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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TUESDAY. AUGUST. 28. 1906. dAlkU CRACKERS ARE MAINTAINING MOST SPORTS WONDERFUL RECORD ON THE ROAD iiLiAkL pffrp 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. oooooooo<Hjoooot»ooooot»ooo 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