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Twenty-Five Greatest Southern • League Players
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No. 12—Theo. Breitenstein a Real Grand Old Man
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
.t T ILLI AM EWART GLAD
\/V STONE, if you listen to
highbrow historians, has a
strangle hold on all the rights, ti
tles and emoluments of the job of
being ‘‘Grand Old' Man.” The his
t irians are probably correct if an
investigator would confine his ef
forts to Surrey or Hampshire, or
some of those other places where
, ricket is still considered a sport.
Should the searcher for informa
tion as to the proper holder of this
Antiquity Title happen to visit that
nnd that all baseball players hope
to visit before they die —the land
overed and inclosed by the Big
Tent, he would undoubtedly be in
formed that with the exception of
old Cy Young, all the Grand Old
vfen are not even Baby Grand Old
Men.
But should he turn to the land
where the cotton blossoms bloom,
where they didn’t start voting the
Democratic ticket in 1912, and
where they sometimes give up their
street car seats and ask the ques
tion. he will be branded basely ig
norant by even the most unassum
ing school boy. For in Dixie near
ly all the Grand Old Men of Civil
war time have died out and lu their
place has risen the grizzled form
and stalwart figure of Theodore
Breitenstein.
Had Big League Reputation.
Breitenstein had made an honor
able big league reputation long be
fore his freckled face was turned
Southward. And it is remarkable
that Breitenstein was able to play
a brand of ball in the South that
made people forget his brilliant
career in the majois.
The South is strewn with blasted
tnseball reputations. Famous old
jor leaguer after famous old
najor leaguer, his days of useful
ness passed in the big tent has
trayed Southward to start anew,
■nly to be driven out of the league
by the resistless fbrce of young
blood. Lave Cross’ career was a
dismal failure in the Southern
league. Harry Vaughn. Tern Par
rott and a dozen others who had
once been called great were com
pelled to turn to the North with
notiiing left of their glories but
their names in the olcuguide books
that everybody loses.
Needed Southern Sun.
But Breitenstein defied youth.
For years and years he was not
only one of the strongest pitchers
in the Southern league, but he was
iiequently the league’s premier
urler. So successful was he in
:Ins land that efforts were fre
quently made to buy or draft him
a. big league scouts. But the old
veteran knew that the hot South
• rn sun was responsible for his re
turn to effectiveness and he always
■ fused to consider any proposal to
eturn to the scene of his former
triumphs.
When old Breit came Soutli with
Memphis in 1903. he was regarded
-a historical freak, who could
■•• ell be looked on for the privilege
"f saying, “I’ve seen him.” That he
■ould make his Southern record
was not even suggested.
His fame made as a member of
tie Cincinnati Reds, the story of
; iis sale along with Heinie Pletz
for SIO,OOO, all of these things made
him a curiosity, but it was doubted
that he was a ball player at that
time.
Rut Old Breit worked carefully.
He never pitched a ball with more
steam than he had to use. He nev
er employed a curve when a fast
ball or a change of pace would
serve. He was conserving th
strength of his good left arm.
And the hot weather brought the
wing around. Before the season
closed, the veteran was considered
one of the most formidable pitch
ers in the league. Memphis, with
' ’harley Frank as pilot and Breit
iis first officer, won a thrilling race
from Little Rock.
Went to Pels With Frank.
Next season Frank transferred
his activities to New Orleans. Breit
went with him, and though the
Pelicans were nosed out of the pen-
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HEMEDYnm men
nant. it was no fault of the old
Redlegged warrior. He had an ex
cellent season. He continued his
good work year after year until
1908.
Each season the scribes would
piophecy as Breit’s last, but he
plugged on and on. In 1908 the
Southern league saw its most des
perate finish between Nashville and
New Orleans. The teams met in
final combat on the Nashville field.
On the last game the pennant de
pended.
Frank did nut hesitate in picking
his pitcher. He warmed up but
one hurler that afternoon. The
hurler was Breit.
Bill Bernhard, handling Nash
ville. picked the then youthful Ved
der Sitton and in those days Sit
ton had everything. Age met youth
and youth conquered, but it was
SOLDIERS PLAY TECH 2D
SATURDAY AT THE FLATS
I he football team of the Seventeenth
a practice game with
trie lech second team on Saturdav No
vember 23. at Tech dats. This will be
Kood practice for the soldier team which
is preparing for their big game with the
Eleventh cavalry team at Chattanooga on
1 lecember 7.
The Tech secund team has been hold
ing the varsity right along, and making
them show their best paces to score at all.
the soldiers have been in training for
the past few weeks. Their team will out
weigh the Tech scrubs, but this difference
in weight will be balanced by the speed
of the scrubs and their thorough knowl
edge of Coach Heisman’s trick plays.
The soldier boys are going to turn out
en masse and will be helped out by their
band. A good game is sure to result.
Innis Brown will referee the game and
Red Haslock, of Vanderbilt, will um
pire.
The game will be at Tech flats on Sat
urday at 2:30 p. m.
SAVANNAH SEEMS SURE
OF GETTING BIG RACES
SAVANNAH. GA., Nov. 22.—Negotia
tions will be entered into with the Motor
Cups Holding Company by the Savannah
Automobile club early in December for se
curing the Grand I'rize and Vanderbilt
cup races for next year.
This announcement has just been au
thorized by Harvey Granger, president of
the club, upon receipt of a communica
tion from W. K. Vanderbilt, following a
meeting of the Motor Cups Holding Com
pany in New York on Tuesday. The let
ter states that the officers of the com
pany will be ready to meet a committee
from the Savanah club in New ork in De
cember, the exact date to be determined
later.
WOLGAST. REALLY WORKS
AND HIS STOCK IS SOARING
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 22.—Ad WoJ
gast’s stock is soaring today as a re
sult of the strenuous training the light
weight champion is putting in for his
bout here Thanksgiving day with Willie
Ritchie. At his quarters in the Seal
Rock house today Wolgast went at it with
i vim. He devoted himself largely to
boxing, intending t » repeat his strenuous
stunts of yesterdax when he sadly bat
tered his sparring partners and sent one
of them, Kid Mackey, down for the
count. The knockout was sent in with the
left.
Ritchie smiled as he hoard of the
stunts. Fls is also working hard for the
fight.
BROOKHAVEN CLUB TO
OPEN COURSE TOMORROW
The Brookhaven club will officially
open its golf course tomorrow afternoon,
when Mrs. William Lawson Peel will
drive the first ball from the opening tee.
Governor-elect Slaton and other high city
and state officials will be on hand, too.
There will be driving, approaching and
[Hitting contests, for which handsome
prizes have been I ting up.
Scotty McKenzie, the Beau Brummel
golf instructor at the club, lias worked
hard on the course for a month, and it
is in pretty fair condition now. In an
other month it will be immense.
BRESNAHAN SEES LYNCH.
NEW YORK. Nov. 22. —Roger Bresna
han, deposed manager of the St. Louis
Cardinals, is here conferring with Presi
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only after a 2-1 struggle in which
there was honor enough for all.
The New Orleans veteran had
good years in 1909, 1910 and 1911.
He would have probably continued
in 1912, but for several seasons the
old man had felt the soup-bone
cracking. More and .more each
year .lie had to depend on his cun
ning inther than his brawn.
And Now He's an Umpire.
Rather than be driven from the
game as so many of his old big
league comrades had been, he pre
ferred to die gracefully.
He giabbed an umpire’s job and
stuck it out all season. An even
when he wore the blue of the um
piratical persons, the fans contin
ued to call him “Grand Old Man”—
and it takes some genius to be a
Grand Old Man and an umpire at
the same time.
FLYNN AND McCARTY
SETTLE DOWN TO WORK
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.—Jim Flynn
and Luther McCarty are settling down to
training for their scrap December 10.
McCarty is working at the Venice au
ditorium every afternoon, with Walter
Monahan as his training partner and Billy
McCamey directing the work.
Flynn is at Hoyle's club and is confining
most of his efforts to gymnasium work,
with no serious boxing.
Neither will do much in the boxing line
until Sunday, when both will cut loose.
MIKE DONOVAN’S SON
SCORES ANOTHER WIN
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—“ Young Mike”
Donovan, son of the famous middleweight
of thirty years ago, scored his seventh
straight knock-out by defeating Red
Ames, a middleweight, here last night.
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Motorcycle club holds its second
race meet of the season. Every mo
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state will ride. There will be ama
teur and professional events.
Tommy Butler has unearthed a
“dark horse” to ride one of his ma
chines. The "unknown” comes
from Tampa, Fla., and Tommy says
he will clean up sure. But in Harry
Glenn. Ollie Roberts and Hal Gil
bert the “unknown” will find a trio
of worthy opponents.
The Motorcycle club I? furnishing
the races free of charge. It doesn't
cost a cent to witness a fine pro
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saw the first race meet and it’s a
cinch that every one of those 3,000
will be on hand tomorrow after
noon. In fact, the club members
expect to have 6,000 spectators out
by the time the starter's gun sends
off the pack in the first event.
CHARLEY WHITE SHADES
MOORE IN FIERCE BATTLE
KENOSHA, WIS., Nov. 22. -Charlie
White, Chicago boxer, has the newspaper
decision today over Pal Moore, of Phila
delphia. as a result of their ten-round
bout here last night.
White had a decided advantage in the
last tour rounds.
Fighting was fast. Although no decis
ion was rendered, Referee Smith said to
day that White h‘ad a shade of advantage
over Moore.
Harvard Rules Favorite Over Yale in Title Game
Thousands of Gridiron Fans Flock to New Haven
By W. J. Mcßeth.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 22—Thou
sands of visitors flocked into
town today to attend the an
nual football game of the Yale-
Harvard teams, which is scheduled
for tomorrow. These visitors com
prised alumnae from the halls of
Harvard, as well as from the marts
of learning of old Eli. They over
ran the campus, filled the hotels and
mingled with the undergrads, where
the one absorbing topic was the
probable outcome of the great con
test.
Owing to the f;tct that compara
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used by football dopesters all point
to the fact that tomorrow will be
Harvard's day, much (,'iimson mon
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ers are loud in asserting that the
Harvard aggregation would roll
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