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Billy Smith Has 1913 Crackers
Well Lined Up; OnlyOnePlace
That He’s Not Filled for Sure
By Percy H. Whiting.
SO far have Bill Smith's plans
for hie Atlanta club pro
gressed that it is possible to
pick the Atlanta team of 1913 with
amazing accuracy.
This is the way it looks
Infield —Agler, first base. Alper
man. second base: Dobaid. short
stop; Wallace Smith, third base.
Outfield —Bailey, Callahan and
one man yet to be secured, prob
ably Jay Kirk<
Catchers —McAlliste: and Iley -
nolds.
Pitchers— leaver. Donnelly, Bra
dy. Recker and Price.
Utility—Keating.
• • •
course. Bill Smith will bring
on a few other men for trial
Graham and Maleolmson. catchers;
Nixon. Long ami possibly Sisson,
outfielders, and doubtless several
pitchers. But in the back part of
Bill Smith’s head, where the heavy
thinking is done, the line-up is al
most decided on.
One position in the outfield is
uncertain and will be until Jay
Kirke or some other heavy hitter
Is signed. There is also an otT
chance that some other inlielder
may be bought.
Says Bill Smith: I started to
buy an inlielder from the Boston
Nationals. But I didn't. I have
first call on a couple of extra men
that Clark Griffith has, and if
Smith. Dobard or Keating fail me.
I will call on the Washington club.
That protects me on infielders."
"How about outfielders?" was
asked.
"A cinch," said Smith; "Bailey
la a .300 hitter—
" And fast." put tn the interview
er.
"Yes. and fast." admitted Bill.
•’l'll tell you,” he added, "I think
Bailey will steal a lot more bases
for me than he did last year. You
take a real fast man, who knows
how to slide ami he'll steal mighty
near as many bases as he is made
to. If he’s on first and no signal
is given he may stick there. But If
you signal him to go down he goes.
And having the speed and the slide,
he is likely to get away with it all
right."
Returning to the outfield. Smith
continued: "1 consider Callahan a
grand man. No. he didn't show it
in the early part of last season.
But, then, you know conditions on
the club. He will be a good man.
Then, if the Kirk' deal comes
through, we are fixed."
Kirke. of course, will be ret ailed
as the husky chap who played such
good ball at second base for the
New Orleans team season before
last All he batted for New Orleans
was .308. He hasn't done much but
hit with the disorganized Boston
Nationals. His fielding was admit
tedly rotten. However, when a man
can hit way over .300 in the Na
tional he is likely to come to the
Southern and to pile up an aver
age that will put him strictly in
the hunt, if he doesn't eat< h one
ball in five that come his way Ac
cording to Smith's sy stem, a team
needs two real sluggers. He ex
pects to have them with Bailey and
Kirke.
• * *
'TWO men in the infield are ,1-
* ready well known- Ag > r a'rnl
Alperman. Both are corkers—as
good as any players in their posi
tion In the league. The right wing
of the Crackers’ Inner defen « is .is
tight a- a It ,i pot.
Wallace Smith, the new third
baseman. eotneS from the Cat <ll
- He was picked up off tin
lots in St. Louie a couple of years
back and ( .inverted into a corking
infit Ider. Jus’ why the t 'ar-
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J 1912 AVERAGES OF ;
J 1913 ATLANTA MEN :
• •
• Player, Pos. B.A. F.A. S.B. •
• Agler, lb 264 985 14 •
• W Smith, 3b. .257 .953 20 •
• Doliard, ss. . . 269 .925 35 •
• Keating, utility.. .252 .880 57 •
• McAllister, e.. .. 253 .956 20 •
• Graham, c 239 .937 20 •
• Reynolds, c. . .. 226 .945 2 •
• Maleolmson. c. . .215 .981 15 •
• Bailey, of 315 .965 25 •
• Callahan, of 250 .964 30 •
• Nixon, of 279 .922 15 •
• l.ong, of. 266 .978 17 •
• Sisson, of 293 .976 40 •
• •
dinals have sold him is hard to
guess. He hit .259 last year—fair
enough for an Infielder —and fielded
.920. Such averages as that in the
National ought to make him a star
when he transfers the same en
deavors to the Southern.
Little is known of Dobard, ex
cept that he was drafted from Day
ton and that his marks are good.
Keating. the other infielder,
comes pretty highly touted. He
started last season with Lynch
burg and when that team sickened
and died he was taken on by Louis
Castro at Portsmouth. “The
Count" boosts him skyward and
says that he has made good al
ready. Keating was discovered by
Connie Mack, who touted Manager
Otis Stockdale, of Lynchburg, onto
him Keating is a trenmedous
base stealer. Last year he had 57
to his credit. The previous year,
with Raleigh in the Eastern Caro
lina league, he pilfered 51—and that
in spite of a stiff charley horse for
the last part of the season.
• * *
is pinning all his faith on
Lew McAllister, the old Detroit
catcher, foi work behind the bat.
Smith knows him, as McAllis
ter worked for him that disastrous
season at Buffalo. The other catch
er will be used merely as a filler
in.
The pitching staff, numbering two
new ex-big leaguers, Donnelly and
Weaver, should be formidable.
Smith will let Sitton. Johns and
Johnson go and possibly Waldorf.
Smith will vary his usual prac
tice by having only a few men re
port, and will bring them to At
lanta later than usual. His tenta
tive reporting date is March 10.
TENNESSEE TRIES FOR
GAME WITH VANDERBILT
KNOXVILLE, TENN., Dec. 7.—Th®
athletic authorities at the University ot
Tennessee are negotiating with the
Vanderbilt football management for a
football game to be staged between
Tennessee and Vanderbilt in November.
1913. While nothing definite has been
heard from tlie Vanderbilt authorities
with reference to the matter, yet the
local football management believes that
Vanderbilt will consider favorably a
game with Tennessee and sign a con
tract to that effect. Dr. H. E. Buchan
an. president of the University of Ten
nessee athletic council. Is conducting
the negotiations.
Inasmuch as Tennessee put a fairly
good football team in the field this year,
with prospects of an even better eleven
next season. Vanderbilt may be induced
to give the Volunteers a date on that
team’s schedule. Practically all the
Volunteer stars will return to the "hill"
mxt season, and with added material.
1 i nness' should fte represented by one
of the best elevens in the South.
INTERNATIONAL LIMIT
IS BOOSTED TO $6,000
NEW V<>KK, l>*v. 7. The salary
ihnlt in tlu- Int» i national league. which
a month h*Rt year, max be
boo'-trd SHjhhi a mouth this year, so
I’ uil club oxx nm * max ax ail theiniM'lx• >
|»J the <• x h of high-gi nd* player#
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1912.
Baffling Nelson Wants to Come to Atlanta-Kubiak's Manager Writes
WHITNEY AND O’KEEFE WILL MIX HERE TUESDAY
By W. S. Farnsworth.
F’rANK WHITNEY ami Tom
my O'Keefe are goiry; to min
gle again here in Atlanta. The
Dixie Athletic club has just signed
them, and next Tuesday night they
will display their wares.
The last mill between this pair
was a peaeherino. Whitney, who
is here in town. Is confident that
he will win decisively' this time. He
claims he was not right before, but
be started working this morning,
and he should bo tn tiptop condition
by Tuesday.
O'Keefe will probaldy arirve to
morrow morning.
* ♦ *
pATTLING NELSON wants to
■4-'come to Atlanta to box. If
the promoters of the Dixie Ath
letic club can secure him for
any reasonable money, I am sure
they would be making a good move
if they' put him on with the win
ner of the Vyhitney-O’Keefe scrap.
Atlanta has never seen a tighter
of the Nelson type. Although the
Battler is not the Battler of old, he
still puts up an exhibition that no
other fighter, be he bantam, light,
welter, middle or heavy, can du
plicate. From the tap of the
starting gong to the final bell, he is
always fighting.
S. I. A. A. MAY HAND “CAN”
TO MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY
NEW ORLEANS, Dee 7.—Those ac
quainted with the inner workings of
the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic
association think that the grand
bounce is being prepared for the Uni
versity of Mississippi. The annual
meeting of the S. 1. A. A. is to lie held
in New Orleans, December 13. am! it is
believed that at this meeting it will
be voted to expel the University of
MissitvMppi from membership. In ef
fect that would kill athletics at the
Oxford institution, as all members of
the S. I. A. A. would thereby be barred
from competing against any Missis
sippi team.
Mississippi’s offense wa» calling off
the annual football struggle against the
Mississippi A. and M. nt Jackson
Thanksgiving day. When the S. I. \.
A. ruled that Fletcher, quarterback,
could not play because of alleged pro
fessionalism. the Mississippi players
held a meeting and voted to disband.
Tills action, it Is said, was sanctioned
by college authorities, though tile
Fletcher case had been sent to the S.
1. A. A. for arbitration, both sides
agreeing to accept tills verdict.
Other interesting matters will also be
brought up at the annual meeting.
Track and field championships will be
awarded, probably to Nashville. Dr.
Dudley, of Vanderbilt, will be re-elected
president, and the vaiious vice presi
dents will also be returned to office.
BRESNAHAN AND LAWYER
ARE GOING TO MEETING
ST. LOUIS, Dee. 7—Armed with a
bundle of evidence to show be should col
lect no less than $49,000 in addition to bls
10 per cent of the profits for the last
year of his management of the Cardi
nals. Roger Bresnahan will appear before
the special meeting of the board of direc
tors of the National league in New York
Monday.
Notice that Bresnahan had changed his
earlier decision not to attend the meet
ing was received by his lawyer. George
T Priest, from Bresnahan, who said he
would leave Toledo Saturday for New-
York. Priest will accompany "the duke"
to the meeting.
WOLGAST IN BAD TRIM:
CAN’T BOX FOR AWHILE
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. The
clrances of the former lightweight
champion and boxer, Ad Wolgast, ap
pearing In a oral ring on N.-a Yt It g
day were dimmed today by the receipt
by Promoter Coffroth from Wolgast's
manager. Tom Jones, of a telegram
saying Wolgast's left arm and hand
had stiffened and that lie did not care
to box again soon.
IRWIN BUSINESS MANAGER.
NEW YORK. Dee 7 Arthur A. Ir
win. scout for the American leagut
baseball club since 1908, has been ap
pointed business manager and will
hereafter look afte: only the Hnanci.il
end of the club
True, Nelson has no gt;eat knock
out punch, but he fights so fast
that he will break the heart of any
man who isn’t game from think
tank to pedals. H< wades In wide
open, never backs up a step and
the harder he's hit the faster lie
battles.
The following letter 1 just re
ceived from Nelson's manager,
John R. Robinson, well explains
itself:
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4. 1912.
W. S. Farnsworth,
Sporting Editor The Georgian.
Atlanta. Ga.
Dear Bill; Have hooked up with Nel
son again. He made a great light
with Leach Cross in New York on
Thanksgiving day. Am planning a
tour of the South and would like to
stage him in Atlanta. Kindly see pro
moters there and tell them 1 will give
them best rate possible.
Bat sends his regards and so do I.
Your old pal.
JOHN H. ROBINSON.
• ♦ «
» L KUBIAK is verily in earnest
■‘X when lie says he will fight Carl
Morris here on a winner-take-all
basis. I was afraid that Al might
come here, do a sweet Hop a la
Jack McFarland, and said in Wed
nesday's paper that the match
should never he made.
But last night 1 received a let-
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
FLASH Birmingham. Ala.. Dei*. 14.
W . M. Kaxanaugh has been named presi
dent of the Southern league for the unip
steenth time.
* * *
Gox’ernor J<»hn K. Tener, of Pennsyl
vania, who is said to in-ad the syndicate
that is to buy the Phillies, was a ball
player himself once and made the tour
around the xvorld with A. G. Spalding's
famous team.
* » •
Joe Casey, former Utile Rock captain,
lias slumped to the Hartford club.
.Bumpus Jones, once a world-beating
pitcher. :s helpless with locomotor ataxia
at a Payton hospital and a benefit is
being planned for him. All he asks is
that tlie fans raise enough to keep him
in tobacco and shaves during tlie short
time he has to live
“ w ■
The Western league magnates have
asked “Tip” <>’Xeil to resign, but they
are still waiting for the official docu
ment.
The International league will meet Mon
day. It hasn’t a blessed thing to do, for
Barrows is serving a long term as presi
dent and the pennant lias already been
awarded.
• • •
The only man who hasn't thus far been
suggested as manager of tlie Highlanders
is Charles Faust and Mr. Faust is hereby
put in nomination.
* ♦ ♦
Harrs Howell, once a pitcher in the big
league, now an umpire in Texas, has had
tlie nerve to ask for more salary.
• • •
\\ illie Keeler will h< Id his job as bat
ting ’nstructor on the Brooklyn team, pot
that he accomplished much last sear.
• ♦ ♦
Lou (Tiger xvill take the Boston Ameri
can pitchers to W aco for a work-out next
spring
• • ■
Empire Rigler says he spent $250 in
making jl.is for a trip to Cuba and
noxx the Cubans have asked waivers on
the trip.
• • •
In apologizing tor Horace Fogel Presi
dent Lynch expressed tlie polite opinion
that possibly he hud been ‘‘ill-advised.’’
• ♦ •
I T. Redus is mentioned as probable
president of the Cotton States league in
1913. It xvas foolish to mention it in ad
vance Redus may skip the country be
fore they can name him.
• • •
New i>rleans experts are saying that if
Charley Frank let a chance pass to gm
<>rlle Weaver he must have something
mighty strong m sight They surelv liked
Weaver down in that Crescent City
• * •
The only ball player xvho is really doing
anx thing on the stage is Hugh Jennings
Tlie report is that ho is really clever.
• • •
Harry Wolter will ask the new manager
of the Highlanders whoever he is. for
permission to do his sitting training on
tlie coast He ll get it. too- like a fish.
* *
It is reported that pressure has been
put ..ii I’resident Navin to force linn to
trade Corrldcn i<> t'lnrlnnall for Chance.
If Hits is true it means that I'lnkor goes
to t’in, inna't 1 for <’orrlden and that Frank
Chatter goes to the Highlanders
ter from Johnny Loftus, a Phila
delphian of high standing in box
ing circles throughout the East, in
which Loftus says that Kubiak will
fight on the winner-take-all plan.
Anything Loftus says goes with
yours truly, and if he brings Ku
biak here, Al will have to come
clean or, Johnny will fill him so full
of holes that the big fellow’ will re
semble a Swiss cheese.
Here is Loftus - letter:
PHILADELPHIA,'Dec. 4, 1912
- W. S. Farnsworth,
Th<- Georgian. .
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Mr. Farnsworth:
1 am anxious to match Al Kubiak
with Carl Morris at the Dixie Ath
letic club. Kubiak will box Morris
any way that suits Morris. Winner
take-all is the way we would like it.
I won’t stand tor a 50-50 basis, but if
Morris insists will cut 60 and 40. Mor
ris has been offered many chances
with Kubiak, but has always given an
excuse.
I don’t think that Morris would be
easy for Kubiak, but I do think Al can
beat him. for I figure that Kubiak's
experience will return him the win
ner. Kubiak just boxed Gunboat
Smith and Tony Ross here, and a cou
ple of days later Ross beat Balzer
easily.
Hoping that you will give this a
little space in your paper, I ant
Very’ truly yours.
JOHNNY LQFTUS.
BESSEMER CLUB FIVE IS
TRIMMED AT COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. 7.—The Co
lumbus Young Men's Christian asso
ciation defeated the Bessemer Athletic
club in basket ball here last night by
the score of 33 to 15.
Bessemer showed unexpected ability
in passing, but fell down in goal throw
ing. In the second half they picked up
somewhat. Columbus did most of tin?
scoring in the first half, getting 23
points, while Bessemer made only 4. In
the second half Columbus used subs.
Bessemer made 11 points to Colum
bus' 10.
Peddy led in scoring for Columbus
Y. M. C. A., getting seven field goals
and three fouls with extra point for
fouls in throwing goal. B. S. Clay, of
Bessemer, got three of their five field
goals. His guarding was a feature.
Summary: Columbus—Field goals,
Peddy 7. I.ouons 3, Dazier 2, McDuffie
1. Massey I: fouls. Peddy 4. Bessemer
Field goals. Clay 3. Donaldson 1,
Schober 1: fouls. chober 5. Time,
20-15. Umpire, D. Kirven.
HARBISON IN ATLANTA:
1913 PLANS UNCERTAIN
Douglas Harbison, the Cracker short
stop who was drafted last fall by the
New York Americans, is a visitor in
Atlanta.
He seems an elusive performer in the
off-season and. though several fans and
Manager Billy Smith as well have seen
him flitting about, nobody has been
unearthed who knows what he is doing
here (>r how long h ewill stay. Harbi
son stated to one of his local friends
that he did not know what disposition
the Highlanders would make of his
services.
MARQUARD WILL MARRY
MISS BLOSSOM SEELY
ST. Louis. MO.. Dee. 7.- Rube"
.Mar<iuard. of tlie New York Giants, ad
mits that lie will marry Blossom See
ley, ins vaudeville partner, as soon as
she can get a divorce from her hus
band. Joseph Katie, who has a $25,00(1
alienation suit pending against Mar
quard in New York.
JOCKEY MADE OVER
$600,000 IN FRANCE
NEW YORK, Dee. 7 —Frankie O'Neil.
American jockey, lias retu.ned font
Europe for the holidays. He made a
record of 135 firsts and 312 seconds In
580 starts on tlie French turf and
cleared over $600,000 during his sou
years in I’rance.
JIM THORPE HAS OFFER
TO TURN PROFESSIONAL
CARLISLE. PA., Dec. 7 Jim Thorpe,
the Indian athlete, is considering an i ffii
tr.ui. Or’ ■|'« (|inseh professional hockey
te ini. of Toronto. Canada, to join the
< lul> a> a big salary
Wise Baseball Men Say That
George Baumgartner Has More
Speed Than Johnson or Wood
(This is the eleventh of a series
of articles on “Youngsters Who
Made Good in Big Leagues” last
season.)
By Sam Crane.
WHAT do you think of a
'young pitcher who has
such tremendous speed and
other promising points that he has
been pronounced by such wise crit
ics as Bobby Wallace, George Sto
vall and Lou Criger as having
"more” than Walter Johnson, of
the Washingtons?
Well, George Baumgartner, of
the St. Louis Brywns, is the pitch
er who expected to make the
American “cyclone” take a back
seat one of these days and come to
the front as a pitching star who
will supersede both Walter John
son and Joe Wood in speed.
When any ball player speaks of
a pitcher as "having mote” than
another boxman. the expression
covers every point in pitching, in
cluding a swifter ball, superior
curves, more deceptive change of
• pace, better control and everything
else.
That lavish praise heaped on
Baumgartner was given him while
the St. Louis Browns were taking
spring practice in Montgomery,
Ala., last March.
Monte Gross, the old Philadelphia
Athletics’ shortstops, who is one
of the most experienced old-timers
in the business and one of the best
of scouts, came out with the fol
lowing stiff prediction on Baum
gartner:
Here's Monte Cross’ Prediction.
“I am willing to stake my repu
tation as a judge of ball players on
the prediction that Baumgartner
will prove the best pitcher in the
American league this season
(1912
Now, all those wiseacres of
baseball were not so far wrong, if
they were not absolutely right, in
their bold but confident predic
tions.
Last season (1912) Baumgartner,
although with a consistent losing
aggregation, won eleven games and
lost fourteen. Just take into con
sideration what the youngster
might have done had he been for
tunate enough to have had his ini
tial big league lines lAid with the
Boston Red Sox, Washington or the
Athletics, all winning teams and
able to keep him out in both bat
ting and fielding.
It is safe to say' that Baumgart
ner, under more favorable condi
tions, would have more than made
good the confidence placed in him
by Wallace. Stovall. Criger and
Cross.
It is a very bold and robust im
agination that will predict the pull
ing down from their pedestals of
such cracks as Johnson and Wood,
who have established their great
reputations by winning work year
after year and give no indication of
"going back” under the constant
strain of one victorious season
after another.
Team Helped Johnson.
Still, Johnson was not the re
markable pitching sensation he was
last season, until he had a team
behind, him that was of some as
sistance to hint. He was feared, of
course, and was always dangerous,
and every one knew his wonderful
ability and appreciated it, but why
not give Baumgartner an equal
chance?
Surely neither Wood nor John
son ever started oft' any more
promisingly titan did the youth who
lias made himself famous in one
year with the losing St. Ixtuis
Browns.
Baumgartner is n versatile
youngster, too, ns he has played
first base, and right up to the han
dle.
The "find" played with the Hunt
ington. W. Va., club of the Moun
tain States league in 1911. and it
was with these that he first at
tracted attention of scouts from all
over the big leagues. His record
deserved all the interest manifest
ed in him. He won 24 and lost ti.
giving him a winning percentage
of .727. His batting average w.is
.126, and fielding .932.
With the Browns last season •
was in 28 games, fielded at a .9'5
gait and hit .245. in 1911 he av< i
aged nine strikeouts to a game, an i
he is going to try to boost that
record next season. St. Louis tans
think that he has it in him to
do it.
Mound City’ lovers of baseball are
enthusiastic about he youngstei.
and Manager Stovafl says he wil:
not take back a word of the pr>
diction he ma4e of the youngstei -
grand future a year ago.
HORINE WILL FIGHT FOR
HIS MARK OF 6 FT. 7 IN.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 7.—-Frien : ■
of George Horine, holder of the woi ld't
running high jump record, led by Pres
ident Elliott, of the Pacific Athleti'
association, have begun a campaign
which they hope will eventually com
pel the A. A. U. to accept the young
ster’s remarkable figures of 6 feet 7
inches.
At a recent meeting of that body thi
mark was turned down, while anoiiie’
of Horine's jumps, 6 feet 6 1-8 inchi .-,
was passed upon favorably. The Cali
fornians are a sore lot because the
other record didn't go through.
Horine is credited witlt jumping 1
feet 7 inches at the Pacific Olympic tr
outs. Investigation by A. A. U. ex
perts brought out the charge that Ho
rine used forbidden tactics in going "v. .
the bar. so the record was thrown itr 1
the discard. Horine got the other ma:
at a dual meet between Stanford uni
versity and the University' of Southern
California, held on the Stanford groom,
on March 29 last.
BRENNAN SHADES YOUNG.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Dee. 7.—Knockout
Brennan, of this city, shaded Georg-
Chip, of Youngstown, Ohio, here la-'
night in a fast and exciting ten-romm
bout.
A MILD, pleasing
“Turkish-blend”
that suits the Amer
ican taste. If you
haven’t you proba
bly will. 20 in plain
package—that’s why
the price is only 15c.
" Diltinctioely Individual “
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