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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1006.
I UMPIRE’S UNFAIR DECISIONS
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
FOLLOWED BY GIDDY DOINGS I
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PHOTOGRAPH OF 80ME OF THE CELEBRITES OF THE PRE8ENT RACING SEA80N AROUND NEW YORK. ON THE LEFT 18 IVAN THE TERRIBLE, OWNED BY W. W. DARDEN, WHO MAKES HIS HEADQUARTERS IN NASHVILLE, IN
THE CENTER 18 THE MAN EATER, ORMONOE'8 RIGHT AND JOCKEY RADTKE. ON THE RIGHT 18 THE GREAT SPRINTER R08EBEN.
If Atlanta Wins Today
She Goes To Second Place
With any kind of lack Wednesday, the
Atlanta team will be In second place In the
pennant race Wednesday night, dust at
preaent the Crackera are .001 behind New
Orleana and .002 ahead of Memphla.
If Atlanta take* both games Wednesday,
■he will go to .590. If idle wlna one and
ids#* one, *b« will be .57*.
lint the Cracker* are going to win, and
If they do they are anfely In second place,
and right behind Birmingham.
Just now the Bnrona are one game won
and three lost letter than Atlanta. The
two games Wednesday should cut this
down. Then If Atlanta can do as well as
she ought ngnliiRt Birmingham and Mont
gomery In the coming trip to Alabnma,
the Crackers will return home In the lead.
Hottuds pretty flue, don’t It? If we can
only keep this pipe lit a bit longer.
Or, maybe It Isn’t a pipe.
Anyway, things look better now thqn
they have In months.
RIPPLES IN THE RING
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, August 1.—The fifteen-round
bout between MUte (Twin! Hullviiu, of Bos
ton, nnd Rube Hmlth. of Henver, which
was to have been decided Monday night,
has been postponed until August 10, In or-
dar to give the men more time to get Into
form. They will box In a tent outside of
Denver.
jiriy 8am Berger. Hulllvan has started for
Dawson City, where he Is to meet Jack
Bates, the big heavyweight of that place,
in h twenty-round bout for a purse of $2,500,
the last week In September.
The latest fighter to challenge Jack
O'Brien la Jack I’nlmer, the henvvwelght
champion of England. I'nlmer aays the
National Sporting Club, of London, Is rendv
to offer a good-slsed purse for n twentv-
round Lout. The club would like to use
the bout late In 8enteml*er or early In
October. It la hardly likely O'Brien will
accent the offer, aa he Is esrded to go to
Australia and meet Bill Squires.
A! Delmont, the Boston featherweight,
has been matched to meet Ike Bradley, of
Kncland. at n boxing show to take place
at Tymansvllle, It. L, August 7.
Jimmy Britt has 'refused to accept the
offer of the Everett Athletic Club, of
Washington, to meet Louie Long, In
club refused to do.
Bam Berger hns decided not to take part
In any more fights until September. Ber
ger says he needs n rest, and besides ho
Is not snxlous to fight In warm weather,
lie further states thnt when he Is ready
♦a ii«»h» again, the first man he want# to
Jack O’Brien In n twenty-round
Fierier sa— fita v —g
... California
mors money there.
.Young Murohey and Spike Robson are
bard at work trr*-*-“ - - ■
Philadelphia next
from here without waiting for bis relatives
AOd friends to give him a farewell recep
tion. and will lie gone for alx weeks. Ills
ocean voyage Is believed to be preliminary
to a campaign In the ring, as this Is hla
favorite method of stnrtlng out for a
course within the ropes. He Is known to
be anxious to get Sam Berger In the ring
Again, but for a twenty-round bout.
TIE AT COVINGTON.
Special to The Georgian.
Covington, (*a., Aug. 1.—One of the most
exciting games played on the local diamond
thta season was pulled off here yesterday
between the locals nnd Lexlugtou, resulting
in a ten-Innlng contest.
Despite the wet grounds and a drlssllng
NEWS AND NOTES.
New York fana think that Gilbert will be
the next Giant to go. Oil la na good na the
best nt the second station, but ulways bus
been u weak hitter.
■treugtheued by the recent trade*.
And still they
_nown baseball
week with the opinion that ’’Prince Hal
will develop Into the greatest ball player
the t^orld ever haa seen.
The Chicago White Sox will have to start
F tretty soon If they expect to mako a run
or the ponnnnt.
When It cornea to keeping a baseball elnb
near the top year after year you will have
to pin the ribbon on Connie Mack.
This Is the fourth season thnt New York,
Pittsburg nnd Chicago have been the con
testants for the National longue pennant,
with the other five clubs trailing.
The Columbus club of the American As
sociation won 13 mit of 16 gnmes on their
recent western trip.
The Houston club won 15 out of the first
16 games In the second half of tho South
Texas league season.
When It comes to an evenly balanced
* L — -** '’egntlou In
the West'
RIOTOUS SCENES FOLLOW DECISION
WHICH ROBBED ATLANTA OF GAME
before another go with Jack O’Brien,
A movement !• on foot 111 Toronto to sp
rain, the game was exciting .throughout.
Stowers, the slab artist for l.eXliigtoti, and
a former Covington pitcher, was wild,
which resulted In s defeat administered to
him. Norman’s pltrhlng for Covlugton was
steadier In pinches. Both teams played
good bnll,
Covington made the winning run In the
tenth Inning In this manner: Jackson tin
gled to center, Boyd filed out to third,
Berggren singled to right, advancing Jack-
son to second, who went to third on Stow
ers’ wild throw, nnd scored on another wild
throw by Stowers to catcher.
Score by -tunings:
~ tngtou. . . .
0010100061—3
00 1 100000 0—2
Batteries—Nortnan ft ml Jackson; Btowera
nnd Karins. Umpire, Turner.
Lcxlngtn
The Georgian’s Score Card.
ATLANTA.
CROZtER. If
WINTERS, rf
S. SMITH, 3b ...
POX lb ...
WALLACE, cf ...
ARCHER, c
HARLEY, p.
E. jj NASHVILLE.
I GILBERT. Cf.
WISEMAN, rf . \
PEARSON. If.
If JAN8ING, Sb...
MILLER, lb.
CASTRO,
BECK. 2b
WELLS, c
BUCHANNON.p
Score by Inning,: 1 2 3 4
9 10 11—R
Nashville
Lively doings went on at Piedmont park
Tuesday afternoon Just subsequent to the
calling off of the second game by Umpire
Shuster.
When this utterly rank decision was ren
dered, ns more fully told about In the
story of Tuesday's game, the two or three
thousand fans In the stands stood on their
feet nnd hooted nt the rottenness of It.
In u second after Shuster made his an
nouncement, Billy Bmltli nnd the other
members of the team rushed nt the tubby
ump and demanded to know what he meant
by calling the game under auch circum
stances.
Billy Hmlth urns almost beside himself
nt the decision, and rushed at Shutter,
pulling him around roughly.
When the police bow that trouble wna
Imminent, they closed In. Smith turned
away from Shuster. After hesitating n
minute, he turned back again and went at
the umpire with his fists. Fortunately for
tho good name of the club, the police In
terfered before Smith could Innd n blow.
Aa soon na Hmlth wna calmed down a
bit, the police started to hustling Shuster
to a place of safety through the rapidly
growing crowd. Cries of “Lynch him!”
“Kill the robber!" hisses and cat calls
were heard on nil aldea, and the fana
showed n comparatively good natured deter
mination to press around and make things
lively.
With ample police protection, 8hustcr
was hustled through the players’ gate and
along behind the grand stand to the box
office. Behind the Dutch ump and his
body guard come tho “Roman mob," posh
ing, yelling nnd doing Infinitely more harm
to each other than to the umpire.
Shuster reached the box office safely,
and here he remained for a half hour,
guarded by the police, while around him
a couple oft hundred “Irrcsponslbles" stood
nnd hooted.
When Shuster wafi finally brought out of
the office, the crowd closed In again, and
on toward n hundred baartled the sumo car
and rode to the heart of town with him.
Here they disembarked and marched to
the side entrance to the Kimball house.
In went Shuster, and lu went the crowd,
too. creating no end of n sensation among
the guests of the hotel.
Out the other side went Shuster and a
couple of newspaper men, but then the
cops barred the door, while Shuster cut
across the railroad tracks. A neat little
fight between a cop and one of Shuster's
“followers" caused n flurry of excitement
around the Kimball doors, and during It
Shuster wns spirited away Into hte dark
ness.
When asked why be called the game,
Bhuater said:
“It was too dark to piny any longer.
Even the Atlanta men said that they could
not see the ball."
When asked later If he would be on hand
for Wednesday's game, he said:
“Sure, my schedule calls for me to um
pire tomorrow, and I'll be there."
While Shuster's decision was rather the
worst that the writer or anybody else nt
the game hnd ever teen, still there wgt
no Justification for Smith’s attempted as
sault on Shuster, nor for the demonstration
which followed.
A ball player Is not Justified In hitting
nn umpire under any circumstances on the
ball grounds, nnd If any of Smith's blows
hnd landed, Shuster could have put the
local manager In a decidedly awkward po
sition. It Is always well to remember that
aHftnultlng the umpire Is out of style in or-
gnnixed baseball, no matter what the provo
cation may be.
As for the men who followed Shuster—
well, Jt seems as though their sense of hu
mor would have saved them from anything
so ridiculous. Evidently *no man In the
crowd hnd any serious Intentions against
hla umps, for a dozen chances to mob him
were overlooked. The crowd which fol
lowed him went nlong in the hope that
somebody else would do something. But
evidently not a man had the necessary
nerve.
Such scenes, however, are likely to be
misinterpreted outside of Atlanta, and It
la hoped that the one Tuesday concludes
the record of such performances for the
season.
Some Knocks for Shuster
And Boosts For The Rest
AFTER WINNING BOTH GAMES TUESDAY
ATLANTA IS ROBBED OF THE SECOND
After Atlanta hnd won the opening game
of Tuesday's double-header by a score of
to 1, the Crackers were robbed of the
second by the most outrageous decision
thnt hnn been rendered on local grounds
tty any umpire lu the memory of living
fans.
Tho second game had gone four Innings,
nnd Atlanta led by n score of 3 to 1. Only
three more outs had to be made to make
It a complete game. The time wns 5:53
p. m., nnd as the clouds which hnd cov
ered the sky moat of the afternoon were
breaking up somewhat, It was compara
tively light, fully an light, at least, as
when the game was started, for nt that
time the sky was heavily overcast.
And yet, with the game only five or
six minutes from completion, and with
victory right In Atlanta’s grasp, Shuster
declared the contest over on accoynt of
darkness.
From time Immemorial nnd undoubtedly
somewhat previous to thnt, umpires have
lw*en making mlatakes. It Is only hnman.
But for Insane. Inefficient, balled-up, sap-
headed. Idiotic, chuckle-pated, miserable,
lop-shled, nutty, unfair. Incompetent nnd
thievish decisions, that one takes the blue
ribbon.
It wns suspected from tho Jump thnt
Shuster wns a lemon, but up to the time of
thnt decision |ieoph> did not consider him
emty. What they thought al>out him af
terwards, Judged by their remarks, we
quite positively refuse to say.
There Is no reason to suppose that Shus
ter inesut to lie unfair. The decision will
have to I* put down to the score of In-
competency, and It la humbly suggested to
Judge Kavanntigh thnt W replace Shuster
with tome man who Is Competent to dis
tinguish dnrkness from daylight.
Atlnutn won the first game from Elmer
Duggan, late a Tracker, but now « Finn,
by the score of 4 to 1. It ws* a rlp-stfort-
lug game, punctured with errora by Nash
ville. bur full of brilliant plays. Elmer
allowed only four hits, nud deserved a vic
tory,' but error# spoiled his chances.
Sparks pitched a nice game nnd had good
support. In the seventh nn error aud n
hit gave the men from Nashville their only
run.
With Nashville's hnlf of the eighth Joi
ning played, and Wnllnre, the first man up.
on first, the wind which had l*cett blowing
the dust nnd dirt across the diamond at n
terrific rate, finally landed some rain, and
the game was declared off, pending a ces
sation In the fall of motstnre.
Umpire Shuster allowed the usual thirty i
minutes nnd then a few for good measure.
Then he came out and announced thnt the j
game wns called, nud that the second 1
game of the doubic-hender would start lu j
ten uiluutes, provided the weather permit
ted.
At the end of something more than ten
minutes. It was decided by Billy Smith
that the grounds were In a condition which
Justified a second game. and. ns the rain
had practically ceased to fall, he ordered j
the second game to Iteglti.
There can be no doubt but that more
tbnn the allotted forty minutes elapsed J
lietween the calling of the first game and
the lieglntilng of the second. However. I
as Mike Finn agreed to piny, that fact
afforded no Justification for the umpire lu
his act In calling the gsiue at the end of
the fourth. I« the opinion of Mike ' luu.
Finn sent lu Johnny Duggan to pitch
the second game, while Smith depended on
the king pin, Tommy Hughes. Hughes
hsd the h’lnnles lust where he wanted them
all the way, while Duggan proved easy. As
n result, Atlnutn wgs three runs to the
good nt Nashville’s end of the fourth In
ning.
Aa soon os Atlanta entne to the bat,
there were loud cries of "Hurry up!"
“Strike out!" nml the like from the fans,
who wanted the gnnte pushed through
first hnlf of the fourth Inning, lu order
that It might count for Atlanta In the
championship rare. Archer nud Hughes,
the first men up, made easy outs, nnd
Dick Crosier deliberately fanned In order
to hurry things.
At this time, the clouds were break
ing fast, and It wns certainly ns light
ns when the second game was started. In
fact. It would have l*»cn nn easy matter
to have played thirty minutes longer.
To the surprise nnd disgust of everybody
"DICKIE," THE FIELDER.
RICHARD CROZIER.
The fickle fans change from one favor
ite t.» another as touting averages go up
and fielding averages come down, but
there U oue man **u the Atlanta team
who Is always (topular. nnd thnt Is Dick
Crosier •- **--
better outfielder than Dick Crosier.
however, Shuster called the
' The score of the first game follows:
ATLANTA-
(’roller, If
Jordan, 2h
Winter#, rf
8. Hmlth, 3b
Morse, sa
Fox. lb
Wallace, cf
Evers, c
Hparka, p
Total#
AB. U. II. 1*0. A. E.
3 0 0 0 0 0
....3 2 13 11
....3 0 2 1 0 0
1112 0
....3 0 0 0 2 0
4 0 0 15 0 0
110 10 0
....1 0 0 110
,...3 0 0 0 9 0
...25 *4 1 24 15 1
naSmv'im.e—
Gilbert, cf
Wiseman, If. , . .
l'caraon, rf
Jn using, 3h
Millet lb
Bohannon. 2b
(’astro, ss
Frenry, c
E. Duggan, p. . .
Totals
AB. R. II. POT A. E.
....413101
...201100
....4 0 0 4 0 0
3 0 0 2 1 0
.. ..401512
...3 0 0 3 0 0
.. ..3 0 0 2 1 0
....3 0 0 2 2 0
3 0 113 1
....5 1 1 21 1 1
" Heorc by timings:
Atlanta
203 001 1*—1
Nashville
001 000 00-1
Two-base hlts, \VlnUersf stol
ell tmses. H. Smith, Morse 2, Gilbert 2, Jor
dan, Winters; sacrifice bits. Bohnnuhn,
Evers, Winters, Wlsemnn; double plays,
Mpnrks to Evers to Fox; first base on balls
off Sparks 1, off E. Duggan 6; hit by pitch
ed ball by Sparks 2; struck out by Sparks
2, by E. Duggan 2; wild pitch, E. Duggan
1. Time 1:40. Umpires, Shuster and Buck
lev.
TEAMS MEET
AT PIEDMONT
Tho Atlanta Baseball* Association has
tendered the use of Piedmont park Satur
day afternoon to the Finite Sc Davies and
M. Kuts teams of the (’mnmonMal League,
nnd they will play there. A small admls-
slon fit* will !m» charged, nud It Is ex-
j peered that many of the friends of the
two teams will be out to see the con
test.
Both teams are phtyln:; good basctml!
these days, and the coutest ought to be
is wbil-played one.
TENNESSEEANS FIGURE
IN CLASSIC “C. OF C."
| By Private Leased Wire.
«'levels ml, Ohio. August 1.—A Tennessee
om ni*il mare, trained In Tennessee aud
driven by a Tent | <.**can. wou the Chnm-
t*or of (’omnierre ».ake here yesterday over
the Glciivlllc track, when Anlelle captured
the opening day event at the local Grand
! Circuit meeting.
The mare Is owned by F. G. Jones, of
1 Memphis, and wns tralued last winter In
that city, and was driven by Ed Geers,
of Columbia, Tenn. Bonanza v
It was certainly raw.
Back to the Three-I for Shuster.
If ever an umpire made a worse de
cision It haa slipped onr memory.
No umpire Is ever roasted In these col
umns. All that la necessary In Shuster’s
case Is the truth.
Pretty hard on Tommy Hughes to lose
the credit for sneb a game as he pitched.
Everybody got the worst of the rush up
the alley to the- box office Tuesday except
the umpire. One enthusiast nearly poked a
lung out of the sporting representative of
nn afternoon paper, and then went around
bragging that he “guessed he got square
with the blanket/ blank umpire."
The alight ruction betwefi n policeman
and an “Innocent bystander" materially as
sisted Shuster In his get-away. While the
crowd stopped to see the fun, Shuster made
good his retreat.
Mike Finn would have had fairly good
grounds for protesting the second game.
Undoubtedly, it wta started more than for
ty minutes after the first one waa called.
"We did not try to delay the second
game," said Mike Finn, “while Atlanta
players deliberately went out In order to
hurry It. That may not be against the
National Association rules, but the umpires
are Instructed not to allow It. Shaster did
right In catling the gome. It was only a
bluff, anyway."
When aeen Wednesday, Mike Finn waa
rather dubious about playing a double-head
er. “We don’t have to plav It. because
the league rules require that smith give mo
twenty-four hours notice In such a case.
And he didn’t do that. With Frenry gone,
we ore In bad shape, for a double-header.
Tho wind and dirt storm which entne up
during the first game wns hard on spec
tator* and player* alike. It finally ended
In a rain storm, and the rain precipitated
a row, so things went from bad to worse.
Finn w’a* much pleased with tho show
ing of Elmer Duggan In the opening game.
“He should have won It," said Mike.
Of Johnny Duggan, Finn said. “1 think
he Is as good ns any man In the lengue.
We hnve hnd to work him to death, and J»e
ts not quite nt > his beat now. If he had
hnd the support nnd the chances that aonie
of these other pitchers hnve, he would
rank with any of them."
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Nashville In Atlanta.
Montgomery In Birmingham.
FREARY CALLED AWAY
BY BROTHER’S ILLNESS
TUESDAY’S RESULT8.
Southern—
Atlanta 4, Nashville 1.
Montgomery 6, Birmingham 1.
Little Rock 1, New Orleana 0.
Memphis 9, Shreveport 3.
South Atlantio—
Macon 1, Augusta 0.
Jacksonville 2, Columbia 0.
Jacksonville 7, Columbia 1.
American—
St. Loula 2, Boston 1.
Detroit 5, Philadelphia 3.
Chicago 4, Washington 3.
Cleveland 2, New York 0.
National-
New York 3, St. Louts 0.
Brooklyn 3, Pittsburg 2.
Chicago 2, Philadelphia 1.
Boston 4, Cincinnati 3.
American Association—
CoJumbus 3, Toledo 1.
Louisville 6, Indianapolis 4.
Milwaukee 3, Minneapolis 2.
St. Paul 9, Kansas City 8.
Cotton States—
Mobile 1. Gulfport 2.
Jackson 0, Meridian 8.
Vicksburg 1, Baton Rouge 4.
Virginia Stats—
Danville 5, Richmond 1.
Roanoke 1, Lynchburg 4.
Eastern-
Providence 3,sNewark 2.
Buffalo 3, Montreal 2.
Rochester 2, Toronto 0.
Baltimore 4, Jersey City 2.
OOOGO<H3G<KWO<H30GOGOOGGGGM
G G
G WHAT THEY THINK. O
G o
G A few prominent .porting au- G
O thorltlea were aeked for opinions O
G in regard to Shuster and his do- G
G cl8lon. G
G Billy Smith: “I think Shuster G
G is a blankety, blankety, blank, O
G blank of a blankety blank, by O
G blank.” o
G Mike Finnr "I couldn't see O
G whether the umpire was rotten or G
G not. It was too dark." G
G Umpire Buckley: "I refuse to G
G be Interviewed. But It was rot- G
G ton.” . a
G Ex-Captain Cadtro: "I can’t see O
G that It will materially affect the 0
G price of bananas.” 0
G Umpire Shuster: "Next time O
G they play till midnight. It as- G
G sists in the get-away.” G
G Consensus of opinion: "Shuster O
0 Is the rottenest umpire ever known G
G since baseball began." G
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SOUTHERN.
Club— Played. Won. LoiL P. CL
Birmingham . . 86 62 31' .606
New Orleans
Atlanta . . .
Memphis . .
Shreveport .
Montgomery
Nashville . .
Little Rock .
80UTH ATLANTIC.
Club—
Augusta . . ,
Savannah . .
Macon . . .
Columbia . .
Charleston. ,
Jacksonville.
33
41
4?
.681
.680
.678
.663
.494
.327
.304
.602
.623
.460
.413
.233
COTTON 8TATE8.
Club-
Meridian . .
Mobile ...
Jackson . . .
Baton Rouge
Gulfport . . .
Vicksburg . .
Played. Won. Lost. P. CL
.HI
.686
.606
.600
.477
.333
NATIONAL.
Club—
Played. Won.
Lost P. Ct.
Chicago . ,
. 94
CO
28
.761
Pittsburg .
. . 90
68
32
.646
New York
. . 90
68
32
.645
Philadelphia
. . 93
42
51
.453
Cincinnati
. 94
41
53
.436
Brooklyn .
. 90
87
63
.411
St. Louis .
. 95
36
69
.379
Boston . .
. 92
31
<1
.337
AMERICAN.
Club—
Played. Won.-
Lost. P. CL
Philadelphia
. . 89
66
33
.629
New York
. 88
54
34
.614
Cleveland .
. . 89
61
38
.673
Chicago . .
. 92
50
42
.643
Detroit . .
. 90
46
44
.611
St. Louis .
. 90
IS
46
.600
Washington
. 89
33
68
.371
Boston . .
. 93
26
68
.275
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Clubs—
Columbus . .
Milwaukee .
Minneapolis .
Toledo . . .
Louisville . .
Kansas City
St. Paul . .'.
Indianapolis .
Played. Won. Lost P.C.
. 103 64 39 .632
. 101 67 44 .664
. 101 62 49 .616
.100 64 46 .640
. 100 61 49 .610
. 100 46 64 .410
BADLY CUT.
Panamas cleaned, reshaped with
same bands $1.00; new bando, 31.26.
Bussey. 28 1-2 Whitehall.
NAT KAISER & CO.
Confidential loans on valuables.
Bargains In unredeemed Diamond*
15 Decatur SL Kimball Houe*
Frenry. ont» of tho NnahvIIle catcher*.
> haa I*o**ii (-allot! to 8t. Izmti by the til-
■ no*# of hla brother. It will ho sonic ilaya
r before ho return*, anil, lu tho meantime*.
| the Nashville team 1# likely to lie some-1
what emltarrasaed for ititcliors, especial-
ly If anyth!ug happens to “Kid” wells.
ATLANTA vs. NASHVILLE
AUGUST t.
DOUBLE HEADER TODAY;
FIRST GAME CALLED 2:30 P. M.
