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r > THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 3906. Some Spray From Sport’s Big Waterfall LIGHTWEIGHTS WHO ARE MATCHED TO FIGHT JjEDITED BY I! PERCY H. WHITING. j i: : •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••* j BASKET BALL FRIDAY NIGHT NO GAME SATURDAY, AS PLAY. ERS WANT TO 8EE YALE PERFORM. The basket ball fames at the T. M. C. A. this week will be played on Fri day night Instead of Saturday. This change Is made In order that the play, era may witness the Yale-Atlanta Ath letic Club basket ball contest. The schedule for Friday night will bring the Y's against the M’s and the C’s against the A The standing of the league at pres ent Is: Teams. Won. Lost. Pet. M’s 2 1 .666 2 1 .666 Y’s 1 2 .332 1 2 .333 PLAYING BALL IN DRILL HALL • Hpoclnl to The Georgian. Augusta, Go., Dec. 18.—An Indoor baseball league has been organized In Augusta which will probably continue until the first of next March. The games are played In the armory drill hall. The league Is comprised of eight success. Andy Roth, former ly of the Augusta baseball team, is a prominent man In the league. The best present you could give your family would be a fuel-saving Buck’s Range. It will be the best invest ment you ever made. Fuel-saver, fine baker, quick water heater, easy to oper ate. Buy a Buck’s and your stove troubles are over, for you know we Guarantee Them to Be Just Right. Just as well have the best. Will lessen your fuel bill every day in the year and insure perfect cooking. Your order for a Range or Stove will be promptly executed. The holiday rush is not allowed to interfere with our store business. ORDER TODAY. 00000000000000000O000O000O O NASHVILLE CLUB 0 0 DEFEATED 8EWANEE. 0 0 Special to The Georgian. 0 0 Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 18.—Se- v 0 wanee’s basket ball team lost to 0 0 the Nashville Athletic Club team 0 0 last nlgllt by a score of 18 to 0. 0 0 Christmas night the Nashville 0 0 Athletic Club bunch will play Yale 0 v here. 0 000000000000000000000000OD WALTER J. WOOD CO. 103-5-7-9-11 WHITEHALL STREET. BY PERCY H. WHITING. Guess the prospects for Atlanta’s baseball team next spring look pretty miserable, not Looks like Atlanta for the last division t No, once moret The great and glorious timo for winning pennants in the Hot Air league has not yet arrived. We always put off the official announcement that "our” team has won the pennant until Little Rock has come forward with a similar claim. For that time is always sufficiently early. But honest now, Bo, doesn’t it look like a pennant winner from here. f Sid Smith, the best in tho Southern, Sweeney, the best in the South Atlantic, and O’Leary, the best of the Western Associa tion crowd—these men for catchers. Zeller, Sparks, Childs, Harley, Raymond, Ford, Spade and Schopp for pitchers. An infield picked from the following collection of celebri ties: James Fox, Otto Jordan, Whitey Morse, Nonl Ball, Larry Hoffman and Bill Dyer. An outfield which will contain three of tho following stars: Wallace, Winters, Paskert and Beeker. Tech Faculty Puts Limit on Length of Baseball Season If you are a good baseball fan and can read that list nnd ■till feel pessimistio over the outlook, go to a doctor. You’re out of order someway. * That outfield can hit .300 every day in the week, all season long. The infield will again contain Jim Fox at first and Otto Jordan at second, the best men in their positions in the leaguo last year; and the pick of four more men, all of them good enough for any team in the league. Behind the bat the Atlanta team will bo in a class by itself. Sid Smith will certainly lead the leaguo at catching. As for pitchers—well, figure it out for yourself. They look pretty good to’ us. PART OF SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR VANDERBILT BALL TEAM Special to The Georgian. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. II.—At a meeting of the Vanderbilt Athletic Asaoclatlon lust bight baseball games for 1107 were announced as fol lows: April 4. 6 nnd *—Alabama, at Tuscaloosa. April 18. 19. 20—Cumberland University, at Nashville, April 25. 26 and 27—Georgia Tech, at Nashville. May 9. 10 and 11— Sewanee, at Nashville. May 3 and 4—Sewanee. at Sewanee. Ed Palmer was elected manager of the football team of 1907: Owsley Manler, the star fullback. Is manager of the Vanderbilt baseball team. Of Course fRRH THE STANDARD OF PURITY. OOOtHWWtKWKKKHJOCHKHJOOOOO O O O BROOKLYN AFTER O O DATES IN ATLANTA. O O Q O C. H. Ebbcts, of the Brooklyn O O team, has written Hilly 'Smith O Q asking for two exhibition games - In the spring. Smith does not know yet whether he will be able to play them or not. O CHW9000<HS«WWHCKHS00<HKI00IKH3 NELSON WANTS ANOTHER BOUT New York, Doc. IS.—"Nelson I* ready to meet Gana at any time after IiIh return from Europe, llo wlU light ttlni at ring aide at 133 pounds before the club offering the beat Inducement*. IIo will light ner take nil,' or apllt tho money any Unuo want*; that la, on a percentage basin of ao much to the winner or loner. Gann can not have a bonun, but nuy tdde bet he wants.” Thla wo a the atatemeiit of Hilly Nolan, Nelaou'a manager, prior to anlllng ou the Celtic for Europe. Nclnon la to follow bin manager within two weeks. Nolan aald that Tonopnh would give $30,000 for the battle, and that a town In Tuxaa had offer ed $35,000. E 'ALL-AMERICAN” CALLED A“FARCE’ •MtlHHMHHIHItHHHIHHtOHIIMMMHI The editor of the North Georgia Citizen of Dnlton took a few mlnutea off the other day to pay hla reapeeta to the men who pick all-American football teaina and ig nore Southern player*. Here, in part, wan what be had to aay: "The time hat come when noted football anthorltlea In the North make up their 'all American' football team, and It Is a notice able fact that, no matter what kind of a team the South produce*, there Is uev man placed on the 'all-American' by these so-called football authorities. "The Vanderbilt team of this year was the greatest ever turned out from any Southern Institution. Hy the playing of the famous Blake brothers, Manler, I'ralg, Stone, and others tho mighty Carlisle In dian team bit the duat to tho tune of 4 to Michigan was held to 10 to 6. This was the only team to win from the Commo dores. Yet Chadwick has picked his 'all American' and not a single Vanderbilt man waa chosen. Will there never be a Southern college player strong enough for the 'al!-Atueri can?' Let the 'authorities’ think of that and see If they can't afford to gfve a few Southerners the second team. If they are to keep up the farce of cho4»slng the teams from only Northern. Kastern and Western colleges, they should at least rail the team chosen the * All-North- eru-Hastern-Westeru Team’ instead of the 'all-American,' where a Southern Institution Is uever represented." The Tech baseball season will be shorter next spring than ever before. Only nineteen games will be played, one a double-header. This limiting of the number of base ball battles Is a result of the action of the Tech faculty, which ruled against an excessive number of games. Even then, however, a fine schedule has been framed up, and lovers of college sport will have the pleasure of witness ing some Interesting games'next year. In order to play as many different teams as possible, the exhibition game which Tech has been In the habit of claying with both Mercer and Georgia has been eliminated, and only three gntnes will be played with these two Institutions, these games counting In the rate for the championship of the state. With fe\v exceptions, the teams which will be played aro those which In post years have played u part In the contest for the championship of the South, nnd as a consequence it will probably be easy to determine Just how Tech will stand when final honors come to be awarded. Last season, as will be remembered, Tech won the champion ship of Georgia and the South in a hair-raising llnlsh with Georgia, the crowd which witnessed the final game being the largest which ever turned out to see Southern college baseball teams contest. The exact attendance that day was 3,648. Tech will havo Just eleven games with other colleges In Atlanta next season, while eight games will be play ed on foreign diamonds. The faculty limit on games Is eighteen, but the extra game Is allowed on account of the fact that a double-header will be played with Sewanee on April 20. The following Is the corrected sched ule as’ given out by Professor Randle, who Is the head of athletics at Tech: March 23—Bnrnesvllle, In Atlanta. March SO—Mercer. In Atlanta. April 3—Georgia, in Athens. April 5 and 6—Clemson, In Atlanta. April 12 and 13—Mercer. In Macon. April 19 and 20—Sewanee, In Atlanta. Double-header on April 20. April 25, 26 and. 27—Vanderbilt, In Nashville. * May 3 and 4—Furman. In Atlanta. May 10 and 11—Auburn. In Auburn. May 17 and 18—Georgia, In Atlanta. ’ Week-Long Session of Poker Planned by New Orleans Sports BASEBALL NOTELET8. New York. Dec. 18.—George B. Do- vey, the new owner of the Boston Na tionals, sold 13,000,000 worth of street cars In a year. Boston fans are figur ing on how many dollars worth of baseball he can dispose of In six months. Jack Dun caji have the Baltimore managerial berth for the asking. He will ask for It all right, and will make k'o.Hl, tOO. NAT KAISER & CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur St. Kimball House. Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. By J. 8. A. MAC DONALD. Now Orleans, |j„ Dec. 18.—A monster poker game, wlileli is to run for n week >r ten days, is being idauned for this Ity for some time right after the com ing holidays. r years. "nol»" Tinker, "Billy" Odell, AI|>house Pontlll«*u, "8ol" I.bhtoiiHtcIn and Iter Mg stake gntuMer* have withered re at some period In the long winter for siege of faro and draw. The "lid" Is off here this winter, nnd mime staggering poker Is being played nightly at errry one of the large down town hotels and clubs; In fnct, poker, like roller skating, is seeing a great revival. Two local eluli*, which could not accom modate* the faro piny »a*t winter, ore now catering exclusively to |ioker devotee*. ^ Thousand* of dollnrs change hands weekly la the big games now running. Rut tin? rent great tourney being arranged will tie a corker from all accounts, for a number of the biggest and most daring poker play ers In the country will participate. "Jack" Htandlsh, who conducted the no- limit millionaires’ game at l'nlm flench, Fin., last winter. Is promoting the bleu. Late this week he received a letter from "Pop" Wescott, from whose game nt Hnr- ntoga Inst August "Rob" Tucker took down $30,000 In two nights' sitting, saying he would be on hand anxious to havo a come-back at Tucker, llarry Stover will come all the way from Frisco for • the week’s play. Other prospective partici pants nre "Cap" Rrndley, of St. Pant, Minn.; Theo Barrett, of New York, and "Jake” Sanders, of Torouto, Canada, fa tuous on two continents for their ability with the deck, ft Is thought Htnndlsh Idea of a high stake poker carnival for the foremost professionals of the country Is unique. It baa never been done lieforg. The last real smart gambling Now Orleans saw was two winters ago when Lichtenstein, the New York bookmaker, tossed off over $30,000 In a couple of sittings playing bank In one of the exclusive down-town clubs. "Dike" Dauaher, old-time pal of Jere Dunn nnd one of the few of the famous Mississippi river professional card-playing brigade of twenty year* ngo. Is here ou the job. According to the gossip of the St. Charles hotel corrblors, he enjoyed a flue break at the Dlxlann Club recently, when he Itent the bank for a small for tune. Never Itefore In the history of win ter raring In this city have so mnuy cel ebrated gamblers rendezvoused In town ns la now the case. Y. M. C. A.’s Professional Ranks High Among American Golfers Chris Crosby, the professional golfer who will hare charge of the Atlanta Young Men's Chrlatlnn Association’s golf course at }M?<lmont park during the win ter, la one of the moat promising of the fast growing clans of American professional golfers. Crosby'a hoipe Is In East Orange, N. J., and he learned the game on the many ex cellent "Jersey" courses. Several years ngo, when a mere boy, Crosby came to Atlanta to take charge of the course of the Atlanta Golf Club at Piedmont park. He spent nearly two years giving lessons, taking care of the course, nnd Incidentally Improving bis own game. When he left Atlanta he went to New York, and there took part In the open chniuplonshlp over the Van Conrtlandt park course. To tho surprise of nil but.bis. At lanta backers, he made a phenomenally good showing nnd tied for fourth place. At various times, Crosby has served as professional at the Arsdnle Golf Club, of Newark, the course at Paul Smith's In the Adlrondscks, and the South Orange Field Club. That Crosby will have a busy winter Is Though the Young Men's Chrlstlau Association has a number of first- class golfers, It also has something over fifteen hundred members who do not golf but many of whom will be glad to lean! the gnme. Crosby will make a moderate charge fop giving lessons, and will probably have all ho wants to do In that line. All members of the Young Men's Chris tian Association who wish to play golf, or any non-members who wish to secure the privileges of the course, are asked to com- munlente with Physical Director Weems. A small, fee will bo charged to all players In order to defray the expenses of ken* Ing up the course. BRIEF NOTE8 OF SPORT. Jimmy Callahan haa flooded his ball park In Chicago and will oparate nn Ice skating rink this winter. Jeems Is the busy k!l nowadays. It la whispered In Columbus, Ohio, that several tempting offers for Ilert Rlue. th- catcher, have beeu turned down lately. Perhaps Jnck Thoney, of Toronto, will be back In Rochester next season. A fc»v years ago Jack put In part of a season with the New York Atnerlcuus. New Orleans Is Money Mad; Fierce Betting on Races Schopp First Atlanta Player To Sign Contract For 1907 The first Atlanta baseball contract for the reason of 1807 haa been algned. A couple of days ago Grant Schopp, the Ottumwa phenomenon, eelaed hie truaty Waterman In hit ponderous right and shot It arroaa an Atlanta contract. Tuesday the contract reach ed Billy Smlth'a office. Very likely several of the other men who are going to play with Atlanta next aeaaon will eonn do llkewiae. How ever, there la uaually a little coynera displayed ami now and then a candi date for a Job makea a play for a hold up salary. There la not much trouble along this line In the Southern. Every r haa to keep within hailing dlatance «f the aalary limit and he knows Just about what he ran afford to pay each of hla men. 80 It la generally a caae ..f playing for what the manager offers or hunting baseball. Usually the men prefer to play. Cer tainly they are likely to In Atlanta, for the Cracker management Is. as liberal with Ita men oa the laws of the league allow. New Orleans, Dec. 18.—The city la seeing a money carnival such as never before prevailed here. Despite the fact of no fewer than forty-two book-mak ers having done business on one single day last winter when the Fair Grounds and the City Park plants ran In opposi tion, there seems to be more money In circulation now with but one course operating at a time and about an aver age of twenty-five book-makers In line. The average wager la larger than last year. Undoubtedly ’’Sam” Hildreth Is missed, but ’’Bob" Thicker and the Ber- lew-O’Nelll confederacy Is infusing a lot of New York money Into the game. For a downright, slapdash gambler on this winter race-horse proposition there Is no one like Tucker. He bets on every race, and he plays them to the skies. Only that he haa enjoyed one or two good breaks during the mid dle part of the year he would be broke now. He Is destined to be a power here thla winter. He has on two books and controls the running of a well-bal anced and powerful stable of horses. Tucker bet as much as 132,000 In one afternoon nt Saratoga last August, while he won 928,000 In a day's ru» In? at the September meeting at Coni':’ Island. He bet 94,000 on a 6 to 5 cholca early this week and lost. All the ring professionals are talking about tho spllt-up between “Billy'’ Por ter. the Canadian soldier of turf fo-- tune, and Tucker. Last winter on the coast they were pals. Porter b"t ■Tuck’s" money there anil continued to do so all through the New York cir cuit this past summer. Then some thing happened and the two cronle, parted. Porter Is at Los Angeles, rah, racing and operating on his own ac- enunt. Tucker seems to be lost during the long evenings without the qualm Canadian at his elbow. As usual, "Charley" Celia Is pinkinga big book. Contrary to the vaporing* ‘ the Celia enemies, the firm has but or.a book on. They are not dominating tha bourse by any manner of means, ar.it require all their Immense wealth and cunning ability to stay with the hot pace set by the market Itself. From every Indication New Orleans Is going to enjoy the hottest ni»ne>’ whirl of Its raring nlstory during tbs next three months. Yale students are making war against the “smoke shop" speculators who buy up all the tickets, not only for the big games, but for "theater night” as well. The recent heavyweight “champion ship" fight at Los Angeles was n strange affair. The real champlotr*vas , In the ring all right, but as referee and not as principal. * DIAMONDS. In connection with our business we have added a stock of DIAMONDS, bought direct from the IM PORTERS for cash. We propose selling them on a’ very close margin of profit, cheaper, perhaps, than they can be bought elaewhere, and then, beaides, IF DESIRED, THEY MAY BE PAID FOR IN MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS. To the average Young Man or Woman there is no better INVESTMENT or SAVINGS BANK than the purchase of a DIAMOND. ATLANTA DISCOUNT CO, 817-818 Century Bldg. JOS. N. MOODY, President.