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TTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. APRIL 18. 191H.
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iA SIIVILLB, TENN, April 1*.—
The qualities of loyalty and
pameness are alien to the pop-
l i - .'ball buss who infest the
l lan ,i :n Sulphur Dell. Throughout
|t„. Southern League their proficiency
|. ith the hammer has become prover-
[ij'il and though in the past President
Kfirsig has refused to read the hand
writing on the wall, just now he has
Waked up to the fact that Nashville
limply will not support a losing club.
Harking back to 1908 when the
Jl’ols snatched a pennant from Cholly
(■rank's Pelicans in that famous 1 to
game before 1,000 and more luna-
fl,.. a record was set for the South
ern League teams to shoot at for
nany moons to Home.
All of which ligs to do with the
hooding of the major leagues with
telegrams begging for twlrlers.
Enough coin is being sj>ent on wires
|o wreck a young mint, but Bill
fcchwa-tz is determined to have a de
pendable sting of hurlers.
i'hick Smith, the former Redleg,
L already on hand and will probably
E e t a "hance to turn thp rampant
Lackers back when they invade the
Bell. Cincinnati has also offered the
I'uls a pitcher named McManus,
(vhiie Brooklyn can do without a (lin
ker who signs the register as Dal-
kren. Little is known of either of
[he two latter other than that they
Ire riglit handers and are offered
Long with a bunch of verbal bo-
|utts.
* * •
IIRSIG is dickering with the Cub
‘people for Rudy Summers, al
lhough lie has little hopes of getting
[he former Vol back since Kid Elber-
leld wants the little southpaw mighty
lad and will probably offer more
loin than Nashville.
"Bum” Barrett and Johnson, two
bromlslng kid boxmen from the
lushes, have, been tucked away in the
Kitty League for seasoning. Both
ve a string tied to them, for the
lair, especially Barrett, look too good
lo lose and the club management
lasn’t forgotten that Orlie Weaver
Ind Grover Brandt got away from
[hem entirely and both brought fancy
[rices in the majors.
The release of these two cuts the
bitching staff down to the veterans
rase and Kleharty, Miner Hendee,
Williams, Beck and Morrow. The
latter who came to the Vols from
Brooklyn will be carried until May
Id when the squad will be cut down
|o 18 men. The acquisition of Smith,
UcManus and Dalgren will precipi
tate a lively scramble in the hurling
kit. One thing is certain. It ' will
firing out the best stuff in every slab-
man which is the main point in ques
tion.
N'obody at present is certain of a
lob unless It be Lefty Williams for
Ibis portsider is in grand shape. He
Belds his position in great shape,
Keeps the runners hugging the sacks
ind in the pinches he is magnificent.
* * *
0 far in every battle the foe has
garnered more hits than the Vols
bnd Schwartz’s crew seem out to
emulate the famous hitless White
pox. They are coining tallies out of
few bunched hits and are taking
Advantage of every weakness of the
enfmy.
Schwartz has succeeded in having
[he players master the squeeze play
[nil the hit-and-run play something
[he Vols could never before learn.
Daley, Goalby, Callahan and Jame3
fere lightning fast and their daring
paserunning has set the fans wild.
Xot for a minute should the Vols
classed as "hopeless” for they are
playing a high grade of inside stuff,
[he pitching staff will be strengthen
ed and if they continue to manufac
ture runs without a flock of hits no-
ody will have any kick to register.
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
CHICAGO, April 18.—-The City
ouncii last night passed an ordinance
or the inspection of the stands of
he Chicago (National League) base-
all park tg find whether they com-
ly with the requirements of the Are
rdinanee.
By the same order the Bureau of
'ire Prevention and Public Safety
■ as directed to investigate and report
aek to the Council whether the pro
visions of the ordinance requiring
hat aisles be kept unobstructed was
iolated in the game Sunday between
he Chicago and Pittsburg .teams.
Width of aisles, number of seats in
ows between aisles, width of seats
md 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
se 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
Lltad States Baseball League, was
announced last night by the owners.
O’Neill was formerly manager of the
• acksonville (Fla.) team of the South
Atlantic League and he has pitched
for several minor league teams.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
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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 Warhop will not be worked
much until hot weather sets in. Jack
is no “frost feller’’ anyhow, and he has
a lame shoulder now.
* * V
Hans Wagner has a floating cartilage
in his 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 hitting 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 days. 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 McGillicuddy. younger brother
of Earl, and son of Cornelius, is star
ring on Earl Mack’s Raleigh club. Con
nie will soon have the whole Mack fami
ly in baseball.
f * * *
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.”
* * •
i Jack Dunn is trying to 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
Jawn’s shoe store in Chicago—the one
that blew up. Johnny replies that the
owner of the shoe store was a cbKpora-
tion and 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 b>
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 ore 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
day and coildS’t fish it out in time to
retire the runner. Or anyhow, Charley
Dryden says so. But Charley is liable
to say anything.^
Pete Lister, ex-Cracker, is to play
with Peoria this^season.
A Phieago guy says that when you are
annroached by an attendant these days
a? the Cub park, he is cither trying to
sell you grape juice or put >ou out of
your seat.
L G Davis says that while the Tigers
are Cobbiess, the famous Peach is job-
less. , , ,
Thp same guy says that the Chicago
fans are very busy making presents to
Tinker, to Ever*, to Chance.
Toe Tinker tried to buy Jimmy Sheck-
ard from Murphy, but Chawies wnulrin t
even answer Joe’s telegram. Joe doesn t
stand over deuce high at Cub head-
I quarters. » » «
I Chief Meyers claims to have noticed
! that when hall players are traveling
I and the train stops, they want to eat.
* * *
1 It may be we are more observing, but
1 it has come to our attention that they
frequently experience the same desire
- •• —lIit
A Few Funny Things in Baseball
o o o © © o ©
Coach Heisman Tells About ’Em
TRUSSES
Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery,
• tr Expert Utters; both lady and men
SLendants; private fitting rooms.
Jacobs’ Main Store
6-8 Marietta St.
IITOUCIUIJ '"T . _
while the train is moving.
EVERS SUED FOR $300.
CHICAGO, April 18.—Johnny Evers
manager of the Cubs was sued for
$800 by a manufacturer of store an*,
office fixtures who alleged that fix
tures Installed in a shoe .stor* width
Evers and Charles Williams. Secre
tary of the Chicago Nationals, tried
unsuccessfully to run here, had never
been paid for.
By J. W. Heisman.
S OMETHING like a score of years
ago I v/as a spectator at a game
in which a very funny thing
transpired. This game was between
the first teams of the towns of War
ren and Sharon, Ohio. Neither team
was in any leagut^ 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
considerable 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
had 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 the 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 ball 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. Hut 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, “TJmps”
stated that he had 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
ball 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
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 trying to scale the heights by
wedging his fingers and toes between
the hoards. He was very much the
fattest man I have ever seen try to
climb a backstop of this character,
or, indeed, a high fence of any kind.
But he had heard so much of Mul-
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.
He had reached a height of about 8
feet 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 puffing and per
spiring like a hippopotamus. At this
juncture the batter struck up a foul
and promptly the catcher started aft
er it. High up it soared and back
ward toward where the fat man was
doing his Alpine act. Directly it be
came apparent that the ball was com
ing down right over "Fatty’s” head,
and right under him comes the catch
er, laying for the ball.
It was a question whether it .would
drop in front of the backstop or be
hind it. Everybody began to yell, but.
of course, 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 too
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.
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 mad® 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 Gibbons, 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 tw'enty-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 o.ll 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 Joe Thomas,
writes that he has 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.
* * *
Up around Chicago the fight followers
still Insist that Toni Caponi, the veteran
middleweight, is a fighter. They must
be badly In need of a real middle
weight.
* * *
Joe Rivers may fill a 6hort 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
box 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. Wls. 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. Tom Jones
says Ad is In great shape and will surely
beat the New York boy.
* * <
Rudy Unholz wishes to announce that
he is still in the ring. Rudolph would
dearly love to come here and exchange
wallope with Battling Nelson. Rudy Is
also managing Eddie McGoorty.
* * *
Local fans are still talking about lit
tle Jimmy Grant., the boy who held Kid
Young to a draw at the Orpheum fiasco
Tuesday. These boys put up the only
fight of the night, and should be rc-
matched.
mutwjiit
COLUMN*
By Ed. W. Smith.
C HICAGO. ILL., April IS—Is Wls-
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 a
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, a 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, he’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
tiounclng 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 five 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 at his best. Dan Is some
dandy little booster for his man, and
if he doesn’t force Smith Into a re
turn match he can 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!
((¥ HAVE heard learned discus-
I 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. W;
were playing a game one afternojn
and I was on third base. McGraw
had reached second and thought he
saw a chance to get clean home when
a safe; drive went whizzing out in
the field. I saw he could do it, ai90
that the umpire was looking after the
ball, and as Mac drew nigh I gave
him the hiplock and double tackle.
He whirled round and out and shot
far away into the suburbs. Over and
over he 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 % hIn
and I judged It best to move up the
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 jn 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 these were features
of McGraw’s oration. I listened spell
bound, but I did not move. Not
even when he added peruaslveness to
hte elocution and offered me atrae-
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 since,
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. In
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, js
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 curse,
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. Fans are not lovers
of athletics, but fat loafers to whom
the mounting of a street car step is
almost an impossible exertion. I will
take my chances with a nice, ripe
habitual drunkard, but spare me from
the baseball fan!”
Wow!
* * *
ID ILL PHELON kicks in with the
^ following yarn:
The biggest curve ball of recent
years was thrown by Wingo Ander
son. who was with the Vols a few
seasons back. It actually described
the shape of a half moon as It curled
into the plate, but tne ydungstef was
so wild that he had to go. Ask I’d
Konetchy about that enormous curve.
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,
apt! that no law of nature or. physics
could account for that half-moon
ball.
Strange curves, a lot of them—but
all you hear 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 ire
distinguished, and the critics talk
about "the sharp break to the curves.”
If ever a pitcher can throw with the
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 80 fe^t
ere falling dead. But what a snap for
a strong arm pitcher who will prac
tice it some winter!
KLING TO JOIN REDS
WITHIN A SHORT TIME
CHICAGO, April 18.—Catcher
Johnny Kling already has started
practice, and is getting ready to Join
the Cincinnati Reds, according to Al
derman Lewis Stitts, a close friend of
Kling. who returned from Kansas
City vesterday.
Kling told Stitts, acordlng to the
Alderman, that he will sign a con
tract within a few days.
COTTON DEFEATS PRATER.
King Cotton defeated Ed Prater at
the Capital City Pool Parlor last
night, 1011 to 61. The two will play
their second match to-night at 8
o'clock.
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