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25 Greatest Southern League
Players—No J 4—Bill Bartley
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
LUU-EYED BILL" BART
LEY was probably the
best looking young pitcher
that ever came out of the South, or
anywhere else. Pause, faithful fan.
before making the fatal mistake
that when I say "good looking
pitcher.” I mean exactly what the
three English words imply. Though
the azure orbed William was
somewhat of a hurler, his pitching
has been eclipsed many times in
the Southern league, but when It
came to physical pulchritude, Billy
was there.
Pulchritude is not essential to a
pastlmer. Mr. Mack could never
qualify as it tnatinee idol, and Mr.
Wagner would bi- laughed to seoi n
if he attempted to essay the tailor's
model role.
But "Blue-eyed Bill" had the
beauty. Just gobs of it. and l hereby
hangs the tale of why he failed to
stay around in the big tent, for
baseball experts wore unanimous in
declaring he bad the necessary tal
ent.
Old Bob Gilks, then managing
Shreveport, dug the blue-eyed boy
up somewhere in the Texas league.
When be reported to Shreveport he
had a suit of storZ bought dottles
and more sangfroid than any nine
teen-year-old hurler ever possessed.
And before the season opened had
Gilks attempted to relieve Mr-
Bartley of further service with the
Shreveport tenm he would have
been driven out of town by every
baseball suffragette In its confines.
Worked Eyes Overtime.
Bill knew that his blue eyes gave
him an ace in the hole and he
worked It overtime. He took all
the liberties of a seasoned veteran,
kidded the old players, joshed Gilks
and made himself generally un
bearable.
But Gilks knew he had a pitcher.
»o he gritted his teeth and waited.
He didn't have to wait long. The
season started with a rush. So did
Bartley. Tn his first two games he
stood the opposing hitters on their
respective beans. His chest expan
sion grew, and he had to order a
*new sized hat. and there was no
balm In Gilead for Gilks.
Finally the Shreveport club
reached Atlanta. Blue-eyed Billy
warmed up the first day. He
glanced over the Atlanta stands,
caused a few fannesses to throw
tits, and then toed the plate.
Made 26 Hits For 23 Runs.
In the first three innings the At
lanta batsmen clubbed him for a
dozen hits and a dozen runs. Be
fore the game ended they had made
it 26 hits and 23 runs, and old Bob
Gilks was smiling
“What did you keep that kid in
for. Bob?" a friend and well wisher
asked. "Weren’t you afra’d you
would break his heart?"
“Break his heart, hU .” replied
Gilks. “That was just what be
neeued. Why, that kid thought he
was the greatest pitcher in the
world. He didn't think 'the ball
club had ever been organized that
could beat him. H- had the Idea
Bo strong h< was i pest. Now.
maybe he'll have sotm sense and
will be a real pitcher.
"And don’t vou believe he dogged
It when they got to him this after
noon." continued the Shreveport
mogul "He was as game under
punishment as anybody I've ever
seen. Ho kept putting <vo ythlng
he had on every ball he pitched,
and thee kept slapping 'em to the
fence. And all the time 1 was
laughing my head off. Now, lie'll
be a pitcher."
Connie Mack Landed Him.
Gilks was right. Bartle? then
went to work and 1» anvd to pitch
tn rculiiy. Aftc ■ a few seasons le
attracted tin- eagle <o' l onni
.'lack. who bought him t oiii
big
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didn't. As a result after a season
and a half with the Athletics, most
of which time he spent on the
bench, he was shipped back South
to Atlanta.
But by this time Bill had become
possessed of the big league bug as
well as the blue eyes. His work
with Atlanta was indifferent and
when he asked for more money
next yeas he was given the laugh
by William Smith. He journeyed
into the Eastern league and now
Lord knows where he is, probably
in some bush burg and if he's
■''there he’s charming fair maidens
with that baby stare.
TY COBB WILL DRIVE
AUTOMOBILE IN RACE
ON TRACK AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 26.—Ty Cobb
will be both starter and contestant in
the automobile races at the Georgia-
Carolina fair grounds Thursday. The
peerless ball player Is an enthusiastic
sportsman and thoroughly enjoys rac
ing, especially racing with the buzz
wagons. Ty will be ti competitor in
one of the races anil a starter in the
mile event against time, with a flying
start. He will drive a Chalmers, while
against him will be pitted another
Chalmers, two Marions, a Buick, a
Mercer and two Velles.
No doubt exists in the minds ot Tj
Cobb's friends regarding hi.- ability to
drive a ear fast, and with an oiled track
and a clear day he ■will make things
extremely interesting for all rivals.
In addition to the mile race, there
will be a flve-mlle, a ten-mile and a
twenty-mlle race. Several hundred
dollars will be given in prizes by the
Richmond Count?- Automobile associa
tion.
Cobb lias entered into the automobile
racing proposition in dead earnest, and
he will endeavor to win just as hard as i
he tried when he defeateel Tris Speaker
Joe Jackson and Nap Lajole for the
batting championship of his league.
FOUR-SIDED DEAL LIKELY
WHEN TINKER IS TRADED
NEW YORK, Nov. 26. —A trade prob
ably will be made here today by which
Chicago will receive Mitchell, Phelan.
Kniseley and "another player” in return
for Tinker, who is slated to manage
the Cincinnati team. Tinker Is expect
ed here today.
Corrldon, the third baseman bought
by the Detroit Americans from Kansas
City, is said to be the “other player” re
ferred to by Evers. In order to bring
such a trade about Cincinnati will have
to strike a bargain with Detroit. Pres
ident Herrmann is said to be prepared
to offer tin Detroit team Frank Chance
for Corridon. Detroit, it is said, would
then send chance to the New York
Americans in exchange for one or more
local players, and the managerial prob
em of President Frank Farrell, of the
New York team, would be solved.
PRESIDENT FOGEL SAYS
NEWSPAPER MEN LIED
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26—Horace
S. Fogel, r ■ sident of the Philadelphia
club, emphatically denied here last
night having made the statements for
which alleged utterances lu> is to be
tried by the National .league. He de
clared that if it is true, as he is led to
I believe, that several New York news
papers have sworn to affidavits that he
- ltd "the National league race was fixed
I for the Giants to win.” he will prefer a
charge of perjury against them in
I court.
KiLBANE TO MEET MORGAN.
• LEVEI.AND, OHIO, Nov. 26.
'Johnny Kllbane, featherweight chum
i cion, and Eddie Morgan, the English
, bantam, hav been matched to tight
N- w Year's da?' in San Francisco.
SLOSSON DOWNS YAMADA.
Xi'.Vi 5 < >RK, No' -6. George Slos
■mn last night . .I' ali 'i Kodiji Yamada.
■ Japan.-., in the first plat of their
six-night ses.-hm at IV2 bulk Ilm bil
liards tel a *sOll purse.
MOTOR DEALERS TO RACE.
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"ii." a s i.uu.n i.us lii'fii formed.
" •!■ a nrftutezaii a . i s;a, , for t | le
i’ ■ i ' elding au 'Cm l.iic races.
THE ATLANIA GEUKWIAN AJND NEWS.TI ESDAA, NOVEMBEK 26, 1912.
Booze Will Cost Birmingham the Vandy-Auburn Game Within Few Years
M’GUGIN MAY FORCE ANOTHER CONTEST THIS YEAR
By Percy IL Whiting.
THE South is fairly hysterical
over the prospect of a post
season game between Au
burn and Vanderbilt for the foot
ball championship of the 8. I. A. A.
A' lot of opposition must be over
come to get the game, but it is
possible to overcome it.
Os course. Dr. W. L. Dudley, of
Vanderbilt, president of the 8. I.
A. A., and long the czar of Vander
bilt athletics, will oppose it. He
has always been against post-sea
son games and championships. But
then the time has passed when Dr.
Dudley can absolutely control Van
derbilt athletics. Dan McGugin is
now a power to be reckoned with.
And Dan wants a post-season
game. If it ever comes to a test of
strength between McGugin and Dr.
Dudley- over the post-season game
thing it is likely that McGugin
would turn up winner. For he would
have 95 per cent of the alumni of
the college behind hhn.
Os course. Auburn's attitude is
uncertain. Naturally they don't
want the game. Still it might be
forced on them in away that Would
make a refusal to play quite difli
cult.
Time will tell.
Anyhow, you can put this down
as a cold fact:
Dan McGugin wants a post-sea
son game, and Daniel has away of
getting the things he goes out after,
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J T*S’ hard to stop waiting about
that Vanderbilt-Auburn game
last Saturday. More things hap
pened than you could shake a
stick at.
And before anything else is said
we venture the prediction that the
game will not long remain an an
nual fixture in Birmingham. It
will be transferred to some real col
lege town or played on alternate
years at Auburn and Nashville.
And this is why:
The game will become the great
“booze game" of the whole season.
And it will be discontinued just
as the Yale-Princeton struggle in
New York was discontinued —-be-
cause it served too man?' people
only as an excuse for a debauch.
It's the logical time and place
for a "big time" by all those thus
inclined. It's a shotjt night's run
from a hundred towns and cities—
most of them dry, or at least most
of them eminently' respectable.
Everything In Birmingham in the
booze line is as open as a dessert
landscape. So naturally an?- man
who wants to get away for a "big
time” will select the Vanderbilt-
Auburn game as the excuse, the
Saturday before Thanksgiving as
the time, and Birmingham aS the
place.
There were high old times there
Saturday night.
And it must have been a se6dy
lot of individuals that turned out
of Pullmans Sunday morning.
■ Even some staid Atlantans were
slightly illuminated for the occa
sion.
It took the station master, or the
yard master, or some such lordly
official, to pry a few of them out of
their bunks when Birmingham
trains arrived in the Gate City.
They laughed at the porter and
they defied the railroad men. The
last we saw as we departed from
the ear Sunday morning, the be
forementioned officials had gently
grabbed the far end of a sheet and
rolled a couple of protesting sleep
ers into the ear aisle.
Oh, surely, surely. It was the
sad end of a large time!
And because of things previously
hinted aj. the game in Birmingham
will not long be an annual affair.
Watch and see if this doesn't turn
out just as predicted,
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A LOT of funny things happened
at the game. The press box
in the Birmingham park is located
more than 100 yards from tlie near
est point of tin- field. Realizing
t.'.*'. it Would b'- utffictl.t to Identify
t.c. Auburn i.ay vis. the newspaper
men requested Graduate Manager
Tom Bragg to send up a substitute
or a crank who knew the men to
help us out. He sent a short and
chubby freshman, elaborately
dressed and decked with ribbons
that fell from just west of’ his chin
clear down to the. tops of his shoes.
And this man, selected by Colonel
Bragg (whether as a whimsical
jest or just haphazard) was af
flicted with an impediment in his
conversation—an impediment that
consisted in lingering lovingly over
his “s'es.”
The game was well started when
he arrived. Ressijac had just been
yanked and Sparkman substituted.
This from trie Auburn man, loud
ly, "Auburn has just put in—” then
he hesitated. "S-S-S-S-S——SSSS-
S-S-s-s-sssss s-s-s-sssss sss.
he was fairly writhing with it.
Voice from the rear of the press
box, in a loud aside, "Get a steam
fitter. His pipes are leaking.”
JOHN T. BRUSH, GIANTS'
OWNER, DIES ON TRAIN
ST. LOUIS, Nov K 26. —I'he body
of John T. Brush, owner of
the New York Giants, who
died in his private car near Louisi-,
ana. Mu., early’ today while en
route West in search of health, was
brought to St. Louis, w’iiere it will
be embalmed and shipped to In
dianapolis today.
Few details came In from the
little, out-of-the-way Missouri
town in regard to the baseball mag
nate’s death.
Kept Alive by Will Power.
Friends who were with Mr. Brush
stated that while death had not
been expected so soon, it was only
his indofiiftable will that had kept
him alive So long. They declared
ins demise was hastened by an ac
cident which occurred hist summer
In New York city. For years he
had been a sufferer of locomotor
ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM
READY FOR BIG MATCH
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.--England’s
best lawn tennis players will compete
against the Australian champions in
Melbourne this week in the challenge
matches for the Dwight F. Davis in
ternational cup.
Since 1907, when Wilding and Brookes
captured the trophy, it has been an
American team that has challenged for
this prize, but this year the United
States failed to place a team in the
field.
It is estimated that since the offering
of the Davis cup the contesting nations
have spent more than *1,000,600 on the
matches waged fur its possession.
OLD MISS QUITS WHEN
FLETCHER IS DEBARRED
OXFORD. MISS., Nov. 26.—The an
nual game between the University of
Mississippi and the Mississippi Agricul
tural and Mechanical college has been
declared off by the universitv.
When Quarterback Fletcher, of the
university t. am, was declare ! Ineligi
ble, the fifth player of the team to be
so declared, the team took u vote and
agreed to call off all practice and the
annual game with their rivals.
J. R. WESTMORELAND TO
MANAGE TEAM AT MERCER
MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON,
GA., Nov. 26.—J. R. Westmoreland has
been elected captain of the Mercer
basket ball team. This is Westmore
land’s third year on the team, and he
should make an able leader of the Or
ange and Black.
FOUR PUNCHES TO JAW
ENOUGH FOR ART NELSON
BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 26.--It re
quired less than one round for Willie
(Knockout) Brennan, of Buffalo, to put
Art Nelson, of Milwaukee, uwut las
night. Four swift punches to the law.
•ach of which put the Westerner oti
thi' ileor, turned the trick.
COMEHOW there doesn't seem to
be the enthusiasm stirring that
there should be over that Tech-
Clemson game. It will be a corker
—in many ways, no doubt, the most
brilliant and spectacular game of
the Southern season.
Here are two teams, both light
and both of virtually the same
weight, both immoderately fast and
both reputed tricky. They are to
meet in the last game of the sea
son for both of them. They will
uncork all they have.
Coach Heisman is not in the
least sure that his team-will win it.
“I am finding it tremendously- dif
ficult to get any work out of the
boys, since the Georgia gajne,” he
said today, “They have let down.
Then there is a chance that Mc-
Donald will not play. If he doesn’t,
I shouldn’t be surprised if Tech lost
the game. At best, it will be a
hard battle.”
ataxia. One day at the Polo
grounds he started home in his au
tomobile. On the way home a ter
rific storm came up. The chauf
feur ran the car into a pillar of the
elevated road structure and Mr.
Brush was slightly injured. While
the Injury was not serious, the
shock proved too much for his
nerves, and he had been out but
little up to the time he left New-
York last Sunday on the trip which
resulted in his death.
Had Very Successful Career.
Mr. Brush was born in Indianap
olis, and first came into promi
nence when he took charge of the
Indianapolis baseball team. Later
be acquired control of the Cincin
nati club. Then he took over the
New York Giants. He started in
business life in a clothing store in
the Hoosier capital.
Brush secured control of the Reds
in 1881 for practically nothing. Aft
er holding it for ten years, he sold
it to Garry Herrmann for *IOO,OOO.
He used this money to purchase
the controlling stock in the Giants
from Andrew Freeman.
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Eppa Rixey, Jr., Makes Good in
Major League First Year Out
(This is the eighth of a series of
articles on “youngsters who made
good in the major leagues’’ last
season.)
By Sam Crane.
NO college youth ever gained
prominence on the diamond
more rapidly than Eppa
Rixey, the sensational young left
hander who flashed to the front as
a member of the Philadelphia Na
tionals last season. One year ago
the name of Eppa Rixey- was un
known to the baseball world. To
day there is hardly a city in the
country’ where the fans are not fa
miliar with It.
Rixey has the reputation of being
the best pitcher Imported from the
college ranks In years, and it took
him less than four months to es
tablish it. It did not require even
that long for him to demonstrate
his worth as a player, for less than
a month after he donned a big
league uniform Horace Fogel, the
Philadelphia owner, turned down an
offer of *17,000 for him made by
Charley Murphy, of the Cubs. The
offer was made as a result of Rix
ey’s wonderful performance
against Chicago.
Rixey first attracted attention as
a pitcher while a student of the
University 'of ' Virginia. In one
game there he struck out 21 men
in a nine-inning struggle, and soon
had a whole army of scouts trailing
him. When he graduated last
June he had offers from at least a
half dozen big league clubs.
Eppa Gets Big Salary.
All sorts of inducements were
made to the youth, who was finally
induced to exchange his sheepskin
for a Philadelphia contract calling
for *9OO a month, a salary almost
equal to that of a senator. It was
through the good graces of Bill
Rigler that Rixey- was persuaded to
cast his lot with the Quakers, and
for the part the National league
umpire played in discovering and
getting him to sign he received a
handsome bonus.
Rigler aced as coach to the Vir
ginia university squad last spring.
It was while working in that ca
pacity that he became familiar with
the youngster's worth.
Besides his remarkable ability,
Rixey has the distinction of being
the tallest pitcher in the league.
He stands nearly six feet six in
his stockings and uses every centi
meter of his height in his delivery.
Besides having a lot of smoke, he
has good curves, far better control
than the average left-hander and is
an excellent fielder. There is no
question about him having the re
quirements of a big league star. He
has exceptionally lung arms and
these enable him to use tremen
dous speed.
Beat Best in League.
Out of twenty games he pitched
for the Quakers last season, the
Southerner captured ten, and many
of these from the best twirlers In
the league. With a better team,
his record would have been vastly
improved, for wretched support
cost him a number of victories.
Dooin is convinced that he has a
phenom in the collegian and would
not part with him for the price of
an O’Toole.
It was against the wishes of ht«
family that Eppa entered a profes
sional baseball career, and for a
time Dooln was in danger of losing
his new found gem, for his rela
tives made strong efforts to dis
suade him from continuing in the
game.
It appears that Eppa Is a real
blue blood, one of the F. F. V.’s of
Virginia. One of his uncles is Sur
geon General P. M. Rixey, U. S. N..
retired with the rank of rear ad
miral, decorated by King Alfonso
of Spain, and surgeon in charge
during the last hours of President
McKinley. Another uncle was the
late Congressman John Franklin
Rixey.
Eppa has troubles of his own be
sides spending his S9OO per month
during the season. He can’t find
beds long enough to fit him In any
of the big hotels where the Phillies
are wont to stop while on the road.
His real worries, though, are in th
sleeping cars, where the only place
he can rest comfortably is in the
aisles.
Besides being long-legged, long
waisted and long-necked, Rixey is
long-headed and has shown mon
baseball sense than any college re
cruits, with the exception of Char
ley Sterrett, of the Yankee.'--.