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25 Greatest Southern League
Players--No. 14—Bill Bartley
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
-|-x LUE-EYED BILL" BAR I
r“S LEY was probably the
best looking young pitcher
that ever came out of the South, or
anywhere else. Rause, faithful fan,
before making the fatal mistake
that when 1 say "good looking
pitcher," 1 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 longue, but when it
came to physical pulchritude, Billy
was there.
Pulchritude Is not essential to a
pastimer. Mr. Mack could never
qualify ns a matinee idol, and Mr. .
Wagner would be laughed to scorn
if he attempted to essay the tailor's
model role.
But "Blue-eyed Bill" had the
beauty, just gobs of it, and thereby
hangs the tale of why ho failed to
stay around in the big tent, for
baseball exports were unanimous in
declaring he had the necessary tal
ent.
Old Bob Gilks, then managing
Shreveport, dug ’the blue-eyed boy
up somewhere in the Texas league.
When he reported to Shreveport h<‘
had a suit of store bought clothes
and more sangfroid than any nine
teen-year-old hurlet ever possessed.
And before the season opened had
Gilks attempted to relieve Mr
Bartley of further service with the
Shreveport team 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 Reasoned veteran,
kidded the old play ers, Joshed Gilks
and made himself generally un
bearable.
But Gilks knew he had a pitcher,
so he gritted his teeth and waited.
He didn’t have to wait long. The I
season started with a rush. So did |
Bartley. In his first two gamer hi
stood the opposing hitters on th. i.
respective beans. His chest expan
sion grew, and he had to order a
new sized hat. and t.igre was no
balm in Gilead for Gilks.
Fin/ly 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
fits, 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 r.nd well wisher
asked. "Weren't you afraid you
would break his heart?"
'Break his heart, hell," replied
Gilks. "That was just what he
needed. Why. that kid thought he |
z was the greatest pitcher in the 1
wmld. He didn't think the ball
club had ever been organized that
could beat him. He had the idea
so strong he was a pest. Now,
maybi he'll have sorni sense and
•„TI be a real pitcher
"Anu don't you believ. 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. He kept putting everything
he had on every ball he pitched,
and they kept slapping 'em to the
fence. And all the time 1 was
laughing my head off. Now. he'd
be a pitcher.”
Connie Mack Landed Him.
Gilks was right. Bartley then
went to work and learned to pitch
in reality. Aft< a few seasons ho
attracted the eagle eye of Connie
tMacl. who bought him from
k vepo-t.
jot to working again, but Bill
I didn't. As a result aftei a season
and a half with the Athletics, mo; '
of which lime lie .‘■pent on t! .
bench, he was shipped back South
to Atlanta.
But by this ti:n Ili . . . . ~u
possessed of the big league bug ; -
well as the blue eyes. His «,,. k
with Atlanta was indifferent and
when he asked for more money
next y ear he was given to ■ tango
by William Smith. He journey < d
into the Eastern league and now
Lord- knows where lie is, probably
in some bush bui’g 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
I 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 he a competitor in
< one of the races and a starter in the i
mile event against time, with a dying
start. He will drive a Chalmers, while j
against him will be pitted another 1
Chalmers, two Marions, a Buick. aj
Mercer and two Velfes.
No doubt exists in the minds of Ty ,
Cobb’s friends regarding hi-; ability to I
drive a ear fast, and with an oiled trael
and a clear day he will make tiling.'
extremely interesting for all rivals.
In addition to the mile race, there
will be a flve-inile, a ten-mlle and a
twenty-mile race. Several hundred
dollars will be given in prizes by the
Richmond County Automobile assoeia-
I tlon. •
Cobb has entered into the automobile
racing proposition In dead earnest, and ■
he will endeavor to win just as hard as i
he tried when he defeated Tris Speaker !
Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoli for tha
J batting championship of his league.
FOUR-SIDED DEAL LIKELY
WHEN TINKER IS TRADED
NEW YORK Nov. 26. - A tra'de prob
ably will be made here today by which
Chicago will receive Miteheli, Phelan,
Kniseley and "another play er" in return
for Tinker, who is slated to manage
the Cincinnati team. Tinker is expect
ed here today.
Corridon. 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 the Detroit team Crank Chance
for Corridon. Detroit, it is said, would
then send ' 'hanee to the New York
Americans in exchange for one or more
local players, and the managerial prob
lem of President Frank Carrell, of the
New York team, would be solved.
; PRESIDENT FOGEL SAYS
NEWSPAPER MEN LIED
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 36. Horae.
S. Fogel. president of the Philadelphia
club, emphatically denied here last
night having made the statements for
which alleged utterances he is to be
tried by the National league. He de
clared that If It is true, as he is Jed to
believe, th • several New York newa
papeis .lave sworn to affidavits that he
sain "the National league race was fixed
tor the Giants to win.” he will prefer a
charge of perjury against them in
court.
KILBANE TO MEET MORGAN.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Nov. 26. -
Johnny Kilbime, featherweight cham
pion. and Eddie Morgan, th. English
I bantam, have been matched to fight
I New Avar's day in San Francisco.
SLOSSON DOWNS YAMADA.
NEW YORK. Not 26. . g. Slog
son lust nig. : defeated Kodiji Yamada,
the Japanese, tn the first play of their
six-night session at 15.2 balk line bil
liards foi a t.'i'Hi purse.
MOTOR DEALERS TO RACE.
NF.M YORK, N... a; Tile Mm,,, Dml
lers « lu.iest association ,ias been f OI - Int a
with a lapiiaiizatl.in of r.'tu.uon. for tlie
purpose of holding automobile racetf
THE ATLANTA. GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAV, NOVEMBER 26. 1912.
Booze Will Cost Birmingham the Vandy-Auburn Game Within Few Years
M’OiN MAY FORCE ANOTHER CONTEST THIS YEAR
By Percy. IL Whiting.
r-plii Sim.i 1.~ fniili hysterical
I over the prospect of a post
si ason game between Au-
I bum and Vanderoilt fo.r tile foot
ball championsu: • of tile S. I. A A.
A lot of upp< siliot: must be over-
iom :o g* ■ t■ ■ game, but it is
I : <.. • i:>.(• to 0.. ...., omi it.
«.»!’ course. I". W. L. Dudley, of
n<i-"oilt, | csident cf the S. I.
A. A., and long the czar of Vander
bi I athletics I" oppose •i I. He
1..i always been against post-sea
son games an l championships. But
then the lime iia" pasted when Dr.
Dudley can absolutely control Van
derbilt athletics. Dan McGugin is
now a power to be reckoned with.
And Lian wants a post-season
game. If it . ver, conies 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 ceut of the alumni of
the college behind him.
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 diffi
cult.
Time will tell. |
Anyhow, you can put this down
us a cold fact:
Dan McGugin wants a post-sea
son game, and Daniel has away of
getting the things he goes out after.
e * .>
| T’S hard to stop writing 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-Princetori struggle in
New York was discontinued—be
cause it served too many 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 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 Vanderbilt-
Auburn game as the excuse, the
Satuiday before Thanksgiving as
the time, and Birmingham as the
place.
There were high old times there
Saturday night.
And it must have been a seedy
lot of individuals that turned* out
Os Pullmans Sunday morning.
Even some staid /.tiantans were
slightly illuminated for the occa
sion.
it took the station master, or tie
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 u»e porter and
they defied the railroad men. The
lust we saw as we departed from
tile 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 at, the game In Birmingham
wi'l not long be an annual affair.
Watch and see if this doesn't turn
out Just as predicted.
a *
A LOT of funny things happened
nt the game. The press box
’n the Birmingham park is located
/mor. than 100 yards from thenear
p est point of the field. Realizing
I that it would be difficult to identify
the Auburn players, 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 i ’ll from just west of his chin
clear down to the tops of his shoes.
I And this man, selected by' Colonel
I Bragg i. whether as a whimsical
jest or just haphazard) was-af
flicted with ;'ii impediment In his
com ■■isaticn —an impediment that
consisted in lingering lovingly vvt r
bis "sX."
The game was well started when
he a iyeil. Ressijae iiad just been
yanked and Sparkman substituted.
This from the 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 faiily writhing with it.
Voice from the re:;r 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. 26. —The body,
of John T. Bruslp owner of
the New York Giants, who
died in his private ear near Louisi
ana, Mo., .early today while en
route West in search of health, was
brought to St. Louis, where it will
be embalmed and shipped to In
dianapolis today.
Few details came tn from the
little, out-of-the-way Missouri
town in regard to the baseball mag
nate's deatlL
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 indomitable will that had kept
him alive so long. They declared
his demise was hastened by an ac
• cident which occurred last summer
in New York city. V’or years he
had been a sufferer of locomotor
i
ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM
READY FOR BIG MATCH
NEW YORK, Nov. 2G. -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, w hen Wilding and Brookes
captured the trophy, it has been an
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 the Davis eup the contesting nations
liave spent more than $1,000,000 on the ■
matches waged for 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 lias been i
declared off by the university.
When Quarterback Fletcher, of the
university team, was declared ineligi
ble. the fifth player of the team to be
so declared, the team took a vote and
agreed to call off all practice and tin
annual game with their rivals.
J. R. WESTMORELAND TO
MANAGE TEAM AT MERCER
MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON,
GA., Nov. 26. J. It. tVestniorelaml has
been elected captain of the Mercer i
basket ball team. This is Westn.are- I
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
A-t Nelson, of Milwaukee, away ’a-'
night. Foui swift puncfies to the jaw,
each of which put the Westerner on
the floor, turned the trick.
CoMEHoW there d lesn’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 Geoigia game,” he
said today. "They havq 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. I me day at the Polo
grounds lie 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 ami 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 H'ip 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 thw
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 a clothing store in
the Hoosier capital.
Brush secured control of tiiy Reds
in 1881 for practice Ip- nothing. Aft
er holding it for ten years, he sold,
it to Garry Herrmann tor SIOO,OOO.
He used this money to purchase
the controlling stock in the Giants
from Andrew Freeman
Parks-Chamijers-Hardwick
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out and expand in taking
a long, fast step in our shoes. They
fit the heel without rubbing a hole
in the sock, i hey conform to the
instep and ankle as a support and rest,
and, in fact, in every item of fit, comfort
and line appearance, these are the shoes
_ _ . for men and boys.
Pride
r °om slippers in leathers and
hinohng felt. High or low ent.
Shoes AII <-oiors, $1.50 to $3.
<0,50 to Hiawatha, Indian mocassins, $2.
New Shipment of Bovs’ Shoes.
Eppa Rixey, Jr., Makes Good in
Major League First Year Out
(Ti is 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
Jlixey, the sensational young left
hander who flashed to the front as
a member of the Philadelphia Na
tionals last season. One year ago
■he name of Eppa Rixey was un
known to the baseball work 1 . To
day there is hardly a city in the
country where the fans are not f; -
miliar with it.
Rixey has the reputation of being
the best pitcher imported from the
college ranks in years, and it took
him less th in four months to es
tablish it. It did not require even
that long for him to demonstrate
his wort.'n 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 Ch'cago.
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 lie graduated last
June lie had offers from at least a
half dozen big league clubs.
Eppa Gets Big Salary.
All sorts of inducements: ■■.■ ere
made to the youth, who was finally
indtieed 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
Rigler that Rixey was persuaded to
east his lot with the Quakers, and
for rhe pajt the National league
umpire played in discovering and
getting him to sign he received a
handsome bonus.
Rigler need as coach to the Vir
ginia university squad last spring.
It was whije working in that ca
pacity that he became familiar with
the youngster's worth.
Besides his remarkable ability.
Rixey has the distinction of be!
the tallest pitcher in the leagut
He stands nearly six feet six it
his stockings and uses every cent!
meter of his height in his deliver;
Besides having a lot of smoke, h
has good curv- s, fa? better eontiu
than the average left-han I, r and ;
an excellent fielder. There is n
question qoout him having .ie re
quirements of a big .eague star. H
lias exceptionally long . rtns an<
w:ese enable him to us. : ;hhi
uous speed.
Ssat Best in League.
Out of tw.nty gam'. - he pitchei
. for the Quakers last sei; on, :..i
Soothe■ per captured toil, and : .
of these from the best twirl.q- I
the league. With a b< ti tea:.;
his record would have been vastlj
improved, for w:\tv'. 4 •41 'i'
cost him a number of victor., s
Dooin is convinced that he has
i.l'.-nom in the -eoliegian and won',
not part wit.i him for the price o
tin O'Tool’..
it w:.s against tilt wi.-nce .if Im
family that Eppa entered :. prof?.'
. siomil baseball career, and for :
time Dooin was In danger of .osini
his net, foul 4 for hi :<
lives made strong efforts t ■ O
suade him from continuing in th'
It appears that Eppa
b.Uv blood, one of ti:e !•'. V.’-
Vir.,i.:i a One of tils uncl-s L- S::r
geon <! ne.’al P. M. Rixey. I*. S. X.
retired with the rank of real ■
mlral, decorated by Ki;i- Ai.n-i
<>;' Spain, and surgeon in r Ji
during the last hours of Pr. s. a
McKinley. Another ancie was tu
late Übngi essman J.oiin l-'r tnklii
Rixey.
Eppa has tr.-fbles of his own be
sides spending his S9OO per montl
during the season. He can't tint
beds long enough to lit In:" in an!
of the big hotels where tn Phillis
are wont to stop while on the read
His real worries, though, are in
sleeping cars, where the only pwi' l
be can rest comfortably is in tin
aisles.
Besides being long-legged, h'lil.
waisted and long-necked, Rixey n
long-headed and has shown mot)
basebull sense than any colleg. A'
fruits, with the exception of < r U'
ley Sterrett, of the Yank" -■