY, o 0 Little {lock In Atlanta. o O Memphis In Birmingham. o 0 New Orleans In Montgomery, o 0 Shreveport In Nashville. 0<W0000000<HHJ0<MK10000OOO05 0 NO TENNIS—RAIN. 0 0 <1 0 Special to The Georgian. 0 Augusta, Ga., July 18.—Rain 0 0 prevented all tenlns matches to- 0 0 day In the South Atlantic cham- 0 0 plonshlp. It Is still realnlng. o <HW<HKHW<HW<HW<HKHW<HWO<HW 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 .111 .117 .131 Pci .ill .405 .511 .511 .511 .515 .351 .Ilf AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Columbus. . Milwaukee . Minneapolis . Louisville . , Toledo . , . Kansas City St. Paul. . . Indianapolis. 84 33 61 PC. Ill .551 .511 .511 .524 .III .«•# .Ill 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 »• NAT KAISER & CO. Confidential loans on valuable*- Bargains in unredeemed Dlama* 4 * IS Oecatur SL Kimball ***** ATLANTA vs. LITTLE ROCK Double-Header Today. FIRST GAME CALLED AT 2:30