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\ F 12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1006. ,. ~ ~ —s-i SPORTS Edited by PERCY H. WHITING w> 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 99 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 0O<HJO<KH0<H0OO<H200O0OO000OOO 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. Whitney's New Go-Carts Fresh, Seasonable Goods Yes, right now, right at the beginning of the beautiful and glorious Indian Summer, we have received a big NEW stock of Whitney’s incomparable Go- carts. And the prices—well, they are just right. $15 Carts $10—=$30 Carts $20 SEND FOR OUR FINE NEW CATALOG. You are invited to open an ac count with us. Just choose what you want and make your own terms of payment. We have no collectors. We de pend on the self-respect and hon or of our customers. You do your own paying. How’s that ? Walter J. Wood Company, 103-5-7-9-11 Whitehall Street.