The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, December 18, 1906, Image 16

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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
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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.
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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
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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
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THE STANDARD OF PURITY.
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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’
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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.