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THE ATLANTA
GEORGIAN.
TUESDAY. AUGUST. 28.
1906.
dAlkU
CRACKERS ARE MAINTAINING MOST
SPORTS
WONDERFUL RECORD ON THE ROAD
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Atlanta Players Bewail
Run of Luck That Beat 9 Em
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Shreveport, La., An*. 27.—You may aay
wluit you want to, but If Atlanta had
nor had harder luck than any manager
could expect and more misfortune thau
can Ik* guarded against In n league where
onrh mnnnger la limited to fourteen play-
cm, the Crackers would have won the
Southern League pennant.
With the regular player* In the Itne-ap,
It la hard to seq, how any team In tho
league hna any license to beat the Crack
er*. This I* no obituary notice and no
hard lurk story, ft (a a plain statement
of otivlous facts.
On appearances, Memphis and New Or
leans have stronger teams right now. But
they did not have them at the Start of the
season, nor nntll nearly Its end.
And at that, Memphis failed to prove
that her rejuvenated and presumaly salary-
exceeding team could do It, and New Or
leans has yet to prove It.
Without expressing it as a personal opin
ion, but as the best Judgment of si! the
managers In ths league who have been
n**ked about the matter, the three most
valuable men on the team, outside the
pitchers, are Fox, Archer and Jordan.
And It Is a fact easily dsmonstrsted by
a glance at past box scores that these
three men are the ones who have l>een
most dften hurt and most frequently out
of the 'game. Bach ouo of thes men met
bis bard lurk In actual baseball and while
fighting for the Atlanta team. They re*
celred Injuries while they were playing
the game and In a way which could not
be guarded against. Bat they were In
jured, and these Injuries put them out of
tho game, and bate beaten Atlanta out of
tho pennant.
Evsry man on the Atlanta team, from
the manager down, believes that If Fox,
Archer and Jordan had not been hurt,
Atlanta would have won the rag.
This Is no kick against f*tg and no calam
ity bowl. It Is just a little aple! to tho
effect that the Atlanta manager and the
Atlanta Baselmil Assoelnlon hns done
everything within reason to give Atlanta a
pennnt winner, and that the failure
no fault of any man or set of men.
was hard luck.
Nothing hut n short arm Jah from fate
right to the aolnr plexns (whatever that
happeus to l*»> of the Birmingham club
rau put the Barons out of the pennaut
race. They have It practically cinched.
We'll all have to hand It to Vaughn.
He got together a good team jmd he kept
It together. Ills pitchers worked well
better than any ooe expected, except him
self and themselves. They twirl*I good
ball, and they had snappy support.
But here again we see the line "Eye-
tatlnn" hand of fate. Vaughn's men have
had good luck. The team has met with
no serious misfortunes. The only places
made vacant, Vaughan was able to fill.
All credit to Vaughan for this—bnt don't
overlook the luck of It. It took a lot.
Billy Smith hna crime In for n world
of roasting and criticism. Outside of At*
lnnta. the fans of the south—from Pres
ident Kavnnntigh right down to tho least
of them—have had It In for Smith almost
from the first.
But Smith has gone right along mind
ing hla own business and managing tho
Cracker team to the best of his ability.
That the pennant will fly In Alabnuia's
metropolis lustead of *n that of Georgia Is
fault of the man who gnlded the Ma
con team and several others to premier
honors. He hns taken advantage of every
opening offered, and has given Atlanta a
ball team which has made a remarkable
record.
Give Atlanta fairly decent luck to the
end of the season and the Crackers will
finish second In the league race.
The final road trip started off with a
ruah, ami with anything hut a airing of
misfortunes In Shreveport and New Or
leans, the hunch will come home In second
place or within reach of It. And If they
do. It Is a safe hot that they will stay
there to tho end of the season.
CHARLESTON CLUB AFTER
BILLY SMITH FOR 190T
ATLANTA NABS FIRST GAME.
League Standings
By PERCY WHITING.
Shreveport, La., Aag. 28.—Manager Billy
Smith has Just received a splendid offer to
manage the Charleston clnh next year. He
does not contemplate leaving Atlanta, how-
ver.
The Charleston folks have a good deal of
money nnd pennant aspirations. They know
the record Billy Smith made In the South
Atlantic league In 1904 nnd 1906. With the
cheapest tennis lu the league he won both
pennants.
Charleston has Imd high-priced teams
which Imre foiled largely Iwcuuse of poor
management. They feel sure that Billy can
turn the trick, nnd they want him.
Atlanta will play n double-header here
with Shreveport Wednesday nnd Wednesday
night will take the train for New Orleans,
where the concluding series on the road
will be l»egun Friday. An even break lu
the remnlnlug six games will satisfy Blly,
although the team Is fighting like a hunch
of Huns and expects four out of the re
maining six.
Shreveport was oonalderably weakened on
Monday by the absence of Abstain, who hna
been hatting heavily, lie wtl get In the
gnino again soon.
Foxy base-running by Whltey Morse
ths festurt of Monday's game. CroxJor
was on third nnd the double atenl was
started. Whltey dodged back and forth till
Croiler scored nnd then “Cotton Top'*
dodged through the entire Shreveport team.
Crackers Win the Seventh
Out of Nine Games on Road
By PERCY WHITING.
Shreveport. La., Aug. 21,-In a rather woosy contest Monday Atlanta took the
first game of the series from Shreveport by the score of 6 to 4. The game was con
spicuous because of the very poor fielding of both teams.
Errors of omission played aa Important a part in the mlscue line as did those of
commission, and a tumble that Centerfleldcr King took waa responsible for two rnna
that Atlanta scored. Hoffman had lost his range-finder ami was away off In hla
work.
Consecutive hitting by Atlanta won the game. Three runs came In the first In
ning as the result of Wlotsrs' double, Evans' error on Crosier's grounder, Smith's fly
out, Morse's single, the double steal rackst and King’s error. It was poor ball play
ing by the Pirates.
Crosier's pass. Smith's single, and Morse's single gave another in the third. A
pssa to Winters and singles by Cmxler and Smith added one more In the seventh,
wblls the concluding tally for Atlanta came In the Hghth on Fox's getting to first on
a fielder's choice, followed by Jordan's double.
After two were out In the fourth, singles by Hess and King, a triple by Powell
and Hoffman's error gave the Pirates three runs. They got another lu the ninth,
when Hoffmsn threw away tho ball.
The
Ffvans, 2b, . .
Kennedy, lb.. „ ..
An. n. h. i'o a. k.
T.::r 6 6
Grafflus, c
Byrne, sa ..
Oaiej, If.. ., •• ..
King, cf..„ •• ...
Hens, 8b.. .. ,, ..
P-well.
Lee, p
m
....4 0 0 2 1
..4 0 0 3 5 0
.*..4 0 1 4 0 0
..211400
....4 2 12 3
i l 1
Totals..
fi
by innings:
.34 4 4 27 12 2
Att.ANTA~
Winters, rf..
Aft. ft. II. PA. A. te.
~zr~
Smith, .
Morse, as..
Hoffman. 3b..
>4 I i
Jordan, §b.. 7. *.! .7 !!4
Fox. lb 4
Archer, cf.. ., ,, .... ..4
Harley, p 4
Totals,
37 8 11 27 H 5
Shreveport *,. ..0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1—4
Atlanta ...... .. ... . .30 1 n 0 0 1 i p-a
Summary: fwo-hase hits. Winters. Archer; three-base 'felts, lWcll, Jordan;
stolen bases, Hess, Crosier, Morse; double plays, Hess to Byrne to Kennedy; struck
out by Lee 2, by Harley 6; basis on twll* off Lee 2. off llartry 4; left on bnoea.
Shreveport 7, Atlanta 6; first base on errors, Shreveport 3. Atlanta 1. Time, |:Jt
Pm plrs, Budderham.
Previous Road Failures
Now Seem To Be Mystery
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Shreveport, La., Aug. 27.—Why At
lanta has not been a food road team
Hits year I, hard to tell. Judging In
th opening game, of the road trip
they should have taken a majority of
r ad »ainea this year. The team hai
had enough ginger to run a factory,
anil then have some left over for home
( "i.iumptlon. Every man on the tea:
teems to have hi, heart In the game
and every one has kept In condition
and spread himself to make rune and
hold the opponents down.
The Crackers have to furnish all
their own rooting on the road and they
all join In the yelling and kidding In
a way that makes a moat encouraging
rackst.
On good nntured kidding with the
bleachers on the road the Atlanta team
would be a hard proposition to beat.
Fox always makes a big hit with the
crowds and jollies along good natured
ly In . very game. In Memphis Jordan
off a good play. The bleachers to,Ik It
up, for use only when an Atlanta man
made a mlsplay or <vas put out. In
the last gams In th# Bluff City Jordan
and the rest rubbed It In good and
proper and the whoop is now the offl-
clal team yelL
nted a war whoop which he turn
ed loose every time any Cracker pulled
ta’s last home series
ham went astray twice on "balls" and
"strikes" and on both occasions ho
called on the official scorer for Inform
ation as to the number already pitched.
This "Info" was forthcoming both
times, but the official scorer protested
Rudderham
the umpa with this dope,
said he was.
The question as to whether or not
this Information was required of the
scorers was put up to Clark Miller,
secretary to the president of the South
ern League, and Mr. Miller stated most
emphatically that balls and atrlkes
were to be kept by the umpire and
that "his umps” was In error In calling
on the scorer for them.
Played. Won. Lost P.C.
Birmingham
. . 114
72
42
.632
Mnmphlfl . .
. . 116
67
49
.578
Atlanta . . .
. . 115
65
60
.865
New Orleans
. . 116
65
5t
.560
Shreveport .
. . 116
64
52
.562
Montgomery
. . 114
54
60
.474
Nashville . .
. . 112
39
79
.331
Little Hock .
. . 117
37
80
.316
80UTH ATLANTIC.
clubs—
Played. Won. Loit
P.C.
Savannah .
. 104
64
40
.616
Augusta .
. 108
66
42
.611
Macon . .
. 106
55
51
519
Columbia .
. ios
51
35
.481
Charleston
. 104
47
57
.452
Jaokaonvllla
.. 104
S3
71
.317
COTTON 8TATES. •
Club—
Played. Won. Loat.
P.C.
Mobile . . .
. 109
67
42
.616
Meridian .
110
60
50
.645
Gulfport . .
. no
55
55
.600
Raton Rouge
. 109
53
66
.446
Jackson
. 110
64
56
.491
Vlckrbmg .
. 101
79
69
.361
AMERICAN.
Club.—
Played. Won. Loat.
P.C.
Chicago . .
. 115
70
46
.610
New York
. 119
62
47
.569
Philadelphia.
. 113
64
49
.666
Clevelitml .
. Ill
61
50
.550
8t. Louis . .
. 113
59
54
.522
Detroit . . .
. 113
54
59
.476
Washington
. 113
46
67
.407
Helium . . .
a 116
35
80
.304
NATIONAL.
Club,—
Plaved.
Won. Loat
P.C.
Chicago , . .
. 119
88
31
.740
New York .
. 113
73
40
.64b
Pittsburg . .
. 115
74
41
.644
Philadelphia.
. 116
f!
64
.448
Cincinnati. .
. 117
50
87
.427
Brooklyn . .
. 114
44
70 -
.389
St. Lolita . .
. 119
46
72
.377
Boston . . .
. 119
39
80
.328
AMERICAN A880CIATI0N.
Club,—
Played Won. Loat.
P.C.
Columbus . .
. 130
79
51
.601
Milwaukee .
. 130
72
56
.654
Toledo . . .
. 127
69
68
.643
Minneapolis
129
67
62
.619
Kansas City.
. 129
65
64
.504
Louisville . .
. 129
61
6.8
.473
8t. Pnul . .
. 128
57
70
.444
Indianapolis.
. 129
45
84
.349
MONDAY'S RE8ULT8.
Southern—
Atlanta 6, Shreveport 4.
Memphis 1, Birmingham 0.
Little Rock 1. Montgomery 0.
New Orleans 6, Nashville 1.
South Atlantic—
Macon 1, Charleston 0.
American—
New York !, St. Louis 1.
Washington 10. Detroit 1.
Cleveland 6, Boston 5.
Chicago I, Philadelphia 0.
National—
Chicago 5. Boston 2.
St. Louis 0, Brooklyn 2.
Brooklyn 5, St. Louts 4.
Amsriean Association—
Coluinbua 7, Kansas City 0.
Milwaukee 4, Toledo t.
Minneapolis 4, Imul.vllle >.
Indianapolis 2, St. Paul 2.
Cotton States—
Jackson 2. Mobile I.
Vicksburg 1, Baton Rouge 0.
Gulfport 1. Meridian 0.
Virginia State—
Portsmouth 6. Danville 0.
Richmond 2, Roanoke 1.
Lynchburg 9, Norfolk 0 (forfeited.)
NO CHANGE WILL BE MADE IN 1907
IN CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Judge KavanaughWill
Be Elected
President.
Again
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Shreveport, 1st, Aug. ■ 28.—'"Shreve
port will certainly be In the Southern
League next year. The franchise Is
not for sale," »o spoke Harry Ehrlich,
part owner of the Shreveport fran
chise and mouthpiece of Captain Craw
ford, the largest ownsr of the club's
stock In tho absence of that gentle
man.
■Well, why won’t you?" the writer
asked. "Your club loses money, your
attendance Is poor and you could get a
good piece ot money for your fran
chise.”
'Because wo like baseball,” waa the
answer.
Now, what are you going to do In a
case nice that?
It hurts the league to have a town
like Shreveport In it. Every team
which goes there loses money, for Its
share of the receipts (or as the share
seldom amounts to the guarantee fund.
It gets Instead the prescribed 276)
never pays the expenses of the club.
and such a club Is a weak spot In the
financial side of tha league.
Moreover, the friendship of the
Shreveport club for New Orleans
makes possible the supremacy ot
Charley Frank In league politics, and
every fan In the eastern wing of the
clicult will readily admit that such a
condition Is deplorable.
But what can you do about It? The
owners of the Shreveport franchise are
sportsmen. They, say they will not
sell. They prefer baseball to the
money, and say that If there Is ever
a delicti It will be possible to pays the
hat and raise 110,000 to pull the club
out of a hole.
The town like the club owners la a
sport, too.
So there you are.
Shreveport wants to stay In the
league and no one can put It out.
When the ownere rate the eport above
money baseball Is likely to stick.
I.lttie Rock Is In the same boat. The
backers aay that It la a mighty ex-
Some Notes and Gos
sip Gathered With
With the Team.
pensive sport, but that they can make
money with a
a winning team, and that
If they can't they are willing to lose a
bit more.
members of next year's Southern
League.
And Judge ILtvanaugh will be re
elected president of the Southern
League.
This len't what Atlanta wants. But
It le what Atlanta gets, and not #h*t
Atlanta wants, that cuts Ice through
the western end of the circuit these
days.
And the west still dominates, politic
ally. They don't get the pennant this
year, thanks to Harry Vaughan, and
they will have to huatle mightily for
second place, thanks to Billy Smith.
Mike Finn Is still fuming over the
Castro deal. He Is firmly convinced
that he could have nailed 11.000 to
11,260 tor the man, and Intimates that
aa he was sold for less somebody was
bilked.
Mike has proved an alibi, so far aa
the deal Is concerned, and undoubted-
BAD COMPANY.
You and a greasy hat. Bussey can
clean and reshape (the hat). 2< 1-2
Whitehall.
Clark Miller was much amused at
the tact that hla name was prominent
ly mentioned os a successor to Judge
■Cavanaugh ns president of the South
ern League. "It Is getting to be a
yearly thing to mix my name up with
the other candidates," said Mr. Miller.
"I have just quit denying tt. I am just
one of the hired men of the league, and
It will be a long day before I run for
president. Certainly not as long as
President Havana ugh will accept the
office."
FAN TYPE NO. 2 6.
STUDIES IN EXPRESSION BY CARTOONIST BREWERTON.
ly had nothing to do with It and knew
nothing about It.until It was com'
pleted.
and charges that ho started
they are mistaken. "I never
thing against It," ssld Smith. "In fact,
I was tickled to death. I would have
been glad If they could have borrowed
Mathewaon and a few such to finish
out the season."
The leu Birmingham has to say
about the deal the better. It looks
believe that It Is all right.
It go at that
So i
Owing to the fact that Jordan and
Crosier are going to open a candy and
Ice cream store when the baseball
season closes the team la now referring
to them as the “candy kids."
According to Jordan, two other
members of the Atlanta team—Evers
and Fox—will be engaged In the en
terprise. The last named gentlemen
have consented to walk up and down
In front of the store, with signs on
their backs. Evers' sign will read, "Eat
our Ice cream. It made me fat,” and
Fox's sign, "Our soda water made me
tall."
It ought to make a big hit.
Crosier and Jordan spend all their
waking hours with their heads togeth
er, doping out tiled floors, soda water
'a a race between the mosquitoes
and the ball players for possession of
the hotel here. Winters declares that
the stegomylas and the anopholes
(only he didn’t say just that) don’t
mind the mosquito bars. "They just
take a running start and eat their way
through," says Ginger.
To which Whltey Morse replied that
he didn't see how they got a running
start In a room of that slse, and the
jetting back to the mosquitoes
they are certainly blood-thirsty.
a wonderful winner at home,
man, It will be remembered, whom Bob
Gllks released early In the season and
ensteln was hurt. Well, since that time
he has won eleven games, lost one and
tied one at home. The tie game was
the one which ended with the Southern
vllle beat him the only time he
lost. Atlanta wr.s beaten by him here
by a score of 6 to 4—In one of the sea
son's multitudinous . one-run-margln
games—and that one run came aa a re
sult of Absteln's four-sacker.
As Beeker pitched against Nashville
Sunday, It Is not likely that Atlanta
will catch him this trip. However,
outside of Lee, who hns a bruised fin
ger. all of Shreveport’s pitchers are
pretty warm proposition* at this writ
ing, and about equally dangerous.
EDGEWOOD 16, 80UTHERN RY. 1.
Saturday afternoon, Edgewood mot end
defeated the Honthern Railway team by the
score of 10 to 1.
The restore of the game was the pitch
ing of KUne for Edge wood, who did not
allow his opponents a bit.
The game was .-ailed st the end of the
sixth Inning on greount of min sod dark-
Score hr Innings:
Edgewnod
Southern Railway.. .
R. II. E.
..102 562—11 12 2
. 000 100- t » 1
NAT KAISER & GO.
Confidential loans on valuables.
Bargains In unredeemed diamond*
16 Hscatur _ Kimball Hou»» £ef«e ‘tianu
Watch Brotman Grow.
GlJOtRJOOtKHKKRJOOOOOtWiJSHWtja
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O
Atlanta In Shreveport.
Birmingham In Memphis.
Montgomery In Little Rock.
Nashville In New Orleans.
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News and Notes of Sport.
Seven out of nine on the road. Per
centage for the trip, .777. Reckon that
would sort o' win the pennant. If kept np.
At last, old Ote Rtockdele has hsd a
it of luck. Monday be trimmed the
Birmingham! by the score of 1 to 0.
Hoffman was oil to ths bad Monday,
getting three large errors that would bars
been costly bnt for the henry hitting of
the Crackers. Ills last mlscue was In
the ninth. The first man up for Shreve
port slammed one down to third, and Hof-
fy threw the ball Into the bleachers,
giving the runner a free pass all tha way
home. Harley then ateadled down and
put three men down In a row.
It was the lowly Washington team that
stopped the Chicago Americans, after they
had won nineteen successive games. ’Twas
ever thus.
Jeems Archer made a pretty good start
In center field, getting four put-out* and
two blta.
It wa* observed concerning one of foe
pitchers In a certain professional baseball
team that he was not a particularly bril
liant player In hi* position. He had no
better assortment of drops, outcurres or
Inshoots than the average pitcher, and his
speed was not at all phenomenal, yet he
semed to have a faculty of winning games.
A frequent patron of this clnb once ask
ed the captain for an explanation.
“How does It happen," he said, “that
you generally win when be pitches?"
“Well," responded the captain, "you no
tice that he never chins the umpire, and
never kicks?"
•Yes."
"He’s always smiling?"
Yes."
"Always seems to be doing the best he
can?"
“Yes."
“Well, do yon think we don't notice that,
too? We know be'# a g.**l fellow, we all
like him, and when he’s in the box we
{ ire him the very best support we've got In
he shop., That's wby we win games
when be pitches." ,
Here Is a principle with s wider field
f application than a baseball field.—
Youth s Couipaplon.
NAP RUCKER,
BIG LEAGUER
Well, well I
Our old friend, Napoleon B. Rucker, of
C/aluipple, Cobb county, has become a
large leaguer Drafted by Connie Mack,
be gosh all hemlock nnd by cracky.
Will take a fling at hi* Napoleonic ri
val, Lnjolc. next year, incybe.
Nap la the twirJer whom Ab Powell kept
on the salary roll nearly a year and work
ed only in the Fourth of July morning
game.
Then ‘he went back to Crabapple. Thence
to Newuan.
Next year, Otto Jordan gave Nap * trial,
and then released him.
Nap waft thereupon picked up by Au-
gustn, where ho has pitched for two
yearn.
He twirled excellent ball last year. This
ye’tf he has dove magnificent work. He
has quit trying to curve ’em all over the
lot, und hns quit trying to scare batters
to death with hfo speed.
In other words, he has absorbed con
siderable baseball sense.
With carefat handling, such as Connie
Mack can give, Nap ought. In time, make
a star pitcher.
Rut they used to say of him, as of many
others, that be bod a 310,000 arm and a
10 cents head.
COUNTRY CLUB
WORKS STUNT
By PERCY WHITING.
Special Correspondence.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 26.—The Country
Clnb of Little Rock is working out a stunt
which might well be noticed by the Atlanta
Athletic Clnb.
They now have a neat little club house In
a delightful situation a half dozen miles or
so from the Arkansas capital.
Tho upper floor has for a long time been
turned over to the male members of the
club tor sleeping rooms and the number ot
men who availed themselves of tho privi
lege of spending the summer night* them
proved *n large that the Huh la now mak
ing plans to accommodate all who wish to
come.
Work will be started In a abort time on
a “dormitory," as it will be called. This
will bo a neat little two-story building,
where sleeping accommodations will be pro
vided for twenty to thirty men. The rooms
will not be fancy, but they will be cool and
comfortable nnd there the members of the
dub who want to get away from the heat
of the city will spend their nights.
Of course the average country club Is
provided with sleeping rooms, but as a
rule they arn rather elaborate affairs and
a considerable sum Is charged for their use.
In the Little Rock clnb'a dormitory the
rooms will he free to the members. The
clnb will provldo the furniture and the
men will furnish their own bedding. The
clnb will hare n regular breakfast served
etch morning and supper may be,ordered
by those who wish It. In this way the
members of the club who wish to gat out
where It Is cool nnd comfortable and with
in reach of tennis courts and a golf course
can do so at any time and the cost will bs
decidedly reasonable.
Mike Mowery arrived from Baltimore
last evening, ami will play third hsae In
today's games. The red top Is looking la
great shape, ami feels confident of con tin
‘ “ “ ,i ‘ bln
ulng here the good work that
* him
••Glad
. though they treated me fine t>vev
In Baltimore. I hone to do well enoagb
not to disappoint the public."—Cincinnati
"ivinlrer.
Mike was last year the star third-
seeker of tbs Savannah South Atlantic
