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Atlanta Team Placed
== First in Dou-
PhlMsIpfeU. Jan. M—It U practically
certain Out Jm (Ism sad Philadelphia
Jack O'Brlrn will meat In a finish fight Id
Xerxda July 4 for Iho la rant pun* fat of.
farad In (bis cooatrj. That tha fighters
unit tbo club bar# practlralla arraoeat all
iba dauila la carUla, aoil ll la do! few
llarad that tha raaalta of tha (lass-Britt
l«mt at Toaopab on March II or tha
OBrlcaBortu fljht at I.o4 Anfalaa naxt
Mar will prerant tha aaaatliia featwaao tha
llahtwalaht and lha llfht heavyweight
rlmuplon.
ilaua aald that ha bad an alfrr from a
Nevada dab to fight O'Brian thorn on Jnlji
4 for a pnraa of 444.000 Thin, liana tblnka,
will tia Inrroaaad to ISO.OOO. . .
BEAT TULANE
Auburn.'.Ala., Jan. 31.—Auburn de-
femail Tuluna Saturday night in a
fu»t trame of banket ball. Bearing 34
polnta to 14. From mart to finish lha
game waa all Auburn's way.
Bob Warn wan the mar for Auburn,,
though Lacey, fllhaon. Captain Wnnd-
rull and Whitaker plnyed'well for the
And along with other things that
have made Hannan famoun don't over
look "Buay laay" Inbell, the heavy
ewattrr of the While Sox. -
Bryan Grant and hla partner, Nat Thornten, warn officially ranked ao
tha first double* Item In tha 8outh for 1904. Thia team won th* Southern
tonnla championahlp from alt comara and will dafand tha titla again naxt
apring. Grant ia keeping himaelf In condition for next eeaoon'e atranu-
oua matchaa by playing golf, at which gam* h* I* rapidlv going to the
front, while Thornton i* tho alar playar of tho Atlanta Athlatic Clyh'i
F. Merrtfleld, who
‘ yoahi ago at the i nivemlty of Chicago,
in coaching a unlveralty banebull team
at Waned*. Japan.
rtus atll^kta
IQJTUAT, JAJTDAKY, Z1 1807,
SOUTHERN LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION
HAS ANNOUNCED ITS OFFICIAL RANKING
•nnit Atso
ciation.
OOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
O OFFICIAL BANKING. S
a Her* la tha official ranking of O
O the Southern tennla .players, aa O
a decided upon by Iho ranking com- o
O mlttee of the Southern I-awn O
O Tennis Aenoclntlon: O
O 8INQLC8. O
O Flral—Cowan Bodgere. • O
Second—Nat Thornton. O
Third—8. C. William*. O
Fourth—Bryan M. Grant. - O
Fifth—A. M. Pom. 0
Sixth— E. W. Delay. O
Seventh—-1* D. Scott. O
Eighth—Eden Taylor. O
Ninth—J. A. Yarborough. 0
Tenth—Chari#* Rod gun O
„ DOUBLES. O
Flral—Grant and Thorn on. O
Second—RotteM Brother*.. O
Third—Taylor and Blarkahear. O
oooooooooooooooooooaoooooo
After Innumerable dc^aya und Jum In
lime to catch the laat forma of the
Lawn Tennla Guide, ihe ranking com-
mlttee of Ihe Southern l.awn Tennla
Nat Thornton, who wa* ranked
ond among Southarn tannia
ORMOND AUTO RACES
WILL BEGIN TUESDAY
Many of the Fastest Cars Have Arrived and
Record of Two Miles a Minute May
be Beaten.
Ormond, Fla., Jan. II.—Over a 16-
mlle course, mretching along the per-
CeeilY-level beach between thla place
" dhd Pdytona. oomo of the foment aula
-
38*41* In the world will thla week
aim In the annual record-breaking
tournament under the auspice* or the
Florida East Coast Automobile Aaaocl.
•lion. Thla, the fifth tournament of Its
kind to bo bold here, promises to sur.
put In Interest, speed and personality
all of IU predecessor*. Year after year
the speed haa been Increased over the
Onnond-Daytona course until when
two mile* a minute was reached last
year It seamed aa If that was the limit.
AutomoblUata with the speed mania
are not satisfied, however, and thla
week an attempt will he made to drive
machines .at a rate foster than 130
miles on hour.
Tha world's moat prominent and dkr.
Ing: drivers In tho latest racing game
. ore represented In the entry llal, and
L have v been preparing and tuning up
K their machines, that range from 10 to
110-horse power, for Ihe piuit two
weeks, and In the ryollmlnary trials
. today Indications were not lacking that
the-speed record la likely to go by the
board before the present week la ended,
All ■ Ihe moat prominent automobile
manufacturers of America and Ki
are represented among the entries. For
the* first time In the history of the
races hem two fast steam core are rn-
temd'ln the 100-mlle contest, and spec
ulation la rife aa to their chance* of
winning. Those are the two Stanley
steam', cart originally built In expec
tation of running In tha Vanderbilt cup
race.
The complete Hat of the week - *
events, beginning tomorrow, I* aa fol
low*:
Tuesday.
(All eventa to flnlah at the club
house, Daytona.)
Nov, 1—One mile a minute, flying
start, touring care, for the American
championship: each cur to carry at
laaat four passengers of an average
^weight of 1(0 pounds.
No. 3—One mile, flying atari, gaso
line com only.
No.. 3—Five mllea. alandlng atari,
touring cars, designed to carry four or
more .passengers. Hated at 31.600 or leas.
No. 4—Five mllea, alandlng atari, all
classes'of cars, amateur owner* to
drive.
No. 4—Five mllea. flying rtnrt.
world's championahlp record race, nil
Nocfi— Five mllea. atandlng atari,
louring runsbouta, 6-horae power or
teas, amateur owners to drive.
Wednesday.
(All events to finlah ni Ormond, ex.
' repi event No. 13. which will !>•• run
JM Oljnond or Ihiyiana aa condition*
may render desirable. I
No. 7—Twenty mllea. Mantling atari,
vv ertlh one turn nt Jen miles, all rluaaea
of American touring cor*. Firai three
nnlthers to repreaenl the United Hlntea
In the International touring i ur cham
pionship .
No. 3—Twenty mllea, alandlng alart.
NAT KAISER A CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
Oeeatur St. Kimball Haul*,
garoaina in Unradaainad Diamond*.
with one turn at len mile*, all cl,
of touring CUM made outside of Ihe
United States. First three finishers to
compete In the International louring
car rhaniploiiBMl’
.. No. 9—Ten kllonutais. firing alert,
record race, all classes
No. 10—Ten miles. atandlng atari, all
claase*.
No. II—Ten mllea, muring runabouts,
60-liorae power or lea*: amateur own
ers to drive.
No. 13—Two miles, flying atari, two.
mllea-u-mlmile speed crown, to be run
In Ihe form of lime trials. The w inner
must equal or exceed a speed of 130
mllea an hour.
Thursday.
(All events to finish at Ihe club house.
Daytono.)
No. 13—One mile, fiylng start, all
classes, for the Sir Thomas Dewar
world's championship trophy. Present
holder. F. E. Stanley, Newton, Muse.
No. 14—One mile, atsndlng start, ell
claase* of gasoline cars, amateur own
ers to drive. <*
No. 16—Five mllea, alandlng atari,
touring cars designed for four or more
passengers, llaled above it.600. to and
Including 13,000.
No. 16—Twenty miles, touring car*.
International championship, open only
to first three cars In event* No*. 7
end I.
No. 17—Ten mllea, handicap, all
classes.
Friday.
(Events divided between Ormond and
Daytona. I
No, 16—Ten miles, standing start, nil
classes, amateur owners to drive.
No. 19—Five miles, standing start,
touring cars designed lo earn' four or
more passengers, lined at over 31.000.
No. 30—Ten miles, handicap, all
classes of louring car*.
No. 31—One hundred miles, standing
start, all rlaasea for the Minneapolis
International world's championship tro.
phy. Present holder. S. F. Edge. Lon
don. England. The cup must be won
twice to obtain permanent possession.
In case the number of contestants ex
ceed six tha can will be started one
minute aiatrt and the winner will b*
determined by time Instead of by posl-
tlon. .
Association haa taken up end complat
Ihe task of ranking the Southern
players.
The result of. tha committee'* Had
ing* Is given above.
This committee was composed of A.
Heguln. chairman: B. M. Grant and
Norman Farrell. Messrs. Farrell and
Grant made out (heir lists and sub
milted them to Mr. Heguln. who mads
the final ranking
It will be noted that Atlanta gels her
fair share of the honor*. Nat Thorn
ton I* placed second, S. C. William*
third. B. M. Grant fourth and L. D. Scott
seventh In the singles, while In the
-and
Thornton—I* ranked Aral.
The llsla of Messrs. Grant and Fartell
are given below:
FARRELL'S RANKING.
Singles.
Cowan Rodger*.
Nat Thornton.
K. TV. Daley.
B. M. Grant
8. C. William*.
A. M. Post.
L. D. Scott.
Bland Logan.
J. A. Yarborough.
Doubles.
Grant and Thornten.
Rodger* Brothers.
Daley and Farrell.
Elliott and Post. ______
Selden and William*.
GRANTS RANKING.
■Ingle*.
Cowan Rodgfrt.
Nat Thornton.
S. V. Williams.
11. hi. Grant.
A. M. Poet.
Charles Rodgers.
L. D. Scott.
K. W. Daisy.
Eden Taylor.
-J. -A—Yarborough.
FINE PHONOGRAPHS OF JUMPERS IN ACTION
In ■ the Western turf world (ha
stsapltchaaing gam* la vary mush
on lha Wink and tha races are run
largely for the purpose of framing
up daalt against tha bookmakers,
but In the East many of tha bast
atablaa of "chiltr*” ars owned by
gentleman who race horaos far tha
sport of the thing, and often ds
event*.
The upper photograph show*
Harry 8. Pag*, on* of tha mast
daring and olsvaraat gentleman
steeplechase riders (n the country,
riding Pur* Pappar In a raoe. Tha
lower picture shows him training a
hors* at Hampstead Plains, L. I.
The steeplechase gam* la con
tinually Increasing In Intereit in
th* East and continually decreas
ing in internet in th* West
Grant and Thornton.
Rodgers Brother*.
Taylor and Blackahear.
FREEMAN RAN
16S STRAIGHT
LOCAL PROFESSIONALS DID
GREAT WORK OVER LAKE*
WOOD TRAPS.
II. I>. Krr*nmn. tho local itrofcMlon.il trnp
•hooter, ninth* n rcmnrknhle run of 1& t»lnl«
without n uiIm Rntunlny afternoon over tha
Atlanta Unit t'luh tniti*.
flub
The Atlanta (Inn
‘rldny and Halt
excellent work
bml ahontv both
loon, n
fool I*
riiTlipni worn win* unlit*. iisur. Iluitnl-
ctitt. Kvatns Hightower ond Jot-kwui did
ineHally well.
Tha •core* follow;
FRIDAY’S SHOOT
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Bernie McCay Has Built Up
First Class Team For Mobile
Mobile, Aln.. Jan. 21.—Manager Her*
nle MoOuy itu» about rounUnl up the
talent he went* fur bin 1907 team. !!•
nectln a i ouplc more «xperlcnred pitch.
a el.ortntop and ponalbly a third
tawitwn, though he mav jday that |k>-
altton hltnnolf.
Manager Moray |r now arrunrlng a
Men of exhibition g.imen with Houth-
n l.caguo teamn
Tho lint of men from which Mana
ger Met My will pick hi* fln.il line-up
follow n:
t*nt»’hcm—fVRrlrn. of lit*! \ear‘a
loom; Puckett, lw*t year with Holma.
PitcMcm -Nich'd*, of Indian Teiilto-
r\. Welch. Thomanvllle, Ala., recom-
mended bv Hchwurtx nnd Mullitney, of
Montgomery. !*itltnei, innt vein with
l!nt'»n llouge; Henry Schmidt,
e.l from hint year. Driver, h
hander, with lino npeed, who
peeled to make good.
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Flrat Baa*—Forth of St. Louie, wall
recommended: llagwcll, nf the Georgia
Stats League, recommended by Tom
my Slouch: Butman, leal two seasons
with Newburgh, N. V„ in Hudson Riv
er League.
Second Baao—Prout, reserved from
last year; Cool man. of Indianapolis.
Ind.. who was with Bloomington. In the
Three I League: Burdea, nf the Georgia
Slate league, recommended by Cobb,
of Detroit.
Shortstop—Moore, reserved from Iasi
year. Boss, of Portsmouth. Ohio, who
haa played lnde|>endent hall and la said
lo be a good man; Twitched, of the
Kansas Slate League, fielded .934 and
stole 33 base*
Third Base—McCay,. manager. An
other nun la also In view.
Outfield—Wegm r. interred from Mat t
year; Wnodle Thornton: Grlger, re-1
commended by Mickey O'Brien, and a|
couple mors men on a siring.
By J. 8. A. M’DONALD.
New Orleans. Jan. 21.—Th* Ito.ono
Crest-enl Cllv Derby*promises to he-O.
wonderfully good race this year. For a
Tong lime It was thought Fred Berlew
had th* event "cinched” with Gild,
Fantastic and Judge Post In hla barn—
all eligible and In racing trim. Now It
aeeme L. A. Celia will start hla good
colt, fonvtlle, a prominent atake win-
In Ihe East last summer and a
likely horse , so far as three-year-olds
are concerned this coming summer.
Celia paid John E. Madden and the
Messrs. Hitchcock Brothera, of Ne<v
York, something Ilk* tt.AOv for Con-
vllle. The colt Is wintering at Mem
phis, Tenn.. where Henry McDaniels
haa ihe Celia horaet, and la to be put In
point at once. Then Celia has a second
ailing to hla bow In the colt Maratogn,
which he paid Harry Payne Whit
ney something like 34.000 last autumn.
The announcement of Celia's: Intention
lo try for the Derby I ar stimulated
Interest in ihe event. Only five years
Ihe Creseenl City Derby was worth
but 33.000. while today It Is one of
Ihe big moneyed fixtures of the turf be
yond Ihe metropolitan elrcult.
Incidentally lo the reference lo Cel
ia, It may be well to mention that n
new 1336,000 racing plant will he erect
ed by (he Crescent City Jockey Club
In thla city during the next two years'
time, another evidence of the growth
of racing In Ihe South and of the cllv
of New Orleans. Both the City Park
and Ihe Fair Grounds plants have been
CRESCENT CITY DERBY
WILL BE GREAT RACE
Fred Berlew Will M^ke Strong Bi4 For Val
uable Prize, But Celia Has a Good
Chance.
mining money hand over fist this win
ter. the latter course's earnings to dote
being estlmaled ai t 150.000.
New Orleans ha» not mjrryed. nr
rather suffered, such a worm .winter In
forty-five years as the current one.
There have been but four rainy after
noons since racing commenced, most
than two months ago. while on some
days no July scorcher about Sheeps-
head Bay was ever more torrid. Not
on any one day store. Thanksgiving
Day ho* a tniicnal been a necessity,
hundreds of racegoers witnessing the
running of the Christmas day handi
cap from Ihe Fair Grounds midfield In
their shirt sleeves.
One of Ihe side features of the cur
rent rampalgn Is the baseball league
recently organised by the sports. The
bookmakers have, a team with “Jack"
Sheehan. "Iaay" Hamm, "Jimmy" Jack-
son, "Charley" Celia and "Ike" Hackel-
burg In the line-up. Jockey “Dave"
Nlcol has a team recruited from the
Jockeys, while the American Turf Writ
ers' Association has a strong nine In
the field. The games are played every
Hunday morning at Athletic Park, the
home grounds of the Pelicans of the i
Southern League, and mdny are (h.»
exciting ronteet*.
Last week Mr. and Mrs. D. C, O'Mal
ley. of this city, entertained ul Cielr
town house the out-of-town members
of the American Turf Writers' Asso
ciation The hostess distributed hand
some sllver-mounled pendant pen
knives, suitably engraved, ns favors for
Ihe occasion. There are twenty-eight
newapnper correspondents actively em
ployed reporting the races here JujI
now—a record number.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PEBOY H. WHRlNa.
*
Atlanta has almost as complete a monopoly on the Rood ten
nis players of the South as New Orleans has on good golf players.
Atlanta hasn’t all the good ones, hut the Gate City comes very
near to having more good ones thnn all the other Southern cities
rolled together. In the singles Atlanta players get official rank
ings in the following positions: Second, third, (fourth and aev-'
enth. In the doubles up Atlanta team ranks first.
Two Carnes of Basket Ball
At Y. M. C. A. on Monday
Sum* first-class basket ball will he
on tan at the Young Men's Christian
Association gymnasium Monday night.
The following games sure scheduled:
High School vs. Unlvarslly School of
Stone Mountain.
Atlanta Athletic Club v*. Y. M. C, A.
The prep school game la one which
waa postponed, and the other game Is
a regularly scheduled event. Ptuy will
begin at H:15 o'clock.
ll la not certain Just how the two
basket ball leagues of Atlanta will be
reorganised, but Physical Director
Weems la w orking out some scheme lo
keep them going.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that it will not bo long be
fore Atlanta will break into New Orleans’ corner of golfera. At
theratc the Atlanta plavera are blossoming oi^t since they have been
playing a real golf course—to-wit, tile one at Eflst F.ake (in con
tradistinction to the parlor affair previously used), it will not be
long before Atlanta will furnish it Southern champion and cut in
on some of the minor honors besides. At present the Atlanta
Athletic Club hns two former runners-up and a large collection of
also-rans: but with the tournament over the local course it might
well happen that Atlanta would furnish the champion for the first
time in the histor.wof the Southern Golf Association.
The automobile cranks will begin tearing speed out by the
roots at Ormond beach Tuesday. The rate of mortality has not
been especially high in past meets, but it is eustpmary to kill a
mnn or two before the "sport” is over.
Here's hoping that the present njeeting will furnish more
broken records and less broken limbs than ever before.
Atlanta Athletic Club Now
Associate Member of U. S. G. A.
The Atlanta Athletic Club was voted
an associate number of Ihe United
States Golf Association at Ihe annual
meeting of th* association, which was
held In Chicago Friday night. This
makes the Atlanta club one of the
forty-three associate clubs In the asso
ciation aad gives the local club a vote
and a ranking In the association higher
than that of ihe 337 slued clubs.
The annual U. 8. G. A. amateur
championship was awarded to the Eu
clid Club, of Cleveland: the womans
championship to tha Midlothian (Tub.
of Chicago, and the open championship
lo Ihe Cricket Club, of Philadelphia.
The following ticket wa* elected:
President—Daniel Chauncey, Garden
Ctty. L. I.
Vice Pres Idem a—Fred 8. James,
Glenview, und Alex ttrition. Chevy
Chase. Washington. D. l\
Beorelary—W. F. Morgan, llaltusrol.
N. J
Treasurer—Samuel Y. Heebner. Phil
adelphia ('rlcker Club.
Committeemen — Leighton Calkins,
Plainfield Country Club. N. J.; War
ren Dlcklnann. Dea Moines. Iowa; Her
bert J argues. Brookline. Mass.; 81 las
U. SUtrwn, Midlothian Country Club.
Since uncorking tbe little spoil about feeding ball players on
the European plan by the I'ittsburg management the writer haa
been informed by the Piedmont hotel that.the Cleveland club will
try the stunt while in Atlanta in the spring for exhibition games.
The l.arrys will stop ns usual at the Piedmont nnd each man will
be allowed a day for his meals. They will sign cards for
the food they eat and if they run over the allotted fci.iiO a day tho
amount will he charged by the bnll club against their anlaries.
Tiny hotel people nay that the ball players can get three
Ni|uane meals for that amount and they believe that the .ball clubs
of. the Southern League will have to come to the same method. The
hotels of Atlanta which have usually looked out for all ball clubs,
have gone to the European plan and gone to it strong, and it may
this year be up to Southern League managers to try the Lajoie-
Dreyfus* method of keeping ball players down to weight.
About ax near the limit aa any prise fight promoter has re
cently gone is that Gans-Jack O’Brien fight. Of nil sail matches
ever mentioned that is about the saddest. )
The man who started the story that an 84-year-old man re-
cently.stepped a mile in 10 seconds, will please move forward,
and receive the crown from Ananias and the world-champion.xhi ‘
liar’s belt from Baron Munchausen.