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Turtles Finish Today, Vols Come on Thursday
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Big Noise, However, Will Be Lookout Series
By Percy H. "Whiting.
WELL. anyhow, there'* one big
series left to look forward
to —the Chattanooga-At-
lanta games which begin next Mon
day. and which mark the conclu
sion of the season on Atlanta soil.
Everything is leading up to that
tilt now. Bill Smith feels In duty
bound to win that series If he can.
Manager Alperman and his play
ers will put a majority of victories
over if it lies within their power
Verily, there will be some play
ing And don’t you doubt It,
there’ll be some crowd out to wel
cortie Smith back to Atlanta—for
the la«t time until 1915 at least
as the leader of a hostile clan.
The final clash with Memphis
takes place today, a double-header
being carded The first game will
get under wav at 2:30 o'clock Ami
If today's games stack up with the
other contests of the series they
will be hummers.
Thursday the Nashville team
opens here for a three-day series.
That shouldn't he such a bad af
fair either
The Crackers are surely playing
Improved ball since they have been
back. There has been a vast dis
play o< pepper, compared with pre
vious efforts, and all the men are
working with a will.
• « •
TVE much of the credit for the
Crackers' sprightly work to Joe
Agler. This lad is a natural gin
ger jar He is full of gab and
jokes, and he keeps things noisy,
even when there Is every excuse
for gloom.
Likewise he is a real fielder. Yes
terday he made a run Into right
field, slipped in between Wolfe and
Graham, who threatened to mess
things up reached up over his head
and grabbed a ball that was gxdng
Here's How Crackers
Are Hitting the Ball
Right Up to Date
These averages include veserday’e
•laughter:
Pl«ysr— g. ab. r. h. p. e.
Price, p . . . 1 2 0 1 500
Harbison, m. . . 73 258 29 71 .281
Bailey, If. . 126 439 81 123 280
Alperman, 2b 128 463 61 129 279
Callahan cf 85 822 31 84 261
Agler, lb. 62 208 34 54 260
Graham, c . . 61 19u 18 47 247
McElveen 3b. 131 474 52 113 238
Becker, p. . . . 15 !5 2 7.200
Reynolds, c 23 72 12 14 194
Wolfe, utility. . 17 46 5 8 174
Brady, p. . . . 22 69 2 11 159
Sitton, p. . • 28 64 11 10 156
Johnson, p. . . . 8 IS o l 056
Waldorf, p 10 25 0 1 040
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The Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on
how the “Big Five” batterg ©t the
American league a'e hitting:
"Flayer— a?bF ~h“ a v *7.
COBB 473 194 .410_
SPEAKER 491“ 195 .397'
JACKSON ..• 475 175 .368
COLLINS 444 148 .333
LAJOIE 342 _11 1 .325
Cobb and Colling were the only mem
bers of the "Big Five" who played yes
terday. Cobb lost a point by securing
onely two hits in six times at bat. Col
lins gained a notch by slamming out
one hit in two attempts.
BASEBALL
THURSDAY
ATLANTA »S. MEMPHIS
Ponce DeLeon Park
IS Game called 3:50.
the same direction he was. w’hfch
la the hardest known catch In base
ball.
• • .
I N the presence of 527 souls and
several newspaper men—by all
odds the smallest crow'd of the sea
son In Atlanta—the Memphis team
took partial revenge yesterday for
the LaboY day drubbing by defeat
ing the Crackers 8 to 6
But at that they had to work for
It.
The game started out like a Tur
tle triumph. Vedder Sitton, who
essayed to pitch for Atlanta and
who is usually the Crackers’ most
dependable man. didn’t have a
thing but a profuse perspiration,
and the visitors batted around, and
one dver, in the opening inning
This netted them five runs.
Lyman Johnson, late of Hopkins
ville, was sent to the rescue and
hurled manfully The Hoptown re
cruit was found for three runs but
considering subsequent events it
isn’t at all certain that he would
not have won his game if he had
gone to work in the first inning
Instead of the second. For in the
fourth and the eighth innings the
Crackers took some awful punches
at the celebrated agriculturist.
Rube Kissinger, and piled up four
runs.
In the last of the ninth the
Crackers did their extra best to
score some runs, and managed to
till the bases. Agler the first man
up. was safe when Bales let a
grounder get away from him. Bailey
singled and Agler went to third.
Bailey stole second. Then Harbi
son. a justly famous pinch hitter,
fanned, and Graham, generally a
useful swatter, hit a drooping liner
to Abstein This brought McEl
veen up and. recalling "Humpty’s”
husky hitting of the previous day.
Kissinger prudently passed him.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
No more boxing bouts will be staged
in Birmingham, according to advices from
that city. Dick Gilbert, of Denver, and
Bob Brown, a Pittsburg pug. were
scheduled to fight ten rounds in the Ala
bama city labor day. but the bout was
declared off when the sheriff interfered
The action of the sheriff was brought
about by a committee from the Pastors'
union calling on him and asking that he
not allow the fight to be staged
Joe Mandot's win over Joe Rivers was
a great surprise Verv little betting was
done on the fight, as no Mandot money
was in sight However, there is one
who is a little richer by placing his monev
on the Southern champion This one was
none other than Mandot's father, who
ret »400 his son would defeat the Mexi
can.
• • •
Mandot’s next step will be to challenge
Ad VVolgnst for the lightweight cliatn
ptonshfp However, the little fighter says
he will take a good rest before appearing
in the ring again
• • •
Happy Tim McGrath, who managed Ed
die Catnpl, the San Francisco bantam
weight. in his bout with Young Chico, in
Los Angeles, last Monday, is quite a
"find” for the newspaper men on the
coast. McGrath always lias a tale to
tell and he never tells the same one Tim
i says, although It was not general'n
I known. Jeffries and Sharkey fought the
i twenty-fifth round of theit Coney island
fight over after Tom got out of tlte hos
pital 111 the twenty-fifth round. Jef
fries glove came off. but the former
champion did hot stop righting but hit
Sharkey several times with bls bare fist.
As no otic wanted this to appear in tlte
moving picture*, both fighters agreed to
tight the last round over
• • •
Governor Deneets of Illinois, would not
al'oty promoters to stage a ten-round ex
hibition between Jack Foreman and Jack
Parish, at Cairo, Labor day The pro- |
I moters had arranged to stage the tight on .
n ferry boat, but had. to call it off when
. Sheriff Frazier notified them of tie gov
’ error’s action
• « •
. Eddie Graney manager of the Tuxedo I
club Sa . Fran< Isdo. has wired Ad Wol
gast an offer of Ala.ooo. win. lose or draw
o fight a twenty-round bout witlt Willie
Ritchie a) his club. Thanksgiving da>
if the champion does not accept Granev s
<>ffe-. an effort will be marie to match
I Mandot with Ritchie
. . .
I*4 101-', the veteran yuslralian. who I
I l as handled some of the best fighters tn
the business. >s a' Sheridan Park hos
pital. in Chicago, in bail shape as the re
'suit of a street car accident which hap-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1912.
Reynolds had a swell chance to
achieve headlines, but Kissinger
tightened up like a drum and the
big catcher hoisted one to Halll
nan and let it go at that.
It was a good, snappy finish all
right, and the fans yelled as they
haven't yelled in many' a week.
It would be a total loss of white
paper to narrate in detail how the
multitudinous runs were scored.
• • •
QNE of the features of the game
was Johnson's great head work
in changing his shoes. In the first
of the ninth, after a base on balls
and a scratch hit had made it look
as though the Turtles were up to
their old tricks again, Johnson
stopped the game, walked to the
Cracker bench, borrowed a pair of
shoes from Manager Alperman and
donned them After that he was
invincible. He Inveigled Doc Sea
bough into hitting into a double,
and the inning was over.
• • •
-pHE Memphis team did some no
table hitting. Kerr showed his
versatility by getting two singles,
walking once, allowing himself to
be hit by a pitched ball once and
hitting one fielder’s choice.
Schweitzer captured one base on
balls, singled twice and hit one
double. Baerwald also batted well,
but got in Dutch by loafing pal
pably on Callahan's hit in the
eighth, which went as a three-bag
ger, thanks to his languid work.
• « »
a LERTNESS pulled Rube Kis
•4' singer out of one bad hole.
With two down in the fifth Bales
and Hallinan made errors, allow
ing Johnson and Agler life. Hat
bison was next at bat. With two
strikes on him he turned to rub
his hands in the dirt. While he
was thus engaged. Kissinger slip
ped over the third strike and re
tired the side
pened several weeks ago. Foley, who is
without funds, has appealed to his friends
for aid
• • •
Abe Atteli. former boss of the feather
weights. is seeking a return match with
Champion Johnny Kilbane. Atteli has
picked up Herb Brock, a coast light
weight, and swears his find'' is destined
to become a champion in a very short
time
♦ ♦ ♦
Joe Hirst made Backey McFarland ex
tend himself to the very limit several
times during their six-round fight at Phil
adelphia recently, according to The Phil
adelphia Ledger The writer savs the
whirlwind had better cultivate several
streaks of muscle across his stomach be
fore he meets Champion Ad Wolgast. in
New York
TY COBB SELLS NAME FOR
TRADE MARK ON SHOES
NEW YORK. Sept. 4. According to the
official report of United States Commis
sioner of Patents Moore, just issued, the
autograph signature and name "Ty
Cobb." of Tyrtts R. Cobb, the baseball
star, of Royston, Ga . has been made the
trademark of a rich manufacturing cor
poration of Brockton. Mass., and certifl
cate of registratien on the signature has
been Issued as serial No 64199, In class
39. of clothing, for use on their brand of
sporting shoes.
The corporation claims they acquired
from Ty Cobb the right to use this sig
nature as a trademark and have «o used
it since October 18. last year.
The amount paid Cobb in consideration
i tor its use is not stated
LOCAL CHECKER EXPERTS
IN KNOXVILLE TOURNEY
Lieutenant T J. Driscoll, of the At
lanta fire department, accompanied bv
Sprague Hall W S Newman and G R.
Bishop will represent Atlanta in the
Southern checker tournament which will
be held at Knoxville on September 11
and 12
These players are amors the best of
the local cracks and Atlantans beliece
that they will be able to bring back ’he
,'aurels from the meet
14 MEN REPORT
FOR FIRST WORK
DOT ST TECH
Fourteen candidates for the 1912
football team reported at Tech fiats
yesterday and were given their first
workout of the season. Leuhrmann
and Thomason are the only varsity
men who have reported so far. but
many more are expected to blow in be
fore the end of the week.
For their first work, Coaeh Heisman
simply carried the players through a
physical culture drill which took up
most of the time. He also allowed
them to do some passing, punting and
falling on the ball in order to get their
muscles hardened as soon as possible.
Os all the men who were out for prac
tice not one came Up to the standard
weight.
Coach Heisman will have the boys
otit for practice every afternoon at 4
o’clock.
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Memphis in Atlanta Ponte DeLeon.
Game called at 3:30 o'clock.
Nashville in Chattanooga
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. \V. L. P C.
B'ham. SO 49 .621 N'ville. .59 67 .468
Mobile . 74 55 .574 Mont. . .60 6'' .466
N. Or. 68 60 .531 C'nooga. 57 67 .460
M’mphis 63 65 .492 Atlanta 48 77 .364
Yesterday's Results.
Memphis 8. Vtlanta 6.
Mobile 3, Montgomery 2.
Nashville 3. Chattanooga 1.
Birmingham 6. .New Orleans 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Philadelphia in New York.
Washington in Boston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. 1.. P.<'. it . L. PC.
Boston 89 37 .706 Detriflt. .58 71 .450
Wash. . 78 51 .605 ("land .55 72 .433
Phila 75 51 .595 N. York 45 80 .360
Chicago. 63 62 .504 S. Louis 44 83 .346
Yesterday's Results.
Washington 4. Philadelphia 2.
Chicago 5, Detroit 2 (first garne t
Chicago 6. Detroit 6 (second game.)
New York-Boston, rain.
Cleveland-St. Louis, off day
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
New York in Philadelphia.
St. Louis in Cincinnati
Standing of the Clubs
IV. L. PC W L. PC
N York. 84 37 .695 C'nati. . 62 65 .488
Chicago. 80 44 .645 S. Louis 54 71 .132
P burg. .72 53 .576 Br'klyn. 45 78 .366
Phila .61 61 .500 Boston 38 87 .304
Yesterday’s Results
Chicago 5. Pittsburg 2 (first game.'
Pitsburg I, Chicago 0 (second game.)
Boston o. N4w York 1.
Philadelphia 5. Brooklyn 4.
Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 1.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.U W. L. P C.
M'apolis 96 52 .651 M’w'kee 69 77 .473
C'bus 91 57 .615 St. Paul 66 84 .440
Toledo .88 60 .595 L'vllle. .55 90 .379
K City 72 73 .497 l apolis .53 97 353
Kansas City 8. Minneapolis 3
Columbus 10. Toledo 4
Louisville 2, Indianapolis 1.
Milwaukee 5, St Paul 3.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. I W. L PC.
Toronto. 82 54 .603 ' M'ntreal 63 72 .467
Hoch . .78 56 .582 i Buffalo . 60 70 .462
N'wark 68 66 .507 .1. City .62 74 .456
B’more. .66 66 .500 I P'dence 57 78 .422
Yesterday > Results
Providence 5. Newark 3 (first game )
Newark 2. Providence I isecond game.)
Hochester 6. Toronto 2 (first (fame.)
Rochester 9. Toronto 2 (second game.)
Jersey City 7, Baltimore 4.
Montreal 4. Buffalo 3.
APPALACHIAN LEAGUE
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L P C | W. L. PC.
Br io! 58 37 611 ClTand. 45 47 489
K'xv'le 53 46 .535 | A’eville 44 56 .440
J City 47 45 .511 > M'town 38 54 .413
Yesterday’s Results.
Bristol 4. Johnson City 1.
Knoxville 4, Morristown 2
Cleveland 16, Asheville 5.
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L PT’. W, L P.C.
Psburg 77 49 611 N”folk.. 61 64 .488
R'noke 65 53 551 P’m'th. 55 60 .478
R'mond 64 64 500 N. N'we 46 78 .371
Yesterday’s Results.
Richmond 3, Petersburg S
Portsmouth 5. Norfolk 4
Roanoke 1, Newport News 0 (six in
nings: raim.
Muggsy McGraw Planning Team for Years Ahead
Giants* Manager Operates a Training School
By Rube Marquard.
I HAVE often marvelled over the
fact that even in the hbat' of a
pennant race, such as the one
in W’hich our club is now engaged,
Manager John J. McGraw, of the
Giants, finds time to give the fu
ture a good deal of consideration
and to maintain a training school
for the production of baseball
stars fov the years to come.
You would think that a man
fighting for a chf mpionship would
forget the future —and most man
agers would; but not McGraw, it
is further evidence of the base
ball genius of the Giant chief that
he can keep in front with one
bunch of ball players and at the
same time build underneath them,
as you might say, a second team
to eventually take the place of the
first string.
The average manager bases his
success on picking up men who are
naturally good ball players, and
who only requite a little devel
opment. McGraw needs only the
roughtest material of youth and
speed to form his teams. He is
as pet ia 11 y a »manufactu r< i
maker of players. Frbm one end
of the season to the other he has
a training school operating in tlie
midst of his tegular ball club, and
he manages tT> find time to p'oduce
one or 'two stats a ycijr. t>ven
while the fight for the pennant is
raging.
In what you might call his bench
primary class. McGraw now has
FODDER FOR FANS ’
“A ball player is a fool tn pay any it
tention' to what is said to him on the
field."—-Bill Sweeney
• ft ft
Head in a Buffalo paper. "Napoleon
I.ajoie is Among the Real Second Base
Kings." Perchance, also it might be ad
mitted that "Tv Cobb is One of Our Best
Little Batsmen" and "Walter Johnson is
one of the Cleverest of Washingtons
Pitchers."
• ft ft
Dolly Stark. ex-Southern leaguer, per
petrated a run-in with Umpire Jack Dunn
at Buffalo and is noA adorning the bench.
• * ft
Claude Derrick isn’t playing with Bal
timore at present He is suffering with a
savage charleyhoss.
• ♦ ♦
Minor league stars have corne high th s
year, but they had to have them. 'There
have been no record sales, but the White
Sox gave SIO,OOO for Catcher Hay Sciialk,
of Milwaukee, and have agreed to pay the
same amount for Liebold and Chappells
of the same club. Detroit paid Kansas
City $12,000 for Corridon and Cleveland
gave up SIO,OOO for Chapman .(stage
money, maybe.)
w • •
Arthur Fronime allowed 38 hits in eight
consecutive games recently, an average of
less than five to the game.
• * •
In conceding, as he did on September 1,
that the Red Sox had gone away with the
American league pennant Connie Mack
finished abouf two millionth in the
American league guessing contest. Ail
the rest of us had piped it off a week be
fore.
* * *
Here is a list of 'the ten biggest big
league disappointments of the year:
Teams: Cardinals. Browns. Naps. Ath
letics. Phillies
Players Marty O’Toole. Joe Willis.
George Chalmers, Del Gainer. Chief
Bender.
• • •
The PelicaD fans don’t believe in giving
up their money. And when Knaupp col
lected $24 for a home run Sunday it was
the first time money had been tossed to a
player in New Orleans for four tears
• • •
Perryman, who goes to the Giants this
fall, has lost eight games for Richmond.
In seven of them not a run was scored for
• • •
him by his teammafes
Birmingham has scored the most runs
of any team in the league t 499). but the
Mobile team has allowed its opponents
the least (243) The Crackers rank tlurd
in the number of runs scored, but they
have allowed more than any other team
in the league
• • •
A new umpire was working in the
American association Rube Waddell hit
a clean home run, but the umpire called
It a foul ball. Joe Cantillon, the Minne
apolis manager, rushed up. to the umpire,
prepared to blow his head off—but didrft.
This is what the umpire said that made
him desist.
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‘’Keep away from me, Keep away from
half a dozen young pitchers, and
that number will probably be in
creased before the close of the sea
son. as several others are ex
pected to ieport. In addition to
this primary class. McGraw has
another more advanced grade of
students, composed of infielders
and outfielders who will one day
be stars of the game.
Sits on Bench and Learns.
A most st:iking example of the
McGraw system is furnished by
young George Burns, an outfielder.
Any other manager in the league
would probably have hurried a boy
of Burns' natural ability into the
regular line, with a prospect of im
mediately developing any weakness
that he might have. :ather than his
strength. Burns can hit well, and
is very fasl. He is also a crack
fielder. All he lacks is experience,
and he is getting that under the
McGraw method .of sitting on the
bench and watching.
Burns reported to .the team last
fall, and played in a few games.
He w.Cnt to Marlin with tlie re
cruits. and the fact that l.e was
one of the few retained showed
that McGaw though' highly of
him.
Then his ' education commenced.
He plays in exhibition games, once
in a while he is sent up as a pinch
hitter, but generally he sits on the
benvlt during the championship
game, watching and listening. He
sees and-hears about the mistakes
of others. He hears McGraw’s ob
servations. and the observations
me. If you get me excited 1 can’t do a
thing."
ft ft ft
When Hamilton pitched a no-hit game
against Detroit the other day he was the
second American league left hander who
had ever done it. Jesse Tannehill was
the other.
• • •
Jim Fox’s great showing in winning the
second half of the Sally league season,
coupled with his previous great record
with Columbus, should make the former
Cracker first sacker a strong favorite for
a job as manager in the Southern league.
Jim doesn't look like a manager, but,
then, neither docs Connie Mack.
« * *
Well. Jimmy Johnson has broken the
Southern league record for stolen bases.
He passed Joe Rickert's mark on Mon
day. By the way, didn’t we predict that
a couple of months ago?
• • •
Birdie Cree, whose wrist was broken by
a pitched ball, has rejoined the Highland-,
ers.
• * .
One thing the Giants have on the Red
Sox is base stealing ability. Still, that
didn't get them much against the Ath
letics.
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Doc White is to manage the Sacra
mento team of the Coast league next sea
son.
JACKSONVILLE AND
COLUMBUS MEET IN
FIRST GAME TODAY
The post-season series of seven games
to decide the pennant winner in the
South Atlantic league will begin at Jack
sonville today.
The teams will play seven games, if
necessary. The first three games will be
plated at Jacksonville, the second three
at Columbus, and in the event that a sev
enth Is necessary the city showing the
largest attendance will get the deciding
game
Morrow or Weidell will work for Co-,
lumbus. while Abercrombie will pitch for
Jacksonville, in the first game of the
series.
KILBANE FIGHTS DUNDEE
TONIGHT: DEFI FROM ABE
NEW YORK. Sept. 4.-When Feath
erweight Champion Kilbane meets
Johnny Dundee tonight in a ten-round
bout at the St Nicholas Athletic club,
he probably will receive a challenge to
box Abe Attell, from whom Kilbane
won his title on the roast Attell told
his friends today that he would be at
the ringside and would challenge Kii
bane.
of the older players. He is learning
the weaknesses of the oooosing
pitchers.
Some day he may take his place
in tiie regular line, and when he
does he will be ptactically a fin
ished outfielder. McGraw does not
believe in putting an inexperi
enced man into critical games,
whether he is a pitcher or an out
fielder. or anything else, and the
wisdom of his course has been
proven time and again.
Arthur Shafer, the crack Cali
fornian, can hardTy b? classed as a
recruit student. He could take his
place in the regular line right
now. He has gained his experience
as the others must gain It, and he
is out of the regular line only be
cause of the fact that equally bril
tian' players who have the added
value of longer set vice stand in his
way.
Arthur Fletcher had to take his
turn on the bench until last year,
when the trade for Herzog opened
the way for tegular service, and
Fletcher has been a great player
from the moment he
Fred Merlyle sat back for several
years, and s> did Heizog when he
first joined the Giants before going
to Boston.
Meyers Worked Way Up.
Chief Meyers played second fiddl®
for a time when he joined the
Giants, but finally worked his way'
to the position of fi st catcher of
the club. Now. Arthur Wilson, a
verv fine receiver, is the second
man, while behind him is Grover
< 'leveland Hartley, who will some
day be a great star.
McGraw docs not try t,o hurry
the development of a man. He goes
along slowly and carefully with
him, studying not only his ability,
hut ills temperament, and the day
.that McGraw says a man is ready
you can Avager he is. That Is usual
ly true. too. when McGraw says a
man is done. His mistakes in judg
ment on ball players liav? .been
mighty few and far between. Hov
many youngsters discarded by him
after trials have become stars?
Beneath his brusque mannerisms
and way of speaking McGraw has
an infinite patience. Errors of
judgment may irritate him. but er
rors of hands or feet are never no
ticed. A “boot" means nothing to
him. A “bone" arouses his ire. He
will take hold of a youngster who
is so raw that the average manager
would probably release him after a
glance: work him along very pa
tiently, until one day he presents a
new star.
I believe that McGraw can see a
bail player quicker than any man in
the business. 1 doubt if it takes
him more than a day or so to cor
rectly estimate a fellow, and many
a time he has demonstrated his
judgment by turning loose some
youngster whose work most people
thought stamped him as a coming
sensation, and clinging to anothe
raw recruit, who has shown the
casual observer nothing.
McGraw "Saw” Tesreau.
Last soring. 1 remember, there
was a great deal of talk about this
and that recruit pitcher In tiie
training eamp. McGraw overheard
some of the correspondents dis
cussing the different men, and
finally he remarked quietly:
"Well, you fellows can have all
that kind—l'll take this big boy
Tesreau for mine.”
And Tesreau has fulfilled Mc-
Graw's judgment.
McGraw likes players of his own
making. He makes fewer deals f>'
men from other teams than any of
the manager'. He prefers a player
who has been through his own per
sonal school. He would pay an'
amount for an experienced play
if he felt that the vetefan could
help him win a pennant, but as a
general proposition you would hav
a ha'ri time handing him an old
timer from some other team. H*
likes his own productions.