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I 0 I W S&CN yhe name on \ MCTB-fece£r C<> | - ‘ V Iwll CuRTAIf? r Zfe,, I ■— .■•* itilM VBL 7 z wv - ■-.. ;. > W.i War' •i'dr “\ -- .•*<__ wLj| ■ ‘\t-- ■ stir tIpJRW S c °— —& ~ WrlW. ~ -- I I p ■- '■'■•a —fj/ - TiW Z V-----_ M wk ■ *L — - .. .... .... ._. , . ... 1 !____< o»Ysiiav.’ 191 t I>S STAX CoacyAXT 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 < . ' i • •1U «I i < tlfl II . . ti. . H .»• ♦ SV 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- SCHOFIfZOI/S T/iQI/£LES f ? rc J bl Y manifeKted jn physical life than the < ' >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 (sg£) . i v »t'rdy of roots, herbs and barks, and’ I!\r 5 UCI y for y '”" lg ° r ol 'l- Book on the blood and m< 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 ■