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fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1000.
UP-TO-DATE
OF SPORTING
NEWS
WORLD
EZ s
SIDNEY SMITH LEADS
BATTERS OF LEAGUE
Atlanta’s Catcher-Third Baseman Was Best
Among Stickers, While Tommy Hjghes
Led in Pitching Records.
HOW ATLANTA MEN BATTED
THREE STAR PLAYERS OF YALE’S CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM
Player*.
8. Stilltb 134
Winters 1*4
Fox 126
Morse ..................................... 128
Jordnn 134
HtluRon 24
E. Duggan 12
Crosier 145
Wallace 43
Archer 83
W. A. Smith 4*
Hughes 37
Ever* 5*5
Loucks 21
Hoffman 73
Raymond 7
Curtis li
Sparks 2*
Keller 42
Hurley 26
The leu true averages nr r «»nt.
Hid Smith Is the lending baft
Tom Hughes Is the tending pitcher.
*R. Smith, Attniilii
Dough**, Idttlu Itork.
Ahateiu. Mireveporr..
rtiwriu, •
MeekH. Ilirinlnghnm
THE HONOR ROLL.
Jlero ;ire the leagtte leaders In the vn-
rious department* of th»* fame. (If the
man who 1**1 In hi* position played In le**
thun fifty. game#, the leader among tho?e
wbo ployed in more than Hint number Is
u!»o given.)
Batting.
Sid Smith. Atlanta.
Pitching. •
tlnglies. Atlanta.
Fielding.
Catcher*-C.arvin. Birmingham ttirty one
games*.
IMtelier* Rnymoiid, Atlanta (seven
gstne?*)
first ltn*enmn-Mull(in*\v. Montgomery
(121 gamesi.
Ser.utd lta*omcn—I CofTnmr, Atlanta (scv-
Theso star players from Yalo dis
tinguished themselves in the {jreat
gridiron batt'e of the past season.
From loft to right they are Hock-
enberger, center; Morse (captain),
recovering a fumbled ball, and
Forbes, loft end.
Atlanta, Douglas of Little Hook, Abatelu
i ten men In the longue who took part In
IHH i
Flsl
lilbK
than fifty game*)
Made iuo*t error*, playing In
i lou -Nichols, of Metuphl*. »K5 (and lie
to the big league! Oh, mamma!)
Pitched In tin* most game*- I.fohhnrdt, oj
Memphis, 4C.
Made Hie most put-nula—Fairy, of Mem
phis, 1.5! 3.
Made lh>* most assists-Nichol*. of Mem* I
phi*. 49*\
Made the highest lidding average
mote thi.ii one hundred gnnic*)— Mails
Of Montgomery. .991 Irf Ul guinea.
Undo worst fielding uxerngo Mn
than ouu hundred gsrne*t—.Innsing,
Na«!iyiI1c, .Vij In US game*.
Below wi’J «*. founn «»e nop,. <mi
base st ruling mid K*«rllhdnff nbtlltle*
th" best men In those line* In the Iragu
THE BASE-STEALERS.
Byrne, Shreveport
1 louts, Montgomery
lllrkerf, New Orleans
Babb, Meniphi*
•I hie), Memphis
Meholl*. Memphis
Pin**, N. O.-Meui. Ndhli
Crosier, Atltnfa....,
Gilbert, Nashvllli-f.lttlo Uoek
M "ismafi, N ishvllie
Apperloos. Montgomery
Penrson, Nashville
THE SACRIFICE HITTERS.
Cargo, N»»vv O.lenn*
Hear, Blnnlnghmii
Byrne. Shreveport
tVBrlen, New Orleans
Nadeau, New orient)*-Memphis
Crosier, Atlanta
Hiultli, Birmingham
Carey, Metuphl*
Hntmen. Montgomery
Winter*. Atlanta
The lidding averages of tbo At!
j player* follow:
! HOW CRACKERS FIELDED.
Cstchsrs.
1 NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
«i. PO. A. K. P. Ct.
71 840 inw 12 .071
NAME—
ttnymon*!
Harley ...
Hiighe* ....
<i*nrU* ...
Keller ....
• ill*'* ....
First Baasmen.
PO. A. K. P. ct. I
12*» ims 71 14 .9*s;
Lsagus’s best bsttsr.
—Jordan, Atlanta (125 games).
— * * “ i-Bri •*
Shortstop*—Hoffman. Atlanta mix games*.
Hbortstops (more than fifty games)—Oyler,
Blnniuglinm (eighty-four game*).
Outfielders—Evers. Atlanta (fourteen
game**.
Outfielders (more than fifty games)—Knoll,
New Orleans (132 games).
Other Departments.
Played in most games—Dick Crosier, At
lanta.
At l»st most times—Blake, New Orleans,
545 time*.
Kcored most runs—Ifouts, Montgomery, 85.
Made most hits—Douglas*, of Little Bock,
and Babb, of Memphis. 150 each.
lilt for the most bases— Abstain, Shreve
port. 152 hit* for 20C lm*c*.
Most sacrifice hits—Cargo, of New Or-
lean*. 39.
Stole most bases—Byrne, of Shreveport,
NAME-
s. Smith .
Hoffman .
Third Bsstmsn*
Outfielders.
NAME- O PO.
Evert 14 29
Archer H 18
Crosier 145 261
Winters 144 IBS
Wallace 4.1 108
StiliHon 24 47
Curtis W 14
W. A. Smith 41 76
PITCHING AVERAGE8.
NAMK-
II us lie*. Atlanta 32
l.lebhardt. Memphli
TOM HUGHES.
Lssguo's best pitcher.
••••*••••■••••••*
Wilhelm. Birmingham
Walthour Beat Guignard in
Motor Paced Race Tuesday
Hobby Walthour won lil* Christmas
day rare from Gulgnaid, tin* record-
breaking: Frenchman, at tlio local Col-
scum Tuesday afternoon. Ho took
both flve-mlle heats.
A crowd which was unusually large,
considering the bitterly cold weather.
the
In ttyr* second heat Hobby took a
tumble, owing tr» the fact that his rear
tire blew up. but he was not badly
hurt, and *ys soon as ho could get u
now wheel, continued with the race.
PO. A. E. P. C. wilhelu*. Birmingham ..36 22 13
■■ 5 18 1 .»» Clark. Birmingham 37 2.
.128 231 404 69 .914 McCrane. Montgomery .. 6
dalle** Birmingham' ......21 '17*12
Hooker, Shreveport 27 15 11
r P c lllekman. Blrm -8hreve...28 13 10
1.000 Mamtel. Now Orleans ....32 17 II
1 000 Maxwell, Montgomery ...32 17 15
— Harley. Atlanta 24 12 11
Sugg*. Momphls 95 U 16
Gnosis Now Orloans 27 14 13
Malarkoy. Montgomery ..33 IS 17
P Clark. Memphis 14 7 7
s mb Brown. Memphis 10
_ __ _ _ _ | Breltonstolu. W., Shrew.-
ERAGE8. Montgomery 24 11 11
(7. W. L T. PCI. fforrell, N. Orlenns-Nnsh.22 11 H
*33: 1'hllllp*! New Orleans ....33 15 17
Tta I Wafoh. Montgomery “* " “
•i. i
Ixmek*. Atli*nta-Memphl*.18
Itenguu. Birmingham ... 31 21 8
Zeller, Atlanta 42 24 12
, .emphli
:n Hermann. Nashvlll.
•geg Spark*, ***-"*-
., Atlanta 20
itnehanan, Nn*livllle 13
Hrady. Llttlo Rock 40 14 21
DELEGATES FROM MANY COLLEGES
WILL PASS ON FOOTBALL RULES
New. York, Dec. 26.—Captain Palmer B. Pierce, of West Point, presi
ded of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, has Invited every Insti
tution of college ranlc In the country to send a delegate to the annual
convention which will be held at the Murray Hill hotel, Saturday morn
ing. At this meeting the reports of the football committee will be read
and a new committee appointed to consider more changes In the regula
tions for next year. The executive committee of the association will meet
ot Murray 1II1I Friday evening to study the main questions that will be
put before the convention.
Atlnntn is .satisfied with the baseball averages, even if slie did
get them one day later than several other cities in the league.
The official count gives Atlanta the lending batter. Sid
Smith; the leading pitcher, TomHughes, and a lot of Ininor honors.
Smith, with his marvelous showing of .320 in 134 games,
makes,all the other batters look like jokes.
Winters was well toward the top with .287.
Tommy lihghcs made monkeys of the other pitchers with
.833 for a per centi The rest oi the hunch trailed, with the
“Dutch Boy'' of Memphis second. Zeller was sixth among the
pitchers.
In fielding Atlanta stood right at the top. Raymond and
Ilarley were way up among pitchers, Fox was fourth among the
first sackers aud"Jordan led the second basemen who took part
iu more than seven games. , ., '
As may have been mentioned before in these columns, Atlan
ta did not win the penuaut, but for all that the publication of the
averages gives n feeling of satisfaction to .local fans that maybe
the Birmingham bunch is missing—for the Birmingham stars
did not shine very brightly among the leaders ns shown by the
league’s averages.
Pennsy” Will Play Games
With Chicago and Michigan
Philadelphia, Dec. 28,-Wltb the likeli
hood of having one of the best football
teams In Its career, the University of Peun-
syivnnla has secured fames with Michigan
nud Chicago for uext year. The Quakers
will go to Auu Arbor sod meet Michigan
November 9 und Chicago will como here
November 16 to play on Frankllu field.
The Coruell-Pennsylvanla game will 'fol
low on Thanksgiving day, so the Quakers
Of Course
mesH
pum
Xi. <TtKOlArES* BONBONS >
*h-^ JfTLfjffT/i Iff*
THE STANDARD OF PURITY.
, Watt. Little R.-N. Or 32 10 . _
Allemnng. Nashville 6 2 4 0 .333
Ely. Nashville 21 7 14 0 .333
Tribble. Moutgomer.v .... 6 2 4 0 .333
1 iiuggau. L. AtI.-Nash.... 13 4 8 1 .383
Seltb. Little Rock X % 17 0 .32)
’Idle, Montgomery 12 3 7 2 .3)0
! 'rtu. O-. Shreveport ....26 7 17 1 .291
•*hlnn. Little ll -Nash....15 4 11 0 .256
tohnsOD. Little Kock 8 2 6 0 .250
Ulen, Little Bock 17 8 12 2 .2»
- ** * . .12 2 9 1 .HI
.. 7 1 6 0 .142
A3 TO THE AVERAGES.
That Italey chap, of Memphis, batted
*ome—.293 In seventeen game*.
Heroic McCsy did well In the wind-op
with Little Rock. Batted .286 la. nine
games.
Mona '.* standing of .265 with the ash was
surprisingly good. The yellow-headed short-
stop hit 'em out pretty well—far better
than any shortstop In the league save
Byrne-unu Byrne will not be 'In our
midst’* next season. Not If he makes good
with the majors.,
Archer batted only .224 last season. He
will have to .better that considerably, or
Atlauta will have another chance nt him
next spring.
McCrnne, of Montgomery, had the honor
at bringing up the rear In the list of
butters. In six games he did not make a
hit.
Harley, with a per cent of .087, was
next to last among the Ifpgne's batters.
TOs worst batter In the league who took
part lu one hundred or more games was
Milo Stratton, of New Orleans, who hit
.161 In 119 games.
Loucks Is ranksd fourth among the pitch
ers of the league In per ceut of games
won. This Is a great surprise. It did not
look as tboogh V. Loucks would be "among
those present” at all.
Georg* Suggs, of Memphis, rated by
many o( the managers and players us the
l*est pitcher In the league, after Hughes
and Llebbardt. finished eighteenth in per
cent ot games won. Suggs' marvelous
carves and phenomenal speed did him lit
tle go«*d. for ho never had the uupport of
bis team.
Mnllsney, of Montgomery, batted .262 and
fielded first among the luttlal sackers, and
yet be has been allowed to go back to the
'•sab-minors."
BUTLER WINS
FOR SAVANNAH
EX-TECH PLAYER DOES FINE
WORK AGAINST ALL-STAR
FOOTBALL TEAM.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26.—The Savan
nah feam won In line Etyle from the
All-Star aggregation In the game here
yeeterday afternoon by a score of S to
7. Butler, the ex-Tech player, made
two goals from the field, scoring all ot
•Savannah’* point*.
The Ilne-up:
SAVANNAH. ALL-STARS.
Cornwell, f. b. Hanvey, t b.
J. Artley, r. h Burke, r. h.
Wilton, I. h H. Yancey, L h
Butler, q Mclrer, q.
Shuey. r. e. Hamilton, r. e.
Palmer, r. t Derrick, r. t.
Black, r. g. ...Bennett, r. g.
AIL c Oden. ■*.
Seely, I. g. Forsythe, L
Roietter, 1. t Huron, L t.
W. Artley, L e. Sadler. L t.
LOCAL TEAMS
CANT SCORE
will hnva n hard schedule, but that li* wel
comed, with a chance to settle all doubt a*
to the supremacy of the East In football
and every supporter of Pennsylvania be
lieves It will 1)6 done with the team (fiat
assured for. heat. fill.
Chicago wW pfay Minnesota November 3
an*I therefore have the experience of that
coiifo*r with which to tackle Pennejlvatda-
It Is thought here that 8tagg*s eleven
be the oue.to fear, but the Quakers win
have met Mlcblgap nod bod* a taste of lVed
era football by the time the Maroons ar
rive.
RHYOLITE ON
JEFFS TRAIL
The Christmas morning football
game at Piedmont park between tho
Atlanta Athletic Club team and a col
lection of stars, headed by Joe Beene,
resulted in a score of tero to xero,
which was appropriate, considering the
weather.
Both teams played good football,
considering that they had done little or
no practicing and considering that the
ground was frozen hard and the weath-
er was cold os Greenland.
The Ilne-up follows:
ALL-STARS. ATH. CLUB.
McLeod, I. e Strong, 1. v.
Simmons. 1.1. Johnson, 1. t.
Tuscany. L g. Cunningham. L g.
Quarles, c. Thrash, c.
Tolbert, r. Brown, r. g.
Reid. r. t Fitzsimmons, r. t.
ne <0apI ) ’ 0 «M00 purse, and the battle probably
•. .Thornton, r. c. will take niace at the mining iov*u
Merritt l L h : l Spense and M. Smith, L h. V^a
SKINNER GOES TO LOS ANGELES
TO ARRANGE FIGHT WITH
SQUIRES.
Los Angeles. Cal- Dec. !l.~F. D-
Skinner, the Rhyolite fight promoter,
accompanied by B. F. Taylor, a weiliar
Nevada mining man, arrived la WJ
Angeles yesterday for the purr 08 '“
arranging a finish fight for the heavy
weight championship of the world «
»•—-n J. J. Jeffries and Squires, of Aus
tralia. who Is now - . _. ..
America. It 1* understood Skinner is
..Gregg, L h.
nt. t. b.
Jim Don, r. h.
Hogg, f. b Brine leapt"
Summary: Score. Athletic Club. 0;
All-Stars, (I. Referee, O'Donnell, of
Pennsylvania. Umpire. Charley Sweet
of Tech. Head linesman. Chip Robert
of Tech. Timekeeper. Hoyt, of Ath-
lethlc Clnb.
NAT KAISER 4 CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
«.*.j > r ALuAS ®.»" iS -
Bargains In Unredeemed Diamond*