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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1006.
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SPORTS
Edited by PERCY H. WHITING
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DOUBLE-HEADERS GALORE ON THE BILL
FOR THE CLOSING WEEK OF THE SEASON
L' r i r
I 1 1 J
Bobby Gilks Will Probably
Manage Shreveport Again
As far as Manager Oilks knows, he
win manage the Shreveport team next
year—In spite ot seventy-nine rumors
to the contrary.
"I have not talked the matter over
with Captain Crawford,” said Man
ngnr Oilks, "but as far as I know now
I shall be back. I did have some<
thing 1 else In mind, and there Is a
possibility that the scheme 1 have may
be carried through, but It Is not cer
tain.”
Manager Oilks brings the news that
Wetkart, the veteran first baseman who
played with Shreveport for several
years, and who was lent to New Or
leans In a pinch once when the deal
caused a lot of talk, will probably
manage the Galveston team next year.
Welkart ought to make one of the
best minor league managers In the
business. He knows baseball and can
play some yet.
In commenting on the fact that
Ilvrne, the speedy little shortstop of
the Shreveport team, was laying off to
take a rest In order to try to get In
shape to report to the major league
team which had drafted him this fall,
Managed- Oilks said: "These fellows
are making a mistake In going to the
big leagues when they are In bad shape.
Maxwell went to Pittsburg the other
day with his arm In poor condition. He
can't hope to do his best, of course,
he can tell the manager that his arm
la bad, but what people want is to see
the goods delivered. Byrne la In
wretched condition to go St. I,oula and
Absteln la far from his beat, and will
make a mistake If he reports to Pitts
burg this fall.”
It comes out now that Bobby Qllks
wanted to sell both Absteln and Byrne
to Philadelphia, but Connie Mack
dubbed along and rather than let
Absteln go to draft Gilks sold him to
Pittsburg.
Another bit of history which has de
veloped since Gilks has been here Is
that he tried to buy the Charleston
franchise In the South Atlantic League
last year. It could have been secured
for a bit less than nothing at that time
and Oilks went after It. But he missed.
And It Is not at all certain that
Bobby would not take the same fran
chlse right now, provided It was handed
to him on the right kind of a platter.
Played Such Fine Baseball
That Neither Team Scored
ATLANTA Ot SHREVEPORT 0
By EDWIN CAMP.
Eighteen athletes, surcharged with capsicum, but afflicted with blind-
spots, spun out a ten-Innlng runless performance at Piedmont park Mon
day afternoon. The engagement was the first of the last week of play In
the Southern League this year.
Devoid as the battle was of tallies and meager as It was In swats. It
was a nonpareil struggle, abounding In brilliant plays that transformed
nascent hits Into outa But there was little to arouseahe spirit of fandom.
The game was superbly mechanical, but with one exception wholly lack
ing In ability to awaken and stir the silent crank. Eighteen machines. In
capable of making a mlscue, would have put up Just as Interesting a spec
tacle. The game demonstrated more clearly than any seen at Piedmont
park this year that baseball has evoluted too much toward defensive per
fection. Invincible pitching, backed up by IJawless fielding, Is pretty enough
to watch—but give your real fans some good old time swatting!
Hickman, the petit, and Zeller had things all their own way. The mid
get allowed three hits so widely separated that they were never dangerous.
Zeller yielded two swats In tho first Inning after two men were nut, and
thereafter was as Invulnerable as Achilles with a shield on hts heel. The
only fielding mlsplay of the game was a dropped foul by Hess. That Is
the story of the game.
The one event of importance during the afternoon was a particularly
brilliant bit of head-work by the about-to-be major leaguer, Absteln. In
cidentally, It made two Atlanta players look like foolish ones.
It was this way: (
Crosier opened the fourth Inning by getting a ripping slnglo to center.
Then was scheduled the Inevitable sacrifice. Archer up stuck nut nls bat
and met a high one a little bit late. Instead ot a bunt a line drive materialised.
Absteln, coming In like a steam engine, caught the ball squarely and Inten
tionally dropped It. Meanwhile Crosier, who was half way to second, turned
around and dug back to first for dear life. Absteln picked up the ball,
hurled It to second, where Smith tagged the bag and then throw to Evans,
who touched first. Archer made no movo to run. Double play of the pret
tiest sort you ever saw. It was some few minutes before the Atlanta team
found out where It was at. Then Crosier set up a claim thnt the drive was
foul. He may have thought so nil right, but credit must go to Absteln for
having a well-filled think-tank.
Though the game went ten Innings, only 31 men actually faced Zeller
and only 32 appeared at bat for Atlanta. Four men were up for Shreveport
in the first Inning. During the other nine, three men each inning was the
result. In only two Innings Atlanta got four men to bat. In eight tho
S iuota was three. Archer throw out three trying to stenl: Powell retired
our that way. Atlanta had two men left on huse. Shreveport hnd one.
Toung Smith, Gilks' Texns League short fielder, plnycd n superb game.
He handled twelve chances In great shape, two of his plays being of rare
brilliance. Otto Jordan also starred. He covered everything from left
center to the scoreboard, accepting eleven chances. The throwing of Arch
er, who appeared behind the bat for the first tlmo since the team has
been at home, was better than Crlger's nt his best.
The figures:
ATLANTA. AB. B. II. PO. A. K.
Winters, rf 4 o 1 0 0 <1
' der. If 4 ‘ - '
4,0 0 S 3
. 2 0 0 2 1 0
X. li>. _
Tull*CP. cf 3
Zeller, p 2
3 0 0 7 4
0 0 9 0 0
0 0 6 1 0
0 0 0 2 0
Abwtidn, lb 3
Smith, ft* 4
Ihtlrjr, If 2
King, of . . . 3
11 a. 3b 3
Powell, c. ....... n
Hlpkmnu. p 3
0 1 13 2 0
0 15 7 0
0 0 10 0
0 0 10 0
0 0 111
0 0 6 5 0
0 0 0 3 0
Total 50 0 3 30 ll 0 Total.
.20 0 4 30 22 1
Score hy inning*:
Shreveport o 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 0-0
Atlanta . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o o o-O
Summary—Sacrifice hlta: Hoffman, Ahstcln. liouble Mint Abatoln to Smith to
Evan*. First bane on ball*: Off Hickman 6. lilt by pitched bull: lly Zeller 1. Struck
okt: by Zeller 5, by Hickman 5. Time, 2:06. Umpire*, Pfetnilnger and Walnacott.
The Georgian's Score Card.
WINTERS, rf ..
CROZIER, If
S- SMITH, c..
HOFFMAN. 3b
JORDAN. 2b ...
WALLACE, cf
HUGHES, p...
■ totals -
E. I SHREVEPORT.
KENNEDY, rf
ABSTKIN, lb.
H SMITH, ss
DALEY, If ...
KINO. cf.. ,.
HESS. 3b
GRAFFIUS, c
|| FRITZ, p
Score by Innings: 1234 6 G 7 8 9 10 11—R
8hreveport
PIRATES FAIL TO LAND THE TREA8URE.
GILKS TO LEAD A TERM
INTO “DARKEST HAVANA
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Manager Gllka Is as busy as a hill of
ants these days, getting together the
team which he will carry to Cuba on a
barnstorming trip.
The hackers of baseball In Havana
opened negotiations with Manager
Fhtnk, of New Orleans, but Charley
did not want the Job and turned it over
to Bobby Gilks, who Is now enlisting
his team.
Already Lee Garvin nnd "Little Eva"
Wilhelm have signed for the engage
ment, and probably a couple of men
will be taken from the Shreveport
team. Manager Gllka wanted Absteln
and Byrne, but the former Is going to
Pittsburg and the latter Is not In good
condition. Gilks will also do a little
canvassing among the local players. He
would like to land Fox to cover first
base for him.
The team leaves tho United States
October 16 and will be gone six weeks.
Practically all of the time will be spent
In Havana, playing with the Innumer
able teams In that city.
Manager Gilks made his first trip to
Cuba as a ball player some fifteen
years ago, and says that the game was
pretty rough down there then.
He Is not worrlod thBt the present
excitement In Cuba will bother his
baseball team. As they play In Havana
and as Cuban revolutlona are seldom of
sufficient seriousness to be worthy of
great notice, Manager Gilks believes
that hla team will play to good crowds
—revolution or no revolution.
Will Play Twice Wednesday
If Crackers Win Tuesday
A double-header Is on at Piedmont
park Tuesday and perhaps one will be
played Wednesday, to decide the game
which was left unsettled at sunset
Monday.
The question of a game Wednesday
will not be settled until Tuesday night.
If Atlanta wins both games of Tues
day’s double-header, then the Crackers
will still be, In the race for second
place, and Manager Smith will play a
double-header Wednesday. If the
team loses both games Tuesday, then
no more double-headers with Shreve
port.
HUGO KELLY V8. 8AILOR BURKE.
Special to Tho. Georgina.
Boston, Sept. 11.—A fifteen-round bout be
tween Hugo Kelly nnd Sailor Burke Is tho
scheduled attraction arranged by the Lin
coln Club of Chelsea for Its patrons to
night. A lively contest Is anticipated, ni
both Holly nnd Burke have recently shown
up well. Kelly distinguished himself two
weeks ngo by knocking out Tony Cnponl,
while Burke still rests on his reputation ac
quired by knocking out Joe Grim.
SIBLEY BACK
AT STONE MT.
Jesse Sibley, one of the best nll-rnuml
athletes who ever graduated from Yntaler*
blit, will be at tha University School at
Stone Mountain this year as Instructor nnd
will nsslst Coach Beaver lit devloplng the
football team. Ho will also coach the base
ball team In the spring.
Mr. Sibley will not go back to Vanderbilt
O WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. 0
& Shreveport In Atlanta. 0
O Memphis In Birmingham. 0
Little Rock in Montgomery. 0
O New Orleans in Nashville. 0
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G. M. L Football Team Starts
Work With Fair Prospects
The Georgia Military Academy football
team has gone to work In earnest under tho
direction of Coach Patterson, the atreiinou*
disciple of Hun McOuIgttu, Hurry-up Yost’s
trusted lieutenant.
Four of Inst year’s regular*, two of last
year’s subs nnd a dozen likely looking new
men nre on hnnd nnd It seem* probable thnt
a team will be turned out which will be a
credit to the college, though It will mean
plenty of hard work for tho conch, the regu
lars nnd the scrub*.
Tire old men who are back nre Houghton,
Whitley, Merrln and Clarke, while the aut>«
who will try for the regular team this year
nre Doty nnd Forbes.
Among tho new men who look promising
nre Kupperhush, Byrd, Willingham, Akins,
Smnmerlnnd, Alford, Mny, Griffin, Wilson,
Colley, nnd Haines.
For tho present Conch Tntterson Is put*
ting hla men through only the very lightest
work nnd the candidates will not be hur
ried for several weeks. Patterson Is n Ann
believer In slow development nml will take
his time with the O. M. A. team.
, Mr. Patterson, who has studied football
under three different coaches nml played
with Vanderbilt against teams from Michi
gan to Texas, does not take much stock
In the new rules.
"There pppenr to bo two set* of rules this
year—one for the public nnd the other for
the players. An fnr na I enn see, the com
mlttoe hns not doue much. The rules re
quire two umpires, but you con have one l!
you want; the rules nllow a forward pass,
Imt If the hnll touches the ground It goes
over, nnd the new rules require your team
to make ten yards on three downs Instead
of five yards, so that the players will have
to work twice ns hard ns before. I don't
look, for any radical changes under the
new rules."
RECORD MADE
BY AUTO BIKE
N»w York, Sept. 11— R. G. Mueller,
of Cleveland, Is today the guest of the
New York Cycle Club. He arrived
here at 9:13 o'clock last night on his
auto-cyde, having broken the record
for the 3,568-mlle run from San Fran
cisco to New York by more than sev
enteen days, and the best previous one-
man automobile record by a day and a
half.
Mueller's exact time for his long run
ras thirty-one days, twelve hours and
thirteen minutes. The previous record
for the trans-continental trip on an
auto-cycle was held by W. C. F. Chad-
eaypee. who a • year ago went from
New York to San Francisco In forty-
eight days. It hours, 35 minutes.
L. L. Whitman holds the one-man
automobile record, having made the
trip from coast to coast In 32 days and
21 hours.
Yesterday's was Mueller's best day,
when he traveled from Fart Plain, N,
Y„ to this city, a distance of 213 miles.
HOW’S THIS?
Bussey cleans and reshapes old felt
hats to look like new. 281-2 White
hall street.
NAT KAISER & CO.
Cunffcfentfgt loans on valuables.
Bargains In unredeemed Diamond*
15 Decatur St. Kimball Housa
League Standings
SOUTHERN.
Played. Won. Lost. P. C.
Birmingham
. 127
82
45
.646
Memphis .
. 130
76
64
.585
Atlanta . .
. 128
73
65
,67<
New Orleans
. . 130
72
58
.651
Shreveport
. 127
68
69
.535
Montgomery
. . 127
62
65
.488
Nashville . .
. . 130
44
86
.33*
Little Hock .
. . 133
39
94
.293
NATIONAL.
Clubs—
Plaved. Won. Loet.
P.C
Chicago . .
. 132
100 .
32
.76*
New York . .
. . 128
83
45
.649
Pittsburg .
. 129
81
48
.628
Philadelphia
. . 129
69
70
.468
Cincinnati .
. 132
66
76
.424
Brooklyn . . .
51
76
.402
St. Luii» .
. 132
48
84
.364
Boston . . .
42
89
.320
AMERICAN.
Clubs—
Played. Won. Loet
P.C.
New York . .
. . 126
77
49
.611
Chicago . ,
. 126
76
50
.603
Cleveland .
. 122
69
53
.566
Philadelphia
. 125
69
56
.552
St. Louis .
. 125
64
61
.612
[Detroit . .
. 124
57
67
.460
Washington
. 127
49
78
.386
Boston . . .
. 129
41
88
.318
Let Brotman, The Tailor,
Make your fall clothes, 3 E. Ala*
bama St., opp. Century Building.
Watch Brotman Grow
MONDAY'S RE8ULTS,
Southern—
Atlanta 0, Shreveport 0, 10 Innings.
Little Rock 1, Montgomery 0.
Birmingham 2, Memphis 0.
Nashville 7, New Orleans 0.
American—
Philadelphia 2, Washington 1.
Detroit 2, Chicago 1.
Boatnn 4. New York 1.
National—
Philadelphia 8, Brooklyn I.
New York 4, Boston 0.
American Association—
Columbus 2. Louisville 1.
Indianapolis 2, Toledo 1.
Minneapolis 1, St. Paul 0.
Milwaukee 3. Kansas City 0.
Eastern—
Jersey City 2, RnchesterL
Newark 10. Montreal 4.
Buffalo 5, Providence 9.
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