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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST, 28,. 1906. I SPORTS1 WONDERFUL RECORD ON THE. ROAD ikLiAiL Atlanta Players Bewail Run of Luck That Beat 9 Em By PERCY WHITING. Bpeda) Correspondence. Shreveport, Aug. 27,—Ton may say what you want to, but If Atlanta had not had harder luck than nny manager rould expect and more misfortune than ran In* guarded against In a league where each inalinger la limited to fourteen piny- era. the Crocker* would have wpn the Southern League pennant. With the regular plnyera In the line-up, It la hard to are how* any team In the league baa nny license to beat the Crack- era. This la no obituary notice and no hard luck story, ft la a plain statement of obvious facts. On appearances, Memphis and New Or leans hare stronger teams right now. But they did not have them at the start of the season, nor until nearly Its end. And nt 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 all the managers In the league who hare been asked 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 demonstrated by a glance nt past J>ox scores that these three men are the ones who have lieen most often hurt and most frequently out of tbs game. Bach one of then men met his hard luck In actual basetiall and while fighting for the Atlanta team. They re ceived Injuries while they were plnylng the game and In a way which could not be guarded agalaat. But they were In jured, and these Injuries put them out of the game, and have beaten Atlanta out of the pennant. Every man on the Atlanta team, from the manager down, believes that If Fox, Archer and Jordan had not t»ecn hurt, Atlanta would have won the rag. This Is no kick against fate and no calam ity howl. It Is Juat a little spiel to the effect that the Atlanta manager and the Atlnnta Baseball Axxorlnlon has done everything within reason to give Atlnnta pontiat winner, and that the failure m no fault of nny man or set of men. wns hard luck. Nothing but n short arm Jab from fate right to the solar plexus (whatever that happens to 1m») of the Birmingham club can put the Barons out of the pennant race. They have It pmetlcully cinched. We'll all have to hand It to Vaughn. He got together a good team and he kept It together. Ills pitchers worked well- better than nny one expected, except him self and themselves. They twirled good ball, and they had snappy support. But here again we see the line “Bye- fnllHfi" hand of fate. Vaughn's men linre had good luck. The team has met with no serious misfortunes. The only plures made vacant, Vaughan was able to fill. All credit to Vaughan for this—but don’t overlook the luck of It. It took a lot. Billy Hmltk has come In for n world of roasting and criticism. Outside of At lanta, the fans of the south—from Pres ident Knvniiaiigh right down to the least of them—have had It In for Smith almost from the first. But Hmltli hns gone right 'along mind ing Ills own business and managing the Cracker team to the best of his ability. That the pennant will fly In Alabama's metropolis Instead of In that of fjcorgln Is fault of the man who gabled the Ma con tenm and several others to premier honors. He tins token advantage of every opening offered, and has given Atlanta a ball team which has mude n remarkable record. Give Atlanta fairly decent luck to end of the season and the Crackers will finish second In the league race. The final road trip atnrted off with rush, nnd with nnythlug but a string of misfortunes In Hhreveport and New Or leans, the bunch will come home In second place or within reach of It. And If they do, It Is n safe bet that they will atay there to the end of the senaon. CHARLESTON CLUB AFTER BILLY SMITH FOR 1907 By PERCY WHITING. Shreveport, La., Aug. 21—Manager Billy Smith hns Juat received n splendid offer to manage the Charleston clnb next year. He doea not contemplate leaving Atlanta, how ever. The Chnrleaton folka have a good deal of money nnd pennant nsptrntloun. They know the record Hilly Smith made In the Mouth Atlantic league In 1904 nnd 1906. With the cheapest tennis lit the league he won t>oth pennants. Charleston hns had high priced teams which have failed largely hecntiae ef poor management. They feel sure that Hilly can turn the trick, mid they w*aut him. Atlanta will piny a double-header here with Hhreveport Wcdneadny and Wedncadny night will take the train for New Orleans, where the concluding series on the road will lie begun Friday. An even break In the remaining six games will satisfy Illly, although the team Is fighting like a bunch of Huns nnd expects four out of the re maining six. Rhreveport was considerably weakened on Mondny by the absence of Absteln, who has been batting heavily. He wll get In the game again soon. Foxy base-running by Whltey Morse was the feature of Mmidny'a game. Crosier waa on third nnd the double stenl was started. Whitby dodged back nnd forth till Croslar scored nnd then "Cotton Top" dodged through the entire Shreveport tenm. NAP RUCKER, BIG LEAGUER W,U, well! Our old friend, Nupoleon B. Itueker, of Cralinpple. Colil, count/, ha, heroine a large leaguer. Drafted bjr Connie Mack, be goab all hemlock* and bjr crack/. Will take a ding at hit Napoleonic ri val, Lajole, next /ear, ma/be. Nap la the twlrler whom Ab Powell kept on the aalarz roll near!/ a /ear and work ed oul/ In tbe Fourth of July morning game. Then he went back to Crmbapple. Thence to Newunn. Nap waa thereupon picked up h/ An- guatn, where he haa pitched for two /ear*. He twirled exeellent hall ln,t /ear. Thl, /ear he baa dona magnldcent work. He haa quit tr/lug to curro 'em all orer the lot, and haa quit tr/lng to (care battcra to death with hla speed. In other word,, he haa absorbed con siderable baseball sense. With careful handling, such aa Connie Mack can glre. Nap ought. In time, make a atar pitcher. But the/ used to aa/ of him, aa of man/ othera, that he had a 110,000 arm and a 10 centa head. League Standings Clubs— ' Birmingham . Memphis , . . Atlanta , . . . Now Orleans . 8hrcveport . . Montgomery . Nashville . . . Little Rock . . .67* .6*5 .5*0 80UTH ATLANTIC. Crackers Win the Seventh Out of Nine Games on Road By PERCY WHITING. Rhrerepoft, La., Aug. 2t.-ln a rather wool/ eoutest Monde/ Atlanta took the drst game of the acrlea from Hhreveport b/ the aeore of 6 to 4. The gnme waa ron- apleuons hecauae of tho very poor deldlug of both teams. Errors of omission plt/ed as Important a part In Ilia mlaene line na did (hose of commission, and a tumble that Cenlerfleldcr King took was rcs|emslhlo for two rims that Atlanta (cored. Hoffman had loat hla rangn Under ami was awn/ off In hi, work. Consecutive hitting by Atlanta won the gnme. Throe runs came In the Bret In ning aa the reanlt of Wlntera' double, Evan,' error on Croller'a grounder, Hudth'a fiy out, Moree'a alngle, the double ateal racket and Klug'a error. It wn, poor hall play ing by the Pirates. Croaler'a pass, Smith's alngle, and Morse's single gare another In the third. A pesa to Wlntera and singles by Crosier hml Hmllh added one more in the seventh, while the coieludlng tally for Atlanta rnme In tho eighth on Pox', getting to grot on a Haidar's eholce, followed hy Jordan's double. After two were out In the fourth, single, hy lies, nnd King, s triple by l'owell and Hoffman's arror gave tbs Pirates three runs. They got snother In llie ninth, when Hoff man threw away the ball. Clubs— Savannah . Augusta . . Macon . . . Columbia . . Charleston . Jacksonville COTTON 8TATE8. Club- Mobile . . . Meridian . . Gulfport . . Baton Rouge Jackson . . Vicksburg , IS5?v. Graffiti*, c., Byrne. ■*.. .» Daley, If Dowell, c I«. P Total*.. .. .. .. .. ’ 4core by innlof*: "jinnta'Pflnrir .4 0 0 21 1 a...* 0 0 9 1 0 ....4 0 0 2 1 0 ....4 0 0 1 6 0 ...,4 0 1 4 0 0 ...,211400 ...,4 2 1 2 3 0 ...211101 ..4 0 0 0 1 0 .34 ~4 ~4 27 5 1 ~Afr,AT??A~ ' "Winter*, rf.. Harley, p.. Total*. .. ab. n, it. i»o. A. te, ....i 2 1 o 3 5 4 2 I 0 o I ...6 0 2 9 0 0 ... ..4121 2 0 .. ..4 0 0 0 3 3 4 0 3 3 3 0 .. ..4 1 0 10 0 1 4 0 2 4 0 0 ....4 0 0 0 3 0 ... 37 6 11 27 il 1 0 0 1-4 Mammary: Two-hnae Jilts, iVlntere, Archer; three-bane hit*. I’ewellf Jordan; •tolen haves, Hess, Crosier, Morse; double pl*ys. Hew to Byrne to Kennedy; struck out by Lee 2, by llarley 6; bust* on hulls off I.ee 2, off llarley 4; left on I in sea, 8hreveport 7. Atlanta 6; first base on errors, Hhreveport 3, Atlanta 1. Time, 1:34. Umpire. Itudderhsm. Cllibi— Chicago . . New York . Philadelphia. Cleveland . Ht. Louis . , Detroit . . . Washington . Boston . . . Clubs— Chicago . . , New York . Pittsburg . . Philadelphia. Cincinnati. . Brooklyn . . St. IdOtllS . . Boston . . . AMERICAN. Played. Won. Loat. .645 .600 .486 .401 .361 P.C. .610 .669 .566 .560 .522 .478 .407 .304 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Played. Won. Lott. Columbus ... 130 79 51 Milwaukee . . 130 72 58 Toledo .... 127 69 68 Minneapolis . 129 67 62 Kansas City. . 129 66 64 Louisville ... 129 61 68 Paul ... 128 67 70 Indianapolis. . 129 45 84 Previous Road Failures Now Seem To Be Mystery By PERCY WHITING. Special Correspondence. Shreveport, La.. Aug. 27.—Why At lanta haa not been a good road team this year fa hard to tell. Judging In th*; opening games of the road trip they should have taken a majority of road »ame* thl* year. The team has had enough ginger to run a factory, and then have some left over for home consumption. Every man on the team aeems to have his heart In the game and every one has kept in condition and spread himself to make runs 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 make* a moat encouraging iwcktt. "«tured kidding with the bleachers on the road the Atlanta team would be a hard proposition to beat. Fox always make* a big hit with the crowds and jollies along go**! natured- ly In every game. In Memphis Jordan invented a war whoop which he turn off a good play. The bleachers took It up, for use only when an Atlant-i man made a mlsplay or was put out. the last game In the Bluff City Jordan and the rest rubbed It In good and proper and the whoop la now the offi cial team yell. During: the closing game* of Atlan ta 'a last home series Umpire Rudder- ham went astray twice on "balls’' and "strikes" and on both occasions he called on the official scorer for Inform ation as to the number already pitched. This "Info” was forthcoming botb times, but the official scorer protestel that he was not expected to furnish the umpe with this dope. Ruddertum said he was. The question as to whether or rot this Information was required of the scorers was put up to Clark Mtler, secretary to the president of nh.e South ern League, nnd Mr. Miller stated Most emphatically that balls amfi *t.1kc* were to be kept by the um l »4*> and that "hla umps" was in error |.| calling on the scorer for them. Clark Miller was much amused at MONDAY’S RESULTS. Southern— Atlanta 6, Shreveport 4. Memphis l, Birmingham 0. Little R«>ck l. Montgomery 0. New Orleans 6, Nashville 1. South Atlantic— Macon I, Charleston 0. American— New York 2. St. Louis 1. Washington 10, Detroit 1. Cleveland 6. Boston b. Chicago l, Philadelphia 0. National— Chicago 5, Boston 2. St. Louts 6, Brooklyn 2. Brooklyn 6, St. Isoula 4. American Association— Columbus 7, Kansas city 0. Milwaukee 4, Toledo J. Minneapolis 4. laoulsvllle 3. • Indianapolis S, St. Paul 3. Cotton States— Jackson 2. Mobile 1. Vicksburg 1, Baton Rouge 0. Gulfport 1, Meridian 0. Virginia State— Portsmouth A Danville ft. Richmond 2, Roanoke 1. Lynchburg 9, Norfolk 0 (forfeited.) IN CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE Judge KavanaughWill Again Be Elected President. By PERCY WHITING. Special Correspondence. Shreveport, Lx, Aug. 2*—"Shreve port will certainly be In the Southern League next year. The franchise Is not for sale," so spoke Harry Ehrlich, part owner of the Shreveport fran chise and mouthpiece of Captain Craw ford, the largest owner of the club's stock In the absence of that gentle man. ■Well, why won't you 7” 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 we like baseball," was the answer. Now, what are you going to do In a case like 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 *76) never pays the expenses of the club. Financially Shreveport has always been a ghastly failure for visiting clubs and such a club Is a weak spot In the llnanclnl side of the league. Moreover, the friendship of the Shreveport club tor New Orleans makes possible the supremacy of Charley Prank In league politics, and every fan In the eastern wing of the circuit will readily admit that such a condition Is deplorable. But what can you do about It7 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 deficit It will be possible to pass the hat and raise $10,000 to pull the club out of a hole. The town like the club owners Is a sport, too. So there you are. Shreveport wants to stay In the league and no one can put It out. When the owners rate the sport above money baseball is likely to stick. Little Rock la In the same boat. The backers say that It Is a mighty ex pensive sport, but that they can make money with a winning team, and that If they can't they are willing to lose a bit more. So you can put a few facts In your pipe for smoking during the winter. Little Rock and Shreveport will be members of next year's Southern League. > And Judge Kavanaugh will be re elected president of the Southern League. This isn’t what Atlanta wants. But It Is what Atlanta gets, and not what Atlanta wants, that cuts Ice through the western end ot the elrcult 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 hustle mightily for eecond place, thanks to Billy Smith. Mike Finn Is still fuming over the Castro deal. He Is firmly convinced that he could have nailed *1,000 to *1,260 for the man. and Intimates that as he waa Bold 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). 28 1-2 Whitehall. , mm- ! *»■•» «*»*■ •*-■ »iw mum i-v* a-. rirBII •a loose every time any Cracker pulled tbe fact that hla name waa projnlnenl- office. 1 ly mentioned a* a successor to Judge Kavanaugh ns president of the South ern League. "It Is getting to bo a yearly thing to mix my name up with the other candldatea." aald Mr. Miller. "1 have lust quit denying It. 1 am Juat one of the hired men of the league, and It will be a long day before I run for president. Certainly not aa long aa President Kavanaugh will accept the Some Notes and Gos sip Gathered With With the Team. ly had nothing to do with It and knew nothing about It until It waa com pleted. The Birmingham Ledger calls Billy Smith “four-flushing and ungrateful,” and charges (hat he started the aglta. tlon against the Caatro deal. Billy says they are mistaken. "I never said any thing against It,” said Smith. "In fact, I was tickled to death. I would have been glad If they could have borrowed Mathewson and a few such to finish out the season.” The less Birmingham haa to aay about the deal the better. It looks shady, but Atlanta would be glad to believe that it la all right. So let’s let It go at that. 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 aa the “candy kids.” According to .Jordan, two other members of the Atlanta team—Even 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 & big hit. Crosier and Jordan spend all their waking hours with their heads togeth er, doping out tiled floors, soda water apparatus, fancy fixtures and the like. "The Candy Kldi" say that their place along side the Aragon Is going to be the handsomest In town, and Its pop ularity Is a foregone conclusion. It's a race between the mosquitoes and the ball players for nossestlon of the hotel here. Winters declares that the Ktegomylas and the anopholes (only he didn't say just that) don't mind the mosquito bars. "Thay 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 slss, and the tram let It go at that. But getting back to the moaqultoei they are certainly blood-thirsty. COUNTRY CLUB WORKS STUNT By PERCY WHITING. Special Correspondence. Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 26.—Tbe Country Club of Little Rock la working out a stunt which might well be noticed by the Atlanta Athletic Club. They now hare a neat little club house In a delightful situation a half dosen miles or so from the Arkansas capital. • Tbe upper floor has for a. long time been turned orer to the male members of the club for sleeping rooms and the number of men who trailed themselres of the privl- lege of spending the summer nights there prored so Urge that the club la now mak ing pUns to accommodate all who wish to come. Work will be started la a short tfma ot a "dormitory,” *p It Will be called. This will be a neat little two-story building, where sleeping accommodations will be pro* rldsd for twenty to thirty men. The rooms will not be fancy, but they will be cool And comfortable and there tbe members of the dab who want to get sway from the best of tbe dty will spend their nights. Of course the average country dub Is provided with Bleeping rooms, but ss a rule they are rather elaborate attain and a’ considerable sum Is charged for their use. In the Little Bock dnb'a dormitory the rooms will be free to the members. The dub will provide the furniture and the men will furnish their own bedding. The dub will bars a regular breakfast served each morning and supper may be ordered by those who wUh It In thU way tbe member* of the clnb who wish to get out where it }• cool and comfortable and with in reach of tennis courts and a golf course can do so at any time and tha cost will ba decidedly reasonable. Watch Brotman Grow, i O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. O O Atlanta In Shreveport. O Birmingham In Memphis. O Montgomery In Little Rock. . O Nashville In New Orleans. O -r O 00000000000000000000000000 That man Beeker has developed Into a wonderful winner at home. He Is the man, It will be remembered, whom Bob Gllks released early In the season and then signed over again because Brelt- 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 League season’s first triple play. Nash ville beat him the only time he haa lost. Atlanta was beaten by him here by a score of 5 to 4—In one of the sea son’s multitudinous one-run-margln games—and that one run came as 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 has a bruised fin ger. all of Shreveport'i pitchers are pretty warm propositions at this writ ing, and about equally dangerous. EDGEW00D 16, SOUTHERN RY. 1. Hstunliy sfternoon, Edgewood met snd detested the Houthern Rsllwny tenm by the score of 1* to !. The festure of the gsme wss the pitch ing of Kline for Edgewood, who did not sllow Ms opponents s bit. The saute wss railed at the end of the slstb Inning on account of rain and dark* genre liy Innings: Edgewood Southern Railway.. . R. II. E. ..10! 6*2—1* 12 2 . .000 100- l 0 9 NAT KAISER & CO. Confidential loans on valuables. Bargains in unredeemed Diamond* 15 Occatur %L Kimball Hous* Seven out of nine on the road. Per centage for the trip, .777. Reckon that would sort o' win thq pennant, If kept up. At last, old Ote fltockdsle haa . had a bit of luck. Monday he trimmed tbe Birmingham* by the score of 1 to 0. ITofftnsn. was all to the bad Monday, getting three large errors that would have been costly hut for the heavy hitting of the Cracker*. Ills last mlscue was In tbe ninth. Tbe first man up for fihrsre- port slammed one down to third, and Hof- fy threw ths ball Into the bleachers, giving the runner a free pass all the way homo. Harley then ateadled down and put three men down In a row. It wns the lowly Washington team that atopped the Chicago Americana, after they had won nineteen successive games. 'Twss ever thus. Jeems Archer made a pretty good start In center field, getting four put-outs and two bits. It was observed concerning one of the pitchers In a certain professional baseball team tbnt be was not a particularly bril liant player In hla position. He had no better assortment of drops, outcurve* or Inahoot* than the average pitcher, and hla speed was not at all phenomenal, jet be semed to have n faculty of winning game*. A frequent patron of thla dub once nak ed the captain for an explanation. *IIow doea It happen," he oald, "that you generally win when he pitches?" "Well,” responded the captain, "you no tice that he never chins the umpire, sad never kicks?" Yes." He's always smiling?” Yes." Always seems to be doing the liest he can?” •Yes." •Well, do yon think we don't notice that, too? We know he’s a good fellow, we *11 like him, and when he's In the box we five him the very l»est support we’ve got In he shop. That’s why we win gsnies when he pitches." „ .. Here I* s principle with a wider field of anpllciitlon than it baseball field.— nut us Companion. * Mike Mowery arrived from Baltimore fast evening, and will play third base In today's gnme*. The red top Is looking m great shape, nnd feels confident of contin uing here the good work that made him the talk of the Eastern League- <»U»d to get l*»ek to Clndnnatl. ’ said Mike last night, ‘‘though they treated me fine brer In Baltimore. I hop* to *|o well epongU not to disappoint toe public. —C incinnati M^ke waa last year the "tar third* seeker of the gavanuab South Atlantic League team.