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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 14,1907.
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UP-TO-DATE NEWS
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EDITED BY
OF SPORTING WORLD
NEWS OF SPORTS
PERCY H. WHITING
REGULARS WIN
GREATJJATTLE
ANOTHER GAME OP BASEBALL
AT MILLEOQEVILLE BY
PICKED TEAMS.
SKATERS BUSY IN THE NORTH
Hjteelal to Tko Georzlio.
mnHwnut. ai.ju. u-jq»f««t. »■«
luterr«tlng |tm« of baseball tbs Begslan
again dsfeatsd tho Recruits Saturday attar
noon it tho T. M. C. A. boll pork.
Prom tho otort It voo trident that tho
luwralto were making a strong bid for tb#
gama. and tha final raanlt—t to 1-abowa
how noar they cams to anrcsodlof.
Jordan, For baa and Klktr. with Big
Tracy, formed an excellent Infield, whllo
tiorham and "Sky” Smith were OB hand
with twlrlera' goods. In fact, all played a
Jam-op game
siembriilga opposed Oorham and held Ms
Opponents down to two hits In seren In.
nlnga. Alien played good at the second
•mtlon. handling srerythlng coming hla way
wltbont an error. Hutchinson pnt up his
usual, game at third, and little Tracy was
"iron* at short.
The figures of Saturday's game:
"BPgWWi. Ah. K I! *v: A. B.
Jordan. 2b,. 4 ‘ *
4 0 0 1
Klfcf. M....,
tJortunn. D.^f...7V7........ i—0—0—cr
havla, c 2
Hniitb. cf.-p 2
REGULAR*. .
Ilntrhlnaoii. Sb
Allen. 2b
K. Itcyui»lds. lb.
KxIpjt, r
J Tracy, an
Nicholson. If
Kittson. rf.-p..
T9UI1 27 2 3
KAUFMAN AND BERGER ARE THE BEST HEAVYWEIGHTS DEVELOPED ON THE PACIFIC
COAST IN MANY YEARS. KAUFMAN PROVEDT*HE BETTER OF THE TWO THE ONLY TIME THEY
EVER MET, BUT NEITHER 8HOWED REAL CHAMPION8HIP FORM.
Beore by Innings:
Recruits
Regulars
GRAHAM CHOSEN COACH OF
VANDERBILT BALL TEAM
Spatial to The Georgian.
Nashville. Teuu.. Jan. H-The re
warm waathar baa uncorked the baseball
dope bottle out at Vanderbilt, a conch bas
baen signed for neit year. snd everything
lookt good for • duo year at baselmil.
The naw coach Is Graham, who eoarbed
Tale for two years. Others win»sc services
were consider*! were llradley Walker,
••Beer* Davis. Jack Kly and Gunny I««wls.
Mr. Walker (University of Virginia) Is one
- of the heft known athletes of the 800th.
but It was Impossible for hltn to take tha
potltton. owing to the fart that be Is now
practicing law In Nashville, "Hoof Da via
wai roach for the famous‘Vanderbilt team
trf iMIs whMTIost four gamrr wt
thirty. Ho waa unable to return to bis old
duties. Jark Ely marhed last yosr's
but hla aarvlres have neVsf be«n conitdsrwf
seriously. X/awls waa captain laat season
of the Havannab team, which won tha pen
nant In the 8011th Atlantic League.
Of last year's regular man there art In
college again Spencer Love, pitcher; Ed
logits, pitcher; Hob make, flrat baseman;
John Craig, shortstop; Gleun Hall, left
field; Cnnnlogbntn. canter field, and Fugler.
substitute. The team haa tnffered a lots In
Frank Kyle, the pitcher of tha Uat few
seasons. , Ed Hamilton, who playad second
no well, bat algo graduated, and probably
hit absence will be felt tuore than that
of any other of the old men.
Captain Travis will alto be missed from
hit potltton behind tbs bat, but there Is
much new material that can step Into hit
shoes, and by bit loss the tram will not
1m» materially weakeued. Right field will
miss Jimmy Daygood.
Atnoug the new men of promise are
Thompson. Dwight Morrison. Jesse Read.
Hays, Roane. Virgil Roll. 8am Coaten,
Frankie Wynne. Webster, -ilonta,- I. - U.
Icegg, Tipton. Neely, Vsughn IMake, Potts,
Bennie, T. F. Value, R. K. Mason and
Glenn.
Thompson It ftotn the University of Tex*
Teed In making good In tha field. Dwight
Morrison, from McKeoztc. Tenn., baa pitch
ed brilliant ball for two or three years
ou the McTyelro school team. Virgil Hell,
from Martin, should also make eomo one
hustle In the outfield. If he keep* up with
bit old rocord.
Probably the moat certain of all to get
a place on tha team is Frankie Wynne,
provided ha continues to ilodga tha re
peated charges of professionalism mado
against him.
Thera It a McKensle boy from tho Me.
Tyelre school In coUega, Baa Coaten. who
playad brilliant football at quarter on Uat
sea son'a football team, lie should make
good, and la axpected to play In tho Infield,
lie wot in the university two years ago for
one session, during which time lie played
shortstop.
Torn File Paine, from AUrdecii. Miss..
Is exported to make u showing In the out
field. lie Is a strong batter und with a
111 tie extra work should make n regular
tlrat team man. The plnri** on the team
that arc now open are fur one pitcher, u
second huscuiiin, it third Imsetnnn, right
fielder, and probably 11 place behind tho
bat. What sucres* the Vanderbilt team
has enjoyed within the lust few venns has
been due chiefly to butting. This has al
ways been a feature of the Commodores,
and baa saved them fr»uii defeat
times.
The wrfieduTe TTf jjtntne-. bn* tmt jri4 liwff
completely drawn up by Mausgcrs Mauler
and Potts, but !h»*re will be plnyed In nil
over Thirty gutuoY Tffi»se*TI5i have" already
been arranged for ure us follows:
Vanderbilt vs. Nashville professionals, at
Nasbvllls, March », 29 and 30.
Vanderbilt vs. University of Alabama.
At Tuscaloosa, April 4. 6 and 6.
Vaudcrbllt vs, t'uiuberlsnd, at Nashville.
April 1*. 19 and 39.
Vanderbilt vs. Georgia Tech, at Nssb-
Vtlle, April ». M and 2T.
Vanderbilt va. Hcwancc. nt Hewn nee. May
3 and 4.
Vanderbilt va. Fewauce, at Nashville. May
A Id and 11.
Series of games will also be played
against the University of Nashville the lat
ter part of April or the first of May. Tho
ssmson will cloas by a Northern trip,
through Kentucky, up to Michigan, but
dates Lave not been decided upon dofluttety.
This la a full schedule 11 ud tunny hard
games ant In store.
It haa been suggested that Indoor prac-
tics bs begun at ouce In the gyumasluni,
but on account of lark of spare nothing
much can be accomplished. There la n
schema to rent the skating rink, which
covers severs! •fcitudred square yards. Just
bsyond the university, but It Is by u<>
inwiDicrrtntntbatttitiwtttTnnTrrtaUxr.ii
the rluk Is In constant use.
Captain Craig. In regard to Ids prospects
for a team, says,
"1 have great hc*|*es this Season and be-
Have that It will be the strongest In years.
A good many old men nre hack, and. In*,
skies we have more promising new material
than at nuy time duitng the four yeati
havt lawn In college | f»sve ordered n
aulU ami other cpilpmeut. amt hope
put forth the beat team that the unlv
slty lias ever seen, one that we can all la*
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
Ruin* Waddell won just half of - tho games in which he
pitched Inst year.
That s pretty poor for the “Rube,” who could come very
near to lending the pitchers of the American League provided
he could eliminate the boose and provided ho had at least a
rudimentary brain.
“Hug” players are losing their popularity. Their idosyncra-
sies lay them too liuble to criticism.
. It l» hard for the resident, of
Georgia to realise that the skating
season Is In full blast In the North,
but such happens to be the case.
Already some of the big annual
skating events have been held and
others aro scheduled fur the near
future.
Morris Wood, the amateur cham
pion and record hohlct who Is here
shown, will undoubtedly maintain
"ht» supremacy on the steel blades
for severs! years to come.
The racing scene below shows
Barony. Mulligan, McDonald and
Palllstcr skating In the order
named.
MERCER BASEBALL TEAM
HAS BEGUN TO PRACTICE
When Rube Waddell lay down right at the beginning of the
Id s series ill tho fall of 19Oo he may have been on the
gqtmro bnt American League adherents found itjiard to think
-fiO.— :
Ami Bug Raymond right here in Atlanta was another awful
example^
His peculiarities and his had habits brought him into dis
repute und ho left tho city very much under a cloud.
Raymond has announced that he will not plav baseball
again us ho has a good job as a railroad fireman. Also Billy
Smith has gone on record to the effect that he will pitch him
self before he will let Raymond go in the box again. So that
seems to mark Raymond’s finish in Atlanta.
There was nothing the matter of Raymond much except
that he desired to pose as a “Bug.” In this respect he suc
ceeded^ admirably, but os a ball player lie fizzled somewhat.
We hope lie is doing well as a fireman.
* The. American League Pitchers’ records show Smith, of
Chicago, down with Waddell at .500 and Lygort, another cx-
Sonthcru Leaguer, at .458.
For real genuine records, though, we shall have to slip it to
Harris, of Boston, who won two games out or ‘J3—significant
number, that.
m |>osltlnus of the
who »if l ack IliU year. Captain' Craig
Duty shift from his old t*osUlon
to second I ns.* Other change*
nature sr»* being contemplated.
Memphis Team All Ready
To Begin Season of 1907
Memphis, Tenn, Jan. 14.—Manager
Babb baa accumulated the major por
tion ot hla material tor the I SOT era-
son.
He announced today the acquisition
of Dakin E. MUIer. a fust outllelilcr,
who played for Ouachita. Karts., lit
the Weetem Association last reason,
batting .09, end two young twlrler*.
whose nrtmes for the present he with
holds
Nadeau, renter fielder Iasi season for
the Mem pint, has been released to New
Orleans.
Here Is Babb's materia! for the new
team: ... . ,
Pitchers—Btockdale, Buggs. trucks.
Bills. Watson, Wagner, Brotje and the
NAT KAISER S CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
15 Oscstur 81. Kimball Houu. *
Barqains in Unrsdtoiosd Diamonds.
new pair.
Catchers—Iltirlburt am! nwen*.
Infield—Riuohford nmi farcy. first
Kmlth and IMaaa. ►***•.-ii.i. Hui**
miller, short; llabl* ntul Hi* hartls, third.
OutflaW*—Thiol, ltft. t*.»rt**r. rluht;
Miller, center; Nelabb as ami I«u»ffo.
NOTE8 OF THE SP0RT8.
They an' tmitlnK « tu w
wvtndcr In Iwn, Jess Rlenter
Charles Huokensclinildt t
credit of the dlsct»vrry.
Charles J \V»M»lley. \«m
«>ne time the featherw. i«ht
tlanter of Knvlnml. «lie»l r* . •»
home In. N .1 He
onr
of years,
8«fM rintendent Lend, ts .»f tj
at**ira rnt*e tn*»k K that I.*
win have In* kl* k eomlmc .tlx
roun*f at n» vt Himmt t * iim tl
tra«k tits !*«*• n HliJllt ami u
tally a mw u uik.
estllng
name.
Dan rfenniu^er lia.s been signed ns n Southern League
umpire for another season. That is good news. Dan is not a
brilliant performer but he is on the square and in the main his
decisions are good ami the, order he keeps is commendable.
Once in nwhile the bully players run it over him a hit hut
usually “Vinegar" squares himself ami in the long run he
evens things up and gets the offending player on the hip.
“
Special to.The Q«*orglsn.
Mncon. <ia., Jan. 14.—Mercer has com
pleted schedules with Aubtirb, Georgia niKt
Reid and others to pitch.
Mallory will hold down first; Captain
Keiwlrtffc scennd; Williams wifi try for
(’arollnz. ploying the Yaulgnns nud Indlnn
team, of Rnlllniore.
Her prospects were never so bright. 8he
tins leofton, Oglesby and Wcstlierry m
catch; Djrar, Mos«*ly, Hogg, Oglesby, Smith.
t'onner will Ik* at third and Mcl'athern.
Melton. Dvtir and Abel will be in the field,
with llnrri* us a general utility tmiu.
The work of tin* pltebers Is still Im
proving. The practice combines for nu hour
each day.
Georgia Basket Ball Team
Plays Tulane Wednesday
Athens. Gs., Jim. 14—The Imsketluill Hes
sen for 1(^7 will be pried n|w*n In Athens
Wednesday night, when the 'varsity of the
Unlveralty of Georgia will clash with Tti-
lanc’s sqund.
The Tulaue team comes here after sev
eral days on the road, but every member
of the squad Is III good condition f*»r n fast
The Tulaue tram Is composed of men who
have played the game for several seasons
und are up'on all the fine |H»tnts.
The Georgia squad lias been nt work
since the liolldnys nud practice has been
hard and consistent eaeli evening at the
Y. M. t\ A. gym. The forwnrds are quirk
ntul accurate In good throwing nud the
wlnde team works together well.
The line up of the !(«>orgln team will
basketball for several seasons und tin- game
has secured quite n foothold In that section
Snrochen. guards; Griffith, center; raptnln
Ibdtzemlorf uud Derrick, forwards.
Fraternity Politics Cause
Fight For Control of Teams ‘
Knoxville, Tenn.. Jan. 14.—The ac
tion of the University of Tennessee
voters In the association.
The tight is on fraternity lines, with
faculty in ordering another election to
day for officers -of the nthletlc asso
ciation, haa caused one faction of stu
dents to adopt resolutions criticising
tho action of the faculty, condemning
the opposing faction und withdrawing
from the athletic association und other
student organizations. This faction
claims a majority of sixty qualified
Kappa Alpha, Kappa Slyum, Alpha
Tan omega nml Phi Gamma Delta fra-
ternltlea aro In the wit Ini rawing fac
tion and the Sigma Alpha Kpsll.m and •
I'l Kappa Alpha fraternities on the
opposing side. T'nless the faetlona are
brought t.*gether the light will doubt, t
1 ■ *s hay.* a disastrous effort on Ten-
nessie mhletlr, Control t,f the base- t
ball, track and football teams is ln-
\ .lived ,
Joe Vila Takes a Shot at C. Murphy, the Human Windbag
* Herr In the latest outburst of Jos
Vila, who is a knocker by profession,
and worth reading always—
Isn't It about time that our dear
friend, Chubby Charley Murphy, was
suppressed? Did you ever see such a
meddling creature before? If somebody
In authority does not head him off
und sit down upon him, he will turn
the political end of the game into a
disgusting burlesque! Will the Chi*
cago newspapers ever tumble to the
fact that the Chubby Person Is a Hlufft
or and a Four-Flusher of the klml that
makes strong men weak and causes
Idiots to become sane? .Murphy wants
the limelight! lie cares nothing for
dignity, but loves to piny the clown
at all times! He never loses a chance
to feed the Chicago newspapers with
absurd slush about this, that and the
other thing when, as a matter of fact,
he Is but a Baseball Accident.
In New York the scribes had him
sued up correctly when he was "pub
licity promoter" for the d« creplt Hiants
Ith the result that he Ml Hut and was
» m m disfavor ll«- «.tuldn't sell his
fcU L: ivk* to any *-f the vnetrupottun
dallies and s.*.»n realized that lie was
ht- a !•*■»; camel iti the Sahara desert.
Then he bobbed up a- the president
r th« «'hb ago National League club,
n owner «»f sl'H'k and an intlueutial
use ball magnate of the first water.
Ith I on ty|M'w rlters teprodming
would h*’nr even more from his capa
cious mouth!
reeled groggiiy under the avalanche of
words, words, words!
Outtalks Howard Griffiths.
1 have called attention to Mister
Murphy on several ocooalons, at the
same time believing that I was wasting
my time. But this latest break about
the schedule appears to have been so
utterly malicious that I feel it a duty to
put the Chicago person under the ham
mer. Howard UrltHths, the Human
Phonograph, was a tierce proposition
In the talking line while he lasted, but
.Murphy has him skluned to death* To
draw up a National League schedule
and hand It to ITesldent Ban Johnson
with the Insulting suggestion that the
American League should build Its
schedule accordingly was about the last
straw. Who authorised the Meddling
Murphy to draft a schedule, anyway?
Is he the chairman of the National
League schedule committee? I think
not! Charles II, Kbbets has that honor,
and with all credit to the Hrooklyn
man, there never was a day that Mur
phy had a t-liame with him In making
schedule. Hut the Windy one
amm a ehanee to ggt rid of some of his
preen, so he Insulted Johnson and the
American League without the slightest
hesitation.
defeat of the Cubs affected this
Talnkttve one’s trolley. He hud boast,
ed all the year that the Cubs would
In the |*ennant and the world’s series,
and when It was certain that they
id wisdom while uu Indulgent public would have lo play the White Sox. tho
deluded Chicago magnate (Hey?) fairly
bubbled over! lie notified the com
mission that the Cubs wanted prizes
of a certain pattern and made prepa
rations to hold u glowing celebration
In the Windy City. He talked to
the newspatiers until he was blue in
the face and the veins In his neck stood
out like whip cords. It was all over
but the shouting! The Cubs, who had
beaten the overrated anti disorganized
Giants, would make the Sox look like
a lot of monkeys.
Disappointed and Diapruntlad.
Then the American League cham
pions proceeded to prove the assertion
that the Cubs had won the National
League )>ennam from a lot of Joke ball
teams. Just ns 1 tried to show readers
of Tho Sporting News all along. Mur
phy, when the Sox had won the series,
fell from the mo.*n to the earth with
u dull, sickening, bone-breaking thud!
They picked him up like a bag of meal
and pumped some needed wind Into
his Inanimate body. Then tli* Human
Pouter Pigeon opened his eyis and.
aided by the artificial wind, he handed
out the usual bull of c mgratulutlng
the winners
Babbling of BassbaU Baby.
Do you remember how Mister Mur
phy r«v»»d over the title "Champions
»f Chicago" a year ago because the
’ubs had beaten the S*>x In the | M »st-
season series, and how tin- New York
Nationals world's champl ms had him
ailed to account? Will, hn't I; a
shame that the Loquacious and Chub
by Individual can not head a genuine
world's champion team/ TUtu wu
"Wo pay Pulliam his salary In real
money!" said Murphy recently In ills,
cussing the increase of President
Johnson’s pay to llo.onO. Isn’t that a
baby a talk.’ DooKmnybody who knows
Johnson and his methods suppose for
a moment that he would stand for u
fake ktory that his salary- had been
boosted? Murphy’s era. k. In this case,
is proof positive that the vlctorv of
the Sox over the yellow c U bs was a
crushing blow that put the pudgv lit
tle man near the front door of the
Home of Incurable Wind Rags! | un
derstand that Murphy will receive a
lUelchlng before long that will take
of his collar! It
J
TWO BATTLES
WITH DETROIT
AND FINI8HE8 OUT 6PRING
SCHEDULE.
Malinger Hilly Smith, of the Atf.ii
earn, has given the Detroit Amt-re.
lutes In Atlanta for March 23 und .-
h # . * ^**U*ltlon dates are now fill.**!
M Ith the Detroit team, of
doubted ability
•nurse. »h*
ferest will In* llli V.‘-
mi wns drafted br |».*
Ill be with the risen
isoil, provided that
pace with his uo*
ikstop.
isTT,
FOR PUICANS
GOOD EXHIBITIONS FOR
CRESCENT CITY.
Herr Is wliat "Thai—nurrmrr
barley Frank, has to say about
xhlbltlou games for the spring
*1 have completed our schedule
xhlbltlou games for the spring
he first series will be with the «':.i
<» National League team. wlntu-J-
telr league championship T*-.
ames begin on March 13 and «At*
trough the 14th. 16th and 17th
umth. Following the National-
•me Cotnlskey’s White 8*>x. win*,
f the world's championship. With
White Sox team will be George IP
and Kddle Hahn, the two Pelican-
• on the series for Conii-'n
They will play here on March 2"
1 24. I tried to arrange to I
the White Sok and the National-
together a series of five gam*-
this could not be arranged nt this -• i
After the two Chicago team- l’n
ish U|» with my team, the PhllHdelp’d-
Athletics, of the American League •”
the New Yorks, of the National L* ig :•
will meet here and (day out the
world's championship serl» - Th* -
•Vo teams fought out the question
ears ago and both managers arc -m
•nfident they can win from each •c! * * 1
The spirit of rivalry Is Just as
now as It was then. With the P* ! 1
delphta team will be Jimmy l>vg :’
the little Pelican. These two i* ■
will meet on Murch 27, 2S. 29. 3a an*
31."
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SPORTING FIXTURES OF PRESENT WEEK
Monday--Tm-r»>und l«,ut Bartley Connolly and Billy Burke. i.»
Cortland. Ale i)|N*nlng of annual trials of United States Field Trial
«lub at Grand Junction. Tenn. Annual bonsplel of Northwestern
urllng Association at Duluth. Minn. Annual tourney American
I*; of Advertising Interests at Plnehurst, N. C.. to con
tinue three days.
Tuesday-i Jpening .»f poultry and bench shows at Cincinnati, Minn* a; -
Vt ‘IP. Hrt|l,,>n - Opening of three days* shooting tournamem
iiamiitiAtt. uatt - e»»*v amateur boxing feu mam entor ^VYeVTc rn rr
t at 8t. Louis, Mo.
Wntnr.U.i >_-< H-rnlng „f H.mthrm Ken nr I Club ahow at M»mrW» T.-i •
-i ’ i 1 "' 1 • •f 1 " brtworn Wllllo l^ala anil Krwt Luraa. at Montreal
Tn huiM'N* , o n n * ,f 1 " r<l annual m ld»lnter golf tournament ut Pin*-
L r !'.?Ji~ An J ual ,,f United Btutn Golf Amnrlatlnn ul Chlcag"
Satur.J.n —ni.x.'oun’l bout between George (Kill) Lavlgne anJ •'"•
true, at National Athletic flub, Pbilnilelphla.