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I 12 g THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1006. I UMPIRE’S UNFAIR DECISIONS EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING FOLLOWED BY GIDDY DOINGS I 11 1 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." o WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O O O O O 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 <H3GGGGG<H3G<H3GGGGGG<H3GGG<H3G 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.