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13 TUT: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. APRIL 18, 101:',. s&i Mutt Must Have Forgotten the Crackers are in Nashville To-day By “Bud” Fisher II GET HURLERS N ashville, tenn, April is.— The qualities of loyalty and gameness are alien to the pop- eyed baseball bugs who infest the stands in Sulphur Dell. Throughout the Southern League their proficiency with the hammer has become prover bial and though in the past President Hirsig has refused to read the hand writing on the wall, just now he has waked up to the fact that Nashville simply will not support a losing club. Harking bach to 1908 when the Vols snatched a pennant from Oholly Frank’s Pelicans in that famous 1 to o game before 1,000 and more luna tics, a record was set for the South ern League teams to shoot at for many moons to come. All of which has to do with the flooding of the major leagues with telegrams begging for twirlers. Enough coin is being spent on wires to wreck a young mint, but Bill Schwartz is determined to have a de pendable sting of hurlers. Chick £mith, the former Redleg. is already on hand and will probably get/ a chance to turn the rampant Crackers back when they invade the Dell. Cincinnati has also offered the Vols a pitcher named McManus, while Brooklyn can do without a flin- ger who signs the register as Dal- gren. Little is known of either of the two latter other than that they are right handers and are offered along with a bunch of verbal bo- quets. • * * UIRSIG is dickering with the Cub people for Rudy Summers, al though he has little hopes of getting the former Vol back since Kid Elber- feld wants the little southpaw mighty bad and will probably offer more coin than Nashville. “Bum” Barrett and Johnson, two promising kid boxmen from the bushes, have been tucked away in the Kitty League for seasoning. Both have a string tied to them, for the pair, especially Barrett, look too good to lose and the club management hasn’t forgotten that Orlie Weaver and Grover Brandt got away from them entirely and both brought fancy prices in the majors. The release of these two cuts the pitching staff down to the veterans Case and Fleharty, Miner Hendee, Williams, Beck and Morrow. The latter who came to the Vols from Brooklyn will be carried until May 10 when the squad will be cut down to 18 men. The acquisition of Smith, McManus and Dalgren will precipi tate a lively scramble in the hurling pit. One thing is certain. It will bring out the best stuff in every slab- man which is the main point in ques tion. Nobody at present is certain of a job unless it be Lefty Williams for this portsider is in grand shape. He fields his position in great shape, keeps the runners hugging the sacks and in the pinches he is magnificent. * * * S O far in every battle the foe has garnered more hits than the Vols and Schwartz’s crew seem out to emulate the famous hitless White Sox. They are coining tallies out of a few bunched hits and are taking advantage of every weakness of the enemy. Schwartz has succeeded in having the players master the squeeze play and the hit-and-run play something the Vols could never before learn. Daley, Goalby, Callahan and James are lightning fast and their daring baserunning has set the fans wild. Not for a minute should the Vols be classed as "hopeless” for they are playing a high grade of inside stuff, the pitching staff will be strengthen ed and if they continue to manufac ture runs without a flock of hits no body will have any kick to register. MURPHY’S PARK ORDERED INSPECTED BY COUNCIL CHICAGO, April 18.—The City Council last night passed an ordinanc e for the inspection of the stands ,f the Chicago (National League) base ball park to find whether they com ply with the requirements of the fir- ordinance. By the same order the Bureau of Fire Prevention and Public Safetv was directed to investigate and report hack to the Council whether the pro visions of the ordinance requiring that aisles be kept unobstructed was violated in the game Sunday between the Chicago and Pittsburg teams. Width of aisles, number of seats in rows between aisles, width of seats and space to be allotted each chair in the boxes and the number and width of exits are some of the provi sions made in the fire ordinance. If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. O’NEILL TO PILOT OUTLAWS. PHILADELPHIA. April 18.—The signing of Joseph P. O’Neill as man ager of the Philadelphia Club of the United States Baseball League, was announced last night by the owners. O’Neill was formerly manager of the Jacksonville (Fla.) team of the South Atlantic League and he has pitched for several minor league teams. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! r i'Vi Got A JCQ (Vs AN INSURANCE Au€HT. ITS THE Softest thing in the vioeu> tq se.Li_ insurance - Just nail | Your, man and talk fast, i start tooav Just think of it * if you're sick you &et JiCOAOay. if you lost An Eyc- You GP T * JOCO , lp You DIE YOU GET ®30,0OO AMO if You LIVE twenty year-s you ggt *<5oooo -and BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip BROU’S INJECTION—A PERM A NENT CURE of the most ohsu-^ate oases guaranteed In from 3 to 8 days; no other treatment n quirod. Sold by all druggists. TR USSES Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery, etc Expert fitters; both lady and men attendants; private fitting rooms. Jacobs’ Main Store 6-8 Marietta St. The Turtles lost a good pitcher when they sold Ferguson to Vernon—a good pitcher who couldn't win. He was one of those big leaguers who couldn't be satisfied to work in a Class A league— and who wasn’t good enough. * * » By the way, has anybody heard any wailing lately because Ed Donnelly re fused to report to Atlanta? If Edward has been missed we don't know where. The treatment he received at the hands of Atlanta must have surprised him. * * * Nashville's verdict is that Dug Harbi- son learned a lot of baseball from Frank Chance down in Bermuda—and he al ways was a batter. * * * Sam Crane springs it as a news item that New York City is big enough to support two major league ball clubs. * * * Great guns! It ought to be. * * * Jack tYarhop will not be worked much until hot weather sets in. Jack is no “frost feller’’ anyhow, and he has a lame shoulder now. * * * Hans Wagner has a floating cartilage in bis knee, and unless the blamed thing runs aground he is due a bad season. * * * Bobby Byrne isn’t even a shade plate- shy as a result of his bump on the bean by Joe Wood. He is bitting as well as ever and crowding the plate like a hungry tramp. » * * Babe Adams seems a champion pitch er again. The hero of one world's se ries promises to be the hero of the regu lar 1913 season. * * * The Indianapolis ball park is back in good trim, which is more than can be said of the ball club. * * * Rudy Hulswitt has been off the Louis ville line-up for several tbivs. He has a bum finger. This adds murk to the al ready gloomy situation in the Ky. me- trop. * * * With the Milwaukee team leading the American Association race, less than 600 turned out to see a recent game. That's regular Montgomery enthusiasm. * * * Harry McGUlicuddy. younger brother of Earl, ana son of Cornelius, is star ring on Earl Mack's Raleigh club. Con nie will soon have the whole Mack fami ly in baseball. * * * Hans Wagner always goes fishing every day it rains. “For one thing,’’ says Hans. “I can’t play ball then. For another, the fish bite better.” * * * .Tack Dunn is trying no get Outfielder George Maisel from the Browns for the Baltimore club. * <* * Denver has sold Ed Kinsella, former big leaguer, to Sacramento. * * * An office fixture manufacturer is suing Johnny Evers for the stuff he put into .lawn's shoe store in Chicago- the one that blew up. Johnny replies that the owner of the shoe store was a corpora tion ami that he is not personally re sponsible. * * * Brooklyn adimts that Smith is a com mon name, but denies that Carlisle, is any common Smith. * « * The Cincinnati club is now eating by the foot. Each player was given a strip of coupons the other day, each calling for a nickel’s worth of food. They were handed $14 worth at one time, so each man had 280 inches of eats. “Speaking of the White Sox.” says Louis Arms, " he is a great team. * * * Bresnahan caught a hall up his sleeve in a close play at the plate the other dav and couldn't fish it out in time to retire the runner. Or anyhow. Charley Dryden says so Rut Charley is liable to say anything. # * ♦ Pete Lister, ex-Oracker, is to play with Peoria this season. * * * A Chicago guy says that when you are approached by an attendant these days at the Cub park, he is either trying to sell you grape juice or put you out of your seat Li. C. Davis says that while the Tigers are Cobbless, the famous Peach is job less. The same guy says that the Chicago fans are very busy making presents to Tinker, to Evers, to Chance. Joe Tinker tried to hue Jimmy Sheek- ard from Murphy, hut Chawles wouldn’t I even answer Joe’s telegram. Joe doesn’t . stand over deuce high at Cub head- j quarters. Chief Meyers claims to have noticed 'that when hall players are traveling •; and the train stops, they want to eat. i' It may he we are more observing, hut 11 it has come to our attention that they I frequently experience the same desire while the train is moving EVERS SUED FOR $300. CHICAGO, April 18. --Johnny Evers I manager of < 1 ' ] §300 by a manufacturer of store und office fixtures who alleged that fix tures installed in a shoe store whi li Evers and Charles Williams. Secre tary of the Chicago Nationals, tried unsuccessfully, to run here, had nevf.r been paid for. A Few Funny Things in Baseball 0 o o © © o © Coach Heisman Tells About ’Em Bv J. \Y. Heisman. S OMETHING like a score of years ago 1 was a spectator at a game in which a very funny thing transpired. This game was between the first teams of the towns of War- ■ and Sharon, Ohio. Neither team was in any league, but these are good sized towns and they turn out some pretty nice ball clubs to this day. It was about the eighth inning and Warren was one run behind; but they had a runner on third base, albeit two men were down. There had been c onsiderable money wagered on the outcome of the game, and the feeling between the two teams was far from being the most cordial ever. Luckily for the Sharon club the game was being played in their home town, else it is doubtful whether any of them would ever have escaped with their lives after the stunt that their third baseman pulled off at this juncture. The Sharon‘pitcher had thrown one to the batter, and then he decided he bad a chance to nail Warren’s run ner on third, so he slammed the ball over to that corner next. The third baseman tagged at the runner after catching thp throw, and then bluffed to toss it back to the catcher. In stead of letting it go just them, how ever, he put it up under his left arm- pit, a very common thing in those days, no matter how silly it would strike a modern ball player. An instant later he appeared to take the baH out from under his arm and throw it back to the pitch er; whereupon the runner once more stepped off the bag. No sooner had he done so, however, than the Sharon third baseman once more reached up in the region of his left armpit, pulled out another ball and promptly touched the runner out before he had discovered what was happening. The umpire called him out, and forthwith the “decla-pendence of indignation” was on. The whole Warren team desired to know at one and the same time how the Sharon team could use two balls at the same time and get away with it, while even the Sharonans had their doubts about the legality of this kind of strategy. But the umpire and the Sharon pitcher showed them that it wasn’t a ball at all that the third baseman had tossed back, but a very round potato. As there was nothing in the rule book entitling a runner to step off a base because the other team chose | to throw potatoes around, “limps” stated that he bad no choice but to call the runner out when the really, truly ball was put on him while standing off a base. And then came the fight, and the police force. I think they got out the fire department before it. was over. But the game was never finished; not that day at all events. - * * 17 EW of the younger generation of 4 balT players ever saw the great Tony Mullane in action, and plenty of them have doubtless never heard of him. Suffice it to say that Tony was one of the game’s greatest twirlers 30 years ago when performing with the t Cincinnati Reds, and the Reds of those days were ‘‘some” ball players. Well, Tony was born and reared in Oil City, Pa., and it was up there that the game took place in which the in cident I am about to relate occurred. There was nothing in the shape of a backstop but a very high fence or bill board, as it were, erected behind the plate. The top of this was invaria bly lined with all who were early and agile enough to get up there. While the game was still young, I observed a man tlying to scale the heights by wedging ids fingers and toes between the boards. He was very much the fattest man I have ever seen try to climb a backstop of this character, or. hide d, a high fence of any kind. But he had heard so much of M11I- lane’s wonderful curved ball (curves were quite a new thing at that time yet) that he was determined to get somewhere where he could see them with sis own eyes. lie had reached a lndght of about 8 fee: from the ground, and here he seemed to be stuck, as he couldn’t seemingly wedge the toe of one shoe in anywhere else for a higher st^p. Of course, his back was turned to the diamond and he was pulling and per spiring like a hippopotamus. At this ! juncture the batter struck up a foul 1 and promptly the catcher started aft- '•r it. High up it soared and back- vard toward wh< .• the fat man was doing h's Alpine act. Directly it be* came apparent that the ball was com- i ing down right over “Fatty’s” head, , and right under him comes the catch* j or, laying for the ball. if v. *fe a question w hether it would I drop in front of the backstop nr be- j hind it. Everybody began to yell, but. of couice, the climber couldn't tell what they were hollering about—he was having troubles of his own. Presently something took place. That blamed ball landed "kerplunk” on top of the fat man’s head. It dazed him and knocked his hat off. In stinctively he let go his handhold and reached up either to catch his hat or to rub his poor fat head, and that instant wrought his 'literal downfall. Down he comes, but for a scant 2 feet only, for he lands right on top of the catcher, who had come up under him after the foul. “This Is '.00 much,” gurgles the slight catcher as the man-mountain flops over his head and shoulders like a mattress. He staggers and sits gracefully In a tub of lemonade that some vender had made up and was keeping in the shade of the tall backstop. Talk about your Yellowstone geysers! I don’t be lieve one ever spouted that could splash it up the way those two chaps baled out that tub. There were no more lemonade sales that day, and for two reasons—first, there wasn’t any more left to sell, and, second—well, no one else was thirsty. MDTWJUT BOXING News of the Ring Game Johnny Coulon, bantamweight cham pion of the world, has called off his bout with Francis Hennessy, which was scheduled for April 29 before the Fu ture City A. C. at St. Louis. * * • Coulon made a very stiff demand on Matchmaker Sullivan in the way of a guarantee, and the latter was forced to call off the mill. Coulon may go over to Kansas City to meet Hennessy there. »>*!««• Another heavyweight from the West is in New York. He is Marty Farrell, of St. Paul, who was brought East by Tom 6ibbons, a brother of Mike Gib bons. Farrell has been matched to box Antoine Pollet, the heavyweight of Canada, in a main bout before the Polo A. C in New York to-night. • * * Jack Britton and Pal Moore com pleted training yesterday for their six- round set-to before the Olympia A. C. of Philadelphia, Monday evening. The two clashed In a twenty-round bout on the coast about two years ago. On that occasion Britton was awarded the verdict after a fierce fight • * * Louis Smith, who has been appointed matchmaker of the National Sporting Club of Winnipeg, would like to hear from all boxers who are anxious to box before his club. A letter can reach him care of the National Sporting Club, Winnipeg, Man. * * * Joe Golden, manager of .Toe Thomas, writes that be ban his protege in great shape for his fight with Charlie White in the Pelican City Monday night. Joe says the winner will be matched with either Joe Rivers, Joe Mandot or Leach Cross. * * • Dp around Chicago the fight followers still insist that Toni Capon!, the veteran middleweight, is a fighter. They must be badly in need of a real middle weight. • * * Joe Rivers may fill a short theatrical engagement while in the East. He has had several offers. * * * Mike Gibbons, who has not fought since he met Eddie McGoorty in a tame ten-round contest in New York several months ago. has signed articles to box Labe Safro at Eau Claire, Wis., May 1. * * * Kid Williams, the Baltimore flash, de feated Frankie Bradley in a fast six- round bout at Philadelphia last night. Both boys are bantamweights. • * * Dan McKetrick says he is going to ask the New York Boxing Commission lust why they will not let Joe Jeannette dox some white heavyweight The an swer is ready for him. * * • Billy Papke and Eddie McGoorty will probably meet in a ten-round bout at Kenosha or Milwaukee. Wis. Frank Mulkern and Nate Lewis are bidding for the match. * * * Ad Wolgast and Tommy Murphy are on edge for their twenty-round fight at 'Frisco to-morrow night Torn Jones says Ad is in great shape and will surely beat the New York boy * 4 * Rudy Fnholz wishes to announce ihat he is still in the ring Rudolph would dearly love to com° here and exchange wallope with Battling Nelson Rudy is 1 also managing Eddie McGoorty. * * * Local fans are still talking about lit-l tie Jimmy Grant, the boy v ho held Kid Young to a draw at the Orpheum fiasco Tuesday. These boys nut up the only I fight of the night, and should be n matched. By Ed. \Y. Smith. C hicago, ill.. April is—is wu- consin producing another Ad. Wolgast in this latest fighting sensation—Matty McCue, of Ra cine? Everybody is wondering. Mat ty has all the earmarks of the real thing, and if he doesn't live right up to the expectations of the Chicago fight fans there will be many who will revise their opinions of them selves and come to the conclusion that they do not know the real goods when said R. G. are placed before them. No fighting machine of such 1 sensational character has been seen in this neighborhood in many a long day. McCue is nothing if not sensa tional, for he has the kick in either his port or his starboard mitt, daz ing and straightening an opponent up with a sizzling left and leaving things nicely placed for the deadly right cross that he whips over in such con vincing style. When it is considered that this lad is only eighteen years old one may judge that with careful handling and a little bit of luck he cannot help developing into something of a real wonder. Just now he is in the hands of John McCue of Racine, u grizzled old veteran of the game, who has been in athletics off and on for these many years now. It is from John that Matty takes his fighting mon iker, for his right name is Matthew Paulson. He is a native of Racine, and is of Danish and German ex traction, a pretty fair blood combi nation when one considers the good Danish fighters and some of the top- notch Germans that infest the arenas of the present day. Only eighteen years old a couple of months ago! And during his brief career he has had forty-one battles and without a single defeat of any kind to mar his record. His last seven fights have been the cleanest kind of knockouts. McCue Has Wolgast’s Crouch. Don’t overlook the fact that this boy has got a good left hand as well as a smashing right. He steadies them with the left and then it is all over but the counting—and .some times that is entirely superfluous. When we liken Matty to the Wol gast we knew in the early Wolgast days we are mindful of the Wolgast crouch and shell into which Matty goes carefully when attacked only to come out of it. whaling and slam ming mightily, in just exactly the old Wolgast style. Yes, lie’s a great kid. a real wonder, and if they don’t rush him too fast right now—well, there’s no telling. Smith Beat Rodel. Gunboat Smith didn’t knock out George Rodel in' their second meeting last week, but. he gave the Boer a trouncing that he won’t forget. We glean from some of the stories of the contest that though Smith knock ed Rodel down five times he merely "shaded” him. For the love of Mike, whatever could Rodel have done to stand off those live Brodies, that he did to the canvas? And what do New York fight critics expect a man to do to actually win by a safe mar gin instead of merely "shading” an opponent ? Dan McKetrick, now handling Frank Moran, the Pittsburg heavy weight, is campaigning wildly for a match for his man with G. Smith. The latter bested Moran In a twen ty-round battle on the coast when Moran, they claim, was ill and far from being nt his best. Dan is some dandy little booster for his man. and if he doesn’t force Smith into a re turn match he tan at least credit himself with making a superlative ef fort. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! “1 HAVE heard learned discus sions full of high-sounding phraseology,” says Frank Houseman, the retired ball player, "and I must say that in my time I have encountered many men who could throw the English language around most delightfully, but I wish to say that there was once a time in my life when I realize the possibili ties of English, the glories of our native tongue and the flexibility of the unwritten dictionary. This oc casion was in Florida many years ago. I was wintering down there with a lot of other players, among them being Johnny McGraw. now manager of the New York aggregation. YV; were playing a game one afternoon and I was on third base. McGraw had reached second and thought ho saw a chance to get clean home when a safe drive went whizzing out in the field. I saw he could do it, also that tlie umpire was looking after the ball, and as Mac drew nigh 1 gave him the hiplock and double tackle. He whirled round and out and shot far away into the suburbs. Over and over lie rolled, bringing up with his face in a clump of weeds and his mouth full of sand. "McGraw scrambled back to the base before the ball could reach hi n and I judged It best to move up Die line a bit out of his reach. And there he stuck with his foot on the big and delivered an oration. And what a speech It was! "Sometimes I wake up in the night and think I hear once more the words Johnny used. Eloquence, fire and forcefulness, complaint and de nunciation, classified references to my family tree, my personal habits and appearance, my destination after death—all those were features of McGraw’s oration. I listened spell bound, but I did not move. Not even when he added peruasiveness to his elocution and offered me a trac tive inducements to come within his reach did I change my position. “I have heard Bourke, Cochran; I have heard William Jennings Bryan—I have heard them all—but never in all my life, before or sine 1, have I heard anything to equal the speech McGraw delivered there upon the coral sands of Florida.” * * * B UT list to William Atherton Du Puy, not a writer but a journalist, if you please, who Jumps on Father Chadwick's favorite pastime as fol lows, to-wit, viz., etc.: “As a wrecker of careers and chloroformer of Intellects, the world has never known the equal of the so-called national game—baseball. Tn realty, it is the ‘national curse,’ breed ing indolence and fostering folly. I assert that there are as many boys who lose their jobs, business men who fail and professional men who fizzle out on account of baseball, .is from any of the drugging vices. "The game is drugging the national intellect. Nine men out of every ten have but 20 minutes a day that they devote to reading, and they give it all to the sporting page. They know nothing whatever of what is going on outside this sporting page, and they can talk intelligently on but one subject— batting averages. "Yet this information Is of no pos sible worth, and their careers depend on keeping abreast of the times. There you have It! Baseball is a curs a violent and virulent disease. “Besides, only a drone will hire someone else to do his athletics for him, while he sits stupidly In the sun and looks on. Funs are not lovers of athletics, but fat loafers to whom the mounting of a street car step is almost an impossible exertion. I wil? take my chances with a nice, ripe habitual drunkard, but spare me from the baseball fan!” Wow! * * * T> ILL PHELON kicks in with the D following yarn: The biggest curve ball of recent years was thrown by Wingo Ander son, who was with the Vols a feu seasons back. It actu lly describ d the shape of a half moon as it curled Into the plate, but ttie youngster was so wild that he had to go. Ask Ed Konetchy about that enormous cure- . One of them started so far outside the plate that the Big Train stood and laughed—then it darted round on the half-moon track and nearly killed Konetchy, who was laid up for weeks. He will swear, if you ask him. that no mortal man ever threw such a curve, and that no law of nature or physics could account for that half-moon ball. Strange/curves, a lot of them—but all you lieai* of now is "the slow one. ’ "the straight fast one," and “ball with a hop.” As that hop appears on route, so the different pitchers *.r** distinguished, and the critics talk about “the sharp break to the curves.’’ If ever a pitcher can throw with Lie outdoor ball the mysterious, gigantic upward leap that can be thrown with the big indoor ball, that pitcher will make Marquard’s record fade. It’s a cinch to do It, too—I can take a Spalding, grip it as the indoor ball is gripped, and make it curve upward in the same identical fashion—BUT— there will be no force, no speed, and the blamed ball will not go 30 fest ere falling dead. But what a snap lor a strong arm pitcher who will prac tice it some winter! RUNG TO JOIN REDS WITHIN A SHORT TIME CHICAGO, April 18.—Catcher Johnny Kling already has startsd practice anil is getting ready to join the Cincinnati Reds, according to Al derman Lewis Stitts, a close friend of Kllng, who returned from. 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