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ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1907.
edited by
PERCY M. WHITING
With fin Amount slightly In **xoeai of IS.-
nm niit»«<TiiMMi fur the new Country flub
pf flu* Atluntn Athletic flub nml with
a in*w roinillltt**H n|»|M»lnt«n! to solicit the
SSuvn more which In needed fur the pwjwt.
tin* prositect* for tho erection of the bhlbl-
tnir hi tile near future look brighter tlmu
' 7u fart. a committee will In* named In a
few (lay* to have plan* for the new battoe
prepared to In* submitted to the nunual
M. FINN
Gets Rid of Old Men
and Signs Big Bunch
of New Ones.
In a recent letter to the sporting edit*
of The ibHirflnii, Mike Finn turn* !<*»«
some luformatluu olmiit hla team for 1HTi7.
Mike ha* Abut the old Utile Itm-k team
all to |»I*ht*. lie lino »»l<l Frank Allen.
Ota Johnson. F.l lllckey. Toni Bln!, furl
White and Fat Meam y. To fill their pla<
lie tiua signed Max Addington. Jack Bolnn.
K. i\ Kyler.* Ilol. Itnmly. O. W. Brasil.
«i F. IMwnrU*. Fred Uke. l». B. Mill,
nml William Hart. In n.MItlon lie In
purchased II. Ihdter*,- W. Ihirtell, Join.
Buchanan. fhnrle* Hchuninn, II. Zoll#*rt
and If.-faln lloblnaoii. Iljr nienna of a
trade, lie landed (tuck "Wearer, and
drift he brought to the fold W.
l*Afe and J. W Hopkins.
Till* fire* Manager FJnn seven of lilt old
man. but he will not bring Kehimerllng
liack. *o bl* available supply of last year'*
material la *1* men They arc YA Orr,
catcher; Charles Keith, pitcher; William
Houflaa. flrat baaeman;. fharlea DsAr
tnond, third baseman; Jack <Slllwrt. ont-
tisldtr. and Kirby Brennan, out fielder.
W. O. Ilnrtnian. who naa on Mike's re
strrs Hat na n *u«|M*iute«l player, goes to
Altoooa. under the term* of the fietlce
pact.
Aa to position*, Mike baa at preaent three
or four candidates for Aral baae, caUn**r
and nine pitchers, oue or two men who can
play flrat haac, ouc second hancmnu,
shortstop. five condldatea for third bane
and four men for the outfield.
How It All Dopaa Out.
(Jadoubtedly Finn la counting on Fre.l
!<skt, the man lie plekcd tip from Law
rence, Maas., to do the bulk of the catch
Ing. Ed Orr. Ida oilier catcher, la a Lit
tie Rock product, and while lie did k«mm1
work last year, lie do.*a not care In g.
the road with the team, nod an la n»t
egpeclally Yelnablu. Of nnn w, Hill Hong
DeARMOND
DOUGLAS.
KEITH.
BUCHANAN.
Inat year, Kirby Drenmin nad duck
CONTRACT FOR 190
The last of the kickers has come tulo
the fold, and Billy Smith’s mind I* lit ease.
Baxter Sparks, the twlrler. who held out
for more salary, has signed.
A few weeks ago, Baxter could not see
any fun In pitching for Billy Smith, even
at the salary Billy offered-which was *5
a month more than Spark* got last year.
But times have changed, and Baxter baa
I This la good news for Atlanta.
While Baiter had a little i„.
share of bard lack last yent.
nevar ceased to believe that 1:
the routing pitchers of the i,- ; ,
will unt aurprlae the local nin K
finishes the season with n g...
cent of games won.
With Zeller. Sfairka and 11..
year's working a.|uud. signed,
feels that his pitching stuff \
looked after this year.
roluinbus player, ought
man for Little Itork.
long time, and I* a ve
water. Met'alu Itoblusoi
elissed fmui Jackson,
home Is lu UiundeslMiro
man touted
has played
iriin of the first
whom Finn pur
ll*«., and whose
Ala., Is another
Another rella-
tn» <*oiiiited on to go In ami do the
ratvblng whenever necessary. and they do
not make them any Imtter. Bill hatted ,£ri
Uat year.
Charley Keith, the ei-L*nlversltjr of Ar
kansas star. Is the only pitcher Finn car
ried over from last year. However, bo lias
a bunch of now ouea. Bill Hart, the old
Ido man secured by Finn Is Buchumin, the
It. Haul twlrler. who was with Nash
llle last year. Bin-lianan handles himself
|H*rt ttian any
III Hie league last .V
Breltenstelu, nml with good backing ouglit
to win the mujorlty of Ills games.
Among the other pitchers whose names
have been recently announced by Finn are
'liarles Hcbuman, late of the Fhlladelphln
Amerb-nus; II. W. Brasil, of Camden. Ark.;
Bob Bandy, of Fine Bluff, Ark.; K. C.
of Lincoln, N’cbr., and .1
iigstouu, Ohio.
Out «*f this aggregation of
“stick talent," Finn hopes to
liable twirling stuff.
Pretty Fine Infield,
ill hold dnw*
lug on him to muk
At third bgse ar
tie.. i barley I*.-/
team, will Im back
Into coni|N*tltl
from Last LU
villi
team. Is «oiiuted on n
second base. Johnson's
stop will probably Im* W. Malibu
II. Ilelte
s| for sure,
ite a bunch of posslbill-
•Armond. of last year's
•k again, but be will go
ItB II. Zollera, purchas«M|
«1. Ohio; Max Addington,
Youngstown. Ohio, Inst
whom Mike bought from
. nud W. Furtell, pur-
llls., team.
Fine Team for Finn.
r~trwn Newark:—LU.
outfielders
Ith Wbhltu. Ka
and J. W. Hopkins, who was drafted from
Norfolk. Va.
T:ds team will certain),
than the ZluieuirttcM of 19or, Whether It
will Im* good enough to make a fight for
tli»* pennant this year l« uncertain, hut
Mike Finn has u habit of doing that stunt
over lu Little Rock, and he may pull It
off again.
THE DOOM OF BASEBALL SLANG .
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
1« armlhur ' column nn Oils pnpo is a little obituary notice fll-
tled “The Doom of HaBehall Slnug.” In this article two dia-
tinguiahed puhlieatioiiH comment nn the passing of the fricasseed
•suguiigw U1 »'O mt.ivMi*.. .....
The hend of the dope department of The (Jcnrginu can wit
ness the passing of the era-of slangy wwapapor *Uiff without a
aiph. lie never could use it effectively anyway and long a go
c|uit trying, except on such occasions when nothing else an-
awered. —•—
There have been hut few bicu-hall writers who could make
slang anything hut n Imre and a botch; and the ones whh could
were geniuses and soon jumped the baseball reporting game for
somcthini; more remunerative.
Collier's Weekly and The Milwaukee Xepjinol cannot ac
complish the downfnll of buselmll slant;, hut the distorted lan
guage is toppling of itself.
The crop of geniuaea is so lamentably small that the slang
.proposition worked itself out, without any help from the lan
guage reformers.
The writer can recall only two real slant; geniuses who have
performed during the limetime of the preaent Southern l.eaguc,
and those two were Grantland Hire, and Harrington Jones. The
rest were imitations. Hut fi. Rice could command too much salary
to stay in the South, and Jones passed out. too, someway.
And gradually the slang game has passed away, as far as
slang can ever pass out of hasehall writing, leaving only the
words and expressions which explain the meaning heller than
real English could.
The Atlanta Athletic Club is a remarkable institution. It
has been here a long time and people take it for granted to a
large extent. Sort of expect big things of it and are not surprised
when they get them.
It is most remarkable for wlint it offers. With its town and
its country club it furnishes its members with more chances of
good healthy pleasure than any other similar institution in the
South and perhaps any in the country. Certainly no club
which has ever come tinder the writer's observation offers so
much for so little monev.
•kly iwnlljr contained th<
following: “ItiiKchnll slnng In doomed, say
The Milwaukee Hentluel. Before long It
will till* of ItM foreetl extreme*. Ouoe u
riot of Joyous metaphor, It hits become a
mass of technical slang. It Is not n play
ing with tin* language, but a studied de
parture from It. Twenty years ago bless
of speed nml energy, success nml failure,
wen' expressed with-oov*w*4—Uypm:ljuli!!!_£!l
the prairie Now nil the re|M»rtera *lt down
In a box together to see how many stupid
ly Incomprehensible words they ran Invent.
:T.?rjItff,i| l 'Vblh' l» due a royal diadem of
|« ii .....w.illation of Rtmanua <.r
epithet«. without n spark of feeling for en
joyment. iis Im also the allegation ~Tu Hie
same narrative niaT’TlaUO'lA‘.’lTJ' said |i*»y
would go off his lieau.' Fifteen or twenty
years ng“. Mr Ibiolev nml other less gift-
ed hut not less happy brnjpnnt* trf fit* 1
bleacher* or the grandstand were giving
expression lu riilcngo newspapers In the
American tongue to emotion aroused by
the spectacle enaetisl for their Joy. What
was then ii reerentloii. a caprice, a spree,
has lH*coine n profession nml It has be-
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remaining years on earth lire few."
The eonelusions reached are true; l»n
the. writer may have employe*! the past
tense, for the absurd nml nousensleal liieta
plmrs of latter-day Imltatora of the original
Chicago genlusea who started the meta
phorical nud picturesque method of cover
ing n ball game, were so disgusting that
tin* public tired of them long ago. That
h. when hnsetinll slang really met Its doom.
The Hentlucl, so long Bgnrgx two years,
eoutendiMl for rational lauguage In reporting
and commenting on sports. It mnliitniued,
ami still considers, that slung la uuneees-
YANGER STILL
IN THE GAME
HAMMERS THE FACE OFF JOHNNY
MORRISON AT HOT
8PRINGS.
~***- and u prepared to con
tend It »« ""desirable. T r '«e.
expressions tlmt were originally slang
•or*-*-
slang
tiarr tirmmr *rr tfittmatf-ly M**olllb**| -with
n iiartb^mif sport thaj other expression!
m»t se«>m to convey tin* exact meaning,
have been so persistently employed thnt
tlw.y have been cunverted lntu the dlgulM
or peniilsslhle language; hut, lu the
sti'uvt. slang Is better avoided.
Tin* t(*ehnleal will Immediately raise the
point that these pet expressb
never have become ncoeptahh* If they had
not been continually used, nml that <
by use can they he converted. True;
Is. they never should have h
• tlrwt place. The languag*
ve enough tiv cover nil etneri;
sporting nml otherwise, that i
Hlnug Im unue.-essary and may \
idded. lu all elrenmstnnces.
Hot Springs. Ark., Fob. IT*.—Bonnv
Yanger demonstrated last evening to
the aatisfaetton of 2,600 fight fana that
he is, and will be for many dhya to
come, a very prominent factor In the
Ul.Wiustl ui * intuit -# SfrlKPHi. He
beat and battered Johnny Morrison
Almost to a pulp. The finish came in
4ha-seventh xuund irom n left to the
mouth, followed by a right over the
kidneys, which mnde Morrison groggy
abtf while in tbt* xrondHlon Yanger
shifted a left hook to the solar plexu*.
which dropped his opponent like a log.
£"•* n "" w *
"nnprehei
jlslat lire gti
Sunday baseball lu the Old Kay State
•u N'nrk, Ilhiile lslaml and l'enusyivnuln
i* also considering Sunday hall.
he N’t. Louis Lnl\crslty athletic ni
latter |wirt of next mouth.
- a notable affair. Among
are counted upon to t.-ike
- light hotly. Arehb* llahn
NAT KAI8ER A CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
New Committee Will Finish
Soliciting Club House Coi
meeting of the club, which
June.
The new committee on sul>»< i
ihI last at the meeting Thursibi
\V. II. lllenn, chairman: W K '
M. Grant. Lowry Arnold, F**rr» m
I*. Colquitt. H. It. Otis. Heorge i
K. It. Johnson, T. W. Conunl!<
Compton and Clarence llnvert v
Atlanta School of Medicine
Is to Have a New Gymnasium
A bl* ineel In* of the atudenU of
the Atlanta Reboot of Medicine and
the Routhern College of Pharmacy was
held at the Medical Rehool Thursday
night, and In consequence of action
taken at that meeting, a gymnasium
Will he equipped for use of the students
of the two colleges.
Berate McCay. Coach J. W. Hela-
man, of Tech, and Physical Director
Weems, of the Young Men's Christian
Association, were among the
The young doctors plan to nit ath
letic teams In the Held anil may bl
sum out with a baseball 0
spring.
Catcher Frink Crons tad Slmrt.inp n,*
who played l.at year with Pati.
1»ecn secured hy the Houth lt.-i.-l
the Central league.
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TWO OF AMERICA’S BEST ATHLETES
The most recent stunt of the t-luli—the raising of .ti'i.OOO
by subscription for the purposeo f erecting a club house—is wor
thy of note. Other clubs throughout the country have built club
houses, but usually they did it with borrowed nmiiey or bv any
method except subscription. •
Thnt is not the Atlanta -style, however. The dub needed n
house, so its members reached down in their pockets and peeled
$25,000 off their bank rolls.
Quite a stunt, it seems to us; ami one Worth ineutoining.
Hut the club wants $5,000 more and a new committee has
been appointed to raise the money. Will it get it ? Sure, and
easily. For a club which has chipped in $25,000 is not likely to
balk nt $5,000 more.
With n club house a East Lake the Atlanta Athletic Club will
have a marvelous amusement plant, one of the greatest in the
United States; nml one of which its members may well he proud.
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