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Billy Smith Has 1913 Crackers
Well Lined Up; OnlyOnePlace
That He’s Not Filled for Sure
By Percy 11. Whit ini;.
S(t far have Bill Smith's plans
for his Atlanta club pro
gressed that it Is possible to
pick the Atlanta team of 11'13 with
amazing accuracy.
This is the way it looks
Infield —Agler, first base. Alper
man. second base; Dobard. short -
atop; Wallace Smith, third base.
Outfield—Bailey. Callahan and
one man yet to be secured, prob
ably Jay Kirke.
Catchers -McAllister and Rey
nolds.
Pitcheis Weaver, Donnelly, Bra
dy, Becker and Price
Utility Keating.
• • *
z~\F course. Bill Smith will bring
on a few other men for trial
Graham and Malcolmson. catchers;
Ninon. Long and possibly Sisson,
outfielders, and doubtless several
pitchers. But in the back part of
Bill Smith’s head, where the heavy
thinking is dom . the line-up is al
most deci, < <1 on.
One position in tin outfield is i
uncertain ami will be until Jay
Kirke or some othei heavy hitter
is signed. Th, t . is also an off i
chance that som< other infielder
may be bought.
Says Bill Smith; "I started to 1
buy an Infielder from the Boston
Nationals. But 1 didn’t. 1 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
is a 300 hitter
"And fast,” put In the intervlew
et.
’’Yea. and fast.” admitted BUI.
•'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 and he’ll steal mighty
near as many bases as he it, 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 ami the slide,
he is likely to get away with It all
right.”
Returning to tne outfield Smith
continued "I 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, ts the Kirke deal rentes
through, we are fixed.”
Kirke. of course, will be recalled
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 liki .y to come to the
Southern and to pile up an aver
age that will put him strictly in
the hunt, if he doesn’t catch one
ball in five that come his way. Ac
cording to Smith’s system, a team
needs two real sluggers. He ex
pects to have them with Bailey and
Kirke.
• • •
rrWO men 1n the infield at. al
* ready well known—Aglet and
Alperman. Both are corkers as
good as any players in their posi
tion in the league. The right wing
. of the Crackers’ inner defen-. sas
tight as a -teapot.
Wallace Smith, the new third
baseman, comes fron. the t’ardi-
He whs picked up oft the
in St
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I; 1912 AVERAGES OF ;
: 1913 ATLANTA MEN J
• •
• Player, Pos. B.A. F.A. S.B. •
• Agler, lb .264 .98.;, 14 •
• W. Smith, 3b. .257 .953 20 •
• Dobard, ss . 269 .925 35 •
• Keating, utility.. .252 .880 57 •
• McAllister, c 253 .956 20 •
• Graham, c 239 .937 20 •
• Reynolds, c .226 .945 2 •
• Malcolmson, c... .215 .981 15 •
• Bailey, of 315 .965 25 •
• Callahan, of 250 .964 30 •
® Nixon, of 279 .922 15 •
; • Long, 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 lie was taken on by Louis
1 Castro at Portsmouth. "The
I Count” boosts him skyward and
I says that he has made good al
ready. Keating was discovered by
Connie Mack, who touted Manager
i His 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.
CMITH is pinning all his faith on
Lew McAllister, the old Detroit
catcher, for 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
KN4 iXVILLE, PENN., Dec. 7 Tl <
athletic authorities at the University of
Tennessee are negotiating with the
Vanderbilt football management for a
football game to be stagdd between
Tennessee and \’andeiblit-in November,
1913. While nothing definite has been
heard from the 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 u date on that
team's schedule Practically all the
Volunteei stars will return to the "hill"
next season, and with added material.
I < am .-sc, should be represented by one
of the best elevens in th« South.
INTERNATIONAL LIMIT
IS BOOSTED TO $6,000
NEW \ORK. I 7 The snljirv
limit in the International league, which
14 000 ,i month last year. max b»
| boosted to Jt.junt a month this year. so
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-HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1912.
Battling Nelson Wants to Come to At/anta—Kubiak's Manager Writes
WHITNEY AND O’KEEFE WILL MIX HERE TUESDAY
By W. S. Farnsworth.
RANK WHITNEY and Tom
my O’Keefe are going to min
gle again here in Atlanta. Thp
Dixie Athletic club has just signed
them, and next Tuesday night they
w ill display their wares.
The last mill between this pair
was a peacherino. Whitney, who
is here in town, is confident that
he will win decisively this time. He
claims he was not right before, but
he started working this morning,
and lie should be in tiptop condition
by Tuesday.
O’Keefe will probably’ arrive to
morrow morning.
* * *
IDATTLING NELSON wants to
J come to Atlanta to box. If
the promoters of the Dixie Ath
letic club can secure him for
any reasonable money, 1 am sure
they- would be making a good move
If they put him on with the win
ner of the Whitney-O’Keefe scrap.
has never seen a fighter
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, Dec 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. I A. A. is to be held
in New Orleans, December 13, and it is
believed that at this meeting it will
be voted to expel the University of
Mississippi from membership. In ef
fect that would kill athletics at the
Oxford institution, as all members of
the S. 1. A. A. would thereby be barred
from competing against any Missis
sippi team.
Mississippi’s offense was calling off
the annual football struggle against the
Mississippi A. and M. at Jackson
Thanksgiving day. When the S, I. A.
A. ruled that Fletcher, quarterback,
could not play because of alleged pro
fessionalism. the Mississippi players
held a meeting and voted to disband.
This action, it is said, was sanctioned
by college authorities, though the
Fletcher case had been sent to the S.
I A. A. for arbitration, both sides
agreeing to accept this 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 various vice presi
dents will also be returned to office.
BRESNAHAN AND LAWYER
ARE GOING TO MEETING
ST LOI’IS, Dec 7 Armed with h
bundle of evidence to show lie should col
lect no less than >4(1.000 in addition to his
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 hy his lawyer. Gorge
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
chances of the former lightweight
champion and boxer, Ad Wolgast, ap
pearing in a local ring on New Year's
day were dimmed today by the receipt
by I’ imioter t'oflroth from Wolgast's
manager. font Jones, of a telegram
saying Wolgast's left aim and hand
had stiffened and that he did not cate
to box again soon.
IRWIN BUSINESS MANAGER.
NEW YORK, Dei 7. Arthur A. Ir
win. scout for the American league
ba.-ebal! club situ < I9'ix. has been ap
pointed Imslm s- managei mid wi;
heieaftei look aft< only the liu.inei..
end of th< club
True. Nelson has no great 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. He wades in wide ,
open, never backs up a step and
the harder he's hit the faster He
battles.
The following letter 1 just re
ceived from Nelson's manager,
John R. Robinson, well explains
itself:
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4. 1912.
VV. S. Farnsworth.
Sporting Editor The Georgian.
Atlanta. Ga.
Dear Bill; Have hooked up with Nel
son again. He made a great tight
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 I will give
them best rate possible.
Bat. sends his regards and so do I.
Your old pal.
JOHN R. ROBINSON.
♦ • *
a L KUBIAK is verily’ In earnest
when he says he will fight Carl
Morris here on a wlnner-take-all
basis. I was afraid that Al might
come here, do a sweet flop a la
Jack McFarland, and said in Wed
nesday’s paper that the match
should never be made.
But last night I received a let-
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
FLASH—Birmingham. Ala.. Dec. 14.
\V M. Kavanaugh has been named presi
dent of the Southern league for the ump
steenth time.
Governor John K. Tener. of Pennsyl
vania, who is said to head the syndicate
that is to buy the Phillies, was a ball
player himself once and made the tour
around the world with A. G. Spalding's
famous team.
• * •
Joe Casey, former Little Rock captain,
has slumped to the Hartford club.
* * •
Bumpus Jones, once a world-beating
pitcher, is helpless with locomotor ataxia
at a Dayton hospital and a benefit is
being planned for him. All he asks is
that the fans raise enough tn keep him
in tobacco and shaves during the short
time he has to live. ,
• a •
The Western league magnates have
asked "Tip” O'Neil to resign, hut thev
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 has already- been
awarded.
a •
The only man who hasn’t thus far been
suggested as manager of the Highlanders
is < harley Faust and Mr. Faust is hereby
put in nomination.
* ♦ ♦
Harry Howell, once a pitcher in the big
league, now an umpire in Texas, has had
. the nerve to ask for more salary.
Willie Keeler will hold his job as bat
ing instructor on the Brooklyn team, not
that he accomplished much last year.
» ♦ ♦
Lou <’riger will take the Boston Ameri
can pitchers to Waco for a work-out next
spring.
• • •
I’mpire Rigler says he spent >250 in
making plans for a trip to Cuba and
now the Cubans have asked waivers on
the trip.
• • •
In apologizing for Horace Fogel Presi
dent Lynch expressed the polite opinion
that possibly he had been "ill-advised.”
I T. Redus is mentioned as probable
president of the Cotton States league in 1
1913. It was foolish to mention it in ad
vance. Redus may skip the country be
fore they can name him
• • r
New Orleans experts are saying that if
Charley Frank let a chance pass to get
Orlie Weaver he must have something
mighty strong in sight They surely liked
Weaver down in that Crescent City
• • •
The only ball player who Is really doing
anything on the stage is Hugh Jennings
The report is that he is really clever
■ * •
Harry W olter will ask the new manager
of the Highlanders, whoever he is. for
permission to do his spring training on I
the coast He ll get ft. too—like a fish
It is reported that pressure has been
pul oti President Navin to force him to
trade Corrlden to Cincinnati for Chance
If iliis is true it means that Tinker goes i
io ('lm imiati for Corrlden and that Frank
Chance 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,
The Georgian.
Atlanta. Ga.
Dear Mr. Farnsworth;
I am anxious to match Al Kubiak
with Carl Morris at the Dixie Ath
letic club. Kubiak will box Morris
any way that suits .Morris. Wlnner
take-all is the way we would like it.
I won't stand for a 50-50 basis, but if
Morris insists w’ill 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 Palzer
easily.
Hoping that you will give this a
little space in your paper, I
Very truly yours, W
JOHNNY LOFTOS.
BESSEMER CLUB FIVE IS
TRIMMED AT COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. 7—The Go
lunibus 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 the
scoring in the first half, getting 23
points, while Bessemjr 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, Louons 3, Dozier 2, McDuffie
1. Massey 1; fouls, Peddy 4. Bessemer
—Field goals, Clay 3, Donaldson 1,
Schober 1; fouls, Schober 5. Time,
20-15. Umpire. D. Klrven.
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 or how long he will stay. Harbi
son stated to one of hie local (friends
that he did not know what disposition
the Highlanders would make of his
services.
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MISSES SOM SEELEY
ST. LOUIS. MO.. Dec. 7.-" Rube”
Marquard, of the New York Giants, ad
mits that he will marry Blossom See
ley. his vaudeville partner, as soon as
she can get a divorce from her hus
band. Joseph Kane, who has a $25,000
allenatioh suit pending against Mar
quard in New York.
JOCKEY MADE OVER
$600,000 IN FRANCE
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Frankie O’Neil.
American jockey, has returned from
Europe for the holidays. He made a
record of 135 firsts and 312 seconds in
580 starts on the French turf and
cleared over $600,000 during bls sou"
yeats in France.
JIM THORPE HAS OFFER
TO TURN PROFESSIONAL
Carlisle, pa . Dec 7 jim Thorpe,
tlie Indian athlete, is considering an oner
from the Tecumseh professional hockey
team of Toronto. C'anada. to join the
I dub a' a big salary
Wise Baseball Men Say That n I
George Baumgartner Lias More I
Speed Than Johnson or Wood I
(This is the eleventh of a series
of articles on “Youngsters Who
Made Good in Big Leagues” last
season.) #
By Sain 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 Browns, is the pitch
ar 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 more” 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 Cross, 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.
”1 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 41912) 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-
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 him. 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 off any more
promisingly than did the youth who
has made himself famous in one
year with the losing St. Louis
Brow ns.
Baumgat liter is a versatile
youngster, too, as he has played
first base, and right up to the han
dle.
Tne "find" played witlt the Hunt
ington, W. Va„ club of the Moun
tain States league in 1911, and :
was witlt these that he first at
tracted attention of scouts from ~l
over the big leagues. His record
deserted all the interest manifest
ed in him. He won 24 and lost 9,
giving him a winning percentage
of .727. His batting average was
.126, and fielding .932
With the Browns last season he
was in 28 games, fielded at a .985
gait and hit .245. In 1911 he aver
aged nine strikeouts to a game, and
he is going to try to boost that
record next season. St. Louis fans
think that he has it in him to
do it.
Mound City lovers of baseball are
enthusiastic about he youngster,
and Manager Stovall says he will
not take back a word of the pre
diction he made of the youngster's
grand future a year ago.
HORINE WILL FIGHT FOR
HIS MARK OF 6 FT. 7 IN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 —Friends
of George Horine, holder of the world's
running high jump record, led by I’. > >-
ident Elliott, of the Pacific Athletic
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 tecent meeting of that body this
mark was turned down, while another
of Horine's jumps. 6 feet 6 1-8 inches,
was passed upon favorably. The Cali
fornians are a sore lot because ths
other record didn’t go through.
Horine is credited witlt jumping 6
feet 7 inches at the Pacific Olympic try
outs. Investigation by A. A. U ex
perts brought out the charge that Ho
rine used forbidden tactics in going over
the bar, so the record was thrown into
the discard. Horine got tlie other mark
at a dual meet between Stanford uni
versity and the University of Southern
California, held on the Stanford grounds
on March 29 last.
BRENNAN SHADES CHIP.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 7. —Knockout
Brennan, of this city, shaded Gemsre
Chip, of Youngstown, Ohio, here im-t
night in a fast and exciting ten-round
bout.
A MILD, pleasing
“Turkish-bleno”
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.
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