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Southern League Material of 1912 Below Par
By Fuzzy Woodniff.
NOW that the Southern league
season of 1912 has been laid
away peacefully, with all due
rites, honors and a few cases of
hsra-karl In cities where the pas
time prospered not. custom allows
us to rise and say things of a sting
ing but truthful nature in refer
ence to the dear departed that oould
hardly be 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
' i hold a Hag raising since Newt
Fisher inaugurated the custom in
these parts in 1901. And to add to
the humiliation of the situation,
the best ball club that Dixie boast
ed in this year of flood, pestilence
and presidential pyrotechnics was
the club that copped.
But the Barons, the undisputed
champions, newer possessed cham
pionship caliber. With the excep
tion of their red sweaters, which
graced their manly forms through
out the race, there waa little to dis
tinguish the all-conquet ing men of
Molesworth and the bedraggled
bunch that followed C. Hemphill
and \\ Alperman as far down the
ladder as the ladder went. And
goodness knows there is no purpose
por 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
"c- "I a negative quantity. His
throwing was neither quick nor ac
curate. In hitting he was below
the .25(1 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. He
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 being
called higher. Contrary to all
Southern pitching precedent, this
year’s champions possessed no pre
mier hurler Since the aforemen
tioned time when Xewt Fisher
evinced pennant t < proclivities,
the champion team has always
shown at least one slabman who
stood out in tim relief. In 19nl it
was Hill, in 1902 Harry Mclntyre,
In 1908 venerable Theodore Brei
tenstein in 1904 Mclntyre anti Ar
tie Goodwin, in 1905 Jimmie l>y
gert, Breit and Bill Phillips, in
1906 that remarkable combina-
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’FUZZY WOODRUFF ;
• TELLS WHY BARONS :
: 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. FAzy •
• 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- •
• ion 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—Rva Wilhelm, Slim Sal
lee. Ginger Clark and Rip Reagan,
1n 1907 Rube Zellar held the pitch
ing palm, in 1908 Vedder Sitton
and Win Kellum did the trick for
Rill Bernhard with Bill helping
himself, in 1909 Harold Johns and
Tommie Atkins wer<> stars, while in
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, hut there was
not a pitcher in the hunch 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 talorit.
but was 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 line a
plaid as you will ever find outside
of Scotland. The men who could
hit couldn't field. The athletes who
could field were strangers to the
usages of the. war club.
Take old Bill McGllvray on first.
He's about as consistent a per
former with his hit pole as the
South has ever known. For a big
man he has many excellencies as a
base runner; but as a first base
man he's a joke.
McGilvray Not a First Baseman.
Primarily. McGilvray is not a
first baseman. He broke into the
Southern as an outfielder in 1909.
after he had served in that capaci
ty hi the Association and the
Western league until he was bald
ns Frank Isbell. He was called in
to perform at first in 1910 when
Molesworth couldn't find any one
• Ise to take the Job, and he has
stuck, though he has never endan
gered the laurels of Messrs Chase.
Daubert et al.
His arm Is lamentably weak, low
thrown halls are distasteful to him.
sharp grounders are the bane of
his existence. If he stops them,
he does it with his chest, which he
bares to the attack as nobly as did
Mr. Horatius when he made a
bridg> fri'nous Inf.irr Steve Brodie
swiped his stuff
The otlv r hitting infielder. S'enor
Rafael Alnnida. came South from
Cincinnati with a crash of brass
nd rub-a-dub that was heard in
bis native Cuba Likewise he
sported several suits of i lothcs of
the kind the sartorial advertise.
m<nfs picture to show you hew
much more dignified in appeal -
am,' tln ii purtii nla ’• brands hap
pen <0 1„ Th, Castilian could
I, ' but In 1. up, ramental He
■ outin' field that was just nat
ural
In a'l lition to 'hi- the hiiiistm
e.. n -tloued ,1 pl . e, n|| for th'*
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1912.
gayetlcs of nations that had no
healthy effect on his batting pfow
< ss. After a skyrocket start, his
hilting slumped until lie finished
beneath the .300 mark, after being
touted to lead the league.
Ellam Not So Bad.
Ellani. at short, was brilliant but
erratic in fielding, and practically
a nonentity in hitting. The few hits
he got were generally made with
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 was 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
McGilvray, 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 large
ly centered in the outfield. When
Birmingham was winning, the gar
den strength 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 show ing,
but still he was not a great dis
tance in adv.tnce of the average
Dixie sun fielder. Hitting, fi' lding
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 these men looked splen
did baseball material. Johnston's
SO stolen bases show his ability in
this regard, and Messenger was
faster than the < enter fielder. Both
had throw ing arms that w ere above
criticism. Their fielding was spec
tacular. Their hitting and run
getting power made the Barons
dangerous always. But
Neither had the power "to look
the other horse in the eye." as they
used to say before the lawmakers
decided it is better to give out'
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
league suffered an off
Wear, due perhaps to the elevation
of the American association and the
International league; due perhaps
to the fact that Southern magnates
had rathvi sacrifice something in
the quality of baseball shown than
to dig deep into their bank rolls to
show classy pastiming. as in pre
vious years
In the second place, every mem
ber <>f th" Baron squad hud the
pennant bug They dreamed of
Hags. It was the ambition of every
member of th" team to show their
apiueciation of the true sportsman
ship of Rick Woodward, the owner
of the Halon club
Again tuc t",un was capably
managed by Molesworth Though
dissension threatened several times
and though lie' whs a target for a
majority of his home writ, is he
ke[»t the club fighting and kept the
in , ondltlon to fight
And <m< e more The team went
through th, entire year with but
one injury to a playei
But, al iliHt m*yer again will the
Southern I'Hgue s,e ii- mi, u ,,n Io
and Ha honors bestowed on a < hih
of the Bololle' Miilkllesa
HIE SOX BEGIN
P SfflE?
By Bill Bailey.
CiHICAGO. 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 be to whip those
white hosed athletes into shape for
•I 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.
Tlie 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 tlie White Sox was a part of
the training plan. Callahan natur
ally wants all the pitchers in con
dition that he can have. So Lange
was sent to the mound after weeks
of idleness and came through in
fine shape.
I RUBE MARQUARD SIGNS
HIS BIGGEST CONTRACT
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 17.—That
Rube Marquard, pitching phenomenon
of the New York Giants, is wedded to
Miss Shirley Kellogg, of the "Follies
of 1910" company, is the belief of Rube's
mother. Mrs. Fred Marquard.
In spite of press dispatches to the
contrary, Mrs. Marquard says she is
certain her son lias 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 EOl lS Sept 17 - First Baseman
.Joe Kutina and < hitfielders Walter Jant
zen and W illie Brown were released to
day b> the Si Louis \nterican league
club Brown will return to Wichita Falls,
in the Texas-Oklahoma league, and Ku
tina and Jantzen were sent to Montgom
ery, in the Southern league.
BANQUET TO BARONS.
BIRMINGHAM. ALA,. Sept. 17—The
bancuet given to the Birmingham baseball
club, the pennant winners. In the Indian
room of the Florence hotel, by the asso
ciation. was an event of some propor
tion. The menu was first-class, and
there was plenty of ~< lrinks“ as well as
•‘eats.” “Rick ' Woodward, majority
stockholder in tin association, was anx
ious to give ’he boys a good send-off just
prior to their departure for their respec
tive homes.
1 I
she Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on
how the "Bia Five” batters of the
American leaaue me hitting:
PLAYERS— AB. H. PC.
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
ha <. a chance to boost their averages.
Jackton and L»|oi« got a single each
out of three times up Collins secured
only one hit out of four attempts.
Ball Players’ Bench Is an Interesting Place
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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 as the veriest
"bug” in the stands. Sometimes
there will be players out in front of
the “coop" doing a wild war dance
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, but 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 if 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 playei
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
ball 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 a* 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. bonis 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.
tin the field the Giants are about
as conve sational as any club In
the country If Fred Snodgrass was
on the infield light along, with
Pletcher and Herzog, and Grover
Hartley was constants catching
there would be a good many words
distributed ovef the lawn befotv
the game was over I think that
thel line of talk keeps .< came
livened up
• MARQUARD WRITES I
• INTERESTING STORY •
• 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 So x for the •
• world’s title. •
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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 thd 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 balls, but that scheme was a
dead 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 the 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 means 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 ear-
scaoFi/wiv moi/Bt®
No tnitli is more forcibly manifested in physical life than the old
saymg “‘ike begets like;” for just as the offspring of healthy ancestry are
1 blessed with pure, rich biood insuring good health, so the children of blood
tainted parentage inherit a polluted circulation which fosters a chain of
scrofulous troubles. The usual sign of a scrofulous inheritance are swollen
IK an< s about the neck, weak eyes, pale, waxy complexions, sores and ulcers
I and general poor health. These symptoms are most often manifested in
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I UL ’ THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. GA.
' rles a man for nothing else but
, J pinch hitting, and that man has
certainly earned his salary He is
, Harry McCormick, one of the sur-
1 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 Philade:.
, phia recently he delivered four
, straight hits in the pinches.
, McGraw used to carry Sammy
, Strang for pinch hitting, and Sam
, gave him eleven blows out of four
, 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 1
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 thr»» tn
lie played between the Bean & Magill
team and the Seventeenth infantry for
the amateur championship of the city,
will be played at Fort McPherson this
afternoon.
The first game was won by the Bean
& Magill boys, shutting out the fort
boys, 3 to 0. in a highly interesting and
spectacular contest Saturday afternoon.
Those two teams are very evenly matched
and Atlanta fans will have a chance to
see some big league ball.
Ziekerfoose or Moore will be in the box
for the fort, with Slatter behind the bat
Falvey or Paine will pitch and Dinkins
will catch for Bean & Magill
GRIFFITH SAYS HE WILL
WIN WITH REAL SOUTHPAW
WASHINGTON. Sept. 17.—" Give me a
real left-hand pitcher and 1 will win th#
American league pennant next year.'
said Clarke Griffith, manager of the Sen
ators. today.
'l’hat he is making a hard effort
get a second Vean Gregg is seen in 1 1’
announcement that he has put in drafts
for a dozen young southpaws
MEHEGAN WINS ON FOUL
OVER WELLS IN 14 RDS.
LONDON, Sept* 17.—Hughie Mehagan,
I. gin weight champion of Australia.
the decision in his light in the Blacknars
ring with Matt -Wells, the English cham
pion. on a foul. Wells was disqualified in
the fourteenth round for knocking
gan down after the gong sounded ®
fight was fast and furious throughout
CARROLLTON IS DEFEATED
CARROLLTON. GA.. Sept 17
Fourth A. & M. won an exciting
from Carrollton by the one-sided _
9 to 4. Both Carmical and Milhcan
pitcl <
received poor support in the pinches ine
features of the game were the batting 1
Carmical and llallum. for the A &
and the catching of New for Can’ll- '•
Batteries for A. & M.. Carmical and
ren; for Carrollton. Millican and
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before the trouble breaks out. Treatment should
be commenced at the first indication of Scrofula sot
it may get beyond control if allowed to run un
checked. S. S. S. is the very best treatment sos
Scrofula. It renovates the circulation and
out all scrofulous matter and deposits. S. S. &
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