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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- o f S c rt s « When everything goei wrong and the future look* black, instead of mooing •round go right to your druggist and ask for Tutt’s Fills You will find this a short cu t *o happiness, because they will remove the cause of your trouble which i* nothing more than a slug* v Rish liver. At your drug* f B**t sugar coated or plain. •••••••••••••••••••••••••■ ’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 +•+ +•+ -'•••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 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. • ♦•••••••••••••••■••••••••a 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 (sss) ' , ■ ’ Ud, ’e entirely of roots, herbs and barks, and 18 ar ■ absolutek sale remedy for young or old. Book on the blood and inedu'i 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 early life, though sometimes maturity is reached 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. & goes to the bottom of the trouble and removes th* cause and cures the disease. Then it supplie- t!w Weak, blood with healthful properties. S. S S 1*