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RPHVRHMMMI 16 SMITH CRIPPLED TEAM w iSPORTSi Edited by PERCY H. WHITING P LEAVE TONIGHT TO INVADE WEST M fMTIfl BADLY CRIPPLED TEAM HEADS WESTWARD TONIGHT THANK'S Jim fox hu blown back to town, looking and feeling fine. But the wound on hie arm lx still In rather bad condition. It has not healed, and If Jim usee hie arm he will do eo at con elderable risk. Whether he will be able to play Saturday or the early part of next week will depend chiefly on the reeult of consultations with hts doc tors. Jimmy Archer’s shoulder, which was Injured Monday when he did the ground-and-lofty tumbling art at first base. Is still In wretched condition, and It Is not unlikely that he will not be able to go out with the team for the opening of the trip, though perhaps he will be able to rejoin the bunch later. Of Wallace's condition nothing defi nite Is known, except that he Is yet far from well The'Atlanta team pulls out Saturday night on the Frisco train for Memphis. The bunch will play three games against Babb's Burglars, four against Little Rock, Including a dnuble-fieader August 26. three games at Shreveport and three against New Orleans: Then they come back for the Labor Day opening and the final eerles at home, at the end of which the team disbands and the basdball season over. With the team badly crippled as It Is, local fans look with dismay on the coming swing through the West. Un less luck changes, It Is likely to be a series of misfortunes, and there will be Just cause for thankfulness If the bunch comes back with whole skins. Atlanta has gone back to fifth place. That double-header Friday was more than the standing of the club could bear and there was a decided slump. Birmingham still has a good lead In the race, but If the gap In the Infield caused by the Illness of Oyler and Alcock Is not filled, there Is trouble due for the tribe of Vaughn on the coming swing through the west. Friday’s Battles Both Go Same Route As Thursday’s FIRST GAME—MONTGOMERY 1, ATLANTA 0. SECOND GAME—MONTGOMERY 8, ATLANTA 2. About Friday’s game there Is little to say from Atlanta's standpoint which Isn’t profane. After the scores—Montgomery 1, Atlanta 0; Montgomery 8, and At lanta 1—any healthy-minded man would most desire to cuss a few soulful curses, just to relieve his feelings. It was a case of cripples against cripples, In which the product of the Alabama Invalid foundry had all the better of It. ' Mullaney'e Pickles were more or less "stove up," though they only had one man out of his regular place, and that was Pitcher Breltenstetn, who was at second base. Atlanta’s line-up was on the order of a crasy quilt at the start and after Archer hurt his bad shoulder and had to come out and Hughes went in, the once' stout local aggregation was far, far (and then some) from Its best. The members of the team played with the same disregard for physical Ills and with the same determination to do their best, be It ever so painful, which has characterised their playing all along, but even this kind of work did no good. In the first game It was a case of too much MaxwelL This twirling star allowed Atlanta only a single hit, which was Sid Smith’s two-bagger. Doo Childs, who opposed him, pitched a magnificent game, allowing only three hits and keeping these three hits scattered one to an Inning. A base on balls, a wild pitch and an error allowed the only run to cross the plate. There would he no pleasure In writing about the second game and less In reading what might be written. So let It go, with the statement that Zeller was not at hie best and that he received only such support as could be hoped for from a very tired and very sick lot of cripples. Molarkey opened up for Montgomery, but he was oft and Walsh was sent In to take his place. The scores: First Game. Second Gams. / * • V l.l/l' .M \ v// v .SyJfift. |0 Al - i, , - \ Vh> OaW/ HANDING ’EM THE ’‘LEMON!” AB. n. H. PO. A. 0 0 OSS o' 0 UONTOoMEftr- ad. h. ii. >o. a. e. loot*, if 4 * JIOMII, Apperlou*, cf. .. .. ... Mk’aim. rf 4 0 2 2 .4 0 0 220 ,.4 0 0 6 0 0 ,.4 0 X 0 0 0 treltenateln, 2b. ...... .2 u u u « Max wall. p. .. .. S 0 0 0 2 ToUln.. .. .. . 2* 1 3 27 10 ' Score by innln*«: ~~ ~~~ Iornery. Montfoi Atlanta ummarr: .. rifle# hit*. Perry. Breltenateln: flr*t b«*e on ball! off Child* 2, off Maxwell 6; struck out by Child* 6, by Maxwell 8: wild pitch, Child*. Time, 1:40. Umpire, lltidderham. 0OS«OO000OOO0O0OO00OOO000 O GOVERNOR CANT O 8TOP BIG FIGHT. 0 O O O By Private Leaaed Wire. O O Goldfield, Nev., Aug. 18.—There 0 O la only one mnn In Nevada op- 0 0 poced to the Gane-Neleon fight, 0 a and he happen* to be the govern- O 0 or of the state. 0 S Governor* Sparks expreaaed hi* O view* upon the subject after this 0 0 fashion: 0 O “My sentiments against the 0 a licensing of prise fighting are 0 a strictly against permitting them O a under any circumstances. I have 0 0 no power to prevent them under 0 S the law, however, though I deplore 0 the statute, which I consider a 0 0 disgrace to the state.” 0 0000000000000000000000000O ATLANTA- Crosier, If Hoffman, 2b.. .. .. Winter*, rf and cf.. ^Inters, r Hmlth, ; AB. R. H. PO. A. E. ..4111 ..8 1 0 1 Jordan, lb.. Ever*, c.. .. Archer, cf.. , Zeller, p. . Hughes, rf.. Total* ^ 1 5 27 1 “ fi6M%UY= Ah. it. H.'fro.'. Hone*, if 4 2 2 0 ...4 0 0 8 4 , .. ..4 0 0 12 0 1 ...,4 0 0 7 0 0 ...2 0 0 1 0 0 ....8 0 0 0 3 1 .,..2 0 0 0 0 Hausen, c.. Apperlou*, cr. . McCann, rf.. .. . Militancy, lb., .. Perry, 31*. . • . Busch, •«.. .. '. Breltenstetn, 2b.. M* tar key, p.. .. Walsh, p.. .. .. Totals.. .. •. v..:l .. _ 2 1 4 0 0 .411200 ..4 0 1 2 2 1 ..4 0 0 3 1 0 .4 0 0 3 0 1 ...31 10 ....27 ’ll 10 5? 7 3 Score by Innings: Montgomery Atlanta .. Summary: Two-ba** hits, Walsh; stolen hnscs. Apperlou*; aacrtftee hit*, Hoffman’ double plays, Mr tvs, Morse to Jordan, »nien to Busch to Multaney; flr»t base on ball* off Zdler 2, off Malarkcy 1; hit by pitched ball — - * * ‘y Zeller 5, by Itche*, Zef. Rudder by Walsh 1; struck out by Z« Malarkey 2, by Walsh 2; wild nl ler 2. Time, 2 hours. Umplri ham. ONCE AGAIN—“8IGN IT.' A atory of the Foote A Davies-Edge- Wood game sent to the office Friday was turned down becaue it waa not signed. News stories and communica tions of all kinds must be signed or they are not acceptable for publication in The Georgian. NAT KAISER & CO. Confld.ntl.l loan, on valuable,. Bargain. In unredeemed Diamond* 15 Decatur 6L Kimball House. The Georgian’s Score Card. CROZIER, If. HOFFMAN, 2b... WINTERS, rf. S. 8MITH, Sb.... MORSE, s«. JORDAN, lb. EVERS, c. HUGHES, et. HARLEY, p MONTGOMERY. HAUSEN, c APPERIOUS, cf M’CANN, rf. MULLANBY, 1b.. PERRY, 3b BUSCH. 8S. BREIT'STEIN, 2b. TRIBBLE, p. Score by Inning.: 12 8 4 8 8 10 11—R Atlanta Montgomery AUGUSTA WINS AGAIN AND STILL HOLDS LEAD Special to The Georgian. Augusta, Go., Aug. 18.—The Augusta team took the second of the aeries with the er*t* while leaders of the South Atlantic League yesterday afternoon by again shutting Sa vannah out. Nap Rucker, the ex-Atlanta star, was on the firing line for the locals, and the won derful Harry Kane was doing the box stunt fot the visitors. He was, as he usually is, while in Augusta, “off color,'* nn«T Wimp he first went on the' grounds It could be seen that he did not have the goods. The very first ball that be tossed In the game plastered Frank N’orcum, and the big In dian made hi* way around the circuit be fore be could be stopped. The Augusta team played good hard ball, and there was not a time that it looked as though the visitors were going to do any thing with Rucker. The old Georgian was In the finest of form, and had every thing that was needed for the capturing of the game. He allowed but five hits, and Kane did the same. Kane, however, was as wild as s March hare. The winning of the game yesterday made It four for this week which go to the credit of Rucker, as he won. Monday's game and a double-header Wednesday and the game yesterday. He is making quite a rec ord for himself. ,a T r gEZ* thPOm '' ,tl — - <»• N« B f f A r . A "- vpfu McKernou, 2b 4 0 1 I S 5 Bender, |7. J o i f J « Cnr.on, c .. l \ ? 2 South, lb.. .. ■ 2 o o r . ? Ku.tu«, cf.... .... :. :.i s , § j j Ulermnn, ss.. 3 o 1 5 l ? Klchler, Sb ....a o l n l i ltucker, p.. ::::! j 5 8 J $ Totals 26 1 7 e 7 ' “SAVAN'jjAH- ABrnn^w-ir — ::i V 1 » Howard, cf. . . . . ....4 oil?? llexter. If „ .8 0 2 1 1 5 Hoff. 2b .. 7...1 li Dewla. 3b 3 0 0 1 2 J Ka«o. P 1 0 0 0 8 0 Totals S3 0 ~5 «23 13 "• •McKcrilBn out, hit by batted ball * Score by lnulngs: — Summary: Two-base lit, Dexter; le'fT^: baaea Augusta 4. Savannah «; hsses 00 hslii off Ilucier 1, off Kauo 2; struck out hr Rucker 8, by Kaoe 4: hit by pitcher Nor cum; sacrifice bit, Beuder; stolen Vm Carson, South; wild pitch, Kane- n B .VS ball, Kablkoff. Time, 1:60. Cnii' r^ 11,72 and McLaughlin. Attendance, 3,600. ! Pitcher Still of Richmond Joins Atlanta September 1 Special to The Georgian. - Portsmouth, Vo., Aug. 18.—“Colonel" Still, the Richmond club's crack twlrler, has been sold, to the Atlanta baseball club of the Southern League, He confirmed the report that he will play with the Gate City team on the Southern circuit after September 1, when be will report to Manager Smith. Re ports regarding the sale of Still to Atlanta have been circulated widely on the Virginia circuit of late, but Still would never talk about It until today, when he admitted that he will go south at the end of tbit month. He is a Kentuckian, and by profession a newspaper man. He aspires to own a little country .newspaper some day and settle down with Mrs. Still into quiet life as a Sad, Funeral Notes Sounded After the Fierce Slaughter Football Season Which Opens Next Month Promises To Be Best Atlanta Ever Had By BRIAN S. BROWN. Those residents of Atlanta who love the gentle and Indy-like game of foot ball will have abundant opportunity to gratify their tastes during the com ing season. There will he fought out at Tech park during the coming fall a series of what should ho the most memorable games known to the history of Southern colleges athletics, and un less all signs fall, the Southern cham pionship In football will be decided upon the same field whereon lost May the baseball championship waa fought out. , The schedule of the eleven represent ing the Georgia School of Technology will probably be the heaviest of any Southern college this year, embracing as It does every team which now seems to have a look-in at the championship —Sewanee, Vanderbilt, Clemaon and Auburn. Present Indications do not point to Georgia os a candidate for high pig-skin honors, yet Athens has a football tradition that will go far to ward the regeneration of the once haughty Red and Black, llopos are expressed all over Georgia that the change of coaches at Athens will result In a much better team than represent ed the Institution on the gridiron last year. With Williams In charge at Cjemson, there should be no let-up of the high standard which the Tigers have main tained for years past. Representing the technical school of the two great states of South Carolina and Georgia, Clemson and Tech have been natural rivals for athletic honors for years, and though the palms of vic tory were waved over the Old Gold and White last Thanksgiving day, Tech feels that it will take several such drubbings to wipe off the slate the 78- to-0 defeat of 1903. Williams was the only man who was ever able to get the decision over Hefsman while the latter coaching Clemson, and now that he has left South Carolina college, where football has been abolished, and gone to Clemson, warm times may be looked for there. Watch tho prediction that ihe Thanksgiving day game will be a memorable one, with a memor able crowd to witness It. Vanderbilt! There we have the key to the situation. Most authorities In the South say that when tho Gold and Black of Tennessee meets the Gold and White, of Georgia that there will be decided the real question as to “who's who" in Dixieland. Those In a posi tion to know, state that the materlnJ that will line up for Pan McGugln's Inspection next month will not be near up to the standard of last season, and though no one doubts that he Is a good coach, he will have to match his brains against the smoothest artist in that line the South has ever seen. Jack Hels- man Is a law graduate of Pennsylvania, but he doesn't confine his plays to those he learned at college. The thet is that he doesn't use the same plays any two seasons In succession, even w’hen there isn’t any change in tho rules. John CounaHman waa assistant coach at Tech In 1904, and when he went to Cumberland last year he thought he knew all of Herman's plays and how to meet them, but so skillfully did the ''wizard'' of South ern football train hfs men that the double pas* which Counselman had helped to drill Into the men the year before was worked right under his ^0000000000000000000000000 TECH’S SCHEDULE. 0 0 The corrected Tech football O schedule follow's: 0 September 13—First practice. 0 September 29—Practice game. 0 October 6—Practice game. 0 0 October 13—University of Flor- 0 0 Ida. 0 0 October 20—Sewanee (practl- O 0 rally certain, though contract not 0 0 yet sighed). 0 0 October 27—Davidson. 0 0 November 3—Auburn. 0 November 10—Georgia. O November 17—Vanderbilt. 0 0 November 24—Mercer at Macon. 0 0 November 29—Clemson. 0 0 All except the Mercer game will 0 0 be played on Tech Held. 00000000000000000000000000 very nos© in such a way that the V. P. I. man couldn't see it. Under the new’ rules the grandfather of football would hardly know the game. Originality of attack and de fence is going to count a whole iot and Helsmnn is nothing If not original. With all due respect to every coach In the South, he has done more with the material entrusted to his care than any other man who has ever attempted to guide a Southern team to gridiron hon ors. Another team that is going to make hard going for Tech Is the Orange and Blue, of Auburn. Like Clemson, Au burn Is a technical school, and as Its students play the best football In Ala bama they are natural rivals of the Atlanta college. Although Mike Donahue's team was weak last season, he is no novice, and may be depended upon to give a good account of himself with this year’s squad. Sewanee Is another college where there is a football tradition and the purple-clad Tigers may be looked for to give the mighty -Blacksmiths a struggle as vicious as they did last year when the best the two teams could do was an even break—18 to 18. It looks as though Hetsm&n Is going to have to put up a half new team this year. Day and Clark, two of last year’s stars, are sure not to be back, and the chances are Just about even that Brown and “Red" Wilson have played their last games. It was stated at first that Billy Wilson, who is due to captain the bunch this year, would not he back, but later * developments make it look as though the plucky lit tle player will be there when the ref eree blows his whistle for the first down of the year. Another man who will be badly missed is Butler, who, next to Kyle, was considered the best quarterback in the South last year. He was conceded to he the finest Inter- ferer who ever played In Atlanta. Sam Roberts, w'ho played such a star game on Thanksgiving day, graduated in June, but is to be back for a course in mechanical engineering, and will probably be used to fill the gap at quarter. Though light, he Is one of the quickest men on hls feet which the game has developed. Selman, who played guard In most of the games last season, will not be back. Little things like breaking In a new team have no terrors for a man of the resourcefulness of Hetsman, and when the Atlanta public Journeys to Tech park next October and November It can expect to see playing that will be well worth the price of admission, both by the Blacksmiths and their rivals. American Association— Indianapolis 1, Milwaukee 4. Indianapolis 3, Milwaukee 4. Louisville 2, Kansas City 7. St. Paul 6, Columbus 6. Mirtfieapolls 3, Toledo 0. Cotton Stats*— Gulfport 7, Mobile 3. / Meridian 2, Baton Rouge 0. Jackson 6, Vicksburg 2. FINE HOSPITAL for Panamas and old bats that need cleaning and repairs. Bussey, 28 1-2 Whitehall. Friday always’eras an unlucky day. Guess we’ll have to transfer the title of Burglars from Memphis to Mont gomery. The opening game was one of the best of the season, but tbe locals are so badly oyer-trained and over-strain ed that they could, not keep the pace through the second one. Guess Doc Childs will be with us for awhile yet He pitched nice ball Fri day. Speaking of pitchers, what’s Harley's Job these days? Hls familiar face has not been seen anywhere except on the bench or on Peachtree street for these many days. If the team behind Childs had been able to hit Maxwell the game would have gone to Atlanta with a rush. But the Pickle was rather too warm a prop osition. Regular Dill. ters came to haT In the fourth Inning body else connected with Babb's Burg lars will be fired. Or maybe the New Orleans-!!™- phls-Shreveport-LIttle Rock confeder ation has nominated Memphis to win the pennant this year, since New Or leans begins to appear out of It. League Standings j Club— Birmingham . Memphis - , , New Orleans . Shreveport . Atlanta . . . Montgomery. Nashville .... Little Rock ., , 107 , 107 105 10fr 108 no 107 .561 .651 .547 80UTH ATLANTIC. was out of Apperlous' reach. Cann got under It and spot looked like a good elngle. (( The Charge is Absolutely False” S —BILLY SMITH, Billy Snjlth was rightfully Incensed at the charge made by Charley Frank that he had won two pennants In Macon by the use of "rubber balls.” This charge Billy denies absolutely. Such a denial la hardly necessary, however, for any one who knows Billy Smith feels confident that he would not resort to any such meth ods. He Is the kind of a manager who takes advantage of any legitimate opportunity, but whatever he wins he wins on the square. In answer to Charley Frank's charge Smith said: -Any statement that I used rubber balls In Macon or anywhere else Is a deliberate falsehood. I have never used one. and do not expect to. In fact, I never saw a rubber ball until I went to New Orleans on that famous trip. Such a charge Is absolutely false, as well as absolutely absurd." Atlanta vs. Montgomery AUGUST 18. GAME CALELD 3 P. M. scored. A base on balls and pitch let the stubby third baseman get to third base. When Perry ambled off Childs threw In an attempt to catch him. The ball went a trifle wide and Smith dropped It. Not a bad error by any means, but It happened to he the unfortunate play that lost the game. No kick coming on Sid Smith, though. He Is playing a beautiful game at third and is undeniably one of the most valuable men on the team. . Apperlous nearly scored In the firs* game. With two men down In the fourth an error let him get to second. When McCann singled he tried to score but Winters sent the ball to Jordan, who relayed It to Evers and completed the put-out. Fine business. Zeller pitched the widest "ball’’ of the season Friday. Instead of going over the plate It slid oft Rube’s fingers al most at right angles to Its proper di rection and brought up against the grand stand. Fortunately no man were on bases. During the progress of the game some admirer of Mullaney sent him half a watermelon. This Dominick re celved with much thanks and ate as the game progressed. Apperlous made a lucky single In the first inning of the second game. Zelier slapped the ball and almost stopped It ami Hoffman went In behind him and picked It up nicely. Unfortunately Lar ry's balance became misplaced In the shuffle and he fell down. Before he could throw the hall everybody wan safe. Walsh has rather the most awkward delivery seen at Piedmont this season, but It Is certainly effective. The At lanta batters could do nothing with him. Archer made a great one-handed catch Just before he had .to give up In the second game. Busch got away with what looked like a hit, but Jeems speared It. Looks 4k though Augusta were hard after the South Atlantic pennant Handed another shut-out to Savannah Friday. Well, even If Atlanta did lose two Birmingham won, so there is a crumb of comfort In the gloomy situation. Lourk* pitched fine ball for Memphis against New Orleans. And Memphis / Club— Played. Won. Lost. P. Ct Augunta . . 64 39 .621 gavannah . . . 98 59 39 .601 IVmcon . . . 101 52 49 ,515 Columbia . . 103 49 54 .474 Charleston . 96 43 53 Ui Jacksonville . 97 32 65 .330 NATIONAL. Club— Played. Won. Lost P. Ct. Chicago . . . . . 108 78 30 .7 21 New York . 104 69 35 .664 Pittsburg . . . . 107 67 40 .62! Philadelphia . 107 50 87 .467 Cincinnati . . . 108 47 61 .435 Brooklyn . . . . 104 41 63 .394 St. Louis .. 39 70 .351 Boston . . . . 109 37 72 .339 Club— Chicago . . Philadelphia. New York . . Cleveland . , St. Louis . , Detroit . . . Washington Boston , . . AMERICAN. Played! Won. Lost. P. Ct 43 .5»l 46 .67* 103 106 106 105 107 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Club— Columbus. , Milwaukee . Toledo . . . Louisville . Minneapolis , Kansas City St. Paul . . Indianapolis. Played. Won. Lost.P.Ct 120 120 116 119 118 120 116 119 FRIDAY'S RESULTS. Southern— Montgomery 1, Atlanta 0. Montgomery 8, Atlanta 2. Birmingham 2, Nashville I, Memphis 2, New Orleans 1. Shreveport 6, Little Bock 2, South Atlantic— Augusta 2, Savannah 0. Charleston 3. Jacksonville L Columbia 2, Macon 0. Macon 8, Columbia 4. American— Detroit 6, New York 0. Washington 3, SL Louis 1. St. Louis 4, Washington 3. Chicago 4, Boston 3. Cleveland 6. Philadelphia 4. . Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 3. National— Pittsburg 4, Boston >. Chicago 5, Brooklyn 2. New York t, St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati - Cincinnati' 2, Philadelphia 1. Eastern— , Providence 6, Rochester I. Newark 6, Buffalo 0. Toronto 2, Jersey City 1- Baltimore 8, Montreal 0. Virginia— Richmond 1, Danville 2. Portsmouth 2, Norfolk 0. Portsmouth 6, Norfolk 0. r e rBaSr«c^u e iK and*ew£ More Sports on Page Seven.