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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1907.
UP-TO-DATE NEWS
OF SPORTING WORLD
NEWS OF SPORTS
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
L
DANIEL LUBY THROWING HAMMER
DYER AND SPARKS
CAUSING TROUBLE
Infielder Bought From Cincinnati Lost in
Shuffle and Mississippi Midget
Will Not Sign.
Bill Dyer nnd Baxter Spark*, two
players on whom BMIy Smith In de
pending for hU team next year, have a*
yet refused to sign contract* for 190?
and there are grave fear* In bn*ebull
headquarters that these men will cause
trouble, and perhaps not get In lino at
alt.
The whereabout* of Bill Dyer nml
the question whether or not he will
play In Atlanta are both sources of
great worry to Manager Smith.
Dyer Is the property of the Atlanta
club, but up to yet he ha* paid no more
attention to Billy Smith** letter* than
as though he belonged to the Chicago
Americana nnd hud n regular world’s
championship swelled head.
What this silence mean* nobody
knows, but there I* no denying that
Billy Smith 1* distinctly worried. If
Dyer doe* not turn up. there I* n big
hole In the Atlunta team and one that
It will be* next to Impossible to till «t
this stage of the game. .
Baxter Sparks' case I* a most ag
gravating one. Baxter did not pitch
such marvelous hall last year as to
justify him In getting puffed up. He
was a pretty good pitcher, but no real
loud noise at the twirling game. II-
pitched In'20 games In the Southern
League last year, won *. lost lu nnd
tied 2. Thirty pitchers in the league
did better, only 16 did worse
On the strength **f the probability
that Rparks-would Improve some this
year Smith raised hi* salary |25 over
last year. This made Sparks' pay pret-
•ty high for a youngster. Hut Baxter
Isn't satisfied and »*• holding out for
mors. He writes Billy Smith that h*
esn make more in the • bushes*;—mean
ing Mississippi and Arknn*a*. wh» r *
Baxter flourished before tin Atlanta
team took him up. At first Billy un
strung for telling him to stick to *,*the
brush." If be liked t» *«» well, but h-
dsclded on another scheme So he
wrote Sparks that if he thought that In*
was so good, the Atlanta club was
99
MUENCH&
BEIERSDORFER
THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS
Diamonds. Watchss. Jewelry. Fine
Watch, Clock and Jewalry Repair
ing.
99 Faachtroe Strutt Atlanta. Ga.
Bell Phone 1311.
willing to • think the same wny and
would pay tylm the sjtlury offered and a
large ami lusty bonus If he would wjn
20 out of .to games next season. Sparks*
reply to this proposition has not been
received as yet.
It would not he surprising If Sparks
refused to report. For a whole year
he was the property of the Atlanta
team and during that time he was
playing bull In the wilds of West Ten
nessee, Northern Mississippi nnd (east
ern Arkansas. Baxter's father 'i.t*
money and the boy doesn't have t*
work If he doesn't want to. HI* people
are rather opposed to his playing nnv-
way. And moreover Baxter would per
haps rather he the best Independent
pitcher In Mississippi than a pretty
good one In the Southern League.
At any rate, there Is a great possi
bility that he may not sign an Atlanta
contract tht* year*.
In addition to Hilly Smiths other
worries he has a had cold which keeps
him confined In the Aragon nnd his
health Is miserable, nnd bus been for
several weeks. However, he Iih* begun
to Improve nnd hopes to In* back In
form In a few day*.
FIELD TRIALS WINNERS.
Special to The Geer gin o.
Waynesboro. Ga., Feb. 1 —Cowley's
Bride was the winner of the annual
derby at the field trials here. Georgia
Bose was awarded second place nnd
Brandy ami Nntchei were declared tied
Cur third place
In tlie all-age stake the winners are.
V^rM, NVhltestone * 1‘enrl, second, Gas
ton's Borneo; Ihlid, Marie's laidy and
Sport's Monk tied.
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FOX TO MARRY
ON FE BY 13
JIM WILL WED MISS SUSIE MAC-
DONALD, IN ROCKINGHAM,
NbflTH CAROLINA.
Th* Invitation, ar* out for Jim Fox',
wadding. It will take pine. February
11 at Rockingham, N. C, and the name
nf Jim', bttt.r hull.to*he I. Ml.. Hu.lu
MacDonald.
Billy Smith My. go over to the wed.
ding.
(Tnrinnatl ha. ralcaed Corcoran and
he now belong, lo th. Olanta. Th-'
deal ha. been rloeed for aom. time, but
ihe paper, did not change hand, until
Itan H tt:H>, l,r Mreyitone, the fn.t
trt*eu Imrer owned by Or. II Hhover, of
ndl.nntNilli, I. to la* meed next mumiii l.y
YORK FAILS ,
IN ATTEMPT
CANT EVEN THROW KID BURNS
ONCE IN THIRTY
MINUTES.
Atiout 130 supporters of tbs amateur
fling game were pot_Thursday night at the
Armory to see Dsn York throw Kid Burns
twice within thirty minutes, which he failed
to do.
The articles of agreement stated that
York would throw Hums and Young Glover
each one fall In thirty minutes, but unfor
tunately Glover, was (taken sick Thunujag
morning nnd was unable to go on the mat,
in order to keep front disappointing those
who had braved the unpleasant weather
ee the* match, York agreed to take on
Hums nnd throw him twice within thirty
minutes. %
When Marry fctaten. who refereed the
lusteh, railed time toth men went offer It
hnminer nnd'tongs and In the first ten tnlU'
ntra there was snute very pretty work
■. After' that It wun seen that the men
were so evenly mstebed that It w«e sl
tniposslhle for either to gel s fsll.
At the end of thirty minute* nf bard
ork neither man had gained s full and the
tout was stopped, according to the agree
inent.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING,
The more-money-nr-I-wmi’t plnv” cry in not Ix-inu heard in
th<> Smith thim yesr hh loudly ns in yearn past.
That ’n one advantai'c of the snlsfy limit.
The players know that no manager in Ihe Southern Le.imte
ran ifo over 42,700 n month. And they know when a manager
says “I’ll pay you $125” ho moan. $125. Atlanta has two men,
however, wlm are exceptions to this rule—Sparks and Dyer.
HsRelinll has two “Manager Hilly Smith.” One heads New-
castle team of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Despite. The other
has an office in the Candler building, eleventh floor.
The race track owners of Tennessee are trying to save the
Kame. They have introduced n bill to provide for the appoint-
ment of a racing commission. The bill does not mention betting,
hut yon can pipe it off that that senepambian is located some-
where in the said legislative woodpile.
ATTELL VS. O’TOOLE?
New York. Feb. I.—Matchmaker Mo-
Gulgtu. of the XuthmAl Athletic Club,
• »f Philadelphia, I* making efforts to put
Abe At tell and Tommy O'Toole on In
the Quake! city at an eaily date At-
t# ll ha* left the coast and Is now on
hi* way Fast. O'Toole I* ready to
*tgn. hut Attell ha* not u* vet been
heard fioin.
As u touching evidence of the liberality of the Giant man-
ageme.nt note the following:
When Donlin broke his ankle in a game last year the club
forced ita own doctor on him and handled the business end of
the transaction. The doctor sent in a bill ao large that it must have
staggered the Metiraw-Urusli-Knowles trio. Anyway they
passed it on to Dojtlin.
Mike refuses.to pay, nor will he sign until the New York
management has done so. And there the matter stands.
The game of freezr-out which the City Park track of Now
Orleans has engaged in with Stewards Murphy and Trevelyan has
been won by the track} Both are now out and both frozen. Mur
phy quit first. Now Trevelyan has gone. Whether they quit be-
cause Ed Cotrignn, a chronic trouble-maker, maria it too hot for
them (to switch the metaphor) or because the City Park stock-~
holdera have continually gone over their heads and nullified
their efforts to keep the racing clean and to enforce ordinary
discipline.
Whatever the cause of these two resignations the fact that
two njen of the high-caliber of Murphy and Trevelyan have been
forced out does not tend to increase the confidence of the public
in the City Park game, and this confidence was none too strong
at best.
Will R. Hamilton, of the Now Orleans team.picks Montgomery
for fifth or sixth plaee in the league race.
Right now the picking of the second division crowd is a lot
easier than picking the winner.
Hut our one best bet for Hrst place is Atlanta.
The Eastern colleges are planning to stamp out the summer
baseball evil. A committee has been appointed to report on
means to this end at the next session of the Interstate Collegi
ate Association.
It will be pleasnnt to have the East in line. The S. I. A. A.
has barred summer hall for college men for some years past nnd
ao have the conference colleges of the West.
Summer baseball and rleiiu college athletics have never gone
hand in hand to any noticenhle extent and the further they can be
separated from each other the better.
John L. Sullivan, who is now 4fi years old. has written Dr.
Osier that he will agree to drive his fist through a door an inch
and h half thick, incidentally knocking down the door, provided
the founder of the ehlorofom cure for old age will stand on the
far side of the door. As yet Osier has not replied. How about it.
Doe T
Griff’s Highlanders Report
On Mar. 8 Instead of Mar. 10
t l»li AntwP’sn Allil.-tl<
lilt I I It'll* V g.ltlie*
k'ur.lrn tonight I II.*
tv nttrortpo i
till. A'll'AlltlW.-f*
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Just wbvn tin* N» w York Americans will
report In Atlsnts seem* u rustler of souic
uncertainty. Tin* first Unto announced wan
March 1. later Griff tuunt hare decided
this waa too early, for Match 10 was the
next date glten out.
Now, The New York Hun—erabhnl. tint
'■curate In nil thlugt- *.iya that '‘Griff"
will take his ('layers to Atlanta March 8.
When Clark Griffith calls the roll, thcae
inen will answet to their names:
lltehera—Cheat* ro. Orth. I loaf. Doyle,
Hushes, Clarkson and Hrockett.
Catchers— Kiel no*. Thomas auU McGuire.
1 nDeMers—Chase, William* Elberfeld, Lit-
Porte. Morlarlty and Yracer.
outfielders -Hoffman. Conroy, Keeler and
Itelehanty
rtoiiM event*. i Mike Mnrtbt will again bate charge of
... . , ' . ... . 'the physkJT'' end »>f the tralulnr, with a
It 1% expected that n total "f more than -A,
I **' |>|.iit ?s will t ike IH.II In the uioiiater ' ” X as*lstant».
Ml» .mailt Rt.it.. A kale tmirttniiiciit. whlvli In, Griffith hn* not lii'ltcnted what his pinna
' to Itelil In Mllunuke*' Siltnl.i
experiment with lot Porte In the outfleld.
Iieeause 5*f til* heavy liattlnf. while Conroy
utay go l*ack to third bate.
The New York msuager expects much
from Hrockett, the former Buffalo pitcher,
who la. not only a first class boituau. hut
Is n fine general player.
Instead of traveling all over the country
playing exhibit!*) games, Griffith will keep
hla nteu In Atlanta for several weeks to
fore making the trip to New York, with a
few games to to played on the way North.
Contracts will to sent to all of the nteu
who have not signed before the end of
the week.
NAT KAISER A CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
,15 Daaatue St. Kimball House.
tuny to. but It I* pint |mmr||i|c that he will Bargains in Unredeaiood Diamonds.
DOPE MILL IS GtINDING SOME
Fresh News From the
Major and Minor
Headquarters.
cording to the preliminary sched
ules of the American nnd National
Leugue.*, the season will begin April 12,
twq days after the Southern League
starts. The New York Nationals will
open the season at flume with Brook
lyn, the Highlanders open In Phila
delphia. Boston Americans open In
Washington and the Philadelphia Na
tionals in Boston.
Speaking of batting for records and
not in win games, they tell this one on
Pete Browning*—and It Is so good It can
hardly be true: When Browning wun
playing with Louisville. Pete was seen
nd town one night after a hard
game us happy ns a dam at high title.
* low was the game today T’aome-
one asked him.
••Great.” said the slugger; "1 got
four "
"What was the score?” persisted the
Imiulrer.
T tlunno what the score was, but 1
go* four hits. Peaches.”
Buck Freeman will bo signed by the
Boston Americans this year on a regu
lar 1* oeball contract, but not as a ball
player ln fact he will be used tim
ing the season as a scout. This player-
Jimmy Collin* i* over in Hot Sprlnire
boiling out. He Is "ofT" 12 pound*
now and down to 1S1. He hojtes to re
duce to 165 before he reports In Little
Rock for spring practice.
Clark Griffith will (>e back in New
Yotk for the spring meeting of the
American league, which (mLc* place
week after next. He expects to pul
through a couple of trades at that time.
"Doc" Newton, the ex-Highlander,
who belongs to Montreal «t present,
says he will not report. He Is huffed
because •‘Griff” let him go and claims
thut _hU celeuKe was- the result of a
personal difficulty and not becuuse of
poor pitching.
Kugenr DeMontrevlllc will breuk into
the Kistern League again, nfter an ab
sence of several years. The National
commission has turned down Toledo*
claim and awarded DcMnntrevllle t«*
Rochester, wheie he played before go
ing to the big league.
tlon thl* spring that he Is going to glv
••Rabbit" Plass a fair trial at second
base next summer. He want* Plass to
make good and will do everything he
can, consistent with good management,
to put Plass Into the Job.—New Orleans
Hein.
llal Chase Is rllll holding out for
more money. Bet he gets It. too; for
If Griffith did not sign him he might
better close the gates.
Bobble Grogan, now ('laying with the
Another Bunch of
Junk to Pacify the
Fanatics^
Dayton dub In the Com rat l-ensue. It
Rt'lilns nulte h reputation these days
a* « story teller.
"Say." Bubble began, “you've heor.1
of Mike Kelly's trick of throwing u
-citato tnlo the mitSetil ao »h*t • ban
tunnrr would come In from third,
thinking the bnll hurl been thrown
wild? Well, they worked that In the
Central I-cuirue hurt summer.
"°ur catcher* were still all laid up
nnd they had eome kid catching. Dur-
tnK n funning bee one of the Terra
Haute fellow u wa* telling about Kel
ly « stunt. The kid Inquired carefully
«» to Just hotv It wa* worked.
" 'It can't be done,’ he nald.
'"It »H done.' hotly answered the
man tilling the «tory.
"The colt didn't nrgue t*e question,
but when Ihe game started threw a
pntHto with nil hl» strength to the out
field. The Terre Haute chap Who had
***" **'l |n * "><• etory dug home front
"'I'd. The kid tagged him out with the
bull.
" 'I Ju*t wanted to tree for myself: It
I* a good trick.' explained the catcher,
while the admirer of Mike Kelly just
Hiood around and swore."—Detroit
GOLF POPULAR IN ATLANTA;
FULLY TWO HUNDRED PLAY
That golf Its* taken n remnrknble ln»l*l
In Atlunta. nnd Hint tin*'popularity »»f tlx**
• huH iiicr«***«*l rapidly since tin* «|
if tIn* Hast laikc
Ih'Io
atblctli
■ tinnics
Men's
player. I. . *
And nrlthe
die* who tin
Inlnly the
piny with
Any pie
club hn. fifty more
nn- not given. The
'hrl.tlan Association
Ili'Dlltplete.
list tiieiitlitiis the mnu? In
have taken ti|» the gnine. «Vr-
v tire fifty—|*crhn(*M more— who
t*tusldersble regularity,
i mi tit Saturday afternoon fhem*
fifty playing lu Atlnnm.
nnd the inimlwr Is lucresslng every dny.
The month of Juuunry fural.b**l nn nuns-
uni nuuttor of g<H*il golfing days, mi l It
N tletutiffui if nay yenr-round «*uir*e In
the '■'••iiitr* seeomnn»'l*t«*l nnv more play
ers 'luring the mouth thnn did Atlnntu
A partial list of Atlnutn AtUletl* flnl*
golfers follows:
II M Atkinson. 1* S Atkinson. II M
Ashe. It Itlslr Armstrong. G»**rg»- W.
Adnlr. Ia*wry Arnold, it It. Arnold. A
s A'laiuo, Glarcnre Angler, rhsrien
Sl-
Guy MU'hell. P. Thornton
II M.H.re. I* L M
I T Pres
. Ittikhton.
Htr.vt. I..
News and Notes of Sport.
*■’, '““c" ' nl . k .„ 0 f pealHetlr umpire, bee
•lurlcd llunk O liny irululug fur next era-
IIhbIi Huffy my, that InM'linll player,
lr iEybMSKP r "“ r ° l ,ht
Milam. I.. f. M«s*kel,
... .. F. M. Mlkell. K'l F. Ma
ke courai* of tIn*...AL. lone. Itar..ld II Moorv. \V. !». Nm,h. W.
rail In' Judg'Ml from I./ IN**1. II Phillip*. W |„ Porter. TIuhiiiim
II. Paine, ('buries \V Phillip
colt, t\ M ltmn«|Hik. It.
•lr.. Daniel \V Itoimtr.i-. «»
P Heott. p W Stone. II t\ St.M-k.lell
W II. Sto*all. William K. Stone. J. S
Sllt-er. P. Y. Smith. 4. F. Stoekdell.
A. Thornton. W It. Tlchom.r. perry ,
Tuvlor. W .1 TIImiu. H. Y Tupper. 4r. 1,1 1
S p. William*. A. M. Whaley. Jt.lm Phsrtes
When! lev.
A I'.irtlal Hot «»f the inemtor* of the ’
Young Men's flirlHtlaii AH<"N-lat|on Golf :
Plait, some of whom are al*,. member* of ;
I the titlilt'll'* cluli, follow*: K II Thornton, j
14. 4. Lagan, ticorg- King. Dr 4 N. I**
tpmsr. W v Oglftr'**. Dr. L. 4 Sprat-I
j ling. L B Ifobiustm. M.a tmi Smith. Milt
Altort Istoll, n younger brother of 'Tiij”
l*l*'ll. the great swatter of the White Sox.
hn* signed n - - ‘ '
Wlehltn hall
Albert Is the
the game.
rontrsct to play with ths
eluli for the eomlng sea*ou.
third brother lo break luto
Manager llnlil*. of the Memphis eluh, hna
signed twenty three men for the routing
nii'l snvs that It turdus tbe its-
r the fin Older*.
f 1906, has signed' wltti*^Terre* liante.
‘ irrvst help in puttlug tha
T II
F.
... I.umpkln
. ilyid. Hernh
It PniiiplN-U. S. M. Inuinii
The I
. esl ball t
j ; Jock jjenrfi
W. W. Ditidrum
O. M. l.'-ngue has ndded s mighty
) by taking In MeKeesport.
formerly Union* »* n plteh-
In the .National la-ngue. Is to bv th*
ler nii'l malinger of the clul*.
The Her*.* Itevle
stake.
Tliomns llueston. the new pool champion,
that Its ! bn* lw*n In fnst '*>ui(intiy only thr*** years.
. | lie (*lay«*l In his Hrst professional tour-
. uaiaeut lu St. I ami* lu IfeM.
The Amateur Sp
of Paimtlii. unde
I Amateur Skating
•Id futurltv
ItUto. uU'l heretofore worth 110,000,
alnnl at 91.*.5*V) hetvnftdr. j ——
•— -— Fight fans all over the country are lm-
hamploiislill** , pstlvntly pwsjtlng the_return of llnttllng
M D
llerrle
llov.l. Dr 4. II
K II liar
vfonl, k.
[IS put .. ..
to i Nelson from Kurope. Tin y are all of th«
la. opinion that Joe Gsn« should give tbe
Hn**'— - - -
th
Ptapp.
Arthur Pl irke. U M
W K Chapin. J :
Cobb. P. K. Currier _.
ton CoDllie. Mlbon Dargnti. Jam.-* u.
lbirllug W. T Downing. A F. Plttuliit-
mourn. Ilarrv fiytin. It. M. Freeman. Jr..
I.vun p. pN»ster, J.'hn P Glenn. C. II.
Godfrey. \\\ II. Glenn. II. M Grant. J.
N limhlaisl J J (ohMlrmu Jr.. Ilownnl
ib'hb'rt. J'thn M (itvgi'ry. Kwell Guy. A
V Unde. Jr.. Charles Gut.-ly. A II.
Ilayttes. W P. Illll Dr. MIehael Hoke.
George F. Hurt. Pr.*l A. Hoyt. J. Harris.
Jr. Ilarvey llnteher. G A. Howell. Jr.. Dr.
Prank Holland. George N Hurt. Don It
l|Mrri«. K. II. Inman. Churl'** I*. King.
Jehu l». Uttle. \V •'nrtoll LsUom^. |»r $
llut'Sii _
D. Ilrown. | take plme this itfterii'N*u In the big oiieti » Battler a return fight.
ett. Stuart | n | r tank at Montreal. In nd'lltlon to the I
teur events, the progmm provides for • The r»*turn nf Itetmlt tn Hie grand dr-
‘ ‘ " bsuiplou- j cult means that li. J. Campau Is to m-
j talu cuutrol of tbe circuit.
nimtey. K. K
t'othmii. A. Want
Brutus J. Clay,
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