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Barons Weakest Club That Ever Won a Pennant
Southern League Material of 1912 Below Par
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
NOW that the Southern league
season of 1912 has been laid
away peacefully, with all due
rites, honors and a few cases of
hara-kari in cities where the pas
time prospered not. < ustom allows
us to rise anti say things of a sting
ing but truthful nature In refer
ence to the dear departed that could
hardly he considered au fait while
the corpse was still looking natu
ral.
The Dixie title was captured this
year by the most mediocre ball club
that has ever been given the right
to hold a (lag raising since .Newt
Fisher inaugurated the custom in
these parts in 1901. And to add to
the humiliation of the situation,
IV best ball club that Dixie boast
'l in this year of flood, pestilence
» fl presidential pyrotechnics was
T Club that copped.
ut the Barons, the undisputed
jnpions, nev< r possessed chant-
PA nship caliber. With the excep
tion of their red sweaters, which
graced their manly forms through
out the race, there was little to dis
tinguish the all-conquering men of
Molesworth and the bedraggled
bunch that followed C. Hemphill
and M. Alperman as far down the
ladder as the ladder went. And
goodness knows there is no purpose
nor intent here to boast, brag or
bray of the Atlanta team.
As to catchers, Birmingham was
about as well fortified as Port Ar
thur after the Jap guns had been
working for six months Yantz,
the first receiver, was a fair to mid
dling second backstopper In 1911
and he wasn't as good in 1912. He
< was a willing worker, but so is a
mule sometimes. His generalship
was el a negative quantity. His
throwing was neither quick nor ac
curate. In hitting he was below
the .250 mark, though most of his
blows were timely. At receiving
he was good.
His aid and assistant. Mr. Dil
ger, was the most hopeless gent
who ever hid his face behind a
mast in Class "A” company. Ha
had one virtue—he was cheap.
Let us mercifully draw the cur
tain.
The pitching staff was an im
provement. but few of the men who
hurled the Barons to 1912 victory
will bide another Southern summer
sun, and it will not be from h< ing
called higher. Contrary to all
Southern pitching pre, . dent. this
years champions p ■.-.wssed no pre
mier hurler Since the aforemen
tioned time when Newt Fisher
evinced pennant pole procliviti, ».
the champion aam has always
shown at least one slabman who
stood out m fine relief. In 1901 it
was Hill, in 1902 Harry Mclntyre,
in 1903 venerable Theodore Brei
tenstein. in 1904 Mclntyre and Ar
tie Goodwin, in 1905 Jimnil, Dy
gert, Breit and Bill Phillips. n
1906 that remarkable combina-
O I! t
of Sorts «
When everything goes
wrong and the future looks
black,, instead of moping
around go right to your
druggist and ask for
Tutt’s Pills
You will lind this a short
cut to happiness, because
they will remove the cause
of your trouble which is
nothing more than a slug
guh liver. At your drug
gist sugar coated or plain.
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
! FUZZY WOODRUFF ;
• TELLS WHY BARONS J
: WON 1912 PENNANT •
• Fuzzy Woodruff, who traveled •
• with the Birmingham baseball •
• team nearly all season, tells why •
• the Barons won the Southern •
• league pennant this season. Fuzzy •
• says they won simply because •
• they were a wee bit better than •
• the other seven clubs. But, ac- •
• cording to, Fuzzy, the entire •
• Southern league material this sea- •
• son was very "bushy." In the ac- •
• companying story he tells of the •
• strength and weaknesses of the •
• gonfalon winners. «
•••••••••••••••••••••••»»»
tion that won Birmingham’s first
pennant—Eva Wilhelm. Slim Sal
lee, Ginger Clark and Rip Reagan,
in 1907 Rube Zellar held the pitch
ing palm, in 1908 Vedder Sitton
and Win Kellum did the trick for
Bill Bernhard with Rill helping
himself, tn 1909 Harold Johns and
Tommie Atkins were stars, while 1n
1910 and 1911 It was big Otto
Hess.
Baron Hurlers Very Poor.
Now. the 1912 hurling contin
gent of the Barons was not the
worst in the league, but there was
not a pitcher in the bunch on
whom the spotlight could be com
fortably turned. Boyd, Foxen,
Prough, Smith and Hardgrove were
all about on a par and none of them
dazzled Boyd. Prough and Hard
grove were rank in-and-outers.
Foxen had seen his best day, but
still has pitching ability., Smith
was possessed of oodles of talent,
but it as as shy on experience as
the heiress who fell for the bogus
count In short, there was power
fully little championship stuff
stowed away in the pitching ’de
partment.
The Baron infield was as fine a
plaltl as you will ever find dutside
of Scotland. The men who could
hit eouldn t field. The a.thletes who
could field were strangers to the
usages of the war club.
Take old Bill MeGilvray on first.
He's about as consistent a per
former with his lift pole as the
South has ever known. For a big
man he has many excellencies as a
has. runner, but as a first base
man—he's a joke.
MeGilvray Not a First Baseman.
Primarily. MeGilvray is not a
first baseman. He broke into the
Southern ns an outfielder in 1909,
after he had served in that capaci
ty in the Association and the
Western league until he was bald
is Frank Isbell. He was called in
to perform at first In 1910 when
Moiesworth couldn't find any one
else to take the job, and he has
stuck, though he has never endan
gered th< laurels of Messrs. Chase.
Daubert et al.
His arm is lamentable weak, low
thrown balls nr distasteful to him.
sharp grounders are the bane of
his existence If he stops them.
It, does it with his chest, which he
bares to the attack as nobly as did
Mr. Horatius when he made a
bridge famous before Steve Brodie
swiped his stuff
Tlte other hitting infielder. Senor
Rafael Almeida, came South from
Cincinnati with a crash of brass
and rub n-dub that was heard in
his native Cuba Likewise he
sported several suits es clothes of
the kind the sartorial advertisi
ments picture to show you how
much more illgnitied in appeal
into their particular brands hap
pen to In The Castilian could
hit. but he wfts tempeiatnental. He
> ouldn't fit- - that was just nat
ural
In addition t. this the haughty
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ITTE ATTjANTA GEORGTAjN and NEWS. TT t E.7DAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1912.
gayetles of nations that had no
healthy effect on his batting prow
ess, .After a skyrocket start, his
hitting slumped until he finished
beneath the .300 mark, after being
touted to lead the league.
Ellam Not So Bad.
Ellam, at short, was brilliant but
erratic in fielding, and practically
a nonentity in hitting. The few hits
he got were generally made w‘ith
two out and none on. He was con
scientious, though, a clean liver,
and young.
Marcan, at second, was the real
strength of the infield. He was no
Lajoie with the bludgeon, but he hit
.240 and w as as fine a little waiter
as ever charged two prices for a
half meal. And he had sense. His
baseball judgment was unerring,
his base-running clever, his field
ing reliable. He had his work cut
out for him helping the lacking
MeGilvray, the erratic Ellam and
the temperamental Almeida, but
he did It well.
But, all in all. the infield was
nothing to throw fits about.
Baronial potentiality was largo,
ly centered in the outfield. When
Birmingham was winning, the gar
den strenglh was the peer of any
in minor league baseball, and as
the Barons were winning most of
the time, it stacked up as consider
able outfield.
Mcßride played in vastly im
proved form over his 1911 showing,
but still he was not a great dis
tance in advance of the av< rage
Dixie sun fielder. Hitting, fielding
and base-running were fair and
steady, but that was all.
Messenger Finally Benched.
On the other hand. Johnston and
Messenger started liks Cobbs. John
ston kept it up to a large extent.
Messenger quit to the point where
he finally was benched.
Both of lhese men looked splen
did baseball material. Johnston’s
80 stolen bases show his ability in
this regard, and Messenger was
faster than the center fielder. Both
had throwing arms that were above
criticism. Their fielding w’as spec
tacular. Their hitting and run
getting power made the Barons
dangerous always. But —
Neither liar! the power "to look
the other horse in the eye.” as they
used to say before the lawmakers
decided It is better- to give our
money to fake mining promoters
than to the bookmakers.
Then the question is bound to
recur, "How in the Sam Hill did
the Barons get the lead.in May and
hold it until Judge Kavanaugh told
the players to go home?"
Off Year For League.
The answer is easy. In fact, there
are a number of answers. The
Southern league suffered an off
year, due perhaps to the elevation
of the American association and the
International league; due perhaps
to the fact that Southern magnates
had rather sacrifice something in
the quality of baseball shown than
to dig deep into their bunk rolls to
show classy pastiming, as in pre
vious years.
In the second place, every mem
ber of the Baron squad had the
pennant bug. They dreamed of
flags. It was th< ambition of every
member of the team tp show their
appreciation of the true sportsman
ship of Rfek Woodward, the owner
of the Baron club
Again, the team was capably
managid by Moiesworth. Though
dissension threatened several times
and though he w >s a target f<«r a
majority of his home waiters, he
kept the club fighting and kept the
members tn condition to tight
And once mote. Tlti‘ team went
through the entire year with but
one Injury to a play , r
But. at that, never again will the
Southern league see its title won by
and Its honors bt-ti-w<d on a club
BITE SOX BEGIN
PRACTICE FOfl
CUBSERIES
By Bill Bailey.
CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—From now
on until the end of the sea
son Manager Callahan and
his first assistant, "Kid" Gleason,
will have just one object in life,
and that will he to whip those
white hosed athletes into shape for
a series with the Cubs.
Begin Morning Practice.
Morning practice is on. The ath
letes are under instruction to re
port at the South Side park every
a. m. at 10 o’clock and remain there
not less than two hours. All the
rules of the training camp have
been inaugurated, and If there is
one department of baseball which
has been overlooked in the training
schedule it's because neither the
brain of Callahan nor Gleason has
thought of it.
The pitchers’ workout and bat
ting practice is indulged in. The
infielders, young and old, are put
through their paces. The outfielders
are given all kinds of stunts. Ping
Bodie, clad in a rubber undershirt,
is working just as hard to reduce
his avoirdupois as he did in the
strenuous days of March.
The youngsters especially are re
ceiving much instruction. You
know the fellows with the team at
this time are eligible for that se
ries, and much time is devoted to
telling just what. was learned of
the Cubs' style of play in the se
ries of last fall.
Groom Lange For Series.
The sending of Lange to the slab
in the last game between the Red
and the White Sox -was a part of
the training plan. Callahan natur
ally wants all the pitchers in con
dition that he can have. So Ixtnge
was sent to the mound after weeks
of idleness . nd eatne through in
fine shape.
RUBE MARQUARD~siGAIS
HIS BIGGEST CONTRACT
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 17.—That
Rube Maripiard, pitching phenomenon
of the New York Giants, is wedded to
Miss Shirley Kellogg, of the "Follies
of 1910” companj, is the belief 6f Rube’a
mother. Mrs FYed Marquard.
In spite of press dispatches to the
contrary. Mrs. Marquard says she is
certain her son has been married. She
had a letter from him two weeks ago,
she says, in which he told her of the
marriage.
BILLIKENS GET TWO*
PLAYERS FROM BROWNS
ST lad is Sept 17. First Baseman
J. e Kutina and Outfielders Walter -lant
zen anti Willie Brown were released to
. \ l>y the St Louis American league
club Brown will return to Wichita Falls.
In the T< xas-ttklahonta !.'ague. and Ku
tina amt I.mtzen were sent to Montgom
ery, in the Southern league.
BANQUET TO BARONS.
BIRMINGHAM ALA.. Sept. 17.—The
banquet given to tlte Birmingham baseball
lute the pennant winners, in the Indian
room of tin' Florence Hotel, by the asso
ciation, was an event of some propor
tion. The menu was first-class. and
there was plenty of "drinks" as well as
"eats "Rick" Woodward, majority
stockholder in the association, was aux
in k t . gi\< ’la boys a R>''><lV i end-off just
pt . 'r to their departure for their respec
tive homes
1
The Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on
how the “Big Five" batters of the
American league are hitting:
PLAYERS— AB. H. P. C.
COBB 511 212 .413
SPEAKER 525 206 .392
JACKSON 516 192 .372
LAJOIE 382 130 .340
COLLINS 477 160 .335
Detroit and Boston did not play yes
terday, and Cobb and Speaker did not
have a chance to boost their averages.
Jackson and Lajoie got a single eech
out of three times up. Collins secured
only one hit out of four attempts.
Ball Players' Bench Is an Interesting Place
+•+ +•+ ❖•• F +•+ 4-«-F
McGraw Calm During Most Intense Situation
By Rube Marquard.
WHEN the grandstands are
roaring with excitement
and you can hardly hear
your own voice above the tumult,
the most interesting place in the
world is the players’ bench. It is
rarely noticed in the general tur
moil, but if you watch you can see
that the men in uniform are appar
ently just as excited ns the veriest
"bug” in the stands. Sometimes
there will be players out in front of
the "coop” doing a wild war dancb
and throwing bats in the air, while
those who remain seated are
pounding one another on the shoul
der and whooping it up like mad.
Some clubs are more demonstra
tive than others. Naturally, a
crowd that is fighting for a pen
nant, with a chance to, win, is like
ly to be the center of the excite
ment, but all clubs get pretty well
worked up during a hot game. I
suppose a very young club displays
more agitation than one made up of
experienced men, bu’ I have seen
old-timers just as excited as the
kids,
McGraw Always Cool.
When the turmoil is at its height
the coolest man on our club is
Manager McGraw. Through the
wildest situations he is constantly
watching the game, and 4f the club
is charging in from behind he is
shifting his attack as calmly as if
he were playing a game of three
cushion billiards.
Doesn't he ever get worked up
himself? Well, I should say he
does, but he never permits his emo
tion to distract his attention from
the game.
I have heard fans suggest that
perhaps the players get so used to
the various situations that they
never become excited. Don’t you
believe it. A home run with the
bases full and the club four runs
behind means more to the player
than to the fan. I doubt if any ball
team ever gets so far behind that it
loses all interest in winning. It is
human nature to want to win, and
bail players are essentially human.
No Venom in Talk.
The Giants' bench seethes with
excitement during a close game.
Some clubs do a great deal of talk
ing from the bench—the conversa
tion being directed either at the
umpires or at the opposing players
—and, while our fellows can hold
up their ends conversationally un
der any condition, they are not so
given to shooting stinging remarks
at their opponents as members of
other clubs. They talk a good deal,
but there is rarely any venom in
what they say.
McGraw is not much of a con
versationalist out on the coaching
lines, but he can accomplish more
with a few words than any man I
ever saw. He rarely raises his
voice to a shout, but he is a verit
able gatling gun when he wants to
talk.
The Cubs’ bench buzzes like a
suddenly wrecked ant hill during
the tense situations. They are all
great talkers, especially Evers and
Zimmerman and Tinker. while
Chance Is ever ready to join in the
discussion, whatever it may be.
St. Louis Is another crowd of
rapid conversationalists, and Pitts
burg is the same way. Cincinnati
doesn't do much talking, and Bos
ton is pretty silent, Brooklyn leaves
the arguments to Dahlen, but Phil
adelphia can keep the air filled
with words.
Talk Livens Up Game.
On the field the Giants are about
as conversational •as any club in
the country If Fred Snodgrass was
on the Infield right along. with
Fletcher and Herzog, and Grover
Hartley was constantly catching,
there would be a good many words
distributed over the lawn before
the game was over I think that
their line of talk keeps a game
livened up
.MARQUARD WRITES .
• INTERESTING STORY •
J ABOUT GIANT TEAM •
• Rube Marquard in this story •
• tells some interesting facts about •
• the Giants. He describes how •
• McGraw acts in tight quarters; •
• how the Giants’ leader sits on the •
• bench and figures out how to beat •
• an opponent just when things •
• look the blackest for his team. •
• This story is written especially for •
• The Georgian by Marquard, and •
• in it the baseball fans will learn •
• many inside facts about the Na- •
• tional league team which will bat- •
• tie with the Red Sox for the •
• world’s title. .
Often you will see a game go
along for several innings, and Mc-
Graw will not appear on the coach
ing lines, as is his general custom.
The Giants may be behind, with a
good pitcher turning them back
from the plate one after another.
Apparently they have lost all in
terest in the game and are hope
lessly beaten!
As a matter of fact,* it is then
that the bench interest is keenest.
McGraw will be sitting silently
watching the game and closely
studying the pitcher. He is trying
to figure out a new line of attack.
Over in Philadelphia one day two
weeks ago a pitcher was holding
our boys in check, and apparently
there was little chance of break
ing through his guard. He was
keeping our batters In the hole by
putting the first ball he pitched
to each man over the plate and get
ting a strike on them. It is the
Giant custom, as a rule, to careful
.ly look over the.pitching, with the
idea of waiting him out for a base
on halls, but that scheme was a
d£ad failure against the Philadel
phia tosser.
McGraw Discovers Weakness.
McGraw kept out of sight for
several innings. You would have
thought he had lost all interest in
the game. Suddenly he appeared
on the coaching line, and suddenly
the first man up lashed out at the
first ball pitched. The next man
did the same. Both got safe hits.
•McGraw has several of the best
first-ball hitters in the world when
he lets them hit at the first one.
Every man up hit at the first ball,
and tlte game was won before the
pitcher could shift his defense.
It is the general idea that Mc-
Graw doesn’t care much for the
sacrifice hit as a moans of advanc
ing runners, but he is just as like
ly to suddenly order a bunt as any
thing else.
McCormick Pinch Hitter.
Few managers manipulate his
pinch hitters with the skill of Mc-
Graw. He is probably about the
only one in the country who car-
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>vgets like; for just as the offspring of healthy ancestrv
blessed with pure, rich blood insuring good health, so the children of bl
£ einh mv a P° Uuted circulation which fosters a cha'ii-
Linn l\ O >l S CS " ' e u , sua ' s ’S n °f a scrofulous inheritance are sv->
R 1 ■ * 'c neck, weak eyes, pale, waxy complexions, sores and ub -
and general poor health. These symptoms are most often manifested i
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THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. GA.
Ties a man for nothing else but
pinch hitting, and that man hag
certainly earned his salary. He ii
Harry McCormick, one erf the sur
est batsmen in the big leagues.
Harry is a left-handed hitter, and
is particularly deadly against
right-handed pitching. He rarely
strikes out, and over in Philadel
phia recently he delivered four
straight hits in the pinches.
McGraw used to carry Sammy
Strang for pinch hitting, and Sanj
gave him eleven blows out of fours
teen trips to the plate at one time,
McCormick is likely to break up
any game for a pitcher. He is not
supposed to be very fast, although
I’ve seen him beat out short blows
very frequently, and McGraw usu
ally supplants him after he gets on
the bases with Beals Becker. If a
left-handed pitcher is working
against the club, Otis Crandall Is
usually the pinch hitter.
No one can successfully forecast
or gauge the McGraw attack. He
shifts in remarkable fashion.
Sometimes he merely wants a base
on balls, rather than a safe hit,
especially if the opposing pitcher
is inclined to be the least bit wild,
and Arthur Shafer can be depend
ed upon to wait the twirler out.
BEAN & MAGILL TO MEET
SOLDIERS AGAIN TODAY
The second game of a series of three ic
be played between the Bean A
team and the Seventeenth infantry : r
the amateur championship of the city,
will be played at Fort McPherson tn.
afternoon.
The first game was won by the Bean
<v Magill boys, shutting out the Lr:
boys, 3 to 0, in a highly interesting ami
spectacular contest Saturday astern-
T hose two teams are very evenly man • :
and Atlanta fans will have a chance t
see some big league ball
Zickerfoose or Moore will bp in the s
for the fort, with Slat ter behind the bat.
Falvey or Payne will pitch and Dinkins
will catch for Bean & Magill.
GRIFFITHI SAYS HE WILL
WIN WITH REAL SOUTHPAW
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. - “Give t :•
real left-hand pitcher and I will win ‘
American league pennant next
said Clarke Griffith, manager of the >• t
a tors, today.
That he is making a hard eff-Tt
get a second Vean Gregg is seen ir. 1
announcement that he has put in drau
for a dozen young southpaws.
MEHEGAN WINS ON FOUL
OVER WELLS IN 14 RDS.
LONDON, Sept. 17.—Hughie Melrm.c .
lightweight champion of Austr.ilhi. '
tiie decision In his tight in the Bi.c !<!'
ring with Matt Wells, the English 1 ■:
pion, on a foul. Wells was dis<|ualif ;
the fourteenth round for knocking M
gan down after the gong sounded
tight was fast and furious through"-;
CARROLLTON IS DEFEATED
CARROLLTON, GA. Sept. ’
Fourth A. & M. won an exciting i
from Carrollton by the one-sided •- *
9 to 4. Both Carndca! and Mill !
pitched a steady game, but the
received poor support in the pinches
features of the game were the batting
Carmical and Hallum, for the A A
and the catching of'Now for ('arr"':’’
Batteries for A. & M.. (’armical and
ren; for Carrollton. Millican and Nev
early life, though sometimes maturity is rci
before the trouble breaks out. Treatment s' -
be commenced at the first indication of Scrofula f "
it may get beyond control if allowed to r n ’■
cheeked. S. S. S. is the very best treatment
Scrofula. It renovates the circulation and •
out all scrofulous matter and deposits. S b
goes to the bottom of the trouble and remove
cause and cures the disease. Then it supp>
weak, blood with healthful properties. S S ■