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25 Greatest Southern League
Players—No. 14—-Bill Bartley
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
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|"j LEY' was probably the
best looking young pitclni
tl.at ever cum< out of the South, or
naywin ■m■• . Paus, . I'.iithi'ul fan,
before making the '.atal inistaki
that when 1 say “good looking
pitcher,” I mean exactly what the
three English words imply. Though
the azure orbed William was
sum .» hat of a hurlei; hh- pitching
le.s been eclipsed many times tn
the Southern league, but when It
came to physical pulchritude, Billy
was there.
Pulchritude is not essential to a
pastiiner. Mr. Mack could n* ver
qualify as a matinee idol, and Mr.
Wagner would be laugo-.d io scorn
if he attempted to essay the tailor's
model rule.
But "Blue-eyed Bid” had the
beauty. Just gobs 01 it. ami thereby
hangs the tale of why lie failed to .
stay around m the big tent, for
baseball experts were mi.mimous in |
declaring he had the necessary tai- i
ent.
Old Hob Bilks, then managing j
Shreveport, dug the blue-eyed boy
up somewhere In the Texas league.
When he reported to Shreveport In
hud a suit of store bought clothes
and more sangfroid than any nlne
taen-yeur-old hui <• ever possessed.
tn<i before tile .-■■aeon opened hud
Gilks attempted io relieve Mr
Hartley of further sei vice with the
Shreveport team he would have
been driven out of town by every
base wall suffragette in it; confine.
Wo'ked Eyes Overtime.
I'il knew that his blue eyes gave
him an ace in th. bolt and he ’
worked it overtime. H took all
the liberties of a seasoned veteran,
kidded th< old players, joshed Gill j
am mao. himself generally tn- I
bearable.
But Gillis knew he had a pitcher, ,
so he gritted his teeth and wait. .
He didn't hav< to wait long. The
season started with m tush. So din
Bartley. In his first two games lie
stood the opposing hitters on their
•espectlve beans. His chest • xpan
sion grew, and he had to order u j
new sized, hat, Ml taere was no
balm in Gilead for Gl,a.-.
Finally the Shreveport c.ub
reached Ytlanta. Blue-cyeo Billy ,
warmed up the first day. He
giunce. over the At anta stands,
caused : few fannesses to throw |
.Its. a.ci then toed the plate.
Made 26 Hits Tor 23 Runs.
In the first three innings the At
.auta batsmen ■ ■ übbed him for a
dozen hits and a dozen runs. Be- |
o.e the game ended they had made
.1 26 hits and 23 ai..-. ami old Boh
< 11. k.« was smiiin, .
"What did you keep that kid in
... Bob?” a friend and well wisher
asked. “Weren't you afraid you
would break his h-firt?”
“Break his heart, .r.-eplied
GUks. “That was just what he
needed. Why. that kid thought he
was the greatest pitcher In the
world. He didn't think the ball
club had ever beer, organize., that
could beat him. H' hart the idea
so strong he was ;< pest. Now,
maybe he'll hav< some sense and
will be a teal pitcher.
"And don't you believe l.e dogged
it when they got to him this after
neon." continued the Shrew port
mogul "He was as game under
punishment as anybody I've ever
wen. He kept putting everything
he bad on every ball he pitched,
and they kept slapping 'em to tin
fence. And a'' th. time I was
laughing my hea 1 off. Now. lie .
b a pitc>’er.”
Connie Mack Landed Him.
Gilks «a« right. Barth y then
went to work and arnec to pitch
in reality. After a few seasons lie
attracted the eag.c eye of Connie
Mack, who boug.it him fro ,■
K
to working again, but Hill
didn’t. An a cult a*'ti a season
and a half with the Athletics:, most
of which time lie spent on the
bench, he was shipped I: .’!> South j
to Atlanta,
But by this tin ■!' I! hod become |
possessed of the bit; i«o;gu» bug as: |
well as the blue eyes. His work
with Atlanta was indifferent and
when- he asked for more money
next yea - he was given the laugh
by William Smith. He journeyed
into the Eastern leag.ic 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.
TV COBB WILL DRIVE
AUTOMOBILE IN RACE
ON TRACK AT AUGUSTA
Al (il ST A, GA.. Noy. Ty Cobb
will I>h both starter and contestant In
i the autoniohlle races at thv Georgia-
I Carolina fair grounds Thursday. The
I peerless bah player Is an enthusiastic
I sportsman and thoroughly enjoys rac
. Ing. espeeliilly racing with the buzz
| wagons, Tv win he ;l competitor in
one of the races and a starter in the
mib- event against time, with a flying |
start. He will drive i Chalmers, while I
against him will be pitted another!
i Chalme’s, two Marions. ■■ Buick, a
Mercer and tw o Velies.
No doubt exists in tne minds of T.v
Cobb’s I.fends regarding his ability to'
drive n .-ar ffist, and with an oiled track
j and a clear day he will make thing.” >
extremely interesting for all rivals.
In addition to the mile race, there
will be r. llve-mile, ;> t n-mile and .'C
: twenty-mile race. SeV<: . hundred I
, dollai s will be gh eu in ; .! ses' by tn«
Richmond County Automobile assoeia- ’
! Horn-
Cobb has entered into the automobile
racing proposition in dead earnest, and :
' lie will endeavor to win just s« hard as
he tried when he defeated Tris Speiker
Joe Jackson and Nap Lajofe for the
batting championship of his league.
FOUR-SIDED DEAL LIKELY
WHEN TINKER IS TRADED
I NEM YORK. Nov. 26. A trade prob-!
(ably will be made he e today by which
•Chicago will n rive Alitehell, Phelan, j
Kniseley ami "another playein return ;
i so: Tinker, who Is slated to manage'
the Cincinnati tea. i. Tiuke: is expect
ed here today.
• 'o: ••Idoii, tl.c thi: d baseman bought
by thi Dci.oit Americans from Kansas
City, is said to be the “other playa ." e
ferix d to by Evei s. In order to icing
such a t ’ade about Cincinnati will i.avc
■to stibo a ba: gain with l»etroit. Pres
i idem Herrmann is said to lie prepared
to oil’er iii-> HetroH team Erank I'hanc; (
.so ■ < '.■. I'idon. Detroit, It is said, would
; then send < "nance to the New A'ork
lAme.ie iis in exchange for one or more
local players, and the managerial prob
lem of President E.ank Earrell, of the
New York team, would be solved.
PRESIDENT FOGEL SAYS
NEWSPAPER MEN LIED
PHU. ADELPHI A, Nov. 26.—Horace I
S. fog. . p . shl.ut of tin Philadelfihia
. cub. emphatically denied here last
night having made the statements for
which alleged utl lances lie is to be
tried by the National league. He de
clared that if it Is true, as lie is led to
j believe, that several New York m ws
pap< s- hav. sworn to affidavits that he
sal.; 'the National league race was fixed
for tlie Giants to win." lie will prefer a
charge of perjury i.gainst them in
court.
KII.BANE TO MEET MORGAN.
• LEVELAND. ••Hill. Nov. 26.
Johnny Kilba.ie, featherweight eham-
I>iou. ami Eddie Morgan the English
baitiHi . have been matched to light
New Y ear's day p San Eraneisvo.
SLOSSON DOWNS YAMADA.
NUM Y 1 >RK, No\ '.'G. Ge,, g
Ron la.-t nig, t i> tinted Koc.iji Yamada,
tin Japanese, in the first plai of their
six-night -• ssiiu a. 18.2 bah. line bil
1. ir .s foi ;> Wadi pu: «e.
X.OTOR DEALERS TO RACE.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1912.
Booze W\\\ Cost Birmingham the Vandv-Auburn Game Within Few Years
OUtilN MAY FORCE ANOTHER CONTEST THIS YEAR
By Percy IL Whiting.
r-irvHE South is fairly hysterical
| over the prospect of a post
season game between Au
burn and Vanderbilt for the foot
ball championship of the S. I. A.
A lot of • ppi itiou mfi.-t beove -
cone to get the game, but it is
possible to overcome it.
Os course. Dr. YV. L. Dudley, of
Y’anderbllt, ).resident es the S. I.
A. A., and long the czar of Vander
bilt athletics, will oppose it. He
has aiways been against port-sea
sm.r games ami championships'. But
then th" time lias passed when Dr.
Dudley can absolutely cont:ol Van
derbilt athletics. I'an McGugin is
now a power to be reckoned with.
And Dan wants a post-season
game. If it eve" comes to a test of
strength between McGugin and Dr.
I Dudley over the post-season game
thing it is likely that. McGugin
would turn up winner. Eor he would
have 95 per cent of the alumni of
the college behind him.
•»f course. Auburn’s altitude is
uncertain. Naturally they don't
iCant the game. Still it might be I
forced on them in away that would
make a refusal to play quite diftl-
| cult.
Time will tel’.
Auyhov.. you can put this down I
as a cold fact:
Dan McGugin wants a post-sea
son game, am; Daniel has away of
l ettlng the things he goes out afte •.
IT'S hard to stop v., itir.g about
that Y'anJerbi'J-Auburn game
, las; Saturday. Mo'.e tilings hap
pened than you could shake a
stick at.
And before anything el a is said
ue venture tbe j.; .'diction that the
game will not long remairf an an- ,
mini fixture in Birmingham. It
will be traasfe.Ti'd to some real col-
• lego town or played on alternate
years at Auburn and Nashville,
And thi.- is why:
The game will become the great
"booxe game” of the whole season.
And it will be discontinued just
as the Ynle-Princeton struggle in
New Yoi 1. was discontinued—be
cause it served too many people
only as an excuse for a debauch.
It’s the logical time ami place
for u “big time” by al! those thus
inclined. It’s a short 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 any man
who wants to get away for a “big
time" will select the Y’anderbllt
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.
Xnd it must have been a seedy
lot of individuals that turned out I
of Pullmans Surday morning.
Even some staid .xt .a eta os wi.
slightly illuminated for the ocea- i
| 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. wie porter and
they defied tlie railroad men. The
last we saw as we departed" from
the ear Sunday morning, the be
forementioned officials had gently
grabbed the far eml of a sheet and
rolled a couple of protesting sleep
ers into the ear aisle.
Oh. surely, surely. It was thi i
sad end of a large time!
And because of things previously
hinted at. the game tn Birmingham J
: will not long be an annual affair.
M ateii ami see if this doesn’t turn
out just as predicted,
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LOT of funny things happened
*
in the Birmingham park Is liwatui j
more tiian 100 yards from the near- j
j <st point of Hie fi.\\ Realizing
I '.;at .'.i-ai :'a d!'.:''rv. .to identify
the Auburn players, the newspaper
men requested Graduate .Manager
Tom Bragg to send up a substitute
or a crank who knew tin? men to
help us out. He i-ent a short and
chubby freshman, elaborately
dressed and decked with ribbons
that »gH fio; i Just west of his chin
clear down to the tops of his shoes.
I And this ti:a, • . teq by i 'olonel
Bragg •whither as a .vhlmsie:.!
Jest o. j. t haphazard) .as uf
llicteil with in impediment in his
conv rsa’ion- —an impediment that
consisted in lingering lovingly over
i*:s "s*<?s."
Th • game was well startv.i ,vh t, 1
lie arrived. Rcssijac had just been 1
yanked and Sparkman substituted.
Tiii.s from he Auburn man. loud
ly, "Auburn -iu. v ji.'-t put in—" then
he hesitate.l, “S-S-S-S-i; SSSS-
S-S-s-s-r- s-s-s-.-L'sss SSS,”
he was f'ai:’y writhing with it.
Voice trim .lie re:, of the press
box, in a loud aside, "Get a steam
fitter. His pipes are leaking.”
JOHN T. BRUSH, GIANTS'
_0 WNER, DIES ON TRAIN
ST. LoITS. Nov. 26. The body
of John T. Brush, owner of
the New York Giants, who
died in his privat. car n-..ir Louisi
ana, Mo., early today while en
route West in search of health, was
brought to St. Loui:?. where it will
be embalmed and shipped to In
dianapolis today.
Eew details came in from the
little, out-of-the-way Missouri
town In regard, to the baseball mag
nate’s d..;,ti .
Kept Alive by Will Powe
1 lv;i" . wr.o were with Mr. Brush
stated that while death hud not
been expected so soon, it was only
his indomitable will that had kept
him alive so long. They declared
lire demise was hastened by an ac
cident which occurred last summer
in New York city. Eor years he
had been a sufferer of locomotor
ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM
READY FOR BIG MATCH
NEW YORK, Nov. 2fi. England's
best lawn tennis players will compete
against the Australian champions in
Melbourne this week in the challenge
matches for the Dwight E. Davis in
ternational cup.
Since 1907, when \\ filling and Brookes
captured the trophy, it has been an j
American team that lias 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 Hie Davis cup the contesting nations
have spent more than $1,d00,000 on the.
match ■: waged for its possession.
OLD MISS QUITS WHEN
FLETCHER IS DEBARRED
I OXFORD. MISS.. Now 26.—The an
nual gum.- between the University of j
Mississippi am! ti e Mississippi Agricul- '
tural and Meehaincal college has been 1
declared off by the university.
When Quarterback Eletcher, of the
university team, was declared Ineligi
ble, the tttth player of the team to be
so declared, the team took a vote and
agreed to call off all practice ami the
.annual game with their rivals.
J. R. WESTMORELAND TO
MANAGE TEAM AT MERCER
-MERi’EK UNIVERSITY, MACON, I
i GA.. Nov. 26. J. R. Westmoreland has!
' be.-n elected captain of the Mercer
: basket ball team. This is Westmorc
| land's third year on the team, ami he
i should make an able leader of the Or
j ange and Black.
FOUR PUNCHES TO JAW
ENOUGH FOR ART NELSON
BUI-'IALo, N. Y.. NOV. 26. It re
iquired less than one round for Willie :
• Knockout > Brennan, of Buffalo, to put I
Art Nelson, of Milwaukie, iv ay .as
I night. Eou: swift punches io tie jaw. I
leach of .. put the Western* • on]
the floor, turned the trick. 1
Cii.MEHiiYV there dyesn’t seem to
be the enthusiasm stirring that
tliere should be over that- Teeh-
Clemson game. It will be u corker
in manv ways, no doubt, the most
brilliant and spectacular game of
tlte Southern season.
Here are two teams, both light
and both of virtually the same |
weight, both immoderately fust and I
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.
I’oach Heisman is not in the
; 1.-i.st sure iii'.t his team will win it.
“I am finding it tremendously dif
flcult to get any work out of the
boys, since the Geoigla game," he
said today. “Th y have let down.
Then there is a chance that Mc-
Donald will not pi ty. I' he doesn’t,
I shouldn't be surprised if Tech lost
the game. At best, it will be a
hard battle.”
.'■fiqtic. One Gay at the Polo
ground:; he started home in his au
tciuubile. on the way home a ter
rific storm came up. The chauf
feur ran the car into a pillar of the
elevated road etrueture and Mr.
Brush was slightly injured. While
the injury was net serious, the
: hock proved t. o mr .-li for bls
nerves, and he had been out but.
little up to the time lie left New
York last Sunday on the trip which
resulted in nls 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
he acquired control of the Cincin
nati club. Then he took over the
New York Giants. He started in
business life in n clothing store In
the Hoosier capital.
Brush secured control of the Reus
in 1881 for practically nothing. Aft
er holding it for ten years, he sold
it to Garry Herrmann for SIOO,OOO. .
He used this money to purchase
the controlling stock in the Giants
from -Andrew Ereeman.
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Eppa Rixey, Jr., Makes Good in
Major League First Year Out
(This is the eighth of a series of I
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 Rixew 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 Ip 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-
I ey’s wonderful performance
i against Chicago.
Rixey first attracted attention as
a pitcher while a student of the
University of Y’irginia. In one
game there be struck out 21 men
in a nine-inning struggle, and soon
had a whole army of scouts trailing
him. YVhen he graduated last
j June iie 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 S9OO a month, a salary almost
equal to that of a senator. It was
through the good graces of Bill
Rigier 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.
Rigier 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 long 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. YVith a better team,
his record would have been vastly
improved, for wretched support
cost him a number of victories.
Dooln 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 his
family that Eppa entered a profes
sional baseball career, and for a
time Dooin 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 the F. F. V.'s '?f
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 an?
of the big hotels where tin Pliilli '
are wont to stop while on the roan.
His real worries, though, are in
sleeping cars, where the only p ac
he can rest comfortably is in the
aisles.
Besides being long-legged, loiig
waisted and long-necked. Rixey "
long-headed and has shown mm l
baseball sense than any college >•■
cruits, with the exception of Char
ley Sterrett, of the Yankee-